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NAME
Akari Sakurai.

CANON
Akari to Kare wa Nayamashii (loosely translated, "He and Akari are in Distress").

AGE/SEX/GENDER
16 / M / M.

HEIGHT
Around 5'10" / 178cm? I'm only guessing; he's consistently one of the tallest boys in his class, though still shorter than his canon love interest.

WARNINGS
This character's background involves underage sex, age-related deception, relationships with an age difference, homophobic parents, homophobic bullying, and internalized homophobia. While Akari himself is rather glib about everything that has happened to him, I do not recommend interacting with this character if any of those themes are triggering.

BASIC INFO
An ordinary second-year high school student who is openly gay at an all-boys' high school. Although Akari's current set of friends are perfectly fine with him being gay, he was forcibly outed and bullied at his middle school after he was seen going into a hotel with an older man, and he hasn't been welcome in his own home since. His childhood friend, Sato, stood beside him despite the bullying and soon graduated with him to the same all-boys' high school... but after Sato starts dating another boy, Mikami, Akari starts lapsing into the same self-destructive behaviors that plagued him in middle school: lying about his age to get into gay bars.

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PLATONIC CONTACT
Not a problem. His reaction to being touched will vary from situation to situation, but he's used to horsing around with his friends.

ROMANTIC CONTACT
This is fine! Whether or not he reciprocates will depend on the situation, but I'm not opposed to navigating it as it comes up.

SEXUAL CONTACT
Generally fine. With older guys in particular, he's very likely to be the one initiating, but please note that this is largely a defense mechanism: he tends to switch the topic to sex or dating whenever he simply wants to shut down a conversation, and he usually expects to be rejected.

RELATIONSHIPS
Generally fine with buildup. Owing to his past, Akari is afraid of dating boys his own age because he doesn't want others to be bullied the way that he was, but I'm open to writing relationships with characters his own age and with older men. Obviously, M/M only.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
I would rather not get into this unless your character has some particularly strong reason to hit him.

MINDREADING
Sure, this is fine. Just let me know so I can write appropriately about what he's thinking.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS
Nothing exceptionally triggering, but he is prone to crying if he's pushed too far outside his comfort zone when it comes to talking about his past.

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BACKTAGGING
No problem. I tend to drop threads whenever I think the conversation is winding down, though — always feel free to poke me into continuing a thread again if you had something planned.

THREADJACKING
Always cool with me.

FOURTHWALLING
I really don't care.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS
None in particular.

PREFERRED THREADS
At the moment, I'm open to anything! Canonmates like Sato, Mikami, and Mizuki would be amazing, but I'm not expecting any miracles. I'm particularly interested in playing Akari off characters from other Japanese slice-of-life or romance manga (BL and shoujo are both fine). Gen would be really great! Ship and smut are good too, but not my immediate focus with this character, so feel free to tag in even if you don't want to do a shippy thing.

CANON POINT
I'm as caught up with this manga as I can be right now, since I read the releases when they come out in Japanese. That being said, while I do very much enjoy Akari's character development and relationship with Mizuki, I'm mostly going to be playing him from Chapters 1-2 as his canon point, unless it's with canonmates or it's just funnier if he already has a boyfriend in our thread for whatever reason.

SMUT
I don't keep a proper kinklist, but if our thread is heading toward smut, feel free to reach out to me to plan out specifics if you want to. Akari talks a big game about wanting to be a top, but in truth he wouldn't know what to do with himself, and he leans bottom; I'm not super fussed about sexual dynamics, though.

OTHER
Once again, I do want to stress that Akari is a minor, but he can be sexually aggressive and romantically pushy in a clumsy way. This is entirely IC and I have no intention of being ship-pushy on an OOC level. Let me know if you have any issues with his character and we can either work around it or do something else in our thread.