Name: Yahiro Mizuchi 三頭池 八尋
Age: 15
Pronouns: he/him
Sexuality: ???
Date of Birth: August 25
Place of Birth: Haburagi Village, Akita, Japan
Current Location: Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Education: Raira Academy 1st year student
Spoken Languages & Communication: Japanese
Occupation: Student, member of the Library Committee, member & “face” of Snake Hands
Hair: Black, swept off his forehead, a little unkempt
Eyes: Brown
Height: 170cm / 5'7"
Build: Strong, but has little-to-no muscular definition. His posture isn’t very good.
Look: Unassuming, casual, comfortable.
Markings: No tattoos or piercings. Scarring on various parts of his body, particularly bad on his hands.
Bio: At a glance, an unassuming, if socially-awkward, first-year high school student. Prior to that, he has a rock-bottom reputation in his hometown for the ruthless brutality with which he responded to bullying over his family situation. His strength gets him labelled a monster as his attackers started rumors that spread far beyond their small town. Troublemakers and delinquents start to come from the surrounding areas to pick a fight with him for bragging rights, which beget more rumors, which beget more challengers, while scarcely anyone in his own hometown will speak to him.
Lured to the city by stories of monsters with superhuman strength and abilities, Yahiro starts to befriend these so-called monsters and is simultaneously confronted with their humanity and encouraged to accept his own monsterousness. He becomes an quasi-anonymous sensation on the internet for his fighting abilities, and eventually takes up the secret identity of “Snake Hands,” and begins working as a freelance problem-solver for a group of the same name, started and run by his underhanded only friend.
Family: Adopted as a baby by the wealthy and influential Mizuchi family, consisting of his parents, and grandmother. They run an inn and bath house in Akita prefecture. On his father’s side, there is relation to the Togusas. Jiro Togusa, brother of Saburo Togusa, owns an apartment building in Ikebukuro that Yahiro resides in to attend school at Raira Academy.
Personality: Yahiro is said to feel twice the fear of the average person, and hates it twice as much as well. His troubled childhood has made him paranoid and highly observant, and he’s constantly running internal calculations to determine the least-frightening course of action. He’s extremely difficult to anger, but he missed out on normal socialization before high school, so he’s frequently timid and not always sure what to say; he tends toward oversharing, and puts his foot in his mouth somewhat often. He’s an awful liar, and knows it, so he doesn’t even try, which means he’s occasionally a bit too honest.
When he’s overcome with fear, Yahiro completely loses control of himself. In addition to attacking with unhinged brutality, his body abandons all inhibitions in favor of self-preservation, giving him strength nearly superhuman enough to rival Shizuo Heiwajima.
He was given a suit made of shadow by the Headless Rider, Celty Sturluson. The suit protects him from most superficial injuries and serves to obscure his identity, allowing the moniker “Snake Hands” to be planted on him.
Snake Hands: Snake Hands is Yahiro, clad in shadow, his inner monster liberated by anonymity and the encouragement by someone more monstrous than he is that his strength can be used for good. Snake Hands is also a “freelance” service, that is mostly Yahiro, but directed by his mercenary and cunning friend, Kuon Kotonami. They offer conflict mediation, bodyguarding, investigating of criminals or missing persons, and so on. The contact site can only be accessed through a scavenger hunt of linked banner ads on questionable news aggregate sites and affiliate blogs.