Emiko Nakajima

[Emiko Nakajima]

The easy S T U F F . . .

Name: Emiko Rin Nakajima
Nickname: Nakajima-san, Emiko-chan, Emi
Age: Thirty-three
Member Group: Teacher, Institute Official
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Power: Boggarting- using a subconscious form of telepathy, Emiko can find out a person’s fears- and the longer she is near them and the closer they are, the more she knows- and can transform into that fear. She cannot transform into a fear that affects the person physically, like a sickness, or death, but she can use creativity to portray such things (making a mirror that shows a person as old if they are scared of old age, for example). She can break herself apart to form fears, such as snowstorms or a lot of spiders or snakes. She feeds off of the negative emotions people put off when afraid; fear, surprise, rage, sadness, hurt, dread, and the like.

She’s not good at creating things on a large scale, but she’s good at filling a room. Side effects include being afraid of things she generally isn’t afraid of (residual fear), chronic fatigue if she hasn’t scared anyone within a span of two weeks, and general distrust from fellow staff members and those close to her. Play By: Lucy Liu

Let it F L O W . . .

Snakes

I cannot fear snakes
for I am a snake myself
I will not fear me

“I was born in 1977, the year of the snake. I am an fire snake, according to the signs. My Mother and Father did not pay too much attention to me like they did with my brother and sister. My brother, Ryo, was a year older than me and was a dragon, which, according to astrology, was the most successful sign. They preened him for success from the moment he was born. My sister, Gin, was born in the year of the tiger, like my Mother, so they were very close and seemed to agree on things better. I was the youngest, and according to my sister I had been a mistake- my parents did not want a snake for a daughter. Snakes only brought bad luck. My Mother’s brother was a snake and he was good for nothing and lazy. My parents pushed me because they did not want me to be lazy like him. I may have been a mistake, but they still loved me. I didn’t have a hard home life. I was like any other Japanese girl. I read manga with my sister and took karate with my brother. I learned to cook with my mother and my father and I would do crosswords together. It was… normal.”

Spiders

there is a spider
it is in my room right now
make it go away

“When I was a child I was scared to death of spiders. My older brother would play tricks on me and leave rubber spiders in my room for me to find, and I couldn’t go into my room until my parents got home from work, which was late at night, and took the spider out, or until I could convince my other older sister to get it. My brother stopped doing that when I was five or six, but I would always check my bed for spiders until I was almost nine. I don’t know what made me so afraid of them, I think it was the fear that they would bite me in my sleep and I’d die before I woke up. One of my schoolteachers had a jar of liquid and there were hundreds of spiders suspended inside. I was so afraid of them that I would pretend to be sick so I wouldn’t have to see them. One day my friend found a spider on her desk and screamed, so I turned around and crushed it with the heel of my hand- WHACK! Just like that! She said I was so brave, and I realized it was a poisonous spider, and it was big. I hadn’t even noticed before I hit it, I just knew my friend was screaming. After that, I wasn’t afraid of them anymore.”

Closed spaces

sister it is dark
please let me out of this box
it is frightening

“My older brother, however, was afraid of small, dark spaces. He did not like elevators and would walk up ten flights of stairs to our apartment rather than get in the elevator to go up. My sister and I would tease him for it but he wouldn’t say anything. When I was eleven, my brother and I got into an argument. I had been jumpier than usual and I was afraid of things I wasn’t normally afraid of for no reason. I was starting to get tired a lot and I couldn’t find a way to keep myself awake. He said I was turning into a lazy snake like my uncle. He and I started yelling and suddenly, I remembered he was afraid of small spaces. It was like part of me opened and I changed, and I blacked out. All I could remember was my sister screaming and when I looked down, my body was like a coffin and my brother was inside screaming. I felt energized by it, somehow, but at the same time I felt horrible for doing such a thing to my brother, so I let him out. He was white as a sheet and shaking all over, and when I tried to tell him I was sorry he pushed me backward, and my head hit the table counter, and everything was black and cold.”

Needles & Doctors

please Mother no more
this cold is spreading through me
just let me die here

“After that night came the mental hospitals and the doctors and the blood tests. I could not replicate what I had done to my brother, not at first. The doctors thought all three of us had gone crazy. But then one nurse’s aid, I found she was afraid of snakes, and I was very tired, and I turned into a large cobra, and when she started screaming, I felt fine. Afterward, I felt very bad, because she had no right to be scared. The doctors told me I was a meta-human, and back then meta-humans were viewed differently in Japan then they are now. My grandparents thought I was an akuma in disguise and my parents weren’t sure what to think. That was when Eisai gakkou found me. They said they wanted to help me train my power to ‘the ultimate level’. I didn’t understand what they meant at the time, but if they were telling me I wasn’t crazy and there were other people like me, I was willing to try anything.”

