Chitose Tokiwas

CHITOSE TOKIWAS

**Appearance (after Chitose returns from living overseas)**

Chitose was born with a boy's body. However, her body was only average, not to tall or short, not to thick or thin, either for a boy or for a girl. Chitose having such an average body really was to her advantage. Chitose has a rounded face, but with a slightly pointed chin, like a boy's chin. She wears her hair in a short style. It is a light, soft brown, like the color of wet sand. Her hair is slightly curved, and is soft and silky, like a girl's. Her hair curves inward at the ends, all around her head, to pleasingly frame her face and backside. Coarse, pointed bangs cover her forehead. Two long, slender bangs begin at the top of her head, behind her forehead, and fall downward in front of her ears, covering her temples, and ending by caressing her lower cheeks. Chitose was born with huge 'anime girl' eyes, very rare for being born a perceived male. Her eyes are of a pale amber, that look like liquid honeycomb at different times. She has thick, long eyelashes, but thin, narrow eyebrows.

Chitose has a narrow neck, with square shoulders like a boy, but are narrow like a girl's. She has somewhat long arms, but small hands. Although at the end of the story, she is in her late teens, she has not developed a bust, and has a flat chest. Her skin tone is pale and whitish, even all over, probably from being indoors and in bed most of her life. She has a narrow waist, but narrow hips like a boy's hips. However, she has long, trim, sexy legs, and small feet. Her legs are so pale and white, but many find that a pleasing feminine feature.

For school, because she attends an all-boys school, and almost no one knows that she is now an atomically correct girl, she wears the boy's military style school uniform. However, at home, she is very pleased to wear a girl's sailor suit school uniform with a pleated mini-skirt. The school uniform belongs to Yukinari's mother; she wore it in middle school. For casual wear, Chitose wears all girl's clothes now. When she flirts with Yukinari one afternoon, she is wearing a hoodie and girl's stretch ski slacks. At the end of the story, Chitose is wearing the wedding dress that her mom wore for her wedding to her dad. Surprisingly, it fits like it was custom-made for her !

**Personality and Circumstances (living overseas and returning home)**

Chitose has a remarkable composite personality, since she had to 'play with the cards that life had dealt her', even thought she got a very poor hand, indeed. One of her strongest traits is her faithfulness to the promise made to her by Yukinari when they were both children. Yukinari probably did not understand the full import of their promise to marry Chitose, but she kept that promise faithfully next to her heart all through her many health concerns. Chitose persevered in her desire to return to Yukinari, with that trait behind her desire never to let her health problems get the better of her.

When Chitose was living overseas, she admits that may times, she thought that the cost of renewing her health was just too high, and thoughts of giving up (suicide?) crossed her mind several times. But the iron-clad determination in her personality became stronger than the desire to quit. The manga never does reveal what her many health problems were, but at least one of them was strongly implied---that she wanted to transition to being a girl, including doing so physically. All through her many operations to correct her health deficiencies, she was long-suffering, but kept going forward. Such bravery for one so young in years.

Chitose returned to her home and to Yukinari a more mature and much better person. However, Chitose did have a few personality quirks that showed that she was not perfect. One such less than desirable trait she had was one of pestering people about what she wants. She would keep bringing up the promise to marry her to Yukinari, even though the both of them in high school made that promise something that would have to be for the future. Sometimes, Chitose would jump to conclusions, without knowing the facts, or the whole story. This is seen when she said that attending an all-boy's high school 'would not be a problem' for her. Really ? An atomically correct girl in with all the boys ? Could she hide herself until she graduated ? One last snag in Chitose's personality is that she is a bit of a showoff, especially when it comes to her fashion choices and social presentations. She was so eager to impress Yukinari, that she donned a sailor suit with a pleated mini-skirt to impress him. Admittedly, she looked really nice and attractive in it. Then she wore a real, honest wedding dress to 'pound it into Yukinari' that she wanted him to marry her.

Nevertheless, Chitose was through it all a good girl. She saw to it that problems and disappointments did not tear her down, but by confronting her troubles, it made her a stronger person in the end. Chitose transitioning to her correct Gender Identity was instrumental in affecting her personality for the better. This, no doubt, was part of what made Chitose so attractive to Yukinari. Chitose and Yukinari were, indeed, made for each other.

**Trivia**

In the Japanese language, the first name "Chitose" is both feminine and masculine, and means a person destined to live a thousand years, a person's spirit that will live on for a thousand years, a person's accomplishments will be remembered for a thousand years.