Shoujo Rebel

Because I know I'm going to get some crap for this, allow me to explain Mujou being a male Sailor Senshi.  Yes, I know that Naoko Takeuchi has said, time and again, that Sailor Senshi can only be male.  Yes, I know that it goes against quite a lot of what Sailor Moon stands for.  In a way, Mujou being a male Sailor Senshi makes him more of a "Shoujo Rebel" - which also puts a HUGE twist on the gender-related aspects of Sailor Moon that I won't bother going into here.

The main reason behind Mujou being a male Sailor Senshi lies in the fact that he is a Crisis Senshi.  For more information about the Crisis Senshi, visit the RPG he was written for - Chaos Crisis.  The Crisis Senshi are the strongest senshi in existence.  They also represent aspects of all beings in existence - namely, Mind (Psi belongs to this group), Body, and Soul.  As senshi that represent all beings in existence, I, the creator of Chaos Crisis, felt that it was only appropriate that the senshi be both male and female.  Call me crazy, call me a canon-killer, but keep in mind that this is a FAN work and, as such, doesn't have to (and maybe even shouldn't) fit with all canon law.

Civilian Information

Civilian Name/Nickname: Shinreijutsuno Mujoukan, Mujou for short
Name Meaning:
Shinreijutsuno – “spiritualism, spiritualistic ability, ability to cause psychic phenomena”
Mujoukan – “sense of the vanity of life; perception of the evanescence of life”
Altogether, the name means “spiritualism’s perception of the evanescence of life.”
His nickname has many meanings, but most people call him Mujou because it means “uncertainty,” and Mujoukan is known for his unpredictable, even clumsy nature. Most people are often “uncertain” what will happen to him, or if he’ll even be able to make it through the day without stumbling or something!
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Birthday: February 4
Astrology Sign: Aquarius
Blood Type: B

Likes:

Sailor Moon – Mujou LOVES and/or is OBSESSED with Sailor Moon. Ever since he was about 9, when his female cousin of the same age showed the manga to him, he’s been obsessed with the series. He often dreams about himself being a (male, non-skirted) senshi, which makes the fact that he IS a senshi all the more appealing. For Mujou, Sailor Moon is a great way to escape life’s problems and live in the idealized world of magical girls.

Fortune Tellers – Another escapist like of Mujou’s, fortune tellers are fun to go to. It’s nice to entertain ideas about one’s future, and although Mujou doesn’t actually believe in the stuff, it’s still fun to think about what might lie in the future. He doesn’t care if his fortune turns out good or bad (again, he doesn’t believe in it); it’s more a way to hear a story about himself. It’s actually a lot like Sailor Moon to him; a story about something that probably won’t happen, but is entertaining all the same.

Karaoke – Like any healthy Japanese boy, Mujou loves his karaoke! It’s a lot of fun to attend karaoke and sing as much as you can with your favorite songs, and in Japanese culture it’s very popular. His favorite songs to sing karaoke to are most anime themes and some other popular tunes.

Hikawa Shrine – For Mujou, Hikawa Shrine is a nice, quiet place to go to when he’s feeling down, or when he just needs to be alone. It’s got a certain spiritual aura for him, and he enjoys the quiet atmosphere of the Hikawa Shrine.

Parties – Ever the social butterfly, Mujou really enjoys a good party. While he’s way too lazy to go to the trouble of throwing one himself, Mujou loves hanging out with his friends at a big house party. There’s food, games, music, people – what’s not to love?

Random likes: Salty food, video games, procrastinating, and rainy days (yay puddles!)

Dislikes:

Computers – Not only is he bad at using them, but he has to use them every single day! The darn contraptions never work the way you want them to, and they’re generally more of a nuisance than a help. This probably has a lot to do with the fact that his parents are demanding that he major in Computer Science in college, even though he hates it. Computer class is boring, and it only adds to his hatred of the machine.

