joint headcanon: Melissa & Daigo’s children
applicable for interactions with @sixthxchairman in their main verse spanning over the course of all Yakuza/RGG entries. While Dawn and I have discussed the kids a lot but never in a specific post, I just decided to make them lazy moodboards and note down their main characteristics (and yes, there is a reason each one of them has a plushie). Just in time for mother’s day! :)
Kazuya Dojima (JP: Dojima Kazuya ; 堂島 和也), born January 10, 2022.
Adult faceclaim: Dori Sakurada (JP: Sakurada Dori ; 桜田 通).
Kazuya is the first child of the Dojima family and takes after Daigo in a way that has always stunned close friends and relatives. Always taller than average for his age, with the same deep and dark eyes that Daigo has and with long and uncontrollable hair growing up, Kazuya was a strangely calm baby and turned into a more reserved, timid adult - he enjoys his own company a lot, definitely picked up his fashion style after Daigo’s gang leader years (including the marshmallow coat) and despite the reputation of a ‘lone wolf’ during school years, he is the sweetest boy ever and also the level-headed/responsible one.
The oldest of the Dojima kids never had any trouble with grades in school and has a great affinity for music (both songwriting and playing, but not singing - that’s the girls’ thing). He was always very fascinated by Junichiro and Majima since he a young age (which led to some interesting babysitting stories), and grew to be really close to one of Melissa’s younger sisters, Rose (who shares a lot of personality traits with him). Kazuya doesn’t care for Christmas considering how close to his birthday it is (and the shortage of gifts it caused when he was younger), and he is not so secretly ashamed of all the baby pictures in Christmas-themed accessories.
True to his aesthetics, Kazuya turned out to be a huge fan of terror/suspense/slasher movies much to Daigo’s dismay, and consequently the type of young man who would rather die than have his childish fears being divulged publicly (aka the fact he couldn’t sleep without his favorite plushies, which included a snake, a red dinosaur and a swan). He is also the first person to groan and get embarrassed when his parents become infuriatingly sweet with each other in the same room with him - which is a more frequent occasion than he would have liked for it to be.
Hikari Dojima (JP: Dojima Hikari ; 堂島 光), born July 27, 2024.
Adult faceclaim: Mirei Kiritani (JP: Kiritani Mirei ; 桐谷 美玲).
Hikari is the Dojima princess - since a very young age, Hikari has always displayed a much more bubbly energy and was fast to learn all the right ways to draw attention from her family and friends, as well as strangers (if there was some benefit to be had in doing so). A lover of all things feminine, cute and sparkly, Hikari always adored being doted on by her grandparents and inherited Melissa’s ability to capitalize on her innocent, sweet face to pull off a lot of mischief, becoming incredibly popular by doing so (nine out of ten times, people will assume her older brother did the thing).
Similarly to Melissa, mother and daughter share a passion for a lot of hobbies, such as singing, creating elaborate costumes and going over-the-top for celebrations of any seasonal holidays. Hikari is also someone very attached to friends and frequently needs to socialize in order to feel happy and complete - a stark contrast to Kazuya’s loner nature. She was always part of the popular cliques at school, and the idea of any friends of hers crushing and/or liking her brother has always mystified Hikari.
As much as Hikari embraces the ‘princess’ label and dresses as such, she is not a fragile damsel by any means - she loves subverting expectations (just as Melissa does) by sitting through horror movies without a scream, being surprisingly at ease when needing to lie and overall having a fearless personality in the face of danger. She would probably consider a serious career in acting - after all, except for her brother, parents and a few select relatives, she’s capable of fooling almost everyone and have them doing her bidding. Her favorite plushie as a kid - a tiger - was a gift from Saejima, one of her favorite uncles in the family.
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