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Profile

Shiori would like nothing more than to live life at her own pace, slow and relaxed and with an absolute minimum of pressure. As a result, her grades as a first-year student at Gekkoukan High School range from indifferent to below average, and it is mostly due to a combination of luck and good cramming skills that she has not yet outright failed any subjects. She does have a love of knowledge and learning, although not necessarily what she actually needs to know. She will often amble up to eavesdrop on conversations that are really none of her business, and her nosey streak has gotten her into trouble more than once. Quite normal, quite generic, quite boring... but why does she seem to have a curious reluctance to talk about her past, and self-esteem low enough to elicit both pity and annoyance? Surely it's nothing serious... right?

Skills

Ask A Stupid Question, Picker-Up Of Unconsidered Trifles, Or So I Hear, Don't Say Lazy, Gossip Sponge, Undefeated Champion Of Rival Blazing Arcana Fighters IV, Curiouser And Curiouser, Perform: Piano, Why Am I So Useless, Epic Flail, Healz0r, Entirely Harmless, What's Your Name Again, Edna Mode, Reformed Rich Bitch

Arcana

II - The High Priestess

Alignment: Upright

Background

Born to a well-to-do family, to corporate executive parents in a multinational corporation, Shiori has never wanted for anything. Her parents may have been more lax than they should have been regarding their daughter's studies, and appear to be content that at least Shiori is not failing class or falling into bad company... or at least so they tell her, with every sign of sincerity.

With her parents concentrating their hopes of a highly-successful offspring on her younger brother (although still assuring Shiori that they love her as she is), Shiori was more or less free to do as she pleased, and yet felt a nagging sense of discontent. Her relatively sheltered upbringing made her a poor judge of character, and one thing led to another, culminating in an incident near the end of middle school that Shiori still refuses to talk about. Strangely enough, few people remember or even know of Shiori's involvement in that incident, leaving her reputation more or less unscathed.

After that, Shiori moved to Iwatodai/Tatsumi Port Island to enrol in Gekkoukan High School. There, Shiori's grades have actually begun to improve, albeit slowly. (How she managed to qualify for Gekkoukan in the first place is a minor mystery.)

Shiori has a little brother in Junior High whom she is alternately fond of and irritated by, in the style of all big sisters everywhere. He is a great deal more industrious and responsible than his sister. After Shiori left to live in Port Island, they don't see each other very often, and calls are brief and deliberately nonchalant, but he worries about her in his own (teenage) way.

Personality

A comfortable home life and overall lack of ambition has left Shiori unmotivated, in the strangely unsatisfied way of someone looking for a purpose in life they can really get behind, and running on autopilot until then. She certainly doesn't care enough to actively seek out that purpose; she's content to wait for it to come to her.

Something she does take an active interest in is gathering information, and she might even have a promising future as an investigative journalist if she put her mind to it. As it is, she is interested mostly in gathering information for the sake of curiosity, of which she has an abundant amount. She doesn't really do anything with that information, preferring to keep it to herself. Simply knowing things and learning about things, especially things few other people know, is enough to give her a thrill. She's only slightly better than most in keeping secrets, as she might not blurt it out unless directly asked (or threatened), but her body language is distinctly untrained, and often painfully obvious.

Shiori is not very brave and not very athletic, but she has surprisingly good reflexes. She is also quite speedy, mostly in a direction away from danger. She believes that there are a great many unexplainable things in the world, and so seeing something bizarre may alarm and surprise her, but usually not to the point of panic. She will, however, try to find out as best as she can what that strange thing was, and why it happened.

Shiori tries to act indifferent about it, but she does maintain her appearance as much as any other teenage girl. She has felt feelings that may or may not have been the faintest beginnings of a crush before, but nothing has yet made her heart skip that proverbial beat.

The incident in middle school had changed Shiori's personality drastically, if anyone around her even knew of or remembered her old self. Now, Shiori tries her best to be nice and kind to everyone she meets, and to make as many friends as she can. In fact, her need for friendship and the acknowledgement thereof often gets to the point of being needy.

Shiori also has the sort of low self-esteem that can get irritating very easily. She doubts herself, and believes herself to be unworthy of anything and everything. Everyone else is better than her in every way; everything she does is useless and pathetic. If one is not careful, the conversation will soon turn into a full-blown whine.

