Images: - Katana: Piper is a skilled samurai, having being taught by her parents from a very young age. Her katana is one of her most prized possessions and it never leaves her side. - Golden Heart Locket: When she was eight, her parents were about to leave on their final mission. Before they left, her mother gifted her with this heart locket. Inside was a picture of their small family. Since her parents went to that final battle, the locket has never left her neck, much like her katana. - Bamboo Forest: Piper has lived in the forest for her entire life, when she lived in Japan and then when she moved to the Animal Spies HQ. (The one in the HQ grounds is just a standard forest, though, not a bamboo one.) - Panda: Piper, being an Animal Spy, is able to turn into a panda-- however, she almost never uses the ability due to it being "slow, fat, and useless," according to her. She also has a sort-of unofficial pet panda that always walks into her house in the forest, which she named Black Eye. - Potion Stuff: Okay, I couldn't really find a good image for this one. I'm actually pretty sure this is from Harry Potter lol-- but anyways, Piper is super skilled with the natural abilities and powers of plants (yes, yes, the picture isn't of plants . . . oh well) and is always using them for all kinds of different things. - Headphones: Piper may not seem like the type, but she loves music (only when she's alone, of course.) Her favorite genre is J-rock, and the two BanG Dream bands that fit her the best are Roselia and RAISE A SUILEN (but mostly Roselia.) - Skyhawk: When Piper graduated from the HQ, she was given the default choice between becoming a Spy, Teacher, or Mission Control. She picked Spy, but then Orangutan Man offered her two other options that are only available to very special graduates: Animal Ninja and Animal Guardian. Piper, being the way she is, chose both, even though she hates people and didn't realize what she was getting into with the Guardian one. Turned out she had to 'guard' Skyhawk, and that's how the whole mission started.
Songs: (Basically all of them are Bandori lol but who cares, plus Piper is Japanese XD-- and these songs obviously don't describe her one hundred percent, but I did my best.) ~ This first mood is kind of unnamed. It's kind of . . . this feeling where she's remembering what and how she used to be and moving on from it, trying to push it into her past. Again, I don't know what to call this XD ~ - Likeness/Rashisa by Afterglow: I chose this song because it's about questioning the meaning of 'being yourself', trying to deal with change, and starting over with a different viewpoint on life. Those are all big factors in Piper's story (mostly when she was younger), since when her parents died, she had to change her entire life by traveling to the Animal Spies HQ. Those there made fun of her constantly at how different she was. Personally, I think this song describes younger Piper really well! - Neo-Aspect by Roselia: This one is also about her younger self mostly (like I said, the mood is remembering past things), as it's about being lonely and living in 'a cold, dark world,' but then being pulled away from the darkness by someone. The someone in Piper's case is Kris, since he became friends with her when nobody else would when she first came to the HQ. ~ Confident ~ - PASSIONATE ANTHEM by Roselia: This song is from an event where-- in a very short summary-- two bands are facing off in a rivalry, and then discover that it's alright to have a tie and not have someone be better than someone else. This applies to Piper because she has a very competitive nature and she sometimes forgets she needs to work together sometimes. - -HEROIC ADVENT- by Roselia: This song is about using your fears and hopes and wishes to make yourself stronger and to be better for the future. ~ Angry/Excited ~ (Excited and angry are two very different emotions, but for Piper, they sometimes blend into one, typically when she's on a mission or preparing for a fight. She definitely has a specific angry side, though.) - Invincible Fighter by RAISE A SUILEN: This song is about basically fighting for yourself and what you believe in and never stepping down, which is literally what Piper's all about. This could also be a 'confidence' song, except this one seems to have more of an angry/excited feel to it. Lots of the lyrics are super fitting for her, like 'Crush all impossibilities / Thousands of times, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions.' - Fight Song by Rachel Platten: This song doesn't fit Piper one hundred percent, since it's a lot about finding the courage to stand up, but it's already there for Piper. Going on missions and fighting with the enemy (or anybody) gets Piper fired up in this signature Piper way of both angry and excited. ~ Hopeful ~ - Ringing Bloom by Roselia: This song is about reflecting on how you've changed throughout time and then 'This destiny / That we overcame / Shines a path towards the future.' Piper may seem like a brick wall to others, but she does have hopes and dreams for the future that she wants to reach someday. - Avant-garde HISTORY ~ Hopeless ~ - Determination Symphony by Roselia: I'm getting tired of digging through English song translations but let's just say this applies to her kind of XD - Safe and Sound by Roselia ------------ I also wrote the stuff for the other pieces of the weekly (ancestry and origins/ambitions/etc.), which I don't have enough room to share! They were all around two hundred words with the ancestry and origins being 712. <3
