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September Event Calendar

2011-10-03T03:26:03Z

※ September 2011
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※ EVENTS
※ Dream a Little Dream For the sole event of this month, citizens of Edensphere will not find anything plaguing their day to day waking lives, but will find no true peace in their dreams. Spherians will find their dreamscapes merging with the dreamscapes of others, and will be able to interact with one another and have adventures in a world entirely their own. Some will have no control over the contents of their dreams, but some will have lucid dreams, in which they can manipulate their environment to their wishes through sheer willpower alone. For those that will venture the effort, they may discover a fascinating fact: in these dreamworlds, they are not subject to the will of the Tree.
※ THE WILDERNESS
※The Blank Slate

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2011-08-27T06:33:12Z

※ AUGUST 2011
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※ Fan Service (07/26-08/06) Spherians will find themselves hindered on their daily routines as the Sphere endeavors to make life difficult for them but all too entertaining for those watching them. Characters will find their shirts spontaneously ripping off and skirts becoming shorter, or perhaps they will find themselves in a fetching maid or school uniform.
※ Pirates vs Ninjas (08/09-08/13, 08/26-08/27) For this event, characters will be clothed in the traditional garb of ninjas and pirates everywhere as the Sphere divides its population in two. Those dressed as ninjas will find themselves curiously pushed away from those dressed as pirates and vice versa. No ninja-pirates allowed!
※ Superheroes and Villians (08/07-08/08, 08/21-08/25) It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s all the superhero clichés you can think of, including this very phrase! Yes, this month, citizens of Edensphere will not be wearing clothing of their choice very often, as for this event they will don the colourful spandex favoured by most superheroes and villains. Just be careful with those capes!
※ WAR! (08/14-08/20, 08/28-08/31) In a bizarre turn of events, the Sphere will shift to a war-ravaged setting. Special effects and props will mimic explosions, bullets, barbed wire and anything else you would commonly find in any war movie. In addition, the mannequins once restricted to the wilderness will find their way into all of Edensphere and are cloaked in soldier uniforms. Eerily, these mannequins do nothing more than march stiffly around until a false explosion eventually tears their limbs asunder. Ah, but that’s not all – the citizens of Edensphere have been likewise pulled into this façade of a war and will find themselves clothed in either grey or rainbow fatigues. They will not be allowed to consort with those of the opposing uniform, which means that those with roommates who are in different fatigues will need to find other, temporary lodgings. Along with the uniforms, they will receive weapons. For more details please see our brief FAQ.
※ THE WILDERNESS
※ Blank Slate (08/01, 08/03, 08/05, 08/07, 08/09, 08/11, 08/13, 08/22,0 8/24, 08/26) Blank whiteness before you, behind you, and all around. You feel ground beneath your feet but see no shadow and no landmarks.
※ Spirit World (08/02, 08/04, 08/06, 08/08, 08/10, 08/12) Residents that step into this wilderness first find themselves in an empty field next to an abandoned Japanese amusement park. Empty food stalls and stores dot the landscape…but are they really empty? And why does that abandoned bathhouse in the distance show signs of life? If daring adventurers wait until nightfall they will discover this world's secret, as this is no ordinary bathhouse--it is the bathhouse for the Gods. Do you dare to hold your breath, cross the red bridge enter this sacred place? If you do, will you remember yourself enough to make it out come dawn? For the most daring this is truly an amazing place to relax…if you can play the right price.
※Battle School (08/14-08/20) On the face of it, Battle School may seem quite ordinary. When Spherians arrive, they will find an organized boarding school, complete with classrooms, bunk beds, locker rooms and a cafeteria. Inside of the students’ rooms, they will also find desks with screens built into them that are built to run simulator games, geared towards the evolution of the strategic mind. Where Battle School truly differs, however, are the Battle Rooms. There are nine different Battle Rooms which are essentially large, anti-gravity chambers. Once Spherians enter this chamber, they will find themselves equipped with guns that shoot signals, and uniforms that are built to absorb aforesaid signals. When one person is hit by a signal, that portion of their body becomes paralyzed. Though this area was initially built to train one’s military skills, citizens of Edensphere are free to use it simply for playing around.
※ The Fade (08/21, 08/23, 08/25, 08/27, 08/28-08/31) This wilderness is the realm of dreamers, and therefore each Spherian who chooses to enter will be confronted with something different, whether it be something from a gentle dream or a nightmare. The stuff of their dreams will be made material in this place, which explains its erratic and often surreal appearance. Whatever lands the characters dream of – whether they be from Edensphere or from their own homes – will be found in The Fade, however distorted, as the edges of the world tend to blur at the edges and the green light is low in order to obscure one’s sight. One must not be taken in by the strange beauty that lingers in this place – there is danger in the form of spirits and demons who will seek to harm those who enter.

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APPLICATION: Tangled - Rapunzel [DREAM RE-WRITE]

2011-08-17T13:57:47Z

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“You're being strangely cryptic as you wrap your magic hair around my injured hand...” Just those words and then the image of a young mans hand, with golden hair wrapped around it, fades to her singing and watching the night sky. A small chameleon nearby pointed to it’s hand with a smirk. The girl felt such a fondness for that little animal- a pet maybe?

“Flower gleam and glow, let your power shine. Make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine.” She sang softly, brushing out her hair while a young man sat nearby. Around him, she felt safe and she trusted him enough to let him see. What he was seeing, she wasn’t sure but it didn’t matter. She knew he wouldn’t betray that trust, instinctively.

“Heal what has been hurt, change the Fates design. Save what has been lost, bring back what once was mine~ What once what mine.” She assumed it was a lullaby, it was relaxing enough. Especially with all those pretty lanterns floating up into the sky, to the stars. Everything felt absolutely… perfect. She wanted to dance, she wanted to sing some more. If only there were more time, but she could feel that her time was restricted. Restricted by the image of a tower, walls inside covered in hundreds of paintings and each one having something in common.

Images flashes, merging together and making it difficult to decipher what was what. An older woman brushing her hair, telling stories and then a group of singing thugs and a secret passage with the encouragement to fulfill her dream. What dream? And then she was running, a young man at her side. The same one that she wrapped her hair around his hand and he was helping her carrying her hair as water rushed towards them from behind.

And then they were trapped. Water rising. Nothing but pitch black around them. There had to be a way out, had to be! She didn’t want to die! Mother, she should have listened to you!

SPECIAL APPLICATION: Star Wars EU - Grodin Tierce [AU]

2011-08-12T02:00:07Z

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AU (Alternate Universe) Character Application
PLAYER INFO
NAME: Joysweeper
AGE: 22
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: Juhani, Janine/Above, and Luke/Ben.

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Grodin Tierce (the clone)
SERIES: The Star Wars Expanded Universe
PERSONALITY:
Tierce
is an experiment. The clone of a Force-Sensitive soldier, with that
soldier’s mind and memories, plus some of the mind and memories of an
alien genius. That soldier had been indoctrinated or brainwashed into
highest, most fanatic loyalty, which the alien genius didn’t share,
though said alien was absolutely dedicated to a tangentially related and
less specific cause. Their clone spent some of his formative days in
the presence of a mad Jedi Master who shared neither obsession, but who
would casually touch and warp the minds of the people around him.

Unsurprisingly, the end result is not quite neurotypical.

In
most settings - in public, with most people - Tierce is a little
blank-seeming, sort of bland, enormously patient, and diffident. He’s
somewhat socially uncertain and awkward, but in a well-meaning way. He
likes people and wants to be useful, and can easily waste time on
frivolous pursuits, or dissemble. Insult him and he’ll either laugh it
off or be hurt; he can be made angry, but it takes some doing, and then
he’s more indignant than anything. Though he’s not clumsy or forgetful,
he sort of gives that impression - he often seems slightly distracted.
Similarly, he can seem a bit slow, clueless, unsure. Harmless.

It’s
not an act. Not really. He’s often like this when alone, too. On the
job - in situations where it’s called for - he seems decidedly crisper,
more alert, more focused.

That
crispness softens the line between his outer and middle selves. His
middle self is a warrior strategist. Sharp, intense, blunt, very sure.
The way he speaks and stands is different. He moves much faster, more
efficiently. He doesn’t dissemble and backs down only grudgingly, though
he will compromise if he sees enough of a need, and can use some very
biting sarcasm. As his middle self he’s much more of a perfectionist,
highly disciplined, and with little interest in anything outside of the
task at hand. He’ll interrupt people without apology. When he’s angry,
he’s clipped and cold. However, he’ll blunt his edges to soothe allies
into sticking with him.

He
doesn’t show that middle self to just anyone. If someone
has seen it and recognized it as different from his
focused outer self, he will show it to them in subsequent meetings, if
there aren’t people who haven’t seen it around. Tierce prefers to be
overlooked. He also finds it somewhat tiring to show this self for long.

Tierce
also has an inner self. It’s emotional, self-centered, without filter
or self-restraint. He hates switching into it, but if he doesn’t now and
again he sometimes enters it involuntarily and has a panic attack. His
posture and movements are different here, too, being erratic and sudden.
When he’s angry, he’s loud and sometimes violent. This self is never
voluntarily shown to anyone, but sometimes - during extreme desperation
or after trying to study artwork - it manifests around people. The inner
self is the most tiring.

Each
self is equally true, and they’re all him. He may do something while
showing his inner self for reasons he doesn’t understand as his outer or
middle self, but they aren’t split personalities. He can always hold to
a plan. He feels the same way about a given person as each self, though
between his outer self’s desire to get along and his middle self’s
discipline and narrow focus, it’s only as his inner self that everything
can be shown. Tierce has great control over his first and second
selves, and can change from one to the other easily.

No
matter which self is being expressed, he is quite intelligent, though
his outer self downplays this. Loyalty - service to something larger
than himself - is key to him, though wrapped around that is the drive
for revenge against what hurt the focus of that loyalty. In the pursuit
of goals related to that key, he is ruthless and willing to disregard
rules he normally keeps.

Tierce
has a bad habit of making assumptions, sometimes colossal ones, based
on observations and speculation. Sometimes these are right. Sometimes
they’re not right, but he’s close enough and sees the truth coming in
time to salvage the situation. Sometimes they’re very wrong. He doesn’t
understand people as fully as he might think, and tends to underestimate
them.

In
the long view, Tierce is extraordinarily patient. It doesn’t matter if a
goal will take ten years or more, he’ll commit to it. This isn’t to say
that he can’t feel impatience, but he can easily conquer this feeling
as his outer self, and as his middle is generally too disciplined to
break with the plan.

As
his outer and middle selves, he rarely tells anyone everything. He is
not trusting. Neither will he throw away allies if he still believes
there’s use left in them.

The
alien genius’s personality is partially reflected in his middle self,
but it shows in another way too. Tierce intermittently hears a voice
which he interprets as Thrawn’s, though it’s often too soft to really
understand. Whether or not it’s a second personality depends on how you
look at it. He thinks he does, more or less. He thinks that Thrawn’s
mind, or part of it, lives on in his head. He’s directed by it – the
rest of him has little initiative or imagination.

But
it’s his own voice. The voice of what he should have been – someone
intensely analytical, hyperobservant, and driven. And it has little
power - it’s a voice that fades in and out and a vague feeling, nothing
more. It follows along with and sometimes comments on his general
thoughts and on things it picks up through the subconscious. It never
comes completely out of the black with a thought; everything is either
an observation or connected to what he’s already thinking.

TIMELINE: After he dies, late in Vision of the Future.
CANON+AU BACKGROUND:
Be patient, please. This will take a while.

Far
outside of the Republic there was a spacefaring people called the
Chiss. One of them was Commander Mitth’raw’nuruodo, core name Thrawn, a
tactician and strategist of unparalleled skill and boldness. He likened
combat to art and studied both.

A
large task force sent by then-Senator Palpatine was intercepted and
destroyed by Thrawn, even though his forces had been tiny in comparison.
Capturing its leader, Thrawn was warned about an incoming Jedi force,
Outbound Flight, and told it was a threat to the Chiss people. Not long
after making contact with Outbound Flight, their leader attempted to
strangle him with the Force, and so Thrawn’s forces destroyed them.

His
people exiled him for the tactics he used, and in exile he was picked
up by the Galactic Empire and trained. Despite being a nonhuman in a
society where nonhumans were seen as lesser, he worked his way quickly
and surely through the ranks until he was made Grand Admiral, one of
only thirteen.

On
the way he earned the respect of Darth Vader, and Vader’s secret
commandos, the Noghri. Noghri were collectively under a life debt to
Vader, believing that he had descended to save their world from a toxin.
In reality, the Empire had seeded the world with this toxin, and
Vader’s aid was a carefully-designed ploy.

Thrawn
apparently fouled up somehow in politics and was sent with his forces
on a “mapping expedition” in the Unknown Regions, which was popularly
thought to be a disgrace and a waste of his talents. In reality, he was
carving a new branch of the Empire out there, far from Coruscant and the
Core Worlds. Five years after the Emperor’s death and the Rebellion’s
victory he returned and picked up what was left of the Empire. From the
bridge of Captain Pellaeon’s Chimaera, he led a very successful campaign
against what he always insisted was the Rebellion.

Unlike
many Imperials, he could take a loss and recognize when he had made a
mistake, though there were relatively few of either. A lot happened,
but in sum, he allied with a cloned Dark Jedi, almost defeated the Rebel
upstarts, activated the cloning facilities on Wayland, and was killed
by his Noghri bodyguard Rukh at a critical juncture, after Leia exposed
what had really been done to the Noghri homeworld.

A
month before this, he uploaded some of his memories and personality
into a new project,an attempt to make a new breed of warlord. That
clone had some of his mind, but his body and most of his brain and
memories were cloned and transferred from the original Grodin Tierce,
hereafter called TR-889 for simplicity’s sake.

TR-889
was born and raised on midlevel Imperial Center/Coruscant. When
TR-889’s older brother left to join the Army, he followed a year later
at the age of seventeen, lying about his age to get in.

It
wasn’t long before he found himself in the Stormtrooper Corps, and with
his unit was sent out to do everything from clean out pirate bases to
put down Rebel insurgents to patrol stable cities. TR-889 was promoted
several times, eventually becoming a Captain; during this time he
briefly served under then-Vice Admiral Thrawn. He was known for having a
cool head and a sense of command, as well as extraordinary reflexes.

He
was also known for being very devoted to the Empire. He had absolutely
no sympathy for the Rebels. If the Empire said a thing was so, then it
was so; therefore, Alderaan was a tragic result of Rebels hijacking a
mining tool, and he would kill unarmed civilians of any age if ordered.
His lack of enthusiasm for classing people who weren’t healthy human
males as NonHuMan and inferior was really the only part of Imperial
doctrine in which he wasn’t a model Imperial – as he saw it, loyalty to
the Empire was more important than species, gender, or cybernetics.

While
they were stationed together TR-889 found unclear evidence that his
elder brother had Rebel sympathies. He’d confronted his brother and
heard vague excuses before the base they were both stationed on was
attacked by insurgents, and during the fighting his brother went MIA.
It was reported that he had saved his squad by throwing himself onto a
grenade. TR-889 believed this and discreetly disposed of the evidence.

He
performed excellently in the stormtrooper corps, and at the age of
twenty-three he was selected to be trained as one of the Emperor’s
personal bodyguards. They’re known by a lot of names – Imperial Guard,
Royal Guard, Red Guard, Emperor’s Guard – but here will be called simply
Guardsmen.

Training
for this position was intense. As might be expected, training in many
forms of combat, exotic and common, was part of it. So was learning to
work effectively alone or in pairs, spotting concealed weaponry,
‘reading’ a crowd, speaking and writing in a unique language, “slicing”
aka hacking records and droids, and techniques to sustain their
bodyguarded person until help arrived. Some of these involved the
Force, sustaining a life in particular.

But
it also involved a particular mental training. Tierce once says, “A
Royal Guardsman never seeks special privileges, ever. His entire goal in
life is to serve the Emperor, and the New Order he created. This is his
goal in life, and his desire in death.” This training, or perhaps
brainwashing, caused yet greater loyalty to the Emperor, so strong that
in his presence Guardsmen were utterly subservient to his will. Even
before training’s end, the Emperor had them fight each other to the
death to test this loyalty. And they did, without hesitation or
question, although after the heat of the moment TR-889 wished he hadn’t
had to do it.

His
class started with forty young but expert stormtroopers. Training took
a year. At the end of it, between fights and people with stronger
affinity to the Force being removed to elsewhere, there were five
Guardsmen.

Months later, the Emperor died.

Many
Guardsmen died with the Death Star, but small numbers were often lent
to other high-ranking Imperials - both as bodyguards and to check their
loyalty. They were also rotated out to take out targets, or to make
them don normal stormtrooper armor and fight within the stormtrooper
corps in order to let them keep their edge. TR-889 was one of them,
taking out a Rebel cell, when the Emperor died.

It
shook him profoundly. Guardsmen didn’t have anything like as strong a
Force-bond to the Emperor as the Emperor’s Hands did, but the Emperor
had still become the center of his galaxy – loyalty to Palpatine
superseded any previous ties. One of the Guardsmen tried to commit
suicide. On instinct TR-889 tried to preserve his life, but the other
Guardsman had no will to go on. If the other two hadn’t broken his
focus, he would have died too. After that he and those other two
returned to Imperial service and split up.

TR-889
hid the fact that he was a Guardsman, since after the Emperor’s death
he didn’t feel like those who tried to run the Empire were worthy of the
same loyalty. Actually, TR-889 hacked his own service file. The
Guardsmen were a very secretive order, but records still showed him
disappearing entirely for a year, and never rejoining any specific part
of Imperial service. He changed them, and for years after that his
first act on gaining access to any database which might have a clue was
to find and alter related files.

In
the five years between the Emperor’s death and the return of Grand
Admiral Thrawn, he had himself transferred repeatedly until he started
to serve as part of the security detail aboard the Star Destroyer
Chimaera. He watched the Empire declining over the
years and was disgusted, but leaving it was inconceivable.

During
that time he came more regularly into contact with his family. While
he was on leave and visiting them on Imperial Center, Rebels sabotaged
the planetary shields and invaded. The current head of the Empire
planned for this to happen, having seeded the planet with a plague that
only killed nonhumans. TR-889 helped his family and a few of their
neighbors escape on the shuttle he’d come in on. Civilians weren’t
supposed to board those – later he reported himself in and was given a
slap on the wrist as reprimand.

One
neighbor was a woman he’d known as a child, and who resettled near
where his parents did. Within a year and a half they were engaged, and
at last TR-889 started to consider leaving service and settling down.
Then, however, Grand Admiral Thrawn returned from the Unknown Regions
and took the Chimaera as his flagship.

TR-889
found his near-worship of the Emperor returning in force, directed at a
new figurehead. His desire to leave the service evaporated completely
under the sense that he could serve a new great Empire, and his
non-military relationships suffered for it. He didn’t tell the Grand
Admiral that he had been a Guardsman, and he was never sure if Thrawn
knew, but he did find himself being cycled out into field missions which
tested his abilities. And he did well.

He
was picked to be the template for Thrawn’s experiment. Not long after
being cloned and uploading his memories, TR-889 was killed in an assault
on Generis.

The
clone Tierce was decanted shortly after this. Thrawn could have
ordered other mixed-origin clones to be made, but he didn’t. Tierce
didn’t immediately appear to be a success, but neither was he failure
enough to just be terminated, and perhaps in time he would prove
himself. He was stationed on the Chimaera as a high-ranked member of
security - not the same position his template had been in, but not far
from it either.

The
insane cloned Dark Jedi, Joruus C’baoth, was also on the Chimaera.
C’baoth had a way of seizing the minds of the people around them and
reshaping them a little, enough to get them to do his bidding. This
happened several times to Tierce. He hated C’baoth, but this slight
reshaping contributed to what his template had passed down to him, the
effects of brainwashing and that desire to serve something greater than
himself, and it probably added to his instability.

The
clone Tierce never knew that he had been tested and had failed. During
the Battle of Bilbringi he expected an attempt on Thrawn’s life to be
made, and assumed that it would be in the form of a commando team
docking in the shuttle bay, so that’s where he stationed his forces. He
was able to kill Rukh as the latter was trying to escape, but felt that
he had failed abjectly.

Knowing
that he would otherwise be pressed into the kind of service other
clones were assigned – turbolaser fodder, mostly – he altered the
records to show that Tierce had been severely wounded on Generis but had
survived, and after injuring himself with the help of a reprogrammed
2-1B surgical droid, he took his template’s identity.

He
kept that up for ten years. Tierce had some trouble relating to his
template’s family and friends. While he did have his template’s
memories he felt a little removed from and awkward around them. Thanks
to the reported trauma no one suspected he wasn’t his template, but the
inherited relationship with his fiance declined quickly and broke off,
which he always saw with a combination of regret and relief. For a while
he mostly coasted on his identity, doing little of note.

As
every effort the Empire made was beaten back, as they were ground down
to a fraction of their old glory, the attitude in much of the Empire
became one of grim resignation. There was even talk of ending the war,
bowing to the upstarts - the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Remnant,
the same Pellaeon who’d served with Thrawn - even spoke of it openly.
Tierce hated that attitude and plan with a passion, but there was little
he could do.

Five
years after replacing his template, Tierce found that his brother – his
template’s brother – wasn’t dead after all. He was serving the
Rebellion, having faked his death. Tierce took it personally and roused
out of his slump, calling on the brilliant part of himself to track the
man down and, eventually, kill him.

He
was now aware that he could do some good, though he was not Thrawn.
Tierce attached himself as the military liason to Moff Disra, who was
somewhat self-serving but ultimately loved the Empire, someone he could
manipulate and act through. Disra had always had criminal contacts, but
was terribly undiplomatic about his allies. Tierce was able to smooth
things out a little, and get him new contacts. One result was Disra
getting a major contract for Imperial starfighters.

Disra
was smarter than he seemed and, after eight months, looked into the
background of his very unremarkable military liason. Tierce was aware of
this and, though his records mostly reflected an innocuous past,
allowed him to learn that Tierce had been a Guardsman. Disra confronted
him, saw his middle self, and introduced him to Flim - an actor who
could perfectly imitate Grand Admiral Thrawn’s appearance, voice, and
sheer presence.

Disra’s
idea, the idea he’d sold Flim on, was to just bring this fake Thrawn up
and use him as a figurehead to rally the Imperial Remnant. Tierce
immediately had larger, grander plans. When Pellaeon retreated to an
isolated sector of neutral space and sent an envoy to talk to a Rebel
military leader, Tierce had the envoy captured and imprisoned. The envoy
signaled, but with the comm jamming active Tierce didn’t think anyone
had received it.

Presently
there was a crisis in the Rebellion revolving around the razing of an
innocent world and how that had been made possible by the efforts of a
handful of Bothans; the razing happened decades ago, but many cultures
took the subject as a good pretext to go to war with various rivals and
ancestral enemies.

Tierce
wanted to take advantage of that, and so he had several discreet,
competent Star Destroyer captains meet with Flim, who as Thrawn gave
them assignments. They were sent to wait cloaked in orbit above the
Bothan homeworld, as fleets started massing there. Disra had found the
secret cells - sleeper cells, not biological - of clones Thrawn had
scattered about and activated many of them, and Tierce repurposed those.
He also sent agents to instigate riots in already-unhappy crowds, and
more to prepare to sabotage planetary shields.

Knowing
that the whole crisis could be solved by finding just who made the
razing possible, Tierce hacked the Emperor’s private records of the
incident, finding and destroying any of his
incriminating records at the same time. Then he sent Disra’s pirate
allies to harass Pellaeon’s ship while under the sign of the people
Pellaeon was trying to contact, a calculated gesture.

Tierce
had Lando Calrissian and a Diamalan Senator who was hitching a ride
with him apprehended and taken before Flim, who as Thrawn deftly
convinced them that he was genuine, before releasing them to spread the
word - offering his assistance in the crisis. Another calculated
gesture. They then reactivated a few more clone cells and were around to
accept when an uneasy border-occupying Rebel world wanted to leave and
enter Imperial protection. The whole time they were propagating the
rumor that Thrawn was back, but keeping it as a rumor so the Rebellion
wouldn’t react with overwhelming force.

Disra,
increasingly uneasy about their alliance and the way Tierce was always
pushing his limits, threatened him and was instantly disarmed. Tierce
then gave the weapon back and explained that there was something called
the Hand of Thrawn, which he claimed was a person or a plan for ultimate
Imperial victory, and he was trying to draw them out.

The
Diamala sent a small attack force in anonymous ships to test them, but
Disra was able to identify them, and Tierce directed Flim into making
the opening move Thrawn had used against Diamala, which scared this
batch off.

When
Imperial ships got a recording of a mysterious ship making a flyby,
Tierce recognized it as Chiss/Empire of the Hand but soon found that the
recording was part of a ploy to find the Imperial capital which they
were at right now, and Rebels were there looking for data. At the same
time Pellaeon arrived to have a talk with Disra about some sketchy
dealings, and Disra’s angry pirate allies snuck in tailed by a Mistryl
shadow guard. Tierce interrupted the interrogation of Disra with a
report on the Rebels and offered himself, outer self showing, for
Pellaeon to question. As the Rebel situation became complicated Tierce
and Disra, having recovered his composure, switched places again, but
Disra found out that his angry pirate allies were in the palace and left
Pellaeon in his office.

Tierce
prioritized - Pellaeon would keep, they were on their way to finding
the Rebels, the only way to deal with the pirates now was kill them or
scare them, and what could scare them more than the Grand Admiral? He
assured Flim that he could protect him from anything... and when they
got word of the Rebels being tricky and Disra infuriated the pirates,
Tierce did. With the unexpected help of the Mistryl shadow guard, who
was out for the death of the pirate leader and hadn’t wanted anyone else
to get that kill. Flim started pitching the idea of an alliance to her.

Pellaeon
had underhandedly broken into Disra’s unguarded desk, found that his
envoy had been captured and detained, and left without waiting for his
host to return. Tierce told Disra to stop panicking - they had the
ultimate excuse, they could say it had all been at Thrawn’s orders. Then
he and Flim intercepted the Rebels - Lando Calrissian and Han Solo -
utterly convinced them that Thrawn was back, and gave them a doctored
version of the information they’d come for - carefully sliced and
altered to implicate many important Bothans.

Soon
Tierce made one of Thrawn’s tactical great assumptions, putting
together facts which appeared to mean that a Rebel force was going to go
to Bothan space to try to keep a lid on the situation, and realizing
that in fact it was a trick, and the Rebels were going for one of the
Empire’s great information hubs to try to get the data, as they didn’t
know about the doctored version yet. He had that base prepared, and also
decided to hold the talks with Mistryl representatives there.

And
yes, that’s where the Rebels struck, and were trapped, which impressed
the Mistryl reps. And then Pellaeon walked back on to the scene. He now
knew who Flim was... and who and what Tierce was.

Driven
into inner self, Tierce furiously told everyone on the bridge what he’d
kept secret his whole life, and almost pleaded with Pellaeon to let
things go on. He could win the war. He could have vengeance against the
Rebels. Pellaeon, saddened, said that vengeance had never been Thrawn’s
way, and the war was over. Tierce had been a failure - there had been
more than enough time after his creation and before Thrawn’s death for
more of his kind to be created, but there never had been.

Tierce
snapped, lunged for Pellaeon, and was intercepted by one of the
Mistryl. He was badly wounded; time in a bacta tank would have helped,
but there was no reason to waste that resource. He was quietly tried,
found guilty of treason, and executed, all without returning fully to
consciousness.

APPLICATION: Valkyrie Profile - Arngrim

2011-08-12T01:56:38Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.

PLAYER INFO

NAME: Wilhelm

LOCATION/TIME ZONE: France / GMT+2

CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: N/A

CHARACTER INFO

CHARACTER NAME: Arngrim

SERIES: Valkyrie Profile

RESERVED: No

WISHLIST: No

PERSONALITY:

Arngrim appears at first sight as a cold, powerful warrior who knows little more than fighting, who has brawns but very little brains. As usual, appearances aren’t a reflection of the soul, even though for Arngrim, part of it reflects who he is. He is very skilled in battle, an excellent warrior, and he is indeed not an intellectual; even though he proved he is far from stupid, as he elaborated fighting styles and tactics to use on the battlefield. Nevertheless, Arngrim can be pretty friendly. He cares a lot for his family and his friends. But loyal to his mercenary nature, he can betray his friends in extreme situations, such as when he agreed to work for Hrist as an Einherjar and fought against his friends, albeit reluctantly and he morally blamed himself for doing that. When he saw them back latter, he offered them to kill him for his acts, showing his pride, his honor. His honor is indeed very important, but if he realizes he made the wrong choices, he will not stubbornly fight against the evidences, but he will instead outright admit it and accept whatever punishment it implies, as long as he feels it is justified.

Arngrim is often described as brave, he never fears going into battle and fighting opponents, even when they’re probably much stronger than him, he’s reckless and careless at times, but that’s due to his exceptional ability to fight, he nearly never loses a battle, and those he lost, he then became an Einherjar for the Battle Maiden. Being a mercenary, one might think he just fight for money and prestige, but that’s not there is to it. He just loves battles, the thrill of fighting monsters, demons or even humans, the sensation of putting your life at stake; it’s something he enjoys very much, even though he’s not stupid and will not die uselessly.

He has also been described as someone selfish, and while that’s true, that doesn’t exclude him being selfless at times, like when he, in another life, gave money to his handicapped brother to help him live, or fought to help Lenneth come back. His selfishness displays in others way, he has little to no thoughts for peoples he doesn’t know or his employers, he’ll do whatever he likes even if others peoples doesn’t like it or are annoyed at it, etc. Last but not least, Arngrim is realist. He’s not going to deny reality, to try getting something that is obviously out of his reach, or believe in stuff that are just plain realist.

TIMELINE: After the ending of Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, as he use the Water Mirror’s fragment to go back to Valhalla.

BACKGROUND: Arngrim was born in 915 CC on Midgard. Midgard is the middle world sustained by the life tree Yggdrasil, below the world of the gods (Asgard), but above the land of demons (Niflheim). Blessed with a true warrior's prowess and a good measure of luck, Arngrim became a Mercenary, feeling little more than contempt for politics, political leaders and others political/economic matters. He offered his service to whoever paid the most, given the tasks he had to commit weren’t morally unacceptable nor against his beliefs.

At the age of 26, as all wars had ended, he reconverted into treasure hunting. He met a woman named Leone and teamed up with her. It was unknown why he did so, but he respected her highly as both a woman and a warrior, it was possible they fought and he lost to her, as her secret identity is that of Hrist Valkyrie, the eldest of the three Goddesses governing destiny, a much more powerful being that he could ever hope to be, unbeknownst to him at that time. As they were exploring the Serdberg Mountain Ruins together, Arngrim and Leone met Alicia (who shared her body with the youngest Valkyrie, Silmeria), Rufus, Dylan and Lezard. Those four individuals were searching the Dragon Orb, an ancient and powerful artifact that sustained all life on Midgard. They agreed to team-up with Leone and Arngrim; in exchange for their help in exploring the place and fighting demons, the four heroes would allow Arngrim and Leone to keep whatever treasures they’d find.

Unfortunately, the Orb had been moved away from the ruins by the Guardians of the Orbs long ago, and using Silmeria’s power, the party tracked the next position of the Orb. Leone offered her help in the search, further pursuing their cooperation agreement. Although Silmeria showed sign of mistrust toward Leone, feeling who she truly was, she accepted their help, fearing Hrist’s reaction if she revealed her true identity. During the search for the Orb, Arngrim learned the truth on Alicia’s quest; the Orb was to be used to help the Kingdom of Dipan to fight the Gods and bring an end to the tyranny of Odin, the Lord of the Gods. He learnt of Rufus’ secret, being a spare vessel for Odin to transfer into the day his old vessel would die, and he also learnt Dylan’s secret, being Silmeria’s Einherjar. Albeit amazed by those revelations, he didn’t stray away from them, and continued to help them in their quest.

When they finally found the Dragon’s Orb, Leone revealed her true identity, and stole the Orb. Furious to have been fooled, Arngrim attacked her, only to be mortally wounded. Alicia and her friends tried to save him, but Hrist forced him to become one of her Einherjar, a materialized soul working for the Valkyrie. He tried to resist, but to no avail. When he was forced to go to Valhalla together with her, he reluctantly agreed to work for Hrist. Loyal to his mercenary’s nature, he came to accept the fact that he now worked for her and Odin, in spite of his hated and disdain for him; much like how he despised his previous employers. He moved on to Dipan with Hrist, and together with her, lesser Gods and Einherjars, reduced the city and castle to ruins, as an example to those who dare to defy the Gods. On her orders, he executed the King of Dipan, fought Alicia and her friends who had come to try and save Dipan, and witnessed the attempt by the Mages of Dipan to capture the souls of Silmeria and Hrist. The Mages’ attempt got thwarted by the Lord of the Undead, Brahms who had been using Dylan as a vessel to hide from Odin all along. Nevertheless, Freya came to the rescue Hrist, and managed to capture Brahms in a Crystal, and then she took Hrist and Arngrim back to Valhalla.

Lezard on his side secretly captured Silmeria and fled. Rufus and Alicia now left alone, attempted to defy Odin and tried to make of Rufus a god by accessing the powers of the Gods atop Yggdrasil; Odin tried to kill them subsequently, but Lezard joined them at the last minute and used Silmeria’s soul to incapacitate Odin, kidnap him and merge their souls together, effectively making of Lezard a God much more powerful than Odin ever was. After that, he disappeared, leaving Alicia and Rufus alone. At the same time at Valhalla, Arngrim outright defied Hrist as she summoned him to help take Odin back from Lezard, refusing to help her. As all Einherjar, he despised him a he cared very little for human’s lives, leaving Hrist to set off alone to rescue him. Later on in the Hall of Valhalla, he encountered Rufus and Alicia, who decided to try and free Brahms to stop Lezard. Arngrim offered them to take his life for having betrayed them, but instead Alicia offered him to help them free Brahms and fight Lezard; what he happily did.

He helped the party to access the room where Brahms was held, that happened to be the Water Mirror room, a special mirror that could transport its user to any place in existence. Hrist at this point came and negotiated with them, accepting to break Brahms from his Crystal in exchange of their to help to free Silmeria (and of course, Odin) from Lezard. They accepted to do so, and to escape the wrath of Freya who had come to prevent the deal from happening (out of pure disdain for humans), she used the Dragon Orb against her and then proceed to use the mirror to teleport them to the world Lezard created with Odin’s power. The mirror broke, and the team kept a fragment of it, as a way to go back to Valhalla once they’d have dealt with Lezard.

There, they met the third Valkyrie, Lenneth, who informed them of Lezard’s true nature. Indeed, Lenneth had come from an alternate future, to stop Lezard who came from that future as well. Arngrim had reincarnated in that future, and had a life as Lenneth’s Einherjar, one that was now erased. Knowing the truth, they went further in his world, found and reunited with Silmeria, who informed them of what he did to Odin. As they went further, they met him, but refused his offer to join his side as he revealed his one and true purpose in creating his world (which put at threat the existing worlds) wasn’t to save the future from Ragnarok as he pretended, but to get Lenneth, whom he obsessed over beyond the limits of imagination, all for himself. Lezard then captured Lenneth with his new powers, and turned the two others Valkyries into Crystal. Alicia, Rufus, Arngrim and Brahms only were left, and they devised a plan to kill Lezard, reclaims Odin’s weapon, and bring back stability to the worlds: merge the three Valkyrie’s souls into one vessel, Alicia, to create the one true Valkyrie, powerful enough to kill Lezard.

They proceeded to free Lenneth from her crystal before Lezard could merge his soul with her own; only for a short while was enough, allowing them to create the one Valkyrie. She defeated Lezard, but at the cost of her own life, meaning the death of the four beings composing her. As Lezard’s world collapsed without its energy source, Lezard himself, they proceeded to escape. Brahms asked Arngrim to become the new Guardian of the Dragon Orb, task he accepted, while Brahms decided to stay behind to die in this world. Rufus and Arngrim then used the fragment of the Water Mirror to go back to Valhalla and bring back stability to the worlds.

ABILITIES: Arngrim is a true warrior, one could say the battling skills are encrypted on his very soul as in both of his lives, he demonstrated to be an incredible warrior, able to kill anyone, be they demons, undead, or humans. He is weak to magic though, and gained the ability to defeat high-level demons only after becoming an Einherjar. Being that, it also means he is immortal and less susceptible to physical wound than a normal human being.

He wields a sword actually as big as himself; the height as to be around 160 cm. Nevertheless, its width is that of a regular sword, neither too thick, nor to thin. He is quite clearly a heavy warrior, meant to be able to sustain high damages in battle, all while inflicting terrible loses to the enemy. As Guardian of the Dragon Orb, he could theoretically use its power if he had it, enough power to destroy an entire set of world. Nevertheless, that’s extreme situation.

Being a treasure hunter and a mercenary, he also has a good sense of orientation, endurance, etc.

Final Blast

It is his final attack, his “Soul Crush” (limit break in FFs).

He charged quickly at the enemy, thrusting his sword into them once, what has the effect of creating whirlwind of flames around them. He then proceed to project the enemy up into the air, swinging twice his sword at the target, before pushing them to the ground, where the enemy explode in flames.

GAME INFO

EDENSPHERE NAME: Hrist

If it cannot work, then Einherjar will make it

BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes

DREAM:

He was standing in the middle of a hall, holding a great sword in his hands. Everything around him looked precious; the walls appeared to be made out of pure gold, the ornament and decorations were made out of the most precious jewels one could imagine, a soft music was played in the background; if anything this place had to be heaven, a divine, sacred palace. Without a doubt, gods would feel at ease living here.

“Einherjar!” a woman’s voice said, firmly, with authority. He turned his head to her; the woman was wearing a black and golden armor, her hairs and eyes were dark purple and her stare was as cold as the golden walls surrounding them. He sighed and turned away from her, folding the sword on his back. “Come! It’s important!” she told him, stopping a few feet away from him.

“Not to me, it isn’t Hrist.” he replied defiantly and crossed his arms.

“What’s that?!” the woman replied angrily, frowning at this answer.

“You’re off to save Odin, right?” he turned his head to her “I don’t give a damn.”

The authority her face was displaying gave place to shock and surprise, and soon to sadness as she understood he wouldn’t help her, even though she was meant to have authority over him. He turned away from her and closed his eyes.

“It goes without saying, humans would be better off without him.” he added. As he opened his eyes, he could see two men walking to him. They both looked quite unusual. One of them had green hairs, a bow and strange clothes. The other was much taller, his skin was gray, his eyes red and his hairs spiky. He was holding a red orb, flames whirling around it. He looked, to say the least, demonic.

“Guess I can’t argue with that.” The green-haired man told him as they got close, then they both stopped walking, standing by his side. At this moment, the three of them could see another woman coming to them; she looked younger than Hrist and had long blonde hairs. Given her stature and her clothes, she was probably royalty, a princess or something. She didn’t say a word and passed them, standing to face Hrist. The three men turned to see Hrist as well, but she had changed. She was now wearing a blue armor, her hairs were much longer, braided and silver. Her face was softer, as were her blue eyes.

“I am not the Valkyrie you know.” she said, her voice much softer, different than Hrist’s. As she spoke, a light fog appeared, blurring out everything in the room, and the music ceased.

“No kidding.” he replied to the Valkyrie and shook his head. The Valkyrie turned her head to him and briefly nodded

“You will come to serve Me.” she affirmed.

“Huh?” he turned to the two other men, the green-haired one shrugged, while the demonic one frowned. He turned to him, staring for a few seconds, and then he handed the red orb to him. His eyes widened at that, but he took it without complaints. When he turned back to Valkyrie, she had changed once more; she was now blonde, with shorter hairs and a light purple armor. In fact, she looked a lot like the princess. The princess walked to her and took her hand.

“We should go now.” The blonde Valkyrie said to the princess. Like when the silver-haired Valkyrie had spoken, the room underwent a transformation. Everything turned silver, and as if covered in dust.

“Yes.” The princess answered firmly, and the blonde Valkyrie disappeared. The princess fell on her knee, surrounded by a halo of light, and underwent a transformation. Once she stood up, her eyes had turned golden, she looked overall more mature, her clothes were different and two wings of a pure white appeared on her back. Further in the room, behind the princess, a man appeared and looked dumbfounded at this transformation. His face was blurry and his word impossible to understand. He threw his weapons into the ground, and in a matter of second, magical waves of energy emitted from it, recovering the whole room with it.

The princess ran to him, and all that was heard was an insane, maniacal laughter before he two of them disappeared. The magical waves faded away, revealing what had happened to the hall. No gold, no silver, only gray. All that had been left by the counter of the two beings were ruins, the fog now thicker than before. A large, imposing spear, blurred in an halo of light was now remaining where the princess and the madman met moments ago. The green-haired man walked to the spear slowly.

“The world has become so twisted and distorted… Someone has to straighten it out. That someone is us.” The green-haired man said and grabbed the holy spear. He turned to the two other men, smiling lightly.

He took his word and threw it onto the ground, but the demon brought a hand on his shoulder.

“You have work to do. The task of repairing Midgard still...” he said, but his last worded faded away, unheard.

“What? You want me…?” he started, but he was interrupted as the demon threw a piece of broken mirror into the ground. Light came out of it, engulfing everything around them, nothing could be seen, nothing could be heard any more, save for the last word of the green-haired man, faintly heard.

“Let’s go.”

JOURNAL SAMPLE:

So, er, guess that’s in that book I gotta write?

Name’s Hrist, well, at least that’s what I remember. I just arrived, strange place, but at least looks kinda peaceful.

So, hi.

ASPIRATIONS: None really, his very nature is that of a mercenary, so he’ll just go along with the events and work for whoever has the best ideas / has the most to offer. If he makes friends, he’ll aim to protect them though.

APPLICATION: Working!! - Inami Mahiru

2011-08-12T01:50:05Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.

PLAYER INFO
NAME: Cham.
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: CET/CEST
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: Soi Fong/Lin.

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Inami Mahiru.
SERIES: Working!!
As far as I can tell the anime and the 4-koma manga it’s from follow the same timeline, however not even half of the manga has been scanslated and translated, so I have no way of actually knowing. To be safe, I’m taking her from the anime.
RESERVED: N.
WISHLIST: N.
PERSONALITY: Mahiru is, in general, a really nice person to have around, and a precious friend. She’s kind, polite, supportive, always does her best to cheer up and comfort the people around her. If something she says accidentally offends or hurts anyone, she’ll immediately apologize and try to make up for it. She puts all she’s got into her work, is generally a very good student and an obedient daughter.

There’s only one problem, her androphobia.

Mahiru is utterly and uncontrollably terrified of men, she can go great lengths to avoid them. She attends an all-girls school, knows which streets will be less crowded and tries to go out only at the break of dawn or late at night when nobody’s around, constantly declines invites from friends to stay home-- where it’s safe and she doesn’t risk putting anyone in danger.

The real problem, after all, it’s not so much that she’s scared of men or that they could attack her-- it’s Mahiru who attacks them. Instinctively, whenever a man gets too close, she’ll punch him with all she’s got. Several times, if necessary. Groups of men make her downright panic, it’s not unusual to see her running away or hiding behind one of her female friends.

True to her kind, demure nature (punching aside...), Mahiru always apologizes after she’s hit a man. Sometimes even while she’s hitting them. This problem of hers causes her to often feel guilty and useless, she might grow quiet and not say a word to defend herself when someone tells her how annoying and dangerous to deal with her androphobia is. The only time we see her actually getting irritated and talking back is when Souta, who’s just been hired at the restaurant she works at, tells her she does only half her share of the job, since she can’t serve men at all. That kind of comment hits a sore spot, she really cannot accept that someone she considers her ‘junior’ could be ahead of her when it comes to school or work. However, those words really get to her, and when she’s alone and discouraged she thinks about them again over and over, until, at some point in the series, she admits out loud it’s true she doesn’t do much at the restaurant, and she apologizes for it.

Mahiru fluctuates between days when she’s optimistic and determined to overcome her androphobia and days when she’s sad, tired, and convinced she’ll never be able to be a normal girl.

Things that can influence her mood greatly are gifts and compliments. As it is, describing her self-esteem as ‘low’ wouldn’t even begin to cover it, on top of that she also has a complex regarding the size of her chest (the first thing she looks at in other women is always their breasts), so every time she gets praised, be it about her personality or her looks, she’s incredibly happy. She treasures even backhanded compliments, especially if they come from a man. Her ‘condition’ aside, the girls seem to appreciate her very much, but men always tend to consider her, in her own words, ‘a vicious dog’. An avid reader of romance novels, Mahiru is a romantic at heart-- so she’s overjoyed to be called ‘cute’ instead of dangerous or bad by a man, hoping one day a boy will finally see her as something different than a person to avoid at all costs.

Overall, Mahiru is a normal 17 year old Japanese girl who is still finding out who she is and what she wants to become, who spends her days with her friends at school or at the restaurant, lies a bit to her parents every now and then, gets crushes, and, most of all, still needs the support and love of the people around her to overcome her problems and grow into an adult.

TIMELINE: From the end of the 13th (and last) episode of the anime.

BACKGROUND: Mahiru comes from a loving family. Too loving, actually, and way overprotective. Her mother is a bit of an airhead, soft-spoken and graceful but also somewhat gullible and absent-minded at times. Her father, on the other hand, is extremely controlling and downright obsessed with his daughter. He adores her, keeps a picture of her always on his person, and is determined to ‘protect’ her from men so that she’ll never get married and leave him behind. He is the source of androphobia.

Since she was little, he’s been altering fairy-tales so that the villains were always men, all the movies and books she received (all from him, of course) depicted men in an awful light, and he kept telling her throughout her childhood that males are like wolves, and that they’re going to eat her alive if she gives them the chance. This backfired, however, and little Mahiru started thinking her father too, being a man, was one of them, so she picked up the habit of punching him, heart-broken her own dad would bring her up just to make her grow bigger and then eat her.

That’s how it all started, and her father just made things worse through the years, secretly putting weights in her bags so that Mahiru would grow stronger, gradually increasing them so she wouldn’t notice, and always travelling for work-- never being home and letting the situation degenerate just so he wouldn’t get punched.

Things start to change for Mahiru only when she meets Souta at the restaurant she works at after school. Souta survived three older sisters, two of which used to hit him all the time and one of which depends on him for everything since she barely leaves her room at all. Even if he was somewhat scared when he suddenly got punched out of the blue, he almost immediately took it upon himself to help Mahiru out, deciding their final goal would be to be able to walk hand in hand. Gradually, thanks to him, Mahiru starts being able to do simple things like standing in the same room as Souta, talking on the phone with a man, and even, at last, go out on a date with Souta-- so long as he’s cross-dressing.

By the end of the series, they never manage to actually hold hands, what happens instead is that Mahiru develops a huge crush on Souta, initially because he praises her once and gives her a small paper bag full of hairpins for White Day, then because he confronts her father, tells him how much of an awful parent he’s been, and orders him to apologize to his daughter, succeeding in making him understand the disaster he caused.

He’s the first guy to ever try and help her, from the very start she recognizes he’s different from any other boy-- he manages to piss her off immediately, and continues doing so. So much that she starts thinking about him day and night, until somewhere down the road she realizes there’s not just irritation there, finally a man is reaching out to her and helping her, as annoying and insensitive as he is sometimes he’s really doing something to cure her androphobia (and not minding losing a lot of blood every time she hits him). She, too, does what she can for him, keeping his secrets and bringing him to a toy shop since she knows that’s what he’ll enjoy doing.

However, he remains completely oblivious to her feelings right to the end, and it never crosses her mind to tell him at all. As it is, she’s happy to work with him, walk with him, and hold his Extendable Hand-- not quite as warm as the real thing, but at least, if she breaks it, he can always buy a new one.

ABILITIES: Mahiru is a normal, human girl, if anything she’s really strong-- her punches cause cracks in the walls and she’s able to make a can of soda explode just from holding it tightly in her fist.

GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Heart.
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes please!
DREAM: The narrow streets she walks through are completely empty. There’s no one around, no noise beside the sound of her steps. The sun rises projecting long, dark shadows all around her. She clutches a paper bag to her chest and runs.

From the darkening alleys, several people start marching out towards her-- she can tell they’re all male from what she can see of their clothes and hair. And they’re scary. Some are wearing colourful masks, some have guns and try to shoot at her while she rushes by-- the sounds of bullets hitting the ground just inches short of her feet echoes in the otherwise silent street. Some try to tackle her down and one even reaches her and bites her cheek, drawing blood. She screams as she elbows him in the stomach. She’s terrified but doesn’t give up and keeps going, wiping blood off her face with her sleeve while still holding on tightly to her bag.

(And is that music playing in the background? Violins, maybe? Where could it come from? And how comes it’s so perfectly timed with her movements?)

When she sees a shadow right behind her she tries to go even faster, but her body, instead, steadily slows down to a halt. No matter how much she tries, her limbs seem to be completely stuck. The shadow stalks closer, puts a hand on her shoulder. She’s not even breathing, eyes closed, shaking. That’s when she hears a weird noise and finally notices she’s had a spring right between her shoulder blades all this time, just like a wind-up toy. The mysterious person behind her turns it a few times, then just says, “Go.”

It’s a man. She starts running again, but when she turns around to see who this mysterious boy who saved her is, he’s gone.

As the sun rises, the monsters around her begin to disappear. When she finally finds herself alone, she drops to her knees, trying to catch her breath, willing her heart not to explode. A group of faceless girls walks by, they help her stand up, one of them pats her on the head, another hugs her. She’s safe. She starts walking with them, right in the centre of the group, and when none of them is looking she opens the paper bag.

There is nothing inside, safe for a little hairpin with a red heart on it. She closes her fingers around it, running her thumb along the edge of the little heart.

JOURNAL SAMPLE: Hello. My name is Heart.

[ The writing that just appeared on the journals is small and clear, but there are many long pauses between each word. ]

I’m new. I’m very pleased to meet all of you.

[ And this is where it starts getting messier. Some words are scribbled out and then covered with little black clouds of ink until nothing of them can be discerned anymore. ]

I ~~was told~~ ~~want~~ would like a job. I worked as a waitress back home, but I haven’t ~~tried~~ had the time yet to explore this place yet, so I’m not sure there are any restaurants here. It would be very much appreciated if anyone could let me know, thank you very much!

[ A long pause. ]

I’m sorry for imposing so much, but I have one last favour I need to ask. Does anyone have a map? It would be very useful for a newcomer like me.

~~I would rather men don’t~~

~~I would rather only wome~~

~~Could~~

Thank you very much again for taking the time to read this!

♡

ASPIRATIONS: She is, obviously, going to keep her androphobia for the time being, but I want to see her interact with new people and make new friends from scratch, and possibly overcome her issues, if only a little bit.

APPLICATION: Tangled - Rapunzel

2011-08-09T02:46:40Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.

PLAYER INFO
NAME: Casper
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: GMT -5
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: Lenneth Valkyrie/Lily

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Rapunzel
SERIES: Tangled
RESERVED: No
WISHLIST: No
PERSONALITY:

Rapunzel
is a friendly, sweet and innocent young woman. In fact, it’s very fair
to go so far as to say she’s naïve. She very literally knows almost
nothing about the world around her and it terrifies her. However, when
the things she believes in or her friends are threatened, Rapunzel
becomes very brave indeed as shown when the thugs in the Snuggly
Duckling start to fight over Flynn.

She’s also a fairly
intelligent young woman, for someone who only owns three books after
eighteen years. Her education is surprisingly advanced and is talented
in areas such as baking, music and astronomy. She even went so far as to
paint a completed astrology chart on the wall of her tower. Painting
is, obviously, her greatest passion

Her determination is most
noteworthy, in her personality. Her fear and lack of understanding of
the outside world did not stop her when she wanted to see the lanterns.
She convinced Flynn, through the threat of a frying pan beating, to take
her to the lantern and then she would return his satchel with the
crown. When her “mother” found her in the forest after Flynn
went to find firewood, she was stubborn and still determined enough to
outright refuse returning to the tower with her mother.

Aside
from all that, Rapunzel is a very charismatic young woman, having lead a
group of thugs in the Snuggly Duckling in song in regards to their
dreams. This also built up a slight friendship with those very same
thugs as, later, they helped Flynn escape prison so he could save
Rapunzel. She’s also very excitable, some things making her jump around
in glee or to start a dance among everyone around her.

TIMELINE:
Just after discovering that she’s the lost princess, before confronting
Gothel about it so she still has an obscene amount of hair.
BACKGROUND:

Several
centuries before Rapunzel was born, a single drop of sunlight fell to
the earth. From it, grew a magic golden flower. Mother Gothel found this
flower and, by singing to it, restored her youth. She hoarded
its powers for a few hundred years and in that time, the kingdom of
Corona evolved. There, a king and queen ruled and the queen became
pregnant. Near the end of her pregnancy she grew ill, and the king sent
out his soldiers and any willing volunteer to find the magic flower. In a
rush to hide it as soldiers approached, Mother Gothel knocked over the
bush disguising the flower that was hidden under and it was found.

Returned
to the kingdom, the flower was placed in a bowl of water and merged
with it, making a golden tea. After drinking it, the queen grew healthy
once more and gave birth to a little girl with hair the color of the
sun. In celebration, the king and queen sent a lantern into the night
sky for their daughter. That night, Gothel broke into the castle and
attempted to cut a piece of Princess Rapunzel’s hair, discovering that
cutting it removed the magic. It was then that she kidnapped Rapunzel
and hid them both away in a tower
in the woods.

There she raised the little girl by herself,
telling her horrific stories about the outside world so she’d never be
curious enough to leave. Which meant that the magic would belong to
Gothel forever. Even still, those stories may have scared her but they
could never stop Rapunzel’s curiosity and each year on the night of her
birthday, she watched the floating lanterns rise into the sky, feeling
that they were for her though she didn’t even realize that truth of it.

Years
pass, and Rapunzel is about the celebrate her eighteenth birthday. And
she finally works up the nerve to ask her mother to take her to see the
floating lights. Gothel refuses, going into song about how “mother knows
best” and that Rapunzel is naïve and incapable of fending for herself
outside, as well as other statements meant to belittle the girl. Still,
Rapunzel didn’t falter. After her mother left to gather ingredients for
dinner, Flynn
entered the tower and Rapunzel knocked him silly with her frying pan
and hid him in her closet. After her mother returned, she tries again to
ask to see the lanterns onto the have Gothel scream at her. Hurt,
Rapunzel makes and excuse that she thought of something better and asked
for paints made from white shells. To get them, it’s a three day trip
and Gothel agrees.

After she leaves, Rapunzel removed Flynn from
the closet and tied him to a chair, convincing him to take her to see
the lanterns. It took some time, and a couple threats of beating him
with her frying pan, but he agreed. They left almost immediately and, in
the beginning of their journey, Rapunzel is a bit at war with herself,
trying to decide whether or not to keep going or to go home. Flynn’s
offer to take her right back to the tower however made her decision and
she tells him that they are absolutely continuing. It is then that Flynn
decided to take her to the Snuggly
Duckling and scared her halfway to death with all the thugs inside.

However,
she inspired them all into admitting their dreams and, when the guards
and Maximus (the horse) arrived, the thugs assisted Flynn and Rapunzel
in escaping along a hidden tunnel. They got a fair head-start however
the horse quickly caught on and lead the guards along it after them.
Coming out into a large dam, Flynn and Rapunzel quickly try to make an
escape however Flynn ended up fighting the guards and the horse using
the frying pan as a weapon. Along the way, Maximus ended up breaking
open the dam. Running into what they thought was a tunnel, Rapunzel and
Flynn were trapped with no light and water rapidly rising. Flynn ended
up cutting his hand trying to find something loose for them to get out,
quickly admitting his real name to his companion and the
frog Pascal, and it was only just before the tunnel completely
filled that Rapunzel remembered her
magic hair and sang quickly, lighting the tunnel up. This gave them the
chance they needed to loosen enough rocks under the water to escape
imminent death.

That evening, Rapunzel wrapped her hair around
Flynn’s hand and sang, healing the cut he got. Afterward, Flynn tells
her a bit about himself before going to find more firewood. It was then
that Gothel approached Rapunzel and tried to convince her to return to
the tower with her. However, by now, Rapunzel had grown a bit more
willful and refused, knowing that now she absolutely had to see the
lanterns with Flynn. Gothel berates her a bit before giving Rapunzel the
crown, saying that if she gives it to Flynn, he’ll be gone in a
heartbeat and that she shouldn’t go crying to her when she finds out
it’s true. She left just after and Flynn returned.

The next day,
they were woken by Maximus and Rapunzel convinces the horse not to turn
Flynn in for at least another day so she can have
the perfect birthday. Soon after, they entered the kingdom of Corona.
Rapunzel’s hair proved to be an inconvenience and Flynn found a group of
young girls to braid it for them. Flynn shows her around town, buying
her a small Corona flag. Rapunzel saw a mural of the king and queen with
their daughter and while there was a bit of familiarity to her, she
didn’t think much of it and went on to start dancing in the town square
with everyone (literally, she got everyone involved) and coloring on the
ground in chalk with a group of children.

As the sun set,
everyone was called to the boats and the lanterns were sent into the
sky. It was then that Rapunzel and Flynn admitted their love for each
other, and Rapunzel handed over the satchel and crown. The sight of the
Stabbington Brothers forced Flynn to bring them to the shore and
confront them, handing over the crown. However, they no longer had an
interest in it, preferring to take Rapunzel and her
magic hair instead. After knocking Flynn out and tying him to the helm
of a boat directed towards a guard post, they approached Rapunzel and
tried to kidnap her. However, when she ran, Gothel beat them to “save
her” though it was set up by her all along. They return to the tower,
Rapunzel heartbroken at Flynn’s apparent betrayal.

There, Gothel
removed the braid and flowers from her hair, erasing all evidence that
the trip had happened except for the flag that Rapunzel was still
clutching. After she left the room, Rapunzel laid back and stared at her
ceiling, noticing something familiar about some of the things she
painted and the symbol of Corona. Staring at them all, Rapunzel had a
sudden and dizzying flashback to when she was a baby, looking up at the
symbol of Corona (the sun) on the mobile above her crib and then at her
parents. Rushing out of the room, Rapunzel confronted Gothel angrily and
saying that she would never let the woman use
her or her hair again.

This forced Gothel to chain Rapunzel and
gag her until Flynn arrived to save her. Gothel stabbed him, giving him a
fatal injury. Fighting against her “mother” Rapunzel made a deal that
if she was allowed to heal Flynn, she’d cooperate with Gothel. After she
agreed, Rapunzel went to do so, only for Flynn to use a shard from a
broken mirror to cut Rapunzel’s hair. The sudden lost of magic made
Gothel age rapidly and die and then, so did Flynn. Weeping for the man
she loved and admitting that he was her new dream, she sang the healing
incantation softly and a tear fell onto his cheek. The tear was absorbed
and gold light erupted from his wound, a light quickly flashing to show
the flower that had been used eighteen years before and then Flynn is
alive and healed.

The two returned to Corona and presented
themselves to the king and queen. Rapunzel was welcomed home with an
embrace from both parents, which the
queen pulled Flynn into as well. The kingdom celebrated the return of
the princess for a week and it is later revealed that Rapunzel and Flynn
were married.

ABILITIES:

70 feet of
hair: Which she uses for swinging, typing people up, opening doors,
reaching impossible distances and lifting people up her tower. The
follicles, after eighteen years of doing this, are incredibly strong so
pulling her hair shouldn’t hurt unless you really put some effort in it.

Magic
hair: When she sings a certain song… her hair glows. The power for this
comes from the sun, literally. Centuries before Rapunzel was born, a
single drop of sunlight fell to the earth and created a magic glowing
flower. The years past, the queen got pregnant but also got sick and the
flower was used to heal her. That power passed onto Rapunzel. So her
hair was gold instead of the brunette her parents had and it can heal
wounds that range from paper cuts
to fatal injuries to restoring the youth of crazy women who are
obsessed with immortality.

Magic tears: If her hair gets cut,
guess what! Her tears heal too! They, presumably, have to be fresh tears
though, straight from the eyes of a crying ‘Punzel. Since the magic her
hair possessed was at first believed just to be in her hair, it turns
out the magic comes from her heart.

Strength: For a girl of
eighteen and with a lithe frame like hers, Rapunzel has a surprising
amount of strength. She’s able to lift Mother Gothel from the bottom of
her tower to the top by using her hair as a lift. She’s also completely
unhindered by the seventy-feet of hair she has trail behind her or when
she carries it. Either her hair, with it’s magical properties, is
weightless to her or her apparent strength and speed have given her the
ability to run and move without difficulty.

GAME
INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Magic
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes please!
DREAM:

“You're being strangely cryptic as you wrap your magic hair around my injured
hand...” Just those words and then the image of a young mans hand, with
golden hair wrapped around it, fades to her singing and watching the
night sky.

“Flower gleam and glow, let your power shine. Make the
clock reverse, bring back what once was mine.” She sang softly,
brushing out her hair while a young man sat nearby. Around him, she felt
safe and she trusted him enough to let him see. What he was seeing, she
wasn’t sure but it didn’t matter. She knew he wouldn’t betray that
trust, instinctively.

“Heal what has been hurt, change the Fates design. Save what has been lost, bring back what once was mine~ What once what mine.” She assumed it was a lullaby, it was relaxing enough. Especially with all those pretty lanterns floating up into the sky, to the stars. Everything felt absolutely… perfect. She wanted to dance, she wanted to sing some more.

JOURNAL SAMPLE:

Oh wow, a magic journal. This is so neat! It’s like my hair only I don’t have to brush it.

Hi everyone in Edensphere! My name is Magic, I can’t wait to get to know you~

I can’t think of anything else to write, but that’s okay. I’ve got plenty of time.

ASPIRATIONS:

Make friends, lots of them. And swing around with her hair. Read books
(because she never realized that there are more than three books in the
world) and bake for everyone she can. People should randomly expect
cookies or pies to be delivered after she meets them. Oh yes.

Hi, Casper!

After reviewing your application, we would like to request a re-written or expanded dream. While using scenes from canon is acceptable, we feel that the one you have provided gives Rapunzel too little to go on; remember, a character's dream is all they have upon arriving in Edensphere.

Please feel free to submit your rewritten dream and we will continue processing your application.

PLAYER RESPONSE

July Event Calendar

2011-07-30T21:03:04Z

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※ EVENTS
※ Water Guns (07/01-07/02) The citizens of the Sphere will find themselves equipped with water guns of varying shapes and sizes. However, these tricky pistols don't always shoot water. Sometimes they squirt various beverages, paint, substances deadly to giant ants (how convenient!), and who knows what else. What determines what comes out? It's all luck of the draw.
※ Killers Get Fireflies (07/03-07/08) Virgins and non-virgins move aside! This month, a far more wicked sin is being revealed to the general public. During this event, those who have killed other sentient beings gain fireflies, one for every life they have taken. Perhaps killers will be able to ignore their wrongs during the day, but may find it difficult to sleep at night with these fireflies' haunting glow shadowing their every move.
※ 4th Wall Event (07/10-07/23) n this event, the Sphere will be overwhelmed with new characters seemingly popping out of nowhere. Some of these characters will be stripped of all memory and will need the kind citizens of Edensphere to help them find their way in this strange new world. Some of these characters, however, will possess memories of their previous stays in the Sphere. Whether they be friend or foe, citizens of Edensphere should cherish their time together, for it will end all too swiftly.
※ Fan Service (07/26-08/03) For this event, Spherians will find themselves hindered on their daily routines as the Sphere endeavors to make life difficult for them but all too entertaining for those watching them. Characters will find their shirts spontaneously ripping off and skirts becoming shorter, or perhaps they will find themselves in a fetching maid or school uniform.
※ THE WILDERNESS
※ Ponyville (07/01-07/09) Welcome to Ponyville, the most cheerful village in all of Equestria! It’s by and large a happy place, full of woodland critters, cozy homes and lots of fresh air and fields. It has everything that a person could want, including bakeries, dress shops, a pavilion, marketplaces, apple farms, a bath house and more! All in all, it’s the ideal place for anyone to kick back and relax… did we say anyone? We meant to say anypony. That’s right, when your character steps foot in Ponyville, they will become earth ponies, unicorn ponies or pegasi ponies. Good luck, everypony and by the way? You really should avoid the strange rip in space and time that leads you to...
※ Hobbiton (07/04-07/08) Of course, if you want to experience a rural paradise without being hindered by hooves, Hobbiton is the place for you. This place is filled with grassy hills and clear blue skies as far as the eye can see and is perfect for lounging around and having a quiet smoke. Inside, the houses pantries are fully stocked and ready for feasting and there are farms and various shops ready for perusal. Just be sure to watch your head - all of the homes, although beautiful, seem to have very low ceilings.
※ Blank Slate (07/10-07/23) Blank whiteness before you, behind you, and all around. You feel ground beneath your feet but see no shadow and no landmarks.
※ Tortuga (07/24-07/31) This island is a far cry from the idyllic rolling hills of Hobbiton and Ponyville. Instead of serving characters with tranquility, it serves the depraved with its bounty of brothels and bars. The streets run with blood and liquor, and from one look at the services provided, it’s clear that this is a land of lawlessness. Despite these factors, there’s much for the more colourful residents of Edensphere to partake in, and it will comfortably house any who wish to drink the night away. But those who land here better be careful to avoid strange distortions because they may lead you to..
※ Viridian Forest (07/25-07/29) Enter Viridian Forest, a dense and gloomy place where clumps of leaves block out the hint of sunlight up above. The grass is long and unmaintained and it is easy to get lost among its winding paths. But this is no ordinary forest--within its creaking boughs and waving grass, various grass, insect and flight pokemon lurk.

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APPLICATION: The Borrowers - Arrietty Clock [BACKGROUND ELABORATIONS]

2011-07-07T15:06:32Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.
Original application is HERE.

Have you ever wondered where all those extra rubber bands, bobby pins, and thumbtacks go? You never seem to remember using them all up, and yet you keep having to buy new packets... The truth is, they're being "borrowed" by people who need them more than you do: the Borrowers, tiny people who live under the floors and inside the walls of human dwellings and fashion the tools and trinkets of their everyday lives out of your household knickknacks.

Generations ago, the ancestors of the Clock family flew to Japan on the backs of migrating birds. Their Borrowing lifestyle in Europe was getting dangerous as populations increased and people became more suspicious and less welcoming with regards to the little folk in their homes. Pragmatic as always, they decided to move to a quieter, safer nation, and Japan proved to be an excellent home for a time...but civilization marches on, and by the time Arrietty Clock was born, there were only three families living in the rambling Japanese farmhouse she called home. A few years later, after one family vanished and another was Seen by the human beans of the house and had to move to the woods nearby, the Clocks - Pod, Homily, and Arrietty - were the only Borrowers left.

For all they knew, they might have been the only Borrowers left in the world.

This worried Arrietty's aging parents deeply, and they threw their energies into teaching their daughter to look after herself, just in case. Her mother tried to teach her basic household skills, but by the age of fourteen, Arrietty's stitches were still uneven and her enthusiasm for cooking and cleaning was negligable at best. Far more exciting was tagging along with her father, being taught to Borrow things from the human beans in the house. Pod patiently taught his daughter the tricks of the Borrowing trade, from scaling a curtain with earrings for crampons, to rappelling down a cabinet on a fishhook-and-dental-floss climbing line. She loved her simple little life, although her cravings for adventure sometimes sent her out into the garden to fetch herbs for her mother and tease the household cat.

That simple life was turned upside down, however, when a human boy arrived at the house. His name was Sho, and he was very sick and recuperating in the countryside to prepare for heart surgery. He was also very observant, and it didn't take him long to notice the Borrowers at their activities. On his very first day at the house, he managed to spot Arrietty carrying home a bay leaf. Hiding behind the leaf, Arrietty thought she had escaped his gaze, but later that same day, her father took her out for a Borrowing trip into the boy's room. Caught in the very act of pulling a tissue out of the box by Sho's bed, Arrietty was horrified when the boy opened his eyes and began to talk to her, trying to reassure her and tell her not to be afraid. Terrified, she and her father crept quickly back to their bolthole and escaped before the sickly boy had even gotten out of bed.

Mortified at first at having been Seen by a human bean, Arrietty gradually settled into a wary coexistence with the boy as her parents frantically made plans to move out of the house. She intended to avoid him, but was startled when she found a gift he'd left for her near a grating: the sugar cube she had dropped in her bid to escape, and a tiny note that read, "You forgot this." At first, she tried to ignore the gift, and the various other gifts and hints he left around the house for her. Little flowers, messages, furniture from the dollhouse in his bedroom. Bit by bit, she began to forge a friendship with Sho, who was as curious about her life as she was about his. As carefully as she had been taught to avoid humans, Arrietty's curious nature drew her towards the giant human bean child with an inexorable pull.

Their unlikely bond was strengthened forever when the housekeeper, suspicious of the boy's activities, went looking for the missing dollhouse furniture. She discovered the Clock family home under the floorboards and caught Homily Clock in a jar. Furious with Sho at first for inadvertantly destroying her life, Arrietty searched him out in the garden and shouted angrily at him, getting into a fight with him when he pointed out that her people were probably a doomed species. But then, ashamed of having said such a thing, Sho startled them both by admitting that he was the one who was doomed. His surgery had a very low chance of success; as it turned out, Sho's fascination with looking after Arrietty and her family was his way of dealing with his powerlessness to change his own life. Chastened, he apologized for meddling in their lives. Shocked, Arrietty forgave him for his mistakes when he bravely helped her rescue her mother and cover up the signs of their old home, thus making the housekeeper's ravings about tiny people look like the results of one too many bottles of sake and saving them from further investigation.

Fortunately for the Clocks, they had a new life to move on to. In his searches for a possible home, Pod had met another, wilder Borrower, a teenaged boy named Spiller who told them that there were in fact a lot of other Borrowers living downriver in the woods. Taken with pretty Arrietty and generally a helpful, if quiet, sort, Spiller offered to guide the family to the settlement. The Borrowers left quietly that night, under cover of darkness, but the family cat alerted Sho and led him to where they were preparing to depart down a narrow river. Sad to see Arrietty go, Sho gave her a last gift, which she accepted for the first time: a sugar cube, for old time's sake. Solemnly, he thanked her for teaching him that no matter how small and powerless you are, you can always keep fighting to survive in this frightening world. Thanks to her, he was determined to hold on and try to survive his surgery. Bidding her human friend a tearful farewell, Arrietty promised never to forget him and boarded the teakettle Spiller used as a boat and set off down the river with her parents to find a new home and a new world to explore.

APPLICATION: Batman: The Dark Knight (Movie) - Harvey Dent

2011-07-07T15:03:35Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.

PLAYER INFO
NAME: Kates
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: CST for the summer, EST for the rest of the year.
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: The Fourth Doctor/Key

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Harvey Dent / Two-Face
SERIES: The Dark Knight
RESERVED: N
WISHLIST: N
PERSONALITY: The first thing people notice about Harvey is that
half his face is mangled and scarred by acid. Please don’t bring it
up. He’s still very bitter about the incident that gave him those
scars, and still saddened that Rachel died. Of course, 'saddened' for
Harvey also means that he’s a time bomb ready to blow up at those who
mention her death, Gordon, or Batman. He has obvious survivor's guilt
that he was the one chosen and saved, not Rachel. Talking about Rachel
is Not A Good Idea. And don’t get him started on the Joker. Harvey
HATES that man. He blames the Joker for Rachel’s death and will gladly
kill him if he gets the opportunity. Though really, the Joker isn't
the main target of Harvey's ire. Even more than the Joker, he hates
organized crime. The mob was what ruined Gotham, the mob was what let
Joker do what he needed, it was all the mob's fault. Naturally, this
means that Harvey wanted to kill all mob members.

The second thing that people notice about Harvey is his obsession with
chance. Harvey will make life-threatening decisions, such as killing
somebody, by a flip of a coin. He rationalizes that chance is the only
fair method of choosing who lives and who dies. This is also ingrained
in him because of the chances of his accident: he had a 50/50 chance
of living, so should everybody else. He has a special coin that he
carries around with him at all times: a two-headed coin, with one half
seared by acid. Before Rachel's death, he would create his own luck,
flipping the coin so that he always got what he wanted. That sort of
idealistic, happy, top-of-the world attitude died when Rachel died.
Though, old habits die hard. After she died, he still used the coin.
Even with his memory lost, I think that he'll feel compelled to find a
coin and occasionally flip it. It won't be his coin, but it'll
be close enough.

Harvey is very brash and headstrong. If he wants something, he’ll go
straight forward and get it, by any means necessary. This means that
Harvey can be fairly aggressive. He gets angry easily, and will go to
slightly extreme measures to get what he wants-like threatening to
shoot one of the Joker's goons (and this was before his accident!).
Before his accident, his angry side was fairly well repressed.
However, it occasionally showed, giving him the nickname “Harvey
Two-Face” by the police force. His headstrong personality was
super-charged by Rachel's death, adding to his insanity. Instead of
just threatening to kill the mob or wanting to get rid of them
legally, Harvey was so determined, so headstrong, so ready to get rid
of the mob that he was willing to take the law into his own hands,
going against everything he stood for in the process.

His determination shows itself in various ways, one of which being no
social life and limited people skills. Before the accident, Harvey
felt uncomfortable in large groups. He felt natural behind his desk or
in a courtroom. He could easily talk to the media, but not to rich
people at a party. Now, the limited people skills are super-charged by
the fact that Harvey's missing half a face. He will probably not know
what to do if people start being nice to him or want to talk to him.
Instead, he'll respond with a bitter, angry, abrupt comeback.

He's quick to adapt. It's obvious that Harvey is in insane pain,
thanks to his facial scars. And yet, he either manages to block out
the pain or just get past it in order to do what he needs to do. Also,
despite it being just a few days after his accident, after he escapes
the hospital, Harvey downs a shot like a pro, without any of the
liquid falling out of his cheek hole. It's assumed that he managed to
find a way to drink and either practiced it enough or just was good at
it so that the drink didn't dribble down his shirt.

It’s also worth noticing who Harvey used to be. He used to be a
determined, charismatic attorney. Harvey used to be Gotham’s main hope
for a better future, leading some to call him a “White Knight”. He
used to be a people person, witty and knowing his way around the
press. Harvey used to be a crusader for justice. All that’s changed.
The psychological scars of listening to Rachel die snapped his mind.
Granted, he still wants justice-however, he wants justice against
Gordon for letting Rachel die, justice against the Joker and the mob
for setting this up, and justice against Batman for saving him and not
her.

A note about Two-Face: in other incarnations of Batman (TAS, comics,
etc.), Harvey has DID. There are two personalities: Harvey Dent (the
nice guy crusading for justice) and Two-Face (the maniac, more
stereotypical supervillain). The Dark Knight doesn't give us any
reason to suspect that Harvey has two different personalities or that
the accident created a splinter personality. There aren't any
tell-tale signs like there were in the comics (voice changes, arguing
with himself, the pronoun "we", etc.) Indeed, everyone refers to him
as "Harvey" throughout the movie, Two-Face only comes up as a brief
nod to the comics. There isn't a splinter of his personality. TDK
Harvey is just a man who's worldview and ethics got horribly twisted
and changed due to a traumatic accident.

TIMELINE: Before Batman shows up to talk Harvey down from
killing Gordon's kids at the end of the film.

BACKGROUND: The Dark Knight starts off with us meeting Harvey
Dent: Gotham's DA, generally nice guy, determined to break up the
Gotham mob and boyfriend of one Rachel Dawes. One courtroom scene
shows us just how dead-set Harvey is on getting mob members behind
bars: when one mob member pulls a gun out on him, Harvey punches him.
Badass. Harvey forms a tentative trust with Comissioner Gordon of the
Gotham police in order to bring down the mob, despite the fact that he
really doesn't trust Gordon and knows that there are corrupt
cops in Gordon's unit. One night out on the town with Rachel, Harvey
meets Bruce Wayne (a Gotham socialite and Rachel's bffish) and the two
talked, forming plans for a fundraiser. That night, Gordon and Harvey
meet Batman on the roof of the police office, this being Harvey’s
first time he actually met the man face to face. The two tell Batman
that they need the mob’s accountant, who got wind of their plan to
raid the banks where the mob’s money was, hid the money, and moved to
Hong Kong. Batman succeeds and brings Harvey the accountant.

The accountant spills the beans about the other mob members and Harvey
rashly decides to try them all at once. Later, the Gotham mayor meets
up with Harvey and tells him that the trial will put the might of
Gotham’s underworld straight at him. Ooh foreshadowing ooh. At the
fund-raiser, Harvey awkwardly mingles for a bit, obviously not
enjoying himself. He gets some alone time with Rachel and is about to
propose to the woman, but then Bruce puts Harv in a headlock and locks
him in a closet. Good timing too, as the Joker shows up at the party,
intent on killing Harvey. The Joker reeks havoc, and everybody’s happy
when Batman comes to beat him up. Yay for vigilantes.

There’s more plot, this time about how the Joker wants to kill the
mayor. During the procession for the slain police commissioner, some
of the Joker’s goons infiltrate the honor guard and fire at the Joker.
Harvey grabs one of the goons and reads his name tag-”Officer Rachel
Dawes”. Oh shit. After a quick call to Rachel to make sure she's safe,
Harvey interrogates the goon, obviously annoyed and pissed off in the
process. Threatening to kill the mayor is one thing, but threatening
to kill his fiancee is a whole different story. He threatens to kill
the criminal, but Batman stops him, not knowing that Harvey never
planned to kill the criminal in the first place. Batman tells Harvey
that if anybody saw him about to shoot the criminal it would ruin his
good reputation and that Harvey should hold a press conference the
next day, where Batman will turn himself in.

Harvey hosts the press conference, ending with a claim that he's
Batman. He’s promptly arrested. However, the Joker targets the convoy
taking Harvey to prison. Gordon ends up capturing the Joker and Harvey
goes free, revealing that despite the fact he knew next to nothing
about the man, he trusted Batman to save his ass and catch the Joker.
However, Harvey doesn’t get to go home just yet, as corrupt cops
capture him and Rachel. Harvey is trapped in an explosive ridden
warehouse, with a phone connection to Rachel. There's a timer going
off and it's obvious one of them will die. He keeps reassuring her
that everything will be alright. While trying to free himself, Harvey
knocks into an oil drum, soaking half his face in oil. Batman rescues
him, leading Harvey out of the building as it explodes. Harvey is
obviously distraught about this, not knowing that Batman had intended
to rescue Rachel, but only went to Harvey's building because the Joker
told him the wrong address. Harvey believed that Batman rescued him
for the good of Gotham, even though that meant sacrificing Rachel in
the process-something Harvey couldn't bare to think about.
Unfortunately, a spark from the exploding building sets half of
Harvey's face on fire. Also, Rachel dies. This creates some
massive survivors guilt in Harvey, as he lies in bed in the
hospital. It also helps create a conflict of identity and a
renunciation of his old ways, shown by him refusing skin grafts and
showing the world 'what he really is': two-faced.

While he’s in the hospital bed being depressed about Rachel and angry
at everybody else, the Joker breaks in, gives him a hand gun and asks
him to create “anarchy”. After a moment of thoughts, Harvey does so.
He tells the Joker ‘heads you live, tails you die’, showing him his
two-headed coin that was scarred by the fire. This is a mostly
symbolic act, as Rachel had the same chances as he did while they were
in the buildings rigged to explode. Joker lives, as the clown explodes
the hospital, Harvey managing to escape before the bomb goes off. He
goes on a crusade against the corrupt cops and mobsters, flipping a
coin to decide their fate. He manages to kill at least one corrupt cop
and one mob member, sparing one cop because chance was in her favor.
Later, Harvey kidnaps Gordon’s family, intending to kill one of them
in front of Gordon to make him hurt just like Rachel’s death hurt him.
ABILITIES: Harvey is pretty well fit. Granted, he’s no Olympic
athlete but he can hold his own in a fight for a while. He takes
physical pain fairly well, as shown by him not complaining or
seemingly being affected by the FUCKING HOLE IN HIS CHEEK. He doesn’t
have any powers out of the ordinary, aside from slight charisma and a
mean right hook. He’s district attorney also, so he’s smart. He knows
a lot about law and law-related material. Also, he’s a good aim with a
gun-at least, good enough aim to kill somebody.

GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Rachel
BIRTHDAY LOG: Sure, why not.
DREAM: He was in a room. The room was divided in half
color-wise. The left half of the room was clean, spotless with pure,
pristine white walls. There was a desk, sitting in that half, with
paperwork cluttering it. A filing cabinet stood against the wall.
All in all, it looked like an office. The other half was dark, with
sheer black walls. There were bullet holes in the walls. The floor
was burned. There were blood stains and scorch marks on the ceiling
and walls. And he was standing in the middle.

"You either die a hero." He knew that voice. It was gruff, sounding
like somebody needed a throat drop. It was a powerful, authoritative,
frankly kind of scary voice. And yet it was completely familiar. He
knew that voice. However, it wasn't the voice that terrified him,
even though by all accounts it should. What terrified him was what
was happening to the room.

The room was changing. The black was slowly creeping on the white
walls, mixing it so that it was gray. The papers flew off of the
desk, landing on the scorch marks on the floor. Gunshots started
going off, hitting the white wall. Blood stains started to appear on
the floor near the desk. The desk exploded in a shower of splinters.
He ducked, holding his arms up to protect his head. When he looked up
again, the walls were gray: black swirled with white. The room was
equally pristine and chaotic. A few filing cabinets remained in
place, neat and spotless while the rest of them lay cluttered and
scattered on the floor.

"Or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." He knew
that voice as well. And he hated it. That chaotic, tense
voice. The voice of a man without any rules, without any plans. He
could faintly hear something burning in the background, but that
didn't matter. For some reason, this loss of the dichotomy, this
chaos, this blending of white and dark...that was what mattered.

"Guess which one you are?" And then laughter. Insane, reckless,
maniacal laughter. Laughter that rang in the man's ears even as he
started to wake up.
JOURNAL SAMPLE: [the writing is neat, even if it is a bit
blocky here and there] That goop was possibly the most disgusting
thing I've ever been in. I can't get the taste out of my mouth.

Pointless whining aside, can somebody tell me where the nearest
hospital is? I've got a [pause, inkblots] condition that I need to
get checked out. I don't think it's life-threatening, but I'm
curious. [another pointed pause]

And whoever took my memories? Give them back. Now. I'm the
type of person who doesn't take kindly to being messed around with.
ASPIRATIONS: In Edensphere, Rachel'll probably be a purposeless
shell of a man for a while. He's been spending his whole life
fighting for or against things, that he won't know what to do now that
he doesn't have a cause. However, I'm sure that he'll eventually find
a cause, be it figuring out what everything in the Sphere about or
simply trying to get all his memories back. And HOO BOY he's gonna be
trying his damndest to figure out who Rachel is. Because man oh man
is this a wonderfully embarrassing name to be stuck with.

APPLICATION: Trigun - Nicholas D. Wolfwood

2011-07-06T01:44:53Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.

PLAYER INFO
NAME: Jaina
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: Eastern
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: Kuchiki Rukia/Kazahana, Ema Skye/Rosalind

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Nicholas D. Wolfwood
SERIES: Trigun
RESERVED: N
WISHLIST: N
PERSONALITY: Wolfwood has a somewhat contradictory personality. He has noble goals (caring for the orphans brought to live in his home orphanage outside of December city) and a traditionally benevolent profession (traveling priest), yet the harsh conditions that residents of the planet are subject too have made him quite jaded and cynical. Even in his official time on the job as a priest, he charges money for hearing confessions, and rarely spends time actually talking about God.

The biggest difference between a traditional priestly outlook and Wolfwood's is that Wolfwood is more than willing to use violence and even kill when necessary. When traveling with pacifist Vash the Stampede, Wolfwood goes along with his refusal to kill, but considers such an outlook to be foolish and more likely to cause further harm in the long run. Wolfwood accepts the world as it is and has trouble imagining or working for something better, despite his concern for the orphans and children in general. He is slow to go out of his way to help people without prodding, but once he commits to such a cause, he's fully focused on it.

Though Wolfwood is fairly straightforward as far as his personality goes--what you see is pretty much what you get--he's also a skilled liar, easily able to hide his role as a hired gun and presenting a front of idle wandering. All the same, the affection and irritation he shows to his companions are entirely real, even though they don't know the whole truth about him.

Wolfwood's biggest weakness is children, or otherwise innocent people. Despite his belief that the world is a pretty terrible place that everyone will just have to learn to live in, he goes berserk when women and children are threatened, on one occasion loudly declaring that he will not let anyone suffer again. This is likely related to his own loss of innocence when he shot his abusive guardian while still a child. For all his cynicism and occasionally violent nature, Wolfwood can be very charming and charismatic at times, and is capable of enjoying himself with friends. Oddly--or perhaps understandably--he is most drawn to people like Vash and Milly, whose sincere and idealistic outlooks most challenge his own way of seeing things.

During his previous stay in Edensphere, Wolfwood’s personality remained pretty much the same as in canon, although he showed his irreverent side a bit more often to keep people at an emotional distance, since he couldn’t just up and leave--plus, since he didn’t need to do bad for good reasons so much in the sphere, he didn’t have as much to be actively cynical about, at least at first. He grew more bitter after Vash, someone very important to him in the sphere and out of it, abruptly disappeared, then returned with no memories of him. He’d never seen the sphere as a true Eden, but between the loss of Vash, the great fire, and the fact that the powers behind the sphere seemed to love messing with people, even children, he was starting to see the sphere as a kind of purgatory--or worse.

TIMELINE: From canon, immediately after his death in episode 23 of the Trigun anime; I would like him to retain his memories of Edensphere as well. He won’t know how long it’s been since he disappeared.
BACKGROUND: Wolfwood was born on a desert planet where the remnants of the human race crash landed after a failed attempt to find a replacement for the ruined Earth. His early years are unknown, but at seven years old he shot and killed his abusive guardian, and learned just how it is to kill. Afterwards, he was taken in and mentored by the killer called Chapel, one of the Gung-Ho Guns who served the villainous Knives, and became a talented gunman himself.

Feeling that it was too late for himself but not too late for children who could grow up differently, Wolfwood started working with the orphanage as an adult. (It is never stated in canon whether he went through any real training to become a priest, but for the purposes of this game, it will be assumed that he did go through some very unorthodox theological education in a very unorthodox world, and can genuinely lay claim to the title.) He enjoyed the work (which sometimes involved violence and killing in the name of protection, not just childcare) but never forgot what a horrible world they lived in.

At some point in his adulthood, Wolfwood was called upon to meet and travel with Vash the Stampede in order to track his movements and later guide him to Knives in return for money for the orphans. He did so, making it seem like a coincidental meeting, but actually hit it off with Vash and got along with him very well, despite their opposing ideologies and Vash's tendency to irritate him. Despite the trouble they ran into together, Wolfwood enjoyed the time they and the insurance girls Meryl and Milly spent together.

Vash and Wolfwood's differences came to a head the day Wolfwood killed Zazie the Beast, a child Gung-Ho gun, in order to save the lives of Vash and others. Despite his own belief that the killing had been necessary and justifiable due to the murders it prevented, it put distance between Vash and Wolfwood, causing Wolfwood to angrily claim his perspective as the correct one even as he wrestled with possibly accepting Vash's. To Wolfwood's surprise, Vash's peace-loving idealism (and Milly's, to a degree) had had an effect on him and he found himself grieving and questioning the path he chose.

After being consoled by Milly and then sleeping with her, Wolfwood initiated a final confrontation with Vash the next morning, but surprised them both by choosing Vash's side versus the Gung-Ho Guns who were about to attack them. Chapel, who had previously declared Wolfwood to be a true member of the Gung-Ho Guns and no longer just a hired hand, arrived with a cross-shaped gun similar to Wolfwood's and the two began to fight. At the climax of the battle, Wolfwood had the chance to kill Chapel and be free of his influence forever, yet he chose mercy and walked away, declaring his intention to take what he has learned throughout the years and apply it differently. However, the psychic manipulator Legato took control of Chapel's body and shot Wolfwood.

Even as he was bleeding to death, Wolfwood stopped to speak with Vash one more time and told him where Knives was located, making Vash realize Wolfwood had more to do with the Gung-Ho Guns than he had realized. Following this, Wolfwood made his way to a nearby empty church, where he initiated a rare talk with God. He admitted that he believed his sins couldn't be atoned for, but that he finally believed that Vash was right: there are ways to save people and avoid death, no matter how bad the world gets. As his life faded away, Wolfwood thought of his own desire to live a life of peace with Vash and the insurance girls. Railing against death, Wolfwood cried out that he did not want to die this way, and asked God if it would be too late to ask for his forgiveness.

He died holding his cross weapon, where Vash found him after following the blood trails.

When Wolfwood was born in Edensphere, he at first thought it was some kind of weird robbery/shakedown, but soon decided it could be an interesting experience, though he didn’t at all trust that they’d ended up in this place with no memories for a good reason. His first friend, Geranium, aggravated him, but there was something appealing about his company--he was a fun guy, and and his idealism was both frustrating and admirable.

The other shoe dropped when Geranium and Wolfwood discovered the murdered body of Truth one evening at the Aquarium. For Wolfwood, it was almost like confirmation of what part of him expected--the world could be a really horrible place, and bad things happened all the time whether people deserved it or not. (And a lot of them probably did.)

Still, there were things about the sphere that he found beautiful, and was even awed by--all the water in one place in the Aquarium, and the fact that it actually rained. Those were the things about the sphere that he found holy, in a way.

As time went by, Wolfwood explored the sphere and made some more friends, some kindred spirits, and some not so much like himself. While exploring the Scavengers’ Yard, he and Geranium discovered mechanical creatures from Trigun’s canon and had some major deja vu while fighting them. He received his first memory crystal in August 2009 and discovered that he had been a priest. He wasn’t sure how that made sense, knowing what kind of person he was, but he accepted the knowledge cheerfully, at least on the outside.

While the Wilderness was transformed into Hollywood, Wolfwood met Grift, who was a fellow dirty rotten scoundrel, and helped him pull off a quick robbery. They ended up fast friends and remained that way for as long as they were both in the sphere.
During the Great Fire that October, Wolfwood tried to escape the flames and chose to shoot a man who was trapped under a heavy branch, out of mercy. He knew there were some people who could not be saved. He turned out to be one of them, as well--a burning branch impaled him and knocked him down to a lower level of the tree. When he was rehatched, his new dream spoke of love and peace, things that he didn’t figure applied to him, and he heard Geranium’s voice. Afterward, he moved in with Geranium, Simon and Koi for a while. Soon after he had Geranium’s birth dream and argued with him over their respective principles in a conversation sparked by the dream, he moved in with Grift.

In January 2010, he purchased the Cross Punisher (a machine gun/rocket launcher/gun rack in the shape of a heavy metal cross) from Gene. Something about the weapon just called to him--probably its capacity for violence and its cross shape in equal measures. Soon after, Geranium disappeared, and Wolfwood was as angry and bitter as he’d ever been. But he went on with life and began actively practicing as a priest in the sphere--or he would have if anyone actually took him up on his offerings of blessings, confession, etc for a price. In April, he and Grift made plans to offer some of his priestly services at the bar. Hey, it made sense to Wolfwood. He also learned his true name that month.

That spring, Geranium came back, but he remembered nothing and called himself Broom. Wolfwood was very upset about this but hid it, choosing not to tell his friend that they had known each other right away. It ended up being a moot point, as Wolfwood himself disappeared from the sphere late that spring, leaving behind a few friends and the Cross Punisher.

ABILITIES: Wolfwood is a normal human being, though he seems able to take a lot of physical punishment. Anime physics or something more? You decide. He's a fantastic marksman, an ability achieved through ten years of training before setting out on his own as an adult. He has keen survival instincts, honed by necessity. Other than this, he's just a guy in good physical condition, aside from any lung damage caused by frequent smoking.

GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Chapel again, but he knows his real name, so he would go by either--whatever people want to use
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes please.
DREAM:

Everything was sand and sky. He lifted his cigarette to his mouth and inhaled as he realized he hadn’t expected anything else. Not that he could remember expecting anything at all--what had he been doing a minute ago? He wasn’t sure. All he could remember was being here in this twilit desert.

So he walked. It didn’t matter which direction he picked when everything looked the same, so he just moved forward. The weight of the large, canvas-wrapped item he carried on his shoulder was heavy, but for some reason he didn’t question it. This was a burden he could bear.
He looked down after a while and noticed a set of footsteps in the sand. Stopping for a moment, he placed his foot beside one. Exactly the same size, and that was another thing that didn’t surprise him. Somehow he knew that the footprints were his own, and he had walked this path before.

Why was he here now, if he’d been this way before and moved on? Why did he keep going instead of picking another direction or trying something else entirely? He paused briefly with the intention of setting down the thing he carried, but the suns rose higher in the sky and he knew that to stop now would invite death.

He kept walking. Voices drifted on the wind, specific words unintelligible but their sentiment and emotion perfect clear. A woman’s voice, bright and sunny, and he felt his lips curve into a smile. Then the voice of a man who sounded old and young at the first time, terrible grief in his words. The smile fell away then, and he wondered how he could hurt when he didn’t even know who was speaking or what he said. And then another man’s voice, lively and fairly bursting with scandalous intention. He knew that voice, liked that voice.

Then there was just silence.

Eventually he came to what looked like a path in the dirt, and a while after that, a fork in the path. He squinted off to the left, and he could barely make out what looked like trees and greenery. Something like a glass dome over it gleamed in the sun. An Eden, of sorts, but it just might be a mirage. To the right was more dirt and desert. There was nothing different from what he’d seen so far, but there was something familiar and comfortable about the idea of going that way. Why not?

He hesitated, though. It was just a path, a direction, and if he chose the wrong one, well, there were ways of changing things around to his advantage. But something inside him said this was important. The choice he made now could change everything. His future, and maybe the futures of the people whose voices he’d heard. Whose voices he would like to hear again.

Maybe then he’d remember how he’d gotten here, and why he was so very tired. Even if he didn’t know what they were, he was certain that he had things to do. He just needed the chance to do them.

He lifted his foot and took a step forward.

JOURNAL SAMPLE: Hey there, friends. I’ve been told it’s been quite a while. Cleaning off all that goo isn’t any more fun the third time around, but I think I’ve got the hang of it.

[The journal page singes slightly in a couple of spots, as though someone’s just shaken burning ashes off the end of their cigarette. Because someone has.]

I took a walk around to see if much has changed. It’s a little disappointing. The name was Chapel, but you can call me Wolfwood if you want. Nicholas D. Wolfwood. I’m just a humble priest who God has sent back to this land of Eden to tend the flock. That or I had some pretty bad hooch last night. But hey, who am I to question the Lord’s plan?

Oh yeah, one more thing. If anyone’s still got my gun, I’d like it back. I don’t have much money right now, but I don’t expect it for free--fair’s fair. But I’m sure we can make an agreement. Let’s say five free confessions to cover the maintenance while I was gone.

ASPIRATIONS: I gave this a lot of thought while deciding whether I truly had the drive to play Wolfwood through the close of the game. Since the messed-up side of the sphere is likely to reveal itself more and more as we get to the end, I’d like to explore some of Wolfwood’s more mercenary side. He’s not a villain and he doesn’t care only about himself, but it would be interesting to explore the side of him that’s willing to do bad things if he thinks it’s for a good reason. Also I would really like for him to fire his rocket launcher at least one.

PLOT PERMISSIONS:

ES 4th Wall: Yes
Chara 4th Wall: No
ES Mysteries: Yes
Memory Rec'v: Yes
Memory Distrib: Yes
Dream Distrib: Yes
Your Wilderness:Yes

APPLICATION: Original - Thomas Evans

2011-07-03T00:21:14Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.

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OC(Original Character) Application

PLAYER INFO

NAME: Fey
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: Sam Vimes/Stoneface (stonyfaced), Usopp/Sniper (longnosedliar) and Simon Bellamy (notamelonfucker)

CHARACTER INFO

CHARACTER NAME: Thom(as) Evans

PERSONALITY: The first thing you need to know about Thom is that he’s deeply manipulative. He always has been, and always will be. He lets people see only what he wants them to see, and prides himself on being deceptively disarming. That said, the main façade he presents is that of a charming young man with a contagious smile. He’s the type of crook people look at and label a lovable rascal instead of a dirty, double crossing criminal. He’s long since convinced himself that all he needs or wants is alcohol, women and money.

In reality, Thom is a coward and a cheat. His way of dealing with problems is to simply run away. He fears more intimate connections than the ones he makes to drink with and then con. He becomes personally affronted when those who have been alerted to his criminal tendencies accuse him of being evil. He’s terrified of intimate relationships that consist of more than one night stands and boozing and does nearly anything to prevent them from happening. He prides himself on not having to resort to actually harming people – it keeps his skin intact as well – but is vaguely aware of the fact that his livelihood robs others of theirs.

Despite this, he does have very real affection and compassion. He believes very firmly that it’s best to have more friends than enemies and dislikes being alone. Once somebody creeps underneath his skin, he has two options: run, or embrace it. In crisis, he can be slow acting if he must choose between saving his own skin and somebody else’s.

Still, this is the best way to sum him up: a cocky bastard with strong words and weak knees.

OC BACKGROUND: Thom was born in 1870 to middle class parents who longed to be wealthy. They consistently sacrificed more reasonable things in order to look wealthier than they were, and although Thom lived a fairly comfortable life, he found that he wanted more.

He also found he was immortal. The tale that had pervaded history across the years told him this much: there were others out there. 12 others, to be exact. It read that thirteen people were born at exactly the same time every decade to save the world from complete and utter destruction despair. Now, Thom quite liked his world, but found that he really didn’t feel like taking that large of a part in it and therefore vowed to keep his nose out of it.

He took advantage of his abilities of hoodwinking and disguise to con his way to fortune through the ages, never staying in the same place for more than a year or two. There were a few instances when he recalled the prophecy - both world wars and the cold war, to be exact - but was too fearful of them to do much else besides hide in the basement and silently thank whatever God was out there that he couldn’t die from starvation.

He only began his truly deplorable career choices in the 20’s, where he could find everything he wanted quite easily, including the flapper girls. Especially the flapper girls. Those were great years; people full of hope were hopelessly easy to trick. Then 1929 came, and everything was shot to hell. He never quite accepted the decline of the 20s, clinging onto old ideals. And old hats.

Year 1934, Thom found a woman. He stayed with her for five years and married her with a cheap ring and a filthy minister, but it was marriage. Then she got pregnant, and the war started really going, and Thom became afraid of consequences. The wrinkles on her face, the stretch marks on her belly, the thought that this family would soon be bombed to high hell. So he did what he was best at. He made sure that he had good insurance and one hell of a will, stepped in front of a speeding car and disappeared from her life forever. It was a pain running out of the autopsy room, all split lip and bloody face, but he managed it. He was immortal, wasn’t he?

He hid out for most of WWII, scared to death that the others like him would come and find him, force him into action. They didn’t.

Skip to year 1970, Seattle, where Thom was considering stealing a guy’s certificates and just running into Canada. Except they had no guns there. And they had funny accents. And they were cowardly bastards up there, but that meant he’d fit in just fine, right? Regardless, it was while he was contemplating making his move that he met Della. A waitress-slash-writer like every other talentless hack out there, all red hair and sunny smile. Thom liked her right away, but had a nasty realization after spending the night and finding out that he didn’t run off while she was still in that post-coital glow, that she was there, in bed with him, calling him sweetheart. Then she called him an asshole and revealed, quite unpleasantly, that she was like him. And that, incidentally, there were 11 of them congregated in Seattle right now, including Thom, who would most certainly help them, wouldn’t he?

As it turned out, they didn’t gather together because of a threat that they needed to save the world from, but because there was none. The last 13 that had been born couldn’t keep up with the times, he learned, and faded into obscurity, either drowning themselves so thoroughly that they actually managed to die, or still wandered the street in the fog of lunacy and madness. And, the group in front of him said, quite firmly, they didn’t want that to happen to them.

So they wanted to make their own threat. If they were saviours of the world, nobody out there could let them become like those. Right? All they needed was to find the two others. Seeing no other way out of it, Thom’s hand was forced—he had to agree.

The other two were quite insane – not to say that the others weren’t – and in Thom’s opinion, that made it a damn pain to track them down. Still, the group managed to lay their hands on them and get them to agree. And for all the effort Thom had put in to avoid this, he liked the guys now. Most of them.

The family he never knew he had melted down his cruel façade, right? It was too goddamn cliché. But no, he still liked being a con and tricking people and making a general nuisance out of himself, but he learned that wasn’t possible anymore, not after what he did.

When they did it, they did it too well. The world was sent into disarray (which, according to Thom, seemed a bit much for just the 13 of them) and they were left to deal with the aftermath. Every evening, when he closed his eyes to sleep, he wished none of it had happened, that the world stayed as it was, that he didn’t have to deal with it anymore.

Then he woke up in a giant fishbowl and found out that he didn’t.

After being greeted by Dumpling, Grift made his way into Edensphere and began to carve out a life for himself. He began as a bartender at Smoke’s and met a man named Chapel while looting from the Wilderness. At around the same time, he also struck up a friendship of sorts with Juliet. He existed peacefully and relatively happily until the great fire came about. Frightened that God was somehow trying to destroy them, Grift ended up pushing survivors out of his path in order to maintain his own survival and was able to ignore the guilt until he came upon the corpse of Chapel at which point he was startled by his own guilt.

Once Chapel came back, Grift was even more determined to keep up their friendship and they moved in together. Soon afterwards, when Smoke disappeared, Grift reluctantly took up the mantle of the bar. He didn’t particularly want to do something so permanent, but soon found that the job was almost perfectly tailored to him. He enjoyed the authority and the affluence that came with it and soon it became his home. He also enjoyed the company of the workers there, no matter who they may be, though he had a special soft spot for Kagerou.

He then gained a memory of his own shapeshifting and managed to puzzle out how his powers worked. From that moment on, he gained enjoyment from shapeshifting and spying and sleeping around. After hearing about Section 4 Housing, he tried out and managed to get a job as a greeter. During the next little while, he struck up several more friendships. He and Lyle bonded over guns, he and Sumi bonded over poetry and he and Nikki bonded at the bar. Just as it seemed as if Grift had become comfortable with his lot, he ran into the unpleasant surprise of Chapel disappearing on the one year anniversary of his birth here. Once again, Chapel managed to startle emotions out of Grift and he spent a night holding a wake for his dear friend and began to rethink his place in the world of Edensphere. While he grieved, Ambassador visited him and mocked him – awakening a corrosive relationship between the two – and Qi came to visit him and they chatted about philosophy.

Weary, Grift took action. First, he met up with Munnin who taunted him with hints of their existence. Afraid of death, Grift did not take the bite, but the damage had been done. His mental state was slowly deteriorating. His friends were slowly going quiet and he could feel the life he had developed slipping through his fingers as well as the fact that he was haunted by his past. When an hourglass was fastened around his neck, he went so far as to attempt to shoot it off.

After some time to ruminate to himself, Grift finally snapped after Munnin broke off contact and therefore broke off the tantalizing appeal of more information about the world he was in. He wrote an outright threat over the journals for someone to come and get him and Orca was all too happy to oblige. After being speared by his harpoon, Orca took note of Grift’s healing capabilities and made him an offer: join the CPA or perish. Grift chose the former, but he had his own thoughts on the matter.

Those thoughts being confronting Fugue. Once he confronted Fugue and tried to scare him into admitting the truth, he was startled by several branches spearing his body. As his radio memory played, Grift bled to death.

I wasn’t sure where to put this, but in lieu of losing a single important memory, I’d like for Grift to have several lost memories so that everything is just a bit spotty.

The list of those forgotten: Eternity, Veda, Medium, Spirit, Roswell, Lucy, Cheers, Lampwick, Thing, Aim, Goose, Rain, Ash, Sage, Prince, Peachblossom, Blackjack, Crow, Eagle, Fred and various NPCs.

ABILITIES:
Immortality: Thom is extremely hard to kill. He can’t die of starvation, and his wounds heal at an accelerated rate. If he gets badly enough hurt, he will die, but it must consist of a constant, aggressive barrage, being held underwater for an extensive period, being impaled straight in the heart, etc. It takes more persistence than anything else.

Magic: The way he uses magic is in very small, insignificant ways.
Moving objects: Provided the objects are close to each other, he can swap their places or move them slightly. This is used for magic tricks, or in the case of the fire, pushing obstacles slightly out of the way.

Fire: He can create fire (this skill has not yet been unlocked) but again it is insignificant—he can only make a tiny ball in his hand. It’s akin to having a very good lighter, but flashier.

Shapeshifting: This is the big one. Provided his hand touches that area of his body, he can change shape, colour and his size. He cannot completely replicate another, failing at minute details, but knows enough to disguise himself from day to do. This is the one he used the most often. I forgot to add this on last time, but I’ll add it on now: he can change back to his own form at any time, but he has to start all over again to take on a different form.

GAME INFO

EDENSPHERE NAME: Grift

BIRTHDAY LOG: Sure!

DREAM:
There is a curtain of blood falling from him, he can see. He is just where he left off, sharp branches impaling what feels like every part of him. It is painful, terribly painful, but he belatedly realizes that he cannot scream, for one of the branches is embedded in his throat. Perhaps screaming would not help his situation, but having the option would be appreciated. Stress relief, he thinks with what would have been a hollow laugh if he could only muster a sound. Unlike the way he died in real life, however, there is no city. There is only miles and miles of bleak nothingness, a desert and a clear blue sky. Is this what hell looks like? Perhaps solitude is hell, he realizes. Even worse than the pain is the despair he can feel welling up in his chest and weighing down every inch of his body. He does not think he has ever felt such a thing so profoundly before, and he tips his head further back. The wretched smell of his own blood and bile crawls up his nostrils and curls in his skull.

He stares up at the sky, questioning what he did to deserve such agony, and realizes that he can feel the sun bright on his face, unhindered by the glass of the sphere. He is in immeasurable amounts of pain, but he is free. A gurgle escapes him, though he suspects it’s just the sound of blood trickling through an air pocket in his throat, which is split wide open. He heals over the wounds, but they’re just pressed wider and wider. He is sabotaging himself, but he is a free man. If he could, he would smile.

Then suddenly, he’s in control of his limbs again. He takes a deep breath, and rips his neck away from the offending branch first. Then his hands, then his legs and feet, then his torso. The tearing of flesh and muscle and bone is an awful sound, but he soldiers on. By the end of it, he is lying heaving on the dirt and watching in morbid fascination as the rips in his body slowly restore themselves. He opens his hand, stretches it, closes it again. Open, close. Open, close. His smile is wooden, but real. His cradle of branches remains, spattered with his blood and bile. He notes that there were bugs crawling all over it that he never managed to notice, wonders if there are any trapped within him now. He can't help but think that if they were, he would feel it; he can keenly feel the sewing of his muscles, the blood warming his cold body, so why not a bug?

Dream-like, he rises to his feet and staggers across the wasteland until he comes across a house. He throws the door open, and sees a rich mahogany desk. A fat man sits behind it, a cigar clenched in his yellowing teeth, and he is handed a hat and a gun. He takes both and saunters out the door, only to be greeted with what can only be called an old fashioned gun-fight. He takes part in it gleefully, adrenaline shooting through his veins, and cares not for his own safety; why be afraid when he is a man that can come back from the dead? The skies above are grey with pollution, and the buildings are tall and bleak, but it feels so much realer than anything he has known before.

He hoists his gun and begins to shoot, but somehow, all sound fades away and is replaced with a thundering piano. As sound slips away, so does colour. There is nothing but the feel of the gun, warm under his hands and jerking with every shot and the vision of life sliding away from these men’s bodies. Once the fight has been completed, he brushes off his comrades and goes strolling down the street. His life is still in black and white, devoid of colour, and now he can hardly see the horizon. The pavement turns to nothing but simple lines underneath him, but he forges on, whistling along to the music under his breath.

He turns a corner, and sees Cross Punisher laying on the pavement beneath him. After a moment, he picks it up, and then looks up only to see Chapel standing in front of him, congenial smile on his face, but he notices that his clothes are still ragged from the fire, and there is a burn covering half of his face. The music fades away.

“I believe that’s mine,” Chapel says.

He stares at the other man, voiceless. Behind him is the Sphere, and it is loud and colourful, and its leaves and grass are not green, but red, red, red. He can see faces behind Chapel, drifting like ghosts—Nikki, Sumi, Kagerou, Lyle…

“Well?” Chapel asks. “Aren’t you going to return it?”

Grift stares behind him, then looks at Chapel. “I don’t want to go back,” he whispers. “Allow me to hold onto this. I want to stay here.”

“You need to return it. Grift, what is behind you is not real. It’s not even there anymore.”

Grift’s brow wrinkles, and he places one hand on his breast, where he can still feel the ache of the branch. “Ah, my friend,” he says quietly. “But it is my nothingness. What is behind you?”

“A life.”

“Not my life. Will you not even permit me to die?”

“No rest for the wicked, right?” Chapel says, and his arms cross the threshold between them to grab onto the Cross Punisher, and before he knows it, Grift is falling down, down, down, into those wretched leaves of red. Soon, all he can see is red, and then he sees nothing at all.

JOURNAL SAMPLE: [For those that still remember Grift’s handwriting, it’s just a bit shakier and slanted than ever, though it seems he’s making a concentrated effort to keep his script as graceful as always.]

It seems that this place feels the need to return the crucified back to life. A pointless endeavor, if you were to ask me, though no one did. It does rather ruin the shock of death if you’re only to pop back to life again, though stumbling out of a cocoon naked isn’t my idea of a good time. Bleeding to death is dreadful, by the by, I really don’t recommend it.

Ah, but now I should be on to introductions, for I do not expect that there are many that recall my writing. I was here once before by the name of Grift, bartender and greeter extraordinaire, though it seems I will be starting from scratch once more. I fear that my memory is a bit [there’s a thoughtful tap here] spotty. We shall see what I do and do not remember.

Would it be rude to ask if anyone happened to hold onto one of my hats for me? I’m asking anyway. I don’t feel properly dressed without one. A hat on my head and a stiff drink will do the trick for today.

-Grift

ASPIRATIONS: I’d like to just enjoy the rest of the game! Grift has progressed to something far more intense and crazy than he was when I first brought him in, so it’s also a nice way of experimenting with how this place could change people to such an extent. Plus, Chapel. Rad bromance, yo.

APPLICATION: The Borrowers - Arrietty Clock

2011-07-01T01:24:26Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.

PLAYER INFO
NAME: Tobu
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: Reki/Kurayami, Yuffie/Materia

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Arrietty Clock
SERIES: Ghibli's "The Borrowers"
RESERVED: N
WISHLIST: N

PERSONALITY: Arrietty is an energetic, adventurous, friendly, and curious teenaged girl, with a stubborn streak a mile wide and a bit of a temper. Her personality, at least, is far from small.

Bright, curious, and a little brash, she has a fierce appetite for life that belies her tiny frame. Although generally chatty and outgoing, she can be slightly wary when she feels threatened or on uncertain ground, particularly with big people (aka nearly everybody). She is quite good at holding a grudge if she feels she's been wronged, and will persist stubbornly in turning her nose up at you once she's decided you're a rotter. However, catch her fancy and earn her trust (it isn't /that/ difficult to do) and she'll be your loyal friend for life.

Her sheltered upbringing instilled her with both a deep love for her parents and an equally deep need to get out of their jurisdiction and find her own path in life someday. She is a natural explorer with a taste for adventure, and although she isn't an out-and-out rebel for the sake of rebellion alone, she will quite willingly flout direct commands from authority figures if her own judgment seems sounder to her than theirs.

She's a sensible sort of daredevil, and without making much fuss will undertake physical feats that would chill the blood if compared to their full-sized equivalent - but not before taking a moment to pragmatically double-check her safety rope. She loves to visit new places and try new things and is quite interested in new people, and will happily wander around a new environment for ages if left to it.

She's also immensely stubborn, which is both a virtue and a flaw. (She'll keep trying different angles to tackle a problem until she either succeeds or causes a disaster.) She can be close-mouthed to the extreme when she feels like it, but is generally chatty and friendly enough. She likes to look pretty, but doesn't like spending a lot of time on her looks - and she loves decorating the places where she lives, though she's not always that good at keeping them tidy.

TIMELINE: Taken from the journey down the river at the end of the film - pretty much the point where the credits roll.

BACKGROUND: Have you ever wondered where all those extra rubber bands, bobby pins, and thumbtacks go? You never seem to remember using them all up, and yet you keep having to buy new packets... The truth is, they're being "borrowed" by people who need them more than you do: the Borrowers, tiny people who live under the floors and inside the walls of human dwellings and fashion the tools and trinkets of their everyday lives out of your household knickknacks.

Generations ago, the ancestors of the Clock family flew to Japan on the backs of migrating birds. Their Borrowing lifestyle in Europe was getting dangerous as populations increased and people became more suspicious and less welcoming with regards to the little folk in their homes. Pragmatic as always, they decided to move to a quieter, safer nation, and Japan proved to be an excellent home for a time...but civilization marches on, and by the time Arrietty Clock was born, there were only three families living in the rambling Japanese farmhouse she called home. A few years later, after one family vanished and another was Seen by the human beans of the house and had to move to the woods nearby, the Clocks - Pod, Homily, and Arrietty - were the only Borrowers left.

For all they knew, they might have been the only Borrowers left in the world.

This worried Arrietty's aging parents deeply, and they threw their energies into teaching their daughter to look after herself, just in case. Her mother tried to teach her basic household skills, but by the age of fourteen, Arrietty's stitches were still uneven and her enthusiasm for cooking and cleaning was negligable at best. Far more exciting was tagging along with her father, being taught to Borrow things from the human beans in the house. Pod patiently taught his daughter the tricks of the Borrowing trade, from scaling a curtain with earrings for crampons, to rappelling down a cabinet on a fishhook-and-dental-floss climbing line. She loved her simple little life, although her cravings for adventure sometimes sent her out into the garden to fetch herbs for her mother and tease the household cat.

That simple life was turned upside down, however, when a human boy arrived at the house. His name was Sho, and he was very sick and recuperating in the countryside to prepare for heart surgery. He was also very observant, and it didn't take him long to notice the Borrowers at their activities. Horrified at first, Arrietty gradually settled into a wary coexistence with the boy as her parents frantically made plans to move out of the house. Bit by bit, however, she began to forge a friendship with Sho, who was as curious about her life as she was about his.

Their unlikely bond was strengthened forever when the housekeeper, suspicious of the boy's activities, discovered the Clock family home under the floorboards and caught Homily Clock in a jar. Furious with Sho at first for inadvertantly destroying her life, Arrietty forgave him when he helped her rescue her mother and cover up the signs of their old home, thus making the housekeeper's ravings about tiny people look like the results of one too many bottles of sake and saving them from further investigation.

Fortunately for the Clocks, they had a new life to move on to. In his searches for a possible home, Pod had met another, wilder Borrower, a teenaged boy named Spiller who told them that there were in fact a lot of other Borrowers living downriver in the woods. Taken with pretty Arrietty and generally a helpful, if quiet, sort, Spiller offered to guide the family to the settlement. Bidding her human friend a sad farewell, Arrietty boarded the teakettle Spiller used as a boat and set off down the river with her parents to find a new home and a new world to explore.

ABILITIES: Let's get this straight, first and foremost - Arrietty is /tiny/. About four and a half inches tall, to be precise. She otherwise looks like a completely normal Caucasian teenager,

Small she may be, but the law of squares makes her surprisingly strong and sturdy for her size. She won't be lifting any bricks or full pop cans anytime soon, but she can pull her own weight easily enough to make climbing a breeze, and she can survive proportionately longer falls than a human. This comes in handy, since her main skill is - for lack of a better word - mountaineering. Give Arrietty an earring and a bit of twine, and she'll gamely go clambering up any number of sheer inclines, pieces of furniture, plants, people...you name it.

She's also a quick thinker and keeps a reasonably cool head in dangerous situations. She is not, however, a remotely competent seamstress, and will need help putting together a wardrobe on arrival in the Sphere.

GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Leaf
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes, please!

DREAM: It's all green, so very green and bathed in sunlight with the grinding whir of cicadas rising and falling in the warm, steamy summer air. She takes a deep breath and smiles, leaning out from under the leaves in her hands to gaze up at the sky. They're a good size to use for an umbrella, and the smell of bay and shiso is marvelous, pleasantly stinging her nose.

She's just about to start climbing down to the ground, when she hears a huge, strange rumbling sound, and crunching gravel, and...voices. Curious, she -

- suddenly finds herself looking up at a looming face, far, far overhead, and ducks down against the stem of the plant, holding up the leaves like a shield and waiting, trembling. Finally, it moves away, loudly crushing the grass with its feet. She breathes a sigh of relief and hops down the plant from stem to stem, hitting the ground running. Somewhere, she hears a yowl and runs faster, already well aware of what that noise means, and leaps through a metal grill to safety just before a huge, furry cat slams into it. It hisses and keens, reaching its claws through the slots in the grill. She smiles and gives it a cheeky wave, before hurrying off through the cool, dark space under the house.

Home. This is home, and she lets herself in, setting the leaf in the -

- woman is scolding her, gray hair pulled up into a ponytail, wondering aloud what would happen if she were Seen. She catches a snatch of words ("The bay tree is so far away!") before the dream shifts and pushes them into another room, a cluttered kitchen. A taciturn man stands over her, and she laughs and calls him Papa.

"It's all right," she hears herself saying. "He didn't see me. I hid under the leaves!"

The man - her father - gives her a gentle look, and then takes a hook from his backpack and sets it into the - oh. Oh, my. The kitchen is larger, now, a hundred thousand times larger it seems, and dark and silent except for the massive echoing clack - clack - clack of a human clock, far away somewhere. She has just enough time to register this, when her father pays out a length of line from the hook, leans back, and hops off the counter into space.

Shocked and delighted, she runs to the edge and watches him rappeling down -

- climbing up -

- no, it's her that's climbing up -

- gathering up a lump of sugar in her pack -

- unsheathing a long, vicious pin from its place at her side, with a ringing sound of steel -

- and as she looks up at her father among the whirl of images, laughing, saying, "Borrowing is fun, isn't it?", she turns to look over her shoulder and freezes, her cheerful smile slipping away as she sees that same vast face with its enormous dark eyes, looking calmly down at her.

"Don't be afraid," the voice booms, like quiet summer thunder -

- and she wakes up.

JOURNAL SAMPLE: [A wobbly mark appears on the page, then another. Slowly, painstakingly, the following words appear, wandering awkwardly across the paper.]

THIS PEN IS TOO BIG

CAN'T WRITE QUICKLY

HELLO?

ASPIRATIONS: To move her into a birdhouse or mailbox or similar, somewhere in the Bazaar. To actually get her a job doing something useful, somehow. To make plenty of human bean friends. To end up fearlessly involved in endgame, if the opportunity arises - because Arrietty will tackle /any/ challenge.

Hi, Tobu!

After reviewing your application, we would like to request a more elaborate background section- specifically, the beginnings of her friendship with Sho as well as more about her impact on his life.

Please feel free to send your elaborations to us and we will continue processing your app.

(PLAYER RESPONSE)

JUNE EVENT CALENDAR

2011-06-28T20:16:01Z

※ JUNE 2011
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※ EVENTS
※ Safety First! (06/01-06/03, 06/12) Your safety is our main concern! In this event, the sphere will be very, very concerned with its citizens' safety. Furniture corners have been rounded, going outside means having a helmet, elbow and knee pads, there are multiple signs warning citizens of tripping over a small hole in the pathway, and food will come with labels warning you to chew thoroughly before swallowing. There is no such thing as overkill when it's your life at stake!
※ (Sickly) Ant Attack (06/01, 06/05-06/08, 06/10, 06/19-06/21) The ants are attacking, the ants are attacking, the ants are attacking! Everybody evacu... wait. This time, the ants seem to be remarkably less threatening due to their sluggish state and the fact that they look worn ragged. As these sick and often injured ants stagger through Edensphere, each citizen is equipped with a water gun to defend themselves, whether they need it or not. These water guns are useless on humans, but are deadly on the ants--their bodies slowly dissolve away underneath its spray. Gross!
※ Water Guns (06/05-06/09, 06/11, 06/28-07/02) The citizens of the Sphere will find themselves equipped with water guns of varying shapes and sizes. However, these tricky pistols don't always shoot water. Sometimes they squirt various beverages, paint, substances deadly to giant ants (how convenient!), and who knows what else. What determines what comes out? It's all luck of the draw.
※ Non-Virgins Get Swamp Dragons (06/13-07/17, 06/24-06/27) What's the opposite of unicorns? Dragons! Unfortunately, these wretched creatures are far from the majestic dragons that already exist on Edensphere. In fact, these dragons are downright homely and utterly non-threatening. They consume practically anything that they can fit in their mouths and breathe flame when they're inclined to. The singularly most dangerous thing about them is their tendency to explode when they get over-excited. In Edensphere's case, what seems to excite them the most is virgins. But not to worry! Once exploded, the swamp dragon will reappear to live - and explode - another day.
※ Memory Regain (06/22) On this day, at precisely noon, all residents will spontaneously receive a five sense memory, free of charge.
※ THE WILDERNESS
※ Miranda (06/01-06/08, 06/10-06/11, 06/13-06/14) By all appearances, Miranda appears to be a thriving planet, full of bustling, futuristiccities, powered by advanced computers and technology. However, it soon becomes apparent that something is very wrong- the streets and buildings are empty of people, vid strips and informational signs activate sporadically, if at all, and the whole place appears to have no sign of life. Characters who take a closer look may find this planet's dark secret Or they discover something strange, unnatural to this world. They may find strange distortions of time and space that may lead them to..."
※ Babylon 5 (Simultaneous with Miranda: 06/02, 06/06-06/08, 06/10, 06/13 ) Babylon 5 is five mile long space station, created to hold 250,000, arranged in colored sections starting from the front and heading to the rear: Blue, Brown, Green, Red, Yellow, Grey. Resourceful explorers may find the Blue section useful, as it holds Command, Medlab and officers quarters, while Red is the section filled with a variety of shops that range from flower shops to strip clubs. Technically minded visitors may find Yellow and Grey interesting as it holds all the mechanical tech, while those seeking refinement may try the Green section, home to the Ambassadors and a rich garden filled with alien delights. Be careful to avoid the Brown section, as it is the most run down, seedy locale. We hear "Dust" is a major problem there (just say no!). But no matter where they go, visitors should be cautious, for unlike Miranda, it seems as though not all of the former residents have departed. Is that something moving in the corner of your eye? A flicker of movement? Perhaps...a shadow?
※ Blank Slate (06/04, 06/09, 06/12, 06/15, 06/18, 06/21, 06/26, 06/29) Blank whiteness before you, behind you, and all around. You feel ground beneath your feet but see no shadow and no landmarks.
※ Soul Society (06/16-06/17, 06/19-06/20, 06/22-06/25, 06/27-06/28, 06/30) Soul Society consists of two separate areas: Seireitei is a large city, surrounded by pure white walls, broken only by 4 gates, each at a separate compass point. Inside, residents will find homes, shops, grand manors, and the barracks of the 13 Imperial Guard Divisions. Above the center of the city, a grouping of white towers soars next to a strangely barren cliff. Radiating from just outside Seireitei’s walls is the district of Rukongai, which is divided into 320 districts, 80 each to the north, south, east and west. While the lower-numbered districts closest to Seireitei are clean and safe, the further one travels, the poorer and more disreputable they get, so residents beware! A few unlucky residents will stumble over anomalies that look like rips or tears in the air, which will lead them to...
※ Hueco Mundo (Simultaneous with Soul Society: 06/20, 06/22-06/24, 06/27-06/28) Hueco Mundo: In stark contrast, Hueco Mundo is a seemingly never-ending desert of white sand, dotted with quartz formations in the shape of rocks and dead trees. Intrepid explorers will find the fortress of Las Noches, an enormous dome surrounded by large towers and outbuildings. Small Hollows feed off spirit particles in the landscape in lieu of human souls, but larger, more powerful Hollows will attack if their rest is disturbed!

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APPLICATION: Valkyrie Profile - Lenneth Valkyrie [ABILITIES ELABORATION]

2011-06-13T02:35:31Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.
Original application is here.

Nibelung Valesti: Lenneth’s Purify Weird Soul, a divine assault of which
there are two types. One uses her sword and the other, her bow. Both end with
multiple spears through the body of her enemy, though. There are three classes
to the Nibelung Valesti:
* The first is the one she has immediate use of in the beginning of the game.
This one ends with three spears piercing the body of her enemy.
* The second is accessible either when you have a high level or have one of the
four treasures, specifically the Demon Sword Levantine. This one ends with
Lenneth making use of her wings and flying into the air, thrusting a huge spear
into the enemy.
* The third and final is used after she becomes Lord of Creation. This time when
she thrusts the spear into the body of her enemy, an explosion occurs all around
said enemy.

Soul Materialize: This is an ability all three Valkyrie's possess.
Lenneth collects the souls as they are dying and stores them within herself.
This leaves them without a body but when Lenneth has need of them, her powers as
a Valkyrie provides them with a physical body in order to do battle. However,
this is only possible as long as Lenneth remains alive. Should she perish, the
einherjar she collected will only have a short time to revive her before they
fade out of existence themselves.

Crystals: Lenneth has the ability to create crystals. These can either be
used to help climb rooms in which staircases collapsed or towers that have no
stairs. They can also be used to freeze enemies temporarily. A second crystal
fired at a frozen enemy will transport Lenneth to where the enemy had been
sitting frozen and the frozen enemy to where Lenneth had been standing. This is
very useful for reaching heights without creating steps from crystals. Another
use of the crystals are, when one is fired on an already formed crystal it will
grow larger, but a third shot will create an ethereal platform for a short time.
This is often used when there are only small openings in a ceiling and crystal
"steps" can't be used.

APPLICATION: Valkyrie Profile - Lenneth Valkyrie

2011-06-05T23:53:17Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.

PLAYER INFO
NAME: Casper
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: GMT-5
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: None

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Lenneth Valkyrie
SERIES: Valkyrie Profile
RESERVED: Yes
WISHLIST: Nope
PERSONALITY: For the sake of simplicity, I'll use what I wrote for
another game I had her in before it closed

Lenneth is a very serious young woman, living by the philosophy of “All work
and no play”. She is duty-bound and performs that duty to the best of her
ability, doing nothing less if it is within her power. She is very loyal to
Odin and Freya for a majority of her life until the Nibelung Ring is stolen.
Even after that, Lenneth performs her duty valiantly, finding good in humans
she selects as Einherjar and making sure they are fit to fight for the gods
before sending them to Valhalla.

She has a tendency to regret some choices, seeing the way people curse her as
a “Death goddess” and claiming she steals the lives of men and young men alike
that go into battle. It often makes her question herself and her duty, even
coming close to allowing herself to be killed by a young man. However, the
pride with which her Einherjar carry themselves and the high esteem that they
carry her in reminds Lenneth that she is not a Death goddess but one who
chooses valiant warriors to serve the gods of which there is no honor higher.

Of the three Valkyries and the middle sister of Hrist and Silmeria, Lenneth is
the most level-headed, not allowing simple things like stubborn Einherjar to
frustrate her. But she also isn’t easy on them, not giving them the benefit of
the doubt on every little thing or letting them get away with something. As
with the Realms on Yggdrasil’s branches, there must be a balance.

