Kumiko Takazawa
❊|Nickname(s)❊|
Ko
❊|Age|❊
19
❊|Birth Date|❊
August 6th
❊|Gender|❊
Female
❊|Sexual Orientation|❊
Homosexual
❊|Titan|❊
Hyperion
❊|Side|❊
Undecided
❊|Power|❊
Heat Manipulation || she is able to heat things up or take away heat through physical touch. The changes can be rapid or gradual depending on her goal, but can go haywire if she is startled or her emotions run high. As a part of this ability her body temperature runs unnaturally high and her normal temperature is 102 F or 38.9 C.
Smoke Conjuring || She can't produce fire, but she can control and manipulate smoke of all kinds. This is the favorite of her powers and she has practiced it so much she can make smoke creatures that move and react as if alive. She creates smoke by exhaling it through her mouth or nose.
Thermal Vision || She can switch her vision to something akin to a thermal camera. She can see heat signatures and heat residue which can be helpful for finding things.
Hair Color ||Blonde
Eye Color || Grey
Height || 5' 1"
Build || Very small and slim she has had trouble developing and keeping a good health for her entire life.
Scars/Markings || She has one large scar down the center of her chest because she needed a heart transplant when she was born.
Weaponry || None
❊|Personality|❊
Positive
O P T I M I S T I C || Kumiko had accepted the fact that her heart problems would limit her for the rest of her life, but she has out right refused to be sad about it. Instead she has embraced a happier demeanor. Ko had struggled with not being healthy for a long time, but a few years back she decided to stop being sad and developed her bubbly personality.
C O N F I D E N T || She knows what she is good at and she isn’t afraid of the things she isn’t. Ko likes to believe that if she tries her best then eventually things will work out for her and because of that she doesn’t back down from challenges. Her bold personality trait makes her stand out in a crowd along with her light colored physical features.
O P E N M I N D E D || Kumiko has made sure to make an effort to always give a new idea a shot. It doesn’t matter what it is she believes everything deserves at least a chance. This goes for people too, she tries her best not to judge anyone by the way they look and to be accepting of peoples differences, especially physically handicaps.
R A S H || Kumiko likes living in the moment. She must constantly go to hospitals and get check-ups and she never knows when she might have to be hospitalized again. She does a lot of things without thinking because for the moment she is free and will do all she can with that freedom
O V E R B E A R I N G || Ko has trouble defining personal boundaries. She is very personal and touchy and cannot establish personal space. Her forceful personality and constant sunny mood can be overwhelming to many people and she often comes off much to strongly to strangers.
I N S E N S I T I V E || She doesn’t know how to hold back, she always says what is on her mind, and is not empathetic towards other peoples problems. Some of the things she says can come off as rude, but she doesn’t usually mean it that way. Ko spent most her time in a hospital where her doctor did not spare her feelings despite her age and always told her as it was. She picked up her insensitivity from him.
S U N L I G H T || She loves the feeling of the sun, the girl assumes this is the influence of Hyperion, but she doesn’t mind it. The warmth of the sun on her skin has always been immensely comforting and never fails to calm her.
A D V E N T U R E || Ko loves to go outside her comfort zone. The unknown does not scare her and instead she likes to dive head first into things she does not understand. She likes to explore and investigate things and the idea of getting lost thrills Kumiko instead of scaring her.
F I R E || Ko also thinks Hyperion influences her love of fire, but again she doesn’t oppose this will either. She finds fire fascinating and she could watch it for hours. She isn’t afraid of being burned because Hyperion has assured her she can’t be burned and hopes to one day be able to conjure fire as well as smoke.
H Y P E R I O N || The titan inside of her has been a supporting figure Ko’s entire life. In the hospital when beeping machines and frantic hospital staff surrounded her he was calming voice that kept her heart rate calm. Hyperion had always assured her that she would survive as long as he was with her and for that she had always been grateful.
C L O U D Y D A Y S || Putting aside the fact that clouds are just condensed water suspended high in the sky when the skies are overcast the sun isn’t out and Ko can’t help but feel her mood dampen.
L O N L I N E S S || Kumiko is an extremely social orientated person. She needs social interaction and hates being alone. Luckily for her Hyperion is incredibly talkative and she always finds her silences filled with his chatter. She knows he does it for her too.
S P O R T S || It isn’t that she doesn’t like sports, but the fact that all sports remind her of the things she can’t do. She doesn’t like being reminded that because of her weak heart she is physically handicapped. Ko doesn’t watch or participate in any sports.
P E S S I M I S M || The only thing she can’t stand in a person is unwarranted pessimism. She can’t understand why anyone would willingly be miserable all the time when there are so many good things in the world.
I S O L A T I O N || She is scared of being alone. If one day Hyperion stopped talking to her she would probably lose it, whether Kumiko likes it or not she needs the titans presence.
