Yuki Souma

Yuki Souma, also known as President, Prince Yuki, Princess Yuki, Rat Boy, Yuki Sohma, Yun-chan and Yunyun, is one of the main characters from the Fruits Basket series.
== Charactah Account ==
Yuki is the Rat of the Zodiac, younger brother to Ayame, and rival to Kyou. Despite being attractive, accomplished, and popular, Yuki is very reserved and possesses low self-esteem due to years of being controlled by Akito. Tooru helps him become more open with his feelings.
Yuki is depicted as an attractive, reserved, and accomplished young man with many admirers, but who finds being friendly really difficult. Yuki is talented at anything he tries (except cooking and cleaning). However, when Yuki was young, Akito Souma, the head of the family, kept him isolated from the rest of the family and convinced him no one liked or needed him. Because of this emotional abuse, Yuki has low self-esteem and feels isolated. He is known as "Prince Yuki", "Prince Yuki Souma", and "Prince Charming" at school, where despite his popularity he must avoid intimacy with girls lest they trigger his transformation into a rat. However, as the story progresses, Yuki begins to open up more and expresses his feelings frequently. It is shown that once he cares about someone, he will make an effort to ensure that they are happy and satisfied. It is also shown that Yuki is a hard worker once he has a passion for it.
Yuki has a fan club headed by Motoko Minagawa that tries to "protect" him from other admirers, with the result being that Yuki is further isolated. Yuki, however, wishes that he could be with people as friends, rather than be admired from afar, and envies both Kyou Souma's and Kakeru Manabe's easy ways with others. He is touched when, faced with the prospect of having her memory of the Souma family secret erased, Tooru Honda asks that he will remain her friend, which no one had asked him before. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Fruits Basket
* Fruits Basket 1st Season
* Fruits Basket 2nd Season
* Fruits Basket: Prelude
* Fruits Basket: The Final Season
=== Manga ===
* Fruits Basket
== Trivia ==
* The kanji for his given name, Yuki, combines the characters for "reason" and "hope".
* According to the Fruits Basket Character Book:
** Yuki and Kyou are the only cursed Soumas whose names aren't part of the poetic names for the months of the year. Natsuki Takaya states that the origin of his name was that: "The sound Yuki just popped into my head."
** Takaya states that she believes Chinese-style clothing suit Yuki's androgynous nature, and that she deliberately gave Yuki and Kyou different styles to distinguish them further.
** Yuki hates accessories, and likes wearing things with a thin and light feel.
** Yuki's hands are so clumsy that he can't even fold paper cranes.
** After Yuki opened up to Kakeru, he tends to keep his nails shorter.
* According to Natsuki Takaya’s Twitter:
** She intentionally made Yuki consciously decide to change his own style.
** Even though Yuki is horrible at cooking, he has gotten better at it.
** Yuki’s alcohol tolerance is relatively strong.
** Yuki’s father does exist, but he has abandoned everything and is practically absent from his life.
** After Chapter 72, (or Season 2, Episode 15), Tooru doesn’t wear the ribbon Yuki gifted her again. This is possibly due to Tooru realizing that Yuki has grown a lot and doesn’t need her support as much.
* Yuki has a secret vegetable garden near Shigure's house. He calls it his "secret base", and no one besides Tooru knows about it. Apparently, Yuki's reason for growing vegetables are similar to Ayame's reasons for making clothes.
** In Fruits Basket Another, Yuki's son, Mutsuki, has revived the garden.
* Yuki is not a morning person. When he first wakes up, he is basically sleep-walking, though he is a far better fighter when he's half asleep. But if something pushes his buttons, he will snap awake.
* Yuki is known for his bad cooking; Shigure once begged him not to cook.
* Saki points out that Kyou and Yuki's great dislike for each other is similar to a cat and mouse (especially since they are the zodiacs of the cat and the rat).
* In the official character popularity polls held by Hana to Yume magazine in Japan, Yuki came at 3rd place three times in a row.
* Yuki more than likely developed asthma from all the stress and trauma that Akito put him through; as a physical manifestation of all the strain.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Yuki Sohma at Fruits Basket Wiki
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