Post by set on Jun 6, 2007 23:08:42 GMT -5
Name: Izoshima Setsuko
Age: 11
Gender: Female
Group: None
Nation: Fire
Bender?: No
Physical Appearance: Setsuko is a young girl who actually looks younger than she should be. She stands at about four feet and doesn't seem to have much breast development. Her figure is still the shape of a tall rectangle, like a little girl's body shape long before she enters puberty. Her weak limbs are short and bony as she has small hands and feet. She has a heart-shaped face with a flat and rounded nose. She has long, straight, raven black hair that reaches to the end of her lower back. She leaves it down most of the time, but when she has to do her chores she ties it into a loose braid. She has evenly cut bangs that cover her forehead, but are evenly parted down the middle. Her eyes are a sort dull tone of gold and are set wide for most of the time, dependent on her current emotion. Her skin is pale, and she has flat, thin lips and a round chin. Her cheeks are soft but a bit chubby, and her fingers are small and sort of almond-shaped. Though on her ring finger on her right hand, she has a small lump by the bottom-left corner of her fingernail.
Clothing/Armor: Setsuko wears no armor. Instead, she wears a plain, dull orange T-shirt under a thick, velvety, dark red vest that is tied down the middle with sown-on black thread. The vest only covers half of her shirt while the shirt's sleeves still come out of the vest's armholes. The shirt also has a black-trimmed Chinese collar that shaped onto her neck. She wears a dark red skirt that is cut on both sides up to the dark brown belt she wears. The belt is merely another thick length of cloth tied around her waist, and the leftover belt hangs from the tied end at her left side. She wears a pair of thin, long, dull orange pants that reach over her ankles and touch the ground. Of course, she gets them dirty. She wears pair of dark brown slippers that are cut below her ankles, and the soles are dark from walking around so much. She has short red arm warmers that cover only the half of each forearm and cover her wrists. She wears a dull brass key around her neck, held by a thick piece of black yarn.
Weapons: None.
Personality: Setsuko can be very cheerful and outgoing to anybody she meets for the first time, and therefore has a lot of friends. Eventually over time, their outlook upon her can be both good and bad, since she'll start to act like a brat. She tries to stay on her positive side, until it comes time to do her chores. While she does them, she whines and complains excuses to try to get her older brother to help, who was only a year older. She never liked doing those things alone. To her parents she can be very stubborn when it comes to trying something knew until her parents can finally convince her that it's better for her. She'll have occasional fights with her brother over who gets what. When it's brought to their parents, she starts to suck up to them to get her way. Every now and then it works, but then there's the reason of her being too small and delicate for her age. This fact bothers her a lot, especially when other adults mistaken her to be nine or eight. Though she is stubborn in decisions and changes, she is still obedient to her parents from the discipline of the chores.
She'll be happy when things go the way she wants them to, and then has a tendency to be naive. When something is explained to her, she'll ask questions like "What's that mean?" or "Why did that happen?" or other things. She can be very helpful to others, unlike to her chores since it was a daily basis and gets annoying to her. She isn't very clumsy when it comes to handling things on her own, even though it looks like she's struggling with it. In her free time, her imagination can go wild and she just has to write it down. She's gone through many journals from writing mini stories about fantasy and things of the beyond.
Background: Setsuko's mother and father were Ume Hazikawa and Kurou Izoshima. They met when they were teenagers at the harbor, when Ume was getting supplies for her family at the market and Kurou was following his father as being a fisherman. They first became friends and then when they got older, they began to have some feelings for each other. Eventually, they fell in love. They married and had their first son, Shichiro. The following year, they had a daughter named Setsuko.
During her first year after being born, Setsuko often cried a lot because her older brother took toys from her that she wanted to play with. It was the very beginning of Setsuko’s sibling-dislike. She cooed at and moved about when she looked at her parents' faces, indicating how much she loved them despite her very young age. She was very laughy and giggly, and most of the time it got annoying. With sheer innocence in both mind and appearance, her curiosity level was (figuratively) off the charts. Because of this, things were often knocked over or broken since Setsuko wondered what they were for.
She learned how to say "dada" even though he was out fishing most of the time. When he came home, she was very excited and jumped about shouting "dadadadadadadadada!" She learned a bit from her brother, and then got along with him pretty well. The sibling-dislike began to decrease since the siblings had nothing much to fight over anymore; Shichiro was too old for those toys. Setsuko observed her brother’s stubbornness toward their parents, and soon began to follow. When in a bad mood, Setsuko stomped her foot on the ground and pouted when she complained how Shichiro got to do things that she couldn’t do; for example, being able to go onto the harbor without holding an adult’s hand.
They owned a small kitten named Suzu. Her mother had begun to teach her how to write and learn vocabulary, since she learned how to from her grandparents. However, because Ume had never bothered to ask them how they learned before they passed away; she was excited to learn things back then, just like how Setsuko was excited to learn.
Soon, Setsuko got jealous of her brother being able to be with their father most of the time since Shichiro was being taught to fish and work at the harbor. It wasn’t like she didn’t like mother; she wanted to be with father. She felt the need of more attention as the absence of her brother and father grew longer. And when her brother came home before father, he barely acknowledged Setsuko and sometimes didn’t even bother to say hello. He merely passed by, had a little food and went back out again to do whatever Setsuko didn’t know. Her mother’s attention wasn’t enough for Setsuko.
If Setsuko wasn’t going to get positive attention, she was going to have to get the bad kind.
They began to fight over things like who was doing which chore, since this was the year they began to do their chores. Setsuko secretly didn’t care about the issue, but merely cared that her brother was at least talking to her. One day, they got in a really big fight over what the new baby's name was going to be because their mother was pregnant at the time. Soon, old problems were brought up like the “being with father” issue and the dead cat Suzu who died from neglected care. “You get to be with papa all the time!” “You get to stay with momma and the baby!” “You kept forgetting to feed Suzu!” “I’m never home, I can’t do everything!” They screamed loudly at each other with tears in their eyes until Shichiro finally began to get violent. He furiously pushed her over and her head hit against the wall, but she still shouted at him. He picked her up again and threw her at the other wall, which of course her head hit first. She was still conscious from the force and was wailing loudly, and then their parents came in. He was grounded for quite some time and they had a doctor check her head. She was a bit dizzy, but she eventually recovered. She fell silent for the first few weeks, sitting in her room and being lost in her thoughts. She thought that maybe the whole negative attention idea was a bad idea to start with. Before her mother was to worry about her, she began talking again. Her voice began as meek and quiet at first, but as her mother allowed her to go outside more often she turned into a total chatterbox. This was from befriending other children nearby and talking to them often.
Turning six, she began to request journals and tell a bunch of stories to her childhood friends. Some were pretty bad, and some of them amazed her friends. She wrote down ideas and inspirations and her imagination went wild. It wasn't a large variety of vocabulary, or in neat handwriting, but she didn't care as long as she knew what the mini story was about. She showed off her tiny tales, making her friends think that she was very smart. Setsuko was very proud of herself being able to impress the people around her and forgot all about the attention from her brother and father. However, soon it was her brother who wanted the attention.
While she did her chores, every now and then something odd happens, like a cat jumping onto a stranger's head from the roof. She would take that idea and turn it into a small story. Her imagination grew as she wrote many more ideas, but never ever did she settle with one idea. Her baby brother, Shouta, was born. Setsuko couldn’t stand being away from Shouta for even a few minutes.
As she got older, Shichiro got interested with her tiny tales. He began asking her questions, such as the inspiration of each story or the characters’ personalities. He wanted the same attention she got from her friends, and decided to think about showing her off. After all, Setsuko was his sister; his friends believed that intelligence runs throughout the family, when in reality it doesn’t always seem that way. Her brother took one of her many journals and decided to share a few stories with his own friends. She never knew this because she was in bed with a minor cold, which her parents constantly insisted that she would rest even though the cold wasn't bad. Shichiro passed around the book, and it turned out that one friend stole an idea by ripping out a couple of pages. When Setsuko found this out, she was very angry at Shichiro and whined to her parents for a chest with a lock. This time, Setsuko didn’t have to complain and whine too much. They understood that and told Shichiro never to do it again, and got her an old chest from Kurou's father. They put all four journals in the small chest, and locked them away with a small brass key. Setsuko kept this around her neck for years.
After being let outside, her mother began assigning outdoor chores. Setsuko began to complain about being outside and her mother scolded her since she used to complain about not going outside. Before her ninth birthday, she was doing her daily chores outside when she saw a boy in his late teens. She went to talk to him being the outgoing girl she was, despite the fact that he was a stranger. Day by day, they met and talked more often and soon developed a friendship. His name was Kaito. He even helped her every now and then when she struggled with her chores, and she helped him deliver fish on a cart since he worked at the harbor. Eventually, Shichiro also became close friends with him. Soon, after a long period of months, Setsuko began to develop a small crush on him, despite the age difference. In reaction to her feelings, she even made a short love story about a girl wanting to tell a boy she liked her feelings, but never got the chance to. She was very happy she met him and to her, her life seemed more joyous.
After a couple of years, she never finished the story because she didn't know how to end it. One day, while outside in the dangerous heat, Setsuko was stuck outside with her chores. The sun gave her burns; she sweated like a pig and was panting like a dog. Her brother helped her father in the harbor and her mother had to take care of Shouta. Jealousy of mother's attention never set off in Setsuko's mind because she had been too busy with doing everything else instead of being with mother and Shouta. When finished, Setsuko helped Kaito deliver the fish again. But while on the cart, she began to feel dizzy and weak. Though Kaito noticed and asked what was wrong, she said she was okay because she didn't want to worry him so much; though she didn't know that he worried a lot. Finally, the world began to spin and Setsuko lost consciousness.
A few days later, she woke up in her bed from the terrifying thunder outside. She went back to sleep since it was very late at night. To comfort herself from the sounds, she developed a story in her mind of Kaito saving her from the thunder monster. If someone would have checked on her as she slept, they would’ve seen a soft smile on her face.
The next morning she came out of her room and was told by Shichiro that Kaito had helped her home to recover. But when she went out to thank him, he was nowhere to be found. She searched everywhere in the area for him, but still couldn't see him. She began to panic and ask around the market to see if there were any signs of him, but nobody’s seen him. Later, when she returned home, her father told the news of Kaito and his father. They were lost at sea with the crew due to the raging storm from the past few nights. Devastated, Setsuko wouldn't come out of her room for hours. She stayed in her room to write the depressing ending of her love story, her loss beyond sorrow to shed any tears.
Eventually, she recovered and finally came out of her room. She was still devastated about the loss of Kaito, and wrote stories to remind her about how she admired him. The relationship with her brother has become a bit more positive since Shichiro has comforted her when he saw that she was sad. Nowadays, she still lives with her family and lives her daily life.
Sample RP:
Setsuko looked upon the vast ocean, seeing it sparkle the reflection of the high afternoon sun sailing in the sea of the sky. She smelled the freshly caught fish being brought in by ships as she stood by the wooden dock at the habor. She saw the gentle waves pushing along with the soft breeze that drifted through the habor. The blue, blue sea was a beautiful sight today, but to Setsuko it was a disguise to hide the death it brought to many. She despised it for taking Kaito away from her. Her eyes narrowed angrily, glaring with hate at the water.
"Setsuko."
She turned her head to the side, seeing Shichiro step in beside her. Though only a year older, Shichiro was much taller than her in several inches. Like her, he had dull golden eyes, only they were set to be narrow instead of wide like Setsuko' eyes. Shichiro kept his gaze upon the sea.
"You miss him, don't you?"
"Of course I do. You miss him too," she replied. Shichiro turned his gaze to her.
"But you miss him more than I do. You liked him a lot, didn't you? I mean, more than just liking him."
Setsuko turned away and toward the sea. She blushed a bit. "And what if I did?"
Shichiro smiled. "Come on, Set, it was obvious. You kept giggling and blushing every time you were around him. You seemed to treat him a lot more nicely than you do mother or father."
Setsuko's cheeks turned red. She folded her arms together. "So?"
He laughed a bit. "You don't have to hide it. I won't tell anybody." He turned back to the sea. "But I understand how you're feeling. Losing somebody like that doesn't feel very pleasant. But think of it this way; he may be gone, but your happy memories of him will never disappear unless you choose to forget them."
Setsuko was suddenly hit by a wave of inspiration. Her eyes went wide as she tackled her brother with a hug, nearly throwing them off the dock. "Thank you, Shichiro! You're the best!"
