Story:Umbran Epidemic/Ryugamine Aerys

Aerys Ryuugamine is a first-year highschool student enrolled in Saint Perry's Academy during the year in which Umbran Epidemic occurs. He is a shy, studious student whose adventurous parents have raised to be a responsible, albeit naive, young man.

Appearance
Aerys is a tall and skinny highschool student with little muscle on his bones. He has long, light brown hair that he keeps in a ponytail all the time, and is often shown with his hands nervously in his pockets.

Attire
Aerys can usually be seen in his school uniform. Being a first year, it consists of a silver blazer over a white shirt, black slacks, and brown dress shoes. It also includes a red tie, but Aerys doesn't wear it. The winter uniform switches to a silver sweater vest over a white dress shirt.

Outside school, Aerys usually wears light silver converse, dark blue skinny jeans, and a long-sleeve navy blue shirt. He also wears a long double-breasted midnight blue fur coat and a gray scarf. In the summer, he wears black boots, dark gray shorts, and a cool blue t-shirt. Over the shirt he wears a short-sleeved black and slate gray hoodie.

Ability
Aerys' powers mostly lean toward self-preservation. His melee weapon is made of almost entirely metal, and weighs about 215 pounds. Normally, under non-Verzu circumstances, he is not be able to even lift it and he would just make a fool out of himself. However, his virus powers are minor regeneration and muscle manipulation - he uses the muscle manipulation power to increase his muscle power by a factor up to 300%, making his sword weigh less than a feather to him and more than an elephant to his enemies.

However, because of how accelerated his muscle growth becomes, in addition to his still heavy blade, using his power for this end will very quickly erode his muscles to a point of no return. To this end, he uses his regeneration powers in tandem with his muscle manipulation whenever he is in combat. The regeneration just manages to stop the muscle degradation, and allows him to fight with little to no consequences. However, as a drawback, due to his concentration between using two powers at once, he cannot heal himself without letting down his muscle powers, and to an extent, without fighting. This prevents him from instantly healing himself during battle, a flaw he has learned to compensate with by keeping his guard up 24/7.

When he doesn't have access to his blade, as a last resort he will use a tiny portion of his muscle manipulation to increase his physical strength. Shortly after obtaining his powers, however, Aerys doesn't have much control over this and sometimes uses too much power. In addition, his body begins to uncharacteristically grow in accordance to these new functions, causing him to grow in size and weight somewhat. He eventually learns how to control it and stop any further growth, but doesn't find it necessary to decrease his mass.

Personality
Aerys is a natural introvert. He prefers to sit at his own lunch table and eat in silence while thinking to himself, and this applies mostly to his everyday school life. He loves to sit around and will just think for hours on end undisturbed. He also has a great work ethic, and will do almost anything once he sets his mind to it. One of the things he has passion of working on are books; his head swims with tales of adventures and legends. Besides reading, Aerys also loves writing, and takes advantage of this whenever he can, whether this means taking notes or drawing.

However, as mentioned before, Aerys is an introvert, and doesn't mingle well with other people. He feels emotion and everything else like normally, he just doesn't feel comfortable with any and all human contact with people of his age. He'll often mumble in response to questions or just ignore people entirely, but it is definitely not to be mean. Whenever he is uncomfortable with something, he'll blush profusely or start biting his nails. In extreme situations, he starts shaking and sweating heavily; however, at this point, Aerys will take any and all opportunities he can to abscond from what is currently troubling him. Once he gets involved with his group of friends and it becomes clear that he won't be able to leave them behind, he begins to slowly open up to them and is forced out of his shell.

Aerys has a very passionate interest in machinery. One of his main hobbies include tinkering with machines and making various tools out of them. To obtain these materials, he raids local dumps and trash heaps and finds many useful parts and objects he uses in his escapades. In fact, this is how he obtained his blade and weapon of choice, which is really just a long, sharpened metal rod with a handle attached to it.

Despite his various shortcomings and idiosyncracies, Aerys is a sweet and caring person at heart. When he gets to know somebody, he will try his very best to protect and help them, even at the expense of his own work or safety. He goes to great lengths to please his friends, even if it is a detriment to himself. He will sometimes go to extreme, out of character measures to achieve this, and is often met with backlash. Whenever this happens, he usually realizes just how far out of his shell he came (and oftentimes, how mistaken he was to do so), and will be struck with a wave of self-resentment. This happens a bit too often for his taste.

Relationships

 * Chiharu Fukui: Aerys finds Chiharu to be a bit over the top and impulsive. He has rescued her from trouble multiple times in the past in the motive to protect her, but doesn't like taking credit for it. He considers her to be a good friend, and enjoys spending time with her.
 * Kasumi Mizuki: Aerys finds Kasumi to be a bit of a loud-mouth, yet he respects her peaceful and caring nature. He doesn't like seeing her get hurt, but doesn't really try to get too involved with her, due to the fact that he fears Tatsuo very, very much. He thinks she is very sweet, but her attempts to get him to open up are a bit overprotective.
 * Sokutei Takano: Aerys looks up to Sokutei and considers her to be his best friend out of the group. While he tries hard not to get too close to her, he enjoys spending time and talking with her most.
 * Uiharu Toketsu: Aerys finds Uiharu to be disruptive and a bit mean. While he doesn't consider Uiharu to be the best out of the group, he still considers him to be a friend and does his best to protect and help him. The two share a bond different from what each other have for the girls, forming a sort of mentor/pupil duo.

NPCs

 * Osamu Kaname:
 * Ryuu Tatsuo:
 * Toketsu Ageha: Uiharu's little sister, Aerys takes quite a liking to her and enjoys being friendly with her. He has no siblings of his own, so he initially makes some questionable conversation topics with her, but he likes being around her and finds it a nice change of pace to be someone's senpai for once.

History
Aerys is genetically only a fourth Japanese, but he has been raised in Japan for all of his life. He has been raised since birth to be a responsible, well-behaved young man with his eyes on success. Ever since he was a child, succeeding at academic endeavors has been easy for him. He had done his very best in school, thrilled with simply pleasing his parents, but this usually left him distanced from the rest of his peers. In addition, most of his time was spent studying, so he never had time to really make friends with many people.

Despite their adventurous nature, Aerys' parents were often very sickly. Perhaps its was because of all the different places they visited that they had such exotic diseases. They would frequently visit hospitals and clinics, spending lots of money and insurance in doing so, but their various diseases never really went away. Luckily for Aerys, they were not very responsible themselves, and once he was of sufficient age they began to leave him home while they conducted expeditions. It is because of this that he doesn't have the same frailty they did.

When he was around 13 years old, Aerys' parents grew to an all-time low, and were incapable of leaving their rooms because of how sick they were. At this time, he began to despair because of how nothing seemed to be able to help them, but his parents assured him that he could help them get better by being the best person he could be and succeeding in school. So he did, with increased fervor. All social ties were cut with finality and Aerys worked his very hardest at doing his best in school. Obviously, this did nothing to help his parents, and they died from their diseases not very long after. Left able to take care of himself but with an agonizing void in his life, it is at this time that he becomes obsessed with machinery.

Aerys begins spending less and less time studying and more time visiting the dump close to his home and tinkering with machinery and spare parts. His inheritance from his parent's life insurance allows him to live somewhat comfortably, but by the time he is 15, Aerys gets a job at his local convenience store so that he can survive despite the dwindling insurance money his parents left behind. Now entering his first year of high school, Aerys resigns to return to his past of academic success while balancing his new-found love for creating machines.

Gallery
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