Yuri

"Besides, I got a new motivation now. To adjust and move forward in my new life. Or 'unlife', I guess. And I'll make the most out of it. For Tam."
Yuri Ichiro is a Reaper who was originally a player from Week 19 of The Reaper's Game. He was a middle-school student who is obsessed with the Quartz Sword anime and games and the enigmatic designer, Blade Wave. He died during a car accident. After Day 5 and his Partner's demise, he became a Support Reaper.
==Appearance ==
Yuri is a short teenager with a slightly tan skin and lean body build. He has black neck-length hair with a blue tint and bluish-gray eyes. 
He mostly wears Blade Wave clothing with hoodies, shirts, and half-pants. He also carries a blue-green Quartz Sword backpack. After he became a Reaper, he sports black-green Reaper wings reminiscent of Blade Wave's wind-like designs and now wore a bunny and spider keychains on his pant loops as tributes and reminders of his former Partner and rival, Tam, who were his familiars from his Psychs before his demise. 
==Personality ==
One word to describe Yuri is that he's a bit immature. With a one-track mind, he always goes off his way and recklessly does some stuff without any thought to his actions. He can be a bit snarky as he's not afraid to roast someone out loud. He's not good at working with another person as he feels that they are not helping with their situation or they just annoy him for several reasons. In fact, he often goes off in his own world, focusing more on his phone and Nintendo Switch than to listen to someone else.
However, what saves him from being a jerk is his modesty as he's not always brag his achievements to everyone and he's willing to give credit where the credits due for the sake of others. With the right words, he can be motivated enough to get the task done. He also believed that he can earn something through hard work and is willing to do any difficult tasks to achieve what he wants.
After losing Tam and the Game, Yuri temporarily lost all of his snarky and energetic personality, spending his free time mourning for his erased Partner and rival. He sometimes summon some of his Noise companions when he's completely consumed by his nightmares of his loss and grief.
However, thanks to a few talks to other Players and Reapers, especially with Kazuki, Yuri slowly regained his old self while gaining a sense of maturity over his feelings and emotions. Keeping his old stance of earning through hard work, he aims to push other Players to their best while encouraging them to trust each other so they can avoid the same tragedy as his former rival's.
==History==
===Pre-Game===
Yuri lived in a district next to Akihabara with his parents and his elder sister. When he was 10 years old, he was drawn to a show called Quartz Sword, a mecha/urban fantasy anime show that not only introduced him to plastic models, but also to the video games of the franchise. Ever since then, he branched out to RPGs to third-person battle royale games as his form of entertainment after school.
At the age of 12, he also enthralled by the very first Blade Wave hoodie that he got as a birthday present, turning him into a fan of the designer after a few weeks of wearing it.
One day, he had a fight with his parents about his hobbies becoming an obsession as it affects not only his studies, but also their budget. Annoyed and angry, he stormed out with his extra clothes, his plastic mode tools and his favorite Quartz Sword model, and Nintendo Switch, and tried to ran away to Shibuya. But on the way there, he was struck by a drunk driver's van and got himself a one-way ticket to the Underground.
===Week 19 (Innocence) ===
When he arrived at the Underground, Yuri originally thought he was transported in a VR game with little memory of his death. However on Day 0, he was faced with the truth that he was dead after denying that possibility from Nova, which forced him to take the Reaper's Game more seriously. 
On Day 1, he made a Pact with Tam, another Player who was also the same age as him and doubled as his rival as part of this week's rules. When the Day ended, he also started trying not to lose his rival after learning that both of them will be Erased if either one of them failed. 
On Day 2, the mission was a bit of a breeze for Yuri as he not only obtained his shinai wooden sword as a gift from Players' training, but he learned how to fight as part of The Way of Resuscitation. During the mission, he slowly started to get attached to Tam as his rival and partner as he spend almost a day carrying his unconscious Partner when he fell unconscious and started to compete into battling how many Noise they could erase to silly things when he tried to compete Tam into who could get to finish the spicy ice cream at Cotton Candy Ca-fey, which he failed spectacularly. 
Day 3 started to change the mood when after he loss a spar against Tam as part of their Rank-Up Objective, Yuri slowly descended into a pit of doubt and confusion over his lack of motivation. It wasn't until Nova's wall task that Yuri snapped. He confessed how he ran away because of his selfishness, how he yelled at his parents, how he gave up his chances of having a friend in exchange for his studies to gain more money for his hobbies. He broke down in front of everyone and was comforted by Tam and Nova as they convinced him to push forward to win the Game. Yuri later put this new mindset into practice when he participated in a battle against a mysterious Noise where he convinced GM to move forward and never run away. 
