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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name:
Age: According to canon, she actually is twenty but due to bear aging she looks around her late thirties.
Canon: Yuri Kuma Arashi
Canon Point: After Episode 8
Character Information: Wikia and Wiki.
If needed, I'll provide more information.
Personality:
At first glance, Yuriika Hakonaka seems like just the sort of authority figure that anyone in Arashigaoka Academy could look up to and trust. She's professional, often worried about the safety of the students, and always seems to be reasonable. When she introduces the two transfer students to their class, she's curt and to the point but polite in asking the girls to accept their two new classmates. Then she goes into telling the class about the dangers of the recent bear sightings; it wouldn't do if the students got themselves eaten.
Yet, of course, this veneer of professionalism hides her true intent: that she uses that 'invisibility' that staying within the rules of human society gives her to prey on the population of the school. That is, she throws suspicion off her by acting as normal as possible. Unlike certain other bears in the series she only growls when she's in bear form, for example, and tried to pass off her two attacks against students as the work of the other bears.
Why, though? Why would she stay in such a place when it would be smarter to just leave, especially when the other bears start raising so much suspicion? Surely, it would be smarter. The answer, though, starts with the two most important people in Yuriika's life: her adoptive father and Reia.
Her adoptive father, though he was never named in canon, was the one who was responsible for laying down the foundations of her personality. This man found her on the steps of Arashigaoka Academy in the middle of a storm. Their time together was brief--possibly less than a year--but the man was responsible for instilling in Yuriika a concept that became so important to her she preferred to give up on love instead. That concept was boxes. As Yuriika said herself her adoptive father 'really really liked boxes'.
In this philosophy three major things stand out. The first is that, according to Yuriika's adoptive father, only pure and innocent things were lovable. The second was that 'pure' things were destined to be become sullied and unlovable. The third was the most important: to keep something precious pure, you must put them in a box away from the things that would sully them. In the third clause is also the fact that things in 'boxes' can't leave you, either.
What exactly is a 'box'? Really, anything empty that could be used to keep things. Cabinets, actual boxes, an all-girls school with a strict social structure... Though, Yuriika often refers to herself as a box. (I'll explain this in a moment.)
Yuriika seemed to adore her foster father, wanting to remain 'pure' for him. The man would soon try to leave her behind saying that he was going to look for more 'pure' things to put in boxes. After all, something in a box can't leave you but you could always leave the box. Being a fairly young cub being abandoned again wasn't something that Yuriika could handle and she attacked him as he walked away.
Yuriika knew that eating her father-figure was wrong or, at least, felt that doing so made her impure and unlovable. She grew depressed feeling that the world was now colorless to her. The only thing personally she had of him was a star-shaped pendant and that brings us to the love of Yuriika's life, Reia.
They met when Reia was about sixteen and Yuriika around two. Reia was an incredibly kind person so when she saw Yuriika cutting off the heads of some lilies she confronted her. She asked a very simple question: Why? Yuriika responded that if she cut the flowers then she could put the blooms away in a box that way they wouldn't be sullied like her. That the lilies wouldn't be unlovable and alone.
This was when Reia hugged her, pulling her close and stating that she found her and that she wanted to see the precious things that Yuriika kept boxing away. This was the moment that Yuriika fell deeply in love with Reia. This moment, possibly even more than the death of Yuriika's adoptive father, would shape the rest of her life.
Yuriika looks quite fondly on the short amount of time she spent with Reia at Arashigaoka Academy. Even if she knew in her heart that Reia never did think of her in the saw romantic way, during those happy days it never did seem to matter that much. To show her great love for the human teenager Yuriika gave her the star pendant that she always wore for a gift on her seventeenth birthday. That night they made a vow to stay close for forever.
She felt like she finally belonged. Her bleak world was now colorful, filled with happy days spent with her dear friend. That would change when Reia left the 'box' of Arashigaoka. She had a daughter, Kureha, and doted on her fondly. Even as she first met the baby, Yuriika felt jealousy towards Kureha. When the infant plays with Reia's pendant the mother asks, "It seems she wants this pendant for herself, isn't that sweet?" Yuriika's answer is telling. It's a simple distant one word repetition of the word 'sweet'.
She begins to resent Kureha from that day onward. For many years, Yuriika seemed to be acknowledge the fact that she wasn't the center of Reia's world anymore with depression and loneliness yet didn't act out on it. She blamed herself for not trying to keep Reia closer to her or even boxing her up. Yet, she didn't act out against her dearest friend for six years.
