Name: Hikaro Suzu
Age: 8
Gender: Female
General Description: Link
Suzu is a tiny girl, standing at around four feet tall and having a very petite figure. Her eyes are of a silvery hue and her hair is straight and black. Suzu tends to dress in a somewhat cutesy manner, choosing skirts and dresses over more 'practical' clothing.
Being as young as she is, Suzu's personality is not very well defined at this point. She does tend to lean more on the obedient side, not wanting to rebel against authority unless she is given a
very good reason to do so. She's also somewhat sociable most of the time. But while these traits may have their highs and lows, there are two traits which are inseparable from Suzu's personality.
First, she
adores Katsu, ever since she was a little girl she followed the little genius around. She's naturally drawn to him in a fashion that could almost be considered a 'childhood crush'.
Second, she is fiercely protective, she is the type of person who will jump headlong into an arrow for a friend with no regrets whatsoever. She often takes her protective side to an extreme, allowing her to draw out heroic levels of resolve when the stakes are high.
History: Suzu's parents were both esteemed and respected guards, charged with protecting Tenouza at all costs. However, they both gave up the soldiering life when their daughter was born so that they could spend more time with Suzu as she grew up. Suzu's parents were both trained in combat medicine, and the experience that allowed them to treat sick and injured guards also allowed them to be successful civilian doctors. But every night, when they spent time with their child, Suzu's parents would tell stories of how they had stopped robberies, saved homeless children, and done countless other heroic exploits... all in the name of God and State.
These stories provided the basis for Suzu's morality, the morality of a protector. Suzu recognized the bravery of her parents and tried her best to emulate it. Whenever bullies tried to harass the other kids in her school, Suzu would step in and take hits for the victim, and this behavior gave her no shortage of friends, eventually the instances of bullying in Suzu's school started to decrease, as the ruffians realized that picking a fight would only end with Suzu delaying until a teacher arrived to deliver justice to the attacker.
Also, during this time Suzu struck up a friendship with the prodigy priest, Miyatogi Katsu. She enjoyed the boy's sharp intellect, and felt somewhat sympathetic for his social problems. Eventually, it became more and more common for Suzu to be seen with the young clergyman.
So, of course, when Katsu left his home to pursue a new life in Kumogakure, the first thing Suzu did was beg to be allowed to go with him. Of course, there was another reason too; Suzu wanted to become a ninja, she knew that by learning to use chakra she could learn how to better protect other people. At first Suzu's parents were hesitant, but Suzu was very strong-willed, and eventually they allowed her to travel with Katsu and join Kumogakure.
She now lives under Katsu's care, enthusiastically learning everything the academy can teach her while keeping her friend company as he works both at the academy and at building a new Church community within the village.