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Aika Harada; ENTER THE COUSIN!!!
Topic Started: Dec 30 2015, 06:50 AM (355 Views)
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Name: Aika Harada
Gender: Female
Age: 25

Class: N/A

Clubs/Occupation: Freelance Journalist/Photographer.

Personality: Aika is of an interesting sort. If one would pick a word to describe her? Determined. The second? ANNOYING! It works well as a part of her job. Aika has always been a curious sort, wanting to find out everyone’s smallest secret. Sadly, she’s not good at KEEPING said secrets. She is caring to a fault, but doesn’t exactly like to show it. She also has the excitability and temper of a Chihuahua. She tends to be rather harsh in her speech, calling it how she sees it. She has issues saying sorry and doesn’t enjoy being proven wrong.

She also has a tendency to come up with wild theories and tends to exaggerate quite a bit. She tackles tasks with an enthusiasm most find off putting, but tends to keep her own problems to herself. She will try to be there for those in need, but will never really ask for help in return.

Despite being rather boyish, she does QUITE enjoy fashion. She keeps up with the latest trends (and occasionally writes articles about them.) She can talk for hours about what would look good on who and will dress up someone if she has the chance.

Due to certain things she’s seen during her job, she’s developed a bit of a smoking habit, she’s been “trying” to quit for some time.

History: Aika was born in Nagashima as the only child of two loving parents. Sadao Harada and his wife Aya. Sadly it was short lived. Due to complications, her mother lost her life shortly after she was born. Her father was devastated and came to rely on his brother Renji for support. Due to this fact, Aika herself was exposed to two different parenting styles. Sadao’s stern but loving style and Renji’s more…abrasive style.
Whilst growing up, Aika helped around Renji’s dojo quite a bit and due to the fact that she was only five years old when his first son Jin was born, she took to him like he was her own brother. The same went with Yuki and Asuka. She eventually began to train at the same dojo after enough complaining/getting into fights with the other students. She found that she was quite good.

Sadly, when she was fifteen, her dad remarried and moved to Osaka with her in tow. She resented him for that, and hated his new wife. The next few years of her life she was a bit of a problem child. Often sneaking out and getting in many MANY fights with the boys in her school along with vandalism, theft and a few other law breaking escapades. During her second year, her father forced her to join a club, hoping some after school activity would keep her out of trouble. Due to a friend of hers guilting her, she ended up joining the school’s newspaper. (Cameras are expensive.)

She found that she quite liked it. She took to it well and while the number of fights went down, the number of reports of scandalous activities and (occasionally) criminal behavior rose. She worked for the newspaper up into her last year. It was easy enough to pick what she wanted to do for her life. She'd worked hard despite her rocky first years and managed to get accepted into a college. After years of hard work she landed a degree in journalism and went onto the work force. It didn't take her too long to land a job at a local newspaper.

Due to her aggressive style, she got results, but often conflicted with her superiors. After a few years of floating from magazine, to tabloid, to newspaper, she left the business altogether and went on to become a freelance journalist. She quite enjoyed finding the story herself rather than being told to. Sadly, the life of a freelance journalist is a tough one. Especially one as young as her. She did her best, but was never able to get many good stories.

She was honestly about to try for a job at a magazine when she got a call from her father. Her cousin Jin had died. A gas main explosion as it said on the news. She was devastated to say the least. For awhile, she wasn't sure what to do, she wanted to be there for her family but she currently barely had the funds to live on her own, let alone move. Not to mention, she herself wanted to look into just what happened. Something bothered her about the whole thing. She decided to buckle down and take whatever she could. After taking more than a few risque pictures of celebrities personal lives, she'd managed to scrape together enough to afford a tiny apartment in Nagashima.

As soon as she could she moved back to Nagashima, determined to find out the truth.

Appearance: Aika is rather tall for a girl, being around 5’8. She doesn’t mind it, but with her sharp features, lack of a noticeable chest and harsh manner of speech she is more often mistaken for a handsome boy than a girl. It doesn’t help that she cuts her hair rather short and tends to spike it. Due to her “rebellious” years. She experimented with hair dye and ended up falling in love with the color red. She pulls it off well, but it makes her look a bit like a troublemaker.

She has dark eyes that always seem to have a fire burning in them. She exercises quite often and fairly toned due to that fact. She is also fairly tan as most of her time being spent outdoors.

As for clothing, she really doesn’t…do skirts and finds feminine clothing rather annoying to deal with. More often than not she’ll wear boy’s clothing. Her current favorite is a green button up with it’s sleeves rolled up and a nice pair of slim jeans. She truly enjoys fashion though and tends to have a different outfit each week though.

For cold weather she has a nice dark grey pea coat she favors. She also has a scarf she may or may not have stolen from Jin during one of her visits…what? It looked good on her okay?

Weapon:
Aika, while being trained in naginatajutsu is fairly rusty to say the least. When she moved she didn't exactly bring a naginata with her, nor did she practice much afterwards. Instead she'll most often be wielding a dinged up bat she came to enjoy during her “rebellious” phase.

Mask: Aika’s mask is a rather simple one. It is all white and reflective with a small hole over the left eye so she can see. Though it seems that the upper right portion of the mask has had a hole broken through it, revealing a large portion of her face. At that point it is jagged and dirty. There is a single black stain that trails from this portion to the bottom of the mask.

Persona:
Laelaps is described as "A Greek mythical dog who never failed to catch what she was hunting." She was given as a gift from Zeus to Europa and eventually sent to catch the Teumessian Fox. due to the fact that this particular fox couldn't be caught, the resulting paradox made Zeus turn them both into stone and made into constellations.

~Name: Laelaps
~Arcana:VII: The Chariot
~Drain:
~Weak: Earth, Electricity
~Null:
~Reflect:
~Resist: Physical, Wind
~Skills: Sukukaja, Skewer, Garu

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Edited by Ket, Jan 5 2016, 01:36 PM.
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I'd like to ask, though: If she was freelancing, would she feasibly be able to get the scoop on the murders so early in her career? And how was it that she clinched the evidence that led to a closed case? Bear in mind that as a freelancer, she'll need to corroborate her own credentials when she asks for statements/ interviews, and that's without a long history in investigative journalism.

Currently, I can't find anything about freelance journalism in Japan, but I believe that she'd need to throw her own weight around pretty hard in order to get her scoop. Did she have the necessary influence?

Additionally, I was under the impression that the Harada dojo focused on naginatajutsu. If she's been trained with "various weapons" I'd like to ask you clarify the statement and maybe indicate how active she's been in martial arts as of late; was it just a thing she did as a kid, or was she actively a martial artist while she was hunting for news?
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Alrighty! Sorry bout all that I fixed it up for ya! Lemme know if there's anything else you need!
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Approved.
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Moved to retired, as per player's request
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