Yuuki Nishioka

**Yuuki Nishioka** (西岡 佑己, *Nishioka Yuuki*) is the mentor of Ritsu Kageyama and owner of the Supernatural Investigation Office.

## Appearance

Yuuki has black hair, usually styled with his bangs partially covering his forehead and swooping to the right, with the left part of his hair slicked back with a white x-shaped pin. He has fair skin with a fair amount of beauty marks scattered even in the oddest places, the oddest one being on his head which is mother mistook for lice. He's of average height and has a fair amount of muscle on him.

For work, his usual attire consists of a white button-down with a black waistcoast, sleeve garters, and tie, paired with black slacks and leather shoes, sometimes wearing a standing-collar blazer or a standard blazer. When it gets colder, he switches his white button-down for a black turtleneck and long coat. He wears black half palm gloves from time to time.

## Personality

Yuuki is straightforward, hardworking, and selfless individual. serious, stoic, and helpful towards others. While working, he's a person people could open up to, his stoic demeanor making him seem as competent, but his understanding and honest nature making him feel more of a friend. He's still like this outside of work though, as it's his actual general demeanor and attitude. Around friends and close-ones, he's more softer and shows a tiny bit more emotions than he usually does, and usually cracks jokes (even though they're bad) but his dry delivery makes it hard to see if they're jokes or not, and has to mention they're a joke afterwards.

He's driven by his want to help people and his morals. He usually goes with the flow but in a way that he goes with whatever he's given and plans his actions around it for the future. He appears confident and composed to his peers even when he was young, to which he did not understand how exactly, but he grew into that persona as to make his clients be more assured of his capabilities and be a potential recurring customer in the future.

## History

Yuuki went to the same school as Reigen in middle school and in high school, but was a year lower than him. Yuuki was one of the smarter kids in his grade and was quiet and was, to be frank, the 'weird kid' due to his avoidance of social interaction and loner attitude. In his first year of middle school, he went on with the year without befriending or interacting with anyone beyond school matters, and was usually either seen drawing or reading. He wasn't bullied though as he didn't particularly stand out and was generally helpful to those who asked. In his second year of middle school, he was placed in the same class as Reigen and was his seatmate. Reigen, with his pestering and need to talk, befriended Yuuki, and Reigen becomes Yuuki's first ever friend.

Reigen then comes to learn that no, Yuuki being alone and quiet isn't just a exterior mask he's actually just like that, but he sees some qualities that delve deeper than it, he's usually quiet because he just doesn't feel like speaking, he's usually alone because he likes being alone and has, frankly, a low social battery. After a few more conversations, Reigen finds out that Yuuki's shoulder-deep in fandom and had an arrangement of niche hobbies and could talk (rant) for hours on straight when asked the right question.

Reigen convinces Yuuki to join the newspaper club, specifically the literature division, halfway through the school year after reading some of Yuuki's writing and poetry. Yuuki stayed in the club until the third year of high school where he quit because he prioritized his studies. When Reigen graduated, Yuuki was left with no one to talk to anymore and was frankly, kinda lonely, but coped with it through studying. Halfway through his second year of high school, he had a 'glow-up' where he shot up in height, got a better haircut, and a sense of style.

It was only in his final year that he grew into his skin and sense of identity that he was finally paid attention to. He was still quiet and alone though but he was a little bit more open and openly helpful with studies.

In college, he majored in sociology and a minor in business and took a few electives as well like physical education, public speaking, and psychology. He took improv classes outside of college too as a way to help himself with his social anxiety and personal fears of standing out. He met Mitsuura half-way through his first year, Mitsuura majoring in business and the two of them sharing a few classes together and they became friends.

Yuuki's powers inspired Mitsuura to start the awakening lab, and when it started, Mitsuura employed Yuuki to mentor the espers Mitsuura scouted. This was also how yuuki found out that his power was to copy another esper's power, but he couldn't copy exact powers that are innate like telepathy and clairvoyance.

A year after graduating and working a desk job and part-timing at the awakening lab's research on psychic powers, he finally had the funds to start his own business, the Supernatural Investigation Office, after seeing how many supernatural events have been going on in seasoning city. His job's surprisingly stable though and had enough free time for him to pursue his hobbies and start a small side job on commissions with embroidery and bookbinding.

