Regina

[Name]: Shika
[Age]: Older than you :(
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[Name]: Regina
[Canon]: Dokidoki! Precure
[Age]: ~6 months (physically ~14 years)
[Gender]: Female
[Canon Point]: Post-canon

[History]: Thank goodness for wikia

[Personality]:
The first thing anybody would notice about Regina is just how selfish she is. Which is to be expected; she's introduced as the daughter of the personification of selfishness. What Regina wants, she gets. She demands it with absolutely no hesitation or humility. And if something is in between her and what she wants, she gets rid of it. And she expects to get what she wants, too. The thought of not getting what she wants scarcely crosses her mind.

At first, you could say she's self-absorbed (namedrop) and it's true. At her first introduction, she really didn't think about others, their opinions or wants or anything other than how useful they are to her. She even tells Mana, the first supposed friend she ever made, "That's why I like you, you're useful." In short, rather than treating people as people, she sees people in relation to how they can be useful to her. Because of that, a lot of times she ended up treating them almost as if they were her servants, giving them orders or simply refusing to listen to them. She really didn't think about what they wanted or needed; when she took something, she didn't consider who it affects at all. And when she tried to kill people for getting in her way, she doesn't even consider the ramifications.

The thing about Regina, though, is that, at first, she just doesn't know better. She was raised without knowing right or wrong. She literally starts off with no concept other than "Take what I want and make it mine." So when she sees something she wants, she doesn't pause to consider who it hurts. The thought that she even should care about that stuff is, frankly, alien to her. But she's never, ever purposely hurtful or malicious. She never intended to hurt people… because she never considered how her actions affect others. It's always about her, and others don't even factor into it. After her character growth, she knows better than to hurt others, and is more mindful of her actions, but she still acts selfishly, and her naivety means she could hurt others on accident. She doesn’t seem to mind making herself a nuisance, though.

She has changed over the course of the series. Through her meeting with Mana, she started learning about friendship, and through it, how to care about others. As she tells Mana, "When you hurt, my heart hurts." She began to experience things like guilt and shame as a result of her actions, to realize that her actions do have consequences.

She learned to take her social cues from others, since she doesn't know those social cues herself. Things in the human world confuse her, although she still hides that behind confidence and self-assurance. And, when in doubt, she just does what she wants anyway, although not in a way that’s harmful. But that's not to say she's done a complete 180 in personality; she's still quite childish, especially when given the chance to have fun, and she is indeed becoming a better person, but she hasn’t let it change who she is.

Because she has such a "Do what I want, screw everything else" mentality, even post-series, Regina can also be described as loud, energetic, and spontaneous. Actually, the best way to describe her general attitude is "childish." That's all because of her mentality; no social filters, just say what she thinks and do what she wants. It causes a lot of friction between her and normal people, when she actually interacts with them. In fact, Mana is pretty much the only girl (at first) who sees beyond that, although the rest of the Cures come around eventually.

She's… also supremely confident. With all of her powers intact, she often describes herself as "Invincible!" She really doesn't think she can lose, to anybody or anything.

She's horribly naïve, too. Because of her past, she doesn't really know ANYTHING about the normal world. She doesn't even know what ice cream is. That ties in with why she’s so naïve.

Due to her past, Regina is pretty much the embodiment of “selfish” love; the ability to love her friends and family more than her duties and the “greater good.” In fact, that’s literal – she’s the embodiment of Princess Ange’s selfish love. But even before she knows who she really is, she genuinely loves who she thinks is her father, King Selfishness, even though he's a sixty-meter mass of shadows that is the embodiment of selfishness and also wants to destroy the world and eventually the universe. Even after betraying him and becoming good, she loves him and wants him to love her back. The fact that he, at the time, had disowned her hurt a lot. When she breaks his brainwashing later, she still stays with him out of love. And when Mana presents an alternative, she takes it, her love for both her father and for Mana giving her the strength to fight.

Overall, Regina is spoiled rotten, naïve, and has absolutely no social awareness. Although she started as a villain, she only really follows her own desires, and even that's something she's improving on. She's starting to make friends and improve as a person...

