[hider=Hisakawa Hiroki]
Name: Hisakawa Hiroki

Talent: SHSL Type A Student

Gender: Male

Appearance: Hisakawa is 5’8”, with pale skin, dark eyes, mid-back length black hair he keeps in a low ponytail. His build is pretty average, and contrary to what one might expect, he dresses pretty casually—a faded t-shirt (usually with some random English word on it), some old jeans, worn-out sneakers, and a gray jacket make up his usual attire.

Personality: Hisakawa is… kind of a weird guy. He’s not really creepy or annoying or hard to work with or anything, but he tends to act as if something bad is definitely about to happen. Like, all the time. He lives life like he’s going to die by the end of the day, mostly because he’s convinced that he just might. Though calm, he seems to do things that limit his connection to being a normal person, such as not eating or sleeping in front of people, and acts fairly carelessly and recklessly, at least when it comes to his own self-preservation.

However, while he doesn’t really care for himself anymore, he cares much more for other people, and tries to be careful about how others perceive him, how he makes them feel, and most importantly, how useful he can be to them. Hisakawa pretty much assumes that unless he’s directly helping someone, his presence would just be bothersome. Not to mention, he’s most relaxed when there’s some task to attend to, even though he doesn’t believe he’s genuinely good at anything (what the hell kind of a talent is “Type A Student”, anyway?).

Backstory: Not a whole lot is publicly available on Hisakawa’s life, but what is known about him is that he was incredible academic prodigy, achieving stellar grades from kindergarten on along with all sort of extracurricular activities that he somehow always seemed to balance, even through stressful life events, such as several moves between the US and Japan. However, a few months into his first year of high school, things started to fall apart. He began dropping activities, and grades became harder for him to maintain. Logically, it’s most likely that the difficulty became too much for him, but the drop was so sudden that it doesn’t seem to be the case, especially since he did just fine earlier in the year. Not long after, he dropped out of school and ran away from home, with no word to where he went or why he left. However, he resurfaced with an invitation from Hope’s Peak to attend as the SHSL Type A Student, for the academic excellence he had maintained through most of his life.
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[hider=Himura Chikako]
Name: Himura Chikako

Talent: SHSL Rhythm Game Player

Gender: Female

Appearance: Himura stands at 5’7”, has a tan complexion, and fluffy, chin-length hair and bangs that she dyes bright orange. Her green eyes are often alright with the passion of dance (or sometimes, the rage of “What do you MEAN it’s not real dancing!?”), and she wears a lot of bright colors to match. She wears an oversized orange crop top over a bright pink hooded tank top, purple athletic pants down the the mid-calf, and ankle high socks and orange sneakers.

Personality: Himura is a woman of relentless pride, passion, and energy. Some may consider it silly, even childish, for her to take so much pride in her top scores in DDR or Guitar Hero, but she does so anyway, regardless of what anyone thinks (and she’ll be sure to let you know just how much she doesn’t care). She always tries to keep things positive and have a fun energy, though passionate joy can easily become passionate rage in the right circumstances.

To her, competition is the spirit of friendship. She often attempts good natured squabbles and one-upmanship, though she knocks it off if people tell her to. Of course, her preferred field of battle is rhythm games, on which she has never lost. If she wins, she tends to gloat, if she loses, she’s not exactly graceful, but regardless, once she’s given time to cool down, she accepts the results as they are, and considers her competitor a new friend. Regardless, she always tries to be kind to others, though she suffers from being bad at reading people, and can sometimes come across as thoughtless when she genuinely just didn’t pick up on something.

Additionally, she tends to be impulsive, and tries to get things done the quickest and easiest way. She gets bored without something to do, and enjoys chatting with people about this, that, and the other thing. She does her best to be a force of positivity wherever she goes, and she accepts people for who they are and who they tell her she is, especially since she wants the same in kind.

Backstory: “The future? Eh, I don’t really know what I’m gonna do. Maybe I’ll just get so good at rhythm games that Hope’s Peak will accept me!”

Himura (known on the internet as RaRaRevolution, or RaRa-chan by her fans) listened to music all the time as a child, and as she went about her daily life, she became more attuned to the rhythm of the songs she listened to, and everything she did she started to do to the beat of the song that was on at the moment. Be it classical or country, hip hop or a movie soundtrack, Himura always found a groove to move to.

She played her first rhythm game when she was 12 years old, having recently moved in with her adoptive parents. Her agility and natural sense of rhythm lead to her totally crushing it, and by the end of the week she had gone above and beyond in earning the high score. Since then, be it dancing or music based, she’s played whatever rhythm game she could get her hands on, honing her craft into a veritable art form, earning herself a following on YouTube for her incredible level of precision and accuracy, which eventually got her noticed by Hope’s Peak.

Additional Info:
-She's pretty good with other types of games, but she prefers rhythm games to anything else.
-She is, objectively, the best girl.
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