Kenchiro Mochizuki

"Kenchiro Mochizuki's Student ID, drawn by PrinceyUwU1"

Kenchiro Mochizuki is a student in his second year at **[V̴͕͉̍O̷̡͚̽̒͜͠I̸̭̻͐͊D̷͉̟̯̔]** high school. His current goal is to be the Vice President of the Sewing Club.

## Backstory

Kenchiro was born in the same city as his current high school, he has lived in the same house for the entirety of his life. He resides there with his mother and his older brother, however both have jobs with long-hours. They are often absent the entire day, getting home at midnight and leaving at dawn. Despite the negligence, Kenchiro loves his family. He only wishes they were home more often.

When he had first started going to a public school, he was well-known for having very ugly hair. Some parts would be shaved while other's would be long enough to reach past his jaw. It lead many students to avoid him, while some would openly insult him by remarking that he looked like a coconut. The horrendous haircut was the doing of his older brother, who told their mother a story of walking in on Kenchiro cutting his own hair in the bathroom. Kenchiro was the one punished for this, as he was not allowed to get all the hair shaved off until it had grown to a more normal length. Due to the lasting humiliation he felt for months on end, he is much more hesitant to ever get it cut. It is now kept to his shoulders, and he will become incredibly nervous if another student remarks that he should trim it.

His first real friend appeared when he was eight years old, and in his excitement, Kenchiro ended up with a hand coated over in bandaids from sewing mishaps. He had made the other boy at least nine different dolls, made with love even while the stitching was poor. Their friendship was short-lived, as the other boy agreed to stop talking to Kenchiro in exchange for two chocolate chip cookies.

Kenchiro assumed that he had been left because he did not act friendly enough, and instead of simply making dolls, he decided that his hair would be dyed. His natural color was present up until his first year of high school, where he dyed it a candy red and started to tie it into a ponytail to match with a certain bow-having student. Despite their resemblance in bow-wearing, he had already worn a pink bow in his hair to keep his bangs out of his face.

Many of the friends he has made since his first year have not lasted long, and he struggles to talk to new people.

## Personality

Kenchiro is a very happy student. He will wear a smile for as long as he can, it has extended the amount of time it takes for the corners of his mouth to get tired. When talking, he uses a bouncy tone that makes his normal speech resemble more of a joyful tune. He is the type of person who would willingly and happily put any other student's needs ahead of his own, no matter the circumstances.

He is considered by many to be weak and sensitive, frequently bursting into tears if he believes another student has insulted him. While it is a truthful rumor, he does not hold the same energy with people he already considers a friend. Often he is befriended by a student needing an ignorant sidekick who would not question their intentions. Kenchiro is generally submissive to a person he trusts, going as far to believe he deserves to be in trouble if he is physically harmed in any way. In his first year, he was often seen with bruises littering his arms, given to him by bullies he considered to be his closest friends.

While being generally social and actively cheerful, he is easily intimidated by students who are larger than he is in any way. He will rarely be the one to start conversations with a bigger student unless it is forced.

Even with his cutesy and childish nature, Kenchiro still has the ability to be unnerving to most students. He is not simply avoided because he acts like a toddler, or because he holds friend's by their sleeves while going down the hall. Kenchiro is incredibly obsessive, to the point of being willing to track down someone if they moved away without telling him. He would put in any amount of time to be able to show up at their house and tell them that he missed them. With his eagerness to gain a best friend, he will attempt to "speed run" the process of getting to know each other by memorizing the other person's schedule and taking up all their free time. No other student has attempted to explain to him why he should not behave in this way, so he sees no issue with acting the way he does.

He is also a prominent member of the sewing club. He goes to their set club room earlier than every other member in order to set up their equipment, and he greets every member who comes in with a quick peck to the cheek.

There is a type of ranking to the friendships he does manage to maintain. Friends will have a plush doll hand-stitched by him, he sleeps with the dolls sitting up on his dresser as means of soothing his loneliness. Closer friends will have the doll handed over, and he will make a separate clone for his dresser. When he considers someone a best friend, he will dye his hair to match the color of theirs, and he may even try to adjust his speaking patterns to match their tone of voice.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Mother

Kenchiro has a fairly good relationship with his mother. While she is often at work, she will leave money on the kitchen counter for him to buy himself lunch and clothing. She is almost never aware of his change in hair colors until several days had passed, and she simply tells that she does not mind as long as he is happy and safe.

They spent the most time together when Kenchiro was still a young child, and they saw each other less and less as he grew older. He wishes she were home more often, though he is not upset with her for having to work. He has made several dolls of his mother, one of which goes from his heel to his knee. It resides on his bed, and he holds it when he sleeps. He will often say, "goodnight, clumsy boy," before going to sleep in a way to mimic how she would tuck him in when he was much younger and smaller.

