Takeo Akamizu
| Takeo Akamizu | |
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| IC Information | |
| Full Name: | Takeo Akamizu |
| Aliases: | Cavalier Lancelot |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age/Birthdate: | 16 (April 10, 1997) |
| Height: | 5'10" |
| Hair Colour: | Light Brown |
| Eye Colour: | Brown |
| Astrological Sign: | Aries |
| Blood Type: | AB |
| Favorite Food: | Anything Deep Fried, especially BACON. |
| Least Favorite Food: | Anything green. Like the Salad Eri tries to get him to eat. Please. No more Salad. Please.... |
| Favorite Subject: | Video Games (Note: Not an actual subject) |
| Least Favorite Subject: | Anything that takes place in a classroom. |
| Dossier | |
| Organization: | Ends of the World |
| Position: | Enforcer |
| School: | Ohtori Academy (Grade 11) |
| OOC Information | |
| Source: | Knights of the Round Table Reborn! (OC) |
| Player: | YourUsername |
Contents
Profile
A bright young athlete, Takeo has always been a bit of a daredevil, and attends the prestigious Ohtori Academy on a Kendo scholarship. His classmates tease him for being lazy, as he often nods off during classes, and likes to take it easy when not competing in Kendo, or showing off for smiles and giggles among his friends. This is not-so-secretly due to his nighttime racing out on the country roads on his hot red motorcycle, which he calls his Super Rad Awesome Bike! This gets him into detention fairly regularly. People see him as a bad-boy... and Takeo is okay with that. He goes along with the image in his good-nature way, grinning and winking and joking around. Beneath the jokes, he is a loyal young man who would do anything for his friends and family, and haes to see people bullied.
History
Takeo Akamizu Also known as Lancelot
Takeo was born into the Akamizu household on a brisk spring afternoon sixteen years ago in April. He grew up the oldest of two, being the older brother to a younger sister with the name of Mika. He was always athletic, and from the moment he could walk he always found himself, happily, playing sports. Everything from lacrosse to soccer, to martial arts. His parents encouraged this as a path to both enjoyment, and well being. Academically Takeo is average, average attention span, average test scores, average grades.
There have been two things that Takeo has been more than average at. The first he found in one of his many Martial Arts classes, that of Kendo. The moment he held a stick in his hands, it was almost as if he was born with a sword in his hands ready to fight ten, or a hundred foes. Since that moment, he had convinced his parents to let him focus on that instruction, and it is something he does everyday at every chance he can get. His mother has had to beg him not to walk around whit a kendo stick so he can find a place to practice, Mrs. Akamizu being afraid he'd pick a fight with it.
The other thing he's been above average at is racing. Ever since he discovered that he would indeed be allowed to learn how to drive, Takeo has taken an interest in fast cars, but more importantly, fast motorcycles. Since age twelve he took odd jobs so he could scrimp and save, squirreling away large portions of his allowance to the point that his friends always thought he was poor. He even got into collectible card games, not for playing, but so he could get the expensive cards, wait until prime time, and then sell them. These actions led him to, on his sixteenth birthday, walking down to a corner where he saw a Kawasaki Ninja for sale, handing the man three piggy banks, and a bag of cash, and then driving off with as he has put it: "A super rad, awesome motor bike that only /I/ can ride!"
This event has made his father cackle with humor, and his mother have heart attacks. This is because Takeo is not known for driving that motorcycle with anything that closely resembles responsibility. He likes to push it to the red line, and to do that he has to travel outside of the city, find a place that is empty, and then let the engine roar. This has led him to learning that his father, having had grown up watching such shows as Speed Racer, had a secret heart for racing as well, and did the same thing with a souped up Nissan. It was how he won the heart of Take’s mother.
Which has not helped the matter. At all.
When Takeo got to High School level of the education process, his skills, and the tournaments he won, earned him the attention of the Ohtori Academy who prizes themselves on these sports. As such, instead of enrolling in the normal public school, the Academy offered to place both Takeo and his sister Mika, who is in Middle school, in the Academy so long as Takeo participated in tournaments under the school's banner. To Takeo this was just fine. It was a place he could practice with other like minded students, and maybe even challenge himself. So far in his first year he has won the first tournament for his age division, and has caught the eye of a few of his peers. He enjoys the attention, especially from the girls, after all he, he's a sixteen year old boy, and what boy wouldn't like that attention? He isn't shy about it, except when his sister teases him. Usually in front of his mother and father. The father who beams with pride, and the mother who pinches his cheek and reminds him he's just so cute.