Psychiatry – Mujou generally doesn’t like the idea that people think they need to take pills to “fix” whatever is “wrong” with their personality. He thinks that mental disorders don’t exist as much as people think. Sure, there are things like Cerebral Palsy, but other things like Attention Deficit Disorder he finds questionable. In general, he has less problems with psychology (the study of the mind) than he does with psychiatry (the application of medication to help "problems" with the mind), although he believes that the human mind is such a complex thing that it is arbitrary to try to define in strict terms, and it is silly to try to "fix" the mind's "problems" just because people in society have difficulty dealing with them. The mind is a strange thing, and it should not be toyed with; people have the right to their own minds, in Mujou's eyes.

School – It’s boring, it’s work, and it’s nothing interesting. Unless it’s a class like art, Mujou despises school; it makes him get up early, it makes him work, and then it goes and gives him bad grades! What a bother!

Parents – Mujou has a rather strained relationship with his parents. They never let him do what he wants to do, be it drawing manga or staying up late or sleeping in. Mujou’s parents have a vision of him as the head programmer of a computer company where he’ll make lots of money, and Mujou of course hates computers and doesn’t want to do that with his life. They think they know what’s best for him, but Mujou thinks they have no idea!

Random dislikes: Spiders, candy, cars, winter, and haircuts.

Hobbies:

Sailing – Mujou enjoys traveling to places by sailing, or just sailing on the sea in general. It’s yet another way he is able to escape a life of school, and having to follow a dream he doesn’t want. It’s a nice way to leave behind his family and his stress and be on the beautiful quiet ocean by himself to draw manga. He usually goes sailing with his cousin’s rich family, because they own a sailboat.

Drawing Manga – Inspired by the Sailor Moon manga that he was infatuated with, Mujou has since dreamed of writing and drawing his own manga. In the meantime, making his own manga is a fun project to escape the dreary everyday world he lives in. He likes to invent entire stories, escaping into his own imaginary world in the pages, and he’s a very talented young artist despite the lack of training he has. His manga usually centers around fantastical superheroes with appealing character traits, and if he pursued his dream with more focus, he could probably make something of himself. Unfortunately, it’s uncertain if Mujou will ever muster up the kind of dedication and discipline needed for a manga artist!

Using His Powers – When he discovered his power at age 12, Mujou fell in love with it. It was like he was his own senshi! He loves playing with his powers to levitate objects whenever he’s bored and won’t be discovered – like any superhero, Mujou likes to keep his identity a secret. This joy he gets from using his powers makes him feel special, but it also makes him an even more irresponsible senshi; Mujou has yet to quite grasp the full seriousness of his duty as a senshi, and seems to think he’s living in his own little manga rather than in the real world where he must use his powers with caution and thought.

Goals:

Mujou’s goals include impressing Pathos so that the owl will have a bit more faith in him (it’s not fun getting scolded all the time!) and becoming a manga artist. He wants to somehow convince his parents that computers are not right for him, and that he can follow his dreams. As for long-term goals, Mujou doesn’t really think about them too much – he’s more of an “in the moment” kind of guy.

Good points:

Outgoing – Mujou is very much a social butterfly. He’s willing to approach almost anyone, even if he’s never met them before, and say hello. He loves social functions and talking with people, and is never afraid to socialize.

Kind – Mujoukan also has a sense of sympathy and sweetness to him. This kind of goes along with his outgoing nature; if he sees someone that looks down, he tries his best to cheer them up with a joke or even just saying hi. Mujoukan is a firm believer in “do unto others,” so he tries to be as amicable as possible.

Perceptive – Mujou is very good at perceiving things, mostly peoples’ emotions and problems that need to be solved. That’s not to say he’s good at creating the solutions themselves, but he tends to understand problems very well, and see through some facades and illusions. Now, it's not as if he’ll immediately be able to see through things, but in general he’ll get a funny feeling and (if it’s something he cares about – i.e. not school) try to do something.

Flaws:

Irresponsible – Mujou has no sense of responsibility whatsoever. Procrastination is his middle name, and he tends to forget to (or just not) do things like homework, training, and attend important appointments. He’s a touch forgetful, and lazy, especially when it comes to repetitive tasks like school and training.

