Took longer than I'd hoped, but first 1st-year get.
[hider=Artist of Fear and Love][center][img]http://i.imgur.com/UEauqHe.jpg[/img]
[color=#dda0dd]"You don't mind helping me with some research, right? Great! Meet me up on the roof later tonight."[/color][/center]
[color=#dda0dd][b]Name:[/b][/color] Kimura Chou

[color=#dda0dd][b]Age:[/b][/color] 15

[color=#dda0dd][b]Year:[/b][/color] 1st

[color=#dda0dd][b]Club:[/b][/color] Manga Club

[hider=Appearance][img]http://i.imgur.com/wypuSmY.jpg[/img][/hider]

[hider=Personality]There's shipping, and then there's Chou shipping. A font of unlimited imagination, Chou is an aspiring manga artist with two very common themes in her work: Horror, and yuri. Her personal stance on the matter is that fear and love are two of the strongest emotions in the long list of what a human can experience, and the conflict of a force that urges somebody to not do something versus a force that drives a person to go above and beyond for somebody else pleases her to no end. Of all the struggles in the world she savors, it's by far her favorite. As the wording could imply, she enjoys seeing all forms of struggles, but by no means is Chou a bad person. She's totally harmless, and actually a sweet girl who would go above and beyond for somebody she considers worth it. Even for people who aren't considered worth her 100%, Chou is kind, well-mannered, and sociable. A real friend-maker, and the last sort of person one would suspect of drawing manga with violent death, psychological horror, torture, and other very not-sweet themes.

Chou is also an outdoors girl. She prefers the sky over her head and the grass under her body, with fresh air surrounding her on every side. With an affinity for wet weather, Chou seems to produce higher-quality art under a dark, thundering sky, as opposed to a clear blue one. By her own account, this isn't out of any love for such weather, so much as to help her get into the mood for some good horror. Similarly, she's got a tendency to prefer working on her art in dimly-lit places, in the presence of any number of creepy items, or just otherwise in situations that would make people uncomfortable and/or nervous. Chou actually handles her own fear very well, but the problem comes from her "research" for the sake of getting the right facial expressions and whatnot. Chou's "experiments" can and typically will involve spooking whoever her unlucky volunteer is, be it with a scary atmosphere or catching them by surprise with a jumpscare. This in turn can make her a bit unpredictable.

She means no harm of course. Well, she does, but not maliciously. Her intents are "purely scientific", though she's also be lying if she said she didn't enjoy seeing people scared. Even above love, fear is her favorite emotion in people, so if Chou can invoke it in somebody - herself included - she will. In her own words, "My fear is the fire I forge my stories in. Everyone else's is the metal I need to actually make it." A particular frustration of hers is that while she has the horror part down-pat for her works, she can never quite get the romance part right. She can fantasize about girls in relationships all she wants, but her work generally doesn't feel right on the love front to her. And if you don't think there will be fantasizing, you've got another think coming.

Of course, scary things aren't the only things Chou likes. She's still a girl in the end. Although she'd prefer snakes or spiders, stuffed animals are perfectly acceptable to her. Her favorite flavor is chocolate, pink is her favorite color, and she likes to work to cabaret music. Aside from spooky things like spiders or worms, Chou's favorite animals are rabbits, as she likes to surround herself with soft & fluffy things if she isn't working on her next horror story. As into scary stuff as she is, one would be a fool to assume it has any impact on Chou being a kind-hearted and generally optimistic girl.

Unless puppets are invovled. Fuck those things.[/hider]

[hider=Background]Chou's origins are nothing worth mention. Born out in the rural countryside and raised by perfectly normal parents, Chou's primary caretaker was in fact neither of her parents. Being busy folk, Chou's parents left most of her upbringing in the hands of her elder brother; a twenty-year-old NEET with a magnetic personality that made him great with kids. Under the watchful eye of elder brother Hiro, Chou's development went smoothly, though he couldn't help but note young Chou's drawings were...disturbing. By Hiro's own account, this was probably his own fault in retrospect; scary movies aren't the best thing to leave on TV when taking caring of a toddler. Whatever the cause, Chou's "unique" art caught the attention of her art teachers once school started for the child. She was talented, no doubt, but she had a tendency to draw up monsters more at home in a child's nightmares than the primary school's classroom wall or the fridge back home.

Rather than discourage her, however, Chou's teacher saw a way to help her use her..."charming" imagination to its best. Chou was encouraged to try writing scary stories to go along with her drawings; she certainly had the vision for it, so it was just a matter of refining her writing. This led to her asking Hiro for advice, who in turn lent her the first few volumes of a horror manga he thought would suit her. Chou was enthralled by the book presented to her. She wanted to create books and stories like that one. This was how Chou decided on her life dream. She wanted to be a manga artist that created a big-name horror series. Once she had the dream, Chou knew it was the one meant for her. She worked toward it tirelessly, improving her art and writing with each new draft of a manga, dipping into other genres (generally comedy) whenever she found herself burned out on horror.

Her effort isn't without reward. Chou has grown into quite the artist, and a fairly decent writer to boot. Of course, she hasn't neglected her studies either. She wouldn't make it into Saint Lilium if she did, after all. Once she arrived, Chou knew the perfect club for her. Among the new blood in the Manga Club, Chou is thrilled to finally be surrounded by individuals with similar goals and passions.[/hider][/hider]