Yang Midori-Matsumoto

Yang's Official Portrait

### Intro

Yang Midori-Matsumoto is a Japanese princess, councilor, & professional instructor. She is the current Prefect of the Kyushu Island Prefecture. Yang is the half-sister of Princess Riko Matsumoto. Yang is the first female Prefect of Kyushu Prefecture, and one of the few members of the royal family to have a blood relative. Yang is known for her semi-minimalist clothing, casual and carefree attitude, and her pink-toed bare feet. She is most easily recognizable by her lilac-purple eyes and flowing blonde hair.

### Appearance

Yang is a girl of average height with a feminine yet athletic build with a sizable bust. Like her half-sister Riko, she has yellow-blonde hair, worn at back length with lilac colored eyes She wears a yellow bra under a short crop-top styled jacket with black shorts and occasionally a brown leather belt. The only thing Yang wears on her barefeet is pink toe polish, however, on rare occasions, she can be seen wearing a pair of strappy brown leather sandals. Her feet are very dirty. Yang also wears an orange scarf like accessory around her neck and shoulders.

### Personality

Yang has an incredibly carefree and sometimes aloof personality. She often finds herself bored and tends to entertain herself with random things such as dangling her sandals or fidgeting with a pen or pencil. When push comes to shove, and she is tasked with an assignment or work however, she is incredibly efficient and fiercely determined to do the best job she can.

### Life

Yang was born on April 15th, 2127 to her Caucasian father and Japanese mother. She was the second child of Yang's father. She was born into a fairly wealthy family and a loving one at that. She was the youngest of two, her half-sister being Riko Matsumoto, who's biological mother died shortly after Riko was born due to complications from the birth. Both girls were raised on some fairly rigid standards, and were taught core principles such as critical thinking, respect for others, love of family, and a strong belief in good education.

Both Yang and Riko had a quiet and relatively unremarkable early childhood, enjoying their upper-middle class lifestyle, loving parents, and their favorable childhood. Their elementary school years were fairly standard and unremarkable. Yang picked up an interest in soccer in elementary school, but other than that, both girls produced strong marks in their scholastics. When both girls got to middle school, they began to demonstrate some early signs of unique levels of intelligence, individuality, and their own respective and unique personalities. Yang developed a fondness of history, math, politics, and minimalist footwear. She instantly fell in love with the first pair of sandals she ever wore, while Riko developed a fondness for flats and traditional Japanese clothing like yukatas. While their preferences differed vastly, their platonic love for each other, and their thirst for higher intellect were equally endless. Their middle school scholastics were equally as impressive, each girl leaving middle school near the top of their class.

When the girls reached high school, they separated for some time. Riko, having heard about the Sensha-Do schools, enrolled at Oarai, as rumors were that the school was exploring a revival of their program. Yang on the other hand, interested in less famous studies, chose to go to a school in the city of Tsukuba. In high school Yang would take her love for soccer and use that passion to participate in her school's sports program, where Yang would show her skills as a striker in her school's soccer team. Yang would set records at her school and go on to win 2 national championships with her team, making her the all time record holder in both championships and goals scored in a single season. Riko would succeed in her own right, becoming a part of the Oarai Sensha-Do team led by the legendary Miho Nishizumi, and Riko would go on to be a core part of Oarai's 3 championship runs during her school life. Yang would often come to cheer Riko on in her Sensha-Do matches while Riko would do the same for Yang in her soccer matches. Every day when the girls would come home from school, they would strengthen their familial bond by sharing the stories of their day, and showing each other various parts of their respective sports. The girls naturally schooled very well, and both would pursue political ventures.

Their experience, paired with Riko's existing friendship with Empress Momo Kawashima, allowed them an early chance to apply their knowledge. After schooling at Oarai University for a couple of years, Yang demonstrated enough skill and intellect to be appointed to govern Kyushu as it's Prefect. Yang currently serves in this role to this day, and it is generally assumed that as long as Yang continues to govern the Prefecture well, she will hold that position for as long as she wants it. While Yang has at times expressed interest in a Councilor position, It has never been any more than occasional remarks, and she remains dedicated to the betterment of the people of Kyushu, and Japan as a whole. Since then, Yang has also developed a preference for being barefoot, often allowing her sandals to be removed from her dirty feet, and going so far as to personally gift them to fellow princess and friend Kei Sendai. However, Kei has requested that Yang continue to wear them for now, which Yang has done, albeit occasionally, for her fellow blonde friend. Yang does find it quite amusing to wear them sometimes, as when asked, she refers to them as "my friend's" sandals, as Yang no longer considers them to be hers. When she is not wearing them, she is often seen publicly barefoot, and often shows off her dirty feet in private whilst at the Imperial Palace.

### Trivia

* Yang hates shoes. While she didn't initially, she has grown to hate shoes the more she is allowed to be barefoot
* Yang's Favorite Color is Purple
* In her free time, Yang still actively plays soccer. She often surprises her royal family members with her skill as she often plays in her sandals
* Yang's birthday is shared by various historical events, a few notable ones are the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (while shot on the 14th he died on the 15th) and the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic (which struck an iceberg on the 14th, but didn't sink until the 15th)
* Yang's feet are considered the most sought after by her fellow royal family members, just after those of Empress Momo Kawashima
* Yang is one of the only royal family members who's official portrait shows her barefoot
* In recent appearances, Yang has been seen to be missing her bra. This possibly indicates that Yang has possibly lost it, forgotten it, or simply no longer wears it.
* Yang does not wear underwear under her shorts, a trait she has picked up from fellow royal, Princess Takeko 'Oryou' Nogami