User Profile

Name:: Akutagawa Jiroh
Age:: 19

::Distinguishing Features::

No really distinguishing features so to speak of…at least…not yet.

::Interesting Info::

1.Jiroh has a habit of tucking a 2B pencil behind his ear and forgetting it’s there. However whenever the urge to sketch something takes hold, Jiroh automatically reaches for the pencil behind his ear…even if it’s one of the rare times Jiroh hasn’t left one there.

2.Jiroh carries with him most if not all the time a worn, black backpack that contains anything from books to food to clothes he’s randomly stuffed in there. His sketchbook is always in there and he gets mildly annoyed if it is taken out of there by anyone…including himself.

::History::

Jiroh spent most of his childhood on the move. Spending little more than a handful of months in anyone place, his father (a international sales rep) never wanting to leave his family settled in one country without him, Jiroh travelled around the world with his family. Mostly schooled at home by his mother, sometimes spending a few months in public or private schools if they settled in one town long enough, Jiroh didn’t have the opportunity to make a great deal of friends. His main companions were his older brother Ran and his little sister (born while the family were back in Japan for six months) Saya and the three siblings still remain very close.

It was at a very young age when Jiroh began sleeping his way through entire days, waking only when something caught his attention long enough. His parents, fearful that he had contracted some disease or perhaps suffered from narcolepsy, sent him to numbers of doctors and specialists. They could find nothing wrong and after more than one suggestion that he be sent to a psychatrist for assesment, the Akutagawas settled briefly in Florence where Jiroh began seeing one of the leading specialists in sleep disorders. Jiroh was drawn to his psychatrist, Anastasio, for some reason and though he never understood why, he often sort out his company even outside sessions. Anastasio took Jiroh out to dinner, to visit museums and showed him all that Florence had to offer. It was during a visit to see some of the great works of art that Jiroh discovered his passion. Not long after, Anastasio suggested Jiroh enrol in some art classes where Jiroh’s natural talent was discovered. To his parents delight, while the perpetually sleepy boy still sleep a great portion of the day, nothing could awaken Jiroh like art could.

Not longer after Jiroh’s sixteenth birthday, his parents worried about the attention Anastasio was showering upon their son. Afraid Jiroh was being seduced, they decided to uproot once again and leave Florence. Jiroh begged to be allowed to stay with Anastasio and attend one of the art schools there. After a raging argument, Jiroh was forced to follow his family to their next destination…New York City never to see Anastasio again. It was in New York City that Jiroh truly began to feel he had a home. Graudating from high school, Jiroh was accepted into the New York Academy of Art where he is in his second year.

Jiroh has never found himself drawn to someone like he was to Anastasio, though he never really understood what is was about him that the psychatrist was so drawn to in return. Jiroh knows nothing about the potency of his blood or that he is a feeder. Nor did he ever know Anastasio’s true nature…that he was a vampire.

Still prone to falling asleep at the drop of a hat, Jiroh frequents the out of the way cafes of New York, often hiding himself in a corner with just enough lighting to sketch by and a perfect view of the goings on around him. He's not one to wander too far away from his regular haunts but lately there is this one place called "Lady's Kiss" that Jiroh finds himself drawn to...



Bio will change as RP progresses and Jiroh gets munched on! ^_^

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