Jakuzure Nonon (蛇崩 乃音) (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fatalissimo) wrote2014-04-18 01:07 pm
fatalissimo) wrote2014-04-18 01:07 pm
Entry tags:
App for Route 29
Player
Name: Dal
Personal Journal:dalicious
E-mail: redlotus.alchemy[at]gmail[dot]com
AIM/MSN: AIM: AsylumBred
Timezone: EDT/GMT -4:00
Current Characters in Route:
Kiyotaka Ishimaru | Dangan Ronpa |ardent
Solf J Kimblee | Fullmetal Alchemist |explosivecombat
Alfred Ashford | Resident Evil |twinsanity
Character
Name: Nonon Jakuzure
Series: Kill la Kill
Timeline: End of Episode 15, after the school raid trip
Canon Resource Links:
Kill la Kill on Wikipedia / Episode Summaries
Nonon at the Kill la Kill wikia
Personality:
Objectively speaking, Nonon Jakuzure is very, very cute. Between the long pink hair, large wide-set eyes and round face, she's easily the most childlike-looking member of Honnouji Academy's Student Council; she's also very petite in stature, being the smallest member of the Kill la Kill cast that isn't literally a child. She wears a white minidress styled after a female drum major's uniform, and when she isn't attending to her duties as the Head of the Non-Athletic Committee (meaning she oversees all non-sports-related extracurricular activities, such as gardening, rakugo, the poetry club and - of course - the marching band) she can often be found lounging around on a plush red couch covered in stuffed animals, sucking on candy and lollipops.
Basically, were Honnouji Academy a normal school, it would be very easy to mistake her for being helpless - small and docile and friendly to everyone, more interested in folding paper cranes and picking at her sweets than engaging in any sort of boorish physical activity or playing with the boys in any way that might risk getting her dirty. And to some extent, that isn't incorrect; she seems to consider what she does to be far higher-class than anything the boys have to offer, and she's incredibly cultured and well-versed in classical music. But Nonon is far from docile, and she's about the farthest thing from helpless that one can get without flat-out being a protagonist; as was revealed in Episode 17, Honnouji Academy is a military training camp designed to train its students to take down the most powerful collective entity in the world, and to defeat something that amounts to an intergalactic threat. Part of this is through granting their students uniforms containing a certain percentage of power-granting Life Fibers once they've shown that they deserve one, and "deserving one" is determined by showing a large amount of physical and mental fortitude; with that in mind, Nonon's uniform is a three-star - one of the highest-ranking that the school has to offer.
Bluntly put, Nonon is more or less a magical girl from hell, complete with transformation sequence. That drum major's outfit is actually her three-star goku uniform, capable of transforming and allowing her to access several magical powers (called Regalias); her powers are all based around music and sound, but rather than being as dainty and feminine as one might expect, her initial Regalias manifest as a mecha made of giant goddamn woofers, capable of amplifying her music to the point of killing people with the shockwaves. She's a big fan of brute force overall instead of trying to go for a subtle, elegant kill; other than simply murdering people with bass, she also likes firing bladed notes, sharpened cymbals, and, in her Regalia's second form, massive targeted missiles in the shape of recorders.
And she does all this so damn cheerfully, too. She flat-out prances into battle, large conductor's hat perched at a jaunty angle on her head, and gleefully announces how she's going to wipe the floor with her opponent before just letting the transformation sequence rip.
Of course, that's as long as things are going her way; she's incredibly violent and bloodthirsty in battle, but as soon as the tides turn on her (something that rarely happens, prior to the start of the series) she'll drop the facade immediately in favor of yelling, swearing and launching all-out assaults that are just as likely to destroy the battlefield itself as they are her opponent. She never really panics, though; the few times she does become afraid, she's quick to push it aside in favor of trying to hit back harder against whatever she's perceiving as a threat. She's very good at turning fear into anger, especially when she's on the battlefield.
And angering Nonon on the battlefield is generally a bad idea, really, whether she's transformed or not; she's very physically strong, capable of dual-wielding missile pods and carrying around a cylindrical machine that's larger than she is with very little effort. She doesn't rely on her three-star uniform to pull off that sort of thing, either – the feats mentioned above were carried out while she was completely naked except for a pair of strategically-placed utility belts. But it's not necessarily her physical strength that makes her a frightening opponent; there are some particularly nasty aspects of her personality that tend to do that just as well.
