Guardian Atlanta

Name: Arabelle "Belle" Thrasher
Age: 28
Height: 5'8", plump
Skin: Caucasian
Hair: Black, curly
Eyes: Green

About: A generally soft-spoken and polite person, Belle fairly radiates smug superiority when she knows (or thinks) she's right about something. She's deathly afraid of spiders and cockroaches, especially large ones (but is secretly of the opinion that mice are adorable), and takes a certain amount of pride in keeping her establishment clean and vermin-free. Master of polite chit-chat and banter, Belle is well-liked by the people she deals with, though some still believe she's too young and flighty (and in some cases, too single) to be running her own business.

She loves reading and fantasizing about the romanticized, genteel society of the pre-War South (though she doesn't agree with slavery), and has been known to opine that she was surely born into the wrong century. She longs for a sweeping romance, even if in her daydreams she's saving her dashing cavalier as often as he saves her. Her secret fear is of becoming an old maid.

Belle worked as a docent at a museum for most of her college years, and recently inherited the family business, a small bed and breakfast on the eastern outskirts of Atlanta, from her parents.

Quirks:
Likes: novels (Gone With the Wind is her all-time favorite), silent movies and musicals, historical reenactments (she sews her own clothing), sewing, classic country music and bluegrass, roses, clear nights, and autumn in the mountains.
Dislikes: Anything or anyone she identifies as being "Yankee", most of the state of California (for reasons she refuses to discuss), extremely spicy food, traffic, very large shopping malls, and mosquitoes (though she hates the smell of bug repellent even more than the plague of insects).

Senshi Name: Guardian Atlanta
Senshi Title: Senshi of Southern Hospitality
Senshi Type: Lesser/Defensive

RoI:

Henshin Item: A Civil War medal

Weapon: A cavalry saber

Fuku Style: Sol, Non-Standard
Colors: (under development - proposed palette: 1 2 3)

Abilities:
•"Terminus": Absorbs enemy fire - visible as five points of light being drawn to Atlanta's saber.
•"White Lightning": Releases stored energy from the saber in a shower of thirteen stars. This attack can be directed.
•"Resurgens": A ghostly cavalry charge, followed by a wave of fire in the shape of a phoenix. Standard area-effect, approx. 20 feet in whatever direction Atlanta points it when she sets it off.

Artwork:
Reference Sheet
Proposed AU redesign

Related Characters:
Sailor Moonshine

Notes:
Wikipedia entry for Georgia
Atlanta's fuku is loosely based on a combination of patterns from the Civil War period - Confederate officer's uniform, a ball gown, and a wedding dress (the striped parts, actually).

Toying with the idea of the Senshi influencing her fuku here, as well. Belle herself believes firmly that a woman should be just as strong and determined as her menfolk, no matter how sweet and delicate she may look and act at times. She's vowed to be not only a "pretty soldier", but also an effective one behind whose skirts nobody should be ashamed to hide, should the need arise. As such, her fuku is almost as serviceable as it is decorative. The hoopskirt being cut in the front allows her mobility (to a certain degree, though she'll never be an agile combatant), while its reinforced hoops afford extra physical protection. Modern sensibilities allow for the visible bottom of the bodice (though her inner lady cringes at the thought)... with modesty-preserving ruffles, of course.
The bronze phoenix wings and tailfeathers are purely symbolic and decorative, and as such are quite heavy, but Atlanta hardly ever mentions that fact, and never shows it if she can help it.