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If you ever need to find this loser in a crowd full of people, look for the decently tall guy with greased up hair, man purse leaning against his hip, and a funky bandana tied around his neck--that's Danny.
He stands at 5"9, and his body isn't as sculpted to perfection as he'd like to believe. He has a cute bubble belly that makes him strap on the belts when Winter comes around, but he loses weight considerably as the Summer weather comes around.
Danny has a fairly distinct look to him, especially when he looks as if he styled his hair with motorcycle grease. His unkempt, jet black hair is intentionally left a bit loose and wild for the sake of looking good, and maybe it did look good back in the early 2000s. He keeps a fake switchblade in his jean pocket, which he jokingly calls his emergency comb for those situations where he needs to flaunt his peacock of a personality towards the ladies. His hair is naturally thin, making it incredibly easy to comb through in a matter of seconds for that fast and easy shine. Maybe he's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline.
He used to be a natural blonde, and with those light baby blues he's currently rocking, this made him one of the cutest little boys the world ever looked at. Unfortunately, this is a 19 year old man, and he needed to be seen as one. Cue a trip to the hair salon, and he came out looking like he was ready to go to the nearest Backstreet Boys concert.
His casual wear is pretty decent, and he likes to think of himself as a guy that can clean himself up if he puts his mind to it. Clean, dark colors without incredibly vibrant patterns are what work for him. Whenever he's out training, he'll adorn himself with slender tracksuits to help get himself into character. At least he ditches the bandana when that happens, but he ends up replacing it with whatever tacky sweatband he picked up from the dollar store. Purple is his favorite color, and on his good days, he tries to incorporate the color somewhere on his body. Whether it's an accessory, his outfit, or even face paint, he feels better about himself because he considers it his lucky color.
Whenever he wears jeans, he makes sure to get them in the darkest shade of blue possible. For starters, he liked the edgy look it gave him, but that's not the main reason. Danny has a terrible habit of wiping his hands on his pants if there's anything on it, and his jeans often get stained by who knows what he touched. The darker the jeans, the less likely you'll notice those stains. It works out.
His man purse isn't actually a purse, but it's a bag for his favorite laptop so he can look up key information on the spot...which is what he'd like to say, but he's actually looking up funny pictures on Reddit. Grumpycat is his favorite, because it reminds him of his step-sister, Amber Kazuki. Anyways, the laptop bag is something that goes across his chest in order to prevent strange pickpocketing incidents, since he keeps a variety of other goodies in there as well. Usually he slaps in some beauty or hygienic products in there just because his real travel bag isn't large enough, but if there's room, chances are he has snacks stashed in there.
When he walks, he likes to keep a fun bounce to his step, almost as if he's moving to Space Jam. It can be hard for him to stay still sometimes, especially if you take him shopping, and he has a tendency to put his hands on as many inanimate objects as he can.
PERSONALITY
Sun (♐) || Moon (♍)
"This position blends the personal dash, optimism, enthusiasm and directness of manner of Sagittarius, with the intelligence, analytical insight and discrimination of Virgo."
Myers-Briggs: ESTP
"ESTPs are spontaneous, active folks. Like the other SPs, ESTPs get great satisfaction from acting on their impulses. Activities involving great power, speed, thrill and risk are attractive to the ESTP. Chronic stifling of these impulses makes the ESTP feel "dead inside.""
Description:
A guy like this looks awfully shady, and he has a shady personality to prove that you can judge a book by it's cover!
Exhibit A: Like a cat, he's got a mischievous streak that makes you want to hide your belongings whenever he's around. He's like that one cat that knocks down your water bottle the moment you leave the room, then laughs and demands that you clean it up. He's the kind of guy that sees a phone lying around and thinks it's hilarious to go onto your Facebook to change your status, and not everyone likes having their privacy invaded like that, so that's a problem. Some people find it hilarious, and let him get away with these types of shenanigans. If you retaliate with a sense of wit and humor, of course he'll laugh it off, but if you're especially good at it, then he might just take it as a challenge.
Exhibit B: He's a pretty light and care-free kind of guy, so if you have some strife going on with your wife in your life, he's not the most sympathetic guy around. It's not that he doesn't care, because he does care about strangers to an extent, but his expression of empathy is entirely lacking when he just wants to get to the point and cheer people up. Danny is a terrific storyteller, and he absolutely doesn't mind sharing his own tales of embarrassment in order to lighten up the mood. The best way to keep yourself humble is to learn how to laugh at yourself, and he does just that. His memory isn't the best thing out there, but his tongue fills in all of the details he can't remember by spicing things up with the gift of exaggeration, giving even the simplest of stories a giddy zip to them. Who cares if it didn't happen? It's all for the sake of entertainment, and it's not like they can prove him wrong.
