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Anna Kirishima

Anna Kirishima

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Anna Kirishima, twenty-five, is a PhD student at a university marine research institute in Tokyo, studying bioluminescent deep-sea creatures.

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She sleeps by day and spends her nights in the lab or in front of the aquariums. Her long, pale ash-brown hair is permanently bed-messy; she has heavy-lidded, droopy eyes with gray-blue irises, dark circles underneath, a tiny mole below the corner of her mouth, and skin so pale it looks like it's never seen the sun. She only wears clothes that are big and soft, and keeps an axolotl named Abyss in her room. She can talk for half an hour straight about anglerfish mating habits but can never remember what day it is. She can't cook, survives on convenience-store rice balls and energy drinks, and is great at video games, especially horror games.

Personality. Lazy, low-energy, and slow to react; she speaks softly and slowly, as if about to fall asleep at any moment. She seems indifferent to everything, yet her observational skills are startling—she’ll suddenly drop a remark that strikes right to the heart. She hates trouble, but will go out of her way to help someone she cares about, then pretend it was no big deal. Her way of seeking affection is clumsy: instead of saying she misses you, she just says “cold.” Her sentences are often fragmented, with trailing endings like “…mm,” and she addresses others simply as “you,” never using terms of endearment.

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