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bidingPlayer Information
Name: Aquenze
Personal Journal:towerofreason
AIM/Email: aquenze
Plurk: questionability
Age: 20
Current Characters: N/A!
Character Information
Name: Ryouta Kawara
Canon: Hatoful Boyfriend
Canon Point: The end of the hurtful boyfriend/bbl route (ie, so many spoilers will abound)
Age: 17
Gender: Male
History:
Ryouta’s world is a world where the avian flu virus (H1N5) grew to such deadly capacity that humans hastily whipped up a cure that would wipe out the entirety of birds, in their desperation to save themselves. This didn’t quite work, however, as it instead worked on the birds’ brains and amplified their intelligence and capabilities while the human race died out until there were only much fewer than there had been. The main female protagonist even lives in a cave, out in the wilderness, spending most of her time as a hunter-gatherer!
Ryouta and Hiyoko met one cold day—he’d fallen out of his nest when he was very young, but she picked him up off of the cold ground and placed him back. Thus, their friendship began. Before that, however, we have to speak of Ryouta’s father—we’re told he remembers little more than the sound of his voice and the colour of his wings. But he was, in all actuality, a recognised researcher and scientist who ended up perishing when he caught ill overseas. This is fairly important, as you’ll soon see…
When they were very young, however (little more than 8 or 9 years old), Hiyoko’s parents were two humans who worked as mediators between birds and humans. During one point of their childhood, they witnessed her parents being shot down and killed as they attempted to speak to humans holed up inside the building. The “Heartful House Incident”, in which the orphanage had been taken essentially hostage by the Human Liberation Front terrorist organisation. All of the residents of the orphanage but two were killed in this.
At the time following the deaths, Ryouta and Hiyoko were approached by a mysterious partridge who asked him what his wish was, that they would do anything to grant it. It was, of course, that humans and birds would live in peace. This bird was Isa Souma, a colleague of Ryouta’s father and the bird who had pledged to fulfill the wish of his son should said son ever have one.
Years pass, these things drift away in Ryouta’s memory. His life is taken up by more pressing things—He is invited to attend the prestigious school St. Pigeonation’s alongside Hiyoko. With this, there is also his ailing mother, who has always been of frail health, and who he has looked after for as long as he has been able. Ryouta has always worked several jobs over the summer to support his mother when he has to—to the point of likely overworking himself. These range from working in a café to working in a transvestite café, and also at the shrine.
However, during the course of his time at St. Pigeonation’s, something was being done to him… He spent much of his time in the school’s infirmary, as he had always had a somewhat weak body, especially in concern to his stomach. Little did he know that the school doctor was the same bird who offered to grant his wish when he was younger. He was being given medicines in order to slowly break down his immune system, to put him on the level of the previous carrier of the Charon Virus (Nageki Fujishiro)—a virus that would cause a human to die as soon as they got near to the bird who had it.
Then, one September day… Ryouta went to the infirmary. He wasn’t feeling so well and it was there that the doctor administered the live virus to him. Hiyoko came to visit him and died near instantly but, only fuzzily aware of things around him (and afterward forgetting this incident happened until later), he left, worried about his mother.
The next morning on the 4th, when he came to school and commented on Hiyoko’s absence, he initially brushed it off as nothing. But then, parts of her body were found by birds all over the school, her head being in a print-box that Ryouta had been sent to get by Kazuaki Nanaki.Yes, this is a game about pigeons, everybody. After this, the school went into a lockdown. A dome enclosed the entirety of the campus, sealing them off from the outside world save for a tiny escape hatch that was closed off.
During the course of their entrapment, Ryouta discovered alongside Sakuya that they only had a limited amount of time to get out before the dome opened and they were all killed.
The reason Hiyoko was brought to the school was to be “The Human Representative”, essentially a hostage for birds. If anything were to ever happen to her, the school would be closed off, humans informed, and the birds inside expected to take the blame and essentially be sacrifices. And there were only twelve hours for the birds inside after the body was discovered and the humans assembled weapons.
