NEON GREEN

- Ryuji becomes a boxer at 17 after his family’s temple burns down. His parents tell him that they’d rather retire completely, because the damage was simply irreparable. They’d lost everything. Devastated, Ryuji vows to rebuild the temple himself. But with no idea how, he decides to go with his once childish dream, boxing.

- Ryuji always liked watching boxing as a kid and thought it was super cool. Thought that maybe if he weren’t to be a monk (which he rlly wanted to do), he’d be a boxer as a grownup.

- Renzo gets kicked out of his family home after he ends up expelled from highschool. Got set up by a bunch kids who found out he was queer or maybe just hated his guts, and they snuck some kind of drug into his bag only to “rat” on him to his teachers. He’d gotten detention plenty of times for defending himself which the school wrote off as rebellious violence, and this was the final straw.

(this is so cornball I’m so sorry bro)

- After Renzo got kicked out he turned to couch surfing for a while, until he ran those favors dry. Then he went totally homeless, where he ended up getting scouted on the streets by a sketchy “trainer” who promised him he’d make a ton of money by fighting. He didn’t have much else to lose, he’d lost all respect from any of his friends, and his parents thought he was an addict dropout, so he went for it.

- I imagine his family finds out about the sabotage after Renzo is long gone, and the guilt his parents would feel would be immeasurable.

- Ryuji currently is famous in his hometown, but he’s fighting controversy surrounding his anger issues in the ring and recent false rumors spreading to keep him out of the spotlight.

- Currently renzo is.. Not in a good situation. His trainer is loud and is running him into the ground, so much so he ends up snapping one night and picks a fight outside the city. He messes with the wrong person though, because despite all his MMA fighting prowess, he can’t MMA fight a gun.

- Renzo gets pew pewed and Ryuji finds him bleeding out on a park bench 😋