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Max Salsa ([personal profile] maxsalsa) wrote2012-03-25 07:14 pm

Application: Sora Myoudouin (Project PreDestiny) for UGA

Sora is approved for play at [livejournal.com profile] srwug_alpha_rp!


Player Name: MaxSalsa
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Character Name: Sora Myoudouin, aka Lira Roliaron
Source Canon: Project PreDestiny: The Rainbow Jewel of Hope
Community Tag: sora myoudouin

Notes: This is the third character in the PreDESU canon, equivalent to Itsuki Myoudouin in Heartcatch Precure, with some further modifications from Astral Frontier. Parts of her character data pull from the Project PreDestiny setting and the Irgelion campaign.

Background: Sora grew up on a faraway world, a citizen of the Irgelion Empire, under the name Lira Roliaron. Her father served as an instructor in the Irgelian military, teaching basic martial arts to the troops to give them an edge in hand-to-hand combat, and taking gifted soldiers to the next level for specialty roles. After the war and subsequent surrender in 4 AI, her family moved to Earth as part of the reconstruction effort later that same year, naturalizing under the name Myoudouin, and Lira herself becoming Sora Myoudouin. She went by her Terran name as soon as she arrived, but as time passed she got more attached to it.

Sora's family operates a dojo, teaching Irgelion martial arts in addition to a judo-based style developed on Earth, with the Irgelion arts fading rapidly over the years; her older brother suffers from an illness that makes him physically weak, so since a very young age she's been training to succeed the family style, with a single-minded determination unheard of in most children, and a dedication to scholarly pursuits to match, consistently ranking at the top of her class. As part of this training, Sora cast off her feminine side, dressing and acting male in basically all respects, to the point where transfer students were unsure of her gender for years. As years passed, her strength grew, and her curiosity increased. Her grandfather warned her that her combat skills were already well honed, but she needed more life experiences, to temper her heart.

Years passed. Through visitors to the dojo she heard about special fighting mecha, PreDesus, that protected the peace of the world from those that would wish to do it harm. For the most part she'd dismissed them and continued her training, but on some level she wondered if they were real; what it would take to pilot one of those. And wouldn't it be lovely if she could? Flying around the world and being the guardian of those without power?

Then one fateful day, two fairies appeared before her. Calling themselves Apple and Pine, they told her that her strength was needed for a certain project elsewhere on Earth, and if she would be willing to leave, they'd train her to be a pilot for a Claimer-class PreDesu unit: Itsuki. After several nights of consideration, and debates with her family, Sora agreed to travel to Fairy Park and join Project PreDesu.

It was one year ago, five months before the White Chalice began its journey, that Sora Myoudouin arrived at Fairy Park to begin her training as a PreDesu pilot, and met Nanohana's grandmother for the first time. She was in the park on that day four months ago, when the Chalice arrived for the concert, and when Nanohana inadvertently became the pilot of Desu Tsubomi, which wouldn't move even for Sora; she could still barely get her own unit moving the way she wanted, so flying in a sortie against unknowns was very much a bad idea. But she kept improving as the weeks went by, learning the abilities of Desu Itsuki in and out. And now, finally, her training is finished, and Sora is ready to perform her duty as a pilot for Project PreDestiny.

Personality: Back at her old school, Sora was the student council president, with all the personality traits that were iconic of a benevolent president. She's kind and will happily talk to anyone about anything, with a seemingly permanent smile on her face. She knows about a wide array of topics, including scarily-accurate knowledge about what the various school organizations were doing, and she made it a point to know everyone in the building by name. But she'd been living an odd life until a year ago; she'd been posing as a boy at school, pushing away her feminine desires. She didn't have time for cute things or for dresses and flashy clothes; she was too busy practicing martial arts, or studying for classes, or running the student council, or doing one thing or another. It hurt inside, to know she was distancing herself from who she was, but she just kept telling herself it was for her older brother's sake, and some days she actually believed it.

When she had time for interactions, she was always formal about them, being careful to say just the right thing, and finding solutions that would make everyone happy, or at least less angry. She only had an opinion when the council had one; she tended to leave people to their own devices otherwise. Interpersonal relationships were out, as she just didn't have the time, and didn't want to hurt anyone with her ignorance. As an Irgelion in the Earth Sphere, she didn't really advertise her heritage either, not wanting to risk that getting out and being a problem for her duties, or for the dojo, and she resented it a little, though she understood that no matter what happened, she was still herself - even as Sora, she was still Lira inside.

