Name:

Hanagawa Tomiko Xia-he, a.k.a. “Tomie”     

Nature:

Observant, Composed, and Indifferent

Player:

D-chan [[o2b2insane]]

Livejournal:

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Class:

Associate (Sumiyoshi-kai)

Status

Cold-hearted gang co-leader.  Rebellious night-lifer. Traditional dancer/hostess.

You're an honest moralist

You trace me with your pretty finger
I'm a pure terrorist

Your thoughts are rising like a revolution

Appearance:

A gracefully exquisite body with skin colored with a soft hue of pale honey and limbs both slender and elongated give Tomiko a deceptively delicate and fragile appearance. Who is this elegant and unearthly creature? Hanagawa Tomiko.

A specialist bound by romance

You used your long fingernails on me
An egoist who wants to confirm love

             I want to struggle on until I'm inside of you

Tomiko’s figure is willowy seeing as while she is slightly taller than the average height, barely reaching five feet and six inches (5’ 6”), she weighs little over a hundred pounds (100 lbs). Her long, slender limbs, used to full effectiveness as a fighter, along with a flat stomach and proportionate curves make Tomiko the envy of her female classmates. Tomiko’s hands are graceful and artful with elegantly tapered fingers while her slender ankles frame petite feet.

You keep yourself at a distance
ah,     Before I lose myself

A small mouth with slender lips full of expression and full cheekbones tinted a pale pink along with a delicate nose presents to others a refined face of childlike, yet subtle and enchanting, beauty.  Tomiko is blessed with almond-shaped brown eyes the color of dark chocolate and framed with lusciously full eyelashes. Her dark eyes usually hooded or narrowed, whether from boredom or annoyance, hide a piercing, yet cunning, cold gaze.

Framing her polished facial features is   luxurious, silky straight, black mane that reaches past her narrow waist and wispy bangs that brush her eyelashes.

          Is it okay to love, too?

                                 In the shaking night
It's good as it is

                More

      Deeper

She is a subtle beauty capable of persuasive appeal or ruinous allure. Tomiko is an authentic and blossoming femme fatale.

                       As those almost maddening lips

                                  I've gotten used to melt together

I am...Your...Vanilla

Background:

The more I think about this, my past, the more I want to go jump off the nearest bridge straight into the sea. Honestly.

Your distorting face is
ah,     Please let me stay myself

I mean I came into this world as the fourth and last child in a mostly “functional” family. I was born on February 19th to one, Hanagawa Yasuo, and one, Hanagawa Yi Hua-mee.

Is it okay to love, too?

In the shaking night
It's good as it is    

                         More    

                                 Faster

My father met my mother in a whorehouse. Sure, there’s probably a better name to call the place but why pretend or bother with pretentious labels. So anyways, my mother was brought from Taiwan at the tender age of 18 to be a “comfort woman” in a brothel to the local yakuza. One day while working, she met my father and her soon-to-be-husband, who then fell instantly and completely for her.

I guess it was love at first fuck -- sorry “first sight.”  

The almost painful wet lips are    

    there are no more words
You and I are not Burning love

My father in next to no time saved up enough money to pay my mom’s bond-mark after about half a year. (It is a fact that that is what has left our family in the almost lowest income bracket and a second-rate “standard of living” since.) Goes to say that right after my mother’s contract was voided, my parents got married. Moreover, they are still happily married to this day with four loving kids.

Theirs was a love that showed that fairy tales do happen in real-life.

                                                Not quite.

Anyways, soon after their marriage, well nine months to be exact, my elder brother, Haru, popped out of my mother. As the firstborn son, Haru is the perfect son and was the perfect student who graduated top of his class and went onto a first-rate university to get Masters in business and law. Whenever I look at him, I get this nauseating sensation in my stomach and I feel like I have to go hurl in the bathroom.  At least he gives me free rides sometimes.

ah,     If we welcome how many mornings

ah,     Will the nights probably stop

ah,     Scattered in the sky

        ah,     White flowers surround us

Next about a year later, came Kaede, my elder sister and the firstborn daughter. Kaede is -- how do you say it --truly her mother’s daughter. A true whore in every sense of the word, Kaede loves sex. Even so, Kaede loves sex for money even more.  Granted before she took up her career of choice at a local teahouse, she did graduate from high school.

Is it okay to love, too?

                In the shaking night
          It's good as it is

              "I've seen a tail"

Then, a few years down the road another son named, Takara, came into the family. Takara is a runt. He is scrawny, timid, pity inducing and a little mama’s boy. I actually feel somewhat sorry for him. Well, sometimes at least. Ok, so he’s actually the only sibling I have, that I actually like having around.

Finally, the last of us popped out seven years after Takara, that’s me. The second daughter and the “baby” of the entire family. The fuck up. The throwback. The sick one. The misfit. The “everything that wasn’t perfect and doesn’t fit in” child. Yeah, that’s me in a nutshell.

          Anyways back to my background and my story.

               Not like anyone really wants to hear about it anyways.

                                     Nevertheless, what the hell and why not --

                         it’s the principle of the matter.

In primary school I was always being picked on, mostly because I was a half-breed and it just so happened that my other half was Taiwanese. Something many of the kids didn’t like because their parents’ didn’t like my mother or what she used to be. My parents had had me enrolled in a tea ceremony class and some traditional dance classes to make me more graceful and ladylike as well as to help keep me healthy, but I don’t think I got much out of the lessons except how to dance and not trip.

So anyways, all through those first few school years I was bullied, beat up and all such as that. I learned quickly just how cruel the world was and how to survive in it. That is when I eventually got fed up with the blind punches or random kicks to the shin, and asked my parents to enroll me in some martial arts classes.

