Difference between revisions of "Shinsuke Kusagawa"

• Weapon: Nightgarden - The Sword in the Stone, once wielded by Shadow Shinsuke.
• Body: Designer Coat - A black coat from a fashionable Aristocrat boutique.
• Feet: Black Leather Boots - A pair of fine tall leather boots.
• Accessory: Ice-Blue Contact Lenses - The perfect finish to his impeccable wardrobe.

• Courage: 1 - Better Part Of Valor
• Diligence: 5 - Driven and Determined
• Expression: 4 - Extremely Eloquent
  • Charm: 5 - This Stat Is Now Diamonds
  • Socialise: 2 - Scary Senpai
• Understanding: 4 - Favorite Subject: People
• Knowledge: 5 - Know-It-All
  • Academics: 5 - Future Valedictorian

• Teatime: "How like you this cake? I find raspberry pairs nicely with the citrus in this Earl Grey, and its tartness offsets the heaviness of the cream." - Shinsuke inexplicably serves the demon tea and snacks, which may provoke happy or interested reactions.
• Morbidity: "I wonder...how similar is your anatomy to a mortal creature's? Would you be averse to letting me find out...?" - Shinsuke casually wonders aloud about the demon's more visceral qualities. May provoke happy, interested, frightened, or angry reactions.
• Snark: "Well, I suppose it can't be helped. I ought to have known better than to try and engage a Python in civil converse." - Shinsuke cattily insults the demon. May provoke angry, interested, or sad reactions.
• Brook No Argument: "Take us to your mistress. Now." - With a coldly authoritative gleam in his eye, Shinsuke issues orders to the demon. May provoke angry, interested, or frightened reactions.

"You can never go back."

Profile: Under construction

Skills: Am I The Good Twin?, Knight In Shining (?) Armor, The Good Son, (Far From) Effortlessly Perfect, Requiem For A Dream, Strings And Piano, Out Of Eden, An Immortal Emperor In A Mundane Universe, A Little Morbid, Also Kind Of A Romantic, Sister Complex, Everybody Lies (And They Do It All The Time), Rhapsody In Blue, Death Drive, Fire In His Eyes, Sure I'll Help You With Your Homework, Just Don't Touch My Stuff, None Of Your Business, Control Freak, The Earth Is A Character Gallery, Devil's Advocate, Has Thorns, The Sunlit Garden: Illusion

Special:

Shinsuke's Persona is Kay, seneschal and devil's advocate of the Court of King Arthur. He started out in the early Welsh tradition as a valiant, clever, and eloquent warrior with various fire- and water-related supernatural powers; the later tradition assigned him a wicked tongue and a decided contempt for anyone who didn't measure up to his exacting standards. Despite his villainous qualities, Kay was passing loyal to his comrades, particularly Bedivere and Gawain, and to his king (who was also his foster-brother). His pointed insults were his way of ensuring the quality of those who would call themselves Knights of the Round Table. As seneschal Kay was the master of the king's household, and was skilled in all manner of domestic tasks as well as those expected of a knight of his stature. He is also the only major knight who is not pledged to a lady, instead being more or less pledged to Arthur himself. That's not significant at all, though.

• SENSE: A feeling of safety and closeness, like sitting by the fire in a castle kitchen, and a distinct feeling of loyalty and solidarity.
• SOUND: The ring of steel against steel and the blowing of rain-soaked wind.
• SMELL: Spices and burning wood.
  
  

• Shinsuke's personal name means "true helper", but can be poetically translated as "sincere assistance".
• Shinsuke's family name, Kusagawa, means "grassy river". He finds the similarity between it and Itsuka's surname fascinating -- Mizuhara means "flooded plain".
• Shinsuke's father, Dr. Kusagawa, works at Tatsumi Memorial Hospital, where he may or may not now be appraised of the true nature of afflictions such as Apathy Syndrome. That's why they're in Tatsumi Port Island in the first place.
• Shinsuke dresses primarily in designer Gothic Aristocrat fashions.
• Shinsuke's ice-blue eyes are indeed colored contact lenses. His eyes are actually brown -- cinnamon with gold flecks, to be precise. Lately he's taken to showing them off more.
• Though he doesn't plan on becoming a music student when he gets to university, Shinsuke plays both piano and violin quite well.
• Similarly, Shinsuke has been fencing at the national level since middle school.
• For various reasons, the most crucial of which is "because," any time Shinsuke speaks English, it comes out affected with an English accent. He's conversational, but not fluent.
• Shinsuke's favorite color, obviously, is blue.
• Shinsuke loves food and is an accomplished chef, owing to his having been alone most of the time for several years and his hatred of processed food. Whatever he might say, the root of his hatred is the fact that prepackaged, processed foods remind him of being alone.
• Shinsuke also loves people. So much.
• Thanks to his father's position, Shinsuke has an inordinate amount of money at his disposal. He mostly uses it to buy clothes, books, and food.
• Secret Skill: Shinsuke is an inexplicably good dancer, which may be related to his secret love of pop music.
• Shinsuke may or may not still work part-time as a pianist at Chagall Café.
• Due to a combination of psychic trauma (when Shinjiro Aragaki beheaded his Shadow) and physical trauma (at the talons of Kyo Enda), Shinsuke now has a thin scar bisecting his throat. Fortunately for his vanity, his usual fashions cover it.
• Nightgarden is Shinsuke's new sword rapier, acquired after Kyo Enda chomped his original blade to bits. Darkly beautiful, Nightgarden possesses an engraved fuller and an enameled hilt fashioned to resemble thorny black vines, which itself features roses with sapphire petals and emerald leaves. Once the sword of Shadow Shinsuke, the youth acquired it during the second raid on his dungeon. Its blade is suffused with a potent poison.
• Shinsuke is terminally unable to keep any sort of plant alive, and gardening is right out. This bothers him both because Itsuka has always been good at horticulture and because his Velvet Room -- and his TV dungeon -- are gardens. Way to drive the point home, Collective Unconsciousness.
• Like his sister, Shinsuke likes collecting things.
• Shinsuke is fascinated by death. This is not limited to physical death, either.
• A side effect of confronting his Shadow in the TV is, apparently, that Shinsuke no longer needs an Evoker to summon Personae. More importantly, it's solved his control issues.
• Shinsuke's blood type is AB.
• Shinsuke Kusagawa is one hell of a butler.