Ichigo Misaki

* Sprite (D4)
* Splash Art

**Ichigo Misaki** (Also known by her codename: ***Kumori***) is a original character featured in the Future Foundation. She is one of the seven survivors of the Tragedy Across the Seas.

She was enrolled as part of **Class 80** of Makoto Naegi's newly revived **Hope's Peak Academy**. She graduated with honors as the **Ultimate Painter**, and kept her title as part of the new policy surrounding graduation of the academy or those that had graduated beforehand.

## Gallery

For more images of Ichigo, see Ichigo Misaki/Image Gallery.

## Appearance

Ichigo is a young adult woman of average build and height. She is fairly light-skinned, with a round face, droopy icy blue eyes and a mole on the left side of her chin. Her shoulder-length hair is thick and fluffy in texture. It's split perfectly in the middle with two colors, baby pink on the left and black on the right. Her clothing consists of a lilac sweater with a violet and white colar tied with a pink ribbon underneath, a pink plaid tennis skirt, a pair of white thigh-high stockings and black mary janes. She is also wearing a beret and an apron with a matching pattern of clouds on a baby blue background. She also has long, almond shaped nails that she keeps painted with pastel pink polish.

## Creation and Development

Ichigo was one of the first couple of characters created as pac representations of their creators. At first she was purely based off of gomitonashi's looks, originally having fully black hair and no apron. She was also supposed to have a lilac trench coat, however this never made it into the final version of the pac. Gomi updated her hair to be split dyed with pink shortly after as it seemed to match her overall aesthetic better. After Alejolanz suggested giving her the talent of the ultimate painter, Gomi was originally going to give the character a big overhaul. Adding an apron was the first step she took, which was easy as the pac already used Mikan. After really liking how a matching apron and beret completed the design, Gomi ended up making it the only change to the pac.

## Name Etymology

Ichigo's first name translates to "strawberry" in japanese, while her last name, Misaki, translates to "beautiful bloom". Neither of the two were picked for their meaning, as the true meaning of the name comes from the fact that the last two letters of her first name ("go") and the first two letters of her last name ("mi") come together to spell "Gomi".

## Personality

Ichigo is as excentric as you would expect an artist to be, at least to some extent. In a way, she acts as if she is just a little bit out of touch with reality, rarely treating her situation or the people around her seriously. It never feels completely genuine, mostly seeming like her sence of humor or some sort of act to not show herself as vulnerable.

She is quite sociable and enjoys the company of other people, but is extremely distrusting to newly met people, usually clinging to people she knows quite well, rather than making friendships. This earned her the reputation of being co-dependent on the people she is close to, which is not too far from the truth. This can be especially when she's seen around Yamato Shinku, as she seems very reluctant to leave his side.

Ever since a very young age Ichigo was beaming with creativity, being natrually very skilled with all sorts of crafts. She has a huge pasion for painting, but is very capable in multiple other art forms, such as makeup, sawing and baking.

Ichigo is also very family-oriented, having very close relationships with all of her relatives, especially her two siblings. She is always very happy to spend time with them or talk about them (even if nobody asks her about the subject.).

She is very attatched to her physical posetions, taking very good care of them and often growing emotional bounds surrounding them. She is a little reluctant to share anything that belongs to her and values physical gifts very highly. This is a result of her growing up in an extremely poor household with multiple siblings and only earning large sum of off her painter carreer fairly recently, as she tries to make up for all the things she couldn't have asa child. This can, however, often times make her seem quite materialistic.

## Talent & Abilities

### Ultimate Painter:

Ichigo was always naturally gifted when it comes to art, however painting is her greatest ability so far. She has painted in a plethora of styles and movements, perfecting mutliple of them. Although she is extremely good with realism and it usually gaining her the most positive reviews, it's actually her least favourite style, prefering those which allow her ore freedom to experiment with color such as impressionism or pointilism.

## Relationships

### Akari Tereru:

Ichigo and Akari were classmates at Makoto Naegi's newly revived Hope's Peak Academy. They got close over time and eventually met again on the trip to the new Future Foundation.

## Trivia

* Ichigo was the first dr4 character (not counting Nagito and Sora who come from other franchises) to have her own playermodel.