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The owner of a small music shop, mostly focusing on instruments and older music devices. He has a pretty care-free attitude and running the shop is more of a passion project than a job to him.
- Impulsive
- Enthusiastic
- Well-Read
- Stoic
- Guitars & Records
- Playing Gigs
- Teaching others
- Ramen
- Violence
- Being Alone
- Rural Life
- His guitar is dubbed 'bullet' as tribute to someone he lost.
- The bandanna around his guitar is to remind him to never forget the life he walked away from and those who he has lost.
- He often jokes that he is 'safe from Nazumu's wrath' when in the company of other yokai, as his business is not food-based, unlike the cat cafe or the bar he keeps trying to buy out.
- His favorite color is Azure.
Riku would much rather speak of old records than his past. He hasn't said much but local yokai have surmised what had happened. He was one of two komainu yokai, stationed at a shrine. Something went down at the shrine, and while in their statue forms, his partner was shattered. He barely escaped the event alive, and somehow ended up in the city.
Riku believed that to begin anew in the city, he must blend in with the city, and blend in he did. He adjusted his appearance to take on that of a human, and erase all hints of being a 'yokai'. Not just physically but mentally as well, he does not consider himself a yokai any more. Music was his teacher for how he should act and interact with humans, and it taught him 'how to be a human.' He became so enthralled in something that he claims is 'exclusively human' that after working for years and saving enough money, he bought an old music store that was just about to shut down and did his best to revive it.
The yokai who is human and the musician who is mute. A very unlikely pair, yet a pair that happened nonetheless. Over weeks, Riku noticed a customer who would always stop by the shop to simply browse the records and then leave without saying a word.
After enough times watching from afar, Riku decided to take the first step and see what they were up to. Starting with a simple conversation about the type of music they liked, Riku was a little taken aback by the person's lack of response, though a few long minutes they pulled out a phone and started to type an answer.
He introduced himself as "Yuuto". A young man suffering from selective mutism, and too, enthralled by the ability to express that music had, though with no money to afford things like albums. After their first official introduction, Yuuto kept coming back to the store to browse silently. Riku finally caving and hiring him as an employee to allow him to earn enough money to take whatever he wanted home.
Yuuto [ Apprentice ]
Despite not wanting anything to do with yokai anymore, Riku took on Yuuto as an apprentice around the music store.
Uzume [ Fellow Business Owner ]
Riku seldom visits Uzume's bar, however he sometimes asks her to help him with setting up drinks for music events. Outside of these business situations, he often jokes with her about the state of owning a business in the city- at her expense of course.
Fumika [ Friend ]
The two slowly got to know eachother as Fumika kept coming to Riku's shop to use the recording booth. They are decent friends.
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