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Oct. 3rd, 2012 02:01 amCharacter Name: Masaki Oosawa
Series: Ice Revolution
Gender: Female
Age: 14
History:
Masaki's life has been centered around karate for almost as long as she can remember. Her father, a rather famous martial artist and dojo master in Japan, has been training her since not long after she could walk as she started to show a real aptitude for it from an early age. As a toddler she loved watching him teach his students, and it just naturally lead to her trying to copy what they did. Turned out that she had a gifted eye for motion and just how to translate that into something she could do herself. At the rather young age of seven she was entered into her first tournament. She was entered as a boy because she looked like one and there really wasn't a mixed division at that time (not to mention the "as a boy" distinction would just become more pronounced as she grew older), third grader Masaki blew through the competition and won with ease.
This win ignited her father's blood and caused her life to become even more karate focused than it already was. Something she didn't mind at first as it was a great way to get over her mother's untimely death, but as she got older all the trophies in the world couldn't make up for the fact that everyone thought she was a boy and treated her as such. Having lacked any sort of female presence in her life, Masaki didn't really know what being a girl was about and it showed. Everything about her has been pretty masculine for years - from her appearance to her eating habits and even to how she referred to herself. (In Japanese she uses such words as boku and ore which are pretty masculine terms and mostly used by men/boys)
So basically her father's just continued to raise her more as a boy than anything else. It becomes really telling the older she gets. It's to the point where he still had her changing in the same locker room as the men of their dojo, something that's pretty creepy considering her age. Of course when she asked him about it, he just claimed that since she looked, acted, and thought like a boy one day her body would just naturally fall into line. Unsurprisingly? Masaki didn't find this very funny. Sure, maybe she's a kind of masculine, but she's still a girl!
The fact that she's a girl has actually caused her nothing but grief, especially at school but it shows up in just about every aspect of her life. Take for example the very first time we meet Masaki in the manga, she's helping a little old lady across the street - by carrying over on her back piggyback style. When the elderly lady praises her by saying how "boys these days are so nice" she just gives an embarrassed laugh. After all, telling complete strangers that they got her gender wrong is pretty humiliating on it's own, but when it's something she has to do over and over again? There came a time where she just had to know when to give up. After all they're complete strangers, does it really matter what they think of her?.
In contrast, when one of her classmates even goes so far as to make fun of her for wearing her new school uniform, making a poke at her for "cross dressing" as a girl he gets a completely different reaction. Needless to say that pisses her off - when strangers refer to her as a boy it's one thing, but someone who should know better? Then it's personal. Of course it's just her luck that as she goes to chase him down to make him pay for calling her a cross dresser, she ends up right in the path of a truck and it's not looking very good for her right now....
Abilities & Physical Abnormalities:
Not really out of the norm, but Masaki is in excellent physical condition. In the manga it shows that she's extremely talented at learning new things, so long as they're physical anyways. Monkey see, monkey do basically. It doesn't always work, but the understanding she has of her body and how to get it to move is nothing short of unique. So she's stronger than average, faster than average, and overall more sturdy than average (in that she's physical able to take a lot of damage and still keep going). So she's basically like a shounen hero who has no super powers, a comparison I'll probably make several more times in the personality section.
Personality:
So let's just start off with the shounen protag comparison right out of the gate, shall we? She's plucky and a real go-getter when it comes down to the things that she wants. Her motto seems to pretty much be that if you try hard enough and really put forth the effort you can accomplish anything. There are several times in the manga where she's pushed herself until she couldn't take it any more and then pushed beyond that. So long as she doesn't give up, she can accomplish anything, and sometimes it takes a lot of hard work to get there. Not that she lets a little hardship stop her, no pain means no gain. Well... almost anything, the subtle art of makeup is apparently something that requires more than her determination to master. She also tends to win people over with this same "shounen hero trope" type, as it's her naivety and unique outlook on life that tend to win people over to her cause. Little things like her willingness to carry old ladies across the street probably helps too.
Her family examples haven't exactly been stellar for her which has been somewhat of a hindrance over the years. Masaki really does seem to learn by example so it only makes sense that she: makes a mess when she eats (so do her brothers); sits with her legs spread wide open (so does everyone in her family); and not only does she keep her hair short, but it looks like she brushes it once every few days at the most. She's been raised by her father, in a house/dojo where women just aren't allowed. Karate is a "man thing" and so instead of cultivating the fact that girls can do karate too, they've just pushed her to "be a man" and do things like a man would do them.
She tends to get rather annoyed when people call her a boy though she only speaks out against this sometimes as often she's almost given up on correcting how other people view her. Apparently she's decided that it's a lost cause more or less, but people who know better are a different story. People who give her grief about being too masculine or who call her a boy tend to wind up on the opposite side of a punch or she'll at least yell at them a lot depending on who it is.
On the not so positive side she loses her temper easily and has a nasty habit of breaking things if people use them to torment her. She's also secretly jealous of all the girls she considers to be "naturally beautiful" aka girls who make being pretty seem so easy to her. A girl who's amazing at combat and still gorgeous? Is someone she'll probably hold a grudge against for a long time, at least until she learns just how much effort they put into being themselves anyway. True to her shounen-hero traits, she's also somewhat of a brag and tends to like showing off the things she's good at. In the manga, she's kind of like an overzealous puppy very "Coach! Coach! Look what amazing things I can do now!!" when she masters something be it a compulsory figure or anything else.
Series: Ice Revolution
Gender: Female
Age: 14
History:
Masaki's life has been centered around karate for almost as long as she can remember. Her father, a rather famous martial artist and dojo master in Japan, has been training her since not long after she could walk as she started to show a real aptitude for it from an early age. As a toddler she loved watching him teach his students, and it just naturally lead to her trying to copy what they did. Turned out that she had a gifted eye for motion and just how to translate that into something she could do herself. At the rather young age of seven she was entered into her first tournament. She was entered as a boy because she looked like one and there really wasn't a mixed division at that time (not to mention the "as a boy" distinction would just become more pronounced as she grew older), third grader Masaki blew through the competition and won with ease.
This win ignited her father's blood and caused her life to become even more karate focused than it already was. Something she didn't mind at first as it was a great way to get over her mother's untimely death, but as she got older all the trophies in the world couldn't make up for the fact that everyone thought she was a boy and treated her as such. Having lacked any sort of female presence in her life, Masaki didn't really know what being a girl was about and it showed. Everything about her has been pretty masculine for years - from her appearance to her eating habits and even to how she referred to herself. (In Japanese she uses such words as boku and ore which are pretty masculine terms and mostly used by men/boys)
So basically her father's just continued to raise her more as a boy than anything else. It becomes really telling the older she gets. It's to the point where he still had her changing in the same locker room as the men of their dojo, something that's pretty creepy considering her age. Of course when she asked him about it, he just claimed that since she looked, acted, and thought like a boy one day her body would just naturally fall into line. Unsurprisingly? Masaki didn't find this very funny. Sure, maybe she's a kind of masculine, but she's still a girl!
The fact that she's a girl has actually caused her nothing but grief, especially at school but it shows up in just about every aspect of her life. Take for example the very first time we meet Masaki in the manga, she's helping a little old lady across the street - by carrying over on her back piggyback style. When the elderly lady praises her by saying how "boys these days are so nice" she just gives an embarrassed laugh. After all, telling complete strangers that they got her gender wrong is pretty humiliating on it's own, but when it's something she has to do over and over again? There came a time where she just had to know when to give up. After all they're complete strangers, does it really matter what they think of her?.
In contrast, when one of her classmates even goes so far as to make fun of her for wearing her new school uniform, making a poke at her for "cross dressing" as a girl he gets a completely different reaction. Needless to say that pisses her off - when strangers refer to her as a boy it's one thing, but someone who should know better? Then it's personal. Of course it's just her luck that as she goes to chase him down to make him pay for calling her a cross dresser, she ends up right in the path of a truck and it's not looking very good for her right now....
Abilities & Physical Abnormalities:
Not really out of the norm, but Masaki is in excellent physical condition. In the manga it shows that she's extremely talented at learning new things, so long as they're physical anyways. Monkey see, monkey do basically. It doesn't always work, but the understanding she has of her body and how to get it to move is nothing short of unique. So she's stronger than average, faster than average, and overall more sturdy than average (in that she's physical able to take a lot of damage and still keep going). So she's basically like a shounen hero who has no super powers, a comparison I'll probably make several more times in the personality section.
Personality:
So let's just start off with the shounen protag comparison right out of the gate, shall we? She's plucky and a real go-getter when it comes down to the things that she wants. Her motto seems to pretty much be that if you try hard enough and really put forth the effort you can accomplish anything. There are several times in the manga where she's pushed herself until she couldn't take it any more and then pushed beyond that. So long as she doesn't give up, she can accomplish anything, and sometimes it takes a lot of hard work to get there. Not that she lets a little hardship stop her, no pain means no gain. Well... almost anything, the subtle art of makeup is apparently something that requires more than her determination to master. She also tends to win people over with this same "shounen hero trope" type, as it's her naivety and unique outlook on life that tend to win people over to her cause. Little things like her willingness to carry old ladies across the street probably helps too.
Her family examples haven't exactly been stellar for her which has been somewhat of a hindrance over the years. Masaki really does seem to learn by example so it only makes sense that she: makes a mess when she eats (so do her brothers); sits with her legs spread wide open (so does everyone in her family); and not only does she keep her hair short, but it looks like she brushes it once every few days at the most. She's been raised by her father, in a house/dojo where women just aren't allowed. Karate is a "man thing" and so instead of cultivating the fact that girls can do karate too, they've just pushed her to "be a man" and do things like a man would do them.
She tends to get rather annoyed when people call her a boy though she only speaks out against this sometimes as often she's almost given up on correcting how other people view her. Apparently she's decided that it's a lost cause more or less, but people who know better are a different story. People who give her grief about being too masculine or who call her a boy tend to wind up on the opposite side of a punch or she'll at least yell at them a lot depending on who it is.
On the not so positive side she loses her temper easily and has a nasty habit of breaking things if people use them to torment her. She's also secretly jealous of all the girls she considers to be "naturally beautiful" aka girls who make being pretty seem so easy to her. A girl who's amazing at combat and still gorgeous? Is someone she'll probably hold a grudge against for a long time, at least until she learns just how much effort they put into being themselves anyway. True to her shounen-hero traits, she's also somewhat of a brag and tends to like showing off the things she's good at. In the manga, she's kind of like an overzealous puppy very "Coach! Coach! Look what amazing things I can do now!!" when she masters something be it a compulsory figure or anything else.
