Walker Yumasaki

Walker Yumasaki is the Creative Writing teacher at Shōtotsu High School. He's an enthusiastic and creative otaku who hides his bright and twisted thoughts behind a dumb smile.

Walker is a supporting character in the anime, manga and ongoing light novel series Durarara!!. He is roleplayed by the administrator of ACR, whose other character in the group is Bastion Misawa.

Personality and Interests
A passionate otaku that appears carefree because of the wide dumb grin he has most of the time, which hides his serious thinking, mysterious past and secret life. Being Erika Karisawa’s almost-inseparable best friend, his life is based on watching and obsessing over anime, manga and light novels with her, with his additional liking of comics and sci-fi. Although he hates yaoi and gets teased by fujoshi Erika often, he enjoys ecchi, and fantasizes over foreign girls and his own harem. He yearns to become a part of the 2D world and gets very excited when discussing his hobbies or noticing situations in real life that seem to pop out of a manga. Unbeknown to many, he and Erika are fans of manga-inspired torture, which Walker personally inflicts on suspects they want to question.

Appearance
He is 174cm tall (5’8.5”) and weighs 55kg (121 lbs). His age is 23 (going on 24), but he looks much younger, bringing people to confuse him for a student often.

Walker likes to wear hoodies, mostly in light-blue or white colors. His eyes are usually squinted except when he’s enjoying himself or experiencing a strong emotion. He often has a wide grin in his face.

Biography
Walker is of mixed descent, thought to be half-Japanese and half-American. He works as a freelance ice sculptor in Ikebukuro. He’s a member of the online gang, the Dollars, and also of Kyohei Kadota’s “van” gang, who he greatly admires. He lived for some time at an apartment building owned by the gang’s van driver Saburo Togusa. The van gang were once members of the Blue Squares until they left because the Squares kidnapped and hurt the rival leader’s girlfriend, Saki. Yumasaki was the one who saved her, inspired to become a hero like in his fiction. He is very eager to help out (and avenge) his friends and fellow Dollars members in his own style of justice-bringing.

Walker was employed by Principal Cross during the Christmas event at the resort the school went to, where he was doing an ice sculpture of Hogwarts for the Champions Dinner. He decided to teach at Shōtotsu High School to raise more money for his animanga-buying habit and because he heard the school was full of people that look like fictional characters he’s a fan of. He teaches Creative Writing to promote students to like the fictional world and write original works. One of his goals is to be a famous novelist.

Skills & Abilities
Yumasaki is skilled at working with ice and fire. He specializes in ice sculptures of anime/manga characters. As shown various times throughout the anime and light novels, he has an affinity for fire, preferring to use weapons such as molotov cocktails and spray cans with lighter fluid.

Relationships
Walker is the best friend of Erika Karisawa and harbors a crush for her. He realizes she will most likely not notice this or return his feelings, so he wouldn’t confess to her unless she hinted her desire that he would, and would be quite happy just staying at her side forever. After meeting up at the school, he joins Aside being a close friend of Kyohei Kadota, he's in good terms with the other members and fellow classmates of the (fan-named) Raijin Quartet: Shinra Kishitani, Izaya Orihara and Shizuo Heiwajima. He admires Shizuo greatly but can't help but annoy him sometimes because he talks a lot. Fully aware of his great strenght by being a frequent observer of his fits of rage, Walker manages to avoid being sent flying in the air by Shizuo. In Izaya's case, he is more wary of what he is capable of as the usual mastermind behind almost everything going on in Ikebukuro. Although cautious and considering the possibilities, Walker starts to hang out with him and they go hiking.

Aware of the entire story behind the dullahan Celty Sturluson via her lover Shinra, Walker befriends her after discovering she was a teacher at the school via a chatroom. Walker usually bothered Celty about her fear of aliens and they frequently exchanged theories and DVD's of TV specials about them. Before Valentine's Day, Walker assisted Celty in making chocolates for Shinra, and in turn, made some for Erika. Celty helped Walker by providing 'photo and shadow-piece' evidence of her existence so he could join the SOS Brigade.

One of the first people that Walker met when he was employed was Haruhi Suzumiya, who went up and stared at him as he played with his food, a potato with condiments (the idea of this open RP came from Walker's rper asking for a random word in a chatroom and Haruhi's rper mentioning potato). Although he's a teacher, Walker was enthusiastic to join the SOS Brigade she leaded and is now a frequent contributor and member. They went cosplay shopping before the Genderbent Week's incidents. Haruhi's genderbent self started teaching him how to get some fangirls.

Walker also recently met Toshiro Hitsugaya and a genderbent Natsu Dragneel, promising to teach the former how to sculpt ice in an attempt to get him a hobby, and helping out the latter in getting away from whistling fanboys that might have gotten burned without his interference.

(Work in Progress)

Clubs
Liking the many clubs the school had to offer, Walker is a member of a few of the these despite being a teacher:
 * Book Club (supervisor)
 * Manga Club (supervisor, along with Erika)
 * Dollars
 * Art
 * SOS Brigade

Other
More info can be found on his Canon and Headcanon page.