Dr. Mochizuki Hikaru
★ Well, my name is......Dr. Hikaru Mochizuki. Though I am known by a large majority of students as Mochi-Sensei.
★ In case you can't tell for some reason, I'm a......Male.
★ My birthday cake might tell you I'm......25
★ My role in Hazima City is......I am the doctor for Hazima High School. Though I have a title of doctor, I have only recently graduated from medical school, and fulfil more of the role of a general practitioner (G.P.). I am qualified to deal with minor illnesses and injuries as well as give medical advice to students. I am skilled with first-aid, and teach the basics to students on a semi-regular basis.
★ My hobbies might include......Inside the school, I frequently attend student athletics club events, so that I can be on-hand in case anything should go wrong. It helps that I am a big fan of sports, and regularly play soccer for a local amateur club. Other than that I like to stay home and keep myself to myself. A perfect night to me is being able to sit on my couch with a bottle of whisky, watching the cheesy old anime shows the nurses used to put on for me when I was a child in hospital.
★ It's not like I like everything though......Being popular in the school is a bit of a curse, as I'm generally only comfortable with one person at a time. I pretty much like to be kept to myself, and thus I rarely venture out of my office if I can help it. Students always seem to find the wackiest excuses to see me, though...
★ I'm told I act a little bit......Though the staff of the school can pretty much see me black and white as a hermit-type of man. The students prefer to take more notice of the warm and caring attitude that I show to them, being the advocate of good health that I am, it's only natural that I behave in this way to them. I try to talk to them on their level, so I come across as one of the 'cool adults' that the kids genuinely want to see. The only other person like that I can think of in this school is Saya.
★ But I'll tell it to you straight......I was extremely ill as a child, and spent most of my young life confined to a hospital bed either conscious or comatose. They still have no idea what I had, all they knew is that it was a horrible, wasting illness that threatened to snatch me from this world before I really got a chance to experience it. I have a strained relationship with my parents, born from the fact that they couldn't bear to see their son rot in a bed for so many years. The only friends that I really had were the doctors and nurses that looked after me. It was mostly the nurses that would stick around and talk to me while I was awake. Other than that I watched crappy anime VHS tapes for fun and read books to learn. I couldn't walk and I could barely speak. I would spend some days crying, the pain could get so intense. I was so lonely, and in so much pain. I was scared that I was going to die in pain and sorrow before I had even lived.
Then, one day, it all went away. For some amazing and inexplicable reason, I was better. I started to live a normal life as much as I could, but my early life of isolation made that tough, I still suffer from a degree of social anxiety to this day. The medical miracle that I experienced made me interested in studying medicine for myself, and here I am still fresh out of medical school. Being the school doctor is my first job since graduating, and I seem to have integrated myself with regular life as much as I can. I'm popular with the kids, girls especially. They have come up with the pet-name 'Mochi-Sensei' for me. Other staff members scold them if they hear them call me that, but I don't mind. It's cute. Though I really wish that they would stop bringing me mochi every time they come to visit. It's a lovely sentiment, but I have an awful sweet tooth and I swear that they'll make me fat.
★ What else am I missing......I had a biopsy on my brain when I was very young, in the hopes that it would tell the doctors what was wrong with me. Though this may seem like an arbitrary detail, I can't help but feel like it's important.