PLAYER INFORMATION
PLAYER: McGwiggles
ARE YOU AT LEAST 14 YEARS OLD?: Yes
IF UNDER 18 YEARS OLD, PLEASE STATE YOUR AGE: I'm over 18
CONTACT: haggardsomebody@gmail.com
PERSONAL JOURNAL: N/A
CHARACTERS PLAYED:This would be my first.


CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Yasuhiro Hagakure
CANON: Dangan Ronpa
CANON REFERENCE: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VisualNovel/DanganRonpa
AGE: 22
GENDER: Male
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: Custodian/Groundskeeper

APPEARANCE: Here
PERSONALITY:
Most of Yasuhiro's personality can be determined through his appearance. His hair is wild and untameable, his face is unshaven and covered in stubble, his clothing is sloppy and loose with his jacket hung nonchalantly over his shoulders in a way that leaves his arms unrestricted. This all shows that Yasuhiro is a very chill person who doesn't care much about what others think of him.

Yasuhiro is carefree even to a fault, as he doesn't always pay attention to the goings on around him. His obliviousness, combined with the fact that he, frankly, is not the smartest tack in the box have made him quite gullible, and he's liable to believe any conspiracy theory or tall tale told to him almost immediately. His foolishness and easy-going nature often leads people to suspect drugs on his part – which he vehemently denies because, in his words, “I would never get involved in that kind of occult stuff!”

For someone who claims to not only be a fortune teller, but a Super Hero-Level Fortune Teller, Yasuhiro seems to care very little about his future. Tomorrow is for other people to worry about and, occasionally, for them to pay him to warn them about. This money is almost always spent on food, alcohol, or expensive knick-knacks that the gullible man-child is easily convinced into spending his wages on.

To be honest, Yasuhiro would make a poor excuse for an X-man. Besides his simple-mindedness, his obliviousness, his inability to ever get any sort of disguise over that hair, and the fact that his powers are somewhat lacking in the “combat usefulness” department, Yasuhiro is also a coward. It isn't that he doesn't want to help, because he certainly recognizes the importance of what the X-Men do, but at the slightest sign of danger Yasuhiro is cowering behind his more physically-able teammates and openly weeping. He's rather pathetic in any sort of combat situation and is frankly more of a liability than anything else.

POWERS/ABILITIES:
Mild precognition: Hagakure's power, his pride and joy, is precognition. Given the proper setting and the allowance for him to set-up ahead of time, Hagakure can force himself to have extremely vivid visions of the future that are correct roughly 20% of the time. He isn't sure what the deal is with the visions that prove to be incorrect- alternate timelines, maybe? Aliens? An occult conspiracy? Or maybe his imagination just gets out of hand sometimes. Regardless of the explanation, his visions are largely unreliable.

AU HISTORY:
Yasuhiro Hagakure came from a relatively normal, if somewhat poor, household in Japan. He had a mother and a father who, while somewhat distant, loved him as much as any parent loves their child. Money was always an issue in his household, and so everyone worked. Even Yasuhiro was expected to get a job from a young age, whether it was part-time delivery job or simply running errands, he did what he could to help out with his family with minimal complaints.

Never the brightest child to begin with, Yasuhiro's grades quickly began to suffer because of these extra responsibilities, but he always managed to scrape by with a barely passing grade. That is, until his mutant powers began to manifest at the age of 8. Yasuhiro began to have extremely vivid visions of the future- visions that he quickly discovered, sometimes came true.

Terrified of what this could mean, he told no one at first, but the visions continued and his grades suffered more and more as time went on. By the age of 12, Yasuhiro had been held back a year on three separate occasions. With money still being tight in his family, and with his hopes of getting into any sort of college incredibly dim, Yasuhiro fell back onto the powers he had been developing for the past four years. He learned how to force these visions, and devised a way to earn money using them.

It started with a small, road-side fortune teller's stand on the side of the road, giving predictions for pocket change. However, his higher-than-average success rate quickly earned him a reputation as one of the better fortune tellers in the city. By the age of 15, he was a rising star in the world of fortune telling, demanding thousands of yen for his shortest sessions. Finally his family was well-off, and young Yasuhiro had more money than he knew what to do with.

Unfortunately, his success was incredibly short-lived. Through a series of increasingly poor business decisions and more than a few lawsuits, Yasuhiro lost everything by the time he was 16. His family was once more in squalor and he had barely anything to show for his efforts. It was then that he was offered a position as a student in the Xavier institute, as he had attracted quite a bit of attention to himself.

Out of money and out of options, Yasuhiro accepted and moved to America, if only for the opportunity to learn how to control his “amazing abilities” and rise into fame once more. He was disappointed to discover that, not only were his powers sub-par compared to other mutants, but also that the Xavier Institute focused on formal education and combat abilities far more than he expected. As such, the simple and cowardly Yasuhiro did just as poorly there as he had done in any other school.

At the age of 20, he didn't have any option other than to drop-out of the Institute. He had little for him at home, he couldn't possibly ask his parents to support him again after all these years, life was hard for them as it was, and he was known as a has-been throughout the majority of Japan. Desperate to stay in America, where his only hopes of fame and fortune were, he begged the Institute for a job.

After a lot of begging (more begging than was necessary, surely) and promises to work hard, Yasuhiro was given a job as one of the school's custodians. He still dreams big of becoming a world-famous fortune teller again, biding his time and saving pennies for the day when he can afford to start a shop of his own.

SAMPLE
1ST PERSON SAMPLE:

[Voice]

[Muffled sobbing and crying in what could possibly be Japanese. It's hard to distinguish. Eventually it quiets down and he begins to speak.]

This is Yasu- er... This is Mr. Hagakure, the school custodian, speaking.

I got lost in the hedge maze again, right? I've been stuck in here for a couple of hours now, and I'm starting to get really hungry.

Please send help! I don't want to die out here!

THIRD PERSON SAMPLE:

Hagakure sobbed loudly, his face pressed into a leafy wall of the hedge maze. How had he gotten himself so lost? He just didn't understand how things like this kept happening to him.

Sure, this wasn't the first time he had lost his way in a misguided attempt to navigate the maze- he had gotten lost once before and mistakenly dropped his wallet somewhere in this leafed labyrinth, hence his return visit- but he was so sure that he knew the way this time. Instead, Yasuhiro became twice as lost as he had been before and, while he had by some miracle managed to find his wallet along the way, he no longer had the slightest clue where he was.

Yasuhiro's stomach rumbled, reminding him of how long he'd been lost and of how long it had been since his last meal. The fortune teller had given up on finding an exit quite some time ago in favor of staying put. That would make it easier for a rescue party to find him, right? Right? They must have formed a search party already, someone had to be coming for him! He was sure of it!

Well, 20% sure of it, at least.