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Player Information

Name: Tulip
Age: 23
Contact details: PM on here/osomatsuniisan on Plurk
Other characters: N/A!

Character Information

Name: Osomatsu Matsuno
Canon: Osomatsu-San
Canon Point: Post S2 E24, 'Sakura/Cherry Blossoms', immediately before the plane crash.
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: OU
Age: 24

World Information: Very much like the normal world, apart with strange comedic occurrences on the regular. These are often not really mentioned again, but it can be assured that most of the events where someone possibly could've died didn't happen.

Personal History: Osomatsu was born to Matsuzou and Matsuyo Matsuno as the oldest of six boys born at the same time - sextuplets. The doctors reported it was a miracle that all six boys survived the birth, as sextuplets were incredibly rare (and they all were born incredibly tiny), and it's still even more a miracle they survived into adulthood. Still, it was sheer luck and determination that they were what they were. Six little fighters. Six little demons as the neighborhood tended to refer to them as as they grew up, but still.

Osomatsu grew up as the oldest, followed by Karamatsu, Choromatsu, Ichimatsu, Jyushimatsu, and finally, Todomatsu, but for the time that they were young, they all seemed much the same. During their childhood, they were just six troublemaking kids. No more, no less, though even during this time, Osomatsu tended to take a 'leadership' role. He was the oldest, after all. He was chonan. That made him the leader, and most of the time, all of his little brothers accepted this easily.

Their life did not come without difficulties, however. This difficulty namely came in the form of a man who arrived at their house during their childhood, specifically at age 10. This man's name was Tougou, and he was who Osomatsu would later in life refer to as 'that asshole in the checkered suit', or 'the Terrifying Lodger'. He seemed very much like a normal man at first, even perhaps too much of a normal man - too giving in a sense, always ready to give. He came to the house with purses - purses with money in them, which he gave away as 'presents' to the boys, and played himself off as a harmless eccentric, maybe a collector. It wasn't as if they weren't friends with such people anyway - family 'friends' included Iyami, a mostly-harmless scam artist and Dekapan and Dayon, a questionably-legal scientist and his far-too-odd assistant that was probably a cryptid of some kind, in actuality.

This all changed when Osomatsu was over at a friend's house, and in a horrible coincidence, a man arrived to rob the house at the same time he was there. The man was a mystery to the friend, but Osomatsu recognized him immediately as Tougou. This led to a confrontation where Tougou admitted to have had killed several animals before, and at least 3 people in order to keep his lifestyle going - and if he told anyone, he'd make sure the same happened to his family. He eventually forced him to assist in at least one robbery, causing Osomatsu in the future to have an instinctive fear to guns and gunshot noises.

Osomatsu tried to quietly hint at what had happened to his parents, but by the time they had caught on, so had Tougou. The man attempted to kidnap Osomatsu as a last resort, eventually only being stopped by the intervention of another friend of theirs by the name of Chibita, and even that was accidental. The words Osomatsu first said after this incident was that it proved that he 'couldn't rely on anyone in those situations.'

Time passed, and the boys grew up. Despite the incident, Osomatsu grew up to be relatively stable. It was in high school that the boys slowly started separating and trying to differentiate themselves after many remarks about how they simply couldn't be told apart, how they shared everything (clothing styles, speaking styles, even crushes - they all liked Totoko Yowai, a popular girl who lived nearby since childhood), how being sextuplets was basically all they had. Osomatsu, himself, never truly minded the so-called lack of individuality, but the rest of his brothers certainly did. It was a relatively lonely existence that only got more fractured when they all had a fight the day before graduation due to their frustrations with each other, leading to their relationships being even more fractured, but eventually mending over time.

As they became adults, they kept their individualized personalities, but eventually leaned back into some kind of friendly dynamic with each other. It was around this time that they found 6 nearly-identical hoodies, styled to different colors. Osomatsu picked red, because it was a 'leaderly' color, and it fit him as the leader. His other brothers picked blue, green, purple, yellow, and pink in that order - which also seemed to sum up their personalities fairly well, despite the fact that in the eyes of many...they'd basically failed at life. They were jobless, not going to college, and had no training whatsoever, making them essentially just layabouts. However, Osomatsu was fine with this as well - it was easy, and it kept him close to his brother - what else could he ask for?

And again, it couldn't last forever. This time, it was the third brother, Choromatsu, who eventually grew tired of their situation. He himself had taken to a personality Osomatsu referred to as 'self-awareness rising', where he was very aware of how lazy and useless they were all being, and felt ashamed of it, but didn't do anything to change it --up until that point. Choromatsu found a job thanks to their father's help in the city. Osomatsu considered this a betrayal, since that meant he'd be moving out, he'd be leaving the rest of them behind...and it was worse, since in all actuality, Choromatsu was the brother Osomatsu was closest to. His best friend.

