Syaoran

State of the Union/Unit thoughts/offscreen

2009-09-10T04:14:32Z

For Michiko and Syaoran even though he's new. I'm just bored at work \o/

Also I discovered the work firewall doesn't block IS or IJ victoly~~~~~ \o/

Michiko

GENERAL:
Michiko: Is pissed at the Judges. Normally she doesn't hold grudges, but that's because normally when she gets angry, she tends to work out her anger via beatings (it's how adults work out their differences!) and she can't touch the Judges. It's making her a little grouchy but she'll probably reach some kind of equilibrium soon. Or snap and kill us aaaaall (lol j/k no she wouldn't).
Hana is important, but not the centre of her universe important. She's like a kid sister that Michiko intends to look out for -- eventually, with enough memories, she'll be more like in canon (idk what you'd really call that though... adopted daughter?) anyway, she'll be priority one to Michiko eventually. The rest of Hana's unit is kind of annoying though. :|a
Other than that, Michiko is a pretty simple person. She acts and thinks in the moment and looks ahead to whatever she's decided is going to happen -- in this case, they're going to get their memories and go home. Memories don't really hit her in that gut-wrenching/world-shifting way they do some characters because she just rolls with things. That's the way they are, no comment, who cares. Michiko has a sliiiightly selective world view where she focuses in on the things that support her opinions/ideals and pretty much ignores everything else (case in point: Hana = Hiroshi is alive yay! Doesn't even phase her that it also means Hiroshi cheated on her and had a kid. This does not impact the happy family scenerio at all -- in fact, Hana is an essential part of that, despite being Hiroshi's kid with someone else and therefore evidence of infidelity.) The Blanks could turn on each other, the Judges could start sabotaging teams, and her mental health would probably be about the same really.

UNIT:
Tiny unit is tiny! She likes them well enough, but she doesn't do the team/gang mentality (as evidenced by Atsuko) so it's pretty much up to the individual person to catch her attention. She respects Geddoe as a trustworthy guy that can take care of himself and probably views him as something like a partner. She likes Link well enough too, even if she thinks he's kind of nerdy, and probably takes a more protective stance about him. Maybe views him as something like that dorky younger cousin that you personally give a hard time but ultimately beat up anyone who dares mess with him (other than yourself).

OFFSCREEN:
Michiko will pitch in and help gather things! But it's also just as likely that she'll wander over to a team mate and tell them we're low on food go get some more gdit. She can, in fact, cook the basics if necessary and will do housework (SHOCK AND AWE) but honestly it depends a lot on her mood whether she'll do something herself or bully someone else, but in the end she'd be pulling her own weight. She's just. Bossy.

Syaoran

GENERAL:
Fine! He's new, there haven't been any traumatizing games yet, we good. Everyone is nice (...mostly), there's people that know him and he wants to earn back memories to figure out who the heck they are, he's curious about this princess in his memory -- he felt very protective towards her, so he's gonna earn back memories to learn more about her too. He's a determined and pretty goal-oriented kid.
He's looking to pull his own weight and work with his team. He doesn't fully buy Kurogane's "everyone is your enemy" attitude and still prefers to consider all the Blank teams as working together. In the same vein, the Judges aren't enemies yet -- he knows THEORETICALLY they're douchebags, but that's different than going through it yourself.
His memory ended with a premonition that something terrible would happen to Sakura the next day, but in his memory that was many years ago, and Fay has already told him he's seen Sakura. Syaoran assumes they are the age he currently is (wouldn't Fay have commented if it were otherwise?) but plans to double check that and the overall health of the princess. If she is fine in Fay's memory, then he must have protected her and everything is good and he feels optimistic about it. Therefore he's confident he can look after himself and others. (lol)
Syaoran is hilarious because he looks like an adorable little kid but has actually lived for 21 years or so on top of being freakishly mature to begin with. Clamp is special we do not question.

UNIT:
Doesn't know them well yet! Dusky is... difficult to follow, Silver is strange and it's best to leave him to his own devices, Claude is a sweetheart and apparently needs looking after, and Rabi is cool but Syaoran gets the impression that he works really hard to support a lot of people so he's determined not to add anything to that. It's pretty obvious to him that Rabi and Claude are very close and support each other a lot so he mostly aims to take care of himself, help out his team, and otherwise stay out of their way and be careful not to burden them any.

OFFSCREEN:
Gathering/hunting/exploring/socializing/etc. He's a well-behaved puppy :|b

Yell at me if any of this sounds off-base/dumb :|b

Memories Post

2009-09-04T05:35:12Z

Positive

Significant:
+ Japan/Clow -- Baby's first world-hop (Meeting the princess).

Neutral:
+ [Proxy] -- Kurogane training Syaoran (sense, not sight).
+ Nihon -- Re-arming Kurogane (yes I said re-arming, I regret nothing).

Trivial:
+ [Proxy] -- Job selection/Name selection shenanigans (L...little puppy.)
+ ~~[Proxy] -- Okonomiyaki nom nom nom.~~
+ Japan -- Training with father (the daily essentials! how to cook and do laundry).
+ [Proxy] -- Gee we do a lot of underage binge drinking...

Neutral

Significant:
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+ Celes -- Recovering Sakura's body.

Neutral:
+ ~~Nihon -- Meeting Watanuki in a dream.~~
+ ~~Clow -- The stars at night/premonition.~~
+ [Proxy] -- Losing the Piffle race via epic heroic crash landing.

Trivial:
+ Infinity -- Underage drinking with Kurogane.
+ [Proxy] -- Attack of the bunny tribe.
+ Clow -- Sakura showing him around the country/Touya sucks.
+ Acid Tokyo -- Talking after eyeballs were nomm'd.

Negative

Significant:
+ Clow -- The seventh day of Sakura's cleansing and the seal of death.
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+ Infinity -- The last fight, Fay stabbing Sakura.
+ Nihon -- Sakura's soul/versus cloneboy.
+ [Proxy] -- Sakura's feathers are scattered.

Neutral:
+ Clow -- Stopped time and applie pie.
+ Japan/Clow -- Deal with the Witch/return to Clow.
+ Clow -- Return and the seal on Sakura.

Trivial:
+ ~~??? -- Briefly visiting the world the clone destroyed.~~
+ Nihon -- mourning Sakura and thanking Fay for looking out for her.
+ [Proxy] -- C-crossdressing...

[Proxy] = Seen through the other!Syaoran and categorized according to what was going on in the memory.

Excluded for now: first half of Celes (Fay's emo backstory), rewinding time (ridiculous guilt complex can wait), the two memories that explain the clone (putting the seal in the eye and joining the group in Acid Tokyo)

......This is a little stacked on the negative side. It's a disadvantage to only really appear in canon after the Acid Tokyo arc. :|a

Stats and Power Retention

2009-09-04T05:32:34Z

SPOILERS!

Age: 14 or 21, depending on how you look at it. :|a
Height: tall CLAMP noodle (not as bad as Fay)
Weight: skinny CLAMP noodle (not as bad as Fay)
Eyes: brown
Hair: brown
Appearance: Kid with messy brown hair! And both eyes! This is actually quite an accomplishment! Not sure what else to say here :|a

Power Retention:

Character Name: Syaoran
Unit: Cepheus
Description of powers:
Syaoran is an excellent swordsman and martial artist as well as good with offensive magic, and some barrier ability. He can also sense the location of living and nonliving things, other magic users, and some spells.
Strength/Extent of powers:
-Magic: on one hand, his mother has power over time and space and he's a direct descendant of the greatest magician ever on his father's side. On the other hand, he still gets beat in canon an awful lot. His magic is offensive and elemental with some ability with blocking/barriers.
-Physical: nothing superhuman (er, for magical manga physics, I mean), but he's very skilled. The kid's ridiculously acrobatic though.
Innate:
-Physical: reflexes wouldn't be affected.
-Sense: magic, but he wouldn't know what it is without some memories.
-Magic: teeeechnically innate but he needs memories to know how to use it. The amount of power he has stays the same, whether he's got memories or not.
Memory related/relation:
-Physical: sword fighting [Needs memories of use or training + actual practise in Sabra.]
-Physical: martial arts [Needs memories of use or training + actual practise in Sabra.]
-Sense: detect living and nonliving things without sight [Needs that one proxy memory of Kurogane teaching other!Syaoran this]
-Magic: summons a sword [Needs a memory of doing so. Also needs to have a sword first.]
-Magic: spells, detection, barriers [Needs a memory of performing each spell.]
Effect of Animus Limiters: Well, capping his offensive magic at 30%? It's pretty destructive in canon so it'll just be toned down. Swordfighting and martial arts are based in skill so those shouldn't really be affected. The wind spell is usually their GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B spell and a defensive spell so should be unaffected unless he used it offensively at some point and I'm just forgetting :|a

Special Note about Magic:
Syaoran is shown using the same spells that Syaoran from CCS used (the TRC version doesn't need those little paper things though). They are:
Raitei Shourai: A lightning-based spell, used often in combat and can be recalled in Sabra through pretty much any of the memories of magic battles.
Fuuka Shourai: A wind-based spell. Syaoran's strength seems to be with wind spells (or at least he's more versatile with them) and can use this for barriers, to move people or things, etc. It doesn't appear to be an attack spell. This one also comes up in pretty much every magic fight.
Kashin Shourai: A fire-based spell. This one is only used once during the final battle with the clone. However, this Syaoran is taken from an earlier point in canon than that! So he'll be recalling it in the memory where his father sends him off at the tender age of seven to go to another world without parental supervision :')
It will be headcanon that they were training before that conversation.
Suiryuu Shourai: A water-based spell. Knowledge of this one is purely headcanon because it's never actually used in TRC (and I don't see it being used at this point). However I think it's safe to assume he actually knows this one because it just... wouldn't make sense to give him only three of the four CCS spells, especially given he's supposed to be a pretty kick-ass mage. So he'll be recalling this in his memory of training with his father.
Giant Ball 'o Doom: This one doesn't have a name as far as I know, and is apparently a combination of all of his elemental spells but really it just looks like a giant ball of doom to me. This one doesn't really apply because the limiter would prevent this attack since it's pretty massive. Knowledge of how to do it comes with knowing all four of the elemental spells though.