Themed OC Challenge Entry

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The words given were Gymnast and Raid

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”I’m strong. Really strong. The strong survive, the weak, like you, just... don’t.”

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Basic Information

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~Name~

Shigeko

~Name Meaning~

From Japanese 成 (shige) meaning “become” or 滋 (shige) meaning “grow” combined with 子 (ko) meaning “child”.

~Date Of Birth~

The 11th of April

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~Gender~

Female

~Sexuality~

Closeted Pansexual, out as Heterosexual

~Height~

5ft 4in

~Weight~

114 lbs.

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”Don’t patronize me you dimwit!”

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Appearance

She has light yellow eyes and hair. She has a lot of hair, which often leads to her trying to find creative ways to put it up- often her default is wearing it in a high, thick ponytail, but she also wears it in thick braids when doing gymnastics. A small detail about her is that she wears actually quite a lot of makeup- she often goes overboard on the mascara, but she believes it is the right amount. Also, Her mother thinks that Shigeko looks best in red, so almost all her outfits are red.

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”I don’t have time for that sentimental garbage...”

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Likes and Dislikes

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~Likes~

Glitter/Sparkly objects, ribbons, warmth, cookies, *practicing gymnastics, *kale, *studying/doing homework

~Dislikes~

Blue and purple, *laziness, *not being busy, spicy food

*may or may not be things her mom forced her to like and dislike

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”I’m hot like fire and cool like ice.”

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In-Depth Information

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~Backstory~

Shigeko was born the only child to a male CEO and a female, who was formerly a gymnast but while training for the Olympics gained a life sustaining injury that would cause here to no longer be able to participate in gymnastics. This happened before Shigeko was born and has caused her mother to force the life her mother wanted to live (that is, a super famous, rich, Olympic gold-medal winning gymnast) on to her.

And so Shigeko started intense gymnastic training from a young age. She actually was not an immediate prodigy at it, as her mother had expected, which caused her mother to push her even harder and more harshly. Eventually Shigeko was forcefully pushed past her initial lack of talent, and as she grew older became an extremely talented gymnast. She became known as ‘The Raider’ among her peers, due to her extremely cutthroat critique of the other gymnasts and especially opponents she faces in gymnastic competitions. Another connection to this name is due to Raider rhyming with Rater if said quickly, as Shigeko often gets perfect scores from the rater/judges.

To this day she does 3 hours of gymnastics before school and 3 hours after. Often she comes to school with injuries but when people point them out she says what her mother says to her, almost everyday. “Perfection means pain. Diamonds can only be made under pressure.”

Shigeko ed the literature club because she needed a club to after being kicked out of all of all the other large ones for being a nuisance.

~Normal Personality~

Shigeko is extremely critical of others due to being criticized her whole life. She doesn’t get how imperfect and especially lazy people can even exist and is disgusted and angered by their presences, because in her mind they are useless trash that don’t even deserve to be living on the same level of existence as her. She constantly wants and needs to feel superior to everybody else, which leads to her insulting everybody around her whatever chance she can get. She also loves teasing and making fun of people, because it makes her feel better about herself.

All of that is mostly what you’d get out of a few conversations with her. However deep down she’s actually extremely insecure and fears any imperfections in herself due to her mother’s god-tier standards and pressure. She defends herself from feelings of inadequacy by pushing those feelings on others. And she does really hate useless people, because she doesn’t understand how someone can be like that can live with themselves. She also has a tad bit of jealousy for people she considers lazy, which just makes her meaner to them. She does really wish that she could just snuggle up and eat cookies, but instead she eats lean meals of kale and chicken that she internally hates, but ok the outside pretends to love, because she had been taught that these things will lead to perfection, and perfection is the only way to truly live.

~Act Two Personality~

All of her negative traits are turned up to eleven and she becomes a demon of insults. She’ll actually attempt to physically injure the other club , that in her words are “too weak to survive.” But she manages to recover herself when she re that killing or assisting someone would negatively affect her gymnastic career. The other girls are very uncomfortable around her after this.

~Act Two Ending~

Shigeko starts practicing gymnastics in the literature club classroom, and violently breaks her back while doing a bridge. Her crippled body would probably lay on the floor for a few moments before the game continued.

