Yuki Homura

Yuki "Snowlady" Homura is a character role-played by SnowSakata.

Backstory
"'In the end, all I ever wanted is true happiness and friends.'"Many years ago, there was once a research facility on a lone island known as Tokiharu Isle. Once a populous town filled by cherry blossom trees in the Spring, Tokiharu Isle was a resort location until an unknown earthquake caused parts of the isle to sink into the sea. Because of the earthquake's damage, Tokiharu Isle was inhabitable and disappeared from the world map. A group of scientists inhabited the island to revive an experiment project known as the Snow Project. The project's main goal was to create the perfect Snowlady by tricking victims into thinking that they were going to get the best appearance transformation. As many clones were created in the span of several months, "Shirayuki", known as #300, became one of the main candidates for the Snow Project until "Onizuka" elected herself so the others wouldn't suffer anymore. Shirayuki was near perfect of what they were going after. It was then that everyone started looking up to her. Shirayuki asked all around who Onizuka was. People called her "Snow Ohnuki" because she loved listening to Taeko Ohnuki's song "4:00am" on repeat in her cell. When it came close to Shirayuki's time, a rebellion had struck at 4:00am and it turned out that "Snow Ohnuki" was leading the charge against the scientists. Onizuka ordered the other clones to fight back and create an escape route. As the facility was being burned to the ground, Shirayuki found a motor boat and sailed it off away from the island. She watched as the flames burst all around the perimeter and wondered if Onizuka made it out. By then, the facility exploded and pushed Shirayuki's boat away.

Several hours later, she would be found by a shrine monk and a priestess on the coast of Hokkaido. This was when she became known as Yuki Homura by these individuals. Her memories of her previous identity faded as she was taken in.

As a young girl, Yuki lived a life of loneliness and sadness from what she believes her own misfortune. Everything she wanted would end up missing or destroyed in the process. When she thought she made friends, only to have them disappear from her very eyes the next day. Unknown to her, Yuki Homura was the next in line to be a shrine maiden. Her parents made sure to get rid of anyone that would interfere with Yuki's learning by informing her newfound "friends" that Yuki hated them and wished to never see them again. Yuki would question why she was not allowed to have friends. Her mother told her that having friends would ruin her career and studies. Her father believed that Yuki would be very broken if she experiences betrayal when it comes to having a friend.

As the years gone by, Yuki learned to be elegant and proper to people she met. Still, she pretended to look happy when deep down, she was still hurting on the inside. One day, her false personality slowly began to crack open as she kept seeing other people happy with friends alongside them. The pain in her heart was aching. Emotions ran wild. Not even her own medications were able to quell the pain throughout her body. Before going to sleep, she would cry every night that life wasn't fair to her and that she was cursed.

Strangely, she had dreams of having a pleasant time with friends to nightmares where she was running away, falling for eternity, and eventual betrayal. However, one dream stood out to her the most and it kept replaying every night. A dream where she and an unidentified group were enjoying the sunset by the sea. Shrine bells rang through and through the scene. It would change fast to a night of fires and betrayal from an unsuspecting figure. Her heart raced as she witnessed the scene. She would fall to the ground to another scene of someone sobbing on her before her eyes shut forcefully. She often saw the nightmare as something from her past life or a premonition from her parents of what would happen.

With a twisted mind and unable to quell the pain surging through her mind, she took a machete from a cabinet and a pair of matches. She left a pair of matches to burn slowly as everyone was asleep. She hacked at the furniture to release her sadness. Unfortunately, it was not enough. A kindling flame was about to stir in the home and she made it clear that the sinners will burn for making her this way. Cackling hysterically at the house burning down, she slowly walked away with machete in hand... slicing anyone who dare questioned her appearance. She even went to find her supposed friends and murdered them in cold-blood. She became ruthless to the point of eliminating the opposition to stop her sadness. That was until she heard shrine bells ringing (perhaps, the wind was strong enough from fires to ring them)... causing her to collapse and lose her insanity. The sound purified negative emotions clouding her mind enabling her to be a deadly being. As she fell to her knees, the machete also fell onto the ground. The world around her was in flames and no one was alive in sight.

