Rui Kamishiro || 50 followers special !!!!

BASIC INFO:

Kamishiro Rui (神代 類) is a third-year student at Kamiyama High School. He is a member of the musical show unit Wonderlands x Showtime.

A carefree genius director. Formerly a solo performer, Rui found a new home among the Wonderlands X Showtime members, who accepted his bold ideas. In his search for a way for the troupe to stay together despite chasing different dreams, he has devised an arrangement that lets them put on shows together while each still following their chosen path.

Age: 18 Gender: Male Birthday: June 24 (♋︎) Height: 182 cm (6'0") School: Kamiyama High School (Class 3-C) Committee: Greening Part-Time Job: None Hobbies: Planning shows, Balloon art Specialty: Inventing Favorite Food: Soda candy Least Favorite Food: Vegetables Dislikes: Cleaning, Menial tasks

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BACKGROUND:

Rui and Nene are next-door neighbors, as well as childhood friends. Rui was the one who recommended her to join Wonderlands x Showtime. He manages the group's stage performances and is both an actor and stage director. Rui is also very skilled in inventing machinery and creates animatronics for the shows, including NeneRobo. Rui's father is a robotics engineer and his mother is a biologist.

When Rui was young, he struggled to get along with his peers due to the differences what they found fun and interesting. Rui finds a love of theater through Nene, and decides to put on shows with his classmates. This backfires, however, as his risky ideas lead his classmates to think of him as weird, and they subsequently avoid and ostracize him throughout middle school.

Rui eventually decided that he would perform shows on his own, using robots as his actors instead of real people. Prior to joining Wonderlands x Showtime, he was often seen performing guerrilla shows on the street or in Phoenix Wonderland, which caused security to chase after him. Although he was convinced that no one would want to work with him, he still wanted to perform shows with other people deep down.

He is given this opportunity when he joins Wonderlands x Showtime, and appreciates how his troupemates are willing to try his inventions and stage directions.

As a third year, Rui is classmates with Tsukasa in class 3-C.

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APPEARENCE & PERSONALITY

Rui is a tall boy who has thin, amber eyes with red eyeliner along the crease, and uneven, choppy purple hair with two cyan streaks. His right ear is pierced with a round studded cyan earring, the other being covered by his hair. His voice is gentle, though it becomes strained when he is excited or curious.

Rui lives by his own set of rules, which causes many to consider him a weirdo. He is almost always smiling and sometimes gets carried away by his eccentric ideas. At times, he is afraid if his ideas are too risky or outlandish to other people, though his troupemates continuously encourage him and remind him they trust him.[4][1]

Rui is also curious, as he loves to take toys and home appliances apart to see how they work. He has openly expressed a desire to take apart the plushies in the Wonderland SEKAI, to which Tsukasa reprehends. He is observant, and uses his observations to help direct his troupemates, encourage Mafuyu to understand how she truly feels,[2] and help Akito overcome his fear of dogs.[5]

He cares deeply for his friends, shown when he defended Emu and her dreams from her brothers,[6] as well as building NeneRobo to help Nene with her fear of talking to others. He is also a teasing and playful person, with an example being his constant ideas for performances that often involve putting Tsukasa's life in danger.

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TRIVIA:

Rui is fluent in English. He has two robots resembling Emu and Tsukasa in his room. Rui finds platypuses fascinating, since they are mammals that lay eggs. He transferred to Kamiyama High School from an elite high school. Along with disliking vegetables, Rui also dislikes a large majority of fruits, such as watermelon as to him, because it tastes like melon (or in general any other fruit from the cucurbitaceae family, as they have the same texture cucumbers do.) Another reason why Rui avoids eating vegetables is because he "views them as living plants." When Rui was younger, he would often go to rivers to search for fossils and gemstones.

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RELATIONSHIPS:

Tenma Tsukasa: Fellow troupe member and friend. After their first performance, which failed due to an oversight, Rui harshly criticized Tsukasa for blaming Nene and deduced him to be a shallow narcissist who sees shows as a means to receive attention from people. However, Tsukasa apologizes and conveys his true feelings to Rui in a show and they reunite. Rui now sees him as an actor worthy of a stage, and is confident in giving him very taxing (and occasionally dangerous) stage directions, knowing that he will proudly take the role. The two are known as the "Weirdo Wombo Combo" at school, causing ruckus and trouble around the campus daily. Though, it's mainly Rui causing trouble and dragging Tsukasa into it.

Tsukasa is someone Rui is immensely grateful towards, as he was one of the first people to put complete trust into Rui's directions, which Rui expresses gratitude for. Rui expresses his thanks to Tsukasa for giving him the chance to change, as Rui once thought that he'd never be able to properly connect or understand anybody around him without relying on shows, but as he started to do shows with Tsukasa and everyone else at the Wonder Stage, his feelings began to gradually change.

Otori Emu: Fellow troupe member and friend. The two officially after Rui got recruited to be Wonderlands x Showtime's stage director, and they immediately hit it off well due to the fact Rui's able to understand Emu's use of onomatopoeia, whereas both Tsukasa and Nene struggle to understand what she's saying. Rui is shown to be concerned by the fact Emu will hide her negative feelings for the sake of not making anybody sad. When Rui, Tsukasa and Nene stumble across Emu and her older brothers arguing, he's passive at first and doesn't want to say too much, but he soon loses his composure when they continue to belittle Emu and her dreams, and he shuts them down quickly.

Kusanagi Nene: Fellow troupe member and childhood friend. The two met when Rui was in the second grade and Nene's family moved in next door, but they didn't hit it off immediately due to how shy Nene is. Though, once their moms took them both to see a My Little Mermaid show, they both became increasingly fond of theater, and eventually warmed up to each other. They used to act out shows that Rui thought of, they'd test out Rui's inventions, and Rui also used to search for fossils and gems at rivers and then show his finds to Nene. Though, in junior high, they began to drift apart due to Rui's apparent self-isolation and him thinking that being by himself is "for the best". Seeing as Nene struggled immensely to talk to people, Rui created Robo-Nene to serve as an avatar that Nene could talk through, which helped to an extent.