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batteredPlayer Information
Name: Mel
Contact: Mods aren't allowed to get a hold of me.
Age: 27
Other Characters: Alluka Zoldyckgrants_wishes
Character Information
Name: Raichi Todoroki
Canon: Daiya no Ace
Canon Point: After the Yakushi practice game vs. Seido.
Age: 16
History: Wiki link!
Personality:
It's noted by his classmates and very casual acquaintances that Raichi is a very quiet kid. In class, and generally outside of spaces he feels completely comfortable in, he's stated to mostly keep to himself, and when others do try to talk to him, he's said to be "really weird". While this information isn't expanded on too extensively, it's also something that comes into play when confronted with even his own teammates in a setting where play and practice isn't a factor. Raichi, a known pillar of strength for the Yakushi baseball team, when instructed to give a pep-talk to his teammates ends up stammering, fidgeting, and generally appearing to be very nervous and uncertain of himself. All of this is important to note first and foremost, as it could easily be found as a typical first-impression that many have when meeting Raichi for the first time.
That is, of course, strictly those who get to meet him outside of his preferred environment; the baseball diamond. When other players meet him for the first time, it's a wildly different Raichi that shows himself. He's loud, boisterous, and so incredibly enthusiastic, that the very same classmates who claimed him to be weird and shy show up to one of the games, expecting for that odd Todoroki kid to be one of the bench-warmers of their schools team, only to find him nearly unrecognizable. Cheers from the stadium for this monster first year to hit incredible home runs are met with raucous laughter and declarations that he's going to 'smash every pitch away!' Most definitely, the Raichi people meet outside of baseball games, and the Raichi who wields a bat with nothing but terrifying confidence and joy, are two very, very different people.
Sorting these two sides of him out, and connecting them back to who he is, means taking a look into his history, and how the events of his upbringing shaped him into who he became. Raichi's mother walked out on the family when he was young, so young that there's no trace of her to be seen in any flashbacks, and the only mention we get of her is incredibly brief, and from his father, Raizou. The reason she left? Well, her husband was, and is, a massive deadbeat of a man. Raizou used to be a pretty talented baseball player himself, and after he stopped playing, he stopped doing... pretty much anything at all. When left with a child to care for, but no job, Raizou coasted by on savings for a little while, but the quality of life for the pair began to suffer pretty quickly, and the only real turnaround he saw was in his son. From an incredibly young age, Raichi was given a bat to practice swinging with, but not just any bat - a training bat that Raizou himself used to use which was far too large for a child, and weighted to be particularly heavy even for adults using it. In the wood, Raizou carved the words "Money tree", and told Raichi that he was going to be making the living for the two of them.
So, when given the directions to go spend countless hours every day swinging this ridiculously oversized bat, a young Raichi does.... exactly that. Raizou hones his son's talents starting from a young age, basically equating that incredibly hard, incredibly taxing work to basic living necessities, like eating, having a place to sleep at night.... if Raichi doesn't work hard, he doesn't get any of those things. Raizou purposefully keeps himself out of any work that would earn a stable enough income to support the two of them in order to keep Raichi 'hungry', both in a literal and metaphorical sense. Food is, after all, a very good motivator, and the more voracious Raichi is for sustenance - for victory, the greater the payoff will be.
This, of course, leaves the young kid with no time at all for socializing. His middle school didn't have a baseball team at all, so after classes, it was straight home, right to practice, likely until sundown and past that. Raizou, at one point, picked up a 'job' teaching a couple local kids how they could be as talented as his son (for a very, very small fee), but outside of those two, Raichi was kept more or less solitary. All the work he was put through naturally paid off, and as he entered high school, his father took up the coaching position for the team. Using this to his advantage, Raizou could more easily and literally equate Raichi's success with a good living, telling him things like "If you don't show results, I may be fired, and we won't get to eat."
And so, Raichi is literally hungry for victory, only has skills (and therefore confidence) with things that involve his sporting career, and as a result, no absolutely idea how to socialize with almost anyone at all. The two very different personas of Raichi share a very common factor, and while they may seem like very drastic contrasts, very much go hand-in-hand. To further support this, it's worth noting that his reaction to excitement and reaction to being nervous are exactly the same, which is to let out a loud string of laughter, an obnoxious 'Kahahaha!' that, while the source is usually obvious contextually, blurs the lines between anxiety and confidence with him a number of times.
