Ori

Oriba Hoshina, nicknamed 'Ori', is a 19 year old boy living in Tokyo's 16th ward (Toshima) in an apartment complex. Ori has extremely dark and short blue hair that falls into his left eye, easily mistaken for black. His eyes are a dark orange with dark bags underneath and he has a thin, lean, and overall unassuming frame with pale skin. He stands slightly under average height at 5'6'' feet tall and is the epitome of an unthreatening, milquetoast, innocuous and harmless looking (if cute) young man. Ori works at his local supermarket downtown Tokyo as a cashier, living check-to-check. He used to dream about going to university to be a biologist, but gave up on that dream shortly after the death of his family. Ori has few friends in contemporary society due to his introverted, shy, and socially awkward nature - he'd prefer to stay in and watch anime or read manga than to go out drinking with normal people. Oriba is also of mixed race, caucasian and Japanese, adding to his general isolation from average Japanese citizens and his sense of 'not fitting in' like the cherry on top of the rest of his problems. In his double life, however, Ori is very different. Ori, after all, isn't an ordinary human boy. Ori is a ghoul - a being that can only consume human flesh and no alternatives (except for water and coffee). A being with stab-proof skin and strength that could make a powerlifter cry. He has an ukaku-type kagune that emerges from below his shoulder blades, in the shape of two red and toothed wings - but which function as gigantic jaws. Like all ghouls - when he's excited for any reason, Ori's sclera shift to black and his corneas shift to red. On the streets, to the CCG and amongst the local 'ghoul community', Ori is known as 'Flytrap' due to both the shape of his kagune, and his reputation...a reputation for looking cute and wimpy, while being one of the most deadly ghouls in his ward. Ori tries not to power-trip. He really does. He knows that it's wrong, that he should find food and let that be the end of it...but deep down, a part of him enjoys being 'Flytrap' instead of weak and helpless Oriba Hoshina. Once he puts on that mask it's like he becomes a different person altogether - a dangerous one. Ori still studies medicine in his spare time, to a degree - he's aware of his psychological problems, trauma, and bad habits...but doesn't feel it's worth putting effort into fixing them. At an early age, Oriba's parents - who were also ghouls - were hunted down and killed by the Comission of Counter Ghoul (CCG), and were barely able to send Ori into hiding beforehand. Oriba also had a little brother named Kenji, who was taken into the CCG's custody during their raid on Ori's home and hasn't been seen in nearly 8 years. Ori assumes he's dead, but holds hope deep down that Kenji might still be out there somewhere. Ori's trauma is another reason for his social isolationism and feeling of powerlessness, which doesn't help his power-tripping tendencies and contibutes to the toxic persona of 'Flytrap'. Overall, Ori is a very polite, meek, shy, and generally pleasant boy to be around - if socially awkward. Encountering him when he's masked and on the streets is another story - if you're a human, you're likely in danger around 'Flytrap'. Unless you're good friends with Oriba and he's not too hungry...