Weekends is ~*MEME TIME*~

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From mikenno (who has the best fucking memes lately):

Pick a character I write, and I will give you the top five ideas or concepts or factoids I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to depicting him or her accurately. This includes original characters and characters about whom I write fanfic.I WANT TO DO THIIIIIS

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That one always cracks me up. XD I'm so happy I have a Yama!drape icon in my life.

Speaking of Yamamoto, since teruame asked about Tsuna below, I'll do Yama here and then do Tsuna.

YAMAMOTO TAKESHI!!

1. I have NO IDEA if this is based off canon or if it's just a weird idea I somehow got into my head (or maybe I got it from someone else's fic or RP), but I've noticed that my Yamamoto makes a lot of pop culture references. It's part of his whole "life is a game!" personality, I guess. Also he's a dork. He makes baseball references whenever I can get him to, also. It's just part of how he sees the world and puts it into terms he understands the most easily.

2. Speaking of how he sees the world, Yamamoto has a tendency to grasp things more subconsciously than consciously. Like, when he gets something, it's instinctive; he doesn't think about it much, he just knows it on some fundamental level. He's not stupid, but his intelligence is such that it's very subtle because he hardly even pays attention to it.

3. The one thing he is extremely perceptive and intuitive about is his understanding of other people. Especially the people he's closest too, Tsuna and Gokudera and Squalo, but other people too. He seems to see the whole picture behind someone else's behavior and actions; he gets the why of what they're doing, not just what's there on the surface. This is one of the reasons why he likes almost every single person he's ever met; he can see the good in people even when they're not necessarily upfront about it. (The other reason is because almost every single person he's ever met is in some way or other hilarious.)

I think one of the key distinctions I try to make when I write Yamamoto is that while he is a simple person, he's not simple-minded. The world is just more or less simple to him; the stuff that doesn't come intuitively, he just places in some frame or reference where it does make sense (hence the spots/pop culture references, I guess). He is able to filter out the complexities of things and work his way down to the one or two most important ideas and that's what he files away for future reference.

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4. Yamamoto has a lot more worries and uncertainties and so forth than he shows on the surface, but the main difference between him and someone like Tsuna or Gokudera is that he is always working to get past them or push them down/suppress them, because he doesn't like to be ruled by them. He sort of has a negativity filter; it's not that he's oblivious about things, he'd just rather be optimistic and happy than not. He likes to see the best in things, and usually it's easy for him to do.

That said, if pushed correctly he can be pretty fucking hardcore. He has certain things that keep him grounded--his friends, his dad, baseball, the sword--and if someone or something fucks with one of those things, depending on the severity of it he may very well flip his shit. YOU DO NOT MESS WITH THOSE THINGS. Aside from that, though, he is a very easy boy to keep happy.

5. Lastly (not really, I could go on and on about Yama BUT I AM LIMITED TO FIVE THINGS ALAS), when I write Yamamoto I always try to keep in mind that even though he is pretty happy-go-lucky, it doesn't mean that in his way he isn't taking things deadly seriously. SEE: his philosophy on games. Everything is a game to him... but he also views games as Serious Fucking Business. He is a competitive little bugger and he kicks ass and knows that he does and likes kicking ass and gets frustrated on those (very few) occasions when he fails at something. If it's something minor he'll just shrug it off after a moment or too (again, he tries hard not to focus too much on negativity), but if does happen to be something serious he will brood about it for days and days. It happened when he broke his arm, it happened when he first met Squalo and got his ass kicked, it happened when he lost to Genkishi, etc. He doesn't like losing, but even more than that, he doesn't like feeling like he hasn't done his best.

But because he's Yamamoto, even then he usually manages to channel those feelings in a healthy way as motivation to come back hard in the next round and kick even more ass to make up for it. HE GETS KNOCKED DOWN BUT HE GETS UP AGAIN, etc.

Aaaaaand I'll shut up now! I LOVE YAMA A LOT CAN YOU TELL DERP. XD