Forum:Kiko Kawabata

Orangecoloredsky (talk) 00:19, October 7, 2018 (UTC)

The Sorting Quiz

A. Select the option that best fits your character. (Remember, this part is a requirement for every character you make! Please italicize the answer.)

1. What are you looking forward to learning at Hogwarts the most?


 * A. Transfiguration


 * B. Magical Creatures


 * C. Hexes & Jinxes


 * D. The castle's secret areas

2. Pick one:


 * B. Stars


 * A. Moon

3. If flowers adapted their scent to attract the unwary, what would it smell of in order to lure you in?


 * A. Parchment


 * B. Freshly baked bread


 * C. A crackling log fire


 * D. The Sea

4. Pick one:


 * A. Dawn


 * B. Dusk

'''5. Four boxes are placed before you. Which one do you open?'''


 * A. The ornate one, promising secret knowledge and unbearable temptation


 * B. The small, tortoiseshell box, embellished in gold, with a small, squeaking creature


 * C. The small, pewter box that reads "I only open for the worthy"


 * D. The gleaming black box marked with Merlin's rune

6. Pick one:


 * A. White


 * B. Black

7. What road tempts you the most?


 * A. The cobbled street lined with ancient buildings


 * B. The wide, sunny, grassy lane


 * C. The twisting, leaf-strewn path through woods


 * D. The narrow, dark, lantern-lit alley

8. Pick one:


 * A. Forest


 * B. River

9. What scares you most?


 * A. Speaking in such a silly voice, people will laugh at you and mock you


 * B. Waking up and realizing your family & friends don't know you


 * C. An eye at the keyhole of the dark, windowless room where you're locked


 * D. Standing on top of something high, without anything to stop you from falling

'''10. It's late, you're walking alone, and hear a peculiar cry you believe has a magical source. What do you do?'''


 * A. Wait for developments, while mentally reviewing the most appropriate spells


 * B. Draw your wand & stand your ground


 * C. Draw your wand & search for the source


 * D. Proceed with caution, keep a hand on the concealed wand, and keep an eye out

Number of A's: 3 Number of B's: 6 Number of C's: 0 Number of D's: 1

The Character's Background

1) Give a description of your character's personality. It must be at least two paragraphs long, seven sentences each.

Kiko is a youthful girl who has always been very close to her family and frequently spends time with them. She enjoys recalling her days and writes in a diary to record the day's happenings, hoping she can use some information from her personal life experiences to write a story. She loves writing, but frequently hits writer's blocks and hasn't "found her inspiration" yet. She relies on her family and few close friends for praise and support, but is terrible at accepting compliments from peers she doesn't know well. She is friendly but distant, as she's unused to being around lots of people her age. She can be childish at times, as she was always the baby of the family and babied as a kid. She struggles with anxiety and hates public speaking.

Once you get to know Kiko, however, you'll find that she is a very good friend. She's loyal and will stand up for you, although her squeaky voice might cause you to be laughed at, but you'll appreciate her efforts. She relies on others to support her, and is very meek. She wants to be braver, but her constant fear of failure causes her to shy away from risk. She also gets very anxious about her grades, as she's always been very pressured to have good grades. She looks younger than she is, which causes people to frequently misinterpret her age. She prioritizes others before herself, and is very helpful and finds cleaning relaxing. She has been playing piano since she was four years old and continues to practice it frequently, enjoying practicing well-known classical music pieces. She doesn't have a very good memory, however, she compensates for that with constant study and practice. She is bilingual: fluent in both Japanese and English, although her English can sometimes sound awkward because her accent isn't typically British. Kiko is not particularly religious and identifies as pansexual, because she doesn't care about gender as long as she loves someone.

2) Write about the history of your character. How did they grow up? Is there an incident that made them the way they are? It must be at least three paragraphs long, seven sentences each.

Kiko was born to a Japanese-British Muggle family on a snowy December 12 in Saitama, Japan to teacher Sakiko and businessman Shoma Kawabata. She was named partially after her mother. She is both a Japanese and British citizen, and moved to London when she was a baby. She is the youngest, and has two older sisters and one older brother: Sana (23), Keiji (21), and Hinako (19). She was a surprise baby, as her parents thought they were well past having children, which is why her siblings are so much older than her. Her parents had no children after her. Due to her being the youngest in the family, she was always babied and doted on by her parents. However, she also learned a lot of things she wasn't supposed to know early in life due to her siblings being quite older than her. She was affectionately teased a lot by her siblings as a kid and grew up very close to her family. When she was seven, the family got a grey tabby cat, which Kiko named Sakura, after the cherry blossom.

