Tomonari Cahal {DONE}

[Tomonari Cahal]

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name;; Tomonari Joshua Cahal
nickname/s;; Tomo, Tom, Josh, TJ
gender;; Male
age;; 13, born on January 21, 1984
sexuality;; Heterosexual, although not interested right now
race;; Human (Half Aboriginal Australian, Half Japanese)
crest(s);; None yet
digimon partner;; None yet

who you are
now and then

appearance;; Standing at a height of 5'3" tall, he weights about 130 lbs. Tomonari is rather thin as well, although not stupidly so that his body is nothing more than paper thing. His hair is brown in color, and his eyes are green. The glasses he wears have a thin frame which is black. As for his hair, it is closer to medium in length, and tends to grow downwards, as his hair isn't curly by any means. Although more of an 'out of character' note, due to the lack of foreign characters in anime (for face claims), Tomonari's actual skin color is more or less the darkest skin color a human being can have normally, which is near black.

As for clothing, he typically prefers long sleeved shirts, with a suit jacket or vest over those. He also wears fitted or slightly baggy jeans, with a belt holding them up, of course. The shoes he wears are merely ordinary, with laces that need to be tied up or else Tomonari would fall over constantly (granted, that could be a funny prank... for the one pranking). Otherwise, an important item would have to be a brown satchel, one with a strap going diagonally over his body. The actual 'bag' of the satchel rests on Tomonari's left side.

personality;; The first, and most obvious, thing about Tomonari upon meeting him, is that he is a rather timid teenager. His speech patterns involve quite a bit of stuttering, which may at times require him speaking some thought at least once more. However, he still tries to make sure his words are audible. It is also a common habit of his to apologize often, even if something was not his own fault, as well as thinking an apology is needed when it is not in general. Due to this, Tomonari’s own confidence is quite low, which makes him quite uncomfortable when speaking to strangers. This factor ties into the difficulty of putting Tomonari and brave in the same sentence. Granted, he won’t become frightened to extremes by something such as a gentle, accidental bump into someone, but other things such as an angry dog chasing him, will.

Although this may tie in with this timid personality, Tomonari is often worried about the things around him. For example, he quite often tends to make a conversation with someone he meets short, and attempts to make an excuse to get out of it. He isn’t a very good liar, however, so these attempts are easy to spot. His worry also tends to cause him to have short OCD moments, meaning a chore such as cleaning dishes may take him ten minutes longer than necessary. These aren’t often though, so it thankfully doesn’t warrant as a significant medical condition. It does tend to follow more into his homework more often though. When it comes to the actual world around him is when his worry acts up more, leading into the timid side of him. Tomonari is rather unsure about things, no matter how much reads up on a subject. When it comes down to it, he’s book smart, not street smart.

Despite these personality traits, he tends to be more polite on a regular basis. He clearly knows how to be respectful of people, and will try his best to make sure he doesn’t talk badly about someone, despite what his innermost thoughts and feelings are. This can be a downside, as if he does not speak what he is feeling, it may cause more trouble than he thinks. At times this can tie into Tomonari being rather responsible, and he makes sure he does things such as being on time for a meeting, cooking something properly, among other things. However, whether or not this involves itself with his actions is somewhat of a different idea, as at times there is still the sense of being unsure about things lingering there.

When it comes down to it though, he does have his own likes and dislikes, some of which can be quite helpful. Granted, some are assuming he opens up to someone about them. One of the top favorites of his is reading, and not just for school study. Tomonari will often come back to a novel after reading it once, especially if he enjoyed it. Mystery and detective based novels are a preferred area of fiction (although it’s a good ratio of hits and misses when it comes to him figuring out the culprit(s)). Despite not looking like the kind of guy who involves himself with sports, baseball seems to be something else he enjoys, assuming he gets the chance to play it. He won’t be talking about things like the latest scoreboard in a professional game and such, but offer him the chance to play for fun, and he’ll be rather tempted to join.

As for a more musical side of him, he generally enjoys music. Granted, he isn’t particularly fond of things such as rap and hip-hop, but orchestrated and rock sorts of genres are among what Tomonari can be caught listening to. Although, don’t expect things like ‘heavy metal’ and ‘death metal’ from him. This has led him to eventually pick up learning to play an acoustic guitar. He’ll often be heard playing it when alone, and when reading at times. It helps that he’s been practicing for a good two years. When it comes down to it though, perhaps nothing will beat his love for cooking. More often than not he can be found being the one to cook family meals and such, no matter if it’s his turn or not. Currently taking electives to do so, Tomonari is planning on becoming a chef later on in life. Oh, and he especially loves lobster, so look out for that.

There are some general things to keep in mind when it comes to dislikes. For one, he isn’t fond of a dirty kitchen. This really has to do with food safety, and he doesn’t want people to get sick from contaminated food. Although swaring is something he tends to hear out of people’s mouths generally, Tomonari doesn’t particularly feel comfortable when around foul words. Following this, he isn’t much of a fighter, so physical fights are something that really makes him uncomfortable being around. However, the big thing that really bothers him is such: Tomonari feels some sort of loose chain in his heart (figuratively), and despite wanting to fix it, he doesn’t know how to fill that gap up. Rather, he isn’t sure what to do exactly with this, it being a lesson he will probably learn with experience.

family;;

Main Family

• Saotome Cahal (Japanese, Mother)
  
• Dane Cahal (Aboriginal Australian, Father)
  
• Renee Cahal (Older Sister)
  
• Claus Cahal (Older Brother)
  
• Jessica Cahal (Younger Sister)
  

Father's Side:

• Sibald Cahal (Grandfather)
  
• Fran Cahal (Grandmother, Deceased)
  
• Teddy Cahal (Biological Uncle)
  
• Samantha Cahal (Aunt, Teddy's Wife)
  
• Nathan Cahal (Cousin, Teddy/Samantha's Son)
  
• Maria Cahal (Cousin, Teddy/Samantha's Daughter)
  
• Rachel Cahal (Cousin, Maria's Fraternal Twin Sister)
  
• Anjea Brooks (Biological Aunt)
  
• Stanley Brooks (Uncle, Anjea's Husband)
  
• Claire Brooks (Cousin, Anjea/Stanley's Daughter)
  
• Dexter Brooks (Cousin, Claire's Younger Brother)
  

Mother's Side:

• Ryotaro Yamagishi (Grandfather)
  
• Akane Yamagishi (Grandmother)
  
• Mary Fujihara (Biological Aunt)
  
• Eiji Fujihara (Uncle, Mary's Husband)
  
• Chika Fujihara (Cousin, Mary/Eiji's Daughter)
  
• Juro Fujihara (Cousin, Chika's Older Brother)
  
• Mamoru Yamagishi (Biological Uncle)
  
• Nanako Yamagishi (Aunt, Mamoru's Wife)
  
• Junpei Yamagishi (Cousin, Mamoru/Nanako's Son)
  
• Umeko Yamagishi (Cousin, Mamoru/Nanako's Daughter)
  

history;; Tomonari was born in Brisbane, Australia, effectively making it his hometown. His parents were an Aboriginal Australian man named Dane Cahal, and a Japanese woman named Satome Cahal. However, he was the third child born, thus giving him two older siblings at birth. A year later though, his mother gave birth to what would be Tomonari's little sister, who ended up being the last of their siblings. This was really because his grandfather told his parents to more or less stop having kids, but that's a different story entirely. Anyways, due to the fact that Tomonari's father was in the military, he for one never saw him much, and two, the boy's grandfather lived with them to make things easier.

During his infancy, as well as throughout his life in general, Tomonari first grew quite attatched to his mother, although this was seen as quite normal at first. It wasn't until he learned to crawl that he began to show off his shy traits. For example, whenever he was put down to play on his own, he would do so for a few moments, but then rush back over to his mother. Like normal babies though, he would cry if left alone for too long. Granted, after quite some time, Tomonari eventually grew to being comfortable around his grandfather, although he had a tendency to still go near his mother more often. The boy did in fact learn to understand who his parents were quite easily, but the problem remained of his relationship with his father.

Whenever his father came home for the short periods of time he could, Tomonari always avoided him. It seemed quite odd to him to find some man, despite being the same one, randomly come visit and be familiar with his family. This concept was difficult for the boy to understand, and although he never completely cut ties with his father, Tomonari avoided him for the most part. Now there were times when his father would try and spend time with him, but it didn't work out too well, and it seemed as though his father gave up in a way. However, unknown to Tomonari, his own father didn't really understand how to talk to the boy. When it comes down to it, their lack of understanding was a shared trait, although it was perhaps a negative one that neither of them worked on.

School became a slightly difficult issue when Tomonari was old enough to go. It took quite a bit of prodding to convince him that he had to go without his mother around, although thankfully, it only took a month before he was mostly alright with being at school on his own. The boy came to understand that school was necessary, and also became a bit distracted with reading, once he learned how to properly read, of course. This lead him to start reading more books outside of his own textbooks, eventually coming across the mystery genre. This was a rather simple interest, one that continues even in the present time. On the upside, Tomonari was generally well behaved during school, although this was really due to his timid nature.

When he was eight years old, his father had decided to retire from the military, and therefore, it would mean the man would more or less be home much more often. Granted, Tomonari's father still got a job in order to support their family (it wasn't something fancy like being a police officer, however). At first, Tomonari wasn't too sure about this slightly different change in lifestyle. It still took time for the boy to get used to the idea of his father being around, but he eventually did come to terms with this. However, their relationship didn't really change all that much. The fact still remained that neither of them knew what to say to the other, and most attempts at talking to each other more or less ended up as nothing more than a few sentences exhanged.

At the age of nine years old, Tomonari came across two things, the first of these being baseball. He overheard talk of a little league baseball team, as well as watching some of the older kids playing baseball. Hesitant about it, the boy was convinced by his grandfather to go for it, if he really wanted to, and after some trying out and the like, he made it in. Granted, Tomonari wasn't a star player or anything of the sort, but it turned out that he could run, and run fast. That, and the fact that he was rather good at catching the ball made him great for the outfield. Aside from that, was the idea of cooking. Having watched his mother cook, and coming across the cooking shows on TV, Tomonari eventually became curious about it, and over time, came to enjoy helping his mother cook. Of course, he wasn't allowed to use the stove yet, but he ended up learning at least something.

For the next three years, he continued his life as normal, nothing out of the ordinary really happening. At the age of eleven, Tomonari wound up obtaining his liking of music, and as such, was given an acoustic guitar around Christmas. He also started taking both guitar and cooking lessons, which made his life quite busy, having to deal with baseball and school as well. It was when he was twelve years old that Tomonari really started to change, and it didn't have to do with pueberty. He realized that there were so many things he had to do, and overheard his parents scolding his other siblings about schoolwork. This was the catalyst for him to start thinking about what he was doing, and as rash of a decision it was, Tomonari decided to stop playing baseball, in order to focus on school more. He regretted this decision, although never really gave it thought afterwards.

Much more recently, however, summer had come around. Or at least, summer for Japan. In any case, Tomonari came to discover talk about sending him away to a camp outside of Odaiba, Japan, mostly to get him out of the house for a bit. He still had a say in the matter, although couldn't exactly figure out what to say exactly. It wasn't until his grandfather talked with the boy that Tomonari slowly became persuaded to go to summer camp all the way in Japan. Hesitant at first, the boy wound up getting on a plane to get some time away from home. Not that he would have an easy time doing so, but it worked nonetheless. Taking his guitar, and whatever else he would need/want to take with, Tomonari wound up at his destination, from there on not knowing what would happen.

about you
enough about them, what about you ?

your name

[/b];; Tomonari
age[/b];; 21
contact/s[/b];; [e-mail], although through PM or chat box is a better way to find me

[credit to Redhatter of Caution 2.0 with edits by Moli - do not remove credit!][/size][/blockquote]