Application Examples

Here are two examples of applications that were approved, with the permission of the authors, to provide an example of what we're looking for when it comes to background and personality. One is an OC and the other is a CC.

Scorn App

< Background >

Haruna Kurosawa is a young, fifteen year old girl that lives mostly alone with her sister. Her parents (Akane and Daisuke Kurosawa) are mostly absent in their lives, always being away on business and rarely home, leaving Haruna to grow up with her sister to look up to as a role model, who is the older of the two by one whole year. The two usually get along quite well, and run one of the family's coffee shops down by the beach, Gullwing Coffee-- when not busy at school. Overall, things we're normal and mostly mundane. Until they weren't one day. the coffee shop was attacked. Not by thugs, not robbed but by The Phantom Empire. No doubt, attacked for some perceived slight, real or otherwise, or to drain the happiness their coffee brought on cold winter days! But what could they do? Let their energy get drained like everyone else?

What happened, instead, was at that moment, a mystical being named 'Blue' approached them and quickly told them they could fight back and protect what was important to them. As Pretty Cure. So getting their Pretty Change mirrors, they became Pretty Cure-- Haruna became Cure Gull and Aki became Cure Tide, with their mascot, a seagull named 'Gully'- The Ocean Spray Pretty Cure!- and together they helped fight the Phantom Empire and other threats around Tokyo! Until the day, in recent memory, Haruna Kurosawa disappeared. Police reports were filed, people were questioned, but it's just another cold case at the moment. Aki Kurosawa knows what happened though. She can't tell the adults in her life though. They would never believe that Haruna Kurosawa was kidnapped by a guy named Phantom, calling himself 'The Pretty Cure Hunter' one day while on a night patrol... and thusly, Haruna Kurosawa became a prisoner of the Phantom Empire, in one of Phantom's Mirrors. Things don't end there though.

Things could have ended there, until whenever the Phantom Empire could be defeated in the future, except they didn't. Taken from her mirror and unceremoniously dumped out in front of Queen Mirage like some trophy. It was decided the Phantom Empire needed more generals to handle Pretty Cures and other numerous magical girls. Haruna just happened to be the unlucky girl to get brainwashed into one. It was. Unpleasant to say the least. Her mascot, who had tried to save her both from Phantom and the brainwashing was sent in to join her, becoming a mockery of a crow in the process.

So Haruna Kurosawa forgot who she was and became 'Scorn', a 'witch' working for the Phantom Empire as another of their dark generals, sent out to ruin others happiness. Dark energy changing her enough to make her unrecognizable to even her sister. Scorn currently operates with Obsidian with the rest of the Phantom Empire.

< Personality >

As Haruna Kurosawa/Cure Gull: Haruna is generally a bubbly personality who loves her sister. She has little attachment to her actual parents as they are constantly absent in her life. Their absenteeism does bother her a bit, but she deals with it as best she can and when not at school is happily serving people coffee from their shop. She of course, has hobbies, usually that's going down to the beach and combing it with her sister. She loves the beach as it's where her sister would take her often when they two we're much smaller. She has a wide seashell collection and collection of seagull feathers she likes. (She never plucks Gully's feathers!). Of the two sisters, Haruna is the fun loving, mischief maker who's always dragging Aki around into social situations. Haruna is basically busybody who likes getting involved in others business, just sliding into others business and providing help! Even if help wasn't really requested. This can get her lots of side eyes. She doesn't seem to mind however, she's being helpful, right? Right!

Haruna Kurosawa likes being a magical girl and fighting for love and justice! (Even if Blue has some weird hangup about Pretty Cures falling in love. What's that rule about anyways.). As Cure Gull (The wings of hope that soar across the sky!) she has a positive attitude she tries to pass onto others. Giving Hope is important, afterall.

Gully/Corvus: Gully is the two's mascot animal. He takes the form of an adorable seagull. He's used to putting up with Haruna's mischief and Aki's sterness. As I will be handling Gully/Corvus I'll be describing his personality a bit here. He's a little bit of a worry wort, constantly trying to keep Haruna out of trouble in both As Corvus, he's a crow- because brainwashing with dark energy does that, that follows Scorn around and talks in creepy rhyme. He seems obsessed with protecting Scorn and is the one to usually drag her away before things get too heated.

As Scorn: Scorn is a hateful individual, as her name might suggest. Whatever Haruna Kurosawa was is reversed here. Withdrawn and pushing people away, she wants to be the Phantom Empire's best bet to win and rule the world, to plunge it into darkness- you could almost say she wants to be the Empire's 'hope'- as if some twisted version of her Cure self. She really dislikes Cure Tide for some reason she can't figure out. Maybe it's just her dumb face. Maybe it's something else...

< Focus >

See: Dark Energy & Pretty Cure

< Style >

See: Dark Energy & Pretty Cure

< Powers >

Cure Gull: Cure Gull fights with wind and feathers. This usually takes the form of bursts and whirlwinds from her hands and tossing feathers like razor blades that cut like her wind. Sometimes a mixture of both. She can also fly, like most Cures from her series, the bow on her back turning into feathery wings that let her fly. She can purify darkness like most Cures, with her finishing attack. She has a secondary Henshin named 'Blueberry Waltz' that changes her powerset to Ice, temporarily in exchange for loss of flight and no purifying finisher.

Scorn: Similar to Cure Gull, fights with wind and crow feathers. Can also 'cast spells' which is code really for throw beams of dark energy and do some dark energy related things. Basically, an excuse to manipulate dark energy. The more she uses it, the more it reinforces the brainwashing to her and her mascot, Corvus.

Gully/Corvus: Corvus can drag Scorn away from fights via beak and flapping. Otherwise, Seagulls and Crows don't have powers, silly. This one can talk thou.

Usagi Tsukino App

< Background >

1. Usagi Tsukino's lived a perfectly ordinary life as the only daughter of housewife Ikuko and magazine editor Kenji Tsukino, perfectly happy to snipe with her younger brother Shinji and fumble (and honestly, fail) her way through classes at Juuban Public Middle School before heading to Game Crown Arcade with her best friend Naru and their mutual friends Umino, Yumiko, and Kuri. Her mother is frequently upset with her for her historically poor grades and Shinji makes fun of her for being both a klutz and a bad student, but her father always takes pity on her before long, so Usagi's never in too much trouble.

Or at least, she's never been in too much trouble so far. Things just might be changing, because what should have been an ordinary morning has changed Usagi's life. Not that it was all that ordinary: it's not every morning she stepped on a black cat's tail on the way to school, got herself scratched by said furious feline, and realized the poor thing had been the victim of some jerk kids' prank, her forehead covered with bandages! Taking the bandages off revealed that the cat wasn't entirely black, but rather that she had a strange yellow birthmark on her forehead, in the shape of the crescent moon. Usagi would have thought about it more - but the cat freed itself from her arms, and ran off after a brief staring contest. Later, that very same cat followed her home, revealed that she could talk - and sorta, kinda, slightly tricked Usagi into transforming into the one and only Sailor Moon.

Usagi's pretty sure she's dreaming though. How could she, a totally normal girl, be anything like the one and only Sailor V' How could her clothes transform with just a few words and a pretty broach' How could a cat talk' It's got to be a dream, right' She played too much of the Sailor V game, and now she's dreaming again! After all, the outfits are so similar and the sounds of someone screaming for help sure are...

Wait, screaming for help?! Wait, is that Naru screaming for help? This must be a dream, and if so, Usagi's GOT to help her very best friend! Looks like Sailor Moon is off on her first adventure!

2. Usagi doesn't know this, but she had another life, and was another girl - Princess Serenity, heir to the Silver Millennium, the kingdom of the Moon itself. She was beloved, by her mother, Queen Serenity, by her guardians, the Sailor Senshi, and by the man of her dreams - Endymion, the prince of Earth, a planet Lunarians were never meant to visit. But Serenity couldn't stay away from a planet as beautiful as the Earth, or a man as wonderful as Endymion, and the two carried on a secret romance for a time.

