Post by Hattori Satoka on Jun 7, 2011 19:06:32 GMT -5
Character Played By (the person in your avatar): Youki Kudoh
Name: Satoka (Possibly "wise flower")
Title: Geiko (Geisha)
Age: 24
Race (Lineage Origin): Rising Sun. Similar to Ch'n.
Gender: Female
Height: 5'2”
Home Province/Country: Land of the Rising Sun.
Appearance (1-2 Paragraphs): Satoka has long light brown hair that reaches to mid-back, which is bound in a chignon (pinning the hair into a knot at the nape of the neck or the back of the head) when she's not out entertaining, and up in a Taka Shimada when out entertaining. Being from the Land of the Rising Sun, Satoka, does share some physical similarities with the Ch'n with the dark skin and slanted eye lids and brown eye color. Satoka has a slim figure, which is needed in her profession as a Geiko.
Personality (1-2 Paragraphs): A curious young woman, Satoka was nearly always in search for something new. She's not afraid to try something new, even when she's told she can't do it. But she has been trained since childhood in the arts of conversation, shamisen, and dance; so Satoka knows when to speak and when to blend into the background, but still be able to fill the sake cups of the men she's entertaining. Being a Geiko, Satoka is interested in anything that's related to the performing arts. She would try and sit outside a theatre and just listen to the play that was being performed at that time.
History (At least 2 detailed Paragraphs): Satoka grew up in the capital of the Land of the Rising Sun, having been born in a Geiko okiya (house). Raised from a young age to become a Geiko, Satoka listened to the house mother and worked as a servant to the okiya until she began her training to become a Geiko. Washing anything and everything she was told to, waiting by the door for the okiya's resident Geiko, doing anything she was told to do. She reached the age of nine and began Geiko training. Satoko spent the next few years training before she was accepted as a younger sister to an older Geiko and gained the name of Satoka.
Satoka spent the next few months, at this time she was fourteen, under the teaching of her older sister before her debut as a Maiko, or apprentice Geiko, and spent the next few years as a Maiko before she took the final step in becoming a Geiko. In a ceremony called mizuage, Satoka's virginity was sold off to the highest bidder. When she returned to the okiya, she was given the biggest room, which had once belonged to the old Geiko. Her career as a Geiko was quite successful before she heard of the Land of Angels and decided to travel there. It took time, but she saved money to travel.
The trip took two years, a ship from Rising Sun to Ch'n then a caravan across the land before arriving in the Land of Angels. The difference in culture came to a shock to her. Coming from one that was strict and near unyielding and arriving into one that was open and free, Satoka wasn't sure what to do. She found herself in what appeared to be the center of the capital city with no one to help her but her translator. She saw the Mount were the Night Court stood and asked her translator what that was and was told that those were the okiya of the Land of Angels' geisha.