Sheet:Ami Mizuno
Ami Mizuno's Sheet
Background
Before moving to Azubu-Juuban, and before their divorce, Ami had lived with both parents. Her father, Aoto, was an artist and the excessive time he would spend in the woods pursuing his creativity was the gunshot that would ultimately kill his marriage. Since the separation, Ami has seen little of her father, though he does still send her postcards for her birthday. Ami's workaholic mother lies at the other end of the spectrum, placing the bulk of her focus on her career even though she is aware of--and apologetic for--the time and proximity it has cost with her daughter. Even so, Ami idolises Saeko so much that becoming a doctor herself remains both an ambitious dream and a driving force for her studious dedication.
Without the direct support of her mostly-absent parents, each having withdrawn from her in her daily life in one way or another, Ami never really quite developed the tools to assert herself. Often choosing to remain quiet even when she should speak, other children quickly took notice of her aloofness and developed the opinion that her reservation was born from self-importance and snobbery. It didn't quite help matters that, thanks to her mother's career-borne wealth, Ami was always quite well off.
Throughout her schooling, Ami has always excelled. It is more than just natural talent, though her almost inhumanly keen intellect certainly plays a significant role, such an assumption would sell short the sheer efforts of her academic work-ethic. Ami has always been incredibly dedicated to her schooling, often to the detriment of her social life, and frequently choosing study over play. Indeed, some of her favourite activities revolve around scholastic pursuits. Outside of her regular school hours, she attends both the computer club and cram school, trying to fit as much learning into each day as she possibly can.
It would come as no surprise to anybody that she appears to have been scouted for Radiant Heart Academy at some point. Given her mother's means and Ami's own academic performance, an institution as prestigious as Radiant Heart was almost guaranteed to notice her eventually. Though Saeko expressed some reluctance, born of her own guilt, she would ultimately concede. Ami's excitement at the prospect, after all, was an impossible thing for a mother to quash.
Personality
First and foremost, Ami Mizuno is a genius. It is very nearly core to her identity and though she would never claim to hold that fact over another, it is certainly something that rears its head from time to time. Never out of cruelty, per se, but often stemming from a deep need to be right about something--and to show this fact. When this is taken with her general shyness, itself a consequence of her lacklustre self-confidence, she can seem cold or aloof to those who don't know her very well.
In truth, Ami cares very deeply about her family and her friends. While she loves her parents, their divorce has left her with a degree of bitterness. Both at the combined abandonment and for the general societal taboo that divorce is within Japan itself. Given the lead up to their separation, too, she is averse to seeing her friends in conflict. When they fight or bicker or argue, particularly when such things get heated into more serious places, Ami can be quick in her attempts to quell or resolve. Even when the issues are more serious or require more thoughtful resolutions.
She enjoys chess and swimming as pastimes, along with pop-culture and romance novels. Though, given how they conflict with her otherwise studious pursuits, Ami is reluctant--indeed, embarrassed even-- to admit to the latter two. Dreaming to follow in Saeko's footsteps and become a doctor, Ami dedicates a majority of her time to her academics, further supplementing this by attending both cram school classes and the Academy's computer club.
As Sailor Mercury, her insecurities shift aside. The power drawn from her Crystal is enough to encourage confidence, allowing the more determined aspects of her worldview a chance to sparkle. She has a solid grasp on what she thinks is right and wrong, and is not afraid to let those opinions be known. Even when they might be heavy handed or naively conceived.
Ami is just as capable as any of the other Sailor Senshi of courage and strength. At heart however, she is a strategist and a tactician. Preferring to outwit and outlast struggles, Sailor Mercury tends toward clever ploys and indirect action, as opposed to some of her more direct, gung-ho contemporaries.
Focus
See: Sailor Moon
Style
See: Sailor Senshi
Powers
Sailor Mercury possesses all of the features common to a Sailor Senshi, including enhanced physical strength, agility, reflexes, and durability. In addition, she has access to a visor and portable supercomputer, capable of very rapid analysis of enemy capabilities and weaknesses, the tracking of allies and enemies alike, all culminating in deep situational awareness, intelligence collection, and strategic planning.
Sailor Mercury has the power to manipulate water in all of its forms. From obscuring mists to objects formed of ice to powerful torrents of water and snow, she embodies the awesome might of water. Though she is generally capable of performing such things at will, the most potent forms all take the shape of named attacks. Complete with fanciful poses and sparkly montages.
Sabao Spray, Sabao Spray Freezing, and Double Sabao Spray Freezing are all alterations of the same basic ability. They produce dense mist to shroud an area, deadening sound and blinding vision. The Freezing and Double Freezing variants each add the effect of--intuitively enough--freezing cold to the mist, turning a purely support ability into something also physically debilitating. Usefully enough, the effects are selective and do not impact her allies.
Shine Aqua Illusion provides for a purely offensive ability, directly attack a target with a jet of powerful, freezing cold water.
Mercury Aqua Rhapsody is Sailor Mercury's most powerful direct attack. Upon summoning and playing a watery harp, the target is assaulted by a truly torrential blast of frigid water.
Mercury Aqua Mirage allows Sailor Mercury to encapsulate targets in globes of water initially projected from around her. Trapping the target in place, and exposing them to more-direct assaults, this ability also allows Mercury to adjust the physical properties of the water. She may further arrest attempts to escape, or potentially harm targets, with these changes--as water cools and freezes into dense, unyielding ice.
Hyperspatial Sphere Generate is a strange one. In technicality, and via largely undisclosed means, it separates a region of spacetime into its own temporary continuity. In practice, it allows Sailor Mercury to capture or deflect projectiles directed at her or nearby allies with short-lived spheres of strangeness. It is a purely defensive ability.
As a final note, the majority of Sailor Mercury's powers come from the water she generates with her own magic. She is, however, perfectly capable of making use of existing water sources. A Sailor Mercury by a lake, for instance, would have immediate access to a lake's worth of very useful, very worrisome, water.
