[color=lightgray][table][row][/row][row][cell][right][h3][color=a2d39c][i][b]Kikuya Iwasaki[/b][/i][/color][/h3][sup]"Loss is not something you can define. Only experience."[sup] - Thoughts on her village[/sup][/sup][/right] [b][color=a2d39c]⚘ Looking Inside[/color][/b] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kikuya is a placid individual who remains quiet, still, and calm despite the situation and allows her to be a well-mannered person that is pleasant to be around and likable. Consoling and showing an emotional understanding she is an ear in which to listen and a shoulder on which to lean. She is loyal and committed, devoting herself fully and dedicating her time and effort to the task. A dependable and determined ways makes her a natural leader, aspiring for more and challenging herself in exacting and challenging ways. Bright and nimble, she is not so much talented as driven. Underneath the surface resides a resentful and spiteful mind, dwelling on transgressions of the past. Dissatisfied with the cards that fate has dealt makes her disgruntled in her current situation as it breaks with her more traditional beliefs and view of societal honor class. Though not outwardly expressive, Kikuya is defensive and paranoid, untrusting to those around her: even those she is close. She lacks confidence in people and situations, vulnerable in her situation, and ever doubting of even the most apparently true natured. Shielding herself emotionally from criticism, the depth of feelings are great for Kikuya but her outwardly calmness and warm expression act as walls; a damn to hold back the crashing tides. [color=a2d39c][b]⚘ A Brief History[/b][/color] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [hider=Before Entering RP] [color=a2d39c][b]Childhood:[/b][/color] Born in the spring, Kikuya had a lovely and simple childhood. He father was a farmer and she mother simply tended the house and helped her father. They spent much of their time with Kikuya, showing her love and tenderness; preparing her for life when she got older, for when she too would become a wife to a farmer in the village. It wasn't much to aspire to but Kikuya was content. She had friends in the village, the people were kind, they were in the shadow of Edo so protected from much of the strife the rest of the country was going through. [color=a2d39c][b]Adulting:[/b][/color] Kikuya thought things would continue as they had in her childhood. She married well enough, to a childhood friend. The marriage, while not passionate, was easy and kind. The village was prospering. Life was good. That was until her husband was conscripted into the military to help the northern villages. While he was gone, her village came under attack. Kikuya was trampled and her ankle burned and broken, her parents killed, her farm burned to ash. Kikuya fled with others into Edo. The city turned their backs on the refugees and Kikuya did what she could to survive. Hoping that things could move one once her husband returned. Word of his death came weeks after their village was burned. Kikuya eventually found work in a Pleasure House and was trained by the mother of the house. She has done well enough the last two years, learning and prospering as well as she can in these times. At least within the walls of Edo are safe enough, for now. [/hider] [hider=Beneath the Cherry Blossoms] [color=a2d39c][b]:[/b][/color] [/hider] [color=a2d39c][b]⚘ Relations[/b][/color] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [hider=Major][right][sub][h3][b][color=a2d39c]Shun Iwasaki[/color][/b][/h3][/sub] [sup]"Your promise became your lie." [sup]- After receiving news of his death[/sup][/sup][/right] Kikuya and Shun were married in a simple ceremony during the spring. It wasn't a marriage of love but they were content and happy with each other. Their life together was calm and familiar as they grew up together and had known each other their entire lives. More friends than anything, they knew each others deepest thoughts and spent much of their time together talking about different ideas, not wanting to focus on the problems outside of their village. They lived in the shadow of Edo and had a sense of security because of it. That was until things started to get worse and Shun was conscripted into the