Despite all of this, during times of stress, when Shiori accidentally lets her guard down, some glimpse of her old personality may show. Shiori is never proud of these moments, and tries to hide her old self as much as she can.

For as long as she can remember, Shiori has had the same sort of hidden second thoughts that everyone has; the sort of tiny voice that tells you to touch that wet paint, or to call in sick to sleep in, or that your finished masterpiece is not as perfect as it could be... Ever since the incident in middle school, though, that tiny inner voice had turned nasty. And ever since Shiori moved to Port Island and experienced the Dark Hour for the first time, the inner voice has grown louder, more persistent, and oddly more coherent...

Persona

Pheme

A winged woman, her own eyes shrouded with a veil, but hundreds of ghostly eyes on every rustling peacock-like feather. Surrounded by an aura of whispers and rumours in every tongue, informing and gossiping and babbling. She holds a long trumpet, into which she sounds a clarion note, inspiring all who hear it with promises of glory, of renown, of fame.

Background Assets And Miscellany

Shiori can probably get quite a lot of pocket money from her parents if she has to, but she hasn't done so yet beyond her current very generous allowance (which allows her to live without worrying about most basic expenses, and indeed quite a few luxuries). If she does ask her parents for more money, they will expect an explanation.

Shiori is not particularly skilled with computers. She can use them to do homework, and she half-heartedly maintains the usual social networking stuff that is the latest fad, but that's about it. She owns a consumer-level laptop.

Shiori is very, very good at arcade fighting games. She is not so good at quiz games. She is downright pathetic at UFO catchers.

Apart from arcade games, Shiori's other hobby is needlework, ranging from sewing to knitting to embroidery to quilting. She is surprisingly skilled at this, largely because this is her default method of procrastination.

Shiori melts in the presence of cute pets.

Appearance

Short brown hair held in place with a simple clip, sleepy brown eyes looking at the world with mild disinterest. A short, slight frame. Unfocused, distracted... quite harmless, surely.

During school days, will be wearing a Gekkoukan uniform. On non-school days, probably blouse-and-jeans or an unobtrusive dress, along with a cute small bunny-themed backpack. On combat missions, has a Daidara-made combat studded flail, which she otherwise keeps in a modified shinai duffel case.

Her preferred colours are white, light baby blue or pink, dark browns, and black.

Whatever the occasion, will always, always have a small expertly-handmade black waist pouch just big enough to securely hold a pistol-sized object.

In the warmer months, Shiori will be wearing loose, light clothes, and if it gets hot enough, a sun hat. In cooler temperatures, her attire will range from a simple jacket, to an overcoat just slightly too large for her, warm mittens or gloves, and a hand-knit scarf.

Further OOC Information

• Player: Shiori
• Alternate Characters: None whatsoever
• Time zone: GMT+8 (Singapore)

Character Soundtrack

• Ace Combat Zero - ZERO -- Boss battle
• AIR OST - Natsukage -- Tranquil scene 2
• Camille Saint-Saens - Les Carnaval des Animaux VII: Aquarium -- Premonition
• Cardcaptor Sakura OST2 - RELEASE -- First summoning
• Cardcaptor Sakura OST4 - Ashidori Karuku -- Menu options
• Hidamari Sketch x365 OST - Waku Waku Hidamari Sou -- Happy ride
• Lucky Star OST - Ran ran ran dayo Lucky Star -- Normal day
• Mahoromatic OST - Take a Break -- Classroom
• Mai-HiME OST1 - Tokiiro no Mai -- Chase scene
• Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya OST - Higeki no Heroine -- Comic tragedy
• Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya OST - Itsumo no Fuukei -- Lazy day
• Moon Phase OST - Lemonade & Rice -- Classroom 2
• Moon Phase OST - Midnight Games -- Dark Hour
• Mother OST - Pollyanna -- Image song
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker I: Overture -- Early morning
• Read or Die OST - Unequalled Wild Dance -- Preparation
• Seiken Densetsu 3 OST - Powell -- Dungeon crawl
• Shakugan no Shana OST - Danse des fee -- Serious explanations
• Sora no Manimani ED - CooRie - Hoshizuku no Surround -- Ending theme
• Wild ARMs 3 OST - A Person's Warmth -- Tranquil scene
• Zettai Karen Children OST1 - Gaki tte iu na -- Exams