One of the overarching themes of Kill la Kill is that power corrupts, and Nonon is no exception to this; when she was a child, she learned that she could manipulate the boys in her kindergarten class simply by acting cute, and that she could just discard people once she found them boring and didn't want to play anymore. In Honnouji Academy, she's been given tremendous amounts of power over a large number of people; she can control large sections of the student body as she sees fit, and she has no hesitation about using human beings as glorified cannon fodder. She's shown as being incredibly cold and uncaring after giving an order that results in members of three of her clubs being killed, just kind of shrugging it off and continuing to conduct orchestra practice as though nothing is happening outside; she never addresses anyone by name, either, preferring to either call them derogatory nicknames or simply some sort of description based on an immediate trait that she happened to notice. People are a means to an end to her, first and foremost, and she tends to not realize or care that people have lives that don't revolve around her and what she thinks; even in her best friend's case, Nonon often understands what she wants on a logical and tactical level, but she tends to be relying on guesswork and assumptions when it comes to what Satsuki is feeling.
Not that she's necessarily trying very hard, if we're all going to be honest with ourselves; underneath the cutesy demeanor, Nonon has an ego approximately the size of the mecha she pilots. She demands that people show her respect, even if she's not showing them any (...perhaps especially if she's not showing them any...), and when they don't she gets irritated to the point that one of her fellow Councilmen has to step in and tell her to back down or go take a walk or something. She's very sarcastic and acerbic, prone to snapping "bite me" at people or calling them slurs if she's not getting her way; even when she is getting her way she likes to pick on people that she considers lesser than her, and that's...pretty much everyone but Satsuki. She's a bit better toward the others on the Student Council, but not by much; at the same time, there's more of a sense of camaraderie between them and they all seem to have accepted that that's just how Nonon is, and while they won't just sit there and tolerate it they can snark back at her with the general understanding that there's no true harm meant in the long run. She actually seems to get along better with people who are willing to backtalk her, as contradictory though that sounds; she first started respecting Satsuki when the latter yelled at her and basically shounen-hero-speeched her in a way that was intended to shame her for having shallow ambitions, and she seems to have an…oddly playful relationship with Houka Inumuta based on picking on each other and putting each other down constantly with no hard feelings attached.
So she's basically a bitch in sheep's clothing, with a particular fondness for violence and absolutely crushing her enemies in battle and a somewhat limited ability to recognize or care that people have feelings; she's learned how to manipulate people's initial perceptions of her and use that to her advantage, and it's something she does shamelessly and without hesitation. Even so, however, she is willing to face down an intergalactic threat in order to save the world - whether it's because she wants the world to be saved or because Satsuki wants revenge on the threat itself is a bit of a moot point, just because it takes a certain degree of bravery and general moxie to go head-to-head with an alien life force bent on destroying the world.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
✔ Strength (physical) - As was mentioned in the app, Nonon is very physically strong; not only do two of her flight-capable Regalias require her to be able to support her own weight from her shoulderblades for extended periods of time while getting jerked around, without any signs of pain or fatigue - as was mentioned in the app, even without her uniform she's capable of dual-wielding goddamn missile pods and firing them from that position without getting killed by the recoil, despite being maybe 4'9" at the tallest (not counting her hat) and looking like she'd weigh maybe 90 pounds soaking wet. She's also seen carrying around a weapon that's more or less a giant metal cylinder with a bunch of mechanisms inside; the thing is larger than she is, but she's just kind of got it above her head and is having no problem running around with it.
✔ Strength (mental) - Students from Honnouji Academy gain their power through their clothing, with a ranking system (from zero to three) signified by stars emblazoned on their uniforms; the more stars you have on your clothing, the higher the concentration of Life Fibers the uniform contains. Nonon wears a three-star uniform, meaning it's 30% Life Fibers - the highest concentration that a normal human being can wear without going completely berserk and risking being "worn by their clothes." Very few people have proven themselves able to handle that much, and it's shown in canon to take a good amount of mental strength as well as physical to not just lose yourself to the Life Fibers.
✔ Physical combat skills - Nonon is a skilled fighter, as would be expected from someone who's more or less serving as a general in a war against aliens; while she mostly specialized in long-ranged combat back home, she's also shown to be good with combat knives and daggers, and she's completely unafraid of getting up in her opponent's face if she has to. While her weaponry skills won't exactly be helpful in Johto, the fearlessness and hand-to-hand skills will, especially if someone manages to underestimate her horribly.
