Sakura
Une douce brise a soulevé les pétales roses dans l'air, les engageant dans une danse quelque peu étrange, sinon hypnotique. Ce n'était qu'approprié, avec le début de son nouveau semestre il y a seulement quelques jours, la nature s'est jointe au renouveau. Les fleurs de cerisier ont toujours été un symbole d'un nouveau départ et de nouvelles chances, ce qui est exactement ce que Yamaku était censé représenter pour ses étudiants. Tout comme ces fleurs auxquelles Sakura devait son nom, elle serait un symbole pour les élèves de tirer leur force. Elle-même avait toujours pleinement embrassé toutes les chances que la vie lui a jetées, elle motiverait le reste du corps étudiant à faire de même, leur montrer que malgré leurs handicaps, ils étaient loin d'être inutiles.
Elle scintille imprudemment un brin errant de ses longs cheveux hors de son visage, un froncement déterminé apparaissant sur son visage. Les cours étaient terminés pour aujourd'hui, mais cela signifiait à peine qu'il ne restait plus de travail, et elle ne pensait pas aux devoirs. En regardant en haut et en bas la passerelle menant à l'école, elle a repéré plusieurs élèves déjà sur leur chemin pour aller à leurs clubs et activités respectifs. De temps en temps, elle a reçu un clin d'œil d'une étudiante qui l'a reconnue, gagnant un clin d'œil en retour d'elle.
Alors que Yamaku était moins attaché à la tradition et à la discipline que la plupart des autres écoles japonaises, il maintenait encore un ensemble de règles strictes, sa nature particulière faisant respecter certaines plus que d'autres. En tant que présidente du conseil des étudiants, elle avait déjà prononcé un petit discours au début de l'année, mais en raison du manque d'enthousiasme qu'elle avait espéré voir parmi les étudiants, il n'avait pas coulé aussi bien qu'elle l'aurait espéré. Cela nécessitait plus d'efforts de sa part.
Avec un seul coup de doigts, l'un des membres du conseil étudiant a planté une petite boîte devant elle, la remettant rapidement sur un mégaphone. Obtenir le mégaphone avait exigé une certaine créativité et un peu de flexion des règles de l'école. Il était douteux que l'équipe de piste en ait vraiment besoin en ce moment, et encore moins qu'ils aient pensé à l'emprunter s'ils ne voulaient pas voir leur financement recevoir une réduction très sérieuse.
La pensée que sa jupe pourrait être un peu trop courte pour qu'elle se tienne sur la boîte n'a traversé son esprit que très brièvement une fois qu'elle a monté sur elle, passant rapidement comme elle se tenait debout. Alors qu'il y avait un système de conférenciers à utiliser dans toute l'école, Sakura préférait une approche plus personnelle à l'heure actuelle. Les élèves étaient censés voir son visage et la reconnaître, cela ne ferait qu'ajouter à l'effet de l'inspiration.
"Étudiants de Yamaku!"
La voix de Sakura résonna à travers le mégaphone, entraînant probablement plus de quelques élèves, mais captant néanmoins l'attention de la plupart de l'école. Sa voix était naturellement forte, et maintenant elle criait même dans le mégaphone, assez pour que les gens crignent légèrement au volume.
"C'est votre président! Sachez ça, vous ne vivez qu'une seule fois! Votre carrière au lycée façonne le genre de personne que vous serez pour le reste de votre vie! Voulez-vous laisser ça aller au gaspillage?! Vivez la vie pleinement, et n'hésitez pas ou ne regrettez pas! Montrez au monde de quoi vous êtes faits et laissez-les tous stupéfaits! »
Elle s'arrêta un moment, balayant son regard à travers la foule maintenant qu'elle avait obtenu leur attention, ainsi que d'attraper son souffle des cris.
"Plusieurs changements seront faits ici, je vous assure! Je ne tolérerai personne qui se relâche ou qui montre des signes de médiocrité! N'importe qui sans la volonté de se battre devrait juste s'allonger et mourir! En tant que tel, je vais imposer un nouvel ensemble de règles! Tout d'abord, je doublerai la détention pour tous ceux qui oseront faire leurs devoirs, en outre, la participation au festival sportif à venir est désormais obligatoire pour tout étudiant qui ne veut pas faire face aux conséquences! Ce sera tout pour le moment, et rappelez-vous, la vie est pour les vivants! » 
Elle a terminé son discours avec une pompe à poing dans l'air, montrant sa détermination. Il s'était avéré que c'était un discours très médiocre, mais tout avait été improvisé par elle sur place. Sans aucun doute elle avait fait plusieurs ennemis parmi les étudiants avec ses nouvelles règles, mais même l'animosité pouvait être une source d'énergie et d'inspiration pour ces gens. Parfois, ce qu'il fallait pour aller de l'avant, c'était une force qui repoussait contre eux.
"Comment c'était?" Elle demanda alors qu'elle s'éloignait du stand improvisé et jeta le mégaphone vers l'étudiante qui lui l'avait remis.
Name: Ryuugi Tanizaki.
Age: 18.
Grade (1st/2nd/3rd year): 3rd year.
Disability: Traumatic head injury causing: Tremors in arms and legs/motor difficulties, cognitional difficulties (emotional and intellectual damage), exploding head syndrome, insomnia.
Personality: Ryuugi is the kind of person a good mother would not want to have her little girl interact with. Ever since his disability, he has been on the teachers' list of delinquents. While the persistent teachers might still try to turn him around, a lot of other teachers have always written him off as a lost case, rather focusing on the ones not wasting their time. Simply put, Ryuugi has major issues with authority, something which has brought him close to suspension several times before.
He has a rather cynical view on the world, mostly towards his own future and the inevitable futility of it all. At first sight, he is rude, snide and sarcastic. Often rash and distant, he isn't the type of person to say what is really on his mind, rather choosing to keep strangers at a distance. He has become a bitter person, angered at the unfairness of life, something that Yamaku reminds him of every single day. He cares not for his education or his future, instead wasting his time being a pain in the ass to Yamaku's staff and others.
At his core however, Ryuugi still wishes to help other people, failing to see that he himself is the first person he should help. To his (few) friends, Ryuugi is fiercely loyal and devoted. He would be willing to walk through fire it meant helping them. Once he finds his motivation, he can be extremely passionate and driven toward his goals. Currently however, he is too bitter to be motivated for much. That being said, he puts a lot of value in his own set of morals, as twisted or loose as they might be.
He still loves to joke around with his friends and have fun, rather, that is mostly one of his only goals at the moment.
Background: In his youth, Ryuugi was always diligent student. He wasn't exactly the type to spend all day behind the books to get eh best score, but his talent nonetheless earned him a spot in the top achievers of the the class year after year. Most of his youth up until the end of elementary school was uneventful. One day when returning home from a trip however, the car with his father, mother and younger sister was crashed into by a supposedly drunk driver.
While his injuries were severe, as were those of his parents, after a long time spent in the hospital, Ryuugi emerged with no real permanent injuries. From that day onward, Ryuugi vowed to become a doctor, realizing how close he and his family had gotten to death and who had helped him avoid such a fate. Most of his spare time was now devoted to realizing this goal, hoping to one day pass the heavy tests and enter college and start his doctor's education in earnest.
Fate did not agree with Ryuugi however. Due to the crisis, his father lost his job, subsequently starting drinking. After that, his home became less and less of a desirable place to be as his parents frequently got into fights, and his father was an aggressive drunk. A divorce seemed unavoidable. Most of the time either his mother and father would be arguing, or his father would be passed out drunk somewhere. It's no surprise that he rather sought refuge in the city and his friends, as his parents hardly minded or even noticed his absence during most o the day and evening, solely returning home to eat and sleep.
One night, his father was in a worse state than normal, entering Ryuugi's room to take out his frustrations. In his violent, drunken outburst, Ryuugi's father smashed a bottle on his son's head, causing permanent head trauma. Only after a whole day of close observation in the hospital did Ryuugi regain his consciousness, and did it became clear how severe his injury really was. His recovery took several months, as he had suffered brain damage enough to require him to relearn much of how to talk and how to get his body to more properly again.
Ryuugi would never fully recover, the damage to his head causing motor issues such as tremors often associated with Parkinson's disease and a loss to memorize new information quickly. This meant that he would never see his dream of becoming a doctor fulfilled. The irony that alcohol both gave him the dream of becoming a doctor and snatched it away right from under him, was not lost on Ryuugi.
In addition to his other lasting disabilities, he suffers from exploding head syndrome. At random intervals, he may suddenly suffer an extremely loud noise inside of his head, akin to an explosion or a gun firing. Much of his personality had changed after the injury as well, turning from a cheerful, optimistic young man into a bitter, cynical adolescent. His parents and doctors remain unclear if the change in his personality was a result of his injury, or if the loss of his dream fundamentally changed him.
Unable to make up for the time he lost, Ryuugi was set back a year after being released from the hospital, losing most of his friends in the process. His motivation for studying was completely gone. Instead they would find him skipping classes and even getting into the occasional fight, much to the dismay of his parents and the teachers, whom had never known him to do such. After only just managing to pass his classes and just barely avoiding suspension, his parents came up with the alternative of Yamaku, a school for disabled students.
The primary reason why Ryuugi agreed to said proposition was not because he thought it would help him back on the right track. Rather, he took the chance to live in Yamaku's dorms, away from his parents, and more specifically his father. While his father has since given up drinking and the accident even seemed to have brought him closer to his wife, Ryuugi has obviously not yet forgiven him.
Currently, his time in Yamaku has been as harsh for him as the time before. Ryuugi refuses most help of the staff, continuing his delinquent ways of skipping class and stirring up trouble, already earning him a reputation.
Other Info:
- Despite his delinquent nature, he has a very firm distaste of alcohol.
- He loves to listen to Jazz an classical music.
- He is absolutely terrible with computers and most technology, barely managing to work with a phone.