Tanimura Sayaka

**Tanimura Sayaka** is a second year student and the bassist for the band **Persephone**. An animal lover and an insecure girl, especially towards her appearance. She has been hiding her true appearance from people due to her fear of rejection and jealousy she thought she could cause.

She joins the **Handicraft Club** together with **Tamami Sanada** and **Baiko Teruya**. The three have good terms with each other.

## Background

Sayaka comes from a normal family who owns a pet shop that adopt abandoned animals, and she helped her parents manage the shop. Her love for animals originated from there, so she feels devastated when she sees an abandoned animal on the streets.

During a rainy day four years ago, Sayaka was going home when she saw an injured black cat with one of its ears bitten off during a fight. She tried to take it back home to nurse it, but the cat scratched her and ran away. She chased the cat and tried to give it food, but it bit her and ran again. This happened the next day, where Sayaka encountered the cat again, but the cat faints due to exhaustion, which prompts Sayaka to nurse it back to health with the help of her parents. That cat was **Mimi**, her most beloved pet cat.

## Appearance

Sayaka has long hair that extends her to her back, but she tied that long hair to form two braids. She wears large spectacles and carries a book about animals everywhere she goes when she's in school. She also moves her bangs to the side, revealing quite a huge forehead, which her friends used to call her out for.

When she takes off her spectacles, unties her hair and sets her bangs to the original position, she looks like an entire different person. However, she only changes her appearance to this appearance when she's at home or when she's working at the pet shop, so nobody in school actually knows her real appearance.

## Personality

Sayaka, without a doubt, loves animals a lot. She tries to adopt every single animal she comes across. She also never gives up when it comes to helping animals, like when Mimi continued to bite her yet she continues to persuade Mimi into believing her good intentions.

Sayaka has a good memory, she remembers what happened four years ago and she remembers how many abandoned animals she has ever rescued. You could ask her to list it out, she CAN do it.

Sayaka dislikes accusations and judgmental opinions, because she believes that people do something for a reason. This is also the reason why she tries to stop **Fumino** being angry at **Fuyu** each and everytime they meet. This is the only part where she is never shy. She is also quite apologetic, apologizing to Fumino afterwards.

She is an enthusiast when someone talks to her about animals, but suddenly gets weirded out and hides in a corner because she "accidentally talks her mind out".

## Interactions

* Izayoi Okumura
* Fumino Shirokage
* Priscilla Fleurd
* Izumi Saika
* Baiko Teruya
* Chosuke Ryuzaki
* Eidal Chross
* Jinya Zenkouji
* Fuyu Hime
* Bestisia Lorraine
* Tamami Sanada
* Yuna Sakaki
* Ayaka Saito

## Trivia

* Sayaka has 4 other pets aside from Mimi : **Balro** the Owl, **Kracka** the Parrot, **Meister** the Octopus, and **Reap** the Doberman.
* Mimi (Cat) and Reap (Doberman) fought a lot, but when Sayaka's around, they stopped fighting and pretended like nothing happened.