Chiharu Morohoshi

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Chiharu Morohoshi, *(Japanese: 諸星 千春 Morohoshi Chiharu)*, is an eccentric Third Year student in the Yumirai International Academy universe's High School.

## Appearance

Chiharu Morohoshi is a tall woman who is slightly chubby and has a fair-skinned complexion, that burns rather easily along with freckles which she is pretty insecure about. Chiharu has ginger hair that reaches just to her midback that curls inwards and sky blue eyes. Her hair and eyes both are natural in colour, much to the disbelief of others. She has pierced ears that students see typically see with flower earrings.

She tends to wear an extremely oversized hoodie that drapes down to her waistline and elbows along with the general school uniform; a white collared shirt with a striped bow - that Chiharu lets hang down, a black skirt with stripes, knee-high stockings and Mary Jane shoes. Students find her appearance quite "loud" but at the same time, enjoy seeing what she has to bring with her style.

## Personality

Chiharu is seemingly confident and outlandish in personality. She gives off an air of a "Typical Nerd" with her interest in video games, mecha, science and anime. Chiharu is very open with her love and affection, both platonic and romantic. Due to this openness, she is very embarrassing in the way she gives her affection. She yells, kisses cheeks, shakes and bear hugs. Although she gives off this cheery vibe, she is insecure about a lot of things, including her freckles and wears makeup to hide them off campus. She wears this mask to hide her true self from others, worrying about how they'll perceive her if people find about her flaws.

If talked about in a bad light, she will pretend she doesn't care and laugh about what they say but in her thoughts, she blames herself about what they had said and think about it for the rest of the day, sometimes about a whole week. Depending on the severity of the insults.

After school, she spends about an hour or two in the club room with her schoolmates. When not in the club room after school, she goes to drop her stuff off at home, then immediately travels to Akihabara or Ikebukuro for her own interests. That is, if she has money to spend as it is extremely difficult to save money for a long period of time for Chiharu.

## Backstory

With a rather nuclear family background, you’d expect her to be quite confident in herself. That is not the case however.  Since she was a young girl, she was shown nothing but comparisons in her family. With being compared to her successful brother nearly constantly from the ages of 6 to 15, she has been told day after day that Chiharu should be as successful as her Takuya, her brother. Shigeo, her dad, saw him as the truest form of what a person should be. High grades, good looks, and soon to be having a well paying job.  Despite this, Chiharu was only good at science. Shigeo even poked at her having a bunch of freckles on her face, “joking” that she should get rid of them by laser surgery. Each time she laid eyes on herself in the mirror, she always locked gazes with her reflection. From the age of 8 onward, she never felt truly herself.

Chiharu never questioned why she was always feeling horrible about herself as she thought others felt this way in her childhood. She always came home and sat down in her room and stared. Stared at the floor, ceiling or even out the window. She was never really bothered by these mundane actions until she sought solace in late evening shows on TV. Her mother brought her a flat screen TV and hooked it up on the wall, leaving her to skim through shows all afternoon to evening when supper had begun. After supper she skipped back to her room and came across a channel. This channel was re-airing Azumanga Daioh, a slice of life school anime. She found this anime and began watching it every evening after, slowly but surely becoming happier and moulding her personality to match a "healthier Chiharu".

After the age of 14, she became engrossed with the “otaku lifestyle”. Becoming obsessed with manga, anime, video games and different types of her own personal interests, causing all “friends” to lose interest and never talk to her again, leaving her to her own thoughts.

Although coming across as a happy and healthy person, she was still suffering from the effect of her father’s expectations of her and her own self esteem. Chiharu is extremely fearful of losing friends from telling them about her flaws and insecurities. Chiharu has been trying to heal but she can’t do it alone. She may need friends once again, ones who are willing to support her when she is ready to come forward about her issues.

## Relationships

### **Rosalie LeBlanc**

* Mother - While not a lot is talked about between them, they have a non-verbal loving and caring relationship. Her mother supports her hobbies and Chiharu is willing to help out her mother whenever she needs.

### **Shigeo Morohoshi**

* Father - The relationship between Chiharu and Shigeo is a very rocky relationship, as he is responsible for many of Chiharu's psychological and self esteem issues.Shigeo doesn't talk to Chiharu anymore and barely even talks to his wife either. Shigeo is too swept up in his work to take note of his family.

### **Takuya Morohoshi**

* Older Brother - The perfect brother of Chiharu. Although he doesn't talk to his father as much, he checks in with Rosalie and will sometimes send money to support the three. He has a distaste for his father for what he has done to others in the community and will sometimes secretly send money to Chiharu.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* If she were to be voiced in Japanese, her voice actor would be Haruka Tomatsu.
* Chiharu was inspired by Futaba Sakura and Mari Illustrious Makinami.
* Her favourite video game series is the Final Fantasy series.
* Chiharu enjoys arcade dancing games and has a high stamina.
* Although not explicitly stated, she is extremely experienced with pottery.
* Chiharu's worst subject is social studies.
* If she feels threatened or scared in anyway, she will become nervous, laugh after each sentence and scratch the palm of her hand.
* **Nomenclature**
	+ Chiharu (千春) can be read as *"thousand springs".*
		- 千 - thousand.
		- 春 - spring.
	+ Morohoshi (諸星) can be read as *"many stars".*
		- 諸 - both, many.
		- 星 - star.