Name: Reiko Yamamura
Nicknames: Rei, RP will decide others
Gender: Female
Age: Died at age 16
Faction: Ghost
Race: OnryoNatural Ability: The Ties of Vengeance: Reiko is able to sense anyone she has sworn personal revenge on when they are close to her. At year 1, it only works within about ten feet.
Personality: “How May I Help You?”: Rei is unfailingly polite in the Japanese model. She is deferential to everyone around her, especially those of higher status, prefers to avoid disagreement, would never criticize anyone in her group of friends, and refuses to accept credit for her accomplishments, preferring to praise friends for theirs. She is very much a “proper lady,” and finds herself aghast at girls who do not behave this way. She will almost never let this slip, unless someone were to extremely fluster or upset her.
Politeness Judo, Away!: Rei can be very good at getting people to do what she wants simply by being so darned nice. A smile and a soft request, she has found, go much further than an angry demand, and she is good at diffusing brewing arguments and making each participant walk away with the idea that they’ve won. If politeness doesn't work, she's likely to back down.
Friends Forever!: Once you get to be her friend, Rei is your friend forever. She places a high value on loyalty, and would never do anything to hurt or upset a friend on purpose. She would be extremely distressed if she did it by accident.
Silk Hiding Steel: Sweet and shy as Rei is, if you hurt her or one of her friends, you had best believe that she will not be happy. And when Rei is not happy, her goal immediately becomes to make whoever
made her unhappy just as unhappy as she is.
NEVER FORGIVE NEVER FORGET: It may take forever to get Rei truly upset, but once she is, she
never lets go of a grudge. Onryo are spirits of revenge, after all! She will spend months or even years paying someone back for a slight in small, subtle, almost undetectable ways. Rei’s vengeance is not loud or fast-it is slow, subtle, and effective.
Please Don't Be So Loud: Rei is naturally quiet and deferential, but around someone who is very loud and boisterous or directly bossy, she becomes even more so than usual, barely able to do more than nod and squeak out agreements.
I Do Not Appreciate Your Male-Ness: Reiko's first response to someone male is a deep, abiding distrust and discomfort. She doesn't understand where it stems from, all she knows is that anyone male is
not to be trusted. It tends to lead to a desire to hurt them before they hurt her, but generally she's able to suppress it to little more than being very clipped and obviously uncomfortable around them. It would take quite a bit to overcome this. This applies regardless of whether the person behaves in a masculine or feminine manner. For instance, if she were to misidentify a male as a female, upon finding out she was wrong she would immediately become uncomfortable with him, moreso perhaps because she would feel deceived by his appearance. Conversely, upon finding out the real gender of a boyish female, she would immediately like that person much better. She is also much more likely to interpret the actions and behaviors of males in a negative light and to unleash the full power of her vengeance on them.
Conflicted: This stems from her natural distrust of males-Reiko cannot remember not feeling that way, but she also doesn't understand why she does, and on an intellectual level she realizes that the people she is so readily distrusting have not done anything to harm her and have given her no reason to feel that way.She feels guilty and conflicted about this, because she knows it's not "right" to feel this way but she can't ignore it.