Day 4 was where he was already used to the Game's format. However, he relaxed too soon when Noise started to separate him and Tam in several battles, which forced him to fight alongside Mako and other players in a gauntlet of battles. After the mission, he grew suspicious of these strange ambushes, felt it was connected to yesterday's mysterious Noise. However, he shrugged it off and spent the rest of the day doing his Rank-Up Objectives with Tam. From learning how to play soccer (or ball juggling with his legs) in exchange to him teaching model kit building to more spars to sharing advice, Yuri thought they were getting closer to their goal of going home. 
===Week 19 (Loss) ===
Day 5, however, was when his life changed forever for the worse. The mission was to escape the Noise by hitting its weak points and escape. After they arrived their destination, Udagawa, Yuri and the other Players thought they would finish the mission like yesterday, difficult, but rewarding. But instead, they faced a tragedy, in a form of a boss Noise that Yuri commented an "impossible boss". They fought valiantly, but in the final moments of the battle, Yuri was forced to watch a single event that sealed his fate. His partner and rival, Tamago "Tam" Suyaki, was erased right in front of his eyes. 
Yuri was broken upon seeing his rival's plate of pancakes fell from his fading body. By the time it was his turn to strike down the Noise, he was consumed by grief, rage, and despair. He recalled GM's warning, he knew that he would follow Tam's fate soon. He knew that he was about to be erased, something he feared right at the start. However, Jiao offered him an impossible choice: to be Erased or to live as a Reaper. 
In the end, he chose to live. He was alive, but he couldn't go home again. He accepted his fate to never be reunited with his parents ever again. 
As the mission ended, Yuri became an empty shell of his former self. He spent the rest of the night staring at his makeshift memorial of his former partner and rival. Even after some of the Reapers and Izumi comforted him, he was still wracked with regret and despair, recalling all of his happy memories of his old life and Tam and imagining the 'what-ifs' in his mind as his glided cage. As the Day ended, Yuri spent the night alone with his new Noise companion, without Tam by his side for the first time.
===Week 19 (Coming-of-Age)===
On Day 6, he was still in despair over the events of yesterday and was about to consumed himself with the memories of his past. However, he met Kazuki, the shopkeeper of Cotton Candy Ca-fey, in his lowest point where he shared his despair over losing him and where he learned that Kazuki was actually a Reaper this entire time. The talk slowly clean the darkness from his heart and after a Tin Pin match, he slowly regained his childish and energetic self.
Inspired by Kazuki's words, Yuri took the helm of the mission's first wall objective and after that, he gave the Players a handwritten letter to his parents to apologize for his actions and a promise to win the Game for him and Tam.
Once he done his task, he confronted GM about the events of yesterday, where he confessed his incompetence as a Game Master and revealed that the Noise that killed Tam was not from Shibuya. He also revealed that his rival also met the same fate as Tam's, which made Yuri realized he was just like him.
It wasn't until the GM shared the truth behind the Game's rules where he noticed the Players' despair, especially June's, over this Game. Couldn't bear to watch his former allies like this, he intervened and encouraged both the Players and GM to push forward and never hold back until the end. This regained most of their motivation to end the Game and to earn their right to Reincarnate.
After the mission ended, Yuri met with June who shared their grievances about the Game and the GM while the former asking her to not follow his path and go back to the RG no matter what. Eventually, June showed him the memorial of the fallen Players in Scramble Crossing. There, he left the drawing of Tam, a green paper airplane with his name written on the wing, and a model kit that was the same one Yuri gave away to him, hoping he could finish it on his own. And with his last goodbyes to his former rival, Yuri was able to move on.
Eventually, Yuri learned of GM's real name and his loss of his altruism after he became a Reaper. He also learned about the other districts and its own rules from Kani and GM. And with him finally sleeping back at Miyashita Motel for the first time after he became a Reaper, Yuri was ready to witness the final battle of the Way of Resuscitation.
