Ryuugamine Kiyoshi's Character Profile

Content warning: mentions of age gap kink, old-fashioned uke-seme dynamics, and discussions of kinks.

Basic Info

Main character in the For the Freedom to Love series.

Physical Description

Face

Kiyoshi likes to keep himself prim and proper. His dirty blonde hair is always combed and styled. His self-care routine is as meticulous as well as his make-up.

Over his brown eyes, he wears a pair of blood-red classic wayframe glasses. The silver stud on the left earlobe eventually becomes two gold ring-shaped earrings, a gift from his beloved.

Body

Kiyoshi stands at a staggering 185 cm tall, the tallest in his high school graduating class. He has a lean body and has trouble building muscle. He diligently used to play soccer up to high school. When he entered college, he stopped exercising in favor of keeping up with his studies at an overseas university. His skin is a golden bronze with a light (tan) undertone. His body is always warm.

Clothing

Highschool

After becoming a model, his wardrobe changed, wearing more flowy outfits and bright colors.

College

Due to financial constraints, most of his clothes were from the same racks as his partner around his first year. After settling in and mainly thanks to a friend interested in Korean fashion, he had the opportunity to explore his evolving tastes.

His main colors are pink and white. His style follows Korean trends of baggy, comfortable, and cute. His favorite pieces are a pair of white denim shorts and longer jeans, a soft pink hoodie with cat ears, and his favorite set of pink boxers (yes you read that right). He describes his style as “soft masc.” He also has a soft pink nightgown.

Hex colors:

• Hair: light goldenrod & goldenrod (FFEC8B & DAA520)
• Skin color: Sunset (FAD6A5)
• Eyes: Coffee (6F4E37)

Major: Culinary Arts.

Relationships

Personality

For the most part, Kiyoshi carries himself peacefully. After graduating high school, he refused to put up faces and act in line with his comforts instead. He's polite and careful to the point of stumbling over his words. Living in a foreign country, he's cautious with his words and actions, unsure where he's allowed to tread. He develops a habit to tense up in social situations so he gives the impression to always be on edge. When he's comfortable though, like with his roommate, his speech is slow, usually mixing some Japanese. Nevertheless, he's diligent and hard-working in his studies and duties.

He's rather shy so he would rather not do things that make him attract too much attention. When he's more comfortable with the surroundings, he's caring and kind. He's also the type to compliment people's clothing if he's close with them.

Kiyoshi values order, habits, and routines. There are times were this causes friction with others, in particular his boyfriend.

Kiyoshi is strict with himself and cares for his private spaces. He struggles with taking risks and getting out of his comfort zone, being spontaneous.

He's physically affectionate with those that are comfortable with it.

As a highly sensitive person, Kiyoshi absorbs other people's moods. This means that sometimes he's grumpy for reasons he doesn't have control of. His negative moods are silent when he's around people that aren't his best friends or his romantic partner. He copes with crying, laying down, and eventually, meditation.

Despite his strict personality, Kiyoshi is lazy. It takes him a lot of energy to do things he doesn't want to do, even if they are good for him, such as exercise. He does things because he has to, not because he wants to.

Kiyoshi describes himself as a fudanshi, someone who enjoys Boy's Love and takes part in its culture. His first and most beloved OTP is Kaworu x Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion; KawoShin. While he's less unhinged seeing two guys being physically close--especially if he knows they are queer--his fudanshi brain still feeds on platonic male bonding, more so if they are absolute strangers. Kiyoshi spent his youth reading BL and grew up with a heterosexual view on same-sex relationships. His relationship with his current partner promptly challenged that view, so Kiyoshi doesn't have a bias about them. He could rant about BL for hours, but if someone asked if he was gay through his conversation, he would say he doesn't identify as such. He does feel attraction to all gender identities but his attraction to male presenting people and bodies is the most prominent. Hence, it wouldn't be unusual if others thought he was gay. Lastly, he finds the bara genre too explicit compared to BL, and he can't relate to all the hunks and hypermasculinity-hypersexuality.

He rarely eats red meat and has trouble handling it. His diet is based on vegetables, fish, grain, and pastries.