With those things in mind, Raichi doesn't seem to have a lot of space in his mind dedicated to scholastic endeavors, and it's likely been ingrained into him that as long as his grades are high enough to stay on the team (so, passing, by any margin), he can make a living by going pro out of high school. He's often picked on for being kind of stupid as a result, and more often than not, his lack of social finesse tends to leave him saying a lot of really thoughtless things and making careless mistakes.
Even so, Raichi isn't a bad kid. He does his best to be helpful to his team, even if his advice isn't warranted, asked for, or even useful. While this seems to come off as pretty annoying to the rest of the team, there are a lot of reactions toward Raichi that make it obvious the others do care about him, even if they don't necessarily respect him. He has a tendency to rush into things too quickly and forget important things along the way (his hat, his glove, things of that nature), and his team is quick to pick up after him with no real signs of irritation. The kind of "help" he tries to offer may be largely useless, but it apparently does well to endear him to others.
And, lastly, Raichi is the sort of person who holds a lot of admiration and respect for others whom he finds 'cool' or 'talented'. He fawns over his team's ace any time he does something particularly impressive, and will even say nice things about his opponents if they've done something interesting (apparently blurting out whatever is on your mind is 'super cool' and worthy of praise??? Whatever kid). It's really not hard to win this kid's respect, even if he does have little social grace to show it in proper ways.
Unless you're his dad. He has literally no respect for that jerk.
Abilities:
eh plays the baseball and doesn't afraid of anything
Raichi's abilities are all within the realm of human capabilities. He has amazing upper body strength for someone his age, notably able to swing with enough power to consistently score home runs. Additionally, having practiced for as long as he had with no actual players to play against, Raichi developed an incredible sense of image training, being able to visualize different kinds of pitches to 'hit' in vivid enough detail that he's able to translate the very thoughts of how he's deal with those pitches into facing them in reality.
Will those things be of any use here? WHO KNOWS.
Strengths:
Strong (physical), tenacious, vivid imagination, enthusiastic, well-intentioned
Weaknesses:
Intelligence (low), social skills (abysmal), self-awareness (terrible), anxious, forgetful.
God/Shinki: Shinki
Why?: Raichi's lived basically all of his life as a 'tool' of sorts as it is. Being liberated from that position and suddenly responsible for someone else other than himself, memories or not, would be such a huge adjustment that he likely wouldn't be able to handle it. Additionally, it's shown many times through interactions with his father that he doesn't want to have his successes getting soaked up by a dependent. While the dynamic a shinki has with their god isn't terribly unlike the proposed idea of supporting another beings existence, it has a more symbiotic feel to it that he'd likely grow uncomfortable with if he were on the other end.
Also can you imagine this mess as a god? No one wants that
Cause Of Death: Neglect, largely. Raichi's nutritional intake is shown to be incredibly poor, and probably either erratic or completely absent as far as getting a balanced diet goes. A poor home life as far as finances means that 1) cheap food is pretty much the only thing available, and 2) health care is likely sidelined in favor of "toughing through it". With these ideas in mind, Raichi succumbs to some undiagnosed illness or another, and with no doctor visits coming in to play, and no nutritional supplements to help his body overcome it, it ultimately destroys his health.
Vessel: An unusually heavy wooden bat.
Name Location: Kyouki, 強. On his back, between his shoulders.
Power: During combat, the god wielding Kyouki will begin to experience a berserker-like state, with physical prowess increasing dramatically at the cost of finesse, and a sense of euphoric joy overcoming the god in the heat of the battle. Pain and damage will also feel muted, and while fatigue will set in after the fighting is finished or the vessel is unequipped, it will be to a far lesser extent than would be otherwise expected.
