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PLAYER
YOUR NAME: Ax
18+?: Y
CONTACT: Plurk @ Intercession
CHARACTERS IN GAME: Penelo, Kara Zor-El
RESERVATION LINK: Here
YOUR NAME: Ax
18+?: Y
CONTACT: Plurk @ Intercession
CHARACTERS IN GAME: Penelo, Kara Zor-El
RESERVATION LINK: Here
CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Rei Hino
AGE: 22 (series opens at 15, concludes at 22)
CANON: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
NAME: Rei Hino
AGE: 22 (series opens at 15, concludes at 22)
CANON: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
CANON HISTORY: Sailor Mars Wiki, Her Sailor Moon Wiki Entry, and a plot synopsis for the series. I can provide a timeline if need be.
CANON PERSONALITY:
Rei Hino is often described as the ideal Japanese woman, with a regal bearing that causes even Luna to believe she’s the Moon Princess she was searching for. She is beautiful, intelligent, and reserved, with a penchant for being somewhat aloof. To people that she does not know, she often comes across as cold and uncaring, or sarcastic and distant. This is caused at least in part by her strange psychic abilities, which have made some local people afraid of her. It's because of this that she created a sort of mental and emotional barrier that she uses to keep people out. It also lends strength to her notably biting wit when it comes to dealing with people that annoy her.
She lives up to her title of the Goddess of Flame and Passion as when she sets herself to a task she dedicates herself fully to it, approaching it with her whole heart. This can cause her to sort of tunnel vision, and her passion is a bit of a double edged sword by her own admission. She focuses on things or people too much, and worries that she'll burn them up with her dedication.
Balance is an important concept to Rei, especially in regards to her personal life. Rei stresses how vital she views balance in life with her friends, who all tend towards extreme displays like Ami with studying or Makoto with cooking or Usagi with devouring everything in sight. Rei doesn't do those sorts of things, and when she sees her friends overdoing it she's always quick to remind them that they might should consider balancing themselves out a bit more. She doesn't always live up to the advice though, which often gets her teased, but she does try at least.
She has a bit of a temper as well, just like the fire she commands. When pressed, Rei will get extremely angry and lash out at anyone bothering her. She isn't usually physically violent, but she has a tendency to say very mean things when she's angry, and she holds grudges for life if you truly wrong her in some way. Her temper doesn't manifest in yelling and screaming tantrums, but rather cold words and the occasional slap most of the time. Sometimes she'll have a petty reaction and do something more physical like snapping a ruler Minako had been prodding her with, but that is reserved more for comedic frustrations rather than genuine anger. Basically Rei has buttons and it doesn't matter who you are, if you press some of those then be prepared for a very, very, unfriendly reaction.
This is a bit different when dealing with her friends however, the other Senshi in particular. She often attempts to act as a sort of big sister towards them, though her maturity and distant nature often find themselves at odds with her overenthusiastic companions. Rei genuinely cares for each and every one of them in different ways, and it shows despite her best efforts to hide it. When the facade does break, she can be every bit as enthusiastic and friendly as Usagi is bubbly, but such displays are extremely rare and always as part of a group where it's 'okay' for her to show that side of herself.
This gentle, friendly side also manifests around people she feels that she can respect or relate to. Those that are like minded, people who understand the spiritual side of life, or otherwise impress her get a much more favorable reaction. She's more likely to be protective of them, or try to comfort and reassure them. These are the people she craves attention from and looks to form attachments with. That isn't to say she's unkind to strangers she's trying to help, merely that she's more kind to certain types of people.
Another major personality trait for Rei is her distrust of men. She has had very few respectable males in her life, and as such has formed a relatively low opinion of them, regarding them as emotionally weak. Her father, in particular, helped craft this opinion, having abandoned her emotionally when she was very young due to his work. She's not above using men (as we see her do at the beach to get free drinks) to get things that she wants though, she just doesn’t particularly trust them. That said? She has managed to form a lasting friendship with Mamoru Chiba and Motoki Furuhata, but she is still a fairly bitter person. She never, ever forgives her father throughout the course of the canon for essentially abandoning both her and her mother to further his career. To her he is the very vision of someone not to become, and she hates him with a passion.
