Kasane Teto (重音 テト)

[Ichi]

K A S A N E   T E T O
"Te-Te-Te-Te-Te-Teto! Teto Kasane Teto!"

Profile
  Public/Corporate Name: Kasane Teto (重音 テト)
  Nickname(s): Kasane Pearto, Teto Pear
  Real Name: Kasane Hoshiko (重音 星子)
  Sex: Female
  Age: 24
  Birthday: April 1st, 20XX
  Eyes: Ruby-Red
  Hair: Red
  Height: 159.5 cm (~5'3")
  Weight: 47 kg (~103.6 lbs)
  B/W/H: 73/54/88 (cm)
  Ethnicity: Japanese
  Nationality: Japanese
  General Alignment: Neutral Good
  Wrestling Alignment: Face
  LAW Manager: Chiquita Nihon

Japanese branch of Chiquita Brands International

Chiquita Nihon is fictitious.

  Entrance Music:

 
  Faceclaim: Kasane Teto (Utau)



Pictures

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Main Attire

Alternate Attire

Bikini

Other Attire

Pear

Personality

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     Both in the ring and in public, Kasane generally presents as a bubbly, optimistic girl who ostensibly fits the mold of a generic sociable and inoffensive young woman. This demeanor, however, is an artificial patina, a byproduct of corporate gilding. Substance takes a backseat to alignment with a marketing department's myopic conception of what would garner widespread appeal. And, of course, a public relations department also leaves its imprint, forcing Kasane to eschew individualism for the sake of being inoffensive and avoiding detriments to her public image as a pear mascot.
     In reality, though, Kasane an individual, one whose true self subscribes neither to that of a perfect corporate product mascot nor to the purported Japanese cultural ideal of a 'Yamato Nadeshiko'. While her true personality does have elements of cheerfulness and optimism like her consumerism-mandated persona, Kasane also possesses a rather mischievous side, one manifests when the cameras are not rolling. She enjoys teasing people and playing pranks, but still retains a kind heart. Kasane also has a substantial creative side, doing both creative writing and digital art in her free time.
     Now, although the phrase goes 'Boys, be ambitious', that does not preclude women from being ambitious: Kasane and her aspirations are ride or die, as if the latter was an inextricable facet of the former. Kasane subscribes to the mantra of 'hard work breeds success', sticking with it even when her situation is incontrovertibly bleak. And part of her tacitly believes that belief in herself will bend the universe to actualize her goals.
     But that belief is a tool that she uses in an attempt to squash her true feelings. Inside, Kasane is plagued with self-doubt. She does not see herself as worthwhile, nor does she feel confident that she can achieve her subjective metric of worth for herself: success in the entertainment industry. Secretly, she loathes herself for not achieving the same success as her contemporaries, and views herself as lesser. Yet, despite these feelings, Kasane forges on—in her mind, such doubts do not advance her ambitions and should be suppressed.

Combat Information
  General
    Strategy: Untrained
    Fighting Style(s): Pear-based fictitious martial arts styles
    Preferred Attacks: None

  Martial Arts
    Primary: Untrained
    Secondary: Pear-jitsu, Muay Pear

  Match Preferences
    Preferred Matches: "...Hentai!"
    Attitude To Hentai: "...Ummm...sure!!!"

  Statistics
    Durability: 5/10
    Stamina: 6/10
    Strength: 3/10
    Speed: 7/10
    Defense: 1.75/10
    Technique (Striking): 1/10
    Technique (Grappling): 0.75/10

Fighting Style Summary

     Although it is myopic to treat cultures as uniform monoliths and ascribe stereotypical conceptions to entire groups of people, subsets of people within cultures may nonetheless have experiences that are congruous with some of the generalities. In Kasane's case, a stringent, externally encouraged adherence to the Japanese concept of wa (和) and an implicit imposition of gendered expectations of behavior that would be incongruous with modern sensibilities have greatly discouraged aggression. Even Kasane's tendency towards mischievousness is merely a restrained and mostly acceptable form of deviance rather than actual instances of her substantively rocking the boat.
     As such, any intrinsic fighting skills and aggressive tendencies that she may have otherwise had have been stymied by lifelong socialization. The learned impetus to be demure and non-aggressive serve as roadblocks to combative intent, thus rendering Kasane's fighting skills commensurate with the efficacy of a butterfly with water-sodden wings. While her limbic system may cry for her to strike or grapple, her mind ultimately holds her back from her full aggressive, untrained potential.

