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Name: Saica
Method of contact: AIM | Bengali Sonata
IC info:
Character name: Milagro Reyes
Age: 11 (8 in canon)
Gender: Female
Original canon: DC Comics
Target canon: CardCaptor Sakura
Canon background: Milagro Reyes had a normal life. Her father was a mechanic who owned his own garage, her mom was an amazing paramedic, and her older brother Jaime was a smart high-school student. Even if the two of them fought all the time, they still loved and cared for each other.
Then Jaime disappeared one day after finding some weird scarab. Milago tried to moved forward, but it felt impossible: she thought she lost her older brother for good. However, one year later, her older brother waltzes - crashes, really - into her bedroom into the middle of the night and nearly gives her a heart attack.
Turns out her older brother's a real live superhero! Although he gets into crazy scrapes that ensues in Milagro's endangered safety, Milagro doesn't mind. Her older brother has the coolest job ever, and she knows she'll always be protected by the people surrounding her.
AU background: Like most little girls, Milagro Reyes had a normal life. She had a mother and father that loved her, and even an older brother that simultaneously protected her and annoyed the living stuffing out of her! Life couldn't be any more perfect.
Then, one day when she was ten, her mother came home from work with a weird gift from a patient. She stuck the book in the basement, so naturally Milagro became curious. She asked her parents for permission to read it, and they agreed. (It was an old book. What harm could it do?) The next day, Milagro was home alone (Jaime was off derping around with his friends Brenda and Paco), so she snuck down to the basement and opened the book to discover 53 pink cards with weird titles and the name "Sakura" scrawled on each one.
Reading the first one that came to her lips - the Bubbles - Milago suddenly encountered a wave of bubbles all around her and her house. The book - and every card - spilled in the ensuing mess, and by the time poor Mila was able to clean everything up? The only card left was "the Jump." A very angry stuffed white cat then rose from the book and stared the poor girl down.
Calling herself Soleil, the cat (painfully nicknamed "Sunny" by Mila) explained everything to Milagro: she was the stupid girl who released the Sakura Cards from their spell. Now Milagro would have to capture them all over again! Milagro was understandably upset upon hearing this, but she took to her new task with some ease.
Keeping her new trials a secret from her family at first, Milagro captured the Flower and the Rain without much trouble. However? Once she caught the Song, she attracted the confused attention of her classmate and somewhat acquaintance Iris West. Milagro didn't directly tell Iris about her new task, but her classmate easily figured it out and wanted in.
Milagro had no choice but to tell Iris's twin brother Jai about the Sakura Cards. Jai, to his dismay, became the cameraman while Iris was the sidekick who insisted on dressing Milagro up "like a proper superhero! Like Sailor Moon or Kim Possible!" (Jai'd always retort, "Kim Possible isn't a superhero.")
With each new card capture, Milagro and the twins became closer than ever. Milagro started spending time at their house and became close to the West family (the Wests had just recently moved to El Paso thanks to Iris and Jai's dad's job). Linda and Wally became second parents to Milagro, and even Linda got dragged along on some of their crazy adventures while capturing cards! In particular, capturing the Glow card: Wally and Linda were surrounded by the light of fireflies during their anniversary dance. Even though the kids weren't supposed to be watching, they were, and Milagro successfully caught the Glow.
Then a new transfer student from Jordan waltzed into their lives. Calling himself Damian Wayne, he immediately cornered Milagro after school and demanded to have her Sakura Cards. Now. Jai and Iris interfered, but not before he managed to completely dumbfound poor Milagro.
Sunny knew some of Damian's story: Damian was the son of wealthy millionaire Bruce Wayne and Arabian magician Talia Al Ghul. The Al Ghuls believed that they were the rightful heirs of the Sakura Cards because their magic was also a blend of eastern and western magics like the Sakura Cards. Sunny didn't know anything else, but she chided Milagro with a warning to be more careful.
Milagro, Jai, and Iris continued capturing cards against Damian; they were relatively successful. Occasionally, their secret would nearly slip in front of Jaime and his new friend Traci, so Jai would concoct a weird excuse. Life moved on as normal... until the day Lian Harper came into their lives. Promptly hugging Damian, Lian insisted she and Damian were engaged to be married.
Iris didn't buy the excuse, but for once? Turns out she was wrong: Lian's mother Jade had arranged a marriage between her and Damian to pay off an ancient debt. Neither Lian nor Damian liked the arrangement, but as long as it would keep their families alive, they'd play along with it.