The trait that most sets Rei apart from most people is her spirituality. She is a Shinto priestess at the Hikawa shrine and is deeply committed to that path. She dreams of becoming the head priest at the shrine in the future, eventually taking over for her grandfather. Shinto, the spiritual native religion of Japan, holds a major influence over nearly every aspect of her life. She disdains modern society, maintaining that it is better to practice the old ways rather than the new. Rei is skilled at meditation, and makes it a point to center herself nightly. She observes various Shinto rituals, and as such could be described as a superstitious person. For Rei, the spirits of the world are very much real, and very much important. Her anachronistic ways do often put her at odds with friends, particularly her dislike of many modern things. Television, video games, and other parts of most teenagers’ lives are things she actively avoids. This isn't to say she's ignorant of them, she just chooses not to utilize them.
Rei’s relationship with the others is also somewhat different due to her family’s wealth. She attends a private (EXPENSIVE), Catholic school, as opposed to the other Senshi, who attend public schools. She summarily has received a better basic education in many ways, which is something that occasionally causes her to snark at them. She can also be described as somewhat snotty, and definitely not interested in the foolishness that people often engage in, including her friends. This prominently is displayed in her dealings with less refined people like Usagi, who earns her ire more often than anyone else. She often gets cold, displaying her sarcastic side a bit more prominently.
When it comes to the more supernatural aspects of her life, Rei is bold and aggressive, like the fire she's so attuned to. She doesn't defend well, she just attacks, leaving this up to the rest of her team. Which is in keeping with her temper. She's always in the vanguard, and as the guardian goddess of war this is where she feels she belongs. Sailor Mars is a warrior at heart, and everything about how she approaches her senshi duties speaks to that. She's the most offense oriented member of the inner guardians and she's prone to the same brash notions as her namesake Mars, the Roman God of War, and she even has twin crows named Phobos and Deimos to aid her much like Mars's own children did him. Mars strives to be helpful, and acts as the secondary leader of the Inner guardians when Venus is otherwise preoccupied or things split up. She's harsh and acts swiftly and decisively.
Her abilities, having manifested in her normal life as well, are a source of concern and worry for her. In addition to emotional abandonment from her father, she has endured ostracism from most people her age because she is strange. She can talk to people normally, but it's made evident that her abilities draw consternation and fear in her debut chapter, with housewives gossiping about her within earshot.
Faith, Loyalty and Duty. These are also characteristics that are absolutely essential to Rei and to all of the other Sailor Senshi. Rei has actually died to protect her ideals with total conviction in her allies ability to carry through and save everyone. She's willing to put it all on the line for a victory, which marks a major growth in her. Early in the series she was headstrong and wanted to work alone but time and teamwork did wear her down. She's become someone who can just put her comfort second for the good of a group, set aside her fear and desire to make things work, and just act as a part of a team. That's what the Sailor Senshi do, all of them, but Rei has often been shown to be among the most loyal and dedicated. She takes hits for her friends, goes into danger alone so that others can escape, and uses her bold, aggressive nature to force her way forward and get others to let her help.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
As Rei Hino
-Psychic Abilities: Rei, unlike most of her companions, possesses supernatural talents in her human form. She’s an onmyouji, a practitioner of a form of traditional Japanese occult study, that was used for a variety of reasons in the distant past. She’s capable of using her powers to garner limited glimpses into the future (usually in dreams), she has a kind of danger sense (much like Spider-Man), and she’s able to sense emotions in people and places. These often come in the form of cryptic visions seen in flames and warnings, a chill on the back of her neck and other similar displays. She’s also able to sense, bind and seal spiritual beings with scrolls she prepares, craft charms that offer a variety of minor protections and blessings (good luck, etc), and she can manipulate fire to a limited degree with her will. Though that may be because she’s also Sailor Mars more than an onmyouji. Any of her powers that relate to another person would require strict permission from a player (with a permissions post in Rei’s journal), and mod permission for them to work on any NPC would be asked for each time it may come up.
