Claim: Tetsuya Ogawa Player's Name: Ame Character's Name: Tetsuya Ogawa/Tetsu Character's IJ:feeling_fine Nationality: Japanese What are they from? Band/L'arc~en~Ciel Human/Mutant/Vampire: Human
Background:Once upon a time in Long Island, a man met a woman. The man was a wealthy industrialist and the head of a huge weapons manufacturing company and the woman was a well known brain surgeon in Japan. They fell in love. They got married in secret. They ran away to Michigan after the woman's father found out about their marriage over a game of chess and attempted to murder the man. They made love.
They had Tetsu.
Tetsu was smart for his age and a pretty good child overall. He was polite, and mature; listened to his parents, did very well in school, did his chores, and would rather take apart a car's engine or a printer than go out to play. Which, didn't really result in a social life. For a child his age, he loves learning. He's always been reading, learning, and evaluating. He cross-references what he knows, draws links, posits hypotheses on every breath. He's long been acquainted with this integration of facts, the assembly of small parts into greater wholes, greater truths. And if he could be bothered, he would commit the entirety of his deductions to paper. But he doesn't because it would take up his entire life and he never really liked school with its endless circular rambling of academia.
At the age of eight, his father sat him down and told him that one day, he would take over the company that has been passed down from generation to generation in their family. It went something like this:
"Son, there will come a time when I won't be here anymore, and the company would need someone to lead them and continue the success we've been having for so many years. So, son, I want you to attend MIT."
"... What's MIT, Papa?"
"College."
"But, Papa, I'm eight."
"You'll understand when you're older."
"That's what you said about Mama's mood swings at the end of every month."
"Now, that's something different, okay?"
"But-"
"No buts, Tetsu. Just do your best."
Tetsu didn't exactly understand then, but did manage to fulfill his father's wishes. He was nothing short of a genius; when he was 15, he entered MIT to study electrical engineering and graduated summa cum laude. He made his parents proud and he was pretty stoked with the fact that he was finally done with school. Immediately, his father began preparations for him to lead their industry but Tetsu soon grew to loathe it. The thought of making weapons didn't sit well with him (especially when he found out his father's right hand man was dealing weapons under the table to terrorists in the middle East), and though he couldn't do anything about it yet, he didn't want to be a part of it.
And so, taking the rest of the money in his bank account, he ran away to New York and became a small time electronics door-to-door repairman. A great way to put all those years of studies to use. Still, the tips were good and he met a lot of people, which usually meant more places he could crash in the middle of the night, and that also meant (occasionally) free meals. He keeps up with news in hopes to one day find something to get his father to stop their manufacture.
Preferred RP Style: 'S all good. Whatever you like, I do for you. C:
Anything Else: I uh, just started playing real people after playing anime characters for like... four years? Hopefully I won't fail too badly at this. Also, this is one of the most randomest histories I have ever came up with. orz