Tsukiko Yamamoto





“Why, yes, I am a genius. But genius is only half the package. The other side of genius is madness. I just hide it well. After all, how could I be here, talking to you with this great, big ol' smile, and be thinking to myself 'Wow, these are some great test subjects!', or something like that? Hm? Y'look a li'l nervous now. Kekeke.”

Tsukiko is nothing if not eccentric. She's odd on a number of levels, and she makes no attempts to hide this. She's confident in herself. She truly fears nothing- minus rabbits. Those terrible little monsters will be the cause for the end of the world! She's a genius and a thinker on top of that. She likes understanding things, and, though she usually won't admit to it, she often likes to consider every normal situation she encounters a potential experiment. This does not exclude her roommate, classmates, or clubmates, either.

This redhead is not the sort to get directly involved in conflict, though that won't stop her from working behind the scenes to create conflict. Chaos is beautiful in her eyes, because only through chaos- only through existence and life itself- can realizations come to pass. Order? Order is stillness, and stillness is equivalent with nothingness. She's fine with restrictions- laws- but she refuses to embrace pure order.

Tsukiko enjoys creating things. From software to hardware, she tinkers with computers, but, more than that, she's very interested in the field of cybernetic enhancements. One of her short-term goals- either during or immediately after her time at Astraea- she intends to create a cybernetic eye to replace her fake eye. She's not sensitive about being a cyclops, and doesn't go to extraordinary lengths to hide it. Granted, she doesn't go out of her way to bring it to light, either.

Having been raised unnaturally, Tsukiko is emotionally skewed. If one were to look at it in a manner that matches her situation, it's more like someone took a supercomputer, told it to observe human beings, and then gave it the ability to understand and develop emotions. She's a genius, but, emotionally, she's not beyond the "curious child" stage- and that's likely where she will be until her social experiment finally concluces, and her "self" is truly ingrained in her mind.

That's not to say that she's an expressionless wall, though. Tsukiko has a number of faces, a number of personas. She'd make a great actor if she bothered to try, and that's obvious when watching her in the host club. She can be a charming doctor or a mad scientist. She can be every bit as twisted as your dream yandere or as innocent as that little sister you wished you had. Each act is a part of Tsukiko, but not a one is the real her, either. Outside of the club, she's a fairly easy-going and open individual, with a certain charm that works to her advantage for her research.

“There are always terms to an agreement. Give and take, money for products, resources, services. These things are natural. That's business, and the world by extension, work. However, this is not a business. This is not a formal trade agreement. I'll give to you like I would give to myself. Your wounds shall hurt me as well. I'll worry for you as if you were an extension of my being. . . so please let me take some embarrassing pictures of you?”

Tsukiko has only two people that she considers real friends at the moment, and neither are at Astraea. In regards to the people around campus, there's no doubt that a good bunch of people enjoy her presence, and she enjoys them as much as a scientist enjoys useful test subjects. She has a degree of affection for them in the same way a science teacher cares for lab rats. That's not to say that she thinks little of them, or anything, but she doesn't really consider any of them close.

Now, on the exceedingly low chance that someone does appeal to her in just the right way, Tsukiko is not against making friends with others. She has power- physically, mentally, and financially- the will to act on her impulses, and the capabilities that only a genius could ever utilize- complete and utter insanity. She would be a great ally and an excellent confidant. Just don't tell her your embarrassing secrets. Those she might leak to see you squirm.

“This isn't a galge, you know. Not an eroge, either. Not every girl you see walking by has a flag you can trigger, or an ending to add to your savedata. Moreover, I'm not the cutest or the prettiest, so you can't claim that my looks charmed you. I'm not the doctor you get at the host club, nor am I that twisted little nut-case that makes your heart palpitate at the thought of being owned. I'm just me- and what you see is what you get. Yet you still wanna come after me? I guess we can try this. Just don't cry if it doesn't work out, all-righty, sweet heart?”

Tsukiko is inept in the field of love. Even to the present, despite watching, reading, playing, and observing many things, she has yet to properly understand the feeling known as "Love". That said, she does have a few basic ideas for what it should be like. It should be a mutually consensual relationship between two individuals, for starters. More than that, it should also be mutually exclusive and in no way harmful to either party.

She highly doubts that she'll be falling in love any time soon, but she would not reject it if the chance came up. The problem with love, at Astraea, is whether or not the other person loved one of her faces. For a person that has yet to decide who she truly is, she doesn't think a person can genuinely love "her". People are free to try to surprise her, though. Who knows? They might even take her off guard and put her on the defensive.

"Let me describe to you what a victory is- what defeating your enemy is. Victory is not 'ending a conflict without losing'. Victory is breaking your opponent's body. Render them incapable of running and hiding. Remove their ability to lift their hands up to attack you again. Victory is breaking your opponent's spirit. Make them submit to you. Make them regret ever lifting a hand with intentions of harming you. Make them verbally admit and mentally accept their weakness, inferiority, and lack of capability to you. Make them accept it in their heart that you're their ruler. Their god. Now, that is what victory is. You still want want to start something? Challenge accepted."

