Kagakusha is a scientist that works at the Pokémon Genetic Research Institute. She has auburn hair down to the middle of her back that is styled with one side in careful curls and the other in complete disarray. Occasionally she wears her hair in a ponytail tied with an old ribbon or a blue scarf. If going casual, she usually wears various shades of grey and clothes that fit her, not too loose or too tight. She doesn't much care for her physical appearance and never wears makeup. Her eyes are a piercing ice blue, often with bags underneath from long days at the computer or working in the lab. While at work, she dresses professionally and appropriately, her only deviation a pair of beat up sneakers.

Kagakusha comes from a long line of scientists, or more often than not, scientist-martyr's that were killed in the defense of what they felt was right. Therefore, a lot of pressure was put on Kagakusha, even at an early age, to become a scientist (and be willing to die for what she believed in) and throughout most of her life she was referred to by her last name, a name of prestige and power. As a small girl, her nickname was Kei.

Every element of Kagakusha's life was carefully controlled, even to the labcoat-like clothing she wore as a little girl. She became extremely anti-social and hostile to others, blaming them for her situation and beginning to hate herself for her lack of control over her life. She frightened others away from her with her eccentricity, her unpredictable violent episodes, and her random mood swings.

Kagakusha met Kax in high school when they were assigned to be lab partners. As with all the others, Kagakusha did everything in her power to intimidate and frighten Kax away. To her surprise, Kax refused to leave. It took some time, but eventually Kagakusha realized that her time would be better spent enjoying Kax's pleasant company, especially if she seemed so intent on sticking by her, rather than pushing her away. Given the opportunity to attach to someone other than her parents who wasn't completely stupid, Kagakusha clung to Kax tenaciously, something that Kax, surprisingly enough, didn't seem to mind.

Kax completely changed her life.

Facets of her personality she was unaware of became present when she was with Kax. Kagakusha grew as a person through her relationship with Kax in ways she did not know were possible. Because of this, Kagakusha became almost fanatically dedicated to Kax in a way that would have frightened most people, or at the least seemed very unhealthy. Kax, again, took this all in stride.

Kagakusha took everything that Kax said about anything to heart, from her bizarre metaphors to her speeches about the outside world. Kax became something like the center of her life, something that she could depend on if she ever felt like she couldn't stand by herself.

For some reason that Kagakusha could never understand, Kax decided to become a Pokémon trainer, of all things. Despite everything she did in her power to make Kax stay, she left. Needless to say, Kagakusha was deeply hurt by what she felt was an act of betrayal. When Kax left, with a speech she didn't truly understand, she gave her something to remember her by, a blue scarf that Kagakusha keeps to this day.

After Kax left, Kagakusha completed the rest of the school year on autopilot. Her life had again settled into rote patterns and expectations, and without Kax, she had no reason to want more or change. With Kax went her desire to live, so to speak. She was accepted to a respected college and left to study.

Rather than reaffirm her faith in other people, Kagakusha's relationship with Kax only made her more bitter. Kagakusha began to resent everyone for not being Kax, and eventually, blamed them for not being her. Kagakusha became even more hostile than before, driving away roommate after roommate. Unable to remove her from the college due to her prestigious lineage and her impeccable grades, the administration turned a blind eye. Finally Kagakusha was saddled with a roommate that would not leave, who was more obnoxious than any of the others.

At this point Kagakusha became interested in computers.

This was the dawning age of the internet and Kagakusha dove into this new world with gusto. Finding that there were others that shared her ideas and obsession with Pokémon genetics, she became addicted to the computer, spending long hours writing down theorems, debating, or talking with others that believed the same things that she did. The computer gave her an easy barrier, a way to isolate and remove people she didn't like, and as a result she was able to completely shut off her social circle, instead keeping a wide group of acquaintances who, while they weren't on best interpersonal contact with her, respected her theories and were willing to contribute and criticize.

Kagakusha lived in voluntary isolation, yet was barely able to cope with the unending loneliness. The problem was there was only one person that she wanted to talk to, and she wasn't there. Kagakusha was alone in a sea of people, and hated them for it. She even began to get psychosomatically cold due to her longing for Kax's presence, and in a fit of insomnia sewed herself a Kax doll to keep her company. The doll managed to ward away the cold, and although this caused others to tell her to visit a psychologist. She refused on the grounds that she knew what was wrong, and that a psychologist wouldn't fix it.

Eventually Kax did contact her again, and Kagakusha did get slightly better, taking any kind of communication or gift she was offered desperately. In contrast, her roommate continued to get on her nerves more than ever, and the majority of the college populace alternately hated or feared her, and made this known.

