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whataprettyname) wrote2012-11-08 04:01 pm
whataprettyname) wrote2012-11-08 04:01 pm
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Name:hickumu
Personal Journal: Hicku
Contact Info:hickumu
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Character Information
Name: Ogino Chihiro
Source Canon: Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
Age: 13, aged up from 10
Role In Canon: Main character, meant to serve as a role model for the young children and especially the young girls that are the film’s target audience.
History: From all we are shown, Chihiro lived a normal enough life for the first ten years of it. Her spoiled, bratty nature at the beginning of the movie indicates that her parents probably doted on her to the point of spoiling her, and that her life was simple, easy, and uncomplicated. She was apparently happy in her life and with her friends, as evidenced by her tantruming at the prospect of leaving and the fact that she received both a bouquet and a card as a farewell present by her best friend from her old home.
Eventually, her father received a new job in a small town very far away. Chihiro took the move hard and was deeply unhappy with the prospect, despite her parent’s multiple attempts to encourage her.
The first day of their arrival in their new hometown also marked the beginning of the plot of the movie, detailed here. Chihiro is taken from three years after the movie, having reunited with her parents, left Yubaba’s land, and forgotten her experiences there. She has gone through three years of schooling in her new town, and has settled in nicely to the rural environment. She does not have many friends, but she has made some, and she works hard in her studies and as a result has respectable grades. She has held a part time job at the local bus station. And, despite having lost all memory of her time in the supernatural world, she is starting to regain a sense that the world around her isn’t all there is. Her town is a town with close ties to the natural and spiritual world, and it was really only a matter of time anyway before she found or was found by those she met in the other world.
Personality: Chihiro is, first and foremost, a young girl. She craves security, friends, and love, and her time in Yubaba’s bathhouse has given her a new appreciation for the value these things hold in her everyday life. She values material things and big events – at the beginning of the film, she expresses her displeasure that “I finally get a bouquet and it’s a goodbye present. That’s depressing.” She then dismisses that the idea that a single rose for her birthday compares to the significance and tragedy involved in her friend Rumi’s bouquet. The events of the movie might have shown her to display these feelings in a more subdued manner, but no indication is given that these feelings have changed. She does not particularly enjoy strenuous physical labor, although she will step up and do her best with it if necessary.
However, Chihiro shows a respect for the law and the rules that might surprise most. Previously, it was simply born of a fear of getting in trouble by stepping out of line. Now, her inhibitions are based on a real respect for the properties and boundaries of others. She lived and could have died by the seemingly arbitrary rules of a supernatural world, and it was by following and playing by those rules that Chihiro survived as long as she did. This is a lesson she appeared to take with her back into her human life – Chihiro will respect the sanctity of other’s possession and the rules of her environment.
Her time in the bathhouse has given Chihiro a discipline and persistence when facing any task that she did not have before. She might not be terribly good at whatever she’s doing, she might not enjoy the task placed upon her, but if it is a necessary task Chihiro will perform that task to the best of her abilities until it is completed. Even if it is not a job she is ordered to do, if it is instead something she simply takes into her head to do, Chihiro will do her utmost to complete and job or project she sets her mind to.
Chihiro is a generally kind and helpful individual – she is shown to make friends easily and quickly. If she sees someone being hurt, excluded, or even put upon, she will step up to help them. She will protect those smaller, weaker, or more vulnerable than herself, although this is, admittedly, not a very large category of individuals. She will do her best to make others feel comfortable around her and be as helpful as she can to her friends. She does genuinely enjoy meeting new people, provided that they are friendly and kind to her. Her time in the bathhouse has given Chihiro the ability to seamlessly look past physical differences in appearance or even species. After a day working within the bathhouse, Chihiro treated No Face as nothing more than a lost local customer.
