Kotone Tsubame

"" Kotone Tsubame (琴音 燕) is a 1st year student attending Siegfeld Institute of Music.

Reason to Perform Revue:
As a first year in Siegfield, Kotone fears that if things remain unchanged, she will waste the opportunity to learn here. She desires the title of Frau Platinum, to become a great actress, and yet she hasn't neared her goal at all. She's still just a background character, waiting for her time to shine. So when Kotone gets the chance to seize the top star's spot, Position Zero, she will do whatever it takes to achieve that dream.

Appearance
Kotone is a very tall girl - 182 cm (5'9ft) - so she towers above pretty much everyone else, which would've been intimidating, if not for the fact that her personality is completely the opposite. Her face has sharp features and an accentuated jawline. Kotone has a muscular build, especially noticeable on her legs.

Her hair is short, curly and dark brown, almost black. Kotone's usual hairstyle is accented with a golden accessory on the back of her hair. She also has piercing yellow eyes.

Kotone usually wears the Siegfield school uniform, with a custom blouse and socks. Outside of school, Kotone tends to wear masculine and retro clothing, usually eye-bleedingly colourful and downright ugly looking shirts.

Personality
Kotone is a very approachable person, she's laid back and easy to get along with. She doesn't talk much and when she does, she often trails off mid-sentence.

Although she is quite ambitious, Kotone tends to struggle with the feeling of underachievement. She brushes off praise and compliments with "That wasn't anything special, everyone here can do that". The truth is, she doesn't realize her true potential and skills, so she feels like she isn't worthy of any applause.

In school, Kotone is somewhere at the bottom of her class, because of her poor time management & planning skills. She's often late to classes, so she tries to arrive as early as she can, sometimes even hours before the class starts.

The only times when she doesn't have trouble focusing, is when acting and gymnastics are involved.

She also doesn't deal well with frustration.

As an actress, her strong point is her athletic ability, allowing her to perform even the most complex fight scenes and the most tiring dance numbers. Her weak point is her inability to place herself in the character's shoes, so the roles she plays are often lacking in personality.

Background
Ever since she was a child, Kotone has been very athletic. She's been an active gymnast for 12 years now, participating and representing her gymnastics school in various competitions, winning many awards and making quite a name for herself.

Her love for theatre comes from her big sister, who was an actress in a small theatre troupe. Every day, after her practice, Kotone would come over to the small theatre, where her sister and a group of other passionate actors would rehearse. She could watch for hours, so absorbed in the plays, that she no longer would see the shabby room before her, or feel the cold seeping in from the corners, or notice the badly made decorations and costumes. She only saw the brilliance of her sister and her friends, doing their best to put on the most wonderful performance they could.

Eventually, the troupe would disband and go their separate ways, Kotone's sister would lose her passion for theatre and move on to a stable job that their parents were more supportive of.

But the flame, that this small troupe ignited in Kotone, just wouldn't disappear that easily. She wanted to shine.

So when the opportunity to enter Siegfield, one of the best acting schools in all of Japan, appeared, she did her very best, trained like she hadn't trained before and used her ample athletic abilities to impress the judges and pass the selection. She entered Siegfield on scholarship, since her parents weren't supportive of this choice and weren't willing to pay.

At Siegfield, she discovered that she had wildly overestimated her acting abilities. The brilliance of everyone there was so intimidating, that Kotone struggled to keep up. Her hard work to enter this academy was nothing, compared to what the top students could do, so currently, her dream seems so very distant and far away.

Etymology
Kotone, from Japanese 琴 (koto), which refers to a type of musical instrument similar to a harp, combined with 音 (ne) meaning "sound".

Tsubame, from Japanese 燕 (tsubame) meaning "swallow (bird)".

Classes

 * General Theater


 * Acting 1


 * General Literary

Weapons
List of Character Weapons Kotone wields a medieval weapon consisting of a spiked ball mounted on a shaft, resembling a mace - a morning star - named  Vega .

Trivia
Preferred Music Genre: Jazz

Favorite Stage Plays: Macbeth & Salome. Macbeth was the last play her sister's troupe put on, so it holds a special place in her heart. As for Salome, she was so fascinated by the dancing and acting of the main actress, that it quickly became one of her favorite plays.

Likes: Tea with honey, big dogs and astronomy.

Dislikes: Card games and planning.