★ meme info post.

[penalizing]

waste your bullets on me, but if you hurt one of my friends, you'll face a fate worse than hell!

Character Information

Basics

NAME: Mion Sonozaki
CANON: Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni
NICKNAMES: Mi-chan (by Rena), Mii (by Rika), Onee (by Shion)
AGE: 17
GENDER: Female
SEXUALITY: Bisexual
OCCUPATION: High school student

History

The Higurashi wiki is a good resource for understanding her past; here's a link to Mion's wiki page, until I have the time to write out a more detailed summary myself. I generally take her from Matsuribayashi-hen unless specified, and tend not to adhere to the information in non-canon arcs.

Personality

Mion was originally born as Shion Sonozaki, the younger of the identical Sonozaki twins. Due to prior family conflicts, the oldest twin was placed as the heir to the family, next in line once Oryou Sonozaki, their grandmother and the current head, passed away. As the younger twin, and thusly the unimportant one, she was excluded from family events while her older sister (who was at that time known as Mion) was always invited.

Even as a child, she felt this was unfair. She couldn't understand why they were treated so differently despite being identical. This led the twins to develop a more fair system, in which they would swap places at times so that both Shion and Mion could feel included. Unfortunately, one of these switches occurred on the day on which the eldest twin was supposed to receive the "mark of the heir" - a tattoo of a demon on her back. This mistake forced the two twins to permanently switch positions, and that was when Mion got her current name.

The twin-swap didn't just result in a name and position change, however; it had a lasting effect on both twins' personality. Mion wound up adapting her new position by affecting a tomboyish personality, choosing to suppress her naturally-girly side in favor of appearing as a capable heir to the powerful Sonozaki name. She refers to herself as "Uncle Mion," acts like a perverted old man at times, and pretends that she doesn't like things like dolls, which later leads to trouble when she wants her friend Keiichi to see her as a girl. Even when he manages to see past her front, she's so used to acting like one of the boys that her pride won't allow her to accept it. Hell, in Watanagashi-hen/Meakashi-hen, she goes so far as to masquerade as her sister when showing him affection, as she's too shy to do it under her own name.

That doesn't mean she doesn't still care about people; it just means that she has a much harder time expressing it, especially when it comes to said romantic feelings. She and her twin sister express their love for each other by teasing and embarrassing each other. She and her friends also are famous for playing "punishment games" together, where the winners get to torment the losers with whatever horrible punishment (wearing maid outfits, doing chores) they wish. Her way of expressing affection, more often than not, is to play around and tease people instead of being direct about it - because she feels that that sort of feeling isn't appropriate for her persona.

Of course, she does care about her friends - more than anything. She's a pretty moral individual, being against killing despite being a yakuza heiress, but she's willing to move bodies and cover up murders if that's what it takes to keep her friends safe. She's notable for being the one major character who never snaps and succumbs to the paranoia-inducing Hinamizawa Syndrome per Minagoroshi-hen, because of the fact that she has so much trust in her friends that the suspicion never takes hold. Mion is even willing to offer up her life if that's what it takes to keep her friends safe in Matsuribayashi-hen, because they are that important to her.

Still, when acting as the next head of the family, she can come across as quite cold. She forced her sister to rip off her fingernails as an apology for sneaking back from school and loving Satoshi, despite her sister's pleas for help, and is hesitant to speak out in Satoko's favor using her name due to her grandmother's disapproval. However, that doesn't mean she always agrees with her family's actions: she ripped out her own fingernails following her sister's punishment to make them equals again, and even threatened to kill her grandmother when she suspected her of causing Satoshi's disappearance. She simply struggles with reconciling her duties as the future head of the Sonozaki clan with her own personal beliefs.

Last but not least, she's notable for having leadership and tactical capabilities that are quite remarkable. Not only does she lead her club through their day-to-day activities, in Matsuribayashi-hen she manages to successfully lead their club to victory when fighting against a counterintelligence military unit. She's not necessarily the brightest when it comes to book smarts, but she's able to reason out the tactics and rationale used by their enemies even with little knowledge about them. Even with their limited training and resources, she maximizes the advantages the kids have in order to assure their victory and keep Hinamizawa safe. She can be easily disappointed when the going gets tough, and tends to give up easily in those situations, but when she's passionate about her strategy? That's when others should beware.

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Preferences

☆ Shipping: I play Mion as bi, with a slight tendency towards m/f. I am open to f/f; however, please ask prior to attempting an f/f ship, as I tend to be a little pickier about finding the right fit. Particularly interested in shipping her with a Keiichi or a Rena.

☆ Characters I'd like to play against: I'd love to do anything with her various clubmates or any crossover-y stuff with Umineko castmembers. Also open to cross-canon, however.

☆ Situations I'd be interested in playing: For Mion in particular, I'm interested in an AU where she's shot at the end of Matsuribayashi-hen, dealing with her family/inheritance issues/etc., and general club shenanigans. In general, I'm always a fan of hurt/comfort memes, soulmates & other AUs, texting memes (including tfln), as well as gen memes.

☆ Smut: Generally, prefer assumed CR (she's much more likely to be fooling around with someone she's in a relationship with than not). No nonconsensual situations.

Permissions

☆ Backtagging: Yes, more than welcome! I have a pretty busy schedule myself, so I can tend to take a while - so I'd never penalize anyone else for doing the same.

☆ Threadhopping: I'd generally prefer to avoid this, but depending on the case, could be allowable? Please let me know first.

☆ Fourthwalling: Please don't, unless for some reason that was the point of the thread and/or it was discussed beforehand.

☆ Contact: If you need to reach the player for any reason, please PM this journal or dewdrops.