Lian, despite not having any powers, helped out with capturing more Sakura Cards and proved herself a worthy martial artist (and an expert at the bow!) While Iris was still suspicious of Lian, Jai and Milagro didn't see any problems with the new rivalry.
Sunny and Damian, however, proved to be the most bitter rivals: they fought over everything, including the proper burrito etiquette, and even poor Lian and Iris had to stop fighting to break Sunny and Damian up.
After capturing the Maze, Milagro learned more about Damian. Turns out his parents were locked in a bitter custody battle over him, and the poor boy had no choice but to live in Texas with a family butler while both sides duke out his living arrangements. When Milagro expressed her sympathy ("No one should have to go through that."), Damian blushed and angrily muttered he didn't want her pity. Despite his anger, though, the two CardCaptors became closer.
Milagro became grateful for her family and its normalcy. She decided to reveal her great secret at dinner the day after her maze adventure with Damian, and to her great surprise, everyone had known all along. Jaime even admitted that he switched jobs all the time to watch over her. They'd just pretended they didn't know until Milagro was ready to tell them.
Never had Mila loved her family that much. They wanted to know if they could help, but Sunny interrupted and said Milagro was great. If they wanted to support her, they should encourage her card capturing and perhaps not accept strange magic books from patients in the future. Jaime rolled his eyes at the last comment, but life seemed to return to its status quo.
"Seemed" being the keyword. With each new card capture came a weaker and sicker Traci Threllfall... and a stronger and faster Sunny. Damian remarked that he'd have to try harder to keep up with stupid Reyes - and Milagro could only snort at his bad attempts at humor - but he had a point. More cards appeared before them (the Mirror, who had a large crush on Jaime, especially stood out in Milagro's memory) and threatened to take over El Paso.
The last cards - the Firey and the Earth - were the most important. Once Milagro captured the Firey... Traci fainted. To make matters worse, large earthquakes stared shaking all over town. Milagro nearly slipped in-between the cracks. If Damian hadn't held her hand (and even yelled her name!), Mila doubted she'd still be alive.
Yet, the moment she caught the Earth - and finished scrawling her name on the 53rd card - the whole world changed. Traci started to glow and transform before everyone's eyes; before anyone could react, Traci called herself "Luna" and demanded a battle for the Sakura Cards. If either Damian or Milagro won - with only the cards in battle - then they were the rightful master of the Cards. If they didn't? Then they would forget everything from the moment Mila opened that fateful book.
To forget everything... would mean forgetting Jaime and Traci's relationship. It would mean forgetting Iris and all of her quirks; it would even mean forgetting the moment Damian first called her "Milagro." Mila didn't want that. Not at all. Damian - not used to fighting with the cards - unceremoniously lost and bowed the battlefield to Milagro.
He desperately tried to help - but Soleil stopped him in his tracks. She growled at him, "Do you want to make Milagro forfeit too?" and all Damian could do? Was scowl and mutter something about how stupid magic rules had become.
Milagro barely won the card fight against Luna; by barely, she almost fainted and forfeited. But she won. She kept the right to remembering everything. She became the rightful mistress of the Sakura Cards... and hopefully, everything would turn out alright.
Powers:
+ Mistress of the Sakura Cards: Milagro can call upon the Sakura Cards (53 cards that have different elemental powers) in battle with the chant, "Key that hides the power of the stars, show your true form before me. I, Milagro, command you under our contract. Release!"
NB: Since that chant is honestly too long for poor Milagro sometimes, she'll often quickly call "Release!" instead.
+ Although she isn't aware of it, Milagro's magic is the strongest in her universe - her magic is heart-based - and she can learn all other magic that she encounters. (For non-hax purposes on the train and going with CCS canon, she'll channel that magic through her cards.)
+ Using the Sakura Cards, Milagro can tell the future through her tarot cards and troll for S-links, okay wrong au. Her fortunes are incredibly accurate, since she has all 53 cards, and usually? Whatever she predicts happens without fail.
+ She's fluent in both Spanish and English.
Personality: Milagro is very much a typical eleven year old girl. While she can act bratty to her elders (especially Jaime!), she's still a total sweetheart who respects her elders (and pretty girls and people she crushes on) and tries to help people out to the best of her abilities. However, living in America with cable TV has also wizened her and made her more cynical to the world. She is nowhere near as gullible as most kids - even if she acts like it - and honestly will say, "are you pulling my leg?" if someone tries to spoon-feed something bizarre to her.