The big event that changed Takeo was the discovery of his sword and shield pendent. While he was out racing on an open stretch of road, he caught the glint of light off something on the side of the road. He couldn't tell you why he stopped, but he pulled over and looked for the shiny thing. After a few minutes he found it, a small medallion or pendent in the shape of a European Shield, a long sword diagonal for a sigil. There was something about it, and he picked it up, and put it on. It felt right to him.
What didn't feel right was the rabbit that was knocked senseless next to the pendent. Confused he reached down and picked up the down rabbit. It twitched, showing to him it was alive. Thinking of his kind hearted sister, he bundled the rabbit up inside his motorcycle jacket and drove, responsibly for a change, back home. Instead of taking the rabbit home to his family apartment he took it to his sister whose heart has enough for all fluffy and adorable critters. There she tended for the poor thing, but none of them could prepare them for the Rabbit's awakening.
Mika and Takeo were looking at the thing, and when he awoke, the rabbit blinked and called Takeo Lancelot. The rabbit had spoken, and it claimed to KNOW Takeo, and that a spell had worked. Takeo was totally confused and Mika was totally delighted. Right up until a woman clad in robes of night walked into the garden. She demanded both the pendent and Rabbit. Mika refused, and Takeo grabbed his Kendo stick. The woman laughed and the Rabbit looked at Takeo and said: "Agree to me to become the Cavalier, and say the Vow of Knighthood! It is the only way to defeat her!"
The woman laughed, while Takeo had no idea what the rabbit was talking about, but he could tell form the way the Rabbit was speaking that he meant it, and frankly the woman had scared the bejeebus out of him. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and nodded to the Rabbit. "I, Takeo Akamizu agree to your terms rabbit. I swear to protect the weak and down trodden, to be a shield against the forces of darkness and the light against darkness. I swear to draw my sword only against the wicked, and to uphold the honor of my lord, and to protect his lands from the evil hidden in the hearts of men and the shadows!" Then he smiled smugly and struck a heroic pose, because he thought while he was silly, he should, "In other words, yer going down lady!"
What REALLY surprised him was the bolt of lightning that struck him, and that he was standing there, in a knight's armor, a broadsword in one hand and shield in the other. He blinked behind his closed visor and looked over to the wicked woman in a night colored dress was standing there in shock. And she breathed the same word the Rabbit had: "Lancelot." While the rabbit screamed, "Smite the vile witch!"
That snapped the woman out of it and she attacked Takeo with magical bolts. Instinct brought the shield up and he fought back with bolts of light from his sword, as well as trying to cut the woman down with blade. In the end she fled, and the Rabbit explained.
The rabbit was named Merlin, and claimed to be THE Merlin from fabled story. To which Takeo had to raise an eyebrow. What story? The Rabbit has not liked Takeo since. He did however explain what Takeo was. He was the reborn Ser Lancelot Du Lac, Knight of the Round Table, famous for his sword and his love for Guinevere Mika loved that part. It was soooo Romantic. Merlin explained that it was that love that caused the downfall of the Knights, and explained how it led to a final battle over the grail between him and Morgana le Fey. In the battle he had been sent forward again in time as a rabbit, and the souls he had gathered scattered. Souls like Take’s When near Merlin, a sigil proclaiming who they are manifests, and if they grasp it, and say a Knight's vow, they can assume the power of the Round Table. But they have to AGREE to it, agree to take the powers, and the responsibility.
From now on Takeo was Lancelot, the Cavalier, and he had to find the grail, and keep Morgana from gathering other souls from the Table. With Merlin as a guide. Which made Takeo wince, because that vile little rabbit made it clear he was gonna make Take’s life miserable.
