SNAKE

Name: Miyu Sohma

Meaning: Superior beauty, superior feeling

Nicknames: Her younger brother and sister call her "Meem". Sometimes other people use it to annoy her.

Birthday: February 19

Zodiac Animal: Snake

Age: 16

Gender: Girl

Eyes: Dark green, wide eyes. They show her emotions easily, and she has trouble keeping others from reading her opinions right off her face.

Hair: Black. Kept in a messy bun, absently tied up high and out of the way. When left out, it reaches the small of her back.

Skin: Normal- pale but not too pale, you know.

Appearance: Tall and stick thin. She's a bit insecure about her weight. As in, you'll make her cry if you mention it.

Animal Appearance: A dark green snake, with dark eyes.

Extra Appearance: One scar, along her upper right arm, from when she had a row with her elder brother and he threw a pair of scissors at her. And a scar on her left knee, where she ruined it when she was four.

Normal Clothes: Never caught dead in a skirt, unless threatened horribly. She tends to wear long, tight fitting tops in bright colours with black leggings. Blue and green are favourites.

Sleep Clothes: An old white nightgown, with a pink jersey thrown over the top if it's cold. She hates anybody seeing her in it, but for some reason doesn't bother to change what she wears to bed.

Formal Clothes: She'll usually stick to crisp black trousers and a white shirt, unless coerced into more "feminine" clothes. She plaits her hair and coils it up with a pin to keep it in place.

Personality: She's a total early bird, and a chatterbox. She's up in the mornings at dawn, chirping away, driving everybody nuts. At eleven she tends to have a bit of a dip in her mood. If it's a weekend she'll shut herself in her room and have a nap under her bed or write poetry; if she's at school she'll snap at anybody that comes near her, however she usually (but not always) avoids actual physical violence. This usually passes by lunchtime, when she's smiling and happy again. She is quite inconsistent, with the attention span of a goldfish but the memory of an elephant.

She tends to form attachments to people who dislike her, or seem to dislike her. When she's with someone cheerful, she'll counterbalance their personality and become sarcastic and irritable. Likewise, when somebody is sad, she's gentle, when someone's serious, she's goofy. It can become truly annoying, when she's determined to defy the general mood.

Likes: She loves martial arts- she's no good at actually hitting people, but she can perfect a move through endless practice. One of the few things she can stick to...

When she's in her low moods, she can write her fair share of depressing poetry, but it describes her thoughts perfectly. Thing is, she'll never let anybody read it.

She loves people. As long as it's not the wrong time of day, she'll talk for hours on end.

Dislikes: She hates hurting people, and faints at the sight of blood. She doesn't like people who are overly friendly, because she gets the feeling they want something from her.

Fear: Boys, men, males of any type, scare her. Any guy she hasn't grown up with has a hard time getting to know her because she'll use any means to avoid a conversation. This can result in a bit of trouble with a group of friends as she loses track of conversations while trying to avoid a guy.

Disabilities: She has a problem with her left knee- she has difficulty running and performing spinning kicks, and it leaves her with a slight limp. She usually doesn't even notice it's there.

Job/ grade: 11th Grade, I think? I don't live in America so sorry if it's wrong... Anyway, she has a part time job after school, tutoring younger kids with problems in mathematics.

History: Her dad is French and her mother is Japanese. Her father moved back to France when she was young, and occasionally calls to check on his children. However, he only speaks French and so she worries constantly about when he will call, what she will say, what he might say in return. Her ability to speak French has steadily declined, as she and her siblings don't speak it among themselves.

Her mother is always working- she refuses to be dependent on her relatives to raise her four children. This means they basically raised each other, and played with the other children "inside" the fence. However, as often happens with the zodiac children, she was left alone more and more often. She tends to look after the smaller children now, who don't care that she turns into a snake every so often.

Home: She lives in the main house with her family.

Family: As stated, French father, Japanese mother, three siblings. She has a sister and a brother, 7 year old twins, named Hikari and Akira respectively. They also have an older brother named Naoki, who is 19 years old and going to university/college (whichever you call it... it comes after high school).

Romance: This could be a bit of trouble, given that a guy in close proximity sends her sprinting for an exit.

Meet Miyu:

Miyu was sitting on the wooden porch outside her room. The cool morning breeze made her shiver. She could hear her brother and sister playing loudly inside her home. The Sohma Main House, no matter how peaceful it seemed, was always active. One way or another she knew this as she staired into her reflection on the surface of the small pond beneath her. Her green eyes cept looking back at her.

Her entier life she has lived in the Main House. Only seeing the outside world at school. It has been a rough 16 years for her.

Taking a pebble from close by she tossed it in the water. The suface rippled and she gave a slight smile.

"Maybe someday my life will take a change for the better," Miyu wispered.