APPLICATION: Card Captor Sakura - Syaoran Li
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PLAYER INFO
NAME: Rhap-chan
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: Central Time Zone - observes Daylight Savings
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: Flame/Presea (forgotmyforge)
CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Syaoran Li
SERIES: Cardcaptor Sakura (manga)
RESERVED: Yes
WISHLIST: No
PERSONALITY: When Syaoran first appears, he is very, very
focused on his goal, to the point of being rude. He is suspicious of
most people that he meets, and he does not hesitate to let them know
that he dislikes them. He's quick to anger when he feels he's been
insulted or he doesn't understand something, developing antagonistic
relationships with Touya Kinomoto, Cerberus, and Eriol Hiiragizawa
because of this fact. He also has a big problem expressing his
feelings, and an act of kindness can cause him to blush and actually
flee the scene, because he doesn't know how to react to it.
As the series goes on, he becomes slightly less rude and irritable,
revealing a deep protective streak and a mature, quiet personality.
He's very thoughtful about all things, from trying to understand
what's going on with a particular Clow Card problem to understanding
how he feels about the people he cares for. Syaoran is socially
awkward, oftentimes preferring to spend time alone or only in the
presence of Sakura Kinomoto and Tomoyo Daidouji. Though initially he
considers himself Sakura's rival, over the course of the series, they
become friends. He's also rather naive and can be fooled by
Yamazaki's ridiculous lies.
He never uses Japanese honorifics and rarely calls anyone by their
first name-- Sakura is pretty much the only person whom he has that
intimacy with. He's a bad actor and awful at hiding his feelings,
which is revealed by his nervousness and blushing in the presence of
Yukito Tsukishiro, and later, Sakura.
Syaoran is blunt, plain-spoken, and quiet (except when angry, where
he'll shout with the best of them). He keeps his head in a crisis,
and he's extremely loyal. He's very serious and he very rarely
smiles.
TIMELINE: Right after he leaves Japan to go back to Hong Kong.
This is most of the way through the last chapter, before the
"epilogue" section.
BACKGROUND: Syaoran Li is the youngest of five children. His
father is dead, and when in Hong Kong, Syaoran lives with his mother
and four older sisters. Near the beginning of the series, Syaoran came
to Japan from Hong Kong in order to capture the Clow Cards after
Sakura broke the seal. He is related to Clow Reed in some manner
through Clow's mother's side of the family, and so his family believes
that they are the right holders for the Cards. At the beginning of the
story, Syaoran is about ten years old, in the fourth grade, and he has
the strongest magic of all the Li's, which is why he is sent to
Tomoeda.
Once he arrives in Tomoeda, he immediately confronts Sakura and tells
her to hand over the Cards. When she's reluctant, he tries to force
her, but her brother Touya pulls him off, thus the beginning of their
series-long enmity. Syaoran may have stayed to fight, except that
Touya's best friend Yukito shows up, and Syaoran immediately develops
a crush on him. (This is later explained as Syaoran being drawn to
the hidden magic in Yukito.) Embarrassed, he runs away.
Syaoran can sense when Clow Cards are around making mischief, and even
though he doesn't believe that Sakura is the rightful captor, he still
shows up and helps her out when they appear. He defends her from
Sword, but then he meets Cerberus, Sakura's guardian creature, who
he'd heard legends about, and is surprised to find that "Kero-chan"
looks like a stuffed animal. They get in a fight when Syaoran insults
Kero, but when Yukito appears, Syaoran runs away, embarrassed. He and
Sakura compete for Yukito's feelings many times during the series.
Later, Syaoran and Sakura fight Shadow together, and Syaoran defends
her from injury, as well as combining his magic with hers so that she
can trap the difficult Card in a halo of light. When Mirror tricks
Touya into the forest, Syaoran uses his rashinban (a magic detector)
to help Sakura find her brother and the Card. Sakura continues to
catch Cards with or without his help, but most of the time, he shows
up.
Soon, Mizuki Kaho shows up, and Syaoran is immediately suspicious of
the magical power she holds. She seems harmless and Sakura develops a
small crush on her. When Sakura, Tomoyo, and (separately) Syaoran
decide to go to Mizuki Shrine to buy charms, they find themselves
caught in the Maze Card's trap. Syaoran and Sakura can't figure out a
way to escape, but Ms. Kaho helps them escape with the aid of a
magical bell.
Later, they go on a field trip to the beach. One night, Syaoran and
Sakura sit out at night and talk awkwardly about their feelings for
Yukito. Sakura had been frightened of their Courage Challenge the
next day, but she was able to sleep after that. Unfortunately, during
the Courage Challenge, the Erase card makes trouble, making people
disappear right in front of Sakura's eyes. Syaoran tells her not to
panic and makes her focus enough to defeat it, even as he disappears
too. Sakura asks Syaoran why he wants to collect the Cards, and
Syaoran tells her that Clow had written of a terrible evil that would
befall the Earth if the Cards weren't collected again.
At a festival some time after, Syaoran and Touya compete for Yukito's
(and/or Sakura's) affections by playing target games, and Syaoran
proves to be a very good shot. Sakura spends time with Yukito and
then catches the Glow Card.
After summer vacation, Sakura's class decides to put on a play for the
school culture festival. Parts are assigned by a draw of lots, and
Sakura is cast as the prince, while Syaoran is the princess. Kaho
continues to give Sakura small cryptic warnings about an upcoming
trial. The princess part does not help Syaoran's nerves. He's
beginning to feel fond of Sakura, seeing her less as a rival and more
as a romantic interest. Even so, Tomoyo convinces Syaoran to play his
part by mentioning that Yukito is in the audience.
The play is interrupted by the Dark Card, and Kero suspiciously
consults with Kaho, who is unaffected by the darkness that has
unfolded over everyone else. Sakura is uncertain in the dark until
she realizes that she herself is glowing. The Light Card emerges from
her place in Sakura's heart and she captures Light and Dark together.
They warn Sakura about a name that she's heard Kero say before -- Yue,
the Judge.
Not much later, Sakura and Tomoyo are out when Sakura gets a strange
feeling. Syaoran appears and tells them that he thinks a Clow Card is
near, but they run into Yukito instead, who offers to take them to a
restaurant for a treat. Touya is working there, but more importantly,
Kaho arrives to consult privately with Sakura. She won't tell her
much about Yue, but while they speak, Tomoyo teases Syaoran about the
crush he's developing on Sakura. He denies it fervently, but she
doesn't believe him.
After they leave the cafe, with Yukito and Kaho in tow, the Firey Card
appears. Reluctantly but dutifully, Syaoran knocks Yukito out so that
he doesn't see Sakura use her magic. Sakura uses both Windy and
Watery, high level cards, to capture Firey. When she does, Kero
assumes his true form of a winged lion. The Earthy Card begins to
cause earthquakes and fissures, and Syaoran has a desperate moment
where he loses Sakura down one of the holes, shouting out her first
name for the first time. She survives using Fly and is pleased by
Syaoran's care, but fighting Earthy is difficult. By riding Cerberus,
Sakura manages to survive and catch it, and this is the final Card.
When she writes her name on it, Yue wakes out of Yukito, shocking them
all. He tells them that he is the Judge and will determine whether or
not Sakura is worthy to hold the Clow Cards. She is reluctant to
fight him because Yukito is part of him. Syaoran tries to help, but
cannot: this is Sakura's battle. Yue tells Sakura about the
prophesied disaster. If she fails the Judgment, then each person
involved with the Clow Cards will forget the person they love the
most, including the Cards, whose most important person is their
master, Sakura.
The fight looks bleak, but Kaho finally reveals her reason for
involvement in Sakura's trials. She gives Sakura the Moon Bell,
crafted by Clow, and adding in its magic changes Sakura's staff to a
new one, which she can use against Yue. Sakura defeats Yue and asks
to be his friend, rather than his master. Then she has a vision of
Clow, who tells her to watch out for himself, because "he" was coming
soon to cause trouble. Cerberus tells them that Sakura was the only
legitimate candidate for Clow Card Master, and Syaoran reluctantly
admits that she's a good master, and he doesn't mind too much. This
ends the first half of the manga.
The second half opens quietly. All of the Cards have been captured,
although Sakura has been having strangle prophetic dreams she can't
remember. Syaoran tells them that he's going to go back to Hong Kong
-- with the Cards captured, he has no reason for staying. He soon
develops one, however: there's a new transfer student to their class,
one Eriol Hiiragizawa from England, and he has a certain interest in
Sakura that makes Syaoran jealous. It doesn't take Syaoran long to
decide he isn't ready to leave yet.
As it turns out, the rain that has been falling all day is unnatural,
and is only falling on Sakura's city. Kero says that it's a magical
rain, and so Sakura goes out to fight it, accompanied by Tomoyo. Her
magic is distressingly ineffective against it, and she's forced to
leave, observed by a shadowy figure. Kero is quite disturbed by this
and tells Sakura that he needs to speak to Yue. Syaoran and Sakura
talk about the magical rain at school, and Syaoran worries that it
comes from someone more powerful than Sakura.
Yukito comes home with Touya and stays so that Yue can talk to Kero.
The three of them decide to go out into the rain again to investigate.
The guardians are struck by a magic that makes them unable to move,
and Sakura is taken up in a magical waterspout, unable to fight or
breathe. Desperately she finds the strength to use a power we've
never seen before. She transforms the Firey card to free herself and
then collapses from exhaustion. The shadowed figure seems pleased by
this development.
When Sakura wakes up the next morning, she's too exhausted to go to
school. Noting Syaoran's worry when she doesn't come to class, Tomoyo
invites him to come with her to visit Sakura after school. They bring
her the treats they made in home ec and Kero explains that Sakura has
remade the Clow Card with her own magic. Tomoyo proposes calling it a
Sakura card. Syaoran asks why the Clow Cards were ineffective
beforehand, and Kero reveals that there was no magician who could
possibly hold back the guardians and cause this mess -- no magician,
that is, except Clow Reed, a man long dead. We discover through a
side-flash that Eriol is actually the reincarnation of Clow, come to
Tomoeda to find something that he wanted. Nakuru, an irritating
transfer student to Touya's class, is one of his guardians, and a
winged panther is the other.
Sakura and the other girls have lunch together, and since Rika is
making a teddy bear, Tomoyo tells them all the legend that giving a
teddy bear to the person you love, and naming it after yourself, will
make them return your love. Syaoran is observing from a nearby tree.
He speaks briefly to Eriol, who is trying to be friendly... at least,
until he speaks Syaoran's full name, and this causes Syaoran to
collapse, perhaps overcome by Eriol's magic. Eriol catches him and
pretends concern when Syaoran comes to, but Syaoran runs away (after
awkwardly thanking him). Eriol remarks enigmatically that Syaoran is
in his way.
Later, Sakura decides to go to the craft store to get a bear kit, so
she can make one for Yukito. Tomoyo agrees to come along, and when
Eriol asks to accompany them as well, Syaoran insists on going too.
At the craft store, Eriol buys a great quantity of thread, and the
others make different purchases. Later, at home, Yuki comes by to
give Touya back a dictionary he borrowed, and Yue talks privately to
Kero, telling him that he isn't sure how long he can go back to his
true form with the little magic he has remaining. Sakura feels a
magical presence and they go out to investigate. This time, Syaoran
comes too, and suddenly he looses control of his body and begins to
attack Sakura with his sword. With all of his strength, he uses a
spell shenfu and reveals that he's being controlled with magical
thread. Sakura transforms Sword to cut it and free him, and then
collapses in Syaoran's arms. This, it seems, was the reason that
Eriol bought thread.
The next day Eriol helps Sakura with her bear sewing and kisses her
hand, continuing his flirtations. Syaoran has also constructed a
bear, but feels ambivalent about it. He thinks about giving it to
Yukito, but thoughts of Sakura also keep cropping up. He runs away
from his feelings for a while until Yue appears in front of him and
tells him that his attraction to Yukito is solely because of Yuki's
magical powers. Syaoran realizes that he's really in love with
Sakura, and Yukito gives him the bear back, telling him to give it to
someone special.
Later that night, Sakura goes to Yukito's house to deliver her bear,
but the exercise is interrupted when the bear transforms and becomes
huge. It starts attacking Sakura and damaging Yukito's house. Sakura
changes Jump and tries to get close enough to take care of the bear's
source of power, which is in its ear, but she can't get close enough
to attack with Sword. She asks the Fly card to make it possible for
her to use both Fly and Sword. Previously Fly grew wings on the staff
that she uses for Sword, but when she changes it, she grows wings from
her back instead. Now that she can get close enough, she cuts off the
bear's ear. A small paper floats out and it has Clow's magic circle on
it.
The next day Sakura tells Syaoran about the problem, and gives him a
phone that Tomoyo gave her, promising to call him any time something
weird happens. They talk a little about Yuki and Syaoran admits that
he doesn't like Yukito anymore. He doesn't tell her who he likes
instead, though he leaves his stuffed bear with her. Meanwhile,
Yukito continues to weaken and tire, and Nakuru continues to interrupt
any of Touya's attempts to have a conversation with him about it.
A few days later, Sakura wakes up with a fever, but she hides it so
that her dad won't be worried and he can go to his archaeological dig.
She collapses in gym and Syaoran prevents her from getting hurt.
Touya and Yukito show up to take her home. As soon as she gets home,
however, she realizes that she senses Clow's presence. So that Touya
won't worry, she leaves Mirror in her bed and goes out to take care of
the magical mist. She transforms Windy to dissipate it, but collapses
again. Luckily, Eriol catches her. He apologizes for his mischief,
as he didn't know she was sick. He heals her fever and leaves her for
Syaoran to find with his coat draped over her.
Valentine's Day gets Sakura all excited and she makes chocolate for
Yuki, Touya, and her dad, plus one extra. Although Syaoran has made
her chocolate too, he's too embarrassed to give it to her at school.
Instead he turns all of his power to finding the owner of the
mysterious coat. Eriol cheerfully blocks his attempts. Later we find
out that Syaoran left the chocolate in her mailbox, and although he
didn't leave a note, Sakura knew who it was from and made him a pencil
case for White Day.
Yue continues to weaken, and doesn't accompany them the next time
Sakura goes after Clow's presence. Someone has moved the penguin
slide in the park and put in a gigantic hole. When Sakura goes down
there, Eriol puts a magical cover on top of it, and although Syaoran
bangs on it worriedly, he can't get through. Eriol has decided that
he admires Syaoran's determination, but Sakura will have to deal with
this herself. When the hole begins to fill up with stuffed sheep, she
almost suffocates, but then she transforms the Erase to get rid of
them. She uses Earthy to fix the hole, changing it too.
Eriol continues to mentor Syaoran in his irritating little way,
helping him in a basketball game and telling him to stay calm to get
stronger. Yukito is walking near the fence separating their schools
when he spots Eriol. Immediately Yue transforms and chases Eriol,
asking him why Clow was back in such a form. Eriol puts Yue to sleep
and wipes his memory of the incident, claiming that he isn't ready to
be discovered yet.
That afternoon, Syaoran and Sakura go to Tomoyo's. As Sakura tries on
dresses, Tomoyo tries to council Syaoran's romantic woes. She
encourages Syaoran to confess his feelings, but their conversation is
cut short when Sakura senses Clow again. The presence is strongest at
the school, and they find themselves trapped in it. Whenever they
open a door, it opens onto a room it shouldn't. Tomoyo, trailing
behind, gets caught behind one of the doors and lost. Sakura starts
to cry, but Syaoran tells her to be strong and figure this out.
Finally, they hear Tomoyo's singing, and Sakura transforms Shadow,
telling it to seek out the shadow of the singer. This leads them
right to Tomoyo. Sakura thanks Syaoran for helping her stay calm. He
seems to be considering confessing to her, but then Kero distracts
them.
Another confession is interrupted the next day at school, when
Syaoran's words are overlaid with a shriek. Yukito has collapsed at
the high school. Touya takes him to the nurse's office and chases off
Nakuru. He tells Yuki that he knows that Yuki isn't human, and Yue
appears. Touya offers his power to Yue, so that Yue can continue
existing, and Yue agrees. Sakura, who came to see what was wrong, is
devastated by the fact that she couldn't support Yue, but the guardian
tells her not to be sad. She is still only a young magician, after
all.
At the class festival, Sakura and Yukito go to a romantic, starry
exhibit and Sakura confesses her feelings to him. Yukito asks her to
consider whether her feelings are actually familial feelings, rather
than romantic, and she admits that they might be. He also tells her
that his number-one love is her brother, and although she is upset
because of her failed confession, she is happy for the two of them.
Strange magic begins to pop all of the stars in the exhibit. So that
people won't worry, she transforms Illusion and Maze to make a
planetarium for anyone else who might wander in, and starts running to
find the source of the power. She finds Eriol behind the curtains,
but he knocks her out and takes her memory away, praising her growing
strength, but insisting that he is not ready to be known yet.
Syaoran, who had also felt the surge of power, fights through Maze to
find Yue and together they look for Sakura.
When she touches Eriol, Sakura has a vision of Clow's preparations for
death -- sealing Kero and Yue in the book, and using the last of his
magic to become two people. Kero insists that his memory of Clow's
last moments is different, and wonders why Clow would have altered his
memory. Syaoran and Sakura go out to walk Tomoyo part of the way
home, and Sakura asks Syaoran to come with her to the part for a
while. While there, she tells Syaoran that she confessed to Yukito.
She admits that she was a little romantically in love with him too,
and her feelings are hurt. Syaoran holds her and lets her cry, and
gives her his handkerchief.
After a few days, Sakura is back to being her old self. Touya is
tired, but also okay. Sakura decides that she needs to thank Syaoran
for listening to her when she was sad, and when she sees the sign for
a festival, she knows what to do. She invites him to come and she
spends the week making him a yukata in secret. Touya, Yukito, Tomoyo,
Sakura, and Syaoran go to the festival. Syaoran tells Tomoyo that he
doesn't want Sakura to worry about hurting his feelings, so he won't
confess to her. While Touya and Yukito are getting drinks, the
children get attacked by a horse statue. Sakura transforms Thunder,
and with Syaoran's help as well, they "kill" the horse and it falls
into the lake. She then uses Glow to restore power to the festival.
Afterward, Tomoyo says that Syaoran should let Sakura know how he
feels anyway. If she turns Syaoran down, she won't be sad forever.
Sakura continues to have visions of Clow when she sleeps, and the
shadowy figure who holds his staff. Kero still can't think of a
reason for Clow's magic all around these crazy incidents. Sakura
decides that she needs to go to Tokyo Tower, the place where her
visions are set, and find out what's going on. Syaoran insists on
coming too, and promises that he'll tell her something important when
they get back. When they arrive, they meet Eriol, donned in his Clow
robes, and his guardians. Eriol admits that he was Clow in a past
life, and he uses his magic to cover the sun and the moon and put
everyone to sleep. Yue rushes to Sakura's side, bringing a sleeping
Touya. The only other person besides Sakura who remains awake is
Syaoran. Eriol tells Sakura that she must break his spells, or
everyone will sleep forever.
