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Light the night up; you're my dark star

• Tatsuhiko Ryusaki was born as one of the youngest children to a family totaled to about eight people within his direct family. Being primarily of Japanese blood - but also retaining a fair degree of both French and Italian blood within his being, as well - he was born to a man of primarily Japanese descent by the name of Akihiko Ryusaki, as well as a woman of primarily Italian and French descents by the name of Serena Ryusaki, who had formerly been Serena Leblanc. Including himself, there were a total of six children within his family; his eldest brother, Kazuki, and his eldest sister Yukiko. After them, there were his next two sisters by the names of Ryoko and Yumi, and his remaining sibling was his twin sister, Kiyomi. Although they all preferred to go by their Japanese names, they were given English names for sake of bringing ease to those around them. Going down the line within the order that his father and siblings had been introduced - and excluding his mother, due to her lacking in Japanese blood - their alternative names were respectively Dracul, Samael, Valencia, Sophia, Edith, and Iris- and as could be guessed, Tatsuhiko’s own, alternative name is the one that he commonly goes by to this day: Corvou Dracul. Truth be told, he prefers to be referred to by his Japanese name, but few people know of it within the modern day.
• Corvou’s city and region of birth had been Goldenrod City, Johto. He was born on November seventh approximately thirty-one years within the past, and had been born a couple of minutes after his twin sister, Kiyomi- or, as was mentioned within the prior bullet point, Iris. Due to this, he himself had - in all technicality - been the youngest child within the Ryusaki family at the time.
• Corvou’s parents had met through their own careers. The two of them had been company owners of their own, respective corporations, and due to the fact that there was somewhat of a language barrier, Akihiko had taken it upon himself to introduce himself to Serena while conversing with her and leading her around to get her to the areas that she needed to be since she wasn’t from Johto. From there, they continued contact through business oriented purposes, but a bond had been quick to be forged in itself- and that eventually lead to their marriage through the years, as well as the birth of their aforementioned children.

...But now you're falling away

• As a child, Corvou himself was somewhat of a rebellious and rambunctious little guy. He was always full of energy; often asking questions and running his mouth with jokes and teasing gestures and words alike- but he, just like he is know, is still a good person when it comes down to the main point. He was a free willed and free spirited person; never really letting anything get him down. In addition, he was also extremely spoiled and whatnot due to his family’s financial class, but he was stopped from becoming a more stereotypical version of the average rich person due to the discipline and raising methods that his parents used on him. As a result, he was overly snarky as a child, but at the same time, he knew what boundaries were, as well as what most people would consider to be morally just- and he wasn’t afraid to fight for those same things if he thought that they were right.
• For the most part, he was allowed to do what he wanted as far as after school activities and other hobbies went. As a result, he became extremely invested within multiple forms of martial arts - with his favored one being taekwondo - and also became extremely dedicated to and invested in dancing from a very young age, as well. While versatile enough to learn different choreography styles with enough practice, his genre preferences lie within hip hop and contemporary dance alike. He also took advantage of his own voice, and, due to his love for music, ended up taking vocal lessons throughout his early childhood.
• In addition to keeping up with his own academics - which were more oriented around private school settings at the time - Corvou and the rest of his siblings also kept up with private tutoring throughout several days of the week. Due to this, he became rather well read and knowledgeable within his youth; something that still continues to influence him to this day.

But I found in you what was lost in me

• Around the time that Corvou was seven years old, he and his family planned to go on a multi-day trip across the regions as a sort of celebration for his two eldest siblings after they graduated from college. Their first stop was from Johto to Kanto, so they headed for the airport and waited as was necessary for their flight to be prepared and boarded.
• While waiting, Corvou was playing around and talking with Samael and Valencia. Like the others, he congratulated his siblings, and in appreciation of the praise, the two of them decided to each buy their family members some sort little souvenir to commend and remember the beginning of their trip by. After visiting a gift shop in the airport, Corvou himself obtained two things from the both of them: a cobalt hued scarf from Samael, and a necklace with three locket pendants on it. He’s kept these two things to this day.