Exhibit C: His method for dealing with problems is actually kind of terrible, and this is where his biggest flaws begin to shine. This guy is absolutely miserable at being serious about the things the actually matter, and he has a fort of defense mechanisms to keep him securely locked in his fantasy world of I'm-so-happy-la-la-land. Denial is the key trait that keeps him locked into place, simply rejecting, ignoring, or putting off every important problem out there until it absolutely needs to be addressed. You can tell that he was a great kid who did chores around the house, can't you? A lot of the time, he simply doesn't feel as if he needs to be weighed down by temporary troubles, and ignoring them is so much easier than moping for days.
Besides some of the shady stuff, he is optimistic and enthusiastic, but he's also practical and realistic about his goals. He's hardly naive, and he's quick to discriminate and take someone at face value if they give him weird vibes.
Danny is pushy, but he manages to do it with a cocktail of charm, jokes, and puns that makes him seem less forceful than he actually is. Yeah, peer pressure with Danny is a thing as long as he thinks he can get away with it. Don't do drugs.
When you grow up knowing that you're one heck of a cute kid, you crave the attention that adults give you for life. This guy is one hell of a flirt, but he never expects anything from it. He flirts as if he's joking around with friends, and being the practical guy that he is, he expects rejection. A lot. But that makes it all the more funny to him, so he keeps trying for the sake of that little itty bit of attention. If anyone asked him up-front, Danny would confess to being straight, but that doesn't mean that his male friends are going to be spared from his flirtatious wit. Oh no, they're even bigger targets than the girls sometimes. He's rarely serious when flirting with guys, but with girls? Well, sometimes with certain girls, maybe rejection does hurt a little. But he'll get over it eventually and be back to his snappy, happy self.
Of course, just because he enjoys feeling like a smooth criminal with his sugary sweet lines doesn't mean he wants anything to be reciprocated. Danny is easily overwhelmed once people start showing that kind of interest back at him, often backpedaling, avoiding the person that might have romantic or sexual interest in him, and frequently attempting to change the situation so it doesn't get mushy gushy. Part of this stems back from a nightmare inducing experience with his first girlfriend, who helped Danny discover that movie style romance just wasn't his thing. Not to mention that kissing his girlfriend completely repulsed him, since she had it in her head that a kiss had to have as much tongue as possible, as well as weird vacuum-like sucking that left Danny feeling sick and uneasy. With an experience like that, he's pretty grossed out by kissing, and mentioning that disgust isn't always easy for him, considering how flirty he can be.
Other fun details about Danny include his excitement for the unknown, his magnified squeamishness for unknown liquids, and how easily his brave facade crashes down the moment he realizes that life is not just fun and games. All of his favorite TV shows while growing up featured famous explorers and heroes that constantly ended up saving the day, and while it was a little unorthodox to be that kind of person in real life, he can't deny that he craves that sort of glory and fame. He's far from shy, and that amount of attention is something he'd gladly sunbathe in for days, and naturally he'd brag everyone's ears off.
He might be 19, but Danny is clearly a child at heart. The moment he realizes that he might be in any sort of danger, he turns into a whimpering mess. The only thing that carries him through these moments as a Pokemon Trainer is his love of exploration, his love for adventure, and the idea that he's the main character, so L-O-L he can't die. He's pretty good at convincing himself that something is safe if it means saving face, and that's probably going to be the death of him.
Despite his innocent naivety, Danny has been known to surprise people with his love of puzzles and riddles. He's pretty determined when it comes to solving more advanced puzzles, and sure, sometimes he relies on online guides to give him tips, but once the formula's down, he can solve things on his own well enough. The only thing about memorizing formulas is that it makes him pretty stumped when he comes across unfamiliar territory.
His love of Maid Cafes, as well as dressing up in frilly, poofy outfits, has helped him embrace parts of himself that were hidden away due to the 'a man has to enjoy manly things' mentality his father and peers forced on him. It often makes others question his sexuality when he parades in adorable cat ears, dresses, or whatever strikes his fancy, but he honestly just has fun dressing in ways that catch people's attention.
TLDR;
Extrovert
Optimistic
Spontaneous
Sociable
Persistent/Pushy
Affectionate
Rude/Tactless
Unsympathetic
Defensive
Witty
Hedonistic
Imaginative
Artistic
Shallow
Adventurous
Braggart
Risk-taker
Practical
Mischievous
Careless
Likes:
- Teasing others, but not so much when they tease him - Girls - Pick-up lines -Pick-up trucks for the Pick-up lines - Sports cars - Reddit - Pineapples - Pizza with pineapples on it - Junk Food - Dressing up - Maids - Comic book heroes, especially Kool-Aid Man - Flying, but planes are boring. Helicopters are so in. - Rap Battles - Puns - Puzzles, especially Rubix cubes
Dislikes:
- Long fights, and this includes Pokemon battles - Silence - He can't stand carrots - Not showering for a day - People that hate puns just wow how could you - Classical music - When you try to do the joke and you just get arrested - People with ridiculous vocabularies - Rose-stained ideals of romance, family, and friendship make him nervous - He can't stand the rain - Soap Operas, unless they're incredibly ridiculous. Then they're funny.
