RE: [OOC][PLOT] The Seventh Thread of Planning for Arc 1 - Arrivals
12-10-2021, 12:58 PM (This post was last modified: 12-10-2021, 01:22 PM by robkelk.)
12-10-2021, 12:58 PM (This post was last modified: 12-10-2021, 01:22 PM by robkelk.)
There's a new character page on the wiki.
I know we said this character is somewhere in Tokyo, but I'm so tempted to have her show up in Ottawa instead, and have the teens at Blossom meet her as a substitute teacher.
Avoiding that temptation, here's her writeup as it currently reads. Now to find a decent image of just her... EDIT: Found one of just her - by her character designer, Taraku Uon, no less.
Yomiko Readman
読子 Readman
The Paper
Yomiko Readman loves books... and books love Yomiko back to the point that paper will do anything she wants it to do.
Canon Description
Quoting from her page on the Read or Die Wiki:
Yomiko Readman, also known as "The Paper", is a character in the Japanese language novel series Read or Die, the manga and anime spin-offs of the books, and the sequel, R.O.D the TV. Though in appearance Japanese, she is in fact half-Japanese, half-English.
Yomiko is a bespectacled substitute teacher and an introvert. A Bibliophile, she prefers to bury herself in her books. She spends almost all of her income on books, and her "apartment" is stacked floor to ceiling with books. She resides somewhere in Jinbocho, a neighborhood of Chiyoda, Tokyo known for numerous bookstores.
Yomiko is shown in always the same clothing, whether it be in the manga, OVA, or the TV series. She wears modest simple white blouse and a long black skirt, as well as a trenchcoat. This trenchcoat has many pockets and inner sections from which she can pull emergency supplies of paper "ammunition."
Yomiko's hair is also almost always unkempt. Joseph Carpenter provides a comb to her in the OVA when she is going with him to attend an important meeting with Mr. Gentleman, commenting that her grooming habits need improvement. She seems embarrassed by the comment, but apparently not embarrassed enough to actually correct the issue herself later. The only reason her hair appears managable in the OVA later on seems to be because Nancy Makuhari fixed them into braids.
Changes in the Metacontinuity
The day that she arrived in the Metacontinuity, she was greeted by Sugawara no Michizane (who was once a human poet but became a kami of scholarship), who - after convincing her that he wasn't an I-jin - explained to the best of his knowledge what was happening and how to make contact with local apartment managers.
Because of her experiences in R.O.D. the TV, she has done her best to avoid making contact in the Metacontinuity with any group that might be like the British Library Special Operations Division in her home reality. She takes substitute-teaching jobs to pay for food, clothing, property taxes and upkeep, and most importantly more books. She likes having a quiet life where she can spend her time reading... but she still has a sense of right and wrong.
Original Skills and Powers
Yomiko is the most powerful Paper Master in her world (and is the poster child for the trope over on All The Tropes), able to make paper airplanes that seat three, blades that make near-mono-molecular paper cuts, parachutes that can carry two people, and bulletproof business cards - all from normal writing paper. Her page on the Read or Die Wiki says that "[t]he only limit to the effects she can create is her own imagination. In the OVA, it seems that she must have in her grasp of at least hands, teeth, or perhaps some other body part at least one piece of paper in a group of papers in order to manipulate them, though eventually by the time of R.O.D the TV she is able to manipulate paper by pure mental control."
She is known to be able to speak English (with a London Regional Standard accent) and Japanese, and can read German.
She can teach.
Because of her career as a substitute teacher and her literally insatiable appetite for reading books, she's picked up a lot of trivia over the years - not at Ken Jennings' level, but much more than the average person.
In-Universe Power-Ups
If you don't count "adding more books to her private library", Yomiko hasn't had any power-ups as of February 2017.
Relationships
Yomiko doesn't have an apartment manager; instead, she has regular contact with a variety of rare-book sellers. She does have periodic contact with one of the managers in Tokyo, to ensure she doesn't starve while reading.
If a Japanese-speaking building manager needs to speak with an English-speaking building manager, Yomiko will probably be recruited to translate (since she's already aware of the Metacontinuity).
