Name: Yamada Ryota
Alias/es: Sato Hitomi
Age: 22
Height: 153cm (4'11")
Weight: 53kg (115 lbs.)
Complexion: Pale, Asian Pacific
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair Color: Auburn
Apparel: Casual blouses, jean shorts, and short skirts mostly, occasionally wears summer dresses in the hotter months.
Personality: Hitomi is not exactly friendly but always very polite. Having been treated as an outcast for most of her childhood led to a fear of conflict and strong personalities. She tends to err on the side of caution and rarely speaks up unless she's spoken to first. Her anti-social behavior is deeply rooted in a past history of abuse and as a result she greatly values the acceptance of others.
History: Sato Hitomi was born as a young boy named Yamada Ryota. Her parents, Yusuke and Akane, were very happy to have had a son but it wasn't long until they realized that their son was different. It started with simple things. Ryota would prefer colors like pink and yellow, sometimes trying to put on girl's clothes. Her parents thought nothing of it at first, believing it to be an oddity or 'just a phase'.
Soon after little Ryota had turned six he started asking to dress like a girl and refused to wear the clothes meant for boys. Little Ryota started to make proclamations that he was in fact a she. Her parents were unable to cope at first and saw fit to punish such brazen behavior with spankings. After all, spare the rod spoil the child, no? Little Ryota only cried louder until her parents finally gave in and allowed their son to dress as their daughter, if only to bring an end to the constant tantrums.
At this point Hitomi was the only name she would answer to. Her father Yusuke reluctantly complied in public but at home things were very different. Her father regularly 'punished' his daughter for being 'impure' and a disappointment while her mother merely watched and did nothing. Hitomi suffered through the abuse at home and was forced to keep her identity a secret. No one could know that Yamada Yusuke's daughter was once his son.
Hitomi was allowed to go to school as a girl although she was not formerly recognized as such by the school itself. The staff chose to play along in order to avoid any awkwardness. Most of the students were unaware of anything out of the ordinary, aside from her mysterious bruises which appeared from time to time. For a while Hitomi lived her life in public without any complications and was actually becoming a rather beautiful young girl despite the constant abuse she suffered at home.
At the age of 14 Hitomi had begun to work part-time at a book store in order to pay for Hormone Replacement Therapy, which allowed her body to develop as a girl. Later in her first year of high school there was an incident that changed her life. A new trend of pranks had been going around where boys would invade the girls bathroom and take pictures of them on the toilet. Hitomi had unfortunately been a victim of such a prank which led to the discovery of her male genetalia and the news spread across the school like wildfire. It wasn't long before the bullying started and soon after that her parents got word of what was happening at school. This only made her father more furious with her and increased the severity of his 'punishments'.
After a few months of being treated like trash at home and at school Hitomi finally decided to drop out of school and was summarily kicked out of her home for doing so. Having no where else to go she pleaded with the book-store owner Sato Hiroshi to take her in and so he did. They lived together until Mr. Sato, who was already well into his seventies at the time, had been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Now that Mr. Sato was dying he saw fit to give everything to the only family he had. Hitomi took his name and was granted ownership of the book store "Sato Books". She has since lived her life alone running her book store.
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