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Neither the scion of a respected family, nor the heir to a wealthy one, Eri Shimanouchi is not counted among the movers and shakers of the Ohtori student body. Combine that with rumors of a troubled family life, and her swiftly declining academic performance and she might as well not exist in the eyes of most of her classmates. Her preference to spending her few spare moments tending to flower bushes in the gardens or replanting trees on Southern Cross Island might give people the impression she's an eccentric who doesn't like people very much. The reality is that she cares a lot for some of them, and ties up much of her identity in the people who care back. Those who do interact with her find she's a serious-minded girl, more pragmatist than romantic, with a straightforward sense of humor. People who delve even further will find that she can be shockingly ruthless, but that's only natural given her private life as a Puella Magi, which has consumed nearly all of her free time and forced her to make increasingly harsh choices for the sake of her own survival.    
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Once upon a time, Eri Shimanouchi was a Puella Magi who bought into the savage garden mentality of her senpai, Kyouko Sakura. Sacrificing life after life for the sake of cultivating enough power to reach her goals; the guilt and self-loathing caused by her choices sent her on a downward spiral that ended in not only her death, but the deaths of those around her. Only none of this ever happened. Now Eri Shimanouchi has been granted a certain healthy perspective going forward in a world that has been changed to be kinder for girls like herself. Living out her adjusted life has resulted in her swiftly emerging from her shell of protective self-consciousness that she'd built around herself. This has allowed her to swiftly bloom into a more confident girl that is more secure with herself, and happy to live out the second chance she's been gifted with.                            
 
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==Background and History==
 
==Background and History==
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<span style="color:#008000">Not so long the world changed.  And so much that happened, never did.</span>
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<span style="color:#008000">One moment dead.  Any future I had, lost.  The next alive, sitting in class as if it had never happened.  But /I/ remember it.</span>
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<span style="color:#008000">A second chance.  Not to make things right, but to live.</span>
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<span style="color:#008000">The decision mine on how to use it.</span>
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<span style="color:#008000">I don't even know </span><span style="color:#FF66B2">who</span> <span style="color:#008000">or what I am thanking but - I feel such a sense of gratitude for that.</span>
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<span style="color:#008000">To protect them as she does me.  To be there for them like she was for me.</span>
 
<span style="color:#008000">To protect them as she does me.  To be there for them like she was for me.</span>
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==Current Events==
 
==Current Events==
  
*The Forest Restoration Project on Southern Cross Island finds hope in the form of Chihaya Izumi, who is putting together a fundraising ball.
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What came before...
*The Chevaliers invade Shinjuku. Many strong independents are recruited in defense, managing to barely repel them.
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*Eri murders Mami Tomoe atop the Shinjuku Metropolitian building.
*The Shepherds are founded.
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*Sayaka Miki vows vengeance, and comes after Eri at Haneda airport, prompting an all out brawl between Magical Girls to stop her. The two duel in front of the Witch Elsa Maria.
*Several other back and forth skirmishes occur.
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*The Truth about Magical Girls and Witches came to light, when Sayaka becomes Oktavia Von Seckendorff.
*Shinjuku General Hospital is taken over by Charlotte after weeks of the witch mustering her power.  A temporary truce is formed to deal with the threat.
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*Rika Kumori made a wish for her sister's murderer to come to her. Eri arrives, and leaves without ever telling her.
*Charlotte is defeated but at great cost, an uneasy peace forms.
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*Eri resolves to become a witch in Shinjuku to punish herself for all that she's done.
*Snow War is fun.
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*Kyouko confesses her love to her, a moment she'd hoped for for some time, and swept up in the despair Eri decides to spare her from the inevitable fate of all Puella Magi by crushing her soul gem then burying her.
*The Outer Senshi bring the problem of Hotaru Tomoe before the Shepherds.  Eri enters into the same alliance with them that her senpai, Kyouko formed.
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*Upon arriving in Shinjuku for her final fate, Mikoto and Madoka find herIn one final moment of clarity she asks for help, and is granted the only mercy that is left to her.
*Peace negotiations are attemptedThey fail utterly.  Fighting breaks out during the negotiations, and during that Madoka Kaname removes Sayaka Miki's soul gem and throws it into the bay...
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*Madoka Kaname makes a wish.  Eri's soul says a final farewell to a true friend.
*A hit job is performed to attempt to try to take Mami Tomoe out of action.  It fails.
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*Both sides plan for the Chevaliers' final assault on Shinjuku...
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And now...
*Eri Shimanouchi takes a day off on advice of her senpaiThe Chevaliers invade Ueno on the same day and its lost to her.
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*Waking up in a New World in the middle of class, Eri runs to a bridge to find out that the world has changed in a way that none of them could have expected.
*In the final battle for Shinjuku, it culminates in a bloody duel between Mami Tomoe and Kyouko SakuraAs Mami Tomoe stands triumphant - Eri Shimanouchi ambushed her and murdered her before she could claim Kyouko's life.
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*Taking the second chance for what it is, Kyouko and Eri decide to begin dating.
*In the aftermath Shinjuku is ceded to the Chevaliers.
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*Eri fights Mikoto Minagi repeatedly to try to wrest her from the grasp of Dark Fall and her Lord BrotherSomething she had tried, without success to prevent before because she was too caught up in her own head.
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*The Shepherds and the Chevaliers come together on Sayaka's birthdayEri asks Mami Tomoe for forgiveness.  The Chevaliers and Shepherds decide to disband in order to actively discourage Magical Girl violence against other Magical Girls
  
 
==Personality==
 
==Personality==
  
Eri Shimanouchi lives similarily to Kyouko Sakura, even if she doesn't fully believe as she doesHer territories as her gardens, witches and familiars are sources of food which she harvests.  People she doesn't know are like pretty wildflowers to her.  She has a lingering persistent sense of right and wrong, which she has trouble shaking, but she buries it beneath her desire for herself and the people important to her to survive.
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In the new world, Eri Shimanouchi is in a much more stable placeDespite all the despair in her memories, she has a certain anchor in her belief that something has fundamentally changed in the universe for girls like herself which, despite her ordinarily pessimistic attitude gives her so much hope for the future.  She fights to live her life to the fullest, rather than simply running herself ragged trying to survive.
  
She is fiercely loyal to people who she has connected to, up until the point where they betray her irrevocably, but even then she has trouble letting go.  Especially if her feelings for them had been strong beforeTo the people still in her life, she orders into a pretty strict hierarchy in her mind in case she's forced to choose between themHer greatest fear is of abandonment, which started with her family, and has only been exacerbated over time, as more and more people leave her life.
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She has a tendency towards kindness, and is fiercely loyal to her friends.  Often her type of loyalty has been not just strict adherence to her friend's wishes, but what she believes is best for them.  Under her new circumstances she's reevaluating whether this type of loyalty is actually healthy.  She has a tendency towards being a thoughtful person, and unlike in the past she's less likely to anxiously tying herself up over itAnd while she's still more pragmatist than romantic...  she's less afraid to allow that romantic side of herself to show. 
  
