Meme Oikawa

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Meme Oikawa** (Japanese: **及川 芽** *Oikawa Memu*) is a setter for the Babylon Knights of Ishtar, a professional team in the Iraq Volleyball Federation. For the majority of the series, she was a third-year student at Senbonzakura High, serving as one of the three Vice-Captains, as well as a Wing Spiker and an Outside Hitter for the school`s volleyball team.

## Appearance

Meme has dark brown that is swept outwards and eyes of corresponding color. Many others find her attractive to the point where both boys and girls follow her around. Meme frequently scowls, though all of her fans think that when she scowls it makes her more attractive (although her teammates note that when she scowls, she is suppressing her expressions). She tends to switch to any of the languages that she learned in her classes to throw off her enemies in official matches, and sometimes switches to using Sign Language. Another trademark expression is when she closes her eyes, with a sweet smile on her face but exerting a dark aura from her body. She is said to be the female version of Oikawa with a flat-chest and the same style of hair as him, so people mistake her for her twin brother, Tōru Oikawa. Meme has a fairly decent height for a volleyball player, standing just over six feet. She wears a white brace on her left knee, and one on her left elbow due to previous injuries. While on the court, Meme wears a white and lilac/lavender Senbonzakura High uniform emblazoned with the number four. She also wears black athletic shoes with no details. At other times, Meme dresses in one of the various seasonal outfits available during the seasons. During practices, Meme dresses in a cream t-shirt, white shorts, silver sports bib, and black athletic shoes. It is also shown that she wears glasses on one instance, but it is possible the reason she does not wear them is that most of the time she wears contacts or simply does not possess such bad eyesight that it would hinder her during her daily routine. It is said that she resembles her estranged brother so much that she even looks male.

## Personality

Despite her cool nature (which makes her famous among both male and female students, much to Tanaka and Nishinoya`s envy) and level-headiness (as pointed out by her estranged brother and Kuro), Meme is an excellent, well-rounded player and is extremely serious about volleyball. She is known to have a reputation among her High School Classmates for her Ice-Queen personality when playing any sports. Meme is known for her no-nonsense personality when playing sports, and has been called "cool" when playing them. Due to her high intelligence, she is easily able to manipulate her enemies/opponents into doing what she predicts. Due to being born with genius-level talent in volleyball and other sports, her brother is jealous of her and often takes his anger out on her. It is said that Meme is not one to brag about anything and is respected by other people for this trait. Like her estranged brother, Meme works extremely hard and tries to push herself past her limits to reach even newer heights. It is said that she rarely takes time off for anything and is always busy, rarely having any time to spend with her family which is one of the reasons why Meme and her sisters have a estranged relationship with their family. It is also one of the reasons why Tōru despises her so much, as in his eyes, she abandoned him and their family to do other bigger things. She is shown to hold an inferiority complex to other better Wing Spikers.

## Background

A former member and wing spiker of Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High, she attended the competition where her brother won the "Best Setter Award" in his prefecture during his 3rd year at the aforementioned school. In his final tournament of junior high, he and his team faced the Shiratorizawa team and won a set for the first time. They came in second to Shiratorizawa in the results, and it was there that Oikawa received the Best Setter Award. After they graduated from Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High, Meme decided to attend Senbonzakura High located in another prefecture and applied for the school without consulting her parents. Packing her bags, and meeting a handful of her friends at the train station; Meme left as she was accepted due to her excellent physical abilities and genius-level intelligence. Her parents would later find out and try to drag her back, only to be rejected by the school who refused to send her back home. In her third year at the High School, she would receive the spot of Vice-Captain and later on became the Clarinet Section Leader in the school`s marching band.

## Plot

### **Spring High Preliminary Arc**

In the Spring High Preliminaries, Aobajōsai faces off against Date Tech, and wins 2-0, advancing to the Semi-Finals. In the Semi-Finals, they face Karasuno. Meme and her teammates comment on her brother`s performance throughout the entire match, not noticing that Meme`s brother had noticed them. Later on, after Aobajōsai loses the match against Karasuno; Meme encounters her brother and her brother`s teammates saying that his disdain for her is rather ignorant as she was engrossed in work and marching band tryouts. During the finals of the Spring High Preliminaries, where Karasuno plays Shiratorizawa, Meme is impressed by the talents displayed by Karasuno`s players and comments that it would have been amazing if Karasuno happened to be located in the same prefecture as them. They leave before the awards ceremony.

## Relationships

### **Senbonzakura High**

* **Kuro Einz**:

Kuro, often called "Einz-san" by Meme, is the latter`s childhood best friend, and sister along with being one of the members on her current team. The two have been playing volleyball together since childhood and are extremely close. Even Meme`s brother commented that Kuro and Meme had a closer relationship than him and Meme. What makes them so dangerous is their ability to communicate through metaphors only and predict what the other wants them to do. The two are nearly always in complete synchronization with each other on the court. Kuro believes in Meme`s extreme talent as a Wing Spiker, and a Outside Hitter even hitting Meme on the head (usually with a volleyball) when she doubts her abilities. She is said to be the "support pillar" for Meme.

* **Megan Watari**:

Megan (Meg as Meme shortened it), like many of her teammates, appears to have close relations with Meme one of the volleyball team`s three vice-captains.

### **Other Schools**

* **Tobio Kageyama**:

Kageyama was Meme`s junior when they were in junior high and they appear to have good relations with each other, even keeping in contact after Junior High. She is stated to be the one who keeps Kageyama in check, whenever he misbehaves and is able to spike his abnormal sets with immense ease. He holds a great deal of respect for Meme, as she was the one who taught him how to spike and how to absorb impact from landing on the ground wrong. He respects her volleyball skills to the point where he greeted her as "Meme-senpai" upon meeting her again. She respects Tobio to the point of defending him from her estranged brother. It is said that Tobio resents Tōru both for cutting off all relations with Meme and his other sisters, as well as refusing to teach him how to jump-serve. He is protective of Meme to the point, where he refuses to allow her to walk home on her own.

* **Watatoshi Ushijima**:

The two hold friendly relations with each other due to both being U-16 representatives. They are implied to have a brother-sister-like bond with each other, with Tobi and Ushijima protecting Meme from anybody who would attempt to hurt her.

* **Tōru Oikawa**:

Her estranged brother, the two are at constant war with each other. Most of their interactions with each other usually involve punching and cursing (to a small degree) as well as accusations. Most of the time, putting them in a room with each other, makes them attempt to murder each other in a game of volleyball.

## Trivia

* Her first name; Meme is spelled with the kanji character "芽" meaning "sprout".
	+ Coincidently, the word "meme" refers to a a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by internet users.
* She is stated to be a close friend of Daichi and Kenji Futakuchi`s younger sister; Emica Futakuchi.