ｖｉｖａｌａ ☆ ＶＩＤＡ

♥ codename: 010; audio (private!)

2011-10-21T14:35:17Z

( filtered to the Guardian // semi-hackable since Minako is not a genius around technology)

Hey, hey, mister Guardian sir! [ Her tone is just as bright and enthusiastic as ever, even in the face of a question so daring and maybe even somewhat ridiculous in other people's eyes. ]

I have a question, if you have some time!

♥ codename: 009; video

2011-10-19T12:11:47Z

[ Well hi there, today Minako is utterly beaming a smile at the camera. ]

Hey, Demeleier! Do you know what day it is this Saturday? [ She just :))s at the camera for a moment.. as if everyone is supposed to know. But then she laughs. ] Of course, of course, it's October 22nd, but that's a very special day! To be exact, it's the birthday of the one and only goddess of love!

[ She flips her hair back a little, all ta-dah like. ]

Don't worry, I won't expect any real offerings or sacrifices.. For the goddess of love just an attendance to the best birthday party in Demeleier this year will be good enough! So everyone should make sure to get over to the inn this Saturday for some good partying, okay?

[ How can you refuse this smile. She seems to think of something then though, and her smile dims just the tiniest bit. ]

Ah, that reminds me though.. I'll need a little bit of help! Surely there's some good cook out there who's willing to help a poor girl in need, right?

And.. no, there's one thing that's still more important! [ Her expression turns determined in just a second. It's almost comical, really, like most things about her. ] I don't know who of the fae or anything like that organized it last time, but.. please, please, please give me a guy in a cake too! It's cruel and unfair if you only do it for one person, after all, and I've worked so hard! [ pout. ] Don't let a girl's one birthday wish be cruelly trampled upon!

... Yes, I think that's about it. Everyone make sure to come or the goddess of love will strike misfortune upon you, okay? [ A last wink before she turns off the feed. ]

♥ codename: 008; OTHER, PLEASE SEE OOC NOTES

2011-09-30T14:22:09Z

[ This morning, once again, notes can be found all over Demeleier. You know what that means, folks, the love doctor is once again in action. If you go and look at one, you may find this: ]

( ooc: Yes, you can sign your character up for a blind date! Please be aware that all the names thrown in will be randomized for the dates themselves using a random number generator (aside from the preference you have listed, that is, as you can list whether you want your character to go on a date with a boy, a girl or either if you don't care), so please don't sign up your character if you do not want them to randomly end up with someone on a blind 'date'. There will be only one rigged couple, and that's Minako and Karkat since Minako is doing this whole thing just to go on a date with Karkat without having to ask him. n_n

If your character is not the type to sign themselves up, you can leave a note on your comment that they were signed up by someone else (please make sure you have that character's mun's permission though!), if you don't know any characters in Demeleier who would icly sign up your character, feel free to list Minako as the one who signed them up, since she would probably just throw in some random names to spice things up. Only characters who are signing themselves up or being signed up need to comment! The ones who are doing the signing up for others don't need to comment since otherwise we'll have double comments and all that.

The deadline for sign-ups is midnight during the night from Sunday to Monday (EST). If I wake up at on Monday morning (GMT+1) and your entry is not in by then, you're too late, sorry! The dates themselves will probably happen sometime next week, more information about that is yet to come. Comments are screened oocly to keep it a bit exciting too, I guess.

Well then, if you want your character(s) (you can sign up as many as you want!) to participate, please leave a comment with the following form filled out (oocly!):

♥ codename: interlude; that which cannot be changed.

2011-07-23T13:55:13Z

( WARNING: minor gore; nothing more than mentions of blood and corpses without description. )

[ The marble steps and floor are completely smeared with red blood. The black sky looming over it seems almost starless - for a moment it's enough to wonder if the roof was just blown off -, and the big blue planet, the Earth, hangs heavy in the sky as if it could fall down any moment.

There's nothing living here. No matter where you look or where you go in the big white palace, all you might find is more and more dead bodies, some killed still somewhat merciful, others completely slaughtered. The white and golden uniforms of the soldiers of the Earth Kingdom somewhat stick out against the more grey and silver uniforms of the Moon Kingdom soldiers, but they have all fallen all the same, to a point where bodies just pile up in certain rooms.

If you walk on enough, you might notice the bodies changing all of a sudden. Whereas it was mostly male soldiers first, along with some civilians, now there are rooms with women in different uniforms resembling sailor suit school uniforms. A green-suited one, in a room where the earth below almost seems split into two. A blue-suited one, her body still in a strangled grip by a man who looks as if he died from extreme frostbite. A red-suited one that seems to have scorched everything around her, even down to the walls and herself.

In the final room, there's an orange-suited one, sitting on her knees. A large shining sword lies a little distance away from her, abandoned but drenched in blood. The woman is easily reconizable as Minako, even if she looks older, more mature. She seems to be staring idly at a corpse in front of her. The dead girl's beautiful white hair and white dress are completely stained by the red blood still flowing from her chest wound. If you get closer you can see the girl in the orange suit is covered in blood - most likely the other girl's - too, and yet she doesn't seem to pay attention to the stains. Instead she's staring wordlessly.

... She couldn't save anyone. Sailor Venus, the one who was supposed to be the leader of those who protected the princess, has failed right here in this moment. The only thing she hoped that would never happen, the one thing she'd rather lay down her own life for than this..

But then, in the middle of mourning, the corpse's eyes suddenly open, even though the body is still obviously very dead. ]

Venus.. Why didn't you save me?

[ There's a choked sound from the orange-suited soldier's throat at the sentence, and she quickly backs away from the corpse as a first instinct, crawling back until her hand hits the bloodied sword and she quickly pulls that back too, scrambling back onto her feet.

She runs out of the room, abandoning the sword and the body, and makes a run for it throughout the ruined castle. But no matter where she goes, the same words are heard over and over again from the various corpses.

( - why didn't you save us why didn't you prevent this from happening you're the leader save us help us do something do it do it - )

And the more she runs, the less she looks like that older, that tougher orange-suited soldier, that woman, and the more she looks like herself, even changing back into her more usual clothes and shrinking a little to her usual height, although the blood stains stay all over her clothes, her skin.

The moment she looks entirely like just Minako again, she stops running and instead sinks down against one of the broken walls, sitting down on the ground while covering her face with her blood-stained hands.

( - she's no soldier, she's just a girl, a broken and lonely and guilt-ridden girl - )

But she still can't hide from her fear or shame. ]

♥ codename: 007; OTHER, PLEASE SEE OOC NOTES

2011-07-20T11:15:28Z

[ Once again, in the morning residents of Demeleier might wake up to a bunch of flyers being spread all over the village. If one reads it, they might find this: ]

( ooc: this works the same as last time! if your character wants to send a note to the 'love doctor', just leave a comment on this post as if it were a note they put in the mailbox, and I will reply back here to you and so we can go back and forth. )

♥ codename: 006; OTHER, PLEASE SEE OOC NOTES

2011-05-28T14:35:30Z

[ Good morning, Demeleier! When you wake up and go around the village for a moment, it's not hard to spot.. new additions to the village everywhere. And with new additions, I mean the fact that there are papers with the same text spread all throughout the village. Why yes, someone here can be digilent, just for the wrong reasons. If you bother to actually read the paper, you might find this on it: ]

[ Below all of that there's another note scribbled on all of the papers: ]

Any comments, suggestions, opinions, disagreements or even new additions? Let Demeleier's one and true love doctor know by leaving them behind in the mailbox! I can assure you I'll get to them swiftly! And who knows, perhaps some day I might even publish a second part, ohoho! ♥

( ooc: Okay, so Minako is a huge stalker of the network with shipping goggles. So most of the couples on this list are more.. crack couples (because of the shipping goggles) and she probably missed some people who actually are couples, so don't be offended by anything on here, it's just Minako being completely wrong and a huge dork as usually. This thing is anonymous, obviously, although people who knows Minako might be able to recognize it's her since it's.. well.. fairly obvious if you know her..

To reply to this, just comment here with a note your character left in the mailbox, and they'll receive notes back through it as well and we can thread that way! ♥ )

♥ codename: 005; video

2011-05-21T12:53:09Z

[ When the feed starts there's first just part of the wall and ceiling of Minako's croft for a few moments, but then you might suddenly see a flash of blonde hair and before you know it Minako is prancing throughout the room as if she's giving a concert. You know, with hair brush in hand and all that.

In her dreams, she's the star. It's her. ]

Silent-- just keep silent and, well..
Sorry! She won't fall in love!
Set on it more actively!
Throw a kiss to a shy heart!

[ It doesn't quite seem like she's noticing the fact that the camera is accidentally on, although one can doubt whether she would really care about that fact either way. She's just giving a performance to her imaginary audience in the croft.

And if you listen for a while, you might start to realise that it doesn't sound half too bad (if peppy j-pop is your sort of thing, but her voice is okay) as long as you ignore the overly dramatic concert movements. ]

If a rainshower, given by the goddess of love
Might by chance happen to fall
Then to fall in love the timing is now!
Hug her shoulders
And the heart that is pounding will--

[ Her ~*marvelous*~ concert is interrupted at that point though, considering she trips and crashes to the ground, leaving the same empty view of the wall and ceiling from earlier. Then the camera times out. ]

( ooc: song reference! )

♥ codename: 004; video (feel free to action!)

2011-04-12T18:32:42Z

[ The video is a little shaky - Minako seems to be recording herself while being pushed around by the crowd in the marketplace and running around by herself as well. She doesn't look particularly different because she isn't particularly different - she's still human. Her enthusiasm is the same as usual though, even in this new strange situation. ]

Ooh, you just have to look at this--

[ It's not quite certain whether she's talking to the camera or just to herself, especially since her voice is half drowned out by shouting salesman and the noises of the crowd. This actually goes on for a few moments until she gets to a more quiet part of the marketplace. ]

Hey, hey, we're allowed to buy whatever we want here, right?! I want to take so much with me, all this pretty jewelry! I mean, surely we didn't get this pouch filled with gems for nothing, they're probably worth a lot!

[ That's when Minako eagerly opens her pouch to show it to the camera.. Only to reveal a single Rupee in it. ]

M-my money!! I've been cheated!

♥ codename: 003; video

2011-03-07T22:20:22Z

[ Guess what's on your video feed today, Demeleier. That's right, a Minako. Who is beaming as usually, but this time she actually has a good reason to. ~~Why yes, that might be a victorious smug grin on her face.~~ ]

Hah, finally some recognition for the goddess of love! [ She holds up a delicious piece of chocolate to the camera before putting it in her mouth. Yes, she's talking with her mouth full for a bit now. ] See, Karkat, I told you my way was going to work!

[ ... Oh, wait, you guys probably need context. Minako realises this and quickly pulls out the note again, reciting it to the camera with quite the dramatic tone. ]

'Congratulations, Minako! You were the cutest Cupid's Day participant, even with the weight of the least cutest participant trying to drag you down!' You can say that again.. But then again, a goddess of love's talent should be resourcefulness! Ahem. 'Therefore, I'm going to change the rules and award you this basket of sweets! You earned it!'

So, who's the Valentine's Day queen now? That's right, that's right, it's naturally me!

... Oh, it also said I don't have to share with you, Karkat, but if you're a good boy you can have one, okay? [ A wink as she ends the feed. ]

♥ codename: 002; action

2011-02-14T22:56:11Z

[ Good day, Demeleier.

Now listen. It doesn't matter where you are in the village. If you're male, even remotely teenager-like looking (although she might accept people looking a teensy bit older, LOVE KNOWS NO LIMITS IN AGE AFTER ALL!) you might feel some sort of presence. Watching you. Waiting to strike. Like a hungry predator on the loose but much worse. And it doesn't leave, not even when you walk on for quite some bit of time. It's still there. Lurking.

If you look around, you might spot a slight bit of blonde hair quickly disappearing behind anything nearby. A bush, a random building, anything. But it happens so quickly and it's such a small thing it might just be your imagination. Maybe. But you still can't shake off that feeling of being watched.

What do you do, male teenage-y population of Demeleier. What do you do. ]

( OoC: Minako will pounce out and attempt to steal the bumhat of the people replying, although she will fail. The only bumhat she will succesfully grab is Karkat's. But hey, feel free to jump in and watch her fail. )

♥ codename: 001; audio

2011-02-07T21:01:28Z

No way.. No way, no way, no way, no way!

[ Why yes, demeleier, there's a girl's voice blasting over the communicator. What is volume control. ]

You're kidding, right?! I defeated him, so why-- Don't tell me you're pulling one of those ridiculous video game mechanics where you think you've defeated the final boss but then another person pops up that you haven't even seen before in the game and they're just like, 'ahaha, you never guessed it, but he was only my pawn! I am the true final boss!' and then you have to do the battle all over again! [ She takes a deep breath after that run-on sentence rambling. ]

That's not how things work in real life, okay? This is just called cheating! I understand there was no way you could just face me head on without being defeated, so this is your cowardly strategy, right? Don't worry, I won't judge you for that last thing! I know it's hard to not immediately surrender to such a beautiful and strong girl, but you could at least do things fairly!

Trying to trick innocent girls into thinking they've defeated the 'final boss' just to do this to them, there's no way I will stand for such a thing! The beautiful sailor suited soldier of love and justice, Sailor Venus! Codename: Sailor V! In the name of all girls who were heartbroken to find out they had to defeat yet another unexpected final boss in videogames, I will punish you!

[ There's a long silence after all of that nonsense. Enough to make one wonder if the feed isn't over already, but then she speaks up with a bit softer (actually on a more normal volume) voice. ]

... You know, it's at least proper courtesy to come out after I did the whole speech thing.

ooc ♀ profile for demeleier

2011-02-01T21:01:17Z

Player Name: Jelle
Player LJ: nagareboshihe
Contact: Lunixhime [AIM] | Jellegirl@home.nl [EMAIL]
Character Number: Six.

Character: Aino Minako / Sailor V
Fandom: Sailor Moon / Codename wa Sailor V (spinoff/prequel to the Sailor Moon series)

Personality: Minako is a person who has two entirely different sides to her and can, at times, switch between the two as if it's nothing. The first side and the side that people see or notice more easily is the hyper ditz inside her. Whenever Minako is somewhere it's pretty noticable for everyone: she talks, rambles, performs melodrama all on her own, fangirls over cute boys and true love and sometimes even overrules every other opinion with her own. Especially the boys are a big part of this, there's barely a time where she isn't talking about, thinking of or fangirling over boys. Minako's a very romantic person - the self-proclaimed 'goddess of love' - and always in search of her first love, even though she has already liked dozens of boys before that 'first love'. Sometimes it may seem like she has no moral sense (At one point in the series she goes on a date with two different boys at the same time and ends up running through town to be able to date them at the same time. Whenever someone tries to tell her that two-timing isn't exactly a good thing during that episode she practically refuses to listen.) but her heart really is in the right place. In fact, she often actually stands up for rights for girls. It's just that she seems to lose her mind easily once she gets fired up. Once Minako has a goal in mind it'll take a great deal to stop her.

But she isn't just a boy-crazy hyper machine. Even though it's hard to tell at times Minako has matured a great deal on her own, because she spent quite a while fighting on her own by now and even experienced deeply falling in love and accepting that that love isn't always meant to be. This maturity often goes hidden behind her ditzy appearance, but once she needs to get down to business Minako really takes things seriously and tries her best. She's is the leader of the four senshi who protect the princess and even though she only recently recalled it, she takes it very seriously. She refuses to leave people of a group behind when there's still a chance to save everyone (as demonstrated later on in canon when she walked back to save Sailor Pluto at the beginning of Stars) but also knows to be realistic when that's not possible (as demonstrated by the ending of the first season, when one by one the senshi sacrifice themselves for Sailor Moon). She's kind and deeply loyal to the people she cares about and would give anything for them - including her life.

But as confident as she seems while in her ditz mode, Minako actually has a great deal of insecurities. In fact, most of the time when there's an episode or manga arc centered about her it's about her being insecure about something-- her power, her leadership ability, her duty as a senshi conflicting with her dreams. She just doesn't show it openly most of the time and when she does she only shares it with the people closest to her - preferably Artemis. Minako is a person who is very passionate about her dreams and that's why she often gets into conflict about exactly which one of her dreams she should persue; often it's a choice between her duty as a senshi and one of her other dreams, like getting a boyfriend or becoming an idol. Outwardly Minako will not easily show this doubt and instead attempt to heavily persue both.

Minako tends to get low grades at school, not exactly because she's very dumb but most likely because she just thinks she has better things (boy chasing, karaoke, etc.) to do than studying. She isn't a very lazy person, considering she does spend the time ignoring homework by doing many activities, but can show signs of it at times. She and Usagi often end up being make-up test or detention partners. She also has a habit of screwing up proverbs constantly. Minako loves physical activities, especially sports, though; she's is very athletic (an aftereffect of her career as Sailor V, but also partially naturally) and especially loves volleyball, which she is pretty good at. In some ways she could be seen as a very girly-girl though, especially when it comes down to her looks and boys.

History: A long, long time ago, the Earth wasn't the only populated planet. All planets had their own kingdoms united in the Silver Millennium, with the most important ones being the Earth and Moon kingdoms. For the small Moon Kingdom held the most powerful source of power; the Ginzuishou or Silver Crystal, which was linked to the moon's royal line. All the other planets had a sailor soldier/sailor senshi connected to them. The job of the senshi of the four 'inner' planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter) was to protect the moon's princess, Princess Serenity, and the four senshi of the 'outer' planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) were to protect the solar system from intruders from outside.

But the threat to the long-lasting peace came from the inside. Contact between the Earth and Moon kingdoms was strictly forbidden, but the curious moon princess couldn't help herself and often snuck down to Earth to admire the planet's beauty, even ignoring her senshi's warnings while doing so. And it wasn't just the beautiful planet she fell in love with, but also the planet's beautiful crown prince, Prince Endymion. And he fell in love with her too. A forbidden love.

This still wouldn't have been too big of a problem if it weren't for one of the Earth Kingdom palace's maids, Beryl, who was also in love with the prince. When she in all her jealousy encountered the demon Metallia sealed away in the Earth she set the demon free and put the people of the Earth up against the people of the Moon, causing a huge war between the planet and its moon. Prince Endymion tried to protect Serenity, but was struck down while protecting her. Princess Serenity in grief took her own life. As Queen Serenity can't bear to watch all of this any longer she uses the power of the Ginzuishou to send the prince, princess and all the senshi into the future to be reborn and live a happy life this time.

Sailor Venus is reborn as a cheery melo-dramatic girl, Aino Minako, without any knowledge of her past life. In fact, Minako lives an ordinairy life until the moment she meets Artemis - one of the cat advisors of the Moon Kingdom who was also sent into the future by Queen Serenity. He tells her that she's actually the sailor suited soldier of love and justice, Sailor V, who has to fight against enemies sent by the Dark Agency (later revealed to be a subsection of the Dark Kingdom, the reborn enemies of the Moon Kingdom lead by Metallia) and gives her a pen to transform with. From that point on the series follows a sort of monster-of-the-day structure; in every chapter a villain from the Dark Agency appears with a (sometimes ridiculous) plot to steal energy from humans and Sailor V has to defeat them.

Sailor V becomes quite famous (they even make a video game about her), but at a certain point a rival to Sailor V appears - Kaitou Ace, a pretty young man who also fights the enemy and sometimes jumps in at the critical moments to save Sailor V. Now most girls fangirl Kaitou Ace rather than Sailor V, Minako herself included at times. In the end Minako wins a contest and is allowed to star as the female lead in a movie in which Kaitou Ace himself is the male lead. But during the filming he reveals to Minako that he's actually Danburite, the leader of the Dark Agency. In their past life he was Adonis, a foot soldier from the planet Venus. He fell in love with Sailor Venus, but since she was of a much higher rank she was unreachable for him. He died in the battle between the Earth and Moon kingdoms, but was reincarnated like the others and then became the leader of the Dark Agency, Danburite. He attacks Minako, but she defeats him as Sailor V. Before he vanishes away, he tells her one last thing, one last fortune; that her love will be hopeless for all eternity. But he actually means it as a good thing, it means that she won't have to make the ultimate choice between love and duty. ("Your fate is to continue fighting.")

After this battle Minako regains the memories of her past life, her allies and most importantly the princess she needs to protect. She decides to head off to Tokyo to find her allies.

