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Lucius Cypher
Name: Karime Ochiro
Alias/es: Stage name - Haruka
Age: 21
Height: 5'2
Weight: 121lbs
Complexion: Fair
Eye Color: Teal
Hair Color: Dyed Teal, Natural is black
Apparel: Stage clothing usually consists of beautifully handcrafted halter tops with large, puffy short skirts and handgloves. Wears a headset microphone and knee-high stilleto boots. Day to day she'll wear a similar outfit, with a normal, flouncy skirt and haltertop shirt. She usually wears gorgeous and expensive sunglasses and a sunhat to keep her identity under wraps from fans, and also wears pumps when walking around town. Her favorite accessory is a necklace on a thin chain around her neck, bearing a small round locket with a picture of her baby sister and her.
Personality: While Karime off the stage is very private, shy, and lacking in self confidence, her stage persona, Haruka, is the complete opposite. For the fans and the cameras, Haruka is brimming with self confidence and happiness, always pledging to be fashion forward and reaching for the stars in more ways than one. Karime, on the other hand, is often hard to talk to. She's twitchy, always looking over her shoulder in paranoia and when she feels pressured, breaks down. She shuts down in the face of difficulty or problems, with intense social anxiety that makes her hardly able to function.
History:
Karime Ochiro was born in Kyoto, Japan with the aid of a midwife. Ever since she was little, she loved to sing to herself and found herself too shy to try to show others--until she met Himika. Himika was a neighbor girl that loved picking flowers with Karime and telling stories about how they had traveled all over Japan before coming to move near Karime. Karime spent every moment she could with Himika between classes, studying and chores, which her parents always watched her play fondly with. However, once Karime turned 8, her parents became concerned and confronted Karime about her friendship with Himika. Naturally, in confusion, Karime defended her friend, clueless as to why her parents would suddenly take issue with her being around. The argument became heated, her parents throwing confusing sentences at her like "You're too old for an imaginary friend." and "Himika isn't real, you need to make friends with other children."
A little later, Karime was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Able to receive necessary treatment, she was told to take prescription medication in order to make her hallucinations go away. She was hesitant, and most of all distraught. She told Himika, in tears, that her parents said they couldn't be friends anymore. While the hallucination initially laughed it off, she later became angry when Karime persisted in what she was saying, and then violent. While Karime took her pills as instructed, Himika's persona became distorted, vengeful, telling Karime to kill herself, to hurt her parents and other children... and eventually she disappeared. The attacks left Karime in a depression, and as she advanced into middle school, she became a loner.
One day, having had to stay after class to help clean up the classroom, Karime thought she was alone and began singing along to a soft ballad. However, one of the girls had come back to retrieve a forgotten item and heard her. She applauded when Karime had finished singing, leaving Karime incredibly embarassed, but she was quickly told not to worry about it, and that her singing was amazing. The girl pointed her to Idol auditions in the area and, with much pushing, she nervously went to try out. Shakily, she walked into see the board of directors that she would perform for. With wobbling knees, she belted out the best song she knew, and as she took on an audience, a feeling of confidence bloomed in her chest, causing her showmanship to improve tenfold naturally in front of them. Stunned by her performance, she was immediately signed a contract and began her career as an Idol under the name "Haruka."
After being transformed with a new look, Haruka immediately began travelling all over Japan doing concerts, going onto television shows, reality show segments, guest starring on films, the whole shebang. After years upon years of high stardom, her rise has began to crumble after a recent scandal revealing her relationship with a talent director that had seduced her at a party when she was nineteen years old. She still has very many loyal fans regardless and has manage to make very many other starry-eyed friends. But when the lights go down and the fans go home, she's left alone on stage in the darkness. That depression she felt as a teen never really went away and with the slander coming her way, she started having more mental breakdowns off camera and one on camera that made her lose even more fans, and caused her to escape the spotlight entirely out of her persona for a solid three months now. Then, as Karime, she was trying to go back to her penthouse by using the subway when a group of rough housing boys accidentally pushed her onto the subway tracks. Though she scrambled to get up, it was too late. The subway decapitated her as she let out a choked scream and left her head rolling down the tunnels, the expression of horror still left on her face. In her final moments, she saw a twisted, older version of Himika grinning at her in front of the train.
The Idol Haruka was deemed missing.
Other:
Some of her music that topped Japans charts and some that went international
https://youtu.be/fByFORDcNLA?t=47
