Tomoko Aihara

"*Do I hate the work I am given? No. Is it stressful? Yes. Do I still go with the job even though it's a pain? All I can say is this; aboslutely.*"
—Tomoko Aihara

**Tomoko Aihara** (相原 知子. *Aihara Tomoko*) is one of the four teachers of Class 1-E, that being she is the homeroom teacher in Kunugigaoka Junior High School. One of the more "normal" teachers in Class 1-E, Tomoko Aihara is regarded for her more *sane* personality when she is compared to her peers and the students that she is teaching. The favorite toy of one Hidemitsu Kuroha, Tomoko would try her best to keep her sanity in check, but everyday that Hidemitsu would try to make her go angry, he would always meet only an aura that basically says that he's going to be killed. Now being involved in the assassination attempt of an entity called Korosensei, Tomoko now can how deal with both trying to make sure that the students don't try to kill each other with the weapons supplied by the JDSF and of Korosensei's shenanigans.

## Appearance

Physical appearance aside, she has brunette hair that extends to the waist, and brown eyes. Her hair appearing thin like wheat, she is often mocked by being called "Wheat Hair" by other students before her transfer to Class 1-E. Moving from her hair, other than this, she has a fair complexation and looked to be pale like the moon.

## Personality

While Tomoko Aihara seemed to have some form of bad luck in the form of Hidemitsu Kuroha, Tomoko herself appears to be more clam, trying to keep her composure ahead, so on the outside, she looks to be unaffected.

## Plot

### First Semester

First introduced as the homeroom teacher of Class 1-E, Tomoko Aihara is first seen as a cameo helping Korechika Hōjō with a problem, it wasn't long until Tomoko found herself being involved with Korosensei's shenanigans.

## Abilities

**Intelligence:**

**Calming Demeanor:** This is what best describes the teacher that is Tomoko Aihara, because whenever she has to deal with a stressful situation (i.e. someone causing her great pain), she would often take in measures to form a clam demeanor, making sure that she doesn't lose her patience.

**Precise Teaching:**

## Etymology

* Tomoko's surname **Aihara** means "appearance, look" (相) (**ai**) and "meadow, plain, field" (原) (**hara**).
* Her given name **Tomoko** means "wisdom, knowing" (知) (**tomo**) and "child" (子) (**ko**).

## Behind the Scenes

* She is physically based off of **Io** from **Princess Connect! Re:Dive**.
* Her surname is taken from either manga artist **Koji Aihara** or politician **Kumiko Aihara**.
* Meanwhile, her given name is from either politician **Tomoko Abe**, lawyer **Tomoko Sasaki**, origami artist **Tomoko Abe** or voice actress **Tomoko Ishimura**.
* Her birthday of August 9th corresponds with the Battle of Pharsalus, the Battle of Adrianople, the singing of the Treaty of Fort Jackson, the Battle of Suomenlinna, the Battle of Cedar Mountain, the Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra, the Battle of Savo Island, and finally when Nagasaki got nuked.
* It also happens that the day she was born happens to be the same day when English historian Arnold Fitz Thedmar, Italian priest Francesco Cetti, Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, American astronomer Dorothea Klumpke are born.
* Coincidentally, it also happens that August 9th is the same day that Roman emperor Valens, Byzantine ruler Irene of Athens, Kurdish soldier Najm al-Din Ayyub, Early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch, Italian cardinal Thomas Cajetan, Chinese martial artist Huo Yuanjia and Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields all died.