Nice Nature - Umamusume

Basic Information:

"Yup, I'm happy with a third place, it's all an extra like me can ask for..."

Name: Nice Nature ("Nature" or "Natie" for a short nickname)
Occupation: Student at Tracen Academy
Gender: Female
Species: Umamusume (Horse Girl)
Birthday: April 16
Class: Senior Division
Dorm: Ritto
Roommate: Marvelous Sunday
Height: 157cm
Three Sizes: B79 W56 H80

Personality:

"Don't expect much from her. This Umamusume is super cynical."

An Umamusume of humble background with a penchant for being pessimistic. She tends to think of herself as a supporting character, and this causes her to shy away from high expectations, this sometimes leads to imperfect performances. She has quite the knack for cooking and cleaning due to her working-class upbringing, and does so whenever she has time. She's something of a familiar face among the seniors in her town.

Despite her humble background and working-class upbringing, she is kind, responsible, and highly skilled in domestic tasks like cooking and cleaning. She actively avoids high expectations and praise, a mindset that historically earned her the nickname "Bronze Collector" for consistently finishing in second or third place, particularly in major G1 races.

Trivia:

Likes: Table tennis, finding new snacks.
Dislikes: Social media.

· Her ears always jerk a little anytime she hears herself being called 'Natie.'
· She secretly brushes her tail late at night.
· Articles about her are displayed on the walls of her family's bar.
· Her personal rule is to step oh bamboo to stretch if her legs are stiff.
· Her phone background is a cat which lives near her house.
· Before a race she often fluffs her hair without noticing.
· Her good subjects are Japanese language, Sports, Nutritional Science.
· Her secret pride is having someone who believes in her.
· She frequently purchases oden radishes (the kind that's soaked in stew)
· She's an expert at using up leftovers in the fridge.
· She's really good at making origami.
· She's probably the only normal person in the entire academy compared to all the other girls in the place.
· She prefers her tea bitter, and appreciates Tannhauser for buying bitter tea mixes.

Relationships:

· Team Canopus: Nice Nature's Team in Tracen Academy. Team Canopus is coincidentally consisted of only Umamusume who haven't won a G1 race before. They have a club room building where they do their best to strategize... though this usually leads them to only antagonize rival teams with letters delivered by toy bows and arrows.

· Trainer Minamizaka/"Trainer": Trainer for Team Canopus. He's somewhat of a pushover despite his professionality and has a hard time keeping his team focused... poor dude had great potential due to passing the National Trainer's Exam at a young age, but he got assigned to Canopus of all teams.

· Twin Turbo/"Turbo": Classmate, friend and teammate in Team Canopus. They met each other in one of Teio's races and have remained friends ever since. As the youngest member of the team, around the same age as the academy's Director, Turbo's childlike suggestions usually get rejected. However Turbo gets treated as the short, blue-teal haired gremlin of the team.

· Ikuno Dictus/"Dictus": Friend and teammate in Team Canopus. Dictus, being the calm and collected organizer of the team, she's the one who chooses which race fits whom the best. The smartest uma in Team Canopus.

· Matikanetannhauser/"Tannhauser": Friend and teammate in Team Canopus. As the straightforward, model student Tannhauser is usually called the cutest member of Canopus, despite her frequent nosebleeds and being somewhat of a ditz.

· Sounds of Earth/"Earth": Friend and teammate in Team Canopus. As the most theatric member of the team, when any member of Canopus feels upset, Earth somehow comes out of nowhere. No matter the time and place just to play her violin.

· Royce And Royce/"Royce": Friend and teammate in Team Canopus. Whenever any member needs help in schoolwork that involves spreadsheets, Royce always lends a hand, even when she wasn't asked to. Every gift Royce gives out is a miniature model of a random Rolls-Royce vehicle. The second smartest on Canopus.

Relationships²:

· Mayano Top Gun/"Maya": Friend. Nature takes advantage of Maya's naivete and usually gives her nonsense advices on how to be more mature, like telling her to go to sleep early. And if Maya ever finds out Nature lies about any of the advices, Nature takes advantage of Maya's gullibility and flatters her, making her drop the subject.

· Mejiro McQueen/"Mcqueen": Friend, classmate and rival. McQueen taught Nature how to properly brew the perfect tea. But Nature always feigns her knowledge just to have McQueen smile while she makes tea for her every time they hang out.

· Mejiro Ryan/"Ryan": Friend and upperclassman. Ryan often helps out Nature pick the correct amount of weights during training. Even offering Nature her water bottle when Nature forgot hers.

· Kitasan Black/"Kitasan": Friend. Despite being in the same grade and class, Kitasan looked up to Nature, Teio, and McQueen when both her and Dia were kids. Kitasan always seeks out Nature for advice, even calling her "Nature-Sensei". Nature always feels flattered whenever she gets called that.

· Satono Diamond/"Dia": Friend. Dia always manages to run into Nature whenever she's shopping, regardless of the time, store, or location. Dia also places unnecessary music records into Nature's shopping cart when she isn't looking.

· King Halo/"King": Friend and classmate. King and Natie were once instructed by Tannhauser to be the the cheerleaders of the Tracen Cheer Squad, which both of them didn't seem to be fond of.

· Marvelous Sunday/"Marvey": Friend and roommate. Nature compares her to an alarm clock with how loud she is, due to her shouting "Marvelous" when she wakes up.

· Tokai Teio/"Teio": Classmate, friend, and rival. Nature sometimes gets called to the Student Council Office by the President, Symboli Rudolf. Only to be informed that Teio (who isn't even part of the Student Council) wanted to hang out. Teio also came up with the "Natie" nickname fo

Appearance:

Nice Nature has red hair, tied into fluffy short over-the-shoulder pigtails by green hair ties. She has two reddish-brown cowlicks on the center of her bangs, swooping to the right, one is larger than the other. Her ears have two red covers with green knots laced to the top, and her right cover has a green bow at the base. Her eyes are light brown.

Her racing outfit is a layered dress, the base is black with four golden buttons on her waist. Around her neck is a large red and green bow, with a golden medallion in the center. Her short dress has a red fluffy petticoat underneath. Her long sleeves are cream-colored with green and red bands wrapped around her wrist, and the end of the sleeve is made of a spiky white fabric. On her left leg is a red X-shaped leg strap with metallic silver clamps holding the fabric together, it continues to her lower leg, and holds up her left sock. She wears a pair of brown knee-high laced-up boots, with red socks underneath.

For her casual attire whenever she's not racing or in Tracen, she typically sports long sleeves with wide cuts, often layered as a red shirt over a white shirt. The lower half consists of a denim skirt, creating a comfortable and approachable look.

In Tracen Academy, she usually just wears the Tracen Academy uniform. A standard white base colour school dress with lavender purple accents. With a lavender purple ribbon at the front of uniform's chest part. Or when training, she usually has to wear red-white trackwear.

Umamusume Information:

Umamusume, colloquially referred to as horse girls or simply Umas, are a species of reincarnated racehorses from another world. Their fate is to do whatever it takes to run towards their goals. Though they act as more like a third gender rather than a separate species to humans, as they're biologically still human.

Umamusume are humanoid girls who possess horse traits and features. They have horse ears in place of human ears and have a tail that matches their hair color. They possess incredible speed and stamina, far beyond that of a human and comparable with that of a real-life horse.

Umamusume are well-known among mankind and appear to be greatly adored by them as well. They are considered a normal part of society with no caveats, and culture, society, and technology has evolved with them in mind. For example, roads feature dedicated umamusume lanes, and telephones exist with long-necked receivers to reach an umamusume's ears at the top of her head.

Trivia:

· There are no normal horses in the world.
· Umamusume can run on walkways. They even have specific lanes to run on freely on roads.
· There are no horse boys or "Umashonen".
· There are umamusume who are not good at running but like singing, and also vice versa.
· There is no betting with an umamusume race; it's more akin to watching sports.
· Some umamusume are active in other sports and activities.
· Terms like "Hold your horses!" or horse related sayings still exist.
· Umamusume possess far stronger and faster feats than humans (up to ~70 km/h), with a higher base body temperature of about 37.5–38 °C, like real horses. Though most Umamusume usually stay around the same strength as a regular human female without training.

Location:

In a world where horses don't exist (and elephants replace them historically), only horse girls who inherit names from equestrians from a different world, one place stand out for all Umamusume, Tracen Academy: A Japan Umamusume Training Center Academy or Japan Umamusume Training Schools and Colleges. Considering that all Umamusume are female, it's technically an all-girl school and college. Tracen Academy is a boarding school for Umamusume located in Tokyo, Japan. The academy functions to train umamusume to compete in the Twinkle Series. Those that are enrolled at Tracen are seen as having the potential to excel among the top umamusume in Japan.

Tracen Academy's motto is "Eclipse first, the rest nowhere."

Facilities inside Tracen:
· Main School Building
· Cafeteria
· Dormitories
· Library
· Training Track
· Training Pool
· Training Gym
· Dance Studio
· Outdoor Dance Stages

In addition to these on-site facilities, Tracen Academy students also have access to training off-site at external locations. The only known external training camp is the beach summer camp. Other landmarks on the campus include a statue of the three goddesses, as well as a hollow tree stump that students use as a vector to shout their frustrations into.

Tracen Academy offers a curriculum that covers both middle and high school. Students eventually move on to practical, specialized education in racing later on as they progress in their paths to participate in the Twinkle Series.

Tracen includes several skilled staff, which includes:

· Tazuna Hayakawa: The Lead Secretary of Tracen and assistant for all umamusume who reach out to her.

· Director Yayoi Akikawa: The ambitious and caring chairwoman of Tracen Academy, she's younger than most of the student body and can't ride a rollercoaster without adult supervision due to height and age...

· Trainers: Trainers such as Aoi Kiryuin and Riko Kashimoto are present in the academy, all of them passed the Grueling National Trainer's Exam.