Description
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Takeo is tall, handsome and well built. His build is athletic and well toned from years of playing sports and martial arts. His hair is a light brown and wavey, and nearly always threatening to fall into his eyes. Though by some strange miracle, it does not. Those self same eyes are a matching brown, and always inquisitive. Searching around him for anything and everything of note. Often he is found with a motorcycle jacket, both when in School Uniform (Ohtori,) or in regular clothing.
-Lancelot-
There's Armor. (Real Desc coming.)
Random Facts
- Is very good at Kendo.
- Is actually a VERY good singer, though he very rarely if ever displays this and actively tries to hide it.
- Cannot refuse a challenge. Like. Ever.
- Can eat a disgusting amount of food and is ALWAYS hungry. Always.
- Can speak fluent French and has been known to slip into French speaking when he becomes embarrassed.
- Makes most of his money racing his motorbike at night. Which is why he sleeps during class. The money is mostly used for paying for Sparkles' room and baord a thte Equestrian Club Stables.
- Sleeps during most classes. Especially Homeroom.
Current and Ongoing Plots
- Takeo is trying to find a way to repair the Scabbard for Excalibur which had been broken and had it's magical properties severed in a battle with the Black Knight. A mysterious Knight using Round Table style powers who showed up when he and Merlin tried to get it.
- Finding a cure for Mika. Magical or otherwise Takeo would do ANYTHING to save his sister. To that end he has agreed to join the Student Council as an Enforcer from a mysterious benefactor who only requires he, "Helps when needed." Takeo has no idea what this will entail, but he knows it won't be good, and he's not sure he cares.
- The mysterious benefactor. Somebody knows that Takeo is Lancelot, that Takeo did not tell. They contacted him anonymously, and are offering to keep Mika in the best Medical Care in Japan. For a price. They haven't contacted him beyond that, but he is now in the Student Council as an "enforcer" and his sister is being taken care of.
- The Black Knight is after Pure Hearts. There is another force after Pure Hearts. Time to find out what is going on and how the two are connected. If at all.
- Takeo is after the Keys. The Benefactor will pay for many of Mika's needed procedures. To that end, he is gearing up to take on the Key Holders and take them by any means necessary.
THOSE HE KNOWS (PC)
Eri Shimanouchi (Ohtori Grade 9) - One of Takeo's best friends and somebody in the know as to who Takeo is and was. After a brief misunderstanding over Takeo trying to help Eri out at Lunch, the two have become good friends, and can usually be seen as their alter ego's hunting Witches and fighting evil.
Takeo's Thoughts: Eri's cool. And she doesn't care I was Lancelot (though she totally took that step back... why do they do that?) She is Vegetarian. Which I don't get. I mean... Meat is delicious! If Animals weren't supposed to be eaten then they'd taste like Asparagus.
Mami Tomoe (Ohtori Grade 10): Mami has only been met once, but she helped Takeo in his first weeks as Lancelot. He had to learn about who he was, and Mami helped him learn the School Library system under the guise of writing a report. Which he wrote for English anyway.
Takeo's Thoughts: RIBBONS! Don't ask em why, but every time I see Mami-Sempai she has ribbons. So whenever I think of Ribbons, I think of Mami-Sempai. She's really nice, and helpful. I owe her some Coffee or Tea or something. I just hope I don't have to reveal who I am, I don't know how I'd feel if she took that step back.
Mai Tokiha (Ohtori Grade 11)): One of Takeo's classmates and mutual friend of Eri's, Mai mostly puts up with Takeo's shenanigans, especially in regards to bacon. However the two usually have a good time around each other, as long as Takeo remembers not to tell her she smells like bacon. Which is delicious.
Takeo's Thoughts: Tokiha-san is ... I'm still working on that. I watcher her die, and after the dance we shared at the ball I felt... something... for her. Watching her die, and then be unable to defend her or my friends really, against Miyu Greer has me... Confused. We've had dinner a few times, which she has cooked, and there was the evil tricking of vegetables. But she made it up to me by giving me a plate of bacon. mmmmm Bacon.(She still smells like bacon. Which is delicious. But. Don't tell her that.)
Mikoto Minagi (Ohtori Grade 10): Takeo has only really recently met Mikoto despite being friends with Mai.