✔ Charm/manipulation - While part of it is just her personality (she's seen doing the stuffed-animals-and-lollipops thing in front of her fellow councilmen, who all definitely know better than to fall for something like that by now if it were truly a trick), she's very good at playing up the "small, cute and defenseless" act; she uses it all the time to get exactly what she wants from people - whether it's gifts from boys or underestimation from her enemies. She's a horrid little shit a lot of the time, but she's not stupid, and she's not incapable of toning it down when she needs to - she seems to have somehow legitimately gotten on the series villain's good side, given that Ragyo asks her about her father's health and Nonon is allowed to unironically call her "Auntie," if one scene where she sarcastically throws it back in Ragyo's face later in the series is any indication.
✔ Flight - All but one of Nonon's Regalia forms are capable of flight, which is something she holds dear to her due to both personal reasons (a promise she made to Satsuki, to always have a higher line of sight than she does so she can always watch over her) and...well, the fact that she just really obviously enjoys being in the sky. She prefers commanding battles from on high and she's incredibly good at strategizing using all three dimensions rather than just two - meaning that as soon as she gets a Pokémon capable of enabling it, she's going to be doing exactly that.
✔/✘ ...Questionable skills with animals - Nonon tends to have problems relating properly to people and just discarding them when she doesn't need them or want them around anymore, and she has very little patience for people who don't catch her interest or bore her; it's difficult to say exactly how much of that translates over into how she treats animals (and Pokémon by extension), since there are signs that it could really go either way. On one hand, she's shown to have had a pet monkey that liked her rather well when she was a child, clinging to her head and going everywhere she went; on the other, her hats tend to be adorned with monkey skulls. Hats. Plural. She has at least three of these damn hats with monkey bones all up on them. There are several conclusions to be drawn here, ranging from "that's a little creepy" to "Nonon, why"; pick whichever one you like.
✘ Difficulties with empathy - Nonon's level of empathy toward most people is shown to be somewhere between that of a rock and a malfunctioning toaster; she doesn't often see people as being living things with thoughts and feelings, and even when she does she doesn't always see why she should care. She's a surprisingly decent person in the ways that matter (she goes back into the city alone after the invasion they're trying to stop is in full swing, to look for survivors and save as many as she can) but she seems to have trouble with understanding why people are acting in certain ways when they deviate from what she thinks they should be doing, and she's really prone to treating even people she likes as though they're some sort of pet rather than a friend.
✘ Flagrant disregard for the value of human life - People are a means to an end to her, first and foremost - if she needs or wants to get something done but it's going to end in a body count...well, that's a sacrifice she's willing to make, and if they didn't want to die then they wouldn't be one-stars. She'll kill or defeat people without a second thought if she sees a reason to; when it came to the Naturals Election, in which students were made to basically kill each other in order to earn a place on the student council, she had the second-highest victory count among the Elite Four - and it wasn't through necessity, either, given that the Naturals Election was to give other students a shot at something equivalent to the position she already had. It was pretty much beating people up for fun, as far as her participation was concerned.
✘ Unpleasant personality - Sandwiched between the superficial charm and the fact that deep down she really does care about people to some extent, there lies a really massive layer of horrible; she's incredibly acerbic and snide, and she has a tendency to pick on people and insult them with little to no restraint. She's more than a bit spoiled and used to getting her way, and while she has very little sense of boundaries herself, she has a tendency to get irritable when people overstep theirs.
✘ Questionable decision-making skills - Nonon is willing to go along with plans that are...not exactly good ideas, simply because it seems like a good idea at the time. She's normally a good strategist on her own, but if she's working with someone else she's very easily swayed; if someone can make a compelling enough argument for why something should be done, she goes ahead and does it. The most obvious example of this in canon is when she bombs the Nudist Beach stronghold - Nudist Beach is an organization that is opposing the same alien threat the student council is trying to fight, but instead of taking the stance of "the enemy's enemy is our ally," she goes on an airstrike raid and bombs the hell out of them, effectively crippling Earth's defenses against the threat. She gets yelled at for it later (because no, seriously, what the hell) and she just kind of shrugs and insists that Satsuki decided they needed to do it. Not in a "throwing Satsuki under the bus" sort of way, either, just in a "hey, it sounded like a good idea" sort of way.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Whismur
Password: Caramel Popcorn
Samples
First Person Sample:
You know, a lot of these things seem suited to doing stuff that isn't just battling; in fact, some of them are really useless at it! For a world that insists that they all need and like to fight, that's sort of weird, isn't it?
