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Canon: Ouran High School Host Club.
Character: Ootori Kyouya.
Timeline: Episode 25.
Personality: Kyouya is known, within the Host Club, as “The Cool Type”. He is calm, cool, and collected. He is always there with a kind smile, an elbow to be offered, and an open door to welcome you into Music Room #3. He is unruffled by the antics of his fellow host club members. The female attendees of the Host Club request him based off of his gentleman-y appearance and Kyouya never disappoints the ladies who request him.
Beyond that, Kyouya maintains a cool detached appearance for anyone outside of the Host Club. He claims he is an egoist -- someone who does not attach themselves to anyone and values their own self-importance above anything else. He tends to show this whenever he is seen: Kyouya is always in the background (or with Tamaki), taking notes, not getting directly involved in whatever mayhem is going on in Music Room #3. He also shows this personality whenever he is seen at home, mostly because Kyouya has a reputation to “maintain” for his father, a reputable business man and hospital owner within Japan. He is strict, polite, disciplined -- the perfect son he must be whenever he steps into his mansion.
However, this is only Kyouya on the surface. What lies beneath is far more fascinating -- and something Ootori Kyouya allows very few people to see.
Before Kyouya met Tamaki, he was a very reserved child, extraordinarily concerned with holding himself back to make everyone else in his family look better, the true unspoken genius of the Ootori family. After Tamaki met him and broke open Kyouya’s carefully placed shell... the Shadow King was born, the true genius behind the Host Club -- a quick-witted sly crafty individual who is completely capable of pulling off something entirely illegal and smiling about it to the press the next day.
While Tamaki is the president of the Host Club, many members recognize who is actually, in charge of the club: Ootori Kyouya. He is craft, calculating, sly, and sharp-witted. He is the one that organizes every single event and brings Tamaki’s crazy ideas to life without so much as a complaint, showing that he is extraordinarily patient, determined, and above all else, responsible. When Kyouya says something is going to happen, it will happen, whether it be meeting someone for a business conference or arranging to have an antique French carriage flown in from Versailles. Kyouya also seems to have a moral shade of grey that is often feared within the Host Club -- so long as the Club president’s demands are met, Kyouya has absolutely no problem with stooping to less-than-legal means to make money, such as selling Haruhi’s belongings without permission or taking photos without consent of the Club members and turning them into calendars to sell to their adoring fans.
Kyouya also, despite the fact that he calls himself an egoist, cares very deeply for his friends -- which are all of the members of the Host Club. He has a fierce sense of loyalty to Tamaki in particular, his best friend. Wherever Tamaki is, Kyouya seems to be as well, always ready to offer advice to ease Tamaki’s outlandish temper tantrums and always ready with a quick wit to trick Tamaki into doing whatever is best for him. He pulls off Tamaki’s grandiose ideas without complaint and is even shown giving into his best friend’s crazy demands several times, even though they annoy him, such as arranging for a kotatsu dinner for the host club or pulling together a grand French ball for the school festival, even though it went over budget.
In short, Ootori Kyouya is an extraordinarily complicated individual. On the surface, he is calm, cool, collected, polite, and extremely disciplined. Underneath that veneer, though, is a quick-witted genius with a sly grin who is more than willing to milk every last dime out of you that you are possibly willing to give to the Ouran Host Club -- so long as Daddy approves of it, of course.
Background: Ootori Kyouya is the third son of the powerful Ootori family. He has two older brothers and an older sister, leaving Kyouya the youngest child of the bunch. He is a mathematical genius, rigidly polite, and severely self-disciplined. He is a straight A student and a model son -- however, Kyouya is in a unique position. Despite being a genius and despite having every single talent available in order to run his father’s company, he believes he will never get that opportunity, because he is the third son. As a result, Kyouya must restrict his potential, in order to make his elder brothers look good -- because they are the ones who are going to inherit the Ootori legacy. Kyouya’s place in life is to boltser those above him -- and he does so, without complaint, because that is what is expected of him.
Until he meets Suoh Tamaki.
