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E-Mail: twisting.lilac[@]gmail.com
IM: [AIM] monotone days
Characters played at Discedo: n/a
Character's Name: Chihiro Shindou
Series: ef - a tales of memories.
Timeline: episode nine
Canon Resource Link: wikipedia; episode-by-episode summaries
Due to a traffic accident when she was twelve-years-old, Chihiro has a severe case of anterograde amnesia, hers in particular being that she cannot preserve a memory for more than thirteen hours save for the ones she made before the accident. Basically, she can recall memories from seven in the morning till eight at night, but after another hour passes, she loses an hour of memories. At seven o' clock the next morning, she will have forgotten everything until six at night the previous day. Any memory before the accident or within thirteen hours can ironically enough be remembered perfectly. As a general rule, she keeps a diary and writes down what happened during her day in it to remember the basics of what she did. To remember important things, she must think back over and over again to the specific memory before she goes to sleep to keep it from being forgotten. She also lost her left eye in the accident, and while it is not stated in canon why, she then moves from Japan to Australia and lives with her legal guardian, Yuu Himura. She keeps in contact with her twin sister Kei through text messages.
Fast forward four years and you have Chihiro sitting alone at an abandoned train station, looking up at the sky. She can't attend school due to her memory issue and thus has no actual friends. One day, she meets a boy named Renji Asou as he searched for a place to read. Though both of them are ridiculously shy, she eventually opens up to him as he keeps returning to the train station to see her. She reveals to him that her dream is to write a novel but believes that she cannot because of her disability—her impressions of the characters and plot would change from day-to-day, sometimes causing her to rewrite entire sections and so forth. Renji then decides to help her write her novel, and through the process the two eventually fall in love with each other.
Her newfound love for Renji soon causes Chihiro to stay awake longer and avoid sleep so she can remember the time she has spent with him. She rereads her diary entries relentlessly and late into the night in hopes that she'll remember her memories of Renji. These acts keep her mind in a constant state of stress, and when she asks to hold Renji's hand the next day, the relief she feels in his agreeing to is so great that she collapses. Unfortunately, Chihiro then sleeps for fourteen hours, and when she wakes up, she no longer remembers Renji, her novel, not even the fact that she lost her left eye. She wakes up as a frightened, lost twelve-year-old in the body of a sixteen-year-old.
The point of canon Chihiro is taken from is just a little after that. She has calmed down a bit after losing all of her memories and is slowly getting to know (and fall in love with) Renji again, though she still has some trouble reconciling the fact that they are indeed the same age.
Personality: Chihiro is a very shy girl, and while part of it is due to her disorder, a lot of it is just her. Compared to her twin sister, she was never the loud one, never the outgoing one. She's slow to make friends, though that maybe because she's never had a chance to. However, that doesn't mean that she enjoys her solitude. The second time she meets Renji (as the first was basically him running away from her out of embarassment) she hastily explains that she doesn't mind seeing him at the train station, and the third time she hugs him out of gratitude for coming back to see her. Of course, she had to reaffirm his identity each time, but the fact that he returned to be her friend meant more to her than anything else. To her, a simple "see you later" is a promise to meet one another again, and these promises are one of the only things that can connect the her of one day to the her of the next.
Chihiro feels that her life in general is worthless and pointless as she isn't able to do anything, and this sad belief is apparent in everything she does, from her novel to her math exercises. She has little motivation to do anything with her life simply because she won't remember. Any passion she has is directed towards her desire to write a novel, but she doesn't attempt to do that either because of the difficulties her disorder would present her with. Even in her own diary, she a has a bulleted note saying to avoid others as much as possible as she can only cause them trouble. Still, her desire for companionship is evident in that she further instructs herself to record everything about anyone she meets in the diary.
On a day-by-day basis though, Chihiro appears as a rather average girl save for her eyepatch. She enjoys cooking and eating, keeping a point record of how good her meals are in her diary, and likes to go out and about in town. She's a bit sensitive, and movies will make her cry even if they're not meant to be sad ones. While she doesn't actively read books, she has an interest in writing them. On the surface, she really is just a normal girl and tries hard to be one.
As she writes more of her novel, it is slowly revealed that it is really just an allegory for how she views the world and her life. In her narrow perspective, she is the only person in the world, and her only connection to other human beings is through her memories of when she was younger. She cannot create any new experiences and cannot form new relationships. She is utterly, utterly alone, and there is no true way to solve this situation. It would seem that her relationship with Renji is a cure for her loneliness, but when she sleeps for fourteen hours and loses all memories of him, it shows how truly fragile her bonds with people are. They can dissolve and disintegrate like dust. Even after she recovers from the shock of it all, she is wary and hesitant to become friends with him again because she knows that she can forget him just as easily as she did before.
What your character can offer: Her ironic ability to remember any memory that has occurred within thirteen hours precisely and a penchant for relating things into strange or whimsical terms (see: relating a math problem about radius into her disorder)
What items will they be bringing with them? the clothes on her back and a bag containing her diary, a pen, and a cellphone
LJ:
aetheraeE-Mail: twisting.lilac[@]gmail.com
IM: [AIM] monotone days
Characters played at Discedo: n/a
Character's Name: Chihiro Shindou
Series: ef - a tales of memories.
