HIROKO UENO: HISTORY
Hiroko grew up in the country with her father, mother and brother. Her father is an environmental researcher, a job that lead them to move out to the country when Hideaki was a toddler. Hiroko was born there, and they were both raised there for much of their lives.
They both attended the same small local school, and faced few problems in their younger lives. From a young age Hiroko was always very energetic and had a distinct taste for action and adventure. She would spend much of her day exploring and playing in the land surrounding their home. She contrasted strongly with her brother, who was on the more quiet and polite end of the spectrum. While Hideaki remained introverted as they grew, Hiroko was always far more social and always seemed to have several friends despite the small size of their country community. She was capable and sure of herself; a trait that drew her female peers to her as a beacon of reliability.
Because of this, she was elected by her classmates to be class representative for a few years before she started taking an interest in sports. Throughout these years as representative, she continued her school life much as per normal and performed all her duties without fail. In addition to organising, helping and attending school meetings and events, her representative position also involved having her peers come to her for help or to tell her about problems within school. Occasionally these involved bullying or fights between two or more groups, and in these cases Hiroko found herself unable to offer anything other than comfort. With each story she heard, Hiroko grew more and more empathetic towards others, but since she was inexperienced she never knew what to do. Frustrated with her own inability to solve their issues after seeing the anxiety and discomfort it caused, Hiroko began conducting herself more kindly in the hopes of preventing future problems. Though conflicts still occurred, since she was not the source, she felt at least she could contribute to a better school environment.
When their school began to teach lacrosse and street hockey, Hiroko renounced her position as student representative in favour of becoming more involved in sports. Though she had always been good at P.E. due to her fitness, she started to get more serious about it. She excelled to the top of her class, and was even able to beat some of her seniors in unofficial challenges and events.
When Hiroko was 13, their parents split up in a peaceful divorce due to disagreements about work-- the first real bump in her and her brother's lives. Hiroko decided to go with her mother, and together they moved away to the city to live with their aunt, while her brother remained in the country with their father. After moving to the city Hiroko discovered a martial arts program that was being run nearby, whom their aunt was also employed by. She developed a strong interest in it, enjoying the physical challenge and benefits of learning it. She loved excelling in martial arts even more than she did in normal sports, and liked being able to face off against others. Additionally, she did well at her new school the same way she did at her childhood one, despite the differences between country and city. She was just as social and well-liked, and was able to get better at standing up for others the way she wished she'd been able to as student representative.
After the divorce the split family continued to visit each other every few months, but Hiroko was almost always away, due to her involvement in the martial arts program. She was very involved, and participated in several local tournaments. Hiroko didn't see her brother or father more than twice a year, but a while after Hideaki turned 16, he and their father moved to the city together since their father's work in the country would soon be running out. Hideaki thereafter was enrolled into the same school as Hiroko, though the two would of course be in separate classes most of the time. A rather prominent gap had grown between them due to how little they had seen eachother over the past two years, and Hiroko's mindset had, in honesty, been far from family matters. When Hideaki began his new school year she was busy with a particularly long and important tournament, but she was nonetheless positive about the development when she got news from her mother.
They both attended the same small local school, and faced few problems in their younger lives. From a young age Hiroko was always very energetic and had a distinct taste for action and adventure. She would spend much of her day exploring and playing in the land surrounding their home. She contrasted strongly with her brother, who was on the more quiet and polite end of the spectrum. While Hideaki remained introverted as they grew, Hiroko was always far more social and always seemed to have several friends despite the small size of their country community. She was capable and sure of herself; a trait that drew her female peers to her as a beacon of reliability.
Because of this, she was elected by her classmates to be class representative for a few years before she started taking an interest in sports. Throughout these years as representative, she continued her school life much as per normal and performed all her duties without fail. In addition to organising, helping and attending school meetings and events, her representative position also involved having her peers come to her for help or to tell her about problems within school. Occasionally these involved bullying or fights between two or more groups, and in these cases Hiroko found herself unable to offer anything other than comfort. With each story she heard, Hiroko grew more and more empathetic towards others, but since she was inexperienced she never knew what to do. Frustrated with her own inability to solve their issues after seeing the anxiety and discomfort it caused, Hiroko began conducting herself more kindly in the hopes of preventing future problems. Though conflicts still occurred, since she was not the source, she felt at least she could contribute to a better school environment.
When their school began to teach lacrosse and street hockey, Hiroko renounced her position as student representative in favour of becoming more involved in sports. Though she had always been good at P.E. due to her fitness, she started to get more serious about it. She excelled to the top of her class, and was even able to beat some of her seniors in unofficial challenges and events.
When Hiroko was 13, their parents split up in a peaceful divorce due to disagreements about work-- the first real bump in her and her brother's lives. Hiroko decided to go with her mother, and together they moved away to the city to live with their aunt, while her brother remained in the country with their father. After moving to the city Hiroko discovered a martial arts program that was being run nearby, whom their aunt was also employed by. She developed a strong interest in it, enjoying the physical challenge and benefits of learning it. She loved excelling in martial arts even more than she did in normal sports, and liked being able to face off against others. Additionally, she did well at her new school the same way she did at her childhood one, despite the differences between country and city. She was just as social and well-liked, and was able to get better at standing up for others the way she wished she'd been able to as student representative.
After the divorce the split family continued to visit each other every few months, but Hiroko was almost always away, due to her involvement in the martial arts program. She was very involved, and participated in several local tournaments. Hiroko didn't see her brother or father more than twice a year, but a while after Hideaki turned 16, he and their father moved to the city together since their father's work in the country would soon be running out. Hideaki thereafter was enrolled into the same school as Hiroko, though the two would of course be in separate classes most of the time. A rather prominent gap had grown between them due to how little they had seen eachother over the past two years, and Hiroko's mindset had, in honesty, been far from family matters. When Hideaki began his new school year she was busy with a particularly long and important tournament, but she was nonetheless positive about the development when she got news from her mother.