Chiaki Maizono A Determined Panda Girl Aliases "Chi", Sayaka Nanami Relatives Iroh Maizono (Father, Fire)

Rika Maizono (Mother, Earth) ✝

Affiliation Unknown Element Fire Player Firepanda Biographical information Marital status not married Date of birth ( 1998-06-10 ) June 10, 1998 (age 22) Place of birth Shuigang Physical description Species Panda Gender Female Height 2+m Body color Red Hair, Black and White Fur Eye color Green

"Friendships always have crises. But if you can get through them, then you know who are good friends." —Chiaki Maizono

Chiaki Maizono is a lovely Panda Girl living in Shang Mu. While she lived a mostly normal life with her father for the most time, the Chef of the renowned restaurant Jade Dragon in Shang Mu, she was forced to move to Shuigang due to a witness protection program relating to the Red Scarves, temporarily living under the name Sayaka Nanami.

Due to mostly living in the commercial district near Zao’s Shopping Paradise she likes shopping, shinies and the food her father creates. But the thing she likes the most are her friends and family, doing everything for them.





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Appearance

Previously Chiaki wore an angled skirt-thing and a short sleeveless top that doesn't even bother trying to reach her midsection.

They were a variation of the Red Scarves Red, which she witnessed once a few of their members, hanging around the commercial district. She didn't know about their criminal actions until after the fight around the Kingdom Stone, but she stuck to the theme because she liked it.

After Moving to Shuigang, her clothing style quickly changed to more green based clothing, with less skirts and more actual pants and clothes that cover her more.

Personality

Chi is a young woman, pretty confident of herself, but very easy to upset. She may appear cute on the outside, but her personality has scars from events shown in the story. She has a strong fear of snakes now because of it. Chiaki would do everything for her friends and even more for the one she loves. Even invading organisations with Mafia-like structures.

During her stay in Shuigang, she gained a somewhat snarky attitude, because of how sure she is of her own abilities. Nothing has changed that she won't be able to sustain another loss. She breaks down if another one is about to happen.

Abilities

Innate Abilities

Pyrokinesis: The ability to control fire. She had the ability since birth, but could awaken it with the help of Joan. Fire Ball: A Ball of fire that can be thrown. The Flow of the Fire: A special kind of pyrokinesis unique to Chiaki that she and Joan discovered while training. To the common eye, the flames created by it seem to flow like water when they move and can be bend with techniques similar to hydrokinesis. Panda Punch: The first offensive attack stemming from this technique, in which she ignites a flame which flows with her fist when she punches someone. Previously she used this ability instinctively when enraged. Named Panda Punch by Joan Fire Whip: Practically A Whip made from Fire.

The ability to control fire. She had the ability since birth, but could awaken it with the help of Joan. Hyperacusis: Generally a disease where people have a bigger sensitivity to sounds of every kind. She can easily overhear conversations, and can't be sneaked up to, but in return her tolerance level for loud sounds is lowered, resulting in big pain. Since she spent time with Wan in the Mountains, this threshold seems to be lowered heavily

Learned or Acquired

Cooking: As her father is the chef cook of the Jade Dragon, she picked some of his tricks and skills in his area of expertise, succeeding in creating good tasting food. She would never admit that she would be a good cook.

As her father is the chef cook of the Jade Dragon, she picked some of his tricks and skills in his area of expertise, succeeding in creating good tasting food. She would never admit that she would be a good cook. Very Basic Survival Skills: Due to having spent much time with Wan Yari and him helping her out, she picked up some basic stuff in survival

Important Items in her Possession

A Magatama: A necklace gifted to her by her father at her 18th Birthday. It is the item that allows her to do her magic, similar to Joans bracelets.

A necklace gifted to her by her father at her 18th Birthday. It is the item that allows her to do her magic, similar to Joans bracelets. Golden Locket: A Locket with the Picture of her mother and Alexander Kamakura inside it. It always remembers Chiaki of those who she lost as a little child. She doesn't remember if she got it herself, or her father gifted it to her.

