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incousinswithyou) wrote2015-10-05 12:57 am
incousinswithyou) wrote2015-10-05 12:57 am
Drift Fleet Application
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Other characters: Pearl from Steven Universe
IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Michiru Kaioh
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Series name: Sailor Moon
Canon notes: Post anime
Species: Human
History:
Michiru was born into a rich family and is prodigiously gifted in art and music. Sometime in middle school, she had premonitions of the end of the world and reawakened as Sailor Neptune – or vice versa. Either way, the vision urged her to find the Talismans, which would lead to the Holy Grail, which would then enable the Messiah to save the world from silence. Additionally, it told her that the person who would help her do all this was one Tenoh Haruka, as she would later discover. Before she learned her partner was destined to be Haruka, she had already developed a major crush on her; the realization made her both joyful that Haruka was “the one” and miserable because Haruka was the one person she didn’t want to walk the same path she did. In taking up the duties of a Sailor Senshi, she had to give up her dreams of being a violinist and be forever fearful that she would have to take a life. For example, stopping monsters from attacking other people ran the risk of killing the person the monster used to be. In the end, Haruka was persuaded to join the quest to save the world. The burden that they would have to kill (at least) three innocents hung over them for much of their story arc because the three Talismans were hidden in pure hearts – removing the Talisman would mean the death of the pure individual.
For about half the season, they let the villains do the dirty work of removing pure hearts from the victim of the week and then they would swoop in and examine the hearts for themselves. This led to disagreements with Sailor Moon and the Inner Senshi, who were a lot more idealistic than Haruka and Michiru and insisted that sacrificing an innocent is no way to save the world. Haruka and Michiru, on the other hand, decided that the Inner Senshi were unwilling to bloody their hands for the sake of the world and therefore, they would be better off not working together. What’s one person compared to the entire world, after all? They wrung their hands a lot over this for a bunch of episodes, but they usually ended up reaffirming their willingness to sacrifice innocent people.
So it was kind of funny when they finally learned that they themselves were carrying the Talismans. Michiru got herself killed and her pure heart/Talisman ripped out while trying to save Haruka. Haruka ripped out her own Talisman shortly thereafter, leaving it all to Sailor Moon. Then, magically, they came back to life becausemagical girl show their hearts could be extricated from the Talismans. The Holy Grail got summoned, and Sailor Moon incompletely tapped into some of the Grail’s powers, which led Michiru, Haruka, and Pluto – the Outer Senshi – to believe that they still had to search for the Messiah because there’s no way the person who’s going to save them all could possibly be the titular character of the show. They spent a few episodes doing that until they learned that the villains were trying to revive the Messiah of Silence, upon which they decide they must kill her before she’s reborn. This led to yet another fight with the Inner Senshi because the Messiah of Silence was currently an innocent girl. Ultimately, the Anti-Messiah got revived, Haruka and Michiru’s practicability was ultimately useless against the love and idealism of shoujo anime Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon saved the day, nobody had to die, Haruka and Michiru accepted that idealism isn’t exactly a weakness (maybe), and accepted Sailor Moon as their Princess and future Queen.
The next season, they don’t show up at all, probably because they’re off honeymooning.
When they finally reappeared in the last season, they deal with intruders from outside the solar system – which is basically one of the big responsibilities they have and it’s something they’re sticklers about. We learn that planets in other stars have senshi too and that the strongest senshi in the galaxy is the aptly named Sailor Galaxia. The senshi have fought a never ending war against Chaos until Galaxia finally sealed Chaos inside her body – which turned out to be a bad idea because it’s corrupting her from the inside. She sent out her Star Seed (the Super Special Thing the villains are trying to collect this season) to “a rural planet” – AKA Earth. How convenient. Anyway, Evil Galaxia started to take over the galaxy, destroying planets and reaping Star Seeds/killing people. This sent refugees (the Starlights) to Earth, where they spent a lot of time trying to find their Princess and the fabled Light of Hope. As luck would have it, the Starlights started making friends with the Inners. The Outers were significantly less pleased with this display of friendship because the Starlights are intruders (!!!) and therefore cannot be trusted. The situation escalated Galaxia finally showed up/the season had to end and she kinda exploded Tokyo. Because they’re supposed to be the stronger senshi, the Outers went in together to face down Galaxia. After a few failed attacks and getting beaten up, Michiru and Haruka decided to fake-defect and gained a power up, Star-Seed-reaping abilities, and a brainwashing or two. In order to prove their loyalty, they took the Star Seeds of the other Outers, and then they attacked Sailor Moon and company. When Galaxia ordered them to finally take their Star Seeds, they showed that they couldn’t be mind-controlled and turned around to take Galaxia’s Star Seed. But surprise! Galaxia didn’t have a Star Seed!! So their plan failed and then they died. They get better afterwards when Sailor Moon beats Galaxia with love and friendship.
