YANAGI, Willis

[Willis Yanagi]

Willis Yanagi

Professor in the morning, Hero by Nightfall

April 23rd

32

Male

Temperance

Investigation Committee

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CAN YOU FEEL WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE?

POSITIVE  ✔ WELL-VERSED. Besides knowing Japanese, English and Spanish fluently and having a teaching degree from a top university in the area, Professor Yanagi knows a great deal about most subjects, including the Dark Hour. He seems to be a bit tight-lipped on the subject of the Kirijo Group, however. It seems that he knows the answers to most questions at hand, but typically restrains himself if there is potential volatility that could come out of it. He really doesn't like people poking their noses where they do not belong. ✔ PROTECTIVE. As callous and overly-cautious as he may be, he always has his students' best interests in mind and his strictness is usually the result of trying to make sure people don't get hurt. After all, he has a daughter- his parental instincts tend to kick in when it comes to anyone a good deal younger than him. ✔ INDUSTRIOUS Yanagi is nothing if not a prodigious worker and teacher. Capable of balancing almost any amount of work, he can create valid excuses for student absences should the Dark Hour take high priority. Even out of the classroom, he makes an excellent mentor due to his ability to put almost anything in layman's terms. He's shockingly patient with people he's in the process of teaching something or other. ✔ POKER-FACED. It's said that Yanagi is the best liar that could ever exist simply due to the fact that his expression never changes from that same mature scowl. He's been demonstrated to have been a double agent to Kirijo in the past, but his feelings on the subject are unknown. Really hard to read.

LIKES ♥ reading novels ♥ playing cards ♥ walks in the park ♥ teaching  ♥ kids ♥ his family ♥ those yellow sticky notes that actually stick DISLIKES ϟ almost anything that isn't in the above. ϟ the supernatural, real or otherwise ϟ loud music ϟ losing his glasses (especially when they're on his head) ϟ people who think they're smarter than they really are ϟ having to get his hands dirty ϟ hates dirt in general ϟ mondays

NEGATIVE ✘ GRUFF. He comes across as very unfriendly due to his lectures and constantly being rather overworked, so people typically avoid him unless they know better. He also has the bad habit of frightening off people when he doesn't mean to. He's the kind of "dad" figure that you're more afraid of disappointing than getting him angry. ✘ OLD-FASHIONED. He didn't grow up around much technology, so he's very clueless when it comes to things like cell phones and computers. His phone's ringtone is still that silly 'Pink Rose Kitty Kitty" cartoon theme song that his kid set it to, and he's too proud to ask for help. He's not much older than thirty and he's already asking for people to get off his lawn. ✘ DOUR. Aside from kids, he tends to see the worst in people and is very hesitant when it comes to trusting others. As you might have been able to gather, he's not the kind of person who smiles very much. He's quicker to anger than you might assume, and sometimes he just walks off in a rage when work and other matters have him frustrated enough.

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EVERYTHING'S CHANGING ALL AROUND YOU

character overview

Professor Yanagi is outwardly known as a bookish, glasses-wearing hardass who has a gift for linguistics. Apparently born in America, his dirty blonde hair and hazel eyes stand out in a crowd, along with his tendency to dress in sleek vested outfits and silk ties. He's certainly not a bad teacher by any stretch, and in fact most of his students do rather well, but he's a bit cold and is known for assigning rather huge amounts of work. He's a man of few words, generally- he rarely says much more than he needs to in public, and even his lectures are quite brief and made up mostly of textbook work. Even his fellow teachers often find him a bit off in some vague sense- just this feeling that he's not someone to be socialized with. Although, many readily admit that he is good-looking for his age.