Now, enemies are silly things. Naturally, there will be plenty of people that don't like Tsukiko. She's energetic, chaotic, and quick to shift gears and masks to best entertain herself or further her secret research. She follows the rules only as long as they coincide with her actions, utilizes loopholes when they don't, and, when loopholes aren't here, she abandons any semblance of care or concern.

The people that hate her for these reasons? She's fine with them. Cause and effect. Rule makers, disciplinarians, and just the general peace-loving student are likely to dislike her. She's fine with that. She accepts that. It doesn't bother her. It's the people that attack her out of pure maliciousness that does. It's the people that target her flock, or the few friends that she has, in order to get to her that does bother her. These are the people she cannot stand.

This is a genius. She does not forget things, especially not grudges or debts of blood and tears. This is a person who could and would (and probably has already) get a list of names for students, just to do background checks to find good subjects to tease. That's for experimentation. Clean, non-malicious experimentation. What do you think she'd do for a person she genuinely hated and wished nothing but terror and discomfort for?

“There's room for everything in my plans. Tall, short, young, old, fat, skinny, pretty, ugly, red, green, blue, symmetrical, asymmetrical, functional, non-Euclidean. If it's there, I can likely make use of it later, if not now, or five minutes ago.”


And here is where optional information, plot ideas, and fun facts go~! . . . most of which will be added at a later date. A-herp-derp.


-Author's Notes-

You may have noticed that I swapped from the order used in Amoretta's plot sheet. Amoretta had general info, enemies, friends, and then lovers. This was intended as a spectrum design, going from one extreme to the other. In this case, I went from general info, to friends, then lovers, and finally enemies. I didn't wanna open with lovers, because that'd feel out of place. I couldn't start up with the enemies field, because Tsukiko's quote made it somewhat intimidating in my head. So I opted to go with friends, lovers, then finally enemies. The more you know!


-Fun Facts-

Tsukiko regularly consumes cold pizza as a breakfast. She sometimes goes out of her way to order pizza the night before, refrigerate it as she sleeps, and then consumes the thing in the morning.

Where others have dogs or cats or smaller animals, Tsukiko has adopted a full-blooded wolf-pup as a pet, because money can get you anything. While it's still small and growing, she has constructed a natural diet for him, in which he is expected to grow to match or exceed record size for wolves of his family. Also, his name is Jacques. No, there is no reason in particular why she chose that name.

While she does not participate in sports actively, she has hit the batting cages on occasion. She's also physically fit.

Tsukiko will wear glasses on occasion, despite her right eye being good. This is mostly for aesthetics.

She has a mild addiction to having things in her mouth. This varies from chewy candy, to gum, to suckers. She may also gnaw on your fingers if you're not careful.

She can and will gallivant about in her pajamas. Why? Because she can.

If she's not in classes, there's a good chance she's wearing her pajamas. Under her clothes. The only reason she can't get away with it in class is because it'd be too obvious.

She likes dressing up in odd outfits. This would explain her tendency to go above and beyond when acting as a host.

While she often does utilize a computer to look over her predictions and verify that she was correct. Her head functions on a level matching or exceeding current technology. Using a computer is just for professionalism's sake.

She hates rabbits. Why? She read “Alice in Wonderland” and a number of works inspired from it while in the hospital. Them rabbits be evil, yo'.





-Plots-

"Star light, star bright, lets light the skies up tonight."

Tsukiko has every intention of running for Etoile later. Her reasons are purely selfish, though. She wishes to use the position and its authority to further supplement her research. Being the center of attention would produce a great bit of data, she believes. Despite her intentions, she would not simply let her running partner do all the work after the fact, though. She'd be sure to take care of the paperwork and other mental tasks as they came up- she's more concerned with the research, but that doesn't mean she's negligent.

Her running partner could be anybody. The best fit might be someone with similar motives- someone looking to take advantage of the position for some reason or another. At the same time, she'd be perfectly fine with someone who likes her trying to run with her. She's not picky. It does have potential to lead to something if Tsukiko did not feel attraction to the individual beforehand, though.



"We'll be like Holmes and Watson! Jekyll and Hyde! Abe and George! Drac and Belmont! Peanut butter and jelly!"

Tsukiko needs a roommate, no matter how you look at it. For her, just about any type is fine. It could be interesting for her to be rooming together with a quiet and shy, by-the-books rule-enforcing type girl, though. It'd be really amusing, since the two types would clash almost constantly. Another interesting combination would be a girl that works hard for good grades, since Tsukiko doesn't have to study to memorize things. A good chance for some friction, that.

But, yeah. She needs someone there to listen to her scientific monologues and crazy plans. Or to watch while she does crazy things in the room. She just needs someone to bask in her ever-glowing radiance of madness and eccentricity.