Post by Homura Hino on May 7, 2013 2:05:02 GMT -5
Name: Homura Hino (火野 ほむら) (Ai Ichigo)
School Attending: Spica
Age/ Year in School:
16/Fifth Year
~ Appearance ~
Other pictures. Faceclaim is Asuna Yuuki from SAO.
Hair Color: Orange-brown.
Hairstyle: Let down mostly, but braided back and ending in a ponytail at the back of her head. It's long enough to reach her hips.
Eye Color: Amber.
Height: 5'4''
What kind of clothes does you character wear when she's not in uniform? Simple clothing, usually a turtleneck sweater and a skirt with boots. She has been known to wear lighter shirts and pants on occasion if the weather calls for it.
Additionally, Homura always wears a pair of black or brown pantyhose with her uniform.
What Sports/activities is you character involved in?
Fencing: Yes
Martial Arts: Yes
Other? - Cooking?
Is your character on the Student Council?Yes
If yes, what does your character think of the student council president, Himiko Miyamae?
Homura enjoys Himiko's presence and personality. They had always gotten along well enough, but at the winter ball the pair ended up dancing together, enchanted. Several dates later and the two agreed to be girlfriends - so essentially, Homura really likes Himiko, but as a fellow student council member does not expect preferential treatment at all. As a leader Homura has faith in her girlfriend and expects her to lead the Student Council to it's fullest potential.
Please explain your character's personality in 200 words or more:
Homura is a very quiet, focused individual, excelling at both her grades and her chosen sports. Others have commented she probably would have fit in better at Miator, but her family insisted that Spica was a better place to train a quality young woman for the modern world, and because it was the only school to offer "quality" activities suited for a woman of her line. She has a soft manner of speaking and is often quite gentle toward other girls, friendly enough in classes to help them if they need her help, which has made her amicable and rather popular among her classmates.
The strong, friendly and competitive exterior hides a rather cold person underneath, however, which she horrors one may learn of. She is not very good in academics and spends hours each night to make sure she can keep up her grades, frustrating herself and stressing herself out. She has a perfectionism streak, all stemming from one single source.
She lives her life unquestioningly to the will of her family, being an only child and heir to their martial arts studio, although she would much rather become a chef due to her natural talent in cooking fine meals. As such, when quieried to her personal goals and dreams, her answers are often vague and deflective.
She has a difficult time making friends despite being very friendly, because she is very reserved and closed off when it comes to her personal life, interests, and sense of self. She dreams of a day when she can stand up for herself and take charge of her future, but becomes very nervous when actually faced with the opportunity.
What does your character think of the Etoile position as a whole?
Homura finds it fascinating. It's certainly an excellent way to keep the girls in check, but also finds herself being caught up in a fantasy of the etoile, admiring the girls that get elected. The Etoile system came as a surprise to her when she first enrolled, and it was the first time she had considered that love between two girls was a possibility - something she was at first confused about but has since come to regard as natural and beautiful.
Does your character want to be an Etoile someday?
Yes, very much so, but she fears she may be too timid to actually find someone.
What does your character think of Chokone Manatsu and Shizuka Myuzu, the current etoiles? From what Homura has seen of Shizuka, she finds her a very good person to admire, since in her opinion she just seems to have it so sorted and together. Whether this is true or not isn't really relevant here. Chokone, on the other hand, she finds to be adorable and sweet, like a perfect little sister figure, and understands perfectly why Shizuka would enjoy her company.
What does your character think of the other schools? Homura doesn't really care for the rivalry between the two schools, and finds it rather pointless. She finds Miator students a bit insufferable, however, and Lulim students to be friendly and fun people to be around.
~History~
Please write in 100 words or more your character's history before she came to Spica.
History before Astraea Hill:
Homura comes from a long-lined, wealthy family who own a prestigious martial arts school. Being the only child of her family, she was slated to inherit running the school as a child, and has been forced to train in martial arts and fencing since she was very small. She became reclusive and quiet as a result, and although she was picked on at the school she went for being a "stupid rich girl", she never had problems with bullies - but also never really had friends. To deal with this loneliness, she spent her time cooking elaborate recipes for her family, realising she dreamed of being a famous chef - but when she realised this could never possibly come to pass, she spiralled into despair.
Her grades slipped and she became even more depressed and reclusive, so when she was 11 enrolled her in St. Spica in hopes that this would help her become a more suitable heir for the martial arts school.
Since then her condition and grades have improved, but she still retains no close friendships.
First Year: Arrives at St. Spica. Signs up for the Martial Arts team and the Fencing team straight away. Shows interest in Lulim's cooking club, and requests to join them for sessions, even though she didn't go to Lulim.