I know we said this character is somewhere in Tokyo, but I'm so tempted to have her show up in Ottawa instead, and have the teens at Blossom meet her as a substitute teacher.
Avoiding that temptation, here's her writeup as it currently reads. Now to find a decent image of just her... EDIT: Found one of just her - by her character designer, Taraku Uon, no less.
Yomiko Readman
読子 Readman
The Paper
- Residence: Yomiko Readman's private high-rise library, Tokyo
- Original ficton: Read or Die
- Age: 30
- Height: 161 cm
- Three Sizes: 86-59-87
Yomiko Readman loves books... and books love Yomiko back to the point that paper will do anything she wants it to do.
Canon Description
Quoting from her page on the Read or Die Wiki:
Yomiko Readman, also known as "The Paper", is a character in the Japanese language novel series Read or Die, the manga and anime spin-offs of the books, and the sequel, R.O.D the TV. Though in appearance Japanese, she is in fact half-Japanese, half-English.
Yomiko is a bespectacled substitute teacher and an introvert. A Bibliophile, she prefers to bury herself in her books. She spends almost all of her income on books, and her "apartment" is stacked floor to ceiling with books. She resides somewhere in Jinbocho, a neighborhood of Chiyoda, Tokyo known for numerous bookstores.
Yomiko is shown in always the same clothing, whether it be in the manga, OVA, or the TV series. She wears modest simple white blouse and a long black skirt, as well as a trenchcoat. This trenchcoat has many pockets and inner sections from which she can pull emergency supplies of paper "ammunition."
Yomiko's hair is also almost always unkempt. Joseph Carpenter provides a comb to her in the OVA when she is going with him to attend an important meeting with Mr. Gentleman, commenting that her grooming habits need improvement. She seems embarrassed by the comment, but apparently not embarrassed enough to actually correct the issue herself later. The only reason her hair appears managable in the OVA later on seems to be because Nancy Makuhari fixed them into braids.
Changes in the Metacontinuity
The day that she arrived in the Metacontinuity, she was greeted by Sugawara no Michizane (who was once a human poet but became a kami of scholarship), who - after convincing her that he wasn't an I-jin - explained to the best of his knowledge what was happening and how to make contact with local apartment managers.
Because of her experiences in R.O.D. the TV, she has done her best to avoid making contact in the Metacontinuity with any group that might be like the British Library Special Operations Division in her home reality. She takes substitute-teaching jobs to pay for food, clothing, property taxes and upkeep, and most importantly more books. She likes having a quiet life where she can spend her time reading... but she still has a sense of right and wrong.
Original Skills and Powers
Yomiko is the most powerful Paper Master in her world (and is the poster child for the trope over on All The Tropes), able to make paper airplanes that seat three, blades that make near-mono-molecular paper cuts, parachutes that can carry two people, and bulletproof business cards - all from normal writing paper. Her page on the Read or Die Wiki says that "[t]he only limit to the effects she can create is her own imagination. In the OVA, it seems that she must have in her grasp of at least hands, teeth, or perhaps some other body part at least one piece of paper in a group of papers in order to manipulate them, though eventually by the time of R.O.D the TV she is able to manipulate paper by pure mental control."
She is known to be able to speak English (with a London Regional Standard accent) and Japanese, and can read German.
She can teach.
Because of her career as a substitute teacher and her literally insatiable appetite for reading books, she's picked up a lot of trivia over the years - not at Ken Jennings' level, but much more than the average person.
In-Universe Power-Ups
If you don't count "adding more books to her private library", Yomiko hasn't had any power-ups as of February 2017.
Relationships
Yomiko doesn't have an apartment manager; instead, she has regular contact with a variety of rare-book sellers. She does have periodic contact with one of the managers in Tokyo, to ensure she doesn't starve while reading.
If a Japanese-speaking building manager needs to speak with an English-speaking building manager, Yomiko will probably be recruited to translate (since she's already aware of the Metacontinuity).
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Rob Kelk
Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
Rob Kelk
Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown