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[ichimyatsu]

OOC INFORMATION
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Ichimatsu Matsuno
Age: ~20s, but 23 is a good number.
Canon: Osomatsu-san
Canon Point: Post episode 23 (here we are again, with 23).
Character Information: Wikia. Briefly covers both Osomatsu-kun, the 1966/1988 anime, and Osomatsu-san, the 2015 reboot Ichimatsu is drawn from.

Personality:

Ichimatsu is the fourth-born Matsuno brother, and the stereotypical "loner" of the six. He is, at a glance, a quiet, hateful man with an affinity for cats and a dislike of people. Despite this, and ironically due to his hailing from a gag anime, Ichimatsu is actually a fair deal more than he appears. He is predominantly a negatively-featured human being, with a few tiny nuggets of positive behavior that don't even begin to make up for the rest of him, but. An attempt was made.

For starters, despite being named "Ichimatsu", wherein the character for "ichi" bears the same meaning as the number "one" and is commonly used in the names of first-born sons, he is as previously stated, the fourth. Similarly, a common misreading of his name can lead to it being read as "checkered", and both the assumption that he would be the first at anything and the notion of being checkered bother the shit out of him. Not that you'd ever know, because if there is one thing Ichimatsu excels at, it is internalization and not talking about how he feels. This internalization was even enough that up until sometime in their twenties, none of his five identical brothers appeared to have any idea why he never made an effort to make friends, instead spending his time with cats. The reason behind which, of course, being that Ichimatsu lacks any shred of confidence in himself, and constantly fears he will not live up to the expectations of others. This anxiety prevents him from making friends, and keeps him in a vicious cycle of only ever being around his family and a seemingly endless number of stray cats he feeds.

Adding to his loner persona and his easily-kept distance from others is the fact that Ichimatsu is also openly sadistic. He regularly derives happiness from the suffering and discomfort of others, though it's entirely possible that that circles back around to his anxious lack of confidence in himself, allowing him to feel better about himself seeing others uncomfortable. When the sextuplets are tricked by a pair of childhood friends into thinking they were actually cute girls in a Rental Girlfriend service, Ichimatsu produces a tiger in a cage and locks aforementioned childhood friends in the cage with the tiger and laughs at their fear of being mawled and/or eaten. This bizarre sadism also cropped up in an episode where the sextuplets all caught the same cold, wherein he forced his remaining five siblings to beg and call him "Ichimatsu-sama" in order to be given wet washcloths to put on their feverish heads. Ichimatsu is also known to have a particular distaste for the second-born Matsuno sibling, Karamatsu, the singular point of self-worth he maintains being that he is at least better than him. In truth, Ichimatsu does not consider himself to be better than Karamatsu-- or any of their brothers, as he once self-proclaimed himself as "unburnable trash with no will to live" at a job office, of all places.

With Ichimatsu's tendency to not speak his mind or, much at all, really, a supplemental way to view his personality is to look at how he behaves around and interacts with each of his five brothers. Ichimatsu is, plain and simple, relatively coddled among the six of them, quite possibly for his sadomasochistic tendencies (nobody wants Ichimatsu on their bad side when they have to live with him). Despite this, he has a remarkably genuine relationship with at least two of his brothers, though the other three are questionable at best.

The eldest of the six, Osomatsu, is the only of them that Ichimatsu ever truly acts like he is younger than. Their ages have created something of a specific hierarchy among them all, despite the fact that being sextuplets likely means they are scant minutes apart. In this way, as well as in personality, Osomatsu is the ring leader of this wild circus, and Ichimatsu openly looks up to and respects Osomatsu, at least to a greater degree than he respects most others and himself. When in a discussion of the youngest's habitual tendency to not share lifestyle activities he gets up to like going to the gym and climbing Mt. Fuji, Osomatsu makes a pointed mention of thinking Ichimatsu might be okay in the world for his response to Todomatsu's withholding, and the fourth born son is elated by this vote of confidence toward his future wellbeing.

