“Sweet mother, I cannot weave – slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl.” ― Sappho, Sappho

Early Life

Hanako usually spends her time bothering her brother and his friends when she was bored, but sometimes she’d just follow her parents around the house and carry their cat with her. She took up martial arts as a kid but stopped pretty early on as she had other interests. She is also very good at keeping secrets, she’s never repeated a secret to anyone before.

She sometimes has trouble telling if people are joking or being serious, she processes sarcasm a bit slower and usually has to ask for explanations. Generally, she would ask Candi for them for fear of being made fun of by her peers for her lack of social awareness. In high school, there was an incident of such where an older boy picked on her for not understanding a joke. Afterward, she went and cried in her big brother’s arms about it and wondered if she had something wrong with her.

The next day, it was reported the boy went missing for quite a while. He turned up eventually, alive, but incredibly injured with no memory of what happened. Hana never asked about what happened.

She got through high school relatively event-free, staying at a decent standing in school academically. Her true passion and skill lay in sports, she took on volleyball and went back into martial arts shortly after.

At 19 she spoke with her father and ended up with a job working at their hotel after noticing his bodyguard Asha. She was willing to work for him but having the chance to talk to Asha made it even more worthwhile for her to work there. She’s slowly been trying to pick up on social cues as the more...unsavory parts of running the hotel are sure to pop up.

In recent times, she’s been trying to get her brother to talk to her. She’s noticed something going on and has been generally left in the dust in favor of her brother’s unknown boyfriend. Hana can't put her finger on it, but she's beginning to feel as if her brother needs to be protected more than she does.