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[thethirdson]

( PLAYER ★ INFORMATION )

NAME: Lynn
AGE: 27
CONTACT: sepiaepiphany, harleqindream, celia0sword @ AIM
CURRENT CHARACTERS & LATEST AC: app for Azula

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( CHARACTER ★ INFORMATION )

DOES THIS CHARACTER MEET SKELETAL BASICS?
Yes
NAME & AGE:
Kyouya Otori, 17
CANON & CANON POINT:
Ouran High School Host Club, post-anime
CANON INFORMATION:
List of episodes

PERSONALITY:
Every member of the Ouran Host Club, has a "type" they present to their customers. With the whole club present, they fulfill every major genre of popular love interests in media. Kyouya is billed as the "cool type." He is aloof, nearly unattainable, but someone who makes small shows of affection when most effective. For instance, he explains the stream he had built to his customers as being a way to best observe all the seasons, as a sign that he hopes to see them all with the girls. He then promptly pulls out a reservation book and gets back to business.

Kyouya makes it very clear very quickly that he is driven primarily by his own self-interest. The host club itself is made up of the children of very powerful families, and their clients are all the daughters of equally important families. The bonds Kyouya can make in high school could easily help him the rest of his life. He even uses his friends to test for problems in a water park his family is planning to open soon, and, when things go wrong, he makes note of it to pass on to his family and the park designers. Even in middle school, Kyouya focused on his peers as a way to make ties to their families and succeed, from agreeing to vacations in order to meet the heads of families to befriending Tamaki Suoh because his father told him to.

Kyouya is known as the "shadow king" of the host club. Most of Tamaki's ideas for the club (save the actual founding of the host club and its members) seem to originate from Kyouya. He leaves brochures for Tamaki to find or offers suggestions that Tamaki then extrapolates into grand schemes. He is always ready with the right thing to say or the right thing to do to get the result he wants.

Kyouya is wealthy and makes no apologies for it. He refers consistently to Haruhi as a "commoner" and casually mentions the companies his family owns, their private police force, and the extent of their power several times. When eating fast food, he explains to Haruhi that no decorum is required in eating the food because none is expected. He makes liberal use of his families many homes, their private beach, and their police force without considering any of it a big deal. He knows his birth has put him above many others, and he is quite comfortable with that.

Kyouya is the "responsible" one of the group, especially before Haruhi. He manages the money, both incoming and outgoing. He has found ways (like auctoning items belonging to the club) to make money even though the club itself offers their services free of charge. He also makes it clear that dipping into the school's budget for host club activities is not permissable and reminds the others when that isn't allowed. He dislikes buying the sweets Honey requires and chides Tamaki about the expense the club puts out for the fair, but he still goes along with both these things.

Kyouya understands people. He knows the basic motivations of most people as soon as he meets them, though he sometimes takes only the surface instead of looking deeper. He knows immediately that the president of the newspaper club is planning to stab the host club in the back when he proposes a story on them and guards against it by sending a first aid kit (the president having been injured by a ball in a game of the host club) with a recording device concealed in it. He misunderstands Tamaki, however, first taking him for an idiot who offers insult unknowingly rather than seeing that Tamaki is, in fact, trying to provoke a reaction to see the real Kyouya. He quickly grasps Renge's obsession with him and uses her enthusiasm to acquire higher quality merchandise to fund the host club.

Kyouya spares no one's feelings when he is not working as a host. He is never cruel for the sake of meanness, but he states things plainly. He tells an upset Renge that he isn't the person she thinks he is, and he chides his sister for going through his things. He tells Haruhi very plainly that he only cares about other people in ways that benefit him. If he gains nothing from a situation, he is not interested in it.

Kyouya is extremely passionate, but he is extremely guarded about his passions. For most of his life, he is fully focused on surpassing his father's expectations. He keeps the perfect social circle and gets perfect grades, trying to set himself apart from his two older brothers, who did the same thing. He focuses all his energy into exceeding them, even though he can see no outlet to do it. He refers to it as painting a masterpiece on a canvas that is already inside a frame -- no matter what he does, he can't escape that frame. The first time he is passionate about something other than his family's expectations comes at the age of 14 or 15, when he meets Tamaki Suoh. Tamaki pushes Kyouya to his emotional limit, making himself a burden on Kyouya's time and stress levels by wanting to do inane things every weekend then telling Kyouya they ought to be studying more. Finally, he dismisses the idea of wanting to run the Suoh companies, hitting the final button that sends Kyouya over the edge and nearly results in a physical altercation. At that moment (as Kyouya has Tamaki pinned down and is very near hitting him while yelling at him), Tamaki laughs and tells Kyouya "You're finally showing your true colors." At that moment, their real friendship starts, as someone has finally gotten under Kyouya's skin and wormed their way through the wall he built up between himself and the rest of the world. Tamaki's insane idea of a high school host club inspires Kyouya to step outside the frame his father expected of him and do something just for himself.

