chiharu, TAKASHIMA

[CHIHARU TAKASHIMA]

** she smiles and makes believe

--- * full name: chiharu takashima.
--- * alias/nicknames: chii, chii-chan, chibi.
--- * age: eighteen.
--- * birthdate: november eleventh.
--- * gender: female.
--- * sexuality: heterosexual.
--- * race: half atra, half mortal.
--- * alliance: atra -- slave.

--- * skin tone: pale.
--- * hair colour: brown.
--- * eye colour: brown.
--- * height: four feet ten inches.
--- * weight: sixty-two kilograms.
--- * playby: reina tanaka.

--- * personality:

AFFECTIONATE; BENEVOLENT; COMPASSIONATE
chiharu, in a nutshell is an extremely affectionate type of person, she has a great affection and love for her family and friends, she is warmly attached to her family. believe it or not she is very much a master’s girl. she adores her master to death and doesn’t mind it when he gets extremely overprotective of her. she is extremely protective of her friends and family. even though she can be passionate about certain things in her life, she can also be headstrong if not biased especially where her family and friends are concerned. the young woman makes it her motto to help her less fortunate neighbours.

you could say that she has a desire to help others whether it’s her fellow slaves, family, friends even strangers. however, she does have a problem that if someone ever asked her for a favour or help, she can’t find it within herself to say no. she just cannot refuse, perhaps it’s the fear of disappointing someone and making them sad. if anything, she wants to make people smile and to protect their smiles. she tries to even help the homeless people by giving them food or a little bit of money, what they do with it is up to them but it’s just her nature to do that whether it’s helping out people or even animals.

DEDICATED; ENTHUSIASTIC, FRIENDLY; HONEST;
when chiharu gives up some of her time or concentrates on something whether it’s on a particular pursuit occupation, purpose, cause, or even someone -- she gives everything of herself; completely and really does wear her heart on her sleeve which isn‘t necessarily a bad thing. On the other, it can be because she leaves herself so open. the young woman is naturally enthusiastic about everything and will push herself forward and get stuck in so to speak. she isn’t afraid of hard work so always approached life with a bright smile and a never say die attitude. in fact, she welcomes it with a great attitude about it, she had to really.

chiharu is very much friendly and totally unguarded when it comes to other people and animals. she adapts to the different surroundings that she puts herself in and will do her best to light up a busy room full of gloomy people. chiharu doesn’t hide nor is she pretentious in any way whatsoever, her performance and reactions are so unguarded and natural that people can‘t help but like her. she isn’t the type to be pretentiously coy, she will sometimes show her matured side and will strive to work really hard so that she doesn’t bring trouble to others in any way. she is also an honest person, she never lies at all.

CHILDISH; INTIMATE; MISCHIEVOUS; PLAYFUL;
chiharu will often demonstrate childish gestures and mannerisms. although there are times when her thinking and her logic can be unpredictable. there are times when she will have outbursts of temper if she sees something bad or if someone was bullied by anyone in any way whatsoever. she tends to hug people due to being affectionate, there has been times when she has jumped on an unsuspecting person’s back for a piggy ride. chiharu is also very childlike as well due to the fact that she can be rather naive and gullible not to mention too trusting of people at times. she also has a few interesting phobias, shall we say.

there may be a time when she would say something entirely innocent and gets confused when someone misinterprets it as something crude. because of the fact that she can be very touchy, some people dislikes this part of chiharu but this is how she is, she doesn’t let it put her off if people are mean to her, she’ll just tell it straight to them that they’re being mean. there’s also a part that people wouldn’t want to see and that is her playfulness. she loves to play pranks at times and will have revenge on anyone who dares to mess with her. chiharu can be incredibly dorky and it often can be seen as plain stupidity.

LOYAL; ROMANTIC; SENTIMENTAL; STUBBORN;
chiharu is utterly and completely loyal to her friends and family without question. if she ever found out that anyone badmouthed her friends or family, she would make it her mission to find the source and tell them that it was mean of them to badmouth and to spread rumours and such. chiharu is a seriously romantic person, and has romantic values. she is able to give everything for the person she loves. she believes first love to be extremely important. for her, when dating, she makes it a rule not to be distracted by any other person. chiharu had her first love when she was young -- as for her second love, who knows?

chiharu is also an sentimental person, if chiharu ever received gifts from her family or friends, she tends to keep it in her room in a box in order to preserve it. if it’s jewellery, then she would wear it. she doesn’t believe in discarding an unwanted gift, because to her it meant that someone had made the effort and time to do that for her. she feels that it would be mean to give it back unwanted items, she could never be a mean person in any way! chiharu tends to be stubborn sometimes and wilful if she knows she is in the right. you could say that she has inherited her stubbornness and the strong will from her master really.

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--- * history:

takashima ayako was only in her early twenties when she learned that she was to be engaged to someone that her father wanted her to marry -- this was an arranged marriage based on purely business reasons. ayako didn‘t want to marry for business, she felt that she wasn’t ready and that she would rather attend university first. besides, she was the type of person who wanted to marry out of love rather than be treated like a business transaction. plus, she didn‘t even like the guy -- he had to be in his late twenties, early thirties!

unfortunately, try as she might have done, there was just no way that she could find to get out of the marriage, she couldn’t find any loopholes. one night she had a blazing argument with her parents over her arranged partner and so she ended up storming out of the house she shared with them stating that she would die before she would marry the old man as she dubbed him. instead, she wandered for a long while before finding herself in front of a bar -- normally she wouldn’t drink as she wasn’t the type to do so but for some reason -- perhaps it was the anger coursing through her body as she walked inside. ayako found herself ordering drink after drink, after drink.

it didn’t take long for her to become rather drunk while having the time of her life, dancing away amongst the crowd of people on the dance floor. she hadn’t noticed someone coming up behind her and wrapping their arms around her waist -- she turned around only for her breath to hitch. this man seemed so different from all the others she knew, as if there was something about him that seemed to dark, so mysterious. amidst her drunken mind, she wondered who he was. she woke up the next, not remembering anything, perhaps it had been a dream. it was that day when she decided to run away from her family. she wanted to go to the other side of the world. far as possible.

for reasons unknown, she chose columbia, richmond -- she wasn’t sure why she chose that place of all places but whatever. she had made her bed, and she had to lie in it right? within days after arriving, she had unrepentantly met up with the very same male she had met in the nightclub back in japan. she didn’t remember him but he remembered her alright. simply put, he wanted her and he would do anything to have her as his own -- whether she liked it or not. unbeknownst to ayako, the same male was an atra fae -- he managed to trick her into eating atra food which meant that she was now bound to him as a slave. however, she hated being a slave, she was nobody’s possession.

with her views, it was no surprise that the male constantly got angry with her -- she was a woman and no woman was going to dictate to him -- slave or no slave. to teach her a lesson, he raped her, not caring if she screamed and scratched his body to ribbons. their volatile relationship continued until she learned that she was pregnant with his child. as devastated as she was, she couldn’t abort the child even when he told her to, she felt that it hadn’t been the child’s fault how it came to be conceived. ayako knew that the atra court never accepted her due to the fact that she was mortal and a slave but she learned that there was a chance that her child could be somewhat accepted despite inheriting only part of the atra blood.

her master made it clear that he wanted nothing to do with the child so ayako decided to keep it and would raise it the best she could do. she often became sad at the thought that her child would also be a slave but at least if her child was to be married to someone of the atra court then at least it would be accepted. the young woman later learned that she was expecting a daughter and decided to name her child chiharu. when chiharu was born, ayako took it upon herself to raise her up herself, keeping her child away from her master in the fear that he would harm her. while chiharu was growing up, ayako realised that her health was slowly deteriorating -- she was dying.

during this time, ayako continued to communicate with her daughter in japanese and made preparations for when the time would come. she never made an attempt to talk in english because she felt that it was so important for her daughter know her heritage -- that she was japanese. hopefully whoever would take her in, would realise that and continue her life lesson’s for her. ayako took off her necklace that she had and worked hard to engrave it herself with chiharu’s full name in the hopes that someone would realise that this was her daughter’s name and that they wouldn’t change it. sadly one night, ayako knew it was about time and thus took her daughter with her.

she made sure that chiharu was wrapped up warm seeing that she was fast asleep and left the house that she was serving. there was only one place that she knew that she could put chiharu -- and that was the atra court. in her heart, she hoped so desperately that someone would claim her for their own. at least that way, she would be safe from her father. in the dead of the night, she placed her daughter upon the steps of the court and gave her sleeping daughter one last kiss upon her forehead and slinked away. it was later on that ayako’s body was found, however when her master, was asked if the child was his, he denied it and wanted nothing to do with her at all.

when chiharu was left abandoned by her father who was an atra fae after her mother died, a man named arai akira decided to take her in as a general servant for his house. but due to the fact that chiharu was only little at the time, she would grow up with his two young children, kenta and kimiko. this was only temporary until she was actually old enough to start work as a slave -- she would then go and live with the other slaves in the slave quarters. when chiharu was little, she was pretty unique so to speak, this was due to the fact that she had slightly pointed ears and small baby wings, flickering every now and again. this was how her nickname came to be chibi.

akira found that chiharu was actually half atra, half mortal -- her mother hadn’t been accepted when she was alive but due to the fact that chiharu had atra blood in her, the atra court considered that quite important but they wouldn’t necessarily accept her fully until she was married into the atra line. and so, chiharu grew up with kenta and kimiko -- she never saw them as her siblings -- because to her, she was different to them in some ways. she grew aware of the fact that she had slightly pointy ears and baby fae wings from her back -- obviously they weren‘t strong enough to fly. duh. even though that akira was extremely strict, for some reason she adored him.

when she was old enough to really understand, she was told that her parents both died and that she came to live with the arai family due to the fact that she would work as their slave. ironically enough, she grew to became pretty good friends with kenta and kimiko. when they first met one another, chiharu was actually hiding behind somebody’s legs, peeking out rather shyly with her little wings flickering here and there. she had been painfully shy when she was very small. it soon became obvious that chiharu seemed to know very basic japanese and didn’t know english at all. it was concluded that she must have been taught basic japanese and seemed to understand a little.

and so she was taught two languages, both japanese and also english. it took a lot of hard work and dedication but eventually chiharu began to grasp the languages pretty well -- of course, it had been overwhelming at first, being sent to a strange house, knowing nothing but basic japanese. during the first few weeks, chiharu was timid and wouldn’t say boo to a goose until one day it was noticed that chiharu wasn‘t smiling as usual -- she also seemed more sleepy. it was actually kenta who found her fast asleep and went to wake her up only for his hand to recoil back -- she had a pretty high fever.

as a child, chiharu was rather sickly due to the fact that her mortal side’s immune system hadn’t finished building up as of yet. so needless to say when chiharu first got sick, it was pretty worrying for those who were close with her. kenta called for medical attention, worried sick that chiharu wouldn’t respond to him. all she needed was really keep her fever down, to have plenty of fluids and rest. naturally the slaves could have attended to her while kenta went about on his everyday life but he refused and actually insisted on staying by her side. during that night, chiharu woke up.

she was whimpering and afraid so she lifted her hands as a sign that she wanted up. chiharu ended up being snuggled up to kenta, resting her head on his chest and her small hands clutching to his clothes as if she was afraid that he would leave her. ever since that night, after having recovered from her sickness, she became even closer to him and would often follow him around, including kimiko if she was around. when chiharu was sent to the slaves quarters, she found it a little strange and a little cold without kenta and kimiko. she had to work really hard but that smile never left her.

it didn’t take chiharu long to learn and to adapt to the changes of the environment that she was in -- she was quite the obedient one. even though that chiharu often got herself into trouble on a everyday occurrence, she always seemed to get off lightly with just one big smile upon her face. she was renowned as one of the clumsiest slaves within the household, but she was actually well-loved. it wasn’t hard to adore chiharu with her bubbly, playful character. it was during her younger years that she grew a crush on kenta who never knew of her feelings toward him. nor did she really.

she never understood why her cheeks would go bright red, or why her heart would go doki doki really fast whenever she was around him. however, it took her a while to get over it when she saw the girls that kenta would be with all the time. besides, she knew that kenta would never look at her in that way, not when she had slightly pointy ears, baby fae wings, especially not when she was half mortal, half atra. besides, chiharu didn’t look like her real age, she looked as if she was three years younger than she really was.

you could say that she just grew out of her unrequited love. now chiharu is of age, at aged eighteen years old -- she still works as a slave for the arai family. obviously, now that she is of age, she is at that time where she will be claimed by a different master of the atra fae if they so wish her to be their slave. chiharu has never ventured out of the atra court, she has never seen the outside world though she has heard some stories about it but simply believes that it’s just make-believe like those fairytale stories you hear of being read to little ones in bed. who knows what life holds for chiharu now that she is eighteen years old?

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--- * alias: emchi.
--- * time zone: gmt.
--- * years of experience: long enough.
--- * other characters: ryuichi akiyama.
--- * code word: -adminedit-