Post by Syzygy on May 23, 2014 18:05:19 GMT -8
HIROSHI RYUJI HAMASAKI
<<Played by Syzygy>>
Shine a light through an open door
Full Name>> Hiroshi Ryuji Hamasaki
Nicknames>> Hiro
Age>> September 19; 35
Staff or Student>> Staff; Farrier
House>> ---
Gender>> Male
Sexuality>> Heterosexual
Face Claim>> Ken’ichi MatsuyamaTurn away 'cause I need you morePersonality>> Hiro is quiet, though not shy. He’s reserved and passive rather than outgoing and aggressive and enjoys doing things slowly and calmly, not rushing to get through the day. ‘Organization’ should be this guys’ middle name. Hiro hates clutter and messy places; you’ll never see him that disorganized!
A down-to-earth person, Hiroshi enjoys others company and finds himself getting along well with others who are like-minded individuals. Maybe truly, instead of pursuing a career as a full-time farrier, he ought to have gone into the world of business. Crisp and clean, Hiro can only be described as a man who likes what he does and is what he is.
Likes>> Animals (though he is allergic to cats), looking nice and clean, late nights and early mornings, rivers, streams and creeks, watching the sun rise on a foggy morning, taking long late-night walks to clear his head
Dislikes>> People asking him what he’s doing every two seconds while he’s working on a horse, being crowded by a person while he’s working on a horse, extremely hot days (ie, days that exceed ninety degree’s fahreinheight), alcohol, drug abuse (really, don’t they know they’ve just ruined their lives…)
Fears>> Losing his biological daughter and/or losing his adopted daughter (who is really his niece), cave crickets (there’s just something about a carnivorous bug that chases you that really creeps him out)
Hopes>> He hopes to raise his daughter’s well and send both of them to the best school and college he can afford. Hiro also hopes he can keep both his daughters interests away from boys for at least another ten or twenty years!
Secrets>> Hiroshi has a black belt in karate, which he doesn't really let anyone know aside from his girls and for the past few years, he's been plagued with dreams about those close to him dying. He also keeps it a secret that at the temporary sale barn where he worked, often he was asked to just slap a good enough trim or doctor up on a lame horse so that it could fetch a decent price and be advertised as 'sound'.It’s the way I’m feeling I just can’t denyAppearance>> Standing at five feet and eleven inches and weighing just over one-hundred and sixty-five pounds, Hiroshi isn’t a huge, intimidating guy, though he holds his own well enough. His looks are typical Japanese, as that’s the nation of his birth, with black hair, dark brown eyes and fair skin.
He’s a rather stylish man who often can be found dressed rather classy and neat, though jeans and the like aren’t completely out of his wardrobe. Hiro seems to favor the button-up style of shirt, slacks and dress shoes when not working on a horse. He typically keeps a hint of five-o-clock shadow around his jawline, as he’s been told that clean shaven he looks like a young adult instead of a thirty-five year old with two daughters. Indeed, he looks more like a librarian or college professor than a farrier, but it is what it is.
Markings>> Hiroshi has what looks like a small snakebite scar on his lower left leg from where a horseshoe nail went in one side of the skin and out the other, leaving a clean-cut injury. He also has an old, faint scar going across the palm of his hand from where a horse ripped a horseshoe nail through his palm several years ago.But I’ve gotta let it goMedical History>> Basic illnesses such as colds, the Flu, etc…
Criminal History>> ---
Full History>> Hiroshi Hamasaki… what to say about him… Hiroshi was born in Japan but spent most of his life in America, as his parents up and moved when he was still very young. He doesn’t remember his early life in his native country.
The youngest child of two, Hiroshi was tormented by his elder sister Atsuki from the time he was just an infant until they grew close as teenagers. For most of his early childhood life, Hiro dreaded having to spend time with his sister when their parents went out and left his outgoing, loves-to-torment-little-brother, sister Atsuki in charge.
From the time he was eight, Hiro’s life revolved around horses. His parents, giving in to his demands, agreed to let him have one riding lesson, thinking he’d get scared and never want another. Instead, after the first one, he begged for more, and soon was taking lessons on a weekly basis and competing in small shows on the weekends.
As far as schooling went, Hiro kept good grades. He was popular, on the track team, and loved spending long hours in the library. Everyone though he’d turn out to be a scholar or professor, but instead, upon graduating he married his high-school sweetheart (a pretty Japanese-American girl by the name of Aimee Takoda), decided to not attend college, and instead went to work shoeing and trimming horses while also doing odd jobs here and there. It was that hard-earned money that supported himself and his wife and paid his way through farrier school.
Hired on by a fairly nice boarding stable to be the main farrier, Hiroshi fell out of contact with his family for a while, busying himself with his small family, which now included an infant daughter named Shiori, for his grandmother. Life was well and good for Hiro… until breast cancer reared its ugly head and attacked his wife, Aimee. The struggle was internal, kept quiet, but it was very real and very frightening. The days bled into months, the months years… and finally, three years after being diagnosed, Aimee was put to rest in a small cemetery in northern Kentucky, her fight over. Cancer had won and torn apart the small, happy family.
Suddenly a single father, Hiro took a break from farrier work and spent several long days with just his daughter for company. Depression set in, but soon enough he realized that he had to go on, if not for himself, then for his little girl. Mind made up, Hiroshi returned to work and life slowly returned to normal. He kept up with his parents (who had moved back to Japan) and had a good relationship with his sister and her husband, though he didn’t see them often.
Disaster just couldn’t leave his family alone, though. Just when he thought things would be fine, his sister and her husband were murdered. Their killer was never found, but their deaths left their daughter, just a few months older than Shiori, an orphan. It looked as though she would have to move to Japan and live with her grandparents, but something compelled Hiro to step in and take the young girl in himself. All was arranged and Akiko, his niece whom he really did not know, became a part of his family.
Some things are just meant to be. Akiko got along well with both Hiro and his own daughter and fit into their family surprisingly well considering her personality highly differed from theirs. Things weren’t easy, but nor were they hard. Hiro had a pretty good, if not hard and exhausting job and both girls did well in school…
Then the boarding barn where he worked went under due to bad ownership. Hiro out of a job, temporarily agreed to work at a local sale barn where his main job was to slap a trim or quick shoe on the horses brought for sale and, occasionally, ride them through the sale or ride them long enough to wear the buck out of them. It wasn’t honest work most of the time and it bothered him that he had to do it to keep his family well… so he began looking for an honest job, one that he could be proud of…
Then he found Blue Ridge.We found love in a hopeless place
