NAME:
Sakai Kenzan

AGE:
17

GENDER:
Male

ARCANA:
Justice

APPEARANCE DETAILS:
Kenzan has a runner's build, tall and long legged with more lean muscle to him than actual bulk. He keeps his hair shaggy on the top with an undercut, usually it's left pretty messy. He has reddish brown eyes and usually a rather disinterested expression.

Aside from his uniform usually he wears something comfortable and easy to run in. Most of the time track suits of various colors. He tends to keep things monochrome with whites, grays, and blacks, but occasionally a blue or red for a bit of color. Even on warmer days he prefers to wear pants and a jacket though in the winter he'll put on a heavier coat.

PERSONALITY:
Kenzan is reserved and quiet, mostly choosing to keep himself out of the main line of sight of anything that might be happening at school. He likes his personal space and isn't the most talkative, though he has been told he's a good listener. Though that might be because he's not really listening. He's very nearly an adult, but even still acts mature for his age, and is someone that is known to give good advice when it comes down to it.

He's distrustful of most other people, though that tends to skew towards the adults in his life, and isn't particularly interested in forming personal connections. He'll be polite when spoken to and isn't going to start any trouble over it, but he will attempt to extract himself from the conversation as quickly as possible.

If you can chip through the wall that he's built up over the years there's a caring and rather charming young man underneath it all. He wants desperately to find people he can trust, but the fear of someone leaving again makes him inclined to keep people at arms length. He has a strong sense of right and wrong and one thing that will push past that wall and get anger sparked is people lording themselves over others; treating someone poorly because of what they do or who they are. He's gotten in trouble more than a couple times for going out of his way to put bullies in their place, but it shows that there is something past the apathy and disinterest.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
The youngest child in the family, Kenzan grew up in the busy city of Tokyo where his father worked at the police department. His mother mostly used her time to work on home projects and sell the occasional bit of work if it struck one of the neighbors fancy. His early years were normal for a young boy growing up in the city. He had a number of friends that he would meet up with after school and played sports with, and could rely on his older sister Tomi to pick him up and walk home with him after she was finished with her drama club.

Up until the age of eleven he had what could be called a comfortable life with a family that loved each other. Unfortunately for the Sakai family his father died in a shootout with one of the local gangs, and as far as he is aware, the men who did it got away scot free. The loss devastated his mother, who had to return to work, and grappling with the loss of her husband and raising two kids meant that Tomi had to pick up the slack. Things somewhat returned to normal. He continued to hang out with friends, go to school, but it felt weird to be acting like nothing was wrong. Especially when he knew the police were doing nothing to try and bring the people who killed his father to justice.

His mother decided that she couldn't stand being Tokyo any more and so they left. Moved outside the city to Fujihama where she wanted to try and get a fresh start. The loss of stability pushed Kenzan into himself and he became more closed off, even to his sister. Eventually Tomi got fed up with the whole thing. The move had shaken her just as much, and since there mother was becoming more and more distant, she left to pursue her own life leaving her fifteen year old brother to deal with their mother alone.

Kenzan decided to keep his head down and just work through school as best he could in order to make sure he had the ability to get away from his mother, and he's almost there. Deep down he knows she's trying, but it doesn't stop the distrust of most of the adults in his life. He spends most of his time away from the house at the various hangout locations around the city, mostly Kudo's Bookstore since he knows he'll be left alone there. Either that or on a run with some kind of music playing as loud as he can bare.

The death of the prime minister didn't phase him nearly as much as some of the others, but it was certainly a point of intrigue. The thing that bothers him the most about the whole incident is the city-wide curfew that forces to be at home and deal with his mother for longer than he had to in the past. Still, Kenzan plans to just keep his head down as he always had and wait for it to blow over.

TRIVIA:
Hobbies: Reading, running (and other kinds of sports), music
Loves animals but doesn't like showing the caring side of himself
Doesn't particularly like school, but is good at it without really trying

OTHER: Not presently

NAME: Takahashi Jin

AGE: 16

GENDER: Female

ARCANA: Chariot

APPEARANCE DETAILS: Jin is about 4’11 and very petite, and of African-American and Japanese descent. She has dark brown eyes, and her skin is a warm brown. Her hair is a wavy black in a short, masculine cut. Outside of school, she tends to wear loose, boyish clothing that provides ease of movement.

