And here's my character. :)<br/>-----------------------------------<br/><br/><em>Gomen nasai! I didn't mean to bump into you!</em><br/><br/>Name: Miki Ishinaka<br/>Age: 16<br/>Year: 1st<br/>Arcana: Empress<br/>Weapon: Naginata<br/>Persona: Otohime (evolves into Benzaiten)<br/>Evoker:  Wakizashi (short curved sword usually paired with a katana). She commits<em>seppuku</em>(ritual suicide) to evoke her persona.<br/><br/>http://elliquiy.com/wiki/File:Miki_Ishinaka.jpg (http://elliquiy.com/wiki/File:Miki_Ishinaka.jpg)<br/><br/><br/>Description: Miki is tall for her age, nearly 5'7", with flowing brown hair and matching eyes in a rounded, soft face. Her skin is light and creamy with a faint blush to it. Although her willowy frame does have some curves to it she usually doesn't emphasize this. She prefers the standard uniform of Gekkoukan High, only lightly touched up with her own personal accents. She often wears nadeshiko flowers for instance, and sakura when it's in season, and her hair often has ribbons in it.<br/><br/>Personality: Miki is a girl for whom responsibility and obligation is very important. She is studious and polite when approached, but largely introverted. She's usually a bit skittish in crowds, but can be outspoken in the areas where she feels most comfortable. This usually revolves around academics, the shamisen, and her love of the ocean. In unguarded moments she'll talk freely of her dreams of being a marine biologist one day and her passion for environmental protection. Beneath her shy exterior she's got a lot of feelings, and a fair bit of resolve and determination that would surprise her if she realized it was there.<br/><br/>History: Miki was born as the first child of the Ishinaka family. Her parents, Yuichiro and Hitomi, own Ishinaka Unlimited, a tech and computer company that was a start-up in the early '90's and rode the tech bubble to a great deal of wealth and prosperity. Thanks to timely investments (and knowing when to get out), the Ishinakas kept their fortunes and even expanded as the tech bubble collapsed and in the years afterward. In recent years it has become a full-fledged megacorporation. Nowhere near the scale of the Kirijo Group, but a rising contender nonetheless.<br/><br/>Miki was always taught to be respectful and polite. In the company's early years, her parents wanted to project a certain image. Although they loved her and the two sisters who came after her, they were very busy people and they expected their daughters to understand that. Miki and her sisters Ami and Saki were raised in the best schools and with the best tutors, but increasingly, Miki found herself in the parental role when her parents' weren't home. This was distressingly often. But it shaped her in a lot of ways. She was the gentle mother figure, nurturing her little sisters while denying her own desires to be parented and comforted.<br/><br/>Things started going wrong once Ami and Saki were old enough to get into school. Ishinaka Unlimited had been small during Miki's early years. She had been raised not to boast of her family's wealth and remain humble. She'd tried to teach that to Ami and Saki, but by now the family company had gone big and was publicly known. Modesty went out the window for the little sisters. With the money their parents threw at the girls to make up for the fact that they rarely saw them, Ami and Saki ran wild. They became the spoiled, overindulged brats that Miki had never been. She started hearing all sorts of rumors about what they got up to in school, even rumors of them running gangs of bullies and intimidating teachers. She did what she could where she could, but in time just withdrew into her shell. She couldn't control Ami and Saki by herself, especially as they got closer to being teens themselves, and she had no help, so she just drew back and tried to keep the damage to a minimum. She denied to herself that she felt any jealousy of what her sisters could get away with or resentment that she'd been left alone to deal with them, and busied herself with her schoolwork and the internet to keep her distracted.<br/><br/>Persona: Otohime (evolves to Benzaiten)<br/><br/>Two takes on Otohime and one on Benzaiten<br/>http://elliquiy.com/wiki/File:Otohime.jpg (http://elliquiy.com/wiki/File:Otohime.jpg)<br/>http://elliquiy.com/wiki/File:Otohime_2.jpg (http://elliquiy.com/wiki/File:Otohime_2.jpg)<br/>http://elliquiy.com/wiki/File:Benzaiten.jpg (http://elliquiy.com/wiki/File:Benzaiten.jpg)<br/><br/>In legend, Otohime was the Luminous Pearl Princess. She was the daughter of Ryujjin, the dragon god of the sea. One day she fell in love with a fisherman and drew him to her realm. From this tragically doomed love came the ancestor of Japan's first Emperor, Jimmu. Later she would love, and lose, Urashima Taro, in another famous tale.<br/><br/>Benzaiten was a protector goddess of good fortune, who slew evil demons and yet was a goddess of great beauty and gentleness at the same time. She was known as a protector of those in need, and a patron of women and children.<br/><br/><br/><br/>