
Nickname: Rei
Age: 20
Birthday: January 31
Sign: Aquarius
Gemstone: Garnet
Blood Type: B-
Fav. Food: Shōyu Ramen
Hated Food: Tofu
School: Sovereign Heights Prep
Hobbies:
Ghost Hunting || Reiko loves the unknown and the paranormal, and she's made something of a hobby of it. She enjoys tracking down urban legends, visiting allegedly haunted locations, and chasing stories of all the magical nonsense around Destiny City -- in fact, it's why she moved there! She loves living in a city that's so full of mystery and strange happenings, and she really, really wants to experience it all someday.
Origami || Reiko has a talent for origami, honed with lots and lots of practice. She enjoys sitting down and folding paper, and finds it very comforting and grounding. Plus, it makes for nice gifts to give to friends! She enjoys doing challenging patterns, but sometimes it's easier to just sit down, relax, and fold a lot of paper stars into a jar.
Romance Novels || Especially the trashy ones! For all Reiko's polite exterior, she really, really loves romance novels. She's something of a hopeless romantic at heart, and she finds it easy to get swept up in all kinds of tales of love and loss and dramatics with the happy ending the romance genre requires. (She's also a big consumer of romantic fanfiction for just about any show she gets even vaguely interested in. Shipping is fun.)
Virtues:
Polite || Rei is unfailingly polite. She is deferential to everyone around her, especially those of higher status, prefers to avoid disagreement, would never criticize anyone in her group of friends, and refuses to accept credit for her accomplishments, preferring to praise friends for theirs, and Rei is very good at getting people to do what she wants simply by being so darned nice. A smile and a soft request, she has found, go much further than an angry demand, and she is good at diffusing brewing arguments and making each participant walk away with the idea that they’ve won. If politeness doesn't work, she's likely to back down.
Loyal || Once you get to be her friend, Rei is your friend forever. She places a high value on loyalty, and would never do anything to hurt or upset a friend on purpose. She would be extremely distressed if she did it by accident.
Silk Hiding Steel || Sweet and shy as Rei is, she has a hidden strength under it all. While most of the time she is happy to shrink back and give into pressure, in a situation where it is necessary to step up, she will, and though her opinion will be voiced in polite tones and couched as a request, she will make sure she is heard.
Flaws:
Vengeful || It may take forever to get Rei truly upset, but once she is, she never lets go of a grudge. If you hurt her or one of her friends, you had best believe that she will not be happy. And when Rei is not happy, her goal immediately becomes to make whoever made her unhappy just as unhappy as she is. She will spend months or even years paying someone back for a slight in small, subtle, almost undetectable ways. Rei’s vengeance is not loud or fast--it is slow, subtle, and effective.
Shrinking Violet || Rei is naturally quiet and deferential, but around someone who is very loud and boisterous or directly bossy, she becomes even more so than usual, barely able to do more than nod and squeak out agreements. She is very much terrified of conflict that cannot be resolved with politeness and conversation, and will flee from it given the opportunity.
No Off Switch || Reiko doesn't really know how to not do things to extremes. Her politeness and gentleness are one end of that, and her vengeful rage is the other, and there's very little middle ground. Once the switch flips, to rage especially, she really doesn't know how to slow down or stop.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Eyes: Rich dark brown
Hair: Long, with straight bangs, pulled into a ponytail at the end
Face: Round, midtone skin
Clothes: N/A