Maru Ishida

Maru is a reserved first year student. She's deaf and tends to avoid most people, although some come to her to mess around with her hearing aids.
== Appearance ==
She has bobbed, dark grey hair with bangs. It's fluffy, thick, and soft as a feather. Her eyes are round and curious with dark brown irises. Her skin is naturally fair, making her look sickly pale sometimes.
== Personality ==
Maru is a shy girl, sticking to herself most of the time unless she is approached by another. Sometimes she'll go out of her comfort zone to attempt to help other people, maybe sparking a conversation with another shy person at an event or helping an old lady cross the street. 
When surrounded by close friends or family, Maru will tend to grow more extroverted, talking a lot and touching people. 
==Backstory==
Maru doesn't talk about her home life very much and keeps it to herself.
(Unlocked after close friendship)
Maru's life started out a bit rough, she was a scrawny and frail child whose father disappeared at age 3. A few years after that, at age 6, she went deaf as a side effect of sickness. Since then, her mother has struggled to continually afford her "lost" hearing aids. Due to the fear of annoyance and stress coming from her mother, she usually goes without hearing aids for as long as she can, although this leads to failing grades.
For most of her life, Maru has been bullied for varying reasons, however her being deaf is the main cause. Because of this, she hasn't had many friends and even those she made, had left. Over time, outgoing little Maru had shaped into a scared and lonely child, becoming the shadow of her mother at social events. 
She's found herself taking a liking to birds, especially those of the corvid variety. She spends a good bit of her time at parks, feeding pigeons, crows, whatever birds are around. "There's something about them, their intelligence and freedom," Maru has been quoted. 
Albeit not often, Maru will sometimes be absent from school due to hospital visits. Only one of these visits was overly serious and that was due to a failed suicide attempt at 13.
==Relationships==
RELATIONSHIP INFO
(I'M TOTALLY OPEN FOR FRIEND APPLICATIONS FOR MARU!! SHE ALREADY HAS ONE FRIEND)
==Trivia==
* Maru is a big fan of birds, especially cockatiels and ravens.
* Her first name is made up only of the character "丸" Maru which translates to circle. She was given this name at birth due to her round and curious eyes.
*Maru knows how to read lips as she often "loses" her hearing aids.
*She spends most of her time at parks to feed birds.
*She carries a notebook around with her for people that don't know JSL. You can look through the different conversations if you're brave enough.
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