<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/35/YellowAjah.jpg)</div><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/35/YellowAjah.jpg)</div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Mistress of Novices Kimika Togita</span><br/>By Aysande</span></div><hr/><div class="floatright"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">image</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://i2.esmas.com/editorial-televisa/2009/04/21/45224/odette-yustman-620x420.jpg)</div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Age:</strong> 81<br/><strong>Nation:</strong> Fal Moran<br/><strong>Gender:</strong> Female<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong> Heterosexual<br/><strong>Talent:</strong> Healing<br/><br/><strong>Position:</strong> Mistress of Novice, Yellow<br/><strong>Spheres:</strong> (Specify Strength for each: Weak, below average, average, above average, strong, very strong)<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li type="disc">Air: strong</li><li type="disc">Earth: above average</li><li type="disc">Fire: above average</li><li type="disc">Water: strong</li><li type="disc">Spirit: very strong</li></ul><strong>Skills:</strong> <br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li type="disc">Healing</li><li type="disc">Herbalism</li><li type="disc">Gardening</li><li type="disc">Sewing</li><li type="disc">Knitting</li></ul><strong>Appearance:</strong> long dark brown hair, straight and going down to half her back. She tends to keep it braided, away from her face, but also enjoy letting it flow loosely. She has inquisitive and alert hazel eyes, keeping a sharp eye on the novices and accepteds. She has a beautiful, delicate face, with gentle features. She is of average height, nearing 5'7, and has a healthy, athletic build. She is lean, but a bit on the curvy side of things, something that the bodices of her gold or yellow dresses emphasizes readily.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong> Kimika is two sides of the same coin. She is a patient teacher, a caring healer. She nurtures and encourage growth. She is kindness, a shoulder to cry on, an friendly confident. What is said to her stays with her. She is, however, quite strict. Novices and Accepted caught breaking rules will get to see that stricter, harsher side of her. She does not take pleasure it switching, but she takes even less pleasure when a sister is being sent to a retreat because she could not learn the lesson thought during the time she wore the white. She has an acute dislike for reds and whites, independent of her Ajah's preference. The first because they take care of a problem by destroying it rather than trying to find a way to solve it, and the other because of their coldness and indifference. There is an emptiness in Kimika, one that she fills with work and which comes from the loss of her best friend and warder, decades ago. She remained true to her roots in valuing peace, beauty and harmony.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong> Raised in the royal family of Shienar, Kimika had a cushioned life. She knew that she would never have a claim to the throne, but expected that she would always live such a life due to her birth right. When an Aes Sedai passed by Fal Moran to stay with the women there, Kimika's life was turned upside down in an most unpredictable manner. She was barely fourteen when it happened, but the Aes Sedai told her that she had the spark. She was bundled up and quickly sent down river to the Shining Walls.<br/><br/>Her belongings were burned as she arrived to the tower and she was told in no uncertain terms that this was a symbol that she was leaving her life behind. It couldn't be more true. Kimika learned quickly that being feisty, disobedient and clinging to her old life was simply not worth the pain, the effort, and the consequences. Accepting it took time, but her strength in the One Power earned her a certain freedom if not much more than anyone else. She took a little more than three years to become Accepted, and then another five to become Aes Sedai. She would have taken less time as Accepted, or so it was believed by most, if she had chosen her Ajah before.  Hesitating between Blue and Yellow for years, going back and forth between them, it isn't until she made up her mind that she was put through the test.<br/><br/>For about a decade, Kimika remained tower-bound, taking care of those who came to the tower for healing or advice. Helping the petitioners filled her time and she was happy.  It was around this time that she met a Murandian named Geoph.  He was a man with some mileage already, more than a decade older than her, but he was a man of experience. During his stay at the Tower, he spent more and more time with the Yellow, teaching her his trade: the growing of medicinal herbs.  When it became obvious that he had nothing more to teach her, Kimika let him repeat lessons that she had already had, not so eager to see him go. She had grown attached to him as if he was an older brother, a mentor of sorts.  The bond came soon after, when Geoph announced that he no longer had a reason to stay other than her friendship and he did not want to overstay his welcome… She gave him a reason to.<br/><br/>For a little while there, it seemed that everything was good. Kimika remained in contact with the outside world through the petitioners, her warder kept in shape by training with the White Tower. The word of wars came to the Tower and then the conflict itself was there. This was when she felt it. She went out of Tar Valon not to fight, but to assist on the field and heal those who were too wounded to be transported.  She forgot herself into the task, her yellow skirt marred with red, when she felt the spear in her side, but she had no wound. She rushed at his side, took quick and messy care of his attacker, but the life was fading. Healing would have made the inevitable happen that much sooner. Her warder died in her arms, and for a time she could do nothing else than to cry as the sound of battle died down around them.<br/><br/>It took a sister of her Ajah to pull her off her feet and bring her back to the tower. For the better part of a month, the loss of the bond, added to the loss of what Geoph represented to her made Kimika go through the days in autopilot.  Time is the best of healers. Although the bond had been brotherly and completely platonic, Kimika knew that she wasn't dealing only with the considerable pain of the loss of the bond. She had loved Geoph deeply, and now he was gone.<br/><br/>Slowly but surely, Kimika overcame her grief, filling the void with work with the petitioners. Caring for strangers was easier than to think about the loss and the emptiness in her suite whenever she spent time there. No one to tend the garden with her, to listen to her read because his sight was on the decline. He had died a warrior's death and known the last embrace of the mother. Soon, the grief became bitter sweet, and though she still feel the hollow that was left behind by his death, Kimika recovered. Aes Sedai lived long lives, and those with Warders knew they would most likely outlive them.<br/><br/>There was talk in the Yellow hall of the need for a woman in a position of strength. Of course, the Great Game was played in the Tower; sometime covertly, sometimes less so. The Amyrlin Seat and Keeper of the Chronicles were of the Blue, but the Mistress of Novice had been of the Green and spoke of retiring. Yellows, of course, though that they were the best ones for the position. The caring and nurturing nature of the Ajah made it so. Kimika saw in it giving her life a new purpose and she rose to the position rather easily.<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">OOC Notes:</span></span></div><hr/><strong>O&amp;O:</strong> Very vanilla (https://elliquiy.com/wiki/User:Aysande#Roleplay_Ons_.26_Offs) character who would have no interest in a domineering man or a submissive one.<br/><strong>Available for bonding:</strong> Yes.</div>