Tuli

**Tuli Deruzo** ("Tuli") is one of the main cast in Sensei Overnight. She is one of the seven original members of Class 3B.

## Background

Tuli has a fairly friendly relationship with Janu from the very beginning. Her biggest hobby is athletics and she competes in triathlon. When she is suffering from a sprained ankle, she's visibly frustrated by that fact and returns to running as soon as possible even though her ankle is not fully healed and she's visibly in pain while running. Janu often visits her on weekends and during the week as well at the school sports track and they occasionally converse in the common room in dorms as well. Although she is primarily an athlete, she is also the best student in her class, scoring even better than Nirima in most subjects. However, she is under a lot of scrutiny from her parents, former professional athletes, who want her to excel in both athletics and education, which sometimes takes a toll on her behaviour.

## Personality

Tuli is friendly to everyone in her class and has a very positive relationship with most of her classmates. Her best friends are Dayai and Tora, among whom she sometimes acts as a voice of reason and stops their incipient arguments about their affection towards Janu. However, she also gets along very well with Nokana. She is also friendly with Janu and she doesn't mind his occasional sexual innuendo. She always becomes startled at first when he makes such remarks, but as time passes, she accepts them as a part of his personality and she's not even flustered anymore. However, she is afraid of enclosed dark spaces. When she and Janu are accidentally locked in a storage room and when Nirima locks her in one as part of a bet she makes with her, she suffers a nervous breakdown both times. In those moments, she's visibly feared and tenses at the slightest touch as if expected to be hit, thinking she's being punished for losing. Despite the traumatic experience, however, she forgives and reconciles with Nirima later and convinces Tora and Dayai to do the same.

## Locations

* Dorm Common Room - Tuesdays
* Tutor Sessions - Thursdays
* Sports Track - Weekend Afternoons

## Events

### Chapter 1

* The Smartest Girl in the Class
* Juicy Melons
* Multiple of Melons
* The Watcher
* Cities and Cages
* Goalie

### Chapter 2

* Just a Cage in a City
* Back on Track...
* Free Food and Thighs/That Final Step

## Entries

Ah, Dayai’s best friend and all-round athlete. Despite me almost coughing my lungs up when we first hung out, I really enjoyed her company. I thought she was a bit... I don’t want to use slow, but whatever word less harsh than slow, I thought she was like that at first. I don’t think she’s as... not fast as she kinda lets on.

There’s…something about Tuli that attracts me to her, and it isn’t just her physique. But just as I thought we were getting a little closer, she turned into this…scared and timid character I never knew existed. I assume she suffers from some form of claustrophobia, but what I don’t understand is why she went into a panic in the storage shed {i}after{/i} we realized the door was stuck…

I think Tuli’s slowly starting to fall into the small pool of girls that I have this odd desire to protect as best as I can. Now that I know more about her parents and her life before athletics took it over, I think I can really start getting to know who she really wants to be. I’ve got to remember to keep her in my thoughts for when I plan this little getaway.

## Trivia

* Despite being an athlete, she refuses energy drinks. Instead, she drinks water mixed with watermelon juice.
* She sees Jhizonyu as a cage in which she is locked up under her parents' control with no opportunity to experience freedom. She tried to get a scholarship at uni as far away from her parents as possible to escape their control.
* She once replaced the goalkeeper of a soccer team, made ten saves and led the team to victory.