Generally good girl, but she’s a bit clumsy with the enthusiasm of
someone several years younger. Unlike a lot of the Leatherworkers she
hasn’t been beaten down by life yet and still has the optimism of a
child who hasn’t yet learned how the world works. She brings him all
manner of broken “treasures” that he still rarely has the heart to tell
her are almost never worth what he sells them for; several he even fixes
for free when he can tell she wants it for herself more than the money.
She keeps entertaining fantasies about how her life is going to change
that she will enthusiastically tell him while he works:
- A handsome samurai will catch a fleeting glimpse of her on the street in the Noble Quarter and fall madly in love with her.
- She’ll find some valuable bauble that was thrown away, sell it, and use the money to become a merchant in a far-off town.
- After helping an injured fox it will turn out to be a kitsune who teaches her a magic spell that allows her to defeat a wicked oni and be rewarded by the emperor himself.
- After helping an injured crane a beautiful man will appear and become her husband before mysteriously producing fabulous silks in secret.
- Off in the mountains she encounters and helps a dragon who then shows up as a cute girl who insists on being her maid and living with her.
She has a pet monkey, Hiccup. She had found it injured in a crushed basket about three years ago, nursed it back to health, and has kept it as a pet since. The magistrates have since imprisoned it.
After holding Hiccup for over a week, the magistrates attempted to return Hiccup. Though her ill father was still living in their hovel, Genki was nowhere to be found, and nobody had seen her since Hiccup had been taken. The last he had seen of her, she claimed to be going to the cemetery to visit her mother's grave.