nino

Age: 29

Likes: Michie, movies, lazing around, being hugged

Hates: Being alone for too long

Fave Drink: Beer

Apartment Balcony Activity: Smoking and staring off into the horizon

Evil Fact: Despite her size, she has a deep voice, the deepest out of all her friends. It's not a husky smoker's voice... at least, not yet...?

A real piece of work, snobbish bratty chick. She's best friends with Michie. She is often very blunt and doesn't hesitate to speak her mind, although as a bit of a pessimistic, snobbish, and needy individual this often results in her saying things that can come off as rude and insensitive. She doesn't mean it... usually. Rather, she knows best what she is comfortable with and what she would prefer. This unfortunately pushes a lot of people away, but she kind of views it as a means of "gatekeeping herself" in her own words, but that's just her way of coping with the fact that she is woefully anti-social and cannot interact with others, other than people she has already befriended.

She often smokes and doesn't really have any other means of managing her cortisol. She used to be much more demure in high school, and she only picked up smoking and a devil may care attitude when she started university as a means of remembering Michie after going seperate ways from her for some time. Nino was nothing short of surprised (and pissed) when she found out Michie went in the opposite direction towards being a more responsible and demure person after quitting school, but it is what it is.

She lives in her own condo suite downtown, owned by and given to her by her parents. She was quite a spoiled child, but she desperately tries to distance herself from that and pays rent just to preserve integrity. In reality, she is quite frugal. Her suite is actually very well-kept and clean, but that is in due part because she often doesn't have anything better to do other than clean. She doesn't buy herself too many knick knacks and likes to keep a minimal lifestyle, but she puts a lot of value towards things that are given to her by friends like little houseplants, pillows, and plushies.

She still studies at university, but she's changed majors several times and takes breaks from studying very often. She can hardly hold a job, as well. Suffice to say, she is struggling to find her path in life. Somehow, despite all this, she scrapes by on her own and is a lot happier than she used to be.

She's actually a very proficient cook, but can't portion anything more than just meals for one person at a time. It's a shame she's often too lazy to go shopping for groceries without her insisting that someone else (Michie) does it with her.

She's about as flat as a board. Since she often wears baggy clothes it's not something she really cares too much about. For her own comfort, sometimes she goes no-bra. She's trying to quit smoking but after a week of tweaking she usually relapses.

nut comment: Our beloved Nino! She was the second OC I made, and to think it was only because I was considering Michie more deeply at the time, and wanted to create someone who acted as her foil. Little did I know back then what the implications of this would be in terms of my path as an artist moving forward... My penchant towards drawing flatties and bratty characters can be owed back to Nino's hold on me. Uakh.

A boisterous, short, smoking tsundere loudmouth was sort of the concept I had in mind, to contrast with Michie's more airheaded, demure personality. I'd consider Nino to be a high INT to Michie's high WIS, if that makes sense. Design-wise, she was heavily inspired by a Girl's Frontline character, UMP45, although she isn't really much like her at all personality wise. I gotta hold the comparison doodles drawn by my friend Vathana... lol. A lot of you guys seem to gravitate towards Nino as a favorite, and I can see why. She's got that second child energy and I'm glad that I could use my chops to make her personality come off as strong as it does. You all have my permission to beat her up in my stream chat with the commands. It's fine, because she likes it.

Nino kind of represents a self-awareness towards a side of me that's a bit... ugly? It was much more pronounced back around the time when I first thought her up. Suffice to say, there was this lingering gatekeeping attitude I would take towards a lot of what I liked, and to myself in general. I'd be guarded and snobbish. "Oh, no one understands me! I'm the only one in the world who's watched/played/listened to this! You're uncultured swine!" I said all these things in a snobbish tongue in cheek manner back then and I'm sure a lot of the people who knew me from back then would attest to never hearing the end of it. Especially uncultured swine, that was kind of my catchphrase, lol. I didn't really mean these things, truly, but in earnest, the reason why I would always spout shit out like that is because I was just insecure. It sucked not having someone to actually talk to about these things. It's why I'm blessed to know so much people who like the same things I do— Touhou Doujin Music, obscure games, the people who share those interests with me earnestly have brought me so much joy. Nino was like that at first. Desperately trying to relate to others, and failing, and since she was stuck in her own interests and attitude, she had a hard time accepting herself and coming to terms with all of that. She's still like that to an extent, but she's definitely mellowed out. Even if she doesn't relate completely with her friends, that doesn't discard the fact that she has people that care about her and people she can care about. Just like I have. Teehee. I was smoking cigarettes here and there around the time I made her, too. I've quit nicotine as of this Summer. Hopefully Nino will quit someday, soon.