+1 shounen pianist

[pianistofraielin]

Hallo zusammen! The Guindo (healspec-mun) here, bringing you an addition to the high school crowd.

This is Raiel from Violinist of Hameln. Originally he was a wandering monster-hunter who defeated mazoku with the ~*power of music*~. Using a baby-grand piano. That he carried around on his back. Raiel is slightly crazy.

Here he is Russel Goldman, a 17-year-old high school junior who has lived in Locke City all his life. He does not play any instruments because he is completely tone deaf, but he does obsessively collect music and his iPod contains a playlist for every occasion. He is ~*SUPER FRIENDLY*~ and will try to make friends with anyone, but he is kind of a weirdo spaz.

Potential points of pre-existing CR:

• His mother, Patricia Goldman, has been in politics for about 20 years and is in her second term as the state comptroller. His father, Samuel Goldman, writes unpopular/terrible children's books.
• He attends the local public high school!
• Where he is on the football team
• And in the drama club
• And he has a habit of jumping in to protect people from bullies. He has gotten into fights and had a few suspensions for this.
• He collects loner/outcast kids who don't have many friends
• He has at least one MMO that he is EXTREMELY PASSIONATE about but idk what MMOs are established as game canon, so the details are open on that one.
• He has an Australian shepherd named Tchaikovsky who is the cutest ever and he can be encountered walking her or playing with her at the dog park.

He got his first Echo from tainted tap water out of the school drinking fountain on Friday and was sent to the principal's office during 3rd period for being disruptive because he kept laughing. So, you know, maybe your character saw that happen.

His info post is here and his app is here. If I don't have you friended on plurk yet feel free to add me at ninjarobotclone!

Comments

[toobig]

oh man his dad's a writer?

bertholdt probably knows him, especially if he's awful at it

[italktofish]

Music-loving weirdo spaz, you say? HI.

So Arthur here has quite possibly bussed around a few football teams in his tenure as a bus driver, even if he usually drives for the middle school.

[enrages]

karson hates your mom and his dog is cuter
take that

[shiromadoushi]

All the ones Bakura plays are vague WoW clones that have no set name soooo... we can make one up :D

[gogoghostpowers]

A guy on the football team who protects kids from bullies???

danny can't even reconcile these two concepts together. he cannot even fathom.

(anyway yes Russel has probably defended Danny from The Bullies at least once. And possibly tried to befriend him because Danny is a mostly-friendless guy.)

[unwakingwaters]

Maya is in the publishing industry and probably knows of his dad.

[originaloddcouple]

The power of friendship, you say?

Weirdo spaz, you say?

Perfect

The Dians are also former outcasts here, so that's a factor.

[erenplz]

oh my god raiel yes

Mikasa is in marching band, so plays at all the football games in addition to having a brother on the football team, so she quite possibly at least knows who he is, whether they've talked before or not!

/gently adds plurk

[respecting]

Oh hey, Beat's on the football team so they probably know each other! I'm deathdesu on plurk.

[drama8om8]

Hello this douche is in drama club too! Though she'd probably avoid Russel due to his outcast-befriending-ness (she has a reputation to uphold gosh). BUT STILL

[professorwolf]

Obviously he will have to know Lyall :B Whether as bio teacher or health teacher or just that teacher who happens to also be on the network....