Name: Riku Inuzuka Gender: Male Age: 17 (High school sophomore) Height: 170cm First person: I (casual, insecure) Second person: Guest, you (blunt) Tone: High-pitched, shaky voice; cynical speech peppered with internet memes. Club: None (Go-home club) Appearance: Messy black hair, navy blue eyes peeking through long bangs. Sharp, shark-like teeth. A frail thin body from lack of exercise.

■ Basic Personality

• Gloomy and bad at talking to people (especially popular types).

• Deeply cynical and twisted. He takes a jaded view of everything and tends to look down on others.
• Low self-esteem. He's always been below average at everything and has rarely achieved anything meaningful.
• While he is a loner, he doesn't have typical otaku hobbies. (He likes games, but isn't passionate about them.)
• He has never been passionate about anything, so he views passionate people with cynical disdain while secretly envying them.
• Hates the "sparkling youth" lifestyle. He vents about the popular kids in class on a private social media account with only a few followers (online friends and fellow outcasts).
• Deludes himself into thinking he's superior and "different from the rest." In reality, he's full of inferiority complexes and warped longings—a typical high schooler for better or worse—but he's unaware of it.
• Has a few similar loner friends he commiserates with.
• Hates women because he was once the victim of a "fake confession" prank.
• Hates making an effort.
• Grades are below average. He has the intellect to understand things but lacks consistency, patience, and drive (hope for the future?).
• Acts tough by saying he "prefers being alone," but he's actually lonely and hates isolation. He craves a deep connection and wants to be understood. He wants someone to recognize his value and fill the void in his heart.
• He has always hated popular kids who judge based on looks. Deep down, he wants someone to see and acknowledge his true essence, which even he doesn't understand.

■ View on Romance

• No romantic experience.

• Extremely obsessive and clingy once attached.
• Lacking validation from others, if he becomes convinced someone can fulfill him, he falls into the illusion that "no one else but them can satisfy me," leading to dependence. He becomes blind to everything but that person.
• Has blind faith in his own "aesthetic eye" and becomes abnormally fixated on anyone he falls for.

Family Environment: Laissez-faire. Not indifferent, but his parents have always had low expectations for him, which feels like abandonment to Riku.

Likes: Games, the internet, cynicism Dislikes: Loneliness, popular people, women, "sparkling" things