Heights

Dearest family
I like it here very much
but I am afraid

“The school was built on top of a mountain. A mountain! All the way up in Hokkaido! It was very cold in the winter and warm in the summer, but not too hot. It was a nice change from Honshu. I met a lot of other students there and many of them did not like me because I scared them a lot. I couldn’t help it though; I was almost addicted to their fear and sadness. The emotions feed me. I’d go without scaring a person and I would feel sick and tired and burned out. It was as bad as any addiction. Eisai wasn’t trying to help me control my power, they wanted it to flourish. I didn’t realize this until I was in the school for three years, and by that point I couldn’t turn back. Where else could I go? I wanted to go to Hammel, but even though the school was close they didn’t want me to leave them. I was their best student. They wanted all the credit for making me, even if they were making a monster.”

Disease

I am so sick now
I wish to go home now please
Please let me go home

“After I realized what Maboroshi was about, I begged to go home. They would not let me go, of course. I became very sick. I refused to eat for a long time, months, actually. I was not anorexic, as I didn’t see myself as larger than I was, and I wasn’t trying to lose weight. I just… Did. I didn’t want to live anymore. I felt like I was a demon. Everyone else could control their powers and still reach full potential, but for me, I could not have both. It was one or the other. The worst part about it was that, by not eating, I forced myself to scare more people. My nutrients came from the emotions people released. For the first time in my life, I felt like a true demon. I had become an akuma. The school officials finally caved in and allowed me to take a vacation to see my parents in Honshu. I needed that release. I was home for a month with an institute official visiting once a week to check on me. That month off school, it made me happy. I ate again. My parents sat me down and told me they were proud of me, no matter what. ‘They have finally accepted me.’ That’s what I thought. I never realized that they had never thought ill of me in the first place. I went back to school in higher spirits.”

Death

father where are you
I cannot see you through this
bloodshed in my eyes

“I left school when I was eighteen. They told me there was nothing more they could do for me. I went back to Honshu and, trying to rebel against my school system, went into the Japanese police force. I was enlisted for two years and I quit. I couldn’t stand it- all the criminals, all their fears. It made me sick at night. I returned back to Eisai and enlisted as security staff for the school- they were glad to have me. I worked there for three years before I got a call from my Mother saying my Father was murdered- by a meta-human group. I was devastated. My own people had murdered my Father? I looked into it and found out the group that had murdered him with a sort of group dedicated to meta-human supremacy over ‘normal humans’. I took a vacation leave over the summer and went to find this group. Once I found them? I tore them apart. That’s the one thing I have come to enjoy about my power. By the time I finished, they were traumatized. I returned to Eisai and, while many of the administration was somewhat aware of what had happened after piecing together the newscast on the subject with my leave, nothing was said. I returned to staff the security of the school, days passing. Each day was like another.”

Violence and crime

ripples from afar
spread chaos around the world
we must stop it now

“I had been at Eisai for thirteen years when I was notified for something brought to our attention. Our sister school in America, one of the staff had been attacked. They believed the head of a meta-human supremacy group had been behind it. My superiors asked me if I would go to assist them. I had been chosen because of my training in the police force, my karate skills (I had managed to achieve first stripe on my red belt and was already aiming for my second), my power and, of course, my supposed prior experience. I accepted my charge (What else could I do?) and they told me I had a week to pack.”

Moving to a strange place

such a long trip here
so many answers to find
is there enough time

“I will arrive at Hammel in twenty-four hours. I will be introduced to the staff and I will be put in the position they deem most fit for me. I will be given the key to an apartment set up for my stay. I will take a long, hot bath, and I will rest my head on unfamiliar sheets and wonder what this world is coming to.”

Fear

I fear nothing now
for now I am fear myself
I will not fear me

“'There are ten things in this world that the majority of people fear, whether they believe it or not, whether they acknowledge it or not. People in this world fear snakes, spiders, closed spaces, needles and doctors, disease, death, violence and crime, and moving to a strange place. I have encountered all these things and I can tell you, they are not the worst things to fear. ‘But wait’, you say, ‘Miss Nakajima’, you point out, ‘you have said only nine things’. Yes. Because I know the last thing cannot be grouped with the others, because it is something all of us must fear. It is the thing that causes. I may sound cliché, but in the end, there is only one thing a person must fear, ladies and gentlemen, and that… Is fear. Teachers and Officials of The Hammel Institute, my name is Emiko Nakajima. It is a pleasure to work with you all.' This is what I will say when I meet them, and then I will get to work.”

Behind the M A S K . . .

Name: Fedora
Age: Too old for the Kids Next Door.
RP Experience: I don’t even remember. A lot.
How did you find us?: Again, I don’t even remember anymore.

Show your S K I L L S . . .

Give me a break, Tony...

[Mads ♥]

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