Sailor Lyra

About the Girl

Name: Takenaka Kiku (竹中 菊)
Name Meaning: Kiku = "chrysanthemum"; Takenaka = "dweller among bamboo"
Nickname: Little flower (by her mother and Baek)
Age: 16 (15 at the beginning of the story)
Birthday: 9^th September (Kiku no Sekku)
Home: Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Honshu (Japan)
Current Residence: Seoul, South Korea 
Nationality: Japanese
Ethnicity: Half Japanese/Half New Zealander
Family: Takenaka Kaelan (né Hadlow - father), Takenaka Hinata (mother), Takenaka Satsuki (younger brother), Takenaka Sayuri (younger sister), Takenaka Mio (grandmother) 
Love Interest: Kwon Baekhyun (currently dating)
Other Relationships: Kwon Baegjo/Sailor Deneb (best friend, soulmate and fellow group member), Ravenna Anechka/Sailor Corvus (older sister-like best friend), Warrior Lupus/Landon Shepherd (older brother-like friend), Huang Ai-Zhi, Han Hwasun and Goo Jungae (friends and fellow group members)
Spoken Languages: Japanese (mother tongue), English (fluently) and Korean (elementary)

Eyes: Brown (civilian)/Silver (senshi)
Hair: Dark Brown
Skin: Warm Beige
Height: About 5'2" or 158 cm

Blood Type: 0+
Personality Type: ENFP-A
Sun Sign: Virgo
Gemstone: Carnelian
Likes: Phone calls/chatting with Baegjo; Persephone's music
Dislikes: TBA
Strongest Subjects: Japanese and foreign languages
Weakest Subject: Mathematics
Strong Points: Crafting, especially plushies; singing
Has Trouble With: Dancing (but she tries really hard)
Dreams: Meet Baegjo (achieved); be able to attend one of Persephone's concert (achieved, as member of the group)
Profession: (1^st year) High School Student/Occasionally helper at her parents flower shop (formerly)/Lead-Vocalist of the K-Pop Idol Girl-Group Persephone (Stage Name: Eun-ha)

Personality: Kiku can't be defined a responsible person, in fact she's quite naïve and trusts strangers very easily. She just doesn't think that somebody could hurt her, because she's a bit too much optimistic and light-hearted. Because of that she results to be rather sociable and is able to make friends without many difficulties, at least initially. Below surface, she revels as a very imaginative and dreamy person, sometimes living in a world that seems to exist only in her head. When she has one of her moments, people usually believe that she's dumb, but Kiku is just, somewhat, absent-minded and becomes extremely quiet during these times. What others don't know, it that what she sees in her head isn't just a daydreams of hers, but they are, in fact, glimpses of the lives of the previous senshi of the Lyra constellation, especially those of Vega, her progenitress and the very first Sailor Lyra.

Personal History: Hinata Takenaka, as a florist and holder of the family flowers business, used to travel often to search for new plant species for her shop. When she was just 21, Hinata traveled to New Zealand because of this, and there she met the charming, 27-years-old, Kaelan, that offered himself as a guide to visit the island in the best way possible. The two soon fall in love and Kaelan, not wanting to loose his beloved, decided to return to Japan with her. The following year, the couple got married and both adopted Hinata's Japanese surname, following the rule according to which the husband should join the wife's family, if it has a greater financial degree. Not long after the end of the year, Hinata got pregnant and, during Chrysanthemum's Day, gave birth to a baby girl, that they decided to call Kiku in honor of the festivity. Little Kiku grew up surrounded by flowers and toys, in a little bubble of joy, that made her become the light-hearted girl that she's now. When she started to go to school, Kiku discovered that she was able to make friends easily, even if most of them didn't really understand her. Elementary school passed without significant events, just some friendships destined not to last. Junior high school was totally a different story. Just like in every school, there was the cool-girls-clique, that found funny to mock the others and Kiku, with her being absent-minded, was no exception. Unlike others, however, Kiku tried to become friends with those girls, because, to her, there wasn't any other reason for their behavior, if not that they didn't know her. Even if she tried with all her strength, the best that she was able to obtain was that the clique started to ignore her, because they simply wanted to have nothing to do with her. Because of this episode, Kiku learnt that she can't be friend with everyone, if they don't want to, but this doesn't stop her in trying. 
Right now, Kiku is attending her first year of high school and she's trying to be more responsible, even if it's difficult. This because soon there will be a new addition to the Takenaka family, so Kiku is trying to step into her new role of older sister for her unborn sibling. Currently, she passes most of her day waiting to be able to talk with Baegjo, her Korean best friend, that seems to be the only one that can truly understand her. 

About the Senshi

Sailor Name: Sailor Lyra
Realms of Influence: Dreams and Illusions
Henshin Item: Disguised as a charm of her bracelet while in civilian form
Powers:
Offensive Ability - Sheliak Illusion Beam
Lyra leans her arms forward and pushes with her hands the purple globes, that were formed there, towards the enemy. The immaterial orbs englobe the opponent, who is crossed by burst of both mental and physical pain, caused by the illusions and nightmares created by the attack.

Defensive Ability - Sulafat Bubbly Buckler
Lyra opens her arms and creates a golden bubble made of dreams and positive thoughts to protected those who surround her, being able to minimize the enemy's attack strength with its opposite.

Innate Ability - Lyrae Daydreams Awakening
Lyra can infiltrate in others dreams and deep thoughts, especially in those of the people that are close to her (not physically, but emotionally), while being awake. As civilian, this results to be transmuted into involuntary daydreams during the most unexpected moments of her day. Lyra not only can sense and see dreams of living ones, but also of the deceased ones, in particular those of the various past Sailor Lyra. She has a special connection with Gen1!Lyra, Vega, since she was first summoned to the Cloaked World.

Sailor History: (TBA - Will be updated after doing the first tasks)

Previous Sailor Lyra: 
Generation 1 Lyra - Vega (known on Earth as Orihime "weaving princess")
Generation 2 Lyra - Takenaka Hanae (Vega's daughter)
Generation 3 Lyra - Kwon-Takenaka Nari (Hanae's daughter)
[...]
Generation ? Lyra - Takenaka Mio (Kiku's grandmother)

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Tasks: Reference Sheet - HERE
            Task 1: Civilian Form
            Task 2: Meeting the Lady 

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Sailor Moon - Naoko Takeuchi
Constellation-Senshi - nickyflamingo, Unisamas-Art and SailorAlcyone
Sailor Deneb, Kwon Baekhyun, Huang Ai-Zhi, Han Hwasun and Goo Jungae (mentioned) - TenshiNeera 
Sailor Corvus (mentioned) - Sariusa
Warrior Lupus (mentioned) - SailorAlcyone  
Sailor Lyra/Takenaka Kiku and art - Me