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IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Sena Kashiwazaki
Age: 16
Canon: Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai ( SERIES WIKIPEDIA )
Canon Point: Volume 5, Chapter 10 (light novel)
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual, having shown romantic interest in the series protagonist Kodaka Hasegawa in the series. She is inclined though to chase after girls for the sake of friendship and has a tendency to say some unfortunately suggestive things to young girls.

History: CHARACTER WRITE-UP
Appearance: ANIME DESIGN
Personality:

"Perfect in every way besides her personality, Kashiwazaki Sena has few friends."

These are the most accurate words ever written in the history of accuracy and words. Sena Kashiwazaki, name often preceded by self-given phrases like "the great" or "the divine goddess" or "you should be grateful to have my presence", has it all: good looks, intelligence, athleticism and an uncanny ability to be irritatingly good at things on the first try. The problem is? She knows it. Flaunting is an understatement, if she could hire an actual herald to announce her presence whenever she enters the room, she would, she so would.

As a result, the only thing she's not good at? Socializing with people.

As popular as she is with boys (due to her looks), Sena is just as unpopular with girls her own age. This pushes her to join the Neighbors Club, a school club with the avowed purpose of making friends. Participating in various activities that will supposedly help them get better at making friends, it only serves to highlight just why they're doomed to the whole forever alone status. While it is a little unfair that girls tend to shun her because of boys being attracted to her, Sena does absolutely nothing to help her case with her arrogant attitude. She's the first to proclaim herself as being perfect and whenever embarrassed or flustered, she defaults to bragging about her superiority. She also has an air of entitlement to receiving compliments and attention. She treats boys like her servants and because their positive attention to her comes easily, she discounts it as being worthless. Sena, contrary as ever, desperately wants female friends. And if she can't get them in real life, she'll chase after the experience in a virtual one.

Like your typical otaku stereotype, Sena vicariously enjoys popularity with girls through dating simulation games and eroge. She's alarmingly invested in it, playing constantly in her free time, getting into flame wars over characters in message boards, even attempting to get real life experience in activities that happen in the game, such as swimming, not to apply them to real life interactions with other girls but so she can have a more authentic experience when playing the game.

Sena's extreme personality expresses itself in everything that she does. She's easily emotionally moved, frequently driven to tears over her videogames and Yozora's verbal abuse. She acts like a full-on creeper over Kodaka's younger sister who resembles a character that she likes, frequently and publicly eheheing at her and squealing over her and trying to lure her into spending time with her. She even appears to like Yozora's treatment of her, however unconsciously she may reveal it, accepting and even liking the derogatory name Yozora uses for her: meat (in reference to her breasts) because nicknames are something to be used between friends.

Despite her natural gifts, Sena is extremely hard-working which seems to hit at a key point in her character. Rather than relying on her natural skills and coasting, Sena is driven to be the best at everything, even something as mundane as a video game. She spends hours level grinding and gathering the best equipment. Her naturally competitive spirit often puts her in conflict with Yozora and they end up attempting to best each other in PSP games and karaoke. She always wants to have the last word, even during confrontations when it would be better for her physical safety and dignity just to walk away as when she was being harassed by delinquents and provoked them after Kodaka (the series protagonist) had driven them off.

During their school's athletic festivals, Sena was the most enthusiastic competitor to an off-putting point for her female classmates. Even knowing this, Sena admits that she's incapable of holding back however it may alienate other people from her. Sena is also very decisive, quick to snap to judgements and make her choices. Kodaka praises this as forward-thinking trait, that she does not hesitate, that she rarely gets bogged down by regrets and looking back to the past.

Some of her social missteps are due to how sheltered she is. She's surprisingly gullible; she is frequently tricked by Yozora in part due her pride and not wanting to admit to things she doesn't know. However, Sena's main flaw that prevents her from interacting amicably with other people is that she seems incapable of viewing things from another's perspective. Even to something as trivial as naming the protagonist character in videogames, Sena will input her own name even if the character is male. She constantly degrades other people (usually boys) by comparing them to and treating them to furniture or being automatically servile to her and it's less that she's innately without compassion as it is that because she can't seem to grasp how they would feel about the situation. She treats Yozora's hypothetical heartache in the same callous manner, saying that since she'd never been dumped, she didn't understand why it would be a sensitive topic at all. She has the mindset of a natural born princess (as described by Kodaka), the assurance of someone completely confident in her choices and actions so much so that the viewpoints barely exist on the periphery of her straightforward vision. It's this same mindset that makes her carelessly generous with her wealth. If there's something needed for a club activity that her family's properties can provide, then she'll be quick to volunteer it.

Despite all her flaws, Sena's case isn't completely hopeless. She is sincere in her desire to become friends with other girls. It's in her interactions with the Neighbors Club that slowly teaches her how to treat other people, how to humble herself, to realize that keeping her pride is less important than the time she could spend with people who are just as dysfunctional as she is. It'll take some time and some effort but let's remember this about Sena: she's not afraid to chase after the things that come least easily to her.

Abilities: Just a normal human for all her claims of being a goddess.
Other: she'll. probably try to start the neighbors club here.

SAMPLES
First Person: network post + comments from asgardeventide

Third Person:

The dismissal bell and Sena was already on her way to the clubroom, hurrying all the while. It wasn't that she had an appointment. That would mean that her fellow club members were waiting for her or expecting her. Not because she was that unpopular! Only that they all seemed to come and go by their own whims and schedules. Although there were times when they would all be there, it was also nice to have the club room by herself, some privacy for a girl who was used to a mansion filled with dustcloths and unused furniture and silence.

Nice. It was nice.

(Sometimes Sena could just hear that stupid Yozora's voice, taunting her all the while. That the other club members would hide to get away from her whenever they could hear her coming. It would be easy after all, with the loud bouncing of her chest or some other vulgar thing like that)

With that thought in her mind, it was harder than usual to smirk with smug superiority at the closed door club room in front of her. Her club members were probably busying themselves with their own activities, Yozora reading, Rika programming, Yukimura cleaning up, all of them hoping that the door opening meant it was Kodaka and not Sena. Still, smugness was second nature to her. No, there was no point in trying to ask any of her club members to do something with her outside of the club. They had little to say to each other any way; they were just useless human welcome mats to her, she was just the girl who played eroges in the club room to them.

(Still if they'd asked about her games and why she was so attached to them, she would have explained it to them, the apparent contradiction between her hobbies and her appearance. She'd told Kodaka before, that her galges were like life. But that had been right after she'd played her first game. She knew better now. They were better than life. In her games, there was the certainty that if she just kept trying she'd win. Win a new friend over. Life was inconveniently uncertain. But surely if she kept trying...)

Still she couldn't help but wonder what it would be like to have someone waiting for her when she got to the club room, to have someone greet her with a smile.

She wondered even more about what it would be like to have someone to wait for, to spend the quiet afternoon confident in the knowledge that someone was rushing to see her.