What happened six years later was that Kureha befriended a bear of her own. Times had changed, however, and Kureha needed to keep this a secret. Reia helped her do this. During this time, Yuriika's own loneliness was reaching a peak once more. When she saw Reia give the pendant away to the bear, Ginko, and send her off to bear kingdom... Yuriika had enough. It was the final straw. Her loneliness and depression turned to anger. She asks Reia if she loves Ginko and when the answer is a resounding 'no', her anger boils over. Yuriika kills her best friend, the love of her life, in a fit of rage.
Like the time with her father, Yuriika seems to regret her actions quickly. She's shown crying the morning after. Yet this time? This time she was older, more experienced. Instead of blaming herself Yuriika turned the blame on others. Reia was at fault since even after Yuriika ate her there still was emptiness so that meant that whatever love Reia once had for her had been given away. Ginko was at fault, too, for taking that pendant away. Who did Yuriika blame the most? Why, Kureha. Reia had no love left for Yuriika because she had given it all away to Kureha!
Now, obviously, this line of thinking was born of jealousy. Yuriika knew from the beginning that Reia's thoughts on their relationship weren't the same as hers (even though, later, she would imply that they were in romantic relationship to Kureha) and yet she still felt entitled to all of Reia's affection. The final recourse, to Yuriika, was to go back to the box philosophy that her adoptive father taught her. To 'box' Reia away. As a bear, the easiest way to do that was to eat her and put her in the 'box that is my body' as Yuriika calls it.
She felt empty once more but this time she had an idea how to cure it. She went to the Court of Severance and pleaded for them to make her human. They asked her why and she replied simply: "That girl has Reia's love, I want to watch and see her grow." She didn't lie to them on that, despite the fact that she seemed to ignore the court's rules later on. Yuriika Hakonaka did want to see Kureha grow up. Why? So Kureha's love would blossom and that Yuriika could eat her when she was grown to make her 'pay for her sins with her flesh', as Yuriika called it.
Though, it's never directly stated, it's hinted at that Yuriika has been a guardian figure for Kureha ever since that day. For one, Kureha never refers to Yuriika by her last name (though she does use 'sensei' as an honorific still). Secondly, Yuriika had some belongings of Reia's that she stole but that were very unlikely on Reia's person at the time of her death. After all, who would carry the manuscript of a book they were working on when they were trying something as dangerous as smuggling someone to safety? That would also mean that Kureha possibly knew she was in the house at the time. Thirdly, and possibly most telling, was that when it's almost Kureha's own seventeenth birthday they have a conversation about how they should celebrate it 'this year'. That's not even mentioning all the private meetings that Kureha has with her throughout the series to get advice and clear her head.
Now is a good time to mention Yuriika's accomplice, Kaoru Harishima, and how Yuriika was shaping Kureha's school experience (or at least trying to). Kureha was dating another student, Sumika. Both were in a happy relationship but their other classmates disliked it. When Sumika stood up for Kureha she became scared for Kureha's safety. Enter Kaoru, the student that Yuriika was pursuing a sexual relationship with. Through Kaoru, the idea of Sumika breaking up with Kureha and Kaoru taking her place as Kureha's close personal friend was raised. If it weren't for the fact that Sumika was eaten by another bear before the plan was in place, it would have worked. Not that Yuriika let that stop her and simply gave Kaoru another option later. To use Kureha's memory of Sumika to get close to her because Sumika wouldn't have wanted her to be distant with others.
The plan with Kaoru illustrates a key trait of Yuriika's personality: while the other bears shown seem to have a very direct approach to solve problems, Yuriika goes about solving problems in a 'human' way. She doesn't just go kill Kureha when she's six and vulnerable, she waits. She doesn't eat Sumika even though that would certainly hurt Kureha. Yuriika certainly uses the death of Sumika to her advantage but it's not her first choice. Instead, she prefers using the tools of society. (Though, in the end, she does kill and eat Kaoru she uses the current bear panic to lay the blame on Ginko and Lulu.)
That brings us to how she takes care of the two intruders, Ginko and Lulu. Yuriika strongly dislikes Ginko but is more ambivalent to Lulu. In fact, Yuriika says outright that she feels sorry for Lulu since Lulu is the third wheel in the relationship between Kureha and Ginko. An unrequited love is definitely one way to gain Yuriika's questionable sympathies. Again, when it comes to Ginko, she uses her intelligence to get 'rid' of her. She plants the idea that it was Ginko who killed Reia since 'only the bear who killed her would have the pendant'. Yuriika also slips an ominous note to Lulu that implicated Ginko as an accomplice in Sumika's death.
