Hokari Kawakami (Ray)

## Hokari Kawakami

Hokari during the winter with grown-out hair

### Eye Color

One emerald green with golden and brown flecks (fancy hazel lmao), one sapphire blue mixed with sky blue mixed with pale purple

### Tattoos

The Japanese kanji for “Hisou” is on his left shoulder blade on his back, a celebration of his late maternal grandmother, a Nigerian woman who learned Japanese just so she could call her grandson this nickname meaning “grasshopper”. Aww!

### Scars

He has a scar on his hand from a traumatizing fight when he tried to kill his wicked daughter Tomie after she.. yeah..

### Fashion Style

Typically fancy and with at least one white or green accent on it, sometimes with traditional Japanese flair

## History

### Children

Tomie, Tsuneko, and occasionally other lil chaotic Kawakamis with names that start with Ts

## Personality

### Intelligence Level

6 out of 10 (or 7 or 8 out of 10) depending on the subject, because he’s really smart at some things and not too smart at others

### Likes

Kokoro, money, his kids behaving, grasshoppers, the color green

### Dislikes

His kids misbehaving, people close to him dying, Kokoro being upset

### Personality Flaws

Can be easily manipulated and is easily pushed to his breaking point as of recently

### Personality Strengths

He’s loyal and compassionate, a little too much

## Communication

### Accent

He mostly has an American accent, but he does have somewhat of a Japanese accent that he’s unable to shake fully

## Abilities

### Physical Weaknesses

He’s not as fast or as strong as he was when he was younger

### Intellectual Weaknesses

Due to Tomie being.. well, Tomie, he has some newfound psychological issues which cause him to have a short temper, be easily manipulated, or overattached, and is worried about aging

### Magical Powers

Sometimes he can turn into a grasshopper (what is it with the grasshoppers?!)

**Hokari Kawakami** is an OC created by Rayvena for roleplaying. Based on Hopper from a Bug's Life because Ray gets her inspiration from the stupidest things, he is portrayed as the father of the many Kawakami siblings, who often is tired out by their antics.

The Kawakami family and the Marleck family also are noted to have parallel characters, i.e. some characters who are very similar to one another but have no relation. Hokari’s parallel is Juno Marleck.

## Backstory

Hokari was born in Japan to Fuuka and Daiki Kawakami along with a brother (little is known about his brother, except for the fact that he got married as well and had a daughter named after Fuuka and another daughter Minato). Hokari had a good childhood until his father lost his business due to a scandal and the family had to move to America, where Hokari struggled to make friends and learn English, and had an addiction to Beatles music. However, after he became an adult, he did some serious grinding and eventually worked his way up to owning an international business and becoming rich again. He moved back to Tokyo and met the girl of his dreams: rich, popular, beautiful Kokoro Fukui.

The two fell in love and got married not long after, and the two lived happily ever after.. or did they? Because after Kokoro got pregnant, their daughter Tomie Kawakami turned out to not be the blessing they'd hoped she'd be (in fact, her given name means 'blessing') but instead a monster who possessed some sort of alluring charms, but possessed a cruelty and genius beyond her years. She purposely charmed the doctor who gave her mother a C-section so that her mother would have a scar, consistently manipulated Hokari, uprooting his life so that he feels tangled between loving and hating her, and caused trouble for her whole family, while retaining the appearance to others that she was perfect and amazing. When their child Toru came along, Hokari could breathe a sigh of relief, as even Tomie backed off a little and allowed her parents time with them. But Tomie's antics towards them and their own ambitions ended up leading them to leave when they were fifteen. Hokari tried not to lose hope, and could even see parts of himself in their son, ambitious young Takashi, but soon to find out that Takashi was just like Tomie. Kokoro became more angry and bitter, a recluse, and Hokari became more bitter and strict, though he tried his hardest to keep his wife from losing her mind.

But then came Tsuneko. Tsuneko looked incredibly similar to Tomie and was incredibly kind. Tsuneko would never dream of being vain and callous like Tomie and Takashi, but didn't leave early like Toru either. Even after Tsuneko left, though his wife began to deteriorate, Hokari holds faith that Tsuneko's kindness can help fix their family and constantly helps out his wife. They aren't the same couple as they used to be, but they're on their way..

## Appearance

Hokari has small eyes described as being "squinty", though they also have something his mother described as a "flicker of ambition" inside them. The eyes themselves are heterochromic due to his condition, making one eye dark, deep blue, and the other hazel, mostly brown but with some visible green flecks in them. His skin is darker than his wife's, being tanner and more yellowish, though his darker complexion and fuller lips may have to due with his African descent. He is tall and has some muscle, though depending on how old he is in the roleplay by the modern time he has usually started to dwindle and look older, with more wrinkles and even a gray streak of hair. In some roleplays, he has a scar on one of his fingers where he tried to fight Tomie, traumatized, after Tomie gave a particularly biting remark and started a physical altercation.