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PLAYER INFORMATION-
Name/Nickname: Hilda
Email: palastinalied@gmail.com
AIM: xheartnothatex
LJ: starsandtildes
CHARACTER INFORMATION-
Canon Character and Series: Orihime Inoue, BLEACH
In-Game Name: Orihime Inoue
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Position & Ship: Fiertia, doctor
Appearance: Orihime is a cute little thing, so much so you would think she's harmless. She's around average height for a woman, but seems smaller because she doesn't look like she's had to do a lot of physical activity (also, her extremely large breasts dwarf the rest of her). She has huge brown eyes and long red hair that she holds back with flower hairpins. Her expressions are mostly stereotypically sweet and kind of flaky, except when someone or something she cares about is in trouble, when she gets serious. Then you wonder where the cuteness went: she suddenly looks five years older and angry.
Personality: Like I mentioned above in her appearance, she mostly acts sweet and harmless, if a little weird. It's not embarrassing weirdness, though when she was a child it crippled her socially. She just has... odd ideas. About how to play sports, for example. Or what she'll be like in the future. Or how love triangles should work. Her brain likes to go on tangents, though there's always a clear path from what someone else said a few minutes ago to what she's thinking about right now. While she's a smart girl, she's still a little ditzy despite being responsible for herself since girlhood (not near as much as in canon, though; she does have responsibilities and is substantially older).
She's very friendly and open with you, no matter who you are, and is the kind of woman you can trust to keep a secret or, when you're having problems with someone else, give you good advice. Do not ask her for cooking or domestic advice, however, it's adapted to being poor and she doesn't quite get how other people live.
Putting her in crisis makes it clear she's more than a feather-headed fool, though. She may have fun play-fighting, but she can't bear the idea of actual harm coming to others, to the point of almost total pacifism. Because of that, though, she's very determined to protect anyone around her from suffering, and in trouble she will fight to get out of it, rather than for the joy of fighting. She will take you down if you try to harm her friends or her patients. It's not to hurt you: it's just to make sure you don't hurt anyone else.
Abilities/Weapons: She has magic! So does half of TST, but hers is rather... unique, both in origin and manifestation. The hairpins her brother gave her as a Lunasa present when she was little only seemed like they were made out of cheap glass from a trash heap. They've lasted fifteen years because they were actually made out of low-grade mana crystals tossed out of a failed experiment, which neither her brother or the shady guy flogging them on the street knew (he'd just stolen them out of a crate at last fall's Boston Market). That long-term exposure to magic, as well as constantly being around Ichigo and Isshin, eventually brought her powers out: as a teenager she began to be able to see ghosts, and while she was working under Dr. Kurosaki the pins' full powers came out. And those powers? Fairies.
Orihime's six fairies are collectively known as the Shun Shun Rikka, and their powers serve to reject negative consequences. Before her powers manifested, as bad as her life was, it never got actually dangerous for her - the fairies nudged things into going the way she needed them to go when things were at their worst and she would tell herself that this can't happen, and sick people who spent time around her got better faster. Now that she actually has knowledge of them, though, she has to be using their powers consciously for the Shun Shun Rikka to aid her.
Their attack - which she has never had occasion to use - is rejecting the ability of someone to cause injury, so cuts them to try and stop them. It depends on her killing intent, though, so if she uses it, it would only cause minor injury. Their shielding power works in the same way: it not only protects her and anyone behind the shield from harm, but, for instance, if the shield is under someone when they're falling, also protects them from damage from a fall. Their healing power, which she is strongest with, having rescued hundreds of people as a doctor, literally turns back time to a point when the patient's body was healthy (by re-assembling the old atoms, even though she doesn't know that). It leaves her very tired out, though, especially with extensive injuries like those likely to happen in war, so she only really uses it in potentially fatal situations.
Also, despite her ditzy attitude, she's actually book-smart. She studied a lot in school because she knew an education was important, so if you need someone who knows school sort of things, just ask. I mean, she was able to train as a doctor, and not only because Isshin thought that Inoue-chan was so cute. And she's a fairly competent doctor, too, she just needs some more experience.
Finally, Tatsuki taught her a martial art that resembles aikido. She understands basic hand-to-hand combat, just isn't particularly skilled at it in a combat situation because she has no desire to harm other people.
How well can your character hack?: She can't. Not at all. She wouldn't even think to try unless she was very concerned about someone, and even then would ask someone who knew how to do it who she knew cared about the other person as well.
Weaknesses: She's very trusting. This is a good thing when she's around people who have no ill will towards her, but when she was a child the only thing that kept anything terrible from happening to her were the fairies pushing things her way, and she's not very aware of this.