Personality:
Michiru presents herself to the world exactly how she would like to be viewed. She’s a gifted, knowledgeable, polite, well-bred young woman and above all, she is elegant, mature, and perfect. Few people would question it – after all, she’s a famous violinist and artist, a student of an elite school, and the very definition of dignity and femininity. Of course, she can be charming when she wants to be and makes acquaintances easily enough.
It’s difficult, however, for her to find an equal who could capture both her attention and her respect. Among the Inner Senshi, Michiru finds an equal in Ami when it comes to swimming. Heck, she immediately challenged Ami to a race and was passive aggressively incensed when she realized that Ami had thrown the race so they would tie. Although still extremely polite, Michiru’s voice had gotten downright cold when she asked Ami if she had thrown the race because she thought Michiru wouldn’t have been able to handle a loss. As we can see, Michiru refuses to allow anybody to pity her or to look down on her – even if I find it highly unlikely that she would’ve been happy losing the race. Hurt, Ami ran off before the accusations leveled at her, which caused Michiru to reevaluate the situation a little. While she was certainly annoyed that Ami hadn’t taken the race (and therefore Michiru herself) seriously, she seemed genuinely surprised when Ami ran away almost in tears. She knew Ami was capable of giving her a real fight and she wanted that challenge. To fix it (and to assuage her guilt that she had made somebody cry), she got Haruka to bring Ami back for a rematch – while she herself obtained a more hydrodynamic swimsuit (i.e. one without ruffles), got rid of all unnecessary baubles, and tied her hair up. Ami showed up with something to prove and this time, both of them gave their all and still tied. However, this time, they were both happily exhausted and each had found a newfound respect for the other.
So while she’s still polite, elegant, and charming for the most part, she won’t hesitate to show her displeasure, whether it is in the form of cold disdain or actual anger. Additionally, the sass and the sarcasm (as well as the perfectly bland, deviously pointed questions) are all rolled up in the well-mannered epitome of elegance and contradictions that is Michiru. Of course, the teasing is generally reserved for people who she actually likes and knows.
Michiru’s main motivation is Haruka. While her duty as a sailor senshi is a close second, it (almost) invariably loses out if Haruka is in danger. She’s perfectly fine with sacrificing herself if necessary, but sacrificing or abandoning Haruka for the sake of the greater good is just not going to happen. When she first met Haruka, she wanted the other woman to help her in saving the world, but was rejected. As such, when a monster attacked Haruka, Michiru tried to stop the other woman from taking hold of her transformation wand and thereby becoming Sailor Uranus – even though she knew that the best chance they had of saving the world was if the both of them worked together. Instead, she told Haruka not to do it because she knew that the duties of a senshi were a terrible burden and that Haruka had already expressed no desire to give everything up to save the world. Still, she persisted in trying to deter Haruka by defeating the monster herself. Complications arose when Haruka objected to hurting the monster because it used to be a human being. At this moment, the practical side of Michiru came into full force – she will not hesitate to attack this monster and risk taking on the burden of taking a human life because if she did not do so, then even more people will be hurt. Similarly, she will use whatever means necessary to save the world because there is nothing worse than that particular calamity. And then she immediately throws all that to the wind as she shoves Haruka out of the way of the attacking monster and takes a blow meant for the other woman. Michiru herself could have been hurt and then there wouldn't have been anybody else to stop the monster.
