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[Character Name]: Otsuka Kanade
[Series Title]: Land of the Blindfolded / Mekakushi no Kuni
[Point in Canon you're Taking your Character From]: First volume, chapter four.
[Brief Description of their Personality]: Kanade, in a nutshell, is a nurturer. Her heart is very open, she often one to take another beneath her wing to shower them with her private displays of affection. When trouble is seen, she is quick to assist in any manner possible, even to extents of rushing into a flaming building just to reassure herself no one else resides within, despite what dangers exist. It is very rare for her to consider her personal safety before that of another, and it often escapes her mind she’s as human as the rest of her companions - not under the pretense of superiority, of course.
As she is compassionate to help others, she is equally as painfully honest. When a thought crosses her mind and she feels it should be known - regardless of consequences - it is certain to be said. This can often lead to hurt feelings upon her part, she easily wounded at the thought of bothering someone else rather than herself. It is a matter that she often stresses over, trying to turn over what she said within her mind and how she could have responded without tears being shed.
Despite her compassion and her honesty, Kanade carries an oblivious nature beneath her teeth-decaying kindness. She doesn’t often notice how others feel about her, and is slow to recognize her own feelings.
In addition to this, Kanade has a terrible fear of being touched. As she was granted the (limited) ability to see into the future at spontaneous moments - generally triggered by contact with another person - she has developed a terror to being near others. More or less afraid of what misfortunes she may see, she tries to avoid unnecessary contact when she can, often pushed into a slight panic if she happens to bump into another.
Regardless of these personal follies, she attempts to remain as optimistic as possible.
[Brief Description of their History]: When Kanade was a child, she lost her father to an illness. Perhaps torn between her own depression and the sadness she saw so easily in her mother, she strove to be her mother’s sunshine and glory every waking moment she could manage.
As she grew, she was only a few years of age when she was suddenly struck upside the head with a most unusual ability - the talent to see into the future! While limited and spontaneous, she first realized this talent when she touched her grandfather’s hand, unfortunately seeing that he was going to die in the near future. Terrified and in a panic, she quickly told her family of what she had seen.. And was not old enough to realize how easily they accepted her gift.
Since that time, Kanade strains to help others where she can, but generally avoids contact whenever possible. While her sight is entirely available to her, it still frightens her to realize she can so easily access this separate realm, and often sets her into slight hysterics. Perhaps to calm this second nature, she has taken to painting, pushing her very soul into the canvas.
Aside from that.. She’s not too far from an ordinary girl living with her mother.
[Roleplay Samples]:
[first person]
It‘s strange.
I don‘t know where I am, or how I got here but.. I don‘t know. I guess I don‘t really care that much.. It should be frightening, I should be scared.. I wonder where I am? Eri says I shouldn‘t think about these things. She says there‘s just certain things I shouldn‘t have to wonder about…
It’d be nice if Eri were here.. She’s so strong, so confident.
I don‘t.. I don‘t know why I‘m in this closet-- well, I know why, but I don‘t remember how I got here? Sometimes I run.. Sometimes when I‘m scared, I just run and maybe.. Maybe that‘s how? I guess I am a little bit scared, after all.. Just a little bit.
… But it’ll be okay. Everything’s going to be okay. I just know it.
[third person]
Kanade tried to concentrate on the soft rhythm of her foot-falls as she slowly walked the corridor of the hotel, her eyes lifted to the ceiling in thought. For an instant, she chewed her lip with uncertainty before a wide smile captured her lips, clearly fascinated by the thought that crossed her mind.
Until, her smile appeared.. Troubled.
She, beyond all else, was certain.. She had no idea where she was.
Pausing for an instant as she heard a door creak, the girl canted her head before instinctively heading toward the noise, wanting someone - anyone - to explain how she had come to be here. The last she could remember was walking.. She had been walking with Eri, her bag a light weight against the small of her bag. And Eri had been talking… About Eniwa? She’d been talking about that boy she liked, the boy she wanted to confess to, the boy she---
And then Kanade had grabbed her arm. A car had whizzed by, inches from Eri’s hip…
That must have been it, Kanade decided, a fist hitting the palm of her hand. She had grabbed Eri before she had stepped into the street and she had thrown herself into a vision. So any moment now she’d be whipped right out of this, and she’d find Eri staring at her with her large, frightened eyes.
With a renewed confidence and her smiling gaining strength, the girl proceeded to nearly skip down the corridor, free in the sensation that she didn’t feel any danger. Not yet, at least.