The horrible irony of this is that when they all move out in one of the singular plot-driven skits of the series, Ichimatsu is the only one of them to get neither a job nor a place to live, so in actuality he's not okay at all, but thankfully that isn't actually relevant yet!

With the second brother comes Ichimatsu's most complicated sibling relationship, and arguably the most complicated of Matsuno brothers to begin with; Karamatsu. This glittery asshole exudes a false sense of confidence in the form of glitter, eyebrows and shirts with his face on them, and Ichimatsu boasts nothing less than absolute hatred for him. Ichimatsu is also pretty consistently terrible to Karamatsu, going as far as to celebrate when he is kidnapped and the brothers are unable to come up with a ransom. Despite this, somehow the two of slept next to one another on the brothers' unfathomably huge six-person futon for what is perceived as a very long time, and it is likely more jealousy than outright hatred that Ichimatsu harbors toward Karamatsu. Given he has no confidence of his own, and is awful at being honest or open about what he thinks or feels, the fact that Karamatsu is not only confident in himself but accepts crude treatment from all of his brothers without openly flinching pisses Ichimatsu off to no end. In an episode skit entitled "The Ichimatsu Incident", Ichimatsu even goes as far as to try on Karamatsu's leather jacket and skinny jeans while the older is asleep on the couch, and while the situation later dissolves into horrible misunderstandings and Ichimatsu absolutely sucking at imitating Karamatsu, Karamatsu made a (...albeit confused) specific point of supporting his little brother when Osomatsu came upon him and Ichimatsu was unable to be honest and say he'd been curious to try on Karamatsu's weird fashion, which in turn makes Ichimatsu internally admit to being a "Karamatsu Boy".

In the character book released about Ichimatsu, he states Choromatsu, the third sibling, to be his favorite. There doesn't appear to be a very specific reason for this, though one could conclude it's because Choromatsu is about the only of the brothers that regularly leaves Ichimatsu the fuck alone. Even if much of his loner attitude is put-upon, and Ichimatsu truly does want to make friends, Choromatsu respecting his consistent need for a broad personal bubble likely does him wonders to stay calm. Choromatsu is also the other noticeably Anxious Matsuno sibling, which may lead in some roundabout way to Ichimatsu feeling more comfortable around him knowing he isn't alone in that. Choromatsu is also the otaku of the six, fixated in particular on an idol named Nya-chan, who, as her name suggests, is cat-themed. Given Ichimatsu's affinity for cats, this also gives them a common ground.

Ichimatsu's closest relationship by far among his brothers is with the fifth brother, Jyushimatsu. They have been close since they were children, as the six of them were often paired off during their mischief and shenanigans, and it was always Ichimatsu and Jyushimatsu that stuck together. They are, in essence, perfect foils of one another-- Ichimatsu being the dark whereas Jyushimatsu is the light. Jyushimatsu is always smiling, and despite being the first (and probably only, let's be real) of the brothers to get a girlfriend, he struggles to talk to people almost as much as Ichimatsu does, which the fourth sibling seems to find solace in. Jyushimatsu even goes as far as to seek out weird medicine in hopes of finding something Ichimatsu can use to understand and speak to cats, since he doesn't have friends, and while it backfires horribly and winds up being how everyone finds out Ichimatsu is actually lonely and just hates himself, it was the thought that counted. Mostly.

Todomatsu, the sixth-born and babied youngest of the six, isn't one Ichimatsu regularly interacts with one-on-one. Despite this probably having everything to do with the limits of a 26-episode anime and next to nothing to do with how often Ichimatsu actually interacts with him, there isn't a whole lot to glean from their relationship except for the fact that like the rest of his older siblings, Ichimatsu delights in giving Todomatsu an absolutely relentless hard time. Todomatsu fancies himself better than his brothers, thinking he will be the first to graduate from their status as virgins, and while he is the first of them to get a part-time job, he's really just a manipulative little shit. This is honestly probably a quality that Ichimatsu respects more than anything else, given his personally dark-minded nature, but most of the interaction between them involves Ichimatsu attempting to take a shit on two different tables in two separate instances, possibly solely to horrify and disgust Todomatsu.