History

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     Kasane Hoshiko (重音 星子) was born in Tokyo, Japan to impoverished parents. Resources and opportunities were scarce, fostering a poignant sense of helplessness in Kasane. Yet, rather than cause her to fall into complete despair and complicity, these circumstances stoked a desire in Kasane to elevate her parents and herself out of their situation. But, being a child, there seemed to be no viable avenues for accomplishing this goal, for raising her family out of poverty—except for becoming an idol.
     However, for Kasane specifically, the possibility of idolhood was like the shining North Star: a light that guided intent but could never be touched. Despite making it far in various idol auditions growing up, Kasane would always fall short in the end. But, as the trite phrase goes, 'persistence pays off'—a mantra that Kasane fervently ascribed to.
     Yet, it was this status as a perennial second pick that ultimately led to Kasane's so-called 'breakout role'. After yet another failed idol audition, the Japanese fruit company Chiquita Nihon, the Japanese branch of Chiquita Brands International, reached out to Kasane to become the mascot for its 'Teto Pear' brand of pears. The company figured that a pretty face with the trappings of an idol yet sans the success to be selective would be prime material to be transmuted into an agent for corporate profit. And, just as predicted, the opportunity-starved Kasane Hoshiko took to the role like a fish to a lure.
     While the company viewed this turn of events as a pragmatic ensnarement, though, Kasane viewed the situation differently. She viewed it as her big break, her springboard to stardom. Commercials—let alone commercials for genetically engineered pears—were seldom prestigious or lucrative gigs, but optimism and inherent uncertainty about the future amalgamated into a driving impetus for Kasane. She threw her all into her new role in exchange for a modest yet enticing pittance and for probabilistic hope.
     Kasane ultimately reached some level of fame, with her likeness becoming a household quasi-fixture due to her ubiquity in commercials. She became widely known as 'Teto Pear' and 'Kasane Pearto' due to brand association and the fact that the commercials often featured her wearing a pear costume.
     Unfortunately, her status as a pear mascot became her claim to fame. It also did not help that Kasane's only other acting roles were in B-movies and late-night commercials. Kasane was not without some talent, but the fact that Kasane had also signed a near-exclusive contract with the Japanese fruit company had greatly limited the acting roles she could take outside of commercials for Chiquita Nihon.
     Despite repeated promises from the Japanese fruit company that her role in their commercials would allow her to become an idol, such never materialized. And even the ever-optimistic Kasane could not deny the near-incontrovertible reality of her situation: that in an industry that preponderantly idolizes youth to the harsh and implicit devaluation of those past their early- to mid-twenties, at the age of twenty-four and without substantive prior experience, she was rapidly aging out of opportunities in the Japanese entertainment industry.
     The Japanese fruit company, being all too aware of this brutal landscape, sought to replace Kasane with a so-called 'younger model'. But the company was not about to let Kasane go without wringing out every bit of profit they could out of her—an arrangement that, while unconscionable, was technically lawful insofar as Kasane had signed a contract.
     Thus, Kasane was given an ultimatum: either become a JAV idol or join LAW as a hentai wrestler. The marketing manager in charge of conceptualizing this forceful impetus figured that either way, Kasane's sex appeal could be utilized to further the 'Teto Pear' brand for at least a couple of years.
     Kasane, still hopeful about breaking into the Japanese entertainment industry, chose to become a hentai wrestler for LAW as she viewed that as the better path to fame. Despite her misgivings about entering a line of work adjacent to outright sex work, Kasane swallowed her doubts and complied under the force of corporate marketing.

Relationships

• Chiquita Nihon - Kasane is the mascot for Chiquita Nihon's 'Teto Pear' brand of pears. Chiquita Nihon also mandates that she participate in LAW hentai matches, and the company acts as Kasane's LAW manager.

