Name: Gwendolyn Roxanne Banks
Nickname(s): Gwen (by everyone), Roxi (by everyone), Sweet Thing (by Shin), Baby Girl (by Shin), The Black Widow (hacker/online alias)
Age: 18
Birthday: March 5th
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Race/Heritage: African-American and Japanese
Place Of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Current Residence: Tokyo, Japan
Height: 5'4
Weight: 180 lbs
Build: Thick and curvy
Distinctive Features: Gwen's most distinctive feature is her long beautiful hair.
Physical/Mental Disabilities: Gwen has Type 1 diabetes.
Occupation: College Student and Dancer
Religion: Agnostic
Hobbies: Gwendolyn likes to write/read, play video games, and cook.
Skills: Gwendolyn is a talented dancer and she's a practitioner of MMA. She's also excellent with technology to the point of being dangerous.
Languages Spoken: English, Japanese, Spanish
Family
Father: David Banks | Emergency Physician | Alive
Mother: Aiko Banks (nee Yumi) | Police Officer | Alive
Older Sister: Teri Banks | Law Student | Alive
Older Sister: Maxine Banks | Stripper | Alive
Past: Born to an African-American father and Japanese mother, Gwendolyn's destiny was set in stone from birth. From the time she learned to walk, she showed an interest in dancing which her parents noticed and they decided to enroll their youngest daughter in dancing classes. Gwendolyn quickly became one of her teacher's best students over the years and her main style of dancing was hip-hop although she liked experimenting with other styles as well, wanting to be more diverse. She also showed great talent with technology and code which only made her more of an outcast because of her gender.
Outside of dance and tech however, Gwendolyn didn't fair very well. Because of her mixed heritage, she was often bullied and became a reclusive outcast, only keeping to herself and being quite shy and meek. The only solace she had outside of school was her family as she often had to deal with cattiness from the fellow girls in her dance class due to her talent and mixed heritage.
Despite all of the bullies trying to keep her down, Gwendolyn persevered and continued to shine, even finding friends that were either foreigners or mixed race like her and beginning to get out more, truly experiencing life for the first time. She graduated from high school and got a scholarship to Nihon Kogakuin College thanks to her dancing and hacking talents, double majoring in Dance and Systems Engineering.
Now Gwendolyn's enjoying her newfound freedom as a college student and is working very hard to become an excellent dancer and hopefully achieve her dream of fame and stardom.
Personality: Gwendolyn is ultra-feminine and often highly attractive. She's a huge dreamer as well as mysterious, spiritual, imaginative, sensual, and idealistic. Gwendolyn often senses and feels things which other less sensitive folk miss, sometimes making her seem more than a little psychic and mysterious at times. She often picks up on the subtle and unspoken, and is often skilled at subconsciously reading signals from others, such as body language.
Highly sympathetic, compassionate, self-sacrificing and unassuming, Gwendolyn absorbs emotions from the environment around her, often becoming happy or depressed based on the moods of others. She believes the best route to finding inner peace is to give to others and is rather generous and selfless as a result. Gwendolyn thinks with her heart instead of her head, tending to dislike confrontation or hurting others in any way, and sometimes has difficulty saying no or leaving bad situations/relationships. She always goes with the flow and friction of any kind drains her energy. It's rare for Gwendolyn to become angry or aggressive. Despite all of this, she isn't a doormat and will stand up for herself or others if need be.
She has a strong need to feel loved and guarded and even if she slightly feels neglected, she can become very hurt. Because of her high sensitivity, delicacy, and tenderness, one has to be very careful when interacting with her. But thinking that Gwendolyn is weak would be a grave mistake. When in trouble, her inner strength is nothing short of incredible. She's not to be trifled with and can become very dangerous if scorned.
Crush: Shinichi Okazaki, Nobuo Terashima, Nana Komatsu, Yasu Takagi