A Locket with the Picture of her mother and Alexander Kamakura inside it. It always remembers Chiaki of those who she lost as a little child. She doesn't remember if she got it herself, or her father gifted it to her. A Box of earplugs: Ordinary Earplugs gifted to her by Jake after having a painful episode of hyperacusis following her from the Mountains. She believes there is something high tech in them, although they are just plain normal.

Magic Power Bracelets: A set of Bracelets, gifted to her on Christmas by Joan. It gives her magic fire some more boom.

History

The first years of life

From kindergarten to elementary school, there is not much which separated Chiaki's history from a boy named Alexander Kamakura. They met early on, where they quickly became friends, played together, played pranks on others and eventually went to the same classes. But during the last semester in elementary, Alexander suddenly disappeared from her life, leaving the young girl alone.

Half a year after Alex's disappearance, as Chiaki was nine, her mother died from a poisonous bite of a feral snake. Her father, distraught by the death of his wive, threw himself into becoming the master cook he claimed to be, earning the reputation he holds today as a master chef. This was, however, one of several mistakes he did trying to raise the young panda.

Related to that success, though, came many threats from the Red Scarves, demanding Protection Money from the Chef cook, which he paid the following years. A thing not unnoticed my Chiaki and police. But without a valid testimony from someone, the police could do nothing. A channel was left open to report stuff.

In the years following, her personality inverted from happy cheerful and loud child into a silent teen. Chiaki separated herself from her classmates and fellow Avalicians for a decade. No matter how many people tried to help and befriend her, she rejected them, in the fear she might loose them too. A kangaroo girl named Aaiko tried especially hard to help her, but the panda girl isn't even aware of her existence nowadays.

During that time, Chiaki often visited the library, picking up reading as her only hobby. It also got to light that she is good in acting, although she never joined any theatre courses, but using it to get through her life when extensive social interactions were needed. Her self isolation and never leaving the house unless needed lead to her never having any other hobbies.

Meeting new friends

Nearly ten years later, Chiaki decided to step into the Crystal Cafe, a more silent establishment at that time, where she eventually met she met various new friends, specially Joan Uliar and a wolf boy. She got pulled in by him when he approached her, asked her why she was sitting alone at the bar and invited her to sit with the group. A little romance developed between the Wolf Boy and Chiaki, but the more experiences the Panda made, the more it was clear she was more thankful to him for ripping her out of her depressed life, than that she loved him and left him.

What a Turbulent Month

During September 2017, and the month before, many things happened to Chiaki.

One thing was the loss of her phone in the woods outside the kingdoms. It's a long story, but in the end, she made a new friend, Wan Yari. It leads to a decision to build a pathway between his camp in the center of the woods and a convenient spot at the edge of the forest. With that, Chiaki got to learn the wild side of Avalice.

Another thing that happened is the encounter with princess Samui, the heir of Shuigang's throne currently occupied by prince Dail. That little panda is a special kind of person, so Chiaki tried her best to not get on her bad side, which eventually worked.

The third thing that happened is something that seemed really big. Umbra Smiles, local hugderg (actually, a dragon/bat hybrid), demonstrates feelings of strong affection for Chiaki, who seemed to feel the same way about Umbra. Although Chiaki wasn't really sure about it, the fact that a homosexual relationship seems so different from what she knows is what lingered in her mind. Weeks later, Chiaki got her mind clear and determined that she didn't feel romantically for Umbra.

The fourth and last thing that is, that the panda began real training under Joan to develop her pyrokinesis and under Lilac to learn Kung Fu. While the Kung Fu training seemed to go on great, she had some difficulties with the magic training. Her full potential wasn't really revealed until Joan had the idea to provoke the panda's anger. She successfully hits a really bad nerve on Chiaki through the mention of snakes, which leads to a solid fire punch to Joan's face and the fur being burned off of the panda's hands. It was agreed upon that snakes would never be brought up again.

