The H. in his name stands for his mother's maiden name. (I kind of like to think of it as Henjyoji after one of my favorite teachers in high school, but it probably won't come up.)
Touma has never attended school with people around his own age: He was homeschooled (by tutors, no way did his dad teach him) for his ridiculously accelerated primary and secondary education, and then he started university before hitting puberty.
He gets stage fright something fierce. It's less about public speaking and more about movement: He was terrified he'd trip walking across the stage to receive his Nobel Prize. (He was fine.) It only really hits him with ceremonial rubbish and if he has time to prepare for the event; put cameras on him while he's saving the world and completely in the moment and he's fine. He's incredibly embarrassed about this because he consciously projects an image of ~perfection~, so he hasn't ever told anybody.
Touma thinks in German. Japanese was his first language, but after moving to Austria, he didn't have much of a chance to practice it with native speakers (though he did have lessons in it) until either university or moving back to Japan. He was also taught English, and had to learn Swedish for university. At uni, the notes he took often ended up a bilingual mess of German and the language of instruction, and he deliberately used translation into just one language as a study technique.
Most of his work on curing Relena's disease was done in Japan, not Austria. Touma claimed it was because he had access to better technology there, but it was also so he could stick close to DATS in case the barrier between the real and digital worlds broke down, ostensibly so he'd be on hand to fix it but honestly he just wanted to see Gaomon again.
At some point between the series ending and the epilogue, Touma worked on controlling his digisoul and can now pull off energy blasts, shields, wings (this doesn't last very long though; he's still working on his focus for this), and of course, Masaru-style digisoul punches.
Touma only became an Austrian citizenship after winning the Nobel Prize. Austrian citizenship is only passed down from the father if the parents are married, which his were not, and he never seriously considered applying for citizenship because applying for naturalized citizenship in another country is considered to be renouncing your Japanese nationality; the only way Japan permits dual citizenship is when citizenship for another country was involuntary and conferred by the foreign government. He doesn't actually qualify for naturalized Austrian citizenship because there's a residency requirement of ten continuous years, and Touma went to university in Sweden and then bailed to Japan. However, the requirement can be waived for people who make outstanding achievements, and the Nobel Prize is certainly worthy of honorary citizenship for a son of the aristocracy. (The one time Touma has wished he was an Austrian citizen was when he was applying for student visas for Sweden.)
His musical tastes skew instrumental, with a preference for Baroque and modal jazz.
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