1) Height: Ugh this is hard to work out as nobody has a height listed in this series. I'm going to go with about 5'7" as she's not short, but many of the men are still taller than she is.
2) Weight: Slender; she's canonically referred to as frail and only gets worse as the series goes on, sooo. I'm not so good at working out what that should be. Slightly (very slightly) underweight.
3) Eye color/Hair Color: Eyes are dark blue/grey to black, hair colour is deep brown.
4) Age: 24.
5) Physical features: Her skin is notably pale. ROFL the man she's in love with flatteringly described her complexion as "skin blue-white like something dead". Her eyes have been described in the series as anything from "sad, so sad" to "jesus lady, I can't stand how you always look like you wish you were dead, quit that B|"... so I guess walking corpse is a good description...? She's considered really attractive anyway. Go figure.
6) Voice: You can hear her voice here. Though don't watch too far >_> Anime adaptation is kinda terrible and inaccurate.
7) Who do they live with and how are chores divided in their house/apartment?: She lives in house castle 44 with Saori, Helios, and several others I'm not entirely sure of because Makie hasn't met them and they don't appear to be updated on the housing page. She keeps utterly to herself if she can manage it though unless coaxed from her room by ice cream someone being friendly at her, so I suppose it doens't matter too much. (But I'd love her to meet her other housemates so please sing out. |D;) As for chores, she'd certainly offer to do her share and likely does so.
8) Their favorite (and least favorite, if you want) foods and who does the cooking in their house/apartment?: I believe Saori and Helios do a lot of the cooking, which Makie is thankful for because she isn't so crash hot at this. As for favourites, she's uh. Never given it much thought. Food is a necessary staple of life, she'll eat what's available. She does greatly enjoy tea and has a preference for foods she actually recognises, i.e. Japanese in nature.
9) What they do during an average day in Luceti: She works every day at Seventh Heaven as a dishwasher from early afternoon to early evening and trains in the early evening hours until full dark (at least in summer; when the nights get longer she'll train in the mornings instead.) She'll go up to the farmland in the mornings if an extra pair of hands is needed for anything, and in the hours between full dark and 11-ish she'll be sitting quietly in her room either reading or playing the shamisen. Any spare time around those times will generally be spent walking through and around the village or sitting somewhere peaceful.
10) Their general sense of fashion: Makie wears a short-sleeved kimono bound tightly at the waist that's less full in the lower half and parts much higher up the leg than a usual kimono for freedom of movement, although this isn't terribly noticeable when she's just walking quietly around town. She sometimes wears a white shawl (as seen in the icon), and if she's not wearing it herself, it will be wrapped around her shamisen to protect it from the elements. Currently this is all she really has in Luceti; she's not been here long, and coming from her background it's clear that she had little clothing anyway. (Must... get new clothes... at some point.) When she gets more clothes, though, they'll likely be along the same design, a hanten jacket to wear for winter, and maybe a long-sleeved more decorative kimono for nicer occasions >.> Maybe. Eventually.
11) Do they have any hobbies? Did they come up with these hobbies in Luceti, or was it something they always did?: She plays the shamisen, though rarely in public. In Luceti she has been introduced to books and is reading her way through various Japanese history books.
12) Has the situation in Luceti changed their view on certain topics/the way they react to different things?: She hasn't been here long enough, but Luceti is a vastly different environment to the one she left, and she's torn between enjoying it and not allowing herself to because she shouldn't get used to it/doesn't deserve it, cheer up emo kid. :| Over time, she'll relax more and more into it as the culture shock fades and thus become a lot warmer and possibly more open with people.
13) Do they have a weapon? If so, do they carry it at all times or just under certain circumstances?: YES INDEEDY. On both counts. Just as she carries her shamisen everywhere, she carries her weapon everywhere. Like so. (Yes, even the manga-ka admits he has no idea how that shamisen still plays with a weapon inside it, so just. Go with it. >_>a I generally rule that this is one of the very reasons she only plays it at home.)
14) Do they have any pets? Would these pets be at their homes, or do they hang out with the character in question?: N/A
15) Who are their neighbors?: Katniss Everdeen, Richard Sharpe, Primrose Everdeen on one side and a ... bunch of ponies on the other. 8|a (HEY PRIM, LET'S WALK TO WORK TOGETHER OR SOMETHING.)
16) Who are their best friends in Luceti? How often do they spend time with them and doing what? Makie isn't crash hot at the making friends thing. At the moment, the people she likely feels the most comfortable with are Saori and Prim, though she rarely sees Prim outside of work-- they just occasionally chat there. Saori and Makie often have tea or play music together, and just talk.