Writing Sample
Sample:
It's weird, honestly, just how much a bout of feeling unwell can really ruin someone's normal routine. Raichi was never really the type to put a whole lot of stock into things like what he might do if his usual daily habits were somehow disrupted, mostly for the fact that having them disrupted at all seemed like such a non-possibility in the first place, and even the idea of 'feeling unwell' was a concept that, while obviously not unheard of for a normal teenager, always took Raichi by surprise.
His normal output at practices is tiring, of course! But in a way that someone would usually feel accomplished in having achieved, not in this strange, woozy, dizzy kind of way. So... it's weird! Especially when a missed swing during batting practice ends with his bat slipping out of his normally iron-clad grip, and Raichi himself suddenly realizes he's dropped down on one knee, feeling simultaneously too warm and too cold to really support himself. Super weird...!
Everything feels spinny for a moment before he can hear the calls of a couple of his teammates reaching his foggy mind, 'Raichi, what are you doing?' 'You tired?' 'Real smooth...' 'Go sit on the bench before cool down!' The concerns are met with Raichi shaking his head a little, trying to clear up his mind a bit, and letting out a particularly loud "Kahaha!" Is he... abashed? Nervous? It's probably one of the two, but even he can't really tell where the laughter came from, and he isn't particularly set on trying to figure it out, either. "My bad...!"
He takes his batting helmet off and jogs off to the dugout with it ('Hey! At least take the bat with you too!' one of his teammates calls, which goes largely unheard), plopping down unceremoniously on the bench with a loud sigh. He's more tired than he thought he was, isn't he...? Extremely weird!! Maybe he hasn't eaten enough! It's pretty lucky that bananas, at least, are kept pretty well stocked for the team (mostly him) to snack on through the day, and he quickly finds one to keep himself busy with while he watches the rest of the team finish practice.
This... this is fine! He's sure he'll be able to join back in for a little while before cool down! He can watch, for now, and only feel a little antsy for it.
"Heeyyy, Misshima! You gotta swing more like this!" He calls out, mimicking a bat-swinging motion that only really seems helpful in the most vague way possible. ('Stop saying my name like that!' is the only real reply to that piece of advice.) Surely by tomorrow he'll be back up to speed with the rest of his team!
And then Raichi died and did the shinki thing the end.
Other
Anything Else?:
Name: Mel
Contact: Mods aren't allowed to get a hold of me.
Age: 27
Other Characters: Alluka Zoldyck
grants_wishesCharacter Information
Name: Raichi Todoroki
Canon: Daiya no Ace
Canon Point: After the Yakushi practice game vs. Seido.
Age: 16
History: Wiki link!
Personality:
It's noted by his classmates and very casual acquaintances that Raichi is a very quiet kid. In class, and generally outside of spaces he feels completely comfortable in, he's stated to mostly keep to himself, and when others do try to talk to him, he's said to be "really weird". While this information isn't expanded on too extensively, it's also something that comes into play when confronted with even his own teammates in a setting where play and practice isn't a factor. Raichi, a known pillar of strength for the Yakushi baseball team, when instructed to give a pep-talk to his teammates ends up stammering, fidgeting, and generally appearing to be very nervous and uncertain of himself. All of this is important to note first and foremost, as it could easily be found as a typical first-impression that many have when meeting Raichi for the first time.
That is, of course, strictly those who get to meet him outside of his preferred environment; the baseball diamond. When other players meet him for the first time, it's a wildly different Raichi that shows himself. He's loud, boisterous, and so incredibly enthusiastic, that the very same classmates who claimed him to be weird and shy show up to one of the games, expecting for that odd Todoroki kid to be one of the bench-warmers of their schools team, only to find him nearly unrecognizable. Cheers from the stadium for this monster first year to hit incredible home runs are met with raucous laughter and declarations that he's going to 'smash every pitch away!' Most definitely, the Raichi people meet outside of baseball games, and the Raichi who wields a bat with nothing but terrifying confidence and joy, are two very, very different people.