Ambitions: If he had to be honest, Danny wants to be the next John Wayne. He's working on those catchphrases, and all he needs is a cowboy hat to match his bandana to properly pull this off. But the problem is that the hat hides his glorious hair, and we can't have that. This guy hates making goals for himself when they sound so impossible to make, but he currently wants to catch up to his younger sister, Amber Kazuki. An even larger ambition is to explore unknown frontiers, which includes space. As impossible as it sounds, he'd totally be into having space adventures with aliens.
HISTORY
History:
Born in the fourth largest city in Hoenn, Danny was able to grow up in a rich, educational environment with occasional field trips to the ocean for Wailmer watching, and when he was old enough, he was able to take advantage of the nearby space center that sparked continued to spark his interest in adventure and mystery. Cowboys were all about exploring new frontiers, and the most exciting frontier out there was outer space. Ever since he was little, he dreamed about becoming the best space cowboy the world had ever seen. His father was a reasonable, practical sort that kept trying to correct him by saying 'No, son. You mean an astronaut. An astronaut explores space, and they don't ride horses.', but his mother Would only laugh and let him dream whatever he wanted.
His parents were likable enough, at least to him, but apparently they did not see it that way. While his father was a reasonable, conservative man, his mother was about as easy-going as they came. His birth mother was a hippie lovechild, and she was completely proud of that fact. His parents were an unusual match that married too quickly, where his father frantically grasped for his ideal romance while his mother remained emotionally distant, causing the two to grow apart.
Age 12, his parents divorced, sharing custody of Danny in ways that would frustrate a person of any age. House hopping was an incredible inconvenience, and there were times when he simply preferred staying at his mother's house due to his father's love of nagging.
The good thing about the situation was that his parents never lived far from one another, allowing him to stay at the same school without fear of moving into an intimidating, unfamiliar school with new rules and more tools.
As a teenager, he was naturally pretty tech savvy, and his school friends were even more so. Naturally, he befriended kids that knew how to code. Those that could code had power for the best pranks ever, and one of the greatest accomplishments of his childhood was being a part of the group that turned the school's website into a parody fansite of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. It was a brilliant heist that left teachers and staff furious, and unfortunately, being the braggart that he was, he was quickly found out and suspended. He was nearly expelled, but thankfully his father had enough wit to keep anyone in his group from expulsion.
The event rattled his old friends enough to make them lose touch with one another, making him a bit of an outcast for the rest of his middle school years. It was never a bad thing though--he had the internet, and people online thought he was hilarious. How could a guy like him ever be truly alone?
In the middle of his Freshman year of high school (age 14), his father remarried to the mother of Amber Kazuki, giving him a fun little step-sister to tease. She didn't warm up to him right away, but he was thrilled with her company almost instantly, enjoying the additions to his cute little family. His step-mother was fairly kind to him, although his excitable behavior certainly put a strain on their relationship. Thankfully, as he grew older, that vibrating bucket of energy was starting to cool down, much to the relief of just about everyone.
While Amber and Danny got along fairly well as siblings, there is a small incident that needs to be mentioned. His father owned a Flygon since his good old days as a Pokemon Trainer, and Danny managed to convince Amber to sneak out for a super secret test drive. Flygon knew the kids well enough, and he flew the dragon once with his father before, so there shouldn't have been an issue.
The flight went well until Flygon became spooked by a frightened group of Wingull being chased by a Pelliper. In the dragon's fright, Amber slipped off the dragon's back, breaking her leg from the experience.
The amount of trouble Danny got into for that was astounding, but it wasn't as astounding as the amount of guilt he felt for doing it. He hated everything about it, to be honest. When Amber explained to him that she was fine, despite refusing to ride on Flygon as she got older, he simply couldn't buy it. Furious with himself, he decided that he needed to help Amber in his own way.
For an explosive burst of Danny's "exposure therapy", he decided to catch a Wingull in order to give Amber some positive associations with flying. He only had to borrow his father's Flygon to do it, but he did, and somehow that Wingull made itself a cheerful member of the Kazuki family.
Granted, Amber wasn't entirely thrilled about it at first, but only stinky jerk faces hate Wingull named Larry, and Amber was not a stinky jerk face.
Eventually, Amber left the household to begin her own Pokemon journey. You'd think that with the taste for adventure that Danny had, he'd be gone long before Amber, but he figured that he might as well finish high school in order to have some kind of education as a back-up plan.
Being he good brother that he is, he never completely lost touch with Amber. Sometimes they IM'd one another, and there were a few occasions when he'd call her at ridiculous hours to talk to her about things he knew she didn't care about, but it did give them a reason to talk to one another. Over time, one conversation led to another, and the itch to explore like the space cowboy he was overcame him. It was time to explore, and it was time to catch up to lil' sis Kazuki.
He set off on his own version of a super cool journey with Larry, where he proceeded to lose against Gym Leaders for using only a Wingull.