Clumsy – Unable to chew gum and walk, Mujou is a grade A klutz. He trips and falls often, runs into objects when not looking, is generally bad at sports, and a genuine butterfingers. He has awful aim, and really anything that goes with being clumsy he does. He’s just a little too eager to the point of rushing into a stumble.

Whimsical – Mujou falls into daydreams almost as much as he falls onto the sidewalk. In his own little imaginary world as a means of escape, Mujou likes to think up manga stories to get distracted from schoolwork. This usually only happens when he’s bored with something, but that doesn’t make it any less annoying when it happens during things like crucial senshi meetings.

Personality:

In order to fully understand Mujou, one must know the one ruling fact about him; Mujou wants to escape his life. It’s not that his is a horrible, traumatic, angsty life or anything – he just feels trapped in the mundane every-day world where we live. He is a true adventurer, and hates feeling like all his life will be is a cubicle job as a computer worker. He wants to escape everything – his parents’ high standards, his dull school life, and most of all, a world in which he feels imagination is slowly disappearing in place of technology and materialism. True to his namesake, he perceives life in his world as vain and always fading away, doomed to become colorless.

As a result of this perception, Mujou tries his best to hold onto his youth and imagination. He is perky and optimistic by nature, and tries not to be too much of an adult. The problem is, while this makes him a fun guy and a nice person, it also makes him irresponsible; by trying not to care about the things that he perceives so many adults get wrapped up in, he becomes unable to handle responsibility and unfit to function in his own world. Sooner or later he’s going to have to grow up in this sense, and Mujou dreads losing his imagination. He doesn’t really act like a child in the emotionally immature sense, more in the “I don’t want to have to deal with all the stress of the read world” sense.

Mujou is very much a lovable guy, until you have to work with him. He’s fun and sociable, great at parties, and lends a sympathetic ear to almost anyone. When you have to work with him, though, he becomes less fun and more a pain in the ass, because his lack of motivation to work hard, his irresponsible nature and his clumsiness get rather frustrating.

The one saving grace Mujou has in “work” situations is his ability to perceive and understand problems. He is excellent at understanding what is going on and even suggesting a solution occasionally, but beyond that suggestion, he won’t actually do much to help. He’s the kind of person that goes “We need to solve this problem? Well, we should probably do something like *insert vague but good idea here*” and then sit back and be bored.

Most of this lack of motivation to actually take action stems from the pressure his parents put on him. Mujou HATES that his parents insist on him majoring in computers, and trying hard in school, and not drawing manga when it is in his very nature to do what he enjoys rather than what needs to be done. Never wanting to succumb to what his parents expect of him (because to him, he would be giving up part of himself to them), Mujou instead tries his best to show them how much he doesn’t want to do those things by slacking off at those things. The problem is, this rubs off in a lot of other places, to the point where Mujou isn’t very hard-working in any area other than one that involves something he really loves. The way he sees it, why should he put effort into something he doesn’t like?

Because his parents know he can do well if he tries (he was very good at school up until college), Mujou has stopped trying so that he deliberately does poorly. This way, he figures his parents will finally understand that he doesn’t like computers, and then leave him be about it already! What Mujou fails to realize is this doesn’t stop his parents from insisting anything; it just pisses them off to the point where they insist more. Mujou and his parents are both at a standstill; the parents insist that he majors in computer, he deliberately fails at computers, the parents insist more, rinse, repeat.

Around his friends, Mujou shines. It’s always easy to tell when Mujou really likes someone; he’ll spend his time talking with them whenever he sees them, and he’ll do anything – even work hard – to help them. Because Mujou cares about his friends, he doesn’t mind working hard to get them out of a tight spot, unless working hard involves helping them with something mundane like school, in which case he’ll get bored and eventually stalk off. He’s more than willing to help them with personal problems though, and for these reasons Mujou is good at making and keeping friends. Still, they can get frustrated with him when working with him on things like school projects (or, for senshi, training), because of his irresponsible, lazy nature.

