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@Emo-sai: I agree with that rule! Anyone who reserves, has to have their form up, eh, what she said.

My NPC will be posted some other time. Furin Gakuen attendee. Furin Tea Ceremony Club attendee. Fangirl.

Name: Inoue Hotaru [family name first] 井上 蛍
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Appearance: Hotaru of average height, standing at around 5’7”, and he has a slender, almost slight build. His hair is pale blonde, which is odd for a Japanese boy, but for the fact that his birth father was Caucasian, and he keeps it clipped short, to about chin-length, and in a style that flatters his face, which is rather angular with pronounced cheekbones that you could probably cut cheese on. Hotaru has a pair of soft brown eyes which peer out from under lashes that have no rights being on a boy. He is in the habit of batting these eyelashes when he wants something, or when he wants to look cute.
His Furin uniform is simple blazer in the pale, dusky blue of summer wear, but he altered the fabric slightly to make it more lightweight, and he wears that colour all year round, rather than switching to the brighter colours of winter. As a personal touch, Hotaru removed all the buttons from the blazer, preferring to be freer in his movements. He also wears his shirt crinkled (mostly out of laziness), and only buttons it up to the middle of his chest.
Out of school, Hotaru wears tight, faded jeans (but NOT tight-legged ones! No emos here, thankya kindly) and a selection of normal t-shirts.
Personality: Hotaru is changeable in his personality, like the water of his zodiac. He is exceptionally sensitive, and ever a romantic, but in the same breath he is often prone to violent mood-swings, laziness and a horrible tendency to be completely and utterly impractical. If there’s one thing he despises most, it’s being smothered, whether by rigid rules or people in general.
He is also acutely aware of his good looks, and he isn’t averse to using them to get his own way.
Hotaru is flouncy and... well, flouncy is the best way to describe him. He's extremely flamboyant, loves to be in charge of things, and above all, he lives in the moment. Even though he is the Chairman of the Tea Club, Hotaru is incredibly messy and scatty and disorganised to a T.
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
Power: Weapon! Pisces halberd/double-ended-spear-thinger.
Power Description: Hotaru’s weapon is a halberd, basically. It’s double-ended, and resembles a fish tail where each blade tapers off to a point. One points to the left and the other points to the right, and both are bound together with a flowing blue ribbon which wraps around the pole and ties off at the base of each blade, where it meets the pole. The ribbon has enough left over at each end to trail off in a streamer of blue, about half a metre in length, which flutters gracefully when Hotaru uses the blade.
The entire weapon stands at just over 6’ tall, which is taller than Hotaru himself. The pole is a burnished silver in colour, and streaked with turquoise-blue-and-pearl in a complex pattern of waves and spume.
In the centre of the pole, there is an old-looking silver band which splits into two sections. The band is embossed with darkened fish (think dirty metal, here). When twisted sharply, the entire weapon splits into two at this silver band, both blades still joined by their ribbon, which is unseverable (for some reason). The ribbon is long enough for Hotaru to wield both blades with ease, and his movements while using the weapon in this way somewhat resemble a calm ocean, rippling in the breeze, so subtle are his movements.
Back to the blades, the sharp part of each resembles an ornately decorated fish tail, and where they are riveted to the pole is the eye of the fish, with the rest of the blade being embossed with tiny, glittering scales. One of the blades is slightly blue-tinged in colour, while the other one has a distinctly greenish cast, as if viewed under water.
This weapon, apart from being very sharp and pointy, also has another use. If Hotaru detaches the blades and stabs them into the ground, either side of him, he can create a shield of water which envelops him and anyone else within the vicinity of the two blades. The water forms a sort of elongated dome, and lasts for as long as Hotaru concentrates, meaning that if he is distracted in any way, it will immediately collapse as if it were never there.
One further (and final) power associated with the weapon is the ability to stir any body of water into a frenzy, creating a minor whirlpool which can be controlled for a very limited amount of time (it’s hard to control tons of water, ya know). Pisceans are famous for their tendency to be calm one moment and in a fury the next, as with the ocean and as with Hotaru’s halberd.
Background/History: Hotaru’s birth father, Ryu Johnson, was killed in a car accident when Hotaru was two, and his mother, then Johnson Hina, remarried about three years later. Hotaru was brought up from the age of five by his step-father, and his mother, now Inoue Hina, who changed young Hotaru’s family name to Inoue, rather than keep that of his birth father.
Since Hotaru didn’t know his father very well, the accident hardly affected him, since he wasn’t old enough to have formed a real bond. Therefore, he looks upon his step-dad as his real one, although he still burns incense with his mother on the anniversary of Ryu’s death.
Other: Has been good friends with Kasai Akio and Sakamoto Dai since grade school, despite the fact that they both now go to Kazan, and Hotaru attends Furin.
Hotaru is the chairman of the Furin Tea Ceremony Club, where, as you can no doubt guess, he meets with the other members (numbering no less than 10, and no more than 12) three times a week to, well, basically to bring pleasure to girls. (NO NOT THAT WAY YOU PERVERTS!! HOTARU ONLY LIKES MEN) Think Ouran High School Host Club plagiarism!!. This club did not used to be this way. Hotaru changed itttt, bwahahaha. &c. This means we need SOME GIRL CHARACTERS, PEOPLE!!