17) On the flip side, is there anyone they actively don’t get along with? How do they interact, and would people know about this? Thus far, the only person who's actually grated on her nerves (inasmuch as this is possible) is Vash. He's a little too ... abrasively pushy when it comes to flirting.
18) Their favorite areas/stores/hang-out locations?: The teahouse, the memory garden, and she does like taking walks through the forest.
19) Do they belong to any clubs or organizations? Which ones? Do they go regularly, or just occasionally? N/A.
20) Wing color and how do they deal with their wings?: Makie's still uncomfortable with these. She took some time altering the back of her kimono so that her wings could be unrestricted. They are a deep, dark red darkening to black at the tips.
21) Did they change or grow in any way physically since coming to Luceti?: Her hair has grown very slightly longer. She only cut it off three days before arriving in Luceti, so it had a sort of freshly shorn look and now looks a lot tidier at the ends. She won't let it grow longer than its current short bob, though.
22) What do they miss the most from home?: Nothing. B|
...oh okay, she misses Anotsu. Kind of in love with him and all. But she'd already walked away from that relationship before arrival, so she'd have missed him at home, too.
23) What does their handwriting look like? Do they write the way they talk, or is there a clear difference between the two?: It's very neat and probably comes across as cautious. While Makie learned calligraphy as a small girl, that's not the same as using an actual pen or pencil :|a So her penmanship is sort of ...new to her and she's slow in that way of trying to be as neat/graceful as possible.
24) Is the way they act in person different from the way they act over the journal system?: Not really. Makie rarely uses the journals and only occasionally remembers that others might use them for important announcements, so she looks in on them every few days. She's unlikely to use them if she can manage it (though amusingly her next post is slated to be one. Oh well.)
25) Did they gain/lose any personal goals during their stay in Luceti?: UH WELL. Her personal goal at home was to find her father, murder him, and then kill herself.
...yeah uh. She's not doing that here. :Db
26) Is Luceti a technological upgrade, or downgrade for them? Have they adapted to these changes well?: It's an upgrade. JFC the lift and the electricity and the battledome and the -- someone introduce her to movies. Go on. She's actually dealing with it okay, inasmuch as everything is so chaotic and strange in this place to her-- Makie's just decided not to think too hard on it. (She loves running water though. Mmmyes.)
27) FOR STUDENTS: N/A
28) FOR DRINKERS: What is their favorite drink? What is their least favorite drink? Do they prefer Good Spirits or Cloud Nine? What's their attitude about and while drinking?: Makie isn't much of a drinker. She may occasionally have sake at some kind of gathering in the future, but really. Tea.
29) Do they have any special talents? If so, what are they?: She's a prodigious fighter (likely a kinesthetic genius) and is so fast and graceful in battle that when she kills, she never gets any of the blood splatter on her clothes. She also writes songs for the shamisen which were considered beautiful by those who heard them, if sort of gloomy and heavy and sad.
30) Have they learned any new skills or abilities in Luceti? If so, what are they? Why and how? Dish washing. mo_om
...hush. I'm sure that's important.
31) What kind of habits do they have on drafts? Are they willing to kill or do they prefer to avoid fighting? She hasn't been on one yet. I think it'd depend on the type of draft and who was on it, honestly... I could see her staying close to the medical area and only fighting if a defence is needed, or if there are those out there she likes and wants to look out for she'll take a more active role.
32) What kind of habits do they have on missions? What is their reason for going on them? What do they intend to use their points for? She's unlikely to ever go on these.
33) How long have they been in Luceti? Has that length of time impacted them in any way?: (IE. getting used to the place, not wanting to leave, being less/more inclined to do something about their situation, so on) She's been here six weeks. Makie's still getting used to the place.
34) How do they unwind and get back to normal after a brutal experiment, event, or draft? (IE. do they spend time on their own, go drink away their troubles, confide in their friends, and so on.) Hard to say given lack of experience, but I don't think Makie will ever really have an issue. She hit the despair event horizon more than once at home, so I doubt anything in Luceti that's nasty will have a lasting impression on her.
35) What is their worst experience from an experiment or kidnapping? Were there any that they actually liked? N/A
36) Anything else you want to note?: Makie is (as is probably evident) a woman who hates herself and considers herself shameful for even existing, and the longer she stays in Luceti the less toxic her attitude about life will become. I brought her to Luceti specifically so that she could learn to think outside the box and be happy. How...un-sadistic of me. 8|a But yes, anyone who wants to plot with me at all in regards to anything from the mundane to the more dramatic is more than welcome.
Otono-Tachibana Makie | Blade of the Immortal
2) Weight: Slender; she's canonically referred to as frail and only gets worse as the series goes on, sooo. I'm not so good at working out what that should be. Slightly (very slightly) underweight.
3) Eye color/Hair Color: Eyes are dark blue/grey to black, hair colour is deep brown.
4) Age: 24.
5) Physical features: Her skin is notably pale. ROFL the man she's in love with flatteringly described her complexion as "skin blue-white like something dead". Her eyes have been described in the series as anything from "sad, so sad" to "jesus lady, I can't stand how you always look like you wish you were dead, quit that B|"... so I guess walking corpse is a good description...? She's considered really attractive anyway. Go figure.
6) Voice: You can hear her voice here. Though don't watch too far >_> Anime adaptation is kinda terrible and inaccurate.
7) Who do they live with and how are chores divided in their house/apartment?: She lives in
housecastle 44 with Saori, Helios, and several others I'm not entirely sure of because Makie hasn't met them and they don't appear to be updated on the housing page. She keeps utterly to herself if she can manage it though unless coaxed from her room byice creamsomeone being friendly at her, so I suppose it doens't matter too much. (But I'd love her to meet her other housemates so please sing out. |D;) As for chores, she'd certainly offer to do her share and likely does so.8) Their favorite (and least favorite, if you want) foods and who does the cooking in their house/apartment?: I believe Saori and Helios do a lot of the cooking, which Makie is thankful for because she isn't so crash hot at this. As for favourites, she's uh. Never given it much thought. Food is a necessary staple of life, she'll eat what's available. She does greatly enjoy tea and has a preference for foods she actually recognises, i.e. Japanese in nature.
9) What they do during an average day in Luceti: She works every day at Seventh Heaven as a dishwasher from early afternoon to early evening and trains in the early evening hours until full dark (at least in summer; when the nights get longer she'll train in the mornings instead.) She'll go up to the farmland in the mornings if an extra pair of hands is needed for anything, and in the hours between full dark and 11-ish she'll be sitting quietly in her room either reading or playing the shamisen. Any spare time around those times will generally be spent walking through and around the village or sitting somewhere peaceful.
10) Their general sense of fashion: Makie wears a short-sleeved kimono bound tightly at the waist that's less full in the lower half and parts much higher up the leg than a usual kimono for freedom of movement, although this isn't terribly noticeable when she's just walking quietly around town. She sometimes wears a white shawl (as seen in the icon), and if she's not wearing it herself, it will be wrapped around her shamisen to protect it from the elements. Currently this is all she really has in Luceti; she's not been here long, and coming from her background it's clear that she had little clothing anyway. (Must... get new clothes... at some point.) When she gets more clothes, though, they'll likely be along the same design, a hanten jacket to wear for winter, and maybe a long-sleeved more decorative kimono for nicer occasions >.> Maybe. Eventually.
11) Do they have any hobbies? Did they come up with these hobbies in Luceti, or was it something they always did?: She plays the shamisen, though rarely in public. In Luceti she has been introduced to books and is reading her way through various Japanese history books.
12) Has the situation in Luceti changed their view on certain topics/the way they react to different things?: She hasn't been here long enough, but Luceti is a vastly different environment to the one she left, and she's torn between enjoying it and not allowing herself to because she shouldn't get used to it/doesn't deserve it, cheer up emo kid. :| Over time, she'll relax more and more into it as the culture shock fades and thus become a lot warmer and possibly more open with people.
13) Do they have a weapon? If so, do they carry it at all times or just under certain circumstances?: YES INDEEDY. On both counts. Just as she carries her shamisen everywhere, she carries her weapon everywhere. Like so. (Yes, even the manga-ka admits he has no idea how that shamisen still plays with a weapon inside it, so just. Go with it. >_>a I generally rule that this is one of the very reasons she only plays it at home.)
14) Do they have any pets? Would these pets be at their homes, or do they hang out with the character in question?: N/A
15) Who are their neighbors?: Katniss Everdeen, Richard Sharpe, Primrose Everdeen on one side and a ... bunch of ponies on the other. 8|a (HEY PRIM, LET'S WALK TO WORK TOGETHER OR SOMETHING.)
16) Who are their best friends in Luceti? How often do they spend time with them and doing what? Makie isn't crash hot at the making friends thing. At the moment, the people she likely feels the most comfortable with are Saori and Prim, though she rarely sees Prim outside of work-- they just occasionally chat there. Saori and Makie often have tea or play music together, and just talk.