Although a social butterfly, Mujou is also incredibly comfortable alone. He finds things to do that he enjoys, like working on a manga or watching some Sailor Moon. When bored with some of these things, Mujou finds another way to occupy his time; he goes to the Hikawa Shrine to sit and think about some manga ideas, or he goes sailing to admire the sea and maybe play with his powers a little. He may seem restless, but Mujou can sit by himself and find things to do – as an only child growing up, he kind of had to sometimes.

Few things make Mujou truly upset. He often argues with teachers and parents, usually about what he’s supposed to be doing. With friends, though, or even casual acquaintances, Mujou rarely gets angry. Even if you insult him to his face, the worst you’ll do to Mujou is make him a bit downtrodden and depressed; he won’t lash out at you because he doesn’t want to hurt your feelings. Mujou is incredibly sensitive to others unless they try to force him to do something he doesn’t want to do (re: his parents telling him to major in computers). If you anger him, Mujou will probably start a verbal fight with you, raising his voice to the point of yelling. When upset, Mujou does not like to be by himself. Unless he is angry and hasn’t screamed at the offender yet, Mujou likes to talk it out with a friend, asking them what he should do or if he is in the wrong. He genuinely wants to know if he should change his perspective, because as someone who respects perception, he wants to make sure he’s perceiving the situation correctly before reacting. He’ll usually apologize if he sees he was wrong. If the problem was something about how he should do something he doesn’t want to do, when he apologizes he’ll pawn it off as “It’s just in my nature,” even if we all know Mujou is perfectly capable of working harder if he really felt like it.


Appearance

Face: Indigo, large and wide set, Mujou’s eyes are framed by thin, short eyelashes and almost straight, thin eyebrows. His face is oval shaped, and his ears are larger than most. His complexion has a wheat-colored tinge to it, and his face is smooth-shaved.

Hair: Rosy brown and messy, Mujou’s hair is always full of cow licks. He usually doesn’t have time to comb it in the mornings, as he has a nasty habit of sleeping in and being late for class. His hair has a coarse, almost sandy texture, even though he washes it regularly. It is long, but doesn’t grow past his neck; it’s more like a big messy bush on top of his head. ^^;;

Build: Make no mistake – Mujou is a twig. He is tall (six feet, which is tall by Japanese standards) and lanky, with a scrawny physique and wiry, lanky limbs. The boy is practically a straight line. He has one scar on his left arm that’s about a half-inch wide and runs from his elbow to his shoulder – he got it when he was sailing one day and scraped his arm HARD when falling onto the deck’s wooden floor. Other than that, Mujou is surprisingly scar free for his clumsy nature – luckily, most of his scrapes are usually small enough to heal quickly.

Voice: Mujou speaks in a bright, vibrant baritone voice. He usually talks at a normal decibel level, but quickly and emphatically with crisp consonants. People who are new to the Japanese language or the Juuban dialect will have difficulty understanding Mujou’s quick speech. Don’t get me wrong – he doesn’t sound like he’s on fast forward or anything, but he does talk a hair faster than most. When he sings, he is more of a tenor; ever since someone teased him about his high voice in high school, he’s tried to speak lower than he sings. Most of the time, when Mujou sings it is in a loud and off-key voice; the boy is incredibly tone deaf.

Clothing: Mujou usually wears whatever he sees first in his closet every morning – again, as a late riser, he kind of has no fashion sense at all. Most of his clothing is baggy, with bright colors like yellow and red (the latter of which is his favorite color). He dresses for all seasons, usually wearing short sleeves and cargo shorts in the summer and pants and a heavy coat and scarf in the winter.

History:

On February 4, 1988, Shinreijutsuno Mujoukan came kicking and screaming into the world.  Even as a baby, he was loud and energetic, never giving his parents a wink of sleep and making a mess whenever humanly possible.  Yes, from the start it seemed he and his parents would not get along.

Still, the first few years of his childhood were rather uneventful.  Mujou was a rather fun-loving, active youth, easily delighted with seemingly everything.  In these early years, though, Mujou's mother began to have a hunch that worried her.  She waited a few more years for it to be confirmed, though…and confirmed it was.

