User:Anne

Anne Moriyama is almost always called "Anne" as very few use her last name unless they are her parents back on her homeworld and she is in deep trouble. Shy, meek, timid and awkward, Anne uses her music to express what she cannot put into words. She is slowly working to overcome her nervousness and her introversion, and her stammer is already fading away. She fears heights, rejection, saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, awkward silences, and abandonment. She loves to be musical, in her speech and laughter and moans and sighs. A budding magick user, she is obsessed with flight, especially broken wings since only magick can mend broken wings to work again, and only magick lets wings fly, thus leading her to see broken wings as magick itself.

Personality

Years of hiding her sexuality, of having crushes she could never admit, of having to dig deep, deep, deep into her homeworld's version of the Internet just to find like-minded individuals with the same orientation as herself have combined to result in Anne a rather rich mix of social awkwardness and moments of never-reckless bravery.

Anne does not act brashly, nor without the utmost of caution. But, should Anne feel that the moment and her surroundings are 100% safe, she is decisive and forward. Otherwise, she is a blushing, stammering and introverted young woman who is most definitely timid and bordering on withdrawn.

Even when she is bold, it is with a pre-planned "exit strategy" should things go awry. Her moments of bravery are infused with a large degree of timidity, each and every word, move, expression, tone chosen ahead of time to reduce the possibility of a disastrous result.

Appearance

She appears even younger than her 19 years, closer to a woman who has just barely finished the changes brought on by puberty, leading to many to think she is but 15 or 16. She has pure, pure red hair that looks like a ponytail after a massive explosion had undone all of its neatness. Her skin is one shade darker than pure-Irish-pale, befreckled heavily. Her eyes do not even come close to matching, with one a brilliant teal-blue, the other energy-drink-green. She has a very slight upturn to her nose, as if she had endured one tiny sneeze too many. Thin lips and pure white, straight teeth complete her facial appearance.

She has an ever-so-slightly long neck, and the rest of her frame is lithe, with small breasts that measure around the 34-AB range, boyish curves, slender and toned arms. Her thin wrists lead to delicate hands with bitten nails that are a testament to her perpetually nervous state of mind. The left hand's fingertips are rather heavily calloused due to many, many hours practicing a cello. Her stomach is flat but well-fed. She has legs that seem just a little too long for her 4 feet 8 inches of height. Every pair of shoes she wears exposes her dainty and well-maintained feet in some way, with soft soles shown by her sandals and most other footwear, and baby-pink toenail polish.

Her pendant, an A-natural 440Hz (A440) tuning fork on a silver chain, can only be removed by her own hand, feeling to others that it weighs tons.

Biography

Anne's Native Japan

Through a twist in the legislation passed by the Japanese Diet, any and all homosexuals, including those simply rumored to be non-heterosexual, were stripped of all rights with the solitary exception being that they cannot be physically assaulted (although enough loopholes in the law existed that even that provision was effectively moot.)

Anne's parents, full-blooded Japanese dating back beyond memory, were both educated in the West and, while never broaching the subject with Anne, saw in her introversion and fear a high likelihood that the law terrified her. As an act of parental love, they shipped Anne to continue her studies abroad.

The College Years

Anne's parents were indeed correct, as the now-14 year old girl, having skipped many grades of compulsory education, found herself as a freshman at Dublin's Trinity College. Their parting gift, a tuning fork pendant, two suitcases of clothes, and their love her only traveling companions, Anne found herself in Dublin, and soon found work, many years underage, as a bartender. She never even attempted to try to find a young woman to love, still fearing a law that didn't apply to her now that she was outside its reach.

The night she graduated, "Egregia Cum Laude," with degrees from the conservatory in the cello, and in computer science and electrical engineering, she found herself upon a bridge overlooking the all-too-lonely Raglan Road. Wishing upon her pendant to be taken to a land of peace, where lesbians are free to love and live happily and undisturbed, she found herself blinded by white light, and deafened by the same A-natural, 440Hz (A440) note as her tuning fork, naked upon a hilltop.

Yuriba

After arriving and settling in to the Island's ways, Anne slowly but surely began making friends and falling in love. She now owns a small house in the woods.

Anne's Abilities

Anne is blessed with perfect pitch coupled with the ability to match pitch as well. Upon hearing any sound, she can instantly tell what musical note is its counterpart. Should a musical note be up-tuned or down-tuned, she can also match its pitch perfectly and instantly. This ability also allows her to memorize with perfect accuracy any and all things she ever hears.

Additionally, Anne is both a lexical prodigy, able to recall anything she has ever read, be it printed or written by hand, with approximately 98% accuracy, coupled with a reading speed of 120 pages per hour paperback, 100 pages per hour trade paperback, and 85 pages per hour hardcover, all with the same 98% recall.

While just barely missing the cutoff for true supergenius-level, Anne makes up for it with a degree of "street smarts" despite her seemingly overpowering naivete. Her nervous and shy and interoverted nature are not a front, but years spent in a strange city have taught her a thing or two about keeping herself safe.