A childhood friend from his hometown heard about his plight and sent over a cheery Emolga, a Pokemon that Danny was fairly reluctant to accept due to how she showed her affection.
The Pinsir was a donated gift to the Help Danny Charity that Danny happily accepted. We're keeping the name Gawain because it sounds cool. Yeah.
Misc. Facts:
- He was in his school's Computer Club up until the Fresh Prank of Mossdeep - He can't actually hack, but he can use photoshop - Danny had a nice amount of friends in High School, but he could never get close to any of them - He can play the recorder - He took basic German classes, but I don't know German so go easy on me here - Embarrassingly enough, he never learned how to ride a bike - He can swim though! Thank you, summer programs - He started working at Maid Cafes in high school in order to buy and ship birthday presents to Amber, but he ended up enjoying the experience more than he thought he would
[size=3][b]BIRDY[/b][/size] [url=link to accepted application will be added by staff][b]Danny Kazuki[/b][/url] Face claim: [b]Noragami[/b] - Yato, [i]Kazuki, Danny[/i]
Everybody get up, it's time to slam now! We got a real jam goin' down, welcome to the Space Jam! Here's your chance, do your dance at the Space Jam, alright!
Music popped and strobe lights polka dotted the dance floor, leaving the star to gloriously flaunt his flair to the beat. This was the wildest party that his father's basement had seen in years, and as a rainbow of neon colors crawled the cracked walls like tiny geckos, the stereo's heartbeat blasted up towards the bedroom of his dedicated, beloved younger sister who needed to study for a big test. "Hey Larry," Directing his hand towards a Wingull perched on the TV, his eyes narrowed as if the world consisted of only him and his sidekick Wingull. The music was all that could be heard, and it was almost impossible to decipher Danny's voice as the untamable bass continued to rattle his soul, sending electric waves through his mind as if he was reaching an uncontrollable high. Larry, on the other hand, looked as if the music wasn't even a thing. Larry certainly wasn't deaf, but his ears lacked the predatory senses required to hunt for small prey, and he sort of did have a lack of hearing sensitivity due to Danny's fascination with furiously loud music. Realizing that it was his time to shine at the sudden gesture, he perked up and directed a hesitant wing towards his chest.
"Wingull?" Danny must've meant him, right? He tilted his head with an acute degree of uncertainty, which certainly made him look like a cute bird. With each motion of his owner's fingers, his beak faithfully trailed the direction it went towards, somehow hoping that food was going to be involved in the process of this little charade.
"Y'all ready to stop?"
"WINGULL!" More like stop playing around and give me the food, human. The Wingull pouted as he rested his wings to his side as his toes began to feel ticklish due to the vibrations coming off of the TV.
"Y'all wanna know why?" Lifting something behind his back as if he was going to offer Larry something beautiful and delicious, the Wingull quickly perked up with an expectant, ever so loving gaze. Of course if food was involved, he was going to play along as long as he needed to.
"Gull?"
"'Cuz it's a Slam Jam!" Holding his microphone victoriously to his mouth in one hand and a handful of treats in the other, Larry was completely sold and went wild with fake cheers. Of course, this was all Danny needed to have a good time, whether his audience was faking its delight or not. You couldn't stop the master from playing along with his own game, and with these sick beats, he wasn't going to stop for anyone.
"Larry, my funky chunky Larry, do yo' drum solo, bird." With a cheeky wink, he directed the imaginary crowd's attention to the easily entertained bird, who proceeded to rapidly slam its wings down on the pillows Danny threw to the floor. "Heat it up, Larry. Go Larry. Go Larry! Rock your body, rock that body." He whooped out an excited scream that sent shivers through the house, making the walls creak in terror as they sensed a foreboding presence eerily creeping down the stairs to quell the storm.
Little sister was sneaking down, glaring nefariously at the act of her completely insensitive older brother. His end was coming. The moon was red; ripe for the apocalypse as Space Jam continued to eerily play throughout the night, muffling Danny's frightened screams at the terror of Amber Kazuki.
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Post by Danny Kazuki on Dec 8, 2014 18:32:24 GMT -5
Daniel Ronaldo Kazuki
BASICS
Name: Danny Kazuki Alias: Danny, but online he goes as Snipecat26 D.O.B.November 26th, 1994. Age 20 Gender: Male SexualOrientation: Asexual Biromantic Region: Hoenn Class: Trainer Occupation: Enjoys working as a maid in Maid Cafes.
DIRECTORY & OOC INFO
Directory Info: [size=3][b]BIRDY[/b][/size] [url=link to application][b]Danny Kazuki[/b][/url] Face claim: [b]Noragami[/b] - Yato, [i]Kazuki Danny[/i]
Casually flirts with everybody without expecting consequences.
Sees himself as some kind of know-it-all because he reads a lot on the internet
Adores being the center of attention. Adores making people laugh. Thinks he's doing people a favor by referring to himself as 'that guy', or the 'I'm so glad I'm not worse off than that guy' guy.