[Well, it seems the Littlest Drum Major is feeling contemplative today, though exactly why is kind of anyone's guess; she seems to be setting something up, however, flipping through a folder on what looks like a podium in front of her. The focus is ever-so-slightly off but the video itself is holding steady, like she's set the device up on a table a short distance away.
She keeps flipping through the pages, almost as though she's lost track of the fact that she's still on video. Flick. Flick. Flick.]
I mean, where I'm from, you joined the clubs you liked. You gathered data if you liked numbers and figures and never leaving the basement, and you joined the kendo team if you really wanted to somehow prove yourself to be a man by swinging a wooden sword around.
You choose what you like, I mean. Some people don't, but most do.
[She glances over at the feed and smiles a bit; seems she's found what she was looking for.]
So why can't these things be properly recognized for what they do? Maybe someone should start up something that doesn't revolve around boorishly slapping each other around and instead focuses on letting these animals use their talents how they deem best.
[She shifts her hand down, pulling a thin white baton out from the top shelf of that podium, and nods a bit toward someone just behind the camera; the sharp click of that baton against the wood is audible as the feed turns to focus on...
...dear god are those six Altarias because those look like six Altarias. Clearly, while most people are building teams, Nonon is building a goddamn choir because of course she is.
Her voice rings out one last time before she signals for those things to do...whatever they're about to do.]
Who knows? Maybe I'll do it myself!
[Here's hoping those things aren't about to use Round; considering it doubles in power every time an ally uses it, she's about to level her surroundings in seconds.]
Third Person Sample:
It's quiet on the routes tonight, the only sound the occasional cracking of sticks below her. Nonon isn't frightened, though; it's not that she's never imagined the woods wouldn't be dangerous at night, but rather because she hadn't been able to leave Violet City until she'd gotten the stupid metal trinket from Falkner, which had only happened after her Pokémon were high-leveled enough to ensure that she's the most dangerous thing around.
That, and she's got a vantage point. Any Heracross up here went down before the sun did, at least three of the poor simplistic things slung to the ground; she's rather comfortable in the trees, she's found, and she's not going to let any of the local wildlife get in the way of ensuring that this particular damn tree is hers. The branches are thick and high enough up that she won't be found unless she wants to be; here's hoping that no one gets it in their mind to headbutt it before morning.
For now, though, she settles, and she tries not to think too long about the quiet; once in a while those sticks break, and something moves in the darkness below, and before long she finds herself listening for a certain tread in particular, something familiar, something she's been trying to get away from for weeks. She's not running so much as she is just wanting distance - because really, wouldn't anyone after weeks of...well, that?
She shakes her head a bit to clear it and tries to settle down to sleep; she's not going to be interrupted tonight and somewhere deep down, she knows that to be a fact. She hasn't had a full night's sleep in so long, and she should be looking forward to it.
But just the same she finds herself listening for patterns and sounds and the usual shrieking crescendos that peal out of her starter, Aria, on a regular basis; she's waiting for the Whismur's heady fortissimo wailing that just gets worse the longer it goes on, until Nonon's yelling too and then they're both screaming until they don't have voices anymore, just quiet and panting and eventually falling over exhausted.
She'd left Aria in a clearing by herself hours ago.
"Now, you just wait here, okay, Aria-chan? I'll be back for you before nightfall~" Nonon had stopped before walking away entirely, hands clasped behind her back; after a brief pause, she'd called out jauntily over her shoulder. "And don't make a sound! You wouldn't want anything dangerous to find you, would you?"
She hadn't looked back then; she doesn't intend to look back now, not now that she's comfortable and she's got a fuzzy thing behind her (people can say whatever they want about Bidoofs, but once you get them up the tree they make wonderful pillows) and she doesn't even miss the thing, really. She doesn't feel bad about leaving it at all, so it's pretty much set and sealed.
At the same time, she can't stop thinking about the stupid thing.
Great.
She sighs, sitting up and looking down at the ground below her before jumping off the branch she'd been settled on; she glances back up at the utterly confused (and admittedly really stranded) Bidoof that she'd left up there, firing off an "Oh, don't look at me like that" and a decidedly more sincere "I'll be back in a bit" than the one she'd offered Aria earlier that day.