She quickly ran off and gripped her brass key in her small hand.
Age: 11
Gender: Female
Group: None
Nation: Fire
Bender?: No
Physical Appearance: Setsuko is a young girl who actually looks younger than she should be. She stands at about four feet and doesn't seem to have much breast development. Her figure is still the shape of a tall rectangle, like a little girl's body shape long before she enters puberty. Her weak limbs are short and bony as she has small hands and feet. She has a heart-shaped face with a flat and rounded nose. She has long, straight, raven black hair that reaches to the end of her lower back. She leaves it down most of the time, but when she has to do her chores she ties it into a loose braid. She has evenly cut bangs that cover her forehead, but are evenly parted down the middle. Her eyes are a sort dull tone of gold and are set wide for most of the time, dependent on her current emotion. Her skin is pale, and she has flat, thin lips and a round chin. Her cheeks are soft but a bit chubby, and her fingers are small and sort of almond-shaped. Though on her ring finger on her right hand, she has a small lump by the bottom-left corner of her fingernail.
Clothing/Armor: Setsuko wears no armor. Instead, she wears a plain, dull orange T-shirt under a thick, velvety, dark red vest that is tied down the middle with sown-on black thread. The vest only covers half of her shirt while the shirt's sleeves still come out of the vest's armholes. The shirt also has a black-trimmed Chinese collar that shaped onto her neck. She wears a dark red skirt that is cut on both sides up to the dark brown belt she wears. The belt is merely another thick length of cloth tied around her waist, and the leftover belt hangs from the tied end at her left side. She wears a pair of thin, long, dull orange pants that reach over her ankles and touch the ground. Of course, she gets them dirty. She wears pair of dark brown slippers that are cut below her ankles, and the soles are dark from walking around so much. She has short red arm warmers that cover only the half of each forearm and cover her wrists. She wears a dull brass key around her neck, held by a thick piece of black yarn.
Weapons: None.
Personality: Setsuko can be very cheerful and outgoing to anybody she meets for the first time, and therefore has a lot of friends. Eventually over time, their outlook upon her can be both good and bad, since she'll start to act like a brat. She tries to stay on her positive side, until it comes time to do her chores. While she does them, she whines and complains excuses to try to get her older brother to help, who was only a year older. She never liked doing those things alone. To her parents she can be very stubborn when it comes to trying something knew until her parents can finally convince her that it's better for her. She'll have occasional fights with her brother over who gets what. When it's brought to their parents, she starts to suck up to them to get her way. Every now and then it works, but then there's the reason of her being too small and delicate for her age. This fact bothers her a lot, especially when other adults mistaken her to be nine or eight. Though she is stubborn in decisions and changes, she is still obedient to her parents from the discipline of the chores.
She'll be happy when things go the way she wants them to, and then has a tendency to be naive. When something is explained to her, she'll ask questions like "What's that mean?" or "Why did that happen?" or other things. She can be very helpful to others, unlike to her chores since it was a daily basis and gets annoying to her. She isn't very clumsy when it comes to handling things on her own, even though it looks like she's struggling with it. In her free time, her imagination can go wild and she just has to write it down. She's gone through many journals from writing mini stories about fantasy and things of the beyond.
Background: Setsuko's mother and father were Ume Hazikawa and Kurou Izoshima. They met when they were teenagers at the harbor, when Ume was getting supplies for her family at the market and Kurou was following his father as being a fisherman. They first became friends and then when they got older, they began to have some feelings for each other. Eventually, they fell in love. They married and had their first son, Shichiro. The following year, they had a daughter named Setsuko.
During her first year after being born, Setsuko often cried a lot because her older brother took toys from her that she wanted to play with. It was the very beginning of Setsuko’s sibling-dislike. She cooed at and moved about when she looked at her parents' faces, indicating how much she loved them despite her very young age. She was very laughy and giggly, and most of the time it got annoying. With sheer innocence in both mind and appearance, her curiosity level was (figuratively) off the charts. Because of this, things were often knocked over or broken since Setsuko wondered what they were for.
