Chōyaku Usagi

Chōyaku is the son of the rabbit from the Japanese fairy tale: Kachi-Kachi Yama.

His name means 'Hopping Rabbit' in Japanese.

Story: Kachi-Kachi Yama
Sorce: Wikipedia.

As the story goes, a man caught a troublesome tanuki in his fields, and tied it to a tree to kill and cook it later. When the man left for town, the tanuki cried and begged the man's wife who was making some mochi a sweet rice dish, to set him free, promising he would help her. The wife freed the animal, only to have it turn on her and kill her. The tanuki then planned a foul trick.

Using its shapeshifitng abilities, the tanuki disguised itself as the wife and cooked a soup, using the dead woman's flesh. When the man came home, the tanuki served him the soup. After the meal, the tanuki reverted to its original appearance and revealed its treachery before running off and leaving the poor man in shock and grief.

The couple had been good friends with a rabbit that lived nearby. The rabbit approached the man and told him that it would avenge his wife's death. Pretending to befriend the tanuki, the rabbit instead tortured it through various means, from dropping a bee's nest on it to 'treating' the stings with a peppery poultice that burned.

The title of the story comes from the especially painful trick that the rabbit played. While the tanuki was carrying a heavy load of kindling on his back to make a campfire for the night, he was so burdened that he did not immediately notice when the rabbit set fire to the kindling. Soon, the crackling sound reached its ears and it asked the rabbit what the sound was. "It is Kachi-Kachi Yama" the rabbit replied. "We are not far from it, so it is no surprise that you can hear it!". Eventually, the fire reached the tanuki's back, burning it badly, but without killing it.

The tanuki challenged the rabbit to a life or death contest to prove who was the better creature. They were each to build a boat and race across a lake in them. The rabbit carved its boat out of a fallen tree trunk, but the foolish tanuki made a boat of mud. The two competitors were evenly matched at first, but the tanuki's mud boat began dissolving in the middle of the lake. As the tanuki was failing in its struggle to stay afloat, the rabbit proclaimed its friendship with the human couple, and that this was the tanuki's punishment for its horrible deeds.

Personality
Chōyaku is very athletic, as he is a rabbit-humanoid, and is very popular amongst the more athletic students. He shows signs of being very intellegent, but is known to act slightly stupid to be known as the 'class joker'. He is also a little bit of a smart allack. However, his closer friends know he is very intellegent, and that he feels like he has to be someone else to fit in.

Royal or Rebel?
Chōyaku is a rebel, because he does not want to bring harm to anybody, as in his story, as he has to torture the next ''tanuki. ''

Apperance
Chōyaku is a humanoid, who can shapeshift from a human into a rabbit. His rabbit form has black fur and hazel eyes. In his human form, his rabbit ears are visible, but camoflages in his black hair. He usually is wearing a baceball jacket over a plain t-shirt, he also wears jeans and scruffy trainers.

Relationships
Family Chōyaku is merly part of a litter of seven, he is the third oldest child, and has six other siblings, (without including himself) 2 brothers and 4 sisters. He also has a good relationship with his mother, but feels strained from his father.

Chōyaku's siblings. (In order of age)
 * Airi (Female)
 * Daiki (Male)
 * Chōyaku (Male)
 * Hana (Female)
 * Jiro (Male)
 * Masuyo (Female)
 * Midori (Female)

Triva & Notes

 * Chōyaku's full name means: 'Hopping Rabbit' in Japanese.
 * Chōyaku's birthday is the 15th of July
 * Kuchi-Kuchi Yama is a Japanese fairytale, hence why Chōyaku and his siblings' names orignate from Japan
 * There will be a picture uploaded at a later date!