Also, despite her considerable ability, she has issues with self-worth. She doesn't think she's as "strong" as her other friends, since Tatsuki and Ichigo had to protect her, and in a world like Reial where people fight a lot, the ability to successfully protect yourself and defeat others is often a measure of your success as a person. They're not as bad as they were when they were a teenager, though, since she's learned how to protect others in her own way.
History: Orihime doesn't remember her parents very well at all. That's just as well, the only person who actually took care of her was her much older brother Sora, who as soon as he was eighteen ran away from the family and took three-year-old Orihime with him. As far as she knows, no one came after them. Despite the two of them living together in a tiny room over a restaurant, Sora worked and was able to pay school fees for her at a good school in Melior. When she was still young, though, Sora died in an accident, and she was left to support herself. The landlord let her keep the room out of pity, and to pay for clothes and school she worked in the restaurant (there was free food!). Wherever she lives, she keeps a small shrine to Sora and talks to him every evening after dinner.
Being responsible for yourself at twelve years old would have crushed a lot of children, but Orihime just kept living. Part of what kept her going was her friendships, especially with Tatsuki Arisawa and Ichigo Kurosaki. Children are nasty creatures in packs, and a poor child (especially a really weird kid who gets good grades!) going to a fairly nice school is just fresh meat hanging out for her richer classmates, but Orihime found a defender in the much more aggressive Tatsuki once the other girl found out what was going on.
Orihime first met Ichigo the day Sora died, when she took him to Dr. Kurosaki's clinic as the closest hospital nearby. While she was good friends with his friend "Chad", neither of them realized they'd known each other before until they were about fifteen. When they became friends, though, she started to fall in love with him, even though she didn't know how to express it properly. Ichigo was the only person who didn't know, and he still doesn't. Around that time, her ability to see ghosts started to manifest along with Ichigo's powers, and for a few years there was a small group of kids going around town and getting involved in supernatural shenanigans. But like a lot of young men his age, Ichigo had to move on to find himself - city life was too stifling - , and when he was seventeen, he skipped town without even a word to Orihime. She hasn't seen him since, and six years' absence has mellowed her giant crush into affectionate friendship, though sometimes she wonders how it would have turned out if he had stayed around.
Dr. Kurosaki - Ichigo's father - knew after Ichigo ran off that his son was never going to succeed him at his practice. He was looking for a nurse to pick up the slack where Ichigo had left off, and even though she had no experience, Orihime wanted an opportunity for herself better than washing dishes (after one unfortunate incident, the restaurant never let her cook again). Besides, Dr. Kurosaki was a really cool guy! The two of them were an excellent team, and she turned out to have quite an aptitude for healing people. Especially that one patient.
"That one patient" was a child, like they always are in accounts like this. A little boy, who'd been in the way of a cart and been ran over. Sora had died in the same way, and even though she hadn't seen it she was the one to carry him to the hospital. When this boy's older sister brought him in through the front entrance, barely alive, there was no way she was letting that happen to someone else again. It wasn't happening, it just w-
And then she saw six-inch-high fairies flitting in front of her. Honest to god fairies. They started chattering at her, giving her their names and explaining that yes, they had been inside her hairpins all this time, but now wasn't the time to get to know them, it was time for her to save this kid. So much at once was almost baffling, but two of them, Shuno and Ayame, walked her through how to make them heal, and she got to work, knowing there wasn't a second to lose.
Two hours later, the boy was all right. It was as if he'd never even been hit. It had looked incredibly strange to other patients and even to Dr. Kurosaki, who just saw her crouched on the lobby floor with her hands over a child and, when they wanted to snap her out of it, saw something glowing coming out of them, but after she'd had a few minutes to rest, she spoke with her fairies and then her boss. She got to know the Shun Shun Rikka fairly well over the next few years, though she had few chances to practice powers not healing; and while Dr. Kurosaki knew more about magic than she expected, he didn't know much about her particular power: it seemed unique.
But last year, Dr. Kurosaki closed up his practice and moved on to be a doctor for the ship Silvana. That left her at loose ends: she tried to get a job at one of the university hospitals in Melior, but since she never actually went to medical school, that didn't work out at all. She ended up as a private nurse for terminally ill patients, though they all magically got to be in better health than they had in years once Miss Inoue started taking care of them. The job left her so tired out, though, that she thought it would be a good idea to try and find something else. It wasn't that she didn't want to, her body - and the fairies - just wouldn't let her keep going.
She knew that ships tended to have... not lower standards, just less strict rules... about who they would take on as staff. And not every ship out there was a pirate ship, a lot of them just needed people to take care of mild sicknesses and minor injuries. She'd get to go all sorts of interesting places, too, if she picked the right one. And even thought the Fiertia was the ship for a mercenary guild, most of what Brave Vesperia did wasn't beating people up for money, so she wouldn't be backing up pirates or anything like that. So she took a flight over there and hired on!
Name/Nickname: Hilda
Email: palastinalied@gmail.com
AIM: xheartnothatex
LJ: starsandtildes
CHARACTER INFORMATION-
Canon Character and Series: Orihime Inoue, BLEACH
In-Game Name: Orihime Inoue
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Position & Ship: Fiertia, doctor
Appearance: Orihime is a cute little thing, so much so you would think she's harmless. She's around average height for a woman, but seems smaller because she doesn't look like she's had to do a lot of physical activity (also, her extremely large breasts dwarf the rest of her). She has huge brown eyes and long red hair that she holds back with flower hairpins. Her expressions are mostly stereotypically sweet and kind of flaky, except when someone or something she cares about is in trouble, when she gets serious. Then you wonder where the cuteness went: she suddenly looks five years older and angry.
Personality: Like I mentioned above in her appearance, she mostly acts sweet and harmless, if a little weird. It's not embarrassing weirdness, though when she was a child it crippled her socially. She just has... odd ideas. About how to play sports, for example. Or what she'll be like in the future. Or how love triangles should work. Her brain likes to go on tangents, though there's always a clear path from what someone else said a few minutes ago to what she's thinking about right now. While she's a smart girl, she's still a little ditzy despite being responsible for herself since girlhood (not near as much as in canon, though; she does have responsibilities and is substantially older).
She's very friendly and open with you, no matter who you are, and is the kind of woman you can trust to keep a secret or, when you're having problems with someone else, give you good advice. Do not ask her for cooking or domestic advice, however, it's adapted to being poor and she doesn't quite get how other people live.
Putting her in crisis makes it clear she's more than a feather-headed fool, though. She may have fun play-fighting, but she can't bear the idea of actual harm coming to others, to the point of almost total pacifism. Because of that, though, she's very determined to protect anyone around her from suffering, and in trouble she will fight to get out of it, rather than for the joy of fighting. She will take you down if you try to harm her friends or her patients. It's not to hurt you: it's just to make sure you don't hurt anyone else.
Abilities/Weapons: She has magic! So does half of TST, but hers is rather... unique, both in origin and manifestation. The hairpins her brother gave her as a Lunasa present when she was little only seemed like they were made out of cheap glass from a trash heap. They've lasted fifteen years because they were actually made out of low-grade mana crystals tossed out of a failed experiment, which neither her brother or the shady guy flogging them on the street knew (he'd just stolen them out of a crate at last fall's Boston Market). That long-term exposure to magic, as well as constantly being around Ichigo and Isshin, eventually brought her powers out: as a teenager she began to be able to see ghosts, and while she was working under Dr. Kurosaki the pins' full powers came out. And those powers? Fairies.
Orihime's six fairies are collectively known as the Shun Shun Rikka, and their powers serve to reject negative consequences. Before her powers manifested, as bad as her life was, it never got actually dangerous for her - the fairies nudged things into going the way she needed them to go when things were at their worst and she would tell herself that this can't happen, and sick people who spent time around her got better faster. Now that she actually has knowledge of them, though, she has to be using their powers consciously for the Shun Shun Rikka to aid her.
Their attack - which she has never had occasion to use - is rejecting the ability of someone to cause injury, so cuts them to try and stop them. It depends on her killing intent, though, so if she uses it, it would only cause minor injury. Their shielding power works in the same way: it not only protects her and anyone behind the shield from harm, but, for instance, if the shield is under someone when they're falling, also protects them from damage from a fall. Their healing power, which she is strongest with, having rescued hundreds of people as a doctor, literally turns back time to a point when the patient's body was healthy (by re-assembling the old atoms, even though she doesn't know that). It leaves her very tired out, though, especially with extensive injuries like those likely to happen in war, so she only really uses it in potentially fatal situations.
Also, despite her ditzy attitude, she's actually book-smart. She studied a lot in school because she knew an education was important, so if you need someone who knows school sort of things, just ask. I mean, she was able to train as a doctor, and not only because Isshin thought that Inoue-chan was so cute. And she's a fairly competent doctor, too, she just needs some more experience.
Finally, Tatsuki taught her a martial art that resembles aikido. She understands basic hand-to-hand combat, just isn't particularly skilled at it in a combat situation because she has no desire to harm other people.
How well can your character hack?: She can't. Not at all. She wouldn't even think to try unless she was very concerned about someone, and even then would ask someone who knew how to do it who she knew cared about the other person as well.
Weaknesses: She's very trusting. This is a good thing when she's around people who have no ill will towards her, but when she was a child the only thing that kept anything terrible from happening to her were the fairies pushing things her way, and she's not very aware of this.
