Natsuki

## Background

Natsuki is an 18-year-old high schooler. She is a member of the Literature Club. Natsuki has an abusive father, ranging from being extremely strict to extreme physical abuse.

## Profile

### Personality

Natsuki initially seems brash and arrogant but cares deeply about her friends. She has anger issues but dislikes fights and arguments. Natsuki is stubborn and struggles to express her feelings. She enjoys manga, anime, and baking. Natsuki's cute and sweet side is hidden due to judgment and a potentially abusive father. She also has a crush on Daniel but doesn't admit it.

She craves affection and dislikes being seen as just "cute."

### Appearance

Natsuki has straight pastel pink hair, cut around chin length, and pink eyes. Her bangs are swept to the right, having two prominent strands of hair beside them. Her accessories consist of a red Japanese-style crossed hairclip, as well as two red ribbons tying two small ponytails on either side of her head, with the rest of her hair left down. Her canine teeth are longer than the rest of her teeth, making them visible when she opens her mouth wide enough. She is the shortest person in the Literature Club, a feature that results in people commonly mistaking her for a first year student.

While in school, she wears the standard issue female school uniform consisting of a warm gray blazer fully buttoned and untucked, brown sweater vest, white shirt slightly unbuttoned at the collar, red ribbon, dark blue pleated skirt, white knee-high socks and white uwabaki slippers with sky blue tips.

While out of school, she wears a short sleeved white shirt with a light pink cat face decoration on the left side with light pink trims lining the edges of the sleeves, light pink ruffled skirt with a black trim. Under the shirt, two black bra straps can be seen.

## Relationships

* **The Literature Club:** Despite her attidude, Natsuki genuinely likes her friends and the club.
* **Deiki:** She hates and fears her father.
* **Daniel:** Natsuki has a crush on Daniel and acts like a typical (albeit much tamer) tsundere towards him. She's also offered him to join the literature club.

## Trivia/Facts

* Natsuki prefers to stay at the Literature Club rather than at her home and is visibly worried about fading into the background if more people were to join the club, even asking Monika to let her know in advance if a new member joins.
* Natsuki implies that her father finds manga useless and fears what would happen if he caught her reading it. This would also explain why she keeps her manga collection in the classroom's closet.
* Her father wants her home no later than a specific time.
* Natsuki is a tsundere.
	+ Natsuki's insecurity being the fuel to her tsundere archetype and boastful attempts at superiority as she looks for approval and jeers from others without being laughed or mocked at, a common symptom for victims of child abuse.
* Her poems are usually the shortest and most "childish" of the group, with playful and simple music, contrasting with the messages of her poems, which are usually more hard-hitting and serious.
* Natsuki is the only female in the Literature Club whose bangs are swept to her right rather than to the left.
* Theoretical at best, but by connecting the symptoms of insecurity from real-world abuse victims and how such relationships tend to begin, Natsuki pressuring to go home for dinner after saving her appetite, feeling insecure about her underdeveloped size and stature, and she boasts on about how she can overcome such a flaw with minor acts of feat, the father is likely critical of her stagnate growth and wants her to eat all provided meals so his efforts are worth the fortune that Natsuki does not become more dependent on him and become a greater drain on his resources, time, and energy.