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Player Information
Name: Jen
Contact: cadences/matesprits at gmail dot com
Current Characters: none!

Character Information
Name: Airi Ban
Canon: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 (video game canon)
Age: 15
Canon Point: After Day 5/Thursday's Shock
History: SMT Wiki!
Personality: Anyone that meets Airi Ban would be quick to characterize her as 'loud for her age and her size'. For being 5'3" and 15 years old, Airi has a way of making her presence felt: she yells. She insults her friends - 'stupid' might mean that she likes you or that she hates you, or both at the same time. She's argumentative and she's quick to jump into a fight. Once she's in that fight, she won't back down, even if it gets hard or frustrating for her. (To the point that when she has to 'act sexy' to summon a demon and someone else even thinks about taking over? She starts to take her shirt off. Backing down is not an option.)

Why does she do that? Deep down, Airi wants to be acknowledged, and she wants to take every chance she has to succeed and use it to its fullest. She's never had many chances to do that, because her family's situation wasn't good. For example, she had a little taste of what it was like to be victorious when she won a piano contest in middle school, but her family didn't have the money it would take for her to continue with her music lessons. That's why she has such a chip on her shoulder: she's jealous. She feels like her chance at success at something she really loves was stopped because of her family's situation. She's jealous of people that seem to have more chances than she's had to succeed.

It's why she tries so hard once she gets the call to fight - she sees it as a chance to prove that she really does have a talent she can show to the world.

Airi does have a softer side underneath all of her desire for acknowledgement and victory, however. While she might pick fights with her friends, if any of them are really in danger? She'll be one of the first to jump in and bail them out. Airi also has that passion for music, and if given a chance, she'd still want to explore it. She eventually tries things like helping out in the infirmary, and when that doesn't work? Instead of lashing out, she's capable of taking a step back and trying to focus on what she can do.

Camp Information
Parent: Ares is the clearest choice for Airi given her personality. Airi's hot-headed, she's quick-tempered, and everyone comments in-game on how intimidating she is. Also, canonically, Airi beat up the Indian god Kama when he refused to cooperate with her immediately after she summoned him for help fighting a powerful enemy. (The full scene is on YouTube here, with the 'did you really just beat up Kama' scene at around 11 minutes.) Later scenes in the game show that she's not all anger and bluster, but really, in the PJO universe, I think Ares would have swooped down and gone 'THAT'S MY GIRL, ALL RIGHT' the minute Airi delivered her smackdown.
Skills: Enhanced speed (based on her in-game high agility stat), weapon proficiency, and in Airi's case, I'd like to ask for a small degree of inherited pyrokinesis. In-game, Airi's magic statistics are among the highest, and she's able to access fire skills fairly early on as well as the Fire Boost skill. I'd like it to be very limited in scale - basically, one of those things that never works when she's trying to show off that she can definitely do it, and only works when she really needs it in a battle.
Appearance: N/A

Samples
First Person/Journal Sample:

[Airi's face through the necklaces is something everyone at camp has associated with two things: picking a fight with one of the other cabins (everyone's had their share, but Airi has a real bone to pick with Aphrodite's cabin, everyone and their expensive girly stuff and not wanting to break a nail on the training field) or calling someone an idiot. By now, she's called everyone from Chiron to that poor dryad who just happened to be taking Iris' place on her day off an idiot. It's a wonder she didn't get her rainbow-message privileges revoked for a few weeks for that one, after how upset Iris was.

Today? She actually seems calm. That's probably enough to scare people, or at least make them wonder whether she's feeling okay.]

Listen up, everyone, I have a question.

I know we're not supposed to leave camp unless we have a quest or it's an emergency, which is just stupid -

[Well, that rules out Airi being sick, if she's saying something is stupid. She's feeling fine.]

- and I'm not complaining about the food, but you know, sometimes, you want something that you had at home. I mean, New York City's right there, and there has to be at least one place in the city that makes it.

I mean, it's probably not going to be as good as my idiot friend's back home was, but then again, it was the only thing he ever really cooked for anyone, so of course he was good at making it.

And before anyone says anything, I'm not homesick, I'm just hungry, okay! If anyone goes around saying I'm homesick or that I'm all upset because I miss my stupid friend or anything like that just because I'm hungry for chawanmushi, I'll punch them! It's nothing like that at all!

[That's exactly what this is about, on both counts, but she means to make good on her threat of punching anyone who tries teasing her about it.]

But yeah. Is there a permission slip I need to get signed or something for going to get food?

Third Person/Log Sample:

Airi liked a lot of things about Camp Half-Blood - whether she'd admit to them or not - but even she had her favorites. Yes, she liked it on the training field. Of course she did; it was where she got to show off how fast she was and how good she was with a sword. After the one day she'd gotten so into what she was doing she swore she saw fire coming out of one of her hands, she'd been sure to brag about it - and that had been embarrassing, when she hadn't been able to do it later - that had elevated it to one of her favorite places in the world.

It helped that it didn't have so many bad memories with it. It was safe there, or at least a lot safer than any other battlefield she'd seen.

But that? Even that paled in comparison to the forest. There wasn't space like this back home, where it was all city lights. Sure, there were parks, but the parks weren't anything at all like this. None of the trees were quite as tall, and you couldn't see the stars.

It would have been pretty any night, but tonight? The forest's air seemed to crackle with electricity, and Airi was excited as she walked through it.

Capture the Flag night? Only the best night at camp ever! Okay, so she had to use a practice sword and promise not to beat anyone up too badly, but it was still really fun. It was just going to be better the second time around, especially since she wasn't just one of the unclaimed kids anymore.

She grinned widely as she took her place in the planning circle for cabin 5, leaning in. "All right, Ares cabin. Everyone ready to go out there and kick some -"

...language. If she wanted to play Capture the Flag, she couldn't curse about it, as much as she really wanted to say 'go out there and kick some ass'. She'd get pulled from the game for teaching the little kids bad words.

But there were some things that were just understood between siblings, and everyone in the circle just looked at each other after a second and laughed - and it wasn't making fun of her. Airi got that part loud and clear; everyone wanted to say the exact same thing.

And that was really why she liked the forest, because of what it symbolized. She didn't need to pretend to be anything or anyone she wasn't, not here. After a minute, she let out a war cry loud enough to rival anyone's.

The echoes off the trees? Those were music to her ears.