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Character name: Echizen Ryoma
Nationality: American
Age: 15
Rank: First Year
Appearance/Personality: Despite that he's supposed to be learning to take over the family business, Ryoma tends to prefer to dress casually, in athletic shorts or jeans and t-shirts. He almost always wears trainers, as well, and tries to avoid dress shoes like the plague. He's also never seen without his white Fila baseball cap, unless he's forced to take it off for class. Likewise, he doesn't take much care of his appearance; his hair, dark with a faint green hue, is usually unkempt from being under his hat and his bangs are often in his face. His eyes, however, even when partially hidden, are rather catching; sharp and gold, he can turn on an intense stare if he wants to.
In terms of personality, Ryoma is an absolute brat. He's arrogant and enjoys goading and taunting others just to anger them. While he greatly, greatly enjoys a challenge and is frightfully competitive, he rarely finds one, and tends to look down on most everyone. Unless something about a person catches Ryoma's attention, he'll act as if they're not worth his time, and genuinely doesn't care about offending people. He does, however, love attention, and pissing people off is one of his favourite ways of getting it, the other being impressing people who doubt him with his skills. He tends to be a bit of a loner, but, though he acts like spending time with others is a total imposition, he doesn't push them away, necessarily, either. When he does find someone who catches his attention, however, he's fascinated with him and spends quite a bit of time thinking about him; he fixates, so to speak. People tend not to understand how he works, because he keeps quiet and to himself, but, since he doesn't care if he offends people, he doesn't really care.
Ryoma's trademark saying is, "mada mada da ne." He seems to delight in the fact that this usually pisses people off.
History: Ryoma is the only child of Echizen Rinko, head of corporation that deals in rare books and art. The company had major departments in both Japan and America, and though both of his parents are natively Japanese, Ryoma was born and spent most of his childhood in America. His father, Echizen Nanjirou, a professional tennis player and otherwise rather useless, had no part in his wife's company, and was the parental unit to Ryoma for most of his childhood-- it was from Nanjirou that Ryoma learned his bratty attitude and inherited his competitive spirit. Nanjirou taught Ryoma to play tennis as a young boy, and Ryoma continued to play throughout his youth, though not as seriously as he had less free time.
Ryoma spent most of his childhood shirking responsibility (just like his father) and doing as he pleased, but when he turned ten, his family moved back to Japan and his mother decided that it was time for Ryoma to begin learning to take over the company when he inherited it. Ryoma was raised speaking English and never gave it much of a second thought, but as soon as he was brought into the world of rare books and art, he realized how much of a benefit it was to be fluent in the language. Quickly, he discovered just how much fun it was to talk circles around older, more experienced businessmen in the company, and, much to the ire of the board members, developed quite a knack for the job. Ryoma, despite having no real interest in the business itself, realized how much joy he derived from proving people who looked down on him wrong, and threw himself into learning language and business solely for the purpose of showing people up. Because of the amount of business the company did with European countries, he took up French and German, and, when he was told he would be attending Lioncrest, he gladly agreed, pleased with the opportunity to outdo the stupid upperclassmen he was sure he would meet.