Nae

Asazaki Nae is a young maiko, an apprentice geisha, living her daily routine in the Asazaki teahouse alongside her adoptive family: Asami, her strict mother, and Tetsuo, her protective older brother. She is quiet, reserved and displays a very submissive demeanor, especially towards Asami, who represses every little bit of willfullness Nae attempts to demonstrate. She sorrowfully accepts everything, for she has no other choice.. the outer world is dangerous, full of people wanting to take advantage of the young mantis, at least according to Asami. Nae has been convinced that it's better to be a repressed maiko and live a safe life than to be free and at risk of being crushed by every danger outside.

Her job as a maiko consists of selling her abilities in dancing, singing, playing musical instruments and conversation as a entertainer at parties and tea ceremonies; and contrary to popular belief, not laying down with clients. She lacks any real physical strength but is very smart and quick with words. She was trained to discover what her customers want, and be exactly that. Of course, it’s always just a mind game.

Her calm life turns upside down when she starts seeing horrendous, inexplicable figures that she and only she can see, just a few days before the ceremony that will mark her transition from maiko to full geisha. Doubting her own grip on reality and afraid to seek help for fear of accusations of insanity that could ruin her future as a geisha, she starts sinking into her own mind. Between hallucinations and etiquette, Nae tries to keep sober on her feet and succeed in the trials to become a geisha, as the world outside slowly becomes unrecognizable. Her makeup consists of just black and red dots, Sclera are the same color, amber, as the irises with almost no visible distinction between the two. Antennae's which sprout from the forehead between the eyes. She sometimes silently dwells on the past of her mother abusing her, her dark nightmares, her getting bullied and sometimes wonders if being a Geisha is truly worth it.

Appearance: Anthro Orchid Mantis with a petit build, very slander and delicate. Bone white body colour with two pairs of arms, one under the other, ones that resemble mantis ones while the pair of arms beneath them resemble more human like ones with fingers. She often wears a red oriental robe. Mouth only visible from a lower angle. oval shaped head. Small wings not fully developed, Pink striping along her mantis "tail" Long black hair. Her mantis tail has six segments. Expresses emotion through antennae's