Also, despite her considerable ability, she has issues with self-worth. She doesn't think she's as "strong" as her other friends, since Tatsuki and Ichigo had to protect her, and in a world like Reial where people fight a lot, the ability to successfully protect yourself and defeat others is often a measure of your success as a person. They're not as bad as they were when they were a teenager, though, since she's learned how to protect others in her own way.
History: Orihime doesn't remember her parents very well at all. That's just as well, the only person who actually took care of her was her much older brother Sora, who as soon as he was eighteen ran away from the family and took three-year-old Orihime with him. As far as she knows, no one came after them. Despite the two of them living together in a tiny room over a restaurant, Sora worked and was able to pay school fees for her at a good school in Melior. When she was still young, though, Sora died in an accident, and she was left to support herself. The landlord let her keep the room out of pity, and to pay for clothes and school she worked in the restaurant (there was free food!). Wherever she lives, she keeps a small shrine to Sora and talks to him every evening after dinner.
Being responsible for yourself at twelve years old would have crushed a lot of children, but Orihime just kept living. Part of what kept her going was her friendships, especially with Tatsuki Arisawa and Ichigo Kurosaki. Children are nasty creatures in packs, and a poor child (especially a really weird kid who gets good grades!) going to a fairly nice school is just fresh meat hanging out for her richer classmates, but Orihime found a defender in the much more aggressive Tatsuki once the other girl found out what was going on.
Orihime first met Ichigo the day Sora died, when she took him to Dr. Kurosaki's clinic as the closest hospital nearby. While she was good friends with his friend "Chad", neither of them realized they'd known each other before until they were about fifteen. When they became friends, though, she started to fall in love with him, even though she didn't know how to express it properly. Ichigo was the only person who didn't know, and he still doesn't. Around that time, her ability to see ghosts started to manifest along with Ichigo's powers, and for a few years there was a small group of kids going around town and getting involved in supernatural shenanigans. But like a lot of young men his age, Ichigo had to move on to find himself - city life was too stifling - , and when he was seventeen, he skipped town without even a word to Orihime. She hasn't seen him since, and six years' absence has mellowed her giant crush into affectionate friendship, though sometimes she wonders how it would have turned out if he had stayed around.
Dr. Kurosaki - Ichigo's father - knew after Ichigo ran off that his son was never going to succeed him at his practice. He was looking for a nurse to pick up the slack where Ichigo had left off, and even though she had no experience, Orihime wanted an opportunity for herself better than washing dishes (after one unfortunate incident, the restaurant never let her cook again). Besides, Dr. Kurosaki was a really cool guy! The two of them were an excellent team, and she turned out to have quite an aptitude for healing people. Especially that one patient.
"That one patient" was a child, like they always are in accounts like this. A little boy, who'd been in the way of a cart and been ran over. Sora had died in the same way, and even though she hadn't seen it she was the one to carry him to the hospital. When this boy's older sister brought him in through the front entrance, barely alive, there was no way she was letting that happen to someone else again. It wasn't happening, it just w-
And then she saw six-inch-high fairies flitting in front of her. Honest to god fairies. They started chattering at her, giving her their names and explaining that yes, they had been inside her hairpins all this time, but now wasn't the time to get to know them, it was time for her to save this kid. So much at once was almost baffling, but two of them, Shuno and Ayame, walked her through how to make them heal, and she got to work, knowing there wasn't a second to lose.
Two hours later, the boy was all right. It was as if he'd never even been hit. It had looked incredibly strange to other patients and even to Dr. Kurosaki, who just saw her crouched on the lobby floor with her hands over a child and, when they wanted to snap her out of it, saw something glowing coming out of them, but after she'd had a few minutes to rest, she spoke with her fairies and then her boss. She got to know the Shun Shun Rikka fairly well over the next few years, though she had few chances to practice powers not healing; and while Dr. Kurosaki knew more about magic than she expected, he didn't know much about her particular power: it seemed unique.
But last year, Dr. Kurosaki closed up his practice and moved on to be a doctor for the ship Silvana. That left her at loose ends: she tried to get a job at one of the university hospitals in Melior, but since she never actually went to medical school, that didn't work out at all. She ended up as a private nurse for terminally ill patients, though they all magically got to be in better health than they had in years once Miss Inoue started taking care of them. The job left her so tired out, though, that she thought it would be a good idea to try and find something else. It wasn't that she didn't want to, her body - and the fairies - just wouldn't let her keep going.
She knew that ships tended to have... not lower standards, just less strict rules... about who they would take on as staff. And not every ship out there was a pirate ship, a lot of them just needed people to take care of mild sicknesses and minor injuries. She'd get to go all sorts of interesting places, too, if she picked the right one. And even thought the Fiertia was the ship for a mercenary guild, most of what Brave Vesperia did wasn't beating people up for money, so she wouldn't be backing up pirates or anything like that. So she took a flight over there and hired on!