More often than not, attempts to touch the Kax doll ended in violence. Kagakusha's new streak of violence, which had been fairly unprecedented, went unnoticed by her and was assimilated into the schema that she used to identify herself without any notice. Now she had always been this violent. The college warned her and money was spent to avoid any kind of real legal fracas, but this would not be the last time that Kagakusha's temper would backfire on her, with bad results for all involved.

Over the course of time her hair was beginning to get out of control, falling out of its carefully controlled curls. While her hair had once been something that she took some pride in, a part of her life defined by her parents that she did not resent, she now found that it didn't matter. Nothing mattered to her anymore, except Kax and her theories, and both of them were incomplete. At this point her Kax doll began to speak to her. Finding nothing unusual about this at all, understanding it as a desperate mental attempt for comfort, she began conversing with the doll on a regular basis. The doll spoke with Kax's voice and often repeated the comforting words that Kax had told her many times before while she sobbed into the night. One night there was a party which the Kax doll convinced her to go to. Considering that Kagakusha had made no attempts to socialize during her years at college, and the attempts she had made to reach out at others had invariably been negative or violent, she was not recieved well. Her relative ignorance concerning the dangers of parties resulted in her not watching her drink while she went to the bathroom. Two drunken young men drugged her drink, dragged her upstairs, and attempted to rape her. Unfortunately for them, an incomplete, feral version of what would eventually become Namida was provoked enough to take control of her body during the time of crisis. This early version of Namida killed the two men with a broken bottle. Kagakusha has no memory of this, having completely blacked out when Namida took control. To this day, Kagakusha still has a collection of scars on her shins from when she kneeled into the broken glass when pre-Namida was in control.

A large court case arose over this which was ugly on all sides. In the end, the case was won in her favor due to the witnesses that had seen her get drugged and dragged upstairs and the evidence that pointed towards self-defense. Kagakusha's parents, of course, did not approve of what happened, but paid the appropriate amount of money to hush it up, relatively. Instructed to keep a low profile, it didn't take a great deal of time for the story to be forgotten for the next great shocker story in the news.

Once the entire trial was over, Kax was able to get through and call her without any complications and promised to come visit. They spent the night talking, Kagakusha was able to process some of what happened to her, and for the first time she didn't feel lonely. She had her friend back again. But she had to leave, eventually, even though Kagakusha begged her to stay. This time, her sadness at Kax's departure was tempered with a good deal of resentment, which she hated.

The rest of her years were completed as quietly as possible. Her parents made it clear they would not tolerate or clean up after any other messes that Kagakusha made, and she had learned her lesson. Venturing outside her self-contained bubble had proven a bad idea, so therefore, she would not do it again. This way, she got her doctorate with little fuss or incident. Afterwards, Kagakusha found her way to the PGRI and began work there. The PGRI at first seemed like a dream come true, as it was dedicated to the one passion in her life. However, as usual, Kagakusha found herself plagued with stupid people who didn't understand, and her frustration and temper had only gotten worse over time. Snappish and short, she cut off any and all relationships before they even got more than her name. Kagakusha is convinced that Kax is the only true lab partner she would ever need and will ever tolerate. However, the facility's higher-ups made it clear this was not possible. Kagakusha HAD to work with others at times, regardless of how stupid they were. This did not make her popular with the others, and likewise, it did not endear them to her. Like at college, she created enemies without effort.

Because of this, there is no one else to blame for her own downfall. It was entirely her persistance, her fanatical obsession with creating new Pokémon from other's altered genes, that led to the conception and her subsequent heading of the M-2 Project.

The first M-2 specimen, A, was pronounced clinically dead minutes after its creation. It's unknown as to the exact details of what happened, but the accepted belief is that Kagakusha was working late that night (as Kagakusha did practically every night) and passed by A's case. Despite the specimen being dead, it managed to produce a powerful and unexpected psychic attack, perhaps its advanced mind decaying, with Kagakusha as the unintended target.

Kagakusha, never intending and never planning on ever raising any Pokémon of her own, was completely and totally unprepared for the vicious mental barrage. Already a fairly unstable person to begin with, this attack shattered her mind. Dr. Kagakusha split, permanently, and after that, nothing was the same for her. She found herself bleeding on the floor from her head, unable to remember anything, not even her name. Somehow, she got up. She went to Prof. Denka, who was the only person she could think of who could help. He took care of her wounds and named her new three personalities. Namida, her angry side; Hana, her sensitive side; and Nokori, the remnants of her original personality.