===Week 19 (Acceptance)===
In the final Day, Day 7, the time has come. Yuri watched the final battle between the Players and the GM. However, a twist in the tale changed everything. The Noise Pin they found was none other than the GM's rival, trapped and now enraged, thinking she was abandoned. As he watched the bout, he knew what was to come, yet he was conflicted as the GM he thought as a bad guy was nothing more than a tortured soul and his mistakes, including Tam's Erasure was just that. A mistake.
Eventually, the Players won. But they spared GM, or rather, Hiroto's life as well as his rival, Kaoru. They won the Game. But just as they could celebrate, Yuri released all of his anger and frustration. He confessed that he wanted to beg the higher-ups to bring Tam back, he confessed that he didn't want to be alone. He felt his circumstances were unfair. He wanted to be distracted by all of this. But he couldn't.
Thankfully, the ex-Players understood how he felt. They told him he wasn't a stubborn brat. They promised him to never forget him and Tam. They promised to meet at Hachiko tomorrow. They promised that they will be his friends. He couldn't replace Tam, but the ex-Players will be by his side no matter what.
Once the proceedings was done and all of the ex-Players decided on Reincarnation, Yuri gave them one more hug before their return to the RG. And as the Rite of Resuscitation was about to finish, Yuri, with the encouragement from Nova and Okaya, he also left to the RG to join his friends for a while.
===Post-Week 19===
The next day, Yuri later met up with Mari, June, Hikaru, and Katsu at the Hachiko statue. He also met Katsu's sister, Akina, who knew about her sister's adventures in the UG, who was amazed by Yuri's abilities as a Reaper.
As they began to reminisce, Yuri expressed his realization to everyone that his Entry Fee he lost was none other than his motivation created by his desires of his hobbies. The main reason why he was in the UG in the first place. Ashamed, yet relieved, Yuri decided to let go of his lost Entry Fee, aiming to create a new motivation where he can adjust to his new life as a Reaper, continue his studies in a different school with a different name, start his new life as a masked content creator or a Vtuber, and to help other Players by opening up his own shop someday.
With June assured him that she successfully sent his final letter to his parents and found closure to his late friend and rival, Yuri Ichiro was now ready to move forward as the new Reaper of Shibuya.
===Legacy===
Marilyn, one of the ex-Players of Week 19, later made a graffiti painting that paid tribute to Tamago Suyaki, the fallen Player who was one of her friends and Yuri Ichiro, who stayed in the UG as a Reaper. It depicts an abstract image of a rabbit playing around a mecha, with a spider perched on its shoulder, which it was shadowed with black, giving a bit of a sad contrast to the otherwise peppiness of the image.
Yuri later saved it as his wallpaper on his phone, not intending to erase it forever in memory of his fallen rival and partner.
==Relationships==
===Sankoku===
Met during his Okinawa beach trip, Yuri isn't exactly on good terms with Sankoku at the start. Rather, he was very hostile to him after he used one of his sand pails as hostage to force him to play a volleyball match. After his team won, Yuri took this opportunity to mess him around such as treating him as a servant to build his sandcastle or trying to bury him in a sand mound. He even goes so far by calling him "bucket thief" whenever he meets him again.
===Tamago Suyaki===
Tam was a rival and partner of Yuri during Week 19. While he was slightly amicable to him, he still treated him as any other rival would, competing who gets the most Noise during battles and did spars with him sometimes. However, he was also concerned for his safety due to the Game's rules and he couldn't let a young kid like to be Erased because of him.
When Tam was erased in Day 5, Yuri was devastated to lose him, not just because he lost the Game, but how he treated him as his very first friend in his age. He left items related to him, including the model kit meant for him to finish on his own, at the Scramble Crossing, and promised to see the memorial everyday in his memory.
==Trivia==
*While he doesn't bother with his femininely name, any attempts of mocking it will leads to an all-out brawl by a 13-years-old kid.
*He mostly uses his Psychs through his Quartz Sword plastic model. Starting from Day 2, he also incorporate a shinai in his Psychs.
*He loves to nickname people, but only if they agree to it. The only exceptions are strangers whom he is suspicious to.
*Also... Don't. Snatch. Yuri's. Purchased. Items.
*He can't seem to stop himself from crashing onto walls.
==Quotes==
"This is just a game, right? You know, leveling up to get more skills, get equipment, that all she-bang." - Week 19 Introduction
== Gallery ==
Ichiro_yuri_trg_discord.png|Full body art of Yuri (Week 19)
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Category:Week 19
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