Quick Facts

• "Most Salient and Defining Facts About Kasane"
  • Kasane is the mascot girl for Chiquita Nihon's 'Teto Pear' brand of pears.
  • Kasane often does commercials for Chiquita Nihon where she sings and dances while wearing a pear costume.
  • Although very few people know her name, Kasane is often recognized on the streets due to how ubiquitous the 'Teto Pear' commercials are.
• Personal Facts
  • Kasane loves baguettes.
  • Kasane's Public/Corporate Name
    • Publicly and when being personally acknowledged by Chiquita Nihon, Kasane's name is given as Kasane Teto (重音 テト).
    • The 重音 ('Kasane') part of the name is Kasane's family name, and the テト ('Teto') part of the name comes from the 'Teto' in the 'Teto Pear' brand of pears sold by Chiquita Nihon.
    • Chiquita Nihon once considered 'convincing' Kasane to change her legal name to Kasane Teto (重音 テト). However, the marketing and PR teams of Chiquita Nihon determined that the marketing benefit would be insufficient to risk potential public fallout from 'convincing' (i.e. effectively forcing) a young woman to change her name to serve corporate interests. Chiquita Nihon's legal team, however, deemed that such a move would be legally viable. The legal team noted that the the potentially relevant clauses in Kasane's contract were "patently unconscionable and willfully exploitative", and thus were ostensibly unenforceable. However, the legal team also noted that Kasane did not have the resources to fight the 'mercantile suggestion' in court and was unlikely to even try, given that she was seemingly quite reliant on Chiquita Nihon for her livelihood. Ultimately, after careful consideration that did not consider Kasane's potential feelings on the matter, Chiquita Nihon decided not to 'convince' Kasane to change her legal name to Kasane Teto (重音 テト).
  • Kasane's Real Name
    • In Japanese, Kasane's real name is written as 重音 星子 (Kasane Hoshiko).
    • Her family name is 重音 (Kasane). '重' and '音' roughly mean 'heavy' and 'sound' respectively.
    • Her given name is 星子 (Hoshiko). '星' roughly means 'star', and '子' ('ko') is a common suffix added to Japanese girl names.
    • Kasane secretly despises her given name 星子 (Hoshiko) as 星 ('hoshi') essentially means 'star'. Although the character arguably refers to 'star' in the celestial body sense, the figurative meaning of 'star' serves as a painful reminder to Kasane that she failed to reach the stardom she desired.
  • • Kasane is secretly a commission artist.
    • Kasane keeps her artist identity separate from her regular identity so as to avoid complications—especially since she draws lewd/NSFW art at times.
    • Kasane will currently decline any commissions involving pears without explanation.
      • Thankfully, no one has been able to figure out the connection between her artist persona and her public/pear mascot persona.
      • Kasane was one commissioned to draw a pear doing lascivious acts to her Kasane Pearto persona. Kasane regretted this, and thus declines all pear-related commissions.
  • • Kasane does creative writing as a hobby.
    • Kasane writes both original fiction and fanfiction.
    • Kasane sometimes partakes in writing erotica and doing lewd play-by-post online roleplay.
  • Despite Kasane's contract with Chiquita Nihon being nominally lucrative enough to easily support her, Kasane often finds herself broke. Delayed and truncated payments, combined with equivocating excuses from management, has corralled Kasane into a perpetual state of being in quasi-dire financial straits.
  • Kasane once considered joining VShojo, a VTuber talent agency, for better pay and more favorable work

    The irony here should hopefully be clear if one is familiar with some of the practices of VShojo.

    . However, her contract with Chiquita Nihon prevented her from pursuing that opportunity.
• Other Facts
  • Kasane once lost a one-sided 'fight' with a bunch of pears.
    • In reality, a massive number of pears had unexpectedly fallen onto Kasane during a live promotional event for the 'Teto Pear' brand of pears. This incident took Kasane out of commission for one month.
    • Despite the freak accident being in no way Kasane's fault, her employer, Chiquita Nihon, was furious with her as the accident cut into profits.
    • Even though Kasane had been impaired by her injuries for more than a single month, Kasane was convinced—under the weight of financial duress—to return to work early. While her face still bore bruises and it hurt to breathe at the time, copious amounts of makeup and unyielding grit allowed Kasane to fulfill her corporate duty to a 'marginally satisfactory' extent.
  • The Shibuya Incident
    • Shortly after Kasane had turned eighteen, Chiquita Nihon had Kasane do a late-night commercial for a pear-themed vibrator
      It took a fair amount of 'convincing' and 'clever usage' of economic leverage to get Kasane to 'agree' to do the commercial, but Chiquita Nihon eventually secured Kasane's ostensible verbal consent.
      . The commercial was shot in a cordoned-off area of Shibuya at night.
    • This move garnered outrage from outside of Japan—not because of any concern for Kasane, but rather, because the Teto Pear girl doing pornographic commercials went against people's previous image of the mascot.
    • Chiquita Nihon issued an apology, and the heat eventually died down.
      Chiquita Nihon's 'apology' was disingenuous and did not actually address any of the outrage or moral concerns. Said 'apology' was merely a manufactured PR response meant to deflect heat until the foreign ire died down.
    • This incident became known as 'The Shibuya Incident'.
    • After the controversy had mostly abated, Chiquita Nihon ostensibly convinced—but functionally coerced—Kasane into doing a pear-themed dildo commercial. While management felt no moral compunctions about putting Kasane in this sort of situation again, it had learned to be sneakier after receiving foreign ire prior. As such, the pear-themed dildo commercial was much more low-key, and managed to fly under the radar of the general public.
    • Kasane's participation in lewd pear sex toy commercials was later used to 'convince' her to become a hentai wrestler for LAW. The gravity of such a decision was dismissed and undermined by marketing executives, who were quick to remind Kasane that she had done similar activities in the past.
  Chiquita Nihon Facts

  • Chiquita Nihon is the Japanese branch of Chiquita Brands International, a company that sells fruit worldwide.
  • Chiquita Nihon's largest product is its 'Teto Pear' brand of pears, a species of pear that had been genetically engineered.
  • Chiquita Nihon currently employs Kasane Hoshiko (重音 星子) as its mascot girl for its 'Teto Pear' brand of pears.
  • Much like its parent company, Chiquita Brands International, Chiquita Nihon has been involved in questionable practices. For instance, many decades ago, Chiquita Nihon had used its influence to impel the Imperial Japanese Army to engage in violent, anti-worker practices against workers in Guadalcanal, who were tasked with growing the 'Teto Pear' brand of pears for Chiquita Nihon. When the Americans invaded Guadalcanal, Chiquita Nihon, not willing to give up its pear farms, gave direct monetary aid to the Imperial Japanese Army to try to repel the Americans.
  • As far as I know, there is no 'Chiquita Nihon', and neither Chiquita Brands International nor any of its progenitors have been involved in the Pacific theater during or around the World War II era. That being said, the real-world Chiquita Brands International has been involved in some sketchy/immoral activity in the past.
  • The Previous Kasane
    • Prior to using Kasane Hoshiko (重音 星子), Chiquita Nihon had used a different young woman—Kasane Ikumi (重音 生光)
      The given name 生光 (Ikumi) is composed of the kanji '生' and '光', which can be very roughly taken to mean 'life' and 'light' respectively

      This choice of name was intentional and took into account Kasane Ikumi's ultimate fate.

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      —as the mascot for its 'Teto Pear' brand of pears.
    • After several years of working with Chiquita Nihon, Kasane Ikumi had
      intimately acquainted her neck with a rope
      , in large part due to the pressures she faced working with Chiquita Nihon; incidentally, said pressures happened to be similar to what Kasane has experienced herself.
    • Thankfully, Chiquita Nihon was able to avoid liability from the court of public opinion through sublime distraction tactics, gaslighting denials of material facts, rhetorical revisionism, and various other bad-faith yet effective tactics.
    • Following the unavoidable passing of their Teto Pear mascot, Chiquita Nihon was quick to replace her with a younger model, Kasane Hoshiko.
    • For a while after Kasane Hoshiko's signing, Kasane Hoshiko was internally referred to as the 'replacement Kasane' within Chiquita Nihon.