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Name: Nozomi and Hakuya Kochizuki
Age: 16
Grade: 2nd
Disability: Nozomi suffers from permanent blindness caused by a head injury.
Personality:Nozomi: As a beaten child, Nozomi is extremely timid and quiet. She is usually shy amongst strangers and takes a great deal of time and encouragement to warm up to others. She doesn't trust easily. Possibly the only person in the world that she is truly open with is her brother.
Hakuya: Hakuya is a hard young man, forced to grow up quickly, he's mature beyond his years but bitter and resentful towards a world that he sees as cruel and unfair. The one bright spot in Haluya's life is his sister, and she never fails to bring out his gentler side. He is fiercely protective of her, even more so since she lost her sight.
Background:The Kochizuki twins grew up in a broken house. Their mother died when they were still very young and their father began to drink and gamble. He wasn't a good gambler and would usually come home drunk and angry, and would take out his frustrations on them. Hakuya, in the process of shielding his younger twin sister, got the worst of the beatings and abuse, but Nozomi was never entirely spared.
During one of their father's episodes he took the abuse a little too far and left Hakuya barely alive. During the beating Nozomi, in a rare show of courage and a testament to the bond the twins shared, attempted to shield her brother. For her trouble she received a brutal blow to the head from a bottle. The row the event caused resulted in the police being called and the twins were quickly removed from their father's care.
Hakuya recovered from his wounds but the blow Nozomi received to the head had left her permanently blinded. For months child services didn't know what to do with the two of them, Hakuya refused to allow them to be separated, and few foster homes were willing to take on the responsibility of caring for a blind girl. Finally things were resolved when child services arranged for Nozomi to be admitted into Yamaku and, as the academy had no problem taking on healthy students as well, Hakuya got his wish of not being separated from his sister.
Other Info: Having depended on each other for emotional support for almost their entire lives, Hakuya and Nozomi have extreme mutual codependency issues and an impressive case of separation anxiety. One simply cannot function without the other. Nozomi shuts down completely without her brother, while Hakuya becomes upset to the point of violence and only calms down when his sister is around.
