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[b]Full Name[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - 秋山春陽 - Akiyama Haruhi[/COLOR]
[b]Age[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - 20[/COLOR]
[B]Gender[/B][COLOR=#807B84] - Femme[/COLOR]
[b]Occupation[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - Farmer and produce seller[/COLOR][/color][/SUP]

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[sup][COLOR=SILVER][b]Sun In Her Pocket[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]Haruhi is a cheerful, bouncy young woman who still maintains the brilliant verve of childhood. Forever positive and filled with irrepressible energy, she won't let anything bring her down, no matter how much dirt she's covered, in or how sore her arms are. Raining on planting day? She'll make a game of it. Asahi feeling under the weather that day? She takes it as a challenge! Crop yield wasn't great? It'll be better next time![/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]Feet In The Ground[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]That constant energy she's got running through her has put forth the impression on occasion that she's an irresponsible or flighty person, but that could not be further from the truth. In reality, Haruhi takes a great deal of pride in her work, and she's actually a rather self-reliant and dependable person if things don't go as planned. Although, it [i]does[/i] also lends her a sense of bullheaded stubbornness that's entrenched deeply within her.[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]Head In The Clouds[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]All that being said, she's couldn't be called a [i]hundred[/i] percent grounded, because she's [i]absolutely[/i] got an imaginative streak a mile wide. As a kid she imagined herself as a spirit, fashioning herself crowns of wildflowers that she found off in the fields and woods and brandishing her legendary stick. She snuck into everywhere from the blacksmith's to the shrine, got herself anywhere and everywhere she could find. And though she no longer imagines herself as a valley spirit, that imagination, creativity, and curiosity has followed her to this day.[/COLOR][/COLOR]
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[sup][COLOR=SILVER][b]I've Got That Farmer's Grit![/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]Haruhi is a daughter of farmers, and of course from birth a farmer herself. A farmer who does her own work! Consequently, she is both much tougher and much stronger than most people tend to expect from a 20 year old woman. She's won her fair share of arm wrestles against people who underestimate her, and she's able to take quite a bit of work and strain to her muscles before giving up.[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]I Ain't Need No Signs![/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]And she takes [i]fierce pride[/i] in that hard-won strength! She absolutely refuses the use of any Signs, no matter what! Taught from a young age to take responsibility for herself and do her own work, she stubbornly refuses to even learn any, even those that would help her grow and harvest. She tills her own field, plants her own seed, reaps her own harvest, and lets the turn of the seasons dictate it all.[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]Good Ol' Fashioned Gumption![/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]Haruhi is a tenacious girl, chock full of stick-to-it-iveness and ingenuity. Because she doesn't use Signs, she's become extremely resourceful in ways that other people typically aren't. She knows what to use as fertilizer, how to fix a head back onto an axe, what stones are useful for starting a fire and which are good for sharpening tools, and so on and so forth. After all, if she's self-reliant enough to not use magic, then she'd better actually be able to rely on herself, right?[/COLOR][/COLOR]

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[/cell][cell][b]Physical Description[/b]
[color=#807B84][indent]As soon as you look at Haruhi, you know that she lives up to her name, [i]spring sunshine:[/i] blonde-haired, tan-skinned from working hard out under the hot sun, and almost always bearing a bright and chipper smile. She isn't exactly what you would typically call a [i]cool beauty;[/i] she isn't nearly stately or demure enough for that. What she does have, though, is a strong and striking sense of exuberance about her that seems to light up whatever room she walks into, and even when [i]she[/i] isn't smiling, it always somehow seems like her wide warm purple eyes are doing it for her. 

The skin on her tough hands is hard and callused from rubbing against tools, and that of her feet is the same from hours in her heavy workboots. Completing the picture is her musculature. She's a farmer, after all, and she has been for pretty much her whole life. That tanned skin lies taut over a physique of hard muscle, bought and paid for with hours upon hours of hard farm labor.

But despite that hard-labor athleticism--or perhaps because of it--when she's not working she's a bit of a klutz, and quite spritely in the way that she moves through the world. Running barefoot, skipping down the road, or laying on long grass staring up at the cloudless blue sky, it would be fair to say that when she's not working she doesn't exactly portray a sense of gravitas, nor really even act her age. And the fact that she's constantly smudged with dirt and mud and sweat from working in the fields doesn't really help matters.

As a rule, she dresses in practical farm clothes, and her hair is typically tied up in either a ponytail or a braid to keep it out of her way. Though she has a few pieces of [i]very[/i] nice formal attire, she doesn't really know when she'd ever wear them, since it's not like she ever goes to formal functions. She doesn't even really know [i]how[/i] to put on a proper kimono![/indent][/color]
[b]Character Conceptualization[/b]
[color=#807B84][indent]All things considered, Haruhi has had a [i]pretty good life.[/i] Born to a pair of successful farmers--Akiyama Akito and Hanako--she grew up with a deep love and appreciation for the outdoors, and as time went on, an equally powerful one taught be her parents: a sense of responsibility for one's actions, and the sweat of one's brow. They were hard workers, and wanted to instill into their rough-and-tumble daughter that she should do the same. 

And they succeeded in spectacular fashion! It wasn't long before kiddo Haruhi began to help out in the garden, pulling weeds and snipping beans off of vines. It was looking like she was set up for a wonderful future, despite her propensity to get into everywhere she [i]probably[/i] wasn't supposed to go. 

Like, say, the Heiseina shrine, where she met a lonely girl who called herself Fuyuko and decided then and there that the two of them would be the best of friends. From the time she was eight and onward, she would go and visit her friend, always bringing her something fun from the outside world; whether a flower crown, or a basket of fresh vegetables and rice that she'd grown and harvested herself.

Speaking of, it would seem her parents underestimated how deep into her heart she took the [i]sweat-of-her-own-brow[/i] lesson on self-reliance, because when they discussed her learning some Signs to till her soil and grow her crops faster, she staunchly and [i]immovably[/i] refused, no matter how they cajoled or convinced. This was when she first showed both one of her great strengths or her greatest weakness, depending on how you looked at it; that streak of mulish stubbornness. They thought she'd grow out of it, but she never did, insisting on doing all of the work herself. 

When she was thirteen, they realized that she really wasn't going to budge, and brought home a strong bay draft horse from the stables to help plough her field in lieu of magic. Haruhi fell in love with him [i]instantly[/i], naming him Asahi and, with her own hands, building him a paddock outside of the barn so he could stay outside and get exercise when the weather was good. 

And so her life has gone on from then, and been a good and simple one. One of earth, and water, and plants, and animals, and nature. She loves everything and wants everyone else to love it too. She loves people, and wants people to love her back. She wants to live a good, simple, peaceful life surrounded by the people and places she loves.

You don't always get what you want.[/indent][/color]
[b]Other Information[/b]
[color=#807B84][indent]As mentioned, Haruhi has refused to learn any labor-saving Signs, preferring to do the work herself over using magic to do it. Her parents are still alive and happily working on the farm with her, though they gave her a smaller personal plot of land, one that wouldn't be touched by any of the Signs that her parents used themselves.

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