The dumb thing's probably going to get itself killed if she leaves it out there all night, anyway.
Name: Dal
Personal Journal:
daliciousE-mail: redlotus.alchemy[at]gmail[dot]com
AIM/MSN: AIM: AsylumBred
Timezone: EDT/GMT -4:00
Current Characters in Route:
Kiyotaka Ishimaru | Dangan Ronpa |
ardentSolf J Kimblee | Fullmetal Alchemist |
explosivecombatAlfred Ashford | Resident Evil |
twinsanityCharacter
Name: Nonon Jakuzure
Series: Kill la Kill
Timeline: End of Episode 15, after the school raid trip
Canon Resource Links:
Kill la Kill on Wikipedia / Episode Summaries
Nonon at the Kill la Kill wikia
Personality:
Objectively speaking, Nonon Jakuzure is very, very cute. Between the long pink hair, large wide-set eyes and round face, she's easily the most childlike-looking member of Honnouji Academy's Student Council; she's also very petite in stature, being the smallest member of the Kill la Kill cast that isn't literally a child. She wears a white minidress styled after a female drum major's uniform, and when she isn't attending to her duties as the Head of the Non-Athletic Committee (meaning she oversees all non-sports-related extracurricular activities, such as gardening, rakugo, the poetry club and - of course - the marching band) she can often be found lounging around on a plush red couch covered in stuffed animals, sucking on candy and lollipops.
Basically, were Honnouji Academy a normal school, it would be very easy to mistake her for being helpless - small and docile and friendly to everyone, more interested in folding paper cranes and picking at her sweets than engaging in any sort of boorish physical activity or playing with the boys in any way that might risk getting her dirty. And to some extent, that isn't incorrect; she seems to consider what she does to be far higher-class than anything the boys have to offer, and she's incredibly cultured and well-versed in classical music. But Nonon is far from docile, and she's about the farthest thing from helpless that one can get without flat-out being a protagonist; as was revealed in Episode 17, Honnouji Academy is a military training camp designed to train its students to take down the most powerful collective entity in the world, and to defeat something that amounts to an intergalactic threat. Part of this is through granting their students uniforms containing a certain percentage of power-granting Life Fibers once they've shown that they deserve one, and "deserving one" is determined by showing a large amount of physical and mental fortitude; with that in mind, Nonon's uniform is a three-star - one of the highest-ranking that the school has to offer.
Bluntly put, Nonon is more or less a magical girl from hell, complete with transformation sequence. That drum major's outfit is actually her three-star goku uniform, capable of transforming and allowing her to access several magical powers (called Regalias); her powers are all based around music and sound, but rather than being as dainty and feminine as one might expect, her initial Regalias manifest as a mecha made of giant goddamn woofers, capable of amplifying her music to the point of killing people with the shockwaves. She's a big fan of brute force overall instead of trying to go for a subtle, elegant kill; other than simply murdering people with bass, she also likes firing bladed notes, sharpened cymbals, and, in her Regalia's second form, massive targeted missiles in the shape of recorders.
And she does all this so damn cheerfully, too. She flat-out prances into battle, large conductor's hat perched at a jaunty angle on her head, and gleefully announces how she's going to wipe the floor with her opponent before just letting the transformation sequence rip.
Of course, that's as long as things are going her way; she's incredibly violent and bloodthirsty in battle, but as soon as the tides turn on her (something that rarely happens, prior to the start of the series) she'll drop the facade immediately in favor of yelling, swearing and launching all-out assaults that are just as likely to destroy the battlefield itself as they are her opponent. She never really panics, though; the few times she does become afraid, she's quick to push it aside in favor of trying to hit back harder against whatever she's perceiving as a threat. She's very good at turning fear into anger, especially when she's on the battlefield.
And angering Nonon on the battlefield is generally a bad idea, really, whether she's transformed or not; she's very physically strong, capable of dual-wielding missile pods and carrying around a cylindrical machine that's larger than she is with very little effort. She doesn't rely on her three-star uniform to pull off that sort of thing, either – the feats mentioned above were carried out while she was completely naked except for a pair of strategically-placed utility belts. But it's not necessarily her physical strength that makes her a frightening opponent; there are some particularly nasty aspects of her personality that tend to do that just as well.