Takeo's Thoughts:I like her! She's like a mini me! Only. A Girl. And not related. And kind of like a Ninja Cat? So. I guess not a mini me... I still like her! .
Natsuki Kuga (Ohtori Grade 11): Another one of Takeo's classmates, Natsuki is somebody that Takeo loves to torment and tease. Mostly because she rides a motorcycle and can thus be a competitor.
Takeo's Thoughts:Kuga is fast. But not as fast as me on my totally radical red motorcycle. (Engine noises) We haven't raced. Yet. But she's like me. She likes to go fast, and pit herself against others. It'll happen. And then, I'll totally make her eat my dust.
Renjiro Masaki (Juuban Public School 10): Renjiro is another Knight reborn, specifically the Knight Bedivere. The two met at the museum in battle against the Black Knight. Since then the two have met and have discussed how to go further.
Takeo's Thoughts:Renjiro and I met, officially at the grave site of the forty seven Ronin. We learned who we are and took an oath to help each other out. I meet him once a week to teach some martial arts, and hopefully help him out. I've also entrusted the rabbit to him for now. I like him. Hopefully he likes Bacon, otherwise we can't be friends.
Sailor Pluto (Grade Kick to my head): Take ran into the Sailor Guardian of Time only once, and when it looked like she was about to bring "Justice" to a young girl, He stepped in to stop her. The brief scuffle ended with Takeo on the ground with a concussion and knocked out. Only to wake up with the battlefield empty and him alone in the park.
Takeo's Thoughts: Ow.
Chihaya Izumi (Ohtori Grade 11): Izumi is one of Takeo's classmates and the class rich girl. By Class rich girl we mean she can probably by the school and likely owns shares. Recently the two have been assigned to work as a group to do a research presentation on the mythical Lancelot. Oh. Won't that be fun?
Takeo's Thoughts: Okay. I am going to die.
Those He Knows (NPC)
Merlin (Rabbit Grade OLD): Merlin is THE Merlin of legend, trapped in his Crystal Cave he still felt the evil that was his former student return to the Earth, and managed to send himself out into the world where he inhabbited the nearest creature to Morganna. A rabbit. Merlin's quest is to find the Kngihts and prepare them to fight Morganna while using them to protect the world from both her and the other forces of Darkness. He doesn't like Takeo due to the Guineveere incident that caused the subsequent destruction of Camelot and as far as Merlin is concerned, everything that is wrong with the world today.
Takeo's Thoughts: I bet rabbit tastes really good.
Mika (Ohtori Grade 9): Little Sister Mika is one of Takeo's best friends. The two are very close, even if she is always trying to hook him up with her friends or playing match maker in general with him. (His mother does the same) She was present when Morganna first attacked looking to end Merlin, and witnessed her older brother beat an evil sorcoress, which was totally cool for her. Recently she has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and her health is fading fast. She is in a state of the art Hospital thanks to a mysterious benefactor who is giving her a bit of a lease on life.
Takeo's Thoughts: I love my sister. She and I grew up together, obviously, and both enjoy sports, though she's more into football (soccer) than the Martial Arts side. She's also really, really, smart. I envy that. I need to find a way to cure her. With all this magic floating around somebody has to be able to help her. I won't let her die without a fight. I wish I could visit her, but even walking into the hospital scares me. I haven't seen her since she went there, despite mom and dad constantly pressuring me.
Chia Asano (Jubaan Grade 9): Mika's BFF since kindergarten, and one of Takeo's chief antagonists when it comes to anything school related. Chia means well, but has an evil streak that she clearly enjoys using on .... well everyone. So much so that in his early days as Lancelot he thought Chia was Morganna in disguise. He's just glad he didn't reveal who he was accidentally.
Takeo's Thoughts: Chia is... Well she's Chia. Always willing to help, but always willing to be... I wouldn't say evil perse, but that really wouldn't be far from the mark. She um... She isn't behind me is she?
