Emi Yamasaki

Emi Yamasaki (エミ山崎) is a first year student at REDACTED High School. She's an enthusiastic, sarcastic and caring girl, and tries to make as many friends as humanly possible. 
==Appearance==
Emi has blonde, wavy hair, always brought up in a half updo with a thick green hair band. She has pale skin and has emerald green eyes. She always wears a green sweater and green argyle-patterned socks because "I want to show off my eyes". She's a sucker for a good aesthetic outfit.
==Backstory==
Emi moved with her family to Japan roughly three years ago. The move was due to her grandmother becoming ill and her father moving back home to make sure she's properly cared for. 
She grew up as an average child. Her father raised her to learn English despite Emi's mother leaving him and Emi to go pursue another man. She loves her father to pieces and despite not knowing her mother, wishes she has a good life too. She's come past the point of hating her mother, since she believes "if she was unhappy being with Dad and me, being stuck together would do none of us any good." However, her father regretted not teaching Emi more Japanese since, although her conversational skills are pretty good, she still has moments where her grammar is poor or she comes across very differently than what she intends.
She grew up with a tight-knit group of friends from her very first year of school. Although she was by no means a prodigy, she always stayed in the upper half of her classes in England, and her father was always incredibly proud of her no matter what. 
Her father once repaired one of her games consoles in front of her, and she was absolutely dumbstruck. From that point forwards, any time her father repaired something she was glued to his side watching him. It got to the point where her father caved and taught her how to repair a pair of broken headphones. Headphones became USBs, which then snowballed to even larger things. Nowadays, she's even better at repairing electronics than he is, and he trusts her enough to buy her tools and safety equipment to help with it.
Once she moved to Japan she didn't change very much, although she did become a bit more apprehensive to talk to people and make friends. However, after the three years she's lived in Japan, she's back to her usual, extroverted ways.
Whilst in Japan she started her own little business. She begun by selling cool stuff she found online to other people in her middle school, but now she's begun her own online business, and avoids talking about it during school (she couldn't deal with the people in her middle school always coming up to her for stuff). She realized that she could combine her knack for repairing electronics with her resale business and boom, there begun the "Emi Electronics" sale shop. Her dad helps her with the money transactions and shipping, but despite that he's always told her that it was "all her hard work and determination". She may specialize in electronics, but she really sells anything that looks like it could turn a profit.
She earns a little bit of side money from it, and she always has spare cash to treat her friends to a conveyor belt sushi joint after an exam or special occasion. She tries to not brag about it to people, but can't help but tell her close friends where she's earning her money from when she feels especially showy.
==Personality==
Emi is definitely a textbook extrovert. She always comes across as happy and peppy, and never hesitates to take the initiative if no one is willing to. Due to her growing up in England, her sense of humor is quite sarcastic and joking. However, when the jokes get misinterpreted she's immediately on her hands and knees apologizing. She's always been a people-pleaser, and if she feels that she's hurt someone's feelings or has made them hate her she literally can't handle it and does whatever she can to make things right. She's always been very aware of how the weight of people's words, so she doesn't ever want to leave people feeling miserable.
On the other hand, she literally does not give a damn what insults people say to her. There is only a select few people that can really get to her, and even then it's more annoyance than upset. She grew up in a rather rough part of England, and despite having friends, she always experienced people being cruel and rude. Nowadays she values what people say about her very little, since she's learnt how to block it out. This is what caused her to care so much about what she says to other people, since she's experienced first-hand people who didn't care about how their words hurt people.
Emi is just above average academically, with English being her one class that she reigns supreme. However, with her slow writing speed, her Japanese is definitely balancing out whatever advantages she had thanks to English. 
When she's not repairing electronics or doing homework last minute, she's glued to the computer. Because of how long she spends on the computer, if someone in real life quotes a meme she can't help but laugh or say the other half of it. This habit is to her detriment when she's in the library and says the response just a little too loud, or finds out that the person didn't actually say the meme at all and she just misheard it. 
She feels like the clubs in the school don't really interest her. The one time she applied for a club was the cooking club. After a couple club activities, they realized how abysmal she was, and how slow of a learner she is. They kindly told her that maybe she should practice at home first before rejoining, since they can't risk putting out a third fire caused by her. She apologized profusely for the hassle, and hasn't considered joining another club since.
==Relationships==
This bit is a work in progress. I need to check with other people as to how their OCs wanna interact with mine!
(If anybody wants their OCs to interact with Emi, message me at betsy#4760!)
==Trivia==
*This is her second design. I tried to design her once before but I felt the hair was really boring down. Thus, the updo was born!
*She gets really annoyed by the Newspaper Club. She literally can't bother to work out what is real, and which were just made up from gossip. So she just straight up ignores them.
*She's in denial about having a crush. And no, you won't find out who it is.
*She's a GAMER fellas. A gamer girl blonde british girl big peepee lord of steel. (She likes platformers the most)
*During her first lesson of middle school she called her teacher by his first name by accident and she wants to evaporate into the air every time she remembers it.
*She hates chocolate. I know. Scandalous. She literally hates chocolate that isn't dark chocolate because she ate wayyy too much as a child and put herself off of it.