Like most girls, she loves and protects her family to the very end, but that doesn't stop her and her older brother from fighting all the time! Milagro does joke that one day, she'll be taller than Jaime and will some day be able to crush him, but she never actually pursues that dream. (The Big Card has been her best friend, but she also. Has a big brother who can see ghosts. Those two things automatically negate each other out.)
Her weaknesses, like all little girls, are sweets and creepy crawly things that go bump in the night. Ghosts frighten her, as do most scary things, and she hasn't exactly figured out a way to conquer her fears in that department yet! (She also won't admit it, but Damian scares her off a lot. Even if he is one big giant grumpypuss when it all boils down to it.)
Possessions: cell phone; all 53 Sakura Cards + star wand; homemade lunch from Mom; duffel bag (carries 1 extra set of clothes, a blank notebook + pen, and toiletries); clothes on her back; extra sets of hair ties; letters from Jaime and Traci;
Changes at a Glance:
Mistress of the Cards: Milagro has become a Card Mistress, and by extension, a spiritual successor to Sakura Kinomoto.
Where have all the Heroes Gone? Milagro lives in a modified version of the DCU, where superheroes cease to exist. Instead, nearly everyone with powers is a Homo Magi (or some kind of magical being)... and no one dares save the world in spandex. If anything, "world-ending" events are much more low-key and never make the news.
Older is Wiser: Milagro has been aged up from canon, and is now eleven years old.
Sample Post: The moment she stepped off the train - and back into her home world - Milagro felt a wave of relief wash over her. She was home. Finally and really home, with her Jaime and her Brenda and her Paco and her Damian, even if he acted very stupid sometimes.
No one would believe her about the train. It'd been hard enough convincing them about the Cards - and she had proof! - but about an imaginary train that was out to kill her? It'd be impossible to prove, especially since she couldn't just waltz up to the train and show them.
But Grandma had been waiting for them in Mexico City and welcomed Milagro and her friends with open arms. (No time had passed. How bizarre and unusual.) Grandma, even with her horrible English, made everything better... she always did, with those freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies.
So, Milagro couldn't help shelving the train as she plopped onto Grandma's couch and watched TV. No one would believe her - and she doubted that she'd ever go back - so... why not? It could wait another day.
Name: Saica
Method of contact: AIM | Bengali Sonata
IC info:
Character name: Milagro Reyes
Age: 11 (8 in canon)
Gender: Female
Original canon: DC Comics
Target canon: CardCaptor Sakura
Canon background: Milagro Reyes had a normal life. Her father was a mechanic who owned his own garage, her mom was an amazing paramedic, and her older brother Jaime was a smart high-school student. Even if the two of them fought all the time, they still loved and cared for each other.
Then Jaime disappeared one day after finding some weird scarab. Milago tried to moved forward, but it felt impossible: she thought she lost her older brother for good. However, one year later, her older brother waltzes - crashes, really - into her bedroom into the middle of the night and nearly gives her a heart attack.
Turns out her older brother's a real live superhero! Although he gets into crazy scrapes that ensues in Milagro's endangered safety, Milagro doesn't mind. Her older brother has the coolest job ever, and she knows she'll always be protected by the people surrounding her.
AU background: Like most little girls, Milagro Reyes had a normal life. She had a mother and father that loved her, and even an older brother that simultaneously protected her and annoyed the living stuffing out of her! Life couldn't be any more perfect.
Then, one day when she was ten, her mother came home from work with a weird gift from a patient. She stuck the book in the basement, so naturally Milagro became curious. She asked her parents for permission to read it, and they agreed. (It was an old book. What harm could it do?) The next day, Milagro was home alone (Jaime was off derping around with his friends Brenda and Paco), so she snuck down to the basement and opened the book to discover 53 pink cards with weird titles and the name "Sakura" scrawled on each one.
Reading the first one that came to her lips - the Bubbles - Milago suddenly encountered a wave of bubbles all around her and her house. The book - and every card - spilled in the ensuing mess, and by the time poor Mila was able to clean everything up? The only card left was "the Jump." A very angry stuffed white cat then rose from the book and stared the poor girl down.
Calling herself Soleil, the cat (painfully nicknamed "Sunny" by Mila) explained everything to Milagro: she was the stupid girl who released the Sakura Cards from their spell. Now Milagro would have to capture them all over again! Milagro was understandably upset upon hearing this, but she took to her new task with some ease.
