Miho Somarium Application
Mar. 5th, 2013 09:18 pm[Player name] Ella
[Age] 22
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setosnicegirl
[Other characters currently played] Sealand / Axis Powers Hetalia/principalities )
[Character name] Miho Nishizumi
[Age] 16
[Canon] Girls und Panzer
[Point in time taken from canon] End of Episode 10/at the start of the match with Black Forest Peak
[Background]
Here
[Personality]
There are many ways to describe Miho’s personality. Cheerful, happy, caring, loving. All of these are correct. Miho is a very cheerful and happy teenage girl. She almost always has a smile on her face. She loves collecting bandaged teddy bears. She’s also easily distracted by cute things which causes her to sometimes hit telephone poles. Because of this, one could think that Miho is clumsy and ditzy but she is far from that. Just because cute things distract her doesn’t mean that she’s clumsy. Miho is also very loyal to her friends and when one is in trouble, she drops everything to go help them. And they are very loyal to her in turn and would do anything for her.. She also hates being a burden to her friends and sometimes feels like she causes them trouble. For example, when two of her new friends wanted to join the school’s tankwondo team but she didn’t, they changed their minds because they didn’t want to be a part of a club that might cause their new friend pain. She told and then begged them to forget about her and go join and not feel like they didn’t have to because she didn’t want to, but they refused. And when Miho was threatened with expulsion for not wanting to join the tankwondo team, her friends stood up for her even though they were threatened with expulsion too. Their acts of loyalty to her helped her regain her courage and she decided to join the tankery team with her new friends. Miho is also scatterbrained and she doesn’t see herself as someone important even though everyone else does.
In short, Miho is just your typical normal high school girl. Except not.
Miho is also a girl who was trained from birth in her family’s special style of tank martial arts and comes from a long line of women who were tank commanders. Before transferring, she was of the vice-commander of the top team in the country, the Black Forest Peak team. Winning was everything and is everything to the Nishizumi family and tankwondo is very serious business to them. That seriousness extended to Miho as well. As soon as Miho steps into a tank her cheerful and clumsy manner vanishes with the drop of a hat and her serious and calculating personality shows through. Now as the commander of the Ooarai Girls High School Sensha-dou or tankwondo (aka tankery) team, she’s calm and decisive during their matches. She is quick to think up strategies to defeat the enemy teams. Even when they are outnumbered and it seems all hope is lost, Miho is able to raise the spirits of her team and pull off a victory despite all the odds. She even did the embarrassing and degrading anglerfish dance to cheer up their team when they were trapped in a church by the Pravda Girls School’s tanks. Even though Miho becomes this serious and calm tank commander, this does not mean she also becomes cold and harsh. Instead, she is still caring and understanding of her teammates and of their skills.(Or lack thereof.) When a tank team misses their target or fails to take out an enemy tank, she does not yell at them for their failures. Instead tells them that it was alright and learn from their mistakes. She is also very helpful and gives advice to other members of her tankwondo team since most of them are still rookies and still don’t know the art of tankwondo as well as she does. They didn’t grow up learning the art of tank martial arts, so she is very patient with them as they learn what to do. Also, when she is commander, no one is left to the mercy of the enemy. When one tank is in trouble, she rushes off to save it and the girls who operate it. If she can’t, she quickly tries to find a way to end the match before that tank is taken out, even if that means her tank is defeated. Because of this, her teammates hold her in high regard and rarely disobey her or abandon their tanks anymore in fear. She doesn’t get mad at them when they disobey her orders and let their emotions get ahead of them which causes their tank to be taken out. Because she is such a talented leader of a very young and diverse team and she has gained the respect (and friendship) of the commanders of the teams she has beaten.