She can be kind to the people she cares about, and cruel to the people who threaten them and her bottom line.  She has a tendency to be a thoughtful person, but sometimes that's to the point of obsessively winding herself up in knots over it.  She is frequently jealous, of people who are closer to those she has connected to, especially if she's at odds with them.  What she wants the most of the people she cares about, is to truly understand them, and be understood.  And yet she's found that often this only comes through greater pain and suffering.
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All of her worst qualities are still there, it's just that she no longer possesses self-loathing for them, and rather feels self-secure in the fact that they're a part of her.  She can be petty, jealous, and cruel.  And she's unafraid to treat her friends harshly with a certain amount of tough love if she feels that is called for.  She no longer worries about abandonment, because she understands that people are with her because of the bonds they have formed.  And that those bonds are not so easily broken.
  
When it comes to the duality of being a Puella Magi and a normal girl, she tries to compartmentalize her life into pretty rigid categories.  What happens on the Puella Magi side stays on the Puella Magi side.  She tries not to allow it to leak over to where she's pretending to be a normal girl, spending time with the people she cares about, or just gardeningThese divisions are eroding more and more over time, as recent revelations have caused her to believe she's a monster in the guise of a normal girl, splendidly suited only towards being a Puella Magi.
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Eri can be a bit of a nerd.  Under normal circumstances her grades tend to be pretty good, though she's not living up to her full academic potential by any means due to the Mahou Shoujo lifestyle.  She enjoys Shoujo manga, dating sims, and JRPGs though she tends to be a rather casual adherent unless she's sharing her hobby with someone elseAt times, due to this, she can have a silly or goofy sense of humor from that nerd cred.
  
At Ohtori, she tends to mostly keep to herself, she's not as shy as she once was, but she mostly doesn't bother trying to initiate when it comes to meeting someone new.  This changes as a Puella Magi, as she actively tries to seek out others who live as she does, and tries to recruit them for mutual survival.
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At Ohtori, she's begun to bloom with her newly earned sense of self-confidence, to the point where she no longer is regarded as a shy wallflower by Ohtori at large.  While she's hardly considered popular, she's at least well regarded by more and more of her classmates.
  
In battle, she often sinks into cold detachment rather than hot-blooded anger.  She prefers this detachment as it helps her deal with the charged emotions of these intense situationsAnd yet when it's a battle with people she cares about she finds she has more and more trouble, getting swept up in the emotions of a fight, often to her detriment.
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Magic she once regarded with a sense of cynicism, in that power was simply used for her survival to the detriment of anyone she didn't knowNow...  perhaps she once again thinks that magic and miracles do exist in that romantic way.  She puts less of a division between her life as a Magical Girl and that of a normal girl, taking a more balanced approach that they're both intrinsically parts of herself that make her life worth living.
  
Magic she no longer finds wondrous, even if she sometimes finds small joy within itInstead it's simply power that lets her survive, and protect the people she cares aboutIf she's protecting the world, it's because doing so protects herself and the people she cares for.  The world itself is a beautiful but cruel place to her, one she's losing more and more faith in over time, but simply seeks to keep it turning.  If not for her own sake, then for those she cares about.
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As for dreams for herself, her dreams tend to be rather normal ones in the moment.  Small moments, small thingsMilestones in romance and lifeShe's still a Puella Magi and knows that her inevitable fate is to be taken by the Law of Cycles one day, so she's not exactly planning for the long term...
  
She no longer has grand dreams for herself. She believes that she likely won't be alive to live them outInstead she has small dreams which are more goals are milestones.  Seeing high school graduation, getting to the next stage of the forest restoration project.  Seeing good things happen for the people she cares about.  A career, a family, love and romance?  Those things she no longer has any hope for.  She believes very strongly deep down that it's only right and fitting as she no longer deserves any of these things.
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..but neither is she in despair about her inevitable fate, because of the second chance she's been given to live.
  
 
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Gardening - A senior member of the Ohtori Gardening Club.  One of the organizers of the forest restoration project.
 
Gardening - A senior member of the Ohtori Gardening Club.  One of the organizers of the forest restoration project.
  
Drawing - Sketches with pencil or charcoal.  Rarely shown to others.
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Drawing - Sketches with pencil or charcoal.
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Puella Magi - As an extension of her wish, she can create plants in her vicinity and control them as if they were weaponsHer Puella Magi weapon is a thorned vine whip or scourge.  She can control it by causing it's tendrils to braid up into one thicker cord, or to unravel, or by directing it to dig underground and spread her plant creation magic to various points with spectacular results.  Like all Puella Magi, supernaturally tough, strong, and agile.  By expending magic while untransformed, can influence mundane plants, as well as heal herself or others.
  
Puella Magi - As an extension of her wish, she can create plants in her vicinity and control them as if they were weapons.  Her Puella Magi weapon is a thorned vine whip or scourge.  By expending magic, can influence mundane plants, as well as heal herself or others.  Like all Puella Magi, supernaturally tough, strong, and agile.
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Cooking - Eri is slowly putting effort into becoming an amateur home cook.  Her skills in it are very humble, but she can make simple bentos now without too much trouble.
  
 
==[[Grief Seed Territory|Territory]]==
 
==[[Grief Seed Territory|Territory]]==
  
Nishitama Park District - Cultivated
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What's a grief seed? Never heard of it...  ''coy''
  
Formerly - Ueno, Shinjuku - Ueno was taken by the Chevaliers, and Shinjuku was ceded by her to the Chevaliers.
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Wraiths have made competition over territory moot, but Eri still feels a certain sense of responsibility when it comes to Ueno, Shinjuku, and Nishitama.
  
 
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*[[Kyouko Sakura]] - Her senpai.  She feels there's nothing she wouldn't do for her sake, to protect her, to let her surviveIn the coming days she's certain this will be tested more than ever.  Kyouko invested in her early in her career, and Eri had felt like she was the only one that was there for her nearly unconditionally.  Kyouko's battle instincts and charisma are something she's always looked up to, feeling it's something she'll never be able to emulate in herselfRecently she felt distinctly betrayed by how Kyouko acted when Sayaka Miki lost her soul gem.  She may know her feelings of betrayal over recent events are irrational and hypocritical, she can't help but feel a bit jealous over what she thinks is going on between that pairRegardless, it has caused her to reaffirm her resolve to protect her senpai and her happiness at any cost, proving that never more distinctly than when she was willing to kill Mami Tomoe for her sake.
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*[[Kyouko Sakura]] - Her senpai.  Her Girlfriend.  There's little that Eri wouldn't do for her.  During Kyouko's early career, she invested in Eri despite having no reason that Eri has ever figured out, and was there for her unconditionally no matter what choices Eri made.  Kyouko invested in her early in her career, and Eri had felt like she was the only one that was there for her nearly unconditionally.  Kyouko's battle instincts and charisma are something she's always looked up to, and as she's grown, Eri feels less like she's dragging her down when the two are in a scrap togetherOne of the proudest achievements of Eri's life was planting Higanbana all around Kyouko's Church, which became a spiritual experience for her senpai when she saw them all in full bloomWhen Eri was at her lowest point, Kyouko confessed her love for her, and Eri responded with the worst kind of betrayal of her trust.  All the same, in the new world, the two are enjoying exploring their feelings for each other.
  
