⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉

Player: Michi
Contact: cloudatlas ((plurk))
Age: 5,00-- I mean 25
Current Characters: None


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉

Character: Yona
Age: 16
Canon: Akatsuki no Yona
Canon Point: Chapter 94

Background: Here

Personality: Yona was raised fifteen years without ever having left the castle. At that time, she was a bright-eyed, naive young girl whose only problems were the fact that her true love only seemed to see her as a younger sister - and that even when he realized it, that her father wouldn’t allow them to be married anyway. She lost her mother at a young age, so she loved her father dearly and believed in him as a king completely, even though she’d never seen the world outside of the castle. To her, he was, perhaps, a cowardly king, but one who promoted peace.

However, losing her father and being forced out of the castle set into motion a lot of changes for Yona. At first she was traumatized and couldn’t find what to live for. But after that, she began to start over; building a strength inside of herself that she’d never had before. Though she begins to see that the kingdom her father ruled was not the happy, peaceful place she believed it to be, she still maintained her pride and responsibility as his daughter and sought to correct the injustices and protect the people of her land, even though she could not allow them to know that it was the doing of ‘Yona’, taking on the name ‘Lina’ for such situations. Despite being evicted from the castle and being presumed dead, Yona never lost her love for the people of the kingdom. She’s the type who simply can’t pass by people who are in need or suffering. She feels that if she can just share a fraction of the warmth she’s been shown by the people she’s met and her travelling companions then she’s sure they’ll reach out their hands for help.

A new fierceness was born in Yona that never existed before. In situations where her friends are in danger, she’s been shown to put herself in danger time and time again to try and protect them, despite knowing that she doesn’t have the power they do. Whether it’s picking up a sword and putting herself between her comrade and her enemy, even when she’s never used one before in her life, or offering herself up as a distraction, Yona often doesn’t think twice about defending her friends despite her actual powerlessness. Because more than anything, her greatest fear is losing those people she cares about so much.

In situations where she thinks about what she’s about to do - such as climbing down a narrow cliff to gather some herbs - of course she’s terrified. She knows that unlike her friends, she isn’t particularly strong and she doesn’t have any special abilities. She’s very aware of her frail body and hates it. Constantly she’s thinking about how she can become stronger to protect the people she cares about and be useful to them. She no longer cares to be pampered - she wants to be taught. About the world, how to fight, and things such as cooking and cleaning. But the thing that’s remarkable about Yona is her amazing conviction. Once she’s set her mind to do something; she refuses to back down. Even if her legs are shaking and it’s hard to move, she forces herself to move forward one tiny step at a time. She never argues her fear. Of course she’s scared. She knows how easily she could die. But at the same time she refuses to allow it to hold her back.

Yona is also incredibly honest. Even if it’s something that would be fine to leave out, she won’t. When she received help on a particular trial, she was told that she could keep it a secret, but she told anyway and was ready to do it all over again to prove herself properly. She is also known to put significance on certain items, such as the hairpin that was given to her by Soo-won. Despite all that happened, when she thought she lost it, she went out at night and wandered aimlessly to find it, ending up rather far from the camp and putting herself in danger looking for it. For that reason, she can also understand the significance other people put into special items as well.

At first it was just her and Hak traveling together. At that time, Yona relied on him heavily and was asking him and him alone to support her. Though they might have split up and she could have lived a peaceful life as someone else, she simply couldn’t allow it. At that time, she hated even being away from him in the smallest amount. However, their party slowly grew and soon she had a whole network of support. Hak no longer had to support her on his own and she was able to overcome that fear of leaving his side to the point where now, she’s willing to go off on her own, even if none of her friends are going with her. She’s come to trust them so much in the short months that they’ve been together. Now she can say that even if they’re apart, she believes she can count on them. And more than that, she’s come to trust herself more. Instead of putting it all on others, she’s started to want to carry her own weight. Her goal is to be able to continue to grow so that she can support the others as well and protect them in return, despite the fact that their powers and abilities make that seem unnecessary.

Yona can still be very dense about certain subjects - primarily love and romance. Despite the fact that she sometimes says things that can be construed in a romantic nature, the statements are always meant in a far more innocent nature and she doesn’t seem to grasp why she shouldn’t say it in that way. She doesn’t recognize romantic interest when it’s pointed at her, although she’s proven that outside of herself, she understands the adult side of relationships between men and women. But she doesn’t seem to grasp relating that to herself. This is all proof that deep down, there are still parts of her that are innocent and simplistic. Her idealist nature is another that lends itself to her innocence. Even though they run into a lot of complicated situations, Yona always feels like there must be something they can do to help. And while some of her ideas are simplistic, she always acts with peoples’ best interests in mind.

