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Player
Name: Aza
Age: 23
Personal Journal: N/A
Contact: azarann
Other In-Game Characters: None yet!

Character (Original Universe)
Name: Tohru Honda
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Canon: Fruits Basket
Canon Point: Chapter 89
History: Wikia
Personality:
I want to protect them. I want to protect the path that everyone is walking, with all the power I can muster.

Tohru is described in many ways throughout the series: clumsy, a ditz, spacey, scatterbrained, absent-minded, naive… Truthfully, she is all of these things, but more importantly she is a girl with a kind and welcoming heart. Tohru is the type of person that spends all of her energy helping other people, with little regard to her own well-being. Even at a young age, she put her mother’s well-being before her own, taking on all of the cleaning and housework, so her mother could work without pushing herself.

At this point in her life, Tohru has been through a lot for a normal high school girl. She lost her father at a young age and her mother during high school, and still she somehow managed to be able to smile within a year of her mother’s death. Many people admire her for this: for her strength to keep going, for being able to smile so sincerely, and take on the problems of so many others, for her ability to focus on everyone else when there’s so much going on in her own life, and still consider herself so lucky. Tohru is always counting her blessings, reminding herself how truly lucky she is to be surrounded by so many kind and wonderful people. It is said repeatedly that Tohru isn’t the type of girl to see her life as a glass half empty. “No matter what happens in life, I never let it get me down. That’s me---ever the optimist!”

She is a very empathetic girl, and doesn’t let the opinions of others influence how she approaches or receives others. Arisa Uotani (“Uo”) and Saki Hanajima (“Hana”), Tohru’s closest friends, both have checkered pasts that she seems to outright ignore. For example, when it was revealed that Hana possessed a strange psychic power, which put another boy in the hospital at one point, Hana tried to break ties with her and Uo. Tohru ignored the fact that she was “dangerous” and instead mourned that they were becoming “so close” and asked her not to leave. Previously, in middle school, she snatched Uo (an ex-gangster from her school) off of the street without thinking and dragged her all the way to her house, without knowing the situation, or Uo herself, to save her from a beating. This is most likely due to her mother, who was once part of a gang herself, who went to great lengths to teach her to be open and kind. Even when she discovers the Sohma’s curse, and the fact that they turn into animals, she doesn’t judge them, or become repulsed by them, as they would normally expect, but instead treats them as they are--unusual people with a condition that can’t be helped.

Others from her canon, though they often greatly appreciate this open and accepting part of her--believe her to be too trusting at times. They’ve joked that if a burglar broke into their house, she’d invite him in for tea and listen to his life story. This openness opens Tohru up to a lot of danger. She trusts people until they present to her a reason not to, and even when warned against someone, she doesn’t always heed this advice, like with Hatori. Yuki gently tells her that she shouldn’t be alone with him, yet she visits him on her own at his request, reminding herself that her mother told her not to be too “mistrusting”, and we witness this yet again with Hatsuharu. (Kyo: “Stay away, he’s dangerous!” Tohru: “Eh?! But that would be rude to Hatsuharu-san!” )

Tohru herself has said that her greatest strength is her ability to never get depressed, no matter what happens in life. This is unfortunately less true than she would like to believe. That “strength” is also her greatest weakness. Tohru hides all of her anxiety, all of her illness and negative feelings and boxes them up tightly inside of her, so that she doesn’t make others worry. When others bring those issues to light, she begs them not to worry. Assures them she’ll be fine. “It’s no good. It’s no good Kyo-kun. You shouldn’t confide this in me. You have to pretend you don’t see those anxieties in me or I’ll break down and start crying. So please! Please don’t worry about me!” She shies away from revealing her true feelings and doubts, often changing the subject, writing off her strange behavior, or stammering out excuses. This part of her causes others to worry, and her homeroom teacher Mayu tells Shigure that he should take better care of her because “She’s the type who might shoulder everything.”

She insists on being self-reliant, and states more than once that she doesn't care if she's being used by people. She starts out the series living in a tent, so as not to trouble her friends with an extended guest, and not to trouble her family during their household renovations. She takes on a part-time job to pay her tuition (often over works herself doing so), and insists on cooking and cleaning for the Sohma’s to pay for her stay. She’d rather take on things herself than trouble others, which incidentally can cause others to only worry more if they know her well enough. Though she is hard working, she often has difficulties with school work and grasping difficult concepts. “Physics is so hard, I feel as if nothing is sinking in...”