Miho also has another side to her, underneath the happy teenage girl and the calm and serious tank commander. Miho is very insecure and is trying to overcoming a trauma she suffered during a match at her last school, Black Forest Peak Academy. During the match, one of the tanks on her team slipped off a cliff and sank into a raging river with the girls operating it still stuck inside. Miho left her tank, which was the flag tank, and dove into the river to save the girls from drowning. Even though she saved the girls, because her tank was the flag tank, the other team took it out and they lost the championship. Her mother and sister were furious that she thought of saving others over winning which caused her to become traumatized and afraid of tanks and of ever losing a tank duel again. This trauma made her lose her passion for tankwondo and made her so afraid of it that she ran away from her family and from Black Forest and transferred to a new school that didn’t have a tankery team. She did all she could to avoid tanks when Ooarai reinstated their team. She even tried to join another club but was pressured into joining by the student council. However, this helped her overcome her fear and relight her passion for the sport. However, the trauma is still there and because of this and because of what she did (run away from school and home) she has become afraid of her older sister Maho who is the commander of the Black Forest Peak team. When her sister is around, Miho cannot find herself to speak without hesitating and withdraws within herself when she is picked on by Maho and the new co-commander Erika. When confronted by these two, Miho doesn’t defend herself and takes the brunt of Erika’s degrading comments and suffers under Maho’s cold glare. To Miho, Maho doesn’t have to say anything because her silence and her glare are as bad as Erika’s comments. Miho’s own mother even finds her weak and disgraceful. Weak because she ran away from home and school and thought of saving people before winning and disgraceful because she dares to use the Nishizumi style for a second-rate school that is close to shutting down. To her, even though Miho has been winning every single match with her new school, she is disrespecting the Nishizumi family and the art of tankery. It makes one wonder how Miho became so nice, warm, and caring while being surrounded by people who are not even close to those things. But because of how her family treats her and because of what happened to her, Miho doesn’t think highly of herself and because of this she praises others and downplays praise directed to her. She doesn’t think that she is worthy of their praise. Also, trying to talk to her about her family will make her either sad and she’ll try to redirect the conversation to something else or she’ll shut down.
[Abilities]
Miho does not have any special abilities whatsoever but she is excellent strategist and is very talented in operating tanks. She can’t build one but she knows the ins and outs of one. After all, she comes from a family of tank operators and they have their own style of tankery called “The Nishizumi Style” and so they make it their business to know how a tank runs and what’s its abilities. Miho follows this style and still incorporates it into her strategizes, but she created a new style that fits the personalities and abilities of her team.
[Other important stuff]
Nothing.
[Sample post]
[First Person]
- If you could go back home, would you? Why or why not?
O-Of course I would! This place and the people here are really nice but before I came here I was with my friends and we were in the middle of an important tank match. They are counting on me to win. If I didn’t... [Miho looks like she might cry but holds back] ...If I don’t win then our school was going to be shut down and we would all be separated. I can’t let that happen! Also, I have something to prove to my sister. So yes, if I could go back home I would.
- You have two options: either save your friend who is hanging from a cliff, or chase after the bad guy who put them in a position. If you choose the former, the bad guy will get away and it will be hard to catch him. If you choose the latter, the cliff will crumble and the friend will fall to the spiky rocks below. What do you do and why?
I would save my friend! I couldn’t live with myself if any of my friends got hurt because I didn’t save them when I could have. I wouldn’t care about catching the bad guy, my friend is more important. The bad guy can be caught anytime and if they aren’t, then that’s fine by me. As long as my friend is safe then everything would be okay.
- What is more important to you: having friends or living on your own? Why?
“After I left home, I thought living on my own and not having any friends a was okay. But then I made friends, friends that care a lot about me and I realized how important they are to me. Without them, I would have been still sad and alone but having friends makes me happy and loneliness is something that is now far from my mind. When I arrived here I thought I would feel that loneliness and sadness again but even though we are worlds apart, I can still feel them here in my heart. [Miho puts a hand over her heart.] Because I feel that, I know that I’m not alone, even here.”
- There is a cake in the rain. What do you do?
I would save it! Cake is too delicious to be left in the rain, you know? Then I would try to find the owner of the cake. If there isn’t an owner, then I would share the cake with others!
- The hottest boy/girl in class/workplace just confessed their love to you. How do you respond?
[Miho starts to blush and look flustered before looking down at her lap.] “W-Well, um, I-I don’t think what would ever happen to me since I had to that angler fish dance that if one dances it, then they’ll never have a boyfriend and never marry. B-But if it did I would be happy and thank them, but tell them no. That person might love me but I don’t know if I love them back. It just seems too sudden.”
