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Itsuki Myoudouin ([personal profile] sunbloom) wrote2012-07-11 10:04 pm
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Application for Queen of Hearts

This application is finished. That said, Queen of Hearts ([community profile] queenofheartsrp) requires applications to actually be in the app post, so this'll just be here in case it needs to get referred to or something.


Player Information
Name: MaxSalsa
Personal Journal: [personal profile] maxsalsa
Contact Info: [AIM] ultimatesalsa (preferred), [Plurk] [plurk.com profile] MaxSalsa
Other Characters: None here.

Character Information
Name: Itsuki Myoudouin
Source Canon: Heartcatch Precure!
Age: 14
Role In Canon: The third Cure on the ally team; introduced as Itsuki early, but only joins the team as Cure Sunshine mid-season. Higher-power than her companions as a result. Less early screen-time, more late-series focus instead.

History: Itsuki on the Precure Wiki
Itsuki is coming from after episode 37, but before the Christmas event starts. The team's faced themselves and used the Heartcatch Orchestra for the first time, and they're feeling good about their odds should the worst occur and the Desert Apostles attack in force somehow. I feel like this is a good place to take her from; she's got confidence and she's starting to really express herself (this is after the fashion show, too) but she doesn't have the baggage of late-canon when the world is resting entirely on her shoulders, nor is she totally calm as she is post-canon.

Personality: 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.

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.

Abilities: Itsuki has high physical strength and is trained in her family's style, based on aikido. Aside from that, she normally has access to her form as Cure Sunshine... except that she needs her Precure Seed, normally held by Potpourri. Whom is male, and so one way or another won't be able to get to the Gardens. I'm going to cheat a bit; we'll say Itsuki disappeared while transformed to Cure Sunshine, and so her Precure Seed will still be in her Heart Perfume when she finds it in her belongings upon arrival in the Gardens. That said, Cure Sunshine's powerset is mostly shield-based abilities, plus a few simple melee and ranged skills and her not-quite-missile finisher, but everything's very clearly magical.

Sample: I put up a testrun, which I'm hoping someone will tag; let me know if I need additional sample(s).