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CONTACT/TEAM PREFERENCES

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THE APP

Character Name: self-explanatory
Canon: If the canon has multiple versions, please be specific.
Reference Link: A wiki link is preferable, but anything that has a summary of the canon works. If there is no picture on your link, please provide a reference picture as well. If there is really nothing to link, write a short (no more than 200 words) description of the canon and character appearance.

Character History: A brief summary of your character's background. Only the highlights, please! This section should not be more than 300 words long.
Personality: Can be longer than the history, if necessary, but again, please try to be succinct.

Writing Sample: For this section, you have two choices:

1. Fill out an IC survey (copypaste below)
2. Write a first or third person sample on the subject of your choice. (~300-500 words)

C&P

THE SURVEY

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Character Name: Hitachiin Kaoru
Canon: Ouran High School Host Club
Reference Link: Wiki

Character History: Kaoru is one of a set of identical twins born to a disgustingly rich fashion designer. He and his brother, Hikaru, have spent their entire lives joined at the hip (figuratively) and, until meeting other members of the host club, let no one into the private world that the two of them built up around themselves. Even family was barred from getting that close to them. However, in middle school they met a pure hearted idiot, Tamaki Suoh, who eventually succeeded in badgering them into taking a step out of that world by joining a host club.

A year or two later, the Host Club took in a commoner student, Fujioka Haruhi, who found herself suddenly owing a debt. Since meeting her and growing to love the club and its members, the twins have begun to open up and step out into the real world more and are gradually letting their own individual personalities come to the surface more and more. They entertain female classmates for fun and profit, goof off with (or harass) fellow club members, and generally act like the spoiled rich brats that they are.

Personality: Kaoru is the more mature of the two brothers, a facet of his personality he tends to play down when around people he doesn't know well in order to keep them at a distance until he decides whether he thinks they're actually trustworthy or not. He's definitely more emotionally and socially aware than he lets on most of the time and is often the one to add some restraint to the pranks and taunting he and his brother enjoy. Some. He does still enjoy the childish games and teasing, especially picking on Tamaki (or anyone else they can get their hands on.) While he is often very keenly aware of the feelings of others, he makes a show of acting like he doesn't care—because he doesn't. Unless playing a joke is going to cause genuine harm or serious upset to someone, it's fun for him! And he's not ready to let go of getting to behave like a kid just yet.

Although he is nicer than his brother, he still has a habit of being blunt and a little demanding when dealing with people. He's also very oblivious to the ways of common people (read: anyone who isn't disgustingly rich) and refers to them as commoners, occasionally impressed at their ingenuity and other times being unable to understand their strange, poor people ways.

When it comes to people he's developed genuine fondness for, he has a protective streak. If a friend is actually harmed or significantly upset then he will defend them in kind. He's entirely capable of just snapping in anger and beating the daylights out of some thug of the day, even if he's the "mature" twin. And, in spite of his fondness for taunting and pranking even his most dear friends, he does try to avoid genuinely offending them and shows regret if he ever does cross them by mistake even if it's a slight error. (For example, selling Haruhi's cheap mechanical pencil.) And while he will show his mature side to people he's grown to trust more often, it's still a relatively uncommon occurrence. As stated before, he enjoys his childish games! Letting his mature side show is generally reserved for private or serious conversations.

Finally, there is his relationship with his brother, Hikaru. The two relied on each other almost solely, right up until Tamaki recruited them into the host club, and it's been a slow process getting them to genuinely open up to anyone other than themselves. They have an intense level of codependence on each other and have never even spent a full day apart from each other. They're also intensely protective of each other. However, it's begun to manifest in Kaoru as wanting them to learn to live a little more apart like healthy and well adjusted individuals do. He won't be happy at all about being separated from Hikaru for such an extended period of time, but because he's begun to adapt to the idea that they'll one day have individual lives and subtly nudge Hikaru towards developing relationships apart from him, he'll be able to tolerate it (very reluctantly). Especially when terrible games begin to happen; then he won't want Hikaru here period. Basically he is going to be troubled and miss Hikaru deeply, but in time will cope and even be grateful his brother hasn't also been sold to evil robots for the pursuit of questionable science.

Writing Sample:

01. If given a choice, what would you like to be called?
Kaoru. Or Hikaru. It's up to you to guess~
02. Do you require socks to be part of your uniform?
That depends entirely on what kind of footwear is included. In most cases, yes, but if you expect me to wear something like beach sandals then I'll pass. I don't want to get caught looking like an idiot tourist.
03. Not including mandatory periods of silence, what is the longest you have gone without talking?
Ehh? Do you really expect people to keep track of that?
04. Are you plagued by suspicions that other people, including coworkers and relatives, may be doing things behind your back that will hurt you?
There are probably plenty of people that are thinking things like that, but no one with enough power to actually do anything like it. It would be social or business suicide if they tried.
05. Other than a large egret, what wild animal would you like to domesticate?
Hmm, perhaps an ocelot or another kind of small jungle cat. I don't want anything too big to manage, and jungle cats always have an elegant and impressive look.
06. Are you functionally incapacitated by witnessing other people's misery?
What kind of bizarre question is this? I guess sometimes there's nothing to say or do for someone, but a situation like that is rare. Usually it's just funny.
07. What is your favorite flatware for, purely as an example, eating cake?
Anna Weatherley has some truly beautiful designs on her flatware. The yellow leaf pattern is a good choice if you want one that will complement most cake designs.
08. Do you trust yourself?
Why wouldn't I? You have to be a pretty pathetic person to not even trust yourself.
09. Please list a crime that only you would know that you have committed.
None~ My brother and I are partners in crime, so there's no crime that only I know about.
10. If you disappeared tomorrow would anyone miss you?
Creepy question . . . Of course I'd be missed. Hikaru would probably hire an army to track me down if I went missing out of the blue.

CONGRATULATIONS.
Your application to be a test candidate for the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center has been accepted.

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