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i thought I heard your voice

☀ ☁ ☂ ☁ Personality: At the core of Fuji’s personality would be his laid-back and at-his-own-pace sort of attitude towards all things in general. In essence, Fuji is the stereotypical unmotivated genius, the sort of character who pretty much excels at everything he turns his hand to, but does not particularly take his gifted status seriously. He’s generally shown with a laid-back and rather happy-go-lucky sort of expression plastered all over his face, and takes things as they come. Couple this with his innate intelligence and easily observant nature, and you have someone who is rarely surprised by anything. Rarely serious, Fuji is the sort of person who is easy to get along with, but hard to truly know. While he is an attentive conversationalist and generally knows a thing or two about all sorts of topics that can keep one entertained for hours on end, his absent-minded attitude tends to put a barrier between himself and others. He has a talent for saying a lot while not actually saying much at all, and tends to be purposefully vague in order to mislead others. Not maliciously, as Fuji, despite his eccentricity and general amusement at all things that move upon the earth, is a kind-hearted teenager who rarely bears others ill will. However, he has a mischievous sort of personality and a tendency to tease those around him. Generally speaking, the closer you are to him, the more likely you will be teased. He is diligent, but has a rather short attention-span. Being quick on the uptake when it comes to all sorts of things, he generally doesn’t have much trouble understanding whatever topic that is thrown at him, and like typical teenagers, he becomes bored by the things he understands. On the other hand, he has absolutely no motivation to seek out new and exciting things, with the philosophy that he’ll cross that bridge when he gets to it. Thus, you have an intelligent teenager who is rarely challenged by the things around him that is quickly losing interest in the world around him. If we use the swimming analogy, one can say that there are those who float, those who swim, and those who sink. And then, there are people like Fuji, who cruise. And he cruises rather quickly, being the sort lucky enough to be situated directly on a fast-moving flow of water that carries him along through no effort of his own. At least, that’s the general impression, at any rate. It’s the impression that he gives off to others, and he enjoys giving that impression off to others. Despite his rather mature outlook on the world and tendency to grasp concepts quicker than others, he is still rather childish at heart. He doesn’t seek challenge because he enjoys winning. He likes to try new things that others wouldn’t because it would make him stand out. He does not like competing seriously when he is not guaranteed to win, and thus he never shows his full potential. He doesn’t like others seeing him sweat, and thus he practices off-court when he thinks nobody is watching. Though it may be that he is a very gifted individual, genius rarely comes without hard work, and Fuji is no exception. While his brand of hard-work is not as obvious as the efforts of others, and while he does not care about the sport of tennis as some of his other teammates, he remains on top simply because he’s comfortable there. He is competitive, but not overly so, and only if he is sure of victory. He picks his fights according to his own strength, a testimony to how well he knows himself, and is rarely disappointed by the outcome. From this, we can derive that Fuji dislikes disappointment. He dislikes the disappointment of others, and he dislikes being disappointed in himself. While anger is explosive and sadness brings tears, he finds disappointment to be the most bitter emotion of all. Thus, he avoids it. By hiding his true potential and allowing others to make assumptions based on his eccentricity, he will not disappoint others, and thus, he will not disappoint himself. That, and he is someone who is easily amused. He rather likes watching others scrabble below him, and he rather likes doing strange things in order to elicit interesting reactions from others. Despite that, though, he is a passive sort of person who generally lets others make the first move, opting to watch the flow of the game and counter as he needs to. This can be seen in his style of tennis, which, in the Prince of Tennis, is a clear reflection of character. However, he is also capable of being aggressive, but only in situations where it’s clear that it’s a preemptive victory. Despite his great capacity for logic and doing logical things, he is a whimsical person, with a tendency to do things on the fly just because he can. This makes him erratic, eccentric and rather hard to predict, as he rarely follows a set pattern of action. This gives their resident data collector no due amount of distress. In fact, to further this amusing little game, he has a tendency to give himself weaknesses, or do things that he doesn’t particularly like in order to fool others into thinking differently. He likes being unpredictable. You can say it’s his pleasure in a world that’s far too easy for a genius like him to predict. At the very least, it kills the time. Another important aspect to his personality is his attachment to friends and family. While he is hard to understand, and harder to know, he tends to look out for those around him carefully. Fuji, as a general rule, is hard to provoke and even harder to get a rise out of. The surest way to invoke a reaction of any kind is to threaten or hurt those around him, particularly friends and family. And when it comes to his loved ones, he holds nothing back, and will stop at nothing to ensure your humiliation, destruction, and emotional distress. This is possibly where the fandom gets his ‘sadist’ personality from. On the other hand, he doesn’t particularly like commitment, as a general rule. He is very nosy, however, and enjoys poking his fingers in other people’s problems. Taking it further, he may prod others subtly along, or pull a few strings in the shadows to smooth the way for the sake of helping someone in need. Taking a step back, he knows when his help is not needed, and while he gives good advice, knows when to keep his mouth shut. He is tactful, but sometimes has trouble empathizing with others. Despite being a genius, he finds people hard to understand, and thus finds people interesting. Mercurial and thoughtful, he drifts along life according to his own rhythm.	ღ basic stats name : Fuji Shuusuke 不二周助 age : 14 gender : male home city : tokyo birthdate : feb. 29th traveling partner : futariniousama ღ summary ☁ complacent ☁ amiable ☁ whimsical ☁ teasing ☁ happy-go-lucky ☁ sly ☁ understanding ☁ intelligent ☁ cheerful ☁ easygoing ☁ unmotivated ☁ witty ☁ nonchalant ☁ amused ☁ thoughtful ☁ talented ☁ unpredictable ☁ rarely serious ☁ misleading ☁ weird ღ past ✱ leap year baby ✱ older sister Yumiko ✱ younger brother Yuuta ✱ half French ✱ grew up in Chiba ✱ transferred to Seigaku ღ favorite... music : klesmer book : le petit prince ice-cream : seaweed flavored drink : strange pop drinks food : chili peppers; apples color : beige dessert : apple pie word : 'maybe' flavour : spicy smell : jasmine pasttime : teasing others hobby : photography ღ likes... ☀ rainy days ☀ interesting things ☀ interesting people ☀ traveling ☀ languages ☀ classical literature ☀ cacti ☀ fairy tales ☀ photographs ☀ quiet days ☀ yuuta ☀ outwitting others ☀ birds ☀ windy days ☀ dawn ☀ mysteries ☀ philosophy ☀ thought ☀ secrets ☀ smiles ღ dislikes... ☂ conformity ☂ pressure ☂ confinement ☂ his brother's manager ☂ stagnancy ☂ the heat ☂ transparency ☂ his brother's tears ☂ sibling conflicts ☂ his title 'genius' ☂ losing
☀ ☁ ☂ ☁ Canon: ► He was born on a leap year, and thus can only properly celebrate his birthday once every four years. Thus, he's technically just a little over three and a half. ► He grew up in Chiba, where he became good friends with Saeki Kohjirou, and spent quite a lot of time tumbling about on the beaches and being under the sun. ► Fuji is known for being cheerful, happy-go-lucky and entirely playful even under the strangest of circumstances. Even Inui calls him out on it early on in the series, in which he merely shrugs and chuckles. ► In a series predominately detailing a bunch of middle-school students waving about tennis rackets for great justice, Fuji is one of the sharper knives in the drawer. ► He is truly regretful of his little brother's animosity towards him, but he honestly doesn't know what to do about it except to protect him the best he can and extract vengeance for him him at any opportunity. Unfortunately, this does not always have the intended effect. ► He is notoriously unmotivated in a series where motivation wins you tennis matches. He also recognizes this and is somewhat regretful of it -- however, he professes that he only plays tennis because he wants to draw out the thrill of it. Winning just comes naturally to him. ► While he is a good reader of people, he is a poor judge of intentions where it truly matters. See: Yuuta, Tezuka, etc. ► He's not particularly loud and prefers to fade into the background during gatherings -- though he does make himself known in little ways. ► He can be very petty and terribly focused on aesthetics. He also does not take well to being outwitted, and while he professes to like surprises, it seems that he finds surprises only acceptable if he can surprise the other frequently as well. ► Fuji is one of the few members of the tennis team that's actually truly close to Tezuka. Thus, you can say he has a lot of experience reading people who are quiet and stoic. ► He collects cacti, skiis, excels at photography, knows the rules to curling -- it appears that he has a very wide range of know-hows outside of tennis. ► He gets along superbly with everyone else so long as he's in a good mood and not feeling particularly vindictive. ► He doesn't understand martyrs. This sort of behavior is what makes him fundamentally different from the main cast. This is also the disconnect between himself and his brother, himself and Tezuka. This is also something that he may not understand until he receives a canon update. Staying in the path of pain isn't something he's used to doing, for whatever the reason. ► He holds grudges, long-lasting things that he may never verbally bring up but he will remind you of it with every opportunity for the rest of the days to come. His anger isn't the explosive sort, and is rather the sort that takes just one incident for the resentment to last forever. Granted, it's rather hard to get a rise out of him, and thus he only reacts to the most grievous of incidents. ► He likes interior design and other such tasteful things. In one of the fanbooks, the author notes that the thing he would like the most right now would be a... tasteful coffee table, of all things. Fandom jokes that he would make a fine housewife. This is probably true. ► He's won awards for his research essays on cacti. In fact, they've been recognized by long-standing researchers in canon. The funny thing is that he claims he's terrible at science. It's no wonder that nobody believes him. ► He never gets angry at what happens to him -- he has a tendency to let personal things roll off of him like water, and he never lets others get involved with his personal life, mostly because he enjoys his privacy but also because he honestly doesn't think his issues should be the business of anyone else. However, he is very protective of those around him, and his anger is the sort that leads to all sorts of elaborate and very decisive plans of action that are more or less designed to ground The Enemy into the ground.
☀ ☁ ☂ ☁ Headcanon: ► His blank face includes the expression of all the expressions which you don't normally see on his face -- anger, embarrassment, fear. Yuuta's actually the odd one out in his household -- his sister is just as complacent as he is, and they both got that from his mother. While his smiling face is a mask, he's rarely willing to part with it, even for those closest to him -- a point which has driven a wedge between himself and his brother. Unfortunately, he's too selfish to give up his facade like a gift. ► While he is intelligent and observant, there are certain walls of silence and understanding, which no matter how hard he tries to think them through, eludes him. His brother is a good example of that. While he may logically understand that his brother does not wish to be in his shadow, because he doesn't really mind being in the shadows of others, this is something that he cannot viscerally understand. ► He is vague and misleading on purpose, but he doesn't mean anything malicious by its. It's simply because he believes that only the unexpected things are worth doing. Thus, even if he wants to be, he's the sort of person who can't be quantified or put between neat lines of a grid. Because the only constant in his life is that he does things on a whim, it makes him fairly unpredictable. ► He's drawn towards those who share his sense of humour, and he rains on parades because he can, but also because he thinks it's interesting. Sometimes, he says off-kilter things just because he can, and because he wants what sort of reaction the other will have. You can say most of his interactions are driven by curiosity and fueled by wit. ► Depending on who he is speaking to, his personality changes subtly. No two people get the same treatment. For those who are quiet, he is content to rattle off about things that he can say without thinking too hard on it and coax the other into quiet conversation. For those who prefer to lead the conversation, he is content to be led along and interject with his two cents whenever he feels necessary. It's not a conscious thing -- he simply slips into the role of the Other and compliments the other. ► On one hand, he gets along with just about everyone. On the other, he is hard to truly know. Sometimes, he wonders if there even is anything to know. He is mercurial, free, but on the flip side, he doesn't have any substance. Just cryptic smiles and a sense of discomfort whenever he passes by that fades like the wind. He draws attention, but fades into the background abnormally quickly, and sometimes he wonders if he'll be remembered. Sometimes, he thinks that he doesn't want to be. ► It might be his fault that he is hard to know, really. It's not as though he does it consciously, because it's attributed to his discomfort with commitments. He has trouble with them, rarely makes promises with the intention of keeping them and changes his whims with the weather. He doesn't like the feeling of being shackled to a single place, and Fuji rarely does something that he doesn't like. ► It's not that he doesn't care about others. He's perfectly capable of caring and worrying over the plights of others. It's just that he feels terribly uncomfortable doing so. Empathizing with others further than just on the surface brings him to a level of discomfort that he doesn't think he wants to experience, and thus he likes to keep a distance from others. He'll smile for you, quip until you laugh, but at the end of the day, he walks alone. ► He doesn't celebrate his birthday and while he does celebrate the birthdays of others, he thinks that only the unexpected gifts are worth giving. Thus, he does not give anything to people who expect them and gives unexpected, quirky yet useful things to people who don't, and every Christmas, he draws up a list and throws darts to see which strangers from which team gets gifts this year. He thinks this is fun. ► He knows people without understanding them. He's the sort of person who finds people easy to read, easy to predict, but nearly impossible to understand. Sometimes, knowledge and understanding don't come hand in hand, and this is one of the things that he just seems to... fail at. And this genuinely baffles him. ► He doesn't like giving his all because he feels that if he gives his all, there will be nothing left. Ironically enough, he puts a lot of effort into not giving his all, and always feels dreadfully tired by the end of it. ► His light hair and blue eyes seem to indicate that he's not completely of Japanese origin. Given that his entire family seems to sport the same hair color, it indicates that it's a genetic thing. He's possibly part French, and fluent in the language, judging from the well-worn copy of Le Petit Prince in his tennis bag. He doesn't particularly broadcast this, though. As a side note, he also seems to be somewhat fluent in English, considering he reads English textbooks in the original language. He has an affinity for languages. ► He likes four-legged furry creatures. He really does. However, they don't like him on principle. His presence generally elicits violent responses from furry creatures, and he's not entirely sure why. This unfortunate quality also translates itself to pokemon as well. ► Fuji's the sort of person who clicks the camera at whatever whenever just because he feels like it, but somehow his pictures turn out beautifully anyway. He says it's luck, but his sister says he has a eye for beauty. Eiji says he's a liar and untrustworthy and confiscates his camera to poke around for his blackmail pictures, which he pleasantly denies the existence of. Eiji is the only one that's right. ► His handwriting is so neat that it's illegible. He does this because he thinks it's funny. ► He actually has a very lovely singing voice (read: Yuki Kaida as voice actress), but he likes to pretend that he's tone deaf for the sake of entertainment. He does this a lot, actually, with a variety of things. And it's fun because no-one knows him well enough to call him out on it. ► He doesn't quantify people as 'friends'. He just... seems to have trouble truly defining what a 'friend' entails. Of course, if asked, he'll be more than happy to rattle off a set list of people whom he can consider as 'friends' for the sake of a conversation filler, but in reality, he has a tendency to group people into four categories -- those who are family, those who are amusing, those who are interesting and those who are unmentionable. People generally start off in the second category, and to date, very few people have made their way into the last category (the manager on his brother's team notwithstanding -- you do not mess with his brother). ► Atobe Keigo from his canon actually gets a category of his own, being the person who hurt Tezuka's arm but also being a person with a marked sense of honor. Fuji isn't entirely comfortable with Atobe, but is also entirely unable to dislike him. To be honest, he just doesn't know what he should do with him. ► At Route, he's more than a little hesitant to form close relationships. I mean, in canon, it's already seen that he rarely lets people come close enough to get to know him for whatever the reasons. However, at Route, this is far more pronounced and also a matter of great debate for him. He understands that nothing in this world is permanent, and understands that he shouldn't make connections. However, it's hard to put that into practice when people are constantly hitting his pings.