At first Sakura refuses to fight, and Eriol sends his guardians to
attack Kero and Yue. This makes Sakura upset and she begins to fight
in earnest, but all of her methods aren't working. She realizes that
Light and Dark are the last Cards that she hasn't changed, but she
can't change Light on its own, and she's not sure that she has enough
power to change these powerful Cards. Kero and Yue offer to combine
their powers into her staff, making her stronger. Syaoran also helps,
giving her the very last of his magic and falling asleep. Sakura
holds tight to her invincible spell ("I'm sure I'll be all right!")
and manages to punch through Eriol's darkness. Syaoran awakes to
Sakura hugging him. When he says that he wasn't very helpful, she
tells him, "Because you were here, I was able to try harder."
Eriol quits his attacks and comes down to ground level with the rest,
but oddly, Sakura's father wanders into the fray, looking rather
confused by everyone in their costumes and the guardians. Eriol tells
them that Fujitaka is his other self -- Clow's other reincarnation.
Fujitaka didn't have any of Clow's memories or magic. He talks Sakura
through a spell to split his magic and give half of it to Fujitaka,
thereby accomplishing his goal: to no longer be the strongest magician
in the world.
He invites them back to his house for tea and explanations. He tells
Sakura that he kept his involvement secret so that she would try
harder than she would against a friend, and explains that this whole
plot was so that he would no longer be the strongest magician, and so
that Sakura could power the Cards and guardians with her own magic
after Clow's ran out. Kaho appears and explains that she met Eriol
overseas, and was able to help him while in England. Tomoyo asks if
Sakura will have to start seeing the future now that she's this
powerful, and Eriol reassures them that she won't unless she activates
the ability herself.
Eriol goes out to talk to Yue and explain to him that, even though
he's Clow's reincarnation, he isn't Clow, and can't be Yue's master.
The most unpredictable thing about human beings is their hearts, but
he doesn't mind that Yukito ended up loving Touya and that Sakura
ended up loving Syaoran (not that Syaoran has confessed yet).
The next day, Fujitaka discovers that a side effect of having magic is
being able to see the ghost of his dead wife, and they reunite
happily. When Sakura gets to school, she learns that Eriol is going
to go back to England. After school, Syaoran takes Sakura to the park
and admits that he loves her. Uncertain, Sakura goes home and thinks
about how she feels for Syaoran. The next day Tomoyo and Sakura go to
Eriol's home and say goodbye to Eriol and Kaho and the guardians.
Eriol tells her to study her feelings now that he's leaving, and
compare them to her feelings when someone else is leaving. After
Tomoyo and Sakura leaves, Kaho confesses her love for Eriol, and he
accepts.
Still confused by her feelings for Syaoran, Sakura goes out on a walk.
She runs into Chiharu and asks her for relationship advice. Chiharu
tells her to apologize if she's done something wrong, and so Sakura
decides to go to Syaoran's and apologize for not answering his
confession. While there, she discovers that he's moving back to Hong
Kong, since the Cards have all been changed and the danger is over.
She leaves him, crying because she doesn't want him to go, and she
runs into Rika. Rika gives her advice about being with someone that
she can't see all the time, saying that it's worth it to love people
like that.
Sakura makes up her mind how she feels. She spends all night making a
teddy bear for Syaoran, but it's almost too late when Tomoyo calls and
tells her when Syaoran is leaving. Touya reluctantly drives her on
his motorcycle to meet Syaoran's bus. She tells Syaoran that she
loves him the most, and asks him to take the teddy bear as a symbol of
her love. He promises to come back to her when he can.
ABILITIES: Syaoran uses Chinese magic in the series, most of
the time activating elemental shenfu/ofuda (little papers inscribed
with spells) using his jian (Chinese short-sword). He also can use an
object known as a rashinban which Clow created, and Syaoran uses to
detect the location of Clow cards. It also glows in the presence of
strong magic. Syaoran is an accomplished martial artist and seems able
to use his sword as a sword and not just as a channel for his magic,
though he seems to prefer using the magic. He has quick reaction times
and is good at most sports.
The martial arts would be an easy unlock. Since there probably aren't
a lot of ofuda lying around, it would be much harder for him to
manipulate magic comfortably, and it would likely take him a very long
time to do so. Everyone in canon uses focusing objects for their
magic, and without a sword and his papers, he'd be at a loss.
GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Clow
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes please~
DREAM:
The crescent moon and a stylized sun nestle together in a golden
circle filigreed beneath his feet. It is ringed round with symbols,
characters he's sure that he could read, if only he could look more
closely. But he can't, and the slick-sharp sound of shuffling cards
is loud in his ears. He speaks, but knows these aren't his own words.
"The evil that will be set loose when all the Clow Card seals are broken..."
The Cards are arranged around him, floating along the border of this
circle, but one after another they flip to show him their backs: soft
pink with a star--
Her star. Her own star. He suddenly misses a giggle he can't quite
remember. Where is she, his most important person?
He reaches out, wanting, and a Clow Card comes into his hands. On the
face a Maze is inked, but this is no maze. This is his hand on her
shoulder, impatience and disbelief and then the angry blue eyes of a
stranger. And then there is the curious warmth that burns in his
stomach, a puzzled smile, and he's running as fast as he can.
When he stops there is another Clow Card. The name is Sword and he's
holding one, its hilt as familiar as his own reflection. He is the
protector, always, although in the end he cannot help her, and the
boy-man who stands opposing them has a triumphant gleam in his eyes.
The sword is no use now, so he puts his hands on her staff and gives
her everything he has, until his legs can't support him any longer and
he's falling.
"I can't do anything for her," he says, and a girl answers, voice
kind, "That's not true. You do plenty of things for her. Have faith
in yourself."
He draws the next Card blindly and her name is Wood, as solid as his
promises. He holds a pink bear and won't let go. He will come back.
He will have faith. Still, he watches through the bus window until
he's absolutely sure he can't see her anymore.
The bear is gone. The next Card is blank and a bell rings straight
through him, over everything, insistent, and he cannot ignore it. He
has to wake.
JOURNAL SAMPLE:
[ The handwriting is small and messy, and also slow. Each
paragraph has definite moments of space between it, like the writer is
thinking very hard about what he wants to say. ]
Clow. Not my real name, but it will work.
I'm new. I need a sword.
I want to know what the dream means.
Hi, Rhap-chan!
After reviewing your application, we would like to request some clarification on his abilities- specifically the use of elemental seals. The main two points we would like to see elaborations on are: what type of seals does Syaoran use, and what are their effects?
Please feel free to submit your revisions and we will continue processing your app.