-Martial Arts: Rei practices both Kyuudo and Aikido, two martial arts traditionally associated with shrine maidens. Kyuudo is archery and Aikido is a defensive style of hand to hand. She’s in good shape and practices regularly.
-Intelligence: Rei's able to keep up intellectually with Ami Mizuno, who has a canon IQ of 300 (somehow?). She's well educated, well read, and speaks multiple languages. She's familiar with obscure aspects of the Japanese occult, and is well versed in many of the humanities.
-Transformation: Rei has the ability to transform into Eternal Sailor Mars, drawing on her Sailor Crystal (which is literally her heart) to do so. Mars is one of the Sailor Senshi and she’s imbued with many supernatural abilities and skills.
As Sailor Mars
-Martian: Mars isn't human. She looks like one, but there are differences. Most of them come in the form of her divine powers, but there are some mental changes as well, mainly her personality becoming more bold and aggressive. Sailor Senshi are somewhat complicated because they aren't always treated as human after they transform and are often referred to as the guardian goddesses of their respective planets.
-Pyromancy: This is Mars’s signature power, the ability to create and manipulate fire on a fairly massive scale. She conjures enormous blasts of flame, changes it’s shape into all sorts of things. She has a variety of special attacks like any magical girl series but also tends to use unnamed elemental attacks against weaker enemies. She’s created walls of fire, swarms of small fireballs, pinprick sized needles of fire, and all sorts of other things in addition to the huge explosive shots. There is a holy/cleansing quality to her attacks as well, as they burn away the evil and corruption in her enemies with a sort of sacred, purifying effect and seem to hurt evil beings more than others.
-The Mars Arrow: Mars can conjure a bow of holy fire out of her heart. It’s got an incredible range, and once fired it never misses (unless there’s some interference or intercession like a shield or magic). It fires arrows made of her magic fire instead of normal arrows, so she never runs out of shots.
-Psychic Abilities: Being in this form amplifies Rei’s psychic senses and powers a good bit.
-Senshi Powers: All Sailor Senshi are something far more than human, and they have many abilities in common and Rei/Mars is no exception. They all have a Sailor Crystal, which is basically the crystallized essence of the planet they’re the guardian of. The crystals power their abilities and give them near inexhaustible supplies of magical power. They’ll continually be reborn so long as their crystal exists, ensuring that as long as the planet survives it will have a guardian ‘goddess,’ as explained by Sailor Star Healer. They’re granted a kind of agelessness and immortality by the crystal (they stop aging in their early 20s). The crystal provides the ability to teleport over long distances if linked with others, and to combine energy into an all out attack as a group of two or more. Sailor Senshi are able to survive in a vacuum, in extreme temperatures, and underwater with no difficulty when transformed. Moreover, all Sailor Senshi are capable of flight and levitation, and possess some degree of super strength, speed, and durability. Mars is physically one of the strongest according to Neptune, though she’s the least durable by far. She’s something of a glass cannon, which is why she tends to stay back and throw magic. Her crystal does decrease her body’s healing time, so bad injuries heal more quickly than a human's, though. Mars is somewhat middle of the pack when it comes to speed, able to move across Tokyo in a matter of minutes but hardly approaching speeds like Sailor Moon and Sailor Uranus.
And finally, there’s some sort of magic that protects their identities. Sailor Mars and Rei Hino are not the same person, appearing completely different from one another unless the person viewing them has seen them transform or is told directly by the senshi in question. That breaks the illusion completely.
CANON PERSONALITY:
Rei Hino is often described as the ideal Japanese woman, with a regal bearing that causes even Luna to believe she’s the Moon Princess she was searching for. She is beautiful, intelligent, and reserved, with a penchant for being somewhat aloof. To people that she does not know, she often comes across as cold and uncaring, or sarcastic and distant. This is caused at least in part by her strange psychic abilities, which have made some local people afraid of her. It's because of this that she created a sort of mental and emotional barrier that she uses to keep people out. It also lends strength to her notably biting wit when it comes to dealing with people that annoy her.