Has a thing for plotting high-risk, low-profit pranks.
When he's infatuated, he tends to shoot for people that are out of his league. Whatever that means.
Will totally milk out a person's admiration for him for what it's worth.
HELPFUL HINTS
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PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
If you ever need to find this loser in a crowd full of people, look for the decently tall guy with greased up hair, man purse leaning against his hip, and a funky bandana tied around his neck--that's Danny.
He stands at 5"9, and his body isn't as sculpted to perfection as he'd like to believe. He has a cute bubble belly that makes him strap on the belts when Winter comes around, but he loses weight considerably when Summer hits and the heat kills his appetite.
Danny has a fairly distinct look to him, especially when he looks as if he styled his hair with motorcycle grease. His unkempt, jet black hair is intentionally left a bit loose and wild for the sake of looking good, and maybe it did look good back in the early 2000s. He keeps a fake switchblade in his jean pocket, which he jokingly calls his emergency comb for those situations where he needs to flaunt his peacock of a personality towards the ladies. His hair is naturally thin, making it incredibly easy to comb through in a matter of seconds for that fast and easy shine. Maybe he's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline.
He used to be a natural blonde, and with those light baby blues he's currently rocking, this made him one of the cutest little boys the world ever looked at. Unfortunately, this is a 19 year old man, and he needed to be seen as one. Cue a trip to the hair salon, and he came out looking like he was ready to go to the nearest Backstreet Boys concert.
His casual wear is pretty decent, and he likes to think of himself as a guy that can clean himself up if he puts his mind to it. Clean, dark colors without incredibly vibrant patterns are what work for him. Whenever he's out training, he'll adorn himself with slender tracksuits to help get himself into character. At least he ditches the bandana when that happens, but he ends up replacing it with whatever tacky sweatband he picked up from the dollar store. Purple is his favorite color, and on his good days, he tries to incorporate the color somewhere on his body. Whether it's an accessory, his outfit, or even face paint, he feels better about himself because he considers it his lucky color.
Whenever he wears jeans, he makes sure to get them in the darkest shade of blue possible. For starters, he liked the edgy look it gave him, but that's not the main reason. Danny has a terrible habit of wiping his hands on his pants if there's anything on it, and his jeans often get stained by who knows what he touched. The darker the jeans, the less likely you'll notice those stains. It works out.
His man purse isn't actually a purse, but it's a bag for his favorite laptop so he can look up key information on the spot...which is what he'd like to say, but he's actually looking up funny pictures on Reddit. Grumpycat is his favorite, because it reminds him of his step-sister, Amber Kazuki. Anyways, the laptop bag is something that goes across his chest in order to prevent strange pickpocketing incidents, since he keeps a variety of other goodies in there as well. Usually he slaps in some beauty or hygienic products in there just because his real travel bag isn't large enough, but if there's room, chances are he has snacks stashed in there.
When he walks, he likes to keep a fun bounce to his step, almost as if he's moving to Space Jam. It can be hard for him to stay still sometimes, especially if you take him shopping, and he has a tendency to put his hands on as many inanimate objects as he can.
All you need to know:
Stands at 5"9
Likes to wear tacky/gaudy clothes
Shiny hair. So much gel in that hair.
Has a smile that curves and spells out trouble.
Look for the cowboy bandanna and the laptop bag. That Danny.
May smell like fruit because he has fruity hand sanitizer/hand lotion hiding around
PERSONALITY
Sun (♐) || Moon (♍)
"This position blends the personal dash, optimism, enthusiasm and directness of manner of Sagittarius, with the intelligence, analytical insight and discrimination of Virgo."
Myers-Briggs: ESTP
"ESTPs are spontaneous, active folks. Like the other SPs, ESTPs get great satisfaction from acting on their impulses. Activities involving great power, speed, thrill and risk are attractive to the ESTP. Chronic stifling of these impulses makes the ESTP feel "dead inside.""
Description:
A guy like this looks awfully shady, and he has a shady personality to prove that you can judge a book by it's cover!
Exhibit A: Like a cat, he's got a mischievous streak that makes you want to hide your belongings whenever he's around. He's like that one cat that knocks down your water bottle the moment you leave the room, then laughs and demands that you clean it up. He's the kind of guy that sees a phone lying around and thinks it's hilarious to go onto your Facebook to change your status, and not everyone likes having their privacy invaded like that, so that's a problem. Some people find it hilarious, and let him get away with these types of shenanigans. If you retaliate with a sense of wit and humor, of course he'll laugh it off, but if you're especially good at it, then he might just take it as a challenge.
Exhibit B: He's a pretty light and care-free kind of guy, so if you have some strife going on with your wife in your life, he's not the most sympathetic guy around. It's not that he doesn't care, because he does care about strangers to an extent, but his expression of empathy is entirely lacking when he just wants to get to the point and cheer people up. Danny is a terrific storyteller, and he absolutely doesn't mind sharing his own tales of embarrassment in order to lighten up the mood. The best way to keep yourself humble is to learn how to laugh at yourself, and he does just that. His memory isn't the best thing out there, but his tongue fills in all of the details he can't remember by spicing things up with the gift of exaggeration, giving even the simplest of stories a giddy zip to them. Who cares if it didn't happen? It's all for the sake of entertainment, and it's not like they can prove him wrong.
Exhibit C: His method for dealing with problems is actually kind of terrible, and this is where his biggest flaws begin to shine. This guy is absolutely miserable at being serious about the things the actually matter, and he has a fort of defense mechanisms to keep him securely locked in his fantasy world of I'm-so-happy-la-la-land. Denial is the key trait that keeps him locked into place, simply rejecting, ignoring, or putting off every important problem out there until it absolutely needs to be addressed. You can tell that he was a great kid who did chores around the house, can't you? A lot of the time, he simply doesn't feel as if he needs to be weighed down by temporary troubles, and ignoring them is so much easier than moping for days.
Besides some of the shady stuff, he is optimistic and enthusiastic, but he's also practical and realistic about his goals. He's hardly naive, and he's quick to discriminate and take someone at face value if they give him weird vibes.
Danny is pushy, but he manages to do it with a cocktail of charm, jokes, and puns that makes him seem less forceful than he actually is. Yeah, peer pressure with Danny is a thing as long as he thinks he can get away with it.
Don't do drugs.
When you grow up knowing that you're one heck of a cute kid, you crave the attention that adults give you for life. This guy is one hell of a flirt, but he never expects anything from it. He flirts as if he's joking around with friends, and being the practical guy that he is, he expects rejection. A lot. But that makes it all the more funny to him, so he keeps trying for the sake of that little itty bit of attention. If anyone asked him up-front, Danny would confess to being straight, but that doesn't mean that his male friends are going to be spared from his flirtatious wit. Oh no, they're even bigger targets than the girls sometimes. He's rarely serious when flirting with guys, but with girls? Well, sometimes with certain girls, maybe rejection does hurt a little. But he'll get over it eventually and be back to his snappy, happy self.
Of course, just because he enjoys feeling like a smooth criminal with his sugary sweet lines doesn't mean he wants anything to be reciprocated. Danny is easily overwhelmed once people start showing that kind of interest back at him, often backpedaling, avoiding the person that might have romantic or sexual interest in him, and frequently attempting to change the situation so it doesn't get mushy gushy. Part of this stems back from a nightmare inducing experience with his first girlfriend, who helped Danny discover that movie style romance just wasn't his thing. Not to mention that kissing his girlfriend completely repulsed him, since she had it in her head that a kiss had to have as much tongue as possible, as well as weird vacuum-like sucking that left Danny feeling sick and uneasy. With an experience like that, he's pretty grossed out by kissing, and mentioning that disgust isn't always easy for him, considering how flirty he can be.
Other fun details about Danny include his excitement for the unknown, his magnified squeamishness for unknown liquids, and how easily his brave facade crashes down the moment he realizes that life is not just fun and games. All of his favorite TV shows while growing up featured famous explorers and heroes that constantly ended up saving the day, and while it was a little unorthodox to be that kind of person in real life, he can't deny that he craves that sort of glory and fame. He's far from shy, and that amount of attention is something he'd gladly sunbathe in for days, and naturally he'd brag everyone's ears off.
He might be 19, but Danny is clearly a child at heart. The moment he realizes that he might be in any sort of danger, he turns into a whimpering mess. The only thing that carries him through these moments as a Pokemon Trainer is his love of exploration, his love for adventure, and the idea that he's the main character, so L-O-L he can't die. He's pretty good at convincing himself that something is safe if it means saving face, and that's probably going to be the death of him.
Despite his innocent naivety, Danny has been known to surprise people with his love of puzzles and riddles. He's pretty determined when it comes to solving more advanced puzzles, and sure, sometimes he relies on online guides to give him tips, but once the formula's down, he can solve things on his own well enough. The only thing about memorizing formulas is that it makes him pretty stumped when he comes across unfamiliar territory.
His love of Maid Cafes, as well as dressing up in frilly, poofy outfits, has helped him embrace parts of himself that were hidden away due to the 'a man has to enjoy manly things' mentality his father and peers forced on him. It often makes others question his sexuality when he parades in adorable cat ears, dresses, or whatever strikes his fancy, but he honestly just has fun dressing in ways that catch people's attention.