[Abilities / Strengths & Weaknesses]:
Regina has a wide variety of supernatural abilities. At first, they seemed to be fueled by her being a Selfishness, but even after the truth is revealed AND she becomes good, she still has them. So who knows.

But for one, she can fly. For two, she can teleport. For another, she possesses immense strength – enough to toss a tank-sized spider to the horizon – and resilience. She's also shown to be able to shoot out blasts of dark energy – they can be quite powerful, enough to destroy the landscape and create massive ditches and craters. Those are the more cookie-cutter abilities though; she can also, with a simple snap of her fingers, create a much wider variety of effects. Anything from taping a person's mouth shut to withering a rose bush. She even seemed ready, at one point, to simply obliterate a school with a simple snap of her fingers. As such, her powers are ill-defined and can produce a wide variety of effects, and it can be presumed that she's capable of many other miscellaneous supernatural effects.

She also possesses a magical item known as the Dragon Glaive, or Spear of Light, or whatever the translators feel like calling it at the moment. It’s one of the three Sacred Treasures which can only be picked up by the one it deems worthy, meaning it can’t be used by anybody else. It’s a magic spear that cuts really well and can shoot huge energy blasts.

Her most notable power, however, is to create the "monsters of the week" in the Doki Doki! Precure series, called Selfishness (or Jikochuu.) Selfishness are created by enhancing a person's, well, selfishness, to color the person's heart (called Psyche in the series) black. Then she takes their blackened heart and it turns into a giant creature, often themed around what that person's selfish desire was – for example, a sculptor turning into a giant set of sculpting tools with the power to turn people to stone. Regina's notable in the fact that, out of all of the people shown with the ability to create Selfishness, she is the only one who can draw out the selfishness in a person's heart without them first performing something selfish. As she says herself, "All humans have selfish desires." So she can draw forth even latent selfish desires to create a monster. Post-canon, she’s a good guy, so she has no reason to use this, but since she kept all of her other Selfishness-like powers, I’m assuming she still could do this. But she won’t. Unless she gets brainwashed in a plot or something.

Being as naïve and sheltered as she is, though, Regina doesn't have many, if any, skills applicable outside of combat, unless you count bossing people around as a skill. She certainly can't sail, it's doubtful she can cook, she won't even know how to wash her own clothes. It's possible she can make up for some of that with her ambiguously-defined magic, but some things can't be magic'd up, and she'd be dead weight in a lot of non-combat cases or at any point where she's stuck powerless. She's also very easy to fool, whether through trickery or lies or manipulation. Honestly, she's more of a liability than not for a crew.

....Poor Regina.

[Limited Powers]:
I don't think her general powers are game-breaking enough to warrant stopping them. She's strong on a shounen-y level, but she's not a gamebreaker like a DBZ or top-tier One Piece character. There'll definitely be a limit to her flight and teleportation, though – namely her flight should be slow enough to make any island-to-island flight take too long (she needs to sleepand if it takes a week to get to another island that won't be feasible) and teleportation NOT work between dimensions or over long distances. In short, just dumb down her transportation-y powers so she has to sail places like everybody else.

[Other Important Facts]:
I got nothin’

[Samples]:
♦ Thread: BAM aw yeah
♦ Post:
[ Regina’s voice will come through the journal, loud and only slightly obnoxious. ] What’s the point of using a beat-up old book to communicate? If it’s going to record our voices anyway we should just get cell phones.

[ Regina, no.

She gives a small cough, then continues. ] So I found this really cool map. It looks like it leads to buried treasure – there’s a big red X on it and everything! But I can’t tell where it’s supposed to be.

...You know, if we had cell phones, I could just take a picture of it! And then it’d all be settled!

Somebody come by the docks and I can show it to you. But no going treasure hunting without me! That’s the deal! All right?