~Second Day Scene~

Anon enters the classroom and sees Shigeko in a corner, laying on her stomach with both of her feet touching the back of her head while having her hands in front of her on the ground, frantically scribbling on a piece of paper. Anon notices he can almost see up her skirt, but Shigeko seems completely unaware of this and his presence. When Anon asks what it is, she doesn’t answer and instead hands him the poem. Anon reads it and is very confused. He asks, “What is this?” Shigeko, suddenly very offended, says, “What do you mean? It’s the best damn poem you’ve ever read!” Yuri then steps in and tells Shigeko to chill.

~Third Day Scene~

Anon will ask Shigeko why she has an injury on her face. immediately Shigeko will snap back, “I’m on my way to becoming a diamond.” When Anon questions exactly what that means, she narrows her eyes at him and sniffs. She then says, “Being the most revered gymnast of all time takes a few injuries here and there, jeez Anon.” Monika will explain to Anon that Shigeko often comes in with injuries from gymnastics and that he shouldn’t worry about it.

~Weekend Scene~

Anon will help Shigeko prepare for the festival by going out to buy makeup and hair products with her, that Shigeko plans to use on the girls so they look nice while reading their poems. The whole time Shigeko is very much herself, in that she boasts about herself in the same sentence that she insults Anon, but they have a little stirrup when they go to buy coffee after they’ve done shopping. Shigeko’s credit card is declined and the cashier ringing them up says while smirking, “Sorry ma’m, your card was declined. Shouldn’t your boyfriend be paying anyway?” Shigeko will then stare at Anon for a second, and then will laugh obnoxiously out loud for a long moment. When she’s done laughing she mutters something like, “Oh...oh my god... that’s funny... imagine me... I wouldn’t be caught dead! Hah...” Shigeko face then goes from hysterical laughter to a nervous expression. “Oh! Oh my. My mother wouldn’t want... could ruin my career... yes...” She glances nervously around and says to Anon directly, “Let’s- let’s go shall we?” For the rest of the trip Shigeko refuses to look or talk to you and leaves you at the front door of your house.

~Poetry Style~

Shigeko is... horrid at poetry, despite her constantly claiming that she is the best poet of all time. All of her poems are very... accusatory, blunt, and upfront, and often don’t even touch the surface of any abstract concepts. She is terrible at using metaphors, the one time she attempted to write one resulting in a poem that made sense to no one but her.

~Special Words~

Practice

Perfect

Gym

Thin

Star

Famous

Red

Raid

Warrior

Fight

Battle

Sparkly

Mother

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”I don’t understand how a person like you could bear to exist.”

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Interactions

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~The Player~

Shigeko treats him the same as everybody else at school, except for the fact that she does have a crush on him. However, she doesn’t understand her feelings at all, and as she considers Anon just as scum of the earth as everybody else she wonders how she could feel anything towards someone so imperfect. It disgusts her and reminds her what her mother has told her about imperfect people- she has been told she deserves someone just as perfect as she is. So she responds by repressing her affectionate feelings and pretending they don’t exist. This causes her to sometimes act tsundere towards him.

~Monika~

Shigeko also treats Monika the same way she treats everybody else, but even more negatively because she holds jealousy for Monika’s popularity and seemingly perfect exterior.

~Yuri~

Yuri confuses Shigeko a lot. Shigeko also actually has a crush on Yuri, and she treats it in the same way that she treats her crush on Anon in that her feelings don’t exist. However she is ultra confused by her, because Shigeko has been taught by her mother that girls shouldn’t love other girls, and here she is feeling affection for one. This is a lot of pressure on the inside of Shigeko’s head and she often doesn’t often know how to react to things around Yuri. Though she’s not aware of it herself, the other club notice Yuri has this certain affect on Shigeko in that she can calm her down and cause her to stop spewing insults. This causes other people to often pair them together as Yuri is the only one seemingly able to deal with Shigeko.

~Natsuki~

She treats her same way as everybody else, and specifically likes pointing out her short height and flat chest.

~Sayori~

Again, basically treats her the same way as everybody else but also frequently chastises Sayori for being so happy despite her many flaws (that Shigeko will list for her).

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”Hahahaha! Bye losers!”

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Outfits made using the Love Nikki app

Profile picture made using Live Portrait Maker