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Karen Minazuki/Cure Aqua ([personal profile] oceanicbutterfly) wrote2010-01-18 11:24 pm
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OOC: Very belated Shadow info

Arcana: The High Priestess. I'm not going to talk about it because I'm lazy.

Shadow:

Under normal conditions, Karen's Shadow just looks like normal Karen except for the eye color. That, and her school uniform, which she is always wearing regardless of the situation. Yes, this is unusual. Look, it's not my fault she's always wearing it in her icons.

One of Karen's recurring issues is helping people. Karen is a very capable woman and genuinely wants to do things for others, but at the same time she feels like she's always being pressured into doing such things because she's so smart and so responsible and such. It seems unfair, and she wishes she could just quit... only then she'd feel bad. Karen (DDD!Karen, at least) also has longstanding feelings of inadequacy as Cure Aqua, which have no real basis in fact but are quite understandable considering her first experience with Pretty Cure ended with her failing to transform, and she feels a general need to prove she's capable of doing the job. Above all, though, Karen is afraid of losing people, either by driving them away (which is a real concern for someone who keeps forgetting that most people just aren't as smart as she is) or because bad things happen to them.

Karen's Shadow, as it works out, is really bitchy. Her general attitude is that she is the one thing holding society together, because nobody else is competent enough to do anything right. People are constantly failing to get things done, putting themselves in danger, and generally being stupid, and it's Karen's job to balance it out by doing everything herself. She resents any implication that she isn't capable of handling all of this. When she inevitably gets into a situation where she can't rescue someone, she'll be very upset.

Shadow!Karen's dungeon is made up of classrooms, school hallways, and such, reflecting her role as student council president (and the responsibilities that come with it), all in shades of blue. They all seem fairly normal, except for the roses growing from the floor and butterflies fluttering about, and the fact that they're arranged as a maze rather than in any normal formation. Karen's own classroom has another classroom accessible from the back, which is where she keeps people who had to be kidnapped taken into protective custody.

Shadow's true form:
Name: Dark Aqua
Level: 78
Shadow!Karen shouts "Pretty Cure Metamorphose!" much like she normally would, and turns into her own evil clone. >_> She fights using a sword and also uses water attacks.

Persona:
Name: Cure Aqua
Level: 82
Fighter
Resistance: Ice
Weakness: Elec
This is an exceptionally weird experience for Karen. (And no, she can't use her Persona while transformed, because that would be weird.)

[identity profile] priestessbound.livejournal.com 2010-01-19 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
...if Karen's shadow turns into evil aqua, won't that kinda give away to the people fighting her that Karen is the not-evil cure aqua?

Not saying it's a flaw, just saying...uh...more people will know her secret?

[identity profile] dulledsapphire.livejournal.com 2010-01-19 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Her Persona has the same problem. :P That's actually why she's so late in the plot, to minimize the number of different people she fights.

[identity profile] priestessbound.livejournal.com 2010-01-19 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Hah. Okay.

Any objection to Yukiko putting the pieces together?

[identity profile] dulledsapphire.livejournal.com 2010-01-19 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
None at all. I imagine the whole Persona cast will know by the time they're through, actually, but I mean she wouldn't try to backpedal and go "GEE MY PERSONA IS ANOTHER PERSON ON THE COMM WHAT ARE THE ODDS" with her like she would with people she doesn't know as well.

[identity profile] shadowofahalfa.livejournal.com 2010-01-19 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
Hope you don't mind that I took liberty to have Dani's one floor be a more spooky, haunted (and science-y) version of the rest of Karen's dungeon.

http://shadowofahalfa.livejournal.com/385.html

[identity profile] nevergiveitback.livejournal.com 2010-01-19 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
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