In the end, when Ginko was cornered at rifle point on the roof Kureha was about to shoot her when Ginko convinced that she didn't kill Reia. This is one of the few times other than the deaths of Reia and her adoptive ather, that we're shown Yuriika losing her cool. She stamps her foot and yells at Kureha to shoot Ginko. She quickly regains her composure when Lulu shows up to reveal what was in the note. Kureha shot Ginko on the spot. She gives only a small 'hmph' of satisfaction at the event.
In all, Yuriika does keep most of herself hidden. Even Reia didn't seem to know the depths she would fall to until the very end. She wears the mask of civility to keep herself safe. Though she knew Kureha for years, the girl never really understood the danger Yuriika posed to her until she was attacked. After all, Yuriika always gave her the impression that she was the only one in the school (aside from Sumika, of course) that she could trust.
This has led to a sense of pride. While she's still 'empty' from the death of Reia it's obvious she's very proud in her intellectual abilities. She boasts to herself (careful, of course, to do so in private) that her long years of planning were finally coming to fruition. That she'd finally be able to claim her 'bride-in-the-box', that being her personal term for Kureha. She often seems to talk to herself in private...or rather, talks to the picture of Reia she keeps in her office.
It's this pride mixed with obsession that gets her killed. When Yuriika decides to lure Kureha to the spot that was most important to her, the lily bed, she makes her fatal mistake. Up until now she was careful. Yet that wanting to make Kureha her bride in the same spot where Reia died made her overlook something obvious: that the lily bed was the site of so many other bear attacks that it was sure to be watched. This oversight and also the fact that she let Lulu go even though she probably knew too much, brings to light that Yuriika only really focuses on her own goals. It's a certain shortsightedness that caught up with her.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Obsessive, Empty, Deceptive, Cunning, Spiteful, Manipulative, Proud, Goal-driven, Intelligent
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Fits.
Opt-Outs: Merperson, Goblin, Arachne, Naga, Faerie
Roleplay Sample:
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Name: Yue
Contact:
Other Characters: n/a
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name:
Age: According to canon, she actually is twenty but due to bear aging she looks around her late thirties.
Canon: Yuri Kuma Arashi
Canon Point: After Episode 8
Character Information: Wikia and Wiki.
If needed, I'll provide more information.
Personality:
At first glance, Yuriika Hakonaka seems like just the sort of authority figure that anyone in Arashigaoka Academy could look up to and trust. She's professional, often worried about the safety of the students, and always seems to be reasonable. When she introduces the two transfer students to their class, she's curt and to the point but polite in asking the girls to accept their two new classmates. Then she goes into telling the class about the dangers of the recent bear sightings; it wouldn't do if the students got themselves eaten.
Yet, of course, this veneer of professionalism hides her true intent: that she uses that 'invisibility' that staying within the rules of human society gives her to prey on the population of the school. That is, she throws suspicion off her by acting as normal as possible. Unlike certain other bears in the series she only growls when she's in bear form, for example, and tried to pass off her two attacks against students as the work of the other bears.
Why, though? Why would she stay in such a place when it would be smarter to just leave, especially when the other bears start raising so much suspicion? Surely, it would be smarter. The answer, though, starts with the two most important people in Yuriika's life: her adoptive father and Reia.
Her adoptive father, though he was never named in canon, was the one who was responsible for laying down the foundations of her personality. This man found her on the steps of Arashigaoka Academy in the middle of a storm. Their time together was brief--possibly less than a year--but the man was responsible for instilling in Yuriika a concept that became so important to her she preferred to give up on love instead. That concept was boxes. As Yuriika said herself her adoptive father 'really really liked boxes'.
In this philosophy three major things stand out. The first is that, according to Yuriika's adoptive father, only pure and innocent things were lovable. The second was that 'pure' things were destined to be become sullied and unlovable. The third was the most important: to keep something precious pure, you must put them in a box away from the things that would sully them. In the third clause is also the fact that things in 'boxes' can't leave you, either.
What exactly is a 'box'? Really, anything empty that could be used to keep things. Cabinets, actual boxes, an all-girls school with a strict social structure... Though, Yuriika often refers to herself as a box. (I'll explain this in a moment.)