- Am I asking too many personal or strange questions?
“No, no, it’s fine! Some of the questions are strange but that’s part of the interview, right? You have to know a lot about me. I should be the one apologizing. I’m really not that interesting.
[Third Person]
Miho walked through the shopping district of the mysterious city that she had woken up in a few weeks ago. The district itself was bustling with people who were either shopping for goods or window shopping like she was. Street vendors were trying to peddle their items to customers. One of the vendors was an old baker and Miho stopped to inspect some of the baked goods he had. Some of the bread looked stale and she was about to turn away until she saw the trays he had at the end. She let out a cry of delight when saw that the baker had cute bunny shaped sweet bread with glaze on top. Further inspection showed that he also had fresh melon bread too. Miho could barely hold back her excitement. ‘They both smell so good and look delicious! But which one to get?’ she thought to herself. ‘Ah, I can’t pick. I’ll just get both.’
She waved to get the baker’s attention and pointed to the bread in the trays. “Excuse me sir! How much for the bunny bread and the melon bread?” she asked loudly.
The old baker walked over with a frown on his face. “Stop yelling so much girl! I can you just fine. Honestly, you visitors have no manners.”
“I’m sorry,” she said in a quieter tone. “ I didn’t know if you could hear me over the crowd. Also, I’m new to this place, so forgive me. But I was asking how much these were.” She pointed to the rabbit and melon bread.
“Hmph. Being new is no excuse,” the old baker grunted back before put a hand under his chin to think. “Hmm, for you a half a dozen bunny bread pieces and two loaves of melon bread is 14 dream dollars. ”
Miho paid the man and gave him a smile. “Thank you for the bread mister! And next time, I’ll try to be more polite!”
As she walked away from the vendor with her bag of bread in hand, Miho took in a deep breath of air and sighed. ‘I wonder if all the people here are like that? Are they annoyed that people like me are here?’ thought Miho. ‘It’s not like we chose to be here.”
A gust of wind blew by her as she walked down the street. It felt weird not to feel a sea breeze and smell salty air while she was outside. Being on dry land for so long felt so weird to her. ‘I’ve been on a school ship for so long that I’ve gotten used to it.’ she thought to herself. ‘I wish there was an ocean here though so I can visit it. That would make this place feel a little bit more like home. All that is here is that lake and I think there is something living in that!’ The park near the lake was nice and all but after hearing about and seeing something swim by in the water when she walked by once, she figured that it would be best to just avoid that place. At least for now.
She continued her way through the busy shopping district trying to keep from bumping into people and dropping her bag of bread while at the same time continuing her window shopping. Her eyes scanned the different shops and eateries. Many of them looked fun and exciting but they were also full of people. ‘Maybe I should go back to the village and come back on a day that is not too busy. And anyway, there is really nothing else here that I would like-’
Then she stopped dead in her tracks when he eyes fell on the nearly toy shop. More specifically, what was in the toy shop’s window. There, sitting in the window was a little bandaged teddy bear. It’s fur was a cute blue and it had bandages around its head and one of its arms. One of its eyes had a little eye patch. To someone else, this bear would look ugly and broken but Miho, it was perfect and adorable. She had to have it. Not because it was cute but because it reminded her of the collection that she had back home.
“I can’t believe they sell these here!” she said to herself as she quickly walked over to the toy shop. “I wonder if they have more?”
Miho walked into the shop and was promptly greeted by the owner with a warm and gentle welcome. “Is there anything you would like to buy?” Miho nodded and pointed to the bear in the window. “That one please!”
‘As long as I’m stuck here, I might as well try to restart my collection! Doing that might make my new place feel more like home,’ she thought happily. Yes. This place might be strange and weird but it is home for now and it’s time to make the best of it.
[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?]
I want to play Miho here because I think the character might actually like it here and fit in well. Also, I just want to play her here because I felt like it.
[Which rule was your favorite and why?]
The “be nice to other players” rule. I think it keeps drama and wank from happening between the players and that keeps it from spilling over into the game itself and ruining it.
[Where did you hear about Somarium?]
Long long ago, in a galaxy far, far away. On a site called Livejournal...