Kiko went to a very small private school for primary school, and wasn't around many kids her age due to that. When her parents hosted social events, which they frequently did due to their popularity, the people she usually would hang out with were her siblings and their friends. Her siblings' friends treated her like a little sister, and like a kid. Random, unexplainable occurances would happen during these social events, for instance, when Kiko was eight during her parents' New Year's party, once the countdown hit one second, the television overloaded, sparks flying, and was promptly replaced. Sakura seemed to know something out of the ordinary had happened, and huffed at Kiko. The party-goers assumed it was due to some weird electrical issue, and Kiko remembered only a strange rush and then an overwhelming tiredness.

Kiko's parents always aspired to have their children become doctors and scientists, so they would put constant pressure on Kiko to end up like her siblings, who all excelled in school. It was much harder for Kiko because of her bad memory, and she had to study twice as hard as her siblings. When she was nine, her sister Sana went off to university to study to become an anesthesiologist, but three days before her brother Keiji was going to go off to university to study to become an engineer, the special messenger arrived with Kiko's Hogwarts letter.

While the special messenger explained Kiko's situation to her dubious parents, Kiko merely sat and recounted the instances that lead up to this. The New Year's party television. When Conrad Peterson bullied her in second grade and was strangely launched off the seesaw. The blowing bubbles appearing in different shapes, not just spheres. The weird dreams she had with colorful sparks exploding, like fireworks. It all made sense to her then, and when the special messenger finally convinced her parents that he wasn't messing with them, it was hard for her family to adjust to their youngest daughter being a witch, but eventually they grew to understand. Kiko's older sister, Hinako, would make jokes about Kiko blowing people up magically if they were mean to her. The special messenger gave them the information they needed to know about Diagon Alley and how to exchange Muggle pounds for wizarding currency, and then left the family right after.

Kiko's first Diagon Alley visit was eventful, and she frequently got lost, but she was too euphoric to be put down about it. Eventually, her parents gave up trying to understand the wizarding world, and waited for her at the Leaky Cauldron, having lunch. She went to all the stores and bought her supplies, carefully managing her money so she wouldn't spend it all, just in case she wanted to have wizarding currency for later. When she met her parents, they presented her with the family cat, Sakura, and tearfully told Kiko to take Sakura with her, and that Sakura was hers. The first time Kiko left on the train, it was devastating and she missed her family very much, but eventually grew used to it. While at Hogwarts, Kiko frequently writes letters to her parents, and Sakura is her loyal companion who causes her to have to clean her sheets more often to get the fur out. Her first three years at Hogwarts were uneventful and filled with studying and piano practice whenever she could practice.

3) Write about your character's appearance. What do they look like? Are you planning on using a certain model for your character? If you already have a picture in mind, you can put it here! Her model is Ririka Kawashima (Kawashima Ririka), a sixteen year old Japanese actress. If this model has been claimed already please notify me and I will change it! :) Kiko is a short girl, standing at 4'11. Her ethnicity is Japanese, and she has long black hair and is very pale. She tends to wear only black or white, and dresses like she still goes to her private primary school (in uniform), in white collared shirts and black pleated skirts with a black tie, specifically. She only wears black or white unless required to wear color.

4) Is your character a Pure-Blood, Half-Blood or Muggle-Born? Do you have any notable magical relations? (Remember, you cannot be related to important characters from the Harry Potter Universe!) Kiko is a Muggle-born and has no notable magical relations.

5) Does your character have any special abilities? Is he or she of a different magical race, such as Veela, Vampire, Werewolf or the like? Part or half of a magical race counts! (Remember, you cannot have a character with special abilities/of a different magical race as one of your first two characters!) Kiko has no extraordinary special abilities and is not of a different magical race.

6) What year is your character in? Kiko is a fourth-year.

OOC Questions

B. Whilst the first two questions will not affect the character's house (and are mandatory), the others are designed specifically to help users come up with their character's ideal job (and are optional).

1) Is this your first character?


 * A. This is my first character.


 * B. No, this is not my first character.

2) If your answer to the previous question is B, how many characters do you have? How many of them are "exotic"? N/A.

3) What would people who know your character well say they're really good at?

4) What do they really want to avoid in their future job/career? Do they hate working in an office? Do they hate the field?

5) Aside from family and peers, what motivates your character the most in life? What drives their passion?

6) Where does your character's weaknesses lie?

7) Wand cores and woods speak volumes about a person's character. What is your character's wand? Why does it answer to them?

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