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Current Characters: Rita Mordio, and depending on timing, an app either in-progress or submitted for Totori Helmold.
Character: Itsuki Myoudouin
Fandom: Heartcatch Precure!
Last edit: 11/7/12, updated canon point and added more history.
Character Notes:
History: Itsuki is a young woman with a totally unreasonable set of expectations. Her family runs an aikido dojo, and her older brother Satsuki is in line to succeed it. However, Satsuki is chronically ill, and is too weak to actually train. So Itsuki offered, at a young age, to take his place as the heir to the family style. Of course, as a girl she can't do that, so she decided to cast away her femininity for her brother's sake, and since she was little she's been living as a boy, training to succeed the dojo. Years have passed with this arrangement, and she's now in the spring of her second year of middle school, where she's the charismatic student council president everyone adores. Through her position atop the student council, she met Erika Kurumi, would-be president of the Fashion Club, and her would-be lieutenant Tsubomi Hanasaki. She liked their energy, and approved the paperwork they brought her, but she didn't really pay a whole lot of attention to them.
It was around this time that weird things started to happen in Kibougahana: things get damaged and subsequently repaired as if by magic; massive monsters appear, complain about issues in their lives, and then disappear; and two girls known as the Precure, Cure Blossom and Cure Marine, have become the hottest thing. While she monitored the situation as best she could, she was a little busy trying to keep the school from falling apart without her (and under the weight of the Precure rumors), so she didn't have the time to investigate herself. She did, at around the time the girls brought their paperwork by, have an odd dream that she turned into a monster, screaming about her insecurities regarding having to succeed the dojo and live as someone she wasn't; it ended just as suddenly when she was saved by the Precure, and Itsuki found herself starting to wish, just a little, that she could be someone like that.
As spring turns to summer, Itsuki finds herself considering her feminine side again, and ends up consulting the Fashion Club for advice; she ends up working out a clothing design and chooses the colors and fabric that will go into it, which she takes home to look over, though she of course can't show it to her grandfather. The next day, Tsubomi and Erika come to visit to actually complete the design, and they're able to finish the top she'd designed that day, instructing Itsuki on how to help with the process, teaching her how to cut and sew. The end result is a yellow top with a sunflower motif, one she ends up loving to wear whenever she gets a chance. Her brother sees her in it, and comments it's a good fit, and is happy she's getting back in touch with the real Itsuki, but her grandfather seems to disapprove, and she reminds herself she can't like both cute things and martial arts; she'll have to choose one or the other.
Shortly thereafter, a challenger, Hiroto, comes to the dojo seeking to take on its master; Itsuki steps up to fight in her grandfather's place, and while she wins the match by the standard rules, Hiroto cheats, and soon has turned the tables, pulling a severely damaging blow and causing Itsuki's grandfather to declare him the winner lest he hurt Itsuki. As Hiroto walks away with the dojo's signboard as proof of his victory, he's attacked by Kumojacky, a soldier of the evil Desert Apostles, and his Heart Flower is stolen, turning him into a monster that proceeds to attack! Itsuki quickly finds herself on the outside of a Precure battle looking in, as Blossom and Marine appear on the scene and try to fight back, but they're overwhelmed when Kumojacky joins the fray himself; it falls to Itsuki to assist, and even without the super strength that being a Cure provides, she's able to cover Blossom and Marine long enough for them to get things back under control. That evening, Hiroto returns the sign, and Itsuki makes her decision: she'll work hard and change herself, to become someone that can like both martial arts and cute things. (This brings Itsuki up to her starting canon point.)
Late that summer, Itsuki's brother Satsuki is informed that there's a procedure with good odds of curing his condition, but he's wavering on whether or not to do it. Itsuki isn't really able to help him, and she can't figure out what to do with herself to keep from worrying; her mother ends up sharing her story with Tsubomi and Erika, who become worried for Itsuki in turn. While this is happening, a fairy named Potpourri visits Itsuki, and tells her she is destined to become the third Precure, but Itsuki tells him she won't really be able to help with her feelings the way they are, and Tsubomi and Erika find Itsuki to take Potpourri back home. The day of the procedure, Itsuki goes to visit her brother and finds he's missing, having been turned into a monster and made to destroy his surroundings. The Precure appear to fight the Desertrian, but they're pushed back. When everything seems grim, Itsuki's resolve to protect her brother strengthens enough that the Heart Perfume that Potpourri is carrying resonates with her heart, and Itsuki is able to become Cure Sunshine, the third Precure!
From this day, Itsuki uses her considerable power to help Tsubomi and Erika, and later Yuri, protect the people of Kibougahana from the attacks of the Desert Apostles in their quest to turn Earth into a desert. As the team continues to fight, they reach a plateau of power, and must eventually face shadows of themselves to gain new power to fight the forces of darkness. Sunshine Mirage confronts Itsuki about her having abandoned her dedication to her family's martial arts, or to the brother she so adores. While she's off-balance at first, Itsuki comes to realize that even if what the shadow of herself is saying sounds right on paper, it's not true - she's never stopped caring about those things, she just applies herself to them differently. After defeating her Mirage, she and the others gain the power of the Heartcatch Mirage, a magical item that grants them massive power so long as they're all together.
Itsuki quickly begins to realize that, while she likes being the leader of her fellow students, it's taking up time she could be using to save the world, and she announces she won't run for student council again next year so she can focus on her duties as Cure Sunshine. As winter approaches, the attacks of the Desert Apostles reach a pinnacle, and on Chrismas Eve, their leader makes an appearance on Earth: Dune. With amazing speed and power, Dune makes short work of the Precure and, while they're unconscious, succeeds in turning almost the entire world into a desert, the only safe place being the botanical garden Tsubomi's grandmother runs. From here, they launch their counterattack, heading into space to attack the enemy at the heart of their operations, in their base, the Castle Planet. After several hard fights, the team reaches Professor Sabaaku, the second-in-command of the operation, and Dark Precure, an amazingly powerful opponent. The two nearly manage to take the girls down, but Tsubomi and Yuri are able to rally and take care of things. It then falls to the girls to defeat Dune; they almost succeed, but he breaks away and takes on a final form the size of the Earth. The four girls combine their powers through the Heartcatch Mirage and take on a final form of their own, a girl with a flowing dress and galaxies reflected in her eyes, who delivers the final blow to Dune, restoring the world.
Personality: (Copied from an old application. Some of this is a little forward of where she'll be, but Itsuki's personality isn't well-expressed until she's part of the group.)
Itsuki is a natural leader, and it colors everything she does. She's very charismatic, and she loves contact with people; being the student council president was a way to use her talents that she'd enjoy, and for a while she was happy with that. Living the way she did, dressing and acting like a boy, was hard, but the knowledge that she was helping people saw her through. She lived her days as a lie, but what else could she do? Her self-assigned duty to her brother came first, even if it hurt.
That all changed when she met Tsubomi and Erika. Suddenly she wasn't just the leader of the dojo, or first among a council of equals. She was someone people wanted to be with and learn about, for herself. To Itsuki, that was huge, and she had no problem letting herself get caught up in their flow... perhaps too much so. It was a harsh wake-up call to realize that she couldn't let her mask fall away while still doing her duty to the dojo, or to the council. When her grandfather forced the issue and told her to seek herself before returning to serious training, she was lost for a while, trying to figure out what to do with herself. The combination of Potpourri's offer to become Cure Sunshine and seeing her brother being used for evil drove her to put herself to work as a protector, and that paradigm shift has driven her ever since. She believes wholeheartedly that everyone can be saved if you have the power, and her abilities as Cure Sunshine definitely fit the bill.
Itsuki is a girl of action. Once a course is decided, she's leading the charge, and knows exactly what the next steps are. She knows how to work with people to get things done, and she's willing to compromise to make people work together. She can keep her head in a crisis and is great at rallying groups. Should something go wrong, she's willing to stay behind and keep everyone safe until the crisis has passed or everyone's out, even at expense to herself. If she doesn't know how to solve a problem, either she'll find someone who does, or she'll do whatever seems right if she can't get help. When faced with something she knows she has no hope against, though, she'll be running too; she's more than capable of picking her battles.
She isn't particularly experienced in relationships of really any kind; she hasn't really had friends before she met Tsubomi and Erika, just colleagues, and as the heir to the Myoudouin style she couldn't really make friends with any of the disciples there. In more private settings she's still getting used to being around people, and at expressing herself candidly. Erika's Fashion Club is helping with that, too; Itsuki can stop being "the student council president" and just be herself around those girls, and she's thankful for that. She's been getting used to taking care of others via Potpourri, but he's a little too hyper to be much help.