### Regarding Powers

Yuuki was born with immense psychic energy but his power was to copy/replicate another esper's power, and due to his lonesome and quiet nature from birth up to college, he never developed any techniques, but was always able to see, hear, talk to, and exorcise spirits.

Due to his high psychic energy, he had attracted the attention of Claw which then tried to recruit him while he was walking home from school as a kid, and was interrogated by an esper who had the power to minorly brainwash people through influencing their thoughts, Yuuki. not knowing he was an esper, had sent the claw esper back to Claw with the statement that Yuuki was powerless, as Yuuki had unconsciously copied the esper's power and influenced his thoughts.

Reigen never knew that Yuuki had powers because Yuuki only had psychic energy and not actual powers or techniques as he never met another esper. In his first year of college, he witnessed an esper use telekinesis and soon, he started documenting any supernatural thing that had happened in the world and locally, minus the ones that were an obvious cause of spirits. Yuuki had finally consciously developed his first defined power; telekinesis.

## Powers & Abilities

Yuuki knows a lot more psychic techniques but he doesn't often use them to do the upkeep and maintenance he has to do to keep these techniques. He does monthly sessions of copying every technique he has learned and taken note of in the notebook to make sure that while he doesn't actively remember the techniques, he can passively remember how to use them.

 Energy Transfer

## Etymology

* The name **Yuuki** means "help someone" (佑) (**yuu)** and "yourself" (己) (**ki**)
* Yuuki's surname **Nishioka** means "west" (西) (**nishi**) and "hill" (岡) (**ka**)

## Notes & Trivia

* Yuuki is lefthanded
* The x-shaped pin he wears was gifted to him by Kurosaki Rei
* Yuuki's much more literate and detailed when writing or typing and much prefers to just type instead of speak as he often tripped over his words when he was young.
* Yuuki still writes sometimes
* He honest to god loves his job and would rather die than give it up for the following reasons:
	1. He's his own boss
	2. His working hours are set in stone
	3. He has enough free time to do what he likes
	4. He knows his work like the back of his hand

* He's autistic but is not diagnosed
* Yuuki whenever he gets embarrassed, distressed, or panicked, would always go into the same position. if he's sitting, he leans forward, rests his elbows on his knees, and hide his face or push his bangs back in order to hold his head and stare with wide eyes at the floor, and if he's standing up, he squats down and does the same thing.
* He has sweaty hands
* He jumps for a few minutes when he's alone to destress, discharge excess emotion, or because he's bored
* He has several ways on keeping his schedule and routine and makes sure to have all of them updated: a schedule and calendar in the office, the same schedule and calendar on his desk, some notes taped onto the wall, his personal notebook, a discord server that only he's a part of that he uses as a tracker, and a few others as well.
* His files and papers are stored in his office with the original copies in his apartment, all arranged per day and in order of events that happened.
* He has a private personal Mobstagram with zero following and zero followers that he uses to track what he did in a day and some interesting things, and a public bookbinding account with 500 followers.
* He gets very upset if there's an abrupt sudden change in his routine but he masks it very well and takes it in stride, if it's something big he needs a few minutes to calm himself down before proceeding.
* His music taste varies but he listens to foreign music more, from alternative/indie to rock and roll to metal.
* Gets 6-5 hours of sleep per day and cannot function normally on anything less than that.

## Plot

### Clean-Up Arc

When Ritsu goes to the Awakening Lab after gaining psychic powers, it was the same day that Yuuki had free time to go to the Awakening Lab and check in on the kids. When Ritsu expressed his suspicion towards Yuuki, because he had assumed that he would just be another fraud like Reigen when mentioned that Yuuki didn't really have time to come by the past few weeks due to his office being busy, and also assumed that Yuuki would be weak like the awakening lab kids.

When Ritsu asked how strong of an esper Yuuki was, the Awakening Lab kids all said that he was the strongest one they've ever met, and Ritsu still didn't believe them because, they were all weak anyway and asked Yuuki to show his power. Yuuki went along with it and didn't read the suspicion lacing Ritsu's tone, lifting up the surrounding objects with his telekinesis, unbending the spoons and frying pan Ritsu bent, and Asahi says that he could even use pyrokinesis like him and was teaching him how to control and gain more flames. Asahi asks Yuuki to demonstrate, but Yuuki refrained from doing so because the fire alarms would go off. Ritsu approves of Yuuki but still thinks his brother is stronger, but he was impressive in his own right.

