Rumi Sakurai

**"If you don't want to die...think!"**

**Rumi Sakurai** (Japanese: **櫻井るみ**, *Sakurai Rumi*) was a third year student at Aobajohsai High. She was the cheer captain. As of 2018, she is working as a daycare teacher.

## Appearance

Rumi appears to be young high school-aged teenager, but due to the memory loss she is two years older than she believed, closer to her late teens..

Rumi is 5'3" (160cm in the Japanese version) and around 50kg with a lean but curvaceous build. She has brown skin, dark honey brown eyes, and wears her brown hair in a very high curled ponytail accessorized with a paperclip-style barrette. She wears Seijoh's customized uniform that was requested to only be for the girls in the cheerleading team, so that they could be differentiated . She wears knee-length white socks, a red knee brace over her right knee, a band-aid on her left knee. While cheering, she wears a typical high school girl blue swimsuit with her last name in kanji on the front.

After leaving Highschool and College, Rumi wears a standard female business suit uniform, wearing a green tie and shorts instead of a skirt. Under her suit jacket and dress shirt, she wears a white tank top. She still wears her hair in a ponytail, but it is considerably longer indicating her hair has grown over the years.

## Personality

Rumi is a warm, cheerful, upbeat, and outgoing girl who is friendly and welcoming towards everyone she meets, trying to make friends with everybody and include them in her activities. Rumi can be quite air-headed and forgetful, relying on the memory trick of writing peoples' names three times on her hand in order to remember them. Due to being quite air-headed she can be easily manipulated by others and jump to conclusions or take them at face value. Rumi is an extremely athletic person and considers it an absolutely fundamental part of herself, using it as an important coping mechanism in her daily life and feeling like she "might die" if she can't exercise. Although Rumi is a star athlete in the running to become an Olympic Cheerleader, Rumi is insecure that being athletic, which is seen as quite a masculine activity, makes her undesirable to others and might lead to her never finding love. She's also concerned that her extreme sweet tooth, particularly her love of eating donuts, is going to make her fat.

## History

### Early Life

Rumi was always an extremely sporty person who loved to exercise, and participated in many team sports during her school career, including track, basketball, softball, volleyball, tennis, and her favorite sport: competitive cheerleading. Since elementary school, she broke records in every swimming contest she entered, and was chosen to become an Olympic cadet.

## Abilities

Rumi's athleticism is a core aspect of her personality and sense of self, and she participates in multiple sports including track, basketball, softball, volleyball, tennis, and her favorite sport: competitive swimming. By her own admission Rumi spends nearly all of her time training and trying to improve her fitness in some way, including wearing shorts all year round - even in winter - to build up her resistance to sickness, and practicing the self-healing technique known as Kanpu masatsu.

For Rumi, her love of sports doesn't come from her desire to win, but for the love of competing and striving to be better herself. In her own words.

## Etymology

* From Japanese 留 *(ru)* meaning "detain, fasten", 瑠 *(ru)* meaning "lapis lazuli", or 流 *(ru)* meaning "current, flow" combined with 美 *(mi)* meaning "beautiful". Other kanji combinations are possible.
* **Sakurai** (written: 桜井 or 櫻井 literally "well of the cherry blossom") is a Japanese surname.