Post by Aiko on Mar 28, 2008 20:38:38 GMT -5
(v.2)
[General]-
Name: Renée Donovan
Alias: Ren(-chan), Donny, Tucker
Gender: Female
Age: 16 years old
Birth date: January 24
Hair: Dark brown; long and thick; normally up in some way, shape, or form
Eyes: Green; distinctively almond-shaped
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 130 lbs.
Race: Human (American)
Current Era: Present
[About]-
Personality:
Renée is smart. The whole reason she’s in Japan is because she’s too downright smart for her own good. Her mind finds no trouble in the grasping of information, and she is quick to learn patterns, formulas, and thinking skills. However, as is the case with many people who are “book-smart,” she lacks the trait of being “street-smart.” While she easily grasps abstract things, her everyday functioning is somewhat lacking. She gets lost easily and lacks common sense in general. She is easily confused or befuddled with the average; she could answer a riddle one moment and then give the riddler a blank stare when she is asked her age.
When it comes to interacting with other people, Renée is reserved. She is easily intimidated by others and feels naturally distant from them, like any teenager awkward in their suddenly too-large shoes. But, ever the typical teen, she adores friends and forming friendships with people and does it whenever she thinks she might be accepted by people; if she discovers a similar interest or just a face that looks friendly, she’ll flock straight to the person she thinks she’ll befriend. While taking a little while to warm up to people, once she starts talking to somebody, they’ll be wishing they had earplugs to drown out her incessant chatter. While most believe her to be goofy, Renée’s friends know that she’s just a fun-loving goofball.
Morally speaking, Renée’s heart is in the right place. It just doesn’t always show. She cares about other people’s welfare and happiness, she really does. Usually, she treats people well. She has a high tolerance of people in general, so long as she is in a good mood to begin with. Her supposed kindness, though, is usually her being mellow and relaxed, which is, actually, more often than not. If she’s in a truly bad mood, for whatever idiot reason she comes up with (and yes, many of her reasons are “idiot”), she suddenly becomes not-so-nice, but this behavior is atypical of her. She likes being on good terms with everybody, and hates it when anybody is upset: with her or just in general, in doesn’t matter.
She’s also highly over-competitive. She is accustomed to being the best, at schoolwork and other things, and gets very upset with that which is less-than-perfect. However, not only must something be perfect, but it must also be done with the least possible amount of energy. Therefore, if something she does is imperfect, she’s likely to give up on it as a failed endeavor. She’s also a horrible procrastinator.
On a final note, Renée might be smart, but it’s her imagination, and not her thinking, that she treasures. Her brand of intrigue is all in fantasy and mystery, and in a romanticized form of the world that only she really understands. She absolutely adores mythology, and the stories of Japan hold a special captivation for her. She oftentimes views fantasy as more real than reality. Because of her need of a creative outlet, she dabbles in most forms of art, though her favorites are poetry, sketching, singing, and, strange as it may sound, acting.
Background:
She was your typical American… and, truth be told, she still was. Renée had her share of friends, and, being the smart girl (or aleck, as she was often called by her father, though she honestly had no clue what an “aleck” was) that she was, engaged in plenty of honors classes in her freshman year of high school. For that matter, she did so well, that she was one of ten freshmen, those who had the highest GPAs in the class, who were offered a chance to study for a year in Japan. But being the selfish misers that they were, the school board only agreed to pay for the rent of a room to stay, and for schooling; food and other such necessities would be the fruits of the students’ own labor. In the end, only Renée, whose family was well-off financially, was able to go. Though terrified at the prospect of being in a foreign country on her own, she was also thrilled by this chance to “start fresh” in a “new crowd.” However, the problems are greater than that: she can barely speak Japanese. Still, she didn’t want to pass up this chance. Other than the educational reasons (in all honesty, Renée didn’t give a rat’s rear about educational reasons), Renée had harbored a desire to explore Japan after discovering first her love of the food, and second her love of the manga. And so now she has made the journey to a whole new country, completely alone, scared out of her mind, and privately wishing that something really exciting, something that would lead to a real adventure, would happen.