Sorting these two sides of him out, and connecting them back to who he is, means taking a look into his history, and how the events of his upbringing shaped him into who he became. Raichi's mother walked out on the family when he was young, so young that there's no trace of her to be seen in any flashbacks, and the only mention we get of her is incredibly brief, and from his father, Raizou. The reason she left? Well, her husband was, and is, a massive deadbeat of a man. Raizou used to be a pretty talented baseball player himself, and after he stopped playing, he stopped doing... pretty much anything at all. When left with a child to care for, but no job, Raizou coasted by on savings for a little while, but the quality of life for the pair began to suffer pretty quickly, and the only real turnaround he saw was in his son. From an incredibly young age, Raichi was given a bat to practice swinging with, but not just any bat - a training bat that Raizou himself used to use which was far too large for a child, and weighted to be particularly heavy even for adults using it. In the wood, Raizou carved the words "Money tree", and told Raichi that he was going to be making the living for the two of them.
So, when given the directions to go spend countless hours every day swinging this ridiculously oversized bat, a young Raichi does.... exactly that. Raizou hones his son's talents starting from a young age, basically equating that incredibly hard, incredibly taxing work to basic living necessities, like eating, having a place to sleep at night.... if Raichi doesn't work hard, he doesn't get any of those things. Raizou purposefully keeps himself out of any work that would earn a stable enough income to support the two of them in order to keep Raichi 'hungry', both in a literal and metaphorical sense. Food is, after all, a very good motivator, and the more voracious Raichi is for sustenance - for victory, the greater the payoff will be.
This, of course, leaves the young kid with no time at all for socializing. His middle school didn't have a baseball team at all, so after classes, it was straight home, right to practice, likely until sundown and past that. Raizou, at one point, picked up a 'job' teaching a couple local kids how they could be as talented as his son (for a very, very small fee), but outside of those two, Raichi was kept more or less solitary. All the work he was put through naturally paid off, and as he entered high school, his father took up the coaching position for the team. Using this to his advantage, Raizou could more easily and literally equate Raichi's success with a good living, telling him things like "If you don't show results, I may be fired, and we won't get to eat."
And so, Raichi is literally hungry for victory, only has skills (and therefore confidence) with things that involve his sporting career, and as a result, no absolutely idea how to socialize with almost anyone at all. The two very different personas of Raichi share a very common factor, and while they may seem like very drastic contrasts, very much go hand-in-hand. To further support this, it's worth noting that his reaction to excitement and reaction to being nervous are exactly the same, which is to let out a loud string of laughter, an obnoxious 'Kahahaha!' that, while the source is usually obvious contextually, blurs the lines between anxiety and confidence with him a number of times.
With those things in mind, Raichi doesn't seem to have a lot of space in his mind dedicated to scholastic endeavors, and it's likely been ingrained into him that as long as his grades are high enough to stay on the team (so, passing, by any margin), he can make a living by going pro out of high school. He's often picked on for being kind of stupid as a result, and more often than not, his lack of social finesse tends to leave him saying a lot of really thoughtless things and making careless mistakes.
Even so, Raichi isn't a bad kid. He does his best to be helpful to his team, even if his advice isn't warranted, asked for, or even useful. While this seems to come off as pretty annoying to the rest of the team, there are a lot of reactions toward Raichi that make it obvious the others do care about him, even if they don't necessarily respect him. He has a tendency to rush into things too quickly and forget important things along the way (his hat, his glove, things of that nature), and his team is quick to pick up after him with no real signs of irritation. The kind of "help" he tries to offer may be largely useless, but it apparently does well to endear him to others.
And, lastly, Raichi is the sort of person who holds a lot of admiration and respect for others whom he finds 'cool' or 'talented'. He fawns over his team's ace any time he does something particularly impressive, and will even say nice things about his opponents if they've done something interesting (apparently blurting out whatever is on your mind is 'super cool' and worthy of praise??? Whatever kid). It's really not hard to win this kid's respect, even if he does have little social grace to show it in proper ways.
Unless you're his dad. He has literally no respect for that jerk.
Abilities:
Raichi's abilities are all within the realm of human capabilities. He has amazing upper body strength for someone his age, notably able to swing with enough power to consistently score home runs. Additionally, having practiced for as long as he had with no actual players to play against, Raichi developed an incredible sense of image training, being able to visualize different kinds of pitches to 'hit' in vivid enough detail that he's able to translate the very thoughts of how he's deal with those pitches into facing them in reality.
