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CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Reiji Miyabi / Tokio Tsunashi
AGE: 34
CANON: Star Driver

CANON HISTORY: Star Driver on Wikipedia | Reiji Miyabi from Glittering Crux on Wikipedia | Application Supplement - History
CANON PERSONALITY:
Bluntly put, Reiji's personality is best summarized with "He was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn't stop to think about whether he should."

Reiji's personality is one that's difficult to pin down for a large portion of Star Driver as a series; part of this is due to the fact that while he's generally a distant person toward most. To those he doesn't know well, he tends to come off as ontologically strange - someone who doesn't quite fit in, someone who probably hasn't spoken to another human being in his life and as such everything that's said just sort of rolls off of him like water off a duck. He seems largely unaffected by people and their affairs, though he's generally polite about it; he isn't rude or cruel toward people, it's just always something of a given that whatever's happening in his head is going to come first, and that's very often not going to be others. Sometimes, however, it will be others, and on days like that Reiji is very attentive - he'll ask questions about people's lives, or sometimes he'll request stories from people, or sometimes he'll just ask to sketch them for a while. It's enough quiet flattery that it tends to draw people in while providing very little information on himself, on his thoughts and feelings, and he seems to like it that way.

That sort of behavior seems to color a lot of his interactions, really: set patterns of distance and attentive sensitivity are a constant with him, to an extent that's blatantly manipulative of others' feelings. It's not something he's unaware of, either; calling Reiji calculating would be an overstatement, because in the end he isn't - he doesn't have the foresight for it - but internally he's far colder and more ambitious than his outward behavior would imply. He's driven largely by a desire for power and to achieve what he wants at all costs, to an extent that's incredibly damaging to everyone around him and perhaps especially to himself. He's both obsessive and driven, a pair of traits that can lead to things that are either very good or very, very bad, and Reiji doesn't seem to know when to stop before things veer into "very, very bad" territory.

Part of this obsessiveness seems to be due to the fact that Reiji doesn't take rejection well; despite being of a bloodline that would allow him to possess a true mark - something that would allow him to pilot a giant robot called a Cybody - his father chose not to give him one, seeing early on that Reiji wasn't the sort that needed to be given power like that. And rightfully so, given that Reiji's response to this was to become completely obsessed with Cybodies and figuring out the mysteries behind them, going so far as to create the Glittering Crux Brigade (which is essentially the mecha pilot Illuminati) whose sole purpose as an organization was to release the Cybodies from the alternate dimension they were sealed away in and bring them into the real world. The pattern of disliking rejection carried through for quite some time - when someone that Reiji was extremely close to left him, he claimed to not even be aware of her absence; when someone else he cared about tried to warn him of the dangers of his obsessions, he became very cold toward her and dismissed her from his presence entirely, causing her to leave the island the series is set on. While these actions would imply heavily that he doesn't care about personal relationships as soon as they hurt him or become inconvenient, it's revealed at the end of the series that the exact opposite is the case - rather, he's been fixated on all of his failed relationships and the things that he misses or gave up in the past, to the point of being willing to do absolutely anything to get them back.

And he has given up a lot.

Reiji's worldview overall is an incredibly lonely one, in the end. He believes that the only way that he can ever be happy is to obtain the power that he feels he deserves but has been denied (for whatever reason - there is literally no one pressuring him or telling him that he can't have what he wants, he's entirely doing this to himself); however, in order to have that sort of power for himself, he has to be willing to sacrifice everything that isn't directly conducive to obtaining it. His distance from others, then, is largely for his own benefit; if he doesn't get attached to others, then he won't have to give them up later once he perceives that attachment as getting in his way. Unfortunately, he's infinitely too sensitive to really do that properly - as cold though he is in the pursuit of his goals, he likes and craves human attachment and intimate relationships with others. The results of this are often hideously self-destructive; he's devastated for long periods of time after he has to cut off an intimate relationship, to an extent where he cast off his former name of Tokio Tsunashi after a particularly nasty one, deciding that he would be "Reiji Miyabi" from then on. Once he does find a relationship he's not comfortable casting off, he tries to maintain a closeness with it that is only going to end badly for everyone involved - for example, he keeps his best friend close and he tries to form a positive rapport with his son, despite the fact that he knows his ultimate plans are going to result in him having to kill them both.

Because his plans are going to kill them both: Reiji's obsession with Cybodies, as taken to its logical conclusion, has led him to the desire to use his own mech to basically hijack the most powerful Cybody there is - one that's capable of manipulating time. That way, Reiji will have the power he always wanted, and he can have all of the intimate relationships that he had to give up in the past. ...Sure, the Cybody he wants to hijack can only rewind time, not alter it, and it costs what amounts to the life force of the entire world to do it, so it's pretty much just going to be the equivalent of hanging out in the time stream watching the nice parts of his life play out over and over again, which is kind of a messed up way to spend the rest of eternity when you think about it. But surely the experience of getting to relive everything he had once would be worth it!

Incidentally, the primary thing Reiji wants to go back in time to relive involves the aforementioned best friend; for a while he, the friend, and the friend's girlfriend were involved in a complicated love triangle that ended in Reiji impregnating the girl and the girl eventually leaving him when she realized that Reiji was far more invested in obtaining power than he was in her. It bears mentioning that all three of these people - Reiji, friend and girlfriend - are still alive at the time of Star Driver's events. His best friend is almost always at his side; there's nothing to imply that the girl died or is otherwise unreachable. This entire problem could have been solved with a phone call, but Reiji chose to solve it by way of using the mecha pilot Illuminati in a convoluted plan to destroy the world.

See, once again: preoccupied with whether or not he could, didn't stop to consider whether he should.

This also wraps around into the general notion that Reiji never believes himself to be wrong; as far as he's concerned, nothing is ever his fault, even when it is - perhaps especially when it is. He's incredibly bullheaded and unwilling to back down from something once he's decided that it's going to be so; regardless of how many times he's shown to be wrong, there's always a "yes, but" in there somewhere for him that prevents him from feeling the full weight of his actions, even if the condition is something as selfishly obstinate as "yes, but I don't care."

All of this isn't to say that Reiji doesn't have any positive traits, because he definitely does; as the member of Glittering Crux known as Head, he's the leader of the Vanishing Age section, a group of skilled Cybody pilots with true marks, and he's also the de facto leader of the group for the majority of the series. He has charisma and leadership skills to spare, enough so that the rest of the group doesn't particularly question him or what he's doing until it's entirely too late and they realize that he's been using them to further his own goals. He doesn't seem to draw as much suspicion as the others do, however - Glittering Crux tends to have a fair amount of infighting, but people don't tend to question Reiji or his motives half as much, simply taking him at face value even if they think he's kind of a weirdo who oversteps boundaries sometimes.

Reiji is also an incredibly strong fighter - both physically and mentally speaking, he's a formidable opponent in battle, tending to prefer unusual fighting styles and using weapons and his Cybody in unorthodox ways to catch his adversaries off-guard. He's also got an overflowing amount of life force, canonically, to an extent that it can cancel out that of other people and make it difficult for them to function in battle, assuming they can move at all once he's overpowered them. He's good at reading people, and generally speaking he's almost always able to turn situations so that they work out for him; he doesn't give up easily, and even when there are setbacks he tends to power through them rather than be deterred. This translates into a sort of ruthlessness that's a double-edged sword - again, he's tenacious enough to get what he wants, but this often comes at the expense of his own emotional needs.

Overall, Reiji is both extremely dedicated to getting what thinks he wants and yet completely unsure of how to obtain what he actually wants - his best friend describes him as being trapped in the past, and that's not an inaccurate summation at all. He does genuinely think power will bring him happiness, but he doesn't seem to realize that he'd be much better off just mending his relationships and having them now, instead of retreating into a world of dreams alone and reliving what they were before.

...No, seriously, this entire series could have been resolved with a ten-minute phone call and an apology, but Reiji chose to use the mecha pilot Illuminati to destroy the world and relive his OT3 until the end of time, and that probably says more about him than anything else.

SKILLS/ABILITIES:
Normal, Reasonable-Person Skills:

• Leadership/Charisma: Reiji served as both the leader of Vanishing Age and the de facto leader of Glittering Crux as a whole; while he was technically not the highest-ranking person there by the end of the series, pretty much everything that was done by he group was decided or otherwise orchestrated by him. Basically, he started and ran what amounts to the Illuminati in order to carry out his plans, and everyone willingly followed him directly into what he was doing without much question.
  
• Combat Skills: Reiji was trained in hand-to-hand combat and dual-wield swordsmanship by his father, skills that he's capable of using both within and outside the general constraints of Cybody piloting.
  
• Painting: He's an accomplished artist, his favorite subjects generally just being "beautiful things" - people, landscapes, sunsets, whatever catches his eye. He's got a fairly large artistic repertoire, basically.
  

Canon-Specific Skills

• Marks: Reiji is a descendant of a bloodline that allows him to possess "true marks", which allow him to pilot Cybodies both inside and outside of Zero Time, should the seals preventing him from doing so be broken. People with true marks (or the potential for one) also have what's known as a First Phase, which are magical powers that benefit the user, and they can also transfer their marks to other people. Reiji was not granted his bloodline's mark, but he had two marks transferred to him by third parties. These marks, "Resh" and "Sin," appear as sigils on his chest that glow when he activates them, though they do not need to be activated for him to use his First Phases; activation is only required to pilot a Cybody. Having two marks grants him the ability to summon and pilot two different Cybodies (one apiece) as well as granting him the powers associated with both of their respective First Phases; he can pass these marks on to anyone he chooses, at the cost of no longer being able to access either the Cybody or the First Phase associated with the mark that he's parting with.
  
• First Phase (Resh): Resh grants the wielder the ability to discern the truth behind others' actions with total accuracy, though it does not necessarily allow one to see the complete truth in situations where things are more complicated (e.g., the ability to discern that someone is having an affair, but not the reasons behind said affair). The ability manifests in the wielder's left eye, which glows red when it's being used; removing the affected eye will cut off access to the ability.
  
• First Phase (Sin): Sin grants the wielder functional immortality – someone with this mark will not physically age, they're granted the appearance of either a teenager or a very young adult, and their natural lifespan will be extended indefinitely. This ability can also be shared with one other person that the wielder can designate at will, though in a limited capacity that slows aging rather than halting it entirely. However, this only applies to their natural lifespan and assumes that nothing catastrophic happens to them – they are not immune to physical damage, they can still be injured and they bleed like any normal person, and it's entirely possible for them to be murdered; they can also be completely incapacitated by knocking them into a coma or otherwise rendering them unconscious and unable to wake up, at which point they require medical care to stay alive, though they can remain that way indefinitely if adequate care is provided.
  
• Cybodies: Reiji has access to a pair of Cybodies known as Reshbal and Sinpathy; they're massive robots created by a race of aliens, and are controlled entirely by the movements and the will of their user. Reshbal is used primarily for battle; Sinpathy can likewise be used for combat, but specifically has the power to take over other Cybodies and force them to do its pilot's bidding. Reiji is shown to be a skilled Driver that's capable in the areas of both combat and strategy, and his will and life energy are shown to be abnormally strong, which aids him in combat and in creating and using his Cybodies' weaponry.
  
• Star Swords: Reiji is capable of creating weaponry known as Star Swords, which are basically massive magical energy blades; Star Swords are all simple in shape, generally just looking like massive cross-shaped beams of light like this. Seeing as they're gigantic and difficult to maintain once they're manifested, using one requires a large amount of will and life energy; Reiji is noted to possess more than enough to create two at a time during Cybody combat. His particular weapons are named Diamant and Turquoise (respectively white and light blue in color) and they're both noted to be rather powerful; while they're usually used while piloting a Cybody, Reiji's personal First Phase allows him to manifest and use Star Swords at their full size and power outside of Zero Time. This grants him an incredible amount of firepower at his disposal, but the full-sized Star Swords he creates outside of Zero Time can only be maintained for a short period of time before he has to dismiss them, and they're huge to the point of being seriously impractical in most situations and probably shouldn't be summoned anywhere that doesn't have a good amount of space to utilize them in. He can also create smaller, more practical versions of Diamant and Turquoise that function as regular swords, for his personal use during Cybody combat; presumably these can be summoned outside of Zero Time as well.
  
• Mark Neutralization: Reiji is capable of forcing his own massive amount of life energy into Diamant, drastically increasing its power; this has the added effect of neutralizing the marks of any other Driver in his immediate vicinity. His nullification power has been shown to be strong enough to overpower people with true marks, cutting them off from their Cybody and destroying any manifested Star Swords, and making it difficult (if not downright impossible) for them to move. The neutralization is not permanent, however, it only lasts as long as he pours energy into it, and even when it's active he can still be overpowered by someone with a strong enough will.

CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Reiji Suzukaze
AU AGE: 36
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES:
Rather than the purple hair and eyes that he has in canon, Reiji will have natural red hair and grey eyes; furthermore, he's still young-looking but not physically seventeen, like he is in canon – he looks like he's in his late twenties or early thirties as opposed to 36, but going into the game it's more a case of "dermatologists hate him" as opposed to being able to pass for a teenager.

AU HISTORY:
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• Reiji Suzukaze was born on a small island located just south of Japan. He was raised by his father, who ran a martial arts dojo there; he never knew his mother.
  
• He didn't always get along with his father, but he respected him greatly; perhaps more importantly, he wanted his father to respect him, or at least acknowledge him as someone worthy of respect, and he generally always kept trying to seek his approval.
  
• He discovered his artistic talent early; he enjoyed painting from a young age, and could generally always be found sketching something in his spare time.
  
• He was fairly popular in school and he was well-socialized; it was a pretty isolated location so everyone knew everyone, but he got along with most people rather well. He had a pair of friends in particular - his best friend and his best friend's girlfriend - that he was inseparable from.
  
• He was fairly close friends with the girl, and tended to have her over for study sessions; the study sessions often turned into modeling sessions, which...proceeded to get kind of risqué after a while, teenagers being what they are.
  
• He ended up getting her pregnant when they were seventeen, which sort of dissolved the friendship between the three of them entirely.
  
• Reiji's father was vastly disappointed in him for this, but after a good amount of talking-to he convinced Reiji to take responsibility for the kid; with help from his father, Reiji proceeded to raise his son, Gintaro (feistytrader), for the next five years.
  
• Those five years passed largely without any sort of catastrophic incident. Reiji grew up a bit, and he ended up getting along better with his father as a result, incidentally. Still never enough to really feel like he accomplished anything in his father's eyes, but enough to make things a bit less strained.
  
• When he was 22, he decided to take his son to see America for a while; Gintaro proceeded to get away from Reiji in a busy area and ended up being kidnapped by someone. Reiji did what he could to find him with no results; due to not having a proper visa he couldn't remain in the States for very long and eventually had to return to Japan. He hasn't heard anything about his son since.
  
• He doesn't really discuss that whole incident; he more or less withdrew from everyone and threw himself into his artwork following it, and eventually managed to hit it surprisingly big in the art world when he was "discovered" by someone visiting the island.
  
• He wasn't crazy about the idea of being publicized at first, preferring to just be left alone, but his father actually seemed proud of him for all of this so he decided to go with it for that reason primarily.
  
• ...He also discovered that he quite liked being rich when his paintings started selling.
  
• Nowadays he uses his money and fame to travel, doing a lot of art shows and the like along the way. Which is what brought him to Recollé! He has a show going on in one of the galleries, and does not seem to have realized the whole Hotel California thing the region has going on just yet.
  
• He spends a lot of time on the beach working on his artwork, and he has no shame in asking people that he considers beautiful if they'll let him at least sketch them for paintings; he's met a few people this way, such as Elda Marker (matchbreaker) and Mizuki Sena (adoringpast).

AU PERSONALITY:
One of the more relevant things to point out here is probably that Reiji is no longer interested in running the mecha pilot Illuminati so he can destroy the world and relive his OT3 until the end of time.

Reiji's personality is far more stable and balanced in Recollé than it is in canon; while it's entirely possible that he still wouldn't take rejection well, the fact of the matter is that he hasn't been rejected in any way that he would see as a betrayal or a slight. He had a difficult relationship with his father, but he was never denied something that was by all rights his birthright, and eventually they grew closer because his father was there for him when he was going through the difficulties that came with suddenly being a teenager with a baby. He learned to actually take responsibility for his actions in that situation, and as such he has a healthier view of how to handle things that isn't "just decide they don't matter and ignore them." Effectively losing his kid five years later devastated him, but it also definitely ensured that he knows that he can and will screw up, that he isn't infallible or the center of the universe, and sometimes terrible things will happen but he needs to work through them and try to get his life back together rather than handling loss by way of not handling it at all. It also helps that he doesn't have Cybodies to fall back on as an obsession, because their presence as a possibility just reinforced that behavior by giving him an out (it didn't matter what he lost, because he could just regain it later, even if he had to escape into what amounts to an eternal dream to do it).

Basically, Reiji is much more well-adjusted in terms of just being a functioning person; he still likes to tease and manipulate people, but he's generally harmless about it, even if he's a little mean - he's generally not trying to get anything out of it, he just likes to mess with people. Without the Cybodies or Glittering Crux to focus on, his artwork is his passion - it was something he did in canon, something he loved doing, but it always took a backseat to his plans and ultimate goals. Here, it's a way to support himself and ensure that he can do what he likes, while also giving him an outlet for whatever's on his mind.

He's still got his canon traits of being oddly sensitive while still not caring terribly much about people and what they think or want; while he's got his life a little more put-together, he's still very detached from people and disinterested in engaging much beyond a superficial level. He enjoys human company but doesn't really want many close attachments, though here it's more because he's used to those attachments going poorly in the end as opposed to feeling like he needs to discard them. He's still got a good amount of drive, though, and can be a bit hardheaded once he decides he wants something; the most important difference, really, is the fact that he's putting all of his energy into living in the present as opposed to wanting to retreat eternally into the past.

SAMPLE
Reiji on the TDM; both the threads with Silver and Jamie (including top-level) should be long enough.