There are also a number of situations where Yona has shown her anger and the face she makes has terrified grown men. That fierce anger comes from a very deep place; born of the betrayal she faced from Soo-won and has grown with every suffering person she’s met. Although she’s shown killer instincts regarding Soo-won, she also come to realize that despite her anger - when she had the opportunity, she simply couldn’t do it. Even though he hurt her more deeply than anyone else, her heart is unable to throw away it’s feelings for him entirely either. It’s painful for her, but being able to confess that fact to someone helped her accept it and move on a little, even though it still hurt. Even though she's come to understand his reasons for making himself King; she still has a hard time accepting it. Or perhaps it's best to say that she's incapable of making rational decisions without a little guidance where Soo-won is concerned. She freezes up only to boil over like a volcano and then take three steps back and get caught again.

When she’s forcing a happy face however, and she does this occasionally as a defensive mechanism, she’s very transparent. She acts overly perky and repeats the same lines often. Enough that no one could possibly believe that she was fine. Regarding physical weakness, she's a little better at hiding her discomfort and pushing forward; however, it usually very obvious that she's pushing herself and thus... that she can't possibly be as well as she claims.

She no longer puts herself before others and can connect with people now because she’s able to put herself on their level. She can empathize strongly with the suffering now because she’s been able to experience those kinds of feelings since leaving the castle. Yona has become very down to earth, and speaks very casually for a princess. She also speaks from the heart with a kind of warm honesty that’s both refreshing and charismatic. But she also recognizes that she can and is selfish and demanding at times. But all these things put together have shown to make her rather compelling. People listen to her because they see both the strength and the weakness in her and acknowledge her conviction to overcome the trials before her.

Abilities: Compared to her companions, Yona often battles with the fact that she is in fact powerless. As far as skills - at first she didn’t have even that. However, as her resolve grew, she decided that it wasn’t okay to continue on like that. And so she took up a bow and learned to use it. Though she hasn’t used it long, she has spent tireless hours practicing, and has proven that in dire situations, she has the strength and accuracy to shoot people down from a distance.

More recently she’s also begun studying swordsmanship, despite everyone’s reluctance to allow it. Compared to the bow, using a sword is a lot newer to her, and not as efficient. She hasn’t had much practice and the practice she did on her own wasn’t as effective. But she’s gotten to the point where she can utilize the lessons Hak taught her to get in blows. She doesn’t have strength, but he’s taught her smart strategies and counter-moves. She has been praised for her form, although she knows she still needs to build up her strength.

She also has a bond of some kind with the dragon warriors that she could feel when she met them and in times when they were in distress.

Alignment: Thras. So much of Yona’s development is tied to both fear and bravery, and her greatest strength as a character and the thing most admired about her is her bravery despite her fear. It’s not only important to her, but they have left impacts on those around her as well. As such, I feel it’s the best choice for her.

Other: Nope.

⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉

Sample: Yona quickly made her way through Verens, hood pulled up over her head, asking questions of anyone who would listen. Anything from ‘Can you tell me where I am?’ to ‘What happened to this place?’ or even ‘Have you see a suspicious-looking man with short black hair?’ She has so many questions about this place she’s found herself and her current situation. Just how far is she from the Kouka Kingdom? It’s frustrating, because not only can she get herself any closer to home - people can’t tell her how this ‘world’ ended up like this either. What she did know was that something terrible had happened... and that the mission of the people was to rebuild it, and it could only be done with emotions.

With hope, light and love...

The frustrated part of Yona, that wanted to go home felt like crying. But a much larger part of her knew she couldn’t simply walk away from a situation like this. It was a difficult situation. She knew that back home, her people could be suffering just as much if not worse, and she was not there to help them. But she also knew that in her heart, she couldn’t expect anyone else to help these people if she wasn’t willing to do it herself.

Surely the others would tell her that she should focus on going home too... but as always, her mind was made up. As much as she’d like to see them, and as torn up as she was by their absence at her side... she knew she couldn’t run away. She couldn’t expect people to always support her. Her hand closed around the strange amulet she had found on her person when she arrived here. It was her connection to this world, as strange and crazy as it was.

And then, she stood up a little taller, despite her small stature, and took off into town. Her strength and bravery, despite the fact that her small hands and legs trembled... they left an impact on the world around her. But she wasn’t okay with doing just that. She threw herself into work. When she saw people struggling, she stopped. “Is there anything I can do to help?” People tried to tell her it was alright, but she put her body to work too, cleaning up. And by doing that, she began to earn the people’s trust, and they looked at her in awe.

“I can’t just expect everything to happen on it’s own, even if they say that’s what I’m here for...” No matter how she looked at it, she simply couldn’t accept that letting this world soak up her emotions was all she could do.

Questions: I got nothing.