All things end, including happiness. The people of the Earth discovered Serenity and Endymion's love, and suspicion and mistrust ruled. Beryl, a woman of Earth who wanted nothing more than to make Endymion her own, turned the world against them, and waged war on the Moon Kingdom. Serenity watched in horror as Endymion was murdered before her eyes, and in despair took her own life.

There are those who know that the Moon held a princess, and that that princess held the power of the Maboroshi no Ginzuishou. Luna, the black cat Usagi's only just met, mentioned something about finding a princess, but Naru was screaming out for help just seconds later; who could blame her if she forgot' She'll remember the other side of her mission in the future, surely.

3. Attached to Usagi is Luna, one of the two mascot characters associated with the Sailor Senshi team. Luna may look like a black cat with a crescent moon shaped mark, but she's actually an alien from Mau, which explains why she can talk, think, and even obtain a human form temporarily. Luna is a mascot for the entire Senshi cast, but she lives with Usagi, residing in her dorm room and occasionally wandering the campus of Radiant Heart Academy and other areas around Tokyo. Luna was the one to identify Usagi as the one and only Sailor Moon, presenting the girl with her transformation broach and disguise pen, because she sensed the potential deep within her.

Luna's memories are not the most clear, but long ago, she served as an advisor to Queen Serenity, alongside her companion Artemis. After the Silver Millennium fell and Queen Serenity used the power of the Maboroshi no Ginzuishou to reincarnate Serenity, the Senshi, and a scattering of everyone else in the area (including Beryl, whoops!) as normal humans on a peaceful Earth, Luna was tasked with finding and protecting Princess Serenity on Earth. To ensure she survived to the day Princess Serenity would be reborn, Luna, alongside Artemis, was put into suspended animation.

< Personality >
1. Usagi is a bubbly, cheerful girl, quick to make friends, and quick to open her heart to those around her. She's kind and compassionate, always willing to help those in need, and hating to see others in pain; at her core, she's the self-sacrificing type, and she believes strongly in love, justice, and the goodness at the center of every person. A trusting person, once she's friends with someone, it's hard for her to believe they could mean to do her wrong - it takes a lot for her to withdraw her trust, let alone her affection, In every way, Usagi's very emotional, and wears her heart on her sleeve; she cries when she's sad (and sometimes when she's happy!), yells when she's mad, is quick to smile and frown, and loves sharing physical affection.

Wearing her heart on her sleeve isn't always a good thing though, because Usagi often gets carried away with her feelings, prone to jealousy and insecurity. She also crushes hard and fast, easily impressed by a pretty face or a nice demeanor. In general, she's pretty immature - on top of everything else, she's klutzy, a crybaby, and incredibly lazy. Usagi's a bad student, but mostly because she hates studying than because she's dumb, having an incredible lack of interest in school, work, or anything to do with boring things like that. Even when she tries her hardest, Usagi's never going to be a great student - but she could be average at least, if she tried.

Usagi has tons of friends, and she's always been quick to make more - in part, because she always sees the best in people, and in part because there's something warm and friendly about her, something that draws people in. She loves people, really and truly, is on at least friendly terms with just about everyone she knows. Part of this is because she listens to people - when she meets them, when she hangs out with them, even when she's just passing them on the streets. It's not that she never zones out or gets distracted, but most of the time she genuinely and truly listens to people, and cares about them, and that's just irresistible.

Part of the reason Usagi is the way she is, is because she hates being alone - she has a deep fear of being abandoned, being by herself, and she fights that by surrounding herself with loved ones. If someone asked her, she wouldn't really be able to answer why she finds it so scary to be alone, but the truth is, those fears resonate from the past life she doesn't remember, save in rare, confusing dreams. Princess Serenity lost everything - her home, her guardians, and the man she loved, and she took her life in utter despair. An echo of that loss lingers, driving Usagi to surround herself with love, with friends, with joy.

2. Unlike Usagi, Luna is strict, dutiful, and fairly serious most of the time, always worried as she is about their mission to find the Moon princess. At first, Luna is disillusioned with Usagi due to her flakiness, klutziness, and general all around lack of any obvious sign that she's someone who should have been chosen to be Sailor Moon, and as a result is easily frustrated with her. At the start of their partnership, she makes no secret that she wishes she could have chosen someone else to be the one and only Sailor Moon. Luna is quick to judge and slow to change her mind, and she's often cold to others at first, mostly because of that pre-occupation on the mission. But as time passes, Luna's heart softens towards Usagi, and she reveals some of her softer sides, including that she's a romantic herself, seeking love and wanting connection. Ironically. Luna gets along better with Rei, Ami, and Makoto than she does Usagi, at least at first, because she can appreciate their various competencies, compared to what a hot mess Usagi is. Luna often tries to act wiser and more in control than she actually is; she's actually a teenager as well, even if one with more experience and knowledge than Usagi, thanks to her time as an advisor to Queen Serenity.

< Focus >
1. Sailor Senshi draw their power from their Sailor Crystals, and for Usagi, that crystal is none other than the Maboroshi no Ginzuishou. She's not aware of it, but sleeping in her heart is one of the most powerful of crystals, transforming emotional energy into power. What Usagi does know is that her broach is key to her transformation, and that as long as she holds the braoch when she utters the call of "Moon Prism Power, Make Up!", she'll transform into Sailor Moon.

2. The transformation broach is key to Usagi becoming Sailor Moon. A golden broach, typically pinned to the center of her ribbon in school uniform and Sailor fuku alike, the broach has a small perfectly circular crystal on all sides - red on top, green to the right, blue on bottom, and yellow on the left. The face has a crescent moon design, with a pink circular crystal set above the crescent moon.

< Style >
1. Usagi's fuku is her original Sailor Moon fuku - a white leotard with chest armor, a bright red bow with her transformation broach at the center, a navy blue sailor collar with three white stripes, white gloves with three red fittings above the elbows, yellow tinted shoulder pads, and a wavy blue skirt with a puffy white belt. There's an equally red bow at the back of her skirt, and her knee high boots are a matching red, featuring a white border with golden crescent moons. On her forehead is a golden tiara with a red, oval-shaped gem at the center, and capping her odangos are white-bordered, red hairpieces, and feather barrettes. She wears a pair of earrings, grey studs with golden stars and crescent moons dangling from them. Around her neck is a white choker with a golden crescent moon and a clip similar to her transformation broach.

< Powers >
1. Supersonic Waves is one of three actual attacks Usagi has; this attack transforms the sound of her loud, wailing crys into a supersonic attack powerful enough to break glass and can break through low-level hypnosis used on civilians by being so loud and distracting it shocks them out of it. This attack doesn't really damage enemies, but it's loud enough to both distract and distress, and most enemies will want to cover their ears.

2. Moon Tiara Action is Usagi's second attack, this one capable of causing actual damage - Usagi grabs her tiara from her forehead and transforms it into a disc of glowing white energy before hurling it at the enemy; most low level enemies are disintegrated instantly once she launches it, but higher level enemies would just take energy from this powerful light attack. Her tiara functions like a boomerang, angling back around to strike enemies who dodge, and she can use it to bind low level enemies as well, to hold them in place for an allies attack.

3. Standard magical girl durability, increased strength, speed, and ability to jump high. Usagi isn't consciously aware of it, but she can move faster, fight harder, and jump higher in her henshin. She can also take a hit with far less damage than she ever could as a civilian.

4. Disguise pen. An item gifted to her by Luna, Usagi's disguise pen can transform her appearance, complete with hair and eye color transformations, new clothing, and the ability to look older. It can't transform her into another species or alter her size, but it does an excellent job of shifting her appearance, to the point that ordinary civilians never seem to see through it.

1. Luna Ability: Take on Human form. At the expense of immense energy, Luna can take on her human form. She can't retain this form for long, but it does allow her to blend in. Luna's human form will be in her desc.