Second Year: Joins the student council for the first time, hoping that a modicum of leadership in the student body would help her to gain confidence in herself and also help prepare her for her future running a martial arts school.
Third Year: Experienced her first crush on a sixth year. She was swept up in her adoration, but also began to question herself. Her family would have said such feelings were wrong, but surely that wasn't true, right? It felt so natural and pure, to her. Eventually she overcame her crush and came to accept her feelings as normal, even if she felt fear at what her family would think.
Fourth Year: Homura made a vow to herself to become more assertive and persue her dreams, regardless of the cost. This was partially because she met someone special to her - a girlfriend, another student named Himiko Miyamae, an equestrian, fencer, martial artist like her and fellow student council member. Homura spent the night with her at the winter ball, and then after a few dates the two became girlfriends. Homura has decided to focus more on what makes her happy than being perfect and pleasing others all the time.
Fifth Year:
Sixth Year:
Sample Post:
What would her parents think?
Homura placed the carrot down on the cutting board, beginning to chop as she wiped her face of all emotion, brow furrowed slightly in concentration. The tapping of the knife clicked on the board as her thoughts raced, switching back to that particular sixth year.
She had come to recognise her reactions as attraction. Her heart pounded in her chest, her face flushed, and she wanted nothing more than to hurl herself into the arms of the princely woman. But could she?
All she could hope for was that her parents set her up in an arranged marriage with a good man. How could she disobey them? She was the heir to their school, after all, and if she didn't do as they said, she couldn't bear the thought of disappointing them. They were everything to her, but were her feelings really so wrong?
Surely these feelings were common among girls at Astaraea. Couples got together all the time, and the nuns never seemed to bat an eye - or perhaps they thought they were simply close friendships. Here it was treated as normal, natural.
Come to think of it, she'd never really had any feelings for the boys her family insisted on introducing her to during the summers when she visited her family. Why would she? Most of them were simply stuck up and rich, who expected her to be a submissive wife.
Pain shot through her hand and she gasped, dropping the knife and grabbing a napkin nearby, pressing it to the cut on her finger. It was a deep gash, but it wasn't any emergency, and she just had to put pressure on it.
Damnit, she shouldn't have let her thoughts distract her. Maybe this cut was a punishment or a warning to stop doubting herself. She always had been a coward.
Word Count: 303
OOC: I wanted to write about her first thoughts on her first crush.
How did you find our website?
It's Brigitte.
Other
I made the posting graphic. I hope you all like it, because it drove me nuts.
School Attending: Spica
Age/ Year in School:
16/Fifth Year
~ Appearance ~
Other pictures. Faceclaim is Asuna Yuuki from SAO.
Hair Color: Orange-brown.
Hairstyle: Let down mostly, but braided back and ending in a ponytail at the back of her head. It's long enough to reach her hips.
Eye Color: Amber.
Height: 5'4''
What kind of clothes does you character wear when she's not in uniform? Simple clothing, usually a turtleneck sweater and a skirt with boots. She has been known to wear lighter shirts and pants on occasion if the weather calls for it.
Additionally, Homura always wears a pair of black or brown pantyhose with her uniform.
What Sports/activities is you character involved in?
Fencing: Yes
Martial Arts: Yes
Other? - Cooking?
Is your character on the Student Council?Yes
If yes, what does your character think of the student council president, Himiko Miyamae?
Homura enjoys Himiko's presence and personality. They had always gotten along well enough, but at the winter ball the pair ended up dancing together, enchanted. Several dates later and the two agreed to be girlfriends - so essentially, Homura really likes Himiko, but as a fellow student council member does not expect preferential treatment at all. As a leader Homura has faith in her girlfriend and expects her to lead the Student Council to it's fullest potential.
Please explain your character's personality in 200 words or more:
Homura is a very quiet, focused individual, excelling at both her grades and her chosen sports. Others have commented she probably would have fit in better at Miator, but her family insisted that Spica was a better place to train a quality young woman for the modern world, and because it was the only school to offer "quality" activities suited for a woman of her line. She has a soft manner of speaking and is often quite gentle toward other girls, friendly enough in classes to help them if they need her help, which has made her amicable and rather popular among her classmates.
The strong, friendly and competitive exterior hides a rather cold person underneath, however, which she horrors one may learn of. She is not very good in academics and spends hours each night to make sure she can keep up her grades, frustrating herself and stressing herself out. She has a perfectionism streak, all stemming from one single source.
She lives her life unquestioningly to the will of her family, being an only child and heir to their martial arts studio, although she would much rather become a chef due to her natural talent in cooking fine meals. As such, when quieried to her personal goals and dreams, her answers are often vague and deflective.
