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Name: Yoko Ogawa
House: 1444
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OOC INFORMATION
Player: Guessy
Age: 21
Personal Journal: rickroading
Contact Info: guessy @ plurk
Other Characters: Shou Toramaru, Lilly Satou

IC INFORMATION
Character's Name: Yoko Ogawa ('Ogachin')
Age: Unknown, but presumably older than 25
Canon: Prism
Canon Point: End of Chapter 6
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Orientation: Bi

History: The alcoholic, free-spirited, terrifyingly liberal homeroom teacher for the main cast of Prism.

Not a lot of precise details of Ogawa's history are known, but what we do know is that she has travelled the world a fair bit; she mentions moving into a dorm in London because of her family situation (whatever that was; we never hear that part) and she travels to Belgium for a short while during Chapter 6. Whilst she was living in England (presumably as an international student), she went out with a girl her age in the dorm; they were open about their relationship and it went well. Evidently she moved back to Japan at some point, again we don't know why; Ogawa looks back on it fondly, but it's evident she's put it behind her and moved on ('moved on' meaning moaning about wanting to fall in love again whilst drunk and advising Megumi; she's that sort of person), and presumably passed her teaching assessments somewhere along the line. She currently lives in a flat on Ibiza island (a small island near Japan, not actual Ibiza).

That Ogawa is a foreign languages teacher is an assumption on my part, but makes sense in the context of her travelling; we know she's been to England and Belgium at a minimum.

Within Prism itself, Ogawa acts as a combination of mentor / mostly-responsible-adult to the main pairing, giving advice and support when asked for... and comic relief, since this is Ogachin we're talking about.

Appearance: The manga is black and white, which obviously makes some details hard to call, but Ogawa is a fairly tall, adult woman likely in her late 20s / early 30s with medium length probably-brunette hair and a fondness for turtlenecks, trousers and booze.

Personality: As noted earlier, Ogawa is very much a free-spirit; she encourages people to make their own decisions and do what they feel will make them happy rather than holding themselves back. She is also - surprisingly - a responsible adult; she helps defuse the situation when Hikaru and Megumi are accosted by homophobes, she advises the both of them when they ask for it; helping Megumi come out to her friend and giving relationship advice to Hikaru. Despite being... well, herself, she serves an 'older and wiser' role serving more like an embarrassing but reliable older sister to the two than anything else; she'll help you, then embarrass you forever for it as long as she lives.

She's a lot more serious when she's actually working during teaching hours ~~possibly because she's sober~~ though I suspect this is mostly her taking the teaching part seriously as much as anything else (most of the times we see her are when she's drunk outside of class), though she seems to be quite friendly with the other students (her class call her 'Ogachin'; whilst she tells them not to she still signs off with that when leaving a note in Chapter 6). She is... very liberal, as noted before; she drinks freely when she can, travels the world, helps her students hook up (when asked to) and teases them for it... generally she tends to work hard, play hard. There are very few quiet moments around Ogawa.

Though Ogawa does get involved in Megumi and Hikaru's lives, she is still very hands off; she encourages them to make their own decisions and gives them advice but only actively intervenes when asked to (admittedly Megumi is not aware of that last part) or if they're actually in danger (the aforementioned accosting incident). She's generally a laid-back, carefree, probably a tad lonely goofy big sis figure.

Abilites: None; ordinary human.

Other: Why do so many of my characters have alcohol problems...

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Third Person:

Okay, so waking up with a hangover in some random place wasn't that strange - confusing, yes, a little disturbing, true, something that hadn't happened in a while definitely since her student days but at least it wasn't the first time so she generally had an idea of how to go about piecing together what happened where and how to get back in time for class that morning. Waking up in a foreign country though... yeah, that was something new.

And with a shiny new lease agreement.
And with a shiny new car.
And with a shiny new marriage certificate.

Definitely definitely new. Stumbling along the way to contact the wider community through her cell-phone, Yoko tries to fumble a way out of this one.

"S-So um... does anyone know what I had to drink last night?"

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