[Any questions?]
None at all.
[Age] 22
[Personal Journal]
setosnicegirl[Other characters currently played] Sealand / Axis Powers Hetalia/
principalities )[Character name] Miho Nishizumi
[Age] 16
[Canon] Girls und Panzer
[Point in time taken from canon] End of Episode 10/at the start of the match with Black Forest Peak
[Background]
Here
[Personality]
There are many ways to describe Miho’s personality. Cheerful, happy, caring, loving. All of these are correct. Miho is a very cheerful and happy teenage girl. She almost always has a smile on her face. She loves collecting bandaged teddy bears. She’s also easily distracted by cute things which causes her to sometimes hit telephone poles. Because of this, one could think that Miho is clumsy and ditzy but she is far from that. Just because cute things distract her doesn’t mean that she’s clumsy. Miho is also very loyal to her friends and when one is in trouble, she drops everything to go help them. And they are very loyal to her in turn and would do anything for her.. She also hates being a burden to her friends and sometimes feels like she causes them trouble. For example, when two of her new friends wanted to join the school’s tankwondo team but she didn’t, they changed their minds because they didn’t want to be a part of a club that might cause their new friend pain. She told and then begged them to forget about her and go join and not feel like they didn’t have to because she didn’t want to, but they refused. And when Miho was threatened with expulsion for not wanting to join the tankwondo team, her friends stood up for her even though they were threatened with expulsion too. Their acts of loyalty to her helped her regain her courage and she decided to join the tankery team with her new friends. Miho is also scatterbrained and she doesn’t see herself as someone important even though everyone else does.
In short, Miho is just your typical normal high school girl. Except not.
Miho is also a girl who was trained from birth in her family’s special style of tank martial arts and comes from a long line of women who were tank commanders. Before transferring, she was of the vice-commander of the top team in the country, the Black Forest Peak team. Winning was everything and is everything to the Nishizumi family and tankwondo is very serious business to them. That seriousness extended to Miho as well. As soon as Miho steps into a tank her cheerful and clumsy manner vanishes with the drop of a hat and her serious and calculating personality shows through. Now as the commander of the Ooarai Girls High School Sensha-dou or tankwondo (aka tankery) team, she’s calm and decisive during their matches. She is quick to think up strategies to defeat the enemy teams. Even when they are outnumbered and it seems all hope is lost, Miho is able to raise the spirits of her team and pull off a victory despite all the odds. She even did the embarrassing and degrading anglerfish dance to cheer up their team when they were trapped in a church by the Pravda Girls School’s tanks. Even though Miho becomes this serious and calm tank commander, this does not mean she also becomes cold and harsh. Instead, she is still caring and understanding of her teammates and of their skills.(Or lack thereof.) When a tank team misses their target or fails to take out an enemy tank, she does not yell at them for their failures. Instead tells them that it was alright and learn from their mistakes. She is also very helpful and gives advice to other members of her tankwondo team since most of them are still rookies and still don’t know the art of tankwondo as well as she does. They didn’t grow up learning the art of tank martial arts, so she is very patient with them as they learn what to do. Also, when she is commander, no one is left to the mercy of the enemy. When one tank is in trouble, she rushes off to save it and the girls who operate it. If she can’t, she quickly tries to find a way to end the match before that tank is taken out, even if that means her tank is defeated. Because of this, her teammates hold her in high regard and rarely disobey her or abandon their tanks anymore in fear. She doesn’t get mad at them when they disobey her orders and let their emotions get ahead of them which causes their tank to be taken out. Because she is such a talented leader of a very young and diverse team and she has gained the respect (and friendship) of the commanders of the teams she has beaten.
