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Player Name: Elaine E-mail: animedutchess@yahoo.com Preferred Contact:jackabee on Plurk Timezone: EST Current Characters in Victory Road: Jane Crocker, Asriel Dreemurr, Thida
Character Name: Anthy Himemiya Series: Revolutionary Girl Utena Timeline: Immediately after Episode 39, "Someday, We'll Shine Together" Canon Resource Links:major spoilers if you've never seen the anime
Personality: Anthy is a character with a very clear and conscious divide between her outward appearance and her inner thoughts and emotions. For what's implied to be thousands of years, she's had to cultivate and maintain a perfect "doormat" personality, molding to the whims and wishes of the duelists she, as the Rose Bride, became engaged to. In this, she is quiet, demure, a bit spacey, and fond of spending time with her pet monkey Chuchu more than finding company in other people. Others find themselves seeing their deep desires reflected in her in various ways, whether through her exibiting a talent they had not known of before or her being in the right place at the right time. The amount of bullying she's been known to suffer is almost comical, as she does not dare to visibly stand up for herself. Even in this state, she appears resigned to her role as the Rose Bride, being shuffled between duelists and very rarely showing emotion over having to switch "owners". She does express a dislike of crowds, and given the turning point in her past (being brutally and repeatedly stabbed with swords by a crowd of malicious people), this may actually be a genuine fear for her.
Her inner self, however, is incredibly complex. Her desirable status is pure manipulation, expertly parroting back what others want from her and coaxing them into her brother's dueling game. A master of the "wounded gazelle" gambit, she gets her revenge through vindictive magic, heaping "coincidence" after "coincidence" onto those who show her cruelty or altering a person's body entirely, and does so with no remorse - though none of it is permanent. For much of her life she has had little hope for humanity; her reward for trying to protect her brother from dying due to exhaustion after having to save almost every girl in the world as the world's prince was to be brutally stabbed by multiple swords for all eternity, and to watch her brother transform into a selfish, abusive man who uses her as a pawn (the Rose Bride) to regain power, forcing her to comply to an incestuous relationship and to be ultimately submissive to the participants in the dueling game. And she goes with it, out of a clinging, selfless love for the person her brother used to be and without any hope that her existence could ever change. It was Utena Tenjou, the only person who tried to break the barrier of duelist and bride, who was willing to - and did - sacrifice everything she had to save Anthy from her eternal torment, that gave her the strength to leave her brother and her torment behind.
At this point in her canon, Anthy is primarily motivated by her fervent wish to find Utena once more, the other girl's sacrifice having moved her so deeply that she feels, even after a great sacrifice, something like that is possible. She still knows fully well how to "act" as a helpless damsel, but she had allowed herself to experience life as a normal girl with Utena and thus can socialize a bit better with people and be more comfortable as Anthy. She can only really cook snacks like tea or shaved ice; her curry has been known to explode and magically switch the personalities of the eaters. Most of the time she is soft-spoken. She gets along well with small animals, and will often do strange, silly little things on her own while no one is paying attention, like doodling little cartoons in the corners of notebooks, singing to herself, etc, and is dutiful and detail-oriented when it comes to domestic tasks such as cleaning, laundry, and gardening.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Rocket Grunt Starter: Aipom (lv 15) and Vulpix (lv 5) Password: Atomic Fireball
She has to tell herself that it was to survive in this place. That it was for her safety, that it was to make it to the other side of...whatever lay beyond these unfamiliar regions. Surely, if she could get there, then...surely, then she could continue her search, however long it might take. This was just a detour, a stop along the road. An...unwanted, unscheduled stop.
Anthy tells herself this in the morning as she rolls her voluminous hair to sit at the nape of her neck, when she slips on the glasses that she does not need to wear. She tells it to herself when the first creature she had been given, something called an Aipom, looks at her with pitying concern before shoving the berries he eats for breakfast into his cheeks and crosses his eyes. She lets herself forget the thought - an improvement from her time in Ohtori - when the silly face makes her laugh and he clamors up on her shoulder, heavier and bigger than Chuchu ever was and yet still such a comforting weight.
The thought returns and keeps her back straight, her smile sweet, when she crosses paths with people in the Rocket Headquarters, and if it weren't for the bright red 'R' on every shirt, she could leave it be for a time while she does laundry and cleans rooms from top to bottom. It haunts her in crowds where people's faces still swim together and look the same, where she needs to move in silence without disturbing a soul. (Her Aipom is a Godsend during these times, for when panic locks her into place and the piercing phantom pain of a thousand swords seizes her, the hand on his tail always manages to pick up something good while the original owner walks by unaware. As much as it hurts to make him do this work, she's grateful, too, that he worries for her so.)
She only feels free again - really, truly free - out at the park among the roses. A bush of white ones is her special place, where the Aipom and the other creature she'd been given, the Vulpix with too-wide eyes, snuggle close to her as she speaks to them in soft tones about anything at all. At those times, it's almost as if she were closer to finding Utena than ever, even though she knows that's not true.
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Anthy Himemiya | Revolutionary Girl Utena
Name: Elaine
E-mail: animedutchess@yahoo.com
Preferred Contact: jackabee on Plurk
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Victory Road: Jane Crocker, Asriel Dreemurr, Thida
Character
Name: Anthy Himemiya
Series: Revolutionary Girl Utena
Timeline: Immediately after Episode 39, "Someday, We'll Shine Together"
Canon Resource Links: major spoilers if you've never seen the anime
Personality: Anthy is a character with a very clear and conscious divide between her outward appearance and her inner thoughts and emotions. For what's implied to be thousands of years, she's had to cultivate and maintain a perfect "doormat" personality, molding to the whims and wishes of the duelists she, as the Rose Bride, became engaged to. In this, she is quiet, demure, a bit spacey, and fond of spending time with her pet monkey Chuchu more than finding company in other people. Others find themselves seeing their deep desires reflected in her in various ways, whether through her exibiting a talent they had not known of before or her being in the right place at the right time. The amount of bullying she's been known to suffer is almost comical, as she does not dare to visibly stand up for herself. Even in this state, she appears resigned to her role as the Rose Bride, being shuffled between duelists and very rarely showing emotion over having to switch "owners". She does express a dislike of crowds, and given the turning point in her past (being brutally and repeatedly stabbed with swords by a crowd of malicious people), this may actually be a genuine fear for her.
Her inner self, however, is incredibly complex. Her desirable status is pure manipulation, expertly parroting back what others want from her and coaxing them into her brother's dueling game. A master of the "wounded gazelle" gambit, she gets her revenge through vindictive magic, heaping "coincidence" after "coincidence" onto those who show her cruelty or altering a person's body entirely, and does so with no remorse - though none of it is permanent. For much of her life she has had little hope for humanity; her reward for trying to protect her brother from dying due to exhaustion after having to save almost every girl in the world as the world's prince was to be brutally stabbed by multiple swords for all eternity, and to watch her brother transform into a selfish, abusive man who uses her as a pawn (the Rose Bride) to regain power, forcing her to comply to an incestuous relationship and to be ultimately submissive to the participants in the dueling game. And she goes with it, out of a clinging, selfless love for the person her brother used to be and without any hope that her existence could ever change. It was Utena Tenjou, the only person who tried to break the barrier of duelist and bride, who was willing to - and did - sacrifice everything she had to save Anthy from her eternal torment, that gave her the strength to leave her brother and her torment behind.
At this point in her canon, Anthy is primarily motivated by her fervent wish to find Utena once more, the other girl's sacrifice having moved her so deeply that she feels, even after a great sacrifice, something like that is possible. She still knows fully well how to "act" as a helpless damsel, but she had allowed herself to experience life as a normal girl with Utena and thus can socialize a bit better with people and be more comfortable as Anthy. She can only really cook snacks like tea or shaved ice; her curry has been known to explode and magically switch the personalities of the eaters. Most of the time she is soft-spoken. She gets along well with small animals, and will often do strange, silly little things on her own while no one is paying attention, like doodling little cartoons in the corners of notebooks, singing to herself, etc, and is dutiful and detail-oriented when it comes to domestic tasks such as cleaning, laundry, and gardening.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Rocket Grunt
Starter: Aipom (lv 15) and Vulpix (lv 5)
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: TDM link
Victory Road Sample:
She has to tell herself that it was to survive in this place. That it was for her safety, that it was to make it to the other side of...whatever lay beyond these unfamiliar regions. Surely, if she could get there, then...surely, then she could continue her search, however long it might take. This was just a detour, a stop along the road. An...unwanted, unscheduled stop.
Anthy tells herself this in the morning as she rolls her voluminous hair to sit at the nape of her neck, when she slips on the glasses that she does not need to wear. She tells it to herself when the first creature she had been given, something called an Aipom, looks at her with pitying concern before shoving the berries he eats for breakfast into his cheeks and crosses his eyes. She lets herself forget the thought - an improvement from her time in Ohtori - when the silly face makes her laugh and he clamors up on her shoulder, heavier and bigger than Chuchu ever was and yet still such a comforting weight.
The thought returns and keeps her back straight, her smile sweet, when she crosses paths with people in the Rocket Headquarters, and if it weren't for the bright red 'R' on every shirt, she could leave it be for a time while she does laundry and cleans rooms from top to bottom. It haunts her in crowds where people's faces still swim together and look the same, where she needs to move in silence without disturbing a soul. (Her Aipom is a Godsend during these times, for when panic locks her into place and the piercing phantom pain of a thousand swords seizes her, the hand on his tail always manages to pick up something good while the original owner walks by unaware. As much as it hurts to make him do this work, she's grateful, too, that he worries for her so.)
She only feels free again - really, truly free - out at the park among the roses. A bush of white ones is her special place, where the Aipom and the other creature she'd been given, the Vulpix with too-wide eyes, snuggle close to her as she speaks to them in soft tones about anything at all. At those times, it's almost as if she were closer to finding Utena than ever, even though she knows that's not true.
ACCEPTED
Congratulations, you have a fun and exciting adventure awaiting you.
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