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Cyndi ([personal profile] seaduckies) wrote in [personal profile] thalassino 2013-08-26 06:58 am (UTC)

Monaka Miyama | The Miyama-Uguisu Mansion Incident | Not Reserved

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( Player Name ) : Cyndi
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( Age ) : 23
( Timezone ) : EST
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( Character's Name ) : Monaka Miyama-Uguisu
( Character's Age ) : 15
( Series ) : The Miyama-Uguisu Mansion Incident
( Canon Point ) : post-story

( History ) :
Monaka eventually becomes Shiemi in Blue Exorcist, and expands on how she deals with the world around her after she has been freed from her spell. But while Shiemi’s seclusion was self-imposed and she had to struggle with her own self confidence in order to grow into a stronger person, Monaka was forced and coerced into believing that all that she loved had loathed her. Her seclusion was imposed upon her by an unbearable fear of water and the outside world. Her uncle (possessed as he was by the demon Pazuzu) had spoken lies to her, planting the seed of fear into her. Though he took away her freedom, he could not take away her passion or her love for her craft. He could tell her to make flower arrangements (and she could have refused) but she continued. She was the last of her family’s name and she knew that she had a duty to uphold it. She loved flowers, loved to see them speak to others in their silent but beautiful language, and she was more than grateful that she had been able to share that world with her friend, Night.

Monaka grew up under the care of her loving parents. She aspired to be as beautiful as her mother and as talented as her father. Her dream was to take over the family business someday, a dream that she had already started working towards. At a young age she had possessed a keen eye for an artistic balance between nature and humanity. This close attention to detail balance was best shown when she discovered the lone and frightened creature in her family’s garden.

To her young eyes she had seen a cat. There was no demon in the woods, nothing evil or discontent about the skittish creature. Monaka coaxed it from its hiding place, and slowly but surely, they became attached to one another. She named her companion, “Night” because of the color of his fur. If her parents noticed anything odd about Monaka’s friend their neither cared nor concerned themselves with its oddities. Their daughter was happy and the creature had brought no harm to them. Monaka confided in Night as she would have to any child her age, had she any recurring friends in the mansion. She was unaccustomed to having a friend and Night’s companionship proved to be more than enough to bring the young girl out of any shell that might have formed around her. But one day Pazuzu, the demon that Night once served, took notice of Monaka and desired her for himself. He possessed her cruel uncle and snaked his way into her family’s business. Her parents’ abrupt deaths soon followed. Monaka had been playing by the river when she slipped. Her parents died trying to save her, or so Pazuzu made her believe. The guilt of her parents’ death and the shock it left her in turned her hair white over the course of a few months. Soon after her uncle gained guardianship of her and her company. He whispered lies to her, lies that would embed within her the fear of the outside world and of water.

In her moment of grief, she asked her friend not to leave her side. However after the night she made her request, she never saw or heard from Night again. With that connection severed, she all but succumbed to the tormenting voice of the demon. But a part of her never did believe she had been abandoned completely, that same small part of her that was still a child. She still longed to hear stories, to be held and spoken to until the late hours of the night. She wanted to love and be loved. Monaka was a child, forced away from the world but more than willing to embrace it once it stopped being so frightening. She grew up around nature and she loved everything about it. The flowers she arranged even under the demands of her uncle had been done so carefully and elegantly. In one way, she did not want to tarnish her family’s name. In another, she had not desired to separate herself completely from the world she once loved so much.

A month before her sixteenth birthday, an unnamed exorcist came to her home to exorcize a demon. She was forced to confront her greatest fears and the very man who had put her through so much pain and terror in the past ten years of her life. In the exorcist, she had glimpsed something familiar. It was a relic from her past that would strengthen the resilience within her and spur her into action. After the demon had been defeated and her own ties to it broken, she was able to embrace a lifestyle she had only dreamed about before (of seeing new people and making arrangements out of love rather than out of fear). At the end of her trials, Monaka believed she had seen her dear friend one last time before returning to her new life.

( Personality ) :
Monaka has a head full of dreams, and a heart that’s ready to move forward with her life. However, as she lived her life with her uncle, she rarely voiced her aspirations. She has her own set of fears and has had to develop her own method to deal with them. After her uncle was removed from her life, Monaka was able to embrace what she had once loved. She is a child of nature, a soft spoken and quiet girl who wants nothing more than to find the harmony that exists between nature and humanity, like the flower arrangements she has grown around all of her life. Her dedication to her flowers has become such a huge part of herself that she can hardly imagine what life would be like for her outside of her room, and later extended to her own four walls. While Monaka has invited people to her home and seems to have conducted lessons in flower arrangement to younger children, she has not left her home. She hasn’t changed out of her own kimono, but she is sitting outside nonetheless. While she may not be aware of it, it will take more than a few short declarations to separate herself entirely from the deep rooted fear that once dominated her life.

Monaka still retains a semblance of childishness, despite the pain that surrounded her for ten years. She asks for stories from strangers, eager as she is to hear about the outside world. Before her parents’ death, she enjoyed going outside and playing in the flower garden. In a small way she feels that her fear is both irrational, but it is incredibly difficult for her to ignore the impulse. Try as she might to overcome that part of her that runs from open doors and cowers at the thought of being submerged in water, it has been rooted into her psyche. It will take time for the wounds to heal completely. For the moment, Monaka is more than happy to live life as she wants to. Knowing that she doesn’t have to obey the word of her uncle, she has been freed in a small way. Monaka ventures out as far as she is able. But she knows that she wants to venture further, to experience everything life has to offer.

Like the character she eventually became (Shiemi Moiryama from Blue Exorcist) Monaka wants to explore the world like most children her age. She’s lived a sheltered life, far from technology and current events. New slang or gestures that may seem like second nature to everyone but her will be a whole new aspect of the world she’d want to explore. She’s had to arrange flowers and live under the rule of a demon who was preparing her to be his meal. She was shut away from most technological advances, denied even glimpse into a world she had only known as a child.

Monaka’s life has not been an easy one, but she faces each day with a quiet endurance. Despite the casualties that seem to follow her life, and even as her own resolve grows thin, she does not allow herself to cave into to her uncle’s brutal punishments. It is a hard strength that grew within her but it did not harden into a shell. Instead it became a rock she could hold on to while she tried to remember to smile in the face of adversity. With her uncle’s influence gone towards the story’s end, Monaka has been able to open up. She hasn’t blossomed entirely, but she has taken a small step away from the gloomy life she had once led.

As a child, Monaka was bright and quick to smile. She carried a simple vocabulary and saw the world through rose colored lenses. Everyone and everything was a potential friend, someone that could easily be trusted. She wasn’t very creative when it came to naming her friends, but her creativity did not lie in her diction or use of language. It shone through her work with flower arrangement. She spoke with her hands and her craft, carefully choosing the best flowers in her arrangements. Monaka was happy. At sixteen, after her brush with the demon Pazuzu, Monaka is learning how to smile again. Within the masion and her guests, she is able to laugh again and feel a new sense of hope. She had little reason to be happy beforehand and her eyes showed too clearly the pain she felt inside. She spoke quietly and demurely, keeping her head low and out of site. Yet, even under the pressure of her uncle’s demands, Monaka remained steadfast and showed not an ounce of emotion. She learned to hide them away, though Pazuzu did his best to draw it out through physical abuse. Emotionally, she had been scarred and in pain. Physically, she could still be harmed and beaten down, and Pazuzu took full advantage of it in order to further Monaka’s humiliation and forced subjugation.

( Strengths/Weaknesses ) :
Monaka’s greatest strengths lie in her creativity and endurance. Even Pazuzu had to recognize her talents in flower arrangements when she was able to create a delicate, yet powerful arrangement with such a large base. Though her talents were used by Pazuzu to further her misery, it had only helped to decrease it. She was able to endure tolerate the physical and mental abuse of her uncle to the point where she was able to maintain a part of herself through her art.

Her weaknesses are more mental hurdles than physical ailments. Her near-death experience and her parent’s deaths are still a source of guilt and anguish for her. She still has a lingering phobia of water, which manifests itself as an automatic psychological response. While Monaka is more than ready to embrace the outside world, she has not seen much of it. Because of her lack of exposure, she’s fairly naïve and gullible.


( Other Important Facts ) :
Monaka grew up as the heiress to a very important flower arrangement business. She tends to place her work and her life on the same pedestal since her work is very close to her heart. The company means a lot to her and she’ll do what she can to maintain that image. Monaka is still a child though, so while she can appear to be distant it’s only due to a small amount of shyness caused by her sheltered life.
She isn’t the best gardener. As she’s learning to overcome her fears, she’s starting to learn how to work with plants and garden tools. She is a hard worker.

( Sample ) :

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( Questions? Comments? Concerns? ) : Even though applications are closing, could I still mess around in the dressing room?

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