michie

Age: 27

Likes: Take-out, sweets, music, fashion, Nino

Hates: The cold

Fave Drink: Boba

Apartment Balcony Activity: Meditating on the outdoor breeze

Evil Fact: Her body can't regulate heat very well, so she sweats a lot when it's hot and shivers non-stop when it's cold.

A bombshell airheaded babe. She's best friends with Nino. Her thoughts drift often. She's of few words and only really prefers to speak when she has something truly meaningful to contribute, even with her closest friends. Sometimes she is frank, other times her words come out as riddles (that she probably doesn't even know the answers to. She thinks she is very smart when she spouts them off).

She's a high school dropout who used to have a very bad mean streak. She would be suspended often for delinquency. She acted towards her peers violently, and was often subject to a lot of scrutiny and bad rumors. She's mellowed out immensely over the years, after moving out from her Aunt's house and into the city to live alone. She used to smoke long in the past, with Nino seemingly picking up that habit from her after they went seperate ways for a bit and never let it go.

She lives in her own rented studio apartment. It's very well-kept, albeit compact, and filled with plenty of plushies. Most of these are bought with her own money, but a good 10% are ones she's been gifted by her friends (especially from Nino).

She works several odd jobs, and likes to fill up her time with them so she can afford things that make her happy- eating sweets, buying new clothes, whaling for gacha games, and treating her friends to dinner. Her most recent stints are at a city fishing pond, as a family restaurant waitress, and as a delivery driver for the restaurant next door to that one (with her trusty moped scooter!)

Her most consistent gig is working at Fey's record store, Stargaze Records. Even though she doesn't get paid as much working here, she still enjoys it because the work is comfortable, and she is surrounded by something she loves.

When it comes to her rather sparse hobby time, she somehow finds contentment in just catching up with gacha game stories with a video on her laptop playing, all the while snacking on something. When she's asked out by one of her friends, though, she'll always come in a heartbeat for that. She doesn't want to admit it, but she has a tough time asking others if they want to hang out.

She wears a lot of different styles of clothes, and is the one out of her friends to change things up most often. She likes to keep everyone on their toes and surprise them with what she'll be wearing next. She used to change up accessories very often, but she wears a particular cross shaped earring all the time, even when she sleeps.

Even if she has a bit of a resting bitch face, she'll always treat others with compassion.

nut comment: Michie was my first OC. She came about when I was a lot younger, in my university years. She, alongside the others, have aged up as I've grown older. She was a bit more of a one-note, jokey sort of character back then. "I'm not goth, for the last time!" was kind of the running gag with a lot of her older doodles. Times were different and I thought that was the hottest shit- she wore a choker and a cross-shaped earring and everything. It was kind of boring with her just being -that-, though. So I thought up Nino to go along with her as a sort of foil. I tend to follow that pattern when I make OCs, lol.

Funny story. I like to think I kind of hopped onto the trend of a blonde flesh fang... big boobies sort of character early, because Utage from Arknights (one of my faves) was announced on the CN server not too long after. Either way, I owe a lot to her. I'll preface it now since Michie is the one up at the top of my OC list, but my five girls each reflect some aspect of myself to an extent. That is why they exist and why I will always hold them so fondly without purveying them too much. She stands for the idea that, at a surface level, the way that I present myself can easily be misconstrued by others. I need to always remember that there is more to myself (and of course, by extension, to others), than just that. I should not get upset when I'm labelled as something. I forget about this often. So very often. No, there is so much more value in discarding that notion, and to live freely, to live happily. There is a particular kindness that attitude necessitates. A kindness and understanding towards oneself.