Name: Honoka Oda
Codename: Diva, Nightingale (or something similar, I am willing to change it by suggestion)
Color Scheme: ffdae1 and 68375e
Age: probably like 16 or 17
Gender: Female
Personality:
Honoka is bright, cheerful, and energetic. She tries to always stay positive and look on the bright side of life, no matter how bleak the situation might get. Her attitude can border on the carefree at times, much to the chagrin of her more serious peers. She tries to keep morale high among her allies, despite any friction between them it might cause. A bit of a klutz.
She takes her self-appointed idol status seriously, referring to her ops as “lives” and otherwise behaving more like it’s some sort of performance event than a life and death battle. She is not, however, a complete idiot. Being a talented mage lends itself to some amount of actual smarts, and she does a lot of work developing her abilities, both in and out of school. Her dedication to practice keeps her working hard at anything she believes is important to her future. If only someone could convince her that marksmanship and other combat training was more important than dance and voice lessons…
Short Biography:
Honoka lives with her family in a fairly ordinary apartment somewhere in one of the middle-class districts of Neo Babylon. She attends a Thremont school, where she focuses on improving her magical abilities, and other schooling. She’s quite talented, but not a perfect, model student.
At a fairly young and impressionable age, Honoka fell in love with the city’s entertainment sector, particularly the young pop idols who populate a certain segment of it. She has decided that she will be an idol, one way or another. Her attempts to break into the industry proper so far have ended in failure, but she will doggedly keep trying, and continues to train on her own. She works on singing and dance lessons, writes songs and routines, and has essentially set herself up for all of the overworked lifestyle and none of the payoff. Her first attempt at just doing a guerilla concert was also her last.
Honoka’s first encounter with the Cleaners was one of coincidence. She happened to be at the site of an...incident when it happened, because she had planned to just do some sort of pop-up guerilla live show. She was brought in for debriefing after the action was over, as most would be. Her initial curiosity about the organization was rebuffed, but she was never the sort to let that stop her, and persisted in harassing any known agents, or worse, trying to find more active operations against Nightmares, wherein she could interfere and assist. Eventually, she won out by sheer stubbornness, and is now a proud Cleaner herself.
Magic Style:
Diva’s magical style is focused on song. She claims her spellcasting is fueled by her “idol spirit” and as such, she must sing to create her effects. Where the accompanying music comes from is anyone’s guess, though it may be a simple ancillary effect to her magical methodology. Each of her songs generates a single effect, although some are flexