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[phantomshadow]

✖ PLAYER:
Name & DW Journal:
Plurk: indulgentsin 

Birthdate & Age: August 19/1989 | 23
Characters played: N/A

✖ CHARACTER:
Name: Tetsuya Kuroko
Canon: Kuroko no Basuke (Kuroko’s Basketball)
PB/Image: here!

Info Links: Kuroko & his canon
Canon Point:  Post Ch. 108
Gender & Sex: M/M
Age: 16
Birthdate/Sign: Aquarius | January 31st

Tattoo: Around 3x3 inches. Located on the back of his left shoulderblade.
Suitability:   While the concept of trying to live and survive in a strange place where one needs to have sex constantly would be entirely scary, for someone like Kuroko, it can be surmised that it’s something he’d be able to deal with. He’s a character who’s very smart and adaptable and he’s been shown on several occasions able to do things on his own without others’ help, and while this is new and unusual to him, in time he would understand if engaging in those sexual encounters was something that had to be done for survival. He’s an understanding person and little phases him in everyday life, and as well, he’s kind to others and would sooner help anyone who needed it before helping himself. He won’t be used to people relying on him in this fashion, but he IS adaptable and this isn’t anything he won’t be able to handle after too long once he understands just why it’s done and he’d be motivated to do all of this so he would be able to go home.

Kuroko is the kind of guy who seems like he’s been independent since nobody really notices him by his invisible presence, so this is no different. Asides from the need for having sex, he would be able to live easily here and fend for himself, as being sixteen he handles himself well in life as well as the rather strenuous basketball games he goes through. He’s been seen in canon going off on his own and taking it upon himself to do what he wants to and this would be no different.

So it becomes very evident that while he’s never been faced with something like this before back home, it isn’t like he will be scared of it or run away. If anything… he’d try to understand it first so he’d have some backing to why this stuff needs to be done, or even likely after just watch the others and see how they all deal with it before acting himself.

Power:  Air: Manipulation -- Channeling

Personality:  Without giving a history lesson and the entirety of his background, it’s easy to start off with saying that Kuroko Tetsuya is a very key role in this series and how he affects everyone around him. He almost comes off as seeming a bit of a gloomy and unnoticeable person in real life which ties into the use of his talent of misdirection in Basketball, though it’s not hard to see that he’s started to grow more since he left the Teiko team and joined Seirin once he moved onto High School.

Kuroko himself despite his initial deadpan attitude and ability to seemingly disappear at will, is a very straightforward person and sometimes comes off as seeming blunt at the oddest times but it seems necessary for what it’s worth. From the start until now, one can already see what’s painting a picture about who he really is. He’s an understanding guy and someone who is incredibly smart, and while he’s not agile, coming off as weak and fragile, he’s someone who doesn’t have the title of the ‘phantom sixth man’ in the Generation of Miracles for nothing as he’s had to do a lot to get where he is. Kuroko’s very passionate about basketball and because of that, he respects others who are just as passionate about the sport as he is; such as his upperclassmen in Seirin. He’s a very hardworking and smart guy and because of his passion and respect for the others, he does whatever he can to satisfy the team’s needs before his own, showing that he’s also very kind as well.

Though like any person, Kuroko has his flaws.

One of the things that makes him furious – to the point he actually scares Kagami – is in the match between Seirin and Kirisaki Daiichi. A man named Makoto Hanamiya had threatened and already harmed his fellow teammates in foul methods, something better known as dirty play and is a thing he absolutely can’t stand. He’s the kind of person who believes in working hard as he’s been trying so hard to get this far with ambition despite lack of talent, and why he clashes with someone like Murasakibara who his opposite in how they view Basketball. He puts his whole heart into playing and enjoys it, in contrast to the other man who has the talent but absolutely no passion for it and discourages others who try their best to play the game. It’s not as if he doesn’t enjoy the other’s company normally despite there being a few quirks. He uses his normal straightforward personality to state that ‘outside of basketball, he’s just a kid with a screw loose’ as the other is just… well… unusual in how he acts toward everyone around him. As well, while he gets along with him, something about the man also annoys him; rather something that he does that clearly bothers him. Such as the habit of teasing him and petting him on the head, kinda like he’s treating him like a child, which would make sense as who wants to be seen that way just because of their height.

This is touched on in the match with Shinkyo Academy when they played against Papa Mbaye Siki, who treated him like a kid and believed the Generation of Miracles were really nothing but Kuroko proved that he was wrong.

If one was to pick though, he does have two influential people that affect Kuroko a lot. Aomine Daiki and Kagami Taiga. Both of them being the crucial ‘light’ to his ‘shadow’ which is a reflection of his abilities as the stronger the light, the greater the shadow (him) happened to be.

During Junior High the two of them had been the best of friends and got along well, having basketball in common and even synced well with him in their training and practises. Their friendship was so strong and they shared the same passion for the sport, their compatibility so incredible, though after some time Aomine got stronger and stronger until he lost the passion for it and believed no one else could beat him, marking it as then that he and Kuroko started getting further and further apart until they were no longer friends and Kuroko even quit Basketball for a while. The man’s relationship with him meant a lot and it didn’t get better when they met up again, and when Aomine and him face each other in the match of Seirin vs Touou, his former friend tells him he hasn’t improved much since playing on the team Teikou in junior high and he’s disappointed, catching his passes and knowing what he’s going to do next, practically crushing Kuroko and it actually shows in how he acts after the match until a rather inspirational talk with a man by the name of Kiyoshi Teppei and he finds his resolve again. Without him he might have just been lost and not knowing what to do now that he'd hit a stalemate in how he had been seeing things and finally saw the light, so to speak. It's because of this talk and the way the man acts that Kuroko views him almost like a big brother.

Another important relationship to note is that on the flipside of Aomine, Kagami is a very similar friend to Kuroko in a similar way to what Kuroko and Aomine had been. They understand each other very well and accompany each other like the shadow to the light due to their playing styles matching up nicely, making them a fierce rookie duo. Though outside of basketball, they don’t talk a lot much but they’re still best friends and get along well, and sometimes Kuroko even pushes his dog on Kagami because he knows he doesn’t like them, doing it in a friendly way to watch the larger man run away from a small puppy.  The two of them are pretty unseparable and always hang out at school and have this sort of motivational relationship, always pushing the other to keep going and motivating them and even having some deep talks, one of them changing how Kuroko plays (in a subtle way) and was one of the reasons that got him to turn his back on the way the GoM used to play.

Similar to Aomine and yet more positively so because he trusts Kagami and vice versa, though there were times when even he feared that Kagami might turn into Aomine and become too strong and lose his passion for Basketball and be a person who’s just a carbon copy of someone he’d once been close with.

While he isn’t as close to him as he is with Aomine or even Kagami, Kuroko’s friends with a man named Kise Ryota, one of the generation of miracles who’s earned his respect with his enthusiasm and someone he trained when they were still in Teiko. It’s enough that Kise’s acknowledged him and his phantom skills to the point he’s gained the nickname of ‘Kurokocchi’ and everytime he sees him is overly friendly and cheerful and sees them as ‘best friends’. Once he had even asked Kuroko to leave Seirin and join him, to which he refused, knowing just where his place lied and it wasn’t with Teiko or the other members of the Generation of Miracles. He had a goal with Kagami to become no. 1 in Japan and surpass the GoM which he has stated openly as it stands. He has faith in Kise though, and during the match between Kise’s team, Kaijo, and Touou, Aomine’s team, he told Kise that he wouldn’t be surprised if both of them came out as the winner in their match.

Something else to touch on would be that despite his gloomy and nearly invisible presence, he’s gained the attention from Momoi Satsuki, the manager of the Touou team who’s fallen in love with him after he gave her a free ice cream and even calls herself his girlfriend which he denies. She keeps making advances on him but he seems oblivious to them, though it’s not as if he doesn’t care for her at all. It’s the opposite, he treats her with the most care, defending her and gets angry on her behalf. It’s here also where we see that he’s actually very good with handling women and knows how to cheer up Momoi when she’s upset after Aomine says some harsh things, assuring her it’s just because he’s angry and saying things he doesn’t mean and that it will be alright. He has actually even admitted she was cute when she isn’t playing a ‘game’ in reference to her intel ability which can get intimidating.

Kuroko does get along with the other members of the generation of miracles, such as Midorima as he respects him but will always disagree with him his logic in basketball. Simply where three points in a lot but Kagami’s ability to dunk and raise team morale is better overall.

(There is stuff about Akashi, the other one I’ve missed but I haven’t read about it yet so I couldn’t elaborate on it properly like I want to if that’s alright. All I can say is from what I DO know is that he was some kind of inspiration to Kuroko but that’s about it that I can say about this and without him Kuroko might not have realized his true skills. )

As well, while he is a very calm and collected person, he does have his silly moments. Something seen in an omake where he was told to make himself stand out more so he pulls his jacket over his head, making others take notice and laugh, and there was a time when he’d been late for a game and tried to act as if he’d always been there until Kagami pointed the fact out that his brow had sweat on it, proving that he’d run here rashly. Kuroko also has been known to have a soft spot for animals; namely dogs as he now is in ownership of a small dog himself who was named ‘Tetsuya #2’ as it’s eyes resembled his own and it became the mascot of the team.

While being so strong in these areas, when it comes to his strengths, it would have to be his abilities on the court that are his strengths. Using his nearly invisible presence, he has become known as a phantom player. A shadow. He specializes in misdirection, and utilizing special kinds of passes, and there are only a few select people can actually counteract them, though as possibly noted before, he himself has the weakness that while being in such a strong sport, he lacks a lot of speed and strength and is fragile in a way. However, it doesn’t stop him from being such a strong spirited person on the court and in life though he shows it in the most peculiar ways, being the kind of person who just comes off as deadpan and straightforward most of the time, though he’s still human and has very clear emotions.

Emotions that have been so clearly shown to have affected his teammates and vice versa. It's with his experiences at Seirin that's changed him, them pushing him forwards and he might not have ever moved on from how he felt after he left Teiko. He'd even at that time quit basketball because of how he saw power go to Aomine's head and the loss of their friendship just put a wedge in his heart. Joining Seirin had given him a light of his own despite being the shadow that follows the light of his teammates, trying to prove he himself is worth something, even if he is just one person. He showed this in one of the matches where the other team had been telling them to give up and he told them that he won't let the morale fall below 0% as long as he's there and the whole team seemed to rally behind that. So not only has his teammates affected him, he's had an affect on them and it's helped make them stronger in their own way that they might not have had if Kuroko (and Kagami) hadn't never joined to start with.

A last small thing to be noted amongst this though is that while being this way, Kuroko is still incredibly polite when he speaks, using the suffixes of –kun, -san where appropriate, no matter who it is he’s speaking to, blunt or not.

✖ SAMPLES:
"Zodion" First Person Network Entry:

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"Zodionlogs" Third-Person Prose Entry:

Odd.

That was the only thought that crossed Kuroko’s mind as he stopped and looked back to the tower, staring up at it until his gaze met the top of it, only to finally shake his head and look down to the letter grasped in his hand. “Ah… brought here to… worship gods. I don’t understand how me being brought here to do so will help anything…” he mused, blue eyes roving over the paper and the words emblazoned on the page so clearly. It was all enough that he knew that this wasn’t some kind of dream, and yet a part of his mind just refused to accept something like this was happening as only moments before he’d been with the Seirin team after they’d defeated Kirisaki Daiichi.

Fingers tensed and then went slack, putting the letter in the pocket of his jacket along with the device that he’d found upon arrival.

Really. It seemed so strangely cheesy; what they’d put in the letter seemed unbelievable and as such, he doubted the real reason they brought him here was his ‘amazing misdirection talents’ as they had claimed. Same with that unusual tattoo, wondering just what kind of strange mark actually glowed like that, reminding him he really hadn’t looked at it much since he’d gotten here a few moments ago. It had been done in one of the Zodiac symbols and as such it meant something possibly. At least that was what he surmised, turning on his heel and heading past the ornate temple, wondering possibly what was here or if there was even some possible remote chance that any of his teammates had ended up here.

That thought made him stop short and Kuroko turned his gaze up to the sky and then in front of him with a bit of a blank look, seeming as if he was actually waiting for something, and when it never came, he shrugged his shoulders calmly. “…I don’t hear Kagami-kun… he wouldn’t have gone far…” Even if he was speaking just to himself, it made a small part of him feel a little less uneasy about being here, really questioning the real reason why someone would abduct him and how they’d be able to do it in such a time that he wouldn’t even remember how it had been done.

None of it made sense. Then again… nothing about this did at all.

Lamenting about it when there could be something done about it was another thing entirely and he didn’t plan to wait around incase there was a way to return home. Whether he had to ‘worship’ these strange gods or not, he figured there wouldn’t be harm in trying something at least once as without trying, one wouldn’t know of an exit if it did exist. So perhaps trying the nearest place for details would be a sufficient place to start, his feet soon carrying him on in silence until he found something that resembled a city but the architecture was unfamiliar to him. A place he’d never before seen, making him stare up at it in silent awe before turning his attention onto some of the people that walked on by as if they didn’t notice him there; nothing normal to him as he was used to it. Some things never changed after all.

“Ah… Hello.”

Kuroko spoke up politely as he came up behind someone who looked like they might be a local, though it didn’t seem as if they heard him, so he carefully touched their shoulder for a second, trying to get their attention on him. It worked, though in the process caused the poor man to shriek in surprise and turn around, looking as if he’d seen a ghost.

Again. A normal reaction so he just stared at the man as if he hadn’t just scared him out of his wits.

“If it’s alright… I’d like to ask about something…” He’d find out about this place first before anything else… there had to be something about it that might help affirm some of the suspicions on his mind at least, or so he hoped.