Chihiro is still frequently prone to bouts of nerves or fear, if confronted with something bigger or more intimidating than what she is used to, or something with the obvious potential to be hostile. However, Chihiro has also shown that she will not always let whatever fear she is feeling stop her from accomplishing the job at hand, if there is something she has to do besides running away. Which is to say – for all her bravery born of her time in the bathhouse, Chihiro will still flee like a rabbit if she has to and can do so without doing anyone else harm with her cowardice. However, even in the depths of terror, Chihiro has still shown to be capable of logical thinking. When confronted with the deformed, mutated No Face, Chihiro specifically chose her route of flight to lead No Face away from the crowds of customers and eventually out of the bath house while ensuring that Lin would not be left out in the open too long.
Chihiro has a great deal of trust in herself, on top of a sense of self that is nearly unshakeable. She was able to overcome Yubaba’s final test by simply believing in her own memory of her parents and realizing that none of the pigs she was confronted with were the right pigs. She is not necessarily confident in her abilities – she was only able to confront Yubaba without fear after encouragement from Zeneba, confessing her love for Haku and having him confess his love in turn, and real displays of support from her friends against Yubaba. It might be more accurate to say that Chihiro has huge reserves of determination that she will depend on to see her through hardships – no matter how hard the trial, she trusts that she will find a way through it eventually – and that the events of the last half of the movie gave Chihiro an optimism and hopefulness that she did not previously possess.
All of the supernatural occurrences that she has lived through have also given Chihiro an appreciation and craving for normalcy and safety above and beyond what she felt at the beginning of the film, although she has learned to express these desires in a much more subdued, mature, and adult fashion.
Abilities: Chihiro has no supernatural abilities. The one notable talent she has is an apparently boundless determination that saw her through her time in Yubaba’s world. Her time there has also given her an unshakeable sense of herself and who she is and a real trust in herself that has given her a notable resistence to attempts to mystically alter her environment or otherwise deceive Chihiro. On a more practical note, Chihiro did adapt quickly enough to bathhouse work, demonstrating that she is above average shape for a ten year old girl and notably adaptable for anyone of any age.
Sample:
Chihiro’s intro post to the dearly departed game Splendorocity. It gives a good idea of her beliefs regarding the functions of other worlds and her method of coping with crises.
Name:
hickumu Personal Journal: Hicku
Contact Info:
hickumu Other Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Ogino Chihiro
Source Canon: Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
Age: 13, aged up from 10
Role In Canon: Main character, meant to serve as a role model for the young children and especially the young girls that are the film’s target audience.
History: From all we are shown, Chihiro lived a normal enough life for the first ten years of it. Her spoiled, bratty nature at the beginning of the movie indicates that her parents probably doted on her to the point of spoiling her, and that her life was simple, easy, and uncomplicated. She was apparently happy in her life and with her friends, as evidenced by her tantruming at the prospect of leaving and the fact that she received both a bouquet and a card as a farewell present by her best friend from her old home.
Eventually, her father received a new job in a small town very far away. Chihiro took the move hard and was deeply unhappy with the prospect, despite her parent’s multiple attempts to encourage her.
The first day of their arrival in their new hometown also marked the beginning of the plot of the movie, detailed here. Chihiro is taken from three years after the movie, having reunited with her parents, left Yubaba’s land, and forgotten her experiences there. She has gone through three years of schooling in her new town, and has settled in nicely to the rural environment. She does not have many friends, but she has made some, and she works hard in her studies and as a result has respectable grades. She has held a part time job at the local bus station. And, despite having lost all memory of her time in the supernatural world, she is starting to regain a sense that the world around her isn’t all there is. Her town is a town with close ties to the natural and spiritual world, and it was really only a matter of time anyway before she found or was found by those she met in the other world.
Personality: Chihiro is, first and foremost, a young girl. She craves security, friends, and love, and her time in Yubaba’s bathhouse has given her a new appreciation for the value these things hold in her everyday life. She values material things and big events – at the beginning of the film, she expresses her displeasure that “I finally get a bouquet and it’s a goodbye present. That’s depressing.” She then dismisses that the idea that a single rose for her birthday compares to the significance and tragedy involved in her friend Rumi’s bouquet. The events of the movie might have shown her to display these feelings in a more subdued manner, but no indication is given that these feelings have changed. She does not particularly enjoy strenuous physical labor, although she will step up and do her best with it if necessary.