Extrovert
Optimistic
Spontaneous
Sociable
Persistent/Pushy
Affectionate
Rude/Tactless
Unsympathetic
Defensive
Witty
Hedonistic
Imaginative
Artistic
Shallow
Adventurous
Braggart
Risk-taker
Practical
Mischievous
Careless
Likes:
- Teasing others, but not so much when they tease him - Girls - Pick-up lines - Pick-up trucks for the Pick-up lines - Sports cars - Reddit - Pineapples - Pizza with pineapples on it - Junk Food - Dressing up - Maids - Comic book heroes, especially Kool-Aid Man - Flying, but planes are boring. Helicopters are so in right now - Rap Battles - Puns - Puzzles, especially Rubix cubes
Dislikes:
- Long fights, and this includes Pokemon battles - Long periods of silence - Not showering for more than a day - People that hate puns just wow how could you - Classical music - When you try to do the joke and you just get slapped - Rose-stained ideals of romance, family, and friendship make him nervous - Soap Operas, unless they're incredibly ridiculous. Then they're funny. - Pessimists - He doesn't like being still if he can help it - He hates everything about sweating tbh.
Ambitions: Kick Amber Kazuki's ass. No, not really. Maybe he just wants to prove to his family that he can be serious and decent at something when the time calls for it, and matching his little sister is just one way to do it. He's not into the whole coordinator scene, but Danny wants a creative outlet where he can be surrounded by pretty people, dress up in whatever he wants, and make some cash on the side. He hopes to make a Maid Cafe in the Nue region once he saves up enough money. May need to do some missions to earn that much needed cash.
POKEMON
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Born in the fourth largest city in Hoenn, Danny was able to grow up in a rich, educational environment with occasional field trips to the ocean for Wailmer watching, and when he was old enough, he was able to take advantage of the nearby space center that sparked continued to spark his interest in adventure and mystery. Cowboys were all about exploring new frontiers, and the most exciting frontier out there was outer space. Ever since he was little, he dreamed about becoming the best space cowboy the world had ever seen. His father was a reasonable, practical sort that kept trying to correct him by saying 'No, son. You mean an astronaut. An astronaut explores space, and they don't ride horses.', but his mother Would only laugh and let him dream whatever he wanted.
His parents were likable enough, at least to him, but apparently they did not see it that way. While his father was a reasonable, conservative man, his mother was about as easy-going as they came. His birth mother was a hippie lovechild, and she was completely proud of that fact. His parents were an unusual match that married too quickly, where his father frantically grasped for his ideal romance while his mother remained emotionally distant, causing the two to grow apart.
Age 12, his parents divorced, sharing custody of Danny in ways that would frustrate a person of any age. House hopping was an incredible inconvenience, and there were times when he simply preferred staying at his mother's house due to his father's love of nagging.
The good thing about the situation was that his parents never lived far from one another, allowing him to stay at the same school without fear of moving into an intimidating, unfamiliar school with new rules and more tools.
As a teenager, he was naturally pretty tech savvy, and his school friends were even more so. Naturally, he befriended kids that knew how to code. Those that could code had power for the best pranks ever, and one of the greatest accomplishments of his childhood was being a part of the group that turned the school's website into a parody fansite of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. It was a brilliant heist that left teachers and staff furious, and unfortunately, being the braggart that he was, he was quickly found out and suspended. He was nearly expelled, but thankfully his father had enough wit to keep anyone in his group from expulsion.
The event rattled his old friends enough to make them lose touch with one another, making him a bit of an outcast for the rest of his middle school years. It was never a bad thing though--he had the internet, and people online thought he was hilarious. How could a guy like him ever be truly alone?
In the middle of his Freshman year of high school (age 14), his father remarried to the mother of Amber Kazuki, giving him a fun little step-sister to tease. She didn't warm up to him right away, but he was thrilled with her company almost instantly, enjoying the additions to his cute little family. His step-mother was fairly kind to him, although his excitable behavior certainly put a strain on their relationship. Thankfully, as he grew older, that vibrating bucket of energy was starting to cool down, much to the relief of just about everyone.
While Amber and Danny got along fairly well as siblings, there is a small incident that needs to be mentioned. His father owned a Flygon since his good old days as a Pokemon Trainer, and Danny managed to convince Amber to sneak out for a super secret test drive. Flygon knew the kids well enough, and he flew the dragon once with his father before, so there shouldn't have been an issue.
The flight went well until Flygon became spooked by a frightened group of Wingull being chased by a Pelliper. In the dragon's fright, Amber slipped off the dragon's back, breaking her leg from the experience.
The amount of trouble Danny got into for that was astounding, but it wasn't as astounding as the amount of guilt he felt for doing it. He hated everything about it, to be honest. When Amber explained to him that she was fine, despite refusing to ride on Flygon as she got older, he simply couldn't buy it. Furious with himself, he decided that he needed to help Amber in his own way.
For an explosive burst of Danny's "exposure therapy", he decided to catch a Wingull in order to give Amber some positive associations with flying. He only had to borrow his father's Flygon to do it, but he did, and somehow that Wingull made itself a cheerful member of the Kazuki family.
Granted, Amber wasn't entirely thrilled about it at first, but only stinky jerk faces hate Wingull named Larry, and Amber was not a stinky jerk face.
Eventually, Amber left the household to begin her own Pokemon journey. You'd think that with the taste for adventure that Danny had, he'd be gone long before Amber, but he figured that he might as well finish high school in order to have some kind of education as a back-up plan.
