GENERAL OVERVIEW:
Name: Haku Kiyoko
Age: 17
Height: 5’1
Weight: 51kg
Hair Color: Soft Black
Eye Color: Deep Maple Brown
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Kiyoko takes the appearance of a small and quiet girl. She is normally seen wearing white robes. Her eyes always hold a faint light of amusement or life inside them, and her posture always holds an air of love and excitement. She always keeps her hair cut short so she doesn’t have to deal with maintaining it, or keeping it out of her way in a fight.
MENTAL DESCRIPTION:
Kiyoko is a kind soul who tries to do her best to help everyone she meets. Gentle and caring Kiyoko never wants to truly kill anyone. She trusts easily and is consequently easily betrayed or left behind. For this, Kiyoko is a strong believer in second chances, and then ten plus that. She will forgive most people of most anything as she believes no one is truly gone, no one is truly evil or dark. However, if you push her mercy, or her forgiveness too far, expect to find yourself in unfamiliar territory against a damaged and grieving soul willing to do what she must to end you. Willing to do whatever she needs to keep her friends and those she trusts safe Kiyoko has a one track mind when it finally comes time, to kill.
HISTORY:
Kiyoko was born into a normal family of moderate wealth. Her early childhood was filled with many lessons, from reading and writing to kindness and modesty. These early lessons helped develop who she is today and she constantly looks back to them for guidance in her actions.
When she was eight years old Kiyoko was traveling out of the city with her parents. They were ambushed on their travel during the winter. and Kiyoko was the only survivor. When their waggon was ambushed her mother was slain instantly by arrow. Her father taking one meant for Kiyoko, still he didn’t die and fought the attackers urging her to run. Even to this day she is unsure exactly how she survived, but she is sure her father bought her enough time to escape back to the city. Alone, with no money or food, she remained in her house for a few months begging on the streets for enough to get by. While on the streets she learned that the face of a pretty child could do much to persuade the common folk. While begging she learned that many people were generous, and others wouldn’t spare the slightest of things. This is how she lived until her house was taken away due to a lack of rent payment and she was sent to an orphanage.
When Kiyoko turned eleven she began helping out at the Orphanage more, and she began to look towards her own future. The memories of her parents and her father's sacrifice emboldened her and set her on a path to become a shinobi.
When she was twelve years old she was enrolled into the Academy by the Headmaster of the Orphanage and she spent her time making friends and learning how to protect them. Never considering the idea of using her skills to harm she always has and will continue to keep the interests of her friends before her own. She was somewhat constantly in trouble at school for refusing to tell the truth to the teachers for fear of bringing punishment down on those she trusted as friends.
Now that she has graduated from the academy as a Gennin she spends her time helping anyone she can around the City.
BLOODLINE APPLICATION (Haku):
During her stay at the Orphanage Kiyoko began to have strange dreams while she was eleven during the winter months of the year. The dreams started with her parents, there was snow all around her. At first it was Hazy and come morning she would remember none of it, but as the nights repeated herself she began to remember.
Flashes of the night they died play through her mind first. The wagon making it’s way through the too quiet forest. The gentle snow falling down around her family as they laugh and admire the beauty of their calm surroundings. Then the flash of movement and the crimson red splattered on the snow around them, her mother’s body twisted into a broken shape where she fell from the wagon. She hears her own screams, they hurt her throat as her father pushes her away. She hears yelling but she can’t make out any words, the only thing she hears is her father, “Run” and she did. The snow felt cold under her feet as she ran through a forest of mocking, dead, trees. There are whispers all around her, chasing her, as plentiful as the snowflakes falling gently through the empty forest. As she keeps running she forgets what she is running from. Shapes take form in the distance and her parents stand before her, just as they always appear in her thoughts. Their faces are blurry and Kiyoko has a hard time making them out clearly. “Mother, Father” Kiyoko calls out to them as they turn their backs to her. She runs forward through the snow towards them “Wait” but they keep walking, fading away into a growing mist, a cold winter mist that wraps around her and makes her feel alone, but not cold.
Kiyoko woke up startled, the memory of her dream fresh in her head this time, and unfading. The season is changing and spring is soon to begin. Later that morning when fetching water from the well, she finds upon her return the water in her buckets has been frozen into ice.
