Background: Chika Funami met Shiori Kasuga (later known as Shiori Hoshino, after her mother remarried) when they were both in elementary school. They attended the same table tennis class at a community center, and the slightly older Chika took the shy, picked-on Shiori under her wing. Shiori became something of an adopted little sister: Chika would frighten off the boys who bullied her, and since Shiori's mother was often held up at work, Shiori spent a lot of time at Chika's house. Chika took to calling Shiori "Haru-chan," after one of the characters in the name Kasuga.
But then Shiori's family moved away, and the two lost touch. They didn't meet again until Shiori entered the same high school Chika was attending, by which point Chika's feelings for Shiori--operating on the principle of absence making the heart grow fonder--had become full-on romantic love. Alas, Shiori already had her eyes on someone else: Sawako Hanai, another girl she had met through table tennis. The love triangle thus set in motion didn't exactly shake out in Chika's favor, but at the end of the series, she's shown as still cheerfully hitting on Shiori, relationship with Sawako be damned.
Abilities: Chika is an athletic girl; she's a good table tennis player, though not to the serious kickass level that Sawako and Shiori are. She's also really good at saying or doing things to get people riled up.
First Person: *Chika's first video message in Ruby City consists entirely of her scowling in frustration at the camera for a few seconds before the feed shuts off. A moment or two later, the feed starts up again, and this time she's smiling from ear to ear.*
Hello? Testing? Is anyone actually seeing this? I wasn't sure what was going up with this stupid wristwatch--if there's a manual or a help button or something that I missed, please tell me. No, wait, on second thought? Probably a little less important than getting out of here. I kind of have a lot on my plate back home, y'know, so if someone could just let me know when the next train out of here is, that would be fantastic.
*She pauses, the twitching of one eyebrow hinting at how she really feels at the moment.*
Because, you know, this isn't funny? One second I'm at school, it's lunchtime, Haru-chan is being adorable, everything's normal. Now the sun's going down, the creepiest train ever just dropped me off at a city I've never seen before in my life, and my cellphone isn't working. If I don't get a really good explanation soon--
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But then Shiori's family moved away, and the two lost touch. They didn't meet again until Shiori entered the same high school Chika was attending, by which point Chika's feelings for Shiori--operating on the principle of absence making the heart grow fonder--had become full-on romantic love. Alas, Shiori already had her eyes on someone else: Sawako Hanai, another girl she had met through table tennis. The love triangle thus set in motion didn't exactly shake out in Chika's favor, but at the end of the series, she's shown as still cheerfully hitting on Shiori, relationship with Sawako be damned.
Abilities: Chika is an athletic girl; she's a good table tennis player, though not to the serious kickass level that Sawako and Shiori are. She's also really good at saying or doing things to get people riled up.
First Person: *Chika's first video message in Ruby City consists entirely of her scowling in frustration at the camera for a few seconds before the feed shuts off. A moment or two later, the feed starts up again, and this time she's smiling from ear to ear.*
Hello? Testing? Is anyone actually seeing this? I wasn't sure what was going up with this stupid wristwatch--if there's a manual or a help button or something that I missed, please tell me. No, wait, on second thought? Probably a little less important than getting out of here. I kind of have a lot on my plate back home, y'know, so if someone could just let me know when the next train out of here is, that would be fantastic.
*She pauses, the twitching of one eyebrow hinting at how she really feels at the moment.*
Because, you know, this isn't funny? One second I'm at school, it's lunchtime, Haru-chan is being adorable, everything's normal. Now the sun's going down, the creepiest train ever just dropped me off at a city I've never seen before in my life, and my cellphone isn't working. If I don't get a really good explanation soon--
*And here the smile evaporates into the most intense of all possible glares*
--I'm gonna lose patience.