One of the overarching themes of Kill la Kill is that power corrupts, and Nonon is no exception to this; when she was a child, she learned that she could manipulate the boys in her kindergarten class simply by acting cute, and that she could just discard people once she found them boring and didn't want to play anymore. In Honnouji Academy, she's been given tremendous amounts of power over a large number of people; she can control large sections of the student body as she sees fit, and she has no hesitation about using human beings as glorified cannon fodder. She's shown as being incredibly cold and uncaring after giving an order that results in members of three of her clubs being killed, just kind of shrugging it off and continuing to conduct orchestra practice as though nothing is happening outside; she never addresses anyone by name, either, preferring to either call them derogatory nicknames or simply some sort of description based on an immediate trait that she happened to notice. People are a means to an end to her, first and foremost, and she tends to not realize or care that people have lives that don't revolve around her and what she thinks; even in her best friend's case, Nonon often understands what she wants on a logical and tactical level, but she tends to be relying on guesswork and assumptions when it comes to what Satsuki is feeling.
Not that she's necessarily trying very hard, if we're all going to be honest with ourselves; underneath the cutesy demeanor, Nonon has an ego approximately the size of the mecha she pilots. She demands that people show her respect, even if she's not showing them any (...perhaps especially if she's not showing them any...), and when they don't she gets irritated to the point that one of her fellow Councilmen has to step in and tell her to back down or go take a walk or something. She's very sarcastic and acerbic, prone to snapping "bite me" at people or calling them slurs if she's not getting her way; even when she is getting her way she likes to pick on people that she considers lesser than her, and that's...pretty much everyone but Satsuki. She's a bit better toward the others on the Student Council, but not by much; at the same time, there's more of a sense of camaraderie between them and they all seem to have accepted that that's just how Nonon is, and while they won't just sit there and tolerate it they can snark back at her with the general understanding that there's no true harm meant in the long run. She actually seems to get along better with people who are willing to backtalk her, as contradictory though that sounds; she first started respecting Satsuki when the latter yelled at her and basically shounen-hero-speeched her in a way that was intended to shame her for having shallow ambitions, and she seems to have an…oddly playful relationship with Houka Inumuta based on picking on each other and putting each other down constantly with no hard feelings attached.
So she's basically a bitch in sheep's clothing, with a particular fondness for violence and absolutely crushing her enemies in battle and a somewhat limited ability to recognize or care that people have feelings; she's learned how to manipulate people's initial perceptions of her and use that to her advantage, and it's something she does shamelessly and without hesitation. Even so, however, she is willing to face down an intergalactic threat in order to save the world - whether it's because she wants the world to be saved or because Satsuki wants revenge on the threat itself is a bit of a moot point, just because it takes a certain degree of bravery and general moxie to go head-to-head with an alien life force bent on destroying the world.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
✔ Strength (physical) - As was mentioned in the app, Nonon is very physically strong; not only do two of her flight-capable Regalias require her to be able to support her own weight from her shoulderblades for extended periods of time while getting jerked around, without any signs of pain or fatigue - as was mentioned in the app, even without her uniform she's capable of dual-wielding goddamn missile pods and firing them from that position without getting killed by the recoil, despite being maybe 4'9" at the tallest (not counting her hat) and looking like she'd weigh maybe 90 pounds soaking wet. She's also seen carrying around a weapon that's more or less a giant metal cylinder with a bunch of mechanisms inside; the thing is larger than she is, but she's just kind of got it above her head and is having no problem running around with it.
✔ Strength (mental) - Students from Honnouji Academy gain their power through their clothing, with a ranking system (from zero to three) signified by stars emblazoned on their uniforms; the more stars you have on your clothing, the higher the concentration of Life Fibers the uniform contains. Nonon wears a three-star uniform, meaning it's 30% Life Fibers - the highest concentration that a normal human being can wear without going completely berserk and risking being "worn by their clothes." Very few people have proven themselves able to handle that much, and it's shown in canon to take a good amount of mental strength as well as physical to not just lose yourself to the Life Fibers.
✔ Physical combat skills - Nonon is a skilled fighter, as would be expected from someone who's more or less serving as a general in a war against aliens; while she mostly specialized in long-ranged combat back home, she's also shown to be good with combat knives and daggers, and she's completely unafraid of getting up in her opponent's face if she has to. While her weaponry skills won't exactly be helpful in Johto, the fearlessness and hand-to-hand skills will, especially if someone manages to underestimate her horribly.