Will those things be of any use here? WHO KNOWS.
Strengths:
Strong (physical), tenacious, vivid imagination, enthusiastic, well-intentioned
Weaknesses:
Intelligence (low), social skills (abysmal), self-awareness (terrible), anxious, forgetful.
God/Shinki: Shinki
Why?: Raichi's lived basically all of his life as a 'tool' of sorts as it is. Being liberated from that position and suddenly responsible for someone else other than himself, memories or not, would be such a huge adjustment that he likely wouldn't be able to handle it. Additionally, it's shown many times through interactions with his father that he doesn't want to have his successes getting soaked up by a dependent. While the dynamic a shinki has with their god isn't terribly unlike the proposed idea of supporting another beings existence, it has a more symbiotic feel to it that he'd likely grow uncomfortable with if he were on the other end.
Cause Of Death: Neglect, largely. Raichi's nutritional intake is shown to be incredibly poor, and probably either erratic or completely absent as far as getting a balanced diet goes. A poor home life as far as finances means that 1) cheap food is pretty much the only thing available, and 2) health care is likely sidelined in favor of "toughing through it". With these ideas in mind, Raichi succumbs to some undiagnosed illness or another, and with no doctor visits coming in to play, and no nutritional supplements to help his body overcome it, it ultimately destroys his health.
Vessel: An unusually heavy wooden bat.
Name Location: Kyouki, 強. On his back, between his shoulders.
Power: During combat, the god wielding Kyouki will begin to experience a berserker-like state, with physical prowess increasing dramatically at the cost of finesse, and a sense of euphoric joy overcoming the god in the heat of the battle. Pain and damage will also feel muted, and while fatigue will set in after the fighting is finished or the vessel is unequipped, it will be to a far lesser extent than would be otherwise expected.
Writing Sample
Sample:
It's weird, honestly, just how much a bout of feeling unwell can really ruin someone's normal routine. Raichi was never really the type to put a whole lot of stock into things like what he might do if his usual daily habits were somehow disrupted, mostly for the fact that having them disrupted at all seemed like such a non-possibility in the first place, and even the idea of 'feeling unwell' was a concept that, while obviously not unheard of for a normal teenager, always took Raichi by surprise.
His normal output at practices is tiring, of course! But in a way that someone would usually feel accomplished in having achieved, not in this strange, woozy, dizzy kind of way. So... it's weird! Especially when a missed swing during batting practice ends with his bat slipping out of his normally iron-clad grip, and Raichi himself suddenly realizes he's dropped down on one knee, feeling simultaneously too warm and too cold to really support himself. Super weird...!
Everything feels spinny for a moment before he can hear the calls of a couple of his teammates reaching his foggy mind, 'Raichi, what are you doing?' 'You tired?' 'Real smooth...' 'Go sit on the bench before cool down!' The concerns are met with Raichi shaking his head a little, trying to clear up his mind a bit, and letting out a particularly loud "Kahaha!" Is he... abashed? Nervous? It's probably one of the two, but even he can't really tell where the laughter came from, and he isn't particularly set on trying to figure it out, either. "My bad...!"
He takes his batting helmet off and jogs off to the dugout with it ('Hey! At least take the bat with you too!' one of his teammates calls, which goes largely unheard), plopping down unceremoniously on the bench with a loud sigh. He's more tired than he thought he was, isn't he...? Extremely weird!! Maybe he hasn't eaten enough! It's pretty lucky that bananas, at least, are kept pretty well stocked for the team (mostly him) to snack on through the day, and he quickly finds one to keep himself busy with while he watches the rest of the team finish practice.
This... this is fine! He's sure he'll be able to join back in for a little while before cool down! He can watch, for now, and only feel a little antsy for it.
"Heeyyy, Misshima! You gotta swing more like this!" He calls out, mimicking a bat-swinging motion that only really seems helpful in the most vague way possible. ('Stop saying my name like that!' is the only real reply to that piece of advice.) Surely by tomorrow he'll be back up to speed with the rest of his team!
Other
Anything Else?:
