Urano Motosu

History
Urano Motosu (本須麗乃, Motosu Urano) was a young woman fresh from college who just found her dream job as a librarian. She lived with her widowed mother, while her father died in an accident when she was young.

She told her childhood friend, Shuu, that, if she were to die she'd wanted to die through an avalanche of books.

She died just after graduating college and getting a job at the college's library. Urano died buried by books she didn't put away properly during an earthquake in her house; her last memory is praying desperately that she would still read books even in the next life.

Once Urano realized that she had died, Urano thought of her mother and how she would have reacted to her death.

Personality
She felt rewarded when she learned something new from a book. The book's subject didn't really matter to her, as she just wanted to read words. In fact, she felt restless to the degree of life-threatening restlessness, whenever she wasn't reading. She loves the dusty smell from old books, but also the smell of new paper and ink. She always kept a book near her at all times. She even read while bathing and walking.

Her skin was very pale because she rarely went out, exercised little, and sometimes went on without eating for a few days.

Urano's personality is the one she shows as Myne. So, Myne became a weird book-obsessed girl through the consciousness of Urano living as Myne. Even in her Urano days she is perceived as weird and book-obsessed by all people around her.

Trivia

 * It had been Urano's dream to travel around the world to visit libraries with long a history.
 * Urano's mother was very into crafts, dispite not being good at them and would give up easily half way through. She would drag Urano along resulting in being very good at a lot of different handcrafts.
 * Her mother made Urano practise all sorts of hobbies like playing piano, dancing etc. in hope that she'd find something besides books in her life. Urano went along with anything because her mother bribed her with books. So after the agreed period Urano had quit anything as they took away her reading time.
 * Her mother cried when Urano got a respectable job.
 * She wore glasses
 * She had a driver's license.
 * She has a childhood friend that lives next door, named Shuu. They have been friends since daycare and are very close, while not sharing any romantic feeling at all. He would often eat at Urano's house, while his mother works.
 * Urano's father died when she was really young, so she had no experience with father-daughter relationships. She rememebered that her father carried her once on his shoulders when she was young.
 * Moments before the original Myne died, Urano heard Myne complain about how hot the fever is. Urano asked Myne what she wants her to do, but Myne did not respond back.
 * Urano would write everything she could remember on a notepad so that she could remember them. Because of this, she called herself the "notepad monster".
 * According to Fanbook 1, Urano Motosu is basically a word play and means something like "of course, books are mine". "Ura" is used a first person pronoun, so her name refers to "watashi no mono" which means "my things" or "Mine" (English) or "Main" (German). (Side Note: Actually, "mine" is spelled "mein" in German).
 * Her name contains the character for "book" (本 = "hon").