Itsuki is intimately aware that she's in a weird place in her life; she's a middle school student, but the world is on her shoulders. The moment she took her Heart Perfume in hand she knew she wouldn't be able to just stop, and she lives every day since that moment ready for anything to happen. She knows she needs to take breaks, but even while she's laughing and enjoying time with her newfound friends, she's always ready for crisis, attacks, or disaster. It's a hard life, and she knows she's a little paranoid about it, but she's in it to save people, and that's the thought first and foremost on her mind. But if there weren't imminent destruction in her future... maybe, just maybe, she could relax and take a break. Until then, she continues to protect her city. There are too many things to lose to relax any time soon.
Additional Links: Itsuki on the Precure Wiki
First Person:
I've got... kind of a weird question today, community. [Well, this is new. Itsuki looks a little nervous for once.]
Suppose you had two things to choose from. One of them's very important to you. You've dedicated your entire life to that one thing, to the exclusion of almost everything else. It's what you've lived for all this time. And the other thing... is something you gave up to make the first thing happen. You can't have the second thing back as long as you're pursuing the first one.
But... you're starting to miss having the second thing, but you don't want to give up the first one. [She shakes her head.] I'm sorry, this is a little confusing, but... what would you do? Keep pursuing the first thing and try not to think about what you're losing, or regain what you've lost but sacrifice the thing that's given your life direction?
Third Person:
Itsuki wasn't blind. She was quickly starting to realize there was something weird going on. All the weird times things were destroyed and were magically fixed five minutes later. The random monster attacks. And the pink and blue girls that never seemed to be around when Tsubomi and Erika were present, even if she'd just been with them when disaster struck. It made her suspicious. Granted, if she was right, she couldn't fault them; if everyone knew they were the Precure, there'd be an uproar. But... couldn't they at least tell her? So she wouldn't worry quite so much when they ran back into trouble?
And... wasn't there room for one more in their team? Someone else who desired to protect the things important to them?
She shook her head. No, best not to get ideas. She wasn't meant to be part of the Precure. She had enough on her plate as it is, even if she was starting to feel like she was doing things all wrong, lately. Satsuki needed her. There was no time for playing at being some kind of magical girl. Not now.
And yet, in the privacy of her own mind, she couldn't help but wonder what it'd be like. And, so unlike her, she daydreamed of battle, and being part of something bigger than her.
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Current Characters: Rita Mordio, and depending on timing, an app either in-progress or submitted for Totori Helmold.
Character: Itsuki Myoudouin
Fandom: Heartcatch Precure!
Last edit: 11/7/12, updated canon point and added more history.
Character Notes:
History: Itsuki is a young woman with a totally unreasonable set of expectations. Her family runs an aikido dojo, and her older brother Satsuki is in line to succeed it. However, Satsuki is chronically ill, and is too weak to actually train. So Itsuki offered, at a young age, to take his place as the heir to the family style. Of course, as a girl she can't do that, so she decided to cast away her femininity for her brother's sake, and since she was little she's been living as a boy, training to succeed the dojo. Years have passed with this arrangement, and she's now in the spring of her second year of middle school, where she's the charismatic student council president everyone adores. Through her position atop the student council, she met Erika Kurumi, would-be president of the Fashion Club, and her would-be lieutenant Tsubomi Hanasaki. She liked their energy, and approved the paperwork they brought her, but she didn't really pay a whole lot of attention to them.
It was around this time that weird things started to happen in Kibougahana: things get damaged and subsequently repaired as if by magic; massive monsters appear, complain about issues in their lives, and then disappear; and two girls known as the Precure, Cure Blossom and Cure Marine, have become the hottest thing. While she monitored the situation as best she could, she was a little busy trying to keep the school from falling apart without her (and under the weight of the Precure rumors), so she didn't have the time to investigate herself. She did, at around the time the girls brought their paperwork by, have an odd dream that she turned into a monster, screaming about her insecurities regarding having to succeed the dojo and live as someone she wasn't; it ended just as suddenly when she was saved by the Precure, and Itsuki found herself starting to wish, just a little, that she could be someone like that.
As spring turns to summer, Itsuki finds herself considering her feminine side again, and ends up consulting the Fashion Club for advice; she ends up working out a clothing design and chooses the colors and fabric that will go into it, which she takes home to look over, though she of course can't show it to her grandfather. The next day, Tsubomi and Erika come to visit to actually complete the design, and they're able to finish the top she'd designed that day, instructing Itsuki on how to help with the process, teaching her how to cut and sew. The end result is a yellow top with a sunflower motif, one she ends up loving to wear whenever she gets a chance. Her brother sees her in it, and comments it's a good fit, and is happy she's getting back in touch with the real Itsuki, but her grandfather seems to disapprove, and she reminds herself she can't like both cute things and martial arts; she'll have to choose one or the other.
