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| Miharu Yoshikuni | Jul 16 2016, 11:24 PM Post #1 |
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Name: Sayoko Fukada Gender: Female Age: 23 Class: N/A Clubs/Occupation: Librarian at Reitaku High School Personality: Given her appearance and the librarian stereotype, people would easily assume Sayoko to be quiet, shy and very reserved. Ironically, she's quite the opposite. A kaleidoscope with a a colorful spectrum of emotions, Sayoko can quickly go from embarrassed to enthusiastic to downright lacking inhibition. She's a very animated character and it's easy to make her feel flustered, to get her mad, to laugh or cry. This most likely has to do with Sayoko being a tad sensitive. She wears her heart on her sleeve and can get very passionate about how she feels. Constantly reading fiction and never really interacting with people outside her work, her gauge for normal reactions is a little off-kilter. She has the tendency to overreact and over-analyze, often making situations blown way out of proportion. Fortunately, her mood is often times one of enthusiasm. Sayoko is rather imaginative and has a flair for being dramatic. She enjoys likening the smallest tasks to adventures or prospects she reads in books. A good example is putting away the books in the library as if it were some fantastical quest. She happens to narrate these feats as she does these tasks, as well. She'll often treat inanimate objects as being alive and will talk to them and even confide her deepest emotions to them. Sayoko is a bibliomanic with an excess love for books and everything in the written form. She spends almost all the time she doesn't spend on work reading books and will read anything she can get her hands on. Buying new books is always a top priority for her, and when she does, she "bulk-buys", a hysterical sight wherein she's dragging around a huge stroller bag she'll fill to the brim with volumes she can get her hands on in book sales. Since Sayoko can easily get bored without books, she tends daydreams when things get idle. When with people, she often lets them speak, but so much as mention something she's interested or is currently related to what she's reading and she'll end up talking for hours on end. She fortunately manages to catch herself every now and then and will blush when she realizes she's talked too long. Another passion of Sayoko's is food, but this mostly has to do with the fact she's always hungry. What money doesn't go to books, Sayoko uses on food. She can and will eat huge quantities of food as she never seems to feel content, and is one of the things she will show no inhibitions with. She has no qualms of eating fast and in large amounts in front of other people. She will not hesitate to invite herself to a meal if she so much as smells food cooking at someone's home, either. You can also easily bribe her into doing things for you if you're willing to fetch her two scoops of Baskin Robbins' ice cream. Sayoko enjoys cooking food as much as she does eating it, but prefers being served food or buying it as cooking is a long and tedious process her stomach is not willing to wait on. Sayoko, while already in her early twenties, still acts much like a child who cannot easily identify and control her emotions or cope with her problems. She values the few relationships she makes to a fault wherein she'll fret over every little detail about it and worry she'll lose those she's close to. She also has the tendency to blame herself even for things she's not guilty of and will beat herself up over tiny mistakes she makes. Sayoko also doesn't handle stress all too well. Working under pressure, she can easily do, but when it comes to emotional stress on personal levels, Sayoko will often shut herself out, distract herself, or run away from the problem. Due to an emotionally-straining past, she tries to avoid problems as much as she can, as such why she chose a job that allowed her to be more or less alone and a routine she could adapt to. When people pressure her to face her problems or confront her, it causes her to panic and more times than not, she will either divert attention from the issue or lie in order to say it's resolved. This may mostly be because she's never experienced much conflict in her life and because she's spent most of her life reading. Sayoko's greatest fear is that her life might be going past her because reading is almost all of her life now. However, due to her method of coping, she brushes it away and tries to ignore it as much as possible. History: As eccentric as Sayoko is, she has lived more or less a normal life. She's the eldest of two daughters and was born to a middle-class couple that ran a clinic in Sapporo. She can't recall any severe troubles in her life save for getting appendicitis, and all that resulted into was a small scar on the lower right quadrant of her abdomen. She had a pleasant enough childhood with difficulties of a caliper typical to those of her age then. She envied kids with fancy pencil cases that had several compartments or wished she could afford whatever crazy collectible item was in trending. While not entirely bullied, Sayoko was often made fun of in class because she was clumsy and always had to be called on because she was daydreaming or looking outside the window. At a time when learning manners and tidiness were important, Sayoko would often forget to say things politely, trip over things, and was horrible at keeping herself (or her surroundings) clean. One main reason as to why this was a prevalent problem was Sayoko's obsession with books. The moment she could read, Sayoko would bury her nose into picture and fairy tale books and spend the rest of the time thinking about them when she couldn't. Sayoko didn't have a group of friends when she was young, but a single best friend named Honoka, whom she often played make-believe with. While Honoka wasn't into books like she was, she did enjoy pretending and putting on stage-plays and that worked to both their advantages. The two would make up stories together and play them out. By the time she had to start middle school, Sayoko's parents moved to Nagashima in order to be closer with relatives and to hopefully find lesser competition than in the capital of the Hokkaido Prefecture. Being a little older, playing make-believe was no longer an option, and without her best friend to talk to, she went back to reading books. Whatever money Sayoko had on hand, she used to buy storybooks and when she couldn't afford them, she went to the library. Gradually, she made her way to more complicated pieces and classics such as Dickens, Doyle, Alcott, Milne, Carroll and many others. She never seemed interested in doing anything else as books already offered her dashing adventures, colorful dramas, and worlds of fantasy. In high school, Sayoko found people who were just as interested in books as she was and gained friends once more. She became a member of the literary club, where she got to open up to people about her love of books. Her closest friend was her eccentric and somewhat intimidating senior, Mizuki. The two would discuss books to no end, would walk home together, and even share the occasional ramen noodles. Sayoko also learned she not only appreciated fiction, but non-fiction, as well. She found herself interested in history and science, for instance, simply because they provided a lot of text that required her to absorb what she read. A partially sad phase of Sayoko's high school years was Mizuki graduating and the number of people in the club dwindling. Sure there were new recruits and while Sayoko was very kind to them when she was made the new head of the club, she couldn't relate or talk to them as much as she did with Mizuki. She had friends in her homeroom, but they didn't really like the same things as her and were more into fashion, dancing, and television. While Sayoko had reasonable grades, by the time she was in senior year, she still had no idea what she wanted to do for a living. A lot of people were going to universities and others were going ahead to find jobs. It was then and there that Sayoko realized she didn't know what kind of future she wanted. For several years straight, what Sayoko had been doing was a routine that included her regular life and that when she read books. She couldn't imagine herself doing an ordinary job. It took too much time and she didn't like constantly socializing. In the same way, she wasn't all too fond of committing herself to a single profession which would also result in a job and career she had no interest in. She was given a lot of options, but many seemed too complicated for her. All she really wanted was to read, after all. She was given the option of majoring in literature, but even if she chose it, she did not know what career path she'd take after it. Same went with history and journalism. Sayoko realized her life had passed by her because she had spent all her time reading. She did not know if this was a bad thing per se, but it did make her feel uneasy. How much of her life had been her "living"? At the same time, she felt no intense desire to change her ways. This dilemma made her considerably depressed and for the first time in her life, she actually felt conflicted. It was only by sheer luck that she bumped into Mizuki again one day. Her beloved senpai had come back from Tokyo on vacation. The two caught up and Sayoko shared her troubles with her. She asked how one could be able to live their life while still be dedicated to reading. Sayoko was puzzled as to what to choose because everything seemed to complicated for her or just wasn't to her passion. Almost casually, Mizuki said, "Why not be a librarian?" It was true that there was more to librarians than just arranging books. There was a lot of study to it, but it was the sort of