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HANDLE: Veth
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OVER 18? Yes
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: None
▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Aiko "Torako" Torasawa
CANON: Torako, Anmari Kowashicha Damedayo!
CANON POINT: Immediately post-manga
AGE: 15
BACKGROUND:
Ooaoi Academy is a school full of delinquents, thugs, and assorted ne'er-do-wells. Students start the day brawling and are lucky if they don't end it in the hospital, and even the teacher's traditional class greeting is "Sit down, fuckers!" Into this milieu midyear comes Aiko "Torako" Torasawa.
The manga gives few glimpses into Torako's life prior to her transfer to Ooaoi, but we do know that her parents were not in the picture. Instead, she was raised by her older brother Mashiro, who had to bear the brunt of her prodigious strength. We also know that she was unable to make friends, unwillingly driving others away due to said prodigious strength. After alienating everyone at her previous school, she transfers to Ooaoi in hopes of a fresh start.
Over the course of her time at Ooaoi, Torako:
PERSONALITY:
If you were to ask any of Aiko Torasawa's classmates, teacher, brother, or eventual friends to describe her in just one word, odds are that word would be "strong". And by that, they wouldn't be referring to the strength of her personality or convictions or will, but to her bone-shattering, bear-punching, straight-up physical beef.
Strength isn't a personality trait, of course. But it sets the stage for everything else about the way she interacts with the world. See, Torako (as her friends call her) breaks things. There's a reason the title of her manga translates to "Torako, Don't Break Everything!" When she opens a door, it cracks in half. When she runs track and field, she stomps holes in the track. Even the wind from one of her punches can tear the clothes off a woman's back (and does, because this is an ecchi manga). And that's when she's holding back. When she's using her full power, she can demolish a several-story building in seconds and drag an entire train with her bare hands.
All of this would be fantastic if Torako were a fighter by nature. But she's not. She's a shy, socially awkward girl whose only desire in life is to make friends. Unfortunately, her tendency to destroy doesn't endear her to those around her, and that's the crux of her struggle throughout the manga.
Torako will do anything if she thinks it will get people to like her. She hops onto any request or order with a cheerful smile and a "Yes!", a trait often exploited by the other members of the Pet Raising Club to get her to do dirty work. She goes so far as to interview/badger each of her clubmates as to the reasons why they, personally, don't initially like her, carrying around a notepad and assiduously writing down their answers. Even when she uses her own clothes as bait to catch a class pervert, at great risk and embarrassment to herself, it's all in the service of potentially being helpful to others.
She also has an ironclad sense of loyalty. The Pet Raising Club members may not consider themselves her friends at first, but Torako is ride-or-die for them from the beginning. That she's so quick to call others friends is due partly to general obliviousness toward their feelings, and partly to her unfailing optimism: Torako's default is to see any situation in the most positive possible light. Viz. the following exchange, where Takano compares Torako's helpfulness to that of a plunger after unclogging a toilet:
This brings up another facet of her personality: despite her best intentions, and occasionally because of them, Torako can be oblivious to the feelings of others. As mentioned, she is initially unaware that most of her "friends" in the Pet Raising Club can't stand her, and when she does notice, she pesters them nonstop as to why, without realizing that this might not do much to endear her to them. When Suzume breaks her beloved sword on Torako's rock-hard skin and starts crying, Torako is only concerned with Suzume's earlier threat to "turn her into minced meat", and worriedly frets to a still-bawling Suzume: "Will it be medium? Or coarse?" (Enma, looking on, calls her "heartless", not without reason.)
This obliviousness can become impulsiveness when Torako acts without considering the situation - a trait that could be potentially deadly, given who she is. Rationally, Torako obviously is aware that her strength could be dangerous if she isn't careful, but when she gets the urge to hug someone despite the damage that might cause to life and limb, or when she pulls Bullet out of the path of a car by swinging her overhead by one arm, or when she smashes two of her friends' heads into the floor in an effort to keep them from fighting, her strength just isn't at the front of her mind. While working her construction job, she tells Takano that she's being careful, without any irony, while casually swinging a bundle of iron over her shoulder and almost beaning another worker in the head.
