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Name: Yamashita Reiko | 山下 鈴子(the kanji for “Reiko” is literally “bell child”)
Age: 22
Gender:  female
Height: 175.3 cm | about 5’9”
Date of Birth: July 9, 1991
Education: Diploma in Fashion Styling (Bunka Fashion College, 2-year diploma)

Personality:
Amorous extrovert with the tendency to touch. She’s a very hands-on sort of woman, and while she’s aware of the fact she’s invading someone else’s personal space, chances are that she’ll get a finger on you. The more she likes you, the more she’s willing to literally touch you. Her hands do a lot of talking while she does socialize normally.
 
Verbally unrestrained and open. She may tell you to “f*ck off” despite being friends, but this is just her speaking her mind and may not actually bear any cruel intention. She doesn’t have much of a filter for her thoughts—what she speaks is what she’s thinking. While one can be assured of her genuinity with her thoughts, it’s not always a good thing that she spews whatever’s on her mind. Not everyone likes blunt opinions, after all.

Passionate when driven by rebellion; still a teenager at heart seeking autonomy. The one thing that truly gets her going is when she’s defying something—it’s usually someone else’s authority. She doesn’t like rules, and even though she’s smart enough to know she shouldn’t be breaking them, she can’t help but cut corners out of habit. She’s still childish and likes to act freely no matter how “mature” the words she spews out of her mouth are, and like a true teenager, mood swings galore.
 
Whines a whole lot but is pretty dependable, responsible even. Be it having a good work ethic (she holds grudges against some people from this fact), conforming to society’s rules, and the like, she is likely to express how much of a pain it is for her. Whiny as she is, she remains strangely dependable in her own way. She’s the type of person who’d complain about how much of a pain a job is, but in the end, she’d finish it. And still find a way to complain, but hey, she finished it. Her responsibility also affects her choice in the sense that she even has policies with men: even with flings, she has taste with men and refuses to hit on men who are in a relationship (though she’s hit on men who were in a relationship in the past, unaware of their relationship).

Bio:
Reiko was the second-born daughter in the Yamashita family in Kobe, Japan. Her older sister, Juri, a year ahead of her, was geared to be an overachieving eldest even if not the smartest. Reiko and Juri’s mother, Yamashita Yatsumi, was the domineering go-getter. Her influence helped make Juri one of the top students. Reiko, on the other hand, did not try as hard as her mother and sister did—it wasn’t that she was stupid. Since childhood, Yatsumi kept telling Reiko to do better in her studies and lessons, just like her sister did. To prove herself as Yamashita Reiko and not Yamashita Juri, Reiko got into things that her sister didn’t do—play soccer, play with the other boys no matter how rowdy, take taekwondo, get into games that Juri wouldn’t play.
 
Reiko’s tomboyish ways contrasted Juri’s girly ways, something that bothered Yatsumi. Save for the taekwondo lessons, Yatsumi started to put a stop to Reiko’s activities. Even when Reiko tried to do things against Yatsumi’s wishes as blatant rebellion, Yatsumi would always have the power to stop her as a parent. Reiko started looking for other ways to express herself, and it was in late middle school she discovered her interest in fashion, but the friends she hung out with were ones that made her subject to a status quo. She went from a rowdy tomboy to a trendy girl and learned to love the approval she got from her friends and classmates, the one she never seemed to get from her mother. And even then, her mother always showed some form of contempt, questioning her clothes if she wore too little or saying how she shouldn’t get so close to boys at her age.
 
In her teen years, Reiko finally started lashing out at her mother instead of just giving her attitude. The arguments continued out of persistence from both sides: Reiko’s need for Yatsumi to recognize her as she is—the fashion enthusiast who was not Juri—and Yatsumi’s need to force Reiko onto a stable, working path. In junior high, her grandmother, Okada Yasuko, who’d long known about Yatsumi’s and Reiko’s arguments, offered to take Reiko in. Reiko had expressed wanting to get out, and she jumped at the opportunity to be rid of her family. She moved from Kobe to Kyoto, where she became a worker at her grandmother’s ryokan, something she didn’t expect. She started to rebel against her own grandmother, but it was much harder to even raise her voice there, not when the Okada Ryokan was her grandmother’s territory. Eventually, she stopped trying so hard to defy her grandmother, though a cousin at the Okada Ryokan, Okada Hiromi, became her closest companion of sorts.
 
Reiko found her freedom other ways. With her grandmother not keeping that much of a watch on her when it came to her schooling (so long as she didn’t fail), she had the freedom to be the fashionista she longed to be. The crowd she hung out with pressured her without her realizing it (she mistook pressure for approval), which got her to get into a relationship as a high school freshman. The guy was The guy was her senior by a year, a boy nice to look at. He was one of those guys who’d cheaply adore girls, but for Reiko, that was enough. Months of cheap dating and hormone-fueled senses later, she gave up her virginity to the guy—she liked it, even if it hurt the first time. She liked it even more when her friends approved of it.

In her junior year, the guy broke up with her yet went for a girl who had a style similar to hers. Irritated that she’d become “just another cute girl”, she chose to stand out visually by first cutting her hair short. She still hung out with her friends but didn’t listen to them that much anymore when it came to fashion. This appreciation for fashion affected her career choice where she said she wanted to study something in fashion. Her school counselor suggested she go for a fashion college, and when she heard about the Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo, she applied for it at once. Her grandmother and mother didn’t complain about her wanting to study in Tokyo instead of a school in either Kyoto or Kobe. She moved to Tokyo and attended the Bunka Fashion College once she got in, unaware that her mother had been the one who sponsored her college education. All she knew in college was that her expenses had been paid in full by a “scholarship”.

Ever since then, she’d been living in Tokyo, immersing herself in a culture where she could express herself visually. She’d gotten a newfound dream ever since attending the Bunka Fashion College, too. Her experience with men, though, left her to never really get serious with men, and so her life, ever since being in Tokyo, consisted of one-night stands and casual flings when not working.

At the moment, she’s working at A.M.E. Productions. She once worked for the modelling branch, but after an incident there, she ended up getting rehired by A.M.E. Productions, but at the performer branch instead.

Occupation: Assistant Talent Coordinator, A.M.E. Productions: Performer Branch
Extra:
- Handles her alcohol pretty damn well and is an avid drinker.
- Has an obsession for anything cosmopolitan; she worships the western world.
- Not a fashion model, but she might as well be one. Always dresses trendily.
- Currently living in a Shibuya in a decently-sized flat, alone.
- Visits Kamenoko University often while pretending to be a student in order to scout talents out on her free time, though she’s just obsessed with university people.
- She can kick pretty hard thanks to the taekwondo lessons, but tends to hide this fact.
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//smacks dat butt