Yuriika seemed to adore her foster father, wanting to remain 'pure' for him. The man would soon try to leave her behind saying that he was going to look for more 'pure' things to put in boxes. After all, something in a box can't leave you but you could always leave the box. Being a fairly young cub being abandoned again wasn't something that Yuriika could handle and she attacked him as he walked away.
Yuriika knew that eating her father-figure was wrong or, at least, felt that doing so made her impure and unlovable. She grew depressed feeling that the world was now colorless to her. The only thing personally she had of him was a star-shaped pendant and that brings us to the love of Yuriika's life, Reia.
They met when Reia was about sixteen and Yuriika around two. Reia was an incredibly kind person so when she saw Yuriika cutting off the heads of some lilies she confronted her. She asked a very simple question: Why? Yuriika responded that if she cut the flowers then she could put the blooms away in a box that way they wouldn't be sullied like her. That the lilies wouldn't be unlovable and alone.
This was when Reia hugged her, pulling her close and stating that she found her and that she wanted to see the precious things that Yuriika kept boxing away. This was the moment that Yuriika fell deeply in love with Reia. This moment, possibly even more than the death of Yuriika's adoptive father, would shape the rest of her life.
Yuriika looks quite fondly on the short amount of time she spent with Reia at Arashigaoka Academy. Even if she knew in her heart that Reia never did think of her in the saw romantic way, during those happy days it never did seem to matter that much. To show her great love for the human teenager Yuriika gave her the star pendant that she always wore for a gift on her seventeenth birthday. That night they made a vow to stay close for forever.
She felt like she finally belonged. Her bleak world was now colorful, filled with happy days spent with her dear friend. That would change when Reia left the 'box' of Arashigaoka. She had a daughter, Kureha, and doted on her fondly. Even as she first met the baby, Yuriika felt jealousy towards Kureha. When the infant plays with Reia's pendant the mother asks, "It seems she wants this pendant for herself, isn't that sweet?" Yuriika's answer is telling. It's a simple distant one word repetition of the word 'sweet'.
She begins to resent Kureha from that day onward. For many years, Yuriika seemed to be acknowledge the fact that she wasn't the center of Reia's world anymore with depression and loneliness yet didn't act out on it. She blamed herself for not trying to keep Reia closer to her or even boxing her up. Yet, she didn't act out against her dearest friend for six years.
What happened six years later was that Kureha befriended a bear of her own. Times had changed, however, and Kureha needed to keep this a secret. Reia helped her do this. During this time, Yuriika's own loneliness was reaching a peak once more. When she saw Reia give the pendant away to the bear, Ginko, and send her off to bear kingdom... Yuriika had enough. It was the final straw. Her loneliness and depression turned to anger. She asks Reia if she loves Ginko and when the answer is a resounding 'no', her anger boils over. Yuriika kills her best friend, the love of her life, in a fit of rage.
Like the time with her father, Yuriika seems to regret her actions quickly. She's shown crying the morning after. Yet this time? This time she was older, more experienced. Instead of blaming herself Yuriika turned the blame on others. Reia was at fault since even after Yuriika ate her there still was emptiness so that meant that whatever love Reia once had for her had been given away. Ginko was at fault, too, for taking that pendant away. Who did Yuriika blame the most? Why, Kureha. Reia had no love left for Yuriika because she had given it all away to Kureha!
Now, obviously, this line of thinking was born of jealousy. Yuriika knew from the beginning that Reia's thoughts on their relationship weren't the same as hers (even though, later, she would imply that they were in romantic relationship to Kureha) and yet she still felt entitled to all of Reia's affection. The final recourse, to Yuriika, was to go back to the box philosophy that her adoptive father taught her. To 'box' Reia away. As a bear, the easiest way to do that was to eat her and put her in the 'box that is my body' as Yuriika calls it.
She felt empty once more but this time she had an idea how to cure it. She went to the Court of Severance and pleaded for them to make her human. They asked her why and she replied simply: "That girl has Reia's love, I want to watch and see her grow." She didn't lie to them on that, despite the fact that she seemed to ignore the court's rules later on. Yuriika Hakonaka did want to see Kureha grow up. Why? So Kureha's love would blossom and that Yuriika could eat her when she was grown to make her 'pay for her sins with her flesh', as Yuriika called it.
