what the fuck

[yotsuya]

Player Information

Name/Alias: Laura
Player Journal: appliances
Contact: melodrama
Timezone: EST
HMD: here
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Character Information

Name/Alias: Buntarou Yotsuya
Fandom: Kiben Gakuha, Yotsuya-senpai no Kaidan
Canonpoint: post-canon
Gender: male
Age: Unknown, "he might be a teenager but he also might not be" is the best canon provides. He's probably floating around 19-22.

Physical Description: charming

History: The wiki is insubstantial so I typed out the history over here.

Personality:

Yotsuya is a Weird Dude. He spends almost all of his time on the roof of a school in a broken chair, under a ripped umbrella, reading manga and newspapers and horror books until someone comes looking for him for something or other, and he'll only help them if he feels like he can make a Good Horror Story out of their "plot." Horror stories and everything involved with them are pretty much his way of life: he loves hearing people scream at the end of a good story, and goes to great lengths to set up the perfect atmosphere, audience, and plot. He is vehemently opposed to actually being in the stories, which is why he has other people act in them and steps in only at the end to be the narrator. "Don't make a horror story out of nowhere" is one of his Rules to Live By, as he thinks the second someone actively tries to orchestrate the deeper action of a horror story (like you know, actually killing a girl and putting her head in a box like the principal did), then they stop being the narrator and become one of the characters. And that's bad.

He is very, very serious about all this. Despite the fact that he's over the moon about horror, because he is the "narrator," and again doesn't go out of his way to create horrific situations, he's not really a bad guy... at all. Creepy and eccentric, oh of course. Bad dude? Nope. He uses his stories to get multiple murderers to confess and stop a whole student body from going insane and killing each other, honestly. He's in it for the screams; the audience is part of the horror experience, after all, and what's the point if they all start dropping dead? Over the course of the series, additionally, he seems to learn to care about more than just horror, as shown in how he knows Makoto will pull through even after Kudou tries to turn her away, and later tries to stop Makoto and Shinamo from JUMPING OVER FIRE LIKE MORONS to get to him. He acts like he's deeply disturbed by all of this friendship stuff, but considering he follows the girls to high school, he's clearly attached to his friends. Also has an apparently malleable definition of "horror," as in the final episode with Seita, he claims the story about his deceased sister thanking him for being there is horror, although he prefers the kind with screams. Okay, Yotsuya, you're really just soft and squishy inside. Komachi and Makoto say of him that he "accidentally saves people," because he plays it up like he's just telling a story and it happened to work out for the best, which is true... but he still has moments where he does do nice things that don't end in someone getting arrested.

Most people, though, are either characters or audience to him. He knows how to get into people's heads, both by observing their actions and just because he's good at his stories, and manipulates them into, say, confessing murders!! All for the goal of making them scream in terror at the end. He's very smart and obviously creative, and makes a point to keep up with everything going on around him (watching... middle schoolers... with binoculars......) in case a plot turns up that he wants to follow, because he believes that within every horror story it's possible that you can find a sliver of truth, and by seeing the story through 'til the end, the ~truth with be revealed. Which he finds incredibly gratifying. And again, he will see everything through, even if it means he might get burned to death just so some guy won't get the ending he wants, so it's evident that he's incredibly persistent, if a bit... dumb.... Lacking in common sense, sometimes.

Besides that, he's clever and quick-witted and good at thinking on his feet, to save the day if something goes wrong in the middle of his plans. He prefers to work in the background and not be seen, to keep up his "phantom student" image, which he is also very serious about. He actually gets very angry when Shinamo moves his desk, because it screws up the spookiness of his image, and later disappears for several weeks because he'd shown himself to too many people at once and needed to reestablish himself as a creepy rumor. He likes very much being a kind of legend passed along in hushed whispers, that Yotsuya-senpai, I heard he's a spirit or something--that kind of thing.

Yotsuya's also kind of lazy, not just in having other people carry out most of his plans for him but just.... lazy. When the gang visits Seita, he just lays around on the floor while everyone else cleans up for a while. And he spends all his time in a crappy armchair reading magazines. What on earth he does with his time in order to get, like, money... and a place to live besides the roof..... is unknown. He also continuously insists that he keeps wearing the middle school uniform and hanging around, despite being way older than a middle schooler is because he hasn't graduated yet. Because he just hasn't bothered, most likely because it would ruin the whole rumor if the phantom student was listed as a graduate.

A final point is that he is just bizarre, in mannerisms and that kind of thing. He's confident in almost every situation in a way that makes people uncomfortable, with lots of maniacal grins and cackling laughter. Much of this is for the sake of the narration, but even in regular situations he tends to act over the top and gesticulate too much and make a lot of disturbing faces.

So there it is. In the end, Yotsuya is a wacky eccentric horror enthusiast who hangs out with middle schoolers and doesn't do anything at all useful to the real world, ever.

Abilities: He doesn't have any supernatural abilities, but he tells stories well. Very shocking; it is worth noting, at least, that he is so good at telling stories that guilty people tend to hallucinate whatever he's talking about. This is still notably not a supernatural skill, he's just A+ at psychological manipulation.

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