Shortly after coming to Japan, she received a phone call that a family member had died. In her depression, she met a boy named Tsuyoi Seishuku, a strange and aloof young man with curiously white hair. He helped her in her time of sadness, despite his acting cold and distant the entire time, and as fate would have it, she saw him a few more times during the duration of her stay, though never intentionally. It was through him that Renée met Kouhei Mitski, a friendly young crossdresser who Renée initially mistook for a girl. Attracted by Kouhei’s friendly, bubbly personality, Renée went to work befriending this strange young (fe)male.
In the spring, because she was running low on her parents’ money, Renée got a job at a coffee shop which, while giving her a minimum income, was enough of a job for her to live on.
Relationships with Other RP Characters:
Tsuyoi Seishuku: Ren had gone through some difficult times when she had recently arrived in Japan, and some odd twist of fate had it that Tsuyoi helped her when she needed it. Since then, Ren has been interested in becoming his friend, even though he annoys her to no end by seeming not to care about anything. While she complains about him and gets ticked off at him constantly, she really does like him. She thinks he's hot, but she's not interested in being more than friends with him.
Gakuto Tomo: Ren seriously dislikes this man. To her, he's just a mean-spirited, crotchety old man who she doesn't want to deal with.
Mitski Kouhei: Even though she thinks he's a she, Ren adores Kouhei. They are relatively new friends, united by a desire for company and a love of shopping at quirky stores. Ren hopes to become really good friends with Kouhei before she leaves Japan, possibly even to the point where Kouhei is her "best" friend, but since they aren't able to hang out often, Ren suspects that this is just a faraway dream.
Koneko: Ren has only encountered Koneko once, and while she was working. She has no particular opinion about this girl, though in her head, Ren calls Koneko "Panda Hat."
Keiko: Initially, when Ren only met him whil she was working, she didn't like Keiko, but after playing a game with him at the mall, she decided that she really did, in fact, like the boy. She decided that she would be his first friend, though she finds it hard to believe that someone with such an engaging personality as Keiko wouldn't have had friends before then. She hopes that they can become close before the time Ren must leave Japan.
[Abilities]-
Techniques: --
Combat styles: Running away
Jewel Shards: 0
[Other]-
Rp sample:
Thank heaven for one carry-on bag.
It was always Renée’s policy to bring some sort of entertainment on any trip of any length. This plane ride, which she estimated would last two more months until it finally reached Japan, was no exception to her rule, so her carry-on bag, a hefty backpack with lots of normally pointless pockets, was stuffed to the point of not being able to be zipped up, mostly with books. There were other various odds and ends inside, including an entire purse, which of course carried necessities that any girl would need. But the books were what occupied her now, and what would make the rest of the trip manageable. While the random stranger beside her, an obese old woman who could do with a stick of deodorant but was nevertheless dressed in a business suit, snored peaceably (Renée was quite thankful, as the woman made her nervous, like most strangers), the teenager rummaged through novels of various sizes, searching for her surprisingly new-looking favorite book in the whole wide world.
She was several chapters in (and this was no novella, mind you) when a stewardess walked by. Though Renée was offered the complimentary bag of peanuts, she shook her head hurriedly, clamming up under the slightly condescending look she felt she was being given. When the stewardess finally moved on, Renée entertained a few condescending thoughts of her own, mainly about the amount of makeup that the flight attendant had smeared all over her face, before returning to the world of her book.
So the stewardess probably thought she was a nerd to be reading the book she was. So what? This thought was more out of defiance than anything else. Still, it calmed Renée enough that she was able to enjoy her book. Yeah, so she was a nerd. So she was interested in this stuff. After a minute of reading, the teenager finally admitted that her thoughts about the stewardess had been harsh and uncalled for. After all, it was very unusual, the book she was reading. Most people, in fact, would think she was a bit off in the head for reading the encyclopedia of magical creatures as though it was a novel.
She returned her attention more fully to the article on Aosaginohi. Some sort of shiny heron thingie, huh? Ren smiled to herself. On her trip to Japan, she decided, the one thing she didn’t want to leave without seeing was one of those crazy Aosaginohi.
