Childhood

When Hanako was 5 years old, her mother told her two brothers Fel and Hylric to take her to Kugane to 'Live a life better than becoming a High Priestess'. On her order they fled, but their living arrangements fell through, and they had to go to the local orphanage. The Local orphanage had not enough room or funds for them, so Fel and Hylric worked at the Kugane Docks to make enough money for the three of them to survive.

Hanako spent alot of her early life amongst the dockyards themselves, she'd become a bit of a favoured sight amongst local fishermen and trawlermen and often managed to score herself seats on the daytime domestic voyages in exchange for manning the bow of the boat and keeping watch for anything too suspicious. During this time she enjoyed drawing landscapes, and trying her best to sketch them with the limited partchment and paints she'd managed to forage.

Hanako was also notorious for sketching on pavements and stone walls with chalk and spices stolen from the markets, this landed her with a bad reputation amongst the Sekiseigumi and being nicknamed as a street rat by the policing officers, a title that Hanako would wear with pride later in her life. Hanako never really had any true respect for the Sekiseigumi because of this and this led to her feeling little to no guilt about stealing food and other perishables that she needed as she grew up as a hungry teen.

Hanako got the barest basics of an education from within the orphanage. She struggled to be taught in large groups, not being able to properly focus on anything she was taught, and found better to teach herself better by stealing the textbooks away and teaching herself in the nights. She struggled with certain concepts, but managed to teach herself how to write in Hingan mostly by herself, confirming with her teachers afterwards that she had things correct.

Teen to Early Adulthood

When Hanako was 14 years old, her brothers Fel and Hylric got adopted out of the orphanage by two very large, wealthy and prestigious families. This event had a lasting impact on the growing girl, as she suddenly felt cripplingly alone amongst the vastness of the world. The first brother to leave was the younger of the two Hylric, who left to be adopted by the Mogrianes, this wasn't fully told to Hanako before he dissapeared and thus she felt abandoned by him.

Since Fel had a longer timespan to his leaving, happening 6 months after Hylric's, he managed to spend enough time with her that she didn't feel as betrayed. Fel gave Hanako a small Wind-Up Domakin toy that floated around her, she has treasured it for most of her life, taking serious efforts to keep it with her at all times, as it is the last piece of her brothers she still has left. Fel joined the Gilstriders shortly after that, both brothers were being adopted into families where they were to take the place of the heir, and such Hanako was no longer allowed to continue contact with the last pieces of family she had left.

Hanako got kicked out of the orphanage soon after her brothers left. The Orphanage sited her as 'nuisiance that couldn't carry herself' and deemed her unfit for further care. Hanako sought other shelter amongst the vast and unforgiving port town of Kugane, eventually she managed to find a place within a guild of assassins. She agreed to the arrangement that she will pay off her debts that would occur from her home and board once she gradutates from their tutorage. She learns how to wield a katana from the guild, as well as various other skills that she would manage to weaponise later in life. Hanako graduates from the guild at age 14, starting to work for them from then on out.

Ishgard

Hanako took on a position of guarding and protecting a young Rosemary de Lenoire from the age of 14, at the employment of Rose's Grandfather. Plucked out of her somewhat adjusted life in Kugane into a complete foriegn land was a large shock to the young Au Ra and it took alot of time to adjust. Ishgard was harsh and judgemental, already pre-disposed to a disliking of Rose, the prejustice of the Ishgardian public fell harshly upon the draconic-resembling girl causing a great deal of undue grief. Hanako and Rose seemed to grow and establish a friendship slowly, however, despite the language barrier, and they grew into unlikely friends, and from Hanako's point of view she slowly begun to see her surroundings as the family she never had.

Hanako took it upon herself to swear a oath to Rose's grandfather, before the eyes of Halone she promised that she would do anything in her power to keep Rose alive. This oath would be honoured by many a sacrifical act, the Temple Knights providing many an opportunity to prove oneself as a protector. Hanako, however, would not stay there for long, as her contract would soon find itself abandoned for work elsewhere. Against Hanako's will, in the inky black cold night, Hanako was dragged, kicking and screaming away from the people she had grown to love, and back into the hands of the assasins' guild, for a new project alltogether.

Back to Hingashi

Hanako found herself sold of to a Hingan merchant, forced into a harem so that the Assasin's Guild could fully get their debt back. Hanako didn't go nicely, protesting and fighting, eventually having to be sedated in order to fully be transferred to her new situation. Hanako spent years in her trapped situation, scheming with the other girls in the Harem about how to escape. She managed to escape, but not without losses. In the last chamber before breaking out, the aether slowly drained, and less-stable girls were slowly turning to stone. Hanako turned one of the friends she'd made into a sword inorder to fight her way out of the entrapment. In the end 13 out of the 24 girls escaped. Hanako never saw any of them afterwards.

On the Run

While escaping her entrapment, Hanako first went to Doma, she would slowly travel north to the Azim Steppe, doing small jobs and earning her keep as she went. Hanako mainly fought with the sword of Aestellaer, using a short amount of magic to transform it into a crystal so it could be concealed in her bag and not conviscated from her.

Hanako did alot of work to become a honorary member of the Steppe tribes, she would find some paints in Reunion and spend her days painting the landscapes, then selling them to tourists and locals alike, then after she got a reputation, she'd paint the various Khatuns, before she was taken in first by the Mol. Fighting by their side in the Nadaam that year. Due to her reputation for portraiture, and perhaps due to his ego, Magnai Oronir himself requested a portrait. Hanako would note that the tempremental Khatun was one of their most pickiest clients, taking atleast 16 revisions before he was fully happy with the piece. This would lead her to avoid further interaction with him from then on.

• The Idea for Koi came April 2020, a test fantasia to Au Ra that got mocked by fellow fc members as looking like 'A bloated fish' spawned the nickname, Koi. Though she would become a roleplaying sona much later.
• My username, and Mascot OC are based on an interpretation of Koi's Original or 'Prelude' version.
• Koi was my longest running main oc so far, with her start coming mid March 2022, and her story officially ending in January 2023.
• Koi has been my most popular oc so far, with alot of people connected and weaved into her story and my most drawn OC.
• Koi's name comes mainly from her fishy-shaped fins, but also on her themes of love, self-love and in turn, my attempts to love myself.

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