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Character Name: Takemichi Hanagaki
Character Canon: Tokyo Revengers
Canon Point: Chapter 275
Age: Mentally 27, physically 17
Crime: The crime Takemichi is being accused of is the creation and destruction of universes via time travel. This is a true accusation, but Takemichi has never considered his time leaping to be criminal. He sees it as a way to save people. Being told otherwise isn't going to sit well with him.
Background: Local loser turns back time and joins a biker gang.Personality: ❝ In the past and the present, I have to change or nothing else will. ❞
When he's first introduced, Takemichi is a pathetic guy. He's got a small apartment inundated with trash, a retail job that he regularly screws up, and a deep-seated bitterness toward anyone who's succeeded where he's failed in life. He has no friends, no hobbies, and no motivation to change. He has completely given up on himself despite only being in his twenties.
He wasn't always like that though. In middle school, he was a boisterous punk who bragged about how he'd take over the delinquent scene. His childish dreams were dashed when he got involved with the Tokyo Manji Gang. He and his group of friends were beaten within an inch of their lives and threatened to compete in illegal betting matches. This was a hell of a lot for a middle schooler to deal with, so Takemichi just stopped trying. He ran away, abandoning his friends, his girlfriend, and his family.
This was undeniable proof of his worthlessness, and he never recovered from it. At least, not until he died.
Rather than stay dead, Takemichi is given a miraculous second chance: the ability to leap through time. This miracle doesn't change his outlook overnight, but it is the first step in his journey to become the person he'd convinced himself he'd never be.
❝ Even in my second life, a failure is still going to be a failure. ❞
Unfortunately for everyone, Takemichi does not magically become competent the moment he decides to do things differently. He's neither book smart nor street smart, neither pragmatic nor disciplined. He's not particularly strong either. With no brawn to make up for his lack of brains, he's left to question again and again why he's the only one who can turn back time when literally anyone else would do a better job.
It takes hundreds of chapters worth of trial and error for him to find his answer. Every chance he gets, he attempts to save the people he cares about on his own, and each time, he's met with violent, devastating failure. As time marches on, however, something amazing happens. More and more people begin to notice his efforts, and one by one, they start supporting him. The more help he gets, the more he's able to help others. Finally, he learns the oldest lesson in shounen manga history: Friendship is magic.
Long before Takemichi himself notices, he becomes the heart of the Tokyo Manji Gang. His ability to see the good in a bunch of damaged teen gangsters, his endless barrels of forgiveness, and his crybaby compassion elevate his status in the gang while his undying loyalty earns him theirs in kind.
But his delinquent reputation doesn't truly take shape until Takemichi discovers the one thing even he can do right.
❝ I believe in one thing I'm good at! I don't give up! Even if I die, I will not give up! ❞
Despite how many times Takemichi wishes he could give up, he can't. The day he was supposed to die was the same day he learned that his middle school girlfriend had been murdered by the Tokyo Manji Gang. She is the sole person who believed in him from the start. Hinata Tachibana is Takemichi's guiding light, and he vows over her burning corpse that he will do whatever it takes to save her life.
From that moment on, a switch flips in Takemichi's brain. Every goal he aims to achieve is now a matter of life or death. He faces off against opponents he has no chance of defeating, but every time he's beaten down, he stands right back up, smirking smugly through the pain. Even though he's only an average fighter, he's the last man standing in every major battle, and that terrifies all the right people. By his canonpoint, he's outright taunting his opponents to kill him because that's the only way they'll ever win.
Which, while brave, is not smart.
Takemichi's determination isn't a pure positive. It's reckless and unyielding. It may serve him well in most fights, but messing with time isn't as simple as trading fists. Takemichi is so incapable of giving up that even after he succeeds in his mission to save Hinata and keep all his friends alive, he undoes everyone else's ideal future after deciding that Tokyo Manji's leader Mikey isn't happy enough.
This late in the game, Takemichi can't tone down this side of himself, not even for his friends' sake. He is unable to give up on anybody, even his worst enemies, because not giving up is literally the only thing he
can do. Running away now the way he did in the past would be tantamount to suicide.
Abilities: Takemichi is a timeleaper. He activates his ability by shaking the hand of someone who shares his intense desire to change a specific event in the past. His mind is then transported back in time and inhabits his past self. How many years back in time he travels depends on what he and his accomplice want to change, but he will always be transported to the same calendar day in the past as the day he shakes hands in the future. In order to return to the future, he has to find his accomplice in the past and shake their hand again. At that time, the future abruptly adjusts itself to whatever changes Takemichi made in the past. Both he and his accomplice retain their memories of prior timelines they've altered.
More recently, he's also begun to see flashes of the future without actually timeleaping. By touching/being very close to a relevant object/person, he's hit by a vision of a potential bad end that he has to prevent. These visions rarely have any context to them, just to make his job that much more difficult.
I don't expect Takemichi to be able to timeleap in game, but I'd like him to keep his future visions if possible.
Inventory: The Tokyo Manji uniform and four leaf clover necklace he's wearing upon arrival.
Samples: 01,
02Questions: No questions, just clarifying that I'm both
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EXPIATION
character;
takemichi "takemitchy" hanagaki
NAME
tokyo revengers
CANON
mentally 27, physically 17
AGE
human
SPECIES
link
INFO
earth
HOME WORLD