Finally, Torako is easily impressed and intimidated, as shown by the fact that she takes the four-foot-something Suzume's threats seriously during their fight, despite her previously displayed complete inability to damage Torako whatsoever. All it takes is a moderately confidently made claim, and she'll believe it unquestioningly. Some might call that being trusting; others, being naive. But really, it all boils down to a desire to see the best in everyone. The fact of the matter is that, more than anything, Torako has a big heart. And bigger biceps.
POWERS/ABILITIES:
INVENTORY: ¥600 coin (not legal tender)
MOONBLESSING: Cordis
▶ SAMPLES
test drive | with Grimm
test drive | with Dio
HANDLE: Veth
CONTACT:
OVER 18? Yes
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: None
▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Aiko "Torako" Torasawa
CANON: Torako, Anmari Kowashicha Damedayo!
CANON POINT: Immediately post-manga
AGE: 15
BACKGROUND:
Ooaoi Academy is a school full of delinquents, thugs, and assorted ne'er-do-wells. Students start the day brawling and are lucky if they don't end it in the hospital, and even the teacher's traditional class greeting is "Sit down, fuckers!" Into this milieu midyear comes Aiko "Torako" Torasawa.
The manga gives few glimpses into Torako's life prior to her transfer to Ooaoi, but we do know that her parents were not in the picture. Instead, she was raised by her older brother Mashiro, who had to bear the brunt of her prodigious strength. We also know that she was unable to make friends, unwillingly driving others away due to said prodigious strength. After alienating everyone at her previous school, she transfers to Ooaoi in hopes of a fresh start.
Over the course of her time at Ooaoi, Torako:
- Is challenged to a fight by resident class tough(er-than-usual) girl Takano. Torako wins immediately by trying to counter a blow and accidentally destroying the front of Takano's uniform, because this is an ecchi manga.
- Is befriended by classmate Megumu "Bullet" Udou, who gives her the nickname "Torako". Torako returns the favor by pulling Bullet out of the path of an oncoming truck, saving her life but completely twisting up her arm in the process.
- Thwarts an attempt by classmate Enma to recruit all the boys in school to defeat her, by swinging a steel beam at said boys and politely telling them not to bully.
- Is challenged to a duel by classmate Kotone "Suzume" Suzumemori. Torako wins by just kind of sitting there and getting hit until Suzume's sword breaks.
- Fails every attempt to join a club and make friends, generally by breaking the equipment or members of every club she tries. Finally, her teacher Gouri-sensei fobs her off on enlists her in the Pet Raising Club, whose members happen to consist of every classmate she's clashed with before.
- Thwarts a clothes-stealing pervert by using herself as bait and knocking him out with one punch when he shows, getting on her clubmates' good side for at least a little while.
- Proves her worth as the club's intimidation (Enma's idea) by folding a 100-yen coin into eighths, doing the same with a 500-yen coin, and then somehow combining the two (her own idea) into a never-before-seen 600-yen coin. While the result is probably not legal tender, this feat does serve to impress and intimidate the hell out of her clubmates.
- Is challenged to yet another fight by Takano... and this time wins by accidentally destroying the back of her uniform. Because this is an ecchi manga.
- Helps the club clean up an abandoned house, obliviously exorcising several ghosts in the process.
- Is visited at school by her older brother Mashiro, who demonstrates his capacity to deal with Torako's strength and enthusiasm by casually dodging or parrying her near-lethal attempts to hug him. Eventually he resorts to knocking her out, a feat few are capable of. Before leaving, Mashiro thanks the other members of the Pet Raising Club for taking care of his sister and for being her friends.
- Is the only student in her class to get a 100 on their test (the next highest score shown is a 27), and as such is recruited by Gouri-sensei to tutor her clubmates. Under her guidance (and the threat of physical feedback if they slack off), they improve their scores on the next test... to a 47 at the highest. Well, it's a process.
- Runs into Takano by chance while shopping, visits her house, and meets her 11 younger siblings, whom Takano is raising all by herself. Torako hatches a plan to impress the kids by staging a fight with Takano and throwing it, launching herself through a building in an overacted reaction to the force of Takano's blow. It totally works.
- Has a sleepover with the Pet Raising Club, which takes a sexy turn when Bullet spikes the food with homemade aphrodisiac. Torako is the only one unaffected... until class the next morning, when she suddenly becomes not aroused but completely feral, in another example of her interesting physiology.
- Lands a part-time job at a construction company, thanks to Takano recommending her behind the scenes to the forewoman (who happens to be the previous Pet Raising Club president). The forewoman, Oogami, takes note of Torako's ability and has her release her entire, unchecked strength on a several-story building set for demolition. Torako brings it down within seconds.
- Embarks on a school trip/community service excursion by bullet train. The journey is interrupted by disaster when the train crashes in a tunnel. Several students are injured and the tunnel's entrance is blocked by rubble, but Torako takes it upon herself, despite her own injuries, to bare-handedly drag the train and its occupants out. When they emerge, onlookers take one look at the ragged and bloody Torako, and the whispered word "monster" circulates through the crowd. Torako, frightened and ashamed, flees.
- Is not seen or heard from for five months. Spearheaded by the Pet Raising Club, her class organizes daily search patrols, refusing to give up on her.
- Finally reappears at the end of winter, showing up in the teachers' room and handing Gouri-sensei a letter of withdrawal from school. Neither her teacher nor her friends will have any of that, despite Torako's insistence that she is a monster who's only good for breaking things. In a final attempt to get through to her, Takano challenges her to a third fight. This time, Torako rips off everyone's clothes with one punch (because this is, as mentioned, an ecchi manga), but Takano uses her knowledge from their previous clashes to actually get in a solid hit on Torako - and, yes, rip her own clothes off as well. Torako snaps out of it, and it's a happy ending for everyone, not least the spectators.
- Goes on an end-of-year bonding trip to a hot spring with the Pet Raising Club, all of whom are by now firmly friends. Here, Takano tries to get her to let down her formal manner around them and use their names without appending "-san". Torako can't quite bring herself to drop honorifics altogether, but does take a first step in that direction by starting to use an embarrassing yet adorable nickname for Takano: "Taka-chan". One is left with the feeling that these five will go on to have all kinds of misadventures together, if Torako's propensity for breaking doesn't kill them first.
PERSONALITY:
If you were to ask any of Aiko Torasawa's classmates, teacher, brother, or eventual friends to describe her in just one word, odds are that word would be "strong". And by that, they wouldn't be referring to the strength of her personality or convictions or will, but to her bone-shattering, bear-punching, straight-up physical beef.
Strength isn't a personality trait, of course. But it sets the stage for everything else about the way she interacts with the world. See, Torako (as her friends call her) breaks things. There's a reason the title of her manga translates to "Torako, Don't Break Everything!" When she opens a door, it cracks in half. When she runs track and field, she stomps holes in the track. Even the wind from one of her punches can tear the clothes off a woman's back (and does, because this is an ecchi manga). And that's when she's holding back. When she's using her full power, she can demolish a several-story building in seconds and drag an entire train with her bare hands.
All of this would be fantastic if Torako were a fighter by nature. But she's not. She's a shy, socially awkward girl whose only desire in life is to make friends. Unfortunately, her tendency to destroy doesn't endear her to those around her, and that's the crux of her struggle throughout the manga.
Torako will do anything if she thinks it will get people to like her. She hops onto any request or order with a cheerful smile and a "Yes!", a trait often exploited by the other members of the Pet Raising Club to get her to do dirty work. She goes so far as to interview/badger each of her clubmates as to the reasons why they, personally, don't initially like her, carrying around a notepad and assiduously writing down their answers. Even when she uses her own clothes as bait to catch a class pervert, at great risk and embarrassment to herself, it's all in the service of potentially being helpful to others.