Lenneth is compassionate towards humans, the result of her emotions and
memories being released upon the loss of the Nibelung Ring (which was placed
on her by Odin and Freya to seal away such emotions so that only her duty
remained) and recovering Platina’s earrings: one from Lucian and one on her
grave in the Weeping Lily Meadow. She’s seen enough humans suffering and being
used by selfish gods, her own life included that she can’t look at them as
pawns for the use of the gods.

Compassion, love and regret are far from her only emotions however. When she
first discovers that Lucian was killed by Loki, Lenneth was anguished, letting
the pain of his loss overwhelm her to the point of an emotional breakdown.
When confronting Loki, she exhibits pity on the god who was born half Vanir
and half Aesir, destined to be scorned by both and never accepted by anybody.
Even himself.

Lenneth is quite human in personality, but she doesn’t believe in cruelty.
She’s seen the homunculi that Lezard creates, knows they are made from humans
and elves and that they are killed in order to create homunculi in her image.
Such barbarism sickens her as do unhealthy obsessions with her.

TIMELINE: Close to the end of VP2, before she gets trapped in a crystal
BACKGROUND: Again, I'll use what I wrote for another game, if that's
okay. I'd actually really hate to rewrite all this.

Chooser of the Slain.

“The second of Fate’s three daughters.” - Covenant of the Plume description of
Lenneth.

Lenneth has seen many incarnations, each time existing in the body of a human
girl until her death which would lead to her birth as the Valkyrie. When this
time comes, all human memories are sealed away.

We first meet Lenneth when she chooses Thyodor, the father of a boy named
Wylfred, as one of her Einherjar. His death leads Wylfred’s family to poverty.
Without money to purchase food, his sisters death is unavoidable and his
mother loses her sanity. Seven years after his fathers death, Wylfred swears
vengeance upon the Valkyrie and he takes the Destiny Plume left on Thyodor’s
body which is soon blessed by Hel, goddess of Nifleheim. This Plume will help
him in his journey to slay the Valkyrie.

When he finally encounters her, and they battle, Lenneth tells Wylfred that he
needs to stop depending on the powers given to him by Hel and the Destiny
Plume. While fighting, one of the Einherjar that Lenneth gathered defends her
and is revealed to be Wylfred’s father. Ailyth demands that Wylfred pay the
price from his deal with Hel. Not doing what is demanded, Ailyth prepares to
take his soul but before she can do so, Thyodor takes his place. Angered,
Lenneth takes up her sword and demands that her Einherjar be returned to her.
Besides it being impossible, Lenneth is reminded that her actions could start
a war between Asgard and Nifleheim.

Leaving Wylfred to his life, Lenneth leaves. It is then decided that Lenneth’s
compassion for the humans on Midgard is an inconvenience. Freya and Odin
decide that all of her memory will be stripped away on her next awakening,
leaving only her duty.

She next begins her journey by awakening in Valhalla and is drawn to meet with
Odin, Lord of the gods where she is given a mission: “Collect Einherjar for
the upcoming battle; Ragnarok approaches.” Sent down to Midgard with this
mission, Lenneth’s first two Einherjar are Jelanda and Arngrim; victims of
treason by the Artolian, Lombert, who served the king. He received the ghoul
powder to change Jelanda by one, Lezard Valeth, before drugging Jelanda and
sending her to Villnore. He is soon confronted by Lenneth and Arngrim. When
dead, Lezard resurrects him as a one eyed beast and steals the Nibelung Ring
that seals Lenneth’s memories and emotions.

She continues her journey, gathering Einherjar and sending them to Valhalla
until she hears another dying soul. This one was once the teacher of Lezard
and atop his tower, he gave her husband ghoul powder. He then let the demon he
became slay his former teacher, all with the intent of drawing Lenneth there.
And lured she is, taking the woman as an Einherjar and venturing into the
tower to confront the man responsible. She finds all manners of disturbing
things in the labyrinth of a tower he calls home but finally she finds him,
waiting for her. Summoning two undead creatures to fight with him, Lenneth and
her Einherjar eventually defeat them though Lezard escapes by using an ancient
teleportation spell. After he disappears she discovers the homunculi in his
tower, all with her appearance. Lenneth destroys them in anger.

Lenneth’s memories and emotions gradually continue to come back as she moves
forward in her journey, soon taking a young man with her: Lucian. Lucian
remembered a girl who looked identical to Lenneth and her name was Platina. He
and Platina had run away together, to keep her from being sold by her parents,
but she died in the Weeping Lily Meadow. While with the Valkyrie, he gives her
an earring that had belonged to Platina. To help Lucian move past these
memories, and to give him peace of mind about her uncanny resemblance to
Platina, Lenneth gives him a kiss and sends him to Valhalla where he meets the
God Loki. Convinced by Loki that the Dragon Orb, one of the Four Artifacts
that balance their world, will return the Valkyrie’s memories as Platina,
Lucian helps him but is only killed in the process and Loki regains all of his
powers as a Vanir and an Aesir.

In Midgard, Lenneth’s memories start to floor back as she visit’s the Weeping
Lily’s and finds an earring. Her earring from when she was Platina and the
match to the one Lucian gave her. To keep the seal intact, Freya seals
Lenneth’s soul and awakens Hrist, the Dark Valkyrie as Lezard refers to her.
Lenneth’s Einherjar refuse to heed Hrist’s commands and she prepared to
destroy them for it, only to have them teleported away at the last moment by
none other than Lezard. He informs them that there may be a way to save
Lenneth, but it will require three mages: Himself, Jelanda and one other whom
he already has in mind. He leads them to Flenceburg where they recruit the
assistance of Mystina, an old classmate of Lezard’s. Before she can outright
refuse, Lezard reveals her body: Mystina is already dead and has no choice but
to help.

Tracking down Hrist; Lezard, Arngrim, Jelanda and Mystina find her in the
castle of Brahms’, Lord of the Undead. In a twist of fate, Brahms’ assists
them in defeating Hrist and the mages collect Lenneth’s soul in a crystal and
they hurry back to Lezard’s Tower where he has a younger, childlike, homunculi
waiting. Casting a spell that even surprises Mystina, Lezard places Lenneth’s
soul in the body where it immediately ages appropriately and Lenneth regains
consciousness. She immediately cries out for Lucian, knowing of his death at
Loki’s hands.

Returning to Valhalla, Lenneth finds Freya crying over the body of Odin,
begging him to wake up. Exchanging few words, Lenneth seeks out Loki to avenge
Lucian and to right the damage he has done. He is surprised to find that
Lenneth can compete with him, even defeat him.

“Do you know why Odin became Lord of the gods? It is because he is half elf
and half human. gods are static and cannot grow. However, since Odin possesses
the growth ability of a human…” -Lezard Valeth

Lenneth discovers the ability to grow within her. She is no longer just a
goddess, she has the ability of Creation inside her. Defeating Loki, she takes
him within her, only seeing a sad child. A child who was not accepted by
Vanir or Aesir, forever scorned by both. Lenneth restores the damaged Valhalla
and Midgard, and restores the lives of the Einherjar that were lost.
Including Lucian.

Later, Lenneth discovers that time is being distorted, events rewritten. And
by none other than Lezard Valeth, the only human to survive Ragnarok. Using a
device in the abandoned city of Dipan, he’s traveled back in time to rewrite
history and to become Lord of the gods himself. Traveling to Dipan herself,
and making use of the device, Lenneth pursues him in an attempt to minimize
the damage. However, she must be wary as only one Valkyrie is to be awake at
any one time. And Lezard expected her to pursue him.

And in this time, Silmeria and Hrist are awake but only by a mistake in the
Sovereign’s Rite, which sealed Silmeria’s soul in the princess of Dipan,
Alicia. Hrist pursues Alicia and Silmeria in an attempt to force her back to
Valhalla and back into the service of Odin, however Silmeria refuses. This
continues until they reach Dipan and Hrist has Alicia’s father executed. While
on her way to the execution, Hrist pauses, sensing Lenneth. Lenneth hides
quickly and continues to watch events unfold; continues to keep an eye on
Lezard.

It isn’t long after that Alicia confronts Hrist, after learning of her mothers
death as well. The undead mages of Dipan begin to cast the Sovereign’s Rite,
only to be destroyed. Lezard quickly plays his hand and completes the casting
of the spell, having used the mages to learn its secret. He steals the soul
of Silmeria and disappears only to reunite with them in Valhalla. He assists
Alicia in attacking Odin. When Alicia is flung away, Lezard kills him using
Silmeria’s powers and takes Gungnir as well as inheriting Odin’s soul.

Creating his own world, he awaited the arrival of Lenneth, not caring that his
world was causing all nine of the other Realms to collapse. There, Alicia and
her companions team up with Lenneth and Hrist to defeat Lezard. Sealing
Silmeria’s soul in a homunculus and creating one of himself, he sends them out
to attack them all, losing Silmeria in the process. It matters little however,
because as they proceed, they encounter Lezard and, casting the Sovereign’s
Rite, he captures Lenneth. Collapsing part of his world to keep the heroes
away and sealing Lenneth in a crystal, he prepares to join his soul with hers
so they can share eternity together.

Alicia and her companions make their way back quickly, and confront Lezard,
destroying the crystal to free Lenneth. Merging all three Valkyrie’s in
Alicia’s body, they create the true Valkyrie and they kill Lezard. The
process, however, kills Alicia as there is no body that can contain Valkyrie.
Rufus takes this hard and decides to take the place as Lord of the gods,
awaiting the reincarnation of Alicia. In the end, all the Valkyries, Alicia
and Lezard are reborn in a revived Midgard.

ABILITIES:

Lenneth is a goddess whose skills with a sword are unchallenged in Midgard,
should close combat required. She is also highly skilled with a bow, which can
be used to hunt for food, and can also summon her wings and fly a person who
is injured somewhere safe to be treated. Listing:

Swordsmanship- Lenneth’s weapon of choice is a sword. It’s always seen hanging
at her hip in any incarnation. Physically, she’s a strong fighter, which
makes her a valuable ally in any fight.

Archery- Lenneth is also proficient in the use of a bow and arrows. If watched
closely in the game, it looks as though she’s capable of firing two arrows at
once.

‘Concentration’- Lenneth can use her ‘Concentration’ ability to sense those
about to die, and that have the potential to become Einherjar. While on the
island, Lenneth can use Concentration if someone goes missing. If they’re
close to death, she’ll be able to locate them and carry someone to treat them.

Flight- She’s a Valkyrie with wings and she flies for just about all of
Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth. It doesn’t show her wings during game play but in
cut scenes, she’s does unfurl them.

Nibelung Valesti- Lenneth’s Purify Weird Soul, there are two types. One uses
her sword and the other, her bow. Both end with multiple spears through the
body of her enemy, though.

Valkyrie- When merged with Hrist and Silmeria, as well as a host, Lenneth and
her sisters become the true Valkyrie. Her power exceeds even Odins’ and
Lezards’. Killing anyone with the Valkyrie’s power can literally destroy their
soul, keeping them from being reborn. However, the creation of Valkyrie is
always short-lived and will kill the host body; the souls will be lost and
forced to reincarnate on their own. This doubles as a weakness.

GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Lily
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes please!
DREAM:

She found herself sitting in a meadow of lilies. Silver hair loose from its
braid blew around her in a breeze she couldn't feel, the moon high in the sky.
Behind her, she could hear a voice though she couldn't place to who that voice
belonged.

"-Weeping lilies!" Is that what they were called? They were so lovely though.
How could anyone look upon these and think of the word 'weeping'? And then, the
sound of someone weeping draws her attention- A young woman with blonde hair,
weeping over the body of a man. At her shoulder was another woman with longer
blonde hair, this one wearing armor. Neither face could be seen, turned away
from her. Both seemed, no, felt connected. As if the grief of one bled into the
other.

And even she could feel their grief, if only minutely.

'I know them...' But she couldn't remember them. Is this why they were
called weeping lilies? Because they were connected to pain? Or was it symbolic?
Her mind raced and she stood, taking a looking around the valley. As she slowly
gazed around, bodies seemed to materialize. Each one killed in one manner or
another.

"Why...?" She question, voice small and saddened. And then, a stray tear fell
down her cheek at the sight of so many lives lost. It was normal, lives being
lost. Inside, she knew that. Seeing them all laying there though, dozens upon
dozens upon dozens more bodies... It was overwhelming.

JOURNAL SAMPLE:

[The handwriting is distinctly feminine, with a slight curl to some of her
letters and each word carefully written out. As though she was giving careful
thought before each word is written.]

My name is Lily. At least, that is the name I've chosen. Can everybody really
read what I'm writing? It's a bit funny to think they can. I feel I'll write
something foolish for all to see.

I feel... At home here. I can't explain it but Edensphere feels comfortable, I
like this feeling. As much as I like it though, I'm feeling a bit stir crazy.
If there's anyone that would ever like to go jogging or something relatively
athletic with me, I would very much appreciate it.

[Strike outs are illegible. She went through those thoroughly.]

ASPIRATIONS:

I'm looking forward to starting plenty of Character Relationships for Lenneth,
and exploring her more feminine side rather than the personality we all know
and love. While it's still part of her, I'd like her to try to become more
relaxed.

Dear Casper,

Thank you for your patience! After reviewing your application, we would like more information on one of Lenneth's abilities, her Nibelung Valesti. We would also like information about a couple of abilities which were omitted- specifically, her ability to make crystals and her Soul Materialize.

Please feel free to submit these revisions and we will continue processing your application. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask a moderator or helpstaffer!

(PLAYER RESPONSE)

MAY EVENT CALENDAR

2011-05-30T04:36:05Z

※ MAY 2011
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31
※ EVENTS
※ Catchphrase Graffiti (ALL MONTH LONG) Graffiti begins to appear all over the Sphere! At first there are troll faces everywhere, but it will soon progress to symbols such as happy faces, pokeballs and rainbows. More importantly various canonical slogans will begin to be scrawled everywhere. BELIEVE IT!
※ A Trip Down Memory Lane (04/26-05/03) It's that time again--once more, the Stairway to the Stars leads a number of unsuspecting groups to the Fourth Floor to witness projections of memories. Whose memories will they be, and what will they discover about their own (or other characters') lives?
※ Troll in the Sphere (05/03-05/04 & 05/19-05/24) Just as the title suggests, there appears to be a troll in the Sphere, and it may very well be the Tree itself! For the duration of this event, characters will find themselves victim to petty annoyances and irritating pranks. These instances can range from things like toilet paper disappearing after a character has already done his or her business to discovering that their entire loaf of pre-sliced bread has been replaced with end slices. On top of that, the Tree itself seems to be rather upset with its citizens. Branches begin to show its discontent through slaps, wedgies and other types of harmless yet annoying physical harassment.
※ Memory Loss (Noon* of 05/05-5/08 & Noon of 05/24-05/26)* For the duration of this event, participating characters will be confronted with an unfortunately familiar situation: once again, their memories will be completely wiped and they will be left with nothing but their most current birth dream. They will be forced to reacquaint themselves with the ways of Edensphere until their memory finally returns to them.
※ Safety First! (05/11-05/18 & 05/30-06/03) Your safety is our main concern! In this event, the sphere will be very, very concerned with its citizens' safety. Furniture corners have been rounded, going outside means having a helmet, elbow and knee pads, there are multiple signs warning citizens of tripping over a small hole in the pathway, and food will come with labels warning you to chew thoroughly before swallowing. There is no such thing as overkill when it's your life at stake!
※ THE WILDERNESS
※ Konoha Village (05/01-05/03, 05/05-05/08, 05/12-05/15 & 05/19-05/20) Konoha village is walled in and surrounded by an expansive forest. Upon first glance, this village may not be very different from many old Japanese villages, but this impression quickly changes once one steps foot inside their homes. Inside, one may find technology such as telephones and television, ready for the looting! By far the most prominent landmark of this remarkable village is the mountain range which has four faces carved on its rocky exterior.
※ Geofront (05/04, 05/16-05/18, 05/21-05/26 & 05/29-05/31) The Geofront is a massive underground, dome shaped cavern. Inside this cavern is a replica of the outside world, including a forest, an artificial lake and mirrors that reflect the sunlight down into this cavern in order to complete this illusion of nature. This illusion, however, is broken by the presence of escalators, tanks, eva hangars, break rooms and three large supercomputers. In one of the rooms, there is nothing but the shells of failed Eva prototypes. All of these factors together make for a remarkably eerie wildernes
※ The Blank Slate (05/9-05/11 & 05/27-05/28) Blank whiteness before you, behind you, and all around. You feel ground beneath your feet but see no shadow and no landmarks. This haunting white world returns once more this month...but why?

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APPLICATION: Winx Club - Stella

2011-05-16T02:13:39Z

This application was NOT ACCEPTED.

PLAYER INFO
NAME: Hanako
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: Ontario EST

CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: None

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Stella
SERIES: Winx Club
RESERVED: No
WISHLIST: No
PERSONALITY:
A usually proud, self centered and loud person, who also happens to
care about her friends and is always willing to help them out or hear
about their problems. Stella loves fashion and gossip and often goofs
off and flirts with boys instead of doing her homework, which annoys her
friends. She learns to accept that love and friendship are far more
important than royalty, fashion and shopping. Though she flirts with
other boys, she loves her current boyfriend, Brandon, immensely; though
she is shocked when she discovered that he switched identities with
prince Sky in order to protect him, but eventually forgives him for it
and starts to trust him again and officially gets together with him by
the end of the first season. Stella is also an optimistic and cheery
person overall and doesn’t stay too gloomy for very long.

Stella
allso enjoys matchmaking people and friends, who obviously don't
appreciate this, even though Stella has no idea why her friends don't
like it, mainly due to her oblivious nature that tends to pop up. She's
also a bit lazy, and uses her powers for day to day things more often
then she should. She was sent to Alfea to become a stronger fairy, but
this did not mean so much to her, though she did effectively become a
fully accomplished fairy and a powerful one by fighting the first three
season villains with the Winx.

TIMELINE: Epsode 9 of the third season. This is the episode after she gets her Enchantix.

BACKGROUND:
Stella's a princess from the planet of Solaria. She has the power of
the sun and the moon, each representing her mom (moon) and her dad
(sun), though she mainly uses the power of the sun because she lived on
Solaria with her dad. Her parents divorcing when she was younger, Stella
didn’t take it so well and wanted desperately for them to get together
for a long time. Stella happens to be a year older than her friends,
mostly due to the fact that she blew up the laboratory at Alfea when she
was trying to create a new shade of pink and wanting it to make it
Solaria's new official color if she was successful.

Stella meets
Bloom, her best friend, when she lands on earth after being chased by a
troll. She sees Bloom as a fairy and decided to take her to Alfea so she
could learn how to use her powers. On their first dayu, the three of
them meet Musa, Flora and Techna and form the Winx Club after a few
days. During their first year, the group had to contend with three
witches, Icy, Darcey and Stormy, from a different school called Cloud
Tower, who at first stole Stella's ring to test it for any spectacular
power, which it didn't. Later on the witches find out that Bloom had the
power that they were looking for and wind up taking it from her, so
Stella aids Bloom in getting back her powers and defending Alfea from
the Witch's army. By the second season, Brandon and Stella's
relationship get off to a better start, until Stella, Bloom and Aisha go
to the Underrealm. Stella and Brandon were separated from the others,
they arrived in a village called Downland. There they met Sponsus and
Queen Amentia. Amentia took a real liking to Brandon, which infuriated
Stella, who was weak from lack of sunlight so after a recharge, she
reunited with Bloom, Sky and Aisha to save Brandon. It's also in this
season that Stella meets Amore, the pixie of love, and bonded with her.
Afterwards the girls went to a resort realm and Stella showed off a
brand new swimsuit that was just for show. The day after, Layla
suggested they send a postcard to Stella's parents, but she didn't know
that they were divorced until Stella told her. Stella then went to
apologize to Layla, thus earning her Charmix. She then went to the
Underrealm with the other Winx and the Heroes to save Bloom from Darkar.

In
the third season, Stella plays a bigger role, when her dad announces
she's marring the Countess Cassandra, Valtor breaks out to help her take
control of him while Valtor himself went around the different planets,
taking their most powerful spells and powers. At her Princess Ball,
Stella is spelled herself by Chimera, turning her into a hideous beast,
which the Winx do manage to reverse. Also, Stella earns her Enchantix
when she jumps in the way of her father before he got shot and breaking
the spell he was under. After Bloom earned her Enchantix by bypassing
the usual way of earning it, the group goes to finally defeat Baltor, an
old enemy of Bloom's parents and created from the opposite of Bloom's
Dragon Fire.

Stella appears again in season 4 with the rest of
the Winx Club as they travel to Earth to find the last fairy of Earth,
mainly due to the fact that Faragonda had a hunch that the Dark Fairy
Hunters were looking for the last fairy of earth, after they show up at
Alfea and defeat the Winx. When the Winx Club opens their store, Love
and Pet as a cover on their stay on earth, Stella is in charge of their
grooming and clothing. When the specialists come to Earth to watch over
the girls, Bloom’s Earth rival, Mitzi, gets a crush on Brandon and is
determined to make him hers. This infuriates Stella and causes her to
constantly question Brandon's loyalty since Mitzi constantly follows him
around. After some tension, they of course get back together. But
during this time, Stella and the rest of the Winx go in search of the
last fairy of Earth, finding her somewhat after the Dark Fairy Hunters
tried dragging her away, called Roxy. Roxy ends up finally admitting
that she believes in faries and the Winx earn their Believix, and are
able to be on par with the Dark Fairy Hunters. Most of the season being
spent on teaching Roxy how to control her fairy powers, eventually
forcing to contend with the queen of the Earth fairies after Roxy frees
them as well as the Darky Fairy Hunters. Also, after a few episodes,
internal power struggle when Roxy finds out that the queen of the
fairies, Morgana, and not wanting to kill all humans, including Roxy and
her dad.

ABILITIES: Stella's ability is transforming into
her Enchantix form,and is the most powerful of her transformations, as
well as being able to use something called Fairy Dust, which can be
pretty much used to heal anything but straight up death. Her power comes
fro mteh sun and the moon, but mainly the sun.

GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Enchantix
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes, please~
DREAM: "Run!" She yelled at a crying redhead, grabbing her hand and charging off with a small group of girls into a hedge maze.

"I order you to stop" A guard yelled

"Or else what?" Before a blast went past her and a black haired girl running beside her.

A
stupid question, getting a fairly quick and obvious answer. They had to
continue running, no matter what. Anger, she was angry at someone that
was at fault for their chasing, for hurting... a friend of hers? That
could have been it. But running seemed useless, as everything swirled to
reveal a dead end for the group and a blonde man with some guards stood
in front of them.

"I'll take care of this." Said a dark skinned female, before a bright light engulfed her, seemingly transforming her.

Then,
it seemed like there was more running, this time towards a ship. The
blonde man still chasing after them, now on a dragon it seems. And it
looks like she changed as well, clothing wise, and felt a strong power
as well fighing more dragons that came closer.

Then, suddenly...

"Help me!" A familiar voice! It seemed that way as Stella was about to board a ship

"NOOO!" She took off towards the man and a rampaging dragon going towards him, jumping in front of the two of them.

Then
fire. Fire consuming her. But this was.... for the best. She was
protecting someone close to her, it felt like, as she fell over as
darkness consumed her. Then a light came, warming her up. It felt good,
as it seemed to get rid of the darkness that tried to consume her.

What is this called? Enchantix came to mind. Looks like that was what saved her. She smiled.

JOURNAL SAMPLE:
Say, this magical journal is pretty nifty. Though I can't say I like
the idea of a giant all knowing tree reading what I write down. Kinda
creepy to say the least.

But that's not as bad as coming out of a cacoon covered in slime. Now that
was gross. And clothes are not much better, I think I'll go find some
sort of clothing shop and pick something up that's more styling then
this. But then again this may mean I have to get a job for this.... Aw
well.

ASPIRATIONS: Other then finding her memories? Probably spreading her fasion sense on other people and glamouring everything up.

Dear Hanako,

Thank you for your interest in Edensphere. Unfortunately, we are unable to accept your application.

After review and discussion, the moderation team finds your application difficult to follow, and also feels that it does not display the depth of knowledge we're looking for.

You're welcome to reapply, either during this application cycle or in a future one. Thank you again for your interest in Edensphere.

APPLICATION: Firefly/Serenity - Kaylee Frye

2011-05-13T21:22:20Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.

PLAYER INFO
NAME: Mochi
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: US, Central time zone.
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: Shidou Hikaru/Nova

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Kaywinnet Lee "Kaylee" Frye
SERIES: Firefly
RESERVED: No
WISHLIST: Yes

PERSONALITY:
Kaylee Fry isn’t a paragon of cultural refinement or scholarly
intellect. Growing up on what was presumably a backwater planet in a
family of simple folk, she probably didn’t have the opportunity (or
the funds necessary) to pursue a higher education. What she is,
however, is a mechanical genius, able to work on a shoe-string budget
to keep her beloved Serenity in the sky. She’s a lively,
cheerful young woman who always tries to see the silver lining, no
matter how dark the clouds seem.

Kaylee’s cheer is a seemingly indomitable force; Mal commented that
there was likely no power in the ‘verse that could keep her from being
cheerful. While she’s been known to pipe up with oddly
inappropriate-sounding comments (like her blithe parting remark to
Inara to “have good sex”, or her infamous line about... things run on
batteries), she’s a surprisingly innocent individual who takes in the
world with a sort of wide-eyed awe not found in many of her more
cynical or jaded crewmates. She’s a sensitive soul who lights up at a
word of praise, but shuts down just as quickly when criticized or
reprimanded, and she sometimes takes offense a bit too quickly. This
is especially the case when her lifestyle, profession, or the
Serenity are the things being called into question.

Being part of a rough-and-tumble crew like Serenity’s, she
knows how to roll with the punches life constantly throws her way.
What she lacks in formal training in the realms of mechanics and
engineering she makes up for with her natural intuitive skill and
talent. As Serenity’s sole mechanic, Kaylee bears the
responsibility of keeping the ship flying, which in turn keeps food on
the table for herself and the rest of the crew. Not only that, but on
a more fundamental level, the lives of all of Serenity’s
inhabitants are in her hands. A simple malfunction in the engine could
result in the deaths of all of her friends, and that’s a fact that she
takes quite seriously. Taken a bit further, it’s possible to say that
- to some extent - a large part of Kaylee’s self-esteem and self worth
are tied in with her ability to do her job and do it above
expectation.

Not only does she manage to hold the Serenity together, but she
acts as a sort of glue for the rest of the crew as well. She becomes
obviously uncomfortable during arguments between friends, and she
often attempts to step in and intervene when tempers run high. She’s a
peacemaker at heart, and though she’ll take up arms in cases of utmost
necessity, she otherwise shies away from violence. Kaylee has
difficulty even defending herself, preferring to leave all combat in
the hands of the ship’s capable fighters. That’s not to say she isn’t
brave in her own way; even if she can’t shoot a gun for beans, she’ll
rise to the occasion when she’s called upon to be strong.

Kaylee is an average girl who aspires to live a comfortable life, but
who is always satisfied so long as she's living among people she
loves.

TIMELINE: Post “Serenity” movie.

BACKGROUND:
The name of the planet where Kaylee was born was never mentioned, and
most of what’s known about her before she joined Serenity’s crew is
that she lived with her parents and worked with them repairing
machinery whenever work was available. She met Bester, who was
Serenity’s mechanic at the time, when they were delayed by Bester’s
inability to repair the ship. After Mal caught them having sex in the
engine room, Kaylee was quickly able to fix the problem, easily
identifying that it wasn’t a broken grav boot, but a bad reg couple
instead.

Mal offered her Bester’s job on the spot, and as soon as she got
permission from her family, Kaylee became the official mechanic of the
Serenity. There’s no indication of the actual amount of time that
passes between when she was hired and when the Tams and Shepherd Book
boarded the ship, though it can’t have been more than a few years.

It was immediately obvious that Kaylee had taken a shine to doctor
Simon Tam when he came on to the Serenity as a passenger. This later
proved to be a subject of embarrassment for her when Jayne was crude
about it at dinner, mocking her for her admiration. Later that
evening, she was shot in the stomach during a conflict between Dobson
(a federal agent) and the captain. Simon refused to treat her unless
Mal fled from the Alliance, but performed surgery and removed the
bullet shortly after Mal agreed to his terms. Kaylee’s importance to
the rest of the crew -- even Jayne -- was made quite clear by their
obvious concern for her wellbeing (and willingness to shove Simon out
the airlock if she didn’t make it).

With Simon’s help, she was able to pull through, though Mal did
torment Simon by telling him that Kaylee had died. Kaylee held no
resentment toward the doctor, knowing that he’d done what he had to
protect his sister.

Mal found Kaylee later having her hair brushed by Inara, but shoo’d
her away to square away matters in the engine room. She and Simon
enjoyed some awkward interaction as they prepared for the train heist
and she explained the details of their plan. He admonishes her to just
call him by his name rather than his title. The plan was executed with
a few hitches, but Mal decided to return the stolen goods once he
learned that it was much-needed medicine for an ill population.

When the Serenity encountered a spinning, derelict ship, they stopped
to investigate and wound up being discovered by an Alliance cruiser
after Kaylee diffused the Reaver trap left to ensnare unsuspecting
passers-by. During an interview with a federal officer, Kaylee went
off on a tangent, defending Serenity’s honor after the ship had been
called a “junker.”

On a later visit to Persephone, Kaylee accompanied Mal to a ball so
they could meet a contact about a job, but not before he’d upset her
by saying she didn’t need any fancy dresses and would look like a
sheep flouncing around the engine room in the pink, floofy dress she
liked.

Kaylee’s relationship with Simon continued to flounder as the young
man was constantly driven to distraction in his endeavor to care for
River. While on Jiangyin, Simon inadvertently insulted Kaylee with a
disparaging comment about Serenity. He was then kidnapped by hill-folk
(after he was pompous and River was crazy), much to the dismay of the
entire crew, as Shepherd Book had been shot in the crossfire when a
deal went south.

After Mal accidentally got married and his blushing bride Saffron
sabotaged the ship, Kaylee and Wash had to rush to repair the damage
before they flew straight into a death trap. They ended up having to
disable the trap, since repairs took a bit longer, but were completed
once the threat of imminent death was removed.

Kaylee is later seen teasing Simon when he claims to use swear words
“like anybody else,” since he’s always so prim and proper. They spent
a good bit of time together in the town of Canton while the crew tried
to work out a deal, and were both amazed and confounded by Jayne’s
status as a local folk hero. The two wound up drinking a bit too much
and sleeping (yes, just sleeping) together, but Simon upset
Kaylee when they were awoken by Mal, and the young man implied that he
would never be intimate with her. They smoothed over their differences
later, though she continued to tease him for his love of propriety.

On Simon’s birthday, an explosion caused a fire that injured Zoe and
ruined an engine component, which then kept the engine from turning.
With the ship incapacitated and only the slimmest chance that someone
might come along and assist, the crew had to figure out how to
proceed. Kaylee believed it was her fault (since Serenity would
usually “tell” her if something were wrong) and she blamed herself for
not keeping things in perfect running order. She revealed to Mal that
the situation was worse than they’d anticipated: the broken catalyzer
meant the engine wouldn’t turn, which meant that life support was off,
and that the explosion had taken the auxiliary life support systems
out as well.

Before the oxygen could run out, Mal sent the rest of the crew out on
the ship’s two shuttles, putting Kaylee in Inara’s shuttle with Book
and Jayne. She and the others protest when he says he’s decided to
remain on the Serenity, but his decision stands firm. Although
he gets himself shot in the process, Mal managed to acquire a new
catalyzer and repair the engine, which Kaylee praised him for once the
crew had returned to the ship.

Serenity stopped on the planet Ariel when Inara needed to be
given a physical examination so her Companion Guild license could be
renewed. Since River’s symptoms were getting worse, Simon came up with
plan to get her into a hospital so he could scan her brain and see
what had been done to her. Kaylee griped to Wash about her part of the
plan (looking through trash) but still seemed to enjoy digging through
all the mechanical components. She also helped guide Mal and Zoe
through the hospital via the radio when Jayne, River, and Simon were
apprehended by the Alliance.