#### Brother

His brother is older by four years. Kenchiro adores his sibling, but his affections are not well received. His brother is bitter over their mother's attention focusing entirely on Kenchiro, and he tries to counter it by ignoring the boy entirely. Out of the two working relatives, he gets home first and is the one who is always greeted by an energetic younger brother. While Kenchiro stays up later to show off all the activities he had completed, his brother hardly bats an eyelash in his direction and goes straight to bed.

When they were growing up together the negative attention was much more intense. Kenchiro would be left home with his brother as a babysitter, and this would often lead to a torture session that would last until their mother finished work. His bruises were always beneath clothes, and those that were visible would be blamed on him falling or bumping into a table. It lead his mother to affectionately call him a "clumsy boy", and the torment worsened. The only reason the hatred was not mutual was his brother assuring that he would beat him out of love. It was explained as, "teaching him how to handle the real world," and Kenchiro accepted the crude reasoning very easily. Due to how he was treated while growing, he is much more stubborn on his friends being good people even if they are rude to him, whether it be name-calling or even inflicting bruises onto his body. His older brother is not aware of his own impact on Kenchiro's submissive nature, though he would feel a twinge of guilt if he knew.

### Current Friends

#### Bow

While they had stayed together throughout his first year, they grew apart very easily near the end. Going into his second year, they hardly ever give each other more than a wave when passing down the halls. Kenchiro had stopped dying his hair red just before the first school year ended, and that has left it at its natural shade by his second year. He still wears his hair up in occasional ponytails, though it is much less often.

#### Edward D. Evans

While Edward is only a humorous English "tutor", Kenchiro considers him to be one of his closest friends. Shortly after their first few brief conversations, he stitched up a doll of Edward to put on his shelf. It was given to the other student just a couple of days after, and it was received rather awkwardly. It had been sarcastically dismissed as, "not creepy," but Kenchiro did not understand the lack of truth behind the two words and hurried to assume that Edward loved his gift. He frequently tries to schedule trips to the mall, or study sessions in the library. All of his attempts are rejected.

Despite their struggles in holding regular conversations, Edward does help him with English by having him quote lines from a well-known and gone app. Kenchiro becomes excited when he hears the first half of a vine, and he will eagerly call out the rest. That is as far as their friendship goes.

Kenchiro had a crush on him, but it did not last very long once he realized they had little in common.

#### Shinsō Amane

Kenchiro considers Shinso to be his closest friend out of the several people he knows. Shinso is also the friend Kenchiro has spent the most time with. His life became generally better after they became friends, as this was the first person who would actively prevent other students from being harmful to Kenchiro. He does this by stepping in their way if they seem to be rearing back or getting angry, and that often sends them walking away. The first few times this happened, Kenchiro was left wondering if the other boy had fallen in love with him, and that he chased away his friends out of jealousy. His mind has yet to change from that stance.

They met when Kenchiro found his torn jacket in the club room. He took it upon himself to sew it back to repair, and he even pulled the coat on to see if the stitches would come undone too easily. As he was testing its durability, Shinso had entered the club room to see if it had been fixed yet. That sparked their friendship, and Shinso quickly became his favorite friend when he realized how kind he was.

Shinso has been to his house only one time, where Kenchiro baked them a strawberry shortcake to share. They finished the night with watching a scary movie, and Shinso went home soon after.

## Trivia

* Even while it is said his first name means "Good Luck", he has almost the worst luck someone could have. With his cruel older brother, absent mother, and his general history with friendships, it is hard to see why he smiles so much.
* He once got the phone number of a well-admired basketball player, and he bought a burner phone each time he was blocked from sending texts. This went on for a week and a half before a restraining order was filed against him.
* Currently, his favorite genre of music is "Bubblegum Pop". He also listens to some American music to try and impress his English-speaking friends, mainly from Kesha or Avril Lavigne.
* There is a strawberry patch on Shinsō Amane's gym coat, Kenchiro stitched it on himself as a surprise. Seeing it makes him very happy.
* His favorite type of food is fruit, and his favorite fruit is strawberries. It makes him giggle when a strawberry is too big to fit in his mouth.
	+ A closer runner up to his favorite fruit was oranges, as he liked to bite into slices and make the peeling look like a big smile. The only thing that prevented it was that he thought oranges were bitter.
* In his first year of high school, he wore a bow-tie with his uniform. After drifting away from his redheaded friend, he switched it to the normal uniform tie.
* After losing a friend, he can almost never remember their first or last name. Kenchiro does not know why this happens, but he assumes it is because his older brother used to talk about the first friend he lost on repeat and left him crying for hours.
* He is very, very afraid of thunder. When it is time for bed during a storm, he gathers all of the dolls on his dresser and buries himself with them beneath his blanket. Even then, it takes a very long time for him to manage to fall asleep while it is thundering outside.
* Kenchiro cannot hear the word, "smoke," without holding his stomach and sometimes gagging. This came from his younger days, when he was peer pressured into taking a hit from a cigarette. For several minutes he coughed so hard that he thought he would get sick on the living room floor, and his throat was sore for three days after.
* His "voice claim", or example of what he sounds like, is Stephanie Meanswell from the Lazytown television show.