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Traits/Details
Mar. 15th, 2018 09:26 pm- Yusuke is 100% gay, and has no romantic interest in women whatsoever. He finds them more elegant and more beautiful to paint and pose, and he's certainly capable of bonding, but he'll never be in love with a woman.
- Not that he'd go after one anyway, because he's dating Akira Kurusu (the PC).
- Yusuke doesn't like having his skin exposed. He wears heavy clothes even in summer, and the shortest sleeved thing he wears is his summer uniform (which is down to his elbows). This is likely due to his old-fashioned upbringing and total seclusion, so not only was it "improper" to expose too much skin, but he was never around others to normalize it in general. That said, he doesn't seem to care much what other people wear when it comes to common clothing.
- He also has strange, conflicting feelings towards nudity. As an artist, Yusuke sees nudity as natural and beautiful, and has a desire to paint and draw it. As a person, it's something improper and a little vulgar, which shouldn't be shown. Because of that, while he does enjoy painting and nude models and can be very gung-ho about them getting naked, he becomes very flustered when they actually move to do it, and has trouble watching people undress.
- He doesn't have very good of a grasp on his emotions at times, which means he can lash out or lecture without thinking. When paired with his sexual identity confusion, this means he can attribute his internal frustrations or unease to other people or other things without having any idea it's from that.
- He also had no concept of sexual or romantic desire until he met Akira. It isn't that Yusuke is asexual or aromantic (though it may appear that way at first), but because Yusuke's upbringing and everything that came with it (especially artistry) means that in his mind, love and sex are two things that are inextricably intertwined. Because he never felt romantic love for anyone before Akira, he also never felt sexual desire for anyone before Akira. Because of that, he struggles somewhat with the idea of it, and is awkward and unsure when it comes to such things. What makes it harder is that Yusuke had no idea what sex was -- he understood sexual desire, especially in relation to art, and he knew the word, but he had no idea what sex actually entailed.
- Because he is old-fashioned, he speaks that way, and he has high regards for traditions (such as yukatas/kimonos being formal and beautiful, so people acting less than elegant and respectful is insulting).
- He is very socially idiotic, which means he misses social cues, doesn't understand certain behavior, and has no concept of "inappropriate PDA"; he knows that fucking on the park bench is wrong, for instance, but the thought of holding hands or chaste kissing doesn't seem like a problem to him.
- He has severe food and money insecurities, meaning that he's most likely to eat everything he gets his hands on right away (fearing it won't be there later/will spoil later) and spend everything he has on anything that catches his eye (fearing he'll lose the money later if he doesn't). This means he ends up in unfortunate situations quite a bit and needs someone around to prevent him from overeating himself into sickness.
- Yusuke does appreciate beauty in many ways, and looks for the beauty of things first (even if the beauty is unconvential, such as Mementos), but he isn't someone who just mindlessly adores it. While there are things he will simply accept as-is (again, such as Mementos), for most things, the beauty is not just in it being beautiful, but also how it's made. If you show a vase of flowers to someone, they'll find it beautiful, but if you show it to Yusuke, he'll find it more beautiful because, say, some of the flowers are perfectly symmetrical, or a specific flower's coloration is a few shades more vibrant. He knows, and can see, ways that things come together to be pretty, and that makes him appreciate and love the beauty even more.