F A D I N G || She is afraid of being forgotten, of not leaving a mark on the world. She wants people to know that she has lived her life, that she has impacted the world, and more than anything she wants the name Kumiko Takazawa to be immortalized.
P E R S I S T E N T || When her mind is set on something she doesn’t give up until she has achieved it. She enjoys when things do not come easily to her and doesn’t mind the chase to get what she wants.
H A R D W O R K I N G || When she does a task she makes sure it is done well and it is done right no matter how much of a whim she is acting upon. She doesn't even consider giving up on something just because the road isn't paved for her and challenges that seem unsolvable are considered to be gifts by Kumiko rather than curses.
P E R F E C T I O N I S T || When she decides to do something it must be done perfectly and she becomes very hung up on details. It doesn’t matter how insignificant the task is she wants to do a good job at it. She works hard at everything she does and she wants people to recgonise what she does, therefore she thinks all her work must be perfect.
C O N F L I C T E D || She absolutely loves Hyperion and wants to follow the titan’s wishes since he has supported Ko for her entire life, but with humanity gone there would be no one left to remember her. She doesn’t know which side to choose.
Kumiko Takazawa was born in a Fukagawa, Japan, a town located in Hokkaido. When she came into the world she already had complications, her heart had not developed correctly and she needed treatment immediately. Ko spent her first few months in the intensive care unit for infants, but after numerous surgeries she was deemed fit to go home for the first time. Her parents loved her unconditionally, but as a child Kumiko was very quiet. She was alive and doing ok, but her poor heart was a large burden on her. After about six months of home life she was forced to return to the hospital where she would spend a majority of her childhood.
Spending so much time in a hospital didn’t allow for Kumiko to make many friends, most of the kids that came to the hospital didn’t stay for very long. Her doctor, a no nonsense and straight to the point man, was the one person aside her family who she spent any time with. He wasn’t the best at dealing with children, but he was one of the best Cardiologist in Hokkaido and her parents were able to afford his time for a long time, and she picked up many of her traits from him. She liked to do everything to the best of her ability, and didn’t give up just because things got hard. The most prominent thing she picked up from this doctor was that she didn’t beat around the bush on touchy subjects, always straight to the point.
But even with the doctor for company Kumiko found herself incredibly bored always sitting in the hospital with little to do but watch soap operas that covered topics she knew nothing about. Both her mother and father were respectable musicians, and when she was at home Kumiko often watched old recordings of their performances. The young girl saw music as the cure to her boredom when she had to go to the hospital and when she brought up learning an instrument Ko’s parents were thrilled. Kumiko was five when she started playing the violin, and it was just around when she started playing the violin that Hyperion started whispering to her.
The first time she heard him was right before she went under for an emergency treatment when her heart started acting up at home. Terrified, the little girl was watching the fluorescent lights rush against the ceiling as her hurny was pushed to an operating room when the voice whispered in the back of her mind, “You will survive.” When she woke up to a hysteric mother and father she found out that she had died twice that night and it had been a miracle she survived at all. All Kumiko could think about was the voice that had told her she would survive, she had something special within her.
Hyperion made his presence much more apparent as the weeks past, he told her about himself and his siblings, about how there were other people in the world that were like her and hosted his siblings. Hyperion talked of ending humanity and how weird things were going to start happening to her body, but he would be there to help her through it. He also talked about how amazing she was, that despite her heart condition, and that her ambition was astounding and that she was already incredible at the violin despite being so young.
Years went by and Kumiko was slowly able to spend more time outside of the hospital, and just like Hyperion had predicted her powers started coming in. The thermal vision had been startling at first, but the easiest of her powers to adapt to, it was the heat manipulation that was harder to control. She lit multiple things on fire because of it, the doctors were puzzled by it, and her sudden increase in body temperature had also been worrying to them. Her doctors were still trying to figure it out to this day.
Her smoke conjuring ability had been Kumiko’s favorite ability, she could choose to exhale absurd amounts of smoke and then control it to her liking was more than exciting. She worked extremely hard to be able to shape her smoke in different creatures and then control them individually. Her favorite forms for the creatures were rabbits. Hyperion helped her the entire way in order to make sure her powers came in smoothly and with as little stress as possible, he knew that her body wouldn’t handle extra stress well.
Time continued to go by and at eleven years old she began entering violin competitions, her doctor deeming her well enough to attend such events. She wasn’t a hit with the judges, but audiences loved her when she performed, and she loved the attention she got from a cheering crowd. At age thirteen she was one of the best known junior violinists in the entire nation, both for her story and playing style.
The love she got from audiences propelled her career forward and because she was doing so well medically she was allowed to start touring the country. At age eighteen she started her first world tour and at the moment she currently finds herself in Seoul for the next week. Due to her now energetic and ridiculously adventurous demeanor she is a huge pain for her agent. Constantly escaping and exploring the places she visits has become something the young musician is famous for.
Kaori Miyazono
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