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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Britt
AGE: 24
JOURNAL: I had one but I abandoned it 5 years ago and it is very embarrassing.
IM: MSN: daestwen at gmail dot com
E-MAIL: my personal email is the same as my msn!
RETURNING: I am new~
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Mi Ho , which is taken from "Gumiho" which means Nine-Tailed Fox.
FANDOM: My Girlfriend is a Gumiho (Korean TV Drama)
CHRONOLOGY: From the first episode, after she escapes from the temple but before she saves Dae Woong.
CLASS: Hero, though historically Gumihos were considered evil (it was all rumors) so some who have a knowledge of korean mythology might assume she would be a villain.
SUPERHERO NAME: Foxtrot
ALTER EGO: Mi Ho, or Park Sun Joo (though I think this one I will keep for later? Part of her character ark is finding a 'human' name). She scrubs grills at a Korean Grill House.
BACKGROUND:
My Girlfriend is a Gumiho takes place in modern Korea with one key difference - the ancient myths and legends are all real. Mi Ho is a creature known as a Nine Tailed Fox, which served as a servant to the Sam Shin Grandmother (a goddess). All Mi Ho ever wanted was to be human, and after hundreds of years of serving the grandmother spirit well and loyally, Sam Shin Grandmother gave Mi Ho a chance to become human and find a husband. So 500 years before present day, Mi Ho entered the human world. She had a human form, but unfortunately she was incredibly beautiful - more so than any mortal woman. Any man who laid eyes on her would be bewitched by her - civil servants stopped studying, merchants stopped selling things, and farmers ceased to farm.
The women saw how beautiful Mi Ho was and were overcome by rage - they refused to give up their husbands or sons in order to see Mi Ho married, so they spread nasty rumours about her. They told all the men that Mi Ho was a vengeful and evil spirit - come to marry men only in order to eat their livers in an effort for her to become human. Their lies were so convincing that though Mi Ho waited years for a husband, and though she was the most beautiful creature on the planet, no one ever came to her. Seeing her despair and having failed to help her, the Sam Shin Grandmother locked Mi Ho up in a painting in a temple to stay safe and hidden for the rest of time.
Thus, Mi Ho spends the next 500 years sulking as she haunts the temple, unable to interact with the monks who live there or the humans who visit - until one fateful rainy night that Dae Woong runs to the temple on a dying cellphone. Using the cellphone as a medium to contact him (after it runs out of battery), she convinces him (well, scares him) into drawing nine tails onto the fox on the painting in which she is trapped. With all her nine tails, she has the power to escape the painting, and quickly does so, flying out over the lake (after Dae Woong has run away, of course).
This is where I'd like to play Mi Ho from.
To give a little more info about the canon that happens after this point, it centres on her relationship with Dae Woong and her efforts to become human and for them to live happily ever after. They are first connected after she follows him into the woods (where he ran after he drew the tails on the paintings) and she witnesses him falling and mortally injuring himself. Feeling that she owes him for rescuing her from the temple, she gives him her Fox Bead - a small glowing bead that lives inside of her and is the source of her powers. It's power takes away all the pain and immediately begins to heal him. The healing process needs time, however, and she still needs her bead, so from then on, she follows him all the way home and antics, of course, ensue.
A mysterious man who turns out not to be quite human either pretends to befriend Mi Ho and gives her the key to turning herself into a human. He doesn't tell her, however, that in order to become human, Dae Woong must sacrifice his life, or she must sacrifice her own to save his.
PERSONALITY:
Mi Ho is a fairly simple creature. Her foremost thought and goal is to become human, because she feels that immortal life without change isn't life - it's just existing. Watching and envying mortal humans has made her long for a human life more than anything else. Of course, a human life comes with this strange thing called Love...
Mi Ho loves meat. Loves it. She would happily eat an entire cow - cooked, of course - and then ask for more. She is not fond of vegetables, fruit, or, well, anything that is not meat (with the exception of soda and beer), though she comes to learn that expanding her taste buds is one of the keys to really becoming human.
Mi Ho is very straightforward, honest and open with her feelings. If she likes you, she will tell you, over and over. If she doesn't like you, or thinks you are mean, she will do her best to scare the living daylights out of you. She hates it when people lie, with gossip and rumour-mongering being particular sore spots for her. She doesn't have the inhibitions about certain subjects or actions that humans do - sex is 'mating' to her and is mostly a fun passtime rather than anything particularily shocking. (She does get rather amused when humans talk about mating, though. She loves to watch them blush.)
Though she's actually harmless, Mi Ho isn't beyond playing up the idea that she's 'dangerous', especially if she can trick people into buying her meat. She likes to pretend that the human views of her don't affect her, but she gets genuinely hurt every time someone she likes refers to her as a 'monster'.
Mi Ho isn't scared of much of anything, though she is wary of monster hunters and demons who might know how to kill her. Without her bead, she is terrified of large bodies of water.
There is one exception to her overall demeanour - when her bead is within someone else, and they break her trust by endangering the bead (usually has to do with kissing or being otherwise intimate with someone other than Mi Ho) she will honestly turn into a monster, and her entire being will focus on killing the person who endangered the bead. She can be talked down from this state, but not without some damage to the person trying to intervene!
