Miki

MIKI

**Appearance**

Miki is actually a very pretty and attractive girl, it's just her personality is, at times, a real turn-off. Miki is tall and thin, like she might be anorexic, but she is not. She has a pleasant, round face with a blunt chin. She has long, straight hair down below her shoulder blades, with straight bangs covering her forehead. Her ears protrude outward from the hair fall at the sides of her head. Miki has big, expressive eyes, with sexy eyelashes and prominent eyebrows. Miki has an even skin tone, pale with a very slight, seemingly, hint of an orange tint. She has a short neck, and narrow shoulders, but long arms and expressive hands. For her thin body frame, Miki has a quite large bust, that shows prominently with whatever clothes she is wearing. She has a thin waist, but noticeable hips, again because of her thinness. Miki has long, trim, sexy legs, and average sized feet. Other than looking a bit under weight because of her thin frame, Miki always has a noticeably sexy and alluring aura and presentation about her.

Miki is most often seen wearing her high school uniform. It is the same uniform that Makoto wears, except that Miki wears the girl's necktie, whereas Makoto wears a boy's tie. The uniform consists of a white dress shirt, with a striped bow tie at the front of the neck. Over the shirt is worn a ladies business jacket. A pleated short skirt, or a pleated mini-skirt is worn with the outfit. Knee socks and tie shoes complete the outfit. However, Miki wears striped ankle socks, instead of the knee-highs. For casual wear, Miki usually wears a shirt and an mini-skirt, always with her striped ankle socks.

**Personality and Circumstances**

Overall, Miki's personality is such that for the most part, she could be a very kind and loving friend, if she will only 'put her mind to it'. But Miki, despite being mostly good, does, unfortunately, have a few bad streaks in her personality. And that tends to spoil the rest of her good personality traits. One is that she can be devious, especially when it comes to getting what she wants. In the case of this short story, Miki wants the friendship and girl-with-girl shipping that is supposedly possible with Makoto. Friendship can be shared with many different people, but Miki seems to want exclusivity with Makoto. Miki's crafty and tricky personality traits come into play as she devises a scheme (actually several), to drive a wedge between Makoto and Yuuko, pushing out Yuuko, and thereby leaving Makoto all alone, and ready to be claimed by Miki.

Miki is, above all, persistent. If one avenue of approach does not seem to work with Makoto or Yuuko, she will regroup, and try a different scheme the next time. Miki comes off as supposedly respectful of others and their likes and opinions. However, she is always 'working under the table', to downgrade others feelings, and to promote her own opinions and desires. As Miki tries more and more times to 'get on the good side' with Makoto, she does not realize that she is building up to a point that is going to trigger Makoto into rejection of her, the complete opposite of what Miki is trying to accomplish. The trigger happens when Miki tries to take Yuuko 'down a couple of notches' right in front of Makoto. This Makoto can not stand, and therefore Makoto dismisses Miki from her presence in no uncertain terms. Miki leaves, crying her heart out at her once again failed attempt to influence Makoto.

Nevertheless, one could get the impression that Miki is not really a bad person. Given enough motivation, whether it be a desire for success, or the consequences of failure, it is possible of people to examine themselves objectively and honestly, and readjust themselves emotionally and socially, if they really want to. Miki seems to fit that description of her personality and abilities. One outcome of the story could be that Miki does come to realize the bad streaks in her personality, and make slow but steady progress to remake herself into a better person. A person who will come to be forgiven and liked by both Makoto and Yuuko.

**Trivia**

In the Japanese language, the first name "Miki" is feminine, and means sturdy and unmovable as a tree trunk.