She lives up to her title of the Goddess of Flame and Passion as when she sets herself to a task she dedicates herself fully to it, approaching it with her whole heart. This can cause her to sort of tunnel vision, and her passion is a bit of a double edged sword by her own admission. She focuses on things or people too much, and worries that she'll burn them up with her dedication.
Balance is an important concept to Rei, especially in regards to her personal life. Rei stresses how vital she views balance in life with her friends, who all tend towards extreme displays like Ami with studying or Makoto with cooking or Usagi with devouring everything in sight. Rei doesn't do those sorts of things, and when she sees her friends overdoing it she's always quick to remind them that they might should consider balancing themselves out a bit more. She doesn't always live up to the advice though, which often gets her teased, but she does try at least.
She has a bit of a temper as well, just like the fire she commands. When pressed, Rei will get extremely angry and lash out at anyone bothering her. She isn't usually physically violent, but she has a tendency to say very mean things when she's angry, and she holds grudges for life if you truly wrong her in some way. Her temper doesn't manifest in yelling and screaming tantrums, but rather cold words and the occasional slap most of the time. Sometimes she'll have a petty reaction and do something more physical like snapping a ruler Minako had been prodding her with, but that is reserved more for comedic frustrations rather than genuine anger. Basically Rei has buttons and it doesn't matter who you are, if you press some of those then be prepared for a very, very, unfriendly reaction.
This is a bit different when dealing with her friends however, the other Senshi in particular. She often attempts to act as a sort of big sister towards them, though her maturity and distant nature often find themselves at odds with her overenthusiastic companions. Rei genuinely cares for each and every one of them in different ways, and it shows despite her best efforts to hide it. When the facade does break, she can be every bit as enthusiastic and friendly as Usagi is bubbly, but such displays are extremely rare and always as part of a group where it's 'okay' for her to show that side of herself.
This gentle, friendly side also manifests around people she feels that she can respect or relate to. Those that are like minded, people who understand the spiritual side of life, or otherwise impress her get a much more favorable reaction. She's more likely to be protective of them, or try to comfort and reassure them. These are the people she craves attention from and looks to form attachments with. That isn't to say she's unkind to strangers she's trying to help, merely that she's more kind to certain types of people.
Another major personality trait for Rei is her distrust of men. She has had very few respectable males in her life, and as such has formed a relatively low opinion of them, regarding them as emotionally weak. Her father, in particular, helped craft this opinion, having abandoned her emotionally when she was very young due to his work. She's not above using men (as we see her do at the beach to get free drinks) to get things that she wants though, she just doesn’t particularly trust them. That said? She has managed to form a lasting friendship with Mamoru Chiba and Motoki Furuhata, but she is still a fairly bitter person. She never, ever forgives her father throughout the course of the canon for essentially abandoning both her and her mother to further his career. To her he is the very vision of someone not to become, and she hates him with a passion.
The trait that most sets Rei apart from most people is her spirituality. She is a Shinto priestess at the Hikawa shrine and is deeply committed to that path. She dreams of becoming the head priest at the shrine in the future, eventually taking over for her grandfather. Shinto, the spiritual native religion of Japan, holds a major influence over nearly every aspect of her life. She disdains modern society, maintaining that it is better to practice the old ways rather than the new. Rei is skilled at meditation, and makes it a point to center herself nightly. She observes various Shinto rituals, and as such could be described as a superstitious person. For Rei, the spirits of the world are very much real, and very much important. Her anachronistic ways do often put her at odds with friends, particularly her dislike of many modern things. Television, video games, and other parts of most teenagers’ lives are things she actively avoids. This isn't to say she's ignorant of them, she just chooses not to utilize them.
Rei’s relationship with the others is also somewhat different due to her family’s wealth. She attends a private (EXPENSIVE), Catholic school, as opposed to the other Senshi, who attend public schools. She summarily has received a better basic education in many ways, which is something that occasionally causes her to snark at them. She can also be described as somewhat snotty, and definitely not interested in the foolishness that people often engage in, including her friends. This prominently is displayed in her dealings with less refined people like Usagi, who earns her ire more often than anyone else. She often gets cold, displaying her sarcastic side a bit more prominently.
When it comes to the more supernatural aspects of her life, Rei is bold and aggressive, like the fire she's so attuned to. She doesn't defend well, she just attacks, leaving this up to the rest of her team. Which is in keeping with her temper. She's always in the vanguard, and as the guardian goddess of war this is where she feels she belongs. Sailor Mars is a warrior at heart, and everything about how she approaches her senshi duties speaks to that. She's the most offense oriented member of the inner guardians and she's prone to the same brash notions as her namesake Mars, the Roman God of War, and she even has twin crows named Phobos and Deimos to aid her much like Mars's own children did him. Mars strives to be helpful, and acts as the secondary leader of the Inner guardians when Venus is otherwise preoccupied or things split up. She's harsh and acts swiftly and decisively.
Her abilities, having manifested in her normal life as well, are a source of concern and worry for her. In addition to emotional abandonment from her father, she has endured ostracism from most people her age because she is strange. She can talk to people normally, but it's made evident that her abilities draw consternation and fear in her debut chapter, with housewives gossiping about her within earshot.
Faith, Loyalty and Duty. These are also characteristics that are absolutely essential to Rei and to all of the other Sailor Senshi. Rei has actually died to protect her ideals with total conviction in her allies ability to carry through and save everyone. She's willing to put it all on the line for a victory, which marks a major growth in her. Early in the series she was headstrong and wanted to work alone but time and teamwork did wear her down. She's become someone who can just put her comfort second for the good of a group, set aside her fear and desire to make things work, and just act as a part of a team. That's what the Sailor Senshi do, all of them, but Rei has often been shown to be among the most loyal and dedicated. She takes hits for her friends, goes into danger alone so that others can escape, and uses her bold, aggressive nature to force her way forward and get others to let her help.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
As Rei Hino
-Psychic Abilities: Rei, unlike most of her companions, possesses supernatural talents in her human form. She’s an onmyouji, a practitioner of a form of traditional Japanese occult study, that was used for a variety of reasons in the distant past. She’s capable of using her powers to garner limited glimpses into the future (usually in dreams), she has a kind of danger sense (much like Spider-Man), and she’s able to sense emotions in people and places. These often come in the form of cryptic visions seen in flames and warnings, a chill on the back of her neck and other similar displays. She’s also able to sense, bind and seal spiritual beings with scrolls she prepares, craft charms that offer a variety of minor protections and blessings (good luck, etc), and she can manipulate fire to a limited degree with her will. Though that may be because she’s also Sailor Mars more than an onmyouji. Any of her powers that relate to another person would require strict permission from a player (with a permissions post in Rei’s journal), and mod permission for them to work on any NPC would be asked for each time it may come up.
-Martial Arts: Rei practices both Kyuudo and Aikido, two martial arts traditionally associated with shrine maidens. Kyuudo is archery and Aikido is a defensive style of hand to hand. She’s in good shape and practices regularly.
-Intelligence: Rei's able to keep up intellectually with Ami Mizuno, who has a canon IQ of 300 (somehow?). She's well educated, well read, and speaks multiple languages. She's familiar with obscure aspects of the Japanese occult, and is well versed in many of the humanities.
-Transformation: Rei has the ability to transform into Eternal Sailor Mars, drawing on her Sailor Crystal (which is literally her heart) to do so. Mars is one of the Sailor Senshi and she’s imbued with many supernatural abilities and skills.
As Sailor Mars
-Martian: Mars isn't human. She looks like one, but there are differences. Most of them come in the form of her divine powers, but there are some mental changes as well, mainly her personality becoming more bold and aggressive. Sailor Senshi are somewhat complicated because they aren't always treated as human after they transform and are often referred to as the guardian goddesses of their respective planets.
-Pyromancy: This is Mars’s signature power, the ability to create and manipulate fire on a fairly massive scale. She conjures enormous blasts of flame, changes it’s shape into all sorts of things. She has a variety of special attacks like any magical girl series but also tends to use unnamed elemental attacks against weaker enemies. She’s created walls of fire, swarms of small fireballs, pinprick sized needles of fire, and all sorts of other things in addition to the huge explosive shots. There is a holy/cleansing quality to her attacks as well, as they burn away the evil and corruption in her enemies with a sort of sacred, purifying effect and seem to hurt evil beings more than others.
-The Mars Arrow: Mars can conjure a bow of holy fire out of her heart. It’s got an incredible range, and once fired it never misses (unless there’s some interference or intercession like a shield or magic). It fires arrows made of her magic fire instead of normal arrows, so she never runs out of shots.
-Psychic Abilities: Being in this form amplifies Rei’s psychic senses and powers a good bit.
-Senshi Powers: All Sailor Senshi are something far more than human, and they have many abilities in common and Rei/Mars is no exception. They all have a Sailor Crystal, which is basically the crystallized essence of the planet they’re the guardian of. The crystals power their abilities and give them near inexhaustible supplies of magical power. They’ll continually be reborn so long as their crystal exists, ensuring that as long as the planet survives it will have a guardian ‘goddess,’ as explained by Sailor Star Healer. They’re granted a kind of agelessness and immortality by the crystal (they stop aging in their early 20s). The crystal provides the ability to teleport over long distances if linked with others, and to combine energy into an all out attack as a group of two or more. Sailor Senshi are able to survive in a vacuum, in extreme temperatures, and underwater with no difficulty when transformed. Moreover, all Sailor Senshi are capable of flight and levitation, and possess some degree of super strength, speed, and durability. Mars is physically one of the strongest according to Neptune, though she’s the least durable by far. She’s something of a glass cannon, which is why she tends to stay back and throw magic. Her crystal does decrease her body’s healing time, so bad injuries heal more quickly than a human's, though. Mars is somewhat middle of the pack when it comes to speed, able to move across Tokyo in a matter of minutes but hardly approaching speeds like Sailor Moon and Sailor Uranus.
And finally, there’s some sort of magic that protects their identities. Sailor Mars and Rei Hino are not the same person, appearing completely different from one another unless the person viewing them has seen them transform or is told directly by the senshi in question. That breaks the illusion completely.
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Rei Hino
AU AGE: 23
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Rei is taller and more physically mature than her canon self, a bit more like Mars's body rather than her own. she also holds herself with a bit more confidence.
AU NAME: Rei Hino
AU AGE: 23
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Rei is taller and more physically mature than her canon self, a bit more like Mars's body rather than her own. she also holds herself with a bit more confidence.
AU HISTORY:
Timeline is as follows:
-Born in Japan, she is the daughter of a Diplomatic Envoy to the USA and a Shinto priestess.
-Rei has a younger brother named Hiro Hino. (Permission granted by Ty)
-She moved back and forth as a kid between America and Japan.
-Rei traveled with her parents all over the world. She's been on every continent except Antarctica.
-Rei went to elementary school in Japan, Middle school in America, and High School at an respected international school in Japan.
-She attended and graduated from Tokyo University early with a degree in political science, and moved back to Recolle to work at the Japanese Embassy.
-She's a Junior Diplomat that acts primarily as a translator, a position gained by her family connections. Hiro came with her and she acts as his guardian so he could get experience with her.
-She has been in Recolle for a couple of years
-Currently, Rei audits language courses at Recolle University.
-As part of Embassy outreach, she occasionally involves herself as an organizer for volunteer activities for the Japanese community in Recolle.
-Thanks to family connections and her job she is comfortably well off thanks to her job, not wealthy but not poor.
-Rei attends a non-denominational church, finding it the only way to connect to her mother's religious roots.
AU PERSONALITY:
The most major difference in Rei's AU and canon is in her relationship with the family. Rather than an antagonistic relationship with her father and having a dead mother, she actually has a positive association with them. She grew up quite close to them, and to her younger (non existent in canon) brother and so this has made her much more family oriented. The constant moving back and forth until high school and university made her cling to them a little more for some semblance of stability, and also her mother being alive helps her in this regard.
This family relationship and the moving are also what set her on her career path. Rei has traveled far and wide and isn't nearly as sheltered in her youth. She's seen the value of politics and how policies and programs put forth by good politicians can make a real change in the lives of people. She has more of a connection with her father in this AU, too, because he's not as cold and distant and due to his lower position in the political ladder he had time to connect with the family.
Rei isn't nearly as lonely and isolated as she is in canon either, because she had this family dynamic. Obviously she didn't have psychic powers manifest at age 7, and so hasn't quite developed the same reputation. She did connect with people better, as her emotional growth wasn't stunted by the sudden death of her mother. She had friends, and never ended up meeting anyone named Usagi and a talking cat, and while she's fond of crows Phobos and Deimos weren't magical talking birds living at her shrine.
Rei's AU also majorly deviates in the area of religion. She is not a devout believer in Shinto, and has had difficulties connecting with religion in general because of the rather constant moving around that's happened. That strained her relationship with her mother somewhat, but she attends church as a means to connect with her on that wavelength. She's also not nearly as traditionally Japanese, because constantly moving around meant she assimilated both American and Japanese customs.
Finally Rei's constant moving around and separation from Japanese traditionalism has made her more tech savvy. In canon she doesn't even own a TV, in this AU she regularly uses a computer, and she's connected with the world around her via technology. She gets pop culture better and she's generally more open to modern living. The game being not set in the 1990s also helps in that regard!
Timeline is as follows:
-Born in Japan, she is the daughter of a Diplomatic Envoy to the USA and a Shinto priestess.
-Rei has a younger brother named Hiro Hino. (Permission granted by Ty)
-She moved back and forth as a kid between America and Japan.
-Rei traveled with her parents all over the world. She's been on every continent except Antarctica.
-Rei went to elementary school in Japan, Middle school in America, and High School at an respected international school in Japan.
-She attended and graduated from Tokyo University early with a degree in political science, and moved back to Recolle to work at the Japanese Embassy.
-She's a Junior Diplomat that acts primarily as a translator, a position gained by her family connections. Hiro came with her and she acts as his guardian so he could get experience with her.
-She has been in Recolle for a couple of years
-Currently, Rei audits language courses at Recolle University.
-As part of Embassy outreach, she occasionally involves herself as an organizer for volunteer activities for the Japanese community in Recolle.
-Thanks to family connections and her job she is comfortably well off thanks to her job, not wealthy but not poor.
-Rei attends a non-denominational church, finding it the only way to connect to her mother's religious roots.
AU PERSONALITY:
The most major difference in Rei's AU and canon is in her relationship with the family. Rather than an antagonistic relationship with her father and having a dead mother, she actually has a positive association with them. She grew up quite close to them, and to her younger (non existent in canon) brother and so this has made her much more family oriented. The constant moving back and forth until high school and university made her cling to them a little more for some semblance of stability, and also her mother being alive helps her in this regard.
This family relationship and the moving are also what set her on her career path. Rei has traveled far and wide and isn't nearly as sheltered in her youth. She's seen the value of politics and how policies and programs put forth by good politicians can make a real change in the lives of people. She has more of a connection with her father in this AU, too, because he's not as cold and distant and due to his lower position in the political ladder he had time to connect with the family.
Rei isn't nearly as lonely and isolated as she is in canon either, because she had this family dynamic. Obviously she didn't have psychic powers manifest at age 7, and so hasn't quite developed the same reputation. She did connect with people better, as her emotional growth wasn't stunted by the sudden death of her mother. She had friends, and never ended up meeting anyone named Usagi and a talking cat, and while she's fond of crows Phobos and Deimos weren't magical talking birds living at her shrine.
Rei's AU also majorly deviates in the area of religion. She is not a devout believer in Shinto, and has had difficulties connecting with religion in general because of the rather constant moving around that's happened. That strained her relationship with her mother somewhat, but she attends church as a means to connect with her on that wavelength. She's also not nearly as traditionally Japanese, because constantly moving around meant she assimilated both American and Japanese customs.
Finally Rei's constant moving around and separation from Japanese traditionalism has made her more tech savvy. In canon she doesn't even own a TV, in this AU she regularly uses a computer, and she's connected with the world around her via technology. She gets pop culture better and she's generally more open to modern living. The game being not set in the 1990s also helps in that regard!
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