Application for Smash Academy

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Out-of-Character Information

Name: Lunaaaa
Are you over 15?: yupyup
Time Zone: Pacific (-8)
Personal Journal: lunayoshi
Reliable Method of Contact: mysticyoshiluna at yahoo dot com

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Other characters in the game: Rouge the Bat?
Tegaki: lunayoshi 
Anything Else?: nope. Work sucks.

Name: Marine the Raccoon
Game/Series: Sonic Rush Adventure / Sonic the Hedgehog
Canon Point: post-Endgame
Age & Birthday: 12, July 22nd
Dorm or Living Arrangement: East 2
Preferred House: Swordfighter

Personality:
This thing was 4 painstaking paragraphs long. *sob* Uh, she's pushy and wants to recruit everyone to be her shipmates, she's self-absorbed, she's loud, she's adventurous, she's more obedient and mature than she was in SRA, blah blah blah

Marine is... extreme. She's loud, she's pushy, and to a lot of people, she's just annoying.

This is how she's coped with growing up without parents. She's a bit short on discipline and heavy on self-absorption. She was never taught how to be considerate of others or to look before you leap. But then, she's never really needed to. Her koala friends humor her every whim and essentially let her do whatever she wants. When a home is as small an island as hers, there isn't much around to threaten anybody. Oh no, a storm? Better watch out for the palm trees that never fall over or the complete lack of any structures that could break apart. Why take a moment to think about something when there are virtually no consequences to doing it right now?

Marine does show a bit of an excessive level of energy, though. On the surface, it may appear that she's eager and possibly greedy. Deep down, she has more energy than she can deal with. While a lot of her vigor comes from a desire for attention she never truly received to her satisfaction, under the microscope, a more scholarly evaluation would most likely find she suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. If she'd learn how to stop and think about things for a second, she'd find it very hard to calm down on her own. She just can't seem to expend all that vigor no matter how loud she shouts or how hard she studies.

She loves boats, by the way. Ships, boats, water crafts of all kinds. Mostly it stems from a deep desire to escape her bland old island and set off to new adventures and places to explore. The furthest she's ever made it away from home was to the neighboring islands a hop, skip, and jump away from hers. There really wasn't much there, either. BORING. She's confident she's able to build a seaworthy ship herself and sail away from the blasted ennui. All it'll take is the right kind of Do-It-Yourself books and ship supplies, both obtainable through koala channels. She finds it hard to focus on books for long periods of time, but she always comes back to them with the drive to learn and build. Is her new ship completed yet? Nope? Back to work. Honestly, if she ever finally scratches that itch to engineer amazing ships, she may find she enjoys reading as a hobby in general. She's actually pretty intelligent when it comes to engineering and vehicle construction, but her lack of attention span leaves crucial holes in her understanding of the construction process. 

Though she is self-absorbed, she does have a bit of a soft spot for her bestest best friend, Blaze the Cat. She latched onto Blaze when they first met and refuses to let go. Blaze doesn't baby Marine nor does she let her get away with extreme recklessness. She treats her like a little sister -- a familial relationship Marine never knew but always wanted. Admittedly, Marine seems to get much more out of their relationship than Blaze does, but it's still appreciated. A lot of her koala neighbors have stopped visiting her due to her restlessness and demanding pushiness, so she's not unaware of Blaze's tolerance of her antics. She sees the two of them as peas in a sea-salted pod who will go on amazing escapades into the unknown until they both wash up dead on the shore of an incredible exotic beach somewhere.

While her obnoxiousness was on full display during the events of Sonic Rush Adventure (see below), she came out of the event with a few notable lessons learned. 1) Blaze will get mad if she does something without thinking, even if Marine is (in her mind) more than capable of handling the fallout; 2) If she plays as part of the team, she'll walk away with more friends than she had before; i.e. people like her better if she cooperates; and 3) She doesn't HAVE to be loud to get people to listen to her. It's not a requirement for attention. It helps in some cases, but she'd prefer positive interactions over negative encounters, so she'd best lower her voice when in doubt just in case.


Backstory:
This one was seven. Basically she did Sonic Rush Adventure, Blaze left, she spent years in her dimension working on a ship to take her to Blaze, it worked, she crash-landed, and now she's at SBG.

Marine doesn't remember her parents. As far back as she can remember, she's lived alone on a desert island, called Southern Island, with koalas for neighbors. And friends. And family. They are the closest thing she's ever known to family, aside from Blaze. They practically raised her themselves if only by providing for her what she needed to survive. They built her a hut to live in and they brought her food and supplies on a regular basis. None of them felt right disciplining her, so sure enough, she ran around taking them all for granted and getting away with murder.

Because there was nothing to see or do on her home island, she was constantly restless and wanted so desperately to leave in a grand, luxurious sea vessel that could take her away from the lonely, mind-numbingly boring days and out to new sights, sounds, smells, and people to meet. She taught herself how to read and eventually how to read blueprints. With books on engineering and ship construction provided on request by the Koala Crew, she studied and planned out ship after ship, all of which fell apart on the initial test drive. She learned from each folly, but she was really getting nowhere fast. The lack of results just made her more and more eager to succeed, to think better, and to try harder. She'd build the best ship, dernit, or die trying.

One day, Princess Blaze the Cat stopped by her desolate island seeking a lot Sol Emerald. Marine had no idea what a Sol Emerald was but insisted one had to be around there somewhere. The prospect of having a cool, older best friend was too enticing to resist, so she did her best to convince Blaze it was nearby in order to keep her around as long as possible. When it came to light that Marine had lied, Blaze was peeved, but despite her aggravation, she realized that all the time they'd spent searching together was the closest thing to experiencing friendship the two had ever known, so while Blaze went to continue on her mission, she assured Marine she'd come back someday when the Sol Emeralds were safe.

Now, more motivated than ever, Marine strived to build a functional ship the two could sail off on together. She'd build a ship Blaze LOVED to sail on, dernit! A ship that could take them anywhere they wanted where they could be happy together and free of boring islands and isolation.

It was during one of her maiden voyages crashes that Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prower crash landed on her island. Their arrival coincided with the arrival of the evil Captain Whisker and by extension Dr. Eggman, who wanted the Sol Emeralds for himself. Much adventure was had. (Sonic Rush Adventure summary ahoy.)

After Sonic and Tails departed for their home dimension, Marine had gotten a taste of NEW types of friendship, and boy did she want more. Having learned a thing or two during her time spent around Tails, she set off to build a new ship -- one that could not only sail, but fly. Before she could finish, however, Blaze left the island for her own reasons. Devastated and lonely once again, Marine adjusted her approach; she wouldn't just build the best ship in the world, she'd build the best ship across  dimensions. Through the use of some verrrrrry hard to find books on dimension hopping and a VEEERRRRRY large amount of parts and supplies, she was eventually able to build a ship capable of following Blaze into Sonic's world. ...Or what she thought was Sonic's world.

As you'd expect, Marine's ship broke apart during its landing. As it turns out, it tracked Blaze to her location at an odd school focused on fighting in friendly brawls. ...Odd choice of residence. But hey, she, Blaze, Sonic, and Tails were all together again! Good times.

And then the world blew apart and now Smash Academy is a floating mansion island thing caught in a void of nothingness. Swell.


Anything Else?: She has a horribly stereotypical Australian accent. That, and she may or may not have water powers similar to Blaze's fire powers...

In-Character 1st person sample: I had two separate ones on here. Please don't make me write them again.

In-Character 3rd person sample: And two of these, too. Ugh.