Post by Kenzie on Sept 29, 2014 3:12:58 GMT
I stay out too late, got nothing in my brain
That's what people say, mmm-mmm, that's what people say, mmm-mmm
Basics
Name || Mariko Ogawa
Age || 17
Gender || Female
Sexuality || Bisexual
Ability || Mariko can see the future. However, she’s not like a witch who looks through a magical orb. Mariko will have her visions of the future mainly in dreams. Those are the most vivid ways she can predict the future anyway. In her dreams, she’ll see random events. She won’t know when or how they’ll happen, but when they are happening she’ll know. Typically her dreams are good things—like getting free food, or good things happening to those she cares about. Occasionally she gets very vivid nightmares that are few and far between. Those can be very traumatizing because they’re usually lucid and she knows they will, inevitably happen. She doesn’t like to think of that, though.
Mariko can’t control her glimpses of the future. Sometimes they’re dreams, and sometimes they’re purely auditory. Mariko will be walking down the hall and hear someone’s voice, turn around, but no one will be there. Mariko’s never alone with her thoughts, really, there’s always a faint humming of the future conversations yet to be had wafting through her mind. Mariko finds this soothing, because she likes hearing the various voices around her as she falls asleep or does her business.
Mariko is trying to hone her ability here, and get better about predicting the future and determining whose future she sees.
Year/Class || Third
Dorm || Peach
Job || A waitress. Mariko absolutely loves her job because she’s a social butterfly and she gets to go around and talk to countless people while serving them food. She’s very good at her job and has been there since she was 15 years old.
Health problems || Her work ethic
I go on too many dates, but I can't make 'em stay
At least that's what people say, mmm-mmm, that's what people say, mmm-mmm
Appearance
Height || 5’4”
Body type || Mariko's tiny, like her brother, and they have the same petit body type. She's strong enough to lift heavy orders, but not really strong enough to fight or really do any kind of advanced physical activity. She's stronger than she looks, but still not quite that strong.
Hair color and style || Mariko likes to keep her black hair short. She doesn't like whenever it goes past her chin. She keeps it in a bob style, and loves to have it that way. Occasionally she'll pull her hair pack into 1/2 a ponytail or two pigtails, but that's only on rare occasions since she likes to just keep it simple and down.
Clothing Style || Mariko likes to keep things simple and cute. Usually she'll wear things she buys from the thrift store-- like her brother, Mariko is rather cheap. Mariko likes to wear tank tops with button down shirts that are undone over them on casual days. If it's particularly warm out or if she wants to look better she'll usually wear shirt-dresses with leggings or socks and combine them with her black mary-jane shoes she always wears.
What would this character change about their appearance, if they could? || If she could, without any consequences, change something about the way she looks Mariko would probably make herself curvier. It's not that she dislikes her body, but she feels like she's not very appealing which is why she can't really keep relationships. She also would love to spice up her wardrobe with cuter outfits, but she's too poor and frugal for that.
But I keep cruising can't stop, won't stop moving, It's like I got this music
In my mind saying, "It's gonna be alright."
Personality
Likes || Music, parties, going on dates, fast food, people, the future, hope, TV shows, popcorn, attractive people, lullabies, dancing (bad at it), singing (mediocre at singing), big cities, bugs, animals, dressing up, singing (bad at it), lollipops, catchy songs, flowers, her brother
Dislikes || Classes, teachers, feeling stressed, pessimists, being alone in strange places, the woods, countryside locations, clowns, shopping, having nightmares, her brothers ability (it causes his problems), being called annoying, being left alone (which is why she likes the background noise of future visions wafting through her mind)
Fears || Being kidnapped, getting lost, people who always wear sunglasses/hide their face
Life Goals || Mariko's not sure what she'd like to do-- either become a fortune teller and work in a circus or keep working in social services. As long as she has a roof over her head and food to eat, Mariko will be happy. She'd also love to get married someday.
Overall personality || Mariko is best described as a puppy. She’s overly friendly to the point that she comes off as annoying half the time, and tends to cling to what friends and family she can get. Because of this she doesn’t have much problem getting friends, but she does have a problem with keeping them since she can eventually be overbearing and a pain to be around.
Mariko’s not the brightest bulb in the box either. She tries, but most knowledge simply goes in one ear for her and out the other. Mariko learns best by doing things and forming a routine at it.
Mariko can be childish at times, especially when it comes to what is hers and what she wants. She doesn’t like to share, and oftentimes when she loses at something regardless of whether or not it was fair she’ll often huff and cross her arms, and generally be a child about it. Mariko grew up scavenging for anything she wanted. She’s frugal, but at the same time if she has something she is very reluctant to give it up or share it because she’s protective of her stuff.
Mariko is totally social, and loves to be open about herself. In fact sometimes she’s so open about herself that she can be rather off putting. She likes to spend time with those she’s close to so much that they can feel overwhelmed. Mariko is crazy about attractive people and very shallow in that regard. She loves to flirt and date around, but nothing ever seems to last. Mariko’s hard working, and will do her very best to accomplish any task given to her. She may not be book smart, but she makes up for that with her dedication and strength at manual labor.
Ditzy | Friendly | Flirty | Goofy | Silly | Airheaded | Nosy | Stubborn | Boy/Girl crazy | Dumb | Gullible | Good Liar | Good Actress | Obsessive | Open | Frugal | Shallow | Irresponsible | Sweet | Loving | Affectionate | Childish | Talkative | Optimistic | Hard Working | Extrovert | Hopeless Romantic | Slob
Fun facts ||
- She can taste pepper on anything. Even if it's barely there on food, Mariko can sense it with one taste.