military to help defend the northern villages. He promised to return, he never did. Killed in battle and body burned on site, not even his ashes were brought back to the village. [/hider] [hider=Minor] [right][sub][h3][b][color=a2d39c]Yui Aoi[/color][/b][/h3][/sub] [sup]"Yes Aoi-san, here is the payment." [sup]- After every client[/sup][/sup][/right] Yui is Kikuya's boss as it were. She took Kikuya in when she came to Edo, finding the girl begging on the streets, trying to survive. She did for her what she did to most any pretty girl. Took her in, gave her a home, food, clothed her, taught her skills, and turned her back out to the streets but this time to work instead of to bed. Kikuya has done well for Yui, the young woman perhaps could have been a Geisha had she been schooled at an earlier age and never married are the thoughts of Yui. For now, she will do well in her current position, perhaps she will pass the house down to her. She could easily run these girls. [/hider] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [/cell][cell][center][img]https://i.ibb.co/jMm6Rcq/Kikuya-Iwasaki.jpg[/img] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Female [color=a2d39c][b]↕[/b][/color] 23 [color=a2d39c][b]↕[/b][/color] Ainu-Japanese ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4' 11" [color=a2d39c][b]↕[/b][/color] 101lbs [color=a2d39c][b]↕[/b][/color] Delicate ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sable [color=a2d39c][b]↕[/b][/color] Raven [color=a2d39c][b]↕[/b][/color] Light-Ochre ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=a2d39c][b]Psychology[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [b][color=39b54a]Positive Traits:[/color][/b][list][*] Steadfast [*] Sympathetic [*] Clever[/list][color=c0392b][b]Negative Traits:[/b][/color][list][*] Insecure [*] Oversensitive [*] Bitter[/list][color=2F4F4F][b]Fear:[/b][/color][list][*] Heights[/list] [/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=a2d39c][b]Abilities[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] [color=a2d39c]Strength:[/color] 9 [*] [color=a2d39c]Dexterity:[/color] 30 [*] [color=a2d39c]Fitness:[/color] 12 [*] [color=a2d39c]Intellect:[/color] 33 [*] [color=a2d39c]Will Power:[/color] 16 [*] [color=a2d39c]Perception:[/color] 27 [*] [color=a2d39c]Attractiveness:[/color] 26 [*] [color=a2d39c]Luck: [/color] 5 [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=a2d39c][b]Languages[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] [color=a2d39c]Ainu (Native):[/color] 30 [*] [color=a2d39c]Japanese:[/color] 33 [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=a2d39c][b]Skills[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] [color=a2d39c]Bow:[/color] 35 [*] [color=a2d39c]Special Weapon (Fan):[/color] 44 [*] [color=a2d39c]Soft Martial Arts:[/color] 35 [*] [color=a2d39c]Etiquette (Shinōkōshō):[/color] 33 [*] [color=a2d39c]Musical Instrument, Archaic (Shamisen) :[/color] 30 [*] [color=a2d39c]Acting:[/color] 33 [*] [color=a2d39c]Dancing (Fan):[/color] 45 [*] [color=a2d39c]Fashion Sense:[/color] 30 [*] [color=a2d39c]Persuasion:[/color] 48 [*] [color=a2d39c]Profession (Courtesan):[/color] 53 [*] [color=a2d39c]Seduction:[/color] 50 [*] [color=a2d39c]Stage Presence:[/color] 30 [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=a2d39c][b]Family[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] Takashi Hideyoshi[list][*] Father[*] Deceased[/list] [*] Kyoko Hideyoshi[list][*] Mother[*] Deceased[*] Maiden Name: Shimura[/list] [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=a2d39c][b]Character Trivia[/b][/color] [/center][hider=] [list][*] [color=a2d39c]Sexuality:[/color] Heterosexual [*] [color=a2d39c]Likes:[/color][list][*] Snow[*] Rain[*] Dry Air[*] Dirt[*] Dressing[*] Hair Combs[*] Water Running[/list] [*] [color=a2d39c]Dislikes:[/color][list][*] Heat[*] Candles[*] Incense[*] Metal Clanging[*] Horse Shoes[*] Cold Tea[/list] [*] [color=a2d39c]Scars:[/color] Burns left ankle [*] [color=a2d39c]Religion:[/color] Shinto [*] [color=a2d39c]Birthday:[/color] April 14th [*] [color=a2d39c]Nickname:[/color] Kiku [*] [color=a2d39c]Items Of Note:[/color] [list][*] Jade Comb[*] Mothers Fan[/list] [/list][/hider] [CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[/center][/cell][/row][/table][/color]