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PLAYER INFO
NAME: Rhap-chan
LOCATION/TIME ZONE: Central Time Zone - observes Daylight Savings
CURRENT CHARACTERS, if any: Flame/Presea (forgotmyforge)
CHARACTER INFO
CHARACTER NAME: Syaoran Li
SERIES: Cardcaptor Sakura (manga)
RESERVED: Yes
WISHLIST: No
PERSONALITY: When Syaoran first appears, he is very, very
focused on his goal, to the point of being rude. He is suspicious of
most people that he meets, and he does not hesitate to let them know
that he dislikes them. He's quick to anger when he feels he's been
insulted or he doesn't understand something, developing antagonistic
relationships with Touya Kinomoto, Cerberus, and Eriol Hiiragizawa
because of this fact. He also has a big problem expressing his
feelings, and an act of kindness can cause him to blush and actually
flee the scene, because he doesn't know how to react to it.
As the series goes on, he becomes slightly less rude and irritable,
revealing a deep protective streak and a mature, quiet personality.
He's very thoughtful about all things, from trying to understand
what's going on with a particular Clow Card problem to understanding
how he feels about the people he cares for. Syaoran is socially
awkward, oftentimes preferring to spend time alone or only in the
presence of Sakura Kinomoto and Tomoyo Daidouji. Though initially he
considers himself Sakura's rival, over the course of the series, they
become friends. He's also rather naive and can be fooled by
Yamazaki's ridiculous lies.
He never uses Japanese honorifics and rarely calls anyone by their
first name-- Sakura is pretty much the only person whom he has that
intimacy with. He's a bad actor and awful at hiding his feelings,
which is revealed by his nervousness and blushing in the presence of
Yukito Tsukishiro, and later, Sakura.
Syaoran is blunt, plain-spoken, and quiet (except when angry, where
he'll shout with the best of them). He keeps his head in a crisis,
and he's extremely loyal. He's very serious and he very rarely
smiles.
TIMELINE: Right after he leaves Japan to go back to Hong Kong.
This is most of the way through the last chapter, before the
"epilogue" section.
BACKGROUND: Syaoran Li is the youngest of five children. His
father is dead, and when in Hong Kong, Syaoran lives with his mother
and four older sisters. Near the beginning of the series, Syaoran came
to Japan from Hong Kong in order to capture the Clow Cards after
Sakura broke the seal. He is related to Clow Reed in some manner
through Clow's mother's side of the family, and so his family believes
that they are the right holders for the Cards. At the beginning of the
story, Syaoran is about ten years old, in the fourth grade, and he has
the strongest magic of all the Li's, which is why he is sent to
Tomoeda.
Once he arrives in Tomoeda, he immediately confronts Sakura and tells
her to hand over the Cards. When she's reluctant, he tries to force
her, but her brother Touya pulls him off, thus the beginning of their
series-long enmity. Syaoran may have stayed to fight, except that
Touya's best friend Yukito shows up, and Syaoran immediately develops
a crush on him. (This is later explained as Syaoran being drawn to
the hidden magic in Yukito.) Embarrassed, he runs away.
Syaoran can sense when Clow Cards are around making mischief, and even
though he doesn't believe that Sakura is the rightful captor, he still
shows up and helps her out when they appear. He defends her from
Sword, but then he meets Cerberus, Sakura's guardian creature, who
he'd heard legends about, and is surprised to find that "Kero-chan"
looks like a stuffed animal. They get in a fight when Syaoran insults
Kero, but when Yukito appears, Syaoran runs away, embarrassed. He and
Sakura compete for Yukito's feelings many times during the series.
Later, Syaoran and Sakura fight Shadow together, and Syaoran defends
her from injury, as well as combining his magic with hers so that she
can trap the difficult Card in a halo of light. When Mirror tricks
Touya into the forest, Syaoran uses his rashinban (a magic detector)
to help Sakura find her brother and the Card. Sakura continues to
catch Cards with or without his help, but most of the time, he shows
up.
Soon, Mizuki Kaho shows up, and Syaoran is immediately suspicious of
the magical power she holds. She seems harmless and Sakura develops a
small crush on her. When Sakura, Tomoyo, and (separately) Syaoran
decide to go to Mizuki Shrine to buy charms, they find themselves
caught in the Maze Card's trap. Syaoran and Sakura can't figure out a
way to escape, but Ms. Kaho helps them escape with the aid of a
magical bell.
Later, they go on a field trip to the beach. One night, Syaoran and
Sakura sit out at night and talk awkwardly about their feelings for
Yukito. Sakura had been frightened of their Courage Challenge the
next day, but she was able to sleep after that. Unfortunately, during
the Courage Challenge, the Erase card makes trouble, making people
disappear right in front of Sakura's eyes. Syaoran tells her not to
panic and makes her focus enough to defeat it, even as he disappears
too. Sakura asks Syaoran why he wants to collect the Cards, and
Syaoran tells her that Clow had written of a terrible evil that would
befall the Earth if the Cards weren't collected again.
At a festival some time after, Syaoran and Touya compete for Yukito's
(and/or Sakura's) affections by playing target games, and Syaoran
proves to be a very good shot. Sakura spends time with Yukito and
then catches the Glow Card.
After summer vacation, Sakura's class decides to put on a play for the
school culture festival. Parts are assigned by a draw of lots, and
Sakura is cast as the prince, while Syaoran is the princess. Kaho
continues to give Sakura small cryptic warnings about an upcoming
trial. The princess part does not help Syaoran's nerves. He's
beginning to feel fond of Sakura, seeing her less as a rival and more
as a romantic interest. Even so, Tomoyo convinces Syaoran to play his
part by mentioning that Yukito is in the audience.
The play is interrupted by the Dark Card, and Kero suspiciously
consults with Kaho, who is unaffected by the darkness that has
unfolded over everyone else. Sakura is uncertain in the dark until
she realizes that she herself is glowing. The Light Card emerges from
her place in Sakura's heart and she captures Light and Dark together.
They warn Sakura about a name that she's heard Kero say before -- Yue,
the Judge.
Not much later, Sakura and Tomoyo are out when Sakura gets a strange
feeling. Syaoran appears and tells them that he thinks a Clow Card is
near, but they run into Yukito instead, who offers to take them to a
restaurant for a treat. Touya is working there, but more importantly,
Kaho arrives to consult privately with Sakura. She won't tell her
much about Yue, but while they speak, Tomoyo teases Syaoran about the
crush he's developing on Sakura. He denies it fervently, but she
doesn't believe him.
After they leave the cafe, with Yukito and Kaho in tow, the Firey Card
appears. Reluctantly but dutifully, Syaoran knocks Yukito out so that
he doesn't see Sakura use her magic. Sakura uses both Windy and
Watery, high level cards, to capture Firey. When she does, Kero
assumes his true form of a winged lion. The Earthy Card begins to
cause earthquakes and fissures, and Syaoran has a desperate moment
where he loses Sakura down one of the holes, shouting out her first
name for the first time. She survives using Fly and is pleased by
Syaoran's care, but fighting Earthy is difficult. By riding Cerberus,
Sakura manages to survive and catch it, and this is the final Card.
When she writes her name on it, Yue wakes out of Yukito, shocking them
all. He tells them that he is the Judge and will determine whether or
not Sakura is worthy to hold the Clow Cards. She is reluctant to
fight him because Yukito is part of him. Syaoran tries to help, but
cannot: this is Sakura's battle. Yue tells Sakura about the
prophesied disaster. If she fails the Judgment, then each person
involved with the Clow Cards will forget the person they love the
most, including the Cards, whose most important person is their
master, Sakura.
The fight looks bleak, but Kaho finally reveals her reason for
involvement in Sakura's trials. She gives Sakura the Moon Bell,
crafted by Clow, and adding in its magic changes Sakura's staff to a
new one, which she can use against Yue. Sakura defeats Yue and asks
to be his friend, rather than his master. Then she has a vision of
Clow, who tells her to watch out for himself, because "he" was coming
soon to cause trouble. Cerberus tells them that Sakura was the only
legitimate candidate for Clow Card Master, and Syaoran reluctantly
admits that she's a good master, and he doesn't mind too much. This
ends the first half of the manga.
The second half opens quietly. All of the Cards have been captured,
although Sakura has been having strangle prophetic dreams she can't
remember. Syaoran tells them that he's going to go back to Hong Kong
-- with the Cards captured, he has no reason for staying. He soon
develops one, however: there's a new transfer student to their class,
one Eriol Hiiragizawa from England, and he has a certain interest in
Sakura that makes Syaoran jealous. It doesn't take Syaoran long to
decide he isn't ready to leave yet.
As it turns out, the rain that has been falling all day is unnatural,
and is only falling on Sakura's city. Kero says that it's a magical
rain, and so Sakura goes out to fight it, accompanied by Tomoyo. Her
magic is distressingly ineffective against it, and she's forced to
leave, observed by a shadowy figure. Kero is quite disturbed by this
and tells Sakura that he needs to speak to Yue. Syaoran and Sakura
talk about the magical rain at school, and Syaoran worries that it
comes from someone more powerful than Sakura.
Yukito comes home with Touya and stays so that Yue can talk to Kero.
The three of them decide to go out into the rain again to investigate.
The guardians are struck by a magic that makes them unable to move,
and Sakura is taken up in a magical waterspout, unable to fight or
breathe. Desperately she finds the strength to use a power we've
never seen before. She transforms the Firey card to free herself and
then collapses from exhaustion. The shadowed figure seems pleased by
this development.
When Sakura wakes up the next morning, she's too exhausted to go to
school. Noting Syaoran's worry when she doesn't come to class, Tomoyo
invites him to come with her to visit Sakura after school. They bring
her the treats they made in home ec and Kero explains that Sakura has
remade the Clow Card with her own magic. Tomoyo proposes calling it a
Sakura card. Syaoran asks why the Clow Cards were ineffective
beforehand, and Kero reveals that there was no magician who could
possibly hold back the guardians and cause this mess -- no magician,
that is, except Clow Reed, a man long dead. We discover through a
side-flash that Eriol is actually the reincarnation of Clow, come to
Tomoeda to find something that he wanted. Nakuru, an irritating
transfer student to Touya's class, is one of his guardians, and a
winged panther is the other.
Sakura and the other girls have lunch together, and since Rika is
making a teddy bear, Tomoyo tells them all the legend that giving a
teddy bear to the person you love, and naming it after yourself, will
make them return your love. Syaoran is observing from a nearby tree.
He speaks briefly to Eriol, who is trying to be friendly... at least,
until he speaks Syaoran's full name, and this causes Syaoran to
collapse, perhaps overcome by Eriol's magic. Eriol catches him and
pretends concern when Syaoran comes to, but Syaoran runs away (after
awkwardly thanking him). Eriol remarks enigmatically that Syaoran is
in his way.
Later, Sakura decides to go to the craft store to get a bear kit, so
she can make one for Yukito. Tomoyo agrees to come along, and when
Eriol asks to accompany them as well, Syaoran insists on going too.
At the craft store, Eriol buys a great quantity of thread, and the
others make different purchases. Later, at home, Yuki comes by to
give Touya back a dictionary he borrowed, and Yue talks privately to
Kero, telling him that he isn't sure how long he can go back to his
true form with the little magic he has remaining. Sakura feels a
magical presence and they go out to investigate. This time, Syaoran
comes too, and suddenly he looses control of his body and begins to
attack Sakura with his sword. With all of his strength, he uses a
spell shenfu and reveals that he's being controlled with magical
thread. Sakura transforms Sword to cut it and free him, and then
collapses in Syaoran's arms. This, it seems, was the reason that
Eriol bought thread.
The next day Eriol helps Sakura with her bear sewing and kisses her
hand, continuing his flirtations. Syaoran has also constructed a
bear, but feels ambivalent about it. He thinks about giving it to
Yukito, but thoughts of Sakura also keep cropping up. He runs away
from his feelings for a while until Yue appears in front of him and
tells him that his attraction to Yukito is solely because of Yuki's
magical powers. Syaoran realizes that he's really in love with
Sakura, and Yukito gives him the bear back, telling him to give it to
someone special.
Later that night, Sakura goes to Yukito's house to deliver her bear,
but the exercise is interrupted when the bear transforms and becomes
huge. It starts attacking Sakura and damaging Yukito's house. Sakura
changes Jump and tries to get close enough to take care of the bear's
source of power, which is in its ear, but she can't get close enough
to attack with Sword. She asks the Fly card to make it possible for
her to use both Fly and Sword. Previously Fly grew wings on the staff
that she uses for Sword, but when she changes it, she grows wings from
her back instead. Now that she can get close enough, she cuts off the
bear's ear. A small paper floats out and it has Clow's magic circle on
it.
The next day Sakura tells Syaoran about the problem, and gives him a
phone that Tomoyo gave her, promising to call him any time something
weird happens. They talk a little about Yuki and Syaoran admits that
he doesn't like Yukito anymore. He doesn't tell her who he likes
instead, though he leaves his stuffed bear with her. Meanwhile,
Yukito continues to weaken and tire, and Nakuru continues to interrupt
any of Touya's attempts to have a conversation with him about it.
