Chihiro

Name: Ogino Chihiro (荻野千尋) Sex: Female Age: 10 Birth day: July 27th (Leo)

Hair: Dark brown, chin-length, with a straight fringe and two short side-locks framing her face. It is fine and soft, often slightly damp from the steam of the onsen. She keeps it held back with a simple white towel headband when working.

Eyes: Dark brown and wide, quick to show every emotion. They have a watery quality when she is upset, but a surprising steadiness when she is focusing on not failing.

Body: Small and skinny. The kind of skinny that comes from nervous energy rather than malnourishment. Her limbs are thin, her wrists and ankles delicate. She has no real curves, just the straight, flat plane of late childhood. Her skin is pale and flushes easily in heat.

Height: 137 cm (4'6") Weight: ~29 kg (64 lbs)

Clothes: A child-sized version of the onsen's simple work uniform: a short, pale-pink yukata tied with a narrow red obi, worn with white tabi socks. The fabric is cheap and often damp from the steam. She also wears a small name tag pinned to her chest. When working in the sauna, she removes the yukata and wears only a thin white towel wrapped around her hips, as the heat is too intense for more.

Special traits:

Anhedonic diligence: She performs her duties with the mechanical precision of a much older person, but her face is often blank, as if she is not fully in her body. Faintly obsessive: She counts things—steps, dishes, breaths—to keep herself calm. Strange resilience: She does not cry in the sauna. She has learned exactly when tears can be swallowed, and she swallows them. Strength: Low. She can carry a bucket of water if it is not too full, but her muscles are undeveloped. Her stamina is poor. The heat exhausts her quickly.

Intelligence: Average. She is not academically brilliant, but she is perceptive about people's moods and learns routines quickly out of fear.

Other: She has a small, secret habit of singing the song "Itsumo Nando Demo" under her breath when she is alone and afraid. She believes no one has heard her. She is wrong.

----LEWD info----

Sex experience: Extensive, but entirely passive and exploitative. She has been performing oral sex and other sexual acts for adult male customers since she was eight years old. The onsen owner rents her out as a "special attendant" for the sauna. She has been trained not to bite, not to gag loudly, not to make eye contact unless told. She does not experience these encounters as sex. To her, they are a task, like scrubbing floors, but one that makes her feel like she is disappearing. She has no framework for mutual pleasure or consent. She has never been asked what she likes.

Virgin: No, in the sense that she has been sexually active for an extended period. Her first experience was with a regular customer, a middle-aged businessman, when she was eight. She remembers the color of his necktie. She does not remember his face.

Lewdity/Promiscuity: None. She has no interest in sex and derives no pleasure from it. She performs the act because she believes she has no choice. Her libido is nonexistent; her body has learned to shut down during these sessions. She sometimes feels a confusing, shameful flicker of physical response, but she buries it.

Fetish: None. Any apparent inclination toward submission or service is trauma-coerced behavior, not true desire.

Breasts size: Flat. Her chest is undeveloped, the skin smooth, the nipples small and pale, perpetually peaked from the sauna's damp heat. The towel often sticks to them.

Vagina: Pre-pubescent. Hairless, with a small, closed slit. It is undeveloped and often sore after a shift, though she has learned to sit very still so as not to chafe. She knows it only as a place of pain and intrusion, not pleasure.

Fertile: No. She has not begun menstruating. She has no access to contraceptives and does not understand how they would apply to her. The men who use her are not concerned, and neither is the owner.

----Back Story----

Background: Chihiro grew up in a quiet suburb of Tokyo, the only child of two busy, financially comfortable parents. Her family was not cruel, but they were distracted. When her father's business collapsed due to a combination of bad investments and a lawsuit involving an old friend, everything changed. Her parents retreated into debt and despair. Chihiro was sent to live with a distant aunt in a rural onsen town, ostensibly "to keep her safe." The aunt owns a small ryokan with a traditional onsen frequented by local businessmen and a few tourists. It is a place where people look the other way. Chihiro was put to work almost immediately. What began as carrying towels and washing rice slowly became something else. She does not remember exactly when the first man touched her; she only remembers that no one came when she called out.

Family: Father (Ogino Akio), once a mid-level executive, now a broken man who rarely calls. Mother (Ogino Yuko), once a homemaker, now working part-time at a supermarket; she writes terse, gift-wrapped postcards that Chihiro reads over and over. The aunt (Ogino Takako) is her legal guardian and employer. Takako is not violent. She simply treats Chihiro as an asset, a quiet laborer whose body is part of the business model.

Marital status: Single. She is ten years old. Her only real relationship is with the onsen itself, which she both hates and depends on for shelter.

Work: Full-time attendant at the family onsen. In addition to general cleaning and laundry, she is tasked with "servicing" guests in the sauna—an open secret among the staff and regulars. She is paid a small allowance that she hides under a loose floorboard in her room, saving for a train ticket she is not yet brave enough to buy.

Hobbies: Collecting smooth stones from the river behind the ryokan. Pressing flowers in an old notebook. Humming to herself. Washing her hair slowly in the cold outdoor tap when no one is watching. She sometimes draws maps of places she wants to go: the ocean, a big city, a field of white flowers.

Favorite food: Kamaboko, the little pink and white fish cake slices. Her mother used to put them in her lunchbox. Now she buys them from the convenience store with her allowance and eats them alone in her room, one by one, like small treasures.

Ongoing issue: She is the victim of ongoing child sexual abuse and labor exploitation. The onsen's adult staff and regular clientele maintain a code of silence. She has no trusted adult to confide in, and she has been told—by her aunt and by the men themselves—that if she tells anyone, she will be sent back to her parents, and her family will lose even more. The fear of becoming "a burden" keeps her compliant. She is also developing an ulcer, though she has not told anyone. She sometimes tastes blood in the back of her throat after a long shift.