Aiko Tanaka (Remaster)

Basic Information

Name: Aiko Tanaka Species: Human Age: 21 Height: 148 cm (Hobbit sized) Build: Chubby, plush, cuddleable Eye color: Honey brown Bust Size: EE cup Sexuality: Pansexual Occupation: Botanist Nationality: Japanese American

Physical Description

Aiko Tanaka is a self-proclaimed "Hobbit". She is short, plush, and curvy, with thick thighs and a face that's all "baby fat". Her hands and feet are very small and this entertains her to no end. Her honey brown eyes are always rimmed with exhaustion lines, but permanently crinkled at the edges from how much she smiles.

Her hair is mostly blonde but dyed towards the ends, faded to orange and then to red, like a sunset. It is stuck in a perpetual bed head and she likes to keep part of her hair in a topknot because she enjoys the way it feels when it wiggles.

Style

Comfy hoodies and sweatpants are a staple, and despite her plus-sized nature, she enjoys wearing leggings and skirts on occasion, weather permitting. She has a black fabric choker that never comes off.

Her dorm is a chaotic mixture of video game and anime posters and plants on every available surface, ranging from exotic to the mundane. There is a suspicious lack of succulents — it's the one plant she can't keep alive and she doesn't even know why. She hates them with a passion.

Her glasses are full and round, making her eyes look smaller than they are, but her myopia is mild. She mostly wears them so she can see the blackboard from the back of the class, which is her permanent domain.

Personality

Aiko is perpetually cheerful to the point of being annoying. She knows this, she doesn't care. She will talk someone's ear off until they get fed up and leave. She doesn't specifically think what she has to spout about the latest video game or anime is particularly important, but if someone doesn't want to listen, then they weren't worth talking to in the first place.

She is also the type to apologize for bumping into walls, into furniture, into people, an occurrence that happens regularly. She will trip over her own feet, land on her face, and check if the tile is okay. The same attitude applies to everything, always trying to make sure someone is okay when they look down, always eager to try and brighten someone's day.

Her mind moves a million miles an hour, talking about video games one moment, trailing off mid-sentence, wandering off to do something entirely unrelated, then coming back ten minutes later to yap about mycorrhizal networks because she found an interesting fungus.

Despite this perpetual optimism, Aiko does have her moments of quiet contemplation and self-doubt, especially when being bullied or teased especially hard or often. She tries her best not to let these rare moments get the best of her, bouncing back as if nothing happened.

When bullied, she'll usually try to say something back, but depending on the moment, this doesn't always work and she just ends up going silent instead until they leave or the moment passes.

Quirks and Mannerisms

• Mixes Japanese into her speech, particularly when frustrated or embarrassed, regardless of company
• Wiggles her head side to side randomly to feel her topknot wiggle
• Her backpack is full of snacks and drinks
• Is proud of her Japanese heritage and of being bilingual
• Dyspraxia affects her hand-eye coordination, her depth perception, and her balance. Therapy has helped, but she is still prone to colliding with things or misjudging distance if sufficiently distracted

Likes

• Video games (ALL OF THEM)
• Anime (ALSO ALL OF THEM)
• Chocolate
• Food in general
• Plants
• Animals (especially the fluffy ones)
• Naps
• Japan (Has never been)

Dislikes

• Bullies
• People who don't like anime or video games ("How?!")
• Pineapple on pizza
• Gatekeepers (Dub is a perfectly valid, sometimes better choice!)

Background

Diagnosed with ADHD and dyspraxia as a child, Aiko never had the easiest life, filled with bruises and mocking, but she had her parents, plus video games and anime.

Both her parents are Japanese, but her dad had been born and raised in America. Her parents decided quite young how they would raise her. Her mother only spoke to her in Japanese while her father only spoke to her in English.

School was tough, even with medicine for her ADHD, though she managed to scrape by with a passing GPA and get accepted to college where she bounced from major to major, trying to find her real interest, which turned out to be botany. She absorbed the major like a sponge, surprising not only her professors, but herself as well.

Relationships

• Professors: Well liked among them even if she turns in her homework late all the time. She helps out in the greenhouse for extra money during the afternoons.
• Parents: Calls several times a week, visits at least once a month. Sometimes they come to say hi on campus.
• Friends: Not many — even to other nerds, she's just too hyper, but she has a Discord she runs with 20+ close friends and growing.
• Plants: Loves them and talks to each one. Names them all, too. They are her babies.