Post by ryuichi on Oct 28, 2012 19:20:40 GMT -8
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style,width: 450px; padding: 10px;,bTable][style=margin-right: 12px; height: 100px; width: 100px;float: left;][cs=2][classy=boorder] [/classy][/style] [style=margin-bottom: -5px; font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 35px; letter-spacing: -3px;]RYUICHI IRVING[/style] [style=border-top: 1px dotted #ebebeb; font-family: helvetica; letter-spacing: 2px; font-size: 10px; padding-top: 3px;]FORTHRIGHT . STEADFAST . APATHETIC [/style] | |
| [atrb=vAlign,top][style=margin-top:5px; width: 90px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: #2a2a2a; color: #ebebeb; text-transform: uppercase; padding: 3px;]BASICS[/style] | [atrb=vAlign,top][style=width: 305px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 1px dotted #ebebeb;]REVEREND FATHER RYUICHI IRVINGRyuichi is Father Irving or Reverend Irving to the general public and Ryuichi to close friends. Only his siblings and his father call him Ryu, and he accepts it from them grudgingly but with joking ill-nature.TWENTY SEVEN 23/08/1984MALE Heterosexual. Catholic priests are intended to remain celibate and unmarried – Ryuichi excels at the second part, but his impulse control is busted and he could use a visit to a confessional himself.CIVILIAN Ryuichi is an ordained diocesan priest of the Catholic Church and a Vatican-trained exorcist. He lives on a diocese-appointed stipend supplemented by payment for exorcisms and sacraments.[/style] |
| [atrb=vAlign,top][style=margin-top:5px; width: 90px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: #2a2a2a; color: #ebebeb; text-transform: uppercase; padding: 3px;]PERSONALITY[/style] | [atrb=vAlign,top][style=width: 305px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 1px dotted #ebebeb;]Ryuichi's friends would say of him that he's been cranky since 2009, when California banned kretek cigarettes and he was forced to go without his steady supply of Djarum Black. More seriously, they might confide that he's a good priest, but he needs the Church more than the Church needs him. Ryuichi is charming and charismatic, cosmetically – his confidence is electric, his laugh infectious; he's intellectual and can carry a conversation in English or Italian, and with less confidence in other romance languages, Latin, and simple Japanese. Beyond surface charm and brilliant elocution, however, he has difficulty empathizing with others and is extremely unreliable. He has very low impulse control and his fear-response is almost meaningless seemingly because or in response to his inability to learn from mistakes. Despite the social nature of his calling, his actual ability to empathize with people and share their experience is virtually nonexistence. He doesn't have trouble feeling emotions, he just struggles to see that other people have them too, and then to care, despite his best efforts. He needs the Church because it gives him a point of reference – the bible and the teachings of Christ give him a moral framework to use when his own ability to judge right and wrong is compromised. Despite his transgressions (his confessions are infrequent but sordid), losing his position as a priest would ruin him: the balance of power and humility, as well as the rush performing exorcisms gives him, are vital to him. Whether he is actually religious is best not questioned – although exorcism relies on the faith of the exorcist, and he is a good exorcist. He rarely preaches, although he quotes the bible frequently; he doesn't have strong views on some of the things his religion usually weighs in on: he will adjust his views on abortion or gay rights or women in clergy to suit whoever he is speaking to and rarely voice his true opinion. Most of his best relationships are based on networks of white lies. The exception would be his family. He is fiercely protective over both of his siblings and respectful of his father, although they were never close: his mother was always Mom until she died and he started calling her Emi, but Thomas has always been Sir. Ryuichi is fearless, which isn't brave – he just doesn't process risk the way other people do – he has frequently put other people in danger, but if there's an audience he will put himself in danger to protect others. His connections to people are brief but lit up: he makes friends easily, but loses them quickly if they are unable to deal with his lack of empathy or reliability. Ryuichi has a habit of developing very specific tastes and then commonly abandoning them: little obsessions with limited-edition flavors, or listening exclusively to single genres of music for months. Some stick: his taste for now-illegal clove cigarettes, his favourite incongruously fruity cocktails. Others don't, like the period he listened exclusively to classic metal. He's tidy and doesn't really covet material things although he is an impulse-buyer, and his one-room apartment is almost as austere as the laity would expect from a priest's abode. [/style] |
| [atrb=vAlign,top][style=margin-top:5px; width: 90px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: #2a2a2a; color: #ebebeb; text-transform: uppercase; padding: 3px;]HISTORY[/style] | [atrb=vAlign,top][style=width: 305px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 1px dotted #ebebeb;] Ryuichi was almost born Thomas Irving Jr to a prodigal American doctor with the same name in the big Japanese hospital where his father was doing his residency. He has no recollections of Japan outside of rare return visits with his mother to see her home country – his parents moved to the United States while he was still learning to walk and he took his first shaky steps in the business class isle of a KLM flight. He grew up speaking English and Japanese together, although as soon as he started school – at four, like his younger siblings would too – he switched primarily to English and his grasp of Japanese started to go wonky. He wasn't an easy child to deal with, and throughout his childhood he was on a an array of medications for conditions like ADHD. Nothing held his interest for long and he had virtually no