POWER:
1. "Anything you can do, She can do better!" Mi Ho is just a tad better than a human being. So, she can run just a little faster, see just a little farther, smell just a little better, and eat meat just a little more thoroughly... This power would be similar to something like "peak physical condition". In the show Mi Ho can also jump really high, fly, smell things from miles away, etc, but i thought that limiting her physical ability + senses to *just* beyond human ability was a bit better.
2. "Fox Bead" - Mi Ho's bead is the source of her power, and without it her powers are lessened. The bead grants incredible healing powers to the person that holds it, so when Mi Ho has it, any wound she takes is less than it would have been, and even then heals much faster. The Bead is special in so far that she can actually give it away - the healing powers are then focused on the person who carries it. When this happens, Mi Ho's power 'Anything you can do, She can do better!' is no longer in effect, and she has human qualities (though still the best a human could do.) The fox bead is very integral to Mi Ho's canon - only by giving it away for 100 days while she poisons herself with demon blood can she become human, though that would kill the host of the bead.
3. "Fox Rain" - When Mi Ho cries, it rains, even when it is sunny. (Sun showers are often called 'fox rain' or 'fox tears' in korea and japan.) Canon!
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
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[There's a scuffling sound and the image is blurred and moving, though a flash of blue can be seen. Eventually it settles on an image of a brown eye, blinking at the camera, framed by dark hair. The eye pulls away from the camera (which appears to be on the ground) to reveal an eerily beautiful face, grinning like a fox.]
Ah! It works!
[She shimmies happily.]
So impressive! How do I make more voices come out of it?
[She picks it up and shakes it around a bit as if expecting something to fall out of it. After a while she stops shaking it, and just sits looking at it in her lap, bouncing happily.]
If I have one of these, that means I am like a human, right? Ah! I will be the best at using speaking boxes! Hello! Hello!
Humans are pretty good now, huh? Didn't have these things before...
[ She fingers the dogtags that are hanging around her neck.] Or these... [She blinks down at them.] Can these really get me meat? [She sniffs them, bites them gently and then wrinkles her nose.] They don't seem like meat *or* money...
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Getting used to the human world again wasn't too hard. Sure, a lot of things had changed in 500 years - most notably speaking boxes! - but the heart of humanity was still the same. The stares from the men she passed were exactly the same, as were the glares from the women. She wasn't sure where she was, exactly, in relation to her temple, but it didn't really matter. What mattered was that she had been given a chance to fit in again, and maybe this time it would work! Besides...
She took a deep breath, smells filling her nose in a dozen intoxicating ways. This City really knew *meat*.
Sure, she was in a (somewhat destroyed) Central park. Sure, there were no actual restaurants or food meat vendors in the immediate area. But humans these days had a very curious habit of just dropping perfectly good meat in large, roundish receptacles which were scattered conveniently everywhere around the city, and especially within the park. For some reason when she tried to fetch meat from these receptacles on the main streets of the city, humans tended to glare and whisper, but she saw many people take things from the receptacles within the park, so there must be something different about them.
She walked up to the nearest one, wrinkling her nose as she tried to pull apart the different smells in her mind... closer... closer... She leaned right in, her dogtags hanging low enough that they juuuust about reached the top of the mound, when... Ah! Salami! She reached in and pulled out a half eaten salami sandwich. Grinning happily, she soon freed the meat from it's shackles of bread and lettuce, and wolfed it down. She shuddered in delight. Salami was not as good as cow - far from - but it still had a very satisfying taste. So tasty she could almost feel her tails pop out!*
Smiling to herself she looked back into the receptacle, and a flash of light off a glint of metal caught her eye. Blinking with curiousity, she leaned in and picked up what turned out to be a brightly decorated can, with some very sweet smelling stuff resting at the bottom. She sniffed it - huh! smells tasty! - and carefully licked the top to see if she could get a taste of the liquid inside, but there was no luck. Not enough of the substance was there to get at it. With a pout, she tossed it back in, but not after reading the label...
Carbonated beverage, huh? Looks like she had something new to search for....
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Mi Ho obviously has a human form, but she reverts a bit to her fox form in certain situations - either at will, or involuntarily. Her tails, for example, she can show at will, but only in moonlight (full or not doesn't make a difference). However, if she is without her bead, and surrounded by a large body of water, she will start to panic and fur will start to grow down her limbs, her eyes will change to the bright blue scary colour, and her face will turn into something horrific. (This isn't actually shown in the show... It happens, but they always hide her face and just have characters react to it. Suffice it to say, it's bad enough that children tend to weep on sight.) Basically, it is something that can be used for plot if necessary, but there's no real reason she wouldn't look completely human most of the time. :3
Since her natural form in the show is human (with tails in the moonlight) I wasn't sure if this would count as a power slot...? If it would, I'll just make her unable to show her true form in the city, and she'll only revert in personality.
* her tails won't actually pop out, but she tends to use that as an expression to demonstrate intense joy or embarrassment. "Ah, I'm so embarrassed my tails are going to pop out!", etc.