In order to prevent herself from becoming more berserk, Yuki decided to craft an outfit (out of her bloody shrine maiden dress) that would disguise her identity as a whole and decided to call herself: "Snowgirl". Oddly, the name was somehow familiar to her. She wondered how the name popped in her mind. Her own mask would conceal the true personality that would enable her to become destructive towards others. She adopted a different personality that wasn't her to fulfill this purpose. She didn't want to feel any pain anymore. No more depression. She wanted to be happy. Her ultimate wish was that she wanted to be in the company of friends.

And so, she escaped and stole a boat to sail her way to a new land of change.

Encased in Ice
From April to May, Snowgirl began to feel lonely and did not feel the need to be around the people of the city. She took upon her things and temporarily moved to Paleto's Cluck'n'bell Freezers with the sole intent to live a solo life as a fisherwoman. She couldn't deal with pretending to be happy when she was feeling depressed. She found happiness a little while when she came across people she met in her travels as a fisher-lady. She also ran into an artist named Stacey Doyle that drew her portrait. On the evening of May 13th, Snowgirl decided that it was best for her to stay indoors in her cold apartment (refers to it as a freezer). She understands that she will forget prior events and people but it was in her best interest to quell the sadness.

To this day, she remains "frozen" until she finds the courage to open herself up to others outside again.

Loss of Memory
For a brief time, Snowgirl awoke from the "freezer" with no memory of any person. Her phone had degraded into a blocky mess. It was like a blank slate for her. She carried on with her tasks of going to the store and buying essentials before heading out to the Alamo Sea. During her fishing ventures, she came across a female and male coming into fish nearby. They ask her how she was doing and what she does. She tells them that she has been stranded without a phone and has to sleep in a freezer from time to time. She describes how to sleep in a freezer to the two. Something about a nosering was involved in the conversation and so Snowgirl tried to make a joke out of it. The male walked away in fear. The female confronted Snowgirl asking if she was going to murder them. Snowgirl told her that she wouldn't murder them at all. Though, the two drove away afterwards.

With no mobile device to reach out to the public for any help, Snowgirl continued to live the live of a lone fisherwoman. She found no reason to try to fish near any person because people fear her face.

One day, by sheer luck, she managed to find a phone supplier at Digital Den. She felt happy in a way, happy that she would be able to discover the things going about in the city. It opened a chance for her to try really hard to be around and near others. Unknown to her, she found a folder on her phone with information about the things she wrote. Reading through the notes in the folder caused a surge of information to flow right back into her mind, recovering some memories of people she may have forgotten.

Snowgirl used this time to try to reconcile with Rick Locke about his lost friend. From him, she learned that Rick's friend has a way of bringing his lost friend back. She also learned that Rick really misses this friend a lot. Although she never revealed a secret side to herself, she revealed to Rick that Yuki, herself, was once a part of the Snow Project many years ago. She was able to escape and live a somewhat decent life, thanks to someone that sacrificed their own life to let a hundred experiments be free to live the life that they wanted. It was possible through two people: The original "Snowlady" & someone else that was friends with her. She told Rick to not forget that friend if he truly misses that person.

Absolute
After four months of hibernating in her freezer, Snowgirl decided that it would be best for her to break out of her shell without anyone guiding her to the right path. She dreamed of a horrible apocalypse that was yet to come for her: The day when she is forced to become a functioning proper member of society. To her, this is her stage of "adolescence". Lots of struggling to escape identities and understanding that there is more to life than being a Snowperson for years. She did not know what kind of job would fit her. Rick Locke suggested to her that she would fit best as a parking lot attendant as she would be able to meet and make friends with other people everyday. Of course, the sound of that didn't fit with her and she pretended to agree that it would be a nice job.

While hanging out with Rick Locke, she revealed to him about the real story about Snowlady Project. How every person including herself were clones to represent the beacon of hope (Snowlady). Every Snowperson was forced to be happy and never sad. She goes on to say that many of her "family" (the other experiments) from the facility escaped and may be living a new life out there. Snowgirl shows Rick her hidden "freezer" which she dubbed the Siren's Stand. Rick was surprised that such a place was well hidden from the city. They had talked about things but she found the courage to tell someone (that is Rick) of her goals ahead.

Snowgirl says that if and when she reaches Christmas Day and she hasn't made a trusted friend or connections, her memories of everything leading up to that day would be reset after Christmas ends. She could possibly fall into a deep sleep where she may never wake up. Supposedly, that's what she believes as she had been told by the former facility before she was "adopted". In her mind, Christmas is the day of the absolute apocalypse or rather "ascension". However, she, herself, does not know what happens beyond Christmas Day. This meant that she had a month and a half to live out her life.

After her conversation with Rick about the "end", Snowgirl had to resort inside the freezer of Siren's Stand.

Curse
Some weeks ago, Snowgirl learned to embrace the name "Snowlady", a name she felt that didn't belong to her until now. Snowlady, formerly Snowgirl, sought to find ways to slowly break the curse. In the mid-month of December, snow fell from the sky to indicate that she had twelve days to break the curse of loneliness. Twelve days to enjoy her final waking days. Twelve days to make a final decision.

The decision is whether to forget everything up to until now or to freeze herself (lock herself away) until next winter, should the curse not be lifted. Failure to make a decision, her mind will slowly be corrupted.

More recently, she started trying to find a job to cope with money troubles and to form connections, acting differently, and opening herself up by coming out to events and the markets. More people started to know about her and took their time to chat with her. In her mind and soul, she felt the curse was slowly breaking away but it was not enough for the curse to be cleared.

With eight days remaining, she will continue to try until the end.

Unfortunate Resolution
Towards the final day, she still felt unsure whether to lock herself away or seek refuge elsewhere until the thought passed. She thought that she found the way to rid the curse finally by putting herself out there. Alas, it was too late by the time she stepped forward.

It was now the final hours before Christmas. Time was ticking down. Before she made her decision, she went down to Dean's World and thought to try to talk to someone about her curse but didn't want to burden them with the task of finding ways to help her be at ease. Poetic like the other experiments, she left a note at Tequilala... a place that was once a refuge for her until the cops found suspicion of her going into it one night. In that note, she hoped for someone to understand how loneliness felt.

She passed her goodbyes to people she knew and took her boat out to sea.

She did come back for a day. However, she has decided to leave this city completely due to failure to surpass loneliness.

Changes and Questions
After finding what she needed, Yuki returned to the city on May 4th, 2022. She woke up in her "freezer" and did her day-to-day activities. Since she had been gone for nearly 6 months, she knew that this time that she would try to ignore what people think of her and gain peoples' trust.

Through her recovery of getting used to the city again, she decided to go to the local cathedral in Los Santos to pray that she continues to have a better life. She prayed really hard at the altar. During her time there, she felt a chill running down her spine. She felt emotions that she never felt before after getting back up. In that moment, she felt like a door within her became unlocked. She felt a presence of a "personality" that may have lied dormant within her. The feeling was like someone was struggling to move forward or confused at everything. With little worry that the other within her would do any harm, she decided to go back to her freezer and sleep it off. She could have been imagining things or had too much brain freeze. There was absolutely no way that something would be in her body for years.

Days and days would pass. Questions ran through her head. Did a wandering spirit manage to enter into her body? Or was a personality she locked away years ago at the facility? How did she seal it off in the first place? Without her realizing any changes moving forward from the small event at the church, her entire attire had changed. Though, she wonders about these feelings of being near certain places now. It was as if she was there before but wasn't really there. Yuki continues to go about her life with these mixed feelings that one day could lead her into array of problems.

Trivia

 * The name "Yuki" means Snow. As for her last name, "Homura", means blaze or flame.
 * Yuki is considered the third incarnation of Snowlady.
 * The various "Snowlady" clone idea (from character to "research facilities") was inspired from the anime "A Certain Scientific Railgun".