WINTER ADAMAS phone # contact # #shopping-buddies #friend o (◡‿◡✿) ( code )

ISAAC DIAN phone # contact # #mirror-people #odd-couple #funny #friends (✌ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞ ( code )

MIRIA DIAN phone # contact # #mirror-people #odd-couple #funny #friends (ᅌᴗᅌ* ) ( code )

?????? ??????? phone # contact # #jerkface #seriously #cute-dog-though (⋋▂⋌) ( code )

??????? ?????? no phone contact # #mysterious-texter #emoteless (*´ｪ｀*) ( code )

????? ????????? phone # contact # #mysterious-voice #wants-people-to-die-in-fires #helpful (;° ロ°) ( code )

??????? ??????? phone # contact # #helpful #good-makeup #goth ヽ( ´¬`)ノ ( code )

?????? ????? phone # contact # #mysterious-texter #helpful #only-sane-one （〃・・〃） ( code )

???? ?????? phone # contact # #insulting #beautiful #kinda-jealous (｀ε´) ( code )

OOC Information:
Name: Dr. Shika McDeer III, Esq.
Are you over 15? By a lot /sob
Contact: deerleisure

IC Information:
Name: Regina | Regina Young
Canon: Doki Doki! Precure
Age: Preincarnated age unknown | 14 years
Preincarnation Appearance:

Any differences: A little less "anime-bright" but that's really just a case of medium difference

Preincarnated History: Well shit. Okay, fine, let's do this.

Regina is presumably the daughter of King Selfishness, a huge abomination shadowy creature that is by all appearances the living embodiment of, well, selfish desire. She mentions it several times, flaunting it around even. But... we don't actually know a lot about Regina's past. Regina herself doesn't even know a lot: as of the current point, she claims that when she tries to remember the past that everything is "hazy." There's a very real possibility that Regina might not actually be King Selfishness's daughter, but rather brainwashed into believing it (for some unknown reason as of now.)

(I'd like to note that I'm not fond of creating headcanons for the blanks in a character's past, especially when more could be revealed later in canon - and in a game like this, it really won't matter anyway, so I'll leave it vague.)

The first time we see Regina is when she shows up at the Selfishness's base on Earth. They're trying to gain dark (selfish) energy from the population in order to undo the seal placed on King Selfishness after their victory in the Trump Kingdom. (It's notable that the three Selfish generals there had no idea who she was, or even that King Selfishness had a daughter to begin with.) Regardless, she more or less took over the Selfishness operations on Earth, but very quickly found her own priorities and used the Selfishness for her own goals.

What are these priorities she found? Well, mainly she took in interest in the number one enemy of the Selfishness, the Pretty Cures - a group of magical girls that fought off Selfishness when they appeared. Specifically, it was the leader of the Cures, Cure Heart (civilian identity Mana) who interested Regina. Something about Mana just struck Regina as intriguing, and she decided to become friends. Although Regina's concept of friendship was pretty skewed and, in many ways, completely off base, Mana put up with her, and eventually the two do form a real bond.

However, one day while trying to genuinely learn what friendship meant from the Pretty Cures, they come across a red crystal - a Royal Crystal, something the Pretty Cures were seeking. Somehow, the crystal ended up corrupting Regina, leading her to forget about her lessons on friendship and become obsessed with gaining the crystals – most of which were already in the possession of the Cures.

Regina eventually gathered all of the crystals, after a particularly harsh betrayal of trust from herself to Mana. But after assembling them and finding the lost princess of the Trump Kingdom, Regina regained her own free will. She apologized to Mana, but at that point, the Selfish generals appeared, taking Mana and the Trump Kingdom's princess back to the Trump Kingdom, where King Selfishness was sealed.

But as King Selfishness went over his plans to, you know, destroy the Earth and stuff, Regina realized that hey she likes stuff on Earth. And so Regina asked her father, the giant evil lord who destroyed an entire world, to spare Earth, showing how much she had changed. Naturally, her father disowned her and sealed Regina's powers because he's King Selfishness you don't tell him what to do.

Regina was used to trap Cure Heart after the Cures who showed up in the Trump Kingdom to rescue the princess. Regina and Mana end up suspended over a pit of lava by a rope that could only support one of them. Regina showed how much she loved Mana by throwing herself off the rope into the lava. But Mana saved her, and the power of their love friendship let Regina regain her powers. They beat up the bad guys and ran away to Earth again, along with aforementioned princess.

She and the Pretty Cures spend time together, growing closer, but it was all too short when the bad guys show up and Regina gets brainwashed into evil for real. And that's where canon is right now, but presumably other stuff happens but idk what yet.

