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Name: PR.
Personal Journal: piyar
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Other Characters Played: Crowley [integrity] and Inias [suiting]
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Canon: Sailor Moon (Anime).

Character: Hino Rei | Sailor Mars.

Timeline: Post canon. (You know, after they save the planet and Usagi and Mamoru are planning their wedding and Rei is all this bridesmaid dress is hideous and INJECT SOME SUNSHINE INTO YOUR LIFE, ADSTRINGENDUM.)

Personality: Your first introduction to Hino Rei is when she assaults the heroine of the series (you know the one) in the face with one of her handcrafted talismans to ward off evil. And, really, this introduction sums up Rei to a T -- she's a shoot first ask questions later kind of girl. If there's a door in your way, guaranteed Rei will be the first one to suggest that she just knock it down. Her chosen designation of fire is no coincidence -- she is fiery, somewhat unpredictable, a little callous, and a bit rough around the edges. But like all good shoujo animes, there has to be a tsundere character, and that tsundere character is Hino Rei.

While on the surface Rei is brash and dismissive of Usagi's antics (and, really, the antics of the rest of her friends), she is kind and sweet to the core. She brushes off Minako's love-crazed rants and Usagi's mooning over Mamoru, but deep down, she very much wants that life for herself. A collector of manga and a watcher of boys, Rei lives in a Shinto temple and wishes to be head priestess one day, but that doesn't necessarily mean she has to give up her other pursuits in the meantime. She wants to be a voice actress, a model, travel the world -- the sky is the limit for Rei and she intends to accomplish every single one of those things before her time on this planet is done. A typical teenage girl living with a lot of adult responsibilities, Rei tries her best to manage both her senshi life and her teenage life with an air of grace that the other senshi manage. It's often a failure, but both are extraordinarily important to her.

Fiercely loyal to her mission and to Usagi, Rei will do anything and everything within her power to ensure her safety and their mission's success. You need a person to go into the pits of Hell in order to get the job done? Call Sailor Mars, because she'll get it done and be back home in time for tea. She has died for her mission and her friends and would happily do it again, without regret or remorse. Her position as a senshi -- a guardian of the universe -- is something she takes very seriously and she often chastises Usagi for not doing the same. "We're soldiers, stop obsessing over boys!" And though Rei is often hypocritical in that statement, she means it every single time. Their duty is what binds them together, along with their friendship. It's something to be taken seriously, not for granted.

Rei is harsh with her friends, she is encouraging when it counts. She pushes Minako to pursue her dreams of being the next idol of Japan. She encourages Makoto to live life as she wants to live it and not be brought down by how others perceive her. When Ami has difficulty fitting in, Rei is one of the first to tell her that she's so brilliant she doesn't need anything else. And whenever Usagi is down in the dumps about poor grades or a failure of leadership, Rei is always at her right hand to tell her that she needs to pick up her head and keep going. Rei, who was once the outcast of the school system for being the "freaky witch girl", is the backbone of the senshi when it matters the most. She drags them forward when they don't think they can keep going anymore.

So, in short -- Rei can be a jerk. Well, scratch that, she kind of is a jerk, but she is one of the most loving, compassionate, determined, loyal jerks you will ever meet in your entire life. And you would be lucky to count her as a friend, because once Rei decides you are her friend, nothing is going to change that. Literally nothing.

Hope you enjoy your enemies burning to death, because that's what's gonna happen.

Background: Sailor Moon Wiki Hino Rei Wiki

Abilities/Additional Notes: Rei and Sailor Mars both have unique abilities!

Rei: Rei is mildly psychic, able to see into the future of her own volition. By the end of the series, she has a pretty clear grasp on her powers, and is shown to be able to predict lottery readings and other such things that are totally not an abuse of her power at all. She is also gifted with sight, unwanted premonitions of terrible events that are to come -- those she has no control over and they come and go as they please.

She can also sense spirits (though this was her very first death price in Adstringendum and will therefore be nixed upon her return) and dark energy. I have a permissions' post in her journal available for characters to inform me whether or not Rei can sense their energy or if they would rather not. :)

Mars: Sailor Mars is gifted with the power of ~*~flame and passion~*~ which includes a pretty excellent shoujo transformation sequence and a pretty sweet outfit. This outfit is compromised of magical energy and seems to protect her even though that makes no goddamn sense, but it's a shoujo anime, so deal with it, it's the power of love. She is shown to have a skilled control over fire and crafts it into a lot of cool attacks. Her most powerful one is the Mars Flame Sniper, which is literally a giant flaming bow of death. She also has excellent aim with said flaming bow of death, so please avoid pissing her off. (Also, all gifts Rei has transcend into Mars, but not the other way around -- Rei cannot summon a giant flaming bow of death on command unless she is transformed, but Mars can sense dark energy).

Additional; Rei is going to come back to Adstringendum and reclaim her memories per the rules -- slowly but surely. :) She'll come back remembering names and faces and that she's in Adstringendum, but specific events are gonna take a lot longer to sink in. She should have her head on straight in about a month.

First-Person Sample: [A rather familiar face to some people will appear on the PCD, though Rei looks a bit different. Younger, more the age she was when she was in her own universe, though she doesn't look panicked, and she's sitting on the steps of the Temple of Heaven in her Shinto robes, rather... unimpressed.]

Anyone going to tell me where everyone went? And --

[She hesitates before brushing her bangs out of her eyes, annoyed.]

-- I'm going to need someone to tell me where my cat is.

Third-Person Sample:

One minute, she was sweeping off the front steps of her temple, half-listening to Usagi chatter on about wedding dresses and receptions and how they needed to plan everything out around Ami's hectic school schedule.

The next, she was face down in the dirt on the outskirts of the Safezone.

It took about half a second before instinct kicked in -- Rei rolled onto her back with a startled gasp and her transformation wand was grasped between her fingers. Something had dragged her from home and dropped her into this world and she would be damned if she was caught off guard by some stray idiotic youma that they hadn't killed after --

-- she paused as she shoved herself up onto her hands, staring up at the wall that separated Adstringendum from the Wastelands. It took a few moments for it to click inside her head -- something was missing, something important -- and it was with a startled grasp that Rei rocketed to her feet, a little unsteady and nauseous, but suddenly very sure of where she was.

"Adstringendum," Rei breathed, turning on her heel sharply to get her bearings -- but the name was just that, a name, and she had absolutely no idea where she was. "Did Usagi -- ?"

But the question remained unanswered as she gritted her teeth, closing her eyes to try and seek out something, anything to point her in the right direction. And underneath her headache and nausea, her intuition kicked into high gear, and she refocused her attentions on the south.

Time to figure out whether or not this was some kind of dream or if it was real.

[There is a pause before the girl that was in a dozen pieces begins to speak. Her voice is quiet, free of the normal conviction and bravado that she would normally have in such a situation.]

Tell me where I'm needed.

[She has no right to call the shots when this is half her fault.]

I broke my last bottle of ink.

Does anyone have any to spare?

[When she had seen the image, she had thought it wasn't real. Why would she believe it? The very nature of this event was to see people die -- it was just a hallucination. A horrific, horrid, terrible hallucination, but a hallucination all the same. Still, Rei had a feeling in the very bottom of her heart that something was not right -- so she set out to find Hitsugaya. Just to make sure he was okay.

He hadn't picked up his PCD and he obviously wasn't at Juubantai house, otherwise he would have told Hinamori that it wasn't real. So Rei set out to the wall surrounding the city, to his favorite spot to sit whenever he felt upset. No Hitsugaya. She then hopped the wall and went to the Wastelands, to his favorite sparring location -- and then to the second favorite sparring location -- and then the third, the one they frequent whenever they both needed to let off some steam. Still no Hitsugaya. She checked the clinic, the dojo, the fountain in the center of town, the surrounding tall trees, and finally, she had dropped back down on the steps of the Temple of Heaven, with her PCD in her hands, to stare blankly at the ground. It's at this moment that the feed has actually started -- just Rei, on the steps, staring at nothing.

When she speaks, it isn't clear whether or not she knows it's recording -- but her voice is so quiet, and faint, and heartbroken. There are no tears or choked sobs or any of that dramatic nonsense -- but it's obvious, in the way that Rei carries herself -- the way her shoulders slump and her cheeks pale -- that she is positively devastated.]

He's actually dead, isn't he.

[Her fingers curl around the PCD and the feed shakes, ever so slightly, with the change. Her hands are shaking. And if you look carefully, it's obvious that Rei herself is trembling. Almost every single person who has been with her for as long as Hitsugaya Toushirou has been has eventually left for some period of time, but not him. He's practically indestructible. Always the one to drag her away from doing something stupid -- and sometimes the other way around -- but Rei has never had a day pass in Adstringendum where he has not been there to tell her what to do whenever it got to be too much. And now, when it's too much -- way too much -- he isn't here. Temporary or not (oh, if it isn't temporary -- no, Rei can't even consider that as a possibility, because she may very well crack), she can't quite grasp the idea that she can't pick up her PCD and call him to tell him to come over and sit with her. Even if it's silent contemplation of how badly their lives suck. Or for him to tell her to snap out of it and stop being so depressing, because not only did this happen, but Minako -- vanished. Again. And on top of that, Hitsugaya --

She closes her eyes and -- finally, tears roll down her cheeks at the motion, but she doesn't actually cry or sob. Not quite yet. That is going to be reserved for when she's alone. No, instead, she keeps speaking, and while her voice is still quiet, and still positively heartbroken and crushed, there is a fine edge of anger to it now, and it is obvious that Hino Rei knows this is broadcasting to the entire network.]

When he comes back, he's going to tell me what happened to him, and not even God can hide you from what I'll do to you. You'll be punished, and when I find out what he lost because of you, you'll be punished again. Come forward now or hide in your hole like a coward, it doesn't matter to me, but I'll find you.

[He'd do the same for her, after all.]

[There's a silence, for a long moment -- before Rei finally works up the nerve to say something. She sounds tired.]

It's getting a lot harder to keep believing everything has a purpose in this place.

[There's a long rush of air as Rei exhales.]

It's almost as if the Animus don't want us here -- but if that's true, then why have I been here for over a year? Why have some people been here longer? What makes some of us different?

-- if anyone's got any ideas, I'd love to hear them.

[The only people Rei would need to tell, about Haruka vanishing, would be the senshi themselves. And the senshi, being the senshi, already know. So why repeat something painful?

But all the same, she seems to want to say more -- before she ends the feed.]