work that was simple and stable with not much change if you did not wish for it. She would also be near books and would be helping others develop love for books without being a teacher, either. Sayoko took the offer. She graduated high school and went to a university. She couldn't afford to live in Tokyo like Mizuki, so she settled for studying in Nagashima. Once she graduated a program that would qualify her, she applied for a school librarian teacher's certificate (school libraries were a little simpler to work in than large ones, in Sayoko's mind) and was accepted for a post at Reitaku High School. Sure, it was a measly position, but there weren't any other real posts in the city. She could have gone to other places, but it had never occurred to Sayoko to leave the city since her family was here and wanted her to be close by. Also, to her delight, Mizuki had returned to find work there. Sayoko was overjoyed not just at the prospect of starting a new life where she could still be near books, but because she could be with Mizuki again. Sayoko enjoyed the simple career she now had and couldn't wait to be with Mizuki again. When they met, the two quickly were back to their old discussions and Sayoko hoped it would be like old times. Hoped. Mizuki had news for Sayoko: she was getting married. Apparently, Mizuki had a college sweetheart who proposed to her right after graduation and the two would be settling down right in Nagashima. Mizuki had hoped that her being right in the city would mean seeing Sayoko more and helping her adjust to living on her own, but the news, for some reason, made the unsettling feeling Sayoko felt during the end of high school return. She tried to ignore it and tried focus on her job--and her books, of course. For the first few months, it was fine and she developed a nice steady routine, but every now and then she'd learn more about old comrades and friends. This person was going to the United States. This one was getting a job offer at a big company. Another person was getting married. Heck, even her sister was going to graduate with honors and become a training nurse at a top hospital facility in Tokyo. Sayoko slowly started seeing her friends and comrades lives pass by her while she was left behind, and deep down inside her, she felt frightened. Appearance: Despite having a ravenous appetite, Miss Fukada is beanpole thin, a fact not helped by her choice of clothing. The scrawny woman looks only skinnier in her oversized red knit cardigan and librarian skirt. It's almost as if her clothes were swallowing her alive. This plus the fact she only stands at 5'3" without her heels results in her being of a petite frame. She has what Japanese call a "slim and small" face which seems to be an ideal for their standard of beauty. Her nose is narrow and tall, ending in a small ski-jump while her lilac-colored eyes slightly tilt downwards and give her a constantly sad and dreamy expression. She wears a pair of oval-shaped black glasses. Her skin is fair and is starkly contrasted by straight black hair with bangs that part a little left from the center. When she bends over or looks down, her long locks tend to cover her face like a curtain, so she therefore makes it a point to keep it tied up with a thin red ribbon. While working in the library, she wears the prescribed uniform, though her tendency to get chills will make her drape her cardigan around it. While outdoors on cold days, she'll wear a navy blue ladies' coat with gold buttons that reaches up to knees. She's forced to wear black stilettos while working, but she'll slip out of this and step into a comfier pair of black leather shoes when she's done. On sunny days, she'll forego her loose homemaker's clothing and wear an array of sundresses and a light open cardigan. Sayoko rarely wears pants or short skirts mostly because they feel uncomfortable to her and show off her legs. Art by MisterAki Current Weapon/Combat Skill: Sayoko is as physically threatening in combat as a kitten. Maybe even less considering she doesn't have claws. Her only real defense at the moment would be her letter opener and can of mace. Mask: A paper mache butterfly mask Image from Etsy Persona: Melpomene - Name: Melpomene - Arcana: IX: Hermit - Drain: - Reflect: - Null: - Resist: Dark - Weak: Light - Initial Skills: Analysis, Mudo, Cleave, Poisma Have you read all the stickies? Yes Edited by Miharu Yoshikuni, Aug 4 2016, 08:10 PM.
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| Nonsequitur | Aug 4 2016, 06:55 PM Post #2 |
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Everything looks great. The only snag I can see is that Benzaiten's already been reserved, I'm afraid. |
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| Nonsequitur | Aug 4 2016, 08:26 PM Post #3 |
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Alright, looks all good now! Approved. |
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