Post by apple on Oct 11, 2010 15:28:40 GMT -6
::Hayashi Ringo::
Type: Original
Age:15
Year and Class: 1-B
Gender: Female
Sexuality:Bi-curious
Crushes: Not available at the moment
Face Claim: Photobucket, by Lunar_Dusk
Description:
Ringo is not small, but by no means is she large. Ringo hangs around the middle of the weght spectrum at 135 lbs. She is also 5'3" tall, making her look slightly chubby around the face and stomach. Ringo's cheeks always have a ruddy color to them, and her lips remain a pale pink. She has a pair of dimples, one on each cheek.[/size]
Inside of school, Ringo wears the school uniform, the yellow jacket unbuttoned to show her blue under shirt. Under her skirt, the girl wears red tights with her black penny-loafers. Ringo wears contacts that make her eyes a bright green, and she wears her hair down around her face with brightly colored hair accessories such as bows and clips.
Outside of school, Ringo usually wears her hair in two braids, one on either side of her head. Also, the girl wears a pair of black rimmed reading glasses over her large brown eyes. Ringo wears a black long-sleeved sweater over a white tank top, along with a layered black skirt, black tights, and brown boots.
Personality:
Ringo in school is much different from outside of school. Inside of school, Ringo is very frank, meaning she says what is on her mind, when it is on her mind. She pays no mind to those who hear what she has to say and decides they dissagree. She knows this isn't fair, but does not care in the least. The girl likes to participate in class, bringing up her ideas, and answering questions voluntarily. If she thinks she is correct about an answer, Ringo will offer it. She is not snobbish, though she comes off as strong-willed. Ringo will push into a conversation and force her piece into it. She essentially does not care if she sounds stupid for giving out information, she only wishes to be like her older brother.[/size]
Outside of school, Ringo is very different. She is reserved, very cautious, timid almost. Ringo remains quiet, and follows directions without question, she goes over every possible detail and outcome in her head before making a desicion, and does not try many new things, like food or sports. Ringo remains helpful almost to a fault. She helps those who may have too much to carry to those who need a few yen to purchase their groceries.
Acting is the one thing that Ringo has any interest in whatsoever. It is also the only thing Ringo believes she does absolutely perfectly. Before entering high school, Ringo was apart of multiple productions for school festivals and the like. It didn't matter what kind of acting she had taken part in; as long as she was acting, Ringo was alright.
If anything, Ringo hates looking after her younger sibilings, which there are six of. She would never admit it, but she loves her alone time in the shed, and being at school because she does not have to do any work or deal with the kids.
The pressure of keeping up with sibilings, acting, and school work has had it's toll on the girl. She is prone to random break-downs that keep her out of school for days at a time. The break-downs consist of locking herself in backyard shed, refuse to eat or speak, and pass out from exhaustion. This happens once every couple of months or so.
Ever since watching her first Ghost Hunting show at the age of nine, Ringo has loved the idea of apparisions and ghosts. As a way to show this, she will participate in ghost walks in the local cemetary and shrines. She believes that a dog that follows her everywhere is her older brother watching over her. The dog is significant because she and her brother used to bring home stray animals, and dogs were her brother's favorite.
History:
On November 23rd, 1994, Hayashi Ichigo and Ringo was born to Hayashi Higurashi and her husband, American-born, Joseph Walker. They had lived in the small town of Hikarizaka. For a whole year, they lived peacefully until Higurashi learned she was pregnant with her third and fourth children, Hinata and Bushimaru. Together, the family lived for five years, until tragedy struck. Ichigo was diagnoised with leukemia, a rare blood cancer. For five more years, the family lived, adding three more children, Keito, Joseph Jr., Haku, to the family.[/size]
On July 14th, 2004, Ichigo passed away from complications in surgery. He was having his kidney replaced, the replacement having been Ringo's. Besides acting, Ringo did not speak to anyone in her family or at school. The teachers were concerned with her lack of participation, and the kids bullied her. Acting was how Ringo expressed herself emotionally, and had saved the girl from a total emotional break-down. The play that saved her was titled, "Harvest Moon," and was written by Ringo's crush. It was a play about a beautiful mermaid granted legs on the Harvest Moon, and could no longer return to the water afterwards, unless she wanted to become sea foam.
Years back, when Ringo and her brother started school, the twins were very active in class activites, including acting in the school plays. They were casted as the Hunstman and The Queen, gender respective. The kids bullied Ringo for being the quiet girl in class, while her older brother was always the outgoing one. After Ringo started to speak again in Junior high, she took on her brother's persona, wanting to be liked by her classmates.
With a mute daughter, the loss of their eldest son, and the new diagnosis of leukemia in their youngest son, Haku, Higurashi and Joseph went back to work another town over at an automotive plant. They worked seven days a week, and left Ringo in charge of everything, from cooking to cleaning. Ringo's grades were barely on par with everyone else's in her class, and she has to take extra night classes just to keep up.
Ringo has had many break-downs from the total responsibility that she has with her family. She is expected to make all meals, clean house, take the kids to school, pick them up, take Haku to his appointments, and to help everyone with their homework. She has no friends that she can turn to for help, and her younger sister is a lazy girl that doesn't like to help at all, and isn't forced too. Ringo's demeanor can't push her sister, and her parents are too busy working to notice.
Many of the plays and musicals that Ringo and her brother had taken part in included: Snow White, Cinderella, and many written by classmates. The last one the twins had taken part in together was titled, "Bad Times", and was about a young girl and her brother moving away from home, and trying to live on the streets. It had a sad ending, the brother having died in a car accident.
Controller's Information
Nickname: Apple
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Seen the Anime/Played the Game?: I've seen the anime. I fell in love with it.
How Did You Find Us?: Affiliation with Alice Academy...
Sample RP: Ringo had run from the house, her parents were yelling at her about the mess Aki had made in the house. Aki was then taunting her from her room, daring her to speak up. Ringo leaned against a light pole, panting in the cold night air. She hated her sister, she hated her parents...no she actually didn't, but she felt like she could at times. The girl's tears hit the cooling pavement and left little puddles in their wake. If only Ringo could stay away from the house longer than this...
Ringo couldn't help but to go back to the house and explain to her parents how she felt. 'Really now, that is a silly thought. Why would they listen to me? I just remind them of their dead son,' Ringo thought to herself, kicking a rock across the road as she slowly but surely made it back.
"Mom, dad, I...I'm sorry," the girl said timidly from the doorway to the house, looking down at her feet and hands tangled behind her back, "I-"
A smack rang out as her mother's hand whipped past her head and her cheek felt hot. Fresh tears broke out, this being the first time either of her parents had tried to hit her, or had hit her. Ringo collapsed the the floor, holding her cheek and staring aimlessly at her mother's feet. Both her parents left her in the doorway and returned to their bedroom to sleep. They had to work in the morning.