ICHIHARA, Kurumi

Kurumi Ishihara

16.

female.

Japan

Sadly just the upper body as I can't find the full view anywhere.?

The user takes a ready stance with both hands held out, one leg extend while keeping weight on the back leg to activate causing a blue glow around the body. Upon closing the range to the opponent she delivers one palm strike to the torso before dropping down to her hands for a leg sweep to trip the opponent.

The user shifts the dominant leg back behind with both hands held vertically in front of them. The user's body glows red after its activated, she then grabs the opponents weapon arm, during this time the dominant leg comes up and swing out to collide with the opponents side for a more powerful kick. Still holding on to them the leg comes back down to kick off the ground to pull back, while the arm lets go at the last minute.

[+]friendly
[+]energetic
[+]confident
[+]caring

[-]indecisive
[-]stubborn
[-]arrogant
[-]manipulative

Kurumi lived in Tokyo with her parents and grandfather for most of her early childhood. It was here that she started learning kenpo from her grandfather when she was eight and quickly became excited in it. During this time she always became very stubborn persistant, never giving up on her training untill she got it right, even if it meant trying and failing several times. As a reward for her hard work thought her grandfather would often take her out for sundaes after a particularly tough training session.

As a young teen Kurumi continued to train in kenpo and started competing in a few youth tournaments. One of which took her out of the country to China for the competition. She ended enjoying it so much though she decided to stay there for a couple years to continue training abroad and exploring more of the Chinese landscape before coming back home to Japan. It was during this time actually that she came to enjoy Chinese clothing and bought several outfits there for when she got back home.

Kurumi came back to Japan just as they were announcing the release of some VRMMORPG game called Sword art somethin rather. Her curiosity had managed to get the best of her as she approached a crowded game shop to watch a short video on it as well as the release date for it. She went home to think on it awhile and decided it'd probably be interesting to play as yourself in something. Going back to the game shop the next day she purchased her own Nerv Gear, although her thoughts were that this machine was a little expensive and better be worth it, and waited for the launch day to arrive to get a copy of the game. Which she just managed to do before they sold out not long in the line behind her.

Geting home she placed the disc in the system, put the helmet on her head and laid down on her bed flipping the game on as it began its system scan to recognize her body. Having created a character she began exploring Aincrad briefly before Kayaba teleported them back to the town for his announcement. Now it seemed she'd be stuck here for awhile where death was permanent and there was no going back till the game's finished