The one thing she made an exception for was to protect those important to her. Sora is a protector by nature, stepping in to help those who can't help themselves, and she really only got angry on behalf of others, never for herself. It was that will to protect that got her into martial arts in the first place, to take the place of her brother who couldn't succeed the dojo in his condition, of her own accord, through her own admiration of him and a stubborn desire to keep him safe. And it was that will to protect that drove her to leave everything behind to go somewhere she'd never heard of to pilot a mecha she'd never seen.

Sora's time at Fairy Park has helped her immensely; she's begun to grow as a person, and as the girl she should have been all these years. She's still honing her martial arts skills, but she's also learned how to open up more, and her girly traits are coming to the front after years of being suppressed. Her old smile is now a bit more true, if still seemingly permanent. She's become somewhat outgoing, and can finally make friends, rather than just building a web of acquaintances. She's cautious about how she approaches new relationships, though, a side effect of not really having any friends in the past.

While her fighting experience before her training under Professor Himesaki wasn't exactly lacking, Sora's learned a lot, especially in how to operate her mecha as an extension of herself, and by now it's become second nature to her. Training in expressing herself directly benefitted her piloting, so she took to it with as much will as she could muster. She's also made good friends with its AI companion, Potpourri, that channels her feelings into Itsuki's power.

As the would-be Sixth Ranger of the team, Sora joins the girls after they've had some time to bond, and feels a little out of place, both among them and on the Chalice itself, and she doesn't have Eri's experience or Nanohana's sheer will and underlying rage. But her steady cheer and unbreakable spirit supplement the team and make her a cornerstone to keep her partners afloat no matter the circumstance.

Capabilities and Resources: Sora has trained from a young age in martial arts, particularly in her family's own style based on judo. Her Irgelion traits put her on the disturbingly fast track to mastery of the style; she's a very capable combatant even without her mecha, though with her hardlight suit she's amazingly powerful, and in Desu Itsuki there's no contest in melee combat. The additional Irgelion physical differences are also present; Sora eats noticably more often than her contemporaries with no ill effect, and she has improved muscle memory, to aid in learning new tasks, with its matching drawback of it being difficult to un-learn things.

Robot Name: PreDesu Series Operation Unit Claimer-Desu 05: Itsuki
Robot Description: The last of the Claimer-class units, Desu Itsuki is an all-around unit tuned to play to Sora's strengths: physical power and defense in balance. Like the other Claimer-class units, Itsuki is equipped with an AI, in this case Potpourri, that converts emotion into power; a large part of Sora's pilot training was encouraging her to express her emotions more to increase the unit's power. It also possesses thrusters for flight, though they're not particularly powerful, limiting their usefulness.

Desu Itsuki also has access to several special abilities, notably the Itsuki Aegis, a powerful shield that can reflect attacks and has high defensive ability; the Itsuki Aegis Impact, a variant shield that be thrown at an enemy for positioning and ranged defense; Itsuki Protection, a large and exceptionally resistant wall-type shield ability; Itsuki Dynamite, an explosion clearing an area around the machine without significantly damaging itself; and the Itsuki Flash, a ranged attack similar in function to her colleagues' Tsubomi Shower and Erika Shoot.

Unlike the other Claimer-class units, Itsuki is not equipped with a TACT. Instead, it carries the Itsuki Tambourine, a unique focus item that can be used readily as an energy-ringed chakram or a simple energy cannon. It also functions as a catalyst for Itsuki's finishing move, the Gold Forte Wave, which fires a great number of missile-like projectiles that lock on to one enemy and together form a flower-like restraining net, which can be detonated for extreme damage to the bound enemy. The Itsuki Tambourine is also used as a focus in Itsuki's shield abilities.

Itsuki, along with all the other Desu units, is equipped with the Hold HANDS link system to enable communication and synchronized actions with other Desu units, and can execute powerful team attacks by linking with Desu Tsubomi and/or Desu Erika. It also can equip a Desu Wing, an energy cape that manifests on the back of the unit and dramatically improves her flight capabilities.

Terrain Stats:
Land: A | Air: B | Sea: B | Space: B
After equipping a Desu Wing:
Land: A | Air: A | Sea: B | Space: A

Upgrades: None yet. Sora will probably gain a variation of the Endless-class unit Desu Gold, but that's down the road. I'll propose upgrades when I've got information ready for them.

Suggested Event List: No changes to the existing PreDESU mission list (right now). Ideally I'd like to have Sora in quickly so I can join existing PreDESU missions and not need to cheat her in. At some point I may propose another mission(s) for the list for her, but not just yet.

Sample Post: A testrun is available in [livejournal.com profile] testrun_box.