idk what to call this actually

[menkoi]

This is a battle. If whatever drama you're caught up in is more important to you, don't waste our time.

RP Wishlist & At-a-Glance PITCH pro runner & fearless parkour athlete, alt fashion model, Russian-born, Hokkaido-bred small town delinquent and leader of a (mostly benign) gang of misfit thugs whom he collected through random acts of aggressively sticking up for them. Yuri is the captain of his school's Stride club as a high school senior, then recruited to Japan's brand new national U20 team after graduation. he views everything in life as a fight that he can win, as long as he hits it hard enough. wields hypocrisy and self-contradiction like his weapon and shield... but sometimes he surprises with his sincerity. HOOKS career sports / extreme!!! sports / makeup, skincare, fashion / rock bands and motorcycles / visual kei / street gangs and fights / juvenile delinquency / fellow freaks & bullied kids / themes of duality and contradiction / conflicts of class, gender, identity / bi-racial kid in a so-called "monoculture" baggage / maladaptive coping mechanisms / escape from rural claustrophobia / daddy issues / mommy issues / found family, but oops it's a gang / growing past one's own insecurities and overcoming pretense / sexuality as self-acceptance / as well as hypersexuality as a trauma response to bullying and neglect / gold-digging as trauma response to poverty l-lol / but those things can also just be for fun if desired, as they are mostly headcanon i've based on a few canon crumbs scattered across the franchise. lmk if anything is a problem, or if anything appeals! LIKES - taking risks - travel - high places - pink🩷 - people who do what he says DISLIKES - smalltalk - losers&fakes - being bored - kanji - getting hit in the face LOVESHIPS bully romance, rival romance, compensated dating/fake girlfriend/escort/fwb or what-have-you to more, wealthy and/or older men, very successful people with flaws, cute fashionable girls who don't overlap his look, people he can take care of who can also take care of him, crazy girls, mean girls, slowburn but they're fucking the entire time, toxic loyalty, and anyone who likes a boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend FRIENDSHIPS fellow teens, sports people, fashion people, street kids, weirdos who don't have anyone else HATESHIPS (KILL BILL SIRENS) girls with low pigtails (/SIRENS), meek girls, formal and straight-laced types, anyone who demands he behave rly, greater bullies he can't destroy, people he can't manipulate because they are manipulating him CROSS-CANON hi I am canonblind to a lot, but passingly familiar with a lot of sports animes - those are usually easy to smash together - and old-school shonen titles. jamjars are a fine solution to a canon mismatch, but I am also happy to play Yuri as the unflappable normie with no self-preservation instinct to your supernatural or superpowered character. every world's got 'em, and he could use the humbling :). OCs also great, because he'll slot into any 'verse where normies could/would conceivably do competitive extreme sports. unless otherwise stated, I'm not interested in AUing him into high fantasy or historical canons. YURI ON THE BEAUTY OF STRIDE: Stride separates the winners from the losers... no one faked or smooth-talked his way here. RUMORS his name strongly resembles a girl's name, and he is often mistaken for a girl in plainclothes. he was born in Russia, and struggled to communicate in Japanese when he first transferred schools - even now, his reading and writing isn't great. he has long had a reputation as a poor student with a violent temper, and just enough classroom attendance to stay in his own club. rumored to get into frequent fights with the grown Russian men at the docks. HAUNTS Instagram, gyms, parks, beaches, shopping, urban city centers, abandoned buildings, construction sites, live music venues, karaoke, cafes advertising seasonal strawberry desserts. Hokkaido, Tokyo (AU or late canon), or USA/abroad (post-graduation).

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