Michiru says all these things about practicality and using any means necessary and how important this duty is to them, but her actions show a different story as soon as Haruka’s well-being is out of alignment with their mission. For example, throughout their story arc, they swear to each other that they wouldn’t risk their lives to save the other because the mission was paramount to everything else, including their own personal feelings; whoever survived would continue to search for the Talismans. Even though half the time it’s Michiru drilling this plan into Haruka, she absolutely does not hesitate to throw herself into harm’s way as soon as Haruka is in danger. If anything, Michiru probably elicited the promise from Haruka in order to keep her safe, but had no intention of keeping it herself.
Her unhealthy co-dependency aside, Michiru’s practicality is at odds with her ideals – as well as with the themes of love, trust, and friendship that make up the anime. Although they loudly proclaim that they will do whatever is necessary to save the world, even if they bloody their hands, they spend a good amount of time agonizing over how they don’t actually want to kill anybody. They will do it because it’s practical and makes perfect sense and because nobody else is willing to do such a thing to save the world. Their commitment to their mission becomes harder and harder as they grow closer to the Inner Senshi (in civilian form) and have to stand by and watch as the girls each in turn become the Victim of the Week. While they might perversely hope that the other girls don’t have Talismans hidden in their hearts, they still remained devoted and sometimes even lured the girls into a vulnerable state for an enemy attack.
In regards to how she grows throughout the anime, this is rather evident in her relationships with other people as well as in her priorities. Before the show started, she was an enormously talented girl but had no real friends. Although she was aware of Haruka and had developed a major crush on her, they probably would not have become partners – with the implicit trust and dependence that come along with it – if not for the whole “saving the world” business. This led to meeting the Inner Senshi and through the trials of friendship and fighting evil alien overlords, they manage to become friends, to care for each other to some extent, and to work together (sometimes). Their contrasting ideologies get in the way, but Michiru grows fond of the Inners in her own way and would go out of her way to help them (sometimes). In particular, they definitely become much more invested in protecting their princess, Usagi – who is literally the epitome of love and friendship and impractical, idealistic plans.
Speaking of senshi, Michiru finds a family with the Outers – Hotaru, Haruka, and Setsuna (Pluto). The three of them agree to raise Hotaru together and maybe give her a semblance of a normal life. Even though all three of them were doing everything they can to kill Hotaru to stop the world from exploding, they turn right around and take her in when she was reborn. We see Michiru’s strong maternal streak in her interactions with Hotaru and really, it just shows how Michiru is divided by what she perceives as duty and by the idealism and care that can’t possibly have a place in this world and yet is inherent in herself (deep down somewhere under all the snark).
Michiru’s relationship with Haruka also shifts subtly. For one thing, their flirting gets a lot less subtle and their interactions with the others are much less tense now that they’re no longer constantly worrying about how they will have to kill somebody. For another, Michiru has moved on from the mindset that “everything can go to hell as long as Haruka is alright” to one in which “everything will be fine as long as the two of them are together.”
The growth she shows in terms of the meaningful relationships she develops is a far cry from the loneliness she shows pre-anime. But even with the newfound family she has, she’s still willing to sacrifice them, including herself and Haruka (as long as they’re together), if it’s to carry out her duties as a senshi and to protect the princess.
TL;DR Michiru is a tease and a giant bundle of contradictions.
Abilities:
In her civilian form, Michiru is an famously talented violinist and artist and is also an extremely good swimmer. Her intuition is certainly much more reliable than that of ordinary people and in fact, would warn her of tumultuous events on the horizon. This ranges from the usual “the sea is stormy” premonition regarding the Monster of the Week to the all encompassing vision about the end of the world.
As Sailor Neptune, Michiru keeps her sense of intuition and gains a couple of attacks and probably a few physical boosts as well. She certainly has greater than average agility, speed, strength, and durability. Also people can’t figure out who she is because those tiaras are amazing disguises. Her attacks are:
Deep Submerge: an attack akin to shoving the concentrated power of the ocean/tsunami into a glowy magical orb and chucking it at people.
Submarine Reflection: an attack using the Deep Aqua Mirror Talisman.
Additionally, her Talisman, the Deep Aqua Mirror, is available in both civilian and Senshi form. It looks like an elaborate hand mirror, but it can attack things, destroy false illusions, uncover weak points in the enemy, and summon the Holy Grail when used in conjunction with the other two Talismans. When she’s not using it to attack, she uses it to scry for enemies or danger.
