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Ryuuzaki Umi | Magic Knight Rayearth | Reserve

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Player
Name: Pheebs
Personal Journal: dream_phee
E-mail: margenecameron@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: (AIM) theroletoplay, (Plurk) freeforaphee
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Route: Mutou Yuugi, Anissa

Character
Name: Ryuuzaki Umi
Series: Magic Knight Rayearth
Timeline: End of Volume Two, just after she's called by Ceres into the Shrine of the Water Mashin
Canon Resource Links: MKR Wikipedia, Umi's MKR Wikia Page, Hydro Powered, the Umi Fansite

Personality:
Umi doesn't mince words or wait patiently for things to come to her. She acts, and reacts to what's right before her, right away. That's not to say she's keen to jump into a fight or act the hero, but neither is she quick to run away or give in. Her impulsiveness is closely tied to her logic and personal priorities, and what she sees as common sense. As such she's seen more than once freaking out over the fantastical elements of Cefiro, yelling at her friends' more baffling comments or reactions, or calling out someone's actions or expectations as unrealistic – a comical irony, given her own over-the-top emotions.

But the fact remains, be it important information, what to say, or the means to defeat a foe, she'd rather cut to the chase than wait to consider things, or whether her perception might be flawed. She's more likely to exclaim her opinion loudly and expect to get her point across by her personal dose of a reality check. That said, if she is forced to sit through something, she doesn't swallow a hard truth or tall tale easily. The fastest to demand a way home, she's also the slowest to accept the reality of her role as a Magic Knight. She shows a flat, snarky manner and spastic denial to most every factor of Cefiro, struggling to take such shifts of reality and responsibility. Umi has little patience for her company's eccentricities or the constant challenges thrown in their path, wanting a “quick fix” for most things. But all the same, she considers her options and follows through with what she sees as the next logical step.

That want for practicality can be a boon or a pain, for her press for “common sense” is skewed to her own priorities. While her cries for Fuu or Hikaru to focus on a threat are understandable, she applies the same vehemence to her want to hurry along their quest or return home. Even in smaller moments that ferocity shines through, as she'll charm and threaten Mokona in turns over such things as suspicious or vague directions. She encounters few people in Cefiro who can match her temper or volume, but when she does she proves her overreactions aren't brought on by the ambivalent alone. She'll match others yell for yell, and accomplish little until reality or someone else intervenes.

But she pours that same passion into defending more than just her opinion. She's shown on multiple occasions standing up for friends and enemies alike. She learns magic for the first time to defeat Alcyone while injured, just to protect Hikaru, and – at a canon point immediately after Umi will be pulled – she harshly reprimands Ascot for using his monster friends to fight for him, while claiming to protect them. For all purposes, she's surprisingly optimistic and always pushing people to consider the best outcome, be it through cheering and comforting or outright raving. Even when she herself fears the worst, and vents those thoughts, she'll pull a confident one-eighty when she notices someone else fearing the exact same thing. And for all apparent and perceived spoiled manner and selfishness, she's been shown as honestly, deeply grateful, when she realizes what someone's done or been through on her behalf.

Over the course of the series Umi grows into a tenacious young woman, ready to protect others and quick to sympathize with her friends. But it's difficult to say how much of that was true for her from the start. She was self-centered and dismissive of others in the beginning, but she also hadn't accepted that Cefiro and its struggles were real, so her own priorities back home would be far more familiar and real to her at that point. Given that, and the fact that she grows so quickly into a far kinder character without losing any of her prickliness or dramatics, hint she was always a caring person. She simply needed to recognize Cefiro as a real world in need, and bond with the girls and natives for this other side of her to shine through.

Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ English is her favorite subject and specialty, implying she speaks it well.
+ Baking is listed among her hobbies, and she mentions making cakes many times.
+ A strong fencer from her excelling participation in her school club.
+ A calm fighter, she'll walk right into danger and cut down a horde of monsters without a flinch.
+ A good friend, she will do anything to help them, even when wounded or in danger herself.

+/- Fierce, she'll come to any form of confrontation with a steel backbone.
+/- Not focused on romance, she shows little interest in pursuing anyone, and seems oblivious to any interest in her.

- Sewing, as listed under her least favored subjects.
- Umi focuses on her own predicaments, and needs to have others' plights brought to attention.
- She plays a calm, even charming persona, but loses her temper and panics quickly.
- Impulsive, more often than not she'll dive into a situation without thinking.
- Slow to adjust, she's reluctant to take on extra responsibility, even if she will accept it

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Piplup
Password: Strawberry Lemonade

Samples
First Person Sample:
Hey! This better be working, because like I asked that woman? What is going on?!

[So sorry for the sudden yelling, Johto. There's one angry girl on the line, hiding her confusion behind, well. The volume.]

Yes yes, it's nice to be back in some place with some sense of reality...

[As she quiets down a soft, constant “Pip! Pip! Pip!” can be heard in the background, unheard or unacknowledged by the girl talking.]

But, I was supposed to be inside a shrine, not running around some quaint little town with animals as weird as Mokona! It's probably that thing's fault to begin with. When I find that marshmallow-

[She's mumbling to herself now, making the background cries all the more noticeable. Enough that the caller snaps at the source.]

Would you quit doing that?! I don't know what you want!!

[One last “Pip!” and out goes the call. Please allow five seconds for ears to stop ringing.]

Third Person Sample:
“This makes no sense at all!!”

But there was no one out to hear her yell. That mother impersonator had locked herself up tight, and the phone device wouldn't respond at all – it just kept clamoring welcomes like a door greeter, and details about things that made no sense! No, the only thing out in the fog with her was that, blue penguin, that popped out of the round ball among the stuff in her bag.

And since it and its out of place existence and its strange try at words just added to her confusion? She ignored it. It and its cries for attention.

After all, she had enough on her plate without worrying about speaking to penguins! She was supposed to be in Cefiro, with her new friends, trying to find the mashins and save their world! She wasn't supposed to land in any other world until that happened – much less another one not her own! And she might not like what she had to do in Cefiro... But from what she'd heard so far? This “Pokémon journey” sounded like a pointless step down. It didn't even mention how to get home!

And best of all, she was alone.

“Hikaru? Fuu?”

She didn't even try yelling it anymore, as she wandered just out of New Bark Town. She did enough of that when she first came outside, and it got her nothing. The people here were as useless about locating them, as they were explaining how she got there. She'd even resorted to trying to sweet talk it out of the penguin, but aside from puffing up at her finally talking to it? Nothing. There was no point talking to it, either.

But, it did keep following her, and since there was no one else to talk to...

“Look... If you're coming with me, can't you at least tell me the fastest way to that city I saw on the map? You have to know it, right? What's the point of sticking me with a bird that can't hel- AAAAHH!”

Tripping back, Umi found one green leaf after the other slapping her in the face. But before she could curse her sword disappearing along with everything else, it stopped again. And she blinked across the grass from all fours, only to find some pink blob collapsed in front of her, that penguin between them.

Well. Perhaps she would take back that “no help” complaint. After she got away from the blob.

ACCEPTED

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Much obliged!

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