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Meiko "Menma" Honma | Anohana | Reserved
Name: Elie
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E-mail: virgiushi@gmail.com
AIM: elieinverse
Timezone: GMT+1
Current Characters in Route: N/A
Character
Name: Meiko "Menma" Honma
Series: Anohana
Timeline: Post series, as soon as she ascends to heaven.
Canon Resource Links: Wikipedia article and TVtropes page
Personality:
It is important to note that part of her personality is influenced by the fact that she is, officially, dead. Throughout the whole series, except for the flashbacks, she's shown as a ghost that only the protagonist, "Jintan", can see until the end. Despite her terrible death, Menma still keeps an upbeat and cheerful attitude most of the time, just like how she behaved when she was alive. Even though she appears as a teenager - around 16 years old just as the other protagonists - Menma still has the childish and immature traits of her younger years. In fact, having died at the age of 11, she retained the mentality of that time instead of mentally growing up like her "body" mysteriously did. Even so, she does show many hints of maturity, especially when we learn that she indeed is aware of her own death, but faces this tragic fact with a smile on her face, even as she cries.
Menma is, without a doubt, a kind and selfless girl. She always puts her friends and others before herself, valuing their happiness above her own. If you see tears in her eyes, chances are that she's crying over the suffering of her friends and loved ones instead of doing it over an offense she received. In one of the flashbacks, when Jintan was asked if he liked Menma, he snapped and called her "ugly". Unexpectedly, she didn't react badly, but instead she smiled in return, after an initial shock. Because she loves her friends that much, she wouldn't be as hurt by their mean words as she could have been. However, if she sees one of her friends hurt and in pain, she won't hesitate suffering with them, and stick with them however long it takes.
She hardly holds any grudges towards the people who wrong her. Although Jinta is partly responsible for her death - she fell and drowned in the river because she was chasing after him - she doesn't feel any ill towards him. Rather than that, she's got nothing but feelings of affection and pure love towards him, in a way that overtakes even the fondness she feels towards the rest of the Super Beast Busters. Thanks to Menma's absolute determination to bring her group of friends together once again, added to her radiant personality, Jinta will slowly overcome his guilt and reconnect with his childhood friends after fighting his way out of their internal conflicts, starting a new life once they manage to send Menma up to heaven, as she smiles one last time through her tears.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Her non-confrontational and solar inclination allows her to befriend people easily.
+ She's often selfless and caring, especially towards the people she's friends with.
+ Though she's still childish because of her mental age, she rarely ever gets angry. At worst, you could see her get mildly irritated at things.
+ She has some grade of knowledge about how the world of Pokemon works, because of a similar in-world game she used to play a lot when she was still alive. However, the title (Nokemon), setting, and the creatures themselves are different than the original.
+ She doesn't have an ounce of malice in her, given that she's still got the innocence of a child. She will never betray your trust intentionally.
- Because of her overwhelming presence, she may come across as annoying.
- Though she's cheerful, on the other hand, she's also a crybaby who is very prone to crying as soon as she sees her friends in pain.
- Her innocence also leads to naivety, which makes her easy to fool and manipulate.
- She's immature and dense at times, and very much of an air-head, but that can be justified by her mental age.
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Affiliation: Trainer.
Starter: Petilil
Password: Scrambled eggs
Samples
First Person Sample:
Hello? Helloooo?
[ The feed opens to the image of two wide, bright blue eyes staring curiously at the camera. It then zooms out, as Menma pulls the device away from her face. Her finger then appears, to poke at the screen. ]
Can anyone see me? You can see me, right?
[ There's more poking, and then, a wide smile cracks on her gentle features. ]
I'm Menma! Nice to meet you all! I was told I can use this thing to talk to everyone, so~ Hmmmmm...
[ She glances around briefly, before returning her attention back to the camera. ]
So, who wants to catch Nokemon with me? It'll be fun, promise! Let's become friends and have adventures together. Okay?
[ A soft giggle. ] This heaven is super great! I'm so happy to be here~
Third Person Sample:
Is this... heaven? Where am I...?
Menma sat up, feeling the soft grass under her hands. Her blue eyes wandered around, finding trees and a blue sky dressed with a few cotton clouds. Instead of the image of Jintan, Anaru, Poppo and everyone else standing in front of her, crying and yelling goodbye... there was nothing more. Nothing but grass, trees and sky, as she scanned the area around her. With the tears still staining her cheeks, she took some time to recover from the surprise. This is heaven, the place she read so much about in fairy tales, although she couldn't understand why it was situated below the clouds. Shouldn't it be on top of the clouds? It must be heaven, though... and there was no single person around confirming that to her. She was alone.
She eventually stood up, and after one last sob, she wiped her face with the back of her hands. A breeze blew past her, the feeling of her dress brushing against her legs almost tickling her. That's right; she shouldn't feel sad. In the end, this was what she wanted all along. To find her peace, have her wish fulfilled, and leave her friends in the happiest note. It was hard and difficult, they all suffered so much, but in the end, the pieces of their broken hearts were reunited. They could all move on, he could move on... and so could she. The void in her chest was going to fade, eventually. What mattered the most, was their happiness, and how she helped them reach it.
Jintan...
Just as she began smiling to herself, the sudden noise of leaves rustling caught her in surprise. She turned, noticing that the nearby bush was moving suspiciously. What was that? Before she could approach and find out, something jumped out of the plants, startling her further.
"Eeh?!?" Menma gasped, finding herself face to face with a small creature. It was round, purple, with large leaves planted on top of its head, two tiny eyes and a mouth. "Are you... are you..." She pointed at it with a shaky finger, her jaw dropping comically. The next sentence came louder. "Are you a Nokemon?!"
... Maybe it was too loud. The odd creature would let out a yelp, and then turned on its tiny heels to escape back into the bushes.
"No no no wait! Come back heeeere!" She cried, diving into the bushes without a second thought. What was a stream of melancholic thoughts, became a wild chase that eventually left Menma worn out... and with an immense happiness pervading her newly beating heart, although the Oddish was nowhere to be found by the time she collapsed back on the grass in exhaustion.
For the first time in a long, long time... she felt alive.
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