From Sailor Moon Flash!
| Princess Kakyuu, Sailor Fireball | |
|---|---|
 Hanako (Relia) | |
| Profile | |
| Name: | Mitsu Hanako |
| Birthday: | February 13 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Affiliation: | Kinmoku, Chuo |
| Powers: | Wisdom |
| Player: | Alysa |
Contents |
[edit] The Basics
Name: Mitsu Hanako (光花子) -- shining blossom child. The Mitsu name is somewhat well-known to those who follow poetry.
Position: Kakyuu, Kinmoku Princess of Wisdom and Sailor Fireball; First Year student at Chuo Gakuen.
Appearance: With a mane of rich, glossy ruby, Hanako is hard to lose in a crowd. She wears her hair brushing her shoulders and very simply styled with layers to give it a bit of flare. Though thick, her hair is also mostly straight but for where it naturally flips out at the ends. Hanako tends to wear her hair down except for in the summer when she pulls it back in two French braids at the back of her head.
Hanako's captivating eyes are almond-shaped, generous in size, and framed by long, dark lashes. Their color is a deep, lively ruby that's hard not to be drawn to. Intelligence shines in their depths, and with a spirited glimmer, her eyes are full of character and charm.
Delicate, smooth features lend a soft beauty to a face otherwise characterized by impish delight and cheerful verve. Her face is not spectacular in its beauty, though it is certainly attractive. One doesn't notice Hanako's individual features half as much as one notices the bright, shining life in every look.
Hanako stands at 5'0". She is naturally very petite in body, slender and proportioned to her diminutive height. She is pint-sized and entirely nonthreatening physically. Hanako has muscle, but nothing extraordinary — just enough to deem her healthy and fit.
The most obvious thing about the way Hanako carries and holds herself is that she's not consciously paying any thought to it. Her posture is good, but casual and relaxed in an unthinking way; were she to think about it, she'd tense up. When Hanako moves, it's with ease. Her steps are light and smooth. Hanako's stance is open and welcoming. She always looks approachable.
A soft alto, Hanako's voice is exceedingly pleasant -- pleasant, not beautiful. The warm smoothness of her voice is comforting and relaxing to listen to, and Hanako has a way of putting people at ease just with her mellow tones. Her laugh ranges from higher, airy laughter and a low, quiet chuckle.
Hanako's personal style is simple. She takes nice clothes and puts a casual, relaxed spin on them. So while she wears blouses rather than t-shirts, and skirts and khakis instead of jeans, she might layer her shirts to give them a bit of flare. She chooses clothes that flatter, but that are appropriate; she doesn't want to give her daddy headaches.
Age/Birthday/Astrological Whatnot: Hanako was born February 13, 1987 which makes her 15 years old in 2002. Her star chart has the sun in Aquarius, the moon in Leo, and Libra on the rise.
[edit] Mundane Life
Friends and Family: Mitsu Masuyo ('shining, to increase the world'; 40 years old; Pisces-Libra) -- Mitsu-sensei has a great passion for knowledge and understanding; one doesn't have to look far to see where Hanako got it from. It'd be trite to say that he's in touch with his emotions, but Masuyo does feel things on a deep level, and he's not ashamed of that. He isn't steered by his emotions, but he's quite affected by them. He's a quiet man, soft-spoken and thoughtful. He's also exceptionally intelligent; Kyoto University is one of the top schools in Japan. Masuyo probably could have been anything he wanted, but he wanted nothing more than to share his love of history.
Masuyo is average height for a man his age, with a lean, fit build. He's always been healthy. His hair is coal black, and his eyes are the color of dark garnets. The way he carries himself is remarkably similar to how Hanako does; people who notice such things would easily be able to pick them out as father-daughter. When they're together, even people who don't notice such things can tell they're related, because of it. He is, however, clumsy and far from sure-footed. He trips over his own feet, bumps into things, and usually is unable to carry more than one thing without dropping something at least once.