She has a difficult time making friends despite being very friendly, because she is very reserved and closed off when it comes to her personal life, interests, and sense of self. She dreams of a day when she can stand up for herself and take charge of her future, but becomes very nervous when actually faced with the opportunity.
What does your character think of the Etoile position as a whole?
Homura finds it fascinating. It's certainly an excellent way to keep the girls in check, but also finds herself being caught up in a fantasy of the etoile, admiring the girls that get elected. The Etoile system came as a surprise to her when she first enrolled, and it was the first time she had considered that love between two girls was a possibility - something she was at first confused about but has since come to regard as natural and beautiful.
Does your character want to be an Etoile someday?
Yes, very much so, but she fears she may be too timid to actually find someone.
What does your character think of Chokone Manatsu and Shizuka Myuzu, the current etoiles? From what Homura has seen of Shizuka, she finds her a very good person to admire, since in her opinion she just seems to have it so sorted and together. Whether this is true or not isn't really relevant here. Chokone, on the other hand, she finds to be adorable and sweet, like a perfect little sister figure, and understands perfectly why Shizuka would enjoy her company.
What does your character think of the other schools? Homura doesn't really care for the rivalry between the two schools, and finds it rather pointless. She finds Miator students a bit insufferable, however, and Lulim students to be friendly and fun people to be around.
~History~
Please write in 100 words or more your character's history before she came to Spica.
History before Astraea Hill:
Homura comes from a long-lined, wealthy family who own a prestigious martial arts school. Being the only child of her family, she was slated to inherit running the school as a child, and has been forced to train in martial arts and fencing since she was very small. She became reclusive and quiet as a result, and although she was picked on at the school she went for being a "stupid rich girl", she never had problems with bullies - but also never really had friends. To deal with this loneliness, she spent her time cooking elaborate recipes for her family, realising she dreamed of being a famous chef - but when she realised this could never possibly come to pass, she spiralled into despair.
Her grades slipped and she became even more depressed and reclusive, so when she was 11 enrolled her in St. Spica in hopes that this would help her become a more suitable heir for the martial arts school.
Since then her condition and grades have improved, but she still retains no close friendships.
First Year: Arrives at St. Spica. Signs up for the Martial Arts team and the Fencing team straight away. Shows interest in Lulim's cooking club, and requests to join them for sessions, even though she didn't go to Lulim.
Second Year: Joins the student council for the first time, hoping that a modicum of leadership in the student body would help her to gain confidence in herself and also help prepare her for her future running a martial arts school.
Third Year: Experienced her first crush on a sixth year. She was swept up in her adoration, but also began to question herself. Her family would have said such feelings were wrong, but surely that wasn't true, right? It felt so natural and pure, to her. Eventually she overcame her crush and came to accept her feelings as normal, even if she felt fear at what her family would think.
Fourth Year: Homura made a vow to herself to become more assertive and persue her dreams, regardless of the cost. This was partially because she met someone special to her - a girlfriend, another student named Himiko Miyamae, an equestrian, fencer, martial artist like her and fellow student council member. Homura spent the night with her at the winter ball, and then after a few dates the two became girlfriends. Homura has decided to focus more on what makes her happy than being perfect and pleasing others all the time.
Fifth Year:
Sixth Year:
Sample Post:
What would her parents think?
Homura placed the carrot down on the cutting board, beginning to chop as she wiped her face of all emotion, brow furrowed slightly in concentration. The tapping of the knife clicked on the board as her thoughts raced, switching back to that particular sixth year.
She had come to recognise her reactions as attraction. Her heart pounded in her chest, her face flushed, and she wanted nothing more than to hurl herself into the arms of the princely woman. But could she?
All she could hope for was that her parents set her up in an arranged marriage with a good man. How could she disobey them? She was the heir to their school, after all, and if she didn't do as they said, she couldn't bear the thought of disappointing them. They were everything to her, but were her feelings really so wrong?
Surely these feelings were common among girls at Astaraea. Couples got together all the time, and the nuns never seemed to bat an eye - or perhaps they thought they were simply close friendships. Here it was treated as normal, natural.
Come to think of it, she'd never really had any feelings for the boys her family insisted on introducing her to during the summers when she visited her family. Why would she? Most of them were simply stuck up and rich, who expected her to be a submissive wife.
Pain shot through her hand and she gasped, dropping the knife and grabbing a napkin nearby, pressing it to the cut on her finger. It was a deep gash, but it wasn't any emergency, and she just had to put pressure on it.
Damnit, she shouldn't have let her thoughts distract her. Maybe this cut was a punishment or a warning to stop doubting herself. She always had been a coward.
Word Count: 303
OOC: I wanted to write about her first thoughts on her first crush.
How did you find our website?
It's Brigitte.
Other
I made the posting graphic. I hope you all like it, because it drove me nuts.