Into the mountains

Chiaki was visiting Wan very often, helping him at the camp and the pathway. They got close friends and while the wild seemed scary at first, she got very comfortable in it. One day, Winter got near and with that Wan was going to work as a courier again. But before that, he always leaves his camp for a few days into a beautiful place in the mountains. As Chiaki went to visit him, shortly before parting, he invited her to go with him. Quickly Chiaki accepted the invitation, made some calls to inform friends and family, and went with Wan there.

The Painfull Sounds of the Town

After Chiaki returned from the mountains, she was multiple days at home, doing some stuff alone and care a bit for herself. Short time later she decided to go to the library and pick up some new books to read. Just after she left the library again later, she collapsed. Her ears, very sensible due to hyperacusis, were hurting strongly, due to them getting accustomed to the silence of the mountains and her home. Luckily Jake and Aurora Allice were on their way to the library, the Dragon showing the Artic Fox around in the civilisation. Jake quickly helped Chiaki with gifting her ordinary earplugs, to lower the sounds she received and the trio then enters the library, to show Aurora some books and other things.

Concern for Joan and Revelations

After a long time, Chiaki once again into the Crystal Café, hoping to meet new people. Instead she met Joan, where she talked about some stuff, like Wan (where Chiaki heavily demented that Wan would be her boyfriend) and then about Joan's new job. The Firepanda knew about the new job for a short while already, as Joan told her already before although not where and for who she worked, saying that she couldn't really tell till she asked. This made Chiaki a bit concerned then, what if Joan works for some criminal company or the like.

Moving of a lil' fox

A few days later, Chiaki was once again in the cafe. She met Joan again, who expressed some distress over the far way between the place she lived and the place she worked at. The Panda then asked her friend now once again where she works, the fox replied with the Shang Mu Central Hospital. Chiaki was happy for Joan, but kept her doubts hidden before her friend.

"If Joan works for a public hospital, why did she have to hide it? There has to be something more" —Chiaki thinking

Instead of showing her doubts, Chiaki invited Joan to live with her for a while, which the fox happily agreed on. They quickly got the stuff of Joan from the hotel she temporarily stay and then they moved in. The same day they also eat a Meat-lovers Pizza.

An unexpected leave

Fueled by her concern about Joan and the Red Scarves, Chiaki finally found the courage to tell the invastigators about the protection money issue. Due to the severity of the actions, Chiaki had to testify to the court immediatelly and put under witness protection. She had to assume the identity of Sayaka Nanami and leave to Shuigang. And nothing was heard about her from her friends for 8 months...

Life in Hiding

In Shuigang, Chiaki had a few small problems living a new life. Lonely once again, she had a lot of time to spend dwelling on her own thoughts. This naturally entrenched her hatred of the Red Scarves further, but also gave her plenty of time to continue her training at a nearby Dojo. She trained especially hard with her fire moves and basic Kung Fu, so the Dojo's fire alarm went off fairly often. She also changed her preferred appearance to one with more green shades and longer hair.

After months of hiding, she couldn't bear the loneliness anymore, and so returned to her hometown of Shang Mu. But there, the familliar faces she thought would be comforting only caused her pain. Still under witness protection, she couldn't return to her old life or friends, and so had to lie to them. Her best friend Joan was especially hurt by this treatment. That painful reunion spurred Chiaki to invade the Scarves' base and erase all records of Joan's membership in the gang.

Anti-Scarves Measurement

"A heated but brief skirmish between the Red Scarf Spade and Chief Neera Li took place in the street in front of the Ruby Tiger restaurant today. The reason for the encounter is unknown, and to add to the confusion, Miss Li was off-duty at the time. Bystanders accounts include mentions of another panda yielding fire magic, accompanied by a floating mouse and an orange dragon assisting in the fight, but these reports could not be corroborated. Miss Li did not respond to requests for comment." —A news report