She later also took part in a rescue mission to retrieve Mal when he
and Wash were kidnapped by Niska, who was still bitter about the
perceived slight to his honor after the train heist. Kaylee took up
arms to help hold down the ship when the others penetrated Niska’s
base, but wasn’t able to stand her ground when armed guards began
shooting at her. She retreated into Serenity’s cargo bay to
evade the fire, and was shocked and horrified when River appeared and
shot the three men using the gun that she had dropped. River echoed
the statement Kaylee had made earlier when they were playing together,
saying that “no power in the ‘verse” could stop her. Kaylee was
noticeably more timid around her younger friend after that incident.

When Saffron came aboard the ship again with a plan to steal a famous
antique laser rifle, Kaylee was the one to devise a method for getting
it out of the high-tech manor where it was housed: by simply throwing
it into the trash and picking up the bin later. She had to place the
circuit board with the altered dump coordinates into the bin after
Jayne got zapped in the attempt, and then had to fix the ship after
Saffron sabotaged it again.

While visiting a space station for a bit of shore leave, Kaylee and
Simon had yet another misunderstanding when he cited his reasons for
liking her, and jokingly mentioned that every other girl he knows was
“either married, professional, or closely related” to him. Kaylee took
offense because it sounded to her that he liked her because she was
the only available female around. Matters weren’t helped when Kaylee
became upset after he offered to perform an autopsy on the ‘corpse’ of
a young military friend that was shipped to Zoe and Mal.

When an Alliance police opened fire on the ship, the crew found out
that the corpse, otherwise known as Tracy, was actually alive and
carrying genetically engineered internal organs worth a hefty price.
Tracy was obviously attracted to Kaylee and the two seemed to hit it
off quickly, especially since she was still feeling a bit of pique
towards Simon. Although the Serenity tried to evade Officer
Womack, they eventually decided to land and allow him to come aboard
(at Shepherd Book’s suggestion) because they realized the officer was
outside of his jurisdiction and they would be within their rights to
shoot him if he boarded the ship. Misunderstanding their intentions,
Tracy took Kaylee hostage to keep the crew from turning him in, but
was quickly shot by Mal. After he’d passed away, the crew of the
Serenity saw his body safely back to his family, which had been
the young man’s initial request when he’d been pretending to be dead.

The crew’s next adventure came when a former Companion sent a message
to Inara asking for help when a local land baron named Rance Burgess
was threatening her brothel - The Heart of Gold - and her workers.
Kaylee pointed out that they had “boy whores” as well, although Wash
and Simon didn’t seem to thrilled at the thought. Kaylee became
depressed because she felt like one of the only people without a
significant other, and went as far as asking Wash to tell her that she
was pretty, claiming it was very “restorative” when he said she was.

The crew fortified the brothel, but Kaylee and Wash were unable to
help in the inevitable fight when they found out (by nearly being
shot) that some of Rance’s men had stolen into the ship. They managed
to trap the goons in the mess hall, but inadvertently trapped
themselves as well: Wash in the engine room and Kaylee in crew
quarters. They remained trapped for the duration of the fight. The
crew left, disheartened, after funerals were held for those who had
fallen in the confrontation.

After all that, it looked like Simon and Kaylee’s relationship was
finally looking up. They were able to laugh and joke together, and
Simon told her stories of humorous (read: embarrassing) things that
had happened to him as a doctor on Osiris. When River managed to get a
hold of one of Jayne’s loaded guns, Kaylee finally told the others
about the time when River had shot the three men at Niska’s skyplex.
Simon was understandably distressed by the confession, although he
told Kaylee that he wasn’t mad at her for sharing the information. He
knew that River loved the ship and he didn’t want to see her forced to
leave. She asked him if there was nothing he was glad of aboard
Serenity, and he might have kissed her then if Book hadn’t
passed by at an inopportune moment, wishing them goodnight.

She stayed up late to work on the ship, and was spooked by sounds in
the corridor outside the engine room. A bounty hunter named Jubal
Early (who had already temporarily incapacitated Mal) then appeared
and terrified the girl with implied threats of rape and a painful
death, binding her and forcing her to tell him where River and Simon
slept, as he intended to capture them and return them to the Alliance.
Later, River spoke to her over the intercom and instructed her to cut
herself free and unlock the crew quarters which had been shut tight by
Early.

After River and Mal managed to get Early off the ship, things returned
to normal... more or less. Kaylee and River’s friendship seemed
mended, and the girls were seen laughing and playing jacks together in
the ship’s cargo bay.

A few months later, the crew had apparently resorted to raiding vaults
as an alternate source of acquiring cash, and Mal complained at Kaylee
when a piece fell off of the ship as they entered the atmosphere of a
small planet in order to carry out said raiding. He claimed that she’d
told him their problematic entry couplings would hold out for another
week, at least. She countered that it’d been six months since then,
but he maintained (somewhat lightly) that if the ship crashed it would
be her fault.

The plan to confiscate the money from the town’s vault went smoothly
until a group of Reavers arrived, attacking and killing everything in
sight. Mal, Zoe, Jayne, and River rushed back to the ship on the mule,
pursued all the way by the Reavers. They managed to escape with minor
wounds, but Simon was furious that the captain had endangered his
sister by involving her at all. Simon and the captain had a scuffle
over the issue, and the two agreed that it would be best for the young
doctor and his sister to leave the ship the next time they landed on
an inhabited planet.

As Jayne discarded pieces left by the mule and part of a Reaver skiff
crashing into Serenity’s cargo bay, he and Kaylee discussed the
Reavers and how wrong they’d gone, speculating on their origins.
Kaylee commented that the captain would eventually scare all the crew
members off, but Jayne said she was just “in a whinge” because Simon
was leaving. She had a point, though; Shepherd Book and Inara had
already disembarked the ship for good.

When they arrived at Beaumond, Kaylee offered Simon several pieces of
advise for his future travels: only speak with the captains, always
look them in the eye, never pay up front, and don’t fly in anything
with a Capissen 38 engine, since those fall right out of the sky.

She later argued with Mal as they entered a bar to meet their
contacts, saying he’d driven Simon and River away instead of making
them family like she’d hoped for, and startled him with a blunt
comment about her sexual practices (or lack thereof, as it were). Mal
was understandably shocked and appalled, though Jayne seemed eager to
hear more. Mal claimed that if he’d wanted a woman badly enough that
he would surely not let anything keep them apart, and Kaylee stormed
out after making a jab at him about his distinct lack of action in
regards to Inara.

While in the bar, River saw a commercial encoded with an Alliance
signal which made her go berserk and attack everyone after uttering
the word “Miranda,” but Simon arrived with a ‘safe word’ to put her to
sleep just before she shot Mal. Back on the ship, Simon explained a
bit more about the institute where River had been held and the
experiments performed on her. Kaylee tried to support him as best as
she could, but Jayne and Mal seemed especially displeased with the
situation.

They docked briefly at Haven, where Shepherd Book had created a refuge
camp of sorts, but they left just as quickly to rescue Inara after she
and Mal held a conversation over the comm which was suspiciously free
of arguments, and therefore a trap. At Sihnon, Mal and Inara were able
to escape the Companion training house after a short duel with the
operative that had been sent to capture River and Simon. They diverted
the Alliance by sending decoy beacons in every direction and fled back
to Haven, but when they arrived, Haven was burned to the ground and
all those who lived there were dead, killed by the Alliance.

After disguising Serenity as a Reaver ship, the crew made their
way to the planet Miranda, hoping to find out why the Alliance was so
desperate to get their hands on River, or discover what secrets they
were hiding.

They found it: everyone on Miranda was dead because the Alliance had
added chemicals to the air to try and subdue the population. The
effect was not what they had intended. Those who didn’t lay down and
die became the Reavers.

Mal took the crew to Mr. Universe’s world to relay the video they’d
discovered across every Alliance airwave, but were met with opposition
on both sides: the Alliance before and the Reavers behind. Wash flew
through the tangle of ships, but was killed by a Reaver spear when
they crash landed. Mal was able to send the signal through after
fighting with the operative a second time, but most of the others
badly wounded. Kaylee and Simon were able to come to terms with each
other, however, when Simon admitted that he’d put aside all the things
and all the people he’d wanted because he’d been so concerned
with caring for River, and that his regret was never being able to be
with her.

The operative desisted in his pursuit because the secret was out; he
was no longer necessary. Save for Wash and Book, the crew was back
together. Since River had apparently stabilized after the visit to
Miranda, Kaylee and Simon were able to consummate their relationship.
Things seemed stable now, at least for the time being, and those left
of the crew were able to live without the immediate threat of the
Alliance on their tails.

Her first stay in Edensphere wasn’t that long at all, though she tried
to keep as busy as possible, though she was always a little bit
concerned about the threat of things like giant ants and zombies.

When she hatched, she mistook Derrick for the man in her dreams, and
never really got over him being “Captain Tightpants” in her mind. She
was curious about what made the islands float, though her examinations
of them never turned up any conclusive evidence. It didn’t take long
for her to discover her mechanical inclination, so she soon got a job
working in the scrap yard and freelance-fixing things on the side.

Serenity and Qi became fast friends and it wasn’t long after that she
met Simon in the Camp Anawana Wilderness. She felt familiar with all
of them, and a certain closeness with Simon. She also made friends
with Grift when he offered protection (and guns) as the zombie
outbreak began.

She and Simon began dating but their relationship didn’t have much of
a chance to progress beyond the very early stages.

ABILITIES:
Mechanics: Kaylee is a mechanical genius. She claims that
machines “talk” to her and tell her what’s wrong with them.
Cooking: In one episode, Kaylee is shown presenting a home-made
cake to Simon, and mentions in another instance that Shepherd Book had
volunteered to assist her in preparing a meal.
Cheer: No power in the ‘verse can keep Kaylee from being cheerful.

GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Serenity
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes, please.

DREAM:
“Don’t talk to the barkers, talk to the captain,” Serenity said. “You
look the captain in the eye, know who you’re dealing with.” Simon was
looking at her with something like a regretful expression, and Qi was
standing nearby, all of them standing on the lowered cargo-bay door of
a small ship. Beyond them was a city illuminated with neon and
incandescent lights glowing merrily over the milling throngs of
people.

She was fiddling with a little jacket made of blue brocade, working
out all the creases.

“I wish there was--” Simon began, but whatever he’d been planning on
saying to her was cut short by Captain Tightpants walking between them
with a sour look on his face. Both of them shuffled about for a second
as he made his way down the ramp and into the crowd.

“And you shouldn’t aught’a be so clean,” Serenity continued, helping
Qi slip into the jacket and smoothing it over her shoulders. “It’s a
dead give-away you don’t belong, y’always gotta be tidy.” Simon looked
down at his pristine attire and she continued to ramble on, despite
the tremor in her voice. “Don’t pay anybody in advance! And don't ride
in anything with a Capissen thirty-eight engine, they fall
right out’a the sky.” She made a swooping gesture with her hand
to illustrate her point, unable to meet his eyes for a moment.

“Serenity...” Their eyes met for a moment. He looked like he had so
much to say, but struggled for a moment to find the words. “Ah...
Well, you're a, a kind of a genius when it comes to machines... you
always say what you mean, and your eyes are...” He began to flounder,
but she perked up at the compliments.

“Yeah? Eyes, yeah?”

“And, um... I don't know how to, um...” He rubbed at his face, but was
grinning. “Plus, every other girl I know is either married,
professional, or closely related to me, so you're more or less... you
are literally the only girl in the world.”

“Hmm. That's a hell of a thing to say.”

“I was joking!” he protested, a hint of alarm coloring his tone as he
realized he’d said what was quite obviously not funny at all, to her
at least.

“No, I get it,” she said, turning away in a huff and leaving the
siblings alone together in the hatch.

She pushed through the sea of humanity, barely noticing as the
luminous nighttime city transitioned into the Edensphere Bazaar. When
she reached the elevator, someone else had already hit the ‘down’
button, so she piled in along with the rest of them, arms crossed
under her chest.

Most of them got out at the Wilderness, but she waited until the
elevator reached the bottom floor, exiting and making her way through
the mounds of junk until she reached her own little corner. There was
a rotary engine spinning slowly, and a brightly-colored hammock
hanging up near it. She flopped down into the hammock with an
exaggerated sigh and slid a little copper gadget out of her pocket.

When she pressed the button on the face of the device, a recording
began to play. It was the voice of a young man.

“You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just
a little bit further. If you can. Tell my folks I wanted to do right
by them and that I'm at peace and all. Ah. When you can't run anymore,
you crawl, and when you can't do that... “

The speaker changed to a woman, and her rich voice finished off the message.

"You find someone to carry you."

JOURNAL SAMPLE:
Hey y’all, it’s Serenity. I don’t know how long I been gone, but I
reckon it’s been a fair spell since it’s a mite hotter now. Did
anybody salvage the junk from my room? It weren’t nothing too
important, but I had some projects I was working on. Suppose it don’t
much matter.

Simon, Qi, Bridge, y’all ain’t up and disappeared, did you? I’ll be
around to visit in the next day or so.

Bridge, you still got a job for me? Is there aught else as has changed
and I need to know it?

ASPIRATIONS: I guess you could say that Kaylee is another type
of character I want to explore. Like Nova, she’s got a lot of cheer
and happiness to share, but she’s not a super hero and she doesn’t
pretend to be. I want to see how she reacts to the sphere, and meeting
both castmates and new faces.

APPLICATION: Naruto - Rock Lee

2011-05-11T23:58:22Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.

PLAYER INFO
NAME: Cager
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: USA - Central
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: N/A

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Rock Lee
SERIES: Naruto (manga-verse)
RESERVED: Yes
WISHLIST: No
PERSONALITY:
Lee’s most obvious trait is his hard-working nature. Although
he has no talent in even basic ninja techniques, he has determined to
prove others wrong and become the best ninja he can be. Even against
all odds, Lee never gives in, or at least not through his own free
will. When Gaara injures him leaving one of his arms and legs
completely crushed, Lee still stands in readiness to fight despite
having fallen unconscious from the pain. It’s a reckless type of
willpower he possesses. He even trains when he should be on bed rest,
even covered in casts and bandages.

Lee is also extremely energetic. He’s the poster child for the
phrase “no pain, no gain.” Like his sensei, Lee can train at anytime
and anywhere. Remaining idle is not an option for this boy. Even
after everyone else might have gone to bed, he will be training hard,
only to wake up earlier than anyone else and train again. When he
loses a fight it’s never a matter of growing tired. Usually it’s his
own repercussive attacks that take him down, making him an easier
target for his enemies. If not for his own self-inflicted damage,
most of his enemies would find him too fast to land a hit on.

Lee is also polite and chivalrous. He speaks in a formal
manner; even when he’s complaining he’s generally polite. He responds
to taunting with either polite remarks or silence, rarely ever rising
to someone’s baited words. (However, if he’s ever inebriated he loses
all politeness and becomes almost an entirely different person. Once
he’s sobered up, he’s back to normal.) Lee also will save anyone in
need. He comes to the rescue of Team 7 during the Chuunin exams as
well as to Naruto’s aid during the search for Sasuke. He believes
it’s his duty as a man to help others, and he always keeps his
promises.

Lee has been taught to believe in himself, and most of the time
he can do this. Gai believes in him, so Lee knows it must be true
that he can become a great ninja! He shows confidence by displaying
his Nice Guy pose and encouraging others, but Lee is not always
completely confident. When Tsunade’s diagnosis of his injuries came
back, Lee grows very unsure. It goes to show that while he may want
to encourage others and give off a confident air, he’s actually got
the tiniest bit of a realist in his heart.

Lee is known for taking even little things very seriously. No
matter how silly or strange a challenge/rule/whatever may be, he’ll go
with it. He never belittles others for their dreams or goals. This
is likely a response to his own experiences as a child when other kids
and teachers never took his own dream seriously.

Lee is very friendly and trusting, too. Despite their
differences in ideology, Lee considers Neji a friend as well as his
rival. Lee also never holds a grudge against anyone who has wronged
him in the past. Despite Gaara having inflicted grave injuries and
also attempting to kill Lee a few times, Lee looks past that during
the fight against Kimiharu.

Lee is also easily impressed and extremely impressionable.
Most people would praise Gai for his prowess in battle, but few would
ever reach the hero-worship state that Lee has taken in his admiration
for his teacher. He holds tight to every word and lesson imparted
onto him from Gai, and even goes so far as to copy his teacher’s dress
code. Other than Gai, however, Lee is also fairly mindful of his
fellow ninja. When analyzing the attacks and techniques used by
others, Lee often finds himself appreciating their skills and praising
them. On a side note to this, it’s important to establish that while
Lee is a bit gullible, he is not stupid. He’s just more willing to
accept what someone says at face value rather than doubt from the
get-go.

And last but not least, Lee is perhaps the most loyal and
devoted person anyone could find. Lee may roll over and take all
the verbal abuse anyone would throw his way with a grain of salt (he’s
used to it, after years of taking insults from his peers in the ninja
academy), but say anything about his friends, or especially
Gai-sensei, and he will champion them for all he’s worth. He has no
tolerance for anyone putting down his precious people, and it’s about
the only thing that ever puts him in a real rage (other than
drinking).

TIMELINE:
During the fight with Pain, after Team Gai arrives back at Konoha to
find Hinata has been beaten down (middle of manga chapter 441)

BACKGROUND:
Little is known about Lee’s most early years, but from what can be
gleaned from canon is his parents were most likely not ninja. Rather,
they were probably civilians living in Konoha as no other ninja with
the surname “Rock” have emerged from canon to this date. Lee likely
began his life living normally, but growing up in a ninja village
lends itself to certain opportunities. Somewhere during what we might
consider early elementary school years, Lee was admitted into the
academy along with probably all children in the village willing to
give the ninja life a try.

As it turns out, Lee was pitiful as a ninja candidate. He had
absolutely no talent in ninjutsu (the special abilities used to
attack) or genjutsu (the special abilities used to confuse and stun
foes), and his handle of taijutsu (attacks based primarily on a
ninja’s personal physical strength and capability) was mediocre at
best. His classmates made fun of him, calling him a loser, but he
refused to listen to them. Instead, he practiced harder and longer
than any of the rest, never giving up even when it looked hopeless.
Out of all the things Lee might have wanted in the world, to be a
ninja was his greatest wish of all.

He didn’t receive encouragement from anyone, not even the teachers, so
he was not always confident. However, he did remember one day when a
very strange man came to see him while he practiced. The man
encouraged him, insisting that if Lee kept up his hard work then he
would surely become an amazing ninja. Lee would later remember this
encounter at a darker time in his life as one of his most precious
memories of his early childhood.

Sticking to the advice of the man from that day, Lee persevered until
at last he managed to graduate from the academy at the age of 12.
This placed him in the lowest rank of active ninja, the genin level.
Together with a stoic boy named Hyuuga Neji and a spunky girl named
Tenten, Lee was placed under the mentorship of Maito Gai. Their
teacher’s first question was an inquiry of their goals as a ninja.
After his teammates had given their answers Lee proudly stood and
announced that he wished to prove that someone could become a fine
ninja even without the use of ninjutsu or genjutsu. Neji laughed and
for a moment Lee felt discouraged, but then Gai insisted that with
passion and hard work Lee could accomplish his dream. And so Lee’s
admiration of his teacher began to blossom.

At Gai’s suggestion, Lee took on a rival to improve himself. He chose
Neji and often challenged the other boy to sparring matches, but every
single time Lee lost. Neji would tell him it was futile, that it was
fate that decided he would be a winner and Lee would always be a
loser. But when Lee at his worst, on the brink of tears because he
couldn’t find it in himself to believe, Gai would be there to impart a
special lesson to get him back up on his feet. Gai called Lee a
“genius of hard work” and with that in mind Lee grew all the more
determined to never give up.

Lee also was taught in his first year as a genin about his teacher’s
self-imposed rule. Gai’s logic was that if someone were to make a
condition on himself during a challenge then not only would that give
someone all the more reason to try their hardest, but also in the
event of a loss the condition would only serve to make them stronger
in preparation for the next challenge. Lee took the advice to heart
and from that moment determined to become a ninja as wonderful as his
teacher. Gai also made a promise then; that he would devote his life
to training Lee into the fine ninja he aspired to be. Shortly after
this conversation Lee began to seriously copy his teacher beyond just
his advice, even wearing the green spandex and fixing his hair into a
bowl cut.

Through the rest of his genin year, Lee trained hard and went on
various missions with his team, getting to know them more little by
little. When he had reached the age of 13 and the time of the chuunin
exams came around, Gai thought it was perhaps time for them to take
the challenge to rise to the next level of ninja. Lee was determined
to make his teacher proud and trained all the harder.

On the day the exams began Lee had already made plans with his team to
keep a low profile. As it turned out, he was unable to hide behind
that veil of feigned weakness for long. A couple of the examiners
disguised themselves as kids and tried to turn away the competitors to
test their drive. Team 7, composed of Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura
and Uchiha Sasuke arrived on the scene and dispelled the illusion.
Sasuke almost got into a fight with one of the disguised teachers, but
Lee jumped in to stop it, mostly because he wanted to show off his
strength. With the fight taken care of, Lee approached Sakura and
asked her out on a date, proclaiming he would protect her until he
died. He was promptly rejected and that left to sulk, but he
recovered and chased after team 7.

He caught up with them and asked to fight with Sasuke (flirting with
Sakura a bit on the side). Naruto tried to push his own way into a
fight, but Lee easily disabled him. Sasuke was intrigued enough to
give Lee a fight, but Lee proved himself to be more of a match than
Sasuke anticipated. Even Sasuke’s Sharingan could not compete with
the speed of Lee’s taijutsu. Lee had begun to utilize one of his
forbidden techniques, but before he could complete his Front Lotus he
was stopped by Gai’s familiar, a ninja tortoise. Lee tried to
apologize but he was still scolded, and then Gai showed up to deliver
the real punishment. He took his punishment like a man, then gave
team 7 one final warning about Neji’s strength before returning to the
exam. Although he had not been complete his fight, Lee was determined
to face off against Sasuke again someday.

Lee’s team made it through the first section of the exam without
problems. The second part of the exam, however, was a bit more
taxing, especially for Lee. The objective was to make it to a tower
with two scrolls—a three day trial in a locked down area called the
Forest of Death. Lee’s team split up to scout the area. It was while
Lee was on his own that he saw a squirrel with an exploding tag about
to burst on its back. He saved the squirrel and in return the
squirrel took him to the source—a clearing where Team 7 was being
attacked by ninja of the Hidden Sound village.

With Naruto and Sasuke out cold, and Sakura left to fend for herself,
Lee felt it was his duty to jump in a protect them. He proclaimed he
would always appear when Sakura was in trouble, reminding her of the
promise he made when he first met her. Lee quickly assessed the
situation and realized he had to go all-out if he was going to beat
all three of the Sound nin. He used his forbidden technique Primary
Lotus but he was outmaneuvered and left vulnerable. His enemy used
his sound magnifying gauntlet to damage Lee’s inner ear. Lee fought
through the pain and did his best to continue protecting Sakura even
without his balance, but another attack forced him to the ground,
useless. Lee managed to stay conscious for just a few moments longer,
in time to see Sakura gain a new resolution to fight with all she had,
before passing out.

Lee was awakened some time later by Tenten shaking him none too
gently. He realized he had failed to truly protect Sakura but was
touched when she called him by his real name (not something like
“creepy” or “bushy brows”) and thanked him for his help. He responded
by telling her the lotus “blooms twice” and that he would be a
stronger man the next time they met.

Lee went on his own way with Tenten and Neji, and passed through the
rest of that portion of the exam with ease. However, it was
determined at the tower that too many examinees had passed and a
preliminary event was needed to further thin out the participants.
The event turned out to be a one-on-one fighting competition, in which
the competitors were chosen via electronic randomization.

Lee’s fight is the second to last match, and his opponent was Gaara of
the Hidden Sand village. Lee’s biggest challenge was to get beyond
Gaara’s sand barrier. In order to do this Lee removed the leg weights
he usually kept on at all times, and with his extreme speed managed to
land a hit. His attack only served to push Gaara further over the
edge, and with his sand armor Gaara became all the more difficult to
damage. Lee’s Front Lotus could have won him the match, but Gaara
managed to switch his own body with a sand replica when Lee flinched
and remained unarmed. Lee was defenseless for a while, taking hit
after hit from Gaara’s sand attacked, but he managed to recover in
time for one more desperate attempt.

Lee broke through five of the Eight Gates (the internal limiters used
to protect one’s self from destroying their own body by using too much
power) and used his ultimate attack, the Reverse Lotus, to batter
Gaara around the field. Gaara’s sand couldn’t keep up with the
attack, but at the last minute he disintegrated his giant gourd into
sand and used that as a final barrier of defense. Lee, unable to move
at all because of the repercussions the attack had on his body, was
left at Gaara’s pitiless mercy. Gaara used his Sand Coffin attack to
crush Lee’s left arm and leg. He almost crushed Lee’s entire body,
but Gai stepped in a swept the attack away, ending the match with
Gaara as the victor. Even broken and unconscious Lee showed signs of
wanting to continue. He never gave up, even in the end. Lee was
carted away on a stretcher and it was uncertain whether he would ever
be able to fight again after being left in such a state.

Lee was done with the chuunin exams but he refused to let his new
injuries get in his way. He trained even with one arm and leg in a
cast, pushing himself until he couldn’t move anymore. In the
hospital, Lee had at least one more close encounter with death, though
he was unconscious the entire time and was never told of it (as far as
we can tell from canon).

And thus the month between the prelims and the finals of the chuunin
exams was spent in recovery. Lee only managed to watch Sasuke’s fight
with Gaara in the finals. Then a genjutsu was used to put the whole
audience to sleep, including Lee, who missed the entire battle that
followed. He woke up later to find the village in shambles and their
Hokage killed in battle.

About a month later, the coming of the next Hokage, Tsunade, would be
a momentous occasion for Lee. Gai believed that Tsunade’s great
healing techniques could heal Lee’s injuries still left over from his
battle with Gaara. Gai had tried a few of his own herbal remedies but
they had all failed. However, Tsunade’s diagnosis was not good.
Shattered bone fragments had riddled his nerves, and even if she were
to operate there was a 50 percent chance the surgery would fail. If
it failed, Lee would die. Her advice was for him to quit being a
ninja altogether.

Lee took some time to think over his options. To become a ninja had
been his dream for so long that it had become a part of him. He
feared letting that go. Gai found him on a balcony and they talked.
Lee, in tears, asked for Gai’s advice. For once Lee could not control
his destiny just through hard work and believing in himself. He had
to rely on luck, but the consequences for failure were major. Gai
encouraged Lee to take the surgery then gave himself another
self-imposed rule: if Lee were to die then Gai himself would die
because he had made it his nindo (his path) to raise Lee into a great
ninja. Lee wept and shared a hug with his teacher.

The next day, Sasuke went missing, and a team of five was assembled
under Shikamaru, the newest of the chuunin level ninjas, to find him.
Lee wanted to go along but he was in no condition to help. Instead,
he could only offer some encouragement to the team as they left, and a
few words to Sakura. Cheered and at peace with himself, Lee went to
ask Tsunade for the surgery.

Miraculously, the surgery was a success, though Lee was told to remain
in bed to rest for a day or so before training. He would have none of
that though, and grabbing what he thought was his medicine bottle,
left to join the search for Sasuke.

He made it to the field where Naruto was blocked from moving any
further. Sasuke was just up ahead, so Lee took Naruto’s place in
fighting Oroochimaru’s henchman, a bone-wielding ninja named
Kimiharu. Kimiharu was fast and flexible, using his own bones as
weapons, and so skillful in his fighting that Lee could not land a hit
either. The fight didn’t progress long until Lee called for a stop,
taking a moment to drink his “medicine.” The sake in the bottle was
actually Tsunade’s, and Lee, being a light-weight, was instantly
drunk. In his inebriated state, Lee actually became stronger and his
movements became unpredictable. Soon it was Kimiharu having
difficulties keeping up with Lee.

Kimiharu changed tactics and lured Lee in, then forced his ribs to
protrude out and cut at Lee. Once he was hit, Lee sobered up and lost
his Drunken Fist abilities. He tried to pull out his Front Lotus
technique again, but Kimiharu could not be so easily beaten. Lee was
once again on the ropes, but then a surprising ally showed up: Gaara
of the Sand. Lee didn’t want to give up his position as the main
fighter, but Gaara would not let Lee push himself any further. Gaara
managed to hold back Kimiharu, and almost defeated him, but it was
illness that took its toll and killed Kimiharu before he could destroy
them. Before returning to Konoha, Lee and Gaara rested and talked
about Kimiharu, and Lee realized that in the end Kimiharu had been
fighting for someone precious to him.

The mission to save Sasuke ended in failure, but the ninja of Konoha
rested in the knowledge that Sasuke would probably not be causing them
trouble again for about another three years, when Oroochimaru needed
another host. Lee was returned to his training with his team, and for
the next two and a half years he became stronger. He passed the
chuunin exam in this time and started wearing the signature vest that
went along with it.

The story picks up again with Gaara, now as Kazekage, being kidnapped.
Team Gai was sent along to back up Kakashi, Sakura and Naruto in
their mission to save Gaara from the group known as Akatsuki. On their
way to catch up with Kakashi’s team, they were waylaid by Kisame, an
Akatsuki member that fought with Gai once before. During the fight
Lee, Neji and Tenten were all trapped in spheres of water. Neji
managed to break them free after a time, and Lee watched in pride as
Gai took out their opponent. However, it turned out this “Kisame” was
just a man disguised and controlled by some of Kisame’s chakra.

They managed to get back on the chase, but when they reached the
Akatsuki hideout it was blocked by a special barrier. Team Gai
decided to take care of the barrier. Using Neji’s Byakugan, they
discovered the location of the tags needed to break the barrier. Team
Gai split up leaving each member to take care of one. They had
planned on returning to help with the fight against Akatsuki
immediately, but after destroying the tags clones of themselves
appeared and attacked them. They managed to defeat them and escape
the rest of Akatsuki’s traps with the help of Kakashi.

They were too late to save Gaara. After an impassioned speech from
Naruto, an old woman named Chiyo worked her medical techniques and
brought Gaara back to life though it would cost her her own. They
said a prayer for Chiyo then the two Konoha teams left to return home.

For a long while, Lee is not mentioned again in the manga. He returns
months later when Konoha is under attack by Pain. The village was
almost totally demolished and a great number of people were killed.
Team Gai happened to be out on a mission at the time of the invasion.
They arrived late to find Hinata had been gravely wounded. Lee saw a
dead frog, one that had sacrificed itself to help Naruto. Team Gai
then set off to find medical ninja to help treat Hinata’s wounds.

ABILITIES:
Lee is a taijutsu specialist. Because of his inability to perform
ninjutsu or genjutsu, Lee has to rely solely on his own body’s
physical abilities to attack. He follows what Gai calls a Strong Fist
style of fighting, which means he relies on his attacks to do external
damage and to break bones. Most of Lee’s attacks are in the form of
kicks, favoring the stronger muscles that can be found in the legs
over those in the arms, though he has strength in all of his body.
His regular taijutsu moves are:
• Leaf Gale – a spinning, low kick
• Leaf Whirlwind – a high kick followed swiftly by a low kick
• Leaf Great Whirlwind – a greater series of kicks in similar
succession as the Leaf Whirlwind, this time starting lower and working
the way up, ending with a heel drop
• Leaf Raising Wind – a forceful, upward kick
• Shadow of the Dancing Leaf – a move where the user follows closely
to their opponent and mimics their body movements

Lee also is a user of chakra, as anyone aspiring to be a ninja must
use chakra. Chakra is a mixture of both physical and spiritual energy
that when manipulated correctly allows the user to perform special
types of jutsu. Lee does not need chakra for his more basic taijutsu
techniques, and he has no use for it concerning genjutsu or ninjutsu.
However, Lee can manipulate his chakra to the extent of performing the
basic Tree Climbing and Water Walking techniques.

