mariaushiromiya

Player

Name: Dylan
Contact: qzzus
18+? yes
Other Character:none

Character

Name: Maria Ushiromiya
Canon: Umineko: When They Cry.
Canon point: Just before her family goes to their estate and the witch’s games begin
Age: Maria is nine years old, though she is immature for her age

History: https://umineko.fandom.com/wiki/Maria_Ushiromiya#Background.

Personality: 1.Immature: The first thing people usually notice about Maria is how immature she is. She’s nine years old but comes off a few years younger due to her belief in fantastical ideas and her lack of control over her emotions. Maria has never had many friends and her mother is absent a lot so Maria isn’t as socialized as she should be. She tends to blurt out whatever’s on her mind to whoever is nearby. When she’s upset she tends to shout or cry regardless of the cause of her mood.

2.Imaginative: Maria’s imagination is almost limitless. She copes with her hard life by making up her own form of magic and practicing it. In her mind magic is a wonderful force that can solve all the problems in the world. Even though she has no magical training she makes up spells and uses them in her day to day life, and she’s not discouraged when her childish fantasy doesn’t work. She copes with her everyday problems by convincing herself that people who are mean to her are secretly monsters or witches and that she can defeat them with magic. She even regularly holds conversations with her toys which she believes are alive.

3.Trusting: Maria is trusting to a fault. She judges people’s character solely based on whether they are nice to her. She will follow anyone no matter how evil if they give her the attention she craves. She will believe almost anything she is told provided it doesn’t contradict her core ideas about magic and the world. Maria sometimes even invents elaborate fantasy scenarios to explain it when people she trusts are cruel to her. This allows her to continue trusting that person in spite of their behavior.

4.Stubborn: Like most of her family, Maria has a stubborn streak. Once she forms an opinion on a subject it’s hard to get her to change her mind. She will argue with anyone who disagrees to her to the point where she works herself into a frenzy. She will sometimes throw childish tantrums to get her way. Her stubbornness especially comes out when people challenge her ideas about magic, or its existence. It’s hard to get Maria to face reality once she’s invented a fantasy to explain something, especially if the truth is painful.

5.Optimism: Deep down Maria is an optimist. No matter how bleak a situation or how big a problem she always believes it can be solved, if not by her then by somebody she looks up to. She sees the best in people and approaches every new person she meets with a smile. When faced with something new Maria is usually excited rather than scared and she rushes into things convinced that they’ll work out for the best. She’s so devoted to the people that she loves that she overlooks their flaws to an absurd degree.

Always Keep In Mind: The important thing to keep in mind when writing Maria is that she processes information in an odd way. She’s not great at coping with real world problems so she invents fanciful scenarios wherein her mundane problems are the result of some sort of magical interference, so most things she says are highly subjective and it can be hard to get her to accept the truth. Also she tends to switch between first and third person when she’s speaking.

Samples

Log Sample: Test Drive

Questions: Write an IC answer to the following questions:

What do you want to study at Diatu Magicademy?
Maria wants to study all the different kinds of magic! Discovery magic sounds like the coolest kind though.

If you knew you could go back to the moment you left, would you leave immediately or continue your studies for a while?
I think I would stay here for a while. I was learning some things from Beatrice back home but she doesn’t always have time for me, so I would want to take the chance and learn more magic before I went home.

If your enemy was at Diatu Magicademy, how would you react?
I don’t think the black witch can follow me here, but if she did I’d run and get a teacher or some friends and together we could do a magic spell and get rid of her once and for all. Maria is brave and would stand up for herself.

When is it acceptable to resolve a dispute by force?
When people are really mean to you sometimes you have to protect yourself, but you shouldn’t start fights cause then you’re the mean one.

What should the supreme goal of any wizard be?
If wizards are like witches then they should use their magic to make people happy and make the world better.

Special Considerations

Your Special Something: A special connection

Rank Your House Choice: 1. Aer et Calculum 2. Gekronus Maius 3. Valhudor

Powers: No she doesn’t really have her powers at the point I’m drawing her from.

Items: Sakutaro, Maria’s stuffed lion toy. It’s very important to her.

Anything Else: Nope.