Kaname Reina

Kaname Reina () is one of the current candidates for AKB0048's 155th generation draft.
She is also affectionately nicknamed Rena (れな). She is a well-mannered and mature teenager who holds a great sense of justice. Mature to the point that she was know as The adult trapped in a teenage girl's body (乙女の体に閉じ込められた大人 Otome no karada ni tojikome rareta otona) in her highschool.
Reina comes from a poor family in an extremely precarious situation, which is why she hesitates to become an idol, despite her love for 00s and Entertainment in general.
==Bio==
===Appearance===
Reina has waist-length, soft, slightly wavy, coral pink hair, as well as two strands one on the other framing her face, facing her cheeks and chin while two other longer strands fall on her chest. Her forehead is fully exposed even if there is sometimes a small strand of hair touching almost her nose. Reina also generally wears a small headband crown of artificial flowers on her head, which is a present from her mother.
In order to correct her slight short-sightedness, she wears wide square-shaped glasses covering her slanted tea-coloured eyes. However, she does not wear them all the time, for example, she doesn't wear them onstage and uses contact lens instead. Similarly to every 00s members, heart-shaped reflections are visible on Reina's eyes and hair. Reina also has a diamond-shape in her eyes (distinct from those of graduated members), which is probably a reference to her address for card games. She has a small mole on the right side of her nose.
Her appearance is fairly trim and her skin complexion is rosy fair.
Her dress style is plain, modest, comfortable and very "adult-like". Indeed, Reina's clothing range is quite limited because of her family's poverty, since she cannot afford a high budget for clothes when her family is already struggling to pay rent and bills. Many of her clothes belonged to her mother, and she bought the rest at second-hand clothes shops. Reina cares little about current fashion trends, and often values the practical side and sturdiness of her clothes.
She rarely wears makeup, and when she does, its quite light and understated.
===Personality===
Reina is a trustworthy, reliable, but still modest young girl characterized by her strong sense of justice due to the fact her family suffered a heavy injustice. Having a large family (and a chronically ill father) that she has to constantly look after, she always tries hard to be resourceful and responsible, and has an honorable sense of duty.
She is friendly, composed, diligent, understanding, devoted and polite in nature, yet she can show a very sensitive, indecisive behavior when it comes to matters concerning the family. It's because her family means everything to her. She did not have the opportunity to have many friends because she had to take care of her family all the time. As a result, she usually calls to people with their full name, not out of contempt or anything but it's just a habit she has since she was very young, because she's not accustomed to being close to other people than her family.
She often takes a level-headed approach to situations and she tries to never lose her cool and act as the mediator, even though she is facing a difficult, tense one. 
Unbeknownst to most, Reina also has a more competitive and calculating, even scheming side, especially when it comes to card or arcade games. At times, she can even acts as a bit of a tease. 
Because of her appearing like a mature person, people tend to forget that she is still a teenager who has a secret interest in cute things.
Furthermore, Reina is a resolute person, patient, helpful, accepting and generally pacifist; albeit she is almost never afraid to speak of her mind. She gets easily upset around people she deems to be too rude. That's why she often lectures others if she feels it's necessary, striving to bring some balance to the group. She is caring and particularly attentive to the feelings and needs of those around her. She does have a strong sense of right and wrong, trying to treat everyone fairly at any time.
Currently, she is nervous about her family, but she manages to hide it pretty well.
===Skills===
Reina's skills, coming mainly from her social background, are more like those of a stereotypical mother/housewife than a teenage girl.
Due to having to take care of her large family, Reina excels in all kinds of household chores. Her culinary skills are exemplary, and she can clean any place very effectively in a blink.
She is also very comfortable taking care of children and enjoy it greatly. She is good at handling expenses and saving money, Reina can manage many things at once and has no problem organizing her time and planning what to do next by using constantly a mental schedule which changes every day.
Reina has also developed some basic sewing skills: she knows how to patch up damaged clothes, which is useful to save money instead of buying new clothes.
Thanks to her composure and her somewhat strategic mind, Reina is exceptionally gifted at playing card games. She can easily defeat other talented adult players by thinking "outside the box".
Additionally, she has made numerous secret trips to arcades to relax and unwind. It is thanks to these short escapades that Reina discovered her innate talent for Danmaku and Dance Dance Revolution.
==Chronology==
Reina was born and grew up on Tekistar. She is the eldest child of a huge, very poor family. Its consists of her grandmother, her chronically ill father, her mother almost always at work, her younger siblings, her aunt, her uncle and her cousins. Whereas Tekistar is a low-tax planet, the Kaname family is struggling with many debts because of the high cost of the children's private schooling and the recurrent medical care they have to pay for the father. Despite its poverty, her family has a rule: everyone must be around the table at the time of the meal. Her life was not easy but her family was very much tight-knit, always supporting each other even during the toughest months.
