Setsubashi Miyoko [Done]

[setsubashi]

SETSUBASHIMIYOKO

_{I am the shadow
The smoke in your eyes.
I am the ghost
That hides in the night.}

FULL NAME.

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_{Setsubashi Miyoko}
NICKNAME(S).[/size][/color]
_{Miyo, Yoko}
AGE & BIRTHDATE.[/size][/color]
_{17, March 2^nd.}
GENDER.[/size][/color]
_Female
RANKING.[/size][/color]
_Civilian
DIGIEGG or OCCUPATION.[/size][/color]
_Student
FACE CLAIM.[/size][/color]
_{Yastuha from Samurai Champloo}

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APPEARANCE.[/size][/color]

<sub>Standing at exactly 5' 3", Miyoko is of extremely average appearance for a young Japanese woman of 17 years old, with dark hair and matching eyes. With a healthy appearance but no distinguishing marks or other attributes Miyoko tends to blend into crowds with remarkable ease, although completely unintentional on her part. As far as make up or other similar items go, Miyoko does not use them - she sees it as both a waste of money and effort, with the only thing she does to change her appearance being to tie her hair back, although this is also more out of pragmatism than anything else. Quite the athelete, Miyoko is in excellent physical condition, although it doesn't show.

Clothing wise, Miyoko tends to follow a similar doctrine of pragmatism, wearing shorts, jeans, t shirts, sweatshirts and other similar clothing while detesting dresses and other similar garments - as long as it serves a purpose and she can move easily while wearing it, Miyoko won't much care what it looks like. While completely unintentional and at first something that annoyed her to great length, this philosphy managed to combine itself with her heritage despite Miyoko's personality conflicts with certain aspects of it, resulting in a simple, bland tan top similar to a tank top tied closed at the bottom with a simple dark sash, black capri shorts and toeless socks with sandals while in the digital world - simple and pragmatic, but not of her own choosing.</sub>

PERSONALITY.[/size][/color]


<sub>Most anyone who meets Miyoko would initially think of her as a helpful, friendly, upbeat young woman - a bit of a tomboy, but to be expected given who raised her and her own personal choices. Miyoko is what many people would describe as a exemplary model for her age - open minded, always willing to help those who ask, and forgiving while still quite intelligent. Quite the athelete, Miyoko participates in a number of different sports for when time allows it but otherwise takes to training herself at home to stay in peak physical condition out of sheer habit.

That is not to say, however, that Miyoko is without a number of personality faults - she is just very good at keeping them hidden until forced to confront them, and if there is anything she puts effort into doing, it is avoiding such confrontations. Despite the usual stereotypes associated with Miyoko's heritage the girl has a crippling fear of the dark and the unknown, and to rival that is her severe claustrophobia. Unfortunately, her fear of the unknown also extends to anything with the potential to make significant changes to her life, for what can be more uncertain than the future? Miyoko knows that such fears contradict many aspects of her life, and after her first breakdown Miyoko had promised herself that she wouldn't put herself in a situation where she was forced to face those fears again lest she lose to them once more. She detests her fears, but acknolwedges that they are a part of her - admitting such a thing and being unashamed of it are two completely different things, however, and to date only her parents and a few members of her extended family are aware of her short comings.

While Miyoko tends to not have much time to spare nor cares enough to make time for her father's teachings, she secretely does manage to take some comfort in them. While Miyoko has no talent whatsoever for anything beyond the physical demands of Koka-Ryu, she does enjoy the fact that much of the art that was for centuries feared for its near supernatural operatives was little more than ingenius tricks and sleights of hand, easily explainable to the informed individual. While she is for the most part incapable of putting most of the information to practical use, the understanding granted by the teachings has somewhat managed to dull her fear enough over the years to grant her a small ammount of control - said control, however, goes out the window when forced to actually deal with her fear on a first hand basis (such as if she were forced into a cramped space or made to swim through water where she can't see the bottom).</sub>

HISTORY.[/size][/color]

hometown; Numata, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
family members;
Setsubashi Reijiro [Father]
Setsubashi Miyami

<sub>Born seventeen years ago in Numata of Japan's Gunma Prefecture, Miyoko was more or less raised in the more rural outskirts of the city, with her father the master of a small dojo that was placed closer to the city that schooled students in the arts of Koka-Ryu, otherwise known as Koga-Ryu. Miyoko's mother was likewise a teacher as well, but instead of teaching something that was more or less a dead art save for a handful of historians, enthusiasts and other heirs, she instead taught in one of Numata's local school systems, providing the means for Miyoko to enroll in one of the city's more modern schools. Still, as Miyoko grew older she began to develop the same kind of muscle and physical strength that many of the area's farmers and other children did, and by the time she'd finished elementary school had begun taking gymnastics classes, along with soccer and baseball, although the latter two were more a result of local, unofficial games held by the other kids near where she lived rather than school funded and organized teams. It was ironically he tomboyish attitude and tendancies that would result in Miyoko's severe fears when she took an after school bet at the age of eight, believing that she could reach the rim of Mt. Akagi, a small mountain near the city outskirts, and be back before sunset. Needless to say it didn't happen - while Miyoko managed to reach the edge of the caldera, darkness arrived while she was still descending the mountain, leaving Miyoko trapped on the mountain side for most of the night until her parents and the other adults who went looking for
the missing child found Miyoko only three hours before dawn. While Miyoko was physically unharmed, the incident left her mildly traumatized, magnifying the natural fear most children have of the darkness and the unknown to the point where it has managed to stay with her through junior high and most of high school.

By the time she reached the age of eleven her father began attempting to school her in the arts that he taught with the hope of her one day acting as his successor, although he eventually gave up on the idea after two years of trying when Miyoko showed absolutely no talent whatsoever for the arts, incapable of performing nearly anything beyond the survival and escape arts. While Reijiro managed to hide his disappointment well and instead began the process of selecting one of his students to inherit the dojo from him, Miyoko herself was not fooled, and had the distinct feeling that she had failed his expectations. Still, the understanding of what many regarded as a near supernatural art surrounded in myths was something that provided a desperately needed counterbalance to her fears that had crippled her for the previous year, and while her studies didn't do anything to dispel her fears, they did give her slight peace of mind, and anchor to bind herself to - if something that most of the world regarded as impossible could be done with a few simple tricks that were easily understood from a certain viewpoint, who was to say that other unknowns couldn't be quantified in the same manner?

Life would continue as such for several more years, over which time Miyoko became at the very least skilled in self defense, which was the one aspect of Koga-Ryu that she absolutely refused to fail in. Beyond being useful, Miyoko took a certain amount of pride in her physical prowess, and while she could have lived with lacking the talent needed for the other arts she would have considered it a shame impossible to live down had she failed in taijutsu, especially given that taihenjutsu was one of the few arts she was at the very least competent in. By the time Miyoko entered junior high school her father managed to find a suitable successor to the family dojo, and at the same time Miyami would recieve an offer to teach in the Odaiba school system - a good deal of distance from where they were, but with much better pay and other benefits. While Miyoko didn't particularly like the decision, being very comfortable living in a place she knew and understood, she didn't have very much choice in the matter, and as a result was enrolled in Odaiba's junior high school at the age of fourteen, falling back on her habits and routines at home to keep herself from panicking in the new environment. After a number of months the stress would finally fade, and she would continue to do what she had done back in Numata, although this time she remained much more distant from the other students. Her father, unable to find work for his skill sets and unable to simply sit at home, started up a second, much smaller dojo and Miyoko, still talentless as ever, resumed her personal studies, although she did so away from her father's prying eyes. Another two and a half years would pass, with Miyoko now seventeen years of age.</sub>

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