(wip) tachikaze hayato

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It is rare to discover a soul who has found comfort nestled in the label of pariah, who wears rebellious disdain for authority and utter disregard for consequence as one would a second skin. The knack for testing gravity upon a razor wire miles above ground comes naturally to Hayato: a man of indomitable will and monstrous determination. Behind a thick smokescreen of steely dispassion, he is driven by laser-focused commitment and a sense of obligation few can match.[break][break]

His is a reclusive existence, his motivations unknown and his demands often outlandish. A stony-faced stoic with jarring eccentricities and of few words, Hayato's lack of emotive responses often have him looking somewhat disturbed. His natural state is infuriatingly deadpan: a chaotic powder keg of acerbic remarks and selective attention - ever marching to the beat of his own drum.[break][break]

Unlike the rest of his family, Hayato has no sadistic streak to claim his own. If anything, his cold pragmatism is a result of poor upbringing. Hayato's experience in normal society is an ongoing 'fish out of water' narrative. With unwieldy social skills and a warped morality, his inexperience in social interaction renders him an awkward man with odd habits outside of his work.[break][break]

Well and truly adjusted to the machinations of criminal minds, there exists little need for Hayato to flaunt his effectiveness in the underworld— for he has long cultivated a certain air befitting an existence much like the boogeyman. A contract criminal of machine-like efficiency and dogged, unrelenting perseverance that borders well on obsessive insanity, Hayato's tenacity is such that- when taken by a task or by vengeance- he will engage in pursuit to the ends of the earth with nothing short of bodily annihilation able to deter him.[break][break]

As if this beastly framework could exist without its counter; behind it all Hayato is perhaps himself the most victimised by his own ironclad will. It is a double edged sword for him to be so taken by fixations, so cursed by an inability to walk away. Haunted and ever hateful, suffering from much repressed loneliness and at times an inconsolable font of affection-starved anger, he is utterly uninterested in self-preservation, willing to throw himself into the path of blades and bullets both to achieve his ends. He does not possess any impressive intelligence nor an entrepreneurial mindset, but is more akin to an unfettered beast operating on instinct alone.[break][break]

One who suffers rumination on his past, pushing away those who would help him overcome. Hayato's quaint nihilism tempered with hateful determination keeps his spirit strong and his mind sound for his goals. He is a wild card among the criminal element; seeking structure in bespoke patterns and habits, he fashions himself into a solitary storm and mocks death at every junction.[break][break]




Tachikaze Hayato grew up knowing no desire but the forging of familial bonds. Second son to the present chairman of the prosperous Shimotsuki-kai, whose reach extended well into the technology and medical industries, he called an opulent traditional house in Kobe his childhood home. Tokiyasu, an aggressively expansionist businessman brimming with ambition, exercised control over each child's destiny, and took upon himself the charge of paving the road before their every step. His older brother Kanehito, whose competence, charisma, and intelligence cast a long shadow, tormented him as one would a stray beast throughout childhood.[break][break]

He grew to favour the women in the family; it couldn't be helped that a rift formed between him and his father, due in large part to the role he played as the man's most prized lab rat: to Tokiyasu he was little more than a slab of healthy muscle, and at times a thug he would unleash on those he disliked. It was clear that he was nothing more than a tool, one that his father and brother could not help but take their rage out on for every toe that stepped out of line in their presence. What had kept the wedge from being driven deeper was his mother's subtle affections. While familial devotion kept her subdued at arms length, she secured for Hayato an education while his younger sister imparted to him her love of reading.[break][break]

This delicate balance shattered in his teens; starved for affection and newly driven by a desire to dismantle the authority that so despised him, he lashed out and set fire to his own home, seizing the opportunity to vanish into the autumn night.[break][break]




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• Hayato is 5'8" and baby-faced to his chagrin.
• Exceptionally high pain tolerance. He has racked up an impressive repertoire of injuries ranging from minor to severe throughout the years. Comically, he tends to majorly under-react to it all.
• His one clear passion seems to be greasy or msg-loaded fast foods, and he spends many a late night prowling Tokyo's food stalls for hidden gems. With a seemingly bottomless stomach, he visits an average of four stalls every excursion
• Middling alcohol tolerance and usually declines to partake. His go-to order at a bar is milk
• He is a bargain hunter on a legendary scale, keeping an extensive and detailed pocketbook of discount cutouts, and frequently hunts for coupons in newspapers, magazines, and flyers.