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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Ryouta Kise
Age: 16
Canon: Kuroko no Basket
Canon Point: chapter 231
Character Information: here
Personality:
Kise is cheerful and outgoing, with a laid back personality that allows him to get along well with most people he meets. Though he tends to remain distant unless impressed by someone, when he does try to make friends, he does so easily and even his rivalries are generally more amiable and teasing than bitter. Though highly motivated as a member of a national-level basketball team, Kise is shown to treat members of opposing teams with friendly competitive spirit, particularly the former members of his middle school team who are now his major rivals in high school. When a rival he respects is playing poorly in a match against another team due to preoccupation, Kise even goes so far as to give that rival encouragement in the form of a much-needed wake up call. Even in the face of indifference or coldness, Kise maintains his cheerful attitude, brushing off any indications from his friends that they find his energetic friendliness overwhelming or even outright annoying. When confronted with outright antagonism, Kise prefers to avoid violence and keep his cool, maintaining a polite façade while showing his dislike. Though he claims he isn’t mature enough to ignore a challenge, he is also very aware of his public image as a professional model, and takes care not to engage in fights that would damage his reputation or eligibility to play basketball.
At times, Kise is prone to joking melodramatics, such as theatrically pretending to cry when one of his former teammates turns down an offer to join Kise’s team. He’s nosy, seeing no reason not to ask around about the people on his team and what’s going on in his friends’ lives, and persists in often calling and texting his friends even in the face of being told to “go die.” In general, Kise is somewhat airheaded and prone to flights of fancy – in the official novels for the series, he imagines the epic tale of one of his friends becoming a Dance Dance Revolution legend, and he allows his teammates to force him into helping them attempt to pick up girls. However, this airheadedness is mostly a show. Kise only allows himself to be pushed as far as he’s willing to be pushed, and when he’s on the court (or in other serious situations), all traces of his flightiness vanish, revealing a serious face that is so at odds with his appearance and usual bearing that even rival players have remarked upon how he seems way too intense. While his flighty nature makes it easy for others to underestimate him, Kise’s smiling veneer conceals a deep well of passionate feelings, determination and iron willpower. He takes defeat hard, going so far as to surprise himself by crying the first time he loses a basketball game, but only momentarily; Kise recovers from disappointments and turns a loss into strength and burning drive to practice more, improve himself, and take revenge next time.
These are the two sides of Kise Ryouta: his public image, charming, easy-going and somewhat shallow and airheaded, drawing literal crowds of fangirls to him, and the passionate, confident, and sometimes ruthless seriousness that lies beneath.
The source of Kise’s inner seriousness is his extreme confidence in his own abilities. He instinctively knows what he is physically capable of doing and what his own limits are, and he also knows that his limits are generally far beyond most people around him. This knowledge makes him cocky, even straying into arrogance at the beginning of the series. Kise has the ability to watch and replicate movements as long as they’re within his own physical capabilities, allowing him to learn sports extremely quickly, and this ability makes him self-assured and good-naturedly assertive. Due to his ability to learn so quickly, he has a somewhat low opinion of others who aren’t able to pick things up as easily, and this occasionally makes him a bit of a jerk. Kise is quick to judge others, such as when he first meets Kuroko Tetsuya, the series’ main character, and complains about having Kuroko as his mentor for the basketball club due to Kuroko’s basketball ability being worse than his own. However, Kise, once given reason to, is quick to change his mind and has no problem admitting when he’s made a mistake in judging someone. Upon being shown Kuroko’s abilities, Kise does an immediate switch in attitude and becomes one of Kuroko’s most enthusiastic friends.
Prior to the start of the series, Kise is a self-centered brat. He’s good looking enough that he’s a professional model and he’s able to excel at any sport he tries merely by watching others play for a bit and instantly copying their moves. He doesn’t study particularly hard in school, but he is, as he puts it, “kinda smart” and doesn’t have to try very hard to achieve things. Nothing gives him a challenge and he finds himself bored. This changes when he watches Aomine Daiki playing basketball. Aomine plays at such a high level and with such a unique style that Kise believes he would actually have to work exceptionally hard to copy him, and he decides to join Teikou’s basketball team to play with the person he admires so much because the thought of such a challenge finally lights a fire in him. Instead of drifting through his days in a bored haze, basketball, unlike the other sports he’s tried and carelessly quit from, can challenge him and let him have fun.
Teikou's team is based around a “winning is everything” philosophy and Kise adopts this style of thinking. He and his teammates become so skilled that they’re given the name “Generation of Miracles” for the strength of their abilities and these individual strengths cause the team to grow apart. Though he becomes friends with the other regulars, having no opponents who can challenge Teikou’s team sends Kise back to the boredom of having everything come too easily to him. In his boredom, Kise is inadvertently cruel, participating in a game within a game during the final middleschool championship match where he and the other Miracles play not to defeat their opponents, but to have the game end at a pre-decided score. At the time, Kise sees nothing wrong with this: the Miracles aren’t cheating, only using their extreme talent to control the game. He doesn’t give thought to how demoralizing this is to the team he’s playing against.
When the series starts, Kise is shown to have stopped caring all that much about teamwork when he can rely on his own abilities to get the win. He’s forgotten the reason he started playing basketball in the first place. For high school, he’s separated from the other members of the Generation of Miracles and chosen to go to Kaijou High. Kise is exceptionally skilled, easily the best member of his new basketball team, and though he works hard, he continues playing with Teikou’s philosophy on his mind: he plays more to win than to have fun. This changes when he plays a practice match Kurok and Kuroko’s new partner, Kagami Taiga, and loses. Kise’s loss to Kuroko and Kagami opens his eyes and makes Kise remember the thrill of playing basketball against a strong opponent. He remembers why he started playing in the first place, and how playing should be to have fun. The game changes him back to his previous self, as another of the Generation of Miracles puts it. Kise learns to love basketball again and puts his whole heart into playing for the sake of improving himself and meeting challenges head on.
Another turning point in Kise’s character evolution occurs when his team plays Touou - the school his idol Aomine Daiki has chosen to attend. When speaking before the match with his friend and captain, Kasamatsu Yukio, Kise learns that Kasamatsu desperately wants to win because he made a mistake that cost the team the win at last year’s tournament. Kise gives a superficial reason for his own determination to win, saying he only wants to get his first victory against Aomine. However, he is actually deadly serious, going on to say “I’ll win, even if it kills me.” Kise shoulders the weight of both his captain’s and his own desire to win, showing his growing commitment to playing together and caring about his team. He keeps a pretense of being immature, of being shallow and self-centered, but when it comes down to the wire, he can’t help but reveal that there’s more to him than just a pretty face and his own desires. This match marks the start of Kise’s journey to playing not for himself, but also for his team. He accepts his team’s strategy to foul Aomine out of the game even though it’s not how he really wants to play, because he’s started to learn that there’s worth to sacrifice when it’s for others.
During the match, Kise is able to grow further by challenging Aomine and finally copying Aomine’s play style. Kise shows a great deal of personal insight when he is forced to acknowledge that, deep down, he still admires Aomine and doesn’t want Aomine to lose because of that admiration. For his own sake and his team’s sake, Kise abandons that admiration and is able to play equally against Aomine. He is so determined that he overextends himself to the point of being unable to stand after the game. When Kaijo loses because Kise passes rather than relying only on himself, Kise rejects the idea that the loss is because he was weak enough to need to rely on his teammates. Instead, Kise recognizes that he couldn’t have come so far in the first place without his team’s help, and that the weakness is his own physical limitations, not relying on others. When his teammates don’t blame him for the loss, Kise still willingly shoulders the burden of victory for his team, accepting that his place as the team’s ace is to lead his team to victory. What he was looking for out of basketball was a team that would rely on him and support him in return. He wanted somewhere he could belong as himself rather than only another genius player who was only valued for his ability to win games.
As the Winter Cup tournament continues, Kise continues to grow closer and closer to his team. He perfects his copying ability to defeat his rival Haizaki, who he’d replaced on Teikou’s team in middleschool. This match serves as a very overt reveal of Kise’s callousness to those who aren’t his close friends; when Haizaki taunts him about having stolen his middle school girlfriend, Kise states that he doesn’t care about the girl or about having lost someone who was interested in him only for his status as a professional model. Things like a shallow girlfriend don’t matter in the face of achieving his goal and keeping his promise to meet Kagami and Kuroko in a rematch; Kise is focused on his own personal ambitions, on keeping his word, and not letting down the trust he carries with him from his team to lead them to victory.
When his rematch with Seirin finally arrives, he has worked so hard that he’s pushed himself to the point of injury, caring more about meeting the expectations of his team and not letting them down than about his own wellbeing. In middle school, Kise told Kuroko that he couldn’t imagine ever doing something like sacrificing himself to allow his team to win because doing so wouldn’t be fun. Through his time with Kaijou, he’s changed so much that he deliberately hides his injury from his team knowing that they wouldn’t want him to play on it. He makes the decision to sacrifice his possible future health to do all he can for his team in the present. Kaijou, full of players who will never be as good as he is, is still a team that he loves because it’s where he’s found support and belonging. His loyalty, once earned, goes to the extremes, and even though Kaijou loses the match, Kise, who once only cared about his own personal victories, has finally come to care more about his team than his goals alone. Though Kagami, Kuroko, and the rest of Seirin couldn’t overcome him as an individual, Kise isn’t satisfied with the win. He is no longer satisfied just with being the best by himself. He can’t feel good about a personal victory when it isn’t shared by his team and friends.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
- passionate
- arrogant
- ambitious
- playful
- easygoing
- callous
- loyal
- intuitive
- honest
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Fits, please.
Opt-Outs: werebear, minotaur, troll, goblin, arachne
Roleplay Sample: here
Name: Tor
Contact:
Other Characters: n/a
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Ryouta Kise
Age: 16
Canon: Kuroko no Basket
Canon Point: chapter 231
Character Information: here
Personality:
Kise is cheerful and outgoing, with a laid back personality that allows him to get along well with most people he meets. Though he tends to remain distant unless impressed by someone, when he does try to make friends, he does so easily and even his rivalries are generally more amiable and teasing than bitter. Though highly motivated as a member of a national-level basketball team, Kise is shown to treat members of opposing teams with friendly competitive spirit, particularly the former members of his middle school team who are now his major rivals in high school. When a rival he respects is playing poorly in a match against another team due to preoccupation, Kise even goes so far as to give that rival encouragement in the form of a much-needed wake up call. Even in the face of indifference or coldness, Kise maintains his cheerful attitude, brushing off any indications from his friends that they find his energetic friendliness overwhelming or even outright annoying. When confronted with outright antagonism, Kise prefers to avoid violence and keep his cool, maintaining a polite façade while showing his dislike. Though he claims he isn’t mature enough to ignore a challenge, he is also very aware of his public image as a professional model, and takes care not to engage in fights that would damage his reputation or eligibility to play basketball.
At times, Kise is prone to joking melodramatics, such as theatrically pretending to cry when one of his former teammates turns down an offer to join Kise’s team. He’s nosy, seeing no reason not to ask around about the people on his team and what’s going on in his friends’ lives, and persists in often calling and texting his friends even in the face of being told to “go die.” In general, Kise is somewhat airheaded and prone to flights of fancy – in the official novels for the series, he imagines the epic tale of one of his friends becoming a Dance Dance Revolution legend, and he allows his teammates to force him into helping them attempt to pick up girls. However, this airheadedness is mostly a show. Kise only allows himself to be pushed as far as he’s willing to be pushed, and when he’s on the court (or in other serious situations), all traces of his flightiness vanish, revealing a serious face that is so at odds with his appearance and usual bearing that even rival players have remarked upon how he seems way too intense. While his flighty nature makes it easy for others to underestimate him, Kise’s smiling veneer conceals a deep well of passionate feelings, determination and iron willpower. He takes defeat hard, going so far as to surprise himself by crying the first time he loses a basketball game, but only momentarily; Kise recovers from disappointments and turns a loss into strength and burning drive to practice more, improve himself, and take revenge next time.
