Player Name: Claire Contact: phainein @ plurk, PM to journal Invited by: Me myself and I! Other Characters: Ryoko Shinonome
Character Name: Sei Shounagon Canon: Fate/Grand Order Canon Point: Post-Valentines 2023 (NA), pre-Lostbelt 6 Birthday: June 27th History:FGO Wiki and uh the actual historical Sei Shounagon on Wikipedia. I play FGO Sei in line with the speculation that she never married and became a nun following Teishi's death.
Personality:
🔹 A frighteningly social and explosively extroverted girl. She's very much a people person and loves nothing more than having novel new experiences – and all the better to share them with the people around her. 🔹 Always in high spirits, regardless of her actual mood – she can go from beaming with joy to sulking to laughing her guts out and back again all at the snap of a finger. Her Servant profile describes her as being "catlike", in that her moods are fickle and quick to change at her own seemingly indeterminable whims. She becomes easier to understand when you click into the fact that Sei simply prioritizes fun and living well above all else. 🔹 More intelligent than she seems. Though her blithe and carefree nature can give the impression of an airhead, she's a well-educated and scholarly woman who was said to frequently argue educated men to a standstill in her own time. She's also surprisingly emotionally and socially intelligent – while she might come ramming in with the full force of a bulldozer, she's good at reading people and quite kind and graceful when it comes to people who can't quite match up to her levels of energy and social enthusiasm. 🔹 Which is to say, she is definitely kind of dumb but she's also smart. You Know What I Mean. 🔹 Not quite as effortlessly cheery and social as she seems. That's not to say that her bubbly, friendly self is a mask of any kind – but rather, being so happy and carefree is a conscious choice that Sei makes as a way of dealing with her grief over Lady Teishi's death. As Sei puts it, she finds a good deal of comfort in the thought of being watched over by Teishi and being seen to be having a happy, fulfilling time as a Servant, rather than wallowing in grief. 🔹 This is also not an easy choice and Sei occasionally expresses a fear of feeling all this energy go flat one day and returning to, as she puts it, a world without colour or passion – perhaps referring to the grief she felt following Teishi's death. Though she attempts to soften this by believing her friends would be able to help her out of such a rut, it's nevertheless a deep-seated fear that Sei wrestles with more often than she lets on. 🔹 Because of her own dealings with pain – and the fact that she herself was once quite a timid, shy girl – Sei is extremely empathetic and always determined to do what she can to uplift others and fill them with the same energizing and fulfilling love for and enjoyment of life that she carries... though she often goes a little overboard in her attempts. It's undeniable that her heart is in the right place, though.
Time of Arrival to Kaisou: Just at the tail end of February, so only backdated by a few days. She's mostly been wandering around trying to figure out if this is some wild Chaldea event like usual... Items: Nothing but the Chaldea Picture Diary – a sort of modern-day equivalent of her original Pillow Book writings. Stuffed full of photos, stickers and happy memories from her time in Chaldea that she commits to paper to make sure nothing gets forgotten. Retained Abilities: A weakened version of her skill Song of the Poet, which allows her to give a weak boost of mana and some light healing to herself and her allies. She also retains a vastly weakened (and unranked) version of her Noble Phantasm, Emotional Engine – Full Drive that, at its current level, only allows her to manipulate the emotions of a handful of opponents at a time.
Sei Shounagon | Fate/Grand Order | OU
Contact: phainein @ plurk, PM to journal
Invited by: Me myself and I!
Other Characters: Ryoko Shinonome
Character Name: Sei Shounagon
Canon: Fate/Grand Order
Canon Point: Post-Valentines 2023 (NA), pre-Lostbelt 6
Birthday: June 27th
History: FGO Wiki and uh the actual historical Sei Shounagon on Wikipedia. I play FGO Sei in line with the speculation that she never married and became a nun following Teishi's death.
Personality:
🔹 A frighteningly social and explosively extroverted girl. She's very much a people person and loves nothing more than having novel new experiences – and all the better to share them with the people around her.
🔹 Always in high spirits, regardless of her actual mood – she can go from beaming with joy to sulking to laughing her guts out and back again all at the snap of a finger. Her Servant profile describes her as being "catlike", in that her moods are fickle and quick to change at her own seemingly indeterminable whims. She becomes easier to understand when you click into the fact that Sei simply prioritizes fun and living well above all else.
🔹 More intelligent than she seems. Though her blithe and carefree nature can give the impression of an airhead, she's a well-educated and scholarly woman who was said to frequently argue educated men to a standstill in her own time. She's also surprisingly emotionally and socially intelligent – while she might come ramming in with the full force of a bulldozer, she's good at reading people and quite kind and graceful when it comes to people who can't quite match up to her levels of energy and social enthusiasm.
🔹 Which is to say, she is definitely kind of dumb but she's also smart. You Know What I Mean.
🔹 Not quite as effortlessly cheery and social as she seems. That's not to say that her bubbly, friendly self is a mask of any kind – but rather, being so happy and carefree is a conscious choice that Sei makes as a way of dealing with her grief over Lady Teishi's death. As Sei puts it, she finds a good deal of comfort in the thought of being watched over by Teishi and being seen to be having a happy, fulfilling time as a Servant, rather than wallowing in grief.
🔹 This is also not an easy choice and Sei occasionally expresses a fear of feeling all this energy go flat one day and returning to, as she puts it, a world without colour or passion – perhaps referring to the grief she felt following Teishi's death. Though she attempts to soften this by believing her friends would be able to help her out of such a rut, it's nevertheless a deep-seated fear that Sei wrestles with more often than she lets on.
🔹 Because of her own dealings with pain – and the fact that she herself was once quite a timid, shy girl – Sei is extremely empathetic and always determined to do what she can to uplift others and fill them with the same energizing and fulfilling love for and enjoyment of life that she carries... though she often goes a little overboard in her attempts. It's undeniable that her heart is in the right place, though.
Time of Arrival to Kaisou: Just at the tail end of February, so only backdated by a few days. She's mostly been wandering around trying to figure out if this is some wild Chaldea event like usual...
Items: Nothing but the Chaldea Picture Diary – a sort of modern-day equivalent of her original Pillow Book writings. Stuffed full of photos, stickers and happy memories from her time in Chaldea that she commits to paper to make sure nothing gets forgotten.
Retained Abilities: A weakened version of her skill Song of the Poet, which allows her to give a weak boost of mana and some light healing to herself and her allies. She also retains a vastly weakened (and unranked) version of her Noble Phantasm, Emotional Engine – Full Drive that, at its current level, only allows her to manipulate the emotions of a handful of opponents at a time.