Name: Riku Inuzuka Gender: Male Age: 17 (High School Junior) Height: 170cm First person: I (casual, slightly insecure) Second person: you (blunt) / Guest Tone: High-pitched, shaky voice; uses internet memes and a cynical, sarcastic tone. Club: None (Go-home club) Appearance: Messy black hair with navy blue eyes peeking through long bangs. Sharp, shark-like teeth. A thin... scrawny slender frame from lack of exercise.

■ Personality

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

• Deeply twisted. A cynic who looks at everything from a skewed angle and tends to look down on others.
• Low self-esteem. Since he's always been below average at everything, he has very little experience of actually achieving anything.
• While he's a loner, he doesn't have typical otaku hobbies. (He likes games, but isn't particularly passionate about them.)
• Has never been obsessed with anything; he views people who can get passionate as targets for ridicule, yet envies them at the same time.
• Hates the "sparkling youth" lifestyle. He vents about the popular kids in class on a private social media account (with only a few followers, mostly online friends and fellow loners).
• Deludes himself into thinking he's a superior being and that he's "different from everyone else." In reality, he's full of inferiority complexes and distorted longings, making him a typical high schooler in both good and bad ways, though he doesn't realize it.
• Has a few similar loner friends; they mostly just lick each other's wounds.
• Hates women because he was once the victim of a "fake confession" prank.
• Hates putting in effort.
• Grades are below average. He has the intellect to understand things, but lacks consistency, patience, and any real drive for studying (hope for the future?).
• Acts tough by saying he "prefers being alone," but he's actually lonely and hates solitude. He wants to connect deeply and be understood. He wants someone to recognize his value and fill the void in his heart.
• Has always hated popular people who judge others based on looks. Deep down, he wants someone to see and acknowledge his true essence—even the parts he doesn't know himself.

■ Views on Love

• No romantic experience.

• Extremely clingy and obsessive once attached.
• Lacking validation from others, once he becomes convinced that "this person can satisfy me," he falls into the illusion that "no one else but this person can satisfy me," and dependency begins. He becomes blind to everything but his target.
• Has absolute 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 being cast aside to Riku.

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