Name: Imani Gorina Neo
Age: 16
Nationality: Cape Town, South African
Country: Japan
Online Handle: Neo Gio
Melee weapon - Dual daggers
Firearm - Bow
Appearance
Normal - Normally in a short sleeve version of his school uniform, but when not needing to wear it, will be dressed in a bright colored dress shirt with black slacks on. Imani's shoes are always some sort of gator or snake skin shoes. his hair being semi afro like dark hair that is picked out but stylished. His eyes being a dark amber and skin being an espresso brown
In combat - His hair spikes upwards and gains a scarf, chest plate, and desert style pants, shin/knee guards and boots.
Personality - Imani's personality is a complicated one to say the lease. The ideas of subtle and blending in kinda not being a thing. The young man stands out rather obviously in a crowd and enjoys to be known. He is a rather smooth talker but will can be brash and loud. openly willing to tell things about him since back home, he was told 'all who hold in lies are doomed to become them'.
Likes - Bright colors, home cooking, sharp things, air conditioning/cold places, cute people.
dislikes - The color gray, T.V Dinners, dull blades, humid days, sadness
Strengths - Bold, Kind to strangers, Always willing to learn, Ice breaker(good at breaking the ice/tension breaking), Standing for others
Weakness - Depressed when lonely, Thinks others Misunderstands, Can come off as flirtatious, Clingy, Can be known to not shut up.
Fears -
1. Racist groups / people
2. Being exiled
3. Food poisoning
4. Losing his cooking tools
5. Being burned alive
6. Seeing a loved one die
7. Seeing a loved one on fire
8. Seeing the place he lived on fire.
9. losing his skin color
10. His death meaning nothing or bringing dishonor
Backstory
"A world without a vision of the future is a world covered in gray. To brighten the world, each person has to be the color within it."
- Abioye Neo (Imani's father)
Born in Cape town of south africa, The young man was even for his age a ball of joy. His childhood was normally spend traveling with his father who was a Foreign Diplomat Young Neo got to see a lot of the world with his father. seeing the UN a lot, seeing other counties, but he found himself fully in love when first visiting tokyo as a child. Japanese culture fascinated him, and the liking of African culture there made it a wonderful place to be. He would as a child visit japan whenever he could and learn the language while he could. becoming quite the linguistically gifted child as he learned a few other languages as well. At the age of 10, as a family culture he was trained in combat and culinary arts. too cook, kill, and survive is part of the old world way, but is still a coming of age training nontheless.
When coming to the age of 14, he finally was able to apply to Japanese high schools for foreign exchange. It took two years, but he finally got what he wanted. to get into a rather famous Japanese high school. He picked up his stuff and went to the country as soon as he could. His parents do still help with the room and board / tuition, but they did make it clear that Imani would need to learn about living life while there. not just learning from the books, but learning from the people. His future is still unclear for now, but his calming smile and motivation to see how far he can make it.