✔ Charm/manipulation - While part of it is just her personality (she's seen doing the stuffed-animals-and-lollipops thing in front of her fellow councilmen, who all definitely know better than to fall for something like that by now if it were truly a trick), she's very good at playing up the "small, cute and defenseless" act; she uses it all the time to get exactly what she wants from people - whether it's gifts from boys or underestimation from her enemies. She's a horrid little shit a lot of the time, but she's not stupid, and she's not incapable of toning it down when she needs to - she seems to have somehow legitimately gotten on the series villain's good side, given that Ragyo asks her about her father's health and Nonon is allowed to unironically call her "Auntie," if one scene where she sarcastically throws it back in Ragyo's face later in the series is any indication.
✔ Flight - All but one of Nonon's Regalia forms are capable of flight, which is something she holds dear to her due to both personal reasons (a promise she made to Satsuki, to always have a higher line of sight than she does so she can always watch over her) and...well, the fact that she just really obviously enjoys being in the sky. She prefers commanding battles from on high and she's incredibly good at strategizing using all three dimensions rather than just two - meaning that as soon as she gets a Pokémon capable of enabling it, she's going to be doing exactly that.
✔/✘ ...Questionable skills with animals - Nonon tends to have problems relating properly to people and just discarding them when she doesn't need them or want them around anymore, and she has very little patience for people who don't catch her interest or bore her; it's difficult to say exactly how much of that translates over into how she treats animals (and Pokémon by extension), since there are signs that it could really go either way. On one hand, she's shown to have had a pet monkey that liked her rather well when she was a child, clinging to her head and going everywhere she went; on the other, her hats tend to be adorned with monkey skulls. Hats. Plural. She has at least three of these damn hats with monkey bones all up on them. There are several conclusions to be drawn here, ranging from "that's a little creepy" to "Nonon, why"; pick whichever one you like.
✘ Difficulties with empathy - Nonon's level of empathy toward most people is shown to be somewhere between that of a rock and a malfunctioning toaster; she doesn't often see people as being living things with thoughts and feelings, and even when she does she doesn't always see why she should care. She's a surprisingly decent person in the ways that matter (she goes back into the city alone after the invasion they're trying to stop is in full swing, to look for survivors and save as many as she can) but she seems to have trouble with understanding why people are acting in certain ways when they deviate from what she thinks they should be doing, and she's really prone to treating even people she likes as though they're some sort of pet rather than a friend.
✘ Flagrant disregard for the value of human life - People are a means to an end to her, first and foremost - if she needs or wants to get something done but it's going to end in a body count...well, that's a sacrifice she's willing to make, and if they didn't want to die then they wouldn't be one-stars. She'll kill or defeat people without a second thought if she sees a reason to; when it came to the Naturals Election, in which students were made to basically kill each other in order to earn a place on the student council, she had the second-highest victory count among the Elite Four - and it wasn't through necessity, either, given that the Naturals Election was to give other students a shot at something equivalent to the position she already had. It was pretty much beating people up for fun, as far as her participation was concerned.
✘ Unpleasant personality - Sandwiched between the superficial charm and the fact that deep down she really does care about people to some extent, there lies a really massive layer of horrible; she's incredibly acerbic and snide, and she has a tendency to pick on people and insult them with little to no restraint. She's more than a bit spoiled and used to getting her way, and while she has very little sense of boundaries herself, she has a tendency to get irritable when people overstep theirs.
✘ Questionable decision-making skills - Nonon is willing to go along with plans that are...not exactly good ideas, simply because it seems like a good idea at the time. She's normally a good strategist on her own, but if she's working with someone else she's very easily swayed; if someone can make a compelling enough argument for why something should be done, she goes ahead and does it. The most obvious example of this in canon is when she bombs the Nudist Beach stronghold - Nudist Beach is an organization that is opposing the same alien threat the student council is trying to fight, but instead of taking the stance of "the enemy's enemy is our ally," she goes on an airstrike raid and bombs the hell out of them, effectively crippling Earth's defenses against the threat. She gets yelled at for it later (because no, seriously, what the hell) and she just kind of shrugs and insists that Satsuki decided they needed to do it. Not in a "throwing Satsuki under the bus" sort of way, either, just in a "hey, it sounded like a good idea" sort of way.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Whismur
Password: Caramel Popcorn
Samples
First Person Sample:
You know, a lot of these things seem suited to doing stuff that isn't just battling; in fact, some of them are really useless at it! For a world that insists that they all need and like to fight, that's sort of weird, isn't it?