Minako will be taken from the moment of this decision, right at the aftermath of the battle with Kaitou Ace. Even though she remembers her past life as Sailor Venus, she will still refer to herself as Sailor V since she hasn't picked up the role of Sailor Venus once again yet.

Abilities: Even though Minako doesn't have much physical strength (about the average you'd expect out of a girl her age), she is pretty athletic and agile, easily jumping all over the please with little difficulties. She's particularly good at volleyball and is pretty good at singing as well.

When Minako holds up her transformation pen and shouts 'Moon Power, Transform' she transforms into Sailor V. As Sailor V she often shouts her attacks out loud, even physical attacks. Canon examples of this are Sailor V Kick, Sailor V Chop, Rolling Screw Sailor V Punch, V-chan Rub Out Sailor V Chop and Venus Iron Muscle Punch, which are all pretty straightforward except that some of them are just heavily fancy named.

Aside from that she also has magical attacks in her Sailor V form. For those attacks she has to use her compact. Her compact has to be charged by lying in the moonlight each night, otherwise the magical attacks she uses with it won't work at all (so forgetting to charge it definitely is a Big Deal). Using her compact she can form a powerful light beam that will hit the enemy, this attack is called 'Crescent Beam'. (Although Minako creatively adlibs the attack name on certain occasions.) She sometimes also just throws the compact to cut the enemy, 'Crescent Boomerang'. She's also shown using the attack 'Venus Power, Crescent Shower of Love' with the compact, causing a 'rain of light' to fall down with purifying properties. The compact can also be used for other purposes, for example it shows a person's true form when they are reflected in it. (For example, Minako always shows up as Sailor V in it even when she's untransformed and monsters disguised as humans show up as their monster forms.) She can also disguise herself using it with the phrase 'Crescent Moon Power, Transform', although the disguises are restricted to roles or jobs rather than specific people. (For example a maid, a policewoman etc.)

Link to an image of the character: Minako ♥ Sailor V

Sample writing: (ooc note: the setting for this sample is Adstringendum - it's the sample used in my application for adstringendum but slightly edited to suit the earlier canon point.)

Suddenly it was quiet. Compared to all the battle chaos from just a moment ago, it was too quiet. She glanced around her quickly, but this place didn't even look like China. It looked more like an apocalyptic version of the Chinese city (or any random city, really), the way it might have ended up looking if the Dark Agency would have won. And it was so quiet, so empty and she was alone. In the spots where Artemis had stood only a few seconds ago there were only a few rocks. And Kaitou Ace wasn't there. But then again, she recalled, he had disappeared into nothing just a bit before the scenery change.

A vanquished enemy. If he was a defeated enemy, then.. why did it somehow still hurt?

It wasn't until then that Sailor V realised she needed to breathe out after that initial shock and so she slowly did. Her mind franctically sought for an answer to this sudden change and as much as she told herself to not panic it did seem like a solid option for now. But maybe it was all some sort of last minute trick by the Dark Agency, by a some sort of surprise bonus boss even higher ranked than Kaitou Ace, (that happened all the time in games, right?) a trick that seperated her from Artemis and put her in this wasteland.

And she knew. She was supposed to be the leader in protecting the princess, she was supposed to be the one who would go to Tokyo to round up all the other senshi and protect the princess together, she had to lead them all and yet.. she couldn't do anything.

She started to feel her heart pounding in her throat. And it definitely wasn't the good romance kind of heart throbbing she would have much rather felt than this anxious feeling.

Slowly determination rose to her face, she was going to find some way through this no matter what she would have to do. Sailor V was about to run off to at least observe this new place a bit more to find out more about it, a habit she had learned during her earlier Sailor V days, when she discovered the device lying next to her on a rock. She decided trying to contact anyone might be a good first step instead.

... Okay, and maybe she just wanted to use the device because it looked sort of cool and technologically advanced. But that was honestly just a secondary reason! This 'technologically advanced' part was in fact what caused the initial trouble, as she pressed a few random buttons and managed to get nothing but a loud beeping sound out of it. This only got her more irritated and she took it out on the device by pressing the buttons harder and shaking it around a bit, only this time it actually started recording her.

Sample journal entry: A post by my other Minako at adstringendum.

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