Manai Chinami

> *"It'd be interesting to meet a demon. Wouldn't it?"*
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Manai Chinami is a young woman and a part of the Alternate.

## **Appearance & Outfit Preference**

Manai is a teenager who appears anywhere from 14 to 18 (or potentially even older) depending on interpretation and does not retain the wildly fantasy-colored features that some (A.K.A. most) of the narrator’s other characters have. In that sense, she could be seen as fairly average, a girl with fairly straight black hair that is cut off sharply around the mid-neck circumferential height. What would be her bangs has been grown out and brushed to either side of her face so to not fall into her large and very pale brown eyes, which are framed by long eyelashes and two double eyelids. Her nose arch is fairly flat along the top, and her facial features overall are more “cute” than “pretty”, though of course she’s not bad-looking.

Standing at 5’ 8.5’’, which is taller than the usual average teenager at her age, Manai retains a lean and fit build. Unlike her supposed impression of being a “good student” or a “good child” would imply, she doesn’t have a perfect posture at all times and will sometimes slouch when she’s tired and seated, but she does try to keep tabs on her posture to make sure that it’s a healthy one most of the time. Her most common expression is a winsome smile that can at times turn wistful.

Manai doesn’t have a huge detailed clothing agenda, but she doesn’t wear dresses and high heels. Her shoes are mostly with no heels and seem to have flat soles. She doesn’t have a preference between long and short sleeves, but her collars are often pretty high. She retains a like for pockets but has no negative bias towards formal clothing, which in comparison to casual clothing is more likely to not have pockets. Her style of clothing can vary at any time and can usually apply to any Sect, even though she doesn’t commonly wear armor. And other than a necklace that she keeps tucked in at all times, she doesn’t have many accessories on her. The one device that she might have on her would be a small kindle with a stand and an extended keyboard, which she usually keeps in a backpack or in a pocket. Her overall color scheme would be best said as natural colors and blue colors, but she can wear just about any color in general.

## **Personality**

Acting above her physical age, mature, and seeming to have a personality that has more or less finished its greatest developments, Manai is still, to say the least, a people person. A whole-hearted optimist to others, she is easily gracious and gives others a lot of trust by default, tending to consider them worthy and capable of so many opportunities no matter what. She is a very empathetic person and inclined towards emotions, for instance with a tendency to take emotional mending as immediate priority over actually solving a problem at hand if one should be presented to her by another. Her own emotional professions are rather straightforward as well and spread easily to others in some shape or form regardless of their empathy levels, and her emotions themselves are straightforward with her not being efficient in hiding them. Recognizing this, Manai tries to remain optimistic in even the worst situations, sometimes seeming naïve and illogical as a result when in truth she’s just trying to make it better for others.

One of Manai’s greatest flaws is actually her empathy, perhaps something that would have a like description along the lines of that of a selfless person. She can easily tend to pull others’ situations and problems unto herself too easily, and she can see others’ traits manifested on herself in the form of flaws even if it may not be the case. In a way, she sees more negativity in herself than she will in other situations and people because it’s her way of striving towards self-betterment.

Despite usually being pretty positive and cheerful, Manai is not someone devoid of a sense of reality. She is an idealistic visionary with many views and goals—a resourceful and flexible person who is content with what she has in most any circumstance, thus unlikely to perceive others negatively in ways such as envy or jealousy. Despite being light-hearted, she is a well-mannered and levelheaded person, and despite her witty and droll sort of demeanor at times, she is also truthful, kind, and devoted towards others and what she is determined towards. Even if she can seem to live for the moment, she’s far from only looking in the present, almost always up to seeing and accepting new things and getting to know more people. She could be said to almost be consistently curious and accepting as well as easily excited, even if she doesn’t have excited outbursts. Overall, she’s an approachable person who remains open-minded and coordinated even while acting playfully.

Manai is mostly described as extroverted, and she mostly sees her times with others as more fulfilling and interesting than times alone. She enjoys meeting others and having individual processes with them to find out who they are as individuals and how they act, and she is someone who will make conscious efforts to stick to friendships. Manai is very likely to continue trying to keep any friendship active; she’s not someone to kind of make a friend and then not see them for a while, after all. She can get along with most and usually has at least talked with someone in her immediate surroundings, showing a sort of open mentality like a child with their carefree “Will you be my friend?”. Perhaps unfortunately, though, Manai is far from a child mentally and is more than aware of the hurt that can come with a friendship or any relationship in general. She is actually more emotionally and mentally mature and aware than others of her physical age, in fact probably mentally and emotionally older than her physical age even despite her lack of experience in the world thus far.

As evident already, Manai is not immune to negativity and she is susceptible to her emotions controlling her even if subconsciously. She can be too sensitive, take too many things to heart, and feel down if even something she wasn’t very involved in goes wrongly. Her self-confidence is more so defined by her own insecurities and lack of confidence in some areas in the first place even if it may not seem like she lacks that confidence on the outside. In that aspect, her attitude and opinion towards herself could easily be said to be too vulnerable and prone to changing for the negative. Also, after one too many blows to her heart, Manai can be easy to despair at times regardless of whether or not she shows it. She is against crying in public/in front of others and as such is more likely to bottle up her emotions if pushed in that certain way and just seem defiant towards current happenings on her own.

However, regardless of happenings around her, her ideals can’t be changed, and she believes in not hurting others if she can and being humane even if she is hurt. She would rather fade from the world than come to be like someone she’s against. After all, Manai’s optimism is completely sincere in that she does believe that there is always something better for everyone. She is generally a well-balanced and temperate person who remains in touch with her emotions, whether that be those that she doesn’t show and those that she does. She is rarely angry or irritated, and it is very hard to provoke the even-tempered person that she is. She’s pretty frank and honest without any other factors coming into play because that’s just the person that she is—someone who is not so much as systematic as just that she tries to plan what needs to be planned and just sees how the rest goes the rest of the time. She isn’t someone with huge mood swings and taking feelings to extremes even if she is capable of experiencing emotions on either end of the spectrum, even if she doesn’t neglect those feelings and sees them as important. Mostly, she’s more likely to try to get through to whatever the issue is and solve it in the end. Until then, while the process is going on, she’ll just go with the flow for the rest of the time. Even if right now she doesn’t know her goal for this life, a debilitating thing considering that drifting in a world without an aim is probably worse than most anything else, she’ll just take it in stride and look for it.

## **Backstory**

She doesn’t know or remember just how it went, but her last life can clearly be seen to have been comprised of a lot of fighting, to the extent that she no longer retains any active want to partake in any form of fighting again. However, at least her life wasn’t as trauma-filled as some of the other Alternate, or so it appears—for unlike others in her group, she does not retain memory of a former given name.

## **Relationships**

Laurie
They seem to get along well enough to the point of them going outside together for some good old-fashioned fun.
The other is someone Manai respects. She hopes that Laurie will have a happy life full of what Laurie herself desires.
Totally Normal Taxi-Limo Driver Guy
He's just a cab driver, right? So why is he in this section?
Nagesh
They're friends and chat when circumstances allow. Surprisingly or not, the two of them actually hit it off as soon as they met--which was soon enough from both of their existences' beginning in Forengard that they are often visibly closer than others even in the Alternate.
Helen
She was concerned for Helen's wellbeing and wanted to help where she could. She was also somewhat concerned about the other's standards for "normal". However, they haven't interacted in a while, and Manai hasn't been able to come across her again. She finds it a little sad and unfortunate but hopes that Helen is doing well.
## **Powers/Abilities**

It’s said that she knows how to fight very well, but so far she’s yet to manifest that knowledge again. It’s unknown which abilities that she has, as so far she isn’t very inclined towards using her abilities, which couldn’t be classified as powers anyways.

## **Utilities**

Unknown, and hopefully will remain unknown for the most part.

## **Information**

* Though her name is considered to be written with her surname first and then her personal name written after, Manai's mostly fine with others calling her by either Manai or Chinami, since neither was her actual name in the past.
	+ Though, this would be the case even if it were her actual former name.

* She is the narrator's first teenage OC who is affiliated with but also shorter than a character of Specter's.

* She sucks at doing certain "girl things". (The narrator puts quotation marks as to say this is meant to refer to a stereotype, and also says "certain" because they're honestly not too familiar with the stereotype itself.)
	+ She isn't too fond of going shopping unless she needs to do so.
	+ She, unfortunately, absolutely sucks at knitting and sewing--needlework in general.
	+ Nagesh braids hair better than she does.
	+ He also cooks better than she does.
	+ She considers herself as lacking on fashion knowledge and clothing styles but hasn't minded thus far.
	+ She has never painted her nails or worn makeup.
	+ She also doesn't enjoy wearing flashy jewelry. A watch and her current necklace cuts it for her.
	+ She finds flowers beautiful but wouldn't want to wear them at all. She thinks they should stay where they grow.

* The narrator has always defined her as being a tomboy but don't really see it as being particularly important to anything.