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Kawamura Takashi
Nickname: Lira
Age: 29
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E-mail: lirachan (at) gmail (dot) com
Buddy system: yeah! assuming there is anyone interested to match me with, anyway.
CHARACTER
Name: Kawamura Takashi
Journal:
Appearance: Takashi looks much the same as he did in middle school; he may be a little broader, a little little more buff, and more often in need of a shave to keep from looking scruffy, but otherwise he has the same hairstyle and demeanor as his friends may remember from when he was younger. He also has the same casual fashion sense, outside of when he's dressed for work at the restaurant.
Personality: On the whole, Takashi is a mild-mannered, friendly person. He cares a great deal for his friends, and is more likely to stand up for someone he cares about than he is to advocate for himself. There was a time when this would all change as soon as he picked up a tennis racket and stepped onto the court, but as he no longer plays, he no longer has a need for that persona. Nevertheless, that intensity was always a part of who Takashi is and as an adult, glimpses of it will still occasionally appear. While the kitchen is rarely the place for self-important shouting in English, Takashi has channeled much of his intensity into improving himself as a sushi chef and with a knife in hand, a bit of that old "burning!" personality can still be seen.
The other occasion where Takashi's intensity is likely to peek through is in defense of his friends. As he grew older, Takashi grew a bit more perceptive and better able to judge whether and how to intervene with problems, but he's always had a stubborn streak strong enough to make taking a beating from Gin just to see if Gin would break first sound like a good idea. He is less likely to fall into that sort of single-minded recklessness as an adult, but if pushed, the inclination to dig in his heels and stick it out until he can't is still very much there.
Biography: As the son of a sushi chef, it has always been Takashi's ambition to learn from his father and follow in his footsteps by continuing with the family business. True to his words, Takashi quit playing tennis when he began high school. While he did participate in the U-17 camp with his friends as something of a "last hurrah" before his premature retirement from school sports, failing to put in an application for the high school tennis club effectively ended his competitive career as a student athlete.
Despite this, Takashi did occasionally play street tennis during high school, on a few rare occasions. While he sought out these pick-up games out of nostalgia for what he'd once had with his middle school team, he found himself unable to capture the feeling he'd left behind. As someone who played tennis first and foremost to support and contribute to the efforts of his team, games without that camaraderie failed to bring Takashi the satisfaction he had been expecting, and he soon dropped playing for a second time.
Takashi's apprenticeship as a sushi chef continued alongside his high school education and come graduation, he became a full time employee at the family restaurant. While his ten year apprenticeship is not yet complete, Takashi has become a chef more than skilled enough to serve their customers, and is proud of the abilities he's honed. He has remained in touch with his middle and high school friends as much as he is able, though he does feel that he lives in something of a different world than them, when he began work immediately after high school and while many of his friends chose to pursue higher education or even professional sports careers.
Takashi continues to live at home, with his parents, in their residence upstairs from the sushi shop. While he has some wistfulness for what it might be like to move out or live with a roommate, as many of his friends have done, he knows that his arrangement is most practical and does appreciate the lack of any commute to work. Moreover, with Kawamura Sushi's Tokyo location, he is easy traveling distance from most anywhere he might want to visit and quite close to any friends pursuing university in the greater Tokyo area.
RP Samples:
There is a party at Kawamura Sushi that night. Some corporate thing, with lots of men in well-tailored suits and a few young women in pencil skirts and fancy blouses -- some Tokyo company, taking its latest step toward financial success. The alcohol is flowing and the orders come pouring in, a steady stream of demands to the chef which Takashi and his father rush to fulfill.
Even behind the bar, before his cutting board, Takashi can hear the sounds of their merriment, the laughter and the shouts and the periodic cries of "kanpai!" as toasts are made. He can hear the revelry, but he doesn't listen; his world narrows to the motions of his hands, the motions of his knife as he precisely, expediently slices through fish. Years of practice have rendered his motions steady and sure, and the pressure from the party makes him fast. He can do this. He's no longer a boy only fit for preparing take-out orders; he is a sushi chef every bit as qualified as his father and just as deserving to stand before the cutting board and serve.
One day he'll be the only one standing here.
It's a daunting thought, and one he doesn't have time to dwell on. He pushes it aside, attention zeroing in once again on plating the food, positioning each perfectly-formed pat of rice with its sliver of fish atop so they point in exactly the right direction, just so. For a long time, he hadn't been able to appreciate what a privilege it was, for someone as young and inexperienced as he was to prepare the sushi, even just for his friends, even just for take-out orders. Their newest chef hire, taken on during the first year Takashi was out of school, has only just moved on to preparing ingredients for Takashi and his father, grating the ginger, slicing the scallions. It will be years more before he graduates to slicing the fish with his own knife.
Something Takashi was doing when he was only fourteen. Something Takashi is doing now, with the full respect of their important guests, despite his age. A business is an opportunity, and Kawamura Sushi is a future Takashi's father has built for him, just as much as it is his way of life.
He hopes that when he inherits it in full, he will be able to live up to even a portion of that legacy.
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