- Mariko likes to sleep in a super baggy tee shirt and a skirt that reaches about her knees. She flails in her sleep, but that doesn't bother her.
- Mariko is so hard working that she doesn't ever let her headaches or fatigue get in the way of working, resulting in her working herself to near exhaustion on a daily basis between work, school (she's horrible at academics and needs a tutor desperately), and training her power. SHe needs to learn to relax and take things slow but with her everything is fast paced.
- Both Mariko and Takeshi got their time related abilities from their mother. Kyouko was partially gifted herself—she had an increased sixth sense, like she could see things about to happen right before they happened. It’s not really Mariko’s fact, but
- She can taste pepper on anything. Even if it's barely there on food, Mariko can sense it with one taste.
- Mariko likes to sleep in a super baggy tee shirt and a skirt that reaches about her knees. She flails in her sleep, but that doesn't bother her.
- Mariko is so hard working that she doesn't ever let her headaches or fatigue get in the way of working, resulting in her working herself to near exhaustion on a daily basis between work, school (she's horrible at academics and needs a tutor desperately), and training her power. SHe needs to learn to relax and take things slow but with her everything is fast paced.
- Both Mariko and Takeshi got their time related abilities from their mother. Kyouko was partially gifted herself—she had an increased sixth sense, like she could see things about to happen right before they happened. It’s not really Mariko’s fact, but
I never miss a beat, I'm lightning on my feet
And that's what they don't see, mmm-mmm, that's what they don't see, mmm-mmm
Family and Background
Mother - Kyouko Ogawa (deceased)
Father - Natsume Kinoshita (Mariko would love to meet him someday.)
Fraternal Twin Brother- Takeshi Ogawa (17)
Father - Natsume Kinoshita (Mariko would love to meet him someday.)
Fraternal Twin Brother- Takeshi Ogawa (17)
Background || Mariko’s mother was a sex worker who got impregnated by a selfish man who didn’t want to pay for her services. She was drugged and then fell asleep after the event, causing the man to walk away free of charge. Kyouko Ogawa had no choice but to keep with that career—there was simply nothing else out there that would hire her.
Especially when she found out she was pregnant. And to add insult to injury, she would up giving birth to a healthy set of twins, one daughter and one son. (Mariko would like to reiterate the importance of daughter coming before son, here—she’s older by about a minute.) Kyouko did her best to be a loving mother despite her precarious situation and generally looked down upon job. Kyouko was particularly close to Mariko. Mariko was always a mamma’s girl—Takeshi was always convinced he could do everything alone and didn’t need the family bonding. But Mariko was always with her mother whenever she could be, following her around, wanting to be exactly like her someday. The gesture both lifted and sunk Kyouko’s heart. She loved that her daughter loved her so, but feared Mariko following her footsteps someday.
When Kyouko died, Takeshi numbed himself to the pain but Mariko experienced it full on. The loss hit her hard and she didn’t want to leave their apartment, the only reminder of their mother that Mariko had. However the landlord would not allow Takeshi to live with them though he extended the invitation to Mariko to stay.
(He wanted her to become a sex worker like her mother was, but Mariko didn’t quite catch onto that herself or why being forced into that career was bad)
Mariko knew, deep down, that keeping what little family she had left was more important than keeping the memory of her mother. So reluctantly she left, putting on an act to fool her brother into thinking she was perfectly all right. Her brother was overwhelmed with his own problems, and thus her plan worked. She grieved over the loss of their mother alone, for the most part, though Takeshi helped her cheer up in more ways than he ever could have known by simply being there.
Mariko has always known about her ability. She didn’t know it was an ability, per say, but she knew she always saw things before they happened—and what she saw was usually happy. It was normally in dreams, or little premonitions she’d get during the day. When she asked her mother about it she claimed that it ‘ran in the family’. Takeshi’s power was considered, by Kyouko, just to be nightmares so she thought he didn’t have anything.
When the two lived on their own, Mariko always tried to be her brothers’ keeper. She was annoying about it, always nagging him to eat right and get enough sleep and blah blah blah, but no matter how much he complained Mariko is completely convinced he appreciates the gesture. Deep down, anyway. When his nightmare started getting worse—and hers, ironically, kept getting better—Mariko convinced him to visit a very cheap therapist. Originally the man was only out to swindle some cash out of unsuspecting kids, but when he heard Mariko’s stories paired with what her brother told him, the therapist directed them towards Irina Academy. At first Mariko thought it was a total fluke—no way would she get into an academy for the extremely gifted—but one of the professors actually explained to them that the ‘gifted’ were those with powers, like she and her brother had.
Eager for permanent shelter, Mariko immediately signed herself and Takeshi for it. Takeshi was reluctant to stay but Mariko knew he’d never leave her alone, so he stuck around. They were 14 then, and have been at Irina ever since.
I'm dancing on my own, I make the moves up as I go,
And that's what they don't know, mmm-mmm, that's what they don't know, mmm-mmm
Relationships
Significant Other || none
Friends || Her brother Takeshi, as well as several other people.
Rivals/Enemies ||
Roommate || Kira Lockeheart
Other ||
Lyrics: Shake It Off – Taylor Swift