ooc; minako empatheias app

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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Jelle
Contact: queeningsquare | aim: Lunixhime | email: queeningsquare[at]gmail[dot]com
Age: 22
Current Characters: n/a


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Minako Aino (Sailor Venus)
Age: 16
Canon: Sailor Moon
Canon Point: Post-canon, but from before the skip to the wedding scene at the end of the manga.

Background: series, character. there's also this and this for good measure. as a note, i'll be taking her from the manga!

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 around that she's present: she talks, rambles, has way over the top melodramatic reactions, fangirls over cute boys and true love and sometimes even overrules every other opinion with her own. She seems seriously confident and doesn't even seem to feel any shame about boasting about herself whenever she can, no matter whether it's about her looks or any other aspect of herself. Especially boys are a big part of this side of her, 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'. It goes up to a point where you might even just call her a hopeless romantic. Sometimes it may seem like she has no sense of morality when she's in the middle of one of her over the top moods (sneaking into another school, which may or may not be the actual enemy base, just to see a concert without paying seems a-okay to her for example) but her heart really is in the right place. In fact, she often actually stands up for girls, considering the enemy's plans especially in the early series often involve deceiving girls, and people in general when she fights the monsters in the series. The main problem is 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. Crossing moral borders (like sneaking into concerts without paying as described above) isn't a problem either in that case, although she would definitely hesitate at offenses bigger than that. Minako would never hurt someone innocent in her full mind.

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. What was said above applies in this case too: Minako is very stubborn and will keep on going when she has a goal in mind no matter what, even in more serious situations. You won't see her back down easily in a fight. After all, she's is the leader of the four senshi who protect the princess and she takes this job very seriously. You can definitely notice whenever she gets more serious and goes into some sort of leader mode - she is actually a pretty good leader when it comes down to it. She refuses to leave parts of a group behind when there's still a chance to save everyone (as demonstrated in the anime 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 shown near the end of the first arc of the manga; she knows that the only way left for them to help their princess is by sacrificing their own lives and is ultimately the one who suggests it to the other three). 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. She often even tries to hide it from the other senshi, perhaps to not show her weakness since she's supposed to be the leader. 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, but inwardly she always has trouble with that sort of thing. It has to be said though that by this point in canon she has already made up her mind for the most part: she's fully dedicating herself to her role as a sailor senshi, even if she might pretend on the outside that she's still aiming for all her goals. But Minako knows she won't have time to become an idol or a movie star when she has to keep fighting and protect her princess, and she's already been told that her love life will be hopeless for all eternity just so she can keep on fighting no matter what. It's sort of a sad kind of resolution, but it's Minako's chosen path. Her whole duty as a leader is often a big cause of worry for her as well, since she constantly worries about not being good enough as a leader. This is mainly demonstrated in the Dreams arc of the manga, in which everyone was able to reach their powered up forms but her and she can't help but doubt her own capabilities in her thoughts. She can even worry about the things she usually seems most confident about, like her looks or her personality or even her ability to attract boys. In one of the bonus manga chapters - Rei and Minako's School Battle - she keeps comparing herself to Rei, who is hailed by all as a dignified and beautiful girl, and next to her Minako seems much more childish, clumsy, unrefined and ditzy. Eventually when Rei tells her that she's so dirty (after Minako managed to get herself all dirty through a clumsy action), Minako snaps and yells "Unlike you, I guess I'm.. just a scummy girl!" It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say her overconfidence on the outside is mostly overcompensation or false bravado.

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 in general, considering she does spend the time ignoring homework by doing many activities, but when it comes down to things she doesn't want to do or doesn't like, like homework, she turns into a complete bum. She and Usagi often end up being make-up test or detention partners at school. She also has a habit of screwing up proverbs constantly ("beggers will be choosers!") that might make other people think she's not the brightest, although it's more of a quirk. Minako loves physical activities, especially sports, though; she's is very athletic (an after effect of her career as Sailor V, but also partially naturally) and especially loves volleyball, which she is pretty good at. It would be a stretch to place her in some sort of stereotypical tomboy category because of it since she's actually very much a girly girl with her constant obsessions over looks and boys.

