Norika

Being perfect is really hard. Everyone has got their strengths and weakness, their abstinences and vices. Take for instance, a schools public morals officer being quite the devil behind closed doors. Second year Mari Norika, a quiet goody two shoes, who's not afraid to get snappy. She's pretty much perfect for the role that is all about telling other people how to live their lives. Doesn't earn her any friends though, lots of enemies actually. To her though? It's worth it, she gets to exercise power. Hell, she wanted to go for student council president, but it's a long shot for a second year. There's always next year. The classic trying too hard chic, braided dark brown hair, shin length skirt, thin rimmed glasses. It's a bit of...compensation, projecting an aura of cold discipline to offset her less than threatening build, thin and barely 155cm. For all the time she spends reading on her phone, she's not actually the top of the class. Just sixth, decent but nothing exceptional. Her phone reading is leisure, not study. Scoring at the top doesn't get her much anyways, it's a spot reserved for kids with abusive parents anyways. She's content with her glorified hall monitor role, taking away classmates stuff, chewing them out, reporting them to staff. It's addicting. All this hard work she puts into her image, is the perfect cover for her own debauchery. All the pressure to be a shining beacon of public morals, it can really make someone crack if their heart isn't in the game. Those items she confiscates? A lot of them never end up getting turned into staff. Cigarettes, makeup, energy drinks. Used or sold by Norika herself. And then there is the more physical actions, being a bit too handsy with the first years, promising not to write a report in exchange for a kiss. Coping mechanisms, rebellion against the very role she took up. Mari isn't exactly confident, she's no predator nor evil, and definitely not actively aggressive. She approaches most social situations with a no-nonsense pragmatism. Trying to be pointed and blunt, but often coming up short. Every conversation is a debate and she needs to be the winner, the embodiment of "umm acktually" energy. The type to use perfect grammar when texting, and force out esoteric vocabulary just to sound perspicacious. A bit meeker than people expect. When she doesn't have leverage over people, it's just awkward, she's not good at holding menial conversations and chatting. She's anxious and even a little shy when she has to actually interact with people on equal footing. President and member of the Botany club, it's got a few other girls in it, but they mostly treat it as a gardening club, just taking care of the flowers and plants around the school. Norika has a deep interest in botany but if she forced that on her club members they'd totally all drop the club and she wouldn't meet the five minimum members. Norika gets her fair share of kickback, bullying, and gossip, she's never been good at handling it, she's always a stammering stuttering mess and feels embarrassed being singled out. She's the one in the lower position, and it breaks her confidence. Lives apart from her parents in a cheap apartment with a roommate, her parents think she has a job, but most of that money is just from selling other people's shit. Her roommate is an interesting character, they butt heads but get along enough to not kill each other. The passive aggressive notes she leaves on unwashed dishes would be enough to make even a saint's eye twitch. Technically a delinquent and she knows it, probably one the worst the school has, she's just good at hiding it.