[Well, it seems the Littlest Drum Major is feeling contemplative today, though exactly why is kind of anyone's guess; she seems to be setting something up, however, flipping through a folder on what looks like a podium in front of her. The focus is ever-so-slightly off but the video itself is holding steady, like she's set the device up on a table a short distance away.
She keeps flipping through the pages, almost as though she's lost track of the fact that she's still on video. Flick. Flick. Flick.]
I mean, where I'm from, you joined the clubs you liked. You gathered data if you liked numbers and figures and never leaving the basement, and you joined the kendo team if you really wanted to somehow prove yourself to be a man by swinging a wooden sword around.
You choose what you like, I mean. Some people don't, but most do.
[She glances over at the feed and smiles a bit; seems she's found what she was looking for.]
So why can't these things be properly recognized for what they do? Maybe someone should start up something that doesn't revolve around boorishly slapping each other around and instead focuses on letting these animals use their talents how they deem best.
[She shifts her hand down, pulling a thin white baton out from the top shelf of that podium, and nods a bit toward someone just behind the camera; the sharp click of that baton against the wood is audible as the feed turns to focus on...
...dear god are those six Altarias because those look like six Altarias. Clearly, while most people are building teams, Nonon is building a goddamn choir because of course she is.
Her voice rings out one last time before she signals for those things to do...whatever they're about to do.]
Who knows? Maybe I'll do it myself!
[Here's hoping those things aren't about to use Round; considering it doubles in power every time an ally uses it, she's about to level her surroundings in seconds.]
Third Person Sample:
It's quiet on the routes tonight, the only sound the occasional cracking of sticks below her. Nonon isn't frightened, though; it's not that she's never imagined the woods wouldn't be dangerous at night, but rather because she hadn't been able to leave Violet City until she'd gotten the stupid metal trinket from Falkner, which had only happened after her Pokémon were high-leveled enough to ensure that she's the most dangerous thing around.
That, and she's got a vantage point. Any Heracross up here went down before the sun did, at least three of the poor simplistic things slung to the ground; she's rather comfortable in the trees, she's found, and she's not going to let any of the local wildlife get in the way of ensuring that this particular damn tree is hers. The branches are thick and high enough up that she won't be found unless she wants to be; here's hoping that no one gets it in their mind to headbutt it before morning.
For now, though, she settles, and she tries not to think too long about the quiet; once in a while those sticks break, and something moves in the darkness below, and before long she finds herself listening for a certain tread in particular, something familiar, something she's been trying to get away from for weeks. She's not running so much as she is just wanting distance - because really, wouldn't anyone after weeks of...well, that?
She shakes her head a bit to clear it and tries to settle down to sleep; she's not going to be interrupted tonight and somewhere deep down, she knows that to be a fact. She hasn't had a full night's sleep in so long, and she should be looking forward to it.
But just the same she finds herself listening for patterns and sounds and the usual shrieking crescendos that peal out of her starter, Aria, on a regular basis; she's waiting for the Whismur's heady fortissimo wailing that just gets worse the longer it goes on, until Nonon's yelling too and then they're both screaming until they don't have voices anymore, just quiet and panting and eventually falling over exhausted.
She'd left Aria in a clearing by herself hours ago.
"Now, you just wait here, okay, Aria-chan? I'll be back for you before nightfall~" Nonon had stopped before walking away entirely, hands clasped behind her back; after a brief pause, she'd called out jauntily over her shoulder. "And don't make a sound! You wouldn't want anything dangerous to find you, would you?"
She hadn't looked back then; she doesn't intend to look back now, not now that she's comfortable and she's got a fuzzy thing behind her (people can say whatever they want about Bidoofs, but once you get them up the tree they make wonderful pillows) and she doesn't even miss the thing, really. She doesn't feel bad about leaving it at all, so it's pretty much set and sealed.
At the same time, she can't stop thinking about the stupid thing.
Great.
She sighs, sitting up and looking down at the ground below her before jumping off the branch she'd been settled on; she glances back up at the utterly confused (and admittedly really stranded) Bidoof that she'd left up there, firing off an "Oh, don't look at me like that" and a decidedly more sincere "I'll be back in a bit" than the one she'd offered Aria earlier that day.
The dumb thing's probably going to get itself killed if she leaves it out there all night, anyway.