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Koko Giese
Design Notes
5'2, short. She wears platform shoes to appear taller. Her lab coat for work is petty big too so she rolls her sleeves.
Wears business casual for work, but casually she wears a lot of long sleeved tops and midi skirts or pleated trousers.
Stands upright, sometimes on her toes by habit. Tends to keep on hand on a hip. Hair is past her hips, often trimmed straight by Asim.
Likes
Pancakes!
Swimming
Espresso
Eating ice
Surprising
Dislikes
Illness
Pity
Meetings
Embarrassment
Apples
Greatest Strength
Koko is a coroner so she has extensive understanding of medical and scientific matters. She's not at all queasy or unsettled by the human body, and she's a hard worker that's appreciated.
Greatest Weakness
She's a short woman so her age is confused often, especially beside her very tall husband. She also has her own history of medical issues that worry her should they repeat, so she is always trying to take care of herself.
Karaoke
Koko has a nice singing voice for someone who's only ever sang during karaokes or during chores, but never learning it in a technical sense. Songs with guitars sound good paired with her voice.
Exercising
She's a big health fanatic given that she had issues in her childhood, so she's always working out on her days off or planning healthy meals in advance to sleep in more. She follows tiktok health hacks too.
Road trips
At the mention of one, she's quick to research rentals to stay at with Asim, Ennis, or Chicory. She takes a lot of pictures and videos during the trips with them to look back on the memories.
Positive Traits
Koko is considered very smart because of how much time she dedicates to her career. She's talkative in a good way and somewhat jumpy, but it's contagious and entertains others. She'll always speak her mind and accomodate others as needed.
Neutral Traits
She may be overbearing in life because she doesn't want others to pity her. This includes being more of a giver than a receiver in her relationship, not used to getting things in return, but Asim does so anyway. Still, being a giver makes her happy so it's not entirely a bad thing.
Negative Traits
Koko doesn't tell others about her history of health issues and some near death experiences, not wanting her impression to be one that's pitied. She intends to not have children because of her issues too, but bringing it up would help others understand her better. Her obsession with being healthy is sometimes worrisome like she is hiding something.
Others' Perception
Loved Ones
Koko's loved ones have seen her work hard over the years and think she's amazing for doing work they can't imagine doing.
Strangers
Many see her as serious in her field but admirable, and very chatty when it's not busy. She talks like a close friend to all.
Enemies
Some don't take her seriously because of her height, and get mad when she points out that she prefers a respectful interaction.
The following contains mentions of health complications
At first, Koko was raised in Germany for most of her childhood, alongside her parents and extended family. She'd watch a few aunts and uncles move away, her grandparents pass away, but her immediate family was always around to support her. She was an only child, yet given more attention than intended when her health once began to fail her. At one point, she was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome after experiencing a respiratory illness.
Her time with GBS lasted months, something she recovered from with no complications afterwards, but the experience itself was an uncomfortable one that she since refuses to forget. Koko remembers being away from school, from the familiar comfort of her family, sometimes waking up in the ICU as doctors spoke of things she didn't understand. After being so ill, she was made to repeat a year of school due to the time missed, still had many follow ups with doctors to monitor herself, and ultimately a childhood she didn't deem as normal as others. When visits lessened and she was on pace to normalcy, she appeared much better, yet an underlying fear of growing ill remained.
During her early adulthood, Koko's family supported her wishes to do something in the medical field, to go to college in London and stay at a dorm. Personally they weren't worried given her streak of no longer getting sick, and her attentiveness to being healthy. When she attended university, she met new friends there that mostly let her forget her past worries, and focus on the present and future more than before.
First she met Chicory, a similarly youthful looking girl in her classes, but Chicory really was just a younger prodigy. Koko was simply known for being energetic and shorter than others, and when Chicory introduced her to her brother's friend, Asim, Koko certainly felt a big gap between them at first. Asim was an aspiring doctor, a kind hearted person with noble goals, but with time Koko could see that he didn't actually put as much passion into his major than he did with his hobbies. She certainly had a crush on him first, but when he noticed she could see through his hesitations, he felt more respect towards her pushing him to do what he really wants. Somewhere along the way, he got his medical degree but pursued schooling in cosmetology after, becoming a barber, and, Koko's partner.
Koko never quite told her friends about her difficulties as a kid, now assuming she wouldn't run into such things if her life up to now has been going too well; she's married Asim and become a coroner, while Asim is enjoying his time as a hairdresser. She enjoys the purpose her work gives her, able to handle it well, and enjoys the time she spends unwinding with her loved ones. She was never one to really think much of jewelry, even her wedding ring, but when Asim gave her a pomegranate themed pendant, she appreciated it greatly.
Pomegranates themselves signify marriage for one, perhaps the meaning Asim stuck with, yet they can also refer to fertility and prosperity. For someone who briefly became paralyzed during her early years, with a fear of not becoming better, she's become so much better than she could have imagined, prospering. She doesn't notice it herself, but as a caring and amusing person, she brings out the best of others likewise.
∙ She's an avid pen clicker, it annoys her coworkers.
∙ Her music taste is very random and spaced out, her playlists having a calm classical song, then screamo, then ost from a drama, and then foreign songs she doesn't understand.
∙ Quick to nickname others or find something to compliment on the spot.
∙ She is definitely a mom friend.
∙ Her current fixation is making pancake art for Asim, but it's frankly a lot of among us pancakes. When she starts running out of batter, she makes tint, little crewmates.
Close Box
Kokoro to Iu Na no Fukakai
Ado (music box)
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