Still In Love

<> Attributes <>

• Name(English): Still In Love
• Name(Kana): スティルインラブ
• Name(Romanji): Sutiru In Rabu
• Birthday: May 2nd
• Gender: Female
• Height: 153cm, or 5'1
• Weight: Specified As "Charming"
• Three Sizes: B72 W50 H76
• Strengths: Bobbin lace, making red fruit jam
• Weaknesses: Large mirrors, strong-smelling foods, full moons
• Ears: Face intently towards the trainer.
• Tail: When shaken, it gives off a faint pleasant scent.
• Family: She often talks about history with her father.
• Secrets: If she has sweets she is happy. If she also has coffee, she's even happier, & she often practices smiling in front of the mirror.

<> Appearance <>

• Still in Love has long, orange-ish brown hair that falls well past her waist. She has a white streak of hair in the center of her bangs. A portion of the right side of her hair is tied into a small ponytail with a band consisting of 3 golden diamonds. Wrapped around the back of her hair is red ribbon with golden trimming. Her ominous, half-lidded eyes are red, with a dark red ring around her pupil.
• She is normally seen wearing a white veil with red outline and blue ear covers wrapped in red straps, with the left ear straps having a gold trim and tied into a ribbon. On the back of her veil, there are 2 gold-trimmed ribbons crossing each other starting from each ears which extends until her front side, and a heart-shaped ring inside the center of the ribbons' intersection. Underneath her veil, her ears are of the same color as her hair.
• Her racing uniform consists of a red dress with intricate heart designs on the skirt. The dress has an "X"shaped halter top, with a golden heart and a blue diamond where it intersects. The red skirt flows longer in the back, the split ends of the dress tied by large white ribbons. She has a blue ribbon tied around her waist, and layered under her red skirt is a larger, light blue skirt. Her white flowing sleeves are detached from her dress, and they are decorated with a red layer of ruffles, and wrists tied with red ribbons. She has bright red nails as well. Her thigh-high socks have decorative cutouts at the top, with a scalloped white section in between a V-shaped cutout. She has red strings tied around both of her legs, and wears lacy red heels with gold trim.

<> Personality <>

• Still In Love operates in two entirely different realms of her own body, kind of similar to someone who may have dissociative identity disorder. Albeit, it's a rare case given they're aware of each other, and share a common interest at times, just in various ways.
• The "base" version of Still In Love is quite timid, and having "no presence". Dainty, soft spoken, and normally evades interactions except with people she feels almost divinely chosen to be around. She has a determination to live up to her namesake and lineage, and that makes her heartfelt and caring to her pursuits, even if she has weird habits caused by the experiences of what 'her other self' sometimes becomes. Though this reveals she isn't totally lost, and is capable of creating loving bonds with the people she truly holds dear. To the point she has (in the canon story of Umamusume) attempted eloping with her Trainer from racing.
• The "crazy" version of Still In love is unique as it normally shows itself when Still In Love is under extreme emotional or physical stress. Such as when racing, or when she's helplessly tired. This "side" as described by herself is incredibly wild, and uses many metaphors to describe violence with hunger, and having a need to devour her relationships and rivals almost as sustenance to constantly grow better than the competition around her. Unlike the standard Yandere, who may blindly obsess over someone, Still In Love when she's "crazy" is genuinely insane. She is physically strong, highly aggressive, and disguises her insanity beneath bloody smiles and laughs when in reality she is the definition of a potential serial killer.
• These sides do balance out when feeling 'satisfied' or during the day time when Still In Love prefers to be in the dark to satiate this "crazy" part of her. However, as she ages this "base" becomes weaker and less common as time moves, while the "crazy" one becomes more normalized.
• Still In Love is overall demeanor seems different around her "trainer" or someone who actively goes to her races and shows adoration she can single out. This "crazy" side of her is paranormal at times, explosive even. Not in the combustion, or sudden burst kind. But a slow, deliberate, coordinated burn displayed in open psychosis she cannot, and will not attempt quartering. Worse, is it can also affect the "trainer" (or person she perceives must be her soul-mate). Rather than blindly obsessing over them, her "crazy" half can interact with them during full-moons or darker night-times almost in dreamy states to try and change their perception to continue feeding into Still In Love is mental struggles with herself.