Masuyo and Hanako are kindred spirits. They've gotten along famously since Hanako was first born, and they bonded all the closer after losing Tama. Masuyo loves his daughter and cherishes her, and he's not particularly adverse to showing it. Of course, he's never been for loud displays, so his affection is shown in quiet, little ways. But it's nonetheless obvious.
Mitsu Shin ('shining truth'; 80-something years old) -- If it's obvious that Hanako takes after her father, it's equally obvious that Masuyo takes after his grandfather. Shin is a true artist, and his poems are things of beauty and resonant feeling, wholly expressive of his own love for the subject. Shin is the type of person who never seems to do anything without giving it a great deal of thought. Perhaps he is slower to act than others, as a result, but Shin is deeply patient and his patience has a way of rubbing off on the people he's around. Shin has a timeless quality to him; it's easy to imagine that he's been in Kyoto forever, as permanent a fixture as the mountains.
Despite being in his eighties, Shin is disgustingly healthy. He's led a good life, and it shows. He moves slower than he used to and he's not up for a lot of physical strain, but all together he gets around just fine for a man his age. His hair has gone white, but it used to be a very dark red. His eyes are cognac brown. His face shows that in his prime he must have been a heart-breaker, and his features are as full of character and spirit as Hanako's.
Hanako and Shin have a deep appreciation of one another, and they share a close relationship carried over from the years when Hanako would spend her days with Shin. Though they no longer live within easy distance, they exchange regular letters, and Hanako and Masuyo visit him as often as they're able.
Mitsu Tama ('shining and perfect' or Tama Satu 'perfect fairytale'; 39 years old) -- One doesn't have to be around Tama long to see what captivated Masuyo so utterly. Tama is full of life and verve, her pretty face alight with humor. Tama knows how to live her life, and she's always been determined to live it as well as possible. She feels things strongly, and gives herself over utterly to her emotions. Perhaps she feels things *too* strongly, and at times suffers for her lack of restraint. Such was the cause for her depression when she moved to Japan, and she could do little but submit to it, as she had always done.
Short and petite, Tama has a very feminine, delicate beauty made striking by her boundless energy. Her eyes are amber-colored, and her hair is ginger-red.
While Tama is back to living a happy life in the States, she will always be hard-hit by the guilt of leaving her husband and daughter behind. It is that guilt, and a fear of triggering another terrible bout of depression, that keeps her from being more active in either of their lives. She sends them both the occasional letter, telling Hanako that she thinks of her often and wonders about how she's growing up. Hanako sends letters back with pictures of herself and the details of her life; she doesn't really expect or need anything back from Tama -- really, she does it more for her absent mother than she does for herself.
Usual Daily Routine:
Background: It all starts one rainy March morning in Kyoto. Mitsu Kohana, pale and weak, left the world as her baby boy entered it. Grief has taken its toll since the death of her husband, and the stresses of childbirth were more than she could suffer through. Not even minutes old, the newborn had been orphaned. Mitsu Shin, paternal grandfather and last remaining relative of the child, gave him the name Masuyo and took him into his own home.
Shin had been a scholar in his earlier years, and a renowned poet. He lived in a world of the old and ancient, his passion for the noble history and tradition of his home. His life's work was to capture his love for Japan's past in his poems. Masuyo learned a similar reverence for the world and for Japan from his grandfather, and dedicated himself to becoming a scholar in Shin's footsteps.
Upon graduation of high school, Masuyo attended Kyoto University at which he dedicated himself to becoming a teacher of the history he'd come to love so much. As Shin shared his love in the form of poetry, Masuyo would share his passion through education of Japan's youth.
Not long at all after receiving his degree, Masuyo was given the opportunity of a lifetime. There was an educational exchange planned with a sister school in the United States, in which teachers from both schools would essentially trade places. Being young and eager to experience more of the world that he'd studied, Masuyo traveled to Seattle, Washington where he taught his language and culture to high school students.
