ena(nan) shinonome

PLAYER: Hermy
ARE YOU AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD?: Y
CONTACT: hermyish on plurk or hermyish#7882 on Discord
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A

NAME: Ena Shinonome
CANON: Project Sekai
CANON REFERENCE: Here’s her entry from the Project Sekai wiki.

CANON POINT: Post the "My Footprints, Your Destination" event.
CRAU HISTORY: N/A
AGE: Roughly 15-16
APPEARANCE: hard at work

CONTRACT PAYMENT: To find critical and financial success with her art without relying on her father’s fame or previous work with Nightcord at 25:00.

QUESTIONNAIRE:

How do you define "failure"? How do you deal with the consequences of failure, from light to severe?

Failure, for Ena, is when the outcome she envisioned in her head doesn’t match up with reality, however small the deviation between may be. She encounters this most often with her art; most of the time spent in voice calls with her music circle are spent grumbling at how a line doesn’t look right or how a color she’s picked clashes with the mood she’s trying to portray. On particularly bad days, Ena posts more selfies to her social media for the sweet, sweet serotonin boost that can only come with validation. Despite the setbacks, constant art blocks, and numerous times she's contemplated quitting for good, she's determined not to keep trying as long as it takes to make her dreams of being successful come true.

An enemy of your faction has asked for a meeting, proposing a truce of sorts to deal with a greater threat. On one hand, there is indeed a threat at hand, but on the other, this person double-crossing you is just as likely an outcome. Do you agree to the meeting? Do you trust them?

To be frank, Ena wouldn't trust them as far as she could throw them. And that ain't far. If someone would double-cross you before something major happened, what's to stop them from trying to take advantage of you when you're vulnerable? That being said, she'd still agree to the meeting. Banding together to stop a current threat is a better solution than failing because she insisted on working alone. If a double- or triple-cross happens down the line, that can be better dealt with when it happens when the danger is past and she's (hopefully) better prepared.

You've worked with your Faction awhile now and you feel like the reward of your contract is within reach. But at the last moment, you are told you have even more service to pay beforehand, an obscure clause in the contract being exploited to keep you under your boss's thumb even longer. Your Faction Leader hasn't spoken on this, and might be able to dispute it. Do you go to your leader? Do you argue the dispute yourself? Do you begrudgingly accept the additional work? Something else?

Huh?! Throwing in some weird loophole now when she's so close to the goal?! What a ripoff! Ena's first and only stop is with the Faction Leader to get some answers, and you can be sure she's going in with guns blazing. It wouldn't even occur to her to ask for someone's help with the situation. This is something that's affecting her and the Leader is going to know all about how angry she is and how stupidly unfair this is whether they want to or not. If there's nothing the Leader can do, she'll take on the work, but rest assured she'll never let them hear the end of it. See if they can ask her for favors again.

What is your favorite diversion? Hobbies, indulgences, vices? Would you put off important things for that diversion, or would you be more strict about how you spend your time and/or money?

Shopping is Ena's first love. Looking fashionable is a hobby she finds genuine enjoyment in for the simple fact that 1. she will extremely cute in these blouses she found on clearance; and 2. they will make for killer selfies later. She also loves shopping with and for other people. There's something about helping someone look their best make her day. She's known to make shopping trips when feeling low, but if there was something more important she needed (art supplies, money for to rent a karaoke booth to record her part for Nightcord's songs), then she'll budget her time and money accordingly. Reluctantly, of course.

POWERS & ABILITIES: Ena has no special powers at all. Her painting and illustration work are above average and she’s a good singer, but her physical capabilities are as much as the next unathletic teenage girl. There would be no real physical impact on her if accepted into Jigokucho.

SUITABILITY: Project Sekai is a game about teenagers who get to hang out with Hatsune Miku, but goes to some surprisingly dark places in its stories. Nightcord’s unit story touches topics such as chronic illness from overwork, parental abuse, and suicidal ideation. Ena is also terminally online (for better or worse). Since Twitter and Instagram aren’t exactly known for its moderation policies, she’s exposed to mature subject matter on the daily. At first, she might be alarmed to pass by groups of oni while walking to the closest Starbucks, but it’s nothing she can’t adapt to. Headphones and a brisk walk are a girl’s best friend.

FACTION SUITABILITY:

Enma: Since Ena isn’t very fond of people telling her what she should do, suddenly being tasked with upholding the law wouldn’t sit well with her. Nor is she all that good with maintaining order. When two strangers approach her idol friend in public and insist on getting autographs, she tells them off until her friend manages to disarm the situation. If someone is overly rude or pushy, she gives as good as she gets and cares very little about whose feathers it may rustle. She would be the odd one out in the Enma, constantly pushing back against decisions she doesn’t agree with.

That being said, Ena is a kind person (bossy, impatient nature notwithstanding) and would gladly help others when the time calls for it. She would be best suited for working in one of the smaller Enma-run retail stores where she can work one-on-one with people rather than any of the administrative buildings.

Shuten: The Shuten “Big Partying, Big Drinking, Big Fighting” lifestyle is so Macho that a 16 year-old girl would stick out like a sore thumb, but…in a fun way? Ena may not share their same vehement hatred of lying, but she gets easily frustrated when people are hiding their true thoughts and feelings. She, herself, can be blunt to the point of rudeness. If the clan is looking to her for insight on a situation, she’ll tell them exactly what’s on her mind with zero filter.

She would also be a fan of their might makes right mentality, at least in terms of her own goals. Her dad has drilled the idea into her head that talent is king. Without talent, an artist can never improve or be successful…and has let Ena know in no uncertain terms that she’s talentless. Being in an organization that tells her she can succeed in the art world if she simply has the strength to do so could be very good for her in the long run.

Tamamo: I don’t want to explore the sex angle of the Tamamo. Still, the idea that one can simply chase their bliss may be eye opening for Ena. Currently, most of her attempts to draw or paint for her own enjoyment ends in total failure. She gets caught in the mental trap of perfectionism and eventually gets so frustrated that the result doesn’t match her vision that she gives up from pure frustration. An organization that helps see past the technical issues with her work and encourages her to chase her bliss, could help her get to a point where art is no longer a familial yoke around her neck but something to genuinely enjoy.

She could also draw some AMAZING sign board art for a Tamamo-owned restaurant. Think of the foot traffic!

Sutoku: Ena, much like the Sutoku, appreciates information. Once she realizes that someone is keeping a secret or holding something back, she won’t let go of it until she’s gotten to the heart of the matter. There are multiple moments where one of her group members has told her she’s going a bit too far in her questioning with a “Calm down, girl” or “Slow down, princess.” That type of persistence for the truth could be very beneficial. Fair warning she won’t be the most subtle about information gathering if sent on a mission, though.

Additionally, Ena loves Brands as much as the Sutoku do. Shopping trips and karaoke are high on her list of favorite things to do, and she’ll take a carefully crafted picture of each to post on her personal social media every day. She’s just a touch obsessed with her social media presence, and if the Alliance doesn’t already have something like that set up for themselves, she would be over the moon to help get that going. Besides, you never know what kind of information people might reveal when they think they’re yelling into the void.

SAMPLES

TDM thread with Leviathan
TDM toplevel+threads