Those in the Investigation Committee know a completely different side to him. Direct and yet mysterious, the Professor is the man of instructions and knowledge. Armed with a much deeper knowledge of the Dark Hour and the concept of Shadows than anyone they've met so far, he's very competent at mapping and acts as the group's mission control in battle, revealing the enemy's weak points and guiding them in the destination of any given goal. With a moment of concentration, his Persona, Hyperion, can illuminate that which cannot be seen with the bare eye, giving Yanagi sight in total darkness as well as view through walls and other obstruction. Aside from miss Miki, he is the group's de facto leader and often the one commanding nightly assignments and taking the party's back lines. He's quite protective of the party, and heavy injuries often result in him being the one having to perform first aid and drag the unconscious to safety.

bio

Willis Yanagi was born Willis Santos, the only son to wealthy actuary Luis Santos and overseas translator Sadako Ikeda in a New York City apartment, and things only get more complicated from there. Steadily bilingual in English and Japanese by age eight and picking up Spanish from his mother that he became proficient in by fifteen, he was bounced between households in the 1990s due to an increasing schism in his parents' relationship. This, however, turned out to have an interesting reaction. In New York, he could blend in- people came from every nationality and stripe of the world, and Willis was praised constantly for his linguistics. However, even from a wealthy background, he stuck out like a sore thumb in high school and college in uptown Tokyo. Instead of praise, he received mostly ridicule from his half-Latino background and became very self-conscious, even going to measures to hide his first name from employers during his internships.

Fast-forward, and Willis is now Professor Santos, an accomplished translator and university teaching assistant graduating from Tokyo University. Overcoming those who were against him, he embraced his identity and decided to go into translating full time for the Kirijo Corporation, a rising company specializing in electronics, robotics and medical equipment. Paid well, he started out simply as a reception for phone conversations, but before long he was translating large international conferences and business meetings, talking about the advances that Kirijo was making in the future of medicine and how its prosthetics would assist the disabled and how its AI systems would help support industries that relied on an extreme amount of manpower. Exonerated, he happily accepted promotion after promotion until he was a large name in the industry. Travelling constantly between America and Japan, he enjoyed his new life as a businessman, marrying young to college sweetheart and a fellow teacher named Tsubomi Yanagi and adopting her newborn daughter, Kyoko. Living his dream, perhaps one would have thought that nothing could go wrong for him.

He moved to Sakura-zai, being placed within the new company emporium and HQ. His family moved into a large house, happy together. Willis wasn't always able to be there for his family with his busy job, but the moments when they were together were pure bliss.

As a translator, simply a desk worker, he wasn't meant to see what went on in the engineering basement. Especially not so late at night. What was being made. What was being worked on. That the new intelligence that Kirijo was constructing... truly had a mind of its own.

Unrecognized, he remembers the clock striking and being treated as an intruder. Stabbed by a piece of rogue machinery, he found himself face-to-face with a sea of unfeeling eyes in human faces, unfinished creatures, glowing with mysterious, blue sparks... and dozens of creatures made from black miasma. All were fighting. He had walked into some kind of nightmarish testing facility of...

He doesn't fancy talking about the grave injuries he suffered that night. What exactly he saw. His first time in contact with Shadows...

All he remembers is being lead out, almost unconsciously, by a glowing figure with bright eyes.

From there forward, he quit his job due to trauma. Taking up a new occupation as a teacher to supplement his wife, he constantly tried to escape what he had seen that night. The fact that he had nearly been torn apart by some kind of monstrosity, and that both they and those miasma-like creatures wandered the night, frozen in time. Staying up each night, he documented the dangers he witnessed firsthand- people transmogrified into frozen coffins, his wife, his daughter... that there were others blindly wandering, slowly becoming afflicted with illness... and that children, his wife's students, were the ones most readily afflicted. Dead bodies turned up in the streets, and he realized that he was one of few that wasn't vulnerable. Able to steal odd equipment and items from his old workplace, he found himself with an Evoker- readily able to defend himself and others.

After six months of documentation... he began the Investigation Committee along with Miki Ajibana. He wanted to protect the town and his family, but he had no means of doing it alone.

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IT'S IN THE AIR- ELECTRICITY!

played by libra EIGHTEEN - GMT-5 - CBOX & SKYPE

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BUNGOU STRAY DOGS, doppo kunikida as willis yanagi

deltra of gangnam style

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