Lee is also a master of at least five of Eight Gates. The gates are
limiters on a person’s body that are usually closed in order to keep
the user from exceeding their physical limits of safety. By breaking
through these gates Lee has the ability to perform stronger, more
dangerous techniques. In return, these techniques also take their
toll on Lee himself. His techniques that require opening the gates
are:
• Front Lotus – Requires opening the first of the Eight gates. Lee
uses his powerful kicks to knock his opponent into the air, then
follows that up with a Shadow of the Dancing Leaf. He wraps his
opponent with his bandages and then sends them hurtling headfirst down
to the ground. After he’s performed this, Lee is fatigued and needs a
few minutes to rest before he can attack again. To an extent, he is
still able to defend himself.
• Reverse Lotus – Requires supposedly a minimum of three gates but Lee
uses five. Lee’s speed is increased to the point where he is nearly
impossible to see, and with this increased speed he attacks by
launching his opponent into the air and hits them with a succession of
power strikes from all angles. It ends with one last powerful strike,
sending them crashing to the ground. After this attack has been
performed, Lee is left virtually immobile and defenseless.
It should also be noted that Lee’s physical appearance changes when
he opens the third gate. His body color changes to a deep red, and
the pupils and iris of his eyes seem to disappear altogether.

Lee’s last great ability is that of the Drunken Fist. He’s a natural
fighter when inebriated, much more flexible and unpredictable, and
that much more deadly. However, despite his increase in strength and
greater evasion, Lee needs only to experience a little bit of pain to
sober up and lose this ability. It’s not a very reliable means of
attack as Lee loses himself to the fighting spirit and has no filter,
just a wish to fight. He’ll destroy anything and everything, and pick
fights without a qualm.

Most of these abilities require studious training and dedication to
master. If Lee were to relearn them in Edensphere he would have to
have some knowledge of what most of them were. Some of his taijutsu
techniques might return to him through muscle memory (if such a thing
is allowed in Edensphere) if Lee were to be trapped in a tight
situation, but chakra mastery would require more understanding than he
would have from hatching. Same goes for the Lotus techniques, as
opening the gates is not a simple process. Drunken Fist is likely to
only ever surface if Lee were to get drunk, which is possible since it
requires very little alcohol for him to fall inebriated.

GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Spring
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes
DREAM:

Alive. Everything around him was moving, growing, breathing, living.

He was rushing through a forest, like a fresh, sunbathed wind. He
was a presence but failed to disturb anything around him. He could
see all details, everything, as if the world around him moved in slow
motion. He could even make out the tiniest insect’s beat of wings.

It was spring, the epitome of life and birth. Not only insects but
animals and even the greenery lived with a radiant vibrancy. And he
alone could see it all.

A gushing stream caught his eyes. Within its depths swam schools of
fish so thick the sunlight shone from their scales in a burst of
sparkles that flashed like incandescent mini rainbows. Water flowers
and bugs thrived in the area, though the water moved so smoothly it
seemed as though nothing could break the glassy top.

Nearby a fox lifted its head, turnings its sharp eyes in his
direction. It darted off into a thicket. A large tortoise nodded its
wise head, and he darted after the fox as if on command. A rabbit ran
along with him. A bird flapping its wings through the bars of a cage
managed to keep ahead of him, somehow. A slug whispered something he
didn’t catch from its perch behind his ear. He felt no need to brush
it away. Like the rest of this place, the slug belonged there
naturally.

A cherry tree in full bloom left him awestruck from its beauty, then a
dragonfly caught his eye and returned him to the flashes of life
around him. Alive. The world was alive around him. Everything was a
mess of colors, scents, textures. No matter where he looked, he could
see life—tulips, wild boar, wolves, snails, ivy, snakes, beetles,
toadstools, squirrels, ants, sparrows, bees! Even the sunlight and
clouds overhead burst with living energy.

He came to a stop rather abruptly. Something lying on the ground made
the entire world lose its color, then slowly fade away until he could
see nothing else. It was a frog. Unlike the rest of the world, it
was unmoving. Lying on its back. Stiller than stone.

Words came to his lips, a wish to return it to its place in the cycle,
but something held him back. What did he need to say?

The sunlight had disappeared and a chill overtook the air. Something
tugged at him, and he turned around. The forest was now completely
gone. Only one tree stood before him, large but darkened and dry. A
spark struck the roots and a lazy finger of flame started spreading
across the bark. It was just one tree but it was important because it
still lived. And there was something else about the tree. Without
much thought the word surfaced: Sacred.

He reached forward, hoping to put out the fire but his arms were
trapped, now wrapped in chains that would not yield. His legs were
likewise bound so he could not even reach to stamp it out. The flames
hit the lowest branch and made their way to the limb’s tip. Finally,
a leaf caught the flame and disintegrated, ashes blowing away in the
wind. He felt another chill take over despite the proximity to the
heated fire. Another leaf caught, then another and another; slowly
the fire ate up the tree. Ate up its blood, its life.

He had to put out the flames. He needed to, but he could not. If he
didn’t stop it, if it lost all its leaves—but he couldn’t put it out.
He couldn’t move. Or breathe .

He couldn’t put it out.

JOURNAL SAMPLE:

[The words appear over the journals in a speedy, sloppy
way, as though the person writing were in a big hurry.]

I was told that if I wrote in the journal others could see my message
and write back. That does not seem right but I will try it.

Hello! My name is Spring and I have just arrived a short time ago.
Does anyone else here know how I can get my memories back? Someone
said it was dangerous but I am not afraid! I feel like I can do
anything! Even if I cannot handle it now then I will just have to
work harder and I will triumph!

Also I am quite hungry. I was given food already but I feel like I
should eat more. Is this normal? I was warned not to eat the money
but that is silly. Why would I eat money? Though I do not like to be
hungry either.

ASPIRATIONS:
Mostly I just want to have fun. Lee is a very flappable kid, so just
getting him placed in weird or awkward situations would be THE BEST.
I look forward to brain-breaking him on Gai and Bell’s relationship,
and also having him cope with it in a way he deems is acceptable.

Having him rediscover his Drunken Fist techniques might be enjoyable.
And fail!flirting with pretty girls, taking ridiculous challenges,
trying to break the sphere… Lee’s likely going to get himself in a lot
of trouble due to his reckless determination and fearless nature.

PLOT PERMISSIONS:

ES 4th Wall: Do mods/staff have permission to 4th wall your
character with Edensphere's game elements? - Sure. Spring/Lee will
already be so brainbroken by this place, a little 4th walling
shouldn’t hurt him. He wouldn’t believe it anyway. Because, after
all, he is there and real now so how could he possibly be a work of
fiction? |D
Chara 4th Wall: Do players have permission to 4th wall your
character with their own if s/he's capable of doing so? – Same as
above.

* Note: 4th walling means your character would know s/he's a work
of fiction and therefore not real.

ES Mysteries: Do mods/staff have permission to involve your
character in Edensphere's back-story and world plot mysteries?
WARNING: Such plots may result in character death. - Go
ahead!
Memory Rec'v: Do mods/staff have permission to give your
character others' memories and/or past logs via crystals, events, etc?
- Y
Memory Distrib: Do mods/staff have permission to share your
character's memories and/or past logs via crystals, events, etc? - Y
Dream Distrib: Do mods/staff have permission to share your
character's dream(s) via Revolving Reveries and other plots or events?
- Y
Your Wilderness: Do mods/staff have permission to transform the
Wilderness into a place, setting, or environment that exists in your
character's canon? - Y

APRIL EVENT CALENDAR

2011-04-28T23:21:09Z

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※ EVENTS
※ Clone Invasion (03/26-04/04) For two days, large, bulbous cocoons - not unlike the ones in the Hatchery - appear from the branches. They will hang there in incubation until those inside are ready to hatch, only to reveal that they are doubles of those already existing in the Sphere, already clad in newborn clothing. They can speak and have the appearance of free will, however it soon becomes apparent that this is not the case. They are always polite, hard-working and will be constantly working for the betterment of the Sphere, taking on undesirable tasks without question.
※ Rainbow Sheep (04/06-04/09, 04/17-04/21) At first, these cuddly creatures only show up a little bit at a time. Once nightfall hits, however, flocks of them hit the streets and begin to follow around those who find that they cannot sleep. If you want them gone, then sweet slumber is your friend.
※ Shared Dreams (04/11-04/15, 04/28-04/30) Bad dreams or good dreams, all dreams are private, right? Wrong! For this event, characters will find themselves experiencing the dreams of others, whether they’re intensely private or merely surreal. Some may try to preserve their privacy, but caffeine pills only work for so long…
※ Sleep Disorder (04/16-04/20, 04/22-04/25) Suddenly, an epidemic sweeps across the sphere! Spherians will find themselves falling asleep at inopportune times, sleepwalking and more.
※ A Trip Down Memory Lane (04/26-05/03) It's that time again--once more, the Stairway to the Stars leads a number of unsuspecting groups to the Fourth Floor to witness projections of memories. Whose memories will they be, and what will they discover about their own (or other characters') lives?
※ THE WILDERNESS
※Crystal Tokyo (04/01-04/10) Enter Crystal Tokyo, a wondrous city made entirely out of crystal. In the centre of the city is a grand palace, free for the exploring. This is a place of beauty and serenity, and is ideal for those who wish to get away from the everyday bustle of Edensphere. Some may not wish to dally too long under these crystal roofs, however; for all its splendor, this is a place that can feel strangely lonely.
※ The Tower of Teeth (04/11-04/20) When residents first walk into this Wilderness, they are confronted with a land that looks like something out of a child's sketchbook. Everything looks as if it's drawn in crayon, from the blue sky to the scribbled grass to the flowers with exactly one leaf on each side, and no matter how you squint, there is no horizon to be found. The only thing in this wonderland that looks real is the pure white, windowless tower within. Once Spherians enter this place, they will find themselves bathed in a white light that casts no shadows and will find cases upon cases of children's teeth. If they spend too long in this place, however, the things of their childhood nightmares will start to come after them, whether it's the boogeyman under the bed or hands coming to grab them from out of closets. Watch out!
※ The Attic (04/21-04/31) Welcome to The Attic. We're so glad to have you. Visitors to this wilderness will have their own worst nightmares come to life, as the landscape around them shifts to reflect the things that they fear most. They could find themselves trapped in an unremembered childhood nightmare or reliving the worst day of their lives over and over again--so long as it is a person, place or thing that frightens them. The sole purpose of The Attic is to force it's captives into a constant state of fear and adrenaline until they are literally scared to death. As this wasn't bad enough, all visitors to the Attic are being slowly stalked by the mysterious dark figure known only as Arcane. Don't let him catch you--or else you'll never never wake up.

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APPLICATION: Doctor Who - Fourth Doctor [BACKGROUND ELABORATIONS]

2011-04-24T23:17:36Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.
Original application is HERE.

The Doctor was born and lived his early live on Gallifrey, planet of
the Time Lords. When he was eight, the Doctor and his friend the
Master looked on the Untempered Schism (a gap to look at the
space-time continuum). This imposed on the Doctor the need to protect
all human life. It drove the Master insane. He was educated and spent
the majority of his early life on Gallifrey, learning the ways of the
Time Lord. A pity that he totally sucked at school.

In 1963, the Doctor and his granddaughter, Susan, landed in Britain so
Susan could complete her education. After two teachers (Barbara and
Ian) found the TARDIS, the Doctor was forced to take them with him.
Together the four encountered Daleks, Cybermen and the Zarbi. However,
the Doctor's old body was slowly starting to give out. He regenerated
into the Second Doctor after succumbing to old age.

The Second Doctor's adventures mostly consisted of the same-fighting
Daleks, fighting Cybermen and generally protecting the planet. The
Doctor discovered a former friend, the War Chief, was giving vessel
technology to the War Lords, intent on conquering humanity. The Doctor
betrayed the War Chief, giving his location to the Time Lords.
However, he broke the cardinal Time Lord rule: never interfere. The
Doctor was exiled to Earth and forced to regenerate.

The Third Doctor reluctantly worked with UNIT, a military organization
designed to stop paranormal threats. The Master came to Earth, allying
himself with the Nestene consciousness in order to take over the
planet. This, and other schemes of the same nature, failed thanks to
the Doctor. When the first three Doctors stopped Omega from destroying
the Time Lords, the Doctor's sentence was lifted and he was free to
come and go as he pleased-he mostly stayed on Earth, though. He
sacrificed his own life to save Sarah Jane by exposing himself to high
levels of radiation.

After regenerating into the Fourth Doctor, the Doctor was insanely
eager to get off Earth. After all, he had been on Earth for a lot
longer than he would want. However, he was persuaded to stay for a
while and help out UNIT. Eventually, he left Earth with Harry Sullivan
and Sarah Jane Smith. The Time Lords sent him on a mission to attempt
to prevent the creation of the Daleks. This, more than any other
mission so far, helped impose on the Doctor his morals. He could
prevent all the destruction that the Daleks caused, but only by
killing off the Daleks. Faced with such a moral decision, the Doctor
refused, showing his need to protect all living creatures. While he
still killed on occasion, the Doctor always hated it and tried to find
a better, less violent way to solve problems. Harry left the TARDIS
after their defeat of the Zygons and the Doctor and Sarah travelled
the galaxy by themselves for a while.

Eventually, the Doctor received a summons back to Gallifrey. As humans
weren’t allowed on Gallifrey, he had to return Sarah to Earth. The
Doctor didn't really like this, as he had grown fond of Sarah Jane and
viewed her as his best friend. However, a summons was a summons-he
had to go. They both were visibly sad about the fact that Sarah had
to leave. On Gallifrey, he defeated the Master who was now falling
apart because the Master fails at keeping a body for more than a
season. After that, he traveled alone for a while. Eventually, the
Doctor landed on a planet inhabited by the Sevateem, a warrior-like
tribe. On an earlier visit, the Doctor accidentally imprinted the
Sevateem’s powerful computer with his own mind, resulting in the
computer having multiple personalities (just roll with it, it's Doctor
Who). After curing the computer, one of the Sevateem, Leela, decided
to travel with him. The relationship between the Doctor and Leela was
like that of Henry Higgens and Eliza Doolittle. The Doctor was
determined to help 'civilize' Leela. The two got along quite well,
despite the Doctor's discouraging of the way Leela tended to kill
their enemies instead of simply incapacitate them. They traveled
together, visiting places from Victorian London to the moons of
Saturn. On one of those trips, they acquired the robot dog K-9.

After a lot of travels, the Doctor returns to Gallifrey and declares
himself Lord President. This is part of a scheme to save Gallifrey
from an attack by the Sontarans. While he holds position as the Lord
President, the Doctor starts acting more power-mad and tyrannical.
It's all a ploy, of course, but the fact that he had the potential to
be as power-mad and tyrannical as previous Lord Presidents has
definitely turned the Doctor off of positions of power for himself and
just for everybody else. After saving the planet and defeating the
Sontarans, Leela and K-9 decided to stay on Gallifrey. The Doctor
consoled himself by making K-9 Mark II. The White Guardian summoned
the Doctor so he could assemble the segments of the Key of Time.
Together with Romana, the two traveled across the universe and
assembled the Key, then promptly disassembled it to escape the wrath
of the Black Guardian. Romana regenerated and continued to travel with
the Doctor. His travels with Romana are interesting: she was his
equal, able to rattle off an equation as fast as he was. The two had
a nice rapport, exchanging witty banter at the blink of an eye. This
definitely helped the Doctor loosen up a little bit.

The two traveled through time with K-9. An interesting note is that
despite the fact that Romana wanted to stay with the Doctor, he's
definite about returning her to Gallifrey when she gets a summons. He
may hate the Time Lords stuffiness and trappings of power, but he
listens when they call. Eventually, they picked up Adric, a new
companion. The three traveled in E-Space, a parallel universe.
Eventually, Romana and K-9 stayed behind to help liberate the Tharil,
a race enslaved by humanity. This obviously is hard on the Doctor, and
yet he lets her go. The Doctor and Adric decide to travel on...AND
THEN WHOOPS, EDENSPHERE HAPPENS.

APPLICATION: Card Captor Sakura - Tsukishiro Yukito

2011-04-24T23:14:37Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.

PLAYER INFO
NAME: Kana
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: California/PST
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: N/A

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Tsukishiro Yukito/Yue
SERIES: Cardcaptor Sakura
RESERVED: Yes (thought it ran out by the time I actually
finished this orz)
WISHLIST: No
PERSONALITY:

Outgoing and cheerful, Yukito is the poster boy for the friendly boy
next door: he always has a kind smile on his face and a nice word for
others. His good nature makes it nearly impossible to offend him, and
he takes both rudeness and bluntness in stride. Even though he's
talented in everything he does, he's very demure about his abilities,
thinking they aren't really a big deal. That doesn't stop him from
helping out if it's asked of him, as he likes to lend a hand and do
what he can for others.

He shows great concern for other people, regardless of how long he's
known them. If someone is injured, upset, or hurt, he'll do his best
to help them or get them to the help they need. To him, it isn't a
burden at all, but another facet of his kind nature. He'll patiently
listen to a friend and knows not to push, letting people speak on
their own terms. He might prompt them a little, perhaps by mentioning
something related to the topic that's bothering them in order to open
up the conversation, but if the person doesn't take up the silent
invitation, he'll back off and act normally.

Despite his intelligence and his empathy, he can be somewhat
cheerfully clueless. He might walk into a tense moment and ask what
everyone is up to as if nothing's wrong, or fail to find something
strange about a boy playing the role of a princess in a school play.
Sometimes he plays up this part of himself to hide his own troubles,
not wanting to bother his friends or bring them down with his worries.

Yue, on the other hand, seems to be the polar opposite. Calm and
collected, he's much like a cat; if he wants to grace you with his
presence, it'll be only on his terms. He doesn't like to be bothered
and almost always is the one initiating meetings with other people,
usually preferring to let Yukito deal with the world for him. Nearly
impossible to read, he comes off as very distant and cold, introverted
without being shy. When he speaks, it's calmly and to the point, as he
doesn't like having his time wasted.

He believes very strongly in his opinions and isn't easily swayed. He
once thought that Clow would be the only master he'd ever had, and it
took a long, tiring battle and the strong heart of a little girl to
change his mind. His loyalty is very fierce and absolute. Once he's
promised it to someone, they have it without question for the rest of
his life.

Though he doesn't really see it, he and Yukito share a lot of traits.
Like Yukito, he cares very strongly for the people close to him, and
will offer encouragement or advice if it's needed, though he's a
little more awkward at it than Yukito is. He doesn't like to bother
other people with his problems, more out of pride and a need for
privacy, and for all his outer appearance would suggest otherwise,
he's surprisingly emotionally vulnerable.

TIMELINE: End of the manga, but before the timeskip.

BACKGROUND:

Long ago there lived the most powerful sorcerer known, Clow Reed. He
combined Eastern and Western magic into his own unique style,
fashioning his power into a set of powerful cards called Clow Cards.
In conjecture, he created two guardians: Kerberos, harnessing the
power the Sun, and Yue, harnessing the power of the Moon. Together
they lived as a family unit until the ever capricious Clow decided,
quite cheerful, that it was his time to die. He prepared the cards for
their new future mistress, the identity of whom he'd seen in a vision,
promising Kerberos and Yue that one day they'd have another master to
love. Yue, however, refused to accept it; for him there was and only
would be Clow. Clow understood his feelings and tasked Yue with the
title of Judge, the one who would test the new mistress of the cards
and see for himself if she was worthy of them. And because Yue was too
partial, he tasked Kerberos with the job of finding a next candidate.
Clow sealed them all together in a book that would remain untouched
until a suitable person appeared.

That person was Kinomoto Sakura, a cheerful 4th grader. When she found
the book in her father's library, it unsealed the guardians and the
cards, allowing both to escape. While Kerberos stayed with Sakura to
help her collect the Clow Cards, Yue hid inside the false form of
Tsukishiro Yukito until it was time to pass judgment.

Yukito, possessing fake memories and a personality of his own, was
completely unaware of what he really was or any actions Yue took. As
far as he was concerned, he was a normal teenager who'd been living
with his grandparents ever since the death of his parents when he was
younger. During his first year of high school, he transferred into the
same class as Sakura's brother, Touya, and the two became fast
friends. Because of Yue's presence in his body, many people became
attracted to Yukito; Clow had intentionally based his personality on
something that would be appealing to Sakura, so it was no surprise
when she developed a crush on him. Her rival for the cards, Li
Syaoran, also developed a crush, though it was only because he was
attracted to the Moon element that his own magic was also based on.
However, Touya had been able to look past that and befriend Yukito on
his own merits.

The moment Sakura capture all of the Clow Cards, Yue took over to
initiate the Final Judgment; in order to prove her worth, Sakura had
to defeat him. But because of her feelings for his host body, Yukito,
as well as her own kind nature, she was unable to harm him. Instead,
she trapped him within a ball of wind and told him that she didn't
want to be his master, but his friend. Her method of nonviolence and
compassion were enough to convince Yue that she would do as the new
Mistress of the Clow Cards and he gave her his approval and
allegiance. Yukito, of course, remained oblivious to these events and
carried on as normal.

Part of Sakura's new duties was to change to Clow Cards into Sakura
Cards, so that they drew from her power, the power of the Stars,
instead of Clow's. The new transfer student in her class, Eriol,
secretly helped this process by creating situations where Sakura would
need to change the cards in order to use them. The strain was great on
her, and on her two Guardians; while Kerberos had the power of the sun
to rejuvenate him, Yue was not so lucky. Without a proper supply of
energy, he would surely fade away, along with Yukito. They decided to
hide this from Sakura, knowing there was nothing she could do and that
it would only worry her.

Unaware of what had happened, Yukito found himself eating more than
usual in a vain attempt to replenish his and Yue’s energy, often
falling asleep or outright fainting from tiredness. This worried
Touya, who kept trying to tell him something important, but the pair
were constantly interrupted by a new transfer student in their class,
Akizuki Nakuru. After expressing a distinct interest in Touya, she
confronted Yukito and told him not to interfere, making him unsure of
where he stood with Touya, the person most important to him.

Yue wasn't idle during this time. Syaoran had become unsure about his
feelings; he still felt the pull towards Yukito, but he'd also been
thinking about more about Sakura. Sensing the boy was Clow's
descendent, Yue appeared and offered him advice, telling Syaoran to
look into his heart for who he really cared about. Syaoran discovered
that it was Sakura that he loved. Returning to his human form, the
suddenly confused Yukito offered Syaoran encouragement, ending the
false crush. And by chance, Yukito happened to run into Eriol, and Yue
took control because he sensed Clow's presence coming from him. Before
he could get a proper answer, Eriol used his magic to force him to
sleep and took away Yue's memories of the encounter, as Eriol wasn't
ready to be exposed yet.

Yukito’s low energy progressed to the point where his body began to
fade, and he would have disappeared had Touya not confronted him. He
made Yukito realize and admit to the fact that he wasn't human,
allowing Yukito to become aware of Yue's presence and for Yue to
appear. Once this was done, Touya was able to transfer his own magic
to the pair in order for them to keep surviving, making Yue promise to
protect Sakura and Yue (and Yukito by extension) before passing out.
Sakura overheard the exchange and blamed herself for being too weak
and unable to provide Yue with enough power in the first place. Yue,
in turn, told her it was alright and comforted her as both a guardian
and someone who cared for her.

Afterwards, Yukito felt unsure about his own existence and memories,
but Touya's reassurance that everything they experienced together was
real kept his spirits up. Sakura confessed her feelings to him during
a school fare, but Yukito gently let her down; he explained that he
already had someone he loved, and Sakura knew immediately who he was
referring to. She bounced back quickly and started treating Yukito
more like another big brother instead of a love interest.

With all but two of the Clow Cards changed to Sakura Cards, Eriol
decided to make his final move and created a darkness that put
everyone without magical abilities to sleep, revealing himself as the
reincarnation of Clow Reed and the one behind the strange events that
had been happening. Sakura confronted him with her two guardians,
Kerberos and Yue, and Eriol introduced two new ones of his own; Ruby
Moon, the true identity of Nakuru, and Spinel Sun. Sakura realized the
only way to stop the darkness was to convert the last two cards, and
both Kerberos and Yue lent her their powers so that she was able to
successfully complete the task. With all the cards changed, Eriol
explained his true intentions to them: that he was a friend who'd just
been looking out for their best interests and had been doing
everything in order to help Sakura change the cards. He invited them
back to his home to answer any questions they might have.

Yue refused to join the group and sulked out in Eriol's garden before
the boy sought him out. He demanded to know why Clow hadn't told him
that he would be reborn; if Yue had known, he would have never stopped
searching for him, which was precisely the reason why it had been kept
from him. Clow had wanted him to find, befriend, and accept Sakura, as
it was Clow's time to move on, and Eriol himself said that he no
longer considered himself to be Clow Reed. He’d originally planned for
Yukito and Sakura to fall in love, but couldn’t have predicted that
their hearts would end up in such different directions, though he
wasn’t unhappy by the change in events.

With closure given to the group, Eriol took his leave and returned to
England. Syaoran finally confessed his feelings to Sakura, and with
help from Yukito and (reluctantly) Touya, she was able to return his
feelings before he left for Hong Kong.

ABILITIES:

Other than being able to eat more in one sitting than most do in their
lifetime, Yukito seems like any normal human being. He's good at
pretty much everything he does, especially sports and archery, and is
rather athletic. Due to Yue, he emits an aura of magic related to
Yue's source of power, the moon, which may attract people with a
similar magical affiliation.

Yukito has no control over his 'true' form, Yue, and cannot transform
at will; he also doesn't recall anything that happens during his time
as Yue, though Yue is always conscious of what's happening when
they're Yukito. The only one who can force the change is Yue, himself.

In contrast to Yukito, Yue is a being of magic and has a range of
abilities. Based on the power of the moon, he's affected by the moon's
cycles, being at his strongest when it's full and at his weakest when
it's new. He is capable of flight and possesses a pair of large,
feathery white wings, though he doesn't need them to fly and can will
them away when necessary. An adapt magic user, he can erect magical
barriers, summon crystal-like shards that function as projectiles, and
use a bow and arrows made of energy. As his magic is also based in
darkness, wind, and water, he can exert control over these elements;
at the very least he is strong against attacks of that nature and at
the most he can outright nullify and control them. This, however,
makes him vulnerable against magic that is based on light, fire, and
earth. Not only is he good at magic, but he is also a skilled fighter,
with superhuman speed, stamina, agility and reflexes. He has strong
senses and can detect when and where magic is being used.

GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Usagi/Moon
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes
DREAM:

"Oi, snow rabbit, this way!" He catches the sight of a small,
golden animal flying up towards the sky before it veers into the sun.
He knows, somehow, not to worry, that the being will be fine and that
he’s free to follow the accented instructions along the path in front
of him. It's a straight, winding path through a city, a tall tower in
the distance the clear destination point.

He can see ruby eyes watching him from the shadows, endless pairs that
only grow in number as the sun begins to set and night comes, and he's
suddenly very scared. There's something very precious to him,
something he doesn't want to live without, and he's painfully aware
that he might lose it and there's little he can do about it.

He has to find it, see it again in case it might be the last time, so
he veers off the path and searches everywhere. But it's so dark and he
finds the darkness makes him feel sleepy and lethargic, too tired to
move. The stray paths of moonlight cast by the swollen moon in the sky
help keep him awake, enough that he's able to soldier on.

Just as he thinks he might be too late, the Penguin King appears. He
knows now that he must be close to finding it.

"Excuse me, your Majesty, but I'm looking for something. Do you know
where it is?" He asks cheerfully, once again hopeful. The Penguin King
rubs its chin with a thoughtful look, gruffly rumbling to itself.

"That depends, m'boy, on what it is you're looking for." And the
statement strikes him dumb, leaving him unable to answer, because
really, how could he when even he himself doesn’t even know what it
was? Even though it’s the most important thing to him, he couldn't put
a name to it. It's just a constant presence in his life, a longing he
knows he's always had and always followed. To describe something that
abstract was too hard and too personal, even if it was to the Penguin
King himself.

He wilts, tired from being on his feet for so long and unsure of where
to go next. Maybe he should sleep here for a while, rest his mind and
his body so he'd have more energy to think clearly...

The smell of peaches is overwhelming, so much that it makes his
stomach grumble and his heart tighten. Large, warm hands rest on his
shoulders, and he's happier than he's ever been in his entire life.
His journey is over.

"Don't worry, I won't let you disappear."

---

Perched high in the sky with the moon as his glowing white mantle, he
watches the boy's dream without being noticed once. It's a little
annoying, but somewhat familiar. A common occurrence. It's like having
an out of body experience, because while he knows that this body is
his, the boy's body is his, as well.

It's completely convoluted while making perfect sense, a pattern that
vexes him and makes him wistful and stings at the cracks in his heart
all at the same time. But the cracks have gotten smaller, the holes
slowly being filled in with soft petals of a distinct kind, so he
can't bring himself to hate the person that caused them in the first
place.

He's still not happy about it, though.

JOURNAL SAMPLE:

So everyone can see what I'm writing right now? That's so cool! It's
nice to meet you all. Though it's not really my name, for now I'm
Usagi. Let's get along.

I don't really remember the beginning that much, but the whole
birthing process was kind of fun. I've never been in a giant egg
before. My greeter was so nice, too, even though the goo caused that
big mess; I guess they're probably used to it, but still, it seemed
only right to stay back and help clean up. We had a really nice
conversation about sausages, and he told me all about how size affects
the taste. I never knew that.

Oh, I almost forgot! Would anyone mind sharing their favorite places to eat?

ASPIRATIONS: I just want to play at Edensphere and see the game
through to the end! I've missed everyone~ With Yukito, I'm looking for
adorable cute moments, more slice of life then anything, but I'm also
interested in exploring the relationship between Yukito and Yue and
how they'd come to terms with it in this setting. Also, getting Yue a
little more socialized would be nice.

APPLICATION: Magic Knight Rayearth - Shidou Hikaru [ES Background]

2011-04-15T14:34:43Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.
Original application is here.

During her first stay in Edensphere, Nova didn't hesitate to try and
acclimate herself to life in the sphere. She never shied away from
making friends with the people she met, trying to bring a little cheer
into the lives of others. The first person she formed a strong bond
with was Derrick, after she mistook him for her father upon hatching.
Despite his assertion to the contrary, Nova considered him an
important father-figure for the duration of her stay in Edensphere.

It didn't take her long to suspect that she was a skilled swordsman,
and with the help of Lea, she procured a broadsword from the junkyard
which was then repaired by Cara. Shortly thereafter, she joined the
Adventurers, working in both the Recon and Armed Response divisions.
Nova didn't restrict her heroics to her time on duty, however; she
would enthusiastically come to the rescue of anyone in need (including
several gentlemen in perilous situations).

The first memory she regained was during a Trip Down Memory Lane with
Target, Cara, and Juliet, where she saw herself relentlessly chasing
down a monster that had abducted her friends, pushing herself
physically until she was bruised and bleeding, and ultimately using a
fire spell to kill the monster. Her time stuck in the elevator was
memorable for another reason: Juliet's memory revealed that she had
been a serial murderer before coming to Edensphere. Though the others
were horrified by this discovery, Juliet insisted that she was now a
different person and had no desire to harm anyone. Nova was more
willing to believe her than Target and Cara, possibly because of her
own unremembered (yet pinged) regret over having killed in the past.

After their elevator experience, Cara invited Nova to live with her
and Sailormoon in Section 3, partially out of a desire to keep her
safe. Nova gladly accepted, since the two of them were friends and
she'd been feeling very lonely in her tiny Section 1 apartment. Nova
began to practice her fire magic, though she could only remember the
spell she'd seen in her memory: Flaming Arrow.

Because she'd seen the same country in her pre-birth dream and her
elevator memory, Nova assumed that she was originally from that
magical land, though this assumption was challenged when the
Wilderness became Tokyo. Though she had no memory of the place, she
still managed to easily navigate the metropolis without the aid of a
map. On top of that, she felt constantly drawn to the Tokyo Tower,
where she and Lea unintentionally recreated a scene from her past when
he dropped a coin in the binoculars she was using after her time
expired. Soon after that, she was left a mysterious gift in the form
of a beautiful golden pendant. Unbeknownst to her (but knownst to us),
this was the sphere's way of saying 'happy birthday.'

This was followed by a brief stint under Bell and Youth's care when
Nova was accidentally changed into a puppy after falling into a Cursed
Spring in the Wilderness, compounding the confusion caused by
physically becoming her friend Umi after time spent on the Fourth
Floor.

Other reminders of her previous life were more subtle. The only hint
she received of her most-regretted action - killing Zagato and
Emeraude - came in the form of two tiny tear-shaped tattoos on her
cheeks. Because she had no recollection of that event, she simply
assumed the markings were reminders of the time she'd spent as Lea's
apprentice.

Not long before she left the sphere, Cephiro and Flame were born.
Although Nova didn't get to spend as much time with them as she would
have liked, she felt a deep connection with the two of them. She will
certainly seek them -and her other friends- out once she returns.

APPLICATION: Magic Knight Rayearth - Shidou Hikaru

2011-04-13T15:55:38Z

This application has been ACCEPTED.
Moderation requested that all of the names from the dream be removed when it is used in play.

PLAYER INFO
NAME: Mochi
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: US, Central time zone.
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: N/A

CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Shidou Hikaru
SERIES: Magic Knight Rayearth
RESERVED: No
WISHLIST: No
PERSONALITY:
Upon first meeting Shidou Hikaru, there are a few things you're bound
to notice. First: she is short. Hikaru is by far the smallest girl in
her class at her all-girls' middle school. Secondly: she is hyper. Her
energy levels are through the roof, so she can sometimes wear down
those around her with her persistent exuberance. The third thing
you'll learn is that her joyful attitude is absolutely contagious, and
if you were in a bad mood when you met her, chances are you'll be
feeling much more cheerful by the time you part ways. Hikaru makes
fast friends with virtually anyone she meets (apart from those who are
trying to kill her) because she genuinely cares about people and wants
to be their friend.

Because of her petite stature and tomboyish nature, people frequently
mistake Hikaru for a much younger girl and subsequently underestimate
the ancient can of whoopass she's capable of unleashing on a moment's
notice. When she's not wiping the floor with evil-doers, however, she
is extremely cheerful, hyper, excitable, and easily amused. Since she
is so often mistaken for a grade-schooler, Hikaru knows that she can
get away with things that "older" girls really couldn't. Not that she
would take advantage of that, of course! She's as honest and guileless
as they come. More often than not, her size just means that people
don't take her seriously, so she has to work extra hard to get others
to listen to her before they get to know her and realize she's not
actually ten years old.

Although Hikaru can't really be considered the brains of the outfit
among the Magic Knights, she has a surprising intuitive sensitivity to
the feelings of others (unless they happen to be romantic feelings
for her-- those she rarely picks up on). She can't stand to see
others in pain, and will do anything in her power to fix whatever is
wrong. The one caveat is this: if you hurt her friends, she will make
you regret it dearly. Hikaru is willing to go to any length to
protect the people she cares about, braving every danger and
overcoming every obstacle. She will push herself to - and even beyond
- her physical limitations to accomplish the tasks that she sets for
herself; this is especially true when it comes to her friends, but
Hikaru has often leapt to the defence of nigh total strangers,
sometimes at the risk of her very life.

Hikaru is probably far too trusting for her own good, but her ability
to have faith in people and give them the benefit of the doubt has a
way of bringing out the best in them. She can still be a bit
oblivious, though, and frequently Misses The Point of what's going on.
This is most likely because of her sheltered life; before she met her
best friends Umi and Fuu, Hikaru had never even played a video game!
This has made her very naive in many ways, and also extremely
innocent. She nearly panicked when she thought another woman was going
to disrobe in front of her, and double entendres go right over her
head. She knows next to nothing about what boys find attractive, and
is largely unaware of her own charms, believing herself to be too
small and tomboyish for guys to find interesting. Again, this is
probably because she's been sequestered away most of her life by her
three zealously protective older brothers, and since she attends a
school only for girls, she hasn't had many dealings with males outside
her family unless they are facing her in a kendo match.

Hikaru's caring nature can sometimes be a source of great pain for
her, since she'll carry guilt for even perceived wrongdoing against
others. She never means to insult anyone or cause them grief, and
she'll beat herself up over it if she thinks she has. On top of that,
she will never confess to feeling sad or upset. Those that become
close to her learn to watch out for her assurances of her own
wellbeing, and that when she says "everything is all right!" it is
definitely a guarantee of the contrary. She simply doesn't want to
burden anyone else with her own troubles or worries. Moreover, even
when she's in tough situations, Hikaru will rarely ask for help,
choosing instead to rely on herself. Sometimes it takes a reminder
from a friend that she doesn't have to carry the weight of the world
on her own.

All in all, even though Hikaru is a tiny ball of energy with no
apparent concept of an "indoor voice," she is a fast friend who will
stick with you through thick and thin and a loyal ally who won't back
down from even the most impossible of odds. She is perceptive and wise
beyond her years, despite the fact that she sometimes lives with her
head in the clouds.

TIMELINE: Hikaru would be drawn from directly after the
conclusion of the second season/episode 49 of the anime. A year has
passed since her friends and she returned from their second battle in
Cephiro, and she is fifteen years old.

BACKGROUND:
While not much information is given about Hikaru's life before she was
suddenly whisked away to an amazing, heartbreaking adventure in the
magical world of Cephiro, there are a few things one can glean from
her interactions with her friends and brief scenes of her home life.
Hikaru is the youngest child of her family, and has three older
brothers who love her and dote on her rather shamelessly. She lives in
a large, tranquil dojo, where her family teaches kendo; she apparently
never played video games, but spent time learning how to wield a
blade, since she's extremely proficient at swordplay. Her husky Hikari
is one of her best friends, and they were raised together from a very
early age. She attends an all-girls' middle school.

It was on a school field trip where she met her two new best friends
and embarked on a life-altering journey. When her time ran out on a
set of pay-binoculars at the Tokyo Tower, Hikaru was given more change
by a student from another school. Hikaru dashed off to find the young
girl when she walked away before she could thank her. Another group of
students got in the way and Hikaru was unable to make her way through
them, but at that moment, the entire lobby was flooded with light.
Hikaru heard a voice calling out to her, pleading for help. "Please
save our world, legendary Magic Knights!" The floor gave way, and
three girls were suddenly plummeting through the sky toward an ocean
that hadn't been there moments before.

Fortunately, their fall was broken by something other than the ground:
a giant flying fish. The girls were spirited safely to land, where
they took a few moments to collect themselves and make introductions.
The two other girls were Ryuuzaki Umi and Hououji Fuu, both
eighth-graders from other schools. Naturally, they were perplexed by
their situation, but quickly concluded that they weren't in Kansas
anymore, so to speak. The flying fish disappeared in a flash, and the
girls were approached by a strange, short man called Master Mage Clef.
He explained that they were now in a world called Cephiro, and had
been summoned by its princess, Emeraude, to help save the land from
disaster by reviving the dormant Rune-Gods (powerful spirit animals)
and becoming the Magic Knights of legend. The princess was imprisoned
by a priest named Zagato, and they were to rescue her so stability
could be restored to the land. He also told them that they wouldn't be
able to return to Tokyo until they accomplished the task for which
they had been summoned, and then imbued the girls with magical powers
and gave them armor, claiming that they would need these things to
achieve their quest.

Their time with Clef was cut short when the group was attacked by one
of Zagato's minions, Alcyone. Mage Clef summoned a giant griffon and
told the girls to escape, instructing them to flee to the Forest of
Silence and seek out Presea and Mokona while he stayed behind to fend
off their attacker, who was, in fact, one of his former pupils. Clef
was unable to detain her for long, though; he was ambushed and turned
to stone by Zagato himself, and the girls were left to deal with
Alcyone on their own. Hikaru was able to repel Alcyone's ice attacks
with her fire magic, and the trio made it safely to the Forest. There,
they found the home of Presea, the master weapon smith, and met Mokona
(a strange and oddly happy-looking rabbit creature) as well. Presea
loaned them weapons and sent them off into the monster-filled woods to
locate the Spring of Eterna, where they would find a special ore
called "Escudo," which in turn could be made into their own magical
swords.

Along with Mokona, the girls embarked on the first leg of their quest,
making their way through the forest. They encountered and befriended a
wandering "hunter" named Ferio, and after cutting their way through
swaths of monsters, they finally made it to the Spring. Diving into
the waters, each girl had to face a challenge before receiving their
Escudo. Hikaru was pitted against a vicious doppleganger of her dog,
Hikari. Realizing that Hikari would never hurt her, Hikaru was able to
attack and defeat it. With the ore in hand, the girls returned to
Presea's manor, and she began to forge their swords.

Presea had barely begun her work when her home came under attack by
Ascot, a beast summoner sent by Zagato. Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu were able
to fight off and eventually kill Ascot's summoned monster, but a part
of the roof collapsed in the process, fatally wounding Presea.
Luckily, she had been able to finish their magic swords in the nick of
time, and so with heavy hearts the three buried their friend and moved
on with Mokona in tow, knowing that their time was limited. Clef was
able to communicate to them through Mokona, guiding them despite
having been turned to stone.

Over the course of their journey, they faced more of Zagato's lackeys:
Caldina, a dancer and illusionist; Lafarga, a master swordsman; and
Innouva, a lightning hound-turned-human. Each enemy they faced taught
them valuable lessons about the strength of their own hearts, helping
them to evolve the armor and weapons given them and bringing them
closer to their goal as they awakened the Rune-Gods and proved their
worth to become Magic Knights. In the Water Shrine beneath the ocean,
Umi revived the Rune-God Celes, a dragon. In the Wind Shrine located
in the floating crystal mountain, Fuu revived Windam, a phoenix. After
a battle with Zagato in the volcano that housed the Fire Shrine,
Hikaru was able to revive Rayearth, a fire wolf. They discovered that
the Rune-Gods weren't only beasts, but could become giant robots as
well.

With all three Rune-Gods finally awake, the girls sought out Zagato to
finish their quest and rescue Princess Emeraude. By combining their
powers, they managed to kill Zagato, but the princess went mad with
grief and - in a Rune-God created by her own heart - attacked the
Knights that had come to save her. They had been misled from the
beginning! Emeraude had not summoned them to rescue her, but to end
her life because she had fallen in love with Zagato and couldn't focus
only on the needs of Cephiro.

The girls didn't want to fight her, but Emeraude attacked them
mercilessly. When they had nearly lost hope, they heard the voice of
what was left of the princess' sane mind speaking to them, pleading
for them to fulfil her wish and liberate her from her sad existence
without the man she loved. She plead for them to end it quickly,
before she prayed for the total annihilation of Cephiro.
Grief-stricken, the Magic Knights could only comply. They joined their
Rune-Gods together into one powerful spirit and struck Emeraude down.

Now that the task for which they were summoned was completed, the
girls were returned to the lobby of the Tokyo Tower, deposited
directly where their journey had begun.

In the weeks and months that followed, Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu remained
close friends since only the three of them shared the memory of their
time in Cephiro and the bonds they created there. Each of them learned
to cope with the trauma in her own way. The experience definitely
affected them, even mellowing Hikaru's indomitable cheer. She began to
have disturbing nightmares about a dark, menacing woman who foretold
of the eradication of Cephiro. She didn't share her dreams or her
feelings with her friends and family, wanting to spare them the
concern it would cause, but they could all tell that she wasn't as
bright or tenacious as she had been before her trip to the Tokyo
Tower.

Umi and Fuu understood the reason for her melancholy-- or at least
part of it. When they met up at the Tokyo Tower once again to visit
and talk, they were drawn a second time into Cephiro, falling and
being caught by Fyula the flying fish. This time, there wasn't a
beautiful ocean or green scenery. Cephiro was a wasteland in chaos,
falling apart at the seams, with only a single castle as an oasis
amidst the darkness. At the castle, the girls were reunited with all
the friends they made before, including Presea, who was magically
resurrected by the final wish of Emeraude, and Ascot, who had quite
literally grown up, becoming even taller than Umi.

Clef informed the Knights that he did not know who summoned them,
since only the Pillar knew the spell to bring people from other
worlds. They learned that without a Pillar to uphold it, Cephiro was
slowly but surely crumbling away, and that it would soon vanish
entirely. He showed them the magically shielded room that held
Princess Emeraude's crown, the Proof of the Pillar, which would change
its shape to suit the new Pillar when one worthy of claiming the title
appeared. The situation looked even more dire when it was revealed
that three other countries had decided to invade Cephiro in its moment
of weakness. Not wanting them to risk their lives a second time for a
country to which they do not belong, Clef told the girls that they
didn't have to take up arms again in Cephiro's defense. They countered
his statement by arguing that they wanted to fight. This time,
however, they would fight for themselves and for their own hearts, so
they could live without regrets.

Clef acquiesced and gave them their magic armor, which allowed them to
speak with their Rune-Gods. Thusly attired, the girls donned their
mechs and headed out of the castle, desiring to meet with the leaders
of the invading armies to find out why they wanted Cephiro. They faced
the leaders of Autozam, Chizeta, and Fahren, duking it out with
mechas, macho genie spirits, and strange illusions. Alcyone appeared
to attack as well, riding a strange monster. Upon their return to the
castle, the girls met a newcomer: Lantis. They were told that not only
was he the only magic swordsman in Cephiro, but he was also the
younger brother of Zagato! He left Cephiro some time before the
Knights arrived, and returned only after Emeraude's death. He had
apparently been staying in Autozam until the time of his return,
causing several people to call his loyalty into question.

Hikaru, on the other hand, felt that she had to make amends with him.
When she happened to meet Lantis alone, she offered herself up to
receive punishment in place of her friends, saying that she was sure
Lantis was angry that they killed his brother, but that he should only
hurt her for it and not Umi or Fuu. Lantis refused to lift a hand
against her; he's sure that having to kill Zagato made her cry, too.
Hikaru was obviously shocked by his response. Later, Lantis gave
Hikaru a magic necklace that belonged to his mother. She initially
refused to take it, but he insisted that she keep it, asserting that
it would protect her someday.

Hikaru continued to have dreams of the dark woman, Lady Debonair, and
a girl called Nova, who said she was born just for Hikaru and that
they would soon meet. Fearing the destruction of Cephiro, she decided
to search outside the castle for one worthy of becoming the Pillar.
Her friends didn't want to let her go alone, but she argued that it
would be a bad idea to have more than one Magic Knight leave the
castle in case of an attack. Lantis agreed to accompany her, and the
two set out together. During their search, they were accosted by Eagle
Vision, the leader of Autozam's army, who duelled with Hikaru in
Rayearth using his mech, the FTO. He managed to disable and capture
her, taking her back to his battleship, the NSX, where she was held
hostage.

Despite being a prisoner, Hikaru was treated kindly by the citizens of
Autozam, Geo Metro and Zazu Torque, and even had tea and sweets with
Eagle as he explained the plight of his native country. Autozam's
atmosphere was deteriorating due to terrible pollution, and he wanted
to use the Pillar system to devise a way to save his land. Their
interview was cut short when Lantis, riding a summoned horse, burst
through the bulkhead of the ship to rescue Hikaru. Before he could do
so, however, she was spirited away to a gloomy pocket dimension by
Nova.

Nova looked and sounded almost exactly like Hikaru. She claimed she
was born for Hikaru, and that she loved her deeply, and would make her
happy by killing everything she loved. Nova also possessed a black
Rune-God, Regalia, and she and Hikaru fought until she shattered
Hikaru's blade, causing Rayearth to disappear. Laughing, Nova said she
thought the Magic Knights would be stronger, and instructed Hikaru to
grow more powerful so they could play again in the future.

Now powerless, Hikaru could only stand by and watch as her friends
stood in defence of the castle when Chizeta and Fahren attacked. The
situation seemed hopeless when Umi and Fuu were defeated and captured
by the invading countries, until Presea approached Hikaru with an
offer. She knew the spell that could revive the broken Escudo sword,
but Hikaru would have to be willing to risk her life to obtain it.
Hikaru agreed immediately, willing to face any danger in order to help
her friends. During the ritual, Nova returned and entered Hikaru's
soul, mocking and taunting her. She distorted Hikaru's memories of her
friends, skilfully chipping away at Hikaru's determination. Until Nova
confronted her about it, Hikaru hadn't even begun to realize that she
was falling in love with Lantis, but Nova reminded her that he would
never love her in return because she had slaughtered his brother.

Hikaru fell into despair, but Presea's voice broke through the
darkness to encourage her, and she remembered that she was fighting
for herself and for her friends and absolutely could not lose.
Resolutely, she drove back Nova's encroaching presence and was able to
revive her sword, and Rayearth along with it. Lantis, sensing Nova's
presence and Hikaru's waning life force, had rushed to the room where
the ceremony was taking place. Awakening from her trance, Hikaru
confessed her love to him before fainting from exhaustion, although
she would later not recall having done so.

While she fought to revive her sword, Umi and Fuu were able to escape
their captors, even befriending them in the process. This hadn't done
much to dissuade the invaders from their goal of becoming Pillar, or
so it seemed, but now the girls all had a better understanding of the
ambitions of their adversaries. They only had a short time to regroup,
however, before Eagle and company launched another attack against the
castle while Debonair sent a host of monsters to wreak havoc and
terrify the people to increase her power. Eagle managed to infiltrate
the magic barrier that surrounded the castle, but he didn't get far
before a blast of energy from Emeraude's crown incapacitated him and
vanquished other attacking monsters from the castle.

Nova reappeared to Hikaru, this time threatening to kill Lantis before
dashing off. She found him conversing with Eagle in the room where the
latter was being held captive, and tried to kill them both, declaring
that Hikaru didn't hate Eagle because he was her enemy, but cared for
him quite a bit. Hikaru drove Nova away once again before anyone was
injured.

Later, Eagle managed to escape from his cell, and searched the castle
for the Proof of the Pillar, hoping to seize it while no one wass
aware. He needed Lantis' magic sword to enter the protected room,
however, and he found the man interrogating Alcyone as to Lady
Debonair's location. Because Clef sensed that Eagle was free, he
alerted the Magic Knights. Hikaru intercepted Eagle, but the two of
them, along with Lantis, were unexpectedly transported to the hall
just outside the room housing the crown of Emeraude. When Eagle ran
for the door and Hikaru followed, both were allowed to enter. They
each had a vision of the deceased princess before being teleported
outside again. Lantis, who had been waiting by the door, was confused;
only the one who was worthy of becoming the Pillar could enter and
leave the room alive, meaning that either Hikaru or Eagle would be the
future Pillar. But which one was it?

Relentless in her pursuit to exterminate the people Hikaru loved, Nova
re-entered the castle and abducted Lantis, ferrying him into the
pocket dimension she'd used earlier to fight against Hikaru. Clef
attempted to follow, but was unable. He reached a startling conclusion
concerning Nova's identity, however: she was created by all the regret
and sadness that Hikaru felt after the deaths of Zagato and Emeraude.
She was, in essence, a part of Hikaru's heart. When Lantis learned of
this, he was unable to fight against Nova, fearing that if she were
killed a part of Hikaru's soul would be gone forever. Subsequently,
Nova overpowered and captured Lantis.

Heartbroken over the revelation of Nova's identity and overcome by her
feelings, Hikaru visited and confided in Eagle because she knew he was
Lantis' friend. Eagle comforted Hikaru, but a sudden, bloody coughing
fit made it clear that he was gravely ill, and nearly out of time. He
struck a deal with Hikaru and Clef, promising to remain in Cephiro as
its Pillar if he were chosen, so long as his countrymen could examine
the system to try and devise a solution to save Autozam. As the castle
began to crumble, Eagle was released to return to his ship. Before
flying off in his FTO, he told Hikaru not to worry, assuring her that
Lantis did love her, and unlike his brother, he would return alive for
the one he loved.

Umi and Fuu rallied around Hikaru, letting her know that they would
support her if she became the Pillar, but that they didn't want her to
sacrifice herself in the way that Emeraude had. She promised them that
such a thing would never happen: Hikaru didn't want anyone to suffer
or feel he remorse that she did because of the princess' death. Before
she could tell them the course of action she'd decided upon, the
voices of the Rune-Gods interrupted and prompted the girls to look
outside. A massive portal was forming outside the palace, and Nova
emerged, ready for combat inside of Regalia. The girls donned their
spirits and flew out to meet her, and Umi and Fuu unveiled new magical
attacks to combat her. Frustrated and upset, Nova exclaimed that
everything she did was for Hikaru's benefit, and that her attempts to
kill all of Hikaru's loved ones was because, after killing Emeraude
and Zagato, the young Knight wondered if people could only truly be
united after death.

Hikaru revealed the nature of Nova's birth and identity to her friends
as they continued to fight. They didn't have much time to digest the
new information before Nova attacked again, using one of Lantis'
lightning spells. She had him imprisoned and unconscious within
Regalia!

Eagle, who had arrived safely at the NSX, saw that the Knights were
fighting Nova and decided to aid them against the wishes of his
subordinates. He knew that they would hesitate to attack since Lantis
was also aboard Nova's Rune-God, and feared that they would be killed
if they didn't have help. His health was failing fast, however, and it
seemed unlikely he would return. Realizing his time had expired, he
resolved to die as a warrior. He transferred command of the ship to
Geo and requested that his friend use it to help save Cephiro before
launching the FTO.

When Eagle joined the three Knights, Nova gleefully teleported the
entire group to her pocket dimension, letting them know in a
surprisingly gentle voice that she was going to make sure all of them
could be together with Hikaru forever. Things seemed grim; the Knights
weren't faring well against Nova, not wanting to harm Lantis or,
indirectly, Hikaru. Eagle's FTO was heavily damaged by an attack when
his movement was impeded by a bout of coughing, and Nova declared that
Hikaru is more in love with him than ever.

Hikaru tried to explain that she wanted all of her friends to live and
be happy together, but this only caused Nova to lash out in anger and
confusion, since Lady Debonair had raised her to believe that Hikaru
would be happy if Nova killed all her loved ones. She decided to kill
Eagle first, and practically decimated the FTO, but he still managed
to tell Hikaru that her voice could awaken Lantis if she called out
his name. Once awake, Lantis asked Eagle to directly attack Regalia,
echoing Eagle's earlier statement: he was not like his brother, and he
would not die with the one he loved because he could not be with her.
Eagle agreed and attacked Nova with startling speed, retrieving Lantis
when Nova's powers weakened. Lantis summoned a lightning attack, which
resulted in the group being transported back to Cephiro.

Lady Debonair appeared, enraged, and shot a bolt of dark energy at the
FTO, causing it to explode and killing Eagle instantly. Hikaru and the
Magic Knights combined their Rune-Gods to attack the towering figure
of Debonair, but were intercepted by Nova. Furious, the Knights plowed
through Regalia, and when Nova turned to Debonair for help, she was
rebuffed and told to die along with them. Debonair fired another shot
of dark energy at them, which the Knights countered with their own
powerful spiral flash attack, destroying Regalia in the crossfire.
Nova escaped its destruction, however.

Acknowledging that Nova was a problem that she herself had to handle,
Hikaru left the ensconcement of Rayearth's armor and directly
confronted her heart's shadow. Terrified, Nova unleashed a barrage of
attacks against Hikaru, but all of them were effortlessly deflected.
Rather than lashing out, Hikaru reached out to Nova. She believed she
could learn to love herself, even the part that felt pain and regret.
Even Nova. Hikaru accepted her, and when they embraced, Nova
disappeared, finally having found her place in Hikaru's heart.

Meanwhile, Presea convinced Alcyone to share the location of
Debonair's secret lair. Armed with this knowledge, the Knights suited
up and travelled to the Underside of Cephiro where Debonair was
waiting for them. She transformed into a hideous monster, fueled by
the fear of Cephiro's citizens. It might have been impossible for the
Magic Knights to defeat Lady Debonair on their own, but the NSX
arrived to reinforce them, followed by Chizeta's Bravada and Fahren's
Dome. Back at the palace, Ferio, Clef, and the others rallied the
courage of the people of Cephiro, increasing the strength of the
Knights with their willpower. They united their Rune-Gods one final
time and struck the killing blow, piercing Debonair through the heart.

With Lady Debonair gone and Eagle deceased, there was only one person
with the ability to become the new Pillar of Cephiro: Hikaru. She had
already decided that she did not want to repeat history, though, and
so her first and final act as Pillar was to eradicate the Pillar
system entirely, creating a new Cephiro in which everyone could use
the strength of their will to form the land into a beautiful and
peaceful place. The voices of their Rune-Gods explained to the girls
that it had been their own wish that had brought them back to Cephiro.
They had fought for their own hearts, and could now return to Tokyo
with no regrets.

Before disappearing from Cephiro, Hikaru admitted her feelings to
Lantis and he confessed that he loved her as well. In a flash, the
three girls were returned to Tokyo Tower as before, but this time,
they weren't crying tears of regret. One year later, they returned to
the Tower to recall their adventures and saw a vision of Cephiro, more
beautiful and prosperous than it had ever been with a Pillar.

ABILITIES:
Swordsmanship: Hikaru's family owns a kendo dojo, and Hikaru
has practiced with the blade since she was very young.
Agility: Throughout the series, Hikaru displays the
ability to leap extremely high and use a surprising nimbleness to
evade attacks.
Animal communication: Hikaru confesses to her desire to be a
dog trainer, and easily communicates with several of the creatures
native to Cephiro, claiming that animals, like her dog Hikari, are
easy to understand.
Magic: A gift granted by Mage Clef and developed over the
course of her adventures in Cephiro, Hikaru possesses the ability to
use fire magic, and does so with great alacrity. It is possible that
her magic powers are limited to Cephiro and the nearby countries, as
she is unable to use it upon her return to Earth.
Willpower: Although this might not seem like an outstanding
ability, Hikaru's will and the strength of her heart were the deciding
factors in many battles throughout her quests in Cephiro. In addition,
her willpower was strong enough to help send her back to Cephiro and
make her a candidate to become the Pillar, the one responsible for
maintaining peace and prosperity across the land through force of will
alone.

GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Nova
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes, I'd like a birthday log.
DREAM:
Nova didn't know why, but she was crying. Her hands trembled, her legs
shook. Hot tears trickled down her face. She didn't know where she
was, but it was dark and there were stars all around her; swirling
galaxies that seemed to be within arm's reach, yet still so far away,
and beneath her feet, a cloud that looked like a glittering nebula.
Strong winds buffeted her for a moment, but quickly died away.

A thought formed unbidden in her mind ("This is all my fault")
- and Nova felt herself go limp, dropping to her knees. Her head hung
in anguish and shame. "This... this can't be true!" Tears dripped from
her chin onto her skirt and her thighs, but she didn't move to brush
them away. There was no way to keep track of how long she remained
there, still and silent save for the sound of her own heartbeat and an
echo the echo of her exclamation. Can't be true! Can't be true!
Can't be true... Be true... True, true, true. It occurs to her
that she would give anything for that thought, for those words, to
disappear forever, but she knows that they won't because it is
true, and she'll have to live with the burden of that for the rest of
her life, even if she doesn't know what that truth is.

The silence was broken.

Laughter filled the air, but not the pleasant kind: the kind that made
your skin crawl, that made you want to hide for fear. Nova lifted her
head with a start, straining to see who was there with her in the dim,
star-speckled void.
"The Pillar of Cephiro has been eradicated. The people of this world
will soon turn toward darkness." The voice that spoke was female, both
deep and smooth and laced with menace. Jumping to her feet, Nova could
make out a towering, shadowy silhouette. Her gaze was captured by its
glowing red eyes. There was another peal of laughter.

"Who-- who are you?" Nova asked, balling her fists. Whoever she was,
the shadow-woman's words were washing away Nova's bitter sadness,
replacing it with alarm and indignation.

"Soon, everything will fall to extinction," the woman said, ignoring
Nova's question. "Everything will disappear. Not just Cephiro;
every world will become mine." She laughed once more, and Nova
could see another small, black figure emerge from the much larger
shadow. Only, this one looked familiar. It looked almost like...
herself? Before she could react, both of the shadow warped and
twisted, growing and growing, stretching out to envelop her in its
pitch-black folds.

Nova woke with a start, breathing hard and clutching her comforter in
a death-grip. Light streamed into her room through shoji windows. "A
dream..." It hadn't felt like one. She stood and opened the window,
wincing at the bright morning light until her eyes adjusted. A pair of
birds chirped and hopped from branch to branch in the tree outside her
window. "But that wasn't a dream," she said to herself. "What happened
in Cephiro wasn't a dream," she repeated.

Stepping out onto the engawa, she entered a grassy, fenced-in
courtyard. Unlike in her dream(?) everything was peaceful here. There
was a pond. Trees. Everything here was real. A large brown and white
dog trotted up to her and she knelt to pet it, letting it lick her
face as she wrapped her arms around its neck. "Good morning, Hikari!"
She grinned, wanting to laugh and play with her dog, but the memory of
her dream still gave her chills. "Who was that? Who in the world was
that?"

Later, she found herself sitting seiza in a large room. It was silent
and still save for the sound of her breathing and the periodic hollow
tapping of the bamboo shishi odoshi in the pond outside.

The silence was broken.

She could hear murmuring from the doorway, low and conspiring. It
sounded like young men talking to each other, and although Nova
couldn't make out exactly what it was they were saying, she had a
feeling it was about her. She lifted her head when the sound of
padding footsteps approached, and stopped before her. A tall man in
dark blue garments stood before her smiling gently. He sat in front of
her, taking the same seiza posture. "Satoru-niisama." Her brother. He
reached out and affectionately stroked her hair, ruffling it slightly.

"Won't you tell me why you aren't as cheerful as usual?" he asked. Her
face fell and she closed her eyes; he patted her hair again. "I
understand," he said. "Then I won't ask." He withdrew his hand and she
clenched her fists into the fabric of her hakama.

"I'm sorry, Satoru-niisama," she said, staring at his knees.

"You wish to rid yourself of your doubts on your own. If that's what
you decide, Hikaru, follow through until the end."

She looked up at him and nodded, feeling relieved that her brother was
so supportive of her. "Yes!" she said. Almost as soon as the word had
left her lips, she was snatched up into a surprise hug.

"You're not being fair, Satoru-niisan!" said her second brother as he
gathered Nova into his arms and rested his chin on her shoulder.
"Hikaru, I'm worried about you, too."

"Masaru-niisama," she said, finally smiling, patting his arm
obligingly. A third boy came sliding to a halt in front of her and
yanked her out of Masaru's arms.

"I'm worried about cute, little Hikaru, too!" he exclaimed, wrapping
her in a bear hug while she flailed in surprise at the suddenness of
it all. Releasing her, but still grasping her shoulders, he sniffled
dramatically. "If something troubles you, cry on big brother's
shoulder!"

"Kakeru-niisama." Looking at the three of them smiling at her, Nova
knew that there was no reason to be afraid. She could overcome
whatever difficulty she faced, whatever dreams plagued her, as long as
she could lean on her brothers' shoulders. "Thank you. Thank you, my
dear brothers."

JOURNAL SAMPLE:
Hi everyone!!! Nova here. I know I've been gone for a
little while. I hope I didn't make you all worry on my account. I'm
definitely back, for sure! [A little drawing of Nova's face
appears, followed by a grinning husky dog, both surrounded by
sparkles.]

If it's all right with Miss Bastet, I'd like to get back to work as
soon as possible. Krile, are you still here? Do you maybe still have
my journal?
Did I miss anything important? I hope everyone else is all right.
Would someone fill me in?

ASPIRATIONS: Hikaru is one of my favorite characters from
Magic Knight Rayearth, and I'd like to see her make lots of friends
among the inhabitants of the Sphere. She loves people, and would be
happy to bring a little light into everyone's lives. Losing all of her
memories will set her back a bit, so I'd like for her to grow and
mature as she regains them, even if it's a painful process for her.

Hi, Mochi!

After reviewing your application, it appears that you want Nova to retain her Edensphere memories. If this is the case, we would like to request that you write a summary of her previous stay in Edensphere. Please feel free to submit this and we will continue processing your application.

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