Her constant worrying over others often causes her more stress than necessary, and she continuously over thinks situations. She can work herself up into a panic over snarky remarks and small criticisms, particularly if she thinks that she has somehow insulted someone or been insensitive in some manner. For example, Hiro once makes an off-handed comment that Tohru never speaks about her Dad, only her mother. This leads her to consider that she doesn’t know very much of the Sohma’s parents at all, let alone their relationships, and that perhaps she’d been rude by not considering their feelings: “Or… maybe…. I’ve already spoken about my mother so much that I’ve been insensitive!! That’s right! Without knowing anything about everyone else’s parents, I… I might have hurt them very much!! Why… Why am I realizing such an important thing now…? It’s too late!” In this way, she is polite to a fault, and often apologizes even when something isn’t her fault, or has nothing to do with her. This is something she often has to overcome, especially when it comes to defending herself or sticking up for others.

Still, despite how she tries to fight it, there are parts of her past that creep up as evidence that they’ve scarred her. She is very panicky over colds and fevers because her father passed away from pneumonia. (“You shouldn’t underestimate colds.”) She also feels it is her duty to see everyone off everyday, because the one time she didn’t get up to see her mother off, she passed away in a car accident. She also worries that extravagant things, like trips and vacations, sometimes even gifts, are too good for her, because she recalls how difficult it was for her mother to make ends meet, and knows how difficult it is now to pay for such things on her own, even things that other people would consider normal. ("Hot springs... I couldn’t go to such an extravagant place and forget about mom. I wonder if she’ll forgive me.”) She is frightened of her loved ones disappearing, and speaks often of the importance of making memories.

Her mother in particular, is a special kind of scar. Tohru never goes anywhere without dragging along a picture of her mother, and often will talk about her as if she is still there. (After dropping her wallet: AAAAAAHHHH! MOM! HOW DID YOU GET OVER THERE?!) Every joyous memory she has revolves around her mother, and she desperately clings to her memory. Despite appearing to be doing so well, she hasn’t yet moved forward, and now is very frightened, because slowly her mom is no longer becoming the most important person in her life.

This is perhaps why she is so desperately protective of the Sohma’s, and wants so badly to break the curse. In the very short time she has known them, she’s watched them change and grow, and for that progress to be cut off and broken, for all of them to be locked away, is something she just can’t bear to think of. Especially, though she hasn’t quite realized it yet, for Kyo. “To break a sacred bond, I would truly deserve to be punished. It might not even be possible to break it. But… I won’t give up easily.”

Third-Person Sample: For my sample, I bring you awkwardness.
Mognet Sample:

To the very important person in charge, (crystal-sama?)
I’m really terribly, terribly sorry to be bothering you, I’m sure you must be very busy, and I must admit I don’t even know how to go about writing a letter like this or even whom to address it to, so please forgive me for addressing you so rudely, but I’m afraid there has been an awful misunderstanding!

The moo mou mugul Mogeta has been very kind and explained to me the current situation, however, I must confess that I am simply in no way qualified to be called a “Hero” or anything as noble and brave as that! I have no skills in fighting, or in general really! I’m not particularly brave or strong… I can’t make it through a haunted house or even a scary story! I haven’t even finished high school.

Not that high school is a requirement to be any of those things, I mean, there has been very many heros with little to no schooling at all and they have accomplished many wonderful and amazing things! Many of them may have also been afraid of

I’m so sorry, I’ve gotten off topic. My point is, I believe I may have been picked up by mistake? I would hate for you the leave behind the very accomplished and amazing individual. Of course I will do my best if you deem it necessary but I would really hate to put you through any trouble on my account. If there is anything I can do to make up for wasting your time, please let me know and I will do it in a heartbeat!

Thank you for your time.
Most sincerely,
Tohru Honda

Crystallis
Moogle Name: Mogeta
Moogle Gender: Female
First Job: White Mage
Second Job: Chocobo Knight
Limit Break: Lonely Prayer
Regen and Protect are cast over the entire party, enemies are immobilized.