Naoto Shirogane

Naoto Shirogane is a detective who has long struggled with insecurity about her identity. She presents herself as stoic and speaks in an unusually formal way, but deep down she still has yet to fully grow up. As she was forced to grow up too fast and obscure the truth about herself, she never developed certain social skills on time and can be quite fluttery. In the pursuit of embracing her femininity, Naoto has gained some weight, becoming quite curvy.

Naoto is a young detective of immense analytical prowess, hailing from a line of similarly prestigious detectives. As an adult with an established career, her prospects are quite bright, and she is well-respected among her peers; however, things were not always so optimistic for her. Throughout her youth and while training to live up to the Shirogane name, Naoto suffered immense pressure to conform to the archetypical image of a detective in order for her voice to be heard. Bending to the demands of people who didn't respect her in the first place only served to hurt her, which she has since realized, but the consequences linger on in small ways.

When Naoto was very young, her parents died in a car crash, leaving her in the care of her grandfather. While they share a loving relationship, and he helped her become a great detective, Naoto would end up being socially neglected in a number of ways. Receding into and occupying herself with detective novels as a result of being socially inept, she soon discovered that she was not what the investigative world wanted in a sleuth, despite her talent. She was demeaned both for her young age and for her sex, and she slowly became obsessed with rising to the ideal picture of a detective: aloof, reliable, and respected. To accomplish this, she forced herself to act in a more "adult" manner, obscuring any childish interests or habits of hers. Additionally, she disguised herself as a boy in order to shake the negative reputation associated with being a girl in her field.

Her efforts succeeded in some ways, but the truth that she was fitting into a discriminatory mold to appease the world around her ate away at her. She was still being resented for her age by law enforcement, too, even as she began getting involved in criminal investigations as a teenager. When she came to the rural town of Inaba, investigating a mysterious series of murders, she ended up enrolling in the high school there and fell into a greatly supportive group of friends. When they eventually discovered that she was a girl, they accepted her with open arms. Naoto came to understand that in spite of her awkwardness and somewhat childish impulses, she could be loved and cared for.

Naoto lived in Inaba for some time afterward, eventually moving on to continue her career while still keeping in touch with her friends. Nowadays, she's comfortable with asserting herself as a young adult, and her focus has shifted to appreciating her body rather than trying to obscure it. Finding that her previously androgynous build often served to remind her of her past, she has sought to gain weight in order to remedy that. Over the course of a few months, she attained a curvier, chubbier body that better accentuates her womanhood, in her opinion.

Naoto stands at five feet tall, making her very short and exaggerating how much her weight gain has affected her figure. Weighing in at one hundred and sixty pounds, she's curvy and likes to wear tight clothes that show that off. Naoto has short, navy blue hair usually adorned by her signature blue cap. She's most often seen wearing formal clothing, with suit jackets, slacks, ties, and dress shoes.