Takumi Kiyohara

Takumi Kiyohara (清原 琢海, *Kiyohara Takumi*) is a 1st-year student who's a member of the Art Club at Love Letter High School.

## Appearance

Takumi is a shorter guy with brown hair and eyes. He wears a baggy gray jacket over his uniform.

## Backstory

Takumi has been drawing for about as long as he can remember. However, he feels as though his art has only really started to look good and improve within the last two years. He isn't fond of showing off work he's proud of, as the guy worries that he's not viewing his work very objectively. But he hopes to make art his career someday.

He was a fairly normal kid throughout his life except for the fact that he preferred to play alone and he had issues making friends and keeping them, most of them just seeming to forget about him.

When he was 13, his father died in his sleep, they were able to find the cause of death, but his mother said he doesn't want to tell him just yet. Apparently, his father had enjoyed making art as well, but had given it up years ago.

Going into middle school, he started to struggle with keeping his grades up in certain classes, which almost caused him to fail his final year of middle school.

Recently got back into music thanks to having a soprano melodica passed down to him. He's not that great at reading sheet music, so he tries to practice on his free time, or in a private area.

## Personality

Takumi is rather quiet and reserved, and will often speak in a formal, sparing manner to those he's unfamiliar with, generally giving single-word responses, as to avoid saying something that could be considered rude. However, if he manages to make friends with someone, he becomes increasingly talkative towards them.

Despite his tendency to be quite sarcastic at times, Takumi will continually have trouble picking up on other's sarcasm, usually mistaking it for a serious comment. He'll even have to think about most jokes for a while before finally getting it.

He's often one to get absorbed in particular topics and activities, mostly ones related to his interests, leaving him almost entirely unaware of the surrounding events. The only thing making him aware of his surroundings is if he's interrupted by someone, or he hears something unusual.

Finds confrontation overwhelming and tries to deal with it by either avoiding or ignoring it, keeping quiet about the matter unless it's truly pressing.

## Relationships

**Nagami Kiyohara**

Takumi's relationship with his mother is pretty good, if he wants to talk to her about something, she'll listen, as long as she isn't busy with work. She'll often share stories of what happened to her that day with him.

**Sensyou Kiyohara**

Takumi didn't know much about his father, seeing as he usually didn't get home until very late. But they were on good terms.

**Washio Kiyohara**

Takumi isn't on the best terms with his sister, mostly due to her being incredibly violent towards him when they were younger. They don't really talk to each other, especially since she'd much rather spend time talking to her friends now.

## Trivia

* Used to play drums for band in elementary school

* Has a pet Neptune Beetle named Scratch

* Has an affinity for mathematics and psychology

* Mainly draws stylized stick figures and landscapes