A few days later, Sakura wakes up with a fever, but she hides it so
that her dad won't be worried and he can go to his archaeological dig.
She collapses in gym and Syaoran prevents her from getting hurt.
Touya and Yukito show up to take her home. As soon as she gets home,
however, she realizes that she senses Clow's presence. So that Touya
won't worry, she leaves Mirror in her bed and goes out to take care of
the magical mist. She transforms Windy to dissipate it, but collapses
again. Luckily, Eriol catches her. He apologizes for his mischief,
as he didn't know she was sick. He heals her fever and leaves her for
Syaoran to find with his coat draped over her.
Valentine's Day gets Sakura all excited and she makes chocolate for
Yuki, Touya, and her dad, plus one extra. Although Syaoran has made
her chocolate too, he's too embarrassed to give it to her at school.
Instead he turns all of his power to finding the owner of the
mysterious coat. Eriol cheerfully blocks his attempts. Later we find
out that Syaoran left the chocolate in her mailbox, and although he
didn't leave a note, Sakura knew who it was from and made him a pencil
case for White Day.
Yue continues to weaken, and doesn't accompany them the next time
Sakura goes after Clow's presence. Someone has moved the penguin
slide in the park and put in a gigantic hole. When Sakura goes down
there, Eriol puts a magical cover on top of it, and although Syaoran
bangs on it worriedly, he can't get through. Eriol has decided that
he admires Syaoran's determination, but Sakura will have to deal with
this herself. When the hole begins to fill up with stuffed sheep, she
almost suffocates, but then she transforms the Erase to get rid of
them. She uses Earthy to fix the hole, changing it too.
Eriol continues to mentor Syaoran in his irritating little way,
helping him in a basketball game and telling him to stay calm to get
stronger. Yukito is walking near the fence separating their schools
when he spots Eriol. Immediately Yue transforms and chases Eriol,
asking him why Clow was back in such a form. Eriol puts Yue to sleep
and wipes his memory of the incident, claiming that he isn't ready to
be discovered yet.
That afternoon, Syaoran and Sakura go to Tomoyo's. As Sakura tries on
dresses, Tomoyo tries to council Syaoran's romantic woes. She
encourages Syaoran to confess his feelings, but their conversation is
cut short when Sakura senses Clow again. The presence is strongest at
the school, and they find themselves trapped in it. Whenever they
open a door, it opens onto a room it shouldn't. Tomoyo, trailing
behind, gets caught behind one of the doors and lost. Sakura starts
to cry, but Syaoran tells her to be strong and figure this out.
Finally, they hear Tomoyo's singing, and Sakura transforms Shadow,
telling it to seek out the shadow of the singer. This leads them
right to Tomoyo. Sakura thanks Syaoran for helping her stay calm. He
seems to be considering confessing to her, but then Kero distracts
them.
Another confession is interrupted the next day at school, when
Syaoran's words are overlaid with a shriek. Yukito has collapsed at
the high school. Touya takes him to the nurse's office and chases off
Nakuru. He tells Yuki that he knows that Yuki isn't human, and Yue
appears. Touya offers his power to Yue, so that Yue can continue
existing, and Yue agrees. Sakura, who came to see what was wrong, is
devastated by the fact that she couldn't support Yue, but the guardian
tells her not to be sad. She is still only a young magician, after
all.
At the class festival, Sakura and Yukito go to a romantic, starry
exhibit and Sakura confesses her feelings to him. Yukito asks her to
consider whether her feelings are actually familial feelings, rather
than romantic, and she admits that they might be. He also tells her
that his number-one love is her brother, and although she is upset
because of her failed confession, she is happy for the two of them.
Strange magic begins to pop all of the stars in the exhibit. So that
people won't worry, she transforms Illusion and Maze to make a
planetarium for anyone else who might wander in, and starts running to
find the source of the power. She finds Eriol behind the curtains,
but he knocks her out and takes her memory away, praising her growing
strength, but insisting that he is not ready to be known yet.
Syaoran, who had also felt the surge of power, fights through Maze to
find Yue and together they look for Sakura.
When she touches Eriol, Sakura has a vision of Clow's preparations for
death -- sealing Kero and Yue in the book, and using the last of his
magic to become two people. Kero insists that his memory of Clow's
last moments is different, and wonders why Clow would have altered his
memory. Syaoran and Sakura go out to walk Tomoyo part of the way
home, and Sakura asks Syaoran to come with her to the part for a
while. While there, she tells Syaoran that she confessed to Yukito.
She admits that she was a little romantically in love with him too,
and her feelings are hurt. Syaoran holds her and lets her cry, and
gives her his handkerchief.
After a few days, Sakura is back to being her old self. Touya is
tired, but also okay. Sakura decides that she needs to thank Syaoran
for listening to her when she was sad, and when she sees the sign for
a festival, she knows what to do. She invites him to come and she
spends the week making him a yukata in secret. Touya, Yukito, Tomoyo,
Sakura, and Syaoran go to the festival. Syaoran tells Tomoyo that he
doesn't want Sakura to worry about hurting his feelings, so he won't
confess to her. While Touya and Yukito are getting drinks, the
children get attacked by a horse statue. Sakura transforms Thunder,
and with Syaoran's help as well, they "kill" the horse and it falls
into the lake. She then uses Glow to restore power to the festival.
Afterward, Tomoyo says that Syaoran should let Sakura know how he
feels anyway. If she turns Syaoran down, she won't be sad forever.
Sakura continues to have visions of Clow when she sleeps, and the
shadowy figure who holds his staff. Kero still can't think of a
reason for Clow's magic all around these crazy incidents. Sakura
decides that she needs to go to Tokyo Tower, the place where her
visions are set, and find out what's going on. Syaoran insists on
coming too, and promises that he'll tell her something important when
they get back. When they arrive, they meet Eriol, donned in his Clow
robes, and his guardians. Eriol admits that he was Clow in a past
life, and he uses his magic to cover the sun and the moon and put
everyone to sleep. Yue rushes to Sakura's side, bringing a sleeping
Touya. The only other person besides Sakura who remains awake is
Syaoran. Eriol tells Sakura that she must break his spells, or
everyone will sleep forever.
At first Sakura refuses to fight, and Eriol sends his guardians to
attack Kero and Yue. This makes Sakura upset and she begins to fight
in earnest, but all of her methods aren't working. She realizes that
Light and Dark are the last Cards that she hasn't changed, but she
can't change Light on its own, and she's not sure that she has enough
power to change these powerful Cards. Kero and Yue offer to combine
their powers into her staff, making her stronger. Syaoran also helps,
giving her the very last of his magic and falling asleep. Sakura
holds tight to her invincible spell ("I'm sure I'll be all right!")
and manages to punch through Eriol's darkness. Syaoran awakes to
Sakura hugging him. When he says that he wasn't very helpful, she
tells him, "Because you were here, I was able to try harder."
Eriol quits his attacks and comes down to ground level with the rest,
but oddly, Sakura's father wanders into the fray, looking rather
confused by everyone in their costumes and the guardians. Eriol tells
them that Fujitaka is his other self -- Clow's other reincarnation.
Fujitaka didn't have any of Clow's memories or magic. He talks Sakura
through a spell to split his magic and give half of it to Fujitaka,
thereby accomplishing his goal: to no longer be the strongest magician
in the world.
He invites them back to his house for tea and explanations. He tells
Sakura that he kept his involvement secret so that she would try
harder than she would against a friend, and explains that this whole
plot was so that he would no longer be the strongest magician, and so
that Sakura could power the Cards and guardians with her own magic
after Clow's ran out. Kaho appears and explains that she met Eriol
overseas, and was able to help him while in England. Tomoyo asks if
Sakura will have to start seeing the future now that she's this
powerful, and Eriol reassures them that she won't unless she activates
the ability herself.
Eriol goes out to talk to Yue and explain to him that, even though
he's Clow's reincarnation, he isn't Clow, and can't be Yue's master.
The most unpredictable thing about human beings is their hearts, but
he doesn't mind that Yukito ended up loving Touya and that Sakura
ended up loving Syaoran (not that Syaoran has confessed yet).
The next day, Fujitaka discovers that a side effect of having magic is
being able to see the ghost of his dead wife, and they reunite
happily. When Sakura gets to school, she learns that Eriol is going
to go back to England. After school, Syaoran takes Sakura to the park
and admits that he loves her. Uncertain, Sakura goes home and thinks
about how she feels for Syaoran. The next day Tomoyo and Sakura go to
Eriol's home and say goodbye to Eriol and Kaho and the guardians.
Eriol tells her to study her feelings now that he's leaving, and
compare them to her feelings when someone else is leaving. After
Tomoyo and Sakura leaves, Kaho confesses her love for Eriol, and he
accepts.
Still confused by her feelings for Syaoran, Sakura goes out on a walk.
She runs into Chiharu and asks her for relationship advice. Chiharu
tells her to apologize if she's done something wrong, and so Sakura
decides to go to Syaoran's and apologize for not answering his
confession. While there, she discovers that he's moving back to Hong
Kong, since the Cards have all been changed and the danger is over.
She leaves him, crying because she doesn't want him to go, and she
runs into Rika. Rika gives her advice about being with someone that
she can't see all the time, saying that it's worth it to love people
like that.
Sakura makes up her mind how she feels. She spends all night making a
teddy bear for Syaoran, but it's almost too late when Tomoyo calls and
tells her when Syaoran is leaving. Touya reluctantly drives her on
his motorcycle to meet Syaoran's bus. She tells Syaoran that she
loves him the most, and asks him to take the teddy bear as a symbol of
her love. He promises to come back to her when he can.
ABILITIES: Syaoran uses Chinese magic in the series, most of
the time activating elemental shenfu/ofuda (little papers inscribed
with spells) using his jian (Chinese short-sword). He also can use an
object known as a rashinban which Clow created, and Syaoran uses to
detect the location of Clow cards. It also glows in the presence of
strong magic. Syaoran is an accomplished martial artist and seems able
to use his sword as a sword and not just as a channel for his magic,
though he seems to prefer using the magic. He has quick reaction times
and is good at most sports.
The martial arts would be an easy unlock. Since there probably aren't
a lot of ofuda lying around, it would be much harder for him to
manipulate magic comfortably, and it would likely take him a very long
time to do so. Everyone in canon uses focusing objects for their
magic, and without a sword and his papers, he'd be at a loss.
GAME INFO
EDENSPHERE NAME: Clow
BIRTHDAY LOG: Yes please~
DREAM:
The crescent moon and a stylized sun nestle together in a golden
circle filigreed beneath his feet. It is ringed round with symbols,
characters he's sure that he could read, if only he could look more
closely. But he can't, and the slick-sharp sound of shuffling cards
is loud in his ears. He speaks, but knows these aren't his own words.
"The evil that will be set loose when all the Clow Card seals are broken..."
The Cards are arranged around him, floating along the border of this
circle, but one after another they flip to show him their backs: soft
pink with a star--
Her star. Her own star. He suddenly misses a giggle he can't quite
remember. Where is she, his most important person?
He reaches out, wanting, and a Clow Card comes into his hands. On the
face a Maze is inked, but this is no maze. This is his hand on her
shoulder, impatience and disbelief and then the angry blue eyes of a
stranger. And then there is the curious warmth that burns in his
stomach, a puzzled smile, and he's running as fast as he can.
When he stops there is another Clow Card. The name is Sword and he's
holding one, its hilt as familiar as his own reflection. He is the
protector, always, although in the end he cannot help her, and the
boy-man who stands opposing them has a triumphant gleam in his eyes.
The sword is no use now, so he puts his hands on her staff and gives
her everything he has, until his legs can't support him any longer and
he's falling.
"I can't do anything for her," he says, and a girl answers, voice
kind, "That's not true. You do plenty of things for her. Have faith
in yourself."
He draws the next Card blindly and her name is Wood, as solid as his
promises. He holds a pink bear and won't let go. He will come back.
He will have faith. Still, he watches through the bus window until
he's absolutely sure he can't see her anymore.
The bear is gone. The next Card is blank and a bell rings straight
through him, over everything, insistent, and he cannot ignore it. He
has to wake.
JOURNAL SAMPLE:
[ The handwriting is small and messy, and also slow. Each
paragraph has definite moments of space between it, like the writer is
thinking very hard about what he wants to say. ]
Clow. Not my real name, but it will work.
I'm new. I need a sword.
I want to know what the dream means.
Hi, Rhap-chan!
After reviewing your application, we would like to request some clarification on his abilities- specifically the use of elemental seals. The main two points we would like to see elaborations on are: what type of seals does Syaoran use, and what are their effects?
Please feel free to submit your revisions and we will continue processing your app.
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