Azarni Inoue - Serenity

Post by Azarni Inoue on Nov 23, 2012 21:08:13 GMT -5

AZARNI, INOUE

"life goes on, it gets so heavy
the wheel breaks the butterfly"

• Name: Azarni Inoue
• Nickname: Aza, Azzy
• Sex: Female
• Birthdate: November 18
• Age:: 18
• Nationality: Japan
• True Name: Serenity
• True Name Location: Across the back of her shoulders in neat calligraphy-type font.
• Type: Fighter
• Affiliaton: Septimal Moon
• Height: 5'5"
• Weight: 103 lbs.
• Hair: Aza has mid-back length crimson hair. Though she usually leaves it all loose, her aunt has some peculiar fixation on ensuring that she has pigtails, so it's easy to tell when she's been home.
• Eyes: Aza's eyes are a lovely periwinkle color, and err on the larger side.
• Outfit: Aza wears, surprisingly, a lot of leather. It's not so surprising when you realize she rides a motorcycle, but it seems weird given her docile nature. When not in leather, if it's her choice, she's in sweatshirts and jeans - but usually her aunt has her stuck in something short and sweet that is completely in opposition to what Aza wishes to be wearing.
• Ears: Yes.
• Sexual Orientation: something along the lines of demisexuality

• Personality:
  + kind to a fault
  + determined
  + protective of others
  + very composed
  + insanely loyal
  
  - selfless (in the sense that she feels others are worth more than she is)
  - timid
  - absolute failure at communicating
  - internally a panicky mess...not that you can really tell
  - lacks self-preservation instincts
• History:
  Aza is the younger of two children, born to a lawyer and a car mechanic. Her early childhood consisted of attempting to help everyone else around her, in any way possible, and of hiding behind people when strangers showed up. It was quiet, but happy. Unfortunately, her life was shattered forever when her mother failed to show up after work on her older brother's ninth birthday. She was found dead in a gutter, two days later, and her father disappeared two months afterwards.
  
  The Inoue children were taken in by their mother's brother and his wife, an obscenely wealthy couple who were childless due to an unfortunate disease. While they lavished attention (and therapists) on the two children, they were inexperienced with helping kids deal with emotions, and were quickly frustrated when their niece and nephew didn't just "get over" the loss of their parents, failing to comprehend how closely attached the family had been, perhaps since they had never been close to the children's mother. They forced them into extracurricular activities in an attempt to distract them from their distress, and wound up giving up on Aza's brash older brother when he threw a chair through a window in a fit of anger. Meek Aza, however, was easily bullied into this and that by her relatives, not too dissimilarly to how she was bullied at school...though without the physical attacks that came at school. She was too afraid to defend herself, and so she spent most of her time from ages eight to twelve buried in mounds of unwanted extracurriculars (except for flute, which wasn't too awful, since she had a really kind teacher) and buried in her studies trying to ignore her pain and fear, and concealing that she was bullied at school, so her bullies wouldn't get into trouble, or be hurt by her increasingly dangerous brother.
  
  When she was thirteen, she was introduced to something that would begin to change her life, just a few short months after her brother was arrested and sent to juvenile detention for assaulting a teacher. No one actually knew why he assaulted the teacher, and he didn't care to provide an answer. In yet another well-meaning attempt to distract Aza from her heartbreak, her aunt dragged her to a traditional archery class. Only...it actually worked this time. The timid little redhead fell in irrevocable love with shooting, and even dared enough to ask her aunt if she could ONLY do archery. Her aunt managed to convince her to keep up the flute, but was pleased she'd finally succeeded at finding something the timid thing would show emotion about. Aza spent the next several months shooting whenever she had the chance, for as many hours at a time as her body could stand. She hit puberty at roughly the same time she began shooting, and while her sudden height might have made her more awkward at any other time, with her constant physical exertion (and kyūdō is VERY difficult), she grew strong and graceful, even though she remained as timid as ever.
  
  Something slight was different, though, when the new school year began. When cornered for the practically annual beating she endured at the beginning of each year, something within her reacted against it, and almost without her permission, she found herself fighting back. It didn't take much for the girls to run away, terrified. Her name appeared that day, though it would be another year before she noticed it. They stopped, after that, and moved on to a more middle school appropriate bullying tactic: gossip. Oh the names she was called... She didn't know how to deal with that, and continued much the same way she had before, but with fewer bruises.
  
  Her brother returned home when she was sixteen, shortly after she had noticed her name and been recruited to Septimal Moon by a friend of her aunt's. He was a grown-ass adult, with a tattoo and a motorcycle. It was kind of shocking, but he was as close to his little sister as he'd ever been, and as angrily fearless as well. He picked up a job, and spent their free time teaching Aza how to ride a motorcycle and how to do all sorts of interesting things such as how to kill a person while unarmed.
  
  While Aza is now two years older, she's basically a lot the same - a kind of intimidating looking gal who is less terrifying than a newborn kitten...except for those rare times where her body takes over for her brain and she finds herself doing extremely stupid things like interrupting muggings to help people. She's kind of scary when she does that. She's yet to find her Sacrifice, and kind of feels inadequate about that (despite the fact she doesn't really have much control over it? Don't logic with her!)
• RP Sample: see Hoshi Kamisaka's app

• Your Name: Chama
• Timezone: EST US
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[b]UMINEKO NO NAKU KORO NI[/b] - [i]Ange Ushiromiya[/i] - AZARNI INOUE