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Shiro Minamoto 源白

(fc: Izumi Sena and similar looking characters) Age: 15 Occupation: Duel Academia Student (Freshman; Obelisk Blue), Junior League Duelist, Minamoto Family Heir Aliases: BlueSamuwu雷 (Vrains URL), Samuwu雷 (Shorthand of Vrains URLS), ‘Ro, Minimoto, Slifer Slayer, Japanese Junior League Champion Date of Birth: 12/20 Ethnicity: Japanese Nationality: Japanese Affiliations: Duel Academia (Student), Obelisk Blue Dorm, The Minamoto Clan, The Junior-High Amateur Dueling League

(AU Inspiration: Based on an AU proposed by a friend’s Discord Server, though essentially is meant to exist and operate out of the plot’s most relevant Duel Academia)

Appearance Shiro is a thin young man with angular features, silver hair, and bright blue eyes. Due to him spending a great amount of his childhood indoors, due to early sicknesses, as well as the following years of duel training at his parent’s order, Shiro has a starkly pale complexion that causes his eyes and hair to appear even more striking.

While on campus and off, Shiro often wears the Obelisk Blue uniform, favoring white pants and undershirts, an expectation of his parents to show his status as an elite duelist at the academy. In more casual situations, or those where he can get away with not wearing his DA paraphernalia, Shiro still often favors wearing various shades of blue in his clothing. Due to his family’s affluence, Shiro often wears stylish clothing, and was taught how to wear those assigned to him in a way that’s visually appealing to look at.

Notably, along his fingers are a number of scars from repeated card cuts that he accrued from a childhood of being forced to draw and handle Duel Monsters cards even when physically and emotionally exhausted.

Personality A friendly and affable young man, Shiro doesn’t really give off the impression of someone who’s struggled much in his life. Being reared as part of an influential samurai family, who was able to achieve notoriety in the dueling world as a middle schooler. However, due to an early life that involved involuntary forced duel training, and emotional abuse at the hands of his parents who remained unimpressed with his performance, even after surpassing his older sister’s achievements, Shiro has developed a resentment for dueling, and towards his parents, that makes it difficult for him to make friends while at Duel Academia.

While Shiro doesn’t struggle making friends once his barriers are down, he often assumes that he isn’t able to relate to other students at Duel Academia, as their interests often heavily bias towards dueling, and Shiro has developed into the type of person who will actively avoid playing Duel Monsters, unless the situation calls for it. Shiro doesn’t adhere to the typical universal response of his world of resolving any interpersonal issue or disagreement with a duel, and often sees those who demand a duel of him, rather than some other recourse, as stubborn and unreasonable.

Shiro’s resentment of duel monsters has served to even squash his once existent relationship with duel spirits, particularly those of his true deck, only being able to hear the echos of his deck’s spirits, especially thanks to the fact that he no longer regularly carries around his main deck on-person.

Like many young people, Shiro craves the approval of his parents, though this largely seems to be a thing that simply will not happen as their interests seems to be more to use him, and his sister, as vehicles to raise their family’s influence through the duel world. Often times this places him in a position where he’s at odds with his elder sister, Gin, with whom he shares a bitter rivalry.

Due to the negative reinforcement of his parents, Shiro’s actual dueling ability suffers, though it simultaneously pushes him to only duel in brief games that he’s won, resulting in less time spent dueling, and fewer duels played overall.

Prior to his loss of love for the game, Shiro’s duel partner was a duel spirit in his card “Light and Darkness Dragon”, though not the same spirit that once inhabited Chazz Princeton’s deck, it seems to be a lower-level manifestation of the actual spirit of another card in his deck.

Biography Shiro Minamoto was born to his parents Akaki Minamoto and Aomai Minamoto, with an elder sister Gin Minamoto. Growing up as a small child, Shiro had very little exposure to either of his parents until he was four, often being raised more by professional caretakers. At the age of four, Akaki gave Shiro his firs dueling deck and set of booster packs, teaching him how to play. Having him duel against his elder sister, Gin, who had been playing for a number of years by this point, his loss was a given.

In the following years, dueling with Gin would be a daily occurrence, something to be done every morning, before school, after which Shiro was expected to return home and meet with instructors that his parents paid to teach him and Gin about dueling techniques. This additional tutoring would continue even as the two would attend preparatory schools that taught dueling as an elective subject.

Within his first year of active dueling, Shiro would occasionally be caught talking to his cards, as he claimed that they had voices and spoke to him. This would prompt his parents to have his cards kept away from him except during times when he was dueling, and seeing a child psychologist, though to poor results as Akaki and Aomai frequently would disregard the professional’s advice in very roundabout ways, feeling that indulging him in this behavior would result in him being open to others, which may reflect poorly on their parenting.

Shiro would not consider any of this especially frustrating or awful, though he was a bit lonely as his time under dueling tutorship left him little time outside of school to have with friends. However, things would take a turn, and dueling would become steadily less fun for him, as around the age of eight it was dictated by their parents that dueling against someone of a lower ability, such as Shiro, was bogging Gin down more than it was elevating the abilities of the younger sibling, and so it was to stop. This daily duel had been a way for the two to bond, and it showed with a camaraderie that the two shared. Akoki felt that in order to have the two reach their heights that the two would need to be rivals, and though they would continue to duel twice a year, to see if the daily duels would return, something that motivated Shiro to do better as he sorely missed these, they would often compare one’s progress to the other’s when only one child could hear it.

“You know your sister won that tournament. What have you done? You didn’t even place.”

“Your younger brother is far stronger than you were at that age, that must mean he’s more talented than you.”

“You couldn’t even finish first? Your sister’s generation was much stronger than yours, there should be no reason for you to not top everything.”

Remarks like this were fed to the two of them, though never ones that would reflect or indicate the other duelist’s opinion of each other, simply twisting facts to a dialogue that would cause mutual resentment and contempt. Often through this motivation, Shiro was forced to duel with his tutors far beyond the point of exhaustion, often causing injury and discomfort all over his body, notably with many cuts along his hands.

While he was never able to beat his sister, prior to enrollment at Duel Academy, Shiro managed to reach a peak of his own, by winning the Japanese Junior Regional Championship. Though his performance wasn’t satisfactory by his parent’s standards, and his subsequent first-round loss of the International League, against the West American Champion, only served to give his parents an excuse to put the boy down further, despite being the top in the nation, for his age demographic. It was through this treatment from his parents, being forced to duel under duress, and generally being told he was still not good enough, to the point that he was forced to change decks following his Japanese Championship win because it wasn’t a FTK, has caused Shiro to actively avoid dueling when the opportunity comes up.

Shiro enrolled into Duel Academia as a high schooler, with the intent to be an on-campus resident. Testing into the top five of the enrolling class, combined with his Regional Championship, Shiro was enrolled into Obelisk Blue.

During his time in Obelisk Blue, Shiro’s been challenged by a number of other duelists who intended to prove their stuff against a champion, only to lose. A large number of these challengers have been Slifer Red students, earning him the nickname among tailcoat chasers “The Slifer Slayer”. While these students often call themselves his friends, Shiro doesn’t think highly of them, not even calling them friends personally, since their only interest in him is his dueling ability, a skill which Shiro himself doesn’t even value.

Abilities and Skills -Physical Ability: Shiro is reasonably athletic and capable in sports, though hardly superhuman by any measure, he enjoys basketball and volleyball. -Dueling Skills: Shiro is a talented duelist, and is already able to compete on the international scale, having made it to the World Tournament for Jr. High, though he was eliminated in the first round in a 1-2 loss, against an American Regional Champion. Accordingly, he is an Obelisk Blue student in Duel Academy, placing him as one of the elite students in the freshman class. Shiro’s original deck is largely built around “Light and Darkness Dragon” and its supporting cards, with a focus on controlling the field and game state through the use of monster effects, and spells that allow him to easily manipulate the flow of his monsters by moving them from the hand or field to the graveyard and back. This deck is unique in that it’s an archetype which makes use of all the current summoning methods, similar to the D/D and Odd-Eyes archetypes. The deck that Shiro uses currently, though, is a Destruction Sword deck, that while he has snuck his ace monster “Light and Darkness Dragon”, mostly plays around Buster Blader and its support monsters instead. As it currently stands, though, Shiro’s ability in dueling has been stunted somewhat by his own hurt ego; and he often doesn’t perform at the peak of his abilities, thanks to a lack of familiarity with the deck that his parents demand he duel with, as well as his loss on the international stage, and further emotional browbeating by the Minamoto parents. -Academics: Shiro is studious, and is familiar with the theory of Duel Monsters, hence his ability to be placed and remain in Obelisk Dorm.

Superhuman Powers and Abilities -Duel Spirit Perception: Shiro is able to hear, see, and speak to Duel Monsters. This ability has become weakened over the last ten years, though, as he has lost his love for dueling this ability was dwindled. Now he can only hear the echos of duel monsters, and has largely forgotten the memories of his friends in his old deck. -Duel Energy Generation: A shared ability with many other duelists who have manifested such a change in the past (essentially any time it’s happened in canon) Shiro produces an unusually large amount of D-Energy (Duel Energy, Ener-D, Momentum, etc.) when playing Duel Monsters. When focused, and used with the correct means, Shiro is able to manifest physical Duel Monsters cards.

Weaknesses and Limitations -Mental/Emotional State: Shiro has been falsely diagnosed with auditory hallucinations, and is incorrectly expected to take antipsychotics, meant to treat schizophrenia. This is a result of an inability for others to corroborate his ability to see and hear duel monster spirits. Shiro’s actual emotional state is not a great one, though, as he is naturally defensive and averse to Duel Monsters, as a result of the abuse from his parents, which have caused him a host of issues that have gone unaddressed. -Confidence: Shiro’s dueling abilities have weakened as a result of his suffering self-esteem, and general hesitation when playing with his current deck.

Equipment and Support Gear -Shiro’s Decklists Here -Duel Academia Uniform (Obelisk Blue): Shiro wears a Duel Academia Uniform typical of Obelisk students, usually with accessory clothing that’s white in color. -Duel Academia Duel Disk (Obelisk Blue): Shiro uses whatever model of duel disk that is currently used by other members of the DA student body. Generally his model will be the same one employed by other Blue students. This is generally the duel disk that Shiro also uses in duels external to school, and after graduating, unless it becomes outdated.

#Samurai Master of Dragons (Shiro Minamoto)

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