Mujou's mother had grown up in Shinjuku relatively close to the Ni-chome (or gay) district, and after enough years, had developed a sort of gaydar.  During Mujou's early childhood, something or other tipped her off that her child was Not Quite Right in some way.  Maybe it was his preference to spend time with little girls (and play the games they did, not the games boys did), maybe it was his aversion to wrestling with little boys, or maybe it was just a hunch.  Whatever it was, she detected something, and it worried her.

Unsure of what else to do, but not wanting her son to grow up gay in a society that was so blatantly against it (and certainly not wanting to tell the boy's father, who was not quite as open-minded as she was), Mujou's mother did the only thing she could think to do.  She raised her son to think that any sort of sexual thought was wrong, and more importantly, to always keep his youth about him.  Any time he did something that could be perceived as hinting at an attraction toward men (note the wording there: not anything that comes off as effeminate like say, watching Sailor Moon, but things that were clearly a mark of homosexuality like looking at boys the wrong ways), she quietly chastised him (so as to avoid his father knowing).  Eventually, Mujou learned to suppress his sexuality so well that he no longer even did it consciously.

Instead, Mujou's repressed sexuality just caused his entire personality to remain childlike.  By repressing one of the few things that makes someone truly adult (or at least marks a step out of childhood), Mujou's mother caused him to simply remain in a childlike frame of mind.  Luckily, Mujou was at least adaptable enough to society to remain moderately normal and didn't become Michael Jackson or anything.  He continued living in this way, an awkward vision of effeminacy in a boy that seemed to have no sex drive, and most people simply assumed he was a heterosexual boy in touch with his feminine side.

Still, that feminine side could not be suppressed, even if his mother wanted it to be.  When Mujou was about 9, his cousin brought the anime Sailor Moon to his attention.  Immediately, Mujou was fixated.  Somehow, he related so much with these characters - these girls, much like him, caught between the boundaries of innocence and violence, between the norms of feminine tenderness and masculine power.  Of course, Mujou didn't realize that this was the subconscious reason, and instead chose to adore the art style, the humor, the colorful characters, and the plots.

Flash-forward to high school, where Mujou's interest in Sailor Moon only grew.  He read the manga almost constantly, though after being mocked openly for liking Sailor Moon, began reading it more in private.  Still, he could not resist talking about it with anyone who he discovered shared his love for the series.  Somehow, in the midst of all this Sailor Moon love, Mujou managed to do quite well in school.  He was clearly the type who was rather clueless when it came to common sense, but very intelligent when it came to book smarts.

Seeing his success with school, Mujou's father encouraged him to study computers, thinking it the wave of the future and thus the best opportunity for Mujou to make money.  Mujou's mother agreed, but Mujou was not the child he once was (even if his mind was still in that mode), and he was too inspired by Sailor Moon to do anything but draw manga.  He had since become enamored with any and everything manga, and to his parents' dismay, he respectfully refused to major in computers.

However, this rebellion did not last long at all.  Mujou's parents refused to pay for his college unless he agreed to study computers, and given his desire to continue his education (it was the only way he'd learn what he needed to be a mangaka, even if it meant not majoring in art!), Mujou reluctantly agreed.  Still, he asked politely if he could live in a dorm.  While his father was dead-set against this idea, his mother, who still felt more than a little guilty for what she had done to her son after all these years, convinced her father that Mujou living on his own might cause him to mature a bit and see how difficult the real world is.  Convinced, Mujou's father agreed.

Current Situation: Mujou lives in a dorm at Temple University, Japan, where he studies Computer Science. He lives in a single, which is very convenient for senshi meetings (to his dismay – they’re so boring!). His parents are paying his college tuition, and he has no scholarships.

Guardian

Name: Pathos
Appearance: Pathos is a dark brown owl with light blue eyes. About a foot tall and with a wingspan of about a foot per wing, Pathos is the average size of an owl, with white talons.
Personality: Almost the exact opposite of Mujou, Pathos is extremely strict, rigid, and impatient with his new senshi. He finds Mujou’s kind nature to be lovable, but inconvenient for someone who has to be as morally discerning as a senshi, and he will sometimes curse whatever gods gave him the burden of overseeing Mujou. Despite the many lectures and reprimands that Mujou gets from Pathos, the owl does have a secret friendship for the boy, and the two do have their rare moments.

Warrior Information

Symbol: The Greek lowercase letter Psi, located here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi_%28letter%29
Main Color: Violet
Secondary Color: Goldenrod

Transformation

Phrase: “Psi Crisis Power, Make Up!”
Sequence: Mujou holds his henshin stick above his head with both hands, staring at it as he shouts his transformation phrase. Then, in a flash of purple light, his henshin stick is floating in front of him, spinning in the air. It spins once around him, creating his shirt. He spins in a circle, his hands next to his ears channeling psychic energy into his stick. In a flash of purple light, his pants are formed, and his henshin stick spins around his head once more, disappearing and turning into his hat. With a wink, Sailor Psi spins, and crosses his arms in an X-shape over his chest, with his hands splayed and his left knee up. His right leg is down, and his body is facing to his left while his face is forward. His torse is arched forward, making Sailor Psi’s end pose.
Introduction Phrase: “How dare you toy with peoples’ perception? The mind is not to be manipulated! I am Sailor Psi! In the name of the powers of the mind, I will punish you!” Sailor Psi stands with his right hand on his hip, and points to his opponent with his left hand on the second sentence. When he introduces himself, he points to his chest with his thumb. He finishes up by putting his left index finger on his forehead on “in the name of…” and pointing to his opponent on “you” with his left hand, his right hand still on his hip.

Fuku

Sailor Collar: Psi’s sailor collar is violet with two white stripes at the outer edges. The edges are straight, and the collar is tied with a knot. Over the knot is a goldenrod knot-holder with his symbol in violet on it.
Shirt: Psi’s shirt is white and sleeveless, hanging loosely over his torso.
Belt: Psi’s belt is goldenrod, with a belt buckle shaped like a sideways capital Psi symbol in violet.
Pants: Psi’s pants are violet, and are tucked into his...
Shoes: Sailor Psi wears goldenrod boots that come up to about mid-calf.
Hat: Sailor Psi’s hat is goldenrod with his symbol in violet at the front.
Earring: One earring is in Psi’s left ear; a simple violet Psi symbol hanging from a goldenrod chain on his earlobe.

(Fanart done by the awesome Phoenix! <3)

Attack

Name: Psycho Cannon
Effect: This is basically a beam of pure psychic energy, about half a foot in diameter. By concentrating enough, Psi can blast a very powerful energy beam at his opponent that can tear through metal and severely damage people; it is strong enough to kill a regular civilian and to leave a deep wound upon impact on a senshi or villain. He places his index finger on his forehead and calls out “Psycho” as a small violet orb of psychic energy comes out of his forehead onto his finger. He then spins once, bringing his hands together, and splays his fingers toward his opponent, saying “Cannon!” The blast shoots, and the attack is over.
Restrictions: Psi can only use this attack twice in a battle before he is exhausted from expending so much psychic energy. He is also fairly reluctant to use it because it is so powerful and unwieldy (remember, clumsy people like him probably suck at aiming!). If he’s not careful, he could kill somebody! The attack can be dodged because usually it’s obvious to see coming because he calls out the name. It can also be blocked by magical force-fields, but most physical shields will probably be blown apart by the beam.

Special Power: Mujou can control small objects up to the size of a crate with his mind. He can only control inanimate objects, but he can levitate and control them if he can see them and they are within about a 20 foot radius of him. Mujou can also bend very small objects like spoons, but this isn’t really useful; it’s more for show. Mujou has known about this power since he was about 12, and he enjoys using it in public to freak people out (although he tries not to be discovered; it’s that much more fun when the people don’t know what the heck’s going on!)