Shortly thereafter, a challenger, Hiroto, comes to the dojo seeking to take on its master; Itsuki steps up to fight in her grandfather's place, and while she wins the match by the standard rules, Hiroto cheats, and soon has turned the tables, pulling a severely damaging blow and causing Itsuki's grandfather to declare him the winner lest he hurt Itsuki. As Hiroto walks away with the dojo's signboard as proof of his victory, he's attacked by Kumojacky, a soldier of the evil Desert Apostles, and his Heart Flower is stolen, turning him into a monster that proceeds to attack! Itsuki quickly finds herself on the outside of a Precure battle looking in, as Blossom and Marine appear on the scene and try to fight back, but they're overwhelmed when Kumojacky joins the fray himself; it falls to Itsuki to assist, and even without the super strength that being a Cure provides, she's able to cover Blossom and Marine long enough for them to get things back under control. That evening, Hiroto returns the sign, and Itsuki makes her decision: she'll work hard and change herself, to become someone that can like both martial arts and cute things. (This brings Itsuki up to her starting canon point.)
Late that summer, Itsuki's brother Satsuki is informed that there's a procedure with good odds of curing his condition, but he's wavering on whether or not to do it. Itsuki isn't really able to help him, and she can't figure out what to do with herself to keep from worrying; her mother ends up sharing her story with Tsubomi and Erika, who become worried for Itsuki in turn. While this is happening, a fairy named Potpourri visits Itsuki, and tells her she is destined to become the third Precure, but Itsuki tells him she won't really be able to help with her feelings the way they are, and Tsubomi and Erika find Itsuki to take Potpourri back home. The day of the procedure, Itsuki goes to visit her brother and finds he's missing, having been turned into a monster and made to destroy his surroundings. The Precure appear to fight the Desertrian, but they're pushed back. When everything seems grim, Itsuki's resolve to protect her brother strengthens enough that the Heart Perfume that Potpourri is carrying resonates with her heart, and Itsuki is able to become Cure Sunshine, the third Precure!
From this day, Itsuki uses her considerable power to help Tsubomi and Erika, and later Yuri, protect the people of Kibougahana from the attacks of the Desert Apostles in their quest to turn Earth into a desert. As the team continues to fight, they reach a plateau of power, and must eventually face shadows of themselves to gain new power to fight the forces of darkness. Sunshine Mirage confronts Itsuki about her having abandoned her dedication to her family's martial arts, or to the brother she so adores. While she's off-balance at first, Itsuki comes to realize that even if what the shadow of herself is saying sounds right on paper, it's not true - she's never stopped caring about those things, she just applies herself to them differently. After defeating her Mirage, she and the others gain the power of the Heartcatch Mirage, a magical item that grants them massive power so long as they're all together.
Itsuki quickly begins to realize that, while she likes being the leader of her fellow students, it's taking up time she could be using to save the world, and she announces she won't run for student council again next year so she can focus on her duties as Cure Sunshine. As winter approaches, the attacks of the Desert Apostles reach a pinnacle, and on Chrismas Eve, their leader makes an appearance on Earth: Dune. With amazing speed and power, Dune makes short work of the Precure and, while they're unconscious, succeeds in turning almost the entire world into a desert, the only safe place being the botanical garden Tsubomi's grandmother runs. From here, they launch their counterattack, heading into space to attack the enemy at the heart of their operations, in their base, the Castle Planet. After several hard fights, the team reaches Professor Sabaaku, the second-in-command of the operation, and Dark Precure, an amazingly powerful opponent. The two nearly manage to take the girls down, but Tsubomi and Yuri are able to rally and take care of things. It then falls to the girls to defeat Dune; they almost succeed, but he breaks away and takes on a final form the size of the Earth. The four girls combine their powers through the Heartcatch Mirage and take on a final form of their own, a girl with a flowing dress and galaxies reflected in her eyes, who delivers the final blow to Dune, restoring the world.
Personality: (Copied from an old application. Some of this is a little forward of where she'll be, but Itsuki's personality isn't well-expressed until she's part of the group.)
