▶ CHARACTERNAME: Minako Aino (Sailor Venus)
CANON: Sailor Moon
CANON POINT: After the Dark Moon Kingdom arc (hasn't met Neptune/Uranus)
AGE: 15
BACKGROUND: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Venus#Anime_and_mangaPERSONALITY: In common settings, Minako is a fairly happy and vivacious person. She's outgoing, friendly, and cheerful to most everyone she meets. She has a lot of confidence and self-respect, so she's rarely (if ever) insecure. But at the same time, she's far from arrogant, and she doesn't feel the need to be better than anyone else; she just wants to be the best she can be.
At times Minako can come across as a little ditzy. She doesn't like studying or homework, and if given the choice, she'd much prefer to spend some quality time hanging out with her friends and having fun. She's not as irresponsible as she used to be, when Artemis first began training her, but it doesn't really take much arm twisting to convince her to procrastinate in her studies. Nonetheless, she does try, especially now that she can form a study group with her friends. She has a tendency to mix up proverbs, and she performs poorly in math. However, her English is impeccable due to her former travels which led her to stay in England for quite some time, so it would be safe to say that she's not stupid -- she just doesn't always apply herself when there's something more interesting to arrest her attention.
She primarily enjoys the same things most teenage girls do -- clothes, boys, shopping, fashion, celebrities, etc. She often dreams of being a pop idol, and in a sense, she's kind of succeeded. Sailor V has her own video game, after all! But she'd rather be famous due to her own talents and merits, rather than riding the celebrity she's garnered as a crime fighting superhero. While she may not have a lot of scholastic smarts, she's athletic and full of energy, being particularly talented at the sport of volleyball.
Minako also exhibits a lot of boy crazy ways; she's the warrior of love, after all! But while she loves doling out advice and trying to ignite romances for her friends, she doesn't exactly have a lot of personal experience in the matter. As much as she might wish for a cute boyfriend, Minako doesn't often pursue a crush. This is, perhaps, due to the dire prediction cast by one of the antagonists, Danburite, in her early days as Sailor V: she would always choose duty over love. While in Lunatia, expect Minako to run around trying to set people up as a meddlesome cupid wanna-be...with far worse results, most likely.
One of Minako's more "interesting" qualities is her tendency to meddle. Her intentions are good (usually), as she really does want to help people out, but more often than not she'll bungle things up. She knows nothing about housework or cooking, and given that she's still VERY single, it can be assumed she's not the romantic expert she thinks she is. In an episode that takes place after her canon point, she even tries dating two guys at the exact same time, running back and forth between each date so she doesn't have to choose one. She also gets so worked up about not being targeted by the heart snatchers that she dedicates all of her time and energy into volunteer and charity works to prove that she totally had a pure heart worth stealing, and they DID nearly kill her in order to get her heart. So while she may be the most experienced of the scouts, she still has her moments of foolishness and immaturity as well. Give her a break, she's only fifteen.
Despite these unfortunate mishaps and errors, she takes her responsibility as Sailor Venus very seriously. She seems to be a brilliant tactician (when she tries to be) and warrior, further strengthening the notion that she's not just a ditzy blonde teen. She exercises a lot of strategy when dealing with her opponents, and at times has acted as Sailor Moon's decoy to throw enemies off their guard. Venus recognizes that Sailor Moon is their princess, and she would lay down her life without hesitation in order to protect her.
Her friends mean everything to her. While it seems like she squabbles sometimes with Artemis, the two are incredibly close, and she knows that she wouldn't be the woman she is today if not for his patience and guidance. She truly loves the other scouts, and there's nothing she wouldn't do for them. When Usagi is in danger, Minako reacts instantly to protect her, even sacrificing her life for hers. She had the strength and selflessness to leave behind her best friend/"big sister" and the man that Minako fallen in love with, allowing those two to believe she had perished so that their own budding romance could flourish. Sailor Moon, realizing what Venus had chosen to give up, remarks to the other scouts that perhaps Venus might be the most mature of them all.
POWERS/ABILITIES: Minako has a lot of energy, and she's physically fit. She excels at sports, particularly volleyball, and she appears to be pretty good at driving/racing games...although that sort of thing isn't likely to come into play. Though she doesn't often show it unless she's transformed into Sailor Venus, Minako is a competent fighter, nimble and swift with powerful kicks. She's charismatic and talented, and her skills at acting and bluffing are exceptional.
With her transformation wand, Minako has the ability to become Sailor Venus. For some reason, no one is able to distinguish that Minako and Sailor Venus are the same person, so there may be some sort of power going on that makes it difficult for people to make the connection. Even when Venus herself meets the other four scouts as civilians, she remarks that they look 'different', enough that she barely recognized them. Her most basic attack is the Crescent Beam, a piercing ray of bright gold energy, which was later expanded into the Crescent Beam Shower which allows her to disperse the same attack against multiple targets. She also possesses the Venus Love-Me Chain, a weapon of heart-shaped links which can be used to strike like a whip, or encircle and bind an enemy.
INVENTORY: Transformation wand, and some extra changes of clothes.
MOONBLESSING: Cordis
▶ SAMPLESNARRATIVE
Minako's alarm chirruped insistently, and after she'd groaned a few unintelligible complaints, she got out of bed to turn it off. Another day on an alien planet. It still felt strange, waking up on her own without Artemis hounding her to stop hitting the snooze button, or the smell of breakfast wafting from the kitchen while her mother also hounded her about her love of snooze buttons. They didn't get along most of the time, but even so, Minako kind of missed her.
After she had showered and dressed (laundry scattered messily across the floor), she nestled herself into the corner of her couch with a slice of buttered toast and started fiddling with this weird little device she'd been given. The technology here was far beyond what she was used to, and it was only a matter of time before she accidentally found a way to
ruin everything she touched, but for now...
...Wait, what day was it? End of January. Why did she feel this strange anxiety, then, like there was something incredibly important she'd neglected? Minako furrowed her brow. End of January... She wasn't forgetting anybody's birthday, she was pretty sure. February, maybe? She flicked the screen to pull up the next month's calendar, and her heart just about leaped out of her chest. Valentine's Day! IT WAS COMING!
AND SHE HAD NO ONE TO STALK WITH CHOCOLATE OFFERINGS!!Did the Prismals have the equivalent of Valentine's Day here? Would it be super romantic? Maybe it was up to her to teach everyone in the city about the very best holiday ever! (It was a better use of her time than watching TV and checking out the crazy futuristic fashions that aliens liked to wear.) Wolfing down her toast, Minako sprang to her feet. Maybe Ami might like to help! (Probably not, but Minako was willing to beg if she had to.) She dashed about her apartment, trying to find where she'd left her notebook and pencil. She really should clean sometime, but not today. She was on a mission. --Ah ha, there! She dug up the cute notepad with the little white cat faces on it and tucked it under her arm, slipping on her shoes and tossing on her coat before running out the door.
Time to (unnecessarily) teach love to the masses!
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