Character Name: Usagi Tsukino

Gender: Female

Age: 16

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Personality Traits:

• Optimistic
  
• Hopeful
  
• Irresponsible
  
• Carefree
  
• Friendly
  
• Loves food
  
• Hopeless Romantic
  

Storyline Specific Information:
The Choosing - After World War IV, the countries of China, Japan, North and South Korea joined together to create one nation: New Asia. It would be ruled by one monarchy and a committee of ambassadors. The civilians would be split based on their occupations and incomes. This split became known as the castes. The citizens of New Asia were divided between the rich and the poor - those who benefit from the castes, and those who didn't. Rebels began to assemble, some in the North, and some in the South. This is the way New Asia is run.

It is tradition in New Asia for the country's crowned prince to host a process known as The Choosing when he comes of age. The Choosing is a method in which all young ladies between the ages of 16 and 18 living in New Asia enter their name into a lottery pool. Randomly, 35 ladies are Chosen and sent to live in the New Asian palace for The Choosing to officially begin. Over the course of the next several months, the Chosen ladies compete for the prince's heart. As he gets to know each lady more and more, the prince sends those who he did not want as his wife back home. The process continues until there is one girl left, and she becomes the next princess of New Asia.

The Choosing had been tradition for centuries, but now times are changing. Rebels are more ruthless and restless. Foreign allies are being strained. The economy is crashing, and there doesn't seem to be any way to fix it.

It is the year 2670, and Crown Prince Endymion of New Asia has finally come of age. It is time for The Choosing to begin.

Usagi Tsukino, a young girl living as a Six, received a letter inviting her to enter in The Choosing. Most girls would jump at the chance to be in The Choosing and be courted by Prince Endymion, but Usagi is quite the opposite. In fact, she doesn't want to enter. Why? Because she's already in love with a man back home: Seiya Kou.

Seiya is a Five, and he has been a big part of Usagi's life for as long as she could remember. He would provide food for her on those days where she had to sacrifice her own share for her little brother. He would hold her on those days when the family had to make yet another sacrifice. He would kiss her when all of the weight on her shoulders was pulling her down. He was her rock, her foundation, her everything. So she couldn't have been more surprised when Seiya urged her to join The Choosing. Why? Because all women who are Chosen get money sent to their families. And everyone knew that the Tsukino family needed money.

So Usagi entered, and to her shock, she was Chosen. Everything suddenly changed, and Usagi went from living the destitute life of a Six to living the luxurious life of a Two.

The competition is high, but Usagi doesn't care. She just wants to quickly get back home and back to Seiya where she belongs. But before she knows what hit her, Usagi would begin to see something in Endymion that she didn't see in anyone else. Slowly but surely, she would begin to fall for him.

Additional Information: Usagi is a beacon of light for her community back home. Despite her family's poverty, or the sacrifices she has had to make, she always has a positive outlook for the future. She tries her best, even though most of the time her attempts at helping only makes things worse, but she will never stop trying to help her family and the people around her.

Source: The Selection book series by Kiera Cass.

RP Sample: Usagi had been saving money for this day for years. Ever since she was a young child, she scrounged up any coins she could find, no matter their worthlessness, and saved it for this very day. After receiving the last penny she needed, Usagi dug up the dirty glass jar she had hidden beneath her floorboards and rushed to the only bakery in the city. With the biggest grin on her face, she purchased that beautiful powdered donut she had been staring at every day for the last ten years, and hugged the bag to her chest as she made her way home.

The smell of the powdered sugar, of the freshly baked dough, almost sent her into a euphoric coma. She couldn't stop smiling as she walked, transitioning from the market to the run-down slums of the Sixes. As she neared her home, she no longer cared about the donut. In fact, she felt ashamed. All this time, she had been saving that money for herself, when instead she should have been using it to help her fellow Sixes. Her eyes landed on two children sitting on the curb, their fingers absentmindedly swirling in the dirt. Seeing them, so small and so frail, sent a growing surge of guilt through Usagi's heart. She had been in their position - young, tired, starving.

She had made her decision. With a kind smile on her face, she approached the children and held the bag out to them. They gripped each other warily, unsure of whether or not to trust the blonde-haired girl with the hopeful blue eyes. "Here, it's for you. But you have to share, understand?" she said, her voice stern but kind. The older child hesitantly took the bag from Usagi and looked inside, her face filling with so much joy and glee, it brought tears to Usagi's eyes.

Perhaps her savings hadn't been for nought, after all.