Post by Fujibayashi Ryou on Nov 8, 2009 0:30:24 GMT -6
We promised to keep our silence.
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face claim ; Fujibayashi Ryou from Clannad
#Name; Fujibayashi Ryou
#Age ; 17
#Gender ; Female
#Sexuality ; Heterosexual
#D.O.B. ; the 9th of September
#Occupation ; Student, class representative, amateur fortuneteller
#Year and class ; 3-D
#Height ; 5' 3"
#Weight ; 104 lbs
#Physique ; Curvaceous, somewhat delicate.
#Hair color and style ; Lavender; slightly past neck length, with the parting, at the top, seeming like cat ears. An ornament matching that of her sister's, at the right side.
#Eye color ; Blue.
#Other appearance details ; Carries herself with a degree of temperance, demureness, and... uncertainty. Prone to embarrassment, which dyes her cheeks red. Polite, and sometimes stuttering, in her speech.
#Clothing styles ; Simple and tasteful. Consists mostly of blouses and skirts, none too obtrusive or revealing (unless forced upon by nee-san...). Partial to the shades of white and blue, and almost never the hues that are bright or eye-catching.
#Personality ;
Ryou has always been a bashful person. She is reticent and demure, even to people she has already known for a long time. She is predisposed to be polite and mild, often trying not to offend the people around her. She is somewhat easily flustered, simple misunderstandings giving her bouts of panic, and in relation to this, she is also somewhat easily fooled. In certain aspects, one may consider her naive, even helpless.
A closer look, however, reveals that there is more to Ryou than a shifty heap of shyness. She is sensitive of others, and is very considerate; she may not be a very exciting, colorful friend, but she will be there when you need her. She is reliable, and responsible; like her sister, she is also the student representative of her class. She claims that she was merely thrust into the position, but she handles the position nicely, even though she has some trouble with intimidating factors like the delinquents Okazaki and Sunohara. (However, it seems Okazaki is intimidating in another way...)
When not distracted, although some may say the slightest suggestive situation would distract her, Ryou is actually quite organized; she excels in chores, with the strange exception of cooking. She is hardworking, and well aware of her weaknesses and mistakes, and tries her best to correct them, though one could say she hasn't achieved anything yet. Still, when she is determined, she is really determined.
While Ryou, from the descriptions above, may seem to be the hapless, bland, goody-two-shoes type, she is actually passionate about something. That something is fortune telling, something that is quite unrelated to her duties and strengths. Ryou believes that 'all girls love fortunetelling at the genetic level'. She displays a lot more confidence with this topic in discussion; she has used it, as an icebreaker, a handful of occasions.
She precedes over her fortunetelling with a deck of playing cards, and a healthy dose of what she calls 'a maiden's inspiration'. Odd as it may seem, Ryou's predictions, while incredibly detailed, are dangerously accurate in a twisted way; the actual events turn out to be either somewhat skewed or extremely wrong. Surprisingly, Ryou doesn't mind if her fortunes don't come true; it would be good for the future not to be confined to certain possibilities. It is somewhat a contradiction to her being an enthusiastic amateur soothsayer.
Besides her own fortunetelling, she is also keenly interested in other ways of divining. She even enjoys arcade games on the concept. She has always been overshadowed by her older sister, who she considers ultimately better than her; still, she is very grateful for the things her sister does for her, and these two opposing feelings strike a balance in her fragile heart.
#History ;
(mostly paraphrased from Saska, the first Fujibayashi Kyou's, profile. Go creditness. *bows*)Fujibayashi Ryou was born on September 9th, following shortly after the birth of her twin, her older sister, Kyou. Ryou had been a goodnatured child, cheerful and sincere, if a little bit naive and somewhat helpless; her weaknesses attracted bullies, and the bullies, in turn, attracted the wrath of her not-so-forgiving sister, who was quite violent to any and all prospective oppressors. Ryou had felt dismayed at times at her nee-san Kyou's use of hardbound materials, but she could not deny her gratitude for her sibling's concern. It was something that the one who was better, who was friendlier, who was braver, cared for someone so weak as her.
As a child, she did not understand their situation completely, though she now understood in hindsight; perhaps she could have understood, but her mind wished not to. There were things not even her sister could explain to her; the problems that they had, which her sister did not understand too. They were short on money; that was the simple version of it. Her mother, Fujibayashi Shihna, had dropped out of nursing school and her job to take care of the two of them. Their father, Shinji, was an elementary school teacher who made barely enough to make ends meet. In a way, Ryou felt that something was wrong, and her childhood innocence drove her to try to help her parents and her sister, and if she could not, as the case often was, she would try at least to be not too much trouble.
She wished it could have continued. However, things were bound to change. Once their mother deemed Kyou able to look after Ryou, they were shuttled from babysitter to babysitter, from daycare to daycare, and other similar things. Mom had decided to try to earn some income again, to help support the family. Amongst the other children that they often did not know, they were often estranged, in part because of Kyou's threatening ways of warding off predators, real and imagined, from Ryou. Ryou would often try to temper, to pacify her sister, but there were times that her efforts seemed to be of no avail. At times, she would feel helpless, fearing she was only a burden; if she hadn't been, Nee-san wouldn't have a reason to squabble, and there would be one less mouth to feed...
It continued to elementary school. Kyou started taming her ways, and the twins made friends, although Kyou would still sometimes berate people she thought were perturbing Ryou. While Kyou was often sent to detention, Ryou was seen as the angel; she did her homework, she did her cleaning duties, and Kyou would sometimes have to firmly discourage her from going to school when she was sick. Despite this, academically, Kyou was still the better of the two, or as Ryou thought. Then came an unexpected downturn; their father left, one evening, without a trace, without an explanation. Shinji had been holding it all in, his frustration, his despair in trying to support his family. Ryou cried that night.
Luck met the family in the form of Shihna's mother on Ryou's thirteenth birthday, as a helpful request. Shihna was becoming highly stressed with working two part-time jobs and attending school for her degree in nursing as well as trying to take care of her two daughters. Miyunaji Kokori had recently lost her thirty-four-year married husband to the throes of lung cancer, and was considerably lonely in her home. Seeing the trouble which her daughter, Shihna, was going through, Kokori offered to adopt the twins and become their legal guardian to allow Shihna to work out her life.
With the agreement that Shihna would send sums of money whenever she could afford to, Ryou and her nee-san were shipped off to their grandmother's house a year before they entered high school. By this time, Ryou developed feelings for the infamous delinquent Okazaki Tomoya, a boy in their grade. The boy had been her sister Kyou's acquaintance first, and so she requested that she introduce her to the boy. She wondered if she should have done so; she could not keep a secret from her sister, but she saw something in her sister's face before she smiled and agreed. Kyou had even volunteered to steer her closer to Okazaki. Ryou had an inkling of her sister's true feelings, but decided to keep quiet about it. She could not say no to her sister's smiling face, telling her that she will support her.
Fraught with uncertainty, the younger Fujibayashi dabbled in amateur fortunetelling, in the form of playing cards that their grandmother had given her. She invented her own divinations, taking from here and there the symbolisms of the cards, and oddly enough, her predictions seem to come true... almost. Still, this playful way of ascertaining the future told Ryou nothing of what she should do, about what she felt about Tomoya, and about what her older sister felt...The Roleplayer's Corner
#Nickname ; Sazanami.
#Age ; 22.
#Gender ; Male. I envy female people getting to describe female characters unabashedly. T.T
#Seen the anime/played the visual novel? ; Both. Rewatching first season. Haha.
#How did you find us? ; RPG-D. Seems like I can't get other sites that I like, from there, again. Yet. X.X
#Sample RP ;
It was nine o'clock in the morning, on a beautiful Sunday. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and the wild (but domesticated...) boar baby Botan, miniature conquistador, was running a few blocks away from the Fujibayashi residence, a flustered and slightly disheveled Fujibayashi Ryou in tow.
Now, how did this slightly ridiculous and affable (though probably it was not so laughable for our gasping protagonist) situation happen to unfold? Well, first, we must consider the circumstances that lead to this event. Fujibayashi Kyou, our hapless girl's older sister, guardian, bodyguard and many more, had an errand to run. It was an hour ago, after the twins had an early breakfast, courtesy of Kyou's simply awesome cooking skills, which Ryou often envied. Of course, Kyou had entrusted the wiggling potential piece of pork to her little sister, who, though not seeing Botan for the delicious meal it actually was, was greatly suspected and shunned by the brown, round creature.
It had to do with a time when Ryou tried to give Botan a bath; she could not give him food she cooked, because they usually have enough tranquilizing power for a small animal. The pig thought it was going to become a stew, bubbles and foam notwithstanding; it must have not been very informed about hot baths. The paranoia is engraved in Botan, still, even with the likeness of Ryou to its master, and the closeness and the familiarity between the two. Hey, humans can be more illogical.
And so, after some twenty minutes of enduring the supposed danger and gizzard-wriggling fear of being with the woman who would supposedly cook him (and it would be a culinary disaster, too), Botan decided to make his great escape. Not that he knew that his master would not be so near; she had gone by motorcycle to the neighboring town. Ryou, being in her home territory, was able to stop him from sneaking out, for a while; in Grandma's place, she had her wits in a more intact condition. However, the place was Botan's home territory too, and of course there were little paths and little corners that only Botan could be familiar with.
Which brings us to this chase between Ryou and Botan, in this warm, just-right weather, on the paved street. Botan can be quite fast, even for his small body. He shuffled his stubbly legs with the grace of a... hurrying... centipede. Only with four legs, but his legs seem to be multiplying with the rapidity she was using them.
Ryou was going to need help... but she felt quite embarrassed asking for assistance to catch... a pig.
