satoko houjou

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Character Name: Satoko Houjou
Age: 12
Canon: Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni
Canon point: Around a month after Matsuribayashi-hen.
History: here [cw for blood in the wiki images!]
Personality:

Cheerful – Satoko is a fun-loving, optimistic girl who always manages to stay upbeat despite the great amounts of trauma in her life. Her best friend Rika and Keiichi have both noted in canon that she is the kind of person who manages to keep a smile on her face even when things are difficult for her. Despite the fact that her brother’s disappearance caused her great pain, she can talk about him quite happily and fondly without getting upset, and she strongly believes that he will return one day.

Strong – Satoko is a strong-willed person – in fact, she actively seeks to become stronger, and strength is one of the things she values most in life. This is because when her brother vanished, she believed it to be her fault for having relied on him too much in the past, and she vowed to become stronger in order to not let the people she cares about get hurt because of her again. One example of her strength in canon can be seen when she manages to avoid crying out in pain even when she’s being tortured in order to prove how much she’s changed. However, her strength does have its limits, and subjecting her to enough trauma can make her break down and revert back to her old ways.

Arrogant – Satoko is extremely confident in her own abilities, and this sometimes leads her to overestimate herself. Because of this, she can be reckless, and in the club activities she performs at school she has often been beaten due to the fact that she didn’t expect her opponents to be able to defeat her. She also displays signs of arrogance in Higurashi Gou, stating that her victory is always certain once she decides to win, and allowing Eua to add conditions to her game that would punish her if she fails because she was confident that there was no way she could lose.

Mischievous – Satoko is a mischievous girl who likes to set traps for people. This can be both a positive and a negative trait, depending on who she’s dealing with, as while she's generally kind-hearted enough to not want to hurt people with her traps, they can occasionally be mean-spirited in nature as well. She's very sneaky, as can be seen in the games she plays with her fellow club members, where cheating is very much allowed and considered to be an important part of club activities, and she uses fake tears to get other's sympathy when she feels like she's being ganged up on.

Intelligent – Satoko shows signs of remarkable intelligence for her age at times – for instance, she can analyze people very well to be able to predict their next moves, and at one point was able to deduct where her friend Rena had planted a bomb just by analyzing the situation and the surroundings of the school she was in. However, she struggles in other areas, such as academically, finding it extremely difficult to study and to focus on doing things she dislikes.

Suitability: Satoko would want to gain a deeper understanding of the supernatural, believing it to offer a potential key back to her homeworld, and for that reason would want to help out at the ADI. Furthermore, after having been warned that the supernatural will likely come for her even if she tries to run away from it, she’d also believe that it would be smarter to work with the ADI, who know what they’re doing, then try and deal with things on her own. Despite being a child, Satoko is well-versed in horrific situations (coming from a horror canon herself), and so despite her fear would be willing to push through and continue returning to investigations even when she finds herself in danger - especially if she new that her efforts might help to prevent the end of the world.

Powers/Abilities: Satoko is incredibly skilled at making and setting traps using whatever materials she has around her, physically impeding her enemies – for instance, creating pitfalls, or “trapping” a door with thumbtacks or string to make people trip. She's also reasonably athletic, though she's physically weak due to still being a child. However, Satoko has no supernatural abilities at the canon point she would be using for this game!

Entity Affinity: One Entity that might become connected with Satoko is the Vast – Satoko deeply fears being weak and powerless, and therefore getting those she cares about hurt or being hurt herself, which could potentially tie into the Vast’s fear of being insignificant. She’d also be afraid of the Desolation, because she has a strong fear of losing the things and people important to her, and she could also potentially become tied to the Hunt, as Satoko has a rather obsessive personality – and she will go extremely far to achieve her goals, even at the expense of others or herself.

Inventory: Just her school clothes!

Samples: TDM threads.