Keni Izumi (泉ケニー)

Keni Izumi (泉いずみケニー)  is a 2nd year High school student attending Okamino Academy, and is on the Okamino Boy's Volleyball Club as the Vice-Captain and the Official Setter. He is the older brother of Amane Izumi and younger brother of Takuya Izumi.

Background
Keni Izumi was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan on September 8th. He grew up with his mother, Older brother, and a year later his younger sister Amane had joined the family. Around his neighborhood, he befriended a boy who lived nearby, and they continued to be friends in Grade School. When he started grade school, he had taken an interest in volleyball after watching his school practice during lunch. After joining the team, he grew all the more attached to the sport. However, the other teammates often thought he was different, or "weird". As his reactions to scoring points and just winning seemed as if he was rubbing it in when he was just excited, his teammates grew suspicious of him, and gradually began excluding him from the team. Eventually, he quit the team entirely, going back to a normal school life. Around the same time as this, he'd often suffered teasing and bullying due to things like his attitude, looks, or anything they could find to poke fun at. His only friend, who he'd known since he was 6, had moved away. Promising that they'd meet again some day.

In Junior High, he tried his best to act differently so nobody would bully or dislike him. He rejoined the junior high club as a back-up setter, however he was often teased for his height considering he was only 4'11 at the time. The team wasn't mean or anything, however he felt ignored as if he didn't fit in, causing him to eventually quit again in his last year of Junior High.

In his first year of high school, He didn't bother trying to join the club again, until a 2nd year girl went over to him, seeming to recognize him. That was Kataoka, a tall girl in the volleyball club. They'd apparently went to the same junior high, Kataoka remembering he was on the team and asked if he would join this year. Izumi was hesitant, but accepted her offer. It was the first time someone actually wanted him on the team. Slowly but surely, he grew out of his old fake personality and learned to keep to his original self. Things got better, as he finally felt he was accepted.

Trivia

 * Current Concern: During matches, he gets stuck in his head thinking up strategies, thus forgetting to actually act them out.
 * He can speak English surprisingly well.
 * He is part British.
 * Izumi's Eastern Sign is Virgo, while his Chinese Sign is the Pig.
 * He's the worst at serves on the team.
 * Izumi enjoys doing reckless, risky stunts because he "Enjoys the feeling he gets when you know you're being dangerous".
 * His First name (ケニー/Kenī) is written in Katakana, and is written in katakana as "ケニー" (Kenī) when translated to english instead of being written as "ケニ"(Keni) as reference to the character's creator, however his name is still written "Keni" regardless (His sister calls him Kenny, though).
 * He can never settle on just one favorite thing.
 * Most of his subjects he's bad in except for Language Arts, because he doesn't see the need to learn things he won't need to know for the jobs he actually wants in his future.

Name Meaning
ケナー- Katakana for "Kenny" or "Keni"

泉- From Japanese "泉" meaning "fountain, spring".