Rakurai Otoishi

**Rakurai Otoishi** (楽井音石) is a 'major' antagonist in the first part of Jojo's Bizzare Adventure: Fate Reborn.

Born into the life of organized crime, Rakurai began learning from his father on how to be a yakuza. After the gruesome death of his father and family, Rakurai went on to create the Otoishi Family; A yakuza family within the Kurosawa Clan. Now feared throughout all of Tokyo, he rules from the shadows with his stand **Boku no Rhythm wo Kiittekure.**

## Rakurai Otoishi

### Born

December 1, 1995
Osaka, Japan

### Appears in

Part 1

Rakurai has long black stringy hair tied into two high ponytails that jut upward and outward. On the occasion, he'll let these pony tails down when alone. He has small blue eyes with slightly thin eyebrows and a mark that extends from both sides of his face across the bridge of his nose as tribute to his father. He has a medium build with some muscle, which pairs with the massive oni yakuza tattoo on his back that reaches all the way down to his waist.

He wears black eyeliner and sunset eyeshadow as a way to lure his enemies into a false sense of security. He also wears black nail polish on both his finger nails and toe nails. He'll wear multiple different attires for different situations, usually on the more upper-classman aspect. He can be seen wearing either a mix of white, red, and gold attires or just full black outfits. Due to his nicotine addiction, he's usually seen with a cigarette in his mouth

On most public outings, he carries a sword bag on his back with a nodachi in it. During more serious and planned battles (such as the warehouse incident with Carmen Miyako), he carries both his sword bag and a duffel bag which has multiple weapons and items in it that pair well with his stand.

## Personality

Rakurai is a cold and calculated menace who is not afraid to show off his terrifying aura to others. Due to being mentally hardened from a young age, he tends to be emotionless when it comes to all kinds of situations but his main emotion is 'serious businessman'. Despite this, a destructive side is vivid in his personality since destruction is what his stand revolves around. This is limited to nothing, ready to decimate whatever stands in his way of power. In the middle of all this is his code of honour, which he strictly follows and applies to the Otoishi Family. He has a soft side for people on the younger side of age, usually comparing their lives to his own and how vastly different they are. While he holds no hesitation, the lives that he takes and ruins tally up at the end of the day that have him questioning his identity every day.

Despite appearances from the exterior, Rakurai greatly cares for all of his lieutenants and his captain in the Otoishi Family. He's willing to put his life on the line to save them, acting like a father figure or a big brother to some of the members. He believes that the same ideals should be applied to himself, as he wants them to obey him no matter what the case is. He treats his own men like family since he lost his own at such a young age. He believes that he's the reason why his family is dead, which is the reason why he acts the way he does with his men. This'll only show if he's grown close enough to them.

## Background

Rakurai was the child out of his other 5 half-siblings to become the next chairman in the lineage of the Otoishi Clan. His father, Denatsu Otoishi, had grown too old and had given up on leading the Yakuza at the time due to the lack of control they had across their cities. He raised Rakurai very strictly to the point where he grew up with no childhood friends, only making slight friends with the soldiers that would be appointed to Rakurai when he would go out on small walks. These soldiers became like family to Rakurai after a while

At age 13, Rakurai would have already been trained in many different styles of fighting styles so that he would know how to defend himself at least a little, his father taking in the fact that his stand had not yet manifested. One day, Rakurai had woken up feeling terribly sick like he couldn’t move out of bed. Asking his personally assigned soldiers to bring him to the clan estate’s garden. Unbeknownst to him, these unknown small pins with clocks attached to them were being placed with every object he passed by. Taking a seat underneath the azumaya in the garden, Rakurai would see one of these pins and would go to examine them. Suddenly, the bomb would jump up and explode, setting off the rest of the bombs that were already placed throughout the home. Firefighters would arrive on the scene and would save Rakurai from the estate ablaze.

Rakurai was eventually brought under his uncle Inazuma's wing, who then revealed what killed Denatsu and his children. Rakurai was mentally broken into tears, being forced to take on the burden of murdering his family by accident. Inazuma would've used this as a way to hire Rakurai into a mercenary group that he owned, training both him and his stand in the group. Years would pass as he continued working for the mercenary group. Inazuma would introduce him to Minato Kurosawa, the chairman of the Kurosawa Clan which was extremely close to the former Otoishi Clan. Rakurai and Minato became extremely close, which had Inazuma growing apart from them. After 4 months of knowing each other, Minato would reveal to Rakurai that Inazuma pierced him with a stand arrow in order to get rid of Denatsu so that he could take over the clan. Enraged, Rakurai hunted down Inazuma and his mercenary group before destroying them all with his Boku no Rhythm. Once this was done, he would be brought into the Kurosawa Clan and would be given his own family: The Otoishi Family. With his former clan's legacy reclaimed, Rakurai would go on to become one of the strongest figures in all of Japan.

## Abilities

   Boku no Rhythm wo Kiitekure is a close-range stand that has the ability to insert small bombs into anything Rakurai touches. The bombs take the form of small pins topped with clocks that affix themselves to any surface, popping up and going off right after they're inserted. The pins do significant damage when they go off in large groups of pins. Rakurai can't be damaged by these pins, making him practically untouchable.

## Trivia

* The mark across his face is attributed to his father, who was born with that as a massive birthmark just like the man-made mark Rakurai has on his face. He did this in memory of his father
* He's a lightweight when it comes to alcohol, being unable to be stable when drinking large amounts. It's during these drunk times when Rakurai shows actual emotions
* He's looked down upon by the older members of the Kurosawa Clan for allowing foreigners to join his family. He sees them as hard working and obedient individuals who can get his dirty work done for him with ease.
* His only remaining family member is his half-sister, who is a member of the Chinese triads in Hong Kong.