Ryoma Hoshi

Ryoma Hoshi

Unemployed, fugitive, professional tennis player

Ryoma is the shortest male there. Contrary to his short appearance, he has a very deep voice. He has very short, cropped red hair, black eyes with no visible pupils, and rosy cheeks.

He wears a black beanie with two points that has a picture of two blue tennis rackets on it, a black leather jacket, and a black and dark blue striped jumpsuit underneath, similar to that of a prisoner. He wears black shoes with red soles and has a metal cuff attached to his left leg with a bit of a chain attached to it. He is shown to have a single silver ring cartilage on his right ear although it's not visible due to his hat.

His legs are notably much more muscular than the rest of his body. He always has a candy in his mouth, which may give the impression of a cigarette.

Before gaining his Ultimate talent, he wore a standard school uniform, with a gray blazer over top a white dress shirt and red tie. He also wore black pants with a plaid pattern and black loafers. Interestingly, he still carries a candy cigarette in his mouth.

Ryoma is a hard-boiled dandy character. Though he looks like a kid, it's been said that his life experience would put an adult to shame. He has a coolness that typical high school students don't have, heightened by his very deep, mature voice. He is the calmest, most composed, and unperturbed person in the Killing Game. He isn't shaken by murders, nor even if he is personally harmed. He often mentions how he refuses to do something "uncool" and doesn't want to show his softer side. He also speaks with a lot of unique idioms and hyperboles such as "cool your jets," "break out the confetti," and "plead the fifth."

After killing a mafia organization with his own hands, Ryoma considers himself a killer, the kind of person other people should not get close to. While generally not appearing very aggressive, he is apparently willing to harm and even kill people if he believes they deserve it. He occasionally gives others a very piercing look as a warning.

Ryoma has a tendency to push other people away. He feels others shouldn't get close to him because, along with being a murderer, he is on death row and thus likely to die soon, which would cause his close ones emotional burden. Nevertheless, he still has certain kindness and concern in his heart.

Due to his past, Ryoma appears depressed and suicidal, assuming he has very little time left and cannot have any close ones. He has little regard for his own life if any. He believes that being a death row inmate automatically makes his life worth less than anyone, and he is very much willing to die for the sake of the other students.

Ryoma was a tennis player with a promising future, being world famous since his middle school days and winning many international matches.

One day, Ryoma was invited to play in an underground tournament hosted by a mafia organization. He tried to ignore the invitations he received at first, but since they just kept coming, he eventually accepted it. Once he arrived, however, he found out that he was fooled and was actually playing in fixed matches that rich people were gambling on. At first, he played along with the mafia's plan until he decided to crush his last enemy whom he was supposed to lose to. Having destroyed the mafia's reputation, they massacred Ryoma's family. He managed to get his girlfriend to safety elsewhere at first, but her hiding place was located and they eventually killed her as well, leaving only Ryoma who barely escaped the massacre.

In an act of revenge, he killed the organization's members by hitting them in the head with his custom-made steel tennis ball. The entire organization was annihilated and as a result, he earned the alias Killer Tennis. He ended up a prisoner on death row, seemingly throwing his whole future away. Being an animal lover since a young age, he owned a pet cat he loved very much. However, he had to give it away to an acquaintance after he got arrested.

Due to losing his loved ones and becoming a murderer, Ryoma believes his former self is gone and he doesn't have much will to live, believing that even his beloved cat must have long forgotten him. He became very depressed and rather suicidal. He has also indicated that he has suffered from sexual harassment during his time in prison.

He would be with whoever loves him, no matter the gender. however, he feels he is not worthy, due to the outside problems with the mafia and being a fugitive, he feels that he would never be someone affectionate or have a sexual appetite due to his harassment in prison, maybe he can soften if the right person is done and be perfect for him.