For all his selfish motivations, Kyouya is also driven by a sense of justice. People can be manipulated and used to his will, but he is bothered when they are taken advantage of by others, especially for simple gain. When Kyouya sees a woman being scammed into buying fake antiques, he intervenes, proving the seller's claims false. He finds out afterwards (and claims to have known all along) that she is the wife of a very important man. However, Haruhi realizes that he couldn't have known that going in and did, in fact, help her out of the goodness of his heart. When the Black Onion Squad (the Otori family's personal police force) tries to stop the host club from reaching the departing Tamaki, Kyouya stays behind with Honey and Mori (two martial arts experts) to give Haruhi, Kaoru, and Hikaru time to get to Tamaki, even though he can't really assist in the fighting.

Kyouya does not forgive insults. He makes it clear to the president of the newspaper club that he won't use his and his friends' influence to ruin the boy's family's company... but only because that is what the newspaper club president would do. After his father publicly humiliates him by slapping him across the face hard enough to knock off his glasses in front of everyone assembled at the Ouran High School Fair, Kyouya maintains a calm facade. Later, it is discovered that he purchased his father's faltering companies, financed them, then handed control back to his father. While Kyouya's name is not technically attached, his initials are (and, knowing Kyouya, not by accident), leading his father to figure out who was responsible and realizing that Kyouya not only got what he'd been taunted with most of his life but rejected it, as well.

**Headcanon**
Due to Kyouya's lack of interest in his guests at the Host Club outside of their presence as guests and his dismissal in middle school of girls (from very prominent families) as 'frivilous girls' while considering the possible ways male students could be useful to him, it is my opinion that Kyouya is gay. His 'cool type' persona in the club allows for him to be aloof without it seeming odd, and he shows no interest in pursuing any kind of romantic relationship. While not conclusive, many of the facial expressions, angles, colors, and music used in the anime while Kyouya is talking about or sometimes to Tamaki, it seems he might very well be in love with Tamaki.

Due to the intensity of his analogy to painting, it seems likely that Kyouya does, in fact, paint. Given his family's standing, it's likely that he would have been encouraged to have some 'artistic' skill as well as the practical ones necessary, as the artistic skills demonstrate a sense of refinement.

With his family's main work being in hospitals and both his brothers having medical degrees, it seems likely that Kyouya has picked up some basics of medicine himself. He likely knows what prescriptions do what and has a basic to moderate grasp on first aid. If pressed, he can likely set a broken bone or do crude stitching, but it wouldn't be of professional quality.
COURT ALLIANCE & REASONING:
Seelie
Kyouya is extremely devoted to his friends and will go to any lengths to protect them. Even though he might not care to admit it, he loves them all in a platonic sense. Where Tamaki is concerned, Kyouya is devoted. He goes to any lengths to carry out Tamaki's ornate fancies for the club. He also protects those who can't protect themselves, stopping people from being taken advantage of as harshly toward those who would take advantage of them as possible. Kyouya feels all debts -- monetary or less physical -- should be repaid, and he keeps a close tally on where he stands in all respects. Whether it's Haruhi having to pay back the club for the vase she broke or punishing his father for the insult of striking him in front of his entire school, Kyouya strives for repayment in all he can.
Unseelie
Kyouya has learned from Tamaki that he cannot be bound by what his family expects of him. Even though the third son shouldn't desire to excell beyond his brothers, he has come to disregard that. He keeps company with the host club even though he knows his father will disapprove, and he rebels against the family structure by buying out his father's company then tossing it aside. Unlike in his middle school days, Kyouya no longer regards the limits his family has set on him as the limits he should hold himself inside. Especially with the addition of Haruhi into the club, Kyouya is among the first to realize that the equilibrium of the club has been disturbed and that the way things are isn't the way things are going to be. He sees the change coming and accepts it, unlike others (such as Hikaru and Tamaki) who try to cling to the current group dynamics.
Final
Not unlike my other application, I think both courts would be pretty appropriate for this character, so I'll leave it to mod discretion. I would prefer (if I'm lucky enough to get them both in) if they're in different courts, but I'm fine with having them both in the same court if that's what the mods feel is best.

ABILITIES:
Kyouya's only abilities are completely human ones. He is very intelligent and has a wonderful head for figures. He is also extremely calculating.
INVENTORY:
- Ouran school uniform
- prescription glasses
- black notebook
- working pen
- school bag
- school books
- laptop (will not work outside the station)
- cell phone (will not work outside the station and will be useless to call anyone)
- several credit cards (which are obviously useless here)

( WRITING ★ SAMPLES )

NETWORK SAMPLE:
Everyone wants something. Anyone who says they don't? Is lying.

[It seems so simple to say it, but he can already hear the arguments starting to come. No one even has to say them.]

It's not a bad thing, you know. To want something. Even to want something from someone else. We all do it, use others to get what we want.

[But no one likes to admit it. No one likes to think of themselves in that way.]

No doubt some of you think that's heartless. You're really just lying to yourselves, and you know it. If you don't, you're incredibly naive.

[He's usually not this honest, but it's late at night, and he's had more to drink than he probably should have. Still, he's been kidnapped from his home. He's allowed a few indulgences.]

You'd be wise to get over that as quickly as possible.

LOG SAMPLE:
Log sample!