Although they always had belonged to the working class, Reina's family has not always been so poor. Her father was once a respected laborer who worked very hard to provide for his family, and her mother was a housewife. Unfortunately, one day, he was diagnosed with a chronic illness. He warned his employer of his illness, but the latter told him that if he stopped working, he would refuse to grant him ill leave. Her father continued to work because he was the only source of income in the family; he didn't have a choice. But he was more and more weakened by his illness, and ended up getting dangerously hurt while working on a building site. After this accident, he was bounded to his bed and his employer immediately licensed him after learning that.
The company where her paternal uncle worked went bankrupt, and he was forced to move to his brother's home to avoid being homeless with his wife and children. Reina's mother eventually managed to find a job, but it was a full-time one that forced her to be away from home most of the time. With her grandmother being too old, her aunt being unable to find a job and the stress of the whole situation having made her uncle depressed, Reina more or less took the role of the head of the family. She was in charge of the children, the family budget, the administrative paperwork, to get the groceries, to do the shopping, to maintain the house, etc...
Her missing classes in order to attend to family-related matters was a pretty common occurrence. She loved her family more than anything in the world, of course, and therefore fulfilled this role without any complaint, but this put a lot of pressure on her. She was still only a 10-year-old young girl after all. What's more, Reina didn't have many friends at school because she couldn't really relate to most of her classmates' concerns and interests, especially considering most of them came from richer families.
Reina discovered the 00s while surfing on the Internet, and began to listen to their songs more and more often as it allowed her to escape from her difficult everyday life, if only for an instant. She could not help but yearn for another life filled with dreams and new exciting experiences, before mentally beating herself for having such selfish thoughts.
She tried to participate in the 154th generation auditions under the encouragement of her family as her father seemed to be getting better, and actually managed to pass the first round. Nevertheless, on her way to the auditions, she had received a message saying that her father's health had worsened and that he was in the hospital. Worried sick about him, she immediately gave up the auditions to go back home.
Since this event, although Reina desperately wants to be part of the 00s, she is too scared that daring to leave, something happens to her family. She doesn't know if she should leave and fulfill her dream, or repress her own desires for the benefit of her family and stay as she has always done all her life. To put it bluntly, she doesn't know if she should be selfish or selfless. 
Reina is the victim of a cruel dilemma, choosing between the two things that matter the most to her: her family or Entertainment.
Her family does not want her to continue putting her live on hold for their sake. For this reason, without her knowledge, her grandmother created the "Help Reina" plan that consists of finding a way to make sure that Reina participate in the auditions without her having the choice.
Therefore, her siblings secretly filmed her singing a random 00s song and sent it to the 00s, effectively making her apply for the auditions of the 155th generation.
==Relationships==
==Etymology==
"Kaname" is written as 鹿目. 鹿 ("Kana") can be translated as deer and 目 ("Me") can be translated as eye.
"Reina" is written as 怜梛. 怜 ("Rei") can be translated as wise, clever befitting Reina's mature, sensible personality. 梛 ("Na") is an archaic Kanji that refers to a kind of tree similar to a willow with pink flowers. Her parents chose it because they hoped she and her siblings would someday be able to live in a place with a luxuriant nature, including wondrous trees adorned with beautiful flowers. Unfortunately, this is a wish that could only become reality thanks to a miracle, considering Tekistar's ruined environment and her family's poverty that makes the option of leaving Tekistar impossible. 
Moreover, Reina can be translated as queen in Spanish.
"Rena" (れな) her nickname; is directly derived from her first name. Her younger siblings and her cousins gave her this nickname.
==Quotes==
*"Nice to meet you. Please just call me Reina. I already hope that we can get along in the future." - Reina's self-introduction catchphrase. 
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==Achievements==
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==Trivia==
* Old Era Favourite Songs : Kaze wa Fuiteru, Shonichi
* New Era Favourite Song : River of Time
* Audition Song : Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai
* Non 00 Related Favourite Songs : Euterpe (EGOIST) and Love Spiral Tower (Sakurauchi Riko/Aida Rikako)
* Charm Points : Forehead and mole
* Favourite Colour: Fuchsia
* Penlight Colour : Peach
* Favourite Flower: Moonflower
* Favourite Animal : Hinds
* Favourite Foods: Spaghetti alle vongole, meatloaf, cherries, sandwiches
* Favourite Drinks: Iced coffee, chamomile and red berries-flavoured tea
* Hobbies: Looking after her beloved family, cooking, cleaning, listening to music, playing card games, Danmaku and DDR.
*Her kirara is shaped and coloured like a cherry chip with black eyes.
* Currently, Reina doesn't have a social media, simply because she has never had time for that kind of things and she honestly does not see the point for her to have one.
* She secretly loves cute things and her room is stuffed with cheap stuffed animals. She has even more than all her sisters and brothers together.
**She is also crazy about Hello Kitty. It's her guilty pleasure.
**Is a closet fan of Pon Pon Pon.
* Reina once had a boyfriend in middle school but they broke up because he thought she was taking care of her family way too much.
*Her audition number was #3012.
* Her voice actress has been chosen because she voiced Hojo Sophie, another idol from the anime PriPara.
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