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[b]Name[/b]: Mariko Matsushita.
[b]Age[/b]: Sixteen.
[b]Grade[/b]: 2nd year
[b]Disability[/b]: Congenital Rubella, German measles during her gestation. She was born with it, and it has caused heart problems (corrected with surgery) [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM0Nn0KINV8]eye[/url] and ear troubles (mostly corrected with surgery and a hearing aid/large print books/reading glasses, although she still takes pills to control her retinopathy.) and a touch of asperger's syndrome. 

[b]Personality[/b]: Mariko tends to be cheerful, if a little relaxed and passive. She has problems with social skill, and can tend to trip over her own words when she gets caught up in trying to explain things. When thinking, she had a slight tendancy to have thoughts in a rush of quasi-logic, but doesn't usually let it show. She's not a sporty type, even though sports like Hockey and Hurling appeal to her. Mariko adores black comedy, but is clever enough to keep some of the nastier gags to herself. Mariko is a bit of an europhile, and has a marked interest in the second world war. Mariko scores good grades in the humanties, and has ambitions to go into art criticism, but so far only submits wordy reviews under videos on Nico Nico Douga.

Background: Mariko was conceived an born in unusual circumstances. Her mother had always been a strong member of japan's thriving anti-vaccination community, as well as a frequent flyer for her job as a western correspondant for a news channel. When Mariko was born, and almost immediately rushed into intensive care to treat a semi-serious valvular condition in an almost third-world country in south america, her mother was, understandably, shocked. Mariko doesn't blame her mother, though, although she does hold the guilt over her at times, jokingly. She was never the happy gurgling bundle on joy that most cliched books try to convince us most babies are like, but grew up close to her stay-at-home father, a devoted family man who left his career as a woodworker to take care of her until she was old enough to start attending school. Her experience there was wonderful, but at the age of 10, her degrading retinas made schoolwork impossible, and she dropped out of her class and was forced to attend a school for the vision-impaired. She's attended one year at Yamaku.

Other Info: Can see. Couldn't before surgery on her eyes, and probably won't if her retinopathy spreads further, but she can see for now.
Has one eye slightly smaller then the other, and has had corrective eyelid surgery to help this.
Is pretty good at origami, and is currently practicing how to make an origami biplane.
Can't balance to save her life.