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Asato Nori; Bitter one-eyed ex-idol
Topic Started: Oct 10 2013, 10:13 PM (337 Views)
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Name: Asato Nori (Has responded to any and every nickname that is made up using her name. But ignores any that don't.)

Age: 22

Gender: Female

School/Occupation: University Student. Majoring in Religious Studies (Primary focus being Esoterica and Eastern Mysteries)

Clubs: None.

Interests/Hobbies: Considers fortune telling a hobby and runs a fortune telling booth that also sells hand made good luck charms at culture festivals and during holidays to earn money for tuition and class expenses.

Appearance: A young woman of about 159 centimeters in height and with a slightly athletic build. She would be considered pretty, if not for the eye patch she wears over her left eye, some jagged scar edges peeking out from under it. As such, she looks... off putting, with one pale brown eye through half set eyelids. that seems to show a deep sadness. Aside from the eye patch, her face is surprisingly symmetrical, a thin tapered nose between her eyes and a tight, turned in set of lips bellow that. Short cropped black hair cut close to her head in the back, while she sports one elongated, and braided, ear tail on the right side, and an unbraided one on her left. A thin, but short neck supports her head on her shoulders which are broader then most women's, due to her old martial training.

Her body's build is on the athletic side, more toned muscle then fat and as a consequence her bust size is smaller compared to most women her general size and age, though she doesn't really mind, She tends to wear full clothing, exposing little if any of her body.

Personality: Nori is an interesting paradox of conflicting personality types. She is at her core, an honest, loving woman who desires friends and peers to respect her. But, she hides that under an icy, aggressive, confrontational front that keeps her isolated, aside from select people in her Studies class. She acts lethargic but also despises people who waste her time. The only time she seems to be her true self, is when she's tending to her fortune telling stall at festivals and holidays. She has a complex about her missing eye and the scars left on her face, personally considering herself ugly. She's also a smoker.

History: Nori was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, to a family of clerics and priests who serviced one of the many satellite shrines to the main Atsuta Shrine. Since her early childhood till her seventeenth birthday Nori was taught the skills a miko would require. On top of her miko studies, Nori was also a practicing martial artist, having taken up learning Ryūkyū Kobujutsu from a schoolmate's black belt older sibling.

Her school life wasn't all that outstanding or amazing, she generally was able to keep steady mid to high grades along with the hardships of having an expecting family and a draining extracurricular hobby. Nori was apparently fully capable of coping with having this much on her plate without any stressful explosions or mental breakdowns. If anything, she was actually looking around school for a club to join on top of everything she already had, since she also had one or two free nights a week that she felt were going to waste.

This all changed when Nori was sixteen and, along with five of her friends, was scouted by a small time talent producer one Friday night at a local Karaoke bar. Since she was already hyped from singing all night and consuming an unhealthy amount of carbonated drinks, Nori and two friends agreed to become idols. After a week or two of negotiations, Nori and several of her friends signed contracts to become idol singers. They were promoted not too long afterwards, and they then began practicing, all the while being bombarded by love letters, confessions and people generally trying to get their hands on the girls.

Nori herself turned down several people, and eventually, when they debuted in a small concert at the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Nori was attacked by one of the many students she turned down, the young man having rushed the stage with a box cutter in hand. The security staff managed to wrestle him off her, but damage was done and Nori was shipped to a hospital, when she awoke later that day she was informed about the loss of her left eye and that there would be severe scarring around it. Slightly later on that same day she was then informed that she was being terminated from the idol group she had formed, but was given the severance deal written in her contract.

She tried to keep in contact with her friends when they reformed into a five person group. They kept in text contact through their cellphones, and occasional phone calls and letters. But eventually they stopped calling and texting, and she eventually lost contact with her former friends.

With the loss of her eye, dream and most of her friends in one move, Nori's entire outlook changed. She neglected her shrine duties, dropped her martial training and started slipping in her academics. Eventually, she managed to graduate high-school, and elected to move to a different prefecture for university, having managed to at least secure one, in a city named Yumegawa. She received a parting gift from her former Kobujutsu Teacher, an heirloom framed Tinbe-Rochin set. She eventually moved into a dormitory in Yumegawa's campus where she began her life as a university student...

That was five years ago. Nori is still a student at the University, taking courses in Religious studies, focusing her interest on occult and esoterica, in a weird attempt at justifying to herself why her life changed so dramatically in one singular event from six years prior, and recently she's heard about the sudden spike in some strange amnesia plague that has been effecting the city. She personally thinks something mystical, otherworldly, or from beyond the pale is responsible...