Reincarnated History: Regina's parents are both prominent politicians. Her father, a member of the state Senate (R-Locke). Her mother, a member of the US House of Representatives (R). Despite their very career-oriented lives, though, the two of them desperately wanted a family. Before Regina was born, the two of them tried many times to start a family. But it was difficult for them. It took many tries, and several miscarriages, before Regina was born. Her birth was hailed as a miraculous affair after their many attempts.

However, even with their commitment to family, the both were still incredibly busy politicians. They loved their daughter, but they weren't about to put a halt on their careers, either. The two of them were hardly home, hardly spending any time with their little girl. Instead, they showed their love by getting Regina any and everything that she desired. Their love was shown in a material way, and while they still meant the best, their daughter was raised spoiled. Their feelings were truly genuine – Regina was their miracle child, the one they had wanted so desperately. But their busy careers got in the way, and to be honest, they weren't as prepared in it as they thought they were. To them, their alternate method was acceptable, and it succeeded in showing their daughter their love.

Regina was homeschooled for the first few years she should have started school. Her parents thought that a private home tutor was the best choice. But during an upscale dinner, one of the chairs of prestigious Starling-Chandler School spoke about the benefits of an education at a good school, her parents agreed. She was sent to go to the school when she was 10, along with a hefty monetary donation in the family name. She lived there, to "get the full social effects" as it were. With her parents' contributions, the staff let her get away with more than the other students. Because of her parents' status, the other students latched on as her friends. Being spoiled carried over into every facet of her life. Her friends weren't real friends – not that Regina had much of a concept of that – but while they were close only because of her money and parentage, they weren't mean-spirited either. They were just a background in her life, really.

Life has, for the most part, been simple. Get what she wants, hang out with friends, go to school. That's not to say that she's had it completely easy, though – her parents are not only politicians, but so are theirs; her family is an American political dynasty, and she's expected to follow in their footsteps. Attend an Ivy League school, go into politics, change the world. That sort of thing. And while she's led a good life, she has that always looming, always present. The expectations of her parents. Of society, really.

Until one day...

First Echo:It all started innocently enough. One of Regina's friends has gotten a bouquet of roses from her boyfriend. When she jokingly asked Regina if she was jealous, Regina ended up replying with the same line she had used in a previous life. "No, I hate roses. I can't forgive anything more beautiful than me." That brought about a sense of déjà vu, although it wasn't until later that she actually recalled the memory of the first time she met the Pretty Cures – before they had known she was an enemy, she talked to them in their civilian forms in a flower garden. It's about a minute long conversation, and not much was really said, but Regina certainly doesn't recall meeting those four girls at any other point... And for some reason, there's a number that she remembers as well...

Preincarnation Personality: The first thing anybody would notice about Regina is just how selfish she is. Which is to be expected; she's the daughter of the personification of selfishness. What Regina wants, she gets. She demands it with absolutely no hesitation or humility. And if something is in between her and what she wants, she gets rid of it. And she expects to get what she wants, too. The thought of not getting what she wants scarcely crosses her mind.

At first, you could say she's self-absorbed (namedrop) and it's true. She really doesn't think about others, their opinions or wants or anything other than how useful they are to her. She even tells Mana, the first supposed friend she ever made, "That's why I like you, you're useful." In short, rather than treating people as people, she sees people in relation to how they can be useful to her. Because of that, a lot of times she ends up treating them almost as if they were her servants, giving them orders or simply refusing to listen to them. She really doesn't think about what they want or need; when she takes something, she doesn't consider who it affects at all. And when she tries to kill people for getting in her way, she doesn't even consider the ramifications.

The thing about Regina, though, is that she just doesn't know better. She was raised without knowing right or wrong. She literally starts off with no concept other than "Take what I want and make it mine." So when she sees something she wants, she doesn't pause to consider who it hurts. The thought that she even should care about that stuff is alien to her. She's never, ever purposely hurtful or malicious. Because she doesn't consider how her actions affect others. It's always about her, and others don't even factor into it.

Because she has such a "Do what I want, screw everything else" mentality, Regina can also be described as loud, energetic, and spontaneous. Actually, the best way to describe her general attitude is "childish." That's all because of her mentality; no social filters, just say what she thinks and do what she wants. It causes a lot of friction between her and normal people, when she actually interacts with them. In fact, Mana is pretty much the only girl who sees beyond that. (That and her, you know, villainy.)

She's also supremely confident. With all of her powers intact, she often describes herself as "Invincible!" She really doesn't think she can lose, to anybody or anything. Except maybe her papa.

All of that was beginning to change, though. Through her meeting with Mana, she's learning about friendship, and through it, how to care about others. As she tells Mana, "When you hurt, my heart hurts." She's beginning to experience things like guilt and shame as a result of her actions, to realize that her actions do have consequences.

With that, she's also becoming a bit meeker, unsure of how to proceed. She's starting to realize that no, the world doesn't revolve around her. And she doesn't know quite how to continue forward with that in mind. She becomes a bit more quiet and watchful, taking her social cues from others, since she doesn't know those social cues herself. She's lost a lot of her confidence, at least on the surface. Things are still confusing for her: the situation, her life, and herself. But that's not to say she's done a complete 180 in personality, either; she's still quite childish, especially when given the chance to have fun, and overall it's pretty likely that, while she is indeed becoming a better person, she'd still regain more of her fun-loving and confidence as she grows more sure of her new role.

She's still horribly naïve, before and after getting better. Because of her past (or possibly just not remembering her past) she doesn't really know ANYTHING about the normal world. She doesn't even know what ice cream is.

She's also got something of "daddy issues." She does genuinely love her father, King Selfishness, even though he's a sixty-meter mass of shadows that is the embodiment of selfishness and also wants to destroy the world and eventually the universe. Even after becoming good, she loves him and wants him to love her back. The fact that he disowned her hurt a lot. Also, the fact that all of her past memories are "hazy" is hard for her, because she assumed probably wrongly, but hey that she's forgetting father/daughter memories involving him.

Overall, Regina is spoiled rotten, naïve, and has absolutely no social awareness. Although she's a villain, she only really follows her own desires, and that's something she's improving on. She's starting to make friends and improve as a person...

Until she gets brainwashed into being selfish and evil again. Well.

Any differences: Regina Young resembles her preincarnation self in a lot of ways. But she resembles more the pre-Mana version: greedy, self-centered, confident, and childish. In her new life, she doesn't have a Mana or an equivalent, at least not yet. While she does have friends, none of them are real friends, who would teach her about the right thing to do or make her question herself. Still, she does have friends, and a normal (at least, human) childhood, so there are differences in her from simply that; she has at least a semblance of manners, or how to fake them, and she's not nearly as naïve as her preincarnation. She might be naïve as far as some social situations, and on anything to do with people different from her, but she at least knows what ice cream is.

And she still has parental issues, but these are a different variety: she has parents, who do obviously love her, and she believes it to a degree, but she still finds herself doubting it at times. She wants nothing more than to spend actual time with her parents. She genuinely loves them and wants to KNOW it, not just believe it because they buy her things.

At her school, Regina might be considered a "popular girl" due to who she hangs out with, which is in turn due to her parents, but she doesn't exactly act like it. Sure, she's snobby and rude, but she's also not a bully. She doesn't pick on people, she just doesn't care about them. She doesn't even try to keep up with the latest trends, because she doesn't care about them. She does what she wants, wears what she wants. If anything, she sets the trends. Regina does care about her looks, something that may or may be in common with her preincarnation (we don't really see her taking any special notice of her looks, though she's remarkably pretty and wears fancy dresses.) However, she has her own ideas on what looks good and what doesn't.

She's also practically attached to her cell phone, and especially loves making cute emotes with it. She always has the latest cell phone, with the latest apps and games, although she spends most of her time with it texting her "friends" instead of the fancier stuff.

The biggest change in Regina, though? The fact that she has something to live up to. Responsibilities. In her old life, Regina WAS the daughter of King Selfishness. She could be called the princess and heir to a legacy of evil. But she... never really cared about it. It really was all about her (with a small dash of pleasing her papa.) In this life, she's going to a great school, with the expectation that she's going to get into an Ivy League college and then become a politician. She has a burden, and while she doesn't always show it, she does care about living up to it. She, despite what might be expected, does well in her classes, because she takes it upon herself to study. Also because her parents hire tutors, but that's expected. What can you do?

Abilities: Regina has a wide variety of supernatural abilities seemingly fueled by the fact that she is King Selfishness's daughter. For one, she can fly. For another, she possesses immense strength – enough to toss a tank-sized spider to the horizon – and resilience. She's also shown to be able to shoot out blasts of dark energy – they can be quite powerful, although more powerful when brainwashed by her father. Those are the more cookie-cutter abilities though; she can, with a simple snap of her fingers, create a much wider variety of effects, from taping a person's mouth shut to withering a rose bush. She even seemed ready, at one point, to simply obliterate a school with a simple snap of her fingers. As such, her powers are ill-defined and can produce a wide variety of effects, and it can be presumed that she's capable of many other miscellaneous supernatural effects.

Her most notable power, however, is to create the "monsters of the week" in the Doki Doki! Precure series, called Selfishness. Selfishness are created by enhancing a person's selfishness to color the person's heart black. Then she takes their blackened heart and it turns into a giant creature, often themed around what that person's selfish desire was – for example, a sculptor turning into a giant set of sculpting tools with the power to turn people to stone. Regina's notable in the fact that, out of all of the people shown thus far with the ability to create Selfishness, she is the only one who can draw out the selfishness in a person's heart without them first performing something selfish. As she says herself, "All humans have selfish desires." So she can draw forth even latent selfish desires to create a monster.

Roleplay Sample – Third Person:
Puppies.

They were cute. Adorable, even. This was something that was a universal truth. Regina spoke about hating things more beautiful than herself; this didn't apply to things were cute as puppies. She adored cute things, like most girls.

Regina loved puppies, and what she wanted, she got. There was a problem with her owning a puppy, though – she was boarding, and the school didn't allow pets. Or, this would be a problem... but Regina was positive that, given her parents' generous contributions to the school, they would overlook it if she were to, say, bring a puppy back and keep it in her room. She hadn't asked anybody, of course, but that was because she was sure they'd agree to it eventually anyway, and it wasn't worth the trouble getting it beforehand. (In short, it was easier to ask forgiveness than permission.)

And that was the reason Regina was currently downtown, in the middle of the city's largest pet store. They had a lot of puppies in their displays, and Regina was in the middle of tapping the glass and watching the puppies paw at her finger. She couldn't help but giggle at them. There was a cute little Labrador pup currently jumping on the glass, pawing at her. After a moment, it began to lick the glass instead. It was just so cute...! How could she possibly resist?

"Hey, mister!" she called out, quickly waving over a worker. He looked busy, but she was more important than... whatever it was he was working on. She barely noticed his grumbles as he walked over. "How much for this puppy right here?" He gave her a price; it was high, but then again, this was the largest pet store in the city. Higher than normal prices could practically be expected.

Not that Regina minded. She handed him a credit card, something her parents had gotten her ages ago. It had a spending limit, but Regina didn't sweat those details. Whatever it was, she had yet to hit it, and yet to hear anything about her spending habits from her parents. "I'll take her."

"Him," the store worker corrected automatically. He seemed to hesitate over taking the card. Probably because it wasn't the right protocol.

Regina, however, pushed it onto him. "Him, whatever. I just want my puppy."

Seeing no way out of it, the poor worker complied. And Regina, smiling, ended up leaving the store with her new puppy. Now to tell the people at the school...

Roleplay Sample - Network:
[ The following text shows up, as if written in a text message. Which... it is. ]

hi guys! (≧∇≦)/ Regina here!
I'm going to the zoo later I really want to see the penguins!
but the rules say you need somebody 16+ to get in
boo! ヽ( ｀0´)ﾉ
so I need somebody to come with me
oh
you need to be able to drive too
(´･ω･`)
pick me up in front of my school @ 3

Any Questions? No questions, but just throwing this out there – since this game seems to have a thing for conspiracies and government involvement, it's fine if you want to use Regina's family in the plot somehow (even if it means changing around their positions somewhat.) You've probably got it all figured out anyway, but I figured I'd offer.