Kazuko Kobayashi

*"I'm not necessarily good with people in real life so I tend to resort to talking to people online and video games. It soothes me and makes me feel at ease. I feel as if being around people in real life means I have to act and be like them or else they'll judge me. However, interacting with people online makes me feel less obligated to be someone whom I'm not. Plus, having an online friend who loves video games is a bonus for me."*

## Kazuko Kobayashi

* Real Life
* Xostya

## Personal Information

### Height

152 cm (5'0") (Real life)
143 cm; 148 cm in heels (4'9"; 4'11" in heels) (Xostya)

### Race

Human (Real life)
Dullahan (Xostya)

### Hair Color

Brown (Right side; natural), Blonde (Left side; dyed) (Real life)
Brown (Right side), Pink (Left side), White (Streaks) (Xostya)

### Eye Color

Light blue (Real life)
Brown (Left side), Pink (Right side) (Xostya)

## Status

### Family

Unnamed parents
One unnamed older brother

### Occupation

2nd Year Junior High School Student (Real life)
Adventurer (Xostya)

**Kazuko Kobayashi** (こばやし かずこ *Kobayashi Kazuko*), also known as, **Neo** (ネオ), is a very skilled gamer who began playing Xostya after seeing her older brother play before.

## Appearance

In real life, Kazuko is a short, pale girl with a relatively slender build. She has shoulder-length hair, the right side being her natural hair color, brown; the left side being a dyed color, blonde. She has light blue eyes which sometimes light up with excitement every time the topic of video games are being brought up. She's usually seen wearing her junior high uniform which is a blue sailor suit along with red thigh-high socks. Over her uniform, she wears a pink jacket with two moons and a rabbit on her left sleeve. She can also be seen wearing pink headphones most of the time.

Her Xostya character, Neo, is shown to be heavily themed after Neapolitan ice cream (which is Kazuko's favorite). Her hair and outfit has the appropriate trio of colors which are pink, brown, and white. She has long hair which stop at just above her hips. Her hair color is half-brown (right side), half-pink (left side), and she has several white streaks on the pink side. Neo possesses heterochromia iridum, where the eyes of a subject have two different colors, her right eye being pink, and her left eye being brown.

Neo's clothes consists of a white cropped wide, broad tailed jacket with a pink interior, collar, a single gold button and large pink cuffs. She wears brown pants with a dark belt that has a gray buckle and an additional narrow belt under it. Under her jacket is a brown corset, curved in the middle and at the bottom, exposing her hips. She also wears a multitude of black beaded necklaces, which hang haphazardly around her neck. Finally, Neo wears black and white spat styled under the knee boots alongside black gloves.

## Personality

Kazuko is a very calm and laid back person. She rarely interacts with anyone except for her brother because she is afraid that she'll be judged by others. When in public, she is usually seen playing video games on her handheld game console. She is very good at controlling her emotions to the point where she is seen as almost emotionless sometimes. When troubled or irritated, which mainly happens when losing a game, she tries to calm herself by listening to music or just play a different game.

Neo, however, has a stern, business-like demeanor and is shown to have immense confidence in herself, always having a determined smile during battle. She can be cruel, vicious, and highly sadistic which is shown when she has a more sadistic smile on her face when stabbing an opponent; she also absolutely loves to mock and taunt her opponents. However, she does seem to exhibit fear and hesitance when she knows she is outmatched, fleeing if her opponent proves to be as such. Sometimes, she does see herself as weak, but this doesn't stop her from doing anything.

## Abilities & Powers

### Classes

* Illusionist (15)
* Striker (10)
* Magician (10)
* Assassin (5)
* Druid (10)
* Dark Knight (5)
* Sorcerer (15)
* Etc. (30)

Neo is very associated with magic so most of her class levels are magic-orientated. Killing her could be impossible for some, but can also be quite easy for others. Neo is a somewhat powerful opponent against Magic Casters, but beating her depends on one's level in magic-orientated classes. With her high level in illusionist and magician, a fight with her could be quite hard and would end up in a very dangerous and deadly situation.

### Passive

* **Unnamed Resistance**: Neo has shown that she has resistances against immobilization, blindness, silence, and dazzling effects as well as the negative energy that drains life force.

### Basic Undead Race Traits

* **Bludgeoning Vulnerability V**
* **Biological Penalties' Resistance**
* **Critical Hit Immunity**
* **Dark Vision**
* **Death Immunity**
* **Disease Immunity**
* **Doubled Damage by Fire**
* **Eating, Drinking, and Breathing are Unnecessary**
* **Energy Drain Immunity**
* **Good, Light and Holy Vulnerability IV**
* **Good and Holy Consecrated Areas' Vulnerability II**
* **Mind-affecting Immunity**
* **Necromancy Resistance**
* **Paralysis Immunity**
* **Physical Penalty Resistance**
* **Poisoning Immunity**
* **Recover by Negative Energy**
* **Sleep Immunity**

## Trivia

* Kazuko's surname consists of the kanji for "small forest" (小林 *kobayashi*), and her first name consists of the kanji for "child of peace" (和子 *kazuko*).
* Kazuko's Xostya name, Neo, was originally based off of her favorite ice cream, Neapolitan, just like her character's whole theme.
	+ Neo also means "gift" in a spoken language called Tswana.

## Quotes

### Kazuko's Quotes

* "*I'm not necessarily good with people in real life so I tend to resort to talking to people online and video games. It soothes me and makes me feel at ease. I feel as if being around people in real life means I have to act and be like them or else they'll judge me. However, interacting with people online makes me feel less obligated to be someone whom I'm not. Plus, having an online friend who loves video games is a bonus for me.*"
* "*Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.*"
* "*Music is life. That's why our hearts have beats*."

### Neo's Quotes

* "*Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.*"
* "*Always put up a fight because you never know what you may lose.*"
* "*Be careful who you share your weakness with. Some people can't wait for the right opportunity to use them against you.*"

## Gallery

Neo's full appearance.Neo in a school girl outfit.