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let's see enigmatic skies and set endless limits

;; it's an adventure of the heart

Created on 2007-08-03 12:44:43 (#13517545), last updated 2008-04-04

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Name:	Riku

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[basic info]*
name: riku kouda

age: 18

gender: male

sexual orientation: ~~sora~~homosexual

[interests / peeves]*
likes: playing pranks, competition, living in the moment, the idea of getting "out" one day; adventure.

dislikes: homework, bad cooking, over-acheivers, manipulative personalities.

[breif bio]*
Riku Kouda was born in the United States to Japanese-American parents in 1937 – probably not a very wise decision on their part. Riku, along with his parents, had to follow a very strict set of laws that were quickly put into action by the American government. It was in the next year that even the strict set of laws didn’t matter – they were relocated into an internment camp.

It wasn’t like relocating into one had been much of a choice. A prison camp was probably a better term, or even concentration for the barricaded, barbed-wire, enclosures that Riku grew up in. The paranoia of Japanese spies after the attack on Pearl Harbor was too great for the Americans to risk, even if what they were doing was immoral by all aspects. Soldiers of the U.S. army were, of course, enlisted to guard these camps and any who tried to escape were often shot down. Riku’s parents happened to fall under that category and so at the age of four, he found himself an orphan.

Luckily for him, a family friend was kind enough to try to raise him within the camps. Inside the camps, life was quite different. The small houses inside were more like shacks and they were lucky to even have those. They slept on cots, or the floors, or outside. The family friend had been a teacher at one point, at least, before they were taken to the camp and while he didn’t receive a proper education like most Americans, he was educated to the best of his caretaker’s ability. Riku wasn’t entirely alone in the camp, he did have friends – thought most of them he had gotten separated from. There was one boy, Sora Matsui, he met inside the camp and quickly became close with.

It wasn’t until 1945, when the internment camps were declared unconstitutional, that the Japanese-Americans were released and Riku got a taste of “normal” life. He was eight years old by that point and went with the closest person to family that he had back to Pleasantville, Ohio – where said person had presently been living. Riku was enrolled into school at that point and aside from racial remarks and silent skeptics – it was much better than the camps.

Things continued along smoothly the next ten years, well, you know, until the side-effect from the bomb turned people from omnivores to cannibals. In time, Riku would come to learn that the internment camps had nothing on zombies!

[roleplay love]*

atomic family

[the mun]*
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