For the purposes of Drift Fleet, she’ll be keeping her mirror, but she won’t be able to access the Submarine Reflection attack. She can still scry and uncover illusions and weak points, but no attacking with the mirror.
Augment Skillset:
Personnel: Ostensibly a music/art therapist.
Sample:
Drift Fleet test drive
Name/Handle: C
Contact:
Reference: N/A
Other characters: Pearl from Steven Universe
IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Michiru Kaioh
Character journal:
incousinswithyouSeries name: Sailor Moon
Canon notes: Post anime
Species: Human
History:
Michiru was born into a rich family and is prodigiously gifted in art and music. Sometime in middle school, she had premonitions of the end of the world and reawakened as Sailor Neptune – or vice versa. Either way, the vision urged her to find the Talismans, which would lead to the Holy Grail, which would then enable the Messiah to save the world from silence. Additionally, it told her that the person who would help her do all this was one Tenoh Haruka, as she would later discover. Before she learned her partner was destined to be Haruka, she had already developed a major crush on her; the realization made her both joyful that Haruka was “the one” and miserable because Haruka was the one person she didn’t want to walk the same path she did. In taking up the duties of a Sailor Senshi, she had to give up her dreams of being a violinist and be forever fearful that she would have to take a life. For example, stopping monsters from attacking other people ran the risk of killing the person the monster used to be. In the end, Haruka was persuaded to join the quest to save the world. The burden that they would have to kill (at least) three innocents hung over them for much of their story arc because the three Talismans were hidden in pure hearts – removing the Talisman would mean the death of the pure individual.
For about half the season, they let the villains do the dirty work of removing pure hearts from the victim of the week and then they would swoop in and examine the hearts for themselves. This led to disagreements with Sailor Moon and the Inner Senshi, who were a lot more idealistic than Haruka and Michiru and insisted that sacrificing an innocent is no way to save the world. Haruka and Michiru, on the other hand, decided that the Inner Senshi were unwilling to bloody their hands for the sake of the world and therefore, they would be better off not working together. What’s one person compared to the entire world, after all? They wrung their hands a lot over this for a bunch of episodes, but they usually ended up reaffirming their willingness to sacrifice innocent people.
So it was kind of funny when they finally learned that they themselves were carrying the Talismans. Michiru got herself killed and her pure heart/Talisman ripped out while trying to save Haruka. Haruka ripped out her own Talisman shortly thereafter, leaving it all to Sailor Moon. Then, magically, they came back to life because
The next season, they don’t show up at all, probably because they’re off honeymooning.
When they finally reappeared in the last season, they deal with intruders from outside the solar system – which is basically one of the big responsibilities they have and it’s something they’re sticklers about. We learn that planets in other stars have senshi too and that the strongest senshi in the galaxy is the aptly named Sailor Galaxia. The senshi have fought a never ending war against Chaos until Galaxia finally sealed Chaos inside her body – which turned out to be a bad idea because it’s corrupting her from the inside. She sent out her Star Seed (the Super Special Thing the villains are trying to collect this season) to “a rural planet” – AKA Earth. How convenient. Anyway, Evil Galaxia started to take over the galaxy, destroying planets and reaping Star Seeds/killing people. This sent refugees (the Starlights) to Earth, where they spent a lot of time trying to find their Princess and the fabled Light of Hope. As luck would have it, the Starlights started making friends with the Inners. The Outers were significantly less pleased with this display of friendship because the Starlights are intruders (!!!) and therefore cannot be trusted. The situation escalated Galaxia finally showed up/the season had to end and she kinda exploded Tokyo. Because they’re supposed to be the stronger senshi, the Outers went in together to face down Galaxia. After a few failed attacks and getting beaten up, Michiru and Haruka decided to fake-defect and gained a power up, Star-Seed-reaping abilities, and a brainwashing or two. In order to prove their loyalty, they took the Star Seeds of the other Outers, and then they attacked Sailor Moon and company. When Galaxia ordered them to finally take their Star Seeds, they showed that they couldn’t be mind-controlled and turned around to take Galaxia’s Star Seed. But surprise! Galaxia didn’t have a Star Seed!! So their plan failed and then they died. They get better afterwards when Sailor Moon beats Galaxia with love and friendship.