The reason it was like this. There were two factions of the government; the extremist Hawk Party, who would sooner see the humans wiped out, and the Dove Party, who wished to live in peace with them. The Hawk Party had been hammering away at St. Pigeonation’s for years, had used the school itself and an underground medical center for experimentations in which they were trying to make a biological weapon in trying to harness the Charon Virus. At least until Nageki burned down the place, taking himself in the process but destroying many of the records. Still, Isa Souma (now Iwamine Shuu) continued on his experimentation, he rumored to be the cause of students ending up missing and then showing up in the cafeteria as food or as quill pens in the store.
They went about investigating the mystery of the school, the murder of Hiyoko, as well as the scarecrow-like creature that would dog their steps. Along the way, they met Leone JB, a representative of the Dove Party who had been masquerading as their school maintenance man/janitor, mister One. They found out the headmaster had been murdered some time before, found files on the human representative (which were rigged to combust until mister One disarmed them). Opened up the small escape hatch in the dome by way of a control panel in the headmaster’s office (thanks to Yuuya’s mad computer infiltration skills) only to see a student killed when he flew outside, and gradually discovered information about the experimentation that had been going on some years prior below the school.
Helped along in no small part by Nageki Fujishiro—his ghost, at least, who Ryouta could talk to. Sakuya went to go confront the doctor on his own (leading to him nearly getting killed, if it were not for Yuuya’s well-timed intervention). They learned that it was Yuuya and the doctor who had cut up the body, who had distributed it about the school in order to time it so that the humans would be alerted in the morning and have the most opportune time to gather. It was also the doctor who was responsible for the scarecrow-like monster (Labor-9).
Sakuya left behind in the maintenance room to grieve over his brother’s “death”, Ryouta continued on and went to talk with Nageki. There, he learned more about the Charon Virus, the events of five years ago and the fire in the medical center as Nageki regained his memories. He learned about ‘Operation Hatoful’, which was the operation in which they were trying to make a biological weapon to wipe out all humans by utilising the virus in question. He discovered a map to the underground medical center, returning to the maintenance room…
There, he went off with Kazuaki and Anghel, the latter of whom found the entrance to the medical center downstairs. As they proceeded onward, they eventually encountered Labor 9. They threw the stun gun that Ryouta had been given previously by Leone JB and fired a hose nearby at the creature, shocking it until it could move no longer. This done, they proceeded onward. There, Anghel and Kazuaki were trapped and Ryouta was forced to remember it was essentially him that was the cause of Hiyoko’s death and that Labor 9 was a model built by the Hawk Party after the Dove Party abandoned the project…what moved it was in fact a human brain (Hiyoko’s). So in essence, the doctor said Ryouta was responsible for her death not one but two times.This is a game about pigeons.
Broken by this knowledge and believing he had nothing left, all he could do was follow the doctor. Left behind, Kazuaki and Anghel could do nothing as poison gas started to flood the room. However, Okosan and Sakuya burst in for a heroic rescue! And Kazuaki explained what happened as they went to find where Ryouta and the doctor had gone.
When they got there, they found Ryouta had already been turned into a biological weapon by the doctor, the last of Nageki’s cells left over from the fire transferred to his body. He had traded his free will for physical strength—essentially brainwashed. The group managed to snap him out of it (Anghel has the power to emit essentially hallucinogenic pheromones and hypnotise people, drawing them into his fantasies), and Ryouta said he didn’t want to hurt anyone. And questioning the doctor’s reasons for all this at the same time—it being that he was granting Ryouta’s father’s last wish. Ryouta said there was no need to chase after his father’s shadow any longer.
All of this done and Leone JB showing up with the students to escape from the school (the doctor was being scarily cooperative to see them all out), all seemed to be going well. At least until Kazuaki pulled out a gun, shooting the doctor. It seemed as though he had snapped. He was, in actuality, the adoptive brother of Nageki (one of the two survivors of the incident at the orphanage) who had agreed to send him to St. Pigeonation’s in the belief he would be tended to there and cured of his weak immune system and susceptibility to illnesses.
Going to another room, Kazuaki seemed prepared to cut the liver that the doctor had put the remaining cells belonging to Nageki into right out of Ryouta. At least until Nageki showed up, possessing Ryouta’s body. Together, they got Kazuaki back to his senses and now prepared to leave for good…but alas, Ryouta decided to stay behind, with Hiyoko (at least, her brain in a jar). Going onto the surface where the humans were gathered would result in death for whichever human he came in contact with. So they left him behind with Sakuya’s promise he would be back for Ryouta, and Ryouta saying he’d be waiting. The implication being that he was frozen there in order to wait until medical technology would be enough to take the virus from his body and put Hiyoko back together…
(Of course in the epilogue, Yuuya is revealed to be all well, much to Sakuya’s horror after all the grieving he’d done, after he had been administered medicine from Leone JB. The epilogue actually ended on Sakuya calling out to Ryouta and Hiyoko, telling them to ‘wake up’. Of course, I’m taking him from before this, just as the others left him behind in the medical area.)
Personality:
Good-natured, Ryouta is the kind of person who is skilled at taking things in stride. He doesn’t get his feathers all in a ruffle easily—whether it be with him being forced into the many dresses he seems to wear throughout the game, or when it comes to dealing with others such as Anghel or Sakuya. He’s patient, as well, given that Sakuya isn’t the easiest to get along with, but in the BBL storyline, he doesn’t hesitate to tell him what he’s thinking and even gets along (as well as one can expect) with him.
The little things he doesn’t place too much value on, nor does he really let himself get upset over them. It may be because his mother has been of frail health all of his life and he’s experienced hardships that he knows that the little things don’t matter so much in the long run. He has a high value of family, even saying to Sakuya more than once that he should treat Yuuya better, as he is Sakuya’s brother.
He has a high value and fondness for those who he calls his friends. And even those who he doesn’t, he offers a surprising degree of tolerance or even forgiveness. As with Shuu—with everything the doctor did, Ryouta still believed that he should have a fair trial once they got onto the surface. He reacted with surprise rather than malicious or a justified feeling when Shuu suddenly ended up shot. He’s not good at hating another person or fostering such negative emotions. When Hiyoko is killed and he says he wants to find the bird that did it, he can’t put a name to the emotions in him when he says so. Though he’s certainly capable of feeling them—such as when Shuu was talking about what he learned from “these chunks of meat that used to be Tosaka”, he said nothing but Sakuya told him to keep calm.
When he starts something, he’s the sort of person who wants—no, perhaps needs—to see it through. After Hiyoko died, he insisted they gather her…pieces up. Even if it was difficult for him, even if he couldn’t look into the box her head had been in at first. He trucked through his own difficulties, to give her body the proper respect, at least. He also insisted they learn more, even if it were painful. He wanted to know everything behind why Hiyoko died, about himself and about the school, though it nearly broke him along the way.
He’s surprisingly forthcoming in aspects, telling Yuuya when he and Sakuya were talking that they may have been saying bad things about him. It may be part of his earnest, frank personality, where he doesn’t hesitate to pay someone a compliment or say if there’s some trait he admires about them if the timing is right. He can also tease another, joke around with friends, going so far to pick at Sakuya a bit and compare him to a delinquent once when they were investigating the school, despite the overall grim atmosphere.
It also isn’t often that he gets embarrassed or flustered. Hiyoko runs into him on the street advertising for a transvestite café, but while he’s surprised at first, he still thrusts a flyer into her hands and implores her to come and call for him when she gets a chance. There are no lengths, no embarrassments he won’t go through for the sake of the people who he loves. The few times we see him in a panic are in situations which may be life-or-death, like his babbling about the scarecrow creature to Kazuaki before Sakuya told him he was incoherent.