Miho also has another side to her, underneath the happy teenage girl and the calm and serious tank commander. Miho is very insecure and is trying to overcoming a trauma she suffered during a match at her last school, Black Forest Peak Academy. During the match, one of the tanks on her team slipped off a cliff and sank into a raging river with the girls operating it still stuck inside. Miho left her tank, which was the flag tank, and dove into the river to save the girls from drowning. Even though she saved the girls, because her tank was the flag tank, the other team took it out and they lost the championship. Her mother and sister were furious that she thought of saving others over winning which caused her to become traumatized and afraid of tanks and of ever losing a tank duel again. This trauma made her lose her passion for tankwondo and made her so afraid of it that she ran away from her family and from Black Forest and transferred to a new school that didn’t have a tankery team. She did all she could to avoid tanks when Ooarai reinstated their team. She even tried to join another club but was pressured into joining by the student council. However, this helped her overcome her fear and relight her passion for the sport. However, the trauma is still there and because of this and because of what she did (run away from school and home) she has become afraid of her older sister Maho who is the commander of the Black Forest Peak team. When her sister is around, Miho cannot find herself to speak without hesitating and withdraws within herself when she is picked on by Maho and the new co-commander Erika. When confronted by these two, Miho doesn’t defend herself and takes the brunt of Erika’s degrading comments and suffers under Maho’s cold glare. To Miho, Maho doesn’t have to say anything because her silence and her glare are as bad as Erika’s comments. Miho’s own mother even finds her weak and disgraceful. Weak because she ran away from home and school and thought of saving people before winning and disgraceful because she dares to use the Nishizumi style for a second-rate school that is close to shutting down. To her, even though Miho has been winning every single match with her new school, she is disrespecting the Nishizumi family and the art of tankery. It makes one wonder how Miho became so nice, warm, and caring while being surrounded by people who are not even close to those things. But because of how her family treats her and because of what happened to her, Miho doesn’t think highly of herself and because of this she praises others and downplays praise directed to her. She doesn’t think that she is worthy of their praise. Also, trying to talk to her about her family will make her either sad and she’ll try to redirect the conversation to something else or she’ll shut down.
[Abilities]
Miho does not have any special abilities whatsoever but she is excellent strategist and is very talented in operating tanks. She can’t build one but she knows the ins and outs of one. After all, she comes from a family of tank operators and they have their own style of tankery called “The Nishizumi Style” and so they make it their business to know how a tank runs and what’s its abilities. Miho follows this style and still incorporates it into her strategizes, but she created a new style that fits the personalities and abilities of her team.
[Other important stuff]
Nothing.
[Sample post]
[First Person]
- If you could go back home, would you? Why or why not?
O-Of course I would! This place and the people here are really nice but before I came here I was with my friends and we were in the middle of an important tank match. They are counting on me to win. If I didn’t... [Miho looks like she might cry but holds back] ...If I don’t win then our school was going to be shut down and we would all be separated. I can’t let that happen! Also, I have something to prove to my sister. So yes, if I could go back home I would.
- You have two options: either save your friend who is hanging from a cliff, or chase after the bad guy who put them in a position. If you choose the former, the bad guy will get away and it will be hard to catch him. If you choose the latter, the cliff will crumble and the friend will fall to the spiky rocks below. What do you do and why?
I would save my friend! I couldn’t live with myself if any of my friends got hurt because I didn’t save them when I could have. I wouldn’t care about catching the bad guy, my friend is more important. The bad guy can be caught anytime and if they aren’t, then that’s fine by me. As long as my friend is safe then everything would be okay.
- What is more important to you: having friends or living on your own? Why?
“After I left home, I thought living on my own and not having any friends a was okay. But then I made friends, friends that care a lot about me and I realized how important they are to me. Without them, I would have been still sad and alone but having friends makes me happy and loneliness is something that is now far from my mind. When I arrived here I thought I would feel that loneliness and sadness again but even though we are worlds apart, I can still feel them here in my heart. [Miho puts a hand over her heart.] Because I feel that, I know that I’m not alone, even here.”
- There is a cake in the rain. What do you do?
I would save it! Cake is too delicious to be left in the rain, you know? Then I would try to find the owner of the cake. If there isn’t an owner, then I would share the cake with others!
- The hottest boy/girl in class/workplace just confessed their love to you. How do you respond?
[Miho starts to blush and look flustered before looking down at her lap.] “W-Well, um, I-I don’t think what would ever happen to me since I had to that angler fish dance that if one dances it, then they’ll never have a boyfriend and never marry. B-But if it did I would be happy and thank them, but tell them no. That person might love me but I don’t know if I love them back. It just seems too sudden.”