Weapons/Equipment/Combat Skill: Nori knows a sufficient amount of Ryūkyū Kobujutsu to be considered adept, or brown belt. Though she has since stopped taking lessons. She is trained in the Bo, Sai, Tonfa, Eku (boat oar) and her personal preference of the Tinbe-rochin, or short spear and light shield. She owns an heirloom set of Tinbe-rochin, the tinbe shield hand carved from a turtle shell, and the rochin short spear, stylized to resemble a tanto, was forged from wrought iron and embossed with a white brass crashing wave motif along the side of the blade. The spear edge has been coated in wax and the set are in a display case in Nori's dorm room.

Initial Persona:
- Name: Tamamo-no-Mae
- Arcana: XVII: The Star
- Drain: None
- Reflect: None
- Null: None
- Resist: Light, Dark
- Weak: Wind, Earth
- Initial Skills: Kouha, Marin Karin

Roleplay Sample:
"Eh?" Nori asked, looking over from where she was laying, on the hood of a car, having a cigarette while staring at the evening sky. "You want to know what?" She asked.

"How you lost your eye." Came the reply, it was Naomi, one of the few people in her course class Nori could stand. She blinked when Nori turned away from her on the hood. "Bad idea?"

Nori rolled back around. "Nah, I should tell at least one person what happened." Nori replied as she flicked the spend butt away. "Well it was about six years ago. Me and a few friends from high-school were dicking around at a Karaoke bar on a Friday, sing silly songs all night while ordering pizza, sodas and all that stuff you know is bad for you but you're free for the weekend and don't give a shit." She said while sitting up. "And, as luck, as some put it, would have it, a producer was there, apparently scavenging around for an easy contract. He found the booth me and my friends were in and asked us if we wanted to become idols." She said, raising an eyebrow at Naomi.

"Did you?" Naomi asked as she sat up too. "I mean it sounded too good to be real."

"Well, of course we did. All kids dream of debuting, don't they?" Nori shot back. "We were all hyped up on soda, half deaf from singing too loudly for hours and sluggish from all the fatty junk we were eating." Nori explained. "Me and two others agreed on the spot, while the other three explained they need to talk to their parents first. In hindsight, we should have said that too." She shrugged. "Anyway, it took about three weeks of talks before a contract was written for us and we signed it. " Nori pulled out another cigarette. "When we were announced to debut a few months later, we were showered with praise and love letters."

"Really? That fast?" Naomi asked as she waved the smoke from her face.

"Yeah, teen love and all that, plus I assume they were using it for school cred." Nori replied. "I was particularly uninterested in it all, and mostly threw out the letters I got without opening them. I was too preoccupied with practice, both martial arts and performance." She explained. "I even has a confession, but I shut the guy down fast..." She paused as she took a long drag, and sat contemplatively. "I probably should have handled him better then I did." She muttered sadly.

"Why's that?" Naomi asked, her curiosity piqued by Nori's sudden change of personality.

"He was the one who cut my face up in the end." She said bitterly. "I dropped him so hard he became obsessed with me, figuring I already had a boyfriend or something, he developed into one of those stalkers, like the stories from America. The fanatical sorts, who'd hurt or kill their objects of obsession if they can't have them." She explained. "So, after that terrible act of bad judgment, me and my friends debuted about three months later. It wasn't all that big, we were only minors, tied to a weak company. It was outdoors, in a park." She said, with a sudden sigh. "We weren't even through our first set when the guy I shot down stormed the stage with a box cutter." She raised a hand to her eye patch and rubbed it slightly.

Naomi looked down and dropped her shoulders, "I shouldn't have asked." She said, "I'm sorry." She was replied with a hand on her head, and a light pat.

"Nah, I need to get this off my chest to someone," Nori said with a small smile. "It took security a few minutes to get on stage and get him off me." Nori continued. "I was sliced up pretty badly. but he was only able to get my left eye." She said, reassuring. "I was still badly injured and I was rushed to the nearest hospital after the show was cancelled." Her shoulders dropped. "When I came to in the hospital, I was informed that my left eye was ruined and I'd suffer heavy scarring around it due to the level of damage I received."

She pauses to take another puff. "After that, I was also informed that I was being dropped from the idol group, the producers decided on the grounds that; "A one eyed idol won't sell tickets." She said. "I was thrown away as fast as possible to mitigate damage to their profits." She glanced to Naomi, who's now looking even sadder. "On the plus side, I received termination payment, which the company willingly added to all our contracts and that they dutifully payed in full." She said with a smile. "That was how I was able to afford moving here, getting set up, and coming to university."
Edited by cdyoung, Oct 14 2013, 08:45 PM.
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