Abilities: Aside from being fairly fit and good athletically (perhaps the most so out of all the five inner senshi, she's shown to be very agile and good at sports) from her time as Sailor V and then continued as Sailor Venus, Minako also has special powers as Sailor Venus. She gains her power from the planet Venus, and this already gives away what most of her powers are about. The planet is named after the Roman goddess of love, after all, so most of Minako's attacks are love- or light-based. When she transforms into Sailor Venus she is able to perform these attacks. To give a few examples - 'Crescent Beam', in which she shoots a beam of light at the enemy, would be a light-based attack and 'Rolling Heart Vibration' would be an example of a love-based attack, in which she fires some sort of heart-like energy blast at the enemy. (For a complete list of the attacks, they're all listed right here from Crescent Boomerang to Venus Love and Beauty Shock! It has to be noted that she's more likely to use the later attacks like Venus Love and Beauty Shock more over the earlier ones, since.. power levels.. apparently even magical girl series do those..) She's shown to be able to fight with either a sword (as the leader of the sailor senshi who protect the princess) or a chain/whip in this form as well.

Other: n/a!


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
First Person Sample: Here!

You can generally find stuff I've done with her before here if you require more. And for a good example of her more serious side you can look here, although there's warnings for blood and violence in that last link.

Third Person Sample:

Okay, so this place? It actually isn't all that bad to Minako. After fighting evil for so many years in a row, she certainly can think of worse places to end up in. That doesn't mean she's entirely let down her guard - despite her ditzy exterior, she's not that stupid - since being stuck in some random place that doesn't look a single thing like the Tokyo she left behind just smells like something suspicious. Especially if no one whatsoever seems to know just how exactly they got here to begin with.

But rather than investigating it thoroughly right off the bat, Minako's decided to take it easy and get used to her new surroundings first, if not just for a little while. Maybe it's since she figures she won't gain anything that other people haven't already learned, considering she's not exactly the first person to arrive here. It's a little frustrating, but Minako likes to think she's pretty good at hiding it.

(Less so in the kind of place that occasionally makes small thunder clouds pop up whenever she hits another road block while trying to ask anything about.. well, any of the circumstances of their arrival, really. But maybe she hasn't entirely noticed it yet herself.)

Instead she just idly wanders the streets of the city, her fingers idly moving across the surface of the amulet as she looks around. This place really is different than Tokyo in pretty much every way - if not just for the technology. She's used to streets full of buzzing cars, not.. well, this. Whatever it is. Ami would probably be a lot more useful in trying to tell what time period this even is trying to be, if it's even a time period at all. Even time travel would be easier to explain than this place (if not just for the fact that she's done it before.)

But it also brings along one of the more mundane concerns of Minako's life. For example when she's standing at one of the storefronts, staring inside with the most miserable look on her face. Not that there's anything particularly upsetting about the store itself, but--

"How am I going to keep up with the newest idol CD releases now..?"

Life is hard when you're a dedicated idol chaser yet also a soldier of love and justice, okay! Combining the two is usually a hobby that's tough on her time, but in this place it's even worse - do they even have CDs in a world with this kind of technology?

.. Wait. Hold up, do they even have idols to begin with?!

"N-.. no way!" Even if she's just talking to herself (and probably making the heads of some of the people passing by turn because of it) Minako doesn't really seem to care she's making a spectacle of herself here. "How am I supposed to live without that, huh?! It's one of the natural things that sustains the goddess of love and beauty!"

But just as she opens her mouth to continue whining about her misery, she suddenly feels a drop.

Minako pauses. And looks up. And that's when she notices the droopy rainclouds forming above her head. And more importantly, the fact that they're starting to drip more and more until it's raining right on her head..

"W.. wait! No, you can't do this to me?! Won't you think about my hair?!" Because that sure is getting wet with the rain pouring down on her now, yes. "I'm too young and cute to end up with a bad hair day on the middle of the street..!"

At least it meant everyone passing by on that street sure had a sight to see, with a blonde girl wildly running down the street while flailing her arms at the clouds in an attempt to get them to disperse..

Questions: nope, nothing!