Kana Fuyuki

## Overview

Kana is a student at Poppy Valley’s Morning Glory Academy. She loves the traditional arts as taught by her mother, as well as culture festivals. She most especially loves being surrounded by nature. You’d likely see her just wandering around the park and the forest, sometimes painting or reading. In regards to academics, she’s a fast learner that excels in all her subjects, but she always pressures herself to get high grades. Kana is a bit reserved towards new people, but quickly becomes kind and sweet. She hopes to find a new life in Poppy Valley, with newfound friends and a goal to work towards.

## Appearance

Kana is a very small girl with long, straight hair and hime cut bangs. Her pupils are a light green with crescent shaped irises, and feel somewhat empty. Her usual attire is her school uniform–a light pink sweater with oversized long sleeves, worn over a white collared shirt and black tie, a gray long skirt, white stockings, and black ankle boots. She usually loves wearing traditional Japanese clothes, but she also likes mixing in with modern street wear due to her cousin Yume’s influence. A common factor of all her outfits is that they all have long sleeves, no one has ever seen her bare arms.

## Personality

Kana’s first impression to most is that of a calm and reserved girl. She’s usually quiet, and spends most of her time doing things alone. However, she’s very sociable once you’re past her cold appearance. She’s soft-spoken and gentle, but she’s not afraid to be strict and firm. Especially when it comes to academics, where you’d likely see her in full “strict study” mode. She’s very grade conscious, and is a perfectionist, much to her benefit and dismay.

Kana may be reserved by default, and you likely imagine her to be someone very prim and proper, so you wouldn’t expect her to have a habit of lying. She often enjoys lying and messing with people when she finds their reactions entertaining. She always has a duck face expression whenever she messes with people, while for texts, she always uses the kaomojii 「’w’」, so spotting these clues is a surefire way to avoid being a victim of Kana’s tirade of lies.'

## Background

Kana is a Spirit Maiden. Being a descendant of a shrine maiden family, they taught her how to use spirit arts. Her arts involve creating illusions and summoning spirits to help her. The illusions are enough to fool any untrained eye. But since Kana isn’t that adept at it, you can usually tell it’s an illusion if you look closely for the ink-like smoke and the undefined form. The spirits she can summon are also very weak and small. So her arts are far from strong. To make it worse, when she moved to Poppy Valley they somehow got even weaker. It is currently unknown to her why, but Kana’s cousin, Yume, told her it’s better if she doesn’t rely on them anymore and learns to live normally.

Kana cherishes her mother. She taught her pretty much everything she knows. Her mother was still strict, but she raised Kana with care for her identity. Never did she force her daughter to do something she wasn’t genuinely interested in. They weren't just mother and daughter, but an unbreakable bond. When she passed away from grave illness, Kana was distraught, and became a complete mess. She dropped many of her interests and didn’t leave the house for months. But her cousin Yume, stepped in to help her.  After some time, Kana’s mental state was steadily recovering, and she remembered her promise to her mother–to find herself. At the same time however, her relatives decided that Kana must replace her mother as the Head Shrine Maiden. Not wanting to dishonor her mother’s wishes, she not only refused, but asked her cousin Yume to help her escape their family and find a new life. She later transferred to Poppy Valley’s Morning Glory Academy.

Kana joined the Outdoor Exploration Club. Which is weird, since her painting and music skill would make more sense in an art or music focused club. When Yui, her club president, asked why she joined the OEC, her response was simply “Those clubs rarely go outside”. In truth, Kana wanted to be in a club that lets her experience more of the simplicity that is nature, in hopes that these experiences will let her find the answer to the meaning she longs for.

## Trivia

* The maidens of the Fuyuki Family are named in a way that describes the appearance or feeling of “Fuyuki” or Snow Lotus. So Kana’s full name means “Beautiful Snow Lotus.” Fuyuki (芙雪) means Snow Lotus、 while Kana (佳奈) means Beautiful.
* Kana’s concept was made in two days so she could be with Yui Ichika (hyperlink) in the revival of the Outdoor Exploration Club. Production go brrrr