Chisato Araki

Chisato Araki (jpn, Araki Chisato) is the main protagonist of the game, Taffeta. She is a young woman struggling with the consequences of 'The Incident ' that occured 12 years prior to the beginning of the game along with battling schizophrenia. She is best friends with Hitomi Komura and Rei Yanagi.

Appearance
Chisato is a young woman with long, light blue hair and green eyes. Her appearance does not change much from middle school to present day, although there is a clear indication that she seems tired and weary. In middle school she wore a black barette on the left side of her hair, along with her school uniform. Her adult appearance varies chapter by chapter, however, though she is usually seen wearing casual clothes or pajamas.

Personality
In the prologue of the game, Chisato comes off as a tormented young woman, documented by the offhanded comments about her guilt and self-hatred she makes to her therapist, Aiko Tahara. In the glimpses of her in the past, Chisato seems to be a very cheery and prideful girl. As a child, she was obsessed with the occult and paranormal, indicating a sense of spiruality, and that seems to be a deeply influential part of her personality.

She admits to feeling dark feelings as far back in the past as elementary school, and tells Tahara that she tried to kill herself multiple times after 'The Incident'. She is someone who tends to overthink their every move, seeing as how she analyzes every feeling and interaction she had in the past to find some hidden meaning in her, or someone else's, words. Although, this is contradicted by how little we see her thinking through her actions in the past. Chisato herself points this out many times, saying that she feels as though she is two different people who are complete opposites and that every thought she has she is likely to contradict. Her speech patterns are sometimes convoluted and sometimes flat due to her schizophrenia.