reaction to punishment or reward, leaving his mother struggling to find ways to engage and teach him. School exacerbated the problem and he was constantly getting into trouble – his lack of fear saw him getting into fights and attempting dangerous stunts. He was diagnosed with a few learning disabilities, but in the end it was laziness and disinterest that kept him from doing well in school and his parents stopped trying to fix him with drugs around age ten. The situation at home was similar, except that he had no other children to torment – just his younger sister Naomi, but conversely he was and still is extremely protective of his younger sister to the point of possessiveness, even stepping between her and his parents. As he grew up, his tendency to act out seemed less like a disorder and more like a personality trait. He grew into his charisma as he reached puberty: he became the charming anti-hero, his confidence attractive, his wild side interesting. His father's money and a couple of shifts as a bartender bought him a sports car to drive too fast in and ruin twice. He drove the speed limit only with Naomi or, by then, baby-brother Ken in the car. Ryuichi was always going to be a doctor, like his father, mostly because he was too lazy to pick something else. By the time he was seventeen, he was almost a functioning member of society – his grades had picked up and his tendency towards risk-taking seemed to have settled down although he still collects speeding tickets. He was at a study meet that had dissolved into a party when his mother called him about picking up his sister. His phone vibrated off his abandoned pile of calculus homework ignored. It was much later when he was on his way home and second call came in, and his black Corvette skidded in to the station parking lot almost before the police officer on the other end finished speaking. His mother was dead, and his siblings could have gone the same way, and it was the first thing in his life that properly shook him. He hadn't felt anything: his mother was being murdered, and he'd been sprawled comfortably drunk in an armchair – he hadn't noticed, and if he'd just picked up his phone the first time she might still be alive. There was still alcohol in his system when he drove his siblings home, but its effects had been blasted away. His father forbade him from driving to the hospital to see his mother – Thomas had always been better at identifying an alcohol slur in his son's voice than the police – and it drove him to a violence he could usually keep hidden away round his kid siblings. When his father phoned with the news that his mother was dead, they had a shouted argument over the phone with the kids in the other room before Ryuichi slammed the door and drove away. He returned the next morning and the rush of emotion had died down: he took on the job of organizing the funeral, dry eyed and clear-headed. His mother's death and arranging her funeral disrupted his biology exams, but he never returned to the idea he'd lazily been entertaining of following in his father's footsteps. He turned eighteen shortly after the funeral. He killed time waiting for graduation following the case against his mother's murderer. He learned little from her death, still ignoring phonecalls from family at odd hours – but the religious involvement with her funeral had a bigger effect on him. After the funeral he'd been cornered by the priest and he stood, impatient, listening to the old man talk. Everybody was surprised when he applied to courses in theology, but he never spoke about his reasons. He was doing his first year when Naomi ran away from home – he got home to find her missing and spend the night driving around trying to find her, exhausting the credit on his phone sending increasingly aggressive texts. He was able to track her down eventually, a week later, and apologized for his behavior – but was unable to bring her back home. Over the next few years he devoted himself to seminary school, although the church elders were never entirely comfortable with his presence there. He was charismatic and could raise a crowd, but his lack of empathy made his ability to deal with people in emotional or spiritual distress extremely limited. He continued to try and repair his broken family, trying to bring Naomi back home. Ryuichi would invite her to dinner at his single-bedroom apartment, cooking her favorite – he was good at cooking, and had picked up several traditional recipes from his mother before she died – and inviting Thomas without telling her. Ryuichi took serious issue with some of her friends and he perceived them to have negative influence on her – however closely her behavior resembled his when he was her age – to the point of confronting them. He's bled over his clerical collar plenty, and Naomi has had to rescue him often enough – he can't judge risk, and two big drug dealers in an alleyway has never scared him as much as it aught to. Once he graduated and took his vows, he spent a little time serving as a secular priest, but his teachers at seminary school had groomed him to become an exorcist – his fearlessness was well suited to the profession and they knew well that his mother's murderer had professed to being possessed by demons. The period between his admission to seminary school and his leaving to train in the Vatican was marked by radically opposing scenes: rushed, ugly blowjobs with his clerical collar stuffed in his pocket contrasted with crouching down at the side of a hit-and-run victim to administer last rights and hold the woman's hand until she passed. Or getting blood all over his cassock in an altercation with a boyfriend of Naomi's contrasted with crouching down next to kids after mass to comfort them after the loss of their parents. He learned to fake empathy well enough and he's good at lying. Ryuichi has since returned home to the same one-room apartment his father bought for him when he was studying, and he performs exorcisms up and down the country out of the same busted up Lincoln he bought in school after he totaled the Corvette. [/style] |
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