Karen Kashima

Name: Karen Kashima
Sex: Female
Age: 21
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Height: 168 cm
Weight: 61 kg
Nationality: Japanese-Canadian
Entrance music: John Cage - 4'33"
Appearance:

Karen at a meeting:

Karen at home:

Karen on vacation in Japan:

Character Statistics
Endurance: ★★★
Strength: ★★★★
Speed: ★★★★
Defense: ★★
Technique: ★★★

Strategy:
Karen's strengths are her strength and speed, and her weaknesses are her endurance and defense. Accordingly, her usual strategy is to try and finish a match as quickly as possible, by taking initiative early on using her speed and doing her best not to concede any opportunity for attacks from her opponent. If the match does not end quickly enough, she will gradually lose stamina after having concentrated her efforts at the beginning, and fall back on evading an opponent's attacks due to her weakness in defense and countering.

Preferred Match Type:
Submission, Hentai

Wrestling Appearance:
Karen wrestles in a white-and-red leotard. She wears white wrestling boots, and red gloves.

Backstory:  
Karen was born in Owase, Japan, the only child of a Japanese-Canadian couple. Her father worked as an accountant for the prefectural government, while her mother took a job as an assistant language teacher through the JET Programme. She had a loving, warm relationship with her parents while growing up, and was raised bilingual from an early age. She began having some early difficulties attending school, as she was not accepted by her classmates and treated mostly as a novelty of sorts. At the same time, her parents' marriage was strained by growing workloads, though they did their best to ensure they were never distant from their daughter.

Halfway through elementary school, Karen's parents amicably divorced, realising that living together in Japan had not worked out and wishing to remain friends. Karen moved with her mother to Vancouver, splitting her time between local schools and Japanese supplementary school due to her mother's belief in the importance of bilingualism. She had a much happier experience in Canada, losing her previous shyness and self-consciousness in favour of a more friendly and open personality. She also developed an interest in sports, practicing regularly outside of school and taking up swimming, soccer, cycling and tennis as hobbies. In high school, she was first introduced to combat sports, and decided to begin studying martial arts in her spare time.

Karen graduated in the top 5 of her class from high school, and subsequently attended Simon Fraser University, studying sociology. During one of her vacations with her father, she had her first encounter with AFW, and found herself intrigued by the concept. Back home, she began to research wrestling in her spare time, and decided to try pursuing it as a professional career. She gained her mother's blessing for the endeavour, reassuring her that if it did not work she had her sociology degree to "fall back on". After graduating from SFU, she moved with her father in Owase, who found it to be an unorthodox choice of work but devotedly supported her daughter as long as she did something that made her happy.

Personality:  
Karen has a friendly and good-natured, but rather reserved, personality. She can be highly analytical and detail-focused, getting caught up in minutiae and losing sight of the bigger picture. She is at ease in social situations and enjoys meeting and talking with new people, but is more of a follower than an initiative-taker. She is easygoing but most comfortable with particular routines, leading her classmates and acquaintances to jokingly describe her as "boring". She is quietly cheerful, with her default expression being a subtle smile, but tends to be more restrained around people she's recently met; she is more fearlessly expressive around trusted friends and companions.

Karen has a kind and refined temperament, being polite to everyone she meets. Her demeanour can at times be surprisingly formal, as indicated by her preference for formal clothing and sometimes excessively courteous speech. She has a rather romantic and idealistic view of sports, believing that more important than winning or losing is fair play, respecting her opponent, and ensuring that all involved enjoy a good match. This is a principle she refuses to compromise on, and accordingly despises anything she perceives as unsporting conduct or behaviour that is disrespectful to an opponent.

Outside of combat sports, Karen's interests include writing, history, linguistics, and fashion. She enjoys listening to progressive rock, new wave, power pop, and bands that are experimental/avant-garde/versatile while remaining catchy and accessible. She speaks English and Japanese fluently, and has moderate knowledge of French and very basic skills in German.

Likes
- Genre roulette and genre-blending entertainment
- Iyashikei anime and manga
- Fancy clothing
- Green tea
- Wine

Dislikes
- Unsporting conduct
- Extreme pressure to succeed
- Careers that leave too little time for leisure

Matches:
(none yet)

Approved. You may make matches and rp as you like ^ ^