Mom (Grade Scary Mother): Takeo's mother is one of the nicest, and sweetest women in Japan. She makes Takeo breakfast before he's even awake, has a paper bag lunch EVERYDAY waiting for him and his father to take to work, and prepares dinner everyday. While this sounds like a typical 1950's mother, one could not be further form the truth. She jsut loves her boys. While the kids are gone, and the Husband is at work, she plays on Takeo's consoles, loving First Person shooters, and is an advent member of the local Sword Collector's club. She is a martial artist from her youth, and has even participated post children, in several martial arts tournaments. She loves to play match maker for Takeo, whom she fears is too much of an idiot to get a girl on his own and mama wants grand babies. She has not taken Mika getting terminal Cancer well, and now spends much of her free time with her daughter when the Hospital allows it.
Takeo's Thoughts: I have stayed in my mother's presence ONCE when she was angry. I do not advise this. If she ever adopts a sweet tone, run. Run very far, very fast, and don't ever look back...
Dad (Grade Secret Awesome past): Takeo's father works hard to keep a roof over his family's head, as well as the new current problem of Mika's medical bills. He is the typical working man who works at an Advertising Firm. Loyal, hard working, and dedicated. Takeo found him boring until he found out that his father, is the still infamous in Tokyo Racer Red. A famed street racer, who won the heart of the free spirited younger Mom. He, like his wife has not taken to Mika's illness well, and has thrown himslef into his work to afford what medical care he can for his daughter. He doens't know who this secret benefactor is, but is immensely grateful, becuase it is clear they have bought Mika a few more precious years.
Takeo's Thoughts: Hang in there Dad. I'll find a way to help. I promise.
Sparkles (Grade The Horse): Sparkles is a warhorse that Takeo can summon at will through the Pendent. She is unusually intelligent, sassy, and playfull to be a normal horse. Needless to say both Takeo and Sparkles are the best of friends. Though she hasn't hinted at it, Takeo suspects that Sparkles is trapped somehow, but isn't sure on the how, or the why, and why she is tied to Lancelot. But he intends to find out, and hopefully free her. He just needs to figure out what to do with a Horse once he's done that, it's not like he can hide Sparkles in his closet... Right now, Takeo is working on getting into the riding club, so that she can be out more, and be tended by servants and fed apples all day long.
Takeo's Thoughts: Sparkles is awesome, and is a very loyal friend. She both listens to me, and offers advice... well sort of. I mean she's a horse. She doesn't speak Japanese, but she gets her point across. She also really likes music, and sometimes I just summon her so she can listen to the radio and we can hang out.
Mysterious Benefactor (Grade Scary): This individual know that Takeo Akamizu is Lancelot Du Lac, and had contacted him to offer his help for his poor down trodden and terminal sister. He or they, have offered to take care of his sister in exchange for future favors. He has told NOBODY about this, the closest he's come is on a train to the Winter Field Trip, he told Eri he was scared because of "People he can't talk about," and asked to just be hugged for awhile.
Takeo's Thoughts: Not much scares me. This isn't me being all macho, it's just a truth. Being a Knight with the memories of a guy who has fought entire wars makes you ... not afraid often. Whomever this guy is scares me.
Morgana le Fey (Grade Really Hot Evil Lady): Morgana is powerful and has no problem flexing her sorceress powers regardless of who is in the line of fire. Takeo has faced her exactly twice, and each time he has barely escaped with his life. He knows that she is hunting for other Knights Reborn to corrupt them, and he has no idea how successful she has been. Luckily for Takeo she mostly sends out minions, who are people of Camelot reborn twisted, to accomplish most of her goals, and Takeo can fight them without much problems.
Takeo's Thoughts: I'm starting to think all the really attractive ones are evil.... I know she hasn't used her full power on me yet, and I'm worried for the day when she does. Because I don't know if I'll be able to stop her by myself if she does.
The Black Knight (Grade Oh God Oh God We're all gonna die?): The Black Knight is a powerful warrior, stronger than any of the Knights Reborn (Lancelot and Bedivere) and was able to take on multiple magical girls along with the two knights at the same time. So far Lancelot has encountered the Black Knight twice, and both times he's lost.
Takeo's Thoughts: This guy scares the bacon out of me. I can't beat him, and he appears whenever he wants to thrash us. He's after Pure Hearts, but I don't know what they are or why Morgana needs them.