### Seventh Division Arc

When the awakening lab kids get kidnapped and Mob and Teru go to rescue the kids and Ritsu, Mitsuura had tried calling Yuuki but Yuuki had his phone turned off and was already sleeping. Yuuki had only come to know of the incident on the day after and was notified by Mitsuura and immediately rescheduled all the appointments of the day and headed to the awakening lab and checked on everyone and their physical, emotional, and mental health.

Yuuki was severely devastated when he learned of the events that had happened and it disturbed him to know that he was just sleeping when they needed him the most and fell quickly into despair. Mitsuura comforted him and said that everything turned out fine in the end, but Yuuki still didn't like that it even happened in the first place. When Teruki comes to visit the Awakening Lab, he and Yuuki meet, and when he expressed interest in training the kids, Yuuki said that he was already training them, though it would be good to have another person around whenever he couldn't come by. Yuuki did not like the idea of training the kids just in case claw strikes again, but he'd rather them to be prepared rather than blindly wait for a possibility that another savior comes by.

Ritsu finds Yuuki's office and visits him during office hours and asks Yuuki to mentor him, wanting to develop himself and his psychic powers, but also to partially see if Yuuki was stronger than he had initially assumed.

A few days pass and Yuuki is visited by a handful of the former 7th division scars, particularly Muraki, Sakurai, and Koyama. While doing a consultation of them, Yuuki has a growing suspicion that these were the espers that the Awakening Lab, Mitsuura, and Ritsu had mentioned, it was when they said that they had done pretty bad things before and wanted to get better, to reintegrate into society, that Yuuki confirmed his suspicions. When Yuuki was about to basically say that they were former psychic terrorists, Ritsu comes into the office, and freezes when he sees the three psychics and instinctively put up a barrier while telling Yuuki to run, and was about to attack the three, and the three were about to attack Ritsu too. Yuuki puts up a barrier around every single one of them before the attacks could land anywhere, walking in between the two groups, and says to Ritsu that he thought he had more faith in him, and said that violence inside the office is not tolerated, and turns towards the three and said the same goes for you guys too.

Ritsu stammers and points saying that they were the- but yuuki cuts him off, "The esper kidnappers who kidnapped you and the kids, I know." The three's eyes widen at this and panic, Koyama using his telekinetic helix to go and attack, but Yuuki who blocks him and copies his technique, throwing a punch at Koyama and knocked him to the ground, and said that "Violence. Is not permitted inside the office. With the exception of self-defense."

Yuuki disables his technique and sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose, and said that the three of them were in the middle of saying that they wanted to better themselves, so why on earth did they decide to attack a child and attack him? If they really planned to better themselves, then they better change their mindsets, reflexes, and mentalities. Because no normal person in society does that, and basically tells them to go get a life and kicks them out of the office.

A few days later the three of them show up again and ask to be mentored by him because they couldn't get a hold of Reigen. Yuuki employs them at the office instead because the most demoralizing thing and to be treated lesser than human beings is to work customer service and it would humble them to be treated like how they treat the people they think they're above over. Yuuki doesn't hire them immediately, sending them away with an "I need to think about it, come back tomorrow for your answer," and tells Ritsu about what he thinks about the situation, and how would he feel if he employed these espers in the office?

Ritsu says that if they're that keen on bettering themselves then.. it shouldn't be a bad decision to have them work as well. And Yuuki then rephrases, asking how would Ritsu *feel* personally having them as coworkers and he freezes, and said that he won't be the most comfortable at all, but he doesn't want to impede on other people's betterment, and Yuuki asks if it would be alright with him if they only met on Tuesdays and Thursdays and have the three work for him when Ritsu wasn't around and Ritsu agrees after a bit of thinking. Yuuki then informs the esper government about the recent development and they allow him to mentor the three, since they were lacking cells to put them in and needed more espers who were actually capable on their side.

## Alternate Timelines/Universes

* Bungo Stray Dogs Crossover
* Ageswap