Osomatsu reacted with rage on the night of his going-away party, eventually to the point of being forcibly thrown out of the party altogether due to this fact, and it only got worse when Choromatsu moved out the next day, and Osomatsu didn't even see him off. Todomatsu, seeing this as undeniably awful and rude, confronted him, which led to a fight. Thanks to this, Todomatsu soon left as well, followed by all the others...until Osomatsu was eventually alone. This wouldn't last for long, however, and soon Osomatsu had united all of his brothers again under the same roof, with the same lifestyle - they'd all gotten lonely.

This lasted for another year, up until another incident happened: they got a phonecall when they were all out fishing. Their father had had a heart attack and collapsed, and he was now going into the hospital. All of them reacted in shock and horror, immediately rushing off to go see him, though this was soon followed by guilt when the cause of this tragedy had been revealed: he was overworked. Their father had been providing for the family this entire time, with them doing nothing, and he'd done so much that he'd driven himself to the brink. It was saddening.

Osomatsu, in an uncharacteristic display, declared that now was the time they had to start working. Despite their surprise, the other brothers agreed, and began to go seek their own fortunes. Osomatsu began to try to do the same, but still in the midst of it...felt lonely. There was something missing. Something wrong with growing up. He walked past all the places they used to go when they were all together, and they felt more empty. Less fun. He eventually ended up on a bench, alone, thinking things out--up until Totoko showed up.

Despite her usual abrasiveness, Totoko sat and had a simple talk with Osomatsu, helping him think about the future. And despite it all, after talking to her...he felt a little better. He thanked her, of course, but she surprisingly took it in stride. Maybe they were all growing up, he thought. They all seemed happy, but he...he didn't want to lose them. Not fully. He wanted to let them know what he'd learned--they could still all manage to be a family, but still be their own people.

He'd do that tomorrow, he thought.

He was never the best at keeping those kinds of promises.


Personality: Osomatsu is a man who can be summed up with a lot of contradictions. He's energetic in personality, but he's lazy to the extent where he's considered a life of NEET (No Employment, Education, or Training)-dom is better than getting a job or going to school of any kind. He's very emotionally in-tune with others, but gets blinded by his own emotions at times. He's very headstrong, but if someone he loves tries to persuade him, chances are he'll back down. He says he'd be fine being an only child at times, but that couldn't be farther from the truth.

In truth, he values his worth by who he is and how people see him - he's not one with a unique trait like his little brothers, he's not the sporty one, the fashionable one, the smart one, he's the oldest one, and that is how he judges his actions. He measures his success by the effect it has had on his younger brothers and how it makes them feel - and put into a situation without them, he essentially isn't sure what to do. Who is he, if he's not the oldest? What is his purpose in life? He's not sure.

He comes off as naturally charismatic and confident to others, and easily can draw the attention of others whether he'd like to or not. He hasn't really experienced a 'normal' life, so his perception of 'right' and 'wrong' is a bit skewed. However, if he sees something as right or something as wrong, he won't hesitate to call it as he sees it. He's not one to lie (in his own words 'lying is bad, though'), and he tends to be open with his emotions...when they're positive. If they're negative, he can be very closed off, and antisocial even, but he'll usually eventually bounce back.

He takes life as it comes and claims his only goal is to be a 'charisma legend that lights up the sky one day', but how he'll go about making that happen is yet to be seen. In truth, he just wants to be happy. That's all there is to him - he wants to be happy, and he wants his family and friends to be happy. He has very simple goals he hides under ridiculous ideas like that, and some might say that's a trait that appears in all members of his family, in a way.

He likes to believe in the good in people. If Osomatsu meets someone, he usually wants to assume the best of them, and he sees everyone as 'well, at the end of the day, we're all only a person, aren't we?' But if that trust is broken, he's likely to forgive, but not forget, though many can vouch that even with that he has a notable lack of caution. Not to a suicidal extent, but it's definitely worrying.

At the end of the day, Osomatsu just really wants to be a good person. He wants to know who he is, and he wants to support everyone else. That's the way things should be.

Key themes:

- Individuality: Osomatsu has never been good at differentiating himself from the rest of his brothers, or his family as a whole, so his entire story is about being an individual and showing who he really is beyond that. It's about being independent, despite struggles.

- Accepting Adulthood: Osomatsu has a naturally childlike, immature personality, so his entire journey has been about growing up. Becoming an adult. It's been more difficult for him than most people, but he's made significant progress, he thinks.

Main Motivation: To grow as an individual and discover who he is outside of just being his normal 'big brother' self.

Skills: Honestly, Osomatsu's skills are fairly normal. He knows how to take care of himself (even if he's not too used to/fond of it yet), he's pretty charismatic and good at getting people to listen to him, and he's a quick learner. He does have some leftover athletic ability from being in ballet as a child (he was the prima donna of his junior class!) but it's hardly professional. He's intuitive, and sometimes sees what others don't - he's even fairly emotionally adept, and has a remarkable degree of empathy at times, but nothing above the average skills of a modern-day 24 year old Japanese male.

Item: One photo of his brothers all together ( here ) - he looks at it when he gets lonely.

Sample: boop!

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