#what i mean is... basically if all of them were in an o.tome game; that would be a disaster

[vastnbeyond]

to me, all my muses here are princes, just that some sometimes they forget it -coughs- gilly -coughs- romano -coughs- f.eliciano -coughs-

[alterlifes-a]

✱   HC DUMP .  ┊  tooru  &  technology

tooru has two phones  !  one is an i/phone , to keep with the times and the unfortunate downfall of the flip phone , and also to ... admittedly , download some more games . the other is a flip phone , because it usually gets the work done when he has to focus on his studies  (  he’ll bring it to school , for example , because it has enough games to pass the time when he’s commuting , but isn’t enough of a distraction so as to waste his time paying attention to it , and not to his studies / classes  ) . he has since given the latter to hikaru , however .  [ x ]  [ x ]

he has no idea how newer technology works , mostly because japanese culture (  and , arguably , most of east asian culture  )  is very “ don’t rock the boat ” - esque . hence , if it isn’t broken , then don’t fix it . as such , he’s often behind on what is in or out of fashion in terms of technology . like, he’s probably only now gotten into f.lappy bird and p.okemon go . however , once he learns about the ins and outs of something new , he hangs onto it really quickly . you may have just introduced him to p.okemon go 2 weeks ago , but he’s already the top player in his area !  [ x ]

some of the things he enjoys most while riding the train to school or his kyudojo is playing games , or reading mobile novels  (  basically like fanfiction  ) . as an avid author and poet , tooru really enjoys seeing the writing styles of people he sees online . however , he also likes to read things ironically , especially when it comes to s/lash fiction portrayed terribly wrong . it makes him laugh , because he’s part of the lgbt community , and thus can tell when a story has been written by someone who is cishet and knows nothing about being queer whatsoever .  [ x ]

his phone cases are usually decorated in maki - e inspired designs  !  he likes simplistic designs , and while he is definitely into “ cute ” culture  (  pastels , s.anrio , stars / milk boxes / whatever with little faces on them , just ... cute things in general  ) , he finds decoden waaay too cluttered for his tastes . also , his fingers can never properly grasp onto decoden cases . he’s broken way too many of his old ones from when he was 14 to ever look back at them . however , his n.intendo 3.ds is covered in a decoden design at the top , since he has less of a problem with it .  [ x ] 

the maki - e design is a reference not only to tooru’s more minimalistic sense of aesthetic (  he’s also into wabisabi , aka beauty in imperfection  ) , but also represents how in his first life , as sakai korekiyo , he was born into a family of retainers to the tokugawa shogunate , marking his status as former nobility in another life , as maki - e symbols were usually used to represent houses of great status [ x ] [ x ]

in accordance to him occasionally indulging in “ cute ” culture , tooru has lil stickers on his phone , and has set endearing ring tones / text tones . if you’re close to him , he has personalized ring tones / text tones for you .

hikaru’s is a recording from a video tooru took , where hikaru sneezed at the end . he clipped it so it’s just the sneeze .

imani ( @/gumpops ) is whatever song she’s recently gotten him hooked to . it’s also sometimes b.ubblegum kk from the a.nimal c.rossing soundtrack

reece ( @/munchingmuff ) is a baby bear , probably from an anime , going “ gau ” , because reece reminds tooru of a big teddy bear

tyler ( @/viperfang ) is a snake hissing . tooru doesn’t even know about tyler’s story , or his affinity towards snakes , but he just has this weird feeling that attributes him to them , so he kind of just ... goes with it .

aomine ( @/powerforwards ) is a choir of angels singing because 1. aomine is a cute angel , and that’s just the truth ^_^ also 2. it’s literally a miracle if tooru can get that guy to text him , or text back , and even then , it’s usually “ what ” . he still treasures the texts he gets from him , though .

link ( @/hylaen ) is ... the sound of bowls hitting each other . don’t ask why , only res and i know why .

nines ( @/hisrust ) is birds chirping because tooru cherishes the day they went out to go meet some sparrows in the park .

his 3.ds is decorated with mint and brown colours . unlike a lot of decoden , which he finds to be cluttered , his is symmetrical and consists of a simple colour palette , as opposed to putting stuff all over the place . he also has those 2000s popup stickers on the inside of his system .

he doesn’t play the 3.ds often . he plays pokemon , but he isn’t a super avid fan that knows everything about the series . he can’t even name a majority of them , he just knows the ones that he likes .

he also enjoys playing h.arvest moon / s.tory of s.easons games

o.tomes are his secret passion , but he can never find any that he really likes . it’s the same with the mobile novel thing , he enjoys visual novels because the writing is really good when you’re working with certain ones , but others are just a mishmash of awful tropes that he absolutely hates . he wishes there were more queer o.tome games , or just queer visual novels , in general . he knows of english ones , but would rather wait until somebody comes out with a fan - translation , since his english isn’t the best .

tooru tends to adhere to cellphone etiquette . he finds it really rude when people talk loudly on their phones in public , but also given his benefit - of - the - doubt nature , he usually gives the person a pass if it sounds like they’re on their phone due to an emergency of some sort .  he keeps his cellphone off if he’s standing next to the priority seating  (  this is due to the belief that cellphone radiation interferes with medical instruments such as pacemakers ; he doesn’t really believe this to be true , but better safe than sorry , he supposes  ) . when he’s sitting or standing away from those seats , however , he just browses the internet , reads up on news , plays games , etc. he usually keeps his cellphone on silent / manner mode , even when he’s at home , however . he doesn’t have many friends , and the ones he does have aren’t wont to randomly call him , anyway , so it’s not like he needs to have his ringtone and text message noises blaring all the time . [ x ]

spams kaomoji while texting like there’s no tomorrow

also really into shorthand writing . will use old as heck abbreviations like 4-6-4-9 ( yo - ro - shi - ku  /  hello / regards  )  or 8-8-9-1-9 (  ha - ya - ku - i - ku  /  hurry up  ) . also likes to use www , which is often seen as the japanese equivalent of “ lol ” , because www can sound like wa - wa - wa , in which ‘ wara ’ means “ to laugh ” . he spams www to the point where it gets a bit annoying , kind of like how we tend to use lol as punctuation at this point .

really humble , almost takes no selfies at all . if you went through his photo gallery , it would just be scenery photos of stuff like the sunset , and also photos of his friends .

has both the kana and the romaji keyboards . the latter just helps him out when he’s learning english , or trying to get used to the english keyboard .

likes to hang out on online forums and talk about stuff . he usually sticks to lgbt - related forums . it’s actually how he realized he was trans ! he had become aware of the lgbt community when he was pretty young , but it wasn’t until he was old enough to go on the internet and look up definitions , terms , discussions , and articles , that he started to figure out more about his identity . this also helped him link the feelings he had within him to internalized queerphobia . embracing his identity and helping teens his age is what he enjoys doing most . he isn’t an expert on these issues , but he still likes to act like a big brother figure to 12-13 year olds who may also be struggling with the same issues that he had at that age .

had a neopets account for like 2 weeks , but he had no idea where to change the language settings , so he quit .