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Player nickname: Rose or, at times, Kasumi. It depends.
Player LJ: My personal rosethornli or RP kasumisockrock journals.
Way to contact you:
Email: rosethornli@gmail.com (is the best way)
AIM: kasumiroselyn (though it is rarely used)
Plurk: dreamsoftheroselin (sparingly used, as well)
Are you at least 15?:Oh, most certainly yes.
Current Characters: None at all, strangely enough.
Character: Tendou Kasumi
Fandom: Ranma ½
Mun Things:I would like to bring Kasumi back a year from the day she left. She won’t remember her friends/the community at first, but will slowly progress to a point that she remembers everything. Please let me know if this is all right!
Character Notes:
History:
Her Family
Kasumi is the oldest of Tendou Soun, a practicing martial artist of the Anything Goes Style. She has two teenage sisters: Nabiki, the mercenary sort, and Akane, the tomboyish sort. Her mother is deceased.
Her Role
Kasumi has always admired her mother-as a child, she would follow her from room to room. Around the age of eight, her mother passed away from a wasting illness. The Tendou family nearly fell apart. As the oldest child, Kasumi saw her duty and stepped into her mother’s place. She has done her best to keep house and cook meals for her family, steadily transforming into the matriarch of the household. Through her school years and her graduation from high school, Kasumi has given love and care to her younger sisters as well as her father.
Unexpected Guests Change Everything
In his youth, Tendou Soun was one of two apprentices who undertook the Anything Goes Style of Martial Arts. His fellow disciple was Saotome Genma. As students they promised to join their two schools into one joint school, cementing the Tendou and Saotome styles into one complete Anything Goes Style of Martial Arts-by engaging their children before they were even born.
The year is 1991. One rainy afternoon, a panda appeared in the front hallway of the Tendou household with a human girl draped over its shoulder. Nonplused, this odd pair was nevertheless invited in for tea. After some side-tracking and discussion, the girl was revealed to be the panda’s son, Ranma, cursed to become a girl when splashed with cold water. The panda was, in actuality, Soun’s old friend Saotome Genma. Thus, Saotome Ranma and Tendou Akane became engaged at the tender age of sixteen through the conniving of their parents and, in one case, siblings. Unfortunately, this caused unseen disasters of a chaotic, collateral level for their hometown and many, many personal lives.
Oh my.
Throughout the debacle of cursed fighters, property damage, and sudden engagements that followed, Kasumi remained consistent. She kept her head down and took care of the household. No meal was left uncooked; no clothing went unlaundered-- though she is still waiting for the day her younger sister and brother-in-law finally tie the knot.
Personality:
Identity
In relation to herself, Kasumi prescribes to traditional gender roles. Her mother was the perfect woman, and she believes she should be the same. She is soft-spoken, passive, and kind. Kasumi never raises her voice and remains calm no matter what the situation. Kasumi also defines herself by other people: her ‘father’s dutiful daughter’, her ‘mother’s little helper’, or ‘that nice young lady from that poor family who lost a mother at such a young age’. This is an attempt to please others as well as construct a set way of acting. No matter what happens, she knows what to do and what to expect.
Thus, Kasumi has a high respect for authority figures. She is the “good girl” who obeys the rules and does what she is told. Seldom does she question what she is asked to do. She likes keeping busy and doing what needs to be done, whether she is told to or not. This young woman is not the type to sit idly by-dinner doesn’t cook itself, you know!
Kasumi is passive my inclination, not nature; the women in her family are known for their strong opinions. It is simply that, when confronted with a stronger personality or half-reasonable argument, she will fold. She doesn’t enjoy disagreement and gives in to keep the peace: her inner peace. Kasumi keeps her steal spine carefully hidden. For example, if someone is misbehaving they will warrant a concerned conversation on what is appropriate and what is not. She is too polite to say anything out right, and so accomplishes this through kind words and small talk. Politeness is ingrained into her very pores (she ‘-san’s no matter what!)
Kasumi is also a practical person, and thinks in practical terms. She takes life as it comes. Planning ahead, beyond tomorrow’s dinner, is hard to do.
