Mori

"'Hiya! Nice to meet ya! I'm Mori-chaaaan!~... Hah! Just kidding, please don't call me that.  Mori is just fine.'"

Background
Mori was from a fairly well-off family, and could usually be found in her room reading. She was a shy child, who stimulated her mind with reading and gathering information she thought would be useful for making friends in the future. She planned far ahead in that endeavor. Her dad loved nature and always found time to bring her something from the outside world. Mori accumulated vases and vases of flowers, big and small. She studied them merely as an academic exercise.

Her father tragically died in a car accident when she was 15. Although she never shared her father’s fascination with nature, she loved him dearly. She was distraught at his death. She went home that day and gazed at the pile of vases strewn around her room, full of wilting flowers. She realized that what her father was trying to show her for years was not simply to build her knowledge of nature, but to relish in it in the moment and feel the emotion and life that runs through it. “What is life?” she asked herself, never before contemplating anything more than what was obvious. From that day forward, she vowed to learn about what her father was trying to show her. She continued reading simply for what she could feel in that moment. She sought to capture each moment of natural beauty and life and encapsulate it in her heart. She surmised that this was what her father was trying to teach her all along. She yearned for nature, she appreciated the toil that nature exerts to craft for humans a beautiful landscape or to craft the materials for a place of shelter.

She became a lumberjack, not just to help others and to contribute to society, but to grow in appreciation for the life that each tree lives and that which is sustained by its death. In the process, she would grow to understand the feelings of her father, which are even now sustaining her in her endeavors. She travelled all across the country in search of work and of beauty. At the time of the story, however, she took a small vacation to go see her mother back in New York.

Overview
Mori is a very fit lumberjack with exceptional skill with her hands. Her studies have taught her about many plants and trees of all sorts, and even animals to some extent. Usually she's seen with some kind of straw or stick in her mouth. In particular, she's addicted to sweets. At least once a month, she will petition heavily for lollipop manufacture and remind the player of "how amazing they are". Her fascination with lollipops confuses many people.

She is a childhood friend of Kuwashi. He hasn't responded well to her recent change of character, despite it being a change for the better.