There, he met a young Japanese-American woman who taught at the same school. Tama Satu -- who introduced herself first-name-first in Western style -- had been born and raised in the States, as had her parents. Her strongest ties to Japan were in her grandparents who had come to the US when they themselves were young. Tama was more American than she was Japanese. She had Masuyo's attention from the start, and the two fell hard and fast for one another. Within a year, they were married, and within nine months of their marriage (almost exactly) their baby girl was born. Masuyo named her Hanako, a name taken from his mother's, and he was immediately taken with her, his own beautiful little legacy. For a time, he and Tama were closer than ever, and Masuyo's life was complete -- but for one thing.
Now that he had a family, he felt it was time to return to Japan. He'd never intended to live permanently in the US, after all, and what better time to go back then when he had a wife and daughter to properly settle down with? Tama, for her part, had agreed before marrying him that they would one day move back, and she was genuinely excited about getting to live in the land she'd studied but never been to. She and Masuyo disagreed, though, on when it'd be best to make the move. While Masuyo wanted to go right away, Tama didn't feel right making such a large change in their world when Hanako -- or Hana, as Tama always called her -- was so little.
It wasn't until Hanako was two years old that Masuyo and Tama finally made the trip. They returned to Masuyo's native Kyoto prefecture, and Masuyo settled in as a teacher there. At first, Tama felt exhilarated in being in Japan, and she fell hard for dear Shin. But it wasn't long until she was homesick. The exciting newness of Japan wore off within six months and culture shock set in. Tama missed her family and friends back in the US. She missed the familiar surroundings of Western culture. She and Masuyo began to grow apart as he flourished in his homeland and she took to isolating herself more and more.
Masuyo -- oblivious, deliriously happy Masuyo -- knew his wife was struggling with the transition and did everything he could to make it easier for her, but he never guessed at just *how* miserable Tama had become until she broke the news to him that she had to leave, that she couldn't live in Japan for another year. Hanako was three years old and quietly asserting her personality and presence in the household, and Masuyo had become so *content* with his life that he'd never imagined Tama could actually want to *leave*.
But leave she did. Tama was, at that point, clinically depressed. She was not the same energetic and shining young woman that Masuyo had fallen in love with. She'd lost who that woman was, and in desperation, left for home where she thought she could find her again.
Abandoned to raise their daughter on his own, Masuyo could only do the best he could as he struggled with his own feelings of failure and loss. Hanako, too young to understand what was going on, only knew that her mother wasn't there anymore, and her father was always sad. The two clung to one another, taking comfort in closeness. Even at three, Hanako knew instinctively that her father would never leave her, and that was all she needed to know in order to heal.
The pair of them did all right for themselves in Kyoto after they regained a sense of normality and order. Shin was close enough to care for the quiet, well-behaved little girl when Masuyo needed him to. He was getting on in his years, but Hanako was an exceptionally easy child to care for. She'd inherited her father and great-grandfather's love of learning, and could be content for hours left to her own devices with something to explore. All she really needed was to be close, to have someone near. That was easy enough for Masuyo and Shin both to provide.
When Hanako entered proper school, it was a bit of a surprise to her father that she didn't do better at her lessons. She did well enough, just about average, but it seemed that her love for learning didn't extend to learning in school. Masuyo could only coax enthusiasm out of her when he went over her lessons with her at home. When it came from him, she would engage and put forward an effort that got the work done easily, but Hanako just couldn't seem to connect with her teachers.
Not long after Hanako's tenth birthday, Masuyo accepted a well-paying teaching position at Chuo Gakuen in Tokyo. He didn't think he'd ever move again -- not after the last time -- but this was a good school that Hanako could go to one day, and it was good money, and that part of him that always wanted to see and experience and know more had never gone away. The two of them made the move without incident, content to know they could visit Kyoto and Shin anytime they wanted.
Now that Hanako was older and better able to care for herself, the two of them settled into a comfortable pattern. They were both quiet types and they were both happy to exist in a calm, halcyon state where common curiosities and warm closeness was how they both said 'I love you' and where an unasked for cup of tea or an extra scoop of ice cream or the click of a lamp being turned on when the sun lowered and cast shadows over books said 'I'm here, I care'.
