Keiichi Segawa (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
quakeitoff) wrote2016-07-06 11:13 pm
quakeitoff) wrote2016-07-06 11:13 pm
[ooc] character history for apps
Relevant context: X is about two factions of people secretly battling over the fate of the world, with one faction attempting to destroy it by destabilizing protective pillars throughout Japan, resulting in devastating earthquakes. The average person in this universe has no idea about the potential oncoming apocalypse-- just that Japan is having increasingly frequent, increasingly destructive earthquakes.
Being a minor character, Keiichi is one of these oblivious members of the broader public, and the only real example in the story of how the battle for the end of the world is affecting the normal folks living in it. Class president at the elite private school he attends with our main character, Kamui, Keiichi had been living a successful and carefree life with two loving, supportive parents, until the earthquakes started-- one of the first major quakes causes a building collapse at his father's workplace, with his father passing away as a result.
Nonetheless, Keiichi does his best to balance quietly honoring and grieving for his father's memory with continuing on at school in his usual cheerful fashion, and it's at this point a few months after his father's passing that Kamui, and we as the audience, are introduced to him as Kamui's overly-enthusiastic and slightly oblivious class president at his new school. Keiichi cheerfully steamrollers Kamui into a slightly lopsided friendship, which becomes more genuine over time as both of them have to contend with the way the world is changing as the battle for the fate of the world rages on.
For Keiichi, who doesn't know that the reason his friend always disappears right before an earthquake and then misses school for a few weeks afterwards is because he's fighting to prevent the end of the world, these changes come from within his family: another unsuccessful battle, and Keiichi loses his mother to a house fire resulting from another quake.
Now orphaned, Keiichi has to continue on in an increasingly unstable and uncertain world with only his friends for support-- if he'll actually ask for it. Clearly shaken by losing both of his parents at this point, his smiles are just a little dimmer by the end of his role in the series and he's understandably prone to panic and anxiety around the topic of his friends' safety, but he nonetheless tries to carry on with as much positivity and by causing as few ripples as possible. When Kamui, grief-stricken himself both for Keiichi and for the guilt he feels regarding his role in the deaths of Keiichi's parents, approaches him in the aftermath of his mother's death, Keiichi explains: "There was nothing I could do, but... that's exactly why I have to live my father and mother's share of life as well. At the funeral, I cried and cried; I thought my eyes were going to melt! Now I'll try hard to laugh their share of laughter, too."
Later in the series, Tokyo is evacuated due to the severity of the earthquakes, and while Keiichi was presumably part of this, we don't see it on-screen to know where he ends up-- but in-game, Keiichi will be taken from before this point regardless.
Being a minor character, Keiichi is one of these oblivious members of the broader public, and the only real example in the story of how the battle for the end of the world is affecting the normal folks living in it. Class president at the elite private school he attends with our main character, Kamui, Keiichi had been living a successful and carefree life with two loving, supportive parents, until the earthquakes started-- one of the first major quakes causes a building collapse at his father's workplace, with his father passing away as a result.
Nonetheless, Keiichi does his best to balance quietly honoring and grieving for his father's memory with continuing on at school in his usual cheerful fashion, and it's at this point a few months after his father's passing that Kamui, and we as the audience, are introduced to him as Kamui's overly-enthusiastic and slightly oblivious class president at his new school. Keiichi cheerfully steamrollers Kamui into a slightly lopsided friendship, which becomes more genuine over time as both of them have to contend with the way the world is changing as the battle for the fate of the world rages on.
For Keiichi, who doesn't know that the reason his friend always disappears right before an earthquake and then misses school for a few weeks afterwards is because he's fighting to prevent the end of the world, these changes come from within his family: another unsuccessful battle, and Keiichi loses his mother to a house fire resulting from another quake.
Now orphaned, Keiichi has to continue on in an increasingly unstable and uncertain world with only his friends for support-- if he'll actually ask for it. Clearly shaken by losing both of his parents at this point, his smiles are just a little dimmer by the end of his role in the series and he's understandably prone to panic and anxiety around the topic of his friends' safety, but he nonetheless tries to carry on with as much positivity and by causing as few ripples as possible. When Kamui, grief-stricken himself both for Keiichi and for the guilt he feels regarding his role in the deaths of Keiichi's parents, approaches him in the aftermath of his mother's death, Keiichi explains: "There was nothing I could do, but... that's exactly why I have to live my father and mother's share of life as well. At the funeral, I cried and cried; I thought my eyes were going to melt! Now I'll try hard to laugh their share of laughter, too."
Later in the series, Tokyo is evacuated due to the severity of the earthquakes, and while Keiichi was presumably part of this, we don't see it on-screen to know where he ends up-- but in-game, Keiichi will be taken from before this point regardless.