Hiroe

Hiroe (博恵) Matsudaira
A.K.A.
Age	17
Voice Actor
Relatives	Matsudaira clan Sadamasa Matsudaira (father) Tadame (mother) Naomaru (brother, 14) Takeshi (brother, 7)
Series
Player	Exacerangutan

• Name: Hiroe
• Age: 17
• Sex: Female
• Birthday: October 8th
• Parents: Sadamasa and Tadame
  • Place of Birth: Fukui, Echizen Province (~100km north of Kyo)
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Specialty: Diplomacy
  • Hobbies: Music (esp. koto and shamisen), classical dance, literature
  • Likes: Jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
  • Dislikes: Dogs, boorish and dour people
  • Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake, negi and negimiso
  • Least Favorite Foods: Chicken, rabbit
  • Most Valuable Possessions:
  • Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
  • Playlist: Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups

• Physical Stats
  • Height: 5'6"
  • Weight: 120lbs
  • Eyes: Light brown
  • Hair: Black

Appearance

Hiroe is an elegant, poised, remarkably beautiful young lady, always dressed fashionably, just inside the boundary of propriety for someone of her station. Of course, this means her figure is almost always very well concealed in a classy kimono, but it can be judged from her frame and the way she carries herself that she has a more athletic build than her poise betrays, and she certainly has some kind of curves going on. She wears her deep black hair long with a straight trimmed fringe, loose in most cases but tied up in a bun in especially formal circumstances.

Personality

Polite, charming, and playful, Hiroe is naturally inquisitive and gregarious, especially enjoying humorous stories and jokes. She has difficulty leaving a mystery unexplored, and while she can contain herself if necessary, she always wants to know what's inside the box or behind the curtain, and will get antsy and distracted (and eventually just frustrated) contemplating how to get answers if she's presented with a mystery that can't be resolved. Approaching serious tasks with the belief there isn't much point not finding a way to enjoy them while getting them done well, she tends to be cheerful and disarming, but with the poise and gravitas befitting (and actually probably exceeding) her station. She struggles to resist engaging in wordplay and punmanship, and loves witty banter.

Underneath her lighthearted, debonair manner, Hiroe has a very strong sense of justice, founded above all on piety--the belief that there are things the Heavens frown upon, and those things should not be done, and if they are done, someone should be punished. Although she doesn't much savor violence as a solution, she recognizes that sometimes there are no other feasible options. She vastly prefers potent shaming, mockery, and social pressure, however.

Hiroe is markedly uncomfortable around dogs. Even small ones leave her uneasy, which she ascribes to finding their hyperactivity, noise, and slobbering distasteful; larger dogs make her anywhere from tense and distracted to outright terrified, depending on their behavior. Although she's careful not to belittle others (unless they're asking for it), she can be quite vain, taking a great deal of pride in her family's reputation and influence, her parents, her own beauty and intelligence, and so on, but also in her friends. She loves being the center of attention, and has to make a point to not steal the spotlight when the opportunity presents itself if there's a reason not to. She tends to treat people well and form many casual friendships, but has difficulty opening up completely to people.

Background

Hiroe was born to a well-to-do but otherwise modest, peripheral branch of the powerful Yuuki-Matsudaira clan of Echizen--although the Yuuki-Matsudaira claimed direct descent from the Shogunate, Hiroe's father was born the third son of a third son of a third son, far-removed from the halls of power in all but name. She grew up as something of a golden child, initially because her excellent heath was a great relief after her mother's worryingly precarious pregnancy; Tadame's health had been so upset in the early stages after a series of unsuccessful attempts that the family had taken some pains to bring her to visit Inari shrines for fertility and reproductive health blessings. When Hiroe was born normal and lively, her parents were overjoyed and tended to spoil her; by the time her younger brothers were born, she had already learned to be helpful and had demonstrated exceptional intelligence and understanding for her age.

Shortly before Naomaru was born, her father was sent with his family to Fushimi as a representative of the Yuuki-Matsudaira clan, and Hiroe became acquainted with the city and its head family as good company for their daughter to keep. Always very bright, and inquisitive to a fault, Hiroe absorbed skills and knowledge voraciously as a child, especially once she learned to read (quite early); on the other hand, her energetic nature, rambunctiousness, and knack for finding trouble were a lot to deal with. For several years, Hiroe grew up in Fushimi, but shortly after her brother Takeshi was born, her father was recalled to Fukui on orders from the main family. Dealing more often with higher-ranking members of the clan, her parents sent her to assist at the nearest Inari shrine as an apprentice shrine maiden, hoping she'd learn a little more discipline--which she did with her usual precociousness, growing into a refined but strikingly vivacious young woman.

After living in Fukui for a few years, Hiroe's father was again sent to represent the clan in Fushimi after a short string of lower-level administrators failed to adapt to the demands of the position. In contrast, Hiroe proved herself a capable assistant, even undertaking local business trips to the neighboring domains on behalf of her father and the Fushimi family.

Skills

Physical Skills:

• Alertness: Incredible
• Athletics: Excellent
• Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:

• Etiquette: Incredible
• Leadership: Very good
• Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
• Performance (voice): Excellent
• Performance (dance): Incredible
• Subterfuge: Incredible
• Streetwise: Very good

Mental Skills:

• Medicine: Good
• Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
• Law: Excellent
• Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
• Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:

• Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
• Empathy: Excellent
• Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

Special Abilities

Shinto purification rituals

Powers & Merits

Clear Sighted (3) Graceful (2)

Unique Items

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Items Of Note

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Weaknesses & Flaws

Curiosity (2): Fear of dogs (1):

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