Personality:
Michiru presents herself to the world exactly how she would like to be viewed. She’s a gifted, knowledgeable, polite, well-bred young woman and above all, she is elegant, mature, and perfect. Few people would question it – after all, she’s a famous violinist and artist, a student of an elite school, and the very definition of dignity and femininity. Of course, she can be charming when she wants to be and makes acquaintances easily enough.
It’s difficult, however, for her to find an equal who could capture both her attention and her respect. Among the Inner Senshi, Michiru finds an equal in Ami when it comes to swimming. Heck, she immediately challenged Ami to a race and was passive aggressively incensed when she realized that Ami had thrown the race so they would tie. Although still extremely polite, Michiru’s voice had gotten downright cold when she asked Ami if she had thrown the race because she thought Michiru wouldn’t have been able to handle a loss. As we can see, Michiru refuses to allow anybody to pity her or to look down on her – even if I find it highly unlikely that she would’ve been happy losing the race. Hurt, Ami ran off before the accusations leveled at her, which caused Michiru to reevaluate the situation a little. While she was certainly annoyed that Ami hadn’t taken the race (and therefore Michiru herself) seriously, she seemed genuinely surprised when Ami ran away almost in tears. She knew Ami was capable of giving her a real fight and she wanted that challenge. To fix it (and to assuage her guilt that she had made somebody cry), she got Haruka to bring Ami back for a rematch – while she herself obtained a more hydrodynamic swimsuit (i.e. one without ruffles), got rid of all unnecessary baubles, and tied her hair up. Ami showed up with something to prove and this time, both of them gave their all and still tied. However, this time, they were both happily exhausted and each had found a newfound respect for the other.
So while she’s still polite, elegant, and charming for the most part, she won’t hesitate to show her displeasure, whether it is in the form of cold disdain or actual anger. Additionally, the sass and the sarcasm (as well as the perfectly bland, deviously pointed questions) are all rolled up in the well-mannered epitome of elegance and contradictions that is Michiru. Of course, the teasing is generally reserved for people who she actually likes and knows.
Michiru’s main motivation is Haruka. While her duty as a sailor senshi is a close second, it (almost) invariably loses out if Haruka is in danger. She’s perfectly fine with sacrificing herself if necessary, but sacrificing or abandoning Haruka for the sake of the greater good is just not going to happen. When she first met Haruka, she wanted the other woman to help her in saving the world, but was rejected. As such, when a monster attacked Haruka, Michiru tried to stop the other woman from taking hold of her transformation wand and thereby becoming Sailor Uranus – even though she knew that the best chance they had of saving the world was if the both of them worked together. Instead, she told Haruka not to do it because she knew that the duties of a senshi were a terrible burden and that Haruka had already expressed no desire to give everything up to save the world. Still, she persisted in trying to deter Haruka by defeating the monster herself. Complications arose when Haruka objected to hurting the monster because it used to be a human being. At this moment, the practical side of Michiru came into full force – she will not hesitate to attack this monster and risk taking on the burden of taking a human life because if she did not do so, then even more people will be hurt. Similarly, she will use whatever means necessary to save the world because there is nothing worse than that particular calamity. And then she immediately throws all that to the wind as she shoves Haruka out of the way of the attacking monster and takes a blow meant for the other woman. Michiru herself could have been hurt and then there wouldn't have been anybody else to stop the monster.
Michiru says all these things about practicality and using any means necessary and how important this duty is to them, but her actions show a different story as soon as Haruka’s well-being is out of alignment with their mission. For example, throughout their story arc, they swear to each other that they wouldn’t risk their lives to save the other because the mission was paramount to everything else, including their own personal feelings; whoever survived would continue to search for the Talismans. Even though half the time it’s Michiru drilling this plan into Haruka, she absolutely does not hesitate to throw herself into harm’s way as soon as Haruka is in danger. If anything, Michiru probably elicited the promise from Haruka in order to keep her safe, but had no intention of keeping it herself.
