//"Watanabe" is a common surname. Any other characters named Watanabe are not mine unless named in the family section, in which case they will have a bio of their own, linked to from this thread.//
Characteristics
Name: Ayaka Watanabe
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Height: 161 cm
Weight: 55 kg
Status: Civilian
Family Dad: Age 46. Hard working, doting. He works for Kishiro. Mother: Age 43. Rather strict with me. Doesn't care to see more than one side of an issue, particularly when it comes to what I can and can't do. Ichiro: Age 23. My older brother. He's in the Naval Forces. While his sense of humour is lacking, he's otherwise the model idea of a big brother, at least to me. Masaru: Age 12. My younger brother. Idolizes Ichiro, usually just pesters me. Though I probably was equally annoying to my own elder sibling.
Midori: Age 21. My sister-in-law. Lives with us as Ichiro is stationed on a battleship. A rare gem of a person, and someone I can always confide in.
About Me
My name is Ayaka Watanabe, and I'm from Planet Honshu. I come from a pretty well off family. We aren't extremely rich, but quite comfortable nonetheless. We've always had everything we need and some extra on the side.
I guess I have it pretty easy. The only source of problems for me is conflict with my mother. She's a fairly strict traditionalist, and I'm much more laid back. I like to see different angles to things, she see's one and only one way on most things. You should have seen her, when she caught me reading Matsuda's Golden Chrysanthemum in Bloom, she was furious for months, regardless of the fact that I was reading only out of curiosity, and not some revolutionary desire. Although in all fairness even Dad, who is generally easygoing, was taken aback, as I got a stern talk from him about not reading such literature.
My views are mainly that you have to see all sides of something to really know about it, and that generally no side is absolutely correct. I don't think that the Blood Dragons and Golden Chrysanthemums are necessarily evil, but I have also never felt that the government or society are oppressive as they would claim. Sure, some things in Kusari society just seem wrong, but not in any way I can lay a finger on.
On to more exciting things: I can finally fly without being supervised. Ichiro said when he left that I could fly his old Hawk, and Dad finally convinced mother to allow me to. I am very excited about it of course. We occasionally go to New Tokyo for holidays, and once when I was six or so we vactioned on the Hawaii, but its so much more fun to go places on your own, see the things you want to see. I cannot wait to see the rest of Kusari.
