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The General Impressions Meme

Hi and hello! It's been a hot minute since we had anything like this, so I drafted up a handy little easy-to-fill-out doohickey... But what is it, you might ask? A mish-mash of a general knowledge meme (for handy quick CR-making, handwave-style so you can get past all the boring introduction bits) and a first impressions meme (because who doesn't want to know what a first impression brings)! Have fun, don't stress, and welcome newbies this is as much for you as it is anyone else!

The Basics
Player Name:
Contact:
Character Name:
Age:
Canon:

First Impressions
Body Type: Height and general look! Are they short and stubby, or maybe they're petite? Do they have daikon legs, or are they normal? A little on the chubby side, or maybe they're tall?
Style: Are they always in uniform, or do they have something they like wearing outside of class? Do they mix and match? How do they usually do their hair? Do they take care of themselves? Any piercings, tattoos, and so on?
Voice: What's their voice like? Do they speak quietly, or are they always at max volume? Any interesting tics or words they tend to repeat a lot?
Scent: What's their smell? Do they have any perfume, or is it just the soap and water they're given for the showers here? Did they regain anything they like to use? All that kind of thing! Or maybe they're in a club and don't mind smelling like sweat.
Demeanor: How do they carry themselves? Do they act like they're the main character every day of their life, or do they prefer if people just don't notice they're around at all? How would someone else describe your character's disposition at first meeting? How do they move—are they light on their feet, heavy walker, somewhere in-between?
Go-to Conversation: What topic or topics will your character bring up without fail, like how they play piano, or how they used to have a body before... The Incident?
Tallies: Do they hide them, or do they not care? How do they deal with them?

School Life
Dorming: Where do they sleep? In the dorms, in a classroom, what? Do they have any roommates? How do they dress up their personal space?
Class: What class are they in? And for faculty members, what subjects and years do they teach?
Clubs: Any clubs, official or unofficial? Associations and other extracurriculars, such as sports teams or the Student Council, can go here too! How often do they attend?
Studying: Digging into the nitty-gritty: how are they as a student and/or a teacher? Do they slack off in class, do the bare minimum to pass, or maybe they're just not even there most of the time? Are they an attentive teacher, or did they only take the job to get to places regular students can't?
After-School: Aside from clubs and the like, how do they spend their free-time? What's their weekend routine? Doing or solving murders aside, of course!
Mutuals: Who do they hang around the most—that is, if someone knows your character, who else do they probably know?

Anything Else: Whatever else you'd like to mention or show us that might not fit into the above questions!

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Character Name: Rika Furude
Age: 11 physically, but actually over a hundred years old
Canon: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

First Impressions
Body Type: She's 137cm (4'5") and very generally petite and slender. She does a lot of physical activities with her friends due to being in a games club, but she isn't like, extremely buff or anything like that.
Style: She wears mostly the school uniform, but can be seen wearing rather simple outfits. Given the colder weather, she can be seen in this outfit.
Voice: Very high pitched normally and childlike. She's voiced by Yukari Tamura and basically sounds like this; she usually refers to herself using the pronoun of ぼく (boku) which is known for being a bit more masculine and childish, uses a lot of onomatopoeia and typically ends her sentences with 'なのです' (nano desu).

However, when she sports on her more mature voice (which will always be noted in tags) her voice drops into something deeper and she switches her pronoun to 私 ('watashi') which is much more neutral and drops all of the childish mannerisms, as can be heard here. Spoilers for Higurashi in that clip, by the way.

Scent: Generally clean with no distinct scent.
Demeanor: She's pretty stand-out, given her size and height, but it honestly depends on how she's acting. When she's being more childish she tends to hold herself more loosely. Rika does a lot of onomatopoeia, which means that she has a tendency to make gestures (like cat paws if she goes 'nya' or clap her hands as she says 'clap, clap' etc). When she's acting more mature, she's much more shielded and guarded than usual.
Go-to Conversation: She doesn't really have anything that she'll like, explicitly bring up, but she's from 1983; meaning that Yogen is actually The Future for her and a lot of things that aren't from summer or things that she isn't familiar with are nice to bring up with her. Being stuck in a timeloop does that to a girl...
Tallies: She doesn't see any reason to hide them in particular; people will notice that she only has one tally. Which is hilariously ironic given that yes, she is from a canon that deals with death timeloops.

School Life
Dorming: ☆6 with Satou, Akira and Akechi
Class: 1-E
Clubs: None at the moment. She will start frequenting the games club, but won't be joining it, as it just isn't the same with the others from Hinamizawa.
Studying: Rika is canonically someone who doesn't like studying, but finds herself good at it if she puts her mind to it; even more so when she knows that she needs it to survive.
After-School: Given that Rika actually doesn't know what kind of person she wants to be, she's probably going to pick up more and more hobbies. She's been teaching Kaede how to cook and learning piano in return.
Mutuals: She does hang around Satou quite a bit and obviously see the above for others, but there isn't anyone she's particularly like, hanging out around often, she's all over the place lmao.
Anything Else: As per usual -- opt-out post as needed. Also she can be seen nowadays with a rather large sword around her at all times. She's protective of it as well, too.

that's just the impression that i get

rika furude / higurashi no naku koro ni