In a world so cold and empty

• All in all, the plane left on schedule, but not too long after the flight departure, the engines malfunctioned, and this resulted in a plane crash. The majority of the passengers on board - including the majority of his family - had died in the crash themselves. The few that managed to survive were brought to the nearest hospital as soon as possible.
• Corvou and Iris were each among the few survivors, but the two of them were both in horrid conditions after the crash; Corvou more so than his twin sister. While Iris did suffer several wounds that still affect her to this day, Corvou was wounded enough to the point where he was in a comatose state for about three years after the crash itself. Having been awake for much longer than he was at the time, Iris was treated before being put into an orphanage, where she was soon adopted by another family. It’s due to this that she and Corvou would be separated for the next several years following her adoption.
• As a result, Corvou himself was left alone when he finally woke back up at age ten. The doctors finally informed him about his condition, what had happened to his family, and what happened to his sister. Like Iris herself, Corvou was treated before being sent to an orphanage. He stayed for a little while longer, but rather than being adopted by another couple, he was visited by several other and closer friends of his parents; namely the co-presidents of the company that they ran. For sake of giving him a home to live under with somewhat known and trusted individuals that he’d already known beforehand, they adopted him and allowed him to live with them for the time being; all while ensuring that the things that his parents left for him in their wills were untrusted to him, much like they had been on Iris’s part soon after she was adopted.

I could lie awake just to watch you breathe

• For sake of coping and physical treatments and therapy alike, Corvou continued on with his childhood hobbies- though in addition to doing it as his own form of fun, he also began to delve deeper within these activities as a means of taking his mind off of the loss of his family in general. His prior, obnoxiously rebellious nature had been drastically mellowed out to the point where he shut himself in and rarely talked with others; only interacting as was necessary, and even growing a little bit socially inept as a result. It was around this time that he focused more on martial arts and dance alike in order to vent out his internal stress and sorrow, though never quite accepted the offers from his adoptive family and friends alike to vent out to them.
• The only times that he talked with others about his past and his feelings - even if it was in a somewhat shorter and to-the-point manner - was through the therapy sessions that he had with his therapist. Although he was rather against it at first, his adoptive parents convinced him to attend weekly therapy sessions for sake of bettering his mental stature. Although he has a seemingly better grasp of his mind within the current day and age, these therapy sessions truthfully didn’t aid him all too much.
• These shut-in behaviors continued on for an extensive while; something that concerned his adoptive parents, though something that still continued on nonetheless. Rather than going out of his way to venture out like he used to with his siblings as a child, Corvou really only bothered to attend school as a was necessary, as well as to go out for sake of his hobbies. Aside from that, he always preferred to stay at home; minding his own time through dancing or martial arts, and dedicating much of his time to studying material related to school, as well as the constant tutoring sessions that he continued for sake of catching him up with the material that he missed during his comatose. This was partially due to his lack of motivation to do much else, and partially due to his discomfort whenever someone within his grade asked him about his age- because, for the most part, he was always a few years older than everyone else because of the crash. Inquiries about age often transitioned into inquiries about his past, and that in itself was something that he always preferred not to discuss- so he simply separated himself from other students up until the end of middle school at around age sixteen or so.

In the dead of night, you went dark on me

• Around the beginning of his freshman year in high school, he began to grow a bit more outgoing again after his twin sister managed to dig around and contact him through his adoptive parents’ phone numbers. She called them up and asked to talk to Corvou- and it was from then on that the two began to rapidly catch up and grow closer; making up for the lost time together through near constant and daily phone calls and texting sessions with one another. At first, they couldn’t quite see one another face to face due to conflicting schedules in between school and other activities, but they did discuss their lifestyles, as well as where they each resided. Corvou found out that Iris had moved to Lyeant after being adopted, and from then on, they made constant discussions and plans to eventually visit one another when they could.
• It became somewhat of a tradition for Corvou to venture to Lyeant - or for Iris to venture over to Johto - over their breaks whenever they could. Much like how they had done over the phone, they talked and interacted constantly throughout these meetings- and it was around this time that Corvou himself gradually began to develop more and more from his previously antisocial nature. He inherited a subtle degree of his early childhood persona once more - especially when he was around his sister - but it became to be a little bit more refined due to his older stature, as well as the different perspectives of life that he took upon himself after the multiple years of silent thinking and time away from other members of society that he had himself go through.
• He learned about Iris’s own hobbies and the like; learning about how she herself wanted to try and carry on their parents’ legacies through the company that they started- and even attempted to broaden her interests in business and technology alike in order to do so with the intent of contacting the company presidents at the time - so, in other words, Corvou’s own, adoptive parents - to try and talk matters in relation to the company ranks out. She soon found out that business in itself wasn’t exactly within her likings, so she ended up pursuing a job in the culinary arts instead, and went on to open her own restaurant in Lyeant. As somewhat of a lighthearted yet hopeful joke, she tossed the idea of picking up where she left off over to Corvou- but after some thought, he decided to take it significantly more seriously than she thought he would. From then on, Corvou had some form of motivation and goals to work towards once more; more so to the point where his studies exceled greatly in between the involvements that he began to make within the school’s student council, leadership programs, and the football team all the same. When he wasn’t participating in his school oriented activities, he was often studying business on his own and asking his adoptive parents about it, as well, and even began to sit in on the various meetings that they held in order to learn more. Every so often, he even offered suggestions and the like; something that caught them and their employees off guard, though also something that quickly showed his seemingly natural business for business and trade oriented conversations and mindsets.

