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▶ PLAYER
HANDLE: Ax
CONTACT: intercession
OVER 18? Yes, by a fair margin
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: Kerra Holt erranthero

▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Rei Hino
CANON: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
CANON POINT: End of Act 60, prior to Usagi's wedding.
AGE: 18 (19, as her canon birthday is in April)
BACKGROUND:
Sailor Mars Wiki, Her Sailor Moon Wiki Entry, and a plot synopsis for the series.

Unfortunately there is no real timeline for Rei in these entries, just on her background. So, I'll provide at a brief one. If more detail is required I'm happy to give it. Rei was born in 1978, her mother died when she was 7 and she was shuffled off to live with her grandfather at Hikawa shrine by her politician father. Rei began to show signs of psychic ability at around that time, such as being able to see the future, or knowing when danger was going to happen, or being able to communicate with Phobos and Deimos, the two crows that lived at the shrine.

The events of the Sailor Moon series begin in 1992 when she was 14, and she awakens to her senshi powers then. She is a main character involved in the plot of the series, which is linked above, which continues till she's 16. At that time skips ahead at the end of the series to the year 2000, when Usagi and Mamoru ascend to the throne of Earth and are married in the final chapter of the manga. The intervening years are touched on briefly in commentary sprinkled throughout the time travel Dark Moon arc and characters discussing their plans like finishing high school, college, and travel during the Stars Arc. Basically with the characters all living ordinary lives until it's time for the wedding and their return to duty guarding the royal family.

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 they were searching for. She is beautiful, intelligent, and reserved, with a penchant for being somewhat distant. 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.

Balance is an important concept to Rei, especially in regard 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 tends 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, though physical reactions are rare.

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 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. 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 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.

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. 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 other girls 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 snobby, and 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.

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 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, and 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.

POWERS/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, as well as capable of speaking several languages.

-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.

INVENTORY:
1) Senshi Communicator. A kind of watch/PDA that can communicate with identical devices held by the other Senshi.
2) The Mars Crystal. Literally Rei's heart so I'm not sure if this count as an item, but, it allows her to transform into her alternate form when drawn out.
3) Japanese Longbow A mundane bow, asymmetrical and taller than she is.
4) Quiver of arrows. Arrows for the bow.
5) Phobos, one of Rei's two pet crows.
6) Deimos, the other crow. Phobos and Deimos are Rei's two guardian senshi, supernatural beings tied to Mars's twin moons. Both Phobos and Deimos can communicate with Rei mentally over great distances, and under certain circumstances can transform into a humanoid form. This ability will be removed while in game, making them simply large and resilient Japanese crows. To note, Phobos and Deimos have less than 4 lines of dialogue in the entire manga and as such would not be appable characters.

MOONBLESSING: Sanguis

▶ SAMPLES

link #1, with Usagi
link #2, with Makoto