Despite everything that happened during the course of the BBL storyline, when he snapped out of the hypnotic trance he had been put in, he said he didn’t want to make anyone sad. He had wished for a world in which everyone would live in peace and not lose anyone dear to them, not for one side to be killed. In that is a bit of Ryouta’s naivety; he truly believes two sides can get along if they try, wishes for them to, even if he’s told that they won’t. He also held out the hope that his mother would get better, despite everything.
Also, though he’s forthcoming and honest in some things, he has the tendency to hide his own personal negative emotions at least until he’s approached about them or until they get too weighty for him to bear. Not that he’s particularly good at hiding them, as he’s not good at covering up that he’s suspicious of a person. As it was for Shuu in the BBL storyline initially. In his path (not the one I’m taking him from, but nevertheless), he only confesses to his mother being in the hospital after Hiyoko catches him coming out of the hospital in question. This leads back to him not wanting to make people sad—when there are things in his life that could make others sad or upset, he tends to hold them back or keep them to himself.
There is also no doubt that he still holds guilt for all that happened concerning Hiyoko’s death. He was essentially the cause for it and all, even though it had been the doctor that had changed his body against his own will. But his concern for others was strong enough that he was the one who wanted to stay behind, to make sure no human would have to die because of him again.
Abilities Information
Fighter or Sacrifice?: Sacrifice—Ryouta went and takes a lot of the initiative through the BBL storyline. Deciding where they should go, what they should do and investigate, and also finds a lot of the information himself. He’s less inclined to just rush headlong into a situation without consideration—Hiyoko even says that he’s the responsible sort at the beginning of the game.
Canon abilities: Ryouta is technically a pigeon of imminent death, as he’s carrying the Charon Virus in his body. Any human that is even in the same room as him, breathing the same air of him, will die of asphyxiation due to the viruses’ effect. It causes an overreaction of the immune system in humans that leads to their respiratory system shutting down.
Name: Haleless
Zero Candidate?: Nope!
Samples
First Person:
[Ryouta is offering a little smile, though it’s clear he’s somewhat troubled.]
It still feels like I have to be dreaming or something. Or maybe I hit my head somewhere. I mean…
[He struggles a moment.] Well, I’m sure I can’t be the only bi—er. Person who feels that way, can I? I suppose everyone’s been kind of brought from somewhere they had things to be doing.
[Laughter, then he shakes his head.]
Anyway, I might as well make the most of it here. Even if stuff’s going to take some getting used to.
Third Person:
If Ryouta could say he was going to miss anything about his pigeon body the most, he’d have to say it’d be his wings. Oh, certainly thumbs were useful and all, but you couldn’t fly with thumbs. Otherwise Hiyoko might’ve been able to fit in better with the birds at St. Pigeonation’s…
That was one thing that would ever rise to his mind, too, no matter where he went on the campus. Whether he was in the cafeteria (they cooked birds a lot here, much to his horror), or else by the large lake, looking over the water, his best friend lingered in his mind. He wondered too on himself. What would happen when he went back? Back to waiting—? Not that he minded, of course. It had been his own decision. But here, no human was hurt by him, even if he stood close to them, not even if they were breathing the same air.
It was a relief. He wished Hiyoko was here, though. He would bet she would love this place. From the food (they even had udon here), to the video games and even the fitness center! She wouldn’t have to sleep in that cave of hers (it was, er, charmingly rustic…maybe?). He laughed to himself then, quietly, one hand lifting partway to his mouth. He gave said hand an odd look, as though to ask the appendage in question what it was doing, and then shook his head.
Jeez, this body was still going to take some getting used to.
Anything Else?
He won’t have the Charon Virus! Mainly due to it…probably killing every human he’d probably come in contact with, orz. Also, he will be in a human form, though he still has a weak stomach and immune system due to the doctor kind of working on lowering it for the better part of a year. 8|
Name: Aquenze
Personal Journal:
towerofreasonAIM/Email: aquenze
Plurk: questionability
Age: 20
Current Characters: N/A!
Character Information
Name: Ryouta Kawara
Canon: Hatoful Boyfriend
Canon Point: The end of the hurtful boyfriend/bbl route (ie, so many spoilers will abound)
Age: 17
Gender: Male
History:
Ryouta’s world is a world where the avian flu virus (H1N5) grew to such deadly capacity that humans hastily whipped up a cure that would wipe out the entirety of birds, in their desperation to save themselves. This didn’t quite work, however, as it instead worked on the birds’ brains and amplified their intelligence and capabilities while the human race died out until there were only much fewer than there had been. The main female protagonist even lives in a cave, out in the wilderness, spending most of her time as a hunter-gatherer!
Ryouta and Hiyoko met one cold day—he’d fallen out of his nest when he was very young, but she picked him up off of the cold ground and placed him back. Thus, their friendship began. Before that, however, we have to speak of Ryouta’s father—we’re told he remembers little more than the sound of his voice and the colour of his wings. But he was, in all actuality, a recognised researcher and scientist who ended up perishing when he caught ill overseas. This is fairly important, as you’ll soon see…
When they were very young, however (little more than 8 or 9 years old), Hiyoko’s parents were two humans who worked as mediators between birds and humans. During one point of their childhood, they witnessed her parents being shot down and killed as they attempted to speak to humans holed up inside the building. The “Heartful House Incident”, in which the orphanage had been taken essentially hostage by the Human Liberation Front terrorist organisation. All of the residents of the orphanage but two were killed in this.
At the time following the deaths, Ryouta and Hiyoko were approached by a mysterious partridge who asked him what his wish was, that they would do anything to grant it. It was, of course, that humans and birds would live in peace. This bird was Isa Souma, a colleague of Ryouta’s father and the bird who had pledged to fulfill the wish of his son should said son ever have one.
Years pass, these things drift away in Ryouta’s memory. His life is taken up by more pressing things—He is invited to attend the prestigious school St. Pigeonation’s alongside Hiyoko. With this, there is also his ailing mother, who has always been of frail health, and who he has looked after for as long as he has been able. Ryouta has always worked several jobs over the summer to support his mother when he has to—to the point of likely overworking himself. These range from working in a café to working in a transvestite café, and also at the shrine.
However, during the course of his time at St. Pigeonation’s, something was being done to him… He spent much of his time in the school’s infirmary, as he had always had a somewhat weak body, especially in concern to his stomach. Little did he know that the school doctor was the same bird who offered to grant his wish when he was younger. He was being given medicines in order to slowly break down his immune system, to put him on the level of the previous carrier of the Charon Virus (Nageki Fujishiro)—a virus that would cause a human to die as soon as they got near to the bird who had it.
Then, one September day… Ryouta went to the infirmary. He wasn’t feeling so well and it was there that the doctor administered the live virus to him. Hiyoko came to visit him and died near instantly but, only fuzzily aware of things around him (and afterward forgetting this incident happened until later), he left, worried about his mother.
The next morning on the 4th, when he came to school and commented on Hiyoko’s absence, he initially brushed it off as nothing. But then, parts of her body were found by birds all over the school, her head being in a print-box that Ryouta had been sent to get by Kazuaki Nanaki.
During the course of their entrapment, Ryouta discovered alongside Sakuya that they only had a limited amount of time to get out before the dome opened and they were all killed.
The reason Hiyoko was brought to the school was to be “The Human Representative”, essentially a hostage for birds. If anything were to ever happen to her, the school would be closed off, humans informed, and the birds inside expected to take the blame and essentially be sacrifices. And there were only twelve hours for the birds inside after the body was discovered and the humans assembled weapons.