Itsuki is a natural leader, and it colors everything she does. She's very charismatic, and she loves contact with people; being the student council president was a way to use her talents that she'd enjoy, and for a while she was happy with that. Living the way she did, dressing and acting like a boy, was hard, but the knowledge that she was helping people saw her through. She lived her days as a lie, but what else could she do? Her self-assigned duty to her brother came first, even if it hurt.
That all changed when she met Tsubomi and Erika. Suddenly she wasn't just the leader of the dojo, or first among a council of equals. She was someone people wanted to be with and learn about, for herself. To Itsuki, that was huge, and she had no problem letting herself get caught up in their flow... perhaps too much so. It was a harsh wake-up call to realize that she couldn't let her mask fall away while still doing her duty to the dojo, or to the council. When her grandfather forced the issue and told her to seek herself before returning to serious training, she was lost for a while, trying to figure out what to do with herself. The combination of Potpourri's offer to become Cure Sunshine and seeing her brother being used for evil drove her to put herself to work as a protector, and that paradigm shift has driven her ever since. She believes wholeheartedly that everyone can be saved if you have the power, and her abilities as Cure Sunshine definitely fit the bill.
Itsuki is a girl of action. Once a course is decided, she's leading the charge, and knows exactly what the next steps are. She knows how to work with people to get things done, and she's willing to compromise to make people work together. She can keep her head in a crisis and is great at rallying groups. Should something go wrong, she's willing to stay behind and keep everyone safe until the crisis has passed or everyone's out, even at expense to herself. If she doesn't know how to solve a problem, either she'll find someone who does, or she'll do whatever seems right if she can't get help. When faced with something she knows she has no hope against, though, she'll be running too; she's more than capable of picking her battles.
She isn't particularly experienced in relationships of really any kind; she hasn't really had friends before she met Tsubomi and Erika, just colleagues, and as the heir to the Myoudouin style she couldn't really make friends with any of the disciples there. In more private settings she's still getting used to being around people, and at expressing herself candidly. Erika's Fashion Club is helping with that, too; Itsuki can stop being "the student council president" and just be herself around those girls, and she's thankful for that. She's been getting used to taking care of others via Potpourri, but he's a little too hyper to be much help.
Itsuki is intimately aware that she's in a weird place in her life; she's a middle school student, but the world is on her shoulders. The moment she took her Heart Perfume in hand she knew she wouldn't be able to just stop, and she lives every day since that moment ready for anything to happen. She knows she needs to take breaks, but even while she's laughing and enjoying time with her newfound friends, she's always ready for crisis, attacks, or disaster. It's a hard life, and she knows she's a little paranoid about it, but she's in it to save people, and that's the thought first and foremost on her mind. But if there weren't imminent destruction in her future... maybe, just maybe, she could relax and take a break. Until then, she continues to protect her city. There are too many things to lose to relax any time soon.
Additional Links: Itsuki on the Precure Wiki
First Person:
I've got... kind of a weird question today, community. [Well, this is new. Itsuki looks a little nervous for once.]
Suppose you had two things to choose from. One of them's very important to you. You've dedicated your entire life to that one thing, to the exclusion of almost everything else. It's what you've lived for all this time. And the other thing... is something you gave up to make the first thing happen. You can't have the second thing back as long as you're pursuing the first one.
But... you're starting to miss having the second thing, but you don't want to give up the first one. [She shakes her head.] I'm sorry, this is a little confusing, but... what would you do? Keep pursuing the first thing and try not to think about what you're losing, or regain what you've lost but sacrifice the thing that's given your life direction?
Third Person:
Itsuki wasn't blind. She was quickly starting to realize there was something weird going on. All the weird times things were destroyed and were magically fixed five minutes later. The random monster attacks. And the pink and blue girls that never seemed to be around when Tsubomi and Erika were present, even if she'd just been with them when disaster struck. It made her suspicious. Granted, if she was right, she couldn't fault them; if everyone knew they were the Precure, there'd be an uproar. But... couldn't they at least tell her? So she wouldn't worry quite so much when they ran back into trouble?
And... wasn't there room for one more in their team? Someone else who desired to protect the things important to them?
She shook her head. No, best not to get ideas. She wasn't meant to be part of the Precure. She had enough on her plate as it is, even if she was starting to feel like she was doing things all wrong, lately. Satsuki needed her. There was no time for playing at being some kind of magical girl. Not now.
And yet, in the privacy of her own mind, she couldn't help but wonder what it'd be like. And, so unlike her, she daydreamed of battle, and being part of something bigger than her.