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Name: Mimizella

Nicknames: Mimi, Mimz

Breed: Tortoise Shell

Attached to: Sailor Hassaleh

Alignment: Senshi

Blood Type: A

Fav. Food: Fried Fish

Hated Food: Cheese

Hobbies:

Drawing - Mimi loves to draw. She doesn't even care that she has zero artistic talent. No, she has never done anything like Picasso. She would probably be considered the anti-Picasso. No sense of coloring in the lines, no real good form. She doesn't even shade anything she draws.

But really, what can you expect? Her doodles are little kid doodles that you see hanging up on the fridge. Stick people with huge heads and six fingers. And she has a million crayon drawings of a sun coming up over a few hills with clouds with 'V' and 'M' shaped birds. Because that's one of her better drawings she does it a lot. Though each one has some small slight difference. Oh and houses. She likes drawing houses. And rainbows. Puppies not so much cause they like to chase her down the street.

She will draw pictures for anyone and everyone. Mimi draws extra pictures just to make sure she has enough pictures to give everyone!

Drawing certainly isn't easy for a creature that does not have the dexterity. So most of the time any drawings she does are mere scribbles from holding crayons in her mouth. Though from time to time Axel will let her paint with finger paints. So then you will probably end up with a bunch of brownish-orange-purple-green smudges on a piece of paper.

Though if there is a specific thing she has in mind for a drawing sometimes she can talk other people into drawing it out for her. Of course, she will take all the credit for coming up with the idea in the first place. Artistic idea credit, ya know.

Video Games - Living with Hassaleh/Axel, Mimi has picked up playing video games. But she doesn't really know how to work a controller right so Axel had to break out his Kinect so Mimi could use the motion feature. She isn't allowed to play any violent video games or the 'big people' games that Axel does. And when he does play those generally she just goes and takes a nap.

Mimi's favorite game is the Kinectimals one. Because it makes her feel like she has other animal friends. Especially the tiger cubs! Cause they are big kitties. Some nights she'll stay up playing with them and just talking, making up in her head that they are talking back to her.

In kitten form Mimizella only uses the Kinect for the Xbox since her paws are too small to really use the controllers. Its motion and voice sensitive so really all she needs to do is turn the tv and Xbox on which is simple enough to do with a push of a single button.

Baking - She loves to bake. Though her abilities are a little bit limited when in cat form. So generally she gets others to do all the human work for her, cause she can't just pop in and out of her cat form willy nilly. That is dangerous. Though sometimes she gets some complaints about there being cat hair in the baked goods.

But, reading off the recipes and taste testing is totally crucial to the baking process! So of course she is doing all the hefty work. Never mind that the humans gotta put all the stuff together, mix it and put it in the oven. They've got such easy jobs when it comes to baking. Mimi prefers to taste test from beginning to finish. Licking the bowls and spoons clean and then once things are baked she will eat at least half of what was made to make sure that everything is PERFECT before letting anyone else have any. If you try to take something before she is done taste testing Mimi will give you a swat.

In Cat Form:

Virtues:

Pure of Heart - Mimi has not a single mean or corrupt bone in her body. She is an embodiment of sweet and innocent. If someone is hurt or upset she will do her best to cheer them up or make them not so hurt anymore.

Which also leads her to being a little naive about the world and it's people, allowing herself to be taken advantage of from time to time if others aren't watching out for her. She doesn't believe in evil, at least not complete and all encompassing evil. The Chaos faction is just confused on the way to do things right. Or they have tummy aches from eating too many sweets and Mimi can sympathize. She gets kind of cranky too when her tummy hurts. Perhaps having their bellies rubbed would help. That always helps her when her tummy hurts.

She likes to believe that everyone can be saved. And while the Order side isn't always right it is the best way to go about things so that everyone is happy and can live long fulfilling lives.

Adorable - You have to admit, a fuzzy scrawny kitten is pretty adorable. And Mimizella plays it up really well. She manages to worm her way into some people's hearts. There is just something about her that makes you want to scratch her behind the ears, cuddle her or buy her catnip toys. Mimi loves catnip toys and will play with them all day then snuggle them all night if you let her.

If you were to get mad at her for any reason she would flop onto her back and give you the 'puss in boot' eyes, trying to win your favor back and not make you so angry. She doesn't like it when people are angry at her. It doesn't make her feel too good. Kind of like someone poked her too hard in the tummy or something.

She will chase butterflies, kneed at soft blankets, wiggle her whiskers in her sleep. While she knows not everyone would think her antics are cute she will try her hardest to get them to at least like her somewhat. Even the tiniest bit of attention gets her going.

Ambitious - When Mimi has a goal she goes all out trying to achieve it. Sometimes even going over the top, over the call of duty. If its something her duty calls for. She wants to be an amazing Guardian Cat and the only way to do that is to work hard, trying not to mess things up as she goes along.

She is ambitious and rarely ever gives up even if the odds are against her. This kitten will use any and all resources she can to get the job done. Though sometimes her resources are just a little bit questionable. But she would never do anything that would put herself or others in grave danger. Perhaps a little danger but that comes with the job right? Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do though she highly prefers not to have to run for her life to get it done.

