Yuumi's Worst Skin: Heartseeker Yuumi is a weak fit for the skin-line
I had to pick between Heartseeker and Yuubee for the worst skin, and while I don't think either of them are bad at all, if I have to pick, Heartseeker is the less strong design. Yuubee is a very silly and adorable joke skin, and leans into that perfectly, while for Heartseeker Yuumi, she's maybe a little bit of a miss with the themes of the skin line. Cats are not that strongly associated with hypercommercialized Valentine's Day pink and red sugary sweet idealized romanticism, something which even the her skin bio explicitly recognizes, saying that Yuumi only really loves food and getting pets, but is just sort of going along with things for fun.
There's some good touches here, though - making Yuumi's inner ears heart shapes is clever, Book looks like a hyperstylized romantic love diary complete with heart-shaped locks, and the tiny little cupid wings on Yuumi are adorable, but yeah, while the skin is fine, it's ultimately the weakest one in Yuumi's repertoire, I think.
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I tried but I couldn’t with the name, so I combined the parts I liked from his old name with his new one, naming him Yuuji instead.
Bio below:
Name: Yuuji Yoma
Nicknames: Yuu (Jurou, Alois), Weirdo (lot of people) Yo-kun/Yoma-kun (Shura, Taiga) Yuubee-san(Hitomi, Jurou’s daughter) Uncle (Avane)
Age: his human form appears to be late twenties/early thirties because that was roughly the age of the person he was created from. He has existed for roughly 70-100 years. His kind typically do not have a “childhood” as they tend to not be born from children.
Height: 181 cm
Family: An elder brother pair-spirit Kenzo
Friends: Gouken Shura (A vigour spirit, type of a local light element/fighting spirit), Kaspian Kravchenko (A wyvern who also works as a designer for his favorite brand), Shika (A chimera), Taiga & Alois (a kitsune & a bakeneko who run a hair salon) Roman (his staff member)
Love interest: Jurou Araknos/Alistair Blackthorne, a Soul Eater who owns and runs the tattoo parlor next to his cafe.
Abilities:
He can access into other people’s minds and dreams and influence them, mainly either creating nightmares or devouring them. He can also cause hallucinations even when people are awake
He can turn into shadowy goop and cover an entire area, enclosing large groups of people into a hallucination
He can destroy other beings’ hallucinations easily, and is typically immune to them. This also includes seduction spells like siren songs.
He can trap people into their own minds for a short period of time, typically around 8-12 hours which is the supposed average time people should spend asleep.
He can phase through objects and float.
As a more powerful dream-eater than usual, his hallucinations can actually become solid and cause physical harm. He is also capable of trapping even his own kind into their own minds.
Weaknesses:
He cannot access more resilient minds without permission/his knife. If his knife is somehow disabled, a stronger person can prevent him from invading their minds.
While he has some control over his hallucination powers, he can’t always prevent people from being affected when looking at his eyes. (He can cut them short if it happens)
Light magic based seals and protection spells is typically effective against his kind.
Personality:
Yuuji is quite friendly and cheerful person at first glance, and might even seem a little comical, with how unapologetically eccentric he is. He is one of those people who seems to be able to laugh at himself and tends to not be embarrassed over small things. He also loves to learn about new things with almost childlike enthusiasm.
Despite this first impression, he is quite intelligent and dangerous if he wants to be, not willing to give people any mercy if he feels they deserve to be punished and he can’t be tricked easily. Yuuji is not the kind of person whose bad side you want to end up on. He is also very observant and calculative, traits that run deep in the family as both his brother and niece are like this. They all are generally the type of people you do not want to underestimate.
BG Story summary
Yuuji and Kenzo were born from a pair of siblings, who ended up losing their entire family in a natural disaster. Due to being born as a pair, the two were seen as unusually powerful, and Kenzo was invited to join the Overshadower Council eventually (the group that manages the business of dark beings in their world, such as dream-eaters, soul eaters, vampires, etc) but Yuuji wasn’t interested in that, wanting to do something that made him more approachable for people, hence he started to run a cafeteria.
His reasoning for opening one next to Jurou’s parlor however, was not random. He secretly did this to initially keep an eye on the Soul Eater, knowing his brother was interested in getting the man under his wing due to his vast power. Yuuji is very against the idea, knowing how his brother is and how he could get corrupted by too much power. His plan was just to observe and occasionally meddle secretly to prevent Kenzo from getting anything useful out of Jurou, that he could use as leverage to get him to join the Shadowless (something his niece and Kenzo’s right hand woman joined in on later). He never expected to actually fall in love with the guy, which did make things a bit more complicated eventually.
Fun Facts:
Yuuji’s cafe name Lunarte is a reference to the night (moon) and tea. The logo includes a moth emerging from a teacup (moths are often used to represent his kind)
He has one other staff-member a Grimmhound Roman his niece brought for him, as he needed help with starting his new life.
While his kind are typically represented by moths, Yuuji’s favorite animals - or bugs - are bees.
Yuuji takes extra care to not cause hallucinations to Jurou’s daughter, as she has some severe trauma and is part human, making her more sensitive to be affected.
Contact lenses do not block his hallucination inducing power like they would with most Dream-eaters, due to how strong he is.
While he and his brother have somewhat differing views on lot of things, they are still fairly close. Yuuji’s entire motivation for his actions in regards to Jurou initially were because he loves his brother dearly, and wants to protect him from himself.
Yuuji will not be caught wearing “normal” looking sunglasses. They always have to be a bit more fun than basic shapes. The simple triangle ones are the most basic he’ll go.
His main reason for liking colorful things is to combat his natural spooky aura, as he doesn’t want people to fear him when he’s not trying to spook them.
His voice claim is Urahara from Bleach
He does also enjoy goth fashion occasionally, as its the style his LI and his family mainly go for. Typically his goth-looks still include colorful bits, either pastel or neon.
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