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BASIC INFO NAME: Yuuka Watanabe CANON: Original HOMEWORLD: Modern day Japan AGE: 28 years old GENDER: Female SPECIES: Human FIRST GLANCE APPEARANCE: Zhang Ziyi HEIGHT: 167 cm BUILD: Slight HAIR: Black EYES: Dark brown DRESS: Upperclass elegance VOICE: Light DEMEANOR: Calm and thoughtful PERMISSIONS BACKTAGGING: ✔ 4TH-WALLING: ✘ THREADJACKING: ✔ MIND-READING: ✔ FIGHTING: ✘ ROMANCE: ✔ INJURY: ✘ KILLING: ✘

if you fall in love with a poet they say that you can never die PERSONALITY THE SHORT VERSION: Sophisticated. Intelligent. Creative. Well-mannered. Polite. Considerate. Sociable. Quiet. Kind. THE SLIGHTLY LONGER VERSION: Poised, sophisticated, elegant, she was coined by someone once. When asked to describe herself, Yuuka would turn the focus away from her outward manners and to her innermost instead, the very feminine strength that she wields, yielding, but undefeated as the same someone put it, nailing one Yuuka Watanabe on the head. Having been brought up in the milieu that she still inhabits, Kobe's high-society, Yuuka is all of these things, she is well-bred, well-mannered, poised and elegant, but having made the choices she has, marrying her husband despite being a lesbian, a secret she's revealed only to those who have reason to find it relevant and certainly not to him, she is also extremely strong, bearing the burden of entrapment in a role foreign to her. She accepts her duties as Ichiro's wife, she sleeps with him, makes him dinner, does his laundry, in return for upholding a facade that will honor her parents, that will spare her having to disappoint them gravely. She yields to her social and familial responsibilities, but they don't break her, although she experiences an intense isolation due to her sexuality, a sexuality that she for the most part refrains from engaging with. With her university education in contemporary Japanese literature and creative writing, Yuuka can instead focus her energy on reading and writing during the long days when her husband travels for work. Yuuka is in possession of a creative mind that plays with words and sentence constructions constantly, something she'll often share with the people whose company she's in. She is the type for deep thought and considerations about the deeper aspects of life, semi-philosophical debates and general discussion. Conversation is a stimulant that she still enjoys greatly and she can be very sophisticated in her speech. As an acquaintance, she'll make sure to come off as an in equal parts engaging and interesting personality with a friendly demeanor, but she will guard her boundaries and her secrets carefully, never treading beyond the lines she's laid out for herself. When she feels pushed, she will be quick to steer the conversation in another direction, if not shut it down completely. More than anything, Yuuka upholds. Appearances, her own crumbling self, the pillars of the life she knows. HISTORY In Kobe, everyone knows the Sweetness bakery chain and the Minami family who's founded it, who's built it up from scratch. As part of the high-society elite, Hiroto and Ai Minami has had every opportunity of bringing their only child, Yuuka, up well and right and on the surface, they've succeeded beyond expectation. Yuuka was brought up attending the most expensive private schools and was later enrolled at Kobe University, where she studied contemporary Japanese literature and creative writing. However, during the final year of her bachelor's degree, her parents had her introduced to the Watanabe family, one of the most influential families in Kobe, owning a generation-old insurance business and to their oldest son, Ichiro, who fell instantly in love with her polish and intelligence. When he asked her to marry him half a year later, she agreed mostly to please her parents, knowing it would break their hearts to learn the truth: That she is a lesbian and has for the past many months been involved romantically with her best friend from university, Akemi. As soon as Yuuka had earned her degree, she saw herself forced to end her relationship with Akemi, as she and Ichiro married and a whole new life began. The life of an upperclass housewife. A jobless life. A loveless life. As would soon become apparent, a childless life, too.

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