Prof. Denka gave them their names based on their obvious behaviors when he first encountered them. However, it runs deeper than he knows. Namida came from Kagakusha's hatred of the world and its blindness and stupidity, her hatred of the stupidity of her roommate and friends that almost led to her being raped, her hatred at herself for being out of control, and her anger at Kax for leaving her. Hana came from the sadness and depression she felt from her self-imposed isolation, that desire for positive attention that almost never came, her loneliness and suffering, her longing for Kax. Nokori was the Kagakusha that Kax used to know - quiet, logical, and with a depth of insight that few could hope for.

On the mental plane, Namida is represented with a tear burned into her forehead, Hana with a flower in her hair, and Nokori with her hair tied up in Kax's scarf.

Despite her bad experiences with the M-2 Specimen A, Kagakusha refused to give up. She had nothing else to focus on. Namida took the attack as a personal insult, and therefore her desire to work on the project was something of a way to prove that she could not be stopped. She was still intelligent and hardworking, and her work was vital to the project, which was increasingly appearing to be the future of the facility, so she was allowed to stay on, despite how unstable she was. Prof. Denka explained to others her disorder in hopes of reducing incidents. Kagakusha's dominant personality is Namida, whose hateful and vindictive nature earned Kagakusha the reputation that she has today. Namida hates everyone, including herself, and may have several mental disorders on her own. She is, quite frankly, a hazard to herself and others, and staunchly refuses to believe in Hana and Nokori. She has random periods of intense, dangerous paranoia. She also occasionally refuses the medication that Prof. Denka prescribes her to keep her under control. Hana is the only one who will even try to co-operate.

Kagakusha grudgingly respects Prof. Denka, but has no tolerance for Dr. Dowasure whatsoever. Namida hates him, as he seems to be the exact opposite of what she believes a scientist should be. Also, Dowasure's happy and outgoing nature sometimes reminds her of Kax, and she hates him for that. She'll never turn down an opportunity to berate, belittle, or even physically harm Dowasure, and it infuriates her that Dowasure is so reluctant to stand up for himself. Hana, at the rarer occasions she takes control, tries to make amends for what Namida does, but Dowasure can never remember what is wrong with the woman, and therefore does not understand. This torments Hana. Nokori almost never appears, and even Hana has trouble believing she exists.

Kagakusha has almost a fanatical devotion towards her work, and will do anything to complete a project that she has set her mind to. She is never happy with her results and continually tries to create newer, better versions of things that were already good enough. A particular disappointment to her was M-2 Specimen C, also known as Cyrus, and she hates him with a passion, as he seems to personify everything that could go wrong in such an experiment where free will was the least desired result. Kagakusha, although she feels guilty about some of her duties, will fulfill her obligations as they're required. She particularly did not enjoy what she had to do to C after he returned to the facility, and both parts of her seriously regret doing it.

Kagakusha isn't above using others for her own purposes, and it's only Hana's influence that keeps her from becoming completely sociopathic. She will do anything to advance whatever project she's working on, and she's devoted to her job. She refuses to speak about Kax at all to anyone, and has even denied she ever existed, saying she grew up alone and she will most likely die alone. Kagakusha also believes that Kax is dead, therefore this prediction isn't that far of the mark. Few can stand to be near her for long, as she will lash out at the slightest provocation, more often than not violently. When Hana is in control for more then a few minutes, her simpering and whining and begging for positive attention quickly gets on one's nerves. Only Prof. Denka has ever spoken to Nokori.

Kagakusha doesn't expect people to like her and more so, doesn't want them to. She wants to get her job done. She keeps fastidious records in her computer of everything she does.

When Teishi came along, Kagakusha saw something she could not only vent her anger out on, but something that she could use, a tool for helping around the lab, as well as a precursor to her ultimate project, the complete removal of free will (which she believes was the reason that C was such a failure). She was the first to hit Teishi and is, by far, his most consistent and violent tormentor. If he happens to be around when Namida flies into a rage, he often comes out with broken bones. Teishi is terrified of her, and for good reason.

Kagakusha is extremely unstable, even when she's Hana, and should not be underestimated under any circumstances.

Dr. Kagakusha's been in Koinonayami, Fractured, A Poofmas Carol, Get a Clue!, The Rocky Horror Pokémon Genetic Research Institute, Nightmare, 'S a $%&#in' Strange World Out There, Obediance, Taiken, and Hikaru no Ashita.
Dr. Kagakusha's been mentioned in Volatile, Kenshin, Desperate Times, and others.