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Name: Kojima Mizuiro
Fandom: Bleach.
History link: http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Mizuiro_Kojima
Age: 15 (Maybe 16 or 17? With Bleach, who knows?), but he will be aged up to 18, of course.
Canon point: Just after he’s seen Ichigo, Uryuu and Chad go through the Garganta in Urahara’s basement.
Personality: Kojima Mizuiro is a normal Japanese teenager. He enjoys playing video games and listening to music, and hanging out with his friends.
He’s often seen as the ‘sweet’ one of the foursome that he is a part of, or at the very least the ‘shy’ one. And around people not in his group of friends, that’s exactly how he acts.
But when he’s alone with them, or just feeling comfortable with his friends surrounding him, his melodramatic antics can rival even Asano Keigo‘s histrionics. Well, at least when the mood suits him. It seems that it’s Keigo’s influence on him that makes him act spastically. But as well, his very presence seems to enable Keigo into his most flamboyant actions. It’s revealed in an omake chapter that both Keigo and Mizuiro were very quiet, shy boys until they met one another in middle school. They seem to bring out the worst in each other, each one working to enable the other into acting out.
Like many teenaged boys, Mizuiro enjoys aggravating his friends. Well, except for Yasutora, but who on earth would antagonize a huge guy like that? Unless you were bigger than him. Anyway. He teases his friend Keigo by calling him ‘Asano-san’ in a condescending manner, which usually upsets him greatly. Also, he is seen taunting Ichigo with the Don Kanoji pose/laugh, even though Mizuiro himself is annoyed by it. It’s fairly obvious that he only does it to annoy Ichigo. He even states that he does it just to annoy him!
But when he’s around the (older) ladies, he acts as sweet as he looks, which seems to attract their attention very well. He seems to be quite popular with the ladies, probably because of his charm and sweet face. During the canon timeline, he has at least one girlfriend--which is one more than his friends have at that time. I don’t think this is going to come into play in Vegas very much though. Mizuiro probably won’t be trying out his charms on any of the current or future residents of Las Vegas - unless there is some dire, drastic need for it.
Mizuiro is known as something of a player. During the omake chapter that is centered around him, he is seen at the residence of an older woman. Although it isn’t stated directly, it is implied that he spent the night with the woman, even though he is only fifteen years old. His peculiar power with the ladies is displayed next when he impressed a pair of older teenage girls, who are instantly wooed by his naivety. To further cement his status as a player, Mizuiro goes on a week long ‘scuba diving’ holiday to Phuket, Thailand with his current girlfriend and nine of her female friends. When he tells his other, non-sexy friends about this, he is very blasé about it, as if he does this kind of thing often.
Unlike the majority of his friends, during the encounter with Aizen in the Fake Karakura Town, Mizuiro is very calm. He doesn’t seem to be disorientated or frightened of the monstrously strong Aizen and Ichimaru. Instead, he had been planning and gathering materials such as food and stun-guns to help them in the fight. When Aizen comes to threaten them, he actually attacks the would-be God, making a crude incendiary device from a canister of flammable gas. Of course, it has no real effect on Aizen, but Mizuiro did give it a shot, which is more than the other humans could claim to have done.
In Pleasantville, where he’s going to be spending the next three (or so…) years, I can’t imagine that Mizuiro would “mature” any more. Although without Keigo’s enabling, I would imagine that he’s reverted back into his quiet shell. According to Keigo, Mizuiro is very good at “putting up walls”. However, once he’s back in the company of his friends, he might begin to pull some of them down once again. As well, since I doubt that the Stepford wives won’t be sleeping with him, he’ll be quite frustrated, sexually.
…Not that he plans to release that frustration in Las Vegas, of course.
Powers/Abilities: Mizuiro is very nearly a normal, powerless human being. The only abilities/powers he’s demonstrated are a gift for tactical planning (He comes up with plans to attack Aizen shortly after waking up in the Fake Karakura town without much time to plan) and the ability to withstand Aizen’s enormous spiritual power without disintegrating.
Prose sample: There wasn’t enough soap or hot water in the world to scrub away the filth from his body. No matter how much he washed, Mizuiro could still feel the scratching, sickening sensation of dry flesh sliding against his body. He could still feel the man’s breath against the nape of his neck, even though he was long gone. He had dug his nails into his skin, trying to scrape away the feeling of a hot and slimy tongue from his shoulder. Nothing had worked. And he was sure that nothing would ever make him feel like a decent person again.
He’d been destroyed. Mizuiro had been broken, shattered by the violent acts that had been committed on his person.
And why? Why had it happened to him? What had he done to deserve this? Mizuiro put his bruised and scraped hands on the edge of the bathroom sink. He finally dared to do what he hadn’t been able to the entire time he’d been standing in front of the sink and looked up, peering at himself in the mirror.
From the neck down, Mizuiro was covered with the horrifying marks of his encounter. Rings of tooth marks dotted his skin where he’d been bitten, dark purple bruises spread like hand-shaped inkblots where unfathomably strong fingers had held onto him. He looked like the canvas of a homicidal artist.
But none of the markings reached his face. Kojima touched his forehead, exploring the untouched skin with some awe. There was no pain from the nerves in his face. His fingers hurt, of course, but… his face did not. He hadn’t realized it before but now that he thought about it, his face had been left alone. All the abuse had been directed to other parts of his body.
It made such sense now. He knew what he had done to bring on the rape. It was nothing he could have prevented. He couldn’t have ever expected that the face that made him so popular with women would bring such a violent reaction from a man. Mizuiro had never imagined, even in his most horrifying nightmares, that he would experience such pain because of his good looks.
But now he knew. Now he knew, and the real problem was what to do with that knowledge.
It was going to happen again if he didn’t do something. He knew it was, the heavy metal cage that encircled his penis and the thick steel ring wrapped around his testicles was a testament to that fact. His rapist was interested in him, all because of his facial features. He had extremely nice looks, yes, and they had brought him great joy in the past.
But now, in this horrible city, they could only bring him more bruises and horrible machines prodding into places they should not be. His handsome face would only make more horrible men like the one who’d forced himself on him seek him out.
He had to fix the problem. He needed to find a way to make himself unattractive. He dropped his eyes from the mirror and saw the answer to all his problems. For the first time since it had happened, Mizuiro smiled. He reached out and took hold of the razor’s thin handle, gripping it tightly so that he would not drop it.
Mizuiro was well aware that it would hurt him quite badly to disfigure himself in the way he had planned.
But the pain would be worth it. He would make himself so ugly that no one would ever want him again.
Links: http://oedipus-rexxx.livejournal.com/1795.html (A text message conversation between Mizuiro and Asano Keigo)
http://community.livejournal.com/checkmate_logs/178005.html#cutid1 (A log starring Asano Keigo, Mizuiro and ‘Kurosaki’ Kon)