She learned how to say "dada" even though he was out fishing most of the time. When he came home, she was very excited and jumped about shouting "dadadadadadadadada!" She learned a bit from her brother, and then got along with him pretty well. The sibling-dislike began to decrease since the siblings had nothing much to fight over anymore; Shichiro was too old for those toys. Setsuko observed her brother’s stubbornness toward their parents, and soon began to follow. When in a bad mood, Setsuko stomped her foot on the ground and pouted when she complained how Shichiro got to do things that she couldn’t do; for example, being able to go onto the harbor without holding an adult’s hand.
They owned a small kitten named Suzu. Her mother had begun to teach her how to write and learn vocabulary, since she learned how to from her grandparents. However, because Ume had never bothered to ask them how they learned before they passed away; she was excited to learn things back then, just like how Setsuko was excited to learn.
Soon, Setsuko got jealous of her brother being able to be with their father most of the time since Shichiro was being taught to fish and work at the harbor. It wasn’t like she didn’t like mother; she wanted to be with father. She felt the need of more attention as the absence of her brother and father grew longer. And when her brother came home before father, he barely acknowledged Setsuko and sometimes didn’t even bother to say hello. He merely passed by, had a little food and went back out again to do whatever Setsuko didn’t know. Her mother’s attention wasn’t enough for Setsuko.
If Setsuko wasn’t going to get positive attention, she was going to have to get the bad kind.
They began to fight over things like who was doing which chore, since this was the year they began to do their chores. Setsuko secretly didn’t care about the issue, but merely cared that her brother was at least talking to her. One day, they got in a really big fight over what the new baby's name was going to be because their mother was pregnant at the time. Soon, old problems were brought up like the “being with father” issue and the dead cat Suzu who died from neglected care. “You get to be with papa all the time!” “You get to stay with momma and the baby!” “You kept forgetting to feed Suzu!” “I’m never home, I can’t do everything!” They screamed loudly at each other with tears in their eyes until Shichiro finally began to get violent. He furiously pushed her over and her head hit against the wall, but she still shouted at him. He picked her up again and threw her at the other wall, which of course her head hit first. She was still conscious from the force and was wailing loudly, and then their parents came in. He was grounded for quite some time and they had a doctor check her head. She was a bit dizzy, but she eventually recovered. She fell silent for the first few weeks, sitting in her room and being lost in her thoughts. She thought that maybe the whole negative attention idea was a bad idea to start with. Before her mother was to worry about her, she began talking again. Her voice began as meek and quiet at first, but as her mother allowed her to go outside more often she turned into a total chatterbox. This was from befriending other children nearby and talking to them often.
Turning six, she began to request journals and tell a bunch of stories to her childhood friends. Some were pretty bad, and some of them amazed her friends. She wrote down ideas and inspirations and her imagination went wild. It wasn't a large variety of vocabulary, or in neat handwriting, but she didn't care as long as she knew what the mini story was about. She showed off her tiny tales, making her friends think that she was very smart. Setsuko was very proud of herself being able to impress the people around her and forgot all about the attention from her brother and father. However, soon it was her brother who wanted the attention.
While she did her chores, every now and then something odd happens, like a cat jumping onto a stranger's head from the roof. She would take that idea and turn it into a small story. Her imagination grew as she wrote many more ideas, but never ever did she settle with one idea. Her baby brother, Shouta, was born. Setsuko couldn’t stand being away from Shouta for even a few minutes.
As she got older, Shichiro got interested with her tiny tales. He began asking her questions, such as the inspiration of each story or the characters’ personalities. He wanted the same attention she got from her friends, and decided to think about showing her off. After all, Setsuko was his sister; his friends believed that intelligence runs throughout the family, when in reality it doesn’t always seem that way. Her brother took one of her many journals and decided to share a few stories with his own friends. She never knew this because she was in bed with a minor cold, which her parents constantly insisted that she would rest even though the cold wasn't bad. Shichiro passed around the book, and it turned out that one friend stole an idea by ripping out a couple of pages. When Setsuko found this out, she was very angry at Shichiro and whined to her parents for a chest with a lock. This time, Setsuko didn’t have to complain and whine too much. They understood that and told Shichiro never to do it again, and got her an old chest from Kurou's father. They put all four journals in the small chest, and locked them away with a small brass key. Setsuko kept this around her neck for years.