Hanako worked hard, mostly for her father, to get through the entrance exams for high school and be accepted at Chuo where her father worked. She does better now with her studies, having learned how to take the lessons and put them in her own terms as her father used to do for her. Where she still falters is usually when her teachers object to the way she changes things to suit her. Hanako cares more about the *learning* than she does the *process* and while she does her best to accommodate both, she does occasionally run into trouble there.
Truthfully, she puts much more energy into living her life to its fullest. She doesn't remember her time in the US and she only vaguely remembers her mother, who she's only had scant contact with over the years, and if anything those experiences have made her appreciate what she does have more. She loves Japan, her home, and she loves her father. She cares deeply for her friends, and does what she can to make their lives a little better. To Hanako, if she has lived, if she has learned and experienced, if she has loved and cared and helped, then life is good and she can be proud of each day.
[edit] A Little More Specific
Quirks: A compassionate humanitarian to her core, and always the person with answers, Hanako is the person others come to for help and guidance, and she will always give it. She is a champion of fairness and balance, and can also always be counted on to see that justice is had. She is gracious, warm, and caring, balanced by proud independence, and confidence.
Whenever possible, Hanako does her homework outdoors. She'll go to a nearby park, or settle down in the little garden courtyard outside her apartment. She likes the fresh air, and the sun when it's out.
Hanako is rarely idle if she can help it. Even when she seems at rest, she's doing *something*, even if it's just reading or listening to someone talk. At home she'll often to be tidying this or that or preparing dinner. At school she'll be working on her lessons or homework, even during breaks.
When Hanako is with her friends, she's generally a tactile person unless she knows the other person is strictly hands-off. She's not clingy, but she often reaches out for little touches -- pats to the arm or back, a supportive hand-clasp, a light hug, whatever.
Darkest Secret:
Reactions to Sudden Hugs:
Virtues and Vices:
[edit] Badassery
Power Sphere: Wisdom. This extends to somewhat more than zen enlightment or simple knowledge, in the same way that Galaxia's sphere of Strength is not just brute force.
Asswhoopery: Grade AA Brainmeat -- Hanako is intelligent; she's clever, she has exceptionally acute insight, and she just seems to understand things and see to their bottom line. Thus Hanako often operates with a better understanding for a given situation than what most people have, and this tends to give her an advantage. She's quicker off the line, and she can head straight for the objective while others bounce around figuring stuff out. As Kakyuu, she has this skill ten-fold. When something strange is going on, it will often be Kakyuu that knows what's up. This is not only due to her special insight, but she knows how to deploy her court in such a way that they supply her with all the information she could ever need. Kakyuu can and does take this information and apply it into Figuring Stuff Out. Kakyuu ends up being the one with all the pertinent info.
The Negotiator -- As seen in her after-school hobby of refereeing, Hanako is a natural mediator. She sees and listens to both sides, and works hard to achieve a fair balance between them. She likes things to be stable and harmonious, at least when it's important (idle squabbling doesn't bother her), and she's good at guiding others away from conflict. Kakyuu may very well be the one who keeps the factions from tearing each other apart before the bad guys can even get to them.
Loyalty -- As in, Hanako has a way of inspiring it. She gives her heart to those she cares for, and extends the warmest intimacy and affection to them. In return, people usually respond to the attention she gives them by being utterly loyal to her. Hanako doesn't draw people to her like a magnet; she wins them by giving of herself.
Cool as a cucumber -- Hanako keeps her head in a crisis. She doesn't fret, she doesn't lose her composure, and she just generally doesn't freak out. Hanako is simply wired to be calm even while under pressure, and so she handles crisis situations with level-headed stability. She can be counted on.
Open-minded -- Somewhat due to her upbringing and somewhat due to her natural disposition, Hanako is incredibly open-minded about things that aren't Japanese. She's not a rebel or a hippy; most people wouldn't even notice that she places more value in non-Japanese ideas and practices and people than they might. This is because Hanako knows how to be discreet, and she doesn't treat it as something that needs to be shouted from the rooftops. In any case, Hanako won't blink at befriending a gaijin. She won't hesitate to deviate from the accepted norm if she feels she must.
