Joining late:
Name: Nomiki Sojimoto
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Bisexual
Personality: Nomiki is extremely shy and socially awkward. She dresses in Mori style earth tones that let her fade into the background. Since she has a stutter, she avoids talking when she can. She excels in mathematics, geometry, and technical drawing. She is very curious, and has wide-ranging interests in arcane disciplines like Hermeticism, Sacred Geometry, Permaculture, architecture, science, and design. She has recently developed an interest in computer science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, but hasn't had much time to develop skills in those areas.
She usually keeps a journal with her, which she fills with esoteric geometric sigils, technical drawings of organic-looking buildings and cityscapes, design ideas for hydroponic systems, Permaculture gardens, and the like.
The journal is very precious to her, so she avoids drawing in it when others might be in a position to take it from her. It's not uncommon to see her with some hefty and arcane tome, like a volume of Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics, The Temple of Man by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, or a college textbook on math or physics.
Nomiki enjoys being alone in nature, meditation and Hermetic spiritual practice, cycling (she has a recumbent tadpole trike), and Tai Chi. She is completely out of her depth when it comes to the more common interests of those around her, like movies, celebrities, politics, sports, and gossip. She's also pretty inept at reading social cues. She often feels like an alien observer on Earth, forever separate from the humans. She does try to be kind to others in need, when she can overcome her shyness and awkwardness. She wishes she could experience their intangible treasures, like friendship and romance, but who wants to share those things with a Loser?
Bio: Nomiki's parents are driven high-achievers who only have time for her older brother Masaki, who is preparing to go to University to study economics and business and follow his father's footsteps in the family's investment firm. When they notice Nomiki at all, she is a disappointment in their eyes, seemingly unlikely to make anything of herself or even marry well. Masaki is not unkind to her, but he's much better at analyzing price-to-earnings ratios and commodities charts than relating to his quiet sister.
In school, Nomiki's stutter and quiet demeanor instantly marked her as an outcast and a target for bullies. When Nomiki was introduced to mathematics, it came as a revelation. 2 + 2 equaled 4, never anything else. Math was just true, never capricious or mean, and it didn't care what the popular kids thought. Since more often than not the popular kids thought it was "hard" and didn't like it, it became a secret realm for Nomiki that no one else could invade. Her love for it only increased as she discovered geometry, then algebra, and the fact that equations could be used in science, to predict things like the outcome of chemical reactions, the flight of rockets, and even the origins and behavior of the Cosmos itself. It was like a superpower!
Then her mathematical explorations led her to Pythagoreanism and the work of Buckminster Fuller. Whole new realms of math and geometry with the added bonus of a spiritual worldview.
Fuller's work opened a doorway into the realm of ecologically sustainable design, a purpose to which she can hope to apply herself. She keeps all this to herself of course, because there's no one in her life with whom she could even begin to share her interests, passions, and feelings.