*[[Mikoto Minagi]] - It's hard for Eri not to see Mikoto as a little sister, even if she's older!  And yet she respects her highly, one of the few people she allows to hunt with her, as she feels Mikoto understands the kill or be killed way of a Puella Magi better than mostRecently she's seen how hard Mikoto pushed herself in her defense, and while she's profoundly touched by her efforts - it's also worrisome, considering Mikoto seems to believe her only value is in her ability to fight and defeat her enemiesEri feels it's profoundly hypocritical to try and dissuade her from her path after validating it for so long..and yet at the same time, she worries what kind of future the girl might have left to her if she doesn't do something.
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*[[Mikoto Minagi]] - Mikoto was once someone Eri regarded as a little sister figure, but she's come to realize that Mikoto is actually more of a big sister figure to her in Mikoto's sense of protectivenessEri was one of the first of her Magical Girl comrades to realize that Mikoto's situation ran far darker than it seemed at a glance, and secretly she once plotted to try to free her from the dark elements that sought to control her.  Unfortunately, she saw this as a task she needed to do by herselfAs a result of this, when the world changed, she came back to find Mikoto as one of Dark Fall's Enforcers.  And while their relationship was strained for a while, Mikoto's rejection of her role has allowed the two a chance to become closer than ever.  Now she's trying to encourage Mikoto towards a Happily Ever After with her crush Mai - something that will obviously go well.
  
*[[Homura Akemi]] - Ever the enigma, the two have managed to find some measure of mutual understandingShe knows now she might never get any answers about the mysteries Homura Akemi holds, and instead the two talk about other things whenever they have the time.  They even have formed an alliance of sorts to attempt to keep Madoka Kaname out of the cruel hell that is being a Puella Magi. Even as friendly as they get though, she distinctly remembers the early days, and knows that if Homura and her ended up on opposite sides; she doubts very much that Homura would hesitate to put a full clip into her skull.
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*[[Mami Tomoe]] - Briefly Mami's kouhai, briefly her girlfriend...  and then her enemy.  The two have tended towards a certain intensity of feeling towards each other, in that passionate way that only teenagers can emulateIn the end, when admiration and love turned into desperation and hatred, Eri murdered her atop Shinjuku Metropolitian.  By all rights, after what Eri did to her, the two should never be speaking to each other again - if they were not outright hostile.  Instead, they've found that while their feelings and bond for each other have evolved into something different.  They are both trying to reestablish themselves as friends, with each agreeing to strive their hardest to never forget what's important between them.  While she was fighting to free Mikoto from Dark Fall, she always appreciated how willing Mami was to back her up, despite what happened between the two not being so long ago...  
  
*[[Yumi Ohzora]] - A ray of sunshine within the Shepherds and Eri's life, her loyalty to Eri throughout it all has been astounding.  The two have become increasingly close over time, however Eri is now torn between making decisions for Yumi which might exacerbate her feelings of being a burden...  in order to keep her safe.
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*[[Homura Akemi]] - While the mystery of Homura Akemi has been solved Eri has no idea what Homura Akemi really went through, only that she travelled through time, over and over for some secret purpose that she doesn't understandNoting Homura's continual standoffishness and dedication to constant battle in the Puella Magi lifestyle, Eri has taken it upon herself to try to be a good friend to her no matter how hard it might be.  While it's an uphill battle, she's constantly trying to get Homura to relax, to take a break, a breath, and enjoy the normality of life.
  
*[[Chitose Shiratori]] - Once an opponent, then an ally, now a friendShe's become increasingly worried over time that one of the oldest Shepherds will try to take far too much responsibility in the coming bloodshed.
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*[[Yumi Ohzora]] - Yumi was once a driving force to attempt to have Eri act in a more moral way, but she was always a ray of sunshineEri has become increasingly aware of her circumstances and on the sly is trying her best to matchmake Yumi with a girlfriend in order to defy what she sees as restrictive traditions placed upon her.
  
*[[Setsuna Meioh|Sailor Pluto]] - A wise, ageless source of wisdomAnd also the caretaker of a tiny trash cat the two of them saved by coincidence.  The two have become increasingly good friends over time, though Eri frequently wonders what duty has cost the eldest of Senshi.  And what toll it may exact of her in the future.  What she's told her about the coming calamity has only increased her resolve to defeat the Chevaliers so that it won't come to pass.
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*[[Chitose Shiratori]] - Once an opponent, then an ally, now a friendChitose has tended towards being a bit of a quietly mature force that tried to take the pressure off of the younger Eri, which Eri always appreciated.
  
*[[Haruka Tenoh|Sailor Uranus]] - The game Uranus plays with her she's been told is a test of her measure, and yet at the same time it makes her feel so good that she can't help but get swept up in itAt the same time, when Uranus gets serious, she stands up and takes notice.  Her intensity is such that she knows she can't be on Uranus' or Haruka's level in pretty much anything, and yet she finds herself frequently thinking about what this Senshi said, how she wouldn't let her partner fight alone.
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*[[Setsuna Meioh|Sailor Pluto]] - A wise, ageless source of wisdom.  And also the caretaker of a tiny trash cat the two of them saved by coincidenceThe two have become increasingly good friends over time, and Eri as a result has been rather secretly cheering on her relationship between Kasagami, albeit in a way one would be hard pressed to realize given how much she teases the pair.
  
*[[Michiru Kaioh|Sailor Neptune]] - Eri often wonders why the glamorous Senshi gives her the time of dayEven if she knew she was Sailor Neptune-  she might still wonderAnd yet the two in some quiet, private moments have found that even if they couldn't be more unalike in talent, that perhaps their worldviews aren't so dissimilar after all.
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*[[Haruka Tenoh|Sailor Uranus]] - In the past, Eri was often a very WILLING victim of Haruka's flirtatious gameNow though, while she isn't even remotely on the Senshi of the Sky's level, she at least isn't turned into a flustered wreck by itOn the contrary, at times she's even able to tease back.  She tends to hold a lot of respect for Sailor Uranus, and often takes her advice and counsel to heart when it comes to matters of... her senpai and partner, Kyouko.
  
*[[Kasagami Araki]] - The Disciplinary Executive of Ohtori was someone she recruited for the sake of mutual survival.  And she's found her to be a passionate, albeit frustrating friend when it comes to the ongoing conflict with the ChevaliersAnd yet at the same time, she's come to wonder if the secrets Kasagami keeps might do them harm in the future...
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*[[Michiru Kaioh|Sailor Neptune]] - Eri regards Michiru Kaioh as both a role model and unachievable life goal.  While she knows she'll never become the high femme ideal that Michiru Kaioh is, she no longer feels insecure interacting with her on a daily basis.  On the contrary, she treasures receiving fashion tips from her, and trading gardening tips in turn.  When she becomes Sailor Neptune, there are few people that Eri would rather have her back in a fight.
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*[[Kasagami Araki]] - The Secretary of Ohtori's Student Council was someone Eri recruited in a utilitarian way early on.  And while Eri often finds herself rolling her eyes at Kasagami's antagonistic ways, she's found her to be a passionate and loyal friend - something that is invaluable to herShe's still not certain what secrets Kasagami is keeping, however, she does enjoy cheering on the relationship between her and Sailor Pluto.
 
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*[[Madoka Kaname]] - Her first real friend, a girl who reached out to her with the simple favor of watering her flowers as a gardening clubmate while she was away seeing her father in the hospitalEver since, they've become only closer friends, and yet at the same time more distant.  Eri doesn't like to burden her with how she suffers, and what she goes through, feeling that the Puella Magi life has hurt Madoka the normal girl just as much as it's hurt her, if not moreThus she's often content to just spend her time with her nurturing flowers rather than discussing more serious mattersRecently Eri has been convinced by Homura onto a course of attempting to dissuade Madoka from making a wish and becoming part of the dark existence that is a Puella Magi - making herself more and more willing to be cruel to her friend simply to prevent a future where the two might fight each other.
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*[[Madoka Kaname|Someone special]] - Once upon a time, a girl reached out to a lonely girl in a garden by watering her flowers while she was visiting her father at the hopsitalShe became Eri's first real friend, and while the Puella Magi lifestyle caused Eri to frequently be cruel to her, she never stopped being there for her when she needed her.  For the longest time, Eri felt guilty over how much suffering she'd inflicted upon that friend of hers because of the constant, awful choices she made which led to so much unchecked violenceIn the end, when she was at her lowest point, ready to punish herself by becoming a witch - her kindness convinced herself to seek mercy insteadA mercy this friend granted to her.  This friend's wish granted her a second chance - and changed the universe irrevocably to be better for girls like her.  Now...  she does not remember this friend, only a feeling of importance in certain memories of conversation...  and a nostalgic feeling she gets from pansies.  Like she's meeting a special friend for the first time.
  
*[[Mai Tokiha]] - Mai is like the older sister she always wanted.  She loves her dearly as a result, considering her surrogate family which has replaced her previous family.  At the same time though, Eri's life has caused the two to begin walking on eggshells around each other in the same way that Mai often tiptoes around her real brotherShe worries about Mai and her self-sacrificial tendencies, her belief that she can't have a normal life, and her guilt.  She wishes she could do something to alleviate it, but doesn't know what to do.  Because right now she can feel a confrontation between them is coming, and she's afraid that once it happens...  Mai Tokiha will choose to be gone from her life forever.
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*[[Mai Tokiha]] - Mai is like the older sister she always wanted.  She loves her dearly as a result, considering her surrogate family which has replaced her previous family.  Eri's choices caused her to walk around on eggshells around Mai for the longest timeNow that Eri's back, perhaps the two are in a better place, but she still worries about Mai's self-sacrificial tendencies.  She's hoping perhaps that gently nudging Mikoto her way will help Mai get to a healthier place...  if the two were to become close in the way Mikoto wants.
  
 
*[[Takeo Akamizu]] - A lovable dork who's been a friend to her since her early days of school.  Eri has caught wind lately that Takeo is wrapped up into something that goes way over his head, and believes he's being blackmailed into shady deal after shady deal.  She can fully understand his loyalty to his sister, and even admires it but what cost will it exact to him and the people around him?
 
*[[Takeo Akamizu]] - A lovable dork who's been a friend to her since her early days of school.  Eri has caught wind lately that Takeo is wrapped up into something that goes way over his head, and believes he's being blackmailed into shady deal after shady deal.  She can fully understand his loyalty to his sister, and even admires it but what cost will it exact to him and the people around him?
  
*[[Shizuru Fujino]] - The Ohtori Student Council Vice President is another one of those people who shouldn't give her the time of dayAnd yet she doesAt first she thought she was just some weird personal project of hers, but over time she's gotten the sense that it's not actually that.  While Eri doesn't know what motivates Shizuru to get wrapped up into the doings of the Ohtori Student Council, she's been caught in the middle of a few of Shizuru's depressive episodes, some as a direct result of such thingsWhen Shizuru has been at her worst, she's tried to be there for her until she gets to a better place.  In return, Shizuru has been surprisingly tender in her reciprocal support.
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*[[Shizuru Fujino]] - Eri is surprisingly close to this graduate of Ohtori Academy's High School.  One wouldn't understand why at a glanceThey couldn't seem more differentIt is perhaps only the two of them that understand why they were able to become close.  Eri attempts to be there for Shizuru during her depressive and dissociative episodes, trying to force the issue of her self-care - and doesn't appear fazed by the fact that the person who's receiving her care could have rightly been considered the Queen of the SchoolEri knows that Shizuru is a HiME, but that's a secret she keeps to herself, as she understands that going near that side of Ohtori Student Council members past and present is dangerous.
  
*[[Ren Aizawa]] - An early friend of hers.  She's mostly fallen out of touch with Ren, feeling that Ren's heroine of justice personality would cause her to come into conflict with her current way of life.
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*[[Ren Aizawa]] - An early friend of hers.  Recently the two reestablished themselves as friends, after Eri willingly confessed that all the rumors about her were true, and the two decided to try their best to move past it.
  
 
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*[[Natsuki Kuga]] - More Mai's friend than hers, she still nevertheless likes Natsuki.  I mean who wouldn't like a cool motorcycle riding girl that pursues her goals with such intensity?  She's happy to hang out with her whenever she gets the chance, though she wonders if things won't get awkward between them in the future.
 
*[[Natsuki Kuga]] - More Mai's friend than hers, she still nevertheless likes Natsuki.  I mean who wouldn't like a cool motorcycle riding girl that pursues her goals with such intensity?  She's happy to hang out with her whenever she gets the chance, though she wonders if things won't get awkward between them in the future.
  
*[[Rinji Sakurai]] - Rinji is an interesting girl that came by to tour the gardens one day, and she was happy to show her around.  Ever since then she's wondered about how well Rinji copes with her disability.  She was appreciative of her emotional support in a dark time, but to this day she wonders what kind of relationship she has with Kasagami Araki and Setsuna Meioh...  at the same time she's not certain if she wants to ask!
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*[[Anthy Himemiya]] - Quite frankly Eri thinks Himemiya is kind of a weirdo, but at the same time she respects and admires her greater knowledge of gardening and cultivation.  She's willing to collaborate with her occasionally in the same space purely for the opportunity to pick up some of her knowledge.  Sometimes she distinctly feels taken advantage of during Himemiya's Gardening parties, when she's recruited to help out...  but she can't help but enjoy those times with her all the same.  She still feels strangely unsettled about how Kasagami brought Anthy Himemiya along for power during those battles with the Shepherds.  And wonders what the meaning was of Utena winning her back.
 
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*[[Anthy Himemiya]] - Quite frankly Eri thinks Himemiya is kind of a weirdo, but at the same time she respects and admires her greater knowledge of gardening and cultivation.  She's willing to collaborate with her occasionally in the same space purely for the opportunity to pick up some of her knowledge.  Sometimes she distinctly feels taken advantage of during Himemiya's Gardening parties, when she's recruited to help out...  but she can't help but enjoy those times with her all the same.  Recently her presence in Ohtori's gardens has been missed more as the student council elections upswing - and she's attempting to get her back.
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*[[Kimiko Akane]] - Making a positive impression in a coincidental first meeting.  Eri found out later that she's the Puella Magi who's taken over the bay territory.  While she's still feeling her out some, she's enjoyed her company so far, and her chocolate chip cookies.
 
*[[Kimiko Akane]] - Making a positive impression in a coincidental first meeting.  Eri found out later that she's the Puella Magi who's taken over the bay territory.  While she's still feeling her out some, she's enjoyed her company so far, and her chocolate chip cookies.
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*[[Utena Tenjou]] - Once upon a time Eri was one of Utena's fans, though she wasn't precisely an aggressive one, preferring to go unnoticed.  When Utena became a Chevalier, some part of her lamented the fact that someone she admired so much was now that her enemy.  Now though, she's appreciated how Utena has made the first move towards perhaps...  healing...
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*[[Nori Ankou]] - ...  Eri is an Akamira.  More seriously though, the two early on had a strange relationship as the goth magical girl tried to collect her sadness.  The two have had a tumultuous relationship ever since, as La Sirene became a Chevalier.  But in the New World where the Chevaliers and Shepherds don't exist, Eri has been more willing to try and start over.  She thinks Batiste is adorable.
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*[[Fuu Hououji]] - In the new world, the Magic Knight of Wind tried to reach out her hand as friends.  And Eri tried to tell her why exactly there had been so much friction between them.  When Fuu resolved to try to fix things, Eri decided to give her a second chance...
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*Yaori Kumori - Eri now regards what she did to Yaori as one of the greatest mistakes of her life, despite it teaching her so much about being a Puella Magi in the world that was before.  She has no doubt that Yaori is out there somewhere, and that one day the two will see each other again.  She would hardly blame the child if she instantly put a crossbow bolt through her soul gem, but as much as she dreads seeing her again...  part of her hopes to one day talk to her about what happened...  and perhaps come to an understanding.
  
*[[Makoto Kino]] - Makoto Kino, aka Sailor Jupiter is someone Eri once admired a great deal, trading Gardening tips with..until Makoto found out about what she'd done, and her way of lifeThings have been awkward ever since, as Eri rejected her offer to turn away from how she lives in exchange for her aid.  She always wonders if one day she's going to have to fight the Senshi of Thunder and Courage.  She hopes she won't, but she won't rule out the necessity...
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*Rika Kumori - If Eri dreads coming face to face with Yaori, multiply that times ten when it comes to seeing Rika againIf in killing Yaori she planted a seed, then Rika contracting was that tree bearing its ugly fruitComing face to face with a little girl that had wished for her sister's murdered to come to her sent Eri over the edge, and despite being in a healthier place, she still hasn't quite come to terms with what she did to the burn victim turned Puella Magi.
 
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*Mikoto's Ani-Ue - Sometimes she fantasizes about all the ways she'd like to punish him for what he did to MikotoThis is certainly an entirely healthy way of dealing with her anger.
*[[Sayaka Miki]] - Quite frankly Eri hates her, for her stubborn infexibility and what she considers unfairly to be a monstrous lack of empathy.  She's incredibly envious of the relationship she had with Mami Tomoe, and doesn't understand how one who's been so hurt by this life, who has experienced so much pain and sorrow and suffering can be so unwilling to bend for the sake of people she cares about.  Deeper down, she's hurt by the fact that someone who she wanted to think of as a friend so readily cast her friendship away.  In the wake of Mami Tomoe's death...  seeing Sayaka's profound devotion to her senpai has caused her to doubt many things she took for granted before.  However she expects it won't be long before the two are at each others throats again, forcing her to make the grim choice of killing what's left of Mami Tomoe's legacy to preserve her lifeAnd even worse, wondering how she's even going to pull it off now that she's a quickly regenerating nerve-dead juggernaut.
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*[[Garnet]] - Honestly she doesn't know much about Garnet, other than Garnet tried to reach out to her in a battle for their lives.  What she found was a difficult, implacable foe who could have been the end of her.  Her loss against Garnet only exacerbated her desperation, causing her to give herself over harder to Kyouko's way of life.
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*[[Nori Ankou]] - ...  Eri is an Akamira.  More seriously though, she doesn't know Nori Ankou is La Sirene du Nord.  When it comes to La Sirene, she'd been glad to call her an ally once, but lingering resentment from La Sirene's early days antagonizing and testing her has recently boiled over when the two fought each other as Chevalier and Shepherd.
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*[[Fuu Hououji]] - Eri doesn't like the Magic Knight of Wind.  For starters she feels Fuu's recklessness almost got her killed defending the powerless girl when Alcyone attacked, and when it became clear that her presence was a hindrance-  kept acting in ways which kept forcing them to defend them.  Then the Magic Knight of Wind invaded Shinjuku alongside the Chevaliers, and had the gall to declare to her allies that she was only there to investigate the blizzard?  Now she simply regards her as a hypocritical coward.
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*[[Utena Tenjou]] - Eri is embarrassed now when she thinks about the time when she might have been one of those girls admiring Utena and even calling her Utena-sama~ Her presence in the battle over Shinjuku caused her to distance herself from any admiration she might have felt in short order.  Now she's mainly concerned how in the future her presence might make things awkward in the Gardening Club, whenever Utena hangs with Anthy...
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*[[Mami Tomoe]] - Given the total and utter breakdown of relations between them over the past year, the Golden Queen of Shibuya's death should come as an immense relief to Eri ShimanouchiAnd yet she finds the only thing she's relieved about is that her senpai is out of danger from her most tenacious of foesThe weight of the grief she's caused others is becoming ever more difficult to bear now that she's taken her out of the world - and the weight of her own is something she's only gradually coming to terms with as she wistfully wonders what might have been in a different world.
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*[[Sayaka Miki]] - Eri's feelings for Sayaka Miki will always remain complicatedIf they were friends, they were not that way very longYet Eri will always remember the girl that held her hand while she was dying in an alleyway.  She will also remember all of the ill feelings between the two, as any positive feelings between the two became eclipsed by hatred.  Right now, even in a world of second chances she isn't certain how to feel about her..save that she wishes she was still here.  
 
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*Yaori Kumori - Dead and gone.  From Demon Queen of Shinjuku to scared little girl trying desperately to surviveOften she wonders if she could take back what she did, would she? Instead she tries to take the lessons learned from her experiences with her to heart.
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*Alyssa Searrs - She may have been a child, but Eri feels very little pity for the girl after everything her Golden Age has cost her-  and nearly cost her.  She'll always be grateful that Homura Akemi took care of her when she did.
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*Alyssa Searrs - She may have been a child, but Eri feels very little pity for the girl after everything her Golden Age has cost her-  and nearly cost her.  Still she wishes that in a world of second chances...  that this girl might have been given one too.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 14:07, 27 September 2020

Eri Shimanouchi
Wraith Fight Wraith Fight
IC Information
Full Name: Eri Shimanouchi
Aliases: Crazy Daisy, The Bad Shepherd
Gender: Female
Age/Birthdate: 16 (Aug. 24, 1999)
Height: 5'2"
Hair Colour: Green
Eye Colour: Green
Astrological Sign: Virgo
Blood Type: O Negative
Favorite Food: Okonomiyaki
Favorite Subject: Biology
Least Favorite Subject: History
Character Theme: [The Mercy of Nature]
Dossier
Organizations: Tuners
School: Ohtori Academy (Grade 10)
Clubs: Gardening Club
OOC Information
Source: Puella Magi Madoka Magica (OC)
Player: Eri

Once upon a time, Eri Shimanouchi was a Puella Magi who bought into the savage garden mentality of her senpai, Kyouko Sakura. Sacrificing life after life for the sake of cultivating enough power to reach her goals; the guilt and self-loathing caused by her choices sent her on a downward spiral that ended in not only her death, but the deaths of those around her. Only none of this ever happened. Now Eri Shimanouchi has been granted a certain healthy perspective going forward in a world that has been changed to be kinder for girls like herself. Living out her adjusted life has resulted in her swiftly emerging from her shell of protective self-consciousness that she'd built around herself. This has allowed her to swiftly bloom into a more confident girl that is more secure with herself, and happy to live out the second chance she's been gifted with.


Background and History

Not so long the world changed. And so much that happened, never did.

One moment dead. Any future I had, lost. The next alive, sitting in class as if it had never happened. But /I/ remember it.

A second chance. Not to make things right, but to live.

The decision mine on how to use it.

I don't even know who or what I am thanking but - I feel such a sense of gratitude for that.

Background and History Under Construction!

On her Father...

I hate hospitals. Most people think of them as places where sick people get better. I see them as places where people wither until they die.

My father was in one for over a month. There had been an accident... and he was brain dead. I heard a few nurses call him a vegetable. How could that be? There was no room for growth. No amount of nurturing could save him, heal him. I felt completely helpless.

He was cold all the time. Machines kept him alive. They pumped air into his lungs and nutrients into his veins and made certain his bodily functions were taken care of. At first everyone was so nice to me, but that changed. I was told I needed to accept it, that there was nothing left but a shell and a burden.

They were keeping him alive until we could accept it. And I couldn't, because I just dumb and believed I'd lost the only person who ever really cared about me. The rest of my family had finished accepting it. They were just indulging me... and soon enough they weren't even doing that anymore.

It was decided it had gone on for too long. They were pulling the plug. I had one more day. Visiting hours ended at nine. They made a special exception so I could stay until ten. I had to make the last train so I could make it to school in the morning.

I wouldn't even be allowed to stay and watch- I was the only one there.

It was nine forty... something... and there was this cute little thing on Daddy's bed. I'd never seen anything like it. Waving it's fluffy tails at me and staring. It told me I had the power to save him, if that's what I wanted.

A destiny of battle against witches in return. It was an easy decision.

It was my decision.

It wasn't a decision at all...

He woke up. It was a miracle they all said.

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He hates me.

My whole family hates me.

... I hate him.

I should have let him die.

On her Early Days...

If I had to choose a word to describe how I was as a new Magical Girl? The first one that comes to mind is reckless.

I'd do things my way. The right way. I believed in all these things that feel distant and foolish now.

Even the girl who I wanted to be my senpai? I didn't really listen to her at all. I was so convinced that I knew better.

And so my first true senpai was a younger girl by the name of Yaori Kumori.

Sounds weird doesn't it? She was probably eleven, going on twelve. But she taught me more than most when I tried to poach from her.

At the time I would have told you I was doing the 'right thing' rather than poaching. Heh.

All it got me was a crossbow bolt in the center of my chest. I was bleeding out... dying. Right in front of two girls. One who was my friend... and another who I thought might be.

I was saved, by dumb luck. By the decency and charity of someone who had given me up for dead not long before.

A way of life that seemed so 'right' before became meaningless if it was only going to get me killed.

It wasn't easy dealing with what came after. Trying to rebuild myself, dealing with the nightmares, the paranoia. But there were people there for me. One more than most...

And Yaori Kumori was still out there. A silent, invisible demon lord ruling over Shinjuku with an mailed fist.

So I made plans. Most of those plans seem distant and foolish now too. No amount of planning could have prepared us for what happened...

But somehow in the end we were victorious... and the demon lord turned out to be a scared little girl, who had just been trying to survive.

I'd made a mistake, but it was a mistake that allowed me to survive, to thrive. So was it really a mistake at all?

... If I'd known what was coming next, maybe I would have made one more.

On Kyouko and the Shepherds...

The first time, I met Kyouko Sakura, she chased me away- I had no idea back then how lucky I was to escape death on her spear.

The second time, she caused me to question a lot of things I never had.

The third time, she cared for me after a battle gone wrong.

And the fourth time... she was there for me when noone else was.

Why did she choose to invest in me? A dumb little reckless amateur? To this day I have no idea.

But it doesn't matter why. The point is that she did. And it took me so long to recognize the simple fact...

That she had always been there.

Were you expecting something deeper? More profound? I could list so many reasons why I admire her if you want, but the fact is that Kyouko Sakura was always there for me, always providing support. When others disappointed, she did not. When I held myself up to an impossible standard, she brought me down to Earth. When I needed a shoulder to cry on, she gave me one freely.

And that's why I'd do anything to preserve her happiness.

When I rejected Mami Tomoe and Sayaka Miki, she was there to defend me. When they came to Shinjuku threatening my bottom line, she was there fending them off just as ferociously as ever.

The least I can do is return the favor. And that's why I won't let her fight alone.

It came to pass though, that the two of us weren't enough. The Chevaliers movement would mean our both of our deaths. A quick one or a slow one, but death all the same.

And so we decided to recruit others in defense. In them... I decided to pay forward what she did for me.

To protect them as she does me. To be there for them like she was for me.

Except. Everything went wrong

Current Events

What came before...

  • Eri murders Mami Tomoe atop the Shinjuku Metropolitian building.
  • Sayaka Miki vows vengeance, and comes after Eri at Haneda airport, prompting an all out brawl between Magical Girls to stop her. The two duel in front of the Witch Elsa Maria.
  • The Truth about Magical Girls and Witches came to light, when Sayaka becomes Oktavia Von Seckendorff.
  • Rika Kumori made a wish for her sister's murderer to come to her. Eri arrives, and leaves without ever telling her.
  • Eri resolves to become a witch in Shinjuku to punish herself for all that she's done.
  • Kyouko confesses her love to her, a moment she'd hoped for for some time, and swept up in the despair Eri decides to spare her from the inevitable fate of all Puella Magi by crushing her soul gem then burying her.
  • Upon arriving in Shinjuku for her final fate, Mikoto and Madoka find her. In one final moment of clarity she asks for help, and is granted the only mercy that is left to her.
  • Madoka Kaname makes a wish. Eri's soul says a final farewell to a true friend.

And now...

  • Waking up in a New World in the middle of class, Eri runs to a bridge to find out that the world has changed in a way that none of them could have expected.
  • Taking the second chance for what it is, Kyouko and Eri decide to begin dating.
  • Eri fights Mikoto Minagi repeatedly to try to wrest her from the grasp of Dark Fall and her Lord Brother. Something she had tried, without success to prevent before because she was too caught up in her own head.
  • The Shepherds and the Chevaliers come together on Sayaka's birthday. Eri asks Mami Tomoe for forgiveness. The Chevaliers and Shepherds decide to disband in order to actively discourage Magical Girl violence against other Magical Girls

Personality

In the new world, Eri Shimanouchi is in a much more stable place. Despite all the despair in her memories, she has a certain anchor in her belief that something has fundamentally changed in the universe for girls like herself which, despite her ordinarily pessimistic attitude gives her so much hope for the future. She fights to live her life to the fullest, rather than simply running herself ragged trying to survive.

She has a tendency towards kindness, and is fiercely loyal to her friends. Often her type of loyalty has been not just strict adherence to her friend's wishes, but what she believes is best for them. Under her new circumstances she's reevaluating whether this type of loyalty is actually healthy. She has a tendency towards being a thoughtful person, and unlike in the past she's less likely to anxiously tying herself up over it. And while she's still more pragmatist than romantic... she's less afraid to allow that romantic side of herself to show.

All of her worst qualities are still there, it's just that she no longer possesses self-loathing for them, and rather feels self-secure in the fact that they're a part of her. She can be petty, jealous, and cruel. And she's unafraid to treat her friends harshly with a certain amount of tough love if she feels that is called for. She no longer worries about abandonment, because she understands that people are with her because of the bonds they have formed. And that those bonds are not so easily broken.

Eri can be a bit of a nerd. Under normal circumstances her grades tend to be pretty good, though she's not living up to her full academic potential by any means due to the Mahou Shoujo lifestyle. She enjoys Shoujo manga, dating sims, and JRPGs though she tends to be a rather casual adherent unless she's sharing her hobby with someone else. At times, due to this, she can have a silly or goofy sense of humor from that nerd cred.

At Ohtori, she's begun to bloom with her newly earned sense of self-confidence, to the point where she no longer is regarded as a shy wallflower by Ohtori at large. While she's hardly considered popular, she's at least well regarded by more and more of her classmates.

Magic she once regarded with a sense of cynicism, in that power was simply used for her survival to the detriment of anyone she didn't know. Now... perhaps she once again thinks that magic and miracles do exist in that romantic way. She puts less of a division between her life as a Magical Girl and that of a normal girl, taking a more balanced approach that they're both intrinsically parts of herself that make her life worth living.

As for dreams for herself, her dreams tend to be rather normal ones in the moment. Small moments, small things. Milestones in romance and life. She's still a Puella Magi and knows that her inevitable fate is to be taken by the Law of Cycles one day, so she's not exactly planning for the long term...

... but neither is she in despair about her inevitable fate, because of the second chance she's been given to live.

Abilities

Gardening - A senior member of the Ohtori Gardening Club. One of the organizers of the forest restoration project.

Drawing - Sketches with pencil or charcoal.

Puella Magi - As an extension of her wish, she can create plants in her vicinity and control them as if they were weapons. Her Puella Magi weapon is a thorned vine whip or scourge. She can control it by causing it's tendrils to braid up into one thicker cord, or to unravel, or by directing it to dig underground and spread her plant creation magic to various points with spectacular results. Like all Puella Magi, supernaturally tough, strong, and agile. By expending magic while untransformed, can influence mundane plants, as well as heal herself or others.

Cooking - Eri is slowly putting effort into becoming an amateur home cook. Her skills in it are very humble, but she can make simple bentos now without too much trouble.

Territory

What's a grief seed? Never heard of it... coy

Wraiths have made competition over territory moot, but Eri still feels a certain sense of responsibility when it comes to Ueno, Shinjuku, and Nishitama.

Relationships

Allies
  • Kyouko Sakura - Her senpai. Her Girlfriend. There's little that Eri wouldn't do for her. During Kyouko's early career, she invested in Eri despite having no reason that Eri has ever figured out, and was there for her unconditionally no matter what choices Eri made. Kyouko invested in her early in her career, and Eri had felt like she was the only one that was there for her nearly unconditionally. Kyouko's battle instincts and charisma are something she's always looked up to, and as she's grown, Eri feels less like she's dragging her down when the two are in a scrap together. One of the proudest achievements of Eri's life was planting Higanbana all around Kyouko's Church, which became a spiritual experience for her senpai when she saw them all in full bloom. When Eri was at her lowest point, Kyouko confessed her love for her, and Eri responded with the worst kind of betrayal of her trust. All the same, in the new world, the two are enjoying exploring their feelings for each other.
  • Mikoto Minagi - Mikoto was once someone Eri regarded as a little sister figure, but she's come to realize that Mikoto is actually more of a big sister figure to her in Mikoto's sense of protectiveness. Eri was one of the first of her Magical Girl comrades to realize that Mikoto's situation ran far darker than it seemed at a glance, and secretly she once plotted to try to free her from the dark elements that sought to control her. Unfortunately, she saw this as a task she needed to do by herself. As a result of this, when the world changed, she came back to find Mikoto as one of Dark Fall's Enforcers. And while their relationship was strained for a while, Mikoto's rejection of her role has allowed the two a chance to become closer than ever. Now she's trying to encourage Mikoto towards a Happily Ever After with her crush Mai - something that will obviously go well.
  • Mami Tomoe - Briefly Mami's kouhai, briefly her girlfriend... and then her enemy. The two have tended towards a certain intensity of feeling towards each other, in that passionate way that only teenagers can emulate. In the end, when admiration and love turned into desperation and hatred, Eri murdered her atop Shinjuku Metropolitian. By all rights, after what Eri did to her, the two should never be speaking to each other again - if they were not outright hostile. Instead, they've found that while their feelings and bond for each other have evolved into something different. They are both trying to reestablish themselves as friends, with each agreeing to strive their hardest to never forget what's important between them. While she was fighting to free Mikoto from Dark Fall, she always appreciated how willing Mami was to back her up, despite what happened between the two not being so long ago...
  • Homura Akemi - While the mystery of Homura Akemi has been solved Eri has no idea what Homura Akemi really went through, only that she travelled through time, over and over for some secret purpose that she doesn't understand. Noting Homura's continual standoffishness and dedication to constant battle in the Puella Magi lifestyle, Eri has taken it upon herself to try to be a good friend to her no matter how hard it might be. While it's an uphill battle, she's constantly trying to get Homura to relax, to take a break, a breath, and enjoy the normality of life.
  • Yumi Ohzora - Yumi was once a driving force to attempt to have Eri act in a more moral way, but she was always a ray of sunshine. Eri has become increasingly aware of her circumstances and on the sly is trying her best to matchmake Yumi with a girlfriend in order to defy what she sees as restrictive traditions placed upon her.
  • Chitose Shiratori - Once an opponent, then an ally, now a friend. Chitose has tended towards being a bit of a quietly mature force that tried to take the pressure off of the younger Eri, which Eri always appreciated.
  • Sailor Pluto - A wise, ageless source of wisdom. And also the caretaker of a tiny trash cat the two of them saved by coincidence. The two have become increasingly good friends over time, and Eri as a result has been rather secretly cheering on her relationship between Kasagami, albeit in a way one would be hard pressed to realize given how much she teases the pair.
  • Sailor Uranus - In the past, Eri was often a very WILLING victim of Haruka's flirtatious game. Now though, while she isn't even remotely on the Senshi of the Sky's level, she at least isn't turned into a flustered wreck by it. On the contrary, at times she's even able to tease back. She tends to hold a lot of respect for Sailor Uranus, and often takes her advice and counsel to heart when it comes to matters of... her senpai and partner, Kyouko.
  • Sailor Neptune - Eri regards Michiru Kaioh as both a role model and unachievable life goal. While she knows she'll never become the high femme ideal that Michiru Kaioh is, she no longer feels insecure interacting with her on a daily basis. On the contrary, she treasures receiving fashion tips from her, and trading gardening tips in turn. When she becomes Sailor Neptune, there are few people that Eri would rather have her back in a fight.
  • Kasagami Araki - The Secretary of Ohtori's Student Council was someone Eri recruited in a utilitarian way early on. And while Eri often finds herself rolling her eyes at Kasagami's antagonistic ways, she's found her to be a passionate and loyal friend - something that is invaluable to her. She's still not certain what secrets Kasagami is keeping, however, she does enjoy cheering on the relationship between her and Sailor Pluto.
Friends
  • Someone special - Once upon a time, a girl reached out to a lonely girl in a garden by watering her flowers while she was visiting her father at the hopsital. She became Eri's first real friend, and while the Puella Magi lifestyle caused Eri to frequently be cruel to her, she never stopped being there for her when she needed her. For the longest time, Eri felt guilty over how much suffering she'd inflicted upon that friend of hers because of the constant, awful choices she made which led to so much unchecked violence. In the end, when she was at her lowest point, ready to punish herself by becoming a witch - her kindness convinced herself to seek mercy instead. A mercy this friend granted to her. This friend's wish granted her a second chance - and changed the universe irrevocably to be better for girls like her. Now... she does not remember this friend, only a feeling of importance in certain memories of conversation... and a nostalgic feeling she gets from pansies. Like she's meeting a special friend for the first time.
  • Mai Tokiha - Mai is like the older sister she always wanted. She loves her dearly as a result, considering her surrogate family which has replaced her previous family. Eri's choices caused her to walk around on eggshells around Mai for the longest time. Now that Eri's back, perhaps the two are in a better place, but she still worries about Mai's self-sacrificial tendencies. She's hoping perhaps that gently nudging Mikoto her way will help Mai get to a healthier place... if the two were to become close in the way Mikoto wants.
  • Takeo Akamizu - A lovable dork who's been a friend to her since her early days of school. Eri has caught wind lately that Takeo is wrapped up into something that goes way over his head, and believes he's being blackmailed into shady deal after shady deal. She can fully understand his loyalty to his sister, and even admires it but what cost will it exact to him and the people around him?
  • Shizuru Fujino - Eri is surprisingly close to this graduate of Ohtori Academy's High School. One wouldn't understand why at a glance. They couldn't seem more different. It is perhaps only the two of them that understand why they were able to become close. Eri attempts to be there for Shizuru during her depressive and dissociative episodes, trying to force the issue of her self-care - and doesn't appear fazed by the fact that the person who's receiving her care could have rightly been considered the Queen of the School. Eri knows that Shizuru is a HiME, but that's a secret she keeps to herself, as she understands that going near that side of Ohtori Student Council members past and present is dangerous.
  • Ren Aizawa - An early friend of hers. Recently the two reestablished themselves as friends, after Eri willingly confessed that all the rumors about her were true, and the two decided to try their best to move past it.
Friendly Acquaintances
  • Chihaya Izumi - Chihaya came to Eri with an offer to organize a fundraiser for the forest restoration project to demonstrate her organizational capabilities. Eri has agreed readily, and been a big fan and supporter of hers ever since. She wishes she could do something to show her appreciation, but Chihaya often tells her she doesn't owe her anything. That she's just using her. When Takeo insists that she's secretly evil, Eri scoffs at this. Just because a girl has a strong personality doesn't mean they're /evil/!
  • Natsuki Kuga - More Mai's friend than hers, she still nevertheless likes Natsuki. I mean who wouldn't like a cool motorcycle riding girl that pursues her goals with such intensity? She's happy to hang out with her whenever she gets the chance, though she wonders if things won't get awkward between them in the future.
  • Anthy Himemiya - Quite frankly Eri thinks Himemiya is kind of a weirdo, but at the same time she respects and admires her greater knowledge of gardening and cultivation. She's willing to collaborate with her occasionally in the same space purely for the opportunity to pick up some of her knowledge. Sometimes she distinctly feels taken advantage of during Himemiya's Gardening parties, when she's recruited to help out... but she can't help but enjoy those times with her all the same. She still feels strangely unsettled about how Kasagami brought Anthy Himemiya along for power during those battles with the Shepherds. And wonders what the meaning was of Utena winning her back.
  • Kimiko Akane - Making a positive impression in a coincidental first meeting. Eri found out later that she's the Puella Magi who's taken over the bay territory. While she's still feeling her out some, she's enjoyed her company so far, and her chocolate chip cookies.
  • Utena Tenjou - Once upon a time Eri was one of Utena's fans, though she wasn't precisely an aggressive one, preferring to go unnoticed. When Utena became a Chevalier, some part of her lamented the fact that someone she admired so much was now that her enemy. Now though, she's appreciated how Utena has made the first move towards perhaps... healing...
  • Nori Ankou - ... Eri is an Akamira. More seriously though, the two early on had a strange relationship as the goth magical girl tried to collect her sadness. The two have had a tumultuous relationship ever since, as La Sirene became a Chevalier. But in the New World where the Chevaliers and Shepherds don't exist, Eri has been more willing to try and start over. She thinks Batiste is adorable.
  • Fuu Hououji - In the new world, the Magic Knight of Wind tried to reach out her hand as friends. And Eri tried to tell her why exactly there had been so much friction between them. When Fuu resolved to try to fix things, Eri decided to give her a second chance...


Acquaintances
  • Yaori Kumori - Eri now regards what she did to Yaori as one of the greatest mistakes of her life, despite it teaching her so much about being a Puella Magi in the world that was before. She has no doubt that Yaori is out there somewhere, and that one day the two will see each other again. She would hardly blame the child if she instantly put a crossbow bolt through her soul gem, but as much as she dreads seeing her again... part of her hopes to one day talk to her about what happened... and perhaps come to an understanding.
  • Rika Kumori - If Eri dreads coming face to face with Yaori, multiply that times ten when it comes to seeing Rika again. If in killing Yaori she planted a seed, then Rika contracting was that tree bearing its ugly fruit. Coming face to face with a little girl that had wished for her sister's murdered to come to her sent Eri over the edge, and despite being in a healthier place, she still hasn't quite come to terms with what she did to the burn victim turned Puella Magi.
Foes
  • Mikoto's Ani-Ue - Sometimes she fantasizes about all the ways she'd like to punish him for what he did to Mikoto. This is certainly an entirely healthy way of dealing with her anger.
The Departed
  • Sayaka Miki - Eri's feelings for Sayaka Miki will always remain complicated. If they were friends, they were not that way very long. Yet Eri will always remember the girl that held her hand while she was dying in an alleyway. She will also remember all of the ill feelings between the two, as any positive feelings between the two became eclipsed by hatred. Right now, even in a world of second chances she isn't certain how to feel about her... save that she wishes she was still here.
  • Alyssa Searrs - She may have been a child, but Eri feels very little pity for the girl after everything her Golden Age has cost her- and nearly cost her. Still she wishes that in a world of second chances... that this girl might have been given one too.

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