At first, Kyouya is assigned by his father to befriend Tamaki because Tamaki’s family is extraordinarily rich and powerful -- an excellent business ally, for future plans. Kyouya agrees, mainly because his father instructs it, and offers to show the new student around their middle school without much complaint. Unfortunately for Kyouya, Tamaki quickly proves to drive him absolutely insane. He is loud, obnoxious, an idiot, and even worse, annoyingly perceptive. Tamaki is the only person to look at Kyouya and see the immense weight the young boy has to carry -- the burden of being the third son of a family that will never allow him to unleash the potential that he has. He challenges Kyouya to see that in himself and to stop being so damn afraid of the consequences of being himself.The observation results in something of a fist fight -- and it ends in Kyouya laughing after Tamaki completely brushes off the fact that Kyouya just tackled him to the ground to beat the ever loving crap out of him. From that moment onward, Tamaki and Kyouya are relatively inseparable, best friends -- and the president and vice president of the Ouran Host Club.
Thus, the Shadow King was born.
Together, as soon as they enter Ouran Academy, Tamaki and Kyouya form the Host Club. Kyouya’s role in the Host Club is the vice president -- but many in the Club refer to him as the Shadow King, because Kyouya controls virtually every aspect of the Host Club except for the ‘imagination’ part (that, Kyouya leaves strictly to Tamaki). He controls the money, the events, the publicity -- everything to ensure the Club doesn’t go bankrupt. He often utilizes his family’s pull in the area to accomplish some of Tamaki’s grander ideas, like a massive beach party for their prize customers or even more personal vacations, like using his fake jungle to give the Host Club some R&R time.
The members of the Host Club Kyouya is closest to would seem to be Tamaki and Haruhi, the girl who is disguising herself as a guy in order to work off the debt that she wracked up by breaking one of the Host Club’s antique vases. Tamaki is Kyouya’s partner in crime -- they are rarely seen apart, at school, and Kyouya is the genius force behind the Host Club to make it successful. As for Haruhi, Kyouya is the first person who figured out that she was a girl when she stumbled into the Music Room -- he elected not to say anything about it, though. Whether or not it was for his own amusement or... okay, no, it was probably for his own amusement.
Haruhi, as she does with every other member of the Host Club, seems to see right through Kyouya. They don’t spend a lot of time together outside of class, but whenever they do, Kyouya is always put into a position of surprise. One specific example is when the Host Club managed to drag Kyouya to a mall -- and when I say ‘drag’, I mean literally drag him to the mall, while he was still dead asleep. The Host Club, as Tamaki has the attention span of a goldfish, accidentally leave him in the mall by himself -- so when he wakes up, he is found by Haruhi. They spend a relatively uneventful day together at a flea market -- or it is uneventful, until Kyouya stops an elderly woman from being scammed by a con artist, who wanted her to pay top price for forgeries of vases. When Haruhi asks why he did this later, Kyouya replies that the woman is the wife of a powerful business mogul, and that he could tell simply by the crest on her wedding ring. It was strictly for profit. However, Kyouya had no way of knowing that before he actually helped the woman, as her hand was being blocked by a large flag. Kyouya, according to Haruhi, had helped her out of a kindness, not out of any personal gain.
Kyouya, of course, denies this, and informs Haruhi of the idiocy of the statement.
The Host Club life -- full of zany adventures, ridiculous mysteries, and many illegal activities perpetrated by Kyouya himself -- is more or less a secret from his family. His father believes that Kyouya is participating in “acceptable” school activities and forging business relationships to make him look good. Little does he know that Kyouya is actually doing what he wants to do, for once in his life -- which is (ever so secretly) having some fun and being somewhat ridiculous with his friends and the members of the Host Club. Unfortunately, the secret was inevitably discovered by his father, when the Ouran Academy hosted it’s annual spring fair for club activities. Upon discovering what his son was actually doing with his spare time, Ootori Yoshiro slaps Kyouya across the face -- in front of all of his friends -- and walks away.
It’s from this point where he will wind up in Adstringendum.
Abilities/Additional Notes: Kyouya is a mathematical genius -- he is shown doing advanced calculus homework in middle-schoo with little effort at all. He is a straight A student adn his favorite subjects in school are English, Physics, and German -- which may indicate that he’s multi-lingual, in preparation for whatever work he’ll have to do in his future, as his father runs an international hospital network.
He is also extraordinarily adept at using computers and other forms of technology. He can manage money like nobody’s business and has a strict sense of discipline. It is also implied that he has a fantastic memory -- Kyouya recognizes faces very easily and knows their entire life’s history without being introduced first simply because he has a lighting fast recollection.
He also seems to have a fascination for antique vases and other such works of art. But that’s entirely useless.
Character: Ootori Kyouya.
Timeline: Episode 25.
Personality: Kyouya is known, within the Host Club, as “The Cool Type”. He is calm, cool, and collected. He is always there with a kind smile, an elbow to be offered, and an open door to welcome you into Music Room #3. He is unruffled by the antics of his fellow host club members. The female attendees of the Host Club request him based off of his gentleman-y appearance and Kyouya never disappoints the ladies who request him.
Beyond that, Kyouya maintains a cool detached appearance for anyone outside of the Host Club. He claims he is an egoist -- someone who does not attach themselves to anyone and values their own self-importance above anything else. He tends to show this whenever he is seen: Kyouya is always in the background (or with Tamaki), taking notes, not getting directly involved in whatever mayhem is going on in Music Room #3. He also shows this personality whenever he is seen at home, mostly because Kyouya has a reputation to “maintain” for his father, a reputable business man and hospital owner within Japan. He is strict, polite, disciplined -- the perfect son he must be whenever he steps into his mansion.
However, this is only Kyouya on the surface. What lies beneath is far more fascinating -- and something Ootori Kyouya allows very few people to see.
Before Kyouya met Tamaki, he was a very reserved child, extraordinarily concerned with holding himself back to make everyone else in his family look better, the true unspoken genius of the Ootori family. After Tamaki met him and broke open Kyouya’s carefully placed shell... the Shadow King was born, the true genius behind the Host Club -- a quick-witted sly crafty individual who is completely capable of pulling off something entirely illegal and smiling about it to the press the next day.
While Tamaki is the president of the Host Club, many members recognize who is actually, in charge of the club: Ootori Kyouya. He is craft, calculating, sly, and sharp-witted. He is the one that organizes every single event and brings Tamaki’s crazy ideas to life without so much as a complaint, showing that he is extraordinarily patient, determined, and above all else, responsible. When Kyouya says something is going to happen, it will happen, whether it be meeting someone for a business conference or arranging to have an antique French carriage flown in from Versailles. Kyouya also seems to have a moral shade of grey that is often feared within the Host Club -- so long as the Club president’s demands are met, Kyouya has absolutely no problem with stooping to less-than-legal means to make money, such as selling Haruhi’s belongings without permission or taking photos without consent of the Club members and turning them into calendars to sell to their adoring fans.
Kyouya also, despite the fact that he calls himself an egoist, cares very deeply for his friends -- which are all of the members of the Host Club. He has a fierce sense of loyalty to Tamaki in particular, his best friend. Wherever Tamaki is, Kyouya seems to be as well, always ready to offer advice to ease Tamaki’s outlandish temper tantrums and always ready with a quick wit to trick Tamaki into doing whatever is best for him. He pulls off Tamaki’s grandiose ideas without complaint and is even shown giving into his best friend’s crazy demands several times, even though they annoy him, such as arranging for a kotatsu dinner for the host club or pulling together a grand French ball for the school festival, even though it went over budget.
In short, Ootori Kyouya is an extraordinarily complicated individual. On the surface, he is calm, cool, collected, polite, and extremely disciplined. Underneath that veneer, though, is a quick-witted genius with a sly grin who is more than willing to milk every last dime out of you that you are possibly willing to give to the Ouran Host Club -- so long as Daddy approves of it, of course.
Background: Ootori Kyouya is the third son of the powerful Ootori family. He has two older brothers and an older sister, leaving Kyouya the youngest child of the bunch. He is a mathematical genius, rigidly polite, and severely self-disciplined. He is a straight A student and a model son -- however, Kyouya is in a unique position. Despite being a genius and despite having every single talent available in order to run his father’s company, he believes he will never get that opportunity, because he is the third son. As a result, Kyouya must restrict his potential, in order to make his elder brothers look good -- because they are the ones who are going to inherit the Ootori legacy. Kyouya’s place in life is to boltser those above him -- and he does so, without complaint, because that is what is expected of him.
Until he meets Suoh Tamaki.