World View
Kasumi has a selective attention disorder; that is, she sees what she wants to see. “Bad things” do not exist is her realm of thought, and because Kasumi only sees what she expects to she doesn’t do well with conflict. She copes through avoidance: physically, mentally, or emotionally. The thing that happened last week that upset her? Well, it didn’t really happen. If it is insisted that it did indeed take place, then of course it was perfectly all right. Really, it was nothing to get excited over. Denial runs through her head like water down a stream, flushing out the negative and keeping everything rosy in her world.
For Kasumi, a person’s actions are never personal. If you ignore her, you’re having a bad day. Yell at her and you will invite her concern instead of drive her away. Selflessness comes easily; it is doing things simply for herself that Kasumi finds difficult.
Social Aspect
Kasumi has a kind word for everyone, and is the first to offer help or advice if you are troubled. Talk to Kasumi about your problems, and you’ll end up with a thoughtful, if mundane, answer. If you’ve met her, you’re her friend. Kasumi likes everyone upon first impression and will think the best of strangers even if they’re trying to rob a store before her eyes. She is emotionally incapable of admitting dislike and forgives easily.
Kasumi likes children to the point of enjoyment, and has a tendency to mother them unconditionally. This can be stifling for those of more independent mind, but it is hard to refuse her whole-hearted attention.
Kasumi works well with others; in fact she prefers to do things as a team. Her situation, however, has kept her distant from her peers. During high school she belonged to the ‘Go Home Club’; she had things to do at home while others her age joined clubs and hung out. At heart, Kasumi is lonely even though she has her family. Feeling lonely is not something she wants to admit (see: denial) and has, as such, pushed an urge for company down.
Other
»Kasumi can cook anything. Give her a recipe and prepare to eat delicious food!
»Kasumi is 5’4” and built like a brick house. She has long brown hair, bangs, and brown eyes. Her clothing of choice is a housedress and an apron. She carts around a purse that is bigger than her head.
»Her favorite color is green.
»She can sing like a siren, but is too shy to do so unless accompanied by her sisters or friends.
»Kasumi has a hobby of reading medical books for fun. She borrows ancient, and not so ancient, texts from her good friend Dr. Tofu, which cover chi techniques, advanced physiology, and so on.
»Her dream growing up was to be a nurse. This was pushed to the back burner until she could be sure her family could take care of themselves.
Additional Links:
Biography in a Wiki entry.
Convent fan-page.
First Person (entry type):
Dinner has become less lively since Akane-chan and Ranma-kun left on their training trip. Uncle Saotome and father have stayed to enjoy their games, and do eat all of their snacks. Nabiki-chan is beginning her second year soon, with such astounding grades. I wonder how she does it, and has so much time to enjoy herself too. She has never been one to study extensively. It seems she is getting enough sleep and eating right, but still, I hope she is not pushing herself too hard. Ranma-kun’s little friends visit now and again, but without such extravagance as before. The outer wall has stayed intact for nearly a month!
Everything is going as it should, I expect. I do not wish to say it, however, but things have begun to seem… a bit boring.
There is little I must manage beyond necessary chores. Perhaps I should visit Aiko-chan? I have not seen her since middle school. Last she wrote, she was expecting her first born soon enough. As such, I wouldn’t wish to impose on her…
I suppose I could, pursue work outside of the house? I graduated high school with adequate scores, and it is not as if we could not use the money. Father will, no doubt, have something to say to this.
In any case, the market is closing soon. I’d best get something good for dinner. I should return Dr. Tofu’s book on the way, as well; he mentioned he had something for me last time. I wonder what it is?
Third Person:
Kasumi had cut her hair a year ago. She doesn’t really remember why, only that there had been a need for change. Her hair had felt so loose and flighty when it came only to her shoulders, covering her face at the slightest breeze. It tickled her nose on windy days even now. She had kept it loose: too short to tie back, at first, and now it was so uncomfortable when restricted. Strands tugged oddly at her scalp when she tried and no matter how she positioned it, it was much too tight.
The brush felt lovely against her scalp, untangling last night’s knots. Kasumi smiled at herself in the mirror, running the bristles through again. Her hair came over her shoulder to rest just under her collar bone, almost as long as it had been. It weighed comfortably there, familiar.