Though, it's never directly stated, it's hinted at that Yuriika has been a guardian figure for Kureha ever since that day. For one, Kureha never refers to Yuriika by her last name (though she does use 'sensei' as an honorific still). Secondly, Yuriika had some belongings of Reia's that she stole but that were very unlikely on Reia's person at the time of her death. After all, who would carry the manuscript of a book they were working on when they were trying something as dangerous as smuggling someone to safety? That would also mean that Kureha possibly knew she was in the house at the time. Thirdly, and possibly most telling, was that when it's almost Kureha's own seventeenth birthday they have a conversation about how they should celebrate it 'this year'. That's not even mentioning all the private meetings that Kureha has with her throughout the series to get advice and clear her head.
Now is a good time to mention Yuriika's accomplice, Kaoru Harishima, and how Yuriika was shaping Kureha's school experience (or at least trying to). Kureha was dating another student, Sumika. Both were in a happy relationship but their other classmates disliked it. When Sumika stood up for Kureha she became scared for Kureha's safety. Enter Kaoru, the student that Yuriika was pursuing a sexual relationship with. Through Kaoru, the idea of Sumika breaking up with Kureha and Kaoru taking her place as Kureha's close personal friend was raised. If it weren't for the fact that Sumika was eaten by another bear before the plan was in place, it would have worked. Not that Yuriika let that stop her and simply gave Kaoru another option later. To use Kureha's memory of Sumika to get close to her because Sumika wouldn't have wanted her to be distant with others.
The plan with Kaoru illustrates a key trait of Yuriika's personality: while the other bears shown seem to have a very direct approach to solve problems, Yuriika goes about solving problems in a 'human' way. She doesn't just go kill Kureha when she's six and vulnerable, she waits. She doesn't eat Sumika even though that would certainly hurt Kureha. Yuriika certainly uses the death of Sumika to her advantage but it's not her first choice. Instead, she prefers using the tools of society. (Though, in the end, she does kill and eat Kaoru she uses the current bear panic to lay the blame on Ginko and Lulu.)
That brings us to how she takes care of the two intruders, Ginko and Lulu. Yuriika strongly dislikes Ginko but is more ambivalent to Lulu. In fact, Yuriika says outright that she feels sorry for Lulu since Lulu is the third wheel in the relationship between Kureha and Ginko. An unrequited love is definitely one way to gain Yuriika's questionable sympathies. Again, when it comes to Ginko, she uses her intelligence to get 'rid' of her. She plants the idea that it was Ginko who killed Reia since 'only the bear who killed her would have the pendant'. Yuriika also slips an ominous note to Lulu that implicated Ginko as an accomplice in Sumika's death.
In the end, when Ginko was cornered at rifle point on the roof Kureha was about to shoot her when Ginko convinced that she didn't kill Reia. This is one of the few times other than the deaths of Reia and her adoptive ather, that we're shown Yuriika losing her cool. She stamps her foot and yells at Kureha to shoot Ginko. She quickly regains her composure when Lulu shows up to reveal what was in the note. Kureha shot Ginko on the spot. She gives only a small 'hmph' of satisfaction at the event.
In all, Yuriika does keep most of herself hidden. Even Reia didn't seem to know the depths she would fall to until the very end. She wears the mask of civility to keep herself safe. Though she knew Kureha for years, the girl never really understood the danger Yuriika posed to her until she was attacked. After all, Yuriika always gave her the impression that she was the only one in the school (aside from Sumika, of course) that she could trust.
This has led to a sense of pride. While she's still 'empty' from the death of Reia it's obvious she's very proud in her intellectual abilities. She boasts to herself (careful, of course, to do so in private) that her long years of planning were finally coming to fruition. That she'd finally be able to claim her 'bride-in-the-box', that being her personal term for Kureha. She often seems to talk to herself in private...or rather, talks to the picture of Reia she keeps in her office.
It's this pride mixed with obsession that gets her killed. When Yuriika decides to lure Kureha to the spot that was most important to her, the lily bed, she makes her fatal mistake. Up until now she was careful. Yet that wanting to make Kureha her bride in the same spot where Reia died made her overlook something obvious: that the lily bed was the site of so many other bear attacks that it was sure to be watched. This oversight and also the fact that she let Lulu go even though she probably knew too much, brings to light that Yuriika only really focuses on her own goals. It's a certain shortsightedness that caught up with her.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Obsessive, Empty, Deceptive, Cunning, Spiteful, Manipulative, Proud, Goal-driven, Intelligent
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Fits.
Opt-Outs: Merperson, Goblin, Arachne, Naga, Faerie
Roleplay Sample:
One Test Drive Link
And another test drive link