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[Name]: Ash Blaze
[Age]: 30
[Contacts]:
♦ DW: fighty_time
♦ AIM: HyprKnux1
♦ Plurk: AshBlaze
[Timezone]: Eastern
[Other Characters]: None



[Name]: Ellen Kurokawa
[Canon]: Suite Precure
[Age]: 14
[Gender]: Female
[Canon Point]: After Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 2

[History]: Ellen's story starts... as a cat. A member of Minor Land, she started her life as Seiren, a cat with the ability to shapeshift. A loner by nature, she ended up being befriended by a fellow feline named Hummy. The two got together pretty well and learned they both had a thing for music. However, things got bad when Queen Aphrodite, ruler of Major Land, chose Hummy to sing a magical tune known as the Melody of Happiness. This made Seiren jealous and angry, allowing the evil Mephisto (no relation to that Marvel villain) to bring her to his side. Together, the two scattered the notes pertaining to the Melody of Happiness, sending them to Kanon Town. Their goal? Recover them and use them to sing the Melody of Sorrow, a tune that would drive everyone to despair.

Of course, that would be too easy without heroes, would it? Enter Hibiki and Kanade, Cures Melody and Rythym, who'd fight to save those magical notes and spare the world from that horrible noise. Seiren would deal with the girls, inducing a number of disguses (thanks to her shapeshifting powers) and a few false flag operations, including one involving the mysterious Masked Muse. During this, Hummy kept reaching out to her old friend. Mephisto caught this and brainwashed Seiren to stop that. However, it didn't stick -- at the brink of victory, Hummy's reassurances that they'd still be friends even after the Melody of Sorrow was sung drove Seiren into an emotional confusion, initiating one last shapeshift... into a Precure! Still emotionally confused, she rescued Hummy then ran.

Stuck in her Ellen form, she wandered lost and confused. Encountered by not only Hibiki, Kanade and Hummy, but also her former teammates Trio the Minor, she found herself teetering between good and evil once more. However, it was an encounter with a young boy that would finally make her understand that, though she can never take back the harmful things she did, she can always make up for them and that she's never alone. With that, she joined Hibiki and Kanade as Cure Beat. During this time, the two girls would help Ellen get settled in with life on Earth, thinking she could never go back to her old world. However, fate conspired to bring her back when the Fairy Tones pushed themselves to near death after they lost the notes they gathered. Together, the trio would retreive the Healing Box and the Cresendo Tone inside.

Soon after, the girls would find themselves fully confronting Mehpisto himself and the Masked Muse would fully reveal herself in the process: the Masked Muse was actually young Ako Shirabe, Queen Aphrodite's daughter and Cure Muse, and Mephisto himself was her father, the long missing king! Together, they were able to convince Ako to get them to help her and they rescued Mephisto. However, happy times came to a halt when a mysterious force took over Major Land and Queen Aphrodite, forcing the five to head back and save her.

Things got worse as the real threat reared its ugly head - Noise, the being who turned Mephisto against everyone and started the chain of events. Seeking to destroy all music, he turned everyone in both worlds to stone and pushed the teams to the breaking point, finally defeating him not by force but by acceptance. With Noise purified and the worlds safe once more, the four prepare for an easier life, but willing to take up their powers if needed.

That moment came quickly when the creature known as Fusion re-appeared, four years after being defeated. Allied with five other Precure teams, Ellen and her friends vanquished Fusion, only to learn later that they only managed to split him into pieces. At the urging of the various mascot creatures, the Suite girls began the hunt for Fusion, leading to a run-in with Miyuki Hoshizora, the leader of the new Precure team Smile Precure, and Ayumi Sakigame, who had found and befriended a piece of Fusion whom she called "Fuu-chan". As Fuu-chan made his move, the other Cures returned to stop Fusion from damaging the city he was in and allowing Ayumi, as Cure Echo, to save him from himself.

A little while later, the Precure teams were invited to join a party at the Fairy Academy in their honor. What they didn't realize was that it was actually a trap by a creature known as Kage, who was spurred on by the jealousy of one of the students at the Academy. Stripped of their fairy partners and their transformation devices, the teams were rescued by Mana Aida's team, DokiDoki Precure, who wasn't invited to the party as the others were, but were invited by Miyuki. In the process, Ellen would confront the student and, together with another Cure - Setsuna Higashi, Cure Passion - would help get him to understand that just because something looks scary doesn't mean they were. Once Kage had been subdued, the Cures helped rebuild the Academy and had a REAL party.

[Personality]: Ellen is easily a socially-awkward person. At times, she comes off as a very strong-willed girl. She's willing to speak her mind, isn't one to back down and has something of a temper. This, especially when she was Seiren, made her almost hauty-like, almost giving her an air of superiority.

However, around other people and majorly different situations, she comes off as a very timid and confused person. A lot of this is due to the fact that she's still feeling the guilt of her actions under Mephisto and, as such, she wants to be friends with other people and hope they can accept who she is no matter what. This, of course, can lead her to do silly things and take cues the wrong way. For instance, her first trip to the beach started out a bit disasterously because she just kept agreeing with the girls with what they wanted to do and couldn't bring herself to actually say their names until told her to just relax and do what she wanted to do. As well, her feelings are still a little on the sensitive side, getting angry at people should they try to lightly tease her.

Ellen is also very inquizitive, showing great interest in various things, especially around Earth customs. She's shown a great interest in reading, especially on things to do in the outside world and she's willing to learn, shown by her desire to join Hibiki and Kanade in school. However, this desire to learn can go to incredible extremes. When she found out that she was going hiking, reading a book on hiking lead her to want to experience mountain climbing. As well, when Kanade was trying to teach her things about the first day of school, it lead her to write down everything said by her and Hummy, leading to a few humorous and not-so-humorous incidents, including writing her name big on the chalkboard, preparing a massive script to introduce herself with, then nearly revealing everything about herself to her classmates. Thankfully, they wrote that off as a bad case of sleep deprevention as she passed out soon after.

She's also shown to have quite a number of fears. She freaked out upon having a hermit crab crawl on her leg and she has an explicit fear of ghost and story-style monsters. Hummy has even mentioned her possibly having a fear of the dark as she mentions she can't go to the bathroom without having the light on. Probably her greatest fear, however, is the idea of being left alone. This was a big deterrent in joining Hibiki and Kanade as she wasn't sure they would just readily accept her, thinking the only reason they were was because she became a Precure. Even more, she wrestled with the idea of being a Precure, feeling that she didn't deserve it. However, when push comes to shove, Ellen won't take things lying down. In her early days prior to joining the team, she was willing to rescue Hummy from getting hurt, but it wasn't until Hummy forced her to confront her feelings that she realized that, yes, she wants to have friends and she'll fight to protect them. She has also shown plenty of intellegence to know that even the cruelest of tricks couldn't be pulled off by her friends, shown by playing along with the Trio's attempts to make her think that Hibiki and Kanade would go so far as to disguise themselves as monsters and hold signs that called her a failure only to turn around and throw them off-guard and give the girls a chance to transform (it's hard to tell, though, how long she believed it.)

A lot of Ellen's motivations and personality stem from her major desire to make up for the evil things she had done while she was still in her feline "Seiren" form. As Seiren, Ellen was driven by jealousy and, in some ways, rejection. After being passed over for singing the Melody of Happiness and confirming that she would be someone passed over and rejected, she took glee in harming others, especially trying to undermine the harmonic powers Hibiki and Kanade had, though underneath it all, she was a lonely creature and just wanted a friend. Becoming Ellen full time and showing the potential of becoming a Precure put Ellen in a predicament: despite being free from Mephisto's hold, she was an emotional wild card with Hibiki, Kanade and Hummy trying their hardest to gain her as a friend and her former minions in the form of Trio the Minor attempting to pull her back into their fold. The tipping point to this was when Ellen was forced to watch first hand what her using NegaTones on people she befriended did. At first, she was horrified by it all and was ready to run for it and her responsibility. However, it was Hummy who helped Ellen find her true purpose: to make up for her atrocities.

Of course, that was a case of taking baby steps. Little by little, Ellen would learn to trust her new friends, especially after a small prank by them goes wrong. She also learned that, when it comes down to it, friends are everywhere - you just have to look, something she found out after her first day at school goes disastrously wrong when she ended up passing out due to the fact that she hadn't slept a wink because of her nerves. When she came to, she found herself surrounded by her new classmates, all worried for her. Ultimately, she found out that, yes, she could even return home again. It's these bonds and lessons that she learned that form out Ellen's ultimate lesson and the basis of her personality: that rejection can certainly bring out the worst in people, but in the end, a friendly hand is all that is needed to bring out the best in someone, something that Ellen would pass on to a fairy that had come to be jealous of the Precure and accidentally unleashed a creature that was ready to lock them away

Despite Ellen's many flaws, she does have her own strengths. As a former villain, she's not above doing a few sneaky things, though it seems that this boils down to outwitting her foes with a good few words instead of out and out backstabs. Another is her incredible wonder for the outside world. Silly outfits, long and useless notes, if she finds the subject interesting, she goes for it... and probably overprepares for it. Another is the fact that, like many other heroes, when the going gets tough, Ellen finds the strength within her to keep going. This is especially true when she's confronted with something that scares the absolute wits out of her. It might take her awhile to find the strength in that situation, but the safety of her friends and those around her always outweighs the overwhelming fear that is inflicted on her. This last thing ties into her sense of justice itself: as a former villain, she understands the pain and suffering that she's inflicted on so many people. She realizes that those who are attacked by others stronger than them are just innocent people and now refuses to allow them to have their way any longer.


[Abilities / Strengths & Weaknesses]: As mentioned earlier, Ellen is a Precure -- Cure Beat of the Suite Pretty Cure. Unlike Hibiki and Kanade, Ellen can transform by herself. Like them, she uses the Cure Module, a brooch-like device that also functions as a flute. The brooches utilizes one of eight fairy creatures known as Fairy Tones. Ellen uses Lary to transform into Beat. As a Precure, her strength, stamina and agility are increased multiple times, allowing her to leap long distances and toss around monsters many times her size.

Through the help of the the Fairy Tone Sory, Cure Beat summons the Love Guitar Rod. In Guitar Mode and using Lary, she can use Beat Barrier - a shield attack - and Beat Sonic - a hail of energy arrows. With Sory, Love Guitar Rod shifts into Soul Rod mode and allows her to use the purification attack Heartful Beat Rock.

She's also a very good singer and has been shown to, at least, actually play a guitar.

In terms of weaknesses, as mentioned above, she is very self-concious, even though, she realizes that she's now accepted and loved by others. As well, she has the fear of scary things. Physically, she's a normal human being without her Cure powers. She needs the Cure Module and her two Fairy Tones to transform. Stealing both will leave her without her powers and the Fairy Tones themselves can be pushed to exhaustion.

[Limited Powers]: None.

[Other Important Facts]: Nope.

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♦ Thread: http://reallybadeggs.dreamwidth.org/715.html?thread=6859#cmt6859, http://reallybadeggs.dreamwidth.org/715.html?thread=30667#cmt30667
♦ Post: Hello? Is this working? Oh, c'mon, can't be that hard. Um... right. Listen, as the First Mate of the SS Hummy, I've been put into charge of finding potential recruits for our ship. Our captain, Hummy, is very eager to have more people along with us and we're always looking for others to help explore this new world.

So, what do you say? Ready to sail the seas with us? If you want to join us, you can't miss us - we're the biggest ship on the docks...!

...

[And there's a groan] This was supposed to be my ship. It was supposed to be small enough in case the other girls showed up, but Hummy picked this out behind my back. It's impressive, I know, but... so much money...

...Wait, is this still on? ACK!