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whataprettyname) wrote2011-06-30 01:11 am
whataprettyname) wrote2011-06-30 01:11 am
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Name: Hickumu
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Method of Contact: A PM to my personal journal is your best bet for a quick reply
Previous characters: N/A
Character Information:
Full Name: Ogino Chihiro
Series: Spirited Away
Canon point: After her parting from Haku and her crossing over the river, but before she rejoins her parents
Age: Ten years old
Species: Human
Appearance/PB:
Appearance upon arrival: Chihiro has regained the possessions that were taken from her by Yubaba, most importantly her human clothes. After spending the night in the care of Zeneba, Chihiro appears clean and well cared for, despite her hardships in the bath house. Her hair is tied back with the hair tie made by Zeneba, No Face, Baby, and the Crow.
History:
Previous RP memories: None
Bringing someone along?: No
Character 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 just after she finished saying her final goodbyes to Haku and crossing the river, but before she had the chance to meet up with her parents again at the entrance of the tunnel back to the human world.
Personality:
Chihiro is, first and foremost, a ten year old 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 has 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.
Extra:
Character 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. 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.
Possessions:
Chihiro’s possessions include a special hair tie made by the friends who accompanied her to Zeneba’s cottage. It has some unspecified protection magic woven into it, but most specifically contains the love No Face, Baby, and Crow all have for her. Chihiro also has a birthday card given to her by her best friend from her old home, a card she frequently made use of to remind herself of her name while working for Yubaba.
Anything else:
I will probably have to headcanon a lot of Chihiro’s interests and hobbies, if that’s okay? The movie, obviously, didn’t allow for a great deal of demonstration of how she behaves in normal life or with free time on her hands. Also, I chose her canon point specifically so that, while she is free of Yubaba’s influence, Chihiro has not suffered the memory loss of her time in the bathhouse that, according to Miyazaki, happened after a certain point in the return through the tunnels with her parents.
Samples:
Action/Communication thread/post sample: Here you go!
Log/Prose sample:
Chihiro wondered if she would miss this world. She had made so many friends here – Lin and No Face, Zeneba and Kumaji, Baby and Crow, and Haku most of all. She had learned so much. She had become a better person, the sort of daughter her parents deserved. And so she did feel a bittersweet ache in her heart, finding herself standing on the river on the last leg of her long journey home. Her last connection to this world was Haku’s hand in hers’, and she squeezed it even as she started forward down the last few steps to the empty, rocky riverbank.
She let her hand rest in Haku’s for as long as she could, even as she walked away. For one long second, only the very tips of their fingers connected them before the connection was broken, and she stood at the edge of the river alone.
She almost looked back. She wanted to look back and see him, smile at him, one last time. He had done so much for her, he had helped her reach this point she had dreamed of for what felt like forever. She wanted at least to see him one last time.
But she couldn’t. Her thoughts had taken her halfway across the river, her feet moving of their own volition. No, that wasn’t right. Her feet were moving for the same reason she’d kept moving since her first night in this strange world – the need to see her parents again. Now she finally had that chance, the chance she had worked so hard and everyone had sacrificed so much for. She wouldn’t ruin it by disobeying Haku’s last order to her.
So Chihiro did not look back – she contented herself with a memory of his quiet smile and his hands in hers’ and that was enough to make her smile, even if that memory already felt as distant as a dream. Her distraction did cost her – her tennis shoes slipped and slid over the pointy, uneven rocks, and there were points where Chihiro found herself slipping hard onto her backside with a yelp that was equal parts pain and frustration. But she always scrambled back to her feet and kept going, until she could heave herself upright on the other bank with a sigh of relief.
She wanted to look back again. She did not, and the refusal was easier this time. She could see the tunnel in the far distance, and she knew that there her parents would be waiting for her.
Now she was moving towards something, instead of away. Now she was moving to regain what she had lost, even as she lost something nearly as valuable. Now she had a life ahead of her, even as she was leaving a life behind.
It was all about the balance. It was all about paying off your debts, working to earn what you wanted. She had worked, she had earned, and now she was cresting the last hill to claim her parents and her life back.
And then she was standing at the top of the hill, the warm summer breeze blowing back her pony tail and making the hair tie her friends had crafted for her flutter slightly. She lifted a hand to touch it, reassure herself that it was still firmly in place. And she nodded in satisfaction when she felt that it was.
As long as this was with her, the friends she had made would never be lost to her and the lessons would never be forgotten.
Chihiro saw her parents together at the bottom of the hill, at the mouth of the tunnel, and felt her heart soar with joy and love. And then she was racing down the hill, far too fast. She should have tripped, she knew she should have tripped, but she didn’t, not until she could practically fall into their waiting arms.
“Mom! Dad!”
Name: Hickumu
Journal:
hickumu Method of Contact: A PM to my personal journal is your best bet for a quick reply
Previous characters: N/A
Character Information:
Full Name: Ogino Chihiro
Series: Spirited Away
Canon point: After her parting from Haku and her crossing over the river, but before she rejoins her parents
Age: Ten years old
Species: Human
Appearance/PB:
Appearance upon arrival: Chihiro has regained the possessions that were taken from her by Yubaba, most importantly her human clothes. After spending the night in the care of Zeneba, Chihiro appears clean and well cared for, despite her hardships in the bath house. Her hair is tied back with the hair tie made by Zeneba, No Face, Baby, and the Crow.
History:
Previous RP memories: None
Bringing someone along?: No
Character 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 just after she finished saying her final goodbyes to Haku and crossing the river, but before she had the chance to meet up with her parents again at the entrance of the tunnel back to the human world.
Personality:
Chihiro is, first and foremost, a ten year old 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 has 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.
Extra:
Character 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. 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.
Possessions:
Chihiro’s possessions include a special hair tie made by the friends who accompanied her to Zeneba’s cottage. It has some unspecified protection magic woven into it, but most specifically contains the love No Face, Baby, and Crow all have for her. Chihiro also has a birthday card given to her by her best friend from her old home, a card she frequently made use of to remind herself of her name while working for Yubaba.
Anything else:
I will probably have to headcanon a lot of Chihiro’s interests and hobbies, if that’s okay? The movie, obviously, didn’t allow for a great deal of demonstration of how she behaves in normal life or with free time on her hands. Also, I chose her canon point specifically so that, while she is free of Yubaba’s influence, Chihiro has not suffered the memory loss of her time in the bathhouse that, according to Miyazaki, happened after a certain point in the return through the tunnels with her parents.
Samples:
Action/Communication thread/post sample: Here you go!
Log/Prose sample:
Chihiro wondered if she would miss this world. She had made so many friends here – Lin and No Face, Zeneba and Kumaji, Baby and Crow, and Haku most of all. She had learned so much. She had become a better person, the sort of daughter her parents deserved. And so she did feel a bittersweet ache in her heart, finding herself standing on the river on the last leg of her long journey home. Her last connection to this world was Haku’s hand in hers’, and she squeezed it even as she started forward down the last few steps to the empty, rocky riverbank.
She let her hand rest in Haku’s for as long as she could, even as she walked away. For one long second, only the very tips of their fingers connected them before the connection was broken, and she stood at the edge of the river alone.
She almost looked back. She wanted to look back and see him, smile at him, one last time. He had done so much for her, he had helped her reach this point she had dreamed of for what felt like forever. She wanted at least to see him one last time.
But she couldn’t. Her thoughts had taken her halfway across the river, her feet moving of their own volition. No, that wasn’t right. Her feet were moving for the same reason she’d kept moving since her first night in this strange world – the need to see her parents again. Now she finally had that chance, the chance she had worked so hard and everyone had sacrificed so much for. She wouldn’t ruin it by disobeying Haku’s last order to her.
So Chihiro did not look back – she contented herself with a memory of his quiet smile and his hands in hers’ and that was enough to make her smile, even if that memory already felt as distant as a dream. Her distraction did cost her – her tennis shoes slipped and slid over the pointy, uneven rocks, and there were points where Chihiro found herself slipping hard onto her backside with a yelp that was equal parts pain and frustration. But she always scrambled back to her feet and kept going, until she could heave herself upright on the other bank with a sigh of relief.
She wanted to look back again. She did not, and the refusal was easier this time. She could see the tunnel in the far distance, and she knew that there her parents would be waiting for her.
Now she was moving towards something, instead of away. Now she was moving to regain what she had lost, even as she lost something nearly as valuable. Now she had a life ahead of her, even as she was leaving a life behind.
It was all about the balance. It was all about paying off your debts, working to earn what you wanted. She had worked, she had earned, and now she was cresting the last hill to claim her parents and her life back.
And then she was standing at the top of the hill, the warm summer breeze blowing back her pony tail and making the hair tie her friends had crafted for her flutter slightly. She lifted a hand to touch it, reassure herself that it was still firmly in place. And she nodded in satisfaction when she felt that it was.
As long as this was with her, the friends she had made would never be lost to her and the lessons would never be forgotten.
Chihiro saw her parents together at the bottom of the hill, at the mouth of the tunnel, and felt her heart soar with joy and love. And then she was racing down the hill, far too fast. She should have tripped, she knew she should have tripped, but she didn’t, not until she could practically fall into their waiting arms.
“Mom! Dad!”