Towa

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Towa (トワ, Towa) is the main protagonist of Slow Damage.

He lives in his own studio on the third floor of Murase Clinic, and currently works as a receptionist in the clinic. In his free time, he likes hanging out at the bar, Roost.

He has the unique ability to see the Aura of other human beings. However, he can't see his own aura at all.

Appearance
He is referenced to be good looking under, or even despite of all of his facial scars.

He is hinted to look physically a lot like his mother, who is said to have been beautiful. According to Toono, he inherited his mother's "well-featured" face. However, the former feels like Towa has "ruined" it with his scars.

In Taku's route, at one point he says Towa looks nothing like his mother. This situation is caused due to Toono forcing Towa to crossdress as a woman to fit in with his other hostages.

Current
Towa has hazel eyes and a pale complexion. He has messy looking short black hair with hazel streaks at the end, with long bangs that cover the right side of his eye. He has noticeable eyebags under his eye. He noticeably wears an eyepatch on his right eye, as a cause of that eye being lost.

He has numerous scars running across his face (One across the nose to the left side, a small vertical one on his mouth, and another diagonal one on his chin). He is also hinted to have more scars on the rest of his body.

His outfit appears to be entirely black. He wears a shirt inside a coat with crosses dangling from the tips of it, long pants and boots.

Personality
He is described as living in depravity and apathy, reacting only to things he finds interesting. His only hobby is painting.

He feels like he cannot relax when the room is silent. Thus, he always keeps the TV on when he is alone in his own room.

Painting
His artist name is "euphoria". Rei Izumi was the one who gave him that name, which was took from the pocket watch that he found lying around in Towa's studio and picked it up and hung on a easel of his. Out of Rei's knowledge the pocket watch was a keepsake of his mother, Maya. The pocket watch was described by someone as a 'novelty' which was given out in the mansion owned by her. Towa personally doesn't care much for his artist name. However, in some circles, "euphoria" is reputed to be "unique", and even has a fan base.

Towa pretty much does painting as a hobby, and mainly paints oil paintings. However, he sometimes does pencil sketches on his croquis book. He usually likes painting people more than things. He is rarely interested in painting landscapes or inorganic objects.

He likes to draw people's desires. Creating motifs inscribed with oil, desires from the depths of people's hearts the moment before they burst. Allowing the desires to crush into him, the experience of this flowing freely from the brush.

However, he also does not paint often, and only picks up the brush when driven by an urge to it. Thus, there are times when he doesn't paint at all for a long period of time. Even when it comes to oil paintings, he doesn't paint without a model.

The Roost Manager also likes Towa's paintings a lot. Rei Izumi who already liked his paintings was the one to show them to the former. Every time Towa paints a new one, it is displayed in Roost itself. He also displays his paintings onto Roost's blog, the fourth face.

Models
At the beginning of the game, he has already posted an article onto "the fourth face" blog run by Roost itself. The article is about him currently looking for a painting model.

A model he is looking for has to meet specific conditions.

From time to time, he does get emails from people who want to be a model. They come in small numbers and without interruption, thus Towa only checks them when he feels like it. Even if the other person is interested in Towa; if Towa himself is not interested in them, he will not paint at all.

Health
Towa usually suffers from insomnia. He mostly takes sleeping pills prescribed by Taku in order to fall asleep. If he doesn't take them; he will not sleep at all, or have a very shallow one. The only times he falls asleep without the pills are when his body is seriously extremely exhausted.

He is also known to be someone who has a blatant disregard for his own health. Taku and Rei are the main people around him who are constantly worried and nagging about it. Taku is concerned about his life expectancy. Rei is also touched whenever Towa eats his homecooked food.

He is a very small eater and drinks very little water as well. This is especially because he forgets to eat and drink whenever he paints. When he does eat, he is also a very slow eater. He only eats enough to stay alive and not feel dizzy all the time, or become unable to move around.

To him, he is much more single-mindedly interested in both alcohol and smoking. It is to the point that even though Taku and Rei nag at him to eat something after he finished concentrating on his paintings; even for his Christmas present, he only asks for the above two things. He is a very heavy smoker. He is almost always seen trying to light a cigarette, even in between meals. He states that it is a substitute for not really eating food and drinking water.

He is also a very frequent drinker, most of the times going to Roost. It is to the point he takes his sleeping pills with lukewarm alcohol, instead of the usual water.

Ryuujirou Takasato
Biological father.

Maya

Biological mother.

Trivia

 * His Dominant Hand is his Right
 * His Favorite Food is Nuts
 * His Dislikes are Boiled Sweet Beans
 * Towa’s Hobbies are Alcohol, Tobacco, Oil Painting
 * According to Rei; despite his "appearance", he has beautiful handwriting.
 * He doesn't remember his age and can only give an approximate one when questioned about it.
 * His unique ability to see "auras" hints that he might have something akin to in-real-life Synesthesia.
 * His birthday is 7th of March.
 * Towa is the second Nitro+Chiral protagonist (Besides Sly Blue) who isn’t a virgin. It is revealed he slept with many others before the games events. (Though there is a deeper reason to why, which gets revealed later on in the game.)
 * Though he is called Towa throughout the game, Towa is just a nickname for him. Towa might have been derived from 'Sakuragi Haruto', his real name. The fact that Towa is a nickname is showed in the short story that comes with the first-press edition of the game.
 * Towa’s nickname came from the Japanese “daredemo towazu,”.