⠀I'm okay with being the perpetual side character, which makes living through my characters all the more important for me. I hope to comfort someone who's going through the same feeling with my stories. To give them an outlet like so many have done for me before.⠀

Trivia

Nagisa Fujishiro was born and raised in Konohana-ku, Osaka by a single mother, having lost her father to a brain tumor when she was merely three years old. Although Nagisa claims to have been too young to remember him, she does and dearly misses him. To an extent, her pretending not to know him was a way for her to indirectly relief her mother of any additional stressors.

Despite lacking a father figure in her life, her mother cared deeply when it came to giving her daughter a fulfilling childhood. After retiring from her work as a chef in order to dedicate her time to Nagisa, she took on the job as a PR manager and mainly works from home, which in turn meant that the two were pretty much inseperable for most of Nagisa's early life. Her mother would encapsulate her whole world at that point, closely followed by something else that has proven to become her comfort for many years to come: anime and manga.

A city girl through and through, Nagisa had grown accustomed to blending in with the crowd within Osaka, something that indirectly contributed to her rather lonely social circle throughout the entirety of her kindergarten up to her middle school years. She usually had one to two friends at most, and each time they graduated, they go their separate ways. It's a unfortunate, vicious cycle that Nagisa desperately wanted to break out of, and such a opportunity was given to her when she enrolled into a highschool outside her hometown.

With no one being able to put a face to her name, Nagisa had the chance of starting with a blank slate — even going out of her way to check whether they allowed the procedure of hairdye, which Nagisa happily jumped on upon confirmation. No longer held back by possible prejudice and judgement, Nagisa made it her goal to fully embrace herself and to hopefully find long-term friends who share similar interests. It's only after she went through dyeing her hair a faded shade of pastel pink to honor her at the time favorite magical girl character, that Nagisa would learn how much of a mistake this had been.

Promptly after entering the premises of her new highschool, Nagisa not only stood out like a sore thumb, but she was immediately tripped by another freshman. Not one to let such an experience sour her entire year however, Nagisa still followed through with her original plan and sought out the faculty room to form the anime and manga club. Things went smoothly so far, as long as she managed to find more members before the end of the month. This had proven to be difficult however, and words were spreading quickly. It didn't take long until the entirety of the school had reduced her to a mere otaku, resulting in some fairly unpleasant interactions between her and some classmates of hers.

Nagisa's aim to make likeminded friends had backfired, and to say that this entire ordeal wasn't exhausting would've been an understatement with just how much it drained her usual optimism. With the closure of the anime and manga club, she was fortunate enough to have been approached by none other than one of the most popular boy in high school, who invited her to join the volleyball club instead. With a little consultation from her homeroom teacher, she was eventually convinced to join and officially became the team's manager.

The very same boy that had invited Nagisa — who turned out to be Tomoya — slowly but surely became a comforting lighthouse among a foggy sea, and she was quick to fall for him like most of the other girls at their school. It's safe to say that Tomoya was her first crush, yet with how inexperienced she truthfully was with romantic feelings of any kind at that point, she had no issues stamping them off as simple admiration and small infatuation. That aside, Tomoya always felt out of reach for her and she seemed perfectly fine just being his friend for as long as he'll have her.

Despite the teasing, and borderline bullying in some instances, Nagisa felt a sense of reassurance in drawing and consolation around Tomoya, who made things more bearable for her. It was after she turned sixteen years old however, that her life trajectory would take a big turn.

Tomoya moved away, and while not necessarily convenient, Nagisa still always made the long trips to visit him and his family. This, added with the remarriage of her mother came at a time where Nagisa's small passion for art would eventually become something bigger, and she started to create drafts and concepts for stories in her freetime, which she would send to publishing companies in hopes of hopefully kickstarting her eventual career as a Mangaka.

The remarriage of her mother came at a perfect time too, as with her kind stepfather also came the addition of two equally friendly stepsiblings who she now shares a surprisingly nurturing bond with. It was thanks to their continued encouragement and aid that Nagisa would finally find a company willing to publish her stories.

Her dream was coming into fruition, and all it required was for her to move to Tokyo. With nothing to keep her, she pursued this path and left her old life behind, and while that in of itself wasn't a sacrifice, it instead came in the form of separation as she gradually lost contact with Tomoya once her studies and work had started to pick up steam.

Many words were left unsaid between her and her at the time only friend and first crush, which among other things were one of Nagisa's many regrets.

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