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Player's Name/Alias: Yin
Player's Personal LJ: yinsteve

Character's Name: Kunogi Himawari
Series/Fandom: xxxHolic
Original/Alternate: Original

Age: 17
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Appearance: The best word to describe Himawari would be cute. She is thin, but not overly so, and slightly tall for her age. Her face seems to radiate an angelic countenance to others, almost doll-like. She has long, black hair that she normally keeps in two pigtails and violet eyes. Other than very pale skin, her most distinguishing feature is almost never seen. On her back she holds the scars of the accident that befell her friend Watanuki Kimihiro after he fell out of a second story window. The scars were moved by Yuuko Ichihara as payment to prevent Watanuki from dying.

Himawari will basically wear anything, from strange and mismatched clothes to kimonos. She seems to prefer more modern clothing, however, normally of the fairly girly variety, such as skirts and blouses.
Personality: Himawari is, in a word, nice. She is probably the sweetest person you would ever meet. She cares for her friends very deeply and will do all she can to help them. Actually, she's like that with everyone, and will do what she can to help a person in need. Perhaps this is to make up for what could possibly happen to the people she meets or perhaps this is just something that her parents pounded into her. Who knows. She is also outwardly very happy and cheerful nearly to the point of naivety, where she'll believe the best of someone or simply not get certain implications when speaking to another person. Maybe she just ignores those implications though, you never know.

However, it is just this kindness and caring that hides herself from others. Beneath the cheerful exterior lies a girl who's burdened with the knowledge that she brings bad luck to others, and that can get anyone depressed. Outside of her friends Watanuki and Doumeki, Himawari rarely lets anyone see past the visage she presents to society, and even then, they've only just started to see. She does truly care for the people around her, but she is frightened of letting anyone become to close for fear of what might befall them. She is slowly starting to open up, however, since Watanuki gave her Tanpopo.
Skills and Abilities: Himawari is essentially a human diffuser for bad luck. While she herself and her parents are not affected, everyone that comes in contact with her generally have misfortune thrust upon them, whether it be something small, such as merely being late to an important meeting, to quite serious, such as being run over by a passing car. Himawari has no control over what happens or the severity and the only constant that seems to be there is that those who become close to her have an increasingly larger chance of something serious befall them (such as Watanuki falling out of that second story window). Yuuko Ichihara is not affected by the bad luck Himawari brings.
Personal Belongings: Tanpopo is a small, yellow bird that was given to Himawari by Watanuki. The bird is unaffected by Himawari's bad luck and can normally be found resting on Himawari's shoulder, chirping for whatever reason. Himawari also owns an astrology book that she carries around with her everywhere.
Duelist Weapon: Himawari's blade is a rapier with a yellow and purple bell guard. The guard is engraved with the Japanese kanji for the number 9 and sunflowers in various sizes. She's not very good at dueling, but thrusting is a good start.
School Uniform: Himawari's school uniform is fairly simple. She wears a white button-up blouse and a black skirt that ends at around her knees. In the winter months, a black jacket is worn over her blouse and what can only be described as a white ascot or scarf is wrapped around her neck. She wears knee high white socks and black loafers. Her duelist uniform is essentially her winter uniform with some minor adjustments. Her skirt becomes a pair of black pants and she gains one golden sunflower decoration for each shoulder.

History: For as long as Himawari can remember, she has always brought bad luck to those around her. When she was four years old, her ball rolled into the neighbors' yard. Not even a day passed after retrieving her ball before the house went up in flames. Children she knew met with misfortune on a regular basis. A very close friend that she considered an older sister tried to commit suicide. A teacher who regularly tutored her was stabbed by their partner in an affair.

Concerned for the child, Himawari's grandmother took her to a Shinto shrine to be examined by the priest for any signs of possession by evil spirits. To her grandmother's relief, Himawari was a perfectly normal little girl in the regard that nothing was possessing her. She just seemed to diffuse large quantities of misfortune into her immediate vicinity that effected the people around her. Her parents were immune to the effects simply because they had brought Himawari into the world, otherwise, she'd have never been born.

Himawari's grandmother died soon after that.

Throughout her early school career, Himawari was a kind and cheery person, but made very few actual friends. She tried to keep the damage she inadvertently caused to a minimum by distancing herself from others as much as she could while keeping up her cheerful disposition. This worked to a certain extent, and nothing other than the odd large occurrence happened until high school. Watanuki and Doumeki showed up then.

Watanuki Kimihiro and Doumeki Shizuka became the only real friends she's ever had in a very long time. In the beginning, Himawari still tried to distance herself from the both of them, to prevent either of them from getting hurt, but through Watanuki's sheer persistence, she slowly trusted them more. She asked the both of them to help another school that she knew some people at where Angel-san (essentially a possessed Ouija board) had taken over the school. The end was nearly disastrous for Watanuki. She was still invited to several gatherings between Watanuki, Doumeki, and Yuuko, such as picnics and the like, despite other odd happenings. Watanuki never seemed to understand that Himawari was the cause of it, and she continued to wonder if he would ever notice.

A few months after the Angel-san incident, Watanuki fell out of their school's second story window. Himawari was in the immediate proximity when it happened and naturally blamed his continued exposure to her as the cause. Taking his scars in return for allowing him to live as payment to Yuuko, Himawari explained her condition to Watanuki before asking him to never see her again for his own protection. Watanuki refused, stating that seeing her made him happy, and after some light persuasion, she agreed to still be friends with Watanuki (delicious cake was involved, among other factors). After speaking briefly with Doumeki, who had also paid to keep Watanuki alive, she left the shop, crying. No one had ever told her that seeing her made them happy before.

Shortly thereafter, Himawari received a small yellow bird from Watanuki, which he later named Tanpopo (Dandelion). The bird is Himawari's most prized possession as it was born for her and is unaffected by her bad luck. With Doumeki and Watanuki encouraging her (Tanpopo helped too), she started to open up more to them, despite knowing what could happen. She looked forward to spending time with the two of them a little more each day.

Until fate intervened and she was whisked away and lost herself in Jardin.

[[This is an RP Journal for jardin_du_ciel run by yinsteve. No money being made, as Himawari here is the property of CLAMP.]]

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