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Age:
17 (will be 18 soon)

Gender:
Female

Arcana:
Hanged Man

Equipment:
Ceremonial Katana, deck of tarot cards.

Skills:
Singing - Kimiko has always loved to sing, but her father has limited her to mostly folk songs or ceremonial / religious music. Any other music has been deemed as sacrilegious to perform at the Shinto Shrine.

Tarot Reading - One of the ways Kimiko makes money for the Shrine is to perform Tarot readings for those who wish to know how the gods favor them. She’s gotten fairly good at it, and will even perform readings for friends (first one is free of charge!).

Cleaning - Kimiko is required to fully clean the Shinto Shrine quite frequently. As their lodging is adjacent to the Shrine, she also cleans the house just as often. She also generally makes the meals as well. Her father is a lousy cook, and Kimiko’s skills at cooking are passable, but not amazing.

Studying - Kimiko has excellent self-discipline, and has little other to do with her spare time than to clean and study. As such, she is typically near the top of her class. In addition, many more difficult subjects seem to naturally just come to her.

Katana - As part of the rituals of welcoming in the morning sun, Kimiko practices several ceremonial poses that mimic martial arts. This is often done without weapons, but the movements are translatable to stances in martial arts. Kimiko also reads a lot and has practiced stances with her father’s ceremonial sword. That said, she has little practical experience fighting.

Appearance:
Outside school, Kimiko wears a white haori (kimono jacket) and red hakama (baggy divided trousers), the standard dress of a miko. She ties her hair back with a red ribbon, and wears red geta (wooden sandals) and white tabi (socks). She has naturally blonde hair and green eyes, as does her father (although his hair is graying now).

Kimiko is 158 cm (5’ 8”) tall and weighs 55 kg (120 lb). She is a little chubbier than she would like to be due to her mostly sedentary lifestyle, and it mostly collects in her belly. She is short, but appears smaller than even her height would indicate, as she tries to avoid calling attention to herself.

Personality:
Soft-spoken, but very confident in herself, Kimiko is a very trustworthy companion. She almost always uses formal language, and resists being called by nicknames or endearing honorifics (like -chan). To most of her classmates, Kimiko may seem very bland and boring. Although she may seem predictable, there is growing resentment inside which she sometimes fails to contain.

Biography:
Kimiko is the daughter of Maita Eisen, a Shinto priest, and is his miko (shrine maiden). Because she is a miko, Kimiko must follow the traditions of Shinto-ism and must remain pure in all ways, but she is very unhappy with the choice her father has forced upon her. She often feels like her youth is being repressed by Eisen’s excessive rules and extreme definition of “purity.” However, she believes it is not her place to stand against her father and instead has dedicated all of her efforts to improving her studies and her singing. Some of Kimiko’s miko duties involve offering incense to the goddess of the shrine, reading fortunes for paying customers, and cleaning the shrine constantly.

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