Keeping her new trials a secret from her family at first, Milagro captured the Flower and the Rain without much trouble. However? Once she caught the Song, she attracted the confused attention of her classmate and somewhat acquaintance Iris West. Milagro didn't directly tell Iris about her new task, but her classmate easily figured it out and wanted in.
Milagro had no choice but to tell Iris's twin brother Jai about the Sakura Cards. Jai, to his dismay, became the cameraman while Iris was the sidekick who insisted on dressing Milagro up "like a proper superhero! Like Sailor Moon or Kim Possible!" (Jai'd always retort, "Kim Possible isn't a superhero.")
With each new card capture, Milagro and the twins became closer than ever. Milagro started spending time at their house and became close to the West family (the Wests had just recently moved to El Paso thanks to Iris and Jai's dad's job). Linda and Wally became second parents to Milagro, and even Linda got dragged along on some of their crazy adventures while capturing cards! In particular, capturing the Glow card: Wally and Linda were surrounded by the light of fireflies during their anniversary dance. Even though the kids weren't supposed to be watching, they were, and Milagro successfully caught the Glow.
Then a new transfer student from Jordan waltzed into their lives. Calling himself Damian Wayne, he immediately cornered Milagro after school and demanded to have her Sakura Cards. Now. Jai and Iris interfered, but not before he managed to completely dumbfound poor Milagro.
Sunny knew some of Damian's story: Damian was the son of wealthy millionaire Bruce Wayne and Arabian magician Talia Al Ghul. The Al Ghuls believed that they were the rightful heirs of the Sakura Cards because their magic was also a blend of eastern and western magics like the Sakura Cards. Sunny didn't know anything else, but she chided Milagro with a warning to be more careful.
Milagro, Jai, and Iris continued capturing cards against Damian; they were relatively successful. Occasionally, their secret would nearly slip in front of Jaime and his new friend Traci, so Jai would concoct a weird excuse. Life moved on as normal... until the day Lian Harper came into their lives. Promptly hugging Damian, Lian insisted she and Damian were engaged to be married.
Iris didn't buy the excuse, but for once? Turns out she was wrong: Lian's mother Jade had arranged a marriage between her and Damian to pay off an ancient debt. Neither Lian nor Damian liked the arrangement, but as long as it would keep their families alive, they'd play along with it.
Lian, despite not having any powers, helped out with capturing more Sakura Cards and proved herself a worthy martial artist (and an expert at the bow!) While Iris was still suspicious of Lian, Jai and Milagro didn't see any problems with the new rivalry.
Sunny and Damian, however, proved to be the most bitter rivals: they fought over everything, including the proper burrito etiquette, and even poor Lian and Iris had to stop fighting to break Sunny and Damian up.
After capturing the Maze, Milagro learned more about Damian. Turns out his parents were locked in a bitter custody battle over him, and the poor boy had no choice but to live in Texas with a family butler while both sides duke out his living arrangements. When Milagro expressed her sympathy ("No one should have to go through that."), Damian blushed and angrily muttered he didn't want her pity. Despite his anger, though, the two CardCaptors became closer.
Milagro became grateful for her family and its normalcy. She decided to reveal her great secret at dinner the day after her maze adventure with Damian, and to her great surprise, everyone had known all along. Jaime even admitted that he switched jobs all the time to watch over her. They'd just pretended they didn't know until Milagro was ready to tell them.
Never had Mila loved her family that much. They wanted to know if they could help, but Sunny interrupted and said Milagro was great. If they wanted to support her, they should encourage her card capturing and perhaps not accept strange magic books from patients in the future. Jaime rolled his eyes at the last comment, but life seemed to return to its status quo.
"Seemed" being the keyword. With each new card capture came a weaker and sicker Traci Threllfall... and a stronger and faster Sunny. Damian remarked that he'd have to try harder to keep up with stupid Reyes - and Milagro could only snort at his bad attempts at humor - but he had a point. More cards appeared before them (the Mirror, who had a large crush on Jaime, especially stood out in Milagro's memory) and threatened to take over El Paso.
The last cards - the Firey and the Earth - were the most important. Once Milagro captured the Firey... Traci fainted. To make matters worse, large earthquakes stared shaking all over town. Milagro nearly slipped in-between the cracks. If Damian hadn't held her hand (and even yelled her name!), Mila doubted she'd still be alive.
