Name: Hiroko Fujiyama (left) & Kaede Kobayashi (right)
Age: 30 & 18
Gender: Both female
Appearance: Personality: HirokoIt goes without saying that Hiroko is definitely the brainier one between she and Kaede. Vastly more analytical out of the two, expect her to be the one that takes on more tedious and detail-oriented jobs, like paperwork, analyzing data, and making sure Kaede doesn't stick her nose where it doesn't belong. She can often seem tense or stressed out, and it's often because she actually is. Perhaps because she stresses easily, Hiroko does her best to make sure everyone else does what their supposed to be doing at top efficiency, even if that's not quite in her job description.
KaedeEver-curious and always eager to learn something, Kaede is a girl who sees everything as another learning experience. Her naivety and politeness never seem to reach an end, and unfortunately, her desire to tinker with things she probably shouldn't tinker with is just as bottomless. She'll probably get words in her sentences jumbled up to varying degrees; sometimes it'll just be a small slip of the tongue, and other times it'll take an expert on the girl just to decipher what she's saying. She's also prone to forgetting names, and so labels most people with simple nicknames.
Brief Backstory: Kaede and Hiroko go way back; as far back as the day the former was born in Yakushima and Mrs. Kobayashi appointed Hiroko as her godmother. A longtime best friend of Kaede's mother, Hiroko moved in with the Kobayashis after Kaede's father up and vanished without so much as a goodbye. Together, the duo raised Kaede through the vast majority of her life. Things were good, though no good thing can last forever. Ten years ago, the first Nephilim attacked.
Hiroko and Kaede survived relatively uninjured. Kaede's mother wasn't so lucky, having perished shielding Kaede from the vehicle of somebody running away. Even with the human shield, Kaede took a good knock to her noggin, and her memories up to that point had been wiped clean. Hiroko took to raising Kaede on her own since as the girl's godmother, helping fill her in on the memories she'd lost. And then a year later, SEED became a thing. Hiroko joined up, but...
Tokyo and Yakushima were pretty far apart. And somebody had to keep an eye on Kaede. Naturally, the two moved together to Tokyo, and until just recently, Hiroko juggled her work and her godmotherly duties. However, once Kaede turned 18, she volunteered to also join SEED. Partly to help Hiroko at her work, and partly to join the fight against the Nephilims in her own way.
Abilities: The two are pretty smart in their own respective ways. Hiroko already knows quite a bit, but Kaede learns at breakneck speeds. They also get work done pretty quickly when they're working together. Short of that though, nothing really special about them.
Occupation: Bridge Bunnies