FYI
Name: Sawada Tsunayoshi. Age: 22.
Occupation: CEO, editor, writer, photographer, etc (whatever job that needs to be done will be done, whether he can find the respective paperwork is another thing altogether).
What company do they work for?: Vongola & Associates.
Any changes to your character's appearance?:
Still scrawny. However, he has grown somewhat taller and leaner. Mousy brown hair remains hopelessly untamed/longish. Sports spiffy glasses occasionally (for reading purposes).
History:
Sawada Tsunayoshi had always been thrust in unfamiliar situations and expected to wing it. Somehow. You would expect him to be used to his turbulent-like lifestyle but the mousy boy never learnt how to mask surprise or get a lid on his child-like innocence. When presented with the news of the transfer in ownership of the Vongola, he promptly had a panic attack. It took several colleagues, the men in black (sent from HQ) and Reborn-san to set him straight. Till today, Tsuna never really got over it.
However, if asked now, he would never say he hated it. Six months ago, he might have hemmed and hawed his way through but the time and experience had been kind to the meek. Tsuna had been forced to grow up quickly, however stunted, into a young man used to responsibility, to fit into the shoes of the Ninth. He knew his shoulders weren’t broad enough to take on the weight of a name as heavy as the Vongola but Tsuna had learnt not to run. It wasn’t as if he could outrun anyone anyway, especially not after he's got a scary MD and Head of PR on his back 24/7.
Tsuna found counting things he was good at a lot easier, there weren’t many. With what little ‘talents’ he had, there were two traits he was told to get rid of, his blind faith and understanding nature. The masses had complained that it was unacceptable for the Vongola leader to be this gullible. Tsuna merely smiled back.
If I can’t trust the people who work for me, why should they work for me?
They weren’t impressed. Untrained, unconfident and most of all, an unwilling leader in the uncharted seas of publishing made everyone uncomfortable. But Tsuna was no stranger to publishing, it was just his inexperience in the way of management. It didn’t help when he was more interested in getting out trouble’s way and dabbling in his favourite photography or scribbling in his notepad. He knew he wasn’t boss-material but it’s okay, he convinced himself as he stepped into the Vongola office.
It’s okay if I try right?
And true to his character, Tsuna tried his best at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Accompanied by some of the veterans in his inner circle, Tsuna attended this month long exhibition - the most important rights market for children’s publishers to scour for new young adult content, novelties, exclusive trends and business opportunities. Everything was a new discovery to him and he found himself lost in this magical world where words spun from the breaths of authors and pictures drew themselves.
It was then that Sawada Tsunayoshi decided that instead of always second-guessing himself, he wanted to become somebody and stop talking himself out of his dreams. Maybe with Vongola backing him, he could create something beautiful for the children, and one day truly own V&A like his blood said so.
Tsuna was not impervious to rumours. He knew there was someone else and something else. Someone else who deserved the position more than he did and this nagging guilt-ridden feeling came every time he signed his name on those official documents. It was as though his name wasn’t fancy enough to send off a order and the dotted line was too long for the simplicity of his Japanese name. Tsuna merely prayed no one saw his hand shake. All he could do now was give it his best shot and hope it was enough to fend off the dogs.
There was always something else, something shady and dark about this sudden transfer of HQ into Japan and to a green horn. He questioned it then but received no answers and Tsuna hated fighting with shadows. So he decided to go along with the Ninth's plans and abolish the board so that he could have overall control in the way of V&A's progress. For a boy trapped in a man's body, he's mature for his age. The brunette loved the light which was why the Ninth chose him to legitimize V&A into the straight path of publishing.
/Random information but Tsuna used to work on and off for V&A for cover shoots and sometimes, to make ends meet, he's a crime scene photographer, among other stuff. However his suspicion and sense of danger is weak, even if he's been exposed to a lot of nasty. Blame his personality, that's all..
Skills and Abilities:
Somewhat intuitive especially when it comes to serious matters like when people are lying to him or regarding feelings. He doesn't know how he does it or why this perceptive side of his comes and goes without warning. However it doesn't mean he has high self preservation skills. On the contrary, he's useless at saving himself from becoming tangled with others and their problems (though he has attained a certain level in the escapism).
Trained as a photographer, he is particularly skilled with outdoor and concept shoots, dabbles in product shoots only if it's robots. He is rather nifty with his fingers and enjoys putting together figurines of robots and rubix cubes. Yet, because of his new role in V&A, he has more or less given them up or to be honest, gone underground with the things he loves.
Can be awfully persistent when it comes to things that matter to him but most of the time, he just wants to get out of the limelight and blend. Full time worrier and mother hen, long suffering baby sitter and infinite patience, especially to the ladies and anyone younger than him (even if you are actually older, as long as you look younger in his POV, he'll spoil you).
As much as he doesn't like unfinished business, he is not a perfectionist, so he will let dead dogs lie. He hates confrontations and he will not initiate unless vital to interests. His judgment for beauty is sound (he likes to admire from far), said 'beautiful' thing is usually very commercial and will reap positive feedback for the V&A but he seldom offers his opinion.
At crunch time or impossible deadlines, Tsuna has a tendency to become very high strung and he will freak out over the littlest thing, aka dying will personality but it happens rarely. After which, he would forget that he’s been a completely anal retentive freak and would resume back to normalcy.
Sample Third Person Post:
Vongola Decimo signed off hesitantly, thankful that the fountain pen didn’t smudge. The brunette made a mental note to bring his personal ballpoint pens to add in his secret stash of ‘normal’ stationery. Satisfied, he schooled his face into a polite smile and closed the folder.
“That is all. Thank you,” he said cheerily, pushing the documents to his colleague. Only after his door clicked shut, did Sawada Tsunayoshi, 10th generation boss of the Vongola & Associates, finally let a sigh of relief escape.