Name: 林 杜紀彦 (Hayashi Tokihiro): first name
Tokihiro 杜紀彦 "shrine grove / lore / man of talent"; surname
Hayashi 林 "forest". So you could technically get "wise guy in the woods" out of that, and... not be far off, really.
Nickname: Feel free to call him Toki. ^_^
Gender/Pronoun: Male, aro, he/him
Age: 23
Birthday: 23 May 2001
Sign: Water Snake; Gemini Sun, Moon
AND Rising (a triple Gemini)
Gemstone: Moonstone
Blood Type: A+
Fav. Food: Eggs! Doesn't matter how they're prepared, though he does kind of prefer them a little loose or runny. He's particularly fond of omurice and tamago kake gohan, still preferring Japanese food over American.
Hated Food: Speaking of American food: hot dogs. He finds them utterly vile.
Occupation: Grounds worker/landscaper for the Destiny City Parks Department. He spends his days on a crew either clearing or pruning or planting; he's the one they send high into the trees to do the dangerous stuff. The parks are open 24/7/365, so his shifts can fall on any day of the week. In fact, he often works extra shifts, as much for the money as for getting to hang out in the parks and play unofficial docent to visitors. He loves his job.
heart On his off days, he works as landscaper for
Michelangelo duPont. He loves that job too! His specialty is natural, organic landscape design. He lets the plants themselves decide how they want to be used; his gardens and landscapes are like a touch of unspoiled wildness in the middle of the city.
Hobbies: gunpla: Toki builds and customizes SD Gundam model kits in his spare time and collects the tiny tiny gashapon ones when he can find them. He's built other, regular-scale Gundam models too, of course, customizing them to within an inch of their plastic lives, but he has a real fondness for the ridiculous cuteness of the little super-deformed versions.
Chibi giant robot battle suits. heart rambling: Despite how much he enjoys the energy of the city, Toki misses being out in the country. He instinctively gravitates toward any and all parks and green urban spaces, the more wild and
non-landscaped the better -- ironic, given his career. So when things are slow at work, he'll often go on rambles and hikes through the parks and the wilderness areas outside Destiny City. He doesn't really care about the perceived dangers of roaming the forests – all he cares about is getting out into nature.
tormenting hanging out with his cousin: One of the reasons Toki's family chose to relocate to Destiny City is because his mother has relatives here! Namely the Tsukiyama clan, of which
Yuki Tsukiyama is Toki's cousin. Cousin Yuki is an
interesting person, and Toki enjoys visiting with him when he can. He's fascinated by Yuki's tinkering, mainly because he can relate to it with his gunpla, and is constantly asking questions about this or that
and being annoying.
Virtues: super friendly: Toki comes off as cute, quirky, charming in his own way, high-energy, and as blithely self-centered as a cat. Exuberant and friendly, he's one of those genuine "people person" people who'll talk the face off of anyone within earshot, whether he knows them or not. It's more than just wanting to hear himself talk, too -- the stuff he babbles on about are the things he loves, gardening and landscaping and nature.
surprisingly smart: Toki is a
whole lot sharper than he seems on the surface. While he really isn't as stupid as he can appear, his "smarts" are more common sense and deductive reasoning (aka asking a lot of questions and adding two plus two) than book-intelligence. A keen observer of the world around him, he pays attention and remembers things and trusts his instincts to steer him in the right direction.
almost peaceful: For someone as occasionally manic as he can be, Toki has an air of serenity about him that shows through primarily when he's talking about his plants. It's not simple-mindedness; don't let the "sweetly stupid" facade fool you. It's that he's an uncomplicated soul, a man of the earth who doesn't require much out of life beyond a patch of soil to till and the sun on his face. Toki's serene demeanor is contagious, too, fairly capable of calming even the most preoccupied of visitors to his parks.
Flaws: comes off as "sweetly stupid": Toki was the outcast at Meadowview High School when his family moved to Destiny City from Japan, bullied for being the weird kid with the funny accent from the sticks. In self-defense, he created a "sweetly stupid" exterior to protect himself from the worst of it. This outer persona he's cultivated since then only adds to the idiot savant impression he gives overall. Getting annoyed with him is like kicking a dumb but adorable puppy.
easily distracted: Oooh shiny. If there's one thing Toki has trouble with, it's distractions. Yeah, he can pay real close attention to things and pick up on the slightest detail, but it's only if the thing he's paying attention to is really interesting. He often gets distracted at work by a new plant or flower that he didn't see before, or a butterfly, or a visitor to the park he's working in, or… you get the idea. Delighted by the new and novel, it's a problem he has difficulty reining in.
mildly bitter: Toki still lives at his family's home and hates it. He's trying to save up enough money to pay the deposit and fees on an apartment, but it's a long, slow process. Doesn't help that he pisses through money buying drinks for his mates and gunpla and paying rent to his parents so he won't feel like a parasite. He doesn't really care that he has disappointed his parents, either. He knows he
should care, and he knows he
should feel like a complete failure for dropping out of DCU. But he doesn't.
He does, however, hate them just a little for their constant disapproving looks.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONEyes: Dark dark brown, almost black, wide and almond shaped with pronounced epicanthic folds and short, thick lashes. His brows are straight and black.
Hair: Black and stick-straight with a spiky fringe that gets in his eyes on occasion, coming down to about his shoulders in a messy shaggy sort of 'do; usually keeps it under control with a backwards baseball cap of some team or other he knows nothing about because he doesn't follow sportsball.
Face: A cutie! Ovalish, tending toward spade-shaped, with a straight nose and an impish smile. There's almost always a dirt smudge somewhere on his face.
Skin Tone: Somewhere between fair and medium, tanned by the nature of his job to around #E0AC69.
Body Type: At 5'10", Toki has a deceptively athletic, if skinny build; he moves like an active teenager, all foldy-bendy bouncy energy. Fine-boned and delicate-looking, except he's neither fine nor delicate.
Clothes: Toki dresses like he grabbed the first things he could reach without regard for whether it matched or not (very often the case). And half those things are work clothes; he wears a coverall, big clompy engineer boots and a hardhat when he's up in the trees or working around the park. You'll also find things like baggy cargo pants, long cut-offs, t-shirts and plaid work shirts littering the floor of his room. He wears a silver Totoro charm on a cord strung with black beads around his neck, a reminder of his favorite movie and the place he grew up, Sayama Hills (aka "Totoro's Forest" ), outside of Tokyo.
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