She also has an ironclad sense of loyalty. The Pet Raising Club members may not consider themselves her friends at first, but Torako is ride-or-die for them from the beginning. That she's so quick to call others friends is due partly to general obliviousness toward their feelings, and partly to her unfailing optimism: Torako's default is to see any situation in the most positive possible light. Viz. the following exchange, where Takano compares Torako's helpfulness to that of a plunger after unclogging a toilet:
Takano: Sure, you got some use out of it - but would you keep carrying it around with you!?Underneath all this hopefulness toward others lies a deep insecurity about herself. Torako laments on several occasions that despite her best intentions, all she ever ends up doing is breaking things. This insecurity comes to the forefront after the train crash, when despite her heroism in saving her classmates' lives, public perception brands Torako a monster. In Torako's mind, it's now confirmed that she's only good for hurting others, and she flees town for months. Even when she comes back, it's only with the intent to drop out of school - for everyone's good, she says, despite the tears streaming down her face as she does so. She desperately wants to stay with the only people who've ever accepted her, but she's convinced herself she's the bad guy. Luckily, a well-timed intervention and a well-placed punch get her to reconsider.
Torako: Hmm. ...Maybe if it had a cute design!
This brings up another facet of her personality: despite her best intentions, and occasionally because of them, Torako can be oblivious to the feelings of others. As mentioned, she is initially unaware that most of her "friends" in the Pet Raising Club can't stand her, and when she does notice, she pesters them nonstop as to why, without realizing that this might not do much to endear her to them. When Suzume breaks her beloved sword on Torako's rock-hard skin and starts crying, Torako is only concerned with Suzume's earlier threat to "turn her into minced meat", and worriedly frets to a still-bawling Suzume: "Will it be medium? Or coarse?" (Enma, looking on, calls her "heartless", not without reason.)
This obliviousness can become impulsiveness when Torako acts without considering the situation - a trait that could be potentially deadly, given who she is. Rationally, Torako obviously is aware that her strength could be dangerous if she isn't careful, but when she gets the urge to hug someone despite the damage that might cause to life and limb, or when she pulls Bullet out of the path of a car by swinging her overhead by one arm, or when she smashes two of her friends' heads into the floor in an effort to keep them from fighting, her strength just isn't at the front of her mind. While working her construction job, she tells Takano that she's being careful, without any irony, while casually swinging a bundle of iron over her shoulder and almost beaning another worker in the head.
Finally, Torako is easily impressed and intimidated, as shown by the fact that she takes the four-foot-something Suzume's threats seriously during their fight, despite her previously displayed complete inability to damage Torako whatsoever. All it takes is a moderately confidently made claim, and she'll believe it unquestioningly. Some might call that being trusting; others, being naive. But really, it all boils down to a desire to see the best in everyone. The fact of the matter is that, more than anything, Torako has a big heart. And bigger biceps.
POWERS/ABILITIES:
- Super strength, as described in the personality section. The train-pulling is probably the upper limit of what she's capable of, considering she's putting in as much effort as she can and it visibly takes a lot out of her - although she's also injured at the time, so it's entirely possible she's capable of even greater feats at full health. I am completely okay with this being nerfed if necessary, and of course I'd get player permission before having her hurt another character.
- Super resilience. Torako is incredibly resistant to any kind of injury. Hit her with a wooden sword? It'll break. Smack her in the face, and all you'll get is a bruised hand for your troubles. During the train incident, Torako is impaled by multiple pieces of rock and metal, yet is later explicitly shown to have fully healed with no visible marks. This resilience applies inside as well as out: the time she drank an aphrodisiac, it took all night to kick in (and awakened her feral side rather than her sexy side when it did, so make of that what you will). Also totally okay with any nerfs here.
- (Accidental) exorcism. While Torako doesn't appear to have any sixth sense whatsoever, she is seen to incidentally and unknowingly dispatch of several ghosts in the course of routine cleaning work.
- Super book smarts?? Torako might not look like a bookworm, but she doesn't get 100s on her tests for nothing. She's not a bad tutor either, when properly motivated.
INVENTORY: ¥600 coin (not legal tender)
MOONBLESSING: Cordis
▶ SAMPLES
test drive | with Grimm
test drive | with Dio