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As far as I know the Japanese school system has 3 years of education in the upper secondary school system done over 3 trimesters (spring, summer, fall). I may be wrong on this, but I'm not finding anything that disproves this. If anyone knows anything, feel free to imput.

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Name: Tomohina "Tomo" Mizukimura

Age: 16

Grade: 10th (2nd year)

Disability: Blind

Personality:
Tomo is very mature for her age, but she can be rather cute and sweet in her calm moods. A kind and caring person, she loves to help others as much as she can, but often gets a bit depressed when she needs help herself. Highly intelligent and well mannered, she can be a prefect little lady when she wants to, but more often around close friends she gets less formal. A very melodic person, since she highly values sound, her voice is sweet and clear. If you can't find her, she's probably somewhere were there is a lot of sunlight and she will probably be singing or reading. Tomo tries to push herself past her blindness, disliking her own weakness and will often get herself into a bit of trouble. But for the most part she will be able to think herself right back out of it. And she very much does not like to be pitied. In fact it sort of makes her angry.

Background:
Her western-style house is quite grand, with several maids serving the household. Her mother is a kimono fashion designer and her father runs international businesses as a big time CEO. So often Tomo was with nursemaids or tutors when she was growing. It was a very boring place, if you ask Tomo. Not allowed to touch many of the things in the house, it was lonely living there as a only child. But the garden was wonderful. Some many different kinds of flowers, and the gardeners would always tell her about them. It was her favorite place in the world.

But when Mama and Papa decided it was time for her to get a proper education and try to be more social they sent her off to a private boarding school. It wasn't much fun there at all. Many students were hard to talk to and they didn't seem to like Tomo at all for some reason. So sweet Tomo who never asked for anything, asked to be transferred to another school. A school for people like her. Where people would understand her. And so her parents did. They transfer Tomo to this new school for the disabled.

Tomo singing:

Name: Amity "Ami" Cole

Age: 17

Grade: 2nd year

Disability: Paresthesias (lack of sense of touch)

Personality: Ami is about the friendliest person you'll ever meet. Which is kind of odd, considering that she's typically a very monotone and expressionless girl. Her voice will probably be completely devoid of emotion as she's complimenting every last thing she can possibly compliment, and she probably won't be smiling when she gives you a big hug. At first glance, feeling physical sensation would just be the start, and one could guess right after meeting her that she can't feel emotion either. This is quite far from the case. It's not that Ami is emotionless, but just that with one exception only, she has a real hard time expressing herself. That exception? Puppets. Yes, that's right. Puppets.

Ami has an odd obsession with puppets, and at least one can often be found on her person at all times. Her myriad of puppets do wonders at unleashing the unbridled force of Ami's bottomless reserve of playfulness and creativity. Perhaps as compensation for when not puppeteering, anything she does with a puppet will always be bursting with emotion, for better or for worse. Puppetry is also her favorite pasttime, quite possibly because it's when her emotions can finally run wild. Even if the show isn't always a cheerful one. She's tried being more expressive without puppets before, but to no avail.

Background: Amity Cole was born with a little bit of a neural problem in her noggin. If the doctors hadn't managed to detect and repair it, she'd have lost all five of her senses. Sadly, they weren't able to operate in time to save her sense of touch, which was the first and only one to go. It wasn't just sensory impairment that she'd been diagnosed with; there was absolutely zero sensation of anything involving physical touch. She also had problems expressing herself, but it was insisted upon by professionals that she was just fine.

Growing up, Ami had quite a few things to compensate for. A lot of basic human functions required a sense of touch, so not having that made things difficult. But she put on a figurative smile and puzzled out how to get around all the obstacles in her way. When she was little, she discovered an old and worn hand puppet on the sidewalk on her way home from school one day. Ami took it home with her. That evening, Ami's parents could hear her, speaking with more emotion in mere moments than she had her entire life, albeit in a squeaky falsetto. She'd discovered a love for puppetry of all forms. Over the years, in the interest of hoping she'd get more expressive in day-to-day interactions, Ami's parents began buying her more puppets, one at a time. By the time she was 15, she'd collected 107 unique puppets. Then it was time to transfer to Yamaku academy. Of course, she took the puppets with her.

Now it's her second year here. She's made absolutely no progress whatsoever on her goal to be more expressive on her own, and she still wouldn't feel a thing if you dismembered her. But she's not upset at all. Rather, Ami's happy to be back. Now it's another year, with new students! New students, of course, means new friends.

Other Info: Unless she miscounted last time, Ami has collected a total of 162 different puppets, including but not limited to varied hand puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and marionettes.

*Disclaimer* Forgive me if I make some oversights or mistakes with Muscular Dystrophy. It's not something I'm too familiar with, so if someone catches a hiccup or a flaw in my character design related to that please do speak up and highlight it.



Name: Ivan Blair

Age: 17

Grade: 3rd Year

Disability: Muscular Dystrophy - Particularly in the legs, uses a wheelchair to get by.

Personality: Ivan is typically a very reserved individual. Having had only transferred in this year he has figured his time here is limited, and being a last year student no one he could run into would still be looking for friends, so he keeps largely to himself. He get's good grades, and if engaged in conversation tends to be a kind and honest person, but distant. He spends his free time mainly in his room watching tv, reading a book or playing a game. But occasionally he get's fresh air by wandering about campus fields, if for nothing more than to make his muscles not completely sore and weak.

Not wanting his disability to beat him you'll occasionally catch him trying to walk with his crutch when outside on his own, but this often results in him falling and having to slowly crawl back to his wheelchair cause he was too stubborn to bring a friend to help, there being several cuts and bruises on his face, arms and legs as a result. His arms are more easily exercised with small weights since he can work them without risk of falling and hurting himself. But even then he keeps a stick on him to nudge and shift things that his arms simply can't reach or stretch out too.

He's tried getting a license for some kind of specialized motor bike, but even with proper adaptions for his feet his arms currently are not fit enough to take on the extra demand. Horses he has an easier time with and does ride occasionally, but since he's not allowed to use such a thing on campus or on most roads he's usually stuck reliant on his wheelchair and public transit.

Background: Ivan was born with Muscular Dystrophy, he however was originally able to walk but didn't learn until the age of 3 because of the extra effort it took. Even then though his body eventually gave up at the age of 10 and he's been confined to his wheelchair ever since. He spent most of his growing up in Ottawa, Canada and got by fine at a typical school. However, during his second year he annoyed the wrong crowd, getting into a 'fight' that broke both his legs and his right arm. His parent's worried as a result decided he had to be pulled out and sent to a school that better understood and accepted him, homeschooling him in the meantime so he wouldn't fail. Yamaku Academy was the only place they could find that they felt safe leaving their child at, and despite Ivan's constant refusal he was forced to leave home and go there. Having only arrived 2 weeks ago he has familiarized himself with the school area, but nothing outside it. Nor does he yet know of anywhere to keep up hobbies like horse back riding or gaming nights.

Other Info: Ivan always sit's in his wheelchair a bit low, as if he's about to slip off at any moment but oddly he never does. He simply does this so at a moments notice he can get off his wheelchair and attempt to walk for himself during the brief moments outside when no one else is around to stop him.

Name:
Iki Tsukimi

Age:
Sixteen

Grade:
Second year

Disability:
Anophthalmia
(absence of one or both eyes, in this case, Tsukimi is missing her right eye)

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