Timeline: episode nine
Canon Resource Link: wikipedia; episode-by-episode summaries
Due to a traffic accident when she was twelve-years-old, Chihiro has a severe case of anterograde amnesia, hers in particular being that she cannot preserve a memory for more than thirteen hours save for the ones she made before the accident. Basically, she can recall memories from seven in the morning till eight at night, but after another hour passes, she loses an hour of memories. At seven o' clock the next morning, she will have forgotten everything until six at night the previous day. Any memory before the accident or within thirteen hours can ironically enough be remembered perfectly. As a general rule, she keeps a diary and writes down what happened during her day in it to remember the basics of what she did. To remember important things, she must think back over and over again to the specific memory before she goes to sleep to keep it from being forgotten. She also lost her left eye in the accident, and while it is not stated in canon why, she then moves from Japan to Australia and lives with her legal guardian, Yuu Himura. She keeps in contact with her twin sister Kei through text messages.
Fast forward four years and you have Chihiro sitting alone at an abandoned train station, looking up at the sky. She can't attend school due to her memory issue and thus has no actual friends. One day, she meets a boy named Renji Asou as he searched for a place to read. Though both of them are ridiculously shy, she eventually opens up to him as he keeps returning to the train station to see her. She reveals to him that her dream is to write a novel but believes that she cannot because of her disability—her impressions of the characters and plot would change from day-to-day, sometimes causing her to rewrite entire sections and so forth. Renji then decides to help her write her novel, and through the process the two eventually fall in love with each other.
Her newfound love for Renji soon causes Chihiro to stay awake longer and avoid sleep so she can remember the time she has spent with him. She rereads her diary entries relentlessly and late into the night in hopes that she'll remember her memories of Renji. These acts keep her mind in a constant state of stress, and when she asks to hold Renji's hand the next day, the relief she feels in his agreeing to is so great that she collapses. Unfortunately, Chihiro then sleeps for fourteen hours, and when she wakes up, she no longer remembers Renji, her novel, not even the fact that she lost her left eye. She wakes up as a frightened, lost twelve-year-old in the body of a sixteen-year-old.
The point of canon Chihiro is taken from is just a little after that. She has calmed down a bit after losing all of her memories and is slowly getting to know (and fall in love with) Renji again, though she still has some trouble reconciling the fact that they are indeed the same age.
Personality: Chihiro is a very shy girl, and while part of it is due to her disorder, a lot of it is just her. Compared to her twin sister, she was never the loud one, never the outgoing one. She's slow to make friends, though that maybe because she's never had a chance to. However, that doesn't mean that she enjoys her solitude. The second time she meets Renji (as the first was basically him running away from her out of embarassment) she hastily explains that she doesn't mind seeing him at the train station, and the third time she hugs him out of gratitude for coming back to see her. Of course, she had to reaffirm his identity each time, but the fact that he returned to be her friend meant more to her than anything else. To her, a simple "see you later" is a promise to meet one another again, and these promises are one of the only things that can connect the her of one day to the her of the next.
Chihiro feels that her life in general is worthless and pointless as she isn't able to do anything, and this sad belief is apparent in everything she does, from her novel to her math exercises. She has little motivation to do anything with her life simply because she won't remember. Any passion she has is directed towards her desire to write a novel, but she doesn't attempt to do that either because of the difficulties her disorder would present her with. Even in her own diary, she a has a bulleted note saying to avoid others as much as possible as she can only cause them trouble. Still, her desire for companionship is evident in that she further instructs herself to record everything about anyone she meets in the diary.
On a day-by-day basis though, Chihiro appears as a rather average girl save for her eyepatch. She enjoys cooking and eating, keeping a point record of how good her meals are in her diary, and likes to go out and about in town. She's a bit sensitive, and movies will make her cry even if they're not meant to be sad ones. While she doesn't actively read books, she has an interest in writing them. On the surface, she really is just a normal girl and tries hard to be one.
As she writes more of her novel, it is slowly revealed that it is really just an allegory for how she views the world and her life. In her narrow perspective, she is the only person in the world, and her only connection to other human beings is through her memories of when she was younger. She cannot create any new experiences and cannot form new relationships. She is utterly, utterly alone, and there is no true way to solve this situation. It would seem that her relationship with Renji is a cure for her loneliness, but when she sleeps for fourteen hours and loses all memories of him, it shows how truly fragile her bonds with people are. They can dissolve and disintegrate like dust. Even after she recovers from the shock of it all, she is wary and hesitant to become friends with him again because she knows that she can forget him just as easily as she did before.
What your character can offer: Her ironic ability to remember any memory that has occurred within thirteen hours precisely and a penchant for relating things into strange or whimsical terms (see: relating a math problem about radius into her disorder)
What items will they be bringing with them? the clothes on her back and a bag containing her diary, a pen, and a cellphone