The reason it was like this. There were two factions of the government; the extremist Hawk Party, who would sooner see the humans wiped out, and the Dove Party, who wished to live in peace with them. The Hawk Party had been hammering away at St. Pigeonation’s for years, had used the school itself and an underground medical center for experimentations in which they were trying to make a biological weapon in trying to harness the Charon Virus. At least until Nageki burned down the place, taking himself in the process but destroying many of the records. Still, Isa Souma (now Iwamine Shuu) continued on his experimentation, he rumored to be the cause of students ending up missing and then showing up in the cafeteria as food or as quill pens in the store.
They went about investigating the mystery of the school, the murder of Hiyoko, as well as the scarecrow-like creature that would dog their steps. Along the way, they met Leone JB, a representative of the Dove Party who had been masquerading as their school maintenance man/janitor, mister One. They found out the headmaster had been murdered some time before, found files on the human representative (which were rigged to combust until mister One disarmed them). Opened up the small escape hatch in the dome by way of a control panel in the headmaster’s office (thanks to Yuuya’s mad computer infiltration skills) only to see a student killed when he flew outside, and gradually discovered information about the experimentation that had been going on some years prior below the school.
Helped along in no small part by Nageki Fujishiro—his ghost, at least, who Ryouta could talk to. Sakuya went to go confront the doctor on his own (leading to him nearly getting killed, if it were not for Yuuya’s well-timed intervention). They learned that it was Yuuya and the doctor who had cut up the body, who had distributed it about the school in order to time it so that the humans would be alerted in the morning and have the most opportune time to gather. It was also the doctor who was responsible for the scarecrow-like monster (Labor-9).
Sakuya left behind in the maintenance room to grieve over his brother’s “death”, Ryouta continued on and went to talk with Nageki. There, he learned more about the Charon Virus, the events of five years ago and the fire in the medical center as Nageki regained his memories. He learned about ‘Operation Hatoful’, which was the operation in which they were trying to make a biological weapon to wipe out all humans by utilising the virus in question. He discovered a map to the underground medical center, returning to the maintenance room…
There, he went off with Kazuaki and Anghel, the latter of whom found the entrance to the medical center downstairs. As they proceeded onward, they eventually encountered Labor 9. They threw the stun gun that Ryouta had been given previously by Leone JB and fired a hose nearby at the creature, shocking it until it could move no longer. This done, they proceeded onward. There, Anghel and Kazuaki were trapped and Ryouta was forced to remember it was essentially him that was the cause of Hiyoko’s death and that Labor 9 was a model built by the Hawk Party after the Dove Party abandoned the project…what moved it was in fact a human brain (Hiyoko’s). So in essence, the doctor said Ryouta was responsible for her death not one but two times.
Broken by this knowledge and believing he had nothing left, all he could do was follow the doctor. Left behind, Kazuaki and Anghel could do nothing as poison gas started to flood the room. However, Okosan and Sakuya burst in for a heroic rescue! And Kazuaki explained what happened as they went to find where Ryouta and the doctor had gone.
When they got there, they found Ryouta had already been turned into a biological weapon by the doctor, the last of Nageki’s cells left over from the fire transferred to his body. He had traded his free will for physical strength—essentially brainwashed. The group managed to snap him out of it (Anghel has the power to emit essentially hallucinogenic pheromones and hypnotise people, drawing them into his fantasies), and Ryouta said he didn’t want to hurt anyone. And questioning the doctor’s reasons for all this at the same time—it being that he was granting Ryouta’s father’s last wish. Ryouta said there was no need to chase after his father’s shadow any longer.
All of this done and Leone JB showing up with the students to escape from the school (the doctor was being scarily cooperative to see them all out), all seemed to be going well. At least until Kazuaki pulled out a gun, shooting the doctor. It seemed as though he had snapped. He was, in actuality, the adoptive brother of Nageki (one of the two survivors of the incident at the orphanage) who had agreed to send him to St. Pigeonation’s in the belief he would be tended to there and cured of his weak immune system and susceptibility to illnesses.
Going to another room, Kazuaki seemed prepared to cut the liver that the doctor had put the remaining cells belonging to Nageki into right out of Ryouta. At least until Nageki showed up, possessing Ryouta’s body. Together, they got Kazuaki back to his senses and now prepared to leave for good…but alas, Ryouta decided to stay behind, with Hiyoko (at least, her brain in a jar). Going onto the surface where the humans were gathered would result in death for whichever human he came in contact with. So they left him behind with Sakuya’s promise he would be back for Ryouta, and Ryouta saying he’d be waiting. The implication being that he was frozen there in order to wait until medical technology would be enough to take the virus from his body and put Hiyoko back together…
(Of course in the epilogue, Yuuya is revealed to be all well, much to Sakuya’s horror after all the grieving he’d done, after he had been administered medicine from Leone JB. The epilogue actually ended on Sakuya calling out to Ryouta and Hiyoko, telling them to ‘wake up’. Of course, I’m taking him from before this, just as the others left him behind in the medical area.)
Personality:
Good-natured, Ryouta is the kind of person who is skilled at taking things in stride. He doesn’t get his feathers all in a ruffle easily—whether it be with him being forced into the many dresses he seems to wear throughout the game, or when it comes to dealing with others such as Anghel or Sakuya. He’s patient, as well, given that Sakuya isn’t the easiest to get along with, but in the BBL storyline, he doesn’t hesitate to tell him what he’s thinking and even gets along (as well as one can expect) with him.
The little things he doesn’t place too much value on, nor does he really let himself get upset over them. It may be because his mother has been of frail health all of his life and he’s experienced hardships that he knows that the little things don’t matter so much in the long run. He has a high value of family, even saying to Sakuya more than once that he should treat Yuuya better, as he is Sakuya’s brother.
He has a high value and fondness for those who he calls his friends. And even those who he doesn’t, he offers a surprising degree of tolerance or even forgiveness. As with Shuu—with everything the doctor did, Ryouta still believed that he should have a fair trial once they got onto the surface. He reacted with surprise rather than malicious or a justified feeling when Shuu suddenly ended up shot. He’s not good at hating another person or fostering such negative emotions. When Hiyoko is killed and he says he wants to find the bird that did it, he can’t put a name to the emotions in him when he says so. Though he’s certainly capable of feeling them—such as when Shuu was talking about what he learned from “these chunks of meat that used to be Tosaka”, he said nothing but Sakuya told him to keep calm.
When he starts something, he’s the sort of person who wants—no, perhaps needs—to see it through. After Hiyoko died, he insisted they gather her…pieces up. Even if it was difficult for him, even if he couldn’t look into the box her head had been in at first. He trucked through his own difficulties, to give her body the proper respect, at least. He also insisted they learn more, even if it were painful. He wanted to know everything behind why Hiyoko died, about himself and about the school, though it nearly broke him along the way.
He’s surprisingly forthcoming in aspects, telling Yuuya when he and Sakuya were talking that they may have been saying bad things about him. It may be part of his earnest, frank personality, where he doesn’t hesitate to pay someone a compliment or say if there’s some trait he admires about them if the timing is right. He can also tease another, joke around with friends, going so far to pick at Sakuya a bit and compare him to a delinquent once when they were investigating the school, despite the overall grim atmosphere.
It also isn’t often that he gets embarrassed or flustered. Hiyoko runs into him on the street advertising for a transvestite café, but while he’s surprised at first, he still thrusts a flyer into her hands and implores her to come and call for him when she gets a chance. There are no lengths, no embarrassments he won’t go through for the sake of the people who he loves. The few times we see him in a panic are in situations which may be life-or-death, like his babbling about the scarecrow creature to Kazuaki before Sakuya told him he was incoherent.
Despite everything that happened during the course of the BBL storyline, when he snapped out of the hypnotic trance he had been put in, he said he didn’t want to make anyone sad. He had wished for a world in which everyone would live in peace and not lose anyone dear to them, not for one side to be killed. In that is a bit of Ryouta’s naivety; he truly believes two sides can get along if they try, wishes for them to, even if he’s told that they won’t. He also held out the hope that his mother would get better, despite everything.
Also, though he’s forthcoming and honest in some things, he has the tendency to hide his own personal negative emotions at least until he’s approached about them or until they get too weighty for him to bear. Not that he’s particularly good at hiding them, as he’s not good at covering up that he’s suspicious of a person. As it was for Shuu in the BBL storyline initially. In his path (not the one I’m taking him from, but nevertheless), he only confesses to his mother being in the hospital after Hiyoko catches him coming out of the hospital in question. This leads back to him not wanting to make people sad—when there are things in his life that could make others sad or upset, he tends to hold them back or keep them to himself.
There is also no doubt that he still holds guilt for all that happened concerning Hiyoko’s death. He was essentially the cause for it and all, even though it had been the doctor that had changed his body against his own will. But his concern for others was strong enough that he was the one who wanted to stay behind, to make sure no human would have to die because of him again.
Abilities Information
Fighter or Sacrifice?: Sacrifice—Ryouta went and takes a lot of the initiative through the BBL storyline. Deciding where they should go, what they should do and investigate, and also finds a lot of the information himself. He’s less inclined to just rush headlong into a situation without consideration—Hiyoko even says that he’s the responsible sort at the beginning of the game.
Canon abilities: Ryouta is technically a pigeon of imminent death, as he’s carrying the Charon Virus in his body. Any human that is even in the same room as him, breathing the same air of him, will die of asphyxiation due to the viruses’ effect. It causes an overreaction of the immune system in humans that leads to their respiratory system shutting down.
Name: Haleless
Zero Candidate?: Nope!
Samples
First Person:
[Ryouta is offering a little smile, though it’s clear he’s somewhat troubled.]
It still feels like I have to be dreaming or something. Or maybe I hit my head somewhere. I mean…
[He struggles a moment.] Well, I’m sure I can’t be the only bi—er. Person who feels that way, can I? I suppose everyone’s been kind of brought from somewhere they had things to be doing.
[Laughter, then he shakes his head.]
Anyway, I might as well make the most of it here. Even if stuff’s going to take some getting used to.
Third Person:
If Ryouta could say he was going to miss anything about his pigeon body the most, he’d have to say it’d be his wings. Oh, certainly thumbs were useful and all, but you couldn’t fly with thumbs. Otherwise Hiyoko might’ve been able to fit in better with the birds at St. Pigeonation’s…
That was one thing that would ever rise to his mind, too, no matter where he went on the campus. Whether he was in the cafeteria (they cooked birds a lot here, much to his horror), or else by the large lake, looking over the water, his best friend lingered in his mind. He wondered too on himself. What would happen when he went back? Back to waiting—? Not that he minded, of course. It had been his own decision. But here, no human was hurt by him, even if he stood close to them, not even if they were breathing the same air.
It was a relief. He wished Hiyoko was here, though. He would bet she would love this place. From the food (they even had udon here), to the video games and even the fitness center! She wouldn’t have to sleep in that cave of hers (it was, er, charmingly rustic…maybe?). He laughed to himself then, quietly, one hand lifting partway to his mouth. He gave said hand an odd look, as though to ask the appendage in question what it was doing, and then shook his head.
Jeez, this body was still going to take some getting used to.
Anything Else?
He won’t have the Charon Virus! Mainly due to it…probably killing every human he’d probably come in contact with, orz. Also, he will be in a human form, though he still has a weak stomach and immune system due to the doctor kind of working on lowering it for the better part of a year. 8|