At first, Kyouya is assigned by his father to befriend Tamaki because Tamaki’s family is extraordinarily rich and powerful -- an excellent business ally, for future plans. Kyouya agrees, mainly because his father instructs it, and offers to show the new student around their middle school without much complaint. Unfortunately for Kyouya, Tamaki quickly proves to drive him absolutely insane. He is loud, obnoxious, an idiot, and even worse, annoyingly perceptive. Tamaki is the only person to look at Kyouya and see the immense weight the young boy has to carry -- the burden of being the third son of a family that will never allow him to unleash the potential that he has. He challenges Kyouya to see that in himself and to stop being so damn afraid of the consequences of being himself.The observation results in something of a fist fight -- and it ends in Kyouya laughing after Tamaki completely brushes off the fact that Kyouya just tackled him to the ground to beat the ever loving crap out of him. From that moment onward, Tamaki and Kyouya are relatively inseparable, best friends -- and the president and vice president of the Ouran Host Club.
Thus, the Shadow King was born.
Together, as soon as they enter Ouran Academy, Tamaki and Kyouya form the Host Club. Kyouya’s role in the Host Club is the vice president -- but many in the Club refer to him as the Shadow King, because Kyouya controls virtually every aspect of the Host Club except for the ‘imagination’ part (that, Kyouya leaves strictly to Tamaki). He controls the money, the events, the publicity -- everything to ensure the Club doesn’t go bankrupt. He often utilizes his family’s pull in the area to accomplish some of Tamaki’s grander ideas, like a massive beach party for their prize customers or even more personal vacations, like using his fake jungle to give the Host Club some R&R time.
The members of the Host Club Kyouya is closest to would seem to be Tamaki and Haruhi, the girl who is disguising herself as a guy in order to work off the debt that she wracked up by breaking one of the Host Club’s antique vases. Tamaki is Kyouya’s partner in crime -- they are rarely seen apart, at school, and Kyouya is the genius force behind the Host Club to make it successful. As for Haruhi, Kyouya is the first person who figured out that she was a girl when she stumbled into the Music Room -- he elected not to say anything about it, though. Whether or not it was for his own amusement or... okay, no, it was probably for his own amusement.
Haruhi, as she does with every other member of the Host Club, seems to see right through Kyouya. They don’t spend a lot of time together outside of class, but whenever they do, Kyouya is always put into a position of surprise. One specific example is when the Host Club managed to drag Kyouya to a mall -- and when I say ‘drag’, I mean literally drag him to the mall, while he was still dead asleep. The Host Club, as Tamaki has the attention span of a goldfish, accidentally leave him in the mall by himself -- so when he wakes up, he is found by Haruhi. They spend a relatively uneventful day together at a flea market -- or it is uneventful, until Kyouya stops an elderly woman from being scammed by a con artist, who wanted her to pay top price for forgeries of vases. When Haruhi asks why he did this later, Kyouya replies that the woman is the wife of a powerful business mogul, and that he could tell simply by the crest on her wedding ring. It was strictly for profit. However, Kyouya had no way of knowing that before he actually helped the woman, as her hand was being blocked by a large flag. Kyouya, according to Haruhi, had helped her out of a kindness, not out of any personal gain.
Kyouya, of course, denies this, and informs Haruhi of the idiocy of the statement.
The Host Club life -- full of zany adventures, ridiculous mysteries, and many illegal activities perpetrated by Kyouya himself -- is more or less a secret from his family. His father believes that Kyouya is participating in “acceptable” school activities and forging business relationships to make him look good. Little does he know that Kyouya is actually doing what he wants to do, for once in his life -- which is (ever so secretly) having some fun and being somewhat ridiculous with his friends and the members of the Host Club. Unfortunately, the secret was inevitably discovered by his father, when the Ouran Academy hosted it’s annual spring fair for club activities. Upon discovering what his son was actually doing with his spare time, Ootori Yoshiro slaps Kyouya across the face -- in front of all of his friends -- and walks away.
It’s from this point where he will wind up in Adstringendum.
Abilities/Additional Notes: Kyouya is a mathematical genius -- he is shown doing advanced calculus homework in middle-schoo with little effort at all. He is a straight A student adn his favorite subjects in school are English, Physics, and German -- which may indicate that he’s multi-lingual, in preparation for whatever work he’ll have to do in his future, as his father runs an international hospital network.
He is also extraordinarily adept at using computers and other forms of technology. He can manage money like nobody’s business and has a strict sense of discipline. It is also implied that he has a fantastic memory -- Kyouya recognizes faces very easily and knows their entire life’s history without being introduced first simply because he has a lighting fast recollection.
He also seems to have a fascination for antique vases and other such works of art. But that’s entirely useless.