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Dreamer
Ishiko Watanabe
Nickname/Alias: Ishi / Ulex
Age: 19
Species: Ghoul
Rank/Class: B~
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Height: 5'7"
Appearance: When going out as a ghoul, Ishiko wears this mask, dark jeans, and a black hooded sweatshirt.
Personality: Ishiko is a pacifist in a world that has abandoned peace. She firmly believes that peace between humans and ghouls is not only possible, but inevitable. She takes the few humans that side with ghouls over their own kind as proof of this. Ishiko is not a fighter, and even if she was, she wouldn't. She doesn't like the idea of using violence to solve her problems, and would rather talk things through with someone else. She won't fight unless she has no other options.
Generally, Ishiko is a kind, friendly individual. She's an optimist, choosing to focus on the good in the world and the people around her instead of the bad and she likes seeing other people smile and be happy. She likes to help out at Eden wherever she can to make other people's lives easier.
Ishiko is a good actor, so much so that she's convinced herself that she was always a pacifist, that she's not like others of her kind who kill humans for fun. But behind the happy smiles and bright attitude is a fragile child clinging to her idealism to survive. Even the most gentle of animals will bite when cornered.
Likes: Human Food - She likes the lengths humans go to to make their food pretty, like designer cakes, the faces they add to pancakes, the umbrellas they add to their drinks.
Nature, Coffee Milk, Evergreen Flowers, Gardening
Dislikes:
Her Ideals Being Called Into Question, Violence, Fighting, Arguments, Being Useless, Black Coffee
Fears:
Algophobia - The Fear Of Pain. She's afraid of both physical and mental pain.
Bio: Ishiko wasn't raised like a ghoul, the second-worse sin ghoul parents can commit against a ghoul child (the first being cannibalizing them). She was never taught how to fight or how to defend herself. Neither was she taught on how to get food for herself, or how to avoid the CCG. Instead, her parents taught her how to blend in with humans during the day, and took turns going out to get food for her at night. She was pushed to hide her ghoul nature, promised that she would lead a more peaceful life if she spent all of it pretending to be something she wasn't than trying to be with her own kind.
She learned to tolerate the taste of human food, how to suppress her hunger, ignore that they smelled like food. She learned to co-exist with humans she never interacted with. Her parents taught her to keep up this façade until the day came when ghouls and humans could live together without fear and persecution. Then one day the CCG kicked their door in and tainted all the pretty ideals Ishiko's head had been filled with when her parents blood splattered the carpet. Her mother had shoved her in a closet behind the staircase, and Ishiko watched her parents fight the investigators that came from them through the slats. Then she watched them die.
Terrified that the CCG would come back for her, Ishiko refused to leave the closet. And because she never went hungry before, and she didn't know where or how her parents got food for her, this led to her cannibalizing the parts of her parents the CCG left behind. Ishiko the idealist couldn't deal with this reality, and so she convinced herself that everything that happened was her parents fault for betraying what they taught her. If they didn't fight, they would still be alive, and if they were still alive, she wouldn't have had to eat them. Without this twisted ideal, Ishiko would have lost her sanity. And so she clung to it, and kept clinging to it until the present.
Later, she would find out that the neighbor across from them had seen her father's red eyes for a brief second on her way back from work, right after he finished killing someone, and reported it to the CCG. The only reason Ishiko lived was because she was never let outside, so the neighbor didn't know she existed.
Ishiko learned how to be a ghoul the hard way, though most of the dark, murder-y things she did during that time she's blocked from memory, since it doesn't fit in with her ideals. She joined Eden when she turned eighteen.
Strengths:
Enhanced Durability - Being the child of a Rinkaku and a Koukaku user, Ishiko is harder to kill than most ghouls. She has enhanced regeneration, and can recover from wounds that would be fatal to others. While she doesn't have a Koukaku, she does have some of its properties. Her skin is harder to penetrate, acting as enhanced armor to protect the rest of her body.
Digestion - She can tolerate more human food than most.
Lying, Pretending, Negotiating
Weaknesses:
Unskilled - Because of her lack of skill with her kagune, it mostly only manifests if she's feeling a strong emotion (rage, despair, fear, etc.). She can manifest five tentacles that curl out from her back like a binkaku would. While this may trick her opponent into thinking her rinkaku has binkaku properties, it doesn't. It's still as soft and breakable as any other rinkaku.
Enhanced Pain - Her kagune is more sensitive to pain.
Doesn't Know How To Fight
Kagune/Quinque: Rinkaku
Misc. Abilities: She Knows How To Cook.