A knock drew her attention; Kasumi turned in her chair to see her younger sister, Nabiki, leaning against her doorframe. She held something bunched in one hand, fist too tightly clutched for Kasumi to see what it was.
“Hey, sis.” Nabiki smiled at her, shoulder braced against the wood. “Can I come in?”
“Of course,” said Kasumi, turning back to her mirror. “You are up early this morning.”
Her sister came across the room and settled comfortably behind Kasumi’s chair, arms crossed over the back. “I’ve got something for you.” Their eyes met through the mirror, and Kasumi laid down her brush.
“Oh?”
“Yeah. Something I think you’ve been missing.” Nabiki raised her fist and opened it over Kasumi’s shoulder. Out tumbled a glossy green ribbon, which Nabiki held pinch at one end so it wouldn’t fall.
“It’s a lovely ribbon, Nabiki-chan.” Kasumi turned her head to get a better look, shifting her hair off of her shoulder and into a wave down her back.
“Glad you like it.” Nabiki leaned forward to take the other end of the ribbon in her opposite hand, arms surrounding Kasumi in something like a hug. “Want to try it on?”
“Oh…” Kasumi looked down at her hands, thumbs shifting against one another. “That’s all right. I don’t need to.”
“Come on, sis. It’ll look good!”
Kasumi smiled slightly at her little sister’s enthusiasm; she always did consider what she thought the best way to do things. It wouldn’t hurt to try. If it were too uncomfortable, it would be easily removed.
“As you insist,” murmured Kasumi.
“Good.” Nabiki’s smile widened into a victorious grin. “I’ll even put it in for you.”
The ribbon was dropped onto her lap as Nabiki gathered her hair to one side again. A familiar feeling settled into Kasumi’s chest as she watched her sister wrap and tie the ribbon. The face in the mirror was no stranger, but a well remembered one. She’d looked like this before, hair over one shoulder in a loose but binding bow. She’d felt like this before, comfortable and none-too-tightly wound.
“How’s it look?” was asked into her ear.
The face in the mirror smiled as Kasumi did, bright and open. “Very good, thank you.”
Player LJ: My personal rosethornli or RP kasumisockrock journals.
Way to contact you:
Email: rosethornli@gmail.com (is the best way)
AIM: kasumiroselyn (though it is rarely used)
Plurk: dreamsoftheroselin (sparingly used, as well)
Are you at least 15?:Oh, most certainly yes.
Current Characters: None at all, strangely enough.
Character: Tendou Kasumi
Fandom: Ranma ½
Mun Things:I would like to bring Kasumi back a year from the day she left. She won’t remember her friends/the community at first, but will slowly progress to a point that she remembers everything. Please let me know if this is all right!
Character Notes:
History:
Her Family
Kasumi is the oldest of Tendou Soun, a practicing martial artist of the Anything Goes Style. She has two teenage sisters: Nabiki, the mercenary sort, and Akane, the tomboyish sort. Her mother is deceased.
Her Role
Kasumi has always admired her mother-as a child, she would follow her from room to room. Around the age of eight, her mother passed away from a wasting illness. The Tendou family nearly fell apart. As the oldest child, Kasumi saw her duty and stepped into her mother’s place. She has done her best to keep house and cook meals for her family, steadily transforming into the matriarch of the household. Through her school years and her graduation from high school, Kasumi has given love and care to her younger sisters as well as her father.
Unexpected Guests Change Everything
In his youth, Tendou Soun was one of two apprentices who undertook the Anything Goes Style of Martial Arts. His fellow disciple was Saotome Genma. As students they promised to join their two schools into one joint school, cementing the Tendou and Saotome styles into one complete Anything Goes Style of Martial Arts-by engaging their children before they were even born.
The year is 1991. One rainy afternoon, a panda appeared in the front hallway of the Tendou household with a human girl draped over its shoulder. Nonplused, this odd pair was nevertheless invited in for tea. After some side-tracking and discussion, the girl was revealed to be the panda’s son, Ranma, cursed to become a girl when splashed with cold water. The panda was, in actuality, Soun’s old friend Saotome Genma. Thus, Saotome Ranma and Tendou Akane became engaged at the tender age of sixteen through the conniving of their parents and, in one case, siblings. Unfortunately, this caused unseen disasters of a chaotic, collateral level for their hometown and many, many personal lives.
Oh my.
Throughout the debacle of cursed fighters, property damage, and sudden engagements that followed, Kasumi remained consistent. She kept her head down and took care of the household. No meal was left uncooked; no clothing went unlaundered-- though she is still waiting for the day her younger sister and brother-in-law finally tie the knot.
Personality:
Identity
In relation to herself, Kasumi prescribes to traditional gender roles. Her mother was the perfect woman, and she believes she should be the same. She is soft-spoken, passive, and kind. Kasumi never raises her voice and remains calm no matter what the situation. Kasumi also defines herself by other people: her ‘father’s dutiful daughter’, her ‘mother’s little helper’, or ‘that nice young lady from that poor family who lost a mother at such a young age’. This is an attempt to please others as well as construct a set way of acting. No matter what happens, she knows what to do and what to expect.
Thus, Kasumi has a high respect for authority figures. She is the “good girl” who obeys the rules and does what she is told. Seldom does she question what she is asked to do. She likes keeping busy and doing what needs to be done, whether she is told to or not. This young woman is not the type to sit idly by-dinner doesn’t cook itself, you know!
Kasumi is passive my inclination, not nature; the women in her family are known for their strong opinions. It is simply that, when confronted with a stronger personality or half-reasonable argument, she will fold. She doesn’t enjoy disagreement and gives in to keep the peace: her inner peace. Kasumi keeps her steal spine carefully hidden. For example, if someone is misbehaving they will warrant a concerned conversation on what is appropriate and what is not. She is too polite to say anything out right, and so accomplishes this through kind words and small talk. Politeness is ingrained into her very pores (she ‘-san’s no matter what!)
Kasumi is also a practical person, and thinks in practical terms. She takes life as it comes. Planning ahead, beyond tomorrow’s dinner, is hard to do.
World View
Kasumi has a selective attention disorder; that is, she sees what she wants to see. “Bad things” do not exist is her realm of thought, and because Kasumi only sees what she expects to she doesn’t do well with conflict. She copes through avoidance: physically, mentally, or emotionally. The thing that happened last week that upset her? Well, it didn’t really happen. If it is insisted that it did indeed take place, then of course it was perfectly all right. Really, it was nothing to get excited over. Denial runs through her head like water down a stream, flushing out the negative and keeping everything rosy in her world.
For Kasumi, a person’s actions are never personal. If you ignore her, you’re having a bad day. Yell at her and you will invite her concern instead of drive her away. Selflessness comes easily; it is doing things simply for herself that Kasumi finds difficult.
Social Aspect
Kasumi has a kind word for everyone, and is the first to offer help or advice if you are troubled. Talk to Kasumi about your problems, and you’ll end up with a thoughtful, if mundane, answer. If you’ve met her, you’re her friend. Kasumi likes everyone upon first impression and will think the best of strangers even if they’re trying to rob a store before her eyes. She is emotionally incapable of admitting dislike and forgives easily.
Kasumi likes children to the point of enjoyment, and has a tendency to mother them unconditionally. This can be stifling for those of more independent mind, but it is hard to refuse her whole-hearted attention.
Kasumi works well with others; in fact she prefers to do things as a team. Her situation, however, has kept her distant from her peers. During high school she belonged to the ‘Go Home Club’; she had things to do at home while others her age joined clubs and hung out. At heart, Kasumi is lonely even though she has her family. Feeling lonely is not something she wants to admit (see: denial) and has, as such, pushed an urge for company down.
Other
»Kasumi can cook anything. Give her a recipe and prepare to eat delicious food!
»Kasumi is 5’4” and built like a brick house. She has long brown hair, bangs, and brown eyes. Her clothing of choice is a housedress and an apron. She carts around a purse that is bigger than her head.
»Her favorite color is green.
»She can sing like a siren, but is too shy to do so unless accompanied by her sisters or friends.
»Kasumi has a hobby of reading medical books for fun. She borrows ancient, and not so ancient, texts from her good friend Dr. Tofu, which cover chi techniques, advanced physiology, and so on.
»Her dream growing up was to be a nurse. This was pushed to the back burner until she could be sure her family could take care of themselves.
Additional Links:
Biography in a Wiki entry.
Convent fan-page.
First Person (entry type):
Dinner has become less lively since Akane-chan and Ranma-kun left on their training trip. Uncle Saotome and father have stayed to enjoy their games, and do eat all of their snacks. Nabiki-chan is beginning her second year soon, with such astounding grades. I wonder how she does it, and has so much time to enjoy herself too. She has never been one to study extensively. It seems she is getting enough sleep and eating right, but still, I hope she is not pushing herself too hard. Ranma-kun’s little friends visit now and again, but without such extravagance as before. The outer wall has stayed intact for nearly a month!
Everything is going as it should, I expect. I do not wish to say it, however, but things have begun to seem… a bit boring.
There is little I must manage beyond necessary chores. Perhaps I should visit Aiko-chan? I have not seen her since middle school. Last she wrote, she was expecting her first born soon enough. As such, I wouldn’t wish to impose on her…
I suppose I could, pursue work outside of the house? I graduated high school with adequate scores, and it is not as if we could not use the money. Father will, no doubt, have something to say to this.
In any case, the market is closing soon. I’d best get something good for dinner. I should return Dr. Tofu’s book on the way, as well; he mentioned he had something for me last time. I wonder what it is?
Third Person:
Kasumi had cut her hair a year ago. She doesn’t really remember why, only that there had been a need for change. Her hair had felt so loose and flighty when it came only to her shoulders, covering her face at the slightest breeze. It tickled her nose on windy days even now. She had kept it loose: too short to tie back, at first, and now it was so uncomfortable when restricted. Strands tugged oddly at her scalp when she tried and no matter how she positioned it, it was much too tight.
The brush felt lovely against her scalp, untangling last night’s knots. Kasumi smiled at herself in the mirror, running the bristles through again. Her hair came over her shoulder to rest just under her collar bone, almost as long as it had been. It weighed comfortably there, familiar.
A knock drew her attention; Kasumi turned in her chair to see her younger sister, Nabiki, leaning against her doorframe. She held something bunched in one hand, fist too tightly clutched for Kasumi to see what it was.
“Hey, sis.” Nabiki smiled at her, shoulder braced against the wood. “Can I come in?”
“Of course,” said Kasumi, turning back to her mirror. “You are up early this morning.”
Her sister came across the room and settled comfortably behind Kasumi’s chair, arms crossed over the back. “I’ve got something for you.” Their eyes met through the mirror, and Kasumi laid down her brush.
“Oh?”
“Yeah. Something I think you’ve been missing.” Nabiki raised her fist and opened it over Kasumi’s shoulder. Out tumbled a glossy green ribbon, which Nabiki held pinch at one end so it wouldn’t fall.
“It’s a lovely ribbon, Nabiki-chan.” Kasumi turned her head to get a better look, shifting her hair off of her shoulder and into a wave down her back.
“Glad you like it.” Nabiki leaned forward to take the other end of the ribbon in her opposite hand, arms surrounding Kasumi in something like a hug. “Want to try it on?”
“Oh…” Kasumi looked down at her hands, thumbs shifting against one another. “That’s all right. I don’t need to.”
“Come on, sis. It’ll look good!”
Kasumi smiled slightly at her little sister’s enthusiasm; she always did consider what she thought the best way to do things. It wouldn’t hurt to try. If it were too uncomfortable, it would be easily removed.
“As you insist,” murmured Kasumi.
“Good.” Nabiki’s smile widened into a victorious grin. “I’ll even put it in for you.”
The ribbon was dropped onto her lap as Nabiki gathered her hair to one side again. A familiar feeling settled into Kasumi’s chest as she watched her sister wrap and tie the ribbon. The face in the mirror was no stranger, but a well remembered one. She’d looked like this before, hair over one shoulder in a loose but binding bow. She’d felt like this before, comfortable and none-too-tightly wound.
“How’s it look?” was asked into her ear.
The face in the mirror smiled as Kasumi did, bright and open. “Very good, thank you.”