Being he good brother that he is, he never completely lost touch with Amber. Sometimes they IM'd one another, and there were a few occasions when he'd call her at ridiculous hours to talk to her about things he knew she didn't care about, but it did give them a reason to talk to one another. Over time, one conversation led to another, and the itch to explore like the space cowboy he was overcame him. It was time to explore, and it was time to catch up to lil' sis Kazuki.
He set off on his own version of a super cool journey with Larry, where he proceeded to lose against Gym Leaders for using only a Wingull.
A childhood friend from his hometown heard about his plight and sent over a cheery Emolga, a Pokemon that Danny was fairly reluctant to accept due to how she showed her affection.
The Pinsir was a donated gift to the Help Danny Charity that Danny happily accepted. We're keeping the name Gawain because it sounds cool. Yeah.
Nue Update: News of the esteemed Flash City in the Nue region reached Danny's ears, and after doing some investigating online, his interest of the local Maid Cafes reached his ears. Talk about heaven, right? Despite making it a goal to travel as much of Hoenn as he could, his heart was set on dashing through the sparkling city. His Pokemon Trainer duties were temporarily put on hold for the sake of finding new career opportunities, and he hopped from one region to the next, finally making it to the Tyntill Ports with a deep breath and a smile. It doesn't hurt that a majority of his online friends happened to be moving over to Nue as well, so that earned the region some bonus points.
Misc. Facts:
- He was in his school's Computer Club up until the Fresh Prank of Mossdeep - He can't actually hack, but he can use photoshop - Danny had a nice amount of friends in High School, but he could never get close to any of them - He can play the recorder - He took basic German classes, but I don't know German so go easy on me here - Embarrassingly enough, he never learned how to ride a bike - He can swim though! Thank you, summer programs - He started working at Maid Cafes in high school in order to buy and ship birthday presents to Amber, but he ended up enjoying the experience more than he thought he would
RP SAMPLE
RP Sample:
Everybody get up, it's time to slam now! We got a real jam goin' down, welcome to the Space Jam! Here's your chance, do your dance at the Space Jam, alright!
Music popped and strobe lights polka dotted the dance floor, leaving the star to gloriously flaunt his flair to the beat. This was the wildest party that his father's basement had seen in years, and as a rainbow of neon colors crawled the cracked walls like tiny geckos, the stereo's heartbeat blasted up towards the bedroom of his dedicated, beloved younger sister who needed to study for a big test. "Hey Larry," Directing his hand towards a Wingull perched on the TV, his eyes narrowed as if the world consisted of only him and his sidekick Wingull. The music was all that could be heard, and it was almost impossible to decipher Danny's voice as the untamable bass continued to rattle his soul, sending electric waves through his mind as if he was reaching an uncontrollable high. Larry, on the other hand, looked as if the music wasn't even a thing. Larry certainly wasn't deaf, but his ears lacked the predatory senses required to hunt for small prey, and he sort of did have a lack of hearing sensitivity due to Danny's fascination with furiously loud music. Realizing that it was his time to shine at the sudden gesture, he perked up and directed a hesitant wing towards his chest.
"Wingull?" Danny must've meant him, right? He tilted his head with an acute degree of uncertainty, which certainly made him look like a cute bird. With each motion of his owner's fingers, his beak faithfully trailed the direction it went towards, somehow hoping that food was going to be involved in the process of this little charade.
"Y'all ready to stop?"
"WINGULL!" More like stop playing around and give me the food, human. The Wingull pouted as he rested his wings to his side as his toes began to feel ticklish due to the vibrations coming off of the TV.
"Y'all wanna know why?" Lifting something behind his back as if he was going to offer Larry something beautiful and delicious, the Wingull quickly perked up with an expectant, ever so loving gaze. Of course if food was involved, he was going to play along as long as he needed to.
"Gull?"
"'Cuz it's a Slam Jam!" Holding his microphone victoriously to his mouth in one hand and a handful of treats in the other, Larry was completely sold and went wild with fake cheers. Of course, this was all Danny needed to have a good time, whether his audience was faking its delight or not. You couldn't stop the master from playing along with his own game, and with these sick beats, he wasn't going to stop for anyone.
"Larry, my funky chunky Larry, do yo' drum solo, bird." With a cheeky wink, he directed the imaginary crowd's attention to the easily entertained bird, who proceeded to rapidly slam its wings down on the pillows Danny threw to the floor. "Heat it up, Larry. Go Larry. Go Larry! Rock your body, rock that body." He whooped out an excited scream that sent shivers through the house, making the walls creak in terror as they sensed a foreboding presence eerily creeping down the stairs to quell the storm.
Little sister was sneaking down, glaring nefariously at the act of her completely insensitive older brother. His end was coming. The moon was red; ripe for the apocalypse as Space Jam continued to eerily play throughout the night, muffling Danny's frightened screams at the terror of Amber Kazuki.