After being let outside, her mother began assigning outdoor chores. Setsuko began to complain about being outside and her mother scolded her since she used to complain about not going outside. Before her ninth birthday, she was doing her daily chores outside when she saw a boy in his late teens. She went to talk to him being the outgoing girl she was, despite the fact that he was a stranger. Day by day, they met and talked more often and soon developed a friendship. His name was Kaito. He even helped her every now and then when she struggled with her chores, and she helped him deliver fish on a cart since he worked at the harbor. Eventually, Shichiro also became close friends with him. Soon, after a long period of months, Setsuko began to develop a small crush on him, despite the age difference. In reaction to her feelings, she even made a short love story about a girl wanting to tell a boy she liked her feelings, but never got the chance to. She was very happy she met him and to her, her life seemed more joyous.
After a couple of years, she never finished the story because she didn't know how to end it. One day, while outside in the dangerous heat, Setsuko was stuck outside with her chores. The sun gave her burns; she sweated like a pig and was panting like a dog. Her brother helped her father in the harbor and her mother had to take care of Shouta. Jealousy of mother's attention never set off in Setsuko's mind because she had been too busy with doing everything else instead of being with mother and Shouta. When finished, Setsuko helped Kaito deliver the fish again. But while on the cart, she began to feel dizzy and weak. Though Kaito noticed and asked what was wrong, she said she was okay because she didn't want to worry him so much; though she didn't know that he worried a lot. Finally, the world began to spin and Setsuko lost consciousness.
A few days later, she woke up in her bed from the terrifying thunder outside. She went back to sleep since it was very late at night. To comfort herself from the sounds, she developed a story in her mind of Kaito saving her from the thunder monster. If someone would have checked on her as she slept, they would’ve seen a soft smile on her face.
The next morning she came out of her room and was told by Shichiro that Kaito had helped her home to recover. But when she went out to thank him, he was nowhere to be found. She searched everywhere in the area for him, but still couldn't see him. She began to panic and ask around the market to see if there were any signs of him, but nobody’s seen him. Later, when she returned home, her father told the news of Kaito and his father. They were lost at sea with the crew due to the raging storm from the past few nights. Devastated, Setsuko wouldn't come out of her room for hours. She stayed in her room to write the depressing ending of her love story, her loss beyond sorrow to shed any tears.
Eventually, she recovered and finally came out of her room. She was still devastated about the loss of Kaito, and wrote stories to remind her about how she admired him. The relationship with her brother has become a bit more positive since Shichiro has comforted her when he saw that she was sad. Nowadays, she still lives with her family and lives her daily life.
Sample RP:
Setsuko looked upon the vast ocean, seeing it sparkle the reflection of the high afternoon sun sailing in the sea of the sky. She smelled the freshly caught fish being brought in by ships as she stood by the wooden dock at the habor. She saw the gentle waves pushing along with the soft breeze that drifted through the habor. The blue, blue sea was a beautiful sight today, but to Setsuko it was a disguise to hide the death it brought to many. She despised it for taking Kaito away from her. Her eyes narrowed angrily, glaring with hate at the water.
"Setsuko."
She turned her head to the side, seeing Shichiro step in beside her. Though only a year older, Shichiro was much taller than her in several inches. Like her, he had dull golden eyes, only they were set to be narrow instead of wide like Setsuko' eyes. Shichiro kept his gaze upon the sea.
"You miss him, don't you?"
"Of course I do. You miss him too," she replied. Shichiro turned his gaze to her.
"But you miss him more than I do. You liked him a lot, didn't you? I mean, more than just liking him."
Setsuko turned away and toward the sea. She blushed a bit. "And what if I did?"
Shichiro smiled. "Come on, Set, it was obvious. You kept giggling and blushing every time you were around him. You seemed to treat him a lot more nicely than you do mother or father."
Setsuko's cheeks turned red. She folded her arms together. "So?"
He laughed a bit. "You don't have to hide it. I won't tell anybody." He turned back to the sea. "But I understand how you're feeling. Losing somebody like that doesn't feel very pleasant. But think of it this way; he may be gone, but your happy memories of him will never disappear unless you choose to forget them."
Setsuko was suddenly hit by a wave of inspiration. Her eyes went wide as she tackled her brother with a hug, nearly throwing them off the dock. "Thank you, Shichiro! You're the best!"
She quickly ran off and gripped her brass key in her small hand.