17) On the flip side, is there anyone they actively don’t get along with? How do they interact, and would people know about this? Thus far, the only person who's actually grated on her nerves (inasmuch as this is possible) is Vash. He's a little too ... abrasively pushy when it comes to flirting.
18) Their favorite areas/stores/hang-out locations?: The teahouse, the memory garden, and she does like taking walks through the forest.
19) Do they belong to any clubs or organizations? Which ones? Do they go regularly, or just occasionally? N/A.
20) Wing color and how do they deal with their wings?: Makie's still uncomfortable with these. She took some time altering the back of her kimono so that her wings could be unrestricted. They are a deep, dark red darkening to black at the tips.
21) Did they change or grow in any way physically since coming to Luceti?: Her hair has grown very slightly longer. She only cut it off three days before arriving in Luceti, so it had a sort of freshly shorn look and now looks a lot tidier at the ends. She won't let it grow longer than its current short bob, though.
22) What do they miss the most from home?: Nothing. B|
...oh okay, she misses Anotsu. Kind of in love with him and all. But she'd already walked away from that relationship before arrival, so she'd have missed him at home, too.
23) What does their handwriting look like? Do they write the way they talk, or is there a clear difference between the two?: It's very neat and probably comes across as cautious. While Makie learned calligraphy as a small girl, that's not the same as using an actual pen or pencil :|a So her penmanship is sort of ...new to her and she's slow in that way of trying to be as neat/graceful as possible.
24) Is the way they act in person different from the way they act over the journal system?: Not really. Makie rarely uses the journals and only occasionally remembers that others might use them for important announcements, so she looks in on them every few days. She's unlikely to use them if she can manage it (though amusingly her next post is slated to be one. Oh well.)
25) Did they gain/lose any personal goals during their stay in Luceti?: UH WELL. Her personal goal at home was to find her father, murder him, and then kill herself.
...yeah uh. She's not doing that here. :Db
26) Is Luceti a technological upgrade, or downgrade for them? Have they adapted to these changes well?: It's an upgrade. JFC the lift and the electricity and the battledome and the -- someone introduce her to movies. Go on. She's actually dealing with it okay, inasmuch as everything is so chaotic and strange in this place to her-- Makie's just decided not to think too hard on it. (She loves running water though. Mmmyes.)
27) FOR STUDENTS: N/A
28) FOR DRINKERS: What is their favorite drink? What is their least favorite drink? Do they prefer Good Spirits or Cloud Nine? What's their attitude about and while drinking?: Makie isn't much of a drinker. She may occasionally have sake at some kind of gathering in the future, but really. Tea.
29) Do they have any special talents? If so, what are they?: She's a prodigious fighter (likely a kinesthetic genius) and is so fast and graceful in battle that when she kills, she never gets any of the blood splatter on her clothes. She also writes songs for the shamisen which were considered beautiful by those who heard them, if sort of gloomy and heavy and sad.
30) Have they learned any new skills or abilities in Luceti? If so, what are they? Why and how? Dish washing. mo_om
...hush. I'm sure that's important.
31) What kind of habits do they have on drafts? Are they willing to kill or do they prefer to avoid fighting? She hasn't been on one yet. I think it'd depend on the type of draft and who was on it, honestly... I could see her staying close to the medical area and only fighting if a defence is needed, or if there are those out there she likes and wants to look out for she'll take a more active role.
32) What kind of habits do they have on missions? What is their reason for going on them? What do they intend to use their points for? She's unlikely to ever go on these.
33) How long have they been in Luceti? Has that length of time impacted them in any way?: (IE. getting used to the place, not wanting to leave, being less/more inclined to do something about their situation, so on) She's been here six weeks. Makie's still getting used to the place.
34) How do they unwind and get back to normal after a brutal experiment, event, or draft? (IE. do they spend time on their own, go drink away their troubles, confide in their friends, and so on.) Hard to say given lack of experience, but I don't think Makie will ever really have an issue. She hit the despair event horizon more than once at home, so I doubt anything in Luceti that's nasty will have a lasting impression on her.
35) What is their worst experience from an experiment or kidnapping? Were there any that they actually liked? N/A
36) Anything else you want to note?: Makie is (as is probably evident) a woman who hates herself and considers herself shameful for even existing, and the longer she stays in Luceti the less toxic her attitude about life will become. I brought her to Luceti specifically so that she could learn to think outside the box and be happy. How...un-sadistic of me. 8|a But yes, anyone who wants to plot with me at all in regards to anything from the mundane to the more dramatic is more than welcome.