If someone is upset, she will go all out to make them happy again. Even if it is something minor, like a bad grade in school, you might end up having a cheer up party thrown for you out of the blue. There are no limits in Mimi's eyes only a constant upward motion with no ceiling to get in the way.

Flaws:

Bumbler - Mimi hasn't quite grown into the natural agility that most cats have. Balancing on fencing and hopping roof to roof is just not in her abilities at this point and time. Someday she even just has a hard time jumping up onto Axel's bed from the floor.

Of course, her clumsiness isn't only limited to balance. If she were to use her lazer beam to fight she's probably hit a bird who was just randomly sitting on a fence minding it's own business. And the kick back sometimes sends her rolling across the ground. Awakening a Senshi? She'd probably shoot them in the eye a couple of times before actually getting her beam to hit their forehead.

Knocking things over just tends to be an object avalanche. An example of that would be when she was playing around with the Tiger Cubs in her Kinectimals game and got a little too crazy. She knocked over Axel's DVD stand, which hit the tv, which knocked the kincet off the top of the tv, which hit the stack of Xbox games. Lets just say she spent the rest of the day hiding beneath the couch until Axel came home.

Inexperienced - Mimi has very little experience with being a Guardian Cat. When the war between the Moon Kingdom and Negaverse happened she had only basic knowledge at that time of what her duties were. When everything went down she had merely been on a visit to the Moon Kingdom to shadow another Guardian Cat for a few days so that she could get a better grasp on what her duties were and all that jazz. It was her first time off of the planet Mau, so she was all fresh and green.

Basically she was and still is a Guardian Cat in training. But with the current war she's kind of just been tossed into the deep end of the big kids pool.

When she awoke on Earth, she found herself lost and alone. With only her survival instincts and what knowledge she had retained to guide her. So from time to time she gets things wrong because she just doesn't have that bit of information or experience that would be crucial at the time.

Big Mouth - Because she is so young, Mimizella doesn't really have those social filters that stop her from saying anything that comes to mind. Which more often than not leads her to blabbing out certain secrets or hurting over people's feelings. While not intentional she just can't help it sometimes.

She has never given away any Order secrets mind you. Well, at least not any that would be detrimental to the cause. At least that she thinks would be detrimental. Then again she isn't 100% sure what detrimental information she could have would be.

When it comes to social situations Mimi can sometimes let it slip what one person's opinion is about another. Whether it be a good opinion or a bad one. And usually it happens when both parties are in the room, so then she ends up getting pointed looks. Or if someone kind of looks bad in an outfit she'll blabber out that they might want to go change so that they don't look like they dressed up like a moo cow or their sweater looks like barf. She's just trying to help!

Challenge: There is no evil! Only good!

Hey Yayoi! You have a good start here, but there are a few things to address.

First, Guardian Cats earn the ability to go their human form. While its totally okay to have human-type hobbies, please also include how she participates in these hobbies in her cat-form! This is touched on in the Baking hobby, but could be more explicit in Drawing and Video Games hobbies.

For the virtues and flaws, one thing to watch out for is hyperbolizing some aspects of the character. It is a natural thing that we all do in describing someone, but we watch out for it in character forms to make sure that it doesn't unintentionally imply that the character has some sort of ability. For example, in the Adorable virtue (where this is the most seen) it reads that Mimi "manages to worm her way into everyone she comes in contact with's hearts." This can just be rephrased as something along the lines of "tries to use her adorable appearance and demeanor to charm others."

There is a contradiction in the virtues and flaws that needs to be addressed as well - Mimi is both an Over Achiever and Inexperienced. While someone can certainly be both, it leaves me wondering why she is inexperienced if she is so determined to exceed her expectations? Clarification on this matter or reworking of these two virtues and flaws would be advised.

Other than that, this quest is off to a solid start! Once you have made these revisions, feel free to quote me so that I may take a second look.

Hi Yayoi! Sorry for the delay on getting back to you.

My note before about hyperbolizing still stands, particularly in the Adorable virtue. Within that virtue it discusses ways other characters would respond to her attempts to be adorable, which should not be included in a character form. Phrases like "there is just something about her that makes you want to scratch her behind the ears, cuddle her or buy her catnip toys" talks more about people's responses than it does about her. These virtues should focus on how and why the character behaves a certain way. Most importantly, it should have a greater focus on why that behavior is virtuous since it could be clearer in this regard. (Just being cute is not a virtue; but her motivation for wanting to be seen as cute may be.)

While I feel that the contradiction in the Over Achiever virtue and Inexperienced flaw has been somewhat addressed, I don't feel that Inexperienced quite reads as a flaw anymore. Her inexperience doesn't read as something that would be persistent or as a personality flaw - its a disadvantage that any beginner would have and could overcome as they gain experience, and an over achieving cat would certainly gain this experience quickly. Right now, it reads more as an opening plot for the character rather than a flaw.

The flaw would likely need to be rewritten ore replaced, but flaw can be found within this, focusing on other disadvantages that she has as a cat with a duty to perform. Perhaps she has some inadequacy in her personality that makes performing her job difficult, which could drive her ambition in attempt to overcome it but its a constant struggle. Alternatively, a new flaw could be created that sheds light on a different aspect of the character.

When you have read over my review and made changes, please quote me! If you have any questions, feel free to quote me then as well.