One of the more famous displays is also in the canon-story of Umamusume Still In Love is "crazy" half convinced the "trainer" (her perceived soul mate) to come to the park to watch her run. Another occasion later in the story after many races and continuing to feed into the extreme physical stress causing "crazy" Still In Love to keep coming out, after a short run she has a famous line where she maniacally holds her face repeatedly saying "I love you, I love you, I love you" with blistering bloody red glowing eyes and a smile.

• Still In Love is "base" self though cherished and beloved to some extent is hard to maintain long term without potentially avoiding the triggers that force out her negative mental state. In particular racing, jealousy, and a lack of reciprocation with the individual(s) she cares for. This is supported as in the canon-story of Umamusume, Still In Love and the Trainer are described as having been in the past tense when meeting again after she ran away from racing in a flower field (to try and stop her "crazy" aspects from surfacing ever again). Likely meaning either the Trainer was dead and she speaking to them, the Trainer seeing Still In Love but she died (which would reflect what happened to the real horse she represents), or both died.

<> Relationships <>

• Neo Universe - Roommate and friend.
• Admire Groove - Rival.
• Mejiro Ramonu - Rival.

<> Racial Attributes (Of An Umamusume) <>

• Umamusume (ウマ娘 ), colloquially referred to as horse girls, are a species of reincarnated racehorses from another world. Their fate is to do whatever it takes to run towards their goals. Umamusume are humanoid girls who possess horse traits and features. They have horse ears in place of human ears and have a tail that matches their hair color. They possess incredible speed and stamina, far beyond that of a human and comparable with that of a real-life horse. Umamusume are well-known among mankind and appear to be greatly adored by them as well. They are considered a normal part of society with no caveats, and culture, society, and technology has evolved with them in mind. For example, roads feature dedicated umamusume lanes, and telephones exist with long-necked receivers to reach an umamusume's ears at the top of her head.

<> Real World Horse Counterpart (Still In Love) <>

• Still in Love was a racehorse that competed in the early 2000s. In 2003, she became the first mare to win the Triple Tiara since the Shuka Sho became a Triple Tiara race in 1996, as well as the second Triple Tiara winner overall. She was ridden exclusively by jockey Hideaki Miyuki for the duration of her racing career and also gave Miyuki his first G1 win. At one point, Miyuki was quoted as jokingly implying he would elope with the horse if he was no longer allowed to jockey her.
• Still in Love raced sixteen times. From her debut race in 2002 through the Shuka Sho in 2003, she won five of her first seven races. However, during Still in Love's pursuit of the Triple Tiara, she began to exhibit behavioral issues, including an increasingly volatile temperament, which only grew worse following her Shuka Sho victory. After placing second in the 2003 Queen Elizabeth II Cup, her race performance sharply declined, with her best performance in her latter career being third place at the G3 Fuchu Himba Stakes in 2004. She was retired from racing after placing 17th in the same race a year later.
• After retirement, Still in Love was bred, but only gave birth to one foal, Judah, before passing away at the age of seven due to abdominal issues.
• A popular story regarding Still in Love is that she suffered a mental decline late in her career after seeing her jockey Miyuki with his then-girlfriend, whom he had brought to the track that day. There's no evidence to suggest this, however. Issues Still in Love exhibited later in her life can be attributed to her 3x3 inbreeding. "3x3" meaning that the subject has a single common ancestor on both sides of their family three generations back.

<> Trivia (On Tracen Academy) <>

• The school's motto is a reference to the thoroughbred racehorse Eclipse. The phrase itself is used to refer to a dominating victory, Eclipse being replaced with the name of the victor.
• The Training Track is of comparable size and distance to the Tokyo Racecourse.
• The two dormitories on campus, Ritto and Miho, are named for two real-life training centers for JRA horses. The students in game live in the dormitories corresponding to the training center their real-life counterparts trained at.
• Students that live off-campus reflect the fact that the horses they're based on did not attend either training center.
• Currently, it is not clearly defined how long one can be enrolled at Tracen Academy as Symboli Rudolf has been enrolled since Tokai Teio's adolescence.