Emi Kusada

Emi Kusada's rise through elite figure skating brackets began when she was young - since the age of 10, she's entered competition after competition, sweeping past her peers with ease and grace. Popular with the public, she also conducts herself with all the distance and poise expected from an athlete at her level. However, after placing fifth in the most recent Winter Olympics, Emi's taken a step back from the spotlight, and has only entered in one competition since, placing second. Fans speculate that she's too crushed by her loss to continue skating at her previous level, but in the few interviews she's had since, she actually doesn't seem all that bothered.

Sometimes, you dress to be the mysterious girl at the grocery store. Emi is just cool. Elegant, refined, although also somewhat cold and distant and- god can you imagine if she actually upheld this all day. She’s tried for years to shake this perception people have of her as a person she’s no longer like, but has resigned herself to it. Now she just does whatever she wants, fully comfortable in that it’ll do nothing to change how others think of her.