PERSONALITY: Jin seems abrasive at first. She’s loud, rash, and speaks her mind. Most people don’t get far enough with her to see the brilliance behind the brashness. Despite people thinking she’s a delinquent, Jin is very intelligent, with her test grades (especially in Math and English) being some of the highest in the school. Given the opportunity to unveil her true self, other students would find a sharp-minded and loyal person behind all the bluster.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY: Jin’s parents, Richard and Yumiko, met at an international university in a political science course. Despite a myriad of personal, cultural and social differences, they fell tumbling into love and married after graduation. Richard became a detective and Yumiko worked with the city’s mayor. They were happy and successful, and together nearly 7 years before having a bouncing baby girl named Jinayah.

Another 5 years saw tragedy strike. A break in occurred at their home one winter night, and Richard and Yumiko were found dead, shot by an unknown assailant. Their daughter, who had just started kindergarten, found huddled in a closet. With her father having no living relatives in America, Jin was sent overseas to live with her mother’s brother, Takahashi Tairo.

Jin’s uncle Tairo, and aunt Misaki were both happy to take in their niece, and yet hurt by the circumstances. They did their best with the little girl and tried to help her fit in. They changed her name officially to her their family name, they took her to theme parks and festivals, and tried to be the best parents they could. It took a very long time for Jin to be able to open up and trust again.

Jin was never quite sure of the first time she understood she was different. Maybe it was elementary, in a class photo, where she was far too easy to pick out. Maybe one summer when someone told her that she didn’t have to worry about tanning, or when she overheard someone referring to her as “Hafu” for the first time, and she had to go home and look it up online.

Whatever the cause, her personality shifted dramatically in her first year of middle school. She went from trying to fit in to actively going against the grain. She began acting out, getting into spats with fellow students, and staying out late at night. Currently, Jin’s aunt and uncle are trying to put her back on the correct path – hopefully before it’s too late to apply for university.

TRIVIA: Jin fixes computers, phones, and other mechanics in her spare time, and is putting away a lot of money. What it’s for is Jin’s business. She’s almost never without some kind of snack, as her metabolism is high.

OTHER: None currently.

NAME: Ebina Hoshiko

AGE: 15

GENDER: Female

ARCANA: Strength

APPEARANCE DETAILS: There's a saying that good things come in small packages but Hoshiko might as well be the antithesis of that; she's not small but she's also not going to be playing basketball anytime soon. Well, not professionally anyway. Really it's a roundabout way of saying that Hoshiko is of above average height, but often appears to be taller thanks in no small part to the fact that she has long, runner's legs and frequently wears shorts or athletic spats when not donning the mandatory school uniform. Her ash blonde hair is almost always unkempt but in such a way that it makes people wonder if she intentionally does it to make it look like she doesn't or if it's just naturally that way. The jury's still out on which one would be more impressive.

Though her hair is short, most of the time she has it covered by a variety of baseball caps. She has a standing collection of them and tries never to wear the same one twice in a row. From her favorite NPB teams (she's a fan of the Chunichi Dragons and the ORIX Buffalos) and MLB teams to just touristy hats or plain colored ones, the only question is which cap Hoshiko is going to wear on any particular day. Her eyes are a cloudy steel blue but nevertheless come with her piercing gaze; Hoshiko has a way of looking at someone with an intense focus that it's like she's reading their mind. Of course she can't read minds and it's mostly just because she thinks long and hard when doing it, but there can't help but feel like a bit of an intimidation behind her otherwise expressive, bright eyed wonder.

It's partly because of her leg benefit that her figure has a clear feminine slant to it. She's slender, but athletic, not quite a typical tomboy but not exactly the kind of nadeshiko type that some find to be ideal. She exists in a comfortably medium. The muscles she does have are confined to her arms, though she's much, much too lenient with hamburgers to have full tone on them. But don't let that fool you.

PERSONALITY: One of the great mysteries of Fujihama is how Hoshiko has even managed to get into high school let alone advance in the years. To put it plainly: Hoshiko is an idiot. Not in an insulting way, of course, but in a very publicly defined sort of way. Hoshiko's name is consistently near the bottom of the class during exams and on tests it's considered a good result for her if she scores above thirty points. Some say she only gets a pass because of her brother, others say it's because of her club activities having the staff look the other way. In truth, it's not like Hoshiko is some secretly brilliant kid, far from it. When she should be studying she's instead at the game center or the burger shop or at the batting cages (where she bats for free thanks to a deal she brokered with the owner). But her own personal motto is: "No struggle is worth freaking out about!"