Gender & Sexuality

Kiyoshi has been considering his gender for a long time. When he starts college, he cheaps out and buys the same type of clothes his boyfriend does, dark and muted. This made him uncomfortable for a couple of years until he gathered the courage to search for clothes he liked. Slowly and with the help of his friends and partner, his wardrobe shifts to pastels and pinks. His favorite outfits include a pink hoodie with cat ears, pink overalls on a white shirt, and white shorts. He enjoys modern Asian fashion, particularly Korean-style. He prefers comfortable clothes and sexy ones. He believes his long, skinny legs are rather attractive. In his third year of college, he starts to grow his hair.

Kiyoshi is sensitive about being called a guy, man, and other masculine descriptors. He doesn't feel like they are appropriate for him. Eventually, he adopts the label "demi-boy." He prefers what he describes as "soft-masculinity," a combination of boyhood and cuteness which he tries to reflect in his gender expression.

Kiyoshi is polyamorous. His life goal is to have a family that will include his current partner and raise children. His dream family is to have an amazing wife and two lovely children where everyone gets along. He isn't sure if he would like to work and be a househusband instead. Between working for a wage and housekeeping, he feels more confident in the latter. When he returns to Japan, Kiyoshi reconnects with a queer friend from middle school, Hikage Tadashi. Hikage is a fashion designer and friend/professional partner of Kei's childhood friend, Arisugawa Chika. Hikage is enthusiastic about Kiyoshi's outfit ideas, regardless of payment.

Social Media

• Kiyoshi has an account on a microblogging site where he posts pictures of animals, plants, food, and moments with his boyfriend.
• His texting habits include emotes, emojis, and kaomoji of the cute and expressive kind.
• While he has LINE, he rarely uses it to keep in touch with his Japanese friends and Kei; he doesn't want to delete it.
• Kiyoshi has an account on a popular NSFW writing site where he posts MLM R18 content. Only a select few know of it. The sporadic tags describe the type of relationship in the fic. He writes in both JP and ENG.
• For a time, he hosted a podcast alongside a college friend called "The Asian Fudanshis" where they talked about BL and other MLM Asian fiction.
• He has a channel on a video hosting site named "A Japanese Fudanshi" where he talks about BL as a Japanese person and cooking videos/practicing certain recipes/teaching.

Occupation

Kiyoshi's first job as a college student was as a baker/pastry chef at a bakery where he interned during the summer. At first, he used to take two shifts, before sunrise and early afternoon. Then, after the workplace got another worker, Kiyoshi took the afternoon shift and did more pastry work. He has the habit to buy the pastries he makes that will otherwise be thrown away, although the bakery eventually gives them to a food charity. Nevertheless, Kiyo does buy his own pastries from time to time and takes them home to share with Keima.

Sex Life

Kiyoshi's libido is high and frequent, and he finds it necessary to relieve himself. To him, sex is an absolute must in a relationship, and he's thankful that his partner is willing to engage in it despite not feeling sexual attraction. It would be hard for him to live without it.

He identifies as a sub and a soft dom.

Kiyoshi's most prominent kinks are ageplay, submission, and little boy. The three work in tandem to make Kiyoshi a submissive little age player. It's his favorite fantasy. However, with Kei, he rarely has the chance to live it. Instead, he takes the role of power bottom and lately a soft dom where he guides Kei to be pleasured or pleasures him. Kiyoshi is also into bondage, a rope bunny. He also prefers to be gently degraded/humiliated with naughty words such as 'dirty' and 'slut.'.

Kiyoshi also entertains the idea of group sex, mostly threesomes. He doesn't have a preference but he would enjoy bottoming between two people or being submissive.

His favorite type of sex is penetration on the receiving side. Kiyoshi is a pillow princess and doesn't like to do the work but recently he's much more active and takes the initiative. He likes the idea of big dicks but is scared of how painful it would be to take one in real life. Kiyoshi also has a daddy kink; it's his most consumed tag on his favorite smut fiction site and abundant in his personal library. He even wrote a ddlb fic himself.

Although shy, Kiyoshi is someone who enjoys sexual attention. His boyfriend helped him indulge in his desire in the form of erotic photography and video.

Other kinks include selfcest, breeding, and scent marking.

Lastly, outside of the bedroom, Kiyoshi is comfortable with imitating a cat and being comforted/petted/cuddled. Most recently, he's comfortable with the role of master in pet play, being gentle and loving with his puppy, Kei. On the other hand, he can be mean, but it's a role he plays for Kei who likes to be punished.