- Am I asking too many personal or strange questions?
“No, no, it’s fine! Some of the questions are strange but that’s part of the interview, right? You have to know a lot about me. I should be the one apologizing. I’m really not that interesting.
[Third Person]
Miho walked through the shopping district of the mysterious city that she had woken up in a few weeks ago. The district itself was bustling with people who were either shopping for goods or window shopping like she was. Street vendors were trying to peddle their items to customers. One of the vendors was an old baker and Miho stopped to inspect some of the baked goods he had. Some of the bread looked stale and she was about to turn away until she saw the trays he had at the end. She let out a cry of delight when saw that the baker had cute bunny shaped sweet bread with glaze on top. Further inspection showed that he also had fresh melon bread too. Miho could barely hold back her excitement. ‘They both smell so good and look delicious! But which one to get?’ she thought to herself. ‘Ah, I can’t pick. I’ll just get both.’
She waved to get the baker’s attention and pointed to the bread in the trays. “Excuse me sir! How much for the bunny bread and the melon bread?” she asked loudly.
The old baker walked over with a frown on his face. “Stop yelling so much girl! I can you just fine. Honestly, you visitors have no manners.”
“I’m sorry,” she said in a quieter tone. “ I didn’t know if you could hear me over the crowd. Also, I’m new to this place, so forgive me. But I was asking how much these were.” She pointed to the rabbit and melon bread.
“Hmph. Being new is no excuse,” the old baker grunted back before put a hand under his chin to think. “Hmm, for you a half a dozen bunny bread pieces and two loaves of melon bread is 14 dream dollars. ”
Miho paid the man and gave him a smile. “Thank you for the bread mister! And next time, I’ll try to be more polite!”
As she walked away from the vendor with her bag of bread in hand, Miho took in a deep breath of air and sighed. ‘I wonder if all the people here are like that? Are they annoyed that people like me are here?’ thought Miho. ‘It’s not like we chose to be here.”
A gust of wind blew by her as she walked down the street. It felt weird not to feel a sea breeze and smell salty air while she was outside. Being on dry land for so long felt so weird to her. ‘I’ve been on a school ship for so long that I’ve gotten used to it.’ she thought to herself. ‘I wish there was an ocean here though so I can visit it. That would make this place feel a little bit more like home. All that is here is that lake and I think there is something living in that!’ The park near the lake was nice and all but after hearing about and seeing something swim by in the water when she walked by once, she figured that it would be best to just avoid that place. At least for now.
She continued her way through the busy shopping district trying to keep from bumping into people and dropping her bag of bread while at the same time continuing her window shopping. Her eyes scanned the different shops and eateries. Many of them looked fun and exciting but they were also full of people. ‘Maybe I should go back to the village and come back on a day that is not too busy. And anyway, there is really nothing else here that I would like-’
Then she stopped dead in her tracks when he eyes fell on the nearly toy shop. More specifically, what was in the toy shop’s window. There, sitting in the window was a little bandaged teddy bear. It’s fur was a cute blue and it had bandages around its head and one of its arms. One of its eyes had a little eye patch. To someone else, this bear would look ugly and broken but Miho, it was perfect and adorable. She had to have it. Not because it was cute but because it reminded her of the collection that she had back home.
“I can’t believe they sell these here!” she said to herself as she quickly walked over to the toy shop. “I wonder if they have more?”
Miho walked into the shop and was promptly greeted by the owner with a warm and gentle welcome. “Is there anything you would like to buy?” Miho nodded and pointed to the bear in the window. “That one please!”
‘As long as I’m stuck here, I might as well try to restart my collection! Doing that might make my new place feel more like home,’ she thought happily. Yes. This place might be strange and weird but it is home for now and it’s time to make the best of it.
[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?]
I want to play Miho here because I think the character might actually like it here and fit in well. Also, I just want to play her here because I felt like it.
[Which rule was your favorite and why?]
The “be nice to other players” rule. I think it keeps drama and wank from happening between the players and that keeps it from spilling over into the game itself and ruining it.
[Where did you hear about Somarium?]
Long long ago, in a galaxy far, far away. On a site called Livejournal...
[Any questions?]
None at all.
