<strong>Name:</strong>Hanekawa Aoko<br/><strong>Age:</strong>18<br/><strong>Height:</strong>Tall<br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Slender, willowy (for a Japanese)<br/><br/>http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk137/HaibaneR/Hanegawa_Aoko_01_600.jpg (http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk137/HaibaneR/Hanegawa_Aoko_01_600.jpg)<br/><br/>http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk137/HaibaneR/Hanegawa_Aoko_02.jpg (http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk137/HaibaneR/Hanegawa_Aoko_02.jpg)<br/><br/>http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk137/HaibaneR/Hanegawa_Aoko_03.jpg (http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk137/HaibaneR/Hanegawa_Aoko_03.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Aoko is something of a contradiction. She is tall and imposing and very graceful when she moves. Her quiet demeanour, pleasant face and high grades make her something of an idol at school and its reputed there's even a Hanegawa Fanclub. Apparently a lot of junior students have crushes on her and she deals with one or two confessions - usually perfumed notes in her shoe locker - once or twice a week.<br/><br/>However, privately Aoko is quite an insecure, shy girl. She likes to be around company and often hangs about with groups enjoying the bustle and fun of chattering friends though she herself might stay quiet in a corner and wear that air of cool detachment the younger students fawn over. She is a passable cook and often cooks the meals in the dorm house because it lets her be around people while keeping quiet. To be truthful Aoko finds the fanclub and the crushes merely confusing and even embarrassing, though she understands the sentiments the younger girls hold.<br/><br/>Her dorm-house friends tease her about this and she always responds with mock annoyance.<br/><br/>She likes to get on with her work and studies hard, consistently getting good though not brilliant grades. She is vice-president of the swimming club and is good too at sports and sciences though weak in the arts.<br/><br/><em>Likes:</em>Swimming, pop music, modern dance, cooking, intense conversation, sunshine, green tea, cake!<br/><em>Dislikes:</em>Attention, "those fawning kids", crowds, trash-talk, art class, arguments and confrontations.<br/><em>Clubs:</em>Swimming Club (meets Tuesday and Thursday after school).<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Aoko was born north of Tokyo but has lived only about half her life in Japan. Her father is a senior pilot for Japan Air Lines and consequently she and her mother and two brothers have lived in a variety of cities across Europe and America for the last few years though her maternal grandparents live in Yokohama and Aoko returns to holiday with them twice a year.<br/><br/>Two years ago her father was promoted to a desk job at JAL's Narita headquarters and so her family finally moved back home, sending their daughter to a good high school and requiring her to board away from home to "improve her character." Aoko boarded in another student house in her first year but moved to Cherry Tree Dorm for her second year and has been in the dorm house now for one year. She is in her senior year at Shoujo High.