Name:  Veyon Randall

Age:  17 

Grade:  High School, Year One (Thanks to the principal. :P )

Height:  5'6" 

Weight:  120

Hair:  Brown

Eyes:  Green

	Veyon is originally from the United States, born and raised in 
California, outside of Venice Beach.  He's one-quarter Asian, as his 
maternal grandparents were native to Japan, moving to the United States
during World War One.  

	Veyon was a junior at a high school in Southern California.  It 
was your typical school, so it had the requisite amount of valley girls, 
surfer dudes, and rich people from the area surrounding.  However, and 
rather unfortunately for Veyon, he fit into none of the above groupings.
His parents weren't rich, although they were easily Upper middle-class, he
couldn't surf to save his, or anyone else's life, and he didn't fit in 
the mold of many of the other Asian-Americans from the area, seeing as 
how he wasn't into computers or martial arts.  What he was, and was 
rather good at, was gymnastics.  He was a small, slender child, and very 
little changed as he grew.  He was, however, able to talk his parents 
into enrolling him into a gymnastics school at the age of seven, and he's 
been going ever since.  As happy as his life was in Venice Beach, star of 
the school gymnastics team, and making good grades, not everyone was happy.

	Veyon's grandmother, Saoko [Someone give me a last name to go 
here...supply me with a translation of it, if you can. :)] wanted her 
family to continue through the generations, with honor intact.  Her 
daughter had, unfortunately, married a gaijin, and seemed happy enough, 
but neither she nor her gaijin husband had seen fit to teach their child 
the ways of the past, and the ways of a proper Japanese son.  Assuredly, 
he knew a little Japanese, but that was only because she had drilled it 
into him since an early age.  He had no idea, however, of the honor of 
Bushido, or the stories of Samurai and the rich and glorious past of 
Japan much less all the things he would need to know about spirits and 
the like.  For, you see, Saoko had decided, without asking her daughter 
or grandson, that she was going to see him educated as a proper Japanese 
boy ought to be.  And how better to do that than to send him to Japan for 
a year, to school with others, and let him learn for real.  She did, 
however, wonder why the principal of the school she had contacted had 
such a strange growth on his head.  But, the price was affordable, and he 
_seemed_ like a nice enough young man, and truly wanted his students to 
experience other cultures.  His language, however, left a lot to be decided.

	Three weeks after this had occured, Veyon was, needless to say, 
rather shocked to recieve a large envelope from Japan in the mail.  He 
could barely read it, only enough to make out that it said Furinkan High 
School as the return address.  He talked to both his mother and 
grandmother, to no avail.  He had to go.  At least his grandmother was 
willing to send him money every month, to the sum of five hundred 
dollars.  And Tokyo was a large metropolis.  Surely it couldn't be _too_ 
bad....could it?

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Ok, now to personality. :)

Veyon basically is a typical American youth.  However, because he's so 
small and everything else, and the fact that he's usually excluded in 
social life in High School, he's become rather withdrawn and 
introverted.  He's almost shy in many respects and has never dated or had 
a steady girlfriend.  He speaks Japanese poorly, but if the speaker slows 
down, he's able to understand.  It's when they talk in the typical 
rapid-fire patterns that he loses it.  He is quite a good gymnast, 
probably better than Kodachi is, and he dosen't cheat ^_^.  He can't 
fight however, and has never really had to.  He's smart, likes History 
and Science, mainly chemistry.  He wants to go to college (UCLA or 
Stanford) and major in chemistry, while staying in training as a 
gymnast.  He realizes that his gymnastics is only a means to possibly get 
him a scholarship into school, because he isn't _that_ great of a 
student.  Smart?  Yes.  Valedictorian?  Not by a long shot.

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Ok, now I have a few questions for everyone.  

1)  I have pretty much decided that Veyon will _not_ like the fact that 
Ranma has three fiancees if he finds out.  He'll probably say as much, to 
Ranma's face.  My question is, the way Ranma is, what would be his 
reaction to someone basically telling him, flat out, "You're a 
three-timing jerk because you keep these nice girls hanging onto what's 
basically a pile of empty promises!"?  Would Ranma take it, or beat the 
crud out of our little gymnast?

2)  As I said earlier, I plan on having him get involved with someone.  I 
don't know who, other than it probably _won't_ be one of Ranma's 
fiancees.  I need suggestions.  (And no, he wouldn't put up with Kodachi 
or Azusa for a second.)  Fanfic characters are ok, as are possibly 
crossover characters, as has been suggested.  (BTW, UY takes place in 
Tomobiki, which is another suburb of Tokyo, and, from what I recall, 
somewhat close to Nerima.   One of the early episodes of the series has 
Ataru in Nerima, getting fried by Lum in her UFO.  Anyway.)  Ideas are 
always helpful folks. :)  


J. Ballew