Greatest Weakness:
Attacks:
Starlights Royal Straight Flush -- Fireball brings both hands up to her face, her fingers and thumbs together as if she were grasping something. She murmurs "Starlights" and her hands begin to glow. As she says "Royal" rectangles of light form in her hands in the shape of cards. She calls "Straight" and the cards become solid. Kakyuu twists around at the waist, temporarily hiding the cards from view until she shouts "Flush!" and whips back around, bringing her left arm out. The cards fan out from her hand in an arc around her body. They speed toward their target in streaks of light (curiously toned in each of the other Kinmoku's signature colors). If they should impact, they strike with flashes of Fireball's ruby-colored light.
Like most Kinmoku powers, Royal Straight Flush is a straight forward light-based energy attack. The cards hit their targets with simple destructive energy; it's not fancy, but it packs one hell of a punch all the same. One hit with Royal Straight Flush can destroy a regular Youma, but it would take more than one to battle anything more powerful than that. Due to the cards being spread out when they fly forward, the attack is a hard one to dodge, but someone with shielding capabilities should be able to fend it off (at least once or twice).
Kinmoku Fusion Tempest -- The same wind chimes from her henshin sequence sound from a distance as Fireball begins this attack. As she whispers "Kinmoku" olive blossoms begin to blow across the ground toward her, appearing from nowhere and growing in number. She holds her arm out, angled slightly toward the ground, and draws out the word "Fusion". The olive blossoms lift into the air toward her hand and swirl up around her arm, which she raises above her head. The blossoms leave her hand again to spin around her whole body. Fireball waits until she has a good-sized whirlwind of blossoms before shouting "Tempest!". The whirlwind whips outward and toward her target.
Fusion Tempest is Fireball's defensive power. The blossom whirlwind probably stings when it hits, but it doesn't do any specific damage to its victim. Its purpose is to blind Fireball's opponents and keep them trapped in an overwhelming cloud of blossoms. It can be burned away, but not shielded (the blossoms will just swirl around outside the shield, which still blinds their target). Someone incredibly fast like Seeker could probably run away from the cloud, but Fireball can use this power several times before she tires.
Fireball's Path -- Fireball glows brightly in orange-red tinted light until her features are indistinguishable and she is simply a light-filled silhouette. Then, in the blink of an eye, she shoots upward in a streak of light and disappears about fifty feet up.
The Kinmoku were originally called Starlights for a reason; they came from all over and offered guidance all across the galaxy when needed. A teleportation power for interstellar travel was a necessity. This power can take Fireball anyplace she needs to be so long as she *knows* where that place is or has been there before. Unlike Galaxia's teleportation ability, this cannot be used casually or over short distances. It's for getting from planet to planet only.
Fuku: From bottom to top, she wears curly-toed fairy shoes, poofy shorts under a blossom skirt, a halter top, and sailor collar, with poofy little sleeve-lets around her upper arms, all of it in Fireball's signature ruby red. The band around the blossom skirt is shiny black-navy lined with gold. In the center of her halter top is her broach -- a gold star with white wings extending from either side and the ruby crystal underneath. Around her neck is a light blue string tied in the hollow of her throat in the shape of an olive blossom with the two ends dangling down to her stomach. Fireball's tiara is a gold chain with a star set in the middle. The finishing touch is the ever-present hat from which olive blossoms dangle. Olive blossoms also take the form of earrings.
Henshin: (Fireball Star Power) All goes quiet and still in Hanako's immediate vicinity as the area darkens. The silence is broken only by the faint sound of melodic wind chimes, and a wisp of olive blossom-scented incense smoke drifts through the darkness. The smoke carries with it a single olive blossom that settles gently in her waiting palm. She bends and blows the blossom back into the air where it is caught up in a sudden swirl of olive blossoms born on a fragrant wind that sweeps around her. The blossoms begin to glow as they curl around her silhouette and threads of golden light shoot through the gentle orange glow. Under the cover of the blossoms and light, Fireball's fuku forms piece by piece. When all is complete, the blossoms drift away, the wind chimes are heard again softly, and Fireball is left standing with her arms stretched out and fingers pointed.
