[list][*][b]Name[/b]: Ando Asami
[*][b]Age[/b]: 24
[*][b]Gender[/b]: Female
[*][b]Appearance[/b]: [url=http://vitavitaar.deviantart.com/art/Ando-Asami-548148022]Dark red hair, light skin, dark red eyes. The jacket is dark blue with light blue trim, and the shorts are blue jeans.[/url]
[*][b]Personality[/b]: The younger of the two daughters of the Ando family is usually a rather outwardly normal girl. She's friendly towards others, and not unapproachable. She tends to be somewhat talkative and general willing to be helpful to others. Of course, this behavior is only a fraction of Ando Asami's character. While she is no longer as close to the rest of her family as she once was, Asami still holds their ultimate ideal inside herself. Even if her belief in obtaining it has faltered, she cannot pass up the chance to reach the Origin of All Magic, the great repository of knowledge and magical power that so many magi strive for. As a mage, Asami is dedicated and intensely focused, taking some pride in her abilities as a practitioner of magic. Asami does not like killing but will do so if she must. It is not easy to anger Asami, but when something truly makes her angry there is little she won't do to put a stop to it. One particular thing that angers her is the abuse of magical power against the innocent mundane humans. Another is her sister. She deeply dislikes her older sister, Ando Toshiko, but only wishes for her to be punished as opposed to killed.
[*][b]Abilities[/b]: As a member of the Ando family, Asami's affinity is Fire and she possesses a high amount of high-quality mana. Naturally, this means that she has the most skill in spells relating to flames, projecting them or igniting objects. While she does have a number of spells based on this, her most powerful offensive spells utilize a rather unusual technique. Instead of what most would expect from fire, Asami's signature fire spells form a bizarre flame with a solid outline. Sometimes it even boasts a blue or green coloration. This solid fire is projected into beams, unlike the flaming orbs or streams or instant ignition commonly used by other fire-using magi. These spells are based on an incredibly old technique, of the ancient magi of Babylon. Her family believed using such ancient magic may have pushed her closer to the Origin itself. Asami also boasts defensive spells and self-enhancement spells, allowing kicks and punches to shatter concrete and using circular shields to deflect damaging attacks. Among her unusual offensive spells features a shotgun blast of "solid" fire, thin beams of it, and a slow-moving "arrowhead". Of course, her most powerful technique is a creation devised from the ancient spells of Babylon.
[list][*][u]Sainan no Hikari[/u]: Asami's most powerful spell, Sainan no Hikari is a deadly beam of "solid" fire. Igniting in her palm from a projected magic circle, the blast is so intensely not the heat cannot even be felt. It simply devastates all that is struck by it, but it requires a few moments to build up sufficient power. In addition, Asami cannot utilize mentalcasting for this spell, and must recite the entire incantation in order to utilize it. On top of this, it is highly draining when utilized even with her high levels of mana.[/list]
[*][b]Skills[/b]: Asami is capable of mentalcasting, but she cannot apply this to her most powerful spells. She has some basic hand-to-hand skills, more than the average person, but otherwise is not particularly strong or fast. She can speak fluent English.
[*][b]Equipment[/b]: Asami does not require much equipment for the casting of her spells, and as such carries very little.
[*][b]Brief Backstory[/b]: The second daughter of the Ando family. As a young girl, Asami looked up to her older sister, who excelled in fire magic, and desired to do the same as her. Her family instilled their values into the girl, including the long-held desire to reach the Origin. Asami trained, even learning these unorthodox techniques from the distant past in order to, as her family put it, "draw closer to the Origin". Her older sister was secretly jealous of this, but did not make this outwardly known until much later and still remained friendly and loving. This would not change until Toshiko went to the Tower in London. At the Tower, Toshiko began to lose faith in her family's ideal(as well as being rather cruel to her classmates). As Asami went for her education there, Toshiko decided to denounce her family's ideal with the belief that it was no longer possible for modern magi to reach the Origin. Asami and the other members of her family were stunned, and then angered. The head of the family, Ando Genjuro, declared that such betrayal would be punished with death. It would be a few years before Asami could convince them otherwise, that Toshiko did not need to die. However, Asami still felt betrayed by her older sister, and wanted her to be captured and punished. This desire intensified when Toshiko killed a mage contacted by the Ando family to find her and destroyed several familiars. Still, there is an uneasy peace as of now. In those years, Asami came under fire from Argus Fi Nar Rel of the Tower, an accomplished mage who believed her more unorthodox fire spells were not proper magic. There has been debate in the magi community over this matter, almost as much as there has been about the White Cannon of Japan, Nakamura Kiyomi. Asami no longer believes as strongly in her family's ideal, but desires to remain closer to them than Toshiko. Still, to pass up an opportunity like the White Night of Klarsberg... there was no way she could.[/list]