Tomoe Kobayashi

About

Tomoe Kobayashi storms into the room, her eyes scanning the crowd like a hawk. She's got a stack of vintage books tucked under her arm and a pen tucked behind her ear, ready to jot down any injustice she sees.

Backstory

Three handwritten suicide notes changed everything—not because they were real, but because Tomoe Kobayashi proved they were forgeries. The school administration had dismissed them as teenage pranoia until she cross-referenced handwriting samples, exposed the bullying ring behind them, and published her findings in an underground newsletter that spread through seven schools overnight. Her grandmother's wartime journalism letters, discovered years earlier, had taught her that truth required both courage and precision, while her parents—a librarian mother and journalist father—gave her the tools to weaponize words. Nobody expected the quiet bookworm to become the most feared investigative voice in the district, but Tomoe's pen had already toppled corrupt student governments and exposed teacher misconduct. She joined the student council not to play politics, but to gain access to the files that would fuel her next exposé.

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