Taeko Dōjima

Dōjima ‘Tae’ Taeko (堂島 妙子)
↳ Local coffee-shop entrepreneur, amateur lion tamer.

The face claim for Tae is Naoko Mori.

Within walking distance of Tyson’s apartment is his favourite café in all of London: The Biscuit Tin, est. 1997. The Biscuit Tin was opened by 堂島 妙子 when she was only 28, and has been owned & operated by her ever since. Tae enjoys making tea and coffee, pastries, and cakes, but she loves making people happy with her tea and coffee, pastries, and cakes.

Originally Tyson was drawn to the shop because it was so close to his home and accepted dogs inside. He kept returning when he discovered that 妙 served Turkish brew coffee and his two favourite type of tea, Jasmine & Pomegranate and Peppermint & Nettle. Since then, Tyson and Tae have become good friends.

Technically Tae doesn’t make takeaway drinks, however, she always lets Tyson - and anyone else who provides their own flask - take a flask of coffee away; officially for himself, but truly for the Moriarty Mirrors. Tyson and James, his nephew, will always say that Jasmine makes their favourite treats, but James asks to visit The Biscuit Tin for Zebra Shortbread every time Tyson babysits him.

She has a Leonberger called Simba who joins her for her morning jogs every morning. Though their schedules don’t always align, Tyson (with Lily & Bobby) join them. Afterwards, after briefly parting for showers, Tyson will join Tae at The Biscuit Tin before her employees arrive and help her set up the store whilst chatting.

When Tae takes her yearly trip to Japan to visit the rest of the Dōjima family, Tyson looks after her house: watering the plants, cleaning, feeding the tropical fish, and taking care of Simba from her home. He’s a sweet dog who gets on with both Lily and Bobby, but he is also a very large dog and Tyson’s apartment is already crowded.

Tae doesn’t know the truth of Tyson’s work, only his usual cover story, but she’ll always let him duck into her kitchen when he needs to escape The Colonel. He told her that Sebastian is an ex-boyfriend that it didn’t end well with, which technically isn’t false. As far as she knows, Tyson is a very popular, social person. The truth is that Tyson uses her café as a safe place to meet with the employees and pets of the web.

When neither have much on their plate, Tae can convince Tyson to join her for a hike out with the dogs. Far less frequently, Tae can talk Tyson into joining her for kickboxing. Even when he agrees to go without having his arm twisted, Tyson feels tricked into the situation, and bruised. Very bruised. Both in body and ego.

The most important fact to remember about Taeko is that she is fire. Through and through. She is burning at 100%, 100% of the time.

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Dōjima ‘Tae’ Taeko

UNIVERAL TRUTHS

• Blood Type: A Negative
• Date of Birth: May 23rd 1969 - Gemini - Rooster (Earth)
• DnD Alignment: Lawful Good
• Dominant Hand: Left
• Ethnicity: Japanese
• Myers Briggs Type: ESFJ-T | The Consul
• Orientation: Heterosexual
• Religion: Shinto
• Signature:

FAVOURITE

• Favourite Animal: Lion
• Favourite Author: Kendra Elliot
• Favourite Colour: Baby blue
• Favourite Film: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Favourite Food: Peach Flan
• Favourite Plant: Sundew
• Favourite Poem: I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Daffodils) - William Wordsworth

VERSE DEPENDANT

• Avatar Element: Fire
• His Dark Material’s Dæmon: Red Eyed Tree Frog
• Hogwarts House: Gryffindor
• Hybrid!Verse Pairing: Horse
• Mass Effect Species: Batarian
• Pokémon Team: (Alolan) Exeggutor, Rotom (Heat), Tepig, Panpour, Pyroar, & Hawlucha

Colour Tyson’s Synesthesia Projects Onto Them: