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[sailorwings]

The important thing is to keep believing that
A more wonderful morning will come
Within the brilliance begins everything



[- OOC Information -]

Name: Alice
Do you play any other characters in Outer Divide? No.

[- Character Information -]

Character Name: Tsukino Usagi
Fandom: Sailor Moon (Anime)
OU, AU, or CR AU: OU
Canon Point: During Episode 200, after defeating Galaxia.
Journal: sailorwings


Character History: A summary of the anime! Have fun.

Before rescuing Luna and gaining an alter ego as a klutzy, uniquely hairstyled heroine, Usagi was a pretty average middle class Japanese teenager of the nineties. She'd been raised by both her parents in one of the wards of Tokyo (Minato-ku, Juuban District); her father worked, her mother was a homemaker who seemed to spend the bulk of her time trying to get her lazy daughter to be less of an all-around underachiever, and she had a bratty little brother who made fun of her and stole her stuff. Pre-Sailor Moon Usagi would have said her life was awful, seriously, but really, it was pretty idyllic.

Personality: Usagi is a clumsy, ditzy coward who is pretty low on self-control (especially when it comes to things like sleeping in school or donuts). She is over-emotional, and she hangs a huge amount of her happiness on the people she loves and cares about. She sleeps in all the time, is frequently late to school, and barely scrapes by with passing grades thanks to smarter friends helping her study. She's never going to be the sharpest kid in the class or master anything beyond elementary-school level kanji. And really, she'd rather be daydreaming about her boyfriend or playing video games at the arcade than doing most of the things she's supposed to be doing.

Usagi has also saved the world a handful of times.

And it's not as much in spite of all the things that make her an unlikely heroine as because of them. (Well, maybe not as much because of the video games and addiction to Crown Fruit Parlor sundaes.) Usagi's deep well of love and empathy for all the people she meets, and for people she hasn't even met, have helped her stand for redemption rather than violence. She tries to save people, not just from the monster of the day, but from their own villainy, whether or not they are willing or interested in being saved—Sailor Galaxia, certainly, was actively trying to kill Usagi while Usagi was giving her redemption speech, and Mistress Nine manipulated her and took advantage of Usagi's blind trust to steal the Grail. Even having experienced betrayals like that, Usagi is exceptionally stubborn when it comes to helping others. Threats of violence and actual violence haven't stopped her; she is the kind of person who puts the happiness and wellbeing of others above her own, as much as she might otherwise whine about wanting to cuddle with Mamo-chan and eat cookies. She's also more than willing to sacrifice herself for others, and although she doesn't have a martyr complex (she's not doing it for attention or praise), she definitely has a martyrdom habit.

She's a warrior who hates fighting. For one thing, she's not all that good at the minutiae of it; for another, she is empathetic, and she hates hurting people. In her final fight, the battle against Galaxia, she tried to turn down the sword that would have let her defeat the villian not once, but several times. Her greatest strength isn't fighting, but overcoming violence with peace. After all, she's the Soldier of Serenity.

Usagi is naive, innocent and almost child-like in many ways, but she's also developed and grown in the two-odd years she has been Sailor Moon. She may think Blake is a snack food instead of a poet, but she has a strong emotional intelligence, and she frequently knows what people need interpersonally, and how to provide it for them. People don't intimidate her, generally speaking--whether they are rumored gang members like Makoto or famous musicians like the Three Lights--but that may be because she doesn't stop to think about why she ought to be nervous or intimidated. She is, however, terrified of showing bad grades to her mother. Usagi also has a strong intra-personal awareness: even from fourteen, the beginning of her life as Sailor Moon, she has had a keen understanding of most of her faults--her naiveté is the one blindspot she possesses, but she's aware of surface faults like bad grades, and deeper traits like her propensity to overreact emotionally. If anything, she has a tendency towards self-deprecation and selling herself short.

She can be selfish and petty, is not stellar at taking situations seriously 100% of the time, and in almost any situation she lacks the proper gravitas for a super heroine or a princess. In fact, the only times she's really composed and respectable seem to be when she's channeling the power of her past life, Princess Serenity, or when she faces a crisis that threatens her loved ones. That is when she finally seems worthy of the Ginzuishou or the Grail or the Light of Hope.

Usagi's primary motivation in life is her relationships with those around her; she is absolutely an extrovert, and she's happiest when she's with others. Being without her friends and loved ones or seeing them threatened, harmed, or killed are certain ways to make her fall to pieces. Since seeing her friends die at D-Point, and having to kill the possessed Endymion (and losing friends again and again afterwards), Usagi has developed something of a knee-jerk terror of abandonment, one that prompts her to do crazy things to try and save the people she loves: she gave her crystal to Fiore when he threatened to kill the Inner Senshi, she dived off the top of a supernaturally high skyscraper to save Chibi Moon and threw herself into a trans-dimensional portal to battle Pharaoh 90 and save Sailor Saturn. Seeing everyone she cared for killed by Galaxia has very, very much brought this issue to the forefront again.

Powers/Abilities: Sailor Moon - Usagi can transform into Eternal Sailor Moon, using her compact and her crystal. As Sailor Moon, she's more resistant to damage and negative energy, she can run faster and jump higher and is at least sometimes more dexterous. She also has access to energy-based attacks whose primary function is to purify people who are possessed or evil, although her attacks can also be used offensively, mostly against weak enemies or those that were never human to begin with. As Eternal Sailor Moon, she uses Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss and Silver Moon Crystal Power Therapy Kiss. Sailor Moon is arguably the strongest of the Sailor Senshi in terms of raw power (she does finish most every battle, and wields the power of the Ginzuishou), but she's less offensive and more restorative, when it comes down to it.

Silver Crystal - It's actually what powers her transformation into Sailor Moon, but the Ginzuishou--translated as the Silver Crystal or less frequently the Silver Imperium Crystal--has more and stronger uses by far. Usagi inherited it from her (past life's) mother, who used it to send most of the citizens of the Moon Kingdom to be reincarnated in the future, and Usagi has used it to defeat evil, to keep an asteroid from slamming into earth, to resurrect the dead, and to turn her cat into a human. (Because why not.) In her future, she'll use it to make Earth a utopia (and install herself as planetary Queen, naturally). But using the Crystal isn't without price or limit: the Crystal uses life force, and even though Usagi has seemingly mastered its use at least to the point that she can use it without dying when given power by her Planetary Senshi, her Planetary Senshi aren't here. Still, she can access some healing and cleansing capacities without risking her life. Aside from the "die if you use it" catch, the Crystal is also a weakness because it's pretty darn portable and easy to steal, and without it Usagi is powerless to become Sailor Moon. At this point, it may have become so tied to her Star Seed that she'd die without it, as demonstrated when Galaxia took her down.

Strength of Heart - Usagi likes everyone. Usagi trusts everyone. She makes friends easily, sometimes whether the person she's befriending really wants to be befriended or not. And that's sometimes a weakness, yes, because it's very easy to take advantage of Usagi's trust, and the fact that she always sees the best in people. But it's also one of her most profound strengths: she doesn't give up on people, friends or enemies, even when she has every reason to. She is absolutely the kind of person who believes that everyone can be redeemed, and risks herself on gambling that enemies are willing to be redeemed.

Frisbee - She's actually a crack shot with a frisbee. This is definitely a relevant skill to anything ever.

Possessions: Her transformation compact, containing the Ginzuishou. (And her Moon Power Tiare, although she has access to it only when transformed.) Civilian clothes from before she transformed to fight Galaxia.

Arrival: On the ship, please!


[- Writing Samples -]

Network Sample:

[Usagi's face comes up, uncomfortably close to the camera. She blinks at it like she's entirely unsure that it's on. Technology, man.]

...mi-chan would know how to make this work, I can't be--

Oh! Hey! Is it working now? I tried to send a message before and I think I set the alarm ooooor.... something. It beeped at me a lot. Then I tried to just write what I wanted to say, but it was just covered in these red lines that were so crazy that I gave up on that. But here I am! I did it! Now...

So... uh, what did I want to say?

[She sighs in a resigned sort of way. She's finally backed up to a respectable distance and is no longer assaulting everyone's eyeballs with BLONDE CONFUSED FACE.]

This is why I let Luna and Papa and Mamo-chan use the computer for me, okay?

Log Sample:

Between the battles, usually, Usagi would have been trying her hardest to forget that anything was wrong. Usually, when she was afraid for the world or afraid for her friends, she lost herself in the regular, normal life she only half had. She played more video games and challenged Shingo to contests at them (and sometimes she let him win and sometimes she played without a shred of mercy for her younger brother). She ate twice as many deserts. There was the one disastrous time she had tried to cook curry for her parents because she was half-convinced she was going to die.

Actually, since she had died, the curry had been a good idea, at least in theory, but in practice it had been a complete disaster. So now when she was afraid that things might end badly she looked for different ways to be kind to Mama and Papa, ways that did not involve torture via badly cooked food.

When she was worried, she spent time bothering Chibi Usa—but Chibi Usa had gone back to the future. Usually, she would go to her friends, but the tense, almost psychotic level of protection they'd committed themselves to since finding out that her Star Seed was a target was unnerving. Usagi wanted to bury herself in normality, and that was the farthest thing from it. And normally, she would have gone to Mamoru, but he was still maintaining radio silence from America, and even thinking about it made Usagi start tearing up sometimes.

So there was only so much normal life she could throw herself into. Shingo had trounced her at Mario four times before announcing that it was no longer interesting and he was going out with his friend, and her parents mostly wanted to ask her about Chiba-san's letters from America, so she was avoiding protracted conversation with them. And she had eaten two sundaes at the Crown Fruit Parlor every day that week, regularly enough that Unazuki was starting to ask her leading questions.

That was how Usagi found herself back at the Arcade, dropping yen into the Sailor V game for the first time in what felt like a million years. It actually wasn't even the same game—they'd updated it recently, adding new villains and (hilariously) an assist mechanic from Sailor V's ally of justice, Sailor Moon.

It was just that the assist was proving a little harder to activate than Usagi would have liked. Which was (mostly) what prompted her to kick the machine with her school loafer, and groan "This isn't fair!" loudly enough to turn more than a few heads in the arcade.

Usagi just pouted. People could think what they liked—she had never been sensitive about people looking at her and judging her childish, not after years and years of dragging herself down the streets of Tokyo practically (or actually) crying over test results. But a good solid kick had not inspired the game to get easier, and that was her problem.

"Hey, Usagi-chan, take it easy, that's a new machine," a familiar voice laughed behind her, and it was as much for old time's sake as anything else that Usagi didn't stop pouting when she turned around.

"Motokiii-kuuuun," she whined up at the tall boy. "I can't do it, it's got to be broken or something, I want to make Sailor Moon show up and help."

He shook his head and laughed; "You don't want to waste Sailor Moon on the trash fights. Save her for the boss monster. Here, want me to show you?"

She scooted aside, and let him demonstrate, and it didn't make things entirely better, but it pushed all the worry and the hurt to the back of her mind for a little while, at least.