Let’s just say I excelled at it and was a very quick study.

It's almost embarrassing

                                       I've fallen for you
         A crew sees cring knees,
                           I wanna need. Not betray!!

Not long after my pivotal moment, I met Yamamoto Hikiri. Hikiri was another mixed heritage child who was either picked on or alternately completely ignored by her classmates. I guess eventually she got fed up to and soon she became the gang leader to a group of outcast girls her own age, myself included as her second. Moreover, that’s where our gang, Tokyo Playground, originated from and eventually grew into one of the most feared juvenile gangs this side of Shinjuku. But that’s later.

Is it okay to love, too?

     In the shaking night
It's good as it is    

     More        

                  You are

The bullying at such a young age led me to being extremely uncertain and insecure of others and myself at first. Trusting anything was a big matter for me. Eventually through my martial arts training, I changed from an unconfident child into a callous, jaded and perceptive cynic with a fascination for psychology.  

               As those almost maddening hips

I've gotten used to melt together
                       You are...My...keeper

Eventually I evolved into what I am today. A cold and merciless, but composed and passive-aggressive, young woman who is capable of causing severe bodily injury and damage while having an exceptionally acute, observant mind capable of masterful manipulation of others and adept administration of the gang affairs.

For my 16th birthday, my parents bought me an old, rundown scooter that was a major fixer-upper to have some form of transportation besides them or my unreliable siblings. It was the best present they ever gave me besides the cash when I moved out. It seems I turned into quite the little mechanic because of it and my scooter ain’t rundown no more.

As soon as I was old enough to start working, I got a shitty job, saved up the money and moved out of my family’s 3 bedroom “house” into a studio apartment over a local arcade in downtown Shinjuku. It’s not too far from my high school at least.  

My shitty job is me hiring myself out as traditional dancer and sometimes a hostess at a local teahouse. No, its not either the ones my mother worked previously or my sister works at currently. I have more pride than that, even if I’m slightly hypocritical of my “flesh and blood.”

But hey, I got bills to pay now, and “home” ain’t “home” no more for me.

Lyrics :: “Vanilla” by Gackt

Activities:

Tomoki is a part-time hostess at local modest teahouse and as such can usually either be found at work or out on the town with Tokyo Playground. When she's not out on the town causing havoc with Hikiri and the gang, Tomiko can be found practicing her traditional dances at a local dance studio. She often goes to the gym to spar and practice her katas when she doesn’t have a session with her instructors, to keep her combat skills sharp and stay in shape.

Tomiko also goes out on the weekends to practice her burgeoning marksmanship at a range outside the city limits. When she has a lot of time to spare, Tomoki loves tinkering with the mechanics of her now customized scooter.

While at work, her job details her to entertain her clients in private rooms by dancing, playing a Japanese 3-string lute, the shamisen, and/or performing the tea ceremony. She wears either modifed Kimono or flowing robes from China while working.

Frequently, she'll visit the local clubs with Hiki as long as they’re not owned or operated by the Sumiyoshi-kai or if the Oyabun is not present and Hiki and herself are on their best behaviors. Tomiko loves to listen to the Tokyo Symphony orchestra when she can afford the tickets for a recital. Wanting to relearn how to play the piano, Tomoki is trying to bribe Hiki in helping her.

Tomiko is enjoys collecting classic novels and poetry for her growing library in her apartment. She enjoys relaxing quietly and peacefully at home in her apartment as well as quiet strolls on the town.

Strengths/ Weaknesses:

Graceful and agile, Tomiko keeps herself in shape through dancing and through martial arts. Proficient in two styles of martial arts (kickboxing and tai chi), Tomiko is capable of handling herself in a fight. She is a callous, no-bullshit type of girl with little patience for either nonsense or those who would cause harm or pain to her “family,” her gang-sisters especially.

She is quiet, serious and mature beyond her years. Tomiko speaks concisely and to the point, and rarely loses her cool demeanor even in a tense situation. Her attitude is not that of a pessimist, but of a realist: she sees things as they are, rather than what they should be.

She is intelligent in both academics and streets’ smarts as well as exceedingly perceptive of her surroundings and adept in information garnering. A multilingual person due to her mixed heritage, Tomiko is knowledgeable in Taiwanese, Japanese and knows a little bit of Mandarin and English to get by.

Tomiko suffers from anemia, or specifically - iron deficiency anemia. So at times, Tomiko looks rougher and more haggard than is usual because of lack of restful sleep or decreased appetite and extreme pallor. Other effects caused by her anemia are fatigue, irritability, shortness of breath, headaches, and weakness at times.

Frustration is a biggie for Tomiko as she is often a little bitter about the fact that most members of society are judgmental of her because of her mixed blood. This anger, she generally directs towards any opponent, but she has a bad habit of being a little harsh with her friends on occasion when her temper gets the better of her. Tomiko is also very suspicious of people and has a tendency to be overly cynical due to her struggles growing up. Sometimes Tomiko can come off as haughty or bitchy because of cold exterior or heartless attitude at times.

Motivations/

Goals:

To survive high school, whole and sane.

              To keep Hikiri alive and mostly whole.

                                To keep her gang together and alive.

                                                To have Shinjuku, then Tokyo, then Japan and then the world,

                                                                                               know her name and worship it.

To make a niche for herself in the criminal underworld of Tokyo --

                                           using only her own assets, no hand-outs.

                           To take the world by storm with a pack of cigarettes in one hand

                                                                          and a semi-automatic in the other.

                                                                       To travel the world over and see everything.

Then… do it all over again.

Attitude

“All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.”