Ichimatsu is... also, a thirsty virgin twenty-something. He's more than a little gross, mentioned to have sadomasochistic tendencies in a trivia skit, and... Well. When two of the sextuplets' childhood friends obtain a serum that turns them into cute girls and use it to prank the brothers (an offense later punished by tiger, courtesy of Ichimatsu himself, as mentioned previously), suffice to say the man thirsts very strongly while Chibita and Iyami's ruse is still underway. He takes a specific liking to Chibichi, the transformed version of Chibita, who is a lolita-esque girl with ponytails and a ruffly outfit. When prior to the six of them taking advantage of the prank and using what little money they don't have on these "Rental Girlfriends", Choromatsu voices that it's probably not a great idea, Ichimatsu is downright venomous in his response that it is, in fact, something they should do. In the same vein, during a Christmas episode Ichimatsu harasses a young couple on a bench, even going as far as to spontaneously combust when their conversation leans even remotely toward them spending the night together, and when the five other brothers follow Jyushimatsu only to determine he is on a date, Ichimatsu proceeds to beat his head into a brick wall until he bleeds. We're... not really sure about that one, but it could have something to do with the sadomasochism. Ichimatsu is a mess.

To revisit ESP Kitty, the skit in which Jyushimatsu seeks a serum that will allow Ichimatsu to speak to cats, we also discover that to top off Ichimatsu's lack of confidence in himself, insecurity and inability to be honest, he has a really hard time owning up to things that are made obvious. This weird orange cat he keeps winds up injected with this medicine that not only makes him capable of human speech, but makes him speak the honest truth of what someone speaking to him is thinking or saying. This, naturally, leads to Ichimatsu's true feelings being aired out to his brothers and the weird shirtless professor that provided the medicine. His response is to deny and deny and deny when they all know the cat can only speak truths, and then go as far as to yell at the cat and tell it to leave because he can't handle his own honesty being thrown in his face. This further cements his insecurity, because even when an outside force proves that he wants friends and just isn't confident enough to try to make them, he insists he doesn't want them and they aren't worth the effort (when in truth, he doesn't find himself worth the effort). To top this all off, it also drives home his loyalty to his brothers and the fact that it outweighs his self-worth and most everything else about him, because as he continues to try and escape being hammered with the fact that he is lonely and wants to make friends, it is also brought to everyone's attention, possibly including Ichimatsu himself, that he finds friendship unnecessary because he has his brothers. It also draws to light the somewhat less significant and comical fact that Ichimatsu is completely and 100% horrified of needles, which is how the damn cat winds up injected with medicine intended for him anyway. He spends a solid minute screaming in Jyushimatsu's grasp about how shots suck no matter what age you are, to the degree that his cat gets in the way in some strange means of protecting him. For this, after shouting at the cat and chasing him off, Ichimatsu fairly promptly leaves the house in search of the cat, but seems unable to be honest even then, feigning indifference when his brothers ask if he wants them to help find the cat. When by the end of the skit Jyushimatsu has found the cat and brings him to Ichimatsu, the fourth born spits an apology that is extended both to the cat and his brothers for acting out the way he had, and he is later teased for crying as they all head home with their weird psychic cat.

5-10 Key Character Traits:

- Antisocial
- Self-deprecating
+ Animal-loving
+ Loyal
+/- Quiet
- Jealous
- Insecure


Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Fits, please!
Opt-Outs: Arachne, Werebear, Naga, Harpy, Minotaur.

Roleplay Sample: Some threads from Little Hades, involving one sibling and two strangers for diversity. Content warning for discussion of sexual content and a fair amount of swearing.