Riko Matsumoto

Riko in her 'public' outfit

### Intro

Grand Ministress Riko Matsumoto is a Japanese Ambassador, former Prefect, and politician, currently serving as the current Grand Ministress of Foreign Affairs for the Japanese Empire. She is tasked with managing all of the diplomatic matters for Japan, with a team of various Ambassadors who answer to her. She is a princess of the Kawashima Royal Family, and a close acquaintance of Princess Takao Kawashima. She is known best for her unique hairstyle, her rather casual behaviour, casual dress style, and perhaps most famously, her revealing footwear.

### Appearance

Riko is a girl of average height, bust, and build, with slight muscular features to her feminine build. He nlonde hair is styled into two points, which are similar to that of the African desert fox (and a reference to her historical idol, Erwin Rommel.) and a pair of hazel brown eyes. Formally, she wears a white kimono with the images of her former Oarai team logo (Team Hippo) adorning it, a German field marshals jacket, and occasionally a German styled field marshals cap with goggles (further references to Rommel) as well as a pair of super low-cut pink flats. On her 1st, 3rd, and 5th toes of her left foot are a set of silver toe rings. Her more informal and 'standard' outfit, consists mainly of her field marshals jacket, left intentionally open, and a pair or black string panties, with her pink flats and toe rings. She otherwise wears no underwear and tends to be minimalistic in her clothing, especially in private life, though this outfit has slowly started to serve as her standard attire both in public and in private, to mixed feelings with the Japanese people.

Riko in her preferred outfit, showing off her dirty feet.
### Personality

Riko has a unique personality found in very few people. Somewhat of a tomboy, while also enjoying her femininity, she has a somewhat sultry and perverted personality, as shown through her clothing preferences when not in public (although recently in public as well). A strong girl, she enjoys playing sports, competitive activities, and rigorous exercise. While still showing plenty of feminine traits, and appreciating the feminie parts of her life, her sultry behavior tends to dominate alot of her regular life, be it her minimalistic clothing, or getting other people into her shoes. It is often said that a simple scrunch of her toes will cause her flats to come off, and be ready for the next pair of feet that she choses to have fill them.

### Life

Riko was born in Tsukuba, Oarai Prefecture, to a loving and supporting mother and father. Riko's mother died shortly after Riko's birth from illness. Riko's father would re-marry very shortly after, and bore another daughter, Riko's half-sister Yang. The two daughters were spoiled during childhood, Riko's father recognizing the importance of life due to the passing of his first wife. However, her father, along with Riko's stepmother, made sure that such luxuries were not taken for granted, to make sure that the girls were bestowed with discipline, traditional values, and a sense of gratefulness and appreciation. Early on, Riko would find enjoyment in wearing traditional Japanese garments, and was known to wear kimonos as young as 4 or 5.

As she grew older, Riko became somewhat bored of wearing the same boring shoes all the time. Riko had at an early age preferred wearing shoes that covered as little of her feet as possible, and often preferred being outright barefoot. She was brought to a shoe store where she was given the opportunity to chose her own shoes and discovered her love for flats. Her parents bought her 3 pairs of flats. She would continue to wear flats from that day on. When she was about 15, she had felt that the flats, while great to wear, covered too much of her feet, and made modifications to her pink pair of flats, cutting away a significant amount of material, leaving just enough to keep her toes in them, as well as hold onto them when walking. She would eventually add her toe rings to her left foot some time after.

Academically Riko did well. Earning marks of high standard on all subjects. Although smart and talented, her academics were fairly unremarkable to the point where even Riko herself has said that "doing just a basic summary of my academic life in elementary school and high school would be a waste of both your time and mine. I was a fine student, but I was only focused on understanding the material and ensuring that I would succeed. I didnt stay after school, and i certainly didnt look for extra credit opportunities. I was a history buff, and I didn't really care much for the other subjects other than ensuring that my grades never fell below an A. Simply put, I was a good student, but never anything close to a Momo or a Takao."

Riko would enroll at Oarai Girls Academy, where she would earn stellar marks and find an after-school History club where she found other girls that liked the same things she did. The future Hippo Team consisted of Riko herself, who had by now been referred to by her nickname 'Erwin', Takako 'Caesar' Suzuki, Kiyomi "Saemonza' Sugiyama, and Takeko 'Oryou' Nogami. Becoming fast friends with all of them, the girls each specialized in a specific field of history. Riko specializing in WWII history, Oryou in Bakumatsu period history, Caesar in Roman history, and Saemonza in Sengoku Era history.

When she returned to Oarai for her sophomore year of High School, she and her fellow history club-mates had elected to enroll in the schools recently revived Sensha-Do program, where she would share tank commander duties of her teams' StuG III F with Caesar, as she preferred not to attend the team meetings. She enjoyed a distinguished High school life, winning two championships in Oarai's Sensha-Do team, as well as continuing to earn high marks in her academics. When Riko graduated High School she pursued ambassadorial studies while attending Oarai University. Riko demonstrated an incredible mastery at diplomacy, and fast tracked her to graduation at age 20, making her the youngest qualified ambassador in Japanese history. She shortly was assigned to various diplomatic missions by her old classmate and friend, Empress Momo Kawashima. Her assignments involved traveling abroad to places like England and the United States. It was however her negotiations with the Russian Federation (in which she successfully negotiated Russia's public recognition of Japan's claims to Karafuto Island) that earned her the Position of Grand Ambassador. Riko took this job seriously, becoming fiercely dedicated to the position and ensuring that all of Japan's diplomatic dealings were organized appropriately for easy access.

As an additional reward for her diplomatic success, Riko earned an adoption into the Kawashima Royal family, and even met Takao Kawashima, a revered scientist who Riko has become close with. It is rumored that the two girls are more than close, perhaps romantically interested in one another. However, such rumors have not been confirmed, nor denied. When asked about it, Riko simply said "Princess Takao is an incredibly beautiful woman, android or not. I enjoy an amazing friendship with her, and hope that at the very least, that friendship will continue to flourish. I would not be opposed to a romantic relationship if she were interested however".

## Trivia

* While most girls in the royal family enjoy same sex marriages and relationships, nobody is more outspoken about her sexuality than Riko, often calling herself a proud and outspoken lesbian
* Riko wears a size 8 shoe, the same shoe size as her close friend Takao, her friend Momo Kawashima, and alot of her royal family members. This only encourages her behavior, which has inspired the same kind of behavior in fellow Princess Ryofu Housen, both girls often getting other people to wear their shoes.
* Riko's flats are the sweatiest and most worn out pair of shoes in the Royal Family, something Riko is happy to boast.
* Riko is proud of her incredibly dirty feet, something she enjoys showing off quite often
* Riko hates the heat
* Riko prefers being barefoot