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Shouka Tamari
● PREFERRED NAME ●
Rem
● HEIGHT ●
5'3"
● WEIGHT ●
115lbs
● SNAKE ATTRIBUTES ●
Aside from her piercing red eyes, small fangs and the fact that she's cold-blooded, what mostly gives away Rem's species are the silvery-black scales that pepper the top of her forearms as well as her hands. Each scale has a smooth surface and vary from the size of a thumb nail to a pinky nail, getting larger as they move up to her elbows while the smaller scales end just before they reach her knuckles. This is the only part of her body, however, that has scales. Her fangs, although small, are located where her top canines would be and can secrete a paralyzing venom if she chooses.
● APPEARANCE ●
Rem is a mostly average-looking girl, if not a little small. Her choppy black hair is usually tied firmly into high pigtails, but when left down it reaches the the middle of her back. Her bangs are cut choppy also, feathering over her eyes now and then. Rem rarely ponders over her appearance, but she normally prefers anything that's a little, if not very, baggy. One thing that remains constant though are her long sleeves.
Student
● CLASS ●
3B
● GUARDIAN ●
Devon Steele
Because of Rem's species she's never really been the type to make friends or crowd around people. Nor is it common for her to take a liking to others, or even bother to try to for that matter, so she isn't the type to form even the smallest bonds easily.
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Quiet, intimidating, tough: a few of the words that one might use when explaining what type of person Rem is. On the outside view she's not very approachable due to both her red eyes and seemingly irritated expression, but in all honesty she's not all that scarey. At least, not all the time. In truth Rem's mostly just socially awkward and isn't the best at holding conversations without making a fool of herself. She's the type who tries so hard to act normal that she ends up tripping over herself in the process. She over thinks more often than she should and ends up getting too worked up on what she should say to someone that she normally just gives up. She only hates crowds because she prefers not to risk having someone try to talk to her.
Now to steer away from her awkward side, just because she's afraid of people talking to her doesn't mean she's a coward. In fact Rem is really quite brave to the point where it could be called recklessness. She's capable of ignoring the small things that annoy her. If she were to hear her name in a fowl sentence she wouldn't bother intervening. On the other hand, despite her not being particularly fond of violence, she'd stand up for anyone if she doesn't like what she sees. Of course it would result in to her falling back into her awkward little self soon afterwords. She does tend to get angry fairly easily as well, though she doesn't usually express it unless she's truly frustrated, and when Rem gets angry it's best to keep your distance for a good while.
Forming bonds has never been a specialty of hers. She distances herself from anything and anyone who might try to get close to her. Not because she's secretly sad on the inside or anything of the like, though she slight fear of having to talk to people may play a small part in it. Her detachment has been a part of her personality for as long as she can remember. She questions it herself sometimes as to why she can't get close to people. She can start spending time with someone more often than usual and still wouldn't feel any sort of bond with them and could easily adjust to them leaving. Rem isn't a stranger to emotions, but things like longing, sorrow, or anything that has to do with friendship just isn't something she feels often if not never.
Rem has been an orphan from the beginning. Never knowing who her parents were or what could of happened to them. This never left her feeling lonely or upset though since she was never truly alone. Despite not having parents, Rem did have her older sister, Sheila, to look after her. Sheila never talked about their parents, but on the other hand Rem never bothered to ask. She was fine living at the orphanage with her sister and rarely ever showed any curiosity towards the parental subject. Even then she didn't really care.
Rem was one of the more picked on children at the orphanage. While tails and ears were a common thing there, having scales where only skin was meant to be wasn't. It was an integrated orphanage with both humans and hybrids, so bullying happened more often than not and Rem was an easy target at that age because of her clumsiness, not to mention her snake skin made her stand out more than the other hybrids did. However her older sister, whose only snake feature were her red eyes, always defended Rem when she needed it.
As soon as Sheila, five years older than Rem, reached the proper age she left the orphanage, taking her little sister with her. The two of them struggled for a while but luckily Sheila landed herself a job after searching for only a few months. They lived together for two and a half years before Sheila's job required her to move over seas. Rem would be unable to come with and at 15 was not old enough to live on her own and had no friends or other family.
That's when her older sister came up with the idea of Rem joining the Foster system for Hybrids. Rem, deciding that it would be temporary until her sister came back, reluctantly agreed and moved to Kinoe. It's been a little more than half a year now since she's began living as a foster child, but continues to talk to her sister from time to time, recently receiving the news that her sister may be gone for much longer than Rem had originally anticipated.