Ai's Application
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allmylove_inspaceCharacter's Name: Ai Tanabe
Character's Fandom: Planetes
Character's Home Universe: Planetes takes place in the 2070s, on and around Earth. There are a couple of small, fictional countries added, and the organization INTO (the International Treaty Organization) acts as a UN-like body to regulate space, but the major international players (the USA, Japan, India, the EU, Russia, China, etc.) all exist, as does conflict with the developing world. Near-Earth orbit is settled, the Moon has a growing population (with a half-dozen children even born there), and Mars has a science base. The first manned mission to Jupiter is being launched. Technology has advanced, with suborbital flights as a common means to quickly travel from one place to another, tourism encompassing all of near-Earth space and the Moon, and helium-three fusion (from mined lunar regolith) replacing oil as the mainstay of energy (destabilizing the Middle East).
Canon Point you're taking him/her/it from: Post-finale of the anime. It is strongly implied that Ai was pregnant at the end of the series, but I'm choosing to make it a 'false alarm', since I neither want to deal with a pregnant character nor one recovering from a miscarriage.
Method of Arrival on Station: Ai was recruited from her world. She thus was able to bring some small effects (mostly photos and things like that) with her.
Physical Appearance: http://myanimelist.net/character/5263/Ai_Tanabe. She is a Japanese woman in her twenties, with reddish-brown hair and brown eyes. She had a chance to pack her own bags -- the picture here has her in a suit she wore for interviews. Her casual clothing is a bit unstylish (she seems to like button-down shirts and sweater-vests for work, and T-shirts/tank tops for off-duty), but she totally pulls it off.
Personality: The first impression people get of Ai is of someone who is perky, and more than a bit of a flake. It's not that she's dumb or unable to do her job, but she is rather unobservant of herself and others' feelings. She strongly believes in the power of love to unite things, and that maybe if we all were just a lot more caring, somehow things would work out. She's more than a bit excitable, though, and does have enough sense to see when she can't excuse others' behavior. Then you see that she can be angry just as passionately as she can be happy.
Beneath Ai's cheerful exterior beats a heart that, though tested, was able to remain true to her convictions. She is a pacifist and an idealist, but is willing to die for her ideals -- in fact the nerve damage she suffers is a reminder of that, as it was obtained when she refused to either leave behind or steal the oxygen tanks from an injured terrorist when the two of them crash-landed on the Moon during a terrorist assault in lunar orbit. Ai was determined that no one would die, even those who were willing to kill her and all her friends, and she wasn't willing to take a life to save her own. (Property damage is a-okay, though.)
Working with some of the more creative members of Debris Section gave Ai an appreciation for bending the letter of the rules in favor of the spirit or just The Right Thing to Do, though she's generally an orderly person. In other words, she is very unlikely to break the rules for the hell of it or for her own convenience, but believes more in fairness and mercy than in obedience.
Abilities and Skills: Ai is a garden-variety normal human woman. She has some slight nerve damage from anoxia, but that has been mostly fixed. Skill-wise, Ai's former job was as an EVA specialist assisting in removal of debris from low-Earth orbits. She's in good physical shape, and is technically competent. She's got a well-developed intuition about moving in low/micro-gravity, is comfortable using a pressure suit, even an armored one, and has passed things like sensory deprivation tests. She's also used to balky equipment -- Debris Section had half the budget it should have had, and much of their equipment is old, second-hand or jury-rigged -- though she's no engineer or mechanic, she can at least tell when it's something that needs a specialist, and when it can be fixed by jiggering it a bit.
Character's Fandom: Planetes
Character's Home Universe: Planetes takes place in the 2070s, on and around Earth. There are a couple of small, fictional countries added, and the organization INTO (the International Treaty Organization) acts as a UN-like body to regulate space, but the major international players (the USA, Japan, India, the EU, Russia, China, etc.) all exist, as does conflict with the developing world. Near-Earth orbit is settled, the Moon has a growing population (with a half-dozen children even born there), and Mars has a science base. The first manned mission to Jupiter is being launched. Technology has advanced, with suborbital flights as a common means to quickly travel from one place to another, tourism encompassing all of near-Earth space and the Moon, and helium-three fusion (from mined lunar regolith) replacing oil as the mainstay of energy (destabilizing the Middle East).
Canon Point you're taking him/her/it from: Post-finale of the anime. It is strongly implied that Ai was pregnant at the end of the series, but I'm choosing to make it a 'false alarm', since I neither want to deal with a pregnant character nor one recovering from a miscarriage.
Method of Arrival on Station: Ai was recruited from her world. She thus was able to bring some small effects (mostly photos and things like that) with her.
Physical Appearance: http://myanimelist.net/character/5263/Ai_Tanabe. She is a Japanese woman in her twenties, with reddish-brown hair and brown eyes. She had a chance to pack her own bags -- the picture here has her in a suit she wore for interviews. Her casual clothing is a bit unstylish (she seems to like button-down shirts and sweater-vests for work, and T-shirts/tank tops for off-duty), but she totally pulls it off.
Personality: The first impression people get of Ai is of someone who is perky, and more than a bit of a flake. It's not that she's dumb or unable to do her job, but she is rather unobservant of herself and others' feelings. She strongly believes in the power of love to unite things, and that maybe if we all were just a lot more caring, somehow things would work out. She's more than a bit excitable, though, and does have enough sense to see when she can't excuse others' behavior. Then you see that she can be angry just as passionately as she can be happy.
Beneath Ai's cheerful exterior beats a heart that, though tested, was able to remain true to her convictions. She is a pacifist and an idealist, but is willing to die for her ideals -- in fact the nerve damage she suffers is a reminder of that, as it was obtained when she refused to either leave behind or steal the oxygen tanks from an injured terrorist when the two of them crash-landed on the Moon during a terrorist assault in lunar orbit. Ai was determined that no one would die, even those who were willing to kill her and all her friends, and she wasn't willing to take a life to save her own. (Property damage is a-okay, though.)
Working with some of the more creative members of Debris Section gave Ai an appreciation for bending the letter of the rules in favor of the spirit or just The Right Thing to Do, though she's generally an orderly person. In other words, she is very unlikely to break the rules for the hell of it or for her own convenience, but believes more in fairness and mercy than in obedience.
Abilities and Skills: Ai is a garden-variety normal human woman. She has some slight nerve damage from anoxia, but that has been mostly fixed. Skill-wise, Ai's former job was as an EVA specialist assisting in removal of debris from low-Earth orbits. She's in good physical shape, and is technically competent. She's got a well-developed intuition about moving in low/micro-gravity, is comfortable using a pressure suit, even an armored one, and has passed things like sensory deprivation tests. She's also used to balky equipment -- Debris Section had half the budget it should have had, and much of their equipment is old, second-hand or jury-rigged -- though she's no engineer or mechanic, she can at least tell when it's something that needs a specialist, and when it can be fixed by jiggering it a bit.
