Yukiko Hokamura (Eng)

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## Yukiko Hokamura

Yukiko (H)Okamura (岡村 由紀子) is a main character in the first saga of the webcomic Foribus Mentis.She is a cheerful and sometimes fearful girl, she slightly fulfills the role of a comic character due to her tendency to be the victim of accidents and the butt of Anton Corbes' jokes, she proves to be highly empathetic towards those who need help. She tends to confuse some of the Spanish words she is learning and has the goal of mastering it perfectly one day. She is a female character from Japan who travels to South America for a year-long cultural exchange to learn Spanish. Based on her personality, she was able to develop the ability to give her own energy to whoever needs it, even if this means weakening and fainting, she can create small energy barriers that serve as protection for herself or others and she can also use them by throwing them in an attack called Rimushot which is concentrated on her necklace.

## Summary:

As a child, she lived with her family on the outskirts of Tokyo. Her father was a policeman and was constantly dealing with brutal cases that gradually caused her to become severely depressed. His state of mind was so affected that, one day, he disappeared and was never heard from again. Yukiko and her mother managed to get by, but she was always left with an emptiness of never hearing from him again.

As she grew older, she felt that at certain times, when she was alone, a haunting presence watched her from the shadows. Yukiko was never able to see directly what that presence was.

She is a Japanese student who learned to speak Spanish and won a 6-month scholarship to study the language in South America, her dream was always to travel the world and study other cultures, but especially the Spanish-speaking one. Her first destination is Easter Island, as she wants to see the Moais, but before getting there, she must pass through the Santiago airport.

### **The Arrival:**

When she is in the plane, she notices that her wristwatch starts to go out of control. Puzzled by this, she looks towards the window where she sees another plane approaching her plane at full speed. This alarms her and she starts looking at the other passengers to check if anyone else also saw what was happening but no one seems to. A minute later, she sees how the other plane seems to be a ghost plane passing through hers without hitting it and, at the same time, she sees how there is another ghost yukiko and other passengers in that one passing by. Frightened, she thinks that all that she saw was due to stress and headache. After waking up from fainting, the plane had already landed and it was time to leave for customs control.

During her subway trip, she is attacked by a creature that materialized from the negative feelings left there after a murder of a girl many years ago through a portal. As the series goes on, her state of health deteriorates to the point that at the end of the series she ends up transforming into a creature with no self-control and with an enormous strength, attacking her friends and anything nearby. Both Anton and Cherith must stop her but they are unable to make her return to her original form.

### **Crying Walls:**

When she, Cherith and Anton went to stay in a residential house in the countryside, far from the big cities, she was attacked by an entity that made water flow from the walls as if they were crying. She and Cherith manage to solve the mystery of the weeping walls and defeat the entity that was causing the anomaly. She is left with the doubt of what produced the entity and both girls think that the sadness they feel for the loss of their loved ones is what attracted it.

## Additional Info:

* The character's last name is really ¨Okamura¨ but during the series it is seen that she writes it with ¨H¨ at the beginning in her rōmaji version, because of a confusion she had at the time of writing it. Since in Spanish the H sounds mute, so in her surname this letter is not pronounced.
* In her room it is possible to see many stuffed animals from different series such as Pokémon, Doraemon, and Nintendo characters.
* During one of the episodes, Yukiko can be seen reading a magazine with characters in Japanese that say ¨ジョジョ¨ this is a reference to her reading a manga from the series ¨JoJo's Bizarre Adventure¨.
* It can be seen during the fifth saga that his ancestors were merchants who had buying and selling business with European travelers coming to Asia.
* The name of his ability comes from the English word "Rimshot" which is the combination of drum sounds that is executed when someone tells a joke.
* During the episode "Plague of Wrath" she seems to be unaffected by the smell of fruit. Unlike Anton.
* Although originally, the author took the name from the album ¨RImshot¨ by the Australian punk rock band ¨Bodyjar¨.
* Violin is her favorite instrument.
* Like Victoire from Saga 6 and Frederik from Saga 3, Yukiko also has a phobia of mannequins.
* She is also afraid of dogs because she was attacked when she was little.
* Despite being fearful, she decides to accept the scholarship for international studies and go to live in another country even knowing the risks that this would imply.
* Among the things she hates are horror movies and anything related to the genre.
* Her favorite activities are daily exercise routines.