Minako Aino

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Player: Zoki
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Age: 26
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Character: Minako Aino
Age: 18
Canon: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (manga)
Canon Point: Post-Sailor Stars, before Usagi's wedding

Background:

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Personality:

Meet Minako Aino, a self-described goddess of beauty who is also athletic, lazy, and drama-loving. The first impression most people will get is that she's a happy-go-lucky girl: she always has a smile to spare and she doesn't seem to care too much when her schoolwork comes back with dismal marks. Why worry about spilled beans? (Idioms and vocabulary aren't her strongest suit either). She'll blow off some steam on the court or in an arcade and everything will be fine again.

Minako's all-time favorite hobby is interference in matters of the heart. She's crushed on many of the attractive people who have crossed her path. Her beleaguered feline friend claims the number is in the thousands. It's probably an exaggeration. But she's a passionate girl, often invested in the fortunes of those around her, and if she sees an opportunity to play Cupid she'll do it.

That isn't the only trick she plays, though: as fond as she is of bringing people together, she also enjoys a good joke now and then. She'll needle her friends about their latest misfortunes, push them until they pop...and then she'll be there with a hug and a kind word, hoping that will smooth it all over. She's sure to tease her genius friend Ami over studying too much, or cool and collected Rei over her stuffiness.

Minako thrives on being the center of attention. She loves to show off her flips and dives as captain of the volleyball team, she prides herself on her beauty, and her ultimate dream is to become an idol singer. Whenever she has the opportunity, she throws herself at auditions---and she won't study history or math, but she will know the hottest facts about every idol in town. She loves stars, sings their songs, and models herself after them. It's all part of her dream for a whirlwind, glamorous life.

And she must have the most glamorous life. It's unbecoming, but Minako has a tendency to envy others' superior abilities and successes. She pouts dramatically when beaten in athletics, as an idol, or as a girlfriend, and she'll up her energy to regain any ground lost. She refuses to lose if she can help it, and that competition can heat up dangerously sometimes.

Despite her endless lust for attention, the bonds Minako forms with others tend to remain shallow because there's a secret side to her. She can't give her whole heart to romance or stardom because that heart was already promised to a certain group of others: Usagi, the moon princess she's sworn to protect, and the three other members of the powerful royal guard she leads.

When danger calls, Minako becomes Sailor Venus, the serious and sure leader of Sailor Moon's royal guard. She fights to protect the innocent, leading the Sailor Guardians in their quest to keep their princess safe, and she won't hesitate to take brutal action if it might save the others---while her friends were stunned, she stabbed the evil Queen Beryl without hesitation. She often fails to be the last line of defense, as Sailor Moon is a stronger warrior than any of them alone, but together the group has overcome many challenges. Their love for their planet and each other keeps them going.

Venus is strongly committed to her princess and her soldiers. That duty supersedes all else in her life: she knows in her heart she can't chase her goals with all the passion she feels for them, because she knows her destiny. She's to stand by her friends and usher in a new era of peace. But it's not the saddest of fates: the four other guardians are her best friends and true loves, and she wouldn't have it any other way. Minako knows they'll all be together again someday, but in the meantime: she'll keep encouraging and protecting the people around her. It's her passion and her duty, and hey: a girl can't be serious all the time! Frown lines really age a gorgeous face.

Abilities:

Minako Aino:

Minako's no genius. She's terrible at history and math, and 'ditz' could certainly be an apt word at times. But she's an excellent strategist and athlete when it comes to team sports, often leading her volleyball team to victory. She has excellent reflexes, good flexibility, and peak jumping ability for a human. She's not a trained martial artist, but her years of combat experience have taught her a few good kicks.

Sailor Venus:

When she activates her Venus Crystal (a small crystal inside her which is essentially the soul of her being and of the planet Venus), Minako becomes Sailor Venus. In this form, she gains more-than-human resistance to magical and physical attacks, accelerated healing from injuries, and exaggerated muscle strength such as the mysterious ability to jump up to a second floor landing from ground level. She can definitely keep up with a fast bike if she runs, and if there's a flying enemy she can't drag down, she can hover or fly after it. Somehow. Rule of magic.

She can be outwitted, caught off guard, and killed by those with stronger powers or superior weaponry, but as long as the Venus Crystal persists, she'll reincarnate in about a millenia or so.

As Venus, she also gains a chain weapon, the ability to use light as a weapon, and the ability to combine power with the other Sailors.

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The main themes of Sailor Venus's attacks are light and metal. She uses the following abilities with some regularity.

Venus Love-Me Chain:
The chain belt around her waist can be used as a weapon, either to hogtie her enemies or to whip them with the combined forces of light and metal. It can also be used to catch falling comrades.

Venus Wink Chain Sword:
She uses her light to reinforce the chain, wielding it as a sword-like blunt weapon.

Rolling Heart Vibration: She conjures a heart of light, and when fired it makes a rolling charge at the enemy.

Venus Love and Beauty Shock: Her chain gains even more power, lashing out at an even greater radius and multiple enemies at a time.

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Combining Power with the Other Sailors:

When in the presence of two or more Sailor Guardians, Venus can add her power to theirs for a combined energy attack. She also has an ability to mentally link herself to other Sailor Guardians, independent of the emotion crystal.

Secret Identity:

A strange magical aura surrounds Sailor Venus, usually preventing others from making the connection that she is Minako, however similar they might look on paper. Her identity will have to be discovered through other means, such as witnessing her transformation or using a magic power.

Alignment: Elios. Sailor Venus is the reincarnation of the goddess of love, and she indeed allows herself to be ruled by love. She feels overflowing love for her friends and princess and she's no stranger to romantic passions. And when the chips are down? She feels hatred for those who cross her line, and she efficiently turns that hate into action.

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Sample:

Thread with Rei on the TDM and toplevel.

Questions: All good!