Madoka Ogawa

[Madoka Ogawa]

MADOKA OGAWA

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NAME: Madoka Ogawa
AGE: 19
GENDER: Female
RACE: Human
OCCUPATION: Villager
REGION: Japanese Empire
ERA: Feudal
POWER: None

EQUIPMENT:
A small Japanese Spitz named Shiroki that unofficially belongs to Madoka. Technically it’s a street dog, but what with all the care and attention she gives it, it might as well be her pet. It also sleeps in her room from time to time – if she can smuggle it in.


LIKES:
Her dog
Her mother
Flowers
Insects
Food
Spring
Stories
Dressing up
DISLIKES:
Rudeness
High-heeled shoes
Being underestimated
Her boss
Extreme temperatures
FEARS:
Darkness
Being alone

SECRET:
She’s very worried she might have the same disease as her mother.


PERSONALITY:
Though a kind person in general, Madoka has developed a rough edge throughout the years as a result of having to grow up too soon. When faced with difficult situations, she generally just tries to avoid them and rarely resorts to name-calling or violence. However, sometimes people keep going and going, and even the kindest of people will grow tired of getting treated badly. Madoka is most definitely not someone who allows you to walk all over her, and if it does happen and she calls you out on it, don’t expect her to allow it again. She generally learns her lessons very quickly.

Strangely enough, Madoka hates getting compliments that have to do with her mother. Since her mid to late teens, she has taken responsibility for her household and her mother. Many people find it admirable, but Madoka tends to wave it off as nothing. In truth, she often wonders what life would be like if she didn’t have all these responsibilities, and on bad days she may even resent her mother for ever getting sick. She always feels awful after thinking that, and thus doesn’t believe she’s worthy of praise.

She isn’t exactly a people person, nor a loner. She enjoys the company of people and is quite cheerful and fun to be with, it helps her forget about the harshness of life for a moment. But when she’s sad, she tends to withdraw and isolate herself.


HISTORY:
From a very young age, her mother had encouraged her to treat everyone with kindness and respect, even if they didn’t show her the same courtesy. Madoka often found her mother’s philosophies difficult to adhere to, and usually only acted like a martyr when he mother could see her.

Her childhood was a lonely one, she had no idea who or where her father was, her mother worked out in the fields the majority of the day, and Madoka didn’t have any siblings.
Although her family was essentially made up of just herself and her mother, Madoka usually had friends to play with when her mother was working. She greatly enjoyed girly things, such as dressing up and pretending to be a princess. Up to age thirteen, she was very much a girly-girl.

But then – at the age of thirteen – the inevitable happened. Her mother got sick and slowly lost the ability to work. Despite the woman’s best efforts, when Madoka turned sixteen, she was more or less restricted to her home and her daughter was forced to take over her job.
One year later, and her mother’s illness had progressed to a point where leaving her by herself could be fatal because of falls and choking on food.
Madoka didn’t make enough money to hire a nurse, and quitting her job was impossible. Eventually, she made a deal with a local innkeeper; he’d watch her mother during the day when Madoka was working in the fields, and in exchange, Madoka would work for him for free during the evening as payment, at which point she herself could keep an eye on her mother.

Since then, Madoka has been balancing her work and the care for her mother with great effort while wondering if there’s more to life than just working and worrying.


ROLE-PLAY SAMPLE:
The weather was cold and rainy, as was usual in the Coastal Regions of Japan. Never a nice warm breeze, no sir. You needed to travel further in-land for that.
Many people – mostly workers – rushed to find a place to shelter from the elements. Among those people was a young girl, who didn’t seem to be in a hurry to get back home.
Her “home” wasn’t really a home as the average person would define it.

Madoka Ogawa lived in an inn. Fun fun, you would say, but no. For Madoka, living in the inn was almost like living in a prison. After a long day at the fields it was time for an even longer night in the inn. And because her home was also her workplace, it meant she couldn’t call in sick unless she was so incredibly sick that it would scare away guests, it also meant her boss – and landlord – knew exactly where she was at all times.
And much like a prison, she couldn’t escape from it even if she wanted to. Her boss held a hostage – her mother.
The sad thing was that Madoka herself had put them in this situation. After her mother had gotten sicker, and the young girl didn’t make enough money for a nurse or someone else to take care of the sickly woman, they’d been forced to find residence elsewhere. A place where the rent would only be minimal, a place where someone would watch her dear mother when Madoka couldn’t.

Of course it was too good to be true when the local innkeeper said he’d provide her with a home and someone to look after mommy-dearest. Everything came with a price, and apparently kindness was no different.
After working all day, Madoka would come home to a full inn with hungry guests and filthy floors. When most people would sit back and relax from a hard day’s labor, Madoka would roll up her sleeves and jump from one job right into the next. For no pay. It was a bitter pill to take, but she wasn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth. What other option did she have anyway?

And so, she did what she did every day. What she had done for almost two years now; Drag herself through the rain while sighing and whining to herself about wanting a day off. Today she was slacking more than usual. The deal had been that “once she got off work, she had to come home and help out”. There weren’t specific times involved, and her boss had no idea how late she’d be reporting in.
“Maybe if I walk out here long enough, I’ll catch a cold.” She muttered to herself as her foot nearly sunk away in a large puddle of water. Of course she didn’t mean it. Catching a cold was about the worst thing that could happen right now. Not being able to work and make money? Living with a woman who was already sick? Having her boss yell and tell her she’ll be working extra as soon as she was healthy again? No thank you.

Looking up at the sky, she wondered; Is this all there is? Is this all I’m living for?
It was times like this where she would think about her life, wonder about how it could’ve been if things had been totally different.
But after a brief moment of reflection, Madoka pressed on again towards the entrance of the inn. There was no time for thinking about things you couldn’t change.
There was work to be done.

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ALIAS:Madoka

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