Pic: --
[General]-
Name: Renée Donovan
Alias: Ren(-chan), Donny, Tucker
Gender: Female
Age: 16 years old
Birth date: January 24
Hair: Dark brown; long and thick; normally up in some way, shape, or form
Eyes: Green; distinctively almond-shaped
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 130 lbs.
Race: Human (American)
Current Era: Present
[About]-
Personality:
Renée is smart. The whole reason she’s in Japan is because she’s too downright smart for her own good. Her mind finds no trouble in the grasping of information, and she is quick to learn patterns, formulas, and thinking skills. However, as is the case with many people who are “book-smart,” she lacks the trait of being “street-smart.” While she easily grasps abstract things, her everyday functioning is somewhat lacking. She gets lost easily and lacks common sense in general. She is easily confused or befuddled with the average; she could answer a riddle one moment and then give the riddler a blank stare when she is asked her age.
When it comes to interacting with other people, Renée is reserved. She is easily intimidated by others and feels naturally distant from them, like any teenager awkward in their suddenly too-large shoes. But, ever the typical teen, she adores friends and forming friendships with people and does it whenever she thinks she might be accepted by people; if she discovers a similar interest or just a face that looks friendly, she’ll flock straight to the person she thinks she’ll befriend. While taking a little while to warm up to people, once she starts talking to somebody, they’ll be wishing they had earplugs to drown out her incessant chatter. While most believe her to be goofy, Renée’s friends know that she’s just a fun-loving goofball.
Morally speaking, Renée’s heart is in the right place. It just doesn’t always show. She cares about other people’s welfare and happiness, she really does. Usually, she treats people well. She has a high tolerance of people in general, so long as she is in a good mood to begin with. Her supposed kindness, though, is usually her being mellow and relaxed, which is, actually, more often than not. If she’s in a truly bad mood, for whatever idiot reason she comes up with (and yes, many of her reasons are “idiot”), she suddenly becomes not-so-nice, but this behavior is atypical of her. She likes being on good terms with everybody, and hates it when anybody is upset: with her or just in general, in doesn’t matter.
She’s also highly over-competitive. She is accustomed to being the best, at schoolwork and other things, and gets very upset with that which is less-than-perfect. However, not only must something be perfect, but it must also be done with the least possible amount of energy. Therefore, if something she does is imperfect, she’s likely to give up on it as a failed endeavor. She’s also a horrible procrastinator.
On a final note, Renée might be smart, but it’s her imagination, and not her thinking, that she treasures. Her brand of intrigue is all in fantasy and mystery, and in a romanticized form of the world that only she really understands. She absolutely adores mythology, and the stories of Japan hold a special captivation for her. She oftentimes views fantasy as more real than reality. Because of her need of a creative outlet, she dabbles in most forms of art, though her favorites are poetry, sketching, singing, and, strange as it may sound, acting.
Background:
She was your typical American… and, truth be told, she still was. Renée had her share of friends, and, being the smart girl (or aleck, as she was often called by her father, though she honestly had no clue what an “aleck” was) that she was, engaged in plenty of honors classes in her freshman year of high school. For that matter, she did so well, that she was one of ten freshmen, those who had the highest GPAs in the class, who were offered a chance to study for a year in Japan. But being the selfish misers that they were, the school board only agreed to pay for the rent of a room to stay, and for schooling; food and other such necessities would be the fruits of the students’ own labor. In the end, only Renée, whose family was well-off financially, was able to go. Though terrified at the prospect of being in a foreign country on her own, she was also thrilled by this chance to “start fresh” in a “new crowd.” However, the problems are greater than that: she can barely speak Japanese. Still, she didn’t want to pass up this chance. Other than the educational reasons (in all honesty, Renée didn’t give a rat’s rear about educational reasons), Renée had harbored a desire to explore Japan after discovering first her love of the food, and second her love of the manga. And so now she has made the journey to a whole new country, completely alone, scared out of her mind, and privately wishing that something really exciting, something that would lead to a real adventure, would happen.
Shortly after coming to Japan, she received a phone call that a family member had died. In her depression, she met a boy named Tsuyoi Seishuku, a strange and aloof young man with curiously white hair. He helped her in her time of sadness, despite his acting cold and distant the entire time, and as fate would have it, she saw him a few more times during the duration of her stay, though never intentionally. It was through him that Renée met Kouhei Mitski, a friendly young crossdresser who Renée initially mistook for a girl. Attracted by Kouhei’s friendly, bubbly personality, Renée went to work befriending this strange young (fe)male.
In the spring, because she was running low on her parents’ money, Renée got a job at a coffee shop which, while giving her a minimum income, was enough of a job for her to live on.
Relationships with Other RP Characters:
Tsuyoi Seishuku: Ren had gone through some difficult times when she had recently arrived in Japan, and some odd twist of fate had it that Tsuyoi helped her when she needed it. Since then, Ren has been interested in becoming his friend, even though he annoys her to no end by seeming not to care about anything. While she complains about him and gets ticked off at him constantly, she really does like him. She thinks he's hot, but she's not interested in being more than friends with him.
Gakuto Tomo: Ren seriously dislikes this man. To her, he's just a mean-spirited, crotchety old man who she doesn't want to deal with.
Mitski Kouhei: Even though she thinks he's a she, Ren adores Kouhei. They are relatively new friends, united by a desire for company and a love of shopping at quirky stores. Ren hopes to become really good friends with Kouhei before she leaves Japan, possibly even to the point where Kouhei is her "best" friend, but since they aren't able to hang out often, Ren suspects that this is just a faraway dream.
Koneko: Ren has only encountered Koneko once, and while she was working. She has no particular opinion about this girl, though in her head, Ren calls Koneko "Panda Hat."
Keiko: Initially, when Ren only met him whil she was working, she didn't like Keiko, but after playing a game with him at the mall, she decided that she really did, in fact, like the boy. She decided that she would be his first friend, though she finds it hard to believe that someone with such an engaging personality as Keiko wouldn't have had friends before then. She hopes that they can become close before the time Ren must leave Japan.
[Abilities]-
Techniques: --
Combat styles: Running away
Jewel Shards: 0
[Other]-
Rp sample:
Thank heaven for one carry-on bag.
It was always Renée’s policy to bring some sort of entertainment on any trip of any length. This plane ride, which she estimated would last two more months until it finally reached Japan, was no exception to her rule, so her carry-on bag, a hefty backpack with lots of normally pointless pockets, was stuffed to the point of not being able to be zipped up, mostly with books. There were other various odds and ends inside, including an entire purse, which of course carried necessities that any girl would need. But the books were what occupied her now, and what would make the rest of the trip manageable. While the random stranger beside her, an obese old woman who could do with a stick of deodorant but was nevertheless dressed in a business suit, snored peaceably (Renée was quite thankful, as the woman made her nervous, like most strangers), the teenager rummaged through novels of various sizes, searching for her surprisingly new-looking favorite book in the whole wide world.
She was several chapters in (and this was no novella, mind you) when a stewardess walked by. Though Renée was offered the complimentary bag of peanuts, she shook her head hurriedly, clamming up under the slightly condescending look she felt she was being given. When the stewardess finally moved on, Renée entertained a few condescending thoughts of her own, mainly about the amount of makeup that the flight attendant had smeared all over her face, before returning to the world of her book.
So the stewardess probably thought she was a nerd to be reading the book she was. So what? This thought was more out of defiance than anything else. Still, it calmed Renée enough that she was able to enjoy her book. Yeah, so she was a nerd. So she was interested in this stuff. After a minute of reading, the teenager finally admitted that her thoughts about the stewardess had been harsh and uncalled for. After all, it was very unusual, the book she was reading. Most people, in fact, would think she was a bit off in the head for reading the encyclopedia of magical creatures as though it was a novel.
She returned her attention more fully to the article on Aosaginohi. Some sort of shiny heron thingie, huh? Ren smiled to herself. On her trip to Japan, she decided, the one thing she didn’t want to leave without seeing was one of those crazy Aosaginohi.
Pic: --