Her unhealthy co-dependency aside, Michiru’s practicality is at odds with her ideals – as well as with the themes of love, trust, and friendship that make up the anime. Although they loudly proclaim that they will do whatever is necessary to save the world, even if they bloody their hands, they spend a good amount of time agonizing over how they don’t actually want to kill anybody. They will do it because it’s practical and makes perfect sense and because nobody else is willing to do such a thing to save the world. Their commitment to their mission becomes harder and harder as they grow closer to the Inner Senshi (in civilian form) and have to stand by and watch as the girls each in turn become the Victim of the Week. While they might perversely hope that the other girls don’t have Talismans hidden in their hearts, they still remained devoted and sometimes even lured the girls into a vulnerable state for an enemy attack.
In regards to how she grows throughout the anime, this is rather evident in her relationships with other people as well as in her priorities. Before the show started, she was an enormously talented girl but had no real friends. Although she was aware of Haruka and had developed a major crush on her, they probably would not have become partners – with the implicit trust and dependence that come along with it – if not for the whole “saving the world” business. This led to meeting the Inner Senshi and through the trials of friendship and fighting evil alien overlords, they manage to become friends, to care for each other to some extent, and to work together (sometimes). Their contrasting ideologies get in the way, but Michiru grows fond of the Inners in her own way and would go out of her way to help them (sometimes). In particular, they definitely become much more invested in protecting their princess, Usagi – who is literally the epitome of love and friendship and impractical, idealistic plans.
Speaking of senshi, Michiru finds a family with the Outers – Hotaru, Haruka, and Setsuna (Pluto). The three of them agree to raise Hotaru together and maybe give her a semblance of a normal life. Even though all three of them were doing everything they can to kill Hotaru to stop the world from exploding, they turn right around and take her in when she was reborn. We see Michiru’s strong maternal streak in her interactions with Hotaru and really, it just shows how Michiru is divided by what she perceives as duty and by the idealism and care that can’t possibly have a place in this world and yet is inherent in herself (deep down somewhere under all the snark).
Michiru’s relationship with Haruka also shifts subtly. For one thing, their flirting gets a lot less subtle and their interactions with the others are much less tense now that they’re no longer constantly worrying about how they will have to kill somebody. For another, Michiru has moved on from the mindset that “everything can go to hell as long as Haruka is alright” to one in which “everything will be fine as long as the two of them are together.”
The growth she shows in terms of the meaningful relationships she develops is a far cry from the loneliness she shows pre-anime. But even with the newfound family she has, she’s still willing to sacrifice them, including herself and Haruka (as long as they’re together), if it’s to carry out her duties as a senshi and to protect the princess.
TL;DR Michiru is a tease and a giant bundle of contradictions.
Abilities:
In her civilian form, Michiru is an famously talented violinist and artist and is also an extremely good swimmer. Her intuition is certainly much more reliable than that of ordinary people and in fact, would warn her of tumultuous events on the horizon. This ranges from the usual “the sea is stormy” premonition regarding the Monster of the Week to the all encompassing vision about the end of the world.
As Sailor Neptune, Michiru keeps her sense of intuition and gains a couple of attacks and probably a few physical boosts as well. She certainly has greater than average agility, speed, strength, and durability. Also people can’t figure out who she is because those tiaras are amazing disguises. Her attacks are:
Deep Submerge: an attack akin to shoving the concentrated power of the ocean/tsunami into a glowy magical orb and chucking it at people.
Submarine Reflection: an attack using the Deep Aqua Mirror Talisman.
Additionally, her Talisman, the Deep Aqua Mirror, is available in both civilian and Senshi form. It looks like an elaborate hand mirror, but it can attack things, destroy false illusions, uncover weak points in the enemy, and summon the Holy Grail when used in conjunction with the other two Talismans. When she’s not using it to attack, she uses it to scry for enemies or danger.
For the purposes of Drift Fleet, she’ll be keeping her mirror, but she won’t be able to access the Submarine Reflection attack. She can still scry and uncover illusions and weak points, but no attacking with the mirror.
Augment Skillset:
Personnel: Ostensibly a music/art therapist.
Sample:
Drift Fleet test drive
Supplies in her personnel room
Construction paper
Crayons
Markers
Glue
Glitter
Paint brushes
Watercolor sets
Clay
Music
Violin (hands off!!!)
Acoustic guitar
Keyboard
Couple of plastic recorders
Small drum
Maracas
Tambourine
Triangle
Cowbell