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Pressing Onward

Toward the Unknown

Name:
鳳幸太郎 Ohtori Choutarou
Birthdate:
14 February
Location:
Tokyo, Japan
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Bio
Name: Ohtori Choutarou
Age: Twenty-Three
Birthday: February 14
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Occupation: Music Teacher
Occupation2: Professional Violinist
Instruments: Violin, Viola, Flute, Piano
Past-Times: Composing, Tennis
Favorite Food: Beef Cassarole
Favorite Color: Off-White
Marital Status: Taken ^///^


Hello! My name's Ohtori Choutarou and I am a high school music teacher. I'm also a professional violinist, but most of my time is devoted to my kids nowadays. You got to love them.

_History__

As expected, Ohtori perused a career in the performing arts. It was tough road with the brutal competition at his top choice University, and it caused him a stumbling start in his first year-- many of the other students being quick to take advantage of his kindness. It had almost been too much for him, almost too different in comparison to safety and security Hyoutei, but Hyoutei had also taught him that you had to work hard for achievement. So he took the struggle for recognition head on, no matter the sacrifice, and it wasn’y until the schooling broke him-- pushing him past both emotional and physical limits --that he was finally noticed as a brilliant violinist. Though this did launch him into a good (if not short-lived, like many other things to come) career as an established violin performance major and composition minor.

Ohtori’s name faded again as he shifted into the professional field. He moved beyond the University’s performance groups to join a small orchestra, but it disbanded after a few months, its members going their own ways except for a small ensemble: consisting of him, two other violinists, and a cellist. Together-- and after doing some “gigs“ and street corner performances to raise money --they got themselves a one-way trip to Vienna. It was this drastic choice that brought Ohtori’s family’s refusal to support him. They would’ve rather had him stay at home and in school, and expressed those views clearly, but Ohtori accepted the independence. In his defense, he was still keeping up with his studies, making his stay in Vienna an abroad program as well as a chance to make a big name out of the small ensemble. (He also started working toward a teaching degree after his parents became disheartened and threatened to disown him if he didn‘t find direction in his life.) And the quartet did meet some success: composing two CDs of music and performing throughout Europe.

Though shortly after the release of their second CD, they disbanded. The cellist had received an offer from a well-known orchestra in Paris while the other two violinists decided to continue with themselves, leaving Ohtori in the dust. So Ohtori flew back to Tokyo, getting himself a relatively cheap apartment where he all but locked himself away. And having been rejected by several of the city’s orchestras (he‘s yet to understand why), he now endlessly composes music and literally has stacks of work everywhere-- unrefined, unfinished, and many more complete, just refused by publishers. Though the continuing losses, no matter how crushing they are, are reality and inspire Ohtori to work harder. It’s not like he only knows failure as well. He did succeed in getting the teaching degree and has been in a high school music teacher position since the start of the school year-- and he loves it.

Yet Ohtori had been so caught up in his further education and work that he didn’t realize he was losing touch with his Hyoutei friends until it was too late. It’s the one thing he regrets the most-- the distance and separation between them being the only thing stopping him from looking them up and contacting them. Especially Shishido. But he still has his dear memories to go back to, and spends a lot of his time retrogressing, finding more inspiration there as well. Though Ohtori feels that the only way to keep himself from forgetting them is to continue tennis regularly. It’s become a pastime, and though he’s not nearly as good as he used to be, he refuses to put down his racket-- playing with many of his coworkers and acquaintances.

[Played by flyingmachine in 525_600]
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