However, Chihiro shows a respect for the law and the rules that might surprise most. Previously, it was simply born of a fear of getting in trouble by stepping out of line. Now, her inhibitions are based on a real respect for the properties and boundaries of others. She lived and could have died by the seemingly arbitrary rules of a supernatural world, and it was by following and playing by those rules that Chihiro survived as long as she did. This is a lesson she appeared to take with her back into her human life – Chihiro will respect the sanctity of other’s possession and the rules of her environment.
Her time in the bathhouse has given Chihiro a discipline and persistence when facing any task that she did not have before. She might not be terribly good at whatever she’s doing, she might not enjoy the task placed upon her, but if it is a necessary task Chihiro will perform that task to the best of her abilities until it is completed. Even if it is not a job she is ordered to do, if it is instead something she simply takes into her head to do, Chihiro will do her utmost to complete and job or project she sets her mind to.
Chihiro is a generally kind and helpful individual – she is shown to make friends easily and quickly. If she sees someone being hurt, excluded, or even put upon, she will step up to help them. She will protect those smaller, weaker, or more vulnerable than herself, although this is, admittedly, not a very large category of individuals. She will do her best to make others feel comfortable around her and be as helpful as she can to her friends. She does genuinely enjoy meeting new people, provided that they are friendly and kind to her. Her time in the bathhouse has given Chihiro the ability to seamlessly look past physical differences in appearance or even species. After a day working within the bathhouse, Chihiro treated No Face as nothing more than a lost local customer.
Chihiro is still frequently prone to bouts of nerves or fear, if confronted with something bigger or more intimidating than what she is used to, or something with the obvious potential to be hostile. However, Chihiro has also shown that she will not always let whatever fear she is feeling stop her from accomplishing the job at hand, if there is something she has to do besides running away. Which is to say – for all her bravery born of her time in the bathhouse, Chihiro will still flee like a rabbit if she has to and can do so without doing anyone else harm with her cowardice. However, even in the depths of terror, Chihiro has still shown to be capable of logical thinking. When confronted with the deformed, mutated No Face, Chihiro specifically chose her route of flight to lead No Face away from the crowds of customers and eventually out of the bath house while ensuring that Lin would not be left out in the open too long.
Chihiro has a great deal of trust in herself, on top of a sense of self that is nearly unshakeable. She was able to overcome Yubaba’s final test by simply believing in her own memory of her parents and realizing that none of the pigs she was confronted with were the right pigs. She is not necessarily confident in her abilities – she was only able to confront Yubaba without fear after encouragement from Zeneba, confessing her love for Haku and having him confess his love in turn, and real displays of support from her friends against Yubaba. It might be more accurate to say that Chihiro has huge reserves of determination that she will depend on to see her through hardships – no matter how hard the trial, she trusts that she will find a way through it eventually – and that the events of the last half of the movie gave Chihiro an optimism and hopefulness that she did not previously possess.
All of the supernatural occurrences that she has lived through have also given Chihiro an appreciation and craving for normalcy and safety above and beyond what she felt at the beginning of the film, although she has learned to express these desires in a much more subdued, mature, and adult fashion.
Abilities: Chihiro has no supernatural abilities. The one notable talent she has is an apparently boundless determination that saw her through her time in Yubaba’s world. Her time there has also given her an unshakeable sense of herself and who she is and a real trust in herself that has given her a notable resistence to attempts to mystically alter her environment or otherwise deceive Chihiro. On a more practical note, Chihiro did adapt quickly enough to bathhouse work, demonstrating that she is above average shape for a ten year old girl and notably adaptable for anyone of any age.
Sample:
Chihiro’s intro post to the dearly departed game Splendorocity. It gives a good idea of her beliefs regarding the functions of other worlds and her method of coping with crises.