To put it another way, yes Hoshiko is considerably worried about her academics and only barely scrapes by due to finding tutors who teach her the material in a way she understands (often with baseball terminology or hanging burgers over her head like a carrot on a stick) and because when the chips are down and she focuses, she is capable of more than she gives herself credit for. Whatever worry she has in life is not written on her face. She's always the loud kid in class, the confidently wrong kid, not quite the class clown but close enough to it that she'll take the title and wear it with pride. It is her boisterous and unflappable personality that has led her to having a decently sized social circle. Sure, there are those who find her brand of energy annoying and idiotic and they have let her know that but anytime someone insults her, Hoshiko just smiles, pats them on the shoulder, and invites them to hang out sometime.

But having a large social circle doesn't translate to having a core group of friends. Hoshiko at school surrounds herself with her peers, joking, laughing, playing sports, but at home her phone doesn't buzz with messages or chats. She might not show it, but Hoshiko is rather lonely; but she'd rather be the anchor of good vibes among her peers than drown herself in negative thoughts and loneliness. Hoshiko will be the first person to try and cheer someone up who is crying even if that means going to find the person who made them cry and yelling in their face without having the full information - like when she got in the middle of a girl crying from a 'break up' and yelled at the boyfriend despite the story being more that the boy rejected her love letter proposal.

Whether or not they have Hoshiko's back is irrelevant as far as she's concerned. People might think negatively of her loud, foolish, unambitious self, but they at least know her name. And that's more than can be said for many students.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY: Sometimes it sucks having a famous brother.

Plenty of people in Japan know about Ebina Habiki. He is, after all, one of the hot new rising stars in the tv-drama scene, having gotten his big break on a tokusatsu program and has since transitioned to romantic drama shows winning the hearts of middle aged housewives and young adults the country over. All focus went towards Habiki which is why Hoshiko lives with her aunt in Fujihama while her brother and parents live in Tokyo managing and being her brother's public relations expert. It wasn't that Hoshiko was unloved as a child, far from it, but her aptitude for traditionally male pursuits did her no favors.

After all, it wasn't as if there was room in professional baseball for a female player.

From a young age Hoshino loved baseball, starting from simply throwing a ball at a pitching wall in the park and working her way to a little league team where she was the pitcher. Her early days on the mound were met with bully boys saying the usual things. At first her response was to sniffle and cry which only made it worse. Her coach, the first person in her life who believed in her, told her the best way to show people up was to prove them wrong. The next time they bullied her she struck them out with a fastball down the middle. Once her little league days were done she had her most disappointing moment of her life, even moreso when her parents said they were moving to Tokyo without her because a girl like her wasn't 'meant' for Tokyo living. It was the day she was told that girls weren't allowed to play on the school baseball team. They could be managers, glorified equipment handlers, but not play. Hoshiko just smiled and said it was okay. She sat under a tree until the sun went down that day.

Her love of the sport never died, though, and if she couldn't play for the school she could at least play in her own time and support them in their efforts. It was the least she could do. Literally. At least until she found out that the school had a softball club. It was enough for her and it was a godsend because she was not cut out for cultural clubs after asking if the cooking club could cook burgers.

Some people do ask about her brother though she is never the one to bring up the fact that her brother is an actor, but her family name makes it a common enough occurrence. She doesn't exactly live in her brother's shadow (he was, naturally, top of the class when he went to school AND was president of his drama club) but it does cast a wide, wide surface which at times feels inescapable. Part of her feels as if people are expecting her to be as successful as young and more than one teacher has mentioned something similar when handing back a low graded test. Still, she doesn't let it bother her. She has other things to worry about. Like setting the high school at the game center or trying to throw a perfect game or, yes, cramming for a test because she needs at least a 50 to not have to take mandatory lessons. There's a lot on her plate and none of it is a burger but she'll take care of it in her own way.

No struggle is worth freaking out about, after all.

TRIVIA: -If it wasn't quite obvious, Hoshiko loves hamburgers. And baseball. But mostly hamburgers.
-One of the lowest ranked in her class but, naturally, excels at physical activities and classes. Absolutely vital for her class when they do sports fests.
-Secretly likes to draw but doesn't feel like she's good enough to do anything other than scribble. This is why her notebook has drawings instead of notes and might be why she is so low ranked academically.
-Secondary to burgers she loves yakiniku.
-Absolutely hates mice and rodents to the point where her normally unflappable façade crumbles in their presence.

OTHER: