Ethan Landes || Syaoran Li (AU)

Not that it's really an app, all things considered. Ethan's heading to st_augustus.

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OOC INFORMATION
Name: MaxSalsa
Plurk: MaxSalsa
Other characters played: Hahaha no.

IC INFORMATION
Name: Syaoran Li
Canon: Cardcaptor Sakura
Overview: Chinese brat heir to a great magical power, except he's from a CLAMP canon and isn't female, so it's not destined for him. Tries to take the Clow Cards by force, fails miserably, ends up playing second banana and being the love interest in one of the surprisingly few straight pairings in the canon. Gives up on taking the Clow Cards and ends up marrying the actual owner of the Cards someday. Headstrong and coarse, he's kind of a bully to start out, but he's got a heart of gold. Extremely gullible, and isn't good at people. Subconsciously attracted to powers of a lunar origin; subconsciously repelled by powers of a solar origin. Blame Clow Reed.

Enrollment Status: Student, 8th grade. New to the school.
Species: Human; will awaken to powers at some point.

AU Overview: This version is Ethan Landes, who is American by birth, and ends up with the sword and ofuda of his ancestors because reasons. (Yes, I'm repurposing a StE journal, fight me.) Ethan's mother died in an act of violence a long time ago, and he's never really gotten over it; he's kind of even more headstrong and coarse, but has a very strong protective streak, and he knows how to keep the violence bottled up when he doesn't need it. Started attending the Academy this school year, but hasn't actually gotten the Li Clan's sword and ofuda yet, so... oops. Once he has them, they basically work exactly like canon. He carries the pendant form everywhere, and at will as a move action, he can turn it into the Li Clan's ancestral shortsword. Slapping an ofuda on the hilt and shouting a prayer makes an element happen.

Name: Ethan Landes [Syaoran Li]
Age: 15 Totally 14.
Appearance: Pretty much as he appears here, except for a new, wicked scar on his face where a knife cut him pretty badly. He tends not to talk about it, but he doesn't hide it, either.
Occupation: Middle-school student (8th grade), soccer team

Application: Right here.
IC Contact: This one.

Echoes Received:
1st - [Mental/Memory] On a class trip to the Tuning Towers , Ethan found himself with a headache and a buzzing sound he couldn't quite get rid of; in addition to those, he found himself with a memory that wasn't his: standing atop one of those funny-looking Japanese gates, was a figure with wings that was hard to see against the full moon. But he heard the angel speak clearly and officially: "Cards created by Clow... here stands one who would be your Master. The girl chosen by the Advocate, Cerberus. Her name is Sakura. To determine if she is a worthy Master, I... Yue, the Judge... will begin the final trial." He's dimly aware there are other people there, but that's as much as he can see before the memory ends.
2nd - [Item] Returning home from school and setting his bag down on his desk, Ethan found (unprovoked!) a brown paper bag full of spools of thread in dark colors, sewing needles, and bandages. All of their labels are in Japanese, and the spools of thread have prices in yen that would be scandalously low in a modern textile shop - how old are these? He has no idea why he has them, but if they came from a pulse, they must be important... right?
3rd - [Item + Ability] Getting caught up with the Blood Keys on a shopping trip with Holly, after the emptiness cleared Ethan found himself holding a sword. A sword that, he'll learn later, is very special: it's the Li Clan's ceremonial sword, and it takes magic to use. He's also recovered just a tiny bit of his magical power, enough to be able to unseal the sword, but he won't know how to do that without a little practice and a bit of luck.
4th - [Memory] Seeing Holly's staff, on the other hand, gave Ethan a memory from the past, of a pink staff that looked mighty familiar, and a girl holding it that looked... vaguely familiar, but not distinct enough from this to make out. But someone else, a young lady maybe in her twenties, began to speak. She talked about Clow Reed knowing who would inherit the Clow Cards, and that he took steps to make sure things would work out. After all, she pointed out, why else would he make the staff a cute pink thing? That's all he gets; Ethan has a vague feeling that past-him disliked this lady, but beyond that, he's not sure what else to think.

Quick Notes:
Ethan is coming from the manga version of Cardcaptor Sakura. As a result of this, Meilin doesn't exist, the Clow deck is 19 cards instead of 53, Clow Reed has two half-reincarnations rather than just the one annoying one, and... a few other things that are small enough not to need mentioning until they become important. If you have any questions regarding the differences between the manga continuity, the original anime continuity, and the dub continuity, please ask and I'll see if we can sort things out!

Please also note that, while Ethan shares his preincarnation's future appearance as seen in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle - mostly by virtue of age - he is not from that series and will not receive Echoes pertaining to it.