"Male" Kuwano

"MALE" YUU KUWANO

**Appearance**

Yuu Kuwano, born perceived as a male, whether he knew it or not, had to spend his time at school all the way up to and mostly through high school, and at home, masquerading as a boy with a male Gender Expression. This was not necessarily in line with his ultimate fate, but there was little he could do about it. Yuu always presented himself as clean and well-dressed, and at least in a neutral mood, but that did not impress anyone, except maybe Izumi.

Yuu's body size and shape is normal, but very short. He is shorter than all the boys in his class, and shorter than most of the girls. He was always considered the 'runt of the litter'. Yuu has a round, smallish face with shallow cheeks and a blunted chin. He has big eyes like a girl, in a light brown color. He has average eyelashes, for a boy, and thin, high set eyebrows. He wears glasses all the time. His hair is cut short, but hangs down with many tiny bangs all around. It is of a dark blonde/light tan color, giving the impression of a 'dirty blonde' coloration. His ears protrude slightly. Yuu has narrow shoulders, a shallow chest, average arms and hands, and average legs and feet for a teenage boy. His skin color is a medium to slightly dark beige, evenly toned all over.

Yuu was always dressed at school, very proper and business like. He wore the boy's school uniform. It consisted of a white dress shirt, with a narrow men's tie, over that a business jacket, dress pants, boy's socks, and oxford shoes. He always carried a backpack. Overall, a very agreeable style, but that did not stop the almost constant teasing bullying that he had to endure at school.

**Personality and Circumstances**

All through his childhood and into his teens, Yuu Kuwano was considered a 'good kid'. He actually had many positive personality traits. It is unfortunate that the traits that he excelled in were (wrongly) perceived to be feminine-only traits. Traits that Yuu excelled in such as love, long-suffering, goodness, mildness, and self-control. Such traits people thought made 'male' Yuu exceedingly feminine. This lead to his off and on bullying in school for many years. Given his undesirable situation in life, one could surmise that another factor about Yuu was that he also had a female Gender Identity. That may have factored into why the metamorphosis, knowing what it was doing, changed Yuu into an atomically correct teenage girl.

Yuu was perceived by the other classmates as shy, introverted, and weak in the social skills. Actually, Yuu's good personality was overshadowed by such an assessment by others. He was a good student, getting good grades. He was persistent in getting through school, despite the teasing and bullying that came his way. Yuu had a degree of self-confidence and motivation that kept him going. He had developed over the years a close, personal friendship with Izumi. That friendship may also have been a reason for him to endure the less-then-desirable situations at school. He showed respect and obedience to those in authority, and even to Izumi, when she would correct him 'for his own good'.

It seemed that Yuu did all he could under the unpleasant circumstances that would come upon him day after day. Such a prospect of life was not the best for any person, let alone Yuu who would take in all the social abuse, and hardly say a word at all. This factor just stated, the sorry life prospects, and the supposition that he was a transgender teenager with a female Gender Identity, these two factors could be the reason that the destiny behind the metamorphosis had decreed that Yuu transform from that sad, downgraded, teased boy, to that of, eventually, a happy, mature, stunningly pretty, teenage girl.

**Trivia**

In the Japanese language, the first name "Yuu" is both feminine and masculine, and means one who joins or fastens themselves to another person, for the express purpose of helping, assisting, or protecting that one.