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Character
Name: Chisame Hasegawa
Series: Mahou Sensei Negima!
Timeline: Chapter 325
Canon Resource Links: Over here!
Personality: In a class full of third-year middle school girls - a variety of personalities and backgrounds, like a robot, a vampire, a ninja, a shrine maiden sniper, and so on - and a ten-year-old teacher, there are very few normal people.
Chisame is (kind of) one of them; she's the one noticing the aforementioned, realizing that none of this makes sense and for awhile, futilely searches for logical reasons for supernatural causes. She's there to provide dry commentary, roll her eyes at the shenanigans of her crazy classmates, and happily settle herself in her little pocket of non-magic reality. Except she, too, has a secret: she's the top ranking net idol, Chiu, a beautiful, enthusiastic girl who dresses up and posts to her own website and has quite the following online. Very few people know her secret, and even fewer can make the connection between the net idol and the surly girl who sits at the back of the class. She keeps this to herself mainly because she'd rather not get labeled as weird with the rest of her classmates. She does occasionally lapse, however, becoming very passionate about the proper way to wear a maid outfit or cosplay.
Chisame hates socializing and useless people and is much happier in her own room on her computer. It helps maintain her sanity, as proven when she determinedly makes entries to her site on her laptop when there's no Internet connection at all. She can be counted to be the voice of reason, and she rarely makes decisions due to emotion; she's a logic-driven kind of girl, which is why all of this stuff about magic horrifies her at first. Also thanks to this, she's cynical and doesn't get easily swept away into fantasies, preferring magic and reality to STAY separated, kthnx. This allows her to smack sense into Negi (literally, she slaps him twice to get him out of a troublesome state) whenever he requires it - as he is only ten, after all - and she can be counted on to point out that SHIT IS CRAZY, YO. She wants no part in 3A's shenanigans, but usually gets dragged in anyway, and is shocked to realize that she's starting to see the group as friends. This is confirmed after her time spent in the magic world, where she becomes a valuable member of the group and the person closest to Negi at the time, the one to look after him when Asuna is otherwise unavailable. He even requests her to accompany him, both because her advice is always sound and because he just wants her with him.
As cynical as she is, Chisame's got pretty low self-esteem, considering herself not as naturally pretty as the other girls without makeup and photo-doctoring, and doesn't like facing people without hiding behind her glasses. She initially freezes up when first pushed onstage at a cosplay competition and ends up breaking down in tears - which, ironically, nets her the win. Since then, she's grown a little more confident, but still doesn't even like to bother comparing herself with the other girls. Still, even before she was fully immersed in the magical occurrences, she started to assist from the sidelines, and is now someone who looks out for Negi, helps formulate plans, and deals with the wackiness as best as she can. When she does form bonds, she comes to care for them rather deeply, whether or not she'll actually admit it.
It's worth noting that, when an attack is used on the group that traps them in a sort of dream where they're living out their desired lives or reliving cherished memories, Chisame and one other girl are the only ones unaffected-- because their real lives are completely fulfilling. Somehow, this shocks Chisame deeply, because she does happen to be an internet hermit, and was quite proud of it. Because hearing you live a fulfilled and satisfying life is obviously the most horrifying thing ever.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ COMMON SENSE. No really, this is a godsend in a shounen series filled with fanservice up the wazoo. Someone needs to point out that none of this stuff makes sense or keep everyone else from being idiots, protagonist especially. She's also fairly intelligent in the booksmart and calculating department. Without being told, she's able to figure out that her teacher is a mage.
+ Skilled hacker and computer skills in general. Made all the easier with her Pactio abilities, but Chisame's rather accomplished on her own.
+ Switching personas. It's pretty hard to realize that Chisame and Chiu are the same person-- her net idol personality's a complete 180 from the cynical antisocial girl most people know her as.
+ Has one hell of a SNAP OUT OF IT slap. And a YOU MORON fist to the head. For a 14-year-old girl, she hits hard.
+ Hardcore cosplay skills, man. What, it's a strength-- you can know nothing about it and she can still make you look good. you don't want her getting passionate about the proper poses and appeal at you.
- Absolutely antisocial. Getting Chisame to participate in group activities or socialize with most anybody is like pulling teeth; she's happier sitting in front of a screen than bonding with actual people.
- Her reliance on electronics-- her connection to reality, she claims. She'll type entries without internet access just to stay grounded in sanity.
- Cynical as hell. She's gotten a little better at this, but Chisame is far from an enthusiastic optimist.
- Low self-esteem, including discomfort when it comes to facing people without her glasses. Yes, she really only does wear them for that, considering her vision's actually better than average.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Rocket Grunt
Starter: Porygon
Password: Sunflower Seeds
Samples
First Person Sample:
Team Rocket. Team Rocket? Bad enough that I've landed myself in the role of Generic Villain Lackey, but in the nefarious grand scheme of things, you're telling me that their great and horrible plan is to steal a bunch of monsters and take over a world already filled with a bunch of monsters? This may be a video game, but there isn't so much as a final boss plot twist, is there? How do you expect to sell the concept to people who want their bad guys to wipe out populations with high level spells? Then again, the majority of the population is brainless and easily satisfied with a crazy premise like this one... all the squealing over Pikachu one hour in is proof that I'm stuck with freaks again.
[ Chisame pauses to adjust her glasses, scowling. ]
So, I'm gonna make one thing clear to you punks right now. I'm not interested in catching 'em all. I'm not interested in breeding 'em all, and if you are, that's your own sick business. I'm not interested in stealing 'em all, so keep your Pokémon master plans far the hell away from me, got it?
And don't give me any crap about being secretive about this organization, you've got your own theme music!
Third Person Sample:
After spending the summer in the magic world, Chisame was absolutely certain that you couldn't get any more crazy than this. Magic, she felt, was always going to be the the furthest thing from the reality she craved, but she could give it a realistic basis so long as it helped her to get back home.
But that was before she got dragged into yet another mess where her new coworkers worshipped a villain, the majority of the population ran around with shining eyes and happy hearts - ignoring the dangers of things twice as large as they were - and you couldn't so much as step into any decent patch of grass without some kind of giant rat, sheep, snake, or escaped farm animal popping out to attack you.
I miss you so much, normal life in an air-conditioned room with my computer and the internet, and my adoring mass of fans who only ever wanted to see me in that bunny outfit... no crazy people. No idiots wanting to be friends just because I know how to pronounce Pikachu. Just glorious, blissful solitude and online adoration...
"And then there's you," she said to the forever silent bird-like shape sitting patiently. As usual, the Porygon didn't blink or twitch or gave any sign that it had heard her. "If you're so great at going in cyberspace, why don't you just flit in there and hack me an exit out of this damned place? Do you even know what's going on around you, you stupid data-bird? Even the sprites had more of a personality than you do! Just say something for once, I don't give a damn if it's only just your name!"
Of course she had to have the freak of the freaks, the Pokémon that had been man-made, and didn't seem to register much except that it fought and then it sat there and did nothing. She almost missed her electronic sprites and their chipper calls of "Chiu-sama", and that was a troubling sign--
The 'gear pinged an hour after she'd left the Porygon in her room, the sound of a message. Perplexed - she hadn't expected anything - Chisame opened the text.
I LOVE YOU, CHIU-SAMA.
Accompanied by a sprite of a Porygon.
Chisame's palm hit her forehead with enough force to dislodge her glasses.