[Profile]
Arcana: Sun
Time Period: 2012
Name: Aki Himura
Gender: Female
Blood Type: O
Birthday/Sign: May 15
Age: 22
Occupation/Grade: Student-Teacher//Second year grad student at local art school
Room: she lives in her own apartment
PB: Adachi Hana from Yankee-kun to Megane-chan
Appearance: She managed to grow a few inches from her time during high school, standing at an average 5'7" so she blends in well enough with the other people on her campus. Still, she doesn't cut a threatening figure in the slightest. She's just barely too skinny to be considered 'slim', and has long limbs despite her lack of intimidating height. She has a small but sharp face, off-set by her round eyes. Her eyes are a soft brown, always bright in reflection of her large amount of energy; she used to wear contacts, but but since decided that glasses work better with her style. Aki has long black hair and reaches down to her elbows. It's naturally rather straight, but has a bit of a wave to it because she ties it up so often into a pony tail or twin braids, or some strange experimental hair-do. Her uneven bangs hang into her right eye (her cousin cut them for her, so they're a bit choppy) and she'll often pin them back with some kind of cute barrette.
Her clothes normally consist of T-shirts that are much too large for her, and are more often than not covered in paint splatters. The t-shirt is pulled back and tied with a rubber band or whatever she can get her hands on. She'll wear khaki shorts whenever she gets the chance, even if it's cold out. She loves her flats, and has often doodled over them until there is no more room to doodle. Sometimes, however, she will have to wear more appropriate attire when teaching the high school classes. Still, she likes to make sure that it's easy enough to move about in and she wouldn't mind if it gets dirty. She has two piercings on each ear (the second pair done by her cousin), and she wears a few brightly colored necklaces. Aki can always be seen toting around an overly large stuffed frog, even during classes. She likes wearing hats, and her favorite kind are newsboy caps.
Personality: Aki is most certainly not a difficult person to figure out... unless you had a hard time understanding happy people. As it is, she has a hard time understanding anyone that isn't as chipper as she is. She might be considered a little air-headed, but she just enjoys the simple things in life. Aki is always smiling and laughing (even while teaching class). She has a lot of friends, and she tries her best to help out everyone she can--more so now that she is a teacher. The only problem with her overly-determined desire to help all (she still dreams of being a super hero when she grows up), she gets bored and frustrated with difficult things very easily. Her notebooks are filled with sketches from during classes when her mind wanders, and her close friends get frustrated when she tries to leave duties up to them that she had originally taken on. It's not that she wants to be considered flaky or anything (because she will always follow through with it in the end, even if forced to do it), but she has a habit to search out new and entertaining things very quickly. Despite this, she tries her best at everything she starts--as long as it holds her attention. This also causes a few difficulties in being a decent teacher, but the students seem to like her carefree attitude and lack of tests (because, really, who wants to take a test in an art class?)
Aki enjoys scary stories and haunted houses, often making her friends go with her on summer trips to abandoned locations to try and find ghosts. She also loves to eat, but spicy foods are her favorite. She loves strawberry flavored ramune and anything that's melon flavored (popcicles, fruit chews, soda, etc). She enjoys hanging out with her friends after classes with them when she doesn't have work to worry about. She is in the art/Photography club ad Adessi, working as the club supervisor. Aki also loves going to karaoke, even though she's not too good. And: she's a bit of an otaku. As well as being a super hero, she wants to be a mangaka when she grows up.
History: Born to Miyu and Hana Himura, Aki is an only child that grew up a little spoiled by her parents. Her father is a computer engineer, and her mother works at a local daycare, where Aki sometimes helped out after school on days she didn't have club. She lived in a run-of-the-mill city in Japan all the way through college, and didn't have much of a problem with the 'boring' life-style that it brought. She filled her time with various kinds of art (she preferred using mixed media and drawing with pencil/markers/crayons), a passion she picked up from her cousin.
At the age of nine, her cousin Yuuki came to live with her family. Yuuki was very much an out-spoken, artistic young woman of seventeen, and treated Aki like a little sister. Her cousin had just graduated from high school and came to live with them to cut down on living costs when she went to an art school near by. It was then that Aki began to pick up the desire for all kinds of art. Yuuki wasted no time in taking care of her younger cousin, taking her around when she went to paint and gave Aki her first digital camera on her thirteenth birthday. There is no doubt that Aki's cheerful personality and sense of style came from her cousin. Yuuki moved out of the house during the fall of of Aki's freshman year at high school However, she still met up with Aki on the weekends, even through the time when Aki was in college. With Yuuki's help, she was able to attend the same art school.
During her third year in college, Aki did an exchange-student program with a family in America. She quickly fell in love with the new culture, which was such a change from the small-town life she had been leading in Japan. The family that she lived with for the year helped her with applying to graduate schools after she returned home, and after she graduated with her art degree, she moved back to America. She's been here for two years, though this new school year marks her first as a student-teacher at Adessi Hall, where she teaches art twice a week and oversees the art and photography club.
Other: She'll sometimes say things that don't make sense, because she still doesn't quite grasp English as well as she should for living in America for three years and taking lots of classes.
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