These are the two sides of Kise Ryouta: his public image, charming, easy-going and somewhat shallow and airheaded, drawing literal crowds of fangirls to him, and the passionate, confident, and sometimes ruthless seriousness that lies beneath.
The source of Kise’s inner seriousness is his extreme confidence in his own abilities. He instinctively knows what he is physically capable of doing and what his own limits are, and he also knows that his limits are generally far beyond most people around him. This knowledge makes him cocky, even straying into arrogance at the beginning of the series. Kise has the ability to watch and replicate movements as long as they’re within his own physical capabilities, allowing him to learn sports extremely quickly, and this ability makes him self-assured and good-naturedly assertive. Due to his ability to learn so quickly, he has a somewhat low opinion of others who aren’t able to pick things up as easily, and this occasionally makes him a bit of a jerk. Kise is quick to judge others, such as when he first meets Kuroko Tetsuya, the series’ main character, and complains about having Kuroko as his mentor for the basketball club due to Kuroko’s basketball ability being worse than his own. However, Kise, once given reason to, is quick to change his mind and has no problem admitting when he’s made a mistake in judging someone. Upon being shown Kuroko’s abilities, Kise does an immediate switch in attitude and becomes one of Kuroko’s most enthusiastic friends.
Prior to the start of the series, Kise is a self-centered brat. He’s good looking enough that he’s a professional model and he’s able to excel at any sport he tries merely by watching others play for a bit and instantly copying their moves. He doesn’t study particularly hard in school, but he is, as he puts it, “kinda smart” and doesn’t have to try very hard to achieve things. Nothing gives him a challenge and he finds himself bored. This changes when he watches Aomine Daiki playing basketball. Aomine plays at such a high level and with such a unique style that Kise believes he would actually have to work exceptionally hard to copy him, and he decides to join Teikou’s basketball team to play with the person he admires so much because the thought of such a challenge finally lights a fire in him. Instead of drifting through his days in a bored haze, basketball, unlike the other sports he’s tried and carelessly quit from, can challenge him and let him have fun.
Teikou's team is based around a “winning is everything” philosophy and Kise adopts this style of thinking. He and his teammates become so skilled that they’re given the name “Generation of Miracles” for the strength of their abilities and these individual strengths cause the team to grow apart. Though he becomes friends with the other regulars, having no opponents who can challenge Teikou’s team sends Kise back to the boredom of having everything come too easily to him. In his boredom, Kise is inadvertently cruel, participating in a game within a game during the final middleschool championship match where he and the other Miracles play not to defeat their opponents, but to have the game end at a pre-decided score. At the time, Kise sees nothing wrong with this: the Miracles aren’t cheating, only using their extreme talent to control the game. He doesn’t give thought to how demoralizing this is to the team he’s playing against.
When the series starts, Kise is shown to have stopped caring all that much about teamwork when he can rely on his own abilities to get the win. He’s forgotten the reason he started playing basketball in the first place. For high school, he’s separated from the other members of the Generation of Miracles and chosen to go to Kaijou High. Kise is exceptionally skilled, easily the best member of his new basketball team, and though he works hard, he continues playing with Teikou’s philosophy on his mind: he plays more to win than to have fun. This changes when he plays a practice match Kurok and Kuroko’s new partner, Kagami Taiga, and loses. Kise’s loss to Kuroko and Kagami opens his eyes and makes Kise remember the thrill of playing basketball against a strong opponent. He remembers why he started playing in the first place, and how playing should be to have fun. The game changes him back to his previous self, as another of the Generation of Miracles puts it. Kise learns to love basketball again and puts his whole heart into playing for the sake of improving himself and meeting challenges head on.
Another turning point in Kise’s character evolution occurs when his team plays Touou - the school his idol Aomine Daiki has chosen to attend. When speaking before the match with his friend and captain, Kasamatsu Yukio, Kise learns that Kasamatsu desperately wants to win because he made a mistake that cost the team the win at last year’s tournament. Kise gives a superficial reason for his own determination to win, saying he only wants to get his first victory against Aomine. However, he is actually deadly serious, going on to say “I’ll win, even if it kills me.” Kise shoulders the weight of both his captain’s and his own desire to win, showing his growing commitment to playing together and caring about his team. He keeps a pretense of being immature, of being shallow and self-centered, but when it comes down to the wire, he can’t help but reveal that there’s more to him than just a pretty face and his own desires. This match marks the start of Kise’s journey to playing not for himself, but also for his team. He accepts his team’s strategy to foul Aomine out of the game even though it’s not how he really wants to play, because he’s started to learn that there’s worth to sacrifice when it’s for others.
During the match, Kise is able to grow further by challenging Aomine and finally copying Aomine’s play style. Kise shows a great deal of personal insight when he is forced to acknowledge that, deep down, he still admires Aomine and doesn’t want Aomine to lose because of that admiration. For his own sake and his team’s sake, Kise abandons that admiration and is able to play equally against Aomine. He is so determined that he overextends himself to the point of being unable to stand after the game. When Kaijo loses because Kise passes rather than relying only on himself, Kise rejects the idea that the loss is because he was weak enough to need to rely on his teammates. Instead, Kise recognizes that he couldn’t have come so far in the first place without his team’s help, and that the weakness is his own physical limitations, not relying on others. When his teammates don’t blame him for the loss, Kise still willingly shoulders the burden of victory for his team, accepting that his place as the team’s ace is to lead his team to victory. What he was looking for out of basketball was a team that would rely on him and support him in return. He wanted somewhere he could belong as himself rather than only another genius player who was only valued for his ability to win games.
As the Winter Cup tournament continues, Kise continues to grow closer and closer to his team. He perfects his copying ability to defeat his rival Haizaki, who he’d replaced on Teikou’s team in middleschool. This match serves as a very overt reveal of Kise’s callousness to those who aren’t his close friends; when Haizaki taunts him about having stolen his middle school girlfriend, Kise states that he doesn’t care about the girl or about having lost someone who was interested in him only for his status as a professional model. Things like a shallow girlfriend don’t matter in the face of achieving his goal and keeping his promise to meet Kagami and Kuroko in a rematch; Kise is focused on his own personal ambitions, on keeping his word, and not letting down the trust he carries with him from his team to lead them to victory.
When his rematch with Seirin finally arrives, he has worked so hard that he’s pushed himself to the point of injury, caring more about meeting the expectations of his team and not letting them down than about his own wellbeing. In middle school, Kise told Kuroko that he couldn’t imagine ever doing something like sacrificing himself to allow his team to win because doing so wouldn’t be fun. Through his time with Kaijou, he’s changed so much that he deliberately hides his injury from his team knowing that they wouldn’t want him to play on it. He makes the decision to sacrifice his possible future health to do all he can for his team in the present. Kaijou, full of players who will never be as good as he is, is still a team that he loves because it’s where he’s found support and belonging. His loyalty, once earned, goes to the extremes, and even though Kaijou loses the match, Kise, who once only cared about his own personal victories, has finally come to care more about his team than his goals alone. Though Kagami, Kuroko, and the rest of Seirin couldn’t overcome him as an individual, Kise isn’t satisfied with the win. He is no longer satisfied just with being the best by himself. He can’t feel good about a personal victory when it isn’t shared by his team and friends.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
- passionate
- arrogant
- ambitious
- playful
- easygoing
- callous
- loyal
- intuitive
- honest
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Fits, please.
Opt-Outs: werebear, minotaur, troll, goblin, arachne
Roleplay Sample: here