Yet, the moment she caught the Earth - and finished scrawling her name on the 53rd card - the whole world changed. Traci started to glow and transform before everyone's eyes; before anyone could react, Traci called herself "Luna" and demanded a battle for the Sakura Cards. If either Damian or Milagro won - with only the cards in battle - then they were the rightful master of the Cards. If they didn't? Then they would forget everything from the moment Mila opened that fateful book.
To forget everything... would mean forgetting Jaime and Traci's relationship. It would mean forgetting Iris and all of her quirks; it would even mean forgetting the moment Damian first called her "Milagro." Mila didn't want that. Not at all. Damian - not used to fighting with the cards - unceremoniously lost and bowed the battlefield to Milagro.
He desperately tried to help - but Soleil stopped him in his tracks. She growled at him, "Do you want to make Milagro forfeit too?" and all Damian could do? Was scowl and mutter something about how stupid magic rules had become.
Milagro barely won the card fight against Luna; by barely, she almost fainted and forfeited. But she won. She kept the right to remembering everything. She became the rightful mistress of the Sakura Cards... and hopefully, everything would turn out alright.
Powers:
+ Mistress of the Sakura Cards: Milagro can call upon the Sakura Cards (53 cards that have different elemental powers) in battle with the chant, "Key that hides the power of the stars, show your true form before me. I, Milagro, command you under our contract. Release!"
NB: Since that chant is honestly too long for poor Milagro sometimes, she'll often quickly call "Release!" instead.
+ Although she isn't aware of it, Milagro's magic is the strongest in her universe - her magic is heart-based - and she can learn all other magic that she encounters. (For non-hax purposes on the train and going with CCS canon, she'll channel that magic through her cards.)
+ Using the Sakura Cards, Milagro can tell the future through her tarot cards and troll for S-links, okay wrong au. Her fortunes are incredibly accurate, since she has all 53 cards, and usually? Whatever she predicts happens without fail.
+ She's fluent in both Spanish and English.
Personality: Milagro is very much a typical eleven year old girl. While she can act bratty to her elders (especially Jaime!), she's still a total sweetheart who respects her elders (and pretty girls and people she crushes on) and tries to help people out to the best of her abilities. However, living in America with cable TV has also wizened her and made her more cynical to the world. She is nowhere near as gullible as most kids - even if she acts like it - and honestly will say, "are you pulling my leg?" if someone tries to spoon-feed something bizarre to her.
Like most girls, she loves and protects her family to the very end, but that doesn't stop her and her older brother from fighting all the time! Milagro does joke that one day, she'll be taller than Jaime and will some day be able to crush him, but she never actually pursues that dream. (The Big Card has been her best friend, but she also. Has a big brother who can see ghosts. Those two things automatically negate each other out.)
Her weaknesses, like all little girls, are sweets and creepy crawly things that go bump in the night. Ghosts frighten her, as do most scary things, and she hasn't exactly figured out a way to conquer her fears in that department yet! (She also won't admit it, but Damian scares her off a lot. Even if he is one big giant grumpypuss when it all boils down to it.)
Possessions: cell phone; all 53 Sakura Cards + star wand; homemade lunch from Mom; duffel bag (carries 1 extra set of clothes, a blank notebook + pen, and toiletries); clothes on her back; extra sets of hair ties; letters from Jaime and Traci;
Changes at a Glance:
Mistress of the Cards: Milagro has become a Card Mistress, and by extension, a spiritual successor to Sakura Kinomoto.
Where have all the Heroes Gone? Milagro lives in a modified version of the DCU, where superheroes cease to exist. Instead, nearly everyone with powers is a Homo Magi (or some kind of magical being)... and no one dares save the world in spandex. If anything, "world-ending" events are much more low-key and never make the news.
Older is Wiser: Milagro has been aged up from canon, and is now eleven years old.
Sample Post: The moment she stepped off the train - and back into her home world - Milagro felt a wave of relief wash over her. She was home. Finally and really home, with her Jaime and her Brenda and her Paco and her Damian, even if he acted very stupid sometimes.
No one would believe her about the train. It'd been hard enough convincing them about the Cards - and she had proof! - but about an imaginary train that was out to kill her? It'd be impossible to prove, especially since she couldn't just waltz up to the train and show them.
But Grandma had been waiting for them in Mexico City and welcomed Milagro and her friends with open arms. (No time had passed. How bizarre and unusual.) Grandma, even with her horrible English, made everything better... she always did, with those freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies.
So, Milagro couldn't help shelving the train as she plopped onto Grandma's couch and watched TV. No one would believe her - and she doubted that she'd ever go back - so... why not? It could wait another day.