You're the cause; the antidote

• A little bit over a year later - and during his sophomore year in high school at age seventeen - Corvou managed to strike a deal with his adoptive parents in regards to the company leadership. He asked them if it was fine for him to eventually take over for sake of continuing on with the legacy that his parents left behind - as well as to follow through with Iris’s wishes - and although it was something that he wasn’t quite thinking too much on as far as acceptances went, he found that they were more or less willing to consider it at the time due to the skill and suggestions that he managed to contribute to the meetings and company interactions despite not being an official employee at the time. They agreed to place him under heir status in the event that he dedicated himself to his studies to both the general academics and business alike, and would eventually step down and back to their former, co-president rankings in order to allow him to take over when and if he finished and graduated from college years in the future.
• For sake of making the most of his time and effort, his motivation grew in order to achieve this newfound goal of his. He indulged deeper within his studies; working harder than he did before, though all while keeping up with his extracurriculars and making more or less important decisions and suggestions to the student council and leaderships programs while in school, as well. By the end of his sophomore year in high school, his extremely studious natures managed to allow him to progress a little bit further than others within his grade. Rather than beginning his junior year of high school at age eighteen, he began his senior year, and went on to graduate at age nineteen.
• Immediately afterwards, Corvou ended up moving over to Saffron City, Kanto, alongside his adoptive parents for sake of attending the preferred college among the ones that accepted him, as well as to learn more while also aiding them in opening a new branch of Raijin Industries in the same, aforementioned city itself.

The sinking ship that I could not let go

• Corvou continued on with his schooling with an intensely and continuously studious nature and manner to his methods; joining the college football team as a transition from his involvement within his high school’s team, yet also keeping a constant eye upon his academics, as well. Having been intent on earning a master’s degree within both business and computer engineering alike, he took it upon himself to take both subjects up as a double major. During his second year into studying both of these things at age twenty-one, he became acquainted with one of the newer freshmen at the time; a younger woman by the name of Ishini Mazuka. Their first interactions were somewhat rough around the edges - likely due to his lenient and softly teasing demeanor at the time - but they managed to grow closer as time went on.
• While still keeping up with his studies, he began to spend more and more time with Ishini. Despite their differing schedules between their similarly different majors, he still found the time and effort to want to talk with her every so often. For the most part, he was the one attempting to urge her to hang out with him (since she was more or less volatile towards him, yet decreasingly so with the more they got to know one another), but in the end, he managed to convince her to spend more time with him fairly often. After some time went on, the two eventually became a couple- and even while he still devoted copious amounts of times to his studies, Corvou made sure to set time aside specifically to spent time with her.

Who led my way and disappeared

• Two years later after meeting Ishini at age twenty-three, Corvou took a short leave from school over the course of a week in order to travel with his parents for sake of another, business oriented venture. He and his family traveled to Opelucid City, Unova, for sake of meeting up with a couple of potential business partners, and once those meetings were done, they spent their remainder of their time in the city wandering around and sightseeing for the most part.
• One day towards the end of his trip in the city, Corvou was walking around the streets; eventually finding a younger boy. He was alone, looking to be on edge, and seemed to have multiple blood stains on his skin and hands; something that concerned him, but prompted him to try and approach him to begin with. Although the child was initially scared, he managed to soothe him enough to allow him to let him come closer, and it was around that time that the two began to converse. He discovered that the child’s name was Tatsuya, and that his father had been killed by a mugger a small while beforehand; leaving him on his own while generally scared. After a little bit more talking, he managed to convince Tatsuya to come back with him; buying him a new set of clothes and helping him clean himself up before gradually nursing him back to health. He told his parents about the situation, and after contacting Ishini on the matter, came up to the decision and intent to take the boy home with him for sake of giving him a home and adopting him. It took a little bit of convincing on Corvou’s part, but in the end, he managed to persuade Tatsuya to come along after their trip in Opelucid City was over with. They straightened the situation out a little bit more, and after arranging several documents, Tatsuya was officially adopted into the family.
• Despite the new occurrences within his life, Corvou continued on with his academics as he did prior to the Opelucid City trip; spending his time studying, playing football, and spending time with both Ishini and Tatsuya by then. Although it took him a fair amount of time to finally get Tatsuya to open up to him, he managed to make it happen. By the time he graduated with his master’s degrees and officially took over Raijin Industries himself at age twenty-five, he’d managed to form a tight bond with both Ishini and Tatsuya alike; treating both with an intense amount of love and care, and treating the latter as if he was his own, biological son all the same.

How could you just walk away and leave me here?

• The years progressed onwards following his inheritance of CEO status of his birth parents’ company. Through that time, he had been quick to establish his presence and skill within the hierarchy through both his demeanor and contributions alike, and at the same time, he managed to continue balancing his work life with his loved ones at home. At age twenty-nine, he and Ishini had a baby boy together - a Poochyena gijinka by the name of Ryusei - and he ended up finally proposing to her not too long afterwards. For the most part, he was the happiest he’d ever been, and the date for the actual wedding itself had been set for and earlier time within the following year.
• Eventually, the day came around- but when it was time for the vows to be spoken and solidified, Corvou found himself left at the altar with nothing along the lines of a hint or explanation beforehand at age thirty. The development and occasion in itself hit him extremely hard, with both his trust and a fair degree of his pride being shattered and lost in the process. With the wedding turning up as somewhat of a failure, Corvou struggled to pick the pieces up on his own, though continued to focus upon both his work and his children, as Ishini had left without either one of them- though for the most part, the reasoning for doing so that time around was more or less as a coping mechanism to try and distract himself from what had happened.

Light the night up; you're my dark star

• Following the failed wedding ceremony, Corvou more or less fell into another, yet shorter depression. While it hadn’t lasted as long as the one that he suffered from after awakening from his coma, it still hit him rather hard. During that time, he ended up spending a little bit more time at bars and the like; conversing with more corrupt and shadier people. By no means did he engage within drug exchanges or any other activities of the sort, but he did admittedly end up getting to know several people who worked along the lines of assassinations and other things of the sort. While he didn’t quite interact with them directly in the beginning, it was through them that he found out about a vigilante group that was being run- and by one of his own acquaintances, nonetheless.
• For sake of confirming the rumors that he heard, he went ahead and approached the aforementioned person that he knew: a cousin of one of his business partners, and a man by the name of Ryan Arcken. Having been in contact for several years by then, he had grown to be good friends with him by then, and soon after being asked about the group and whatnot, Ryan pondered for a little while before giving in and telling him about the group, what they did, and the code that they performed under- though only after taking note of the fact that Corvou himself was somewhat interested. While he was a bit skeptical of starting at first, Corvou allowed the people that he conversed with during his slump to influence him to a minor degree; enough to get him curious and somewhat interested in the business, especially with how he was more or less capable of taking down targets himself. So, he discovered more about the group that Ryan ran - the Whispers of the Chosen - and after another period of thinking, he contacting Ryan again with the request of joining their causes. After a confirmation of his own to make sure that Corvou absolutely wanted to do what he was asking, he was also inducted into the Whispers himself. To this day, he still takes part in the occasional assassination here and there- but as per his own, personal code, as well as the code of the Whispers themselves, he refrains from taking hits without any substantial and extreme reason motivating the hit itself.

...And now you're falling away

• Soon after finding a place within the Whispers themselves, he discussed matters with his business partners - which happened to include Ryan’s cousin, Tae Seung - and eventually decided to open yet another branch of the company within Lyeant. After preparing for the move, he and his business partners relocated over to Lyeant for sake of continuing on with their own business connections, as well as staking their own places within the region in general, and things have been as such for the past year or so.

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