Rumiho Akiha

Faris NyanNyan, real name Rumiho Akiha, is the daughter of Yukitaka Akiha and Chikane Akiha, a part-time employee and owner of the maid café MayQueen+Nyan², the same maid café that Mayuri Shiina works at, where she is the most popular waitress and she is a second year student at Kanaria Private Academy. Faris is a very short girl with long pink hair who prefers tying her hair into two drilled pigtails rather than leaving it down and pink eyes. She is usually seen wearing her work uniform, a maid outfit with a headdress, an apron with a ribbon at the back, and black leggings with black shoes. She also has a red ribbon around her neck and on the sides of the headdress. She wears a wristband that is black with white frills to go along with the frills on her skirt. Her casual outfit consists of an amber dress and a black tiara. As usual, she ties her hair into two braids. Her breast size is very inconsistent through out the series. In some scenes of the anime she is completely flat, while in other parts she is shown with moderately big breasts. Being the waitress and owner of a moe café, Faris always adds the Japanese word "nya" (English: "meow") to her speech to boost her "moe-ness". She has the ability to see into people's hearts just by looking into their eyes, which she calls the "Cheshire Break". Rumiho portrays herself as ditzy and foolish to go along with the persona she created, 'Faris NyanNyan', but she is actually quite perceptive, intelligent, and incredibly self-conscious ー she is always considering what impact her actions have on other people and what their interactions with her mean. This goes along with "Cheshire Break", her propensity to 'read between the lines' and glimpse the true motives behind other people's actions. Because she distrusts other people ー because she does not want to be left alone, Rumiho has become adept at uncovering the lies that everyone tells. Even so, Faris is still childish and cutesy at heart, but she exaggerates her playful nature when she is playing 'Faris NyanNyan'. She likes to play along with Okabe's delusions and comes up with scenarios herself. Faris is one of the few people who does not think of Okabe as "weird". That being said, Okabe often has a hard time keeping up with her, as she often goes further into his delusions then he prepared for, forcing him to improvise to keep up. Her true personality is of a childish and self-conscious girl who really misses her father and longs for intimate interactions with those close to her. She does not often show her darker, more complex side to others, and instead hides behind exaggerated and simplified personas such as 'Faris NyanNyan'; this is one of the reasons she gets along so well with Rintaro Okabe. In addition to raising her likeability, this facade allows her to disengage emotionally from potentially troublesome situations and protect herself from getting hurt. Another attribute to her true personality is that she is often manipulative towards others when she wants her way, an example of this behaviour is when she tricks Okabeinto helping her win a RaiNet AccessBattlers tournament. She tells very few people about her heritage, out of fear that they will treat her differently. The lab members are among her only friends that she trusts enough to show her true self, 'Rumiho' to. Aside from her close friends, the only person she confides in is Kuroki, her butler. She is not able to have a very close relationship with her mother because she is often overseas and only comes back for short periods of time. Because she had very few people to confide in from a young age, Faris has become quite a lonesome (but also independent) person, longing for and sometimes clinging to any semblance of intimate company she can salvage. In Nae's route in Linear Bounded Phenogram, a few years after certain events led the world to steadily fall down the path to a dystopian world ruled by SERN, Rumiho seems to have overcome the majority of her fears regarding lies and abandonment. Instead of painting all lies as a bad thing, she accepts that white lies, secrets, and roundaboutness have their place in every healthy relationship, just as bluntness, straightforwardness, and honesty are important components. Her friendship with Okabe and company seems to have greatly helped her with being able to more effectively cope with her loneliness.