Kuriko Hatsuhara

NAME: Kuriko Hatsuhara
AGE: 17
CLASS: Junior
APPEARANCE: Kuriko stands at 5'3", with blonde hair and startlingly blue eyes. Her hair is cut into a style popular in the early 21st century, known as "the pixie cut", which is very short and choppy.
BACKSTORY: Kuriko was born into a fairly standard Japanese family in Tokyo, with her father running a shop underneath their small 3 bedroom flat where Kuriko, her younger brother and two parents lived. Her mother was unemployed, electing to stay home and help Kuriko deal with her blindness that developed in her earlier years. Her condition was simply put down to undeveloped optic nerves in the womb, and nothing could be done as they got steadily worse and worse. Kuriko copes with her condition well, as she has had 15 years of life with no vision, and walks around amply enough on her own, occasionally utilising a cane. Her schoolwork is above average, and she can read braille, although where she really excels is playing music, playing both the piano and the guitar. (Both of which she learned from a family friend who ran a special course teaching music to blind people). She decided to enroll at Yamaku when her father's business fell into debt in Tokyo, and they were forced to move where work was available, which was a small managing position at the shop in the town near Yamaku.
PERSONALITY: Kuriko is a very happy and chirpy young girl, who is always there to lend a hand to her friends and also to strangers. Her easily-trusting nature and infectious cheerfulness give her a magnetic personality, but she trusts extremely easy and is easy to manipulate.

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