Claire is just a hair off five feet tall, and her skin is very clearly deep pink to light red, due to her skin condition. Wears a lot of soft material clothing, her shoes are very soft/plush on the inside. Her hair was cut long ago for easier washing, and it’s growth naturally stunted over time…she wears a nice soft wig instead.
Name: Claire Stone
Age: 19
Grade: 3rd
Condition:
Harlequin Ichthyosis – religiously takes Accutane, puts on a variety of lotions and creams during the day, has to avoid getting too hot or too cold, and takes long baths early in the morning and late into the night.
Personality: Though she is terribly shy, she tries her best to befriend all she can…but it’s hard, since the condition she wears on her skin make it hard to look and interact with her. She is a little bit of a late bloomer when it comes to learning, has been homeschool up till now, and is airheaded sometimes. When it comes to the bad traits/faults of her close friend…she is very much in denial at times.
Background: A born harlequin baby, though she was fortunate to survive a condition that some do not (so early on), she was unfortunate to have her mother abandon her. With a weak body, she spent much of age 0-5 in the hospital, before one of the doctors grew close enough to take her in…at the same time, other children in the paediatrics ward of the hospital were not entirely enthusiastic about becoming her friend. From then on, she was in and out of the hospital, being tutored at home when she could.
It was age 8 when she met Ash, her best friend only three years younger than herself. The boy with the casts on his legs completely ignored her odd and scary looking skin condition (bright pink skin, patches of dead skin peeling off), and demanded she play chess with him. Though she resisted, saying that she was creepy and she couldn’t, and that most people avoided playing with her…also she didn’t know how to play chess…but he responded that he didn’t care. This would become a regular thing, he was also a terrifying chess player, as she’d learn once she actually learned the game.
While he spent much of his time in and out of the hospital for rehabilitation, and a few other things, they ended up becoming close companions…despite how different they were. In these years, she’d seen him nearly break another kid’s arms, smash mirrors, be suspected of mutilating small animals, flirt with nurses…and either get away with it through personal manipulations, or have his older brother or his father (two men in suits, from her perspective), almost literally toss money at the staff to keep them silent.
About a year ago, Claire discussed with her adoptive mother about the idea of attending Yamaku for a high school experience in japan, which was approved. Ash, however, was furious…especially when she decided not to tell him, and he ended up finding out from a nurse. Though he may have thrown a violent tantrum, he personally asked her about it in a very calm and cool manner.
A month after that was spent demanding he go to this institute as well, though he was met with rejection, since his family wanted him to go into the family business once he was old enough. They kept rejecting till…a certain event.
Other Info:
-Though she was a bit slow and a bit of a ditz…she took an interest in languages, and learned quite a number of them when she could.

Standing just short of six feet tall, Ash is a handsome youth often seen using his cane or a pair of crutches to bring himself around, since one of his legs isn’t really good. This teen is very mature in appearance, for his age.
Name: Ash Silvers
Age: 16
Grade: 1st
Disabilites:
Leg Issues – both of his legs were broken badly in his youth, with multiple fractures in the bones. Extensive surgery, metal rods have been added into them in his youth, and more have been added as he grew. One of his legs is actually better, while the other one causes him quite an amount of pain, and requires a cane for him to better travel around.
“Minor Anxiety” – is what is written in his medical records…the reality is that his family doctor is being bribed to cover up his mental disorders, that the valium prescribed to him for his anxiety attacks are actually antipsychotics so he is degrees less violent during the day. Does nothing for his manipulative sides…
Personality: At a glance, he seems like a charming and confident (if not outright charismatic) individual, and even seems friendly to most. Underneath it all is a manipulative liar, and when provoked, a rage beast. There is not a single person who is more important that himself, body and mind…and he literally jumped out a second floor window to prove and establish to his older brother that the elder couldn’t control him, which led to the multiple breaks in his legs…imagine what he’d do to somebody who isn’t himself!
There is difficulty to empathise with others, very little fear, scary high pain tolerance, and a near flawless ability to act or feign emotions in various ways. His only ‘friend’ might be Claire, well…the girl is insistent on being his friend, and it’s easier to feign normalcy by other’s standards by having a more normal minded person stick around. It’s actually…he actually finds her (at times) outright denial of his misdeeds to be adorable, like a frightened rabbit stuck in a pen with wolf.
Background: Ash has always been funny in the head, funny like a needle in the eye. As a kid, his older brother (15 whole years older than him) had a very hard time controlling him, and the young boy jumped out a second floor window in order to prove that he could—that his brother couldn’t control him. His legs were screwed, but it goes without saying, his brother wanted nothing to do with him after that.
After several surgeries, and some recovery time, he spent time in and out of the hospital for rehabilitation…though his new ‘friend’ Claire was a constant companion. There may have been an odd person here or there who’d entertain him, flirt with, get angry at…by Claire was constantly there, and it was quite obvious that she was scared of being left without a friend in the world, so much so that she convinced herself that Ash was really a great person. This was fun, he approved of this!
In recent years, after finding out that she intended to leave for Yamaku in japan, Ash went to his father to demand that he go as well. His demands were met with much rejection…up until the scandal, in which the Silvers family find out that Ash not only seduced a nurse and had several sexual relations with her, but that she had also been carrying his child for the past few months. Maybe they’d have pressed charges, if Ash wasn’t the way he was, if big attentions towards him wouldn’t bring his mental healthy into questioning. Instead, they opted to give her hush money, maybe to have an abortion quietly and to never see him again. Ash actually begun subtly pressuring the nurse to have an abortion, but after a passing comment from Claire, he decided to convince the nurse to give birth to his child and give it over to his family to raise. It was after this that he wasn’t rejected in his demand, since having him around may just cause more scandals. So long as he behaved well enough, he could go and stay in Yamaku with Claire.
Other Info:
-Ash is actually quite intelligent, can read people quite easily, just can’t empathise…he learned Japanese within a few months.
-The Silvers family are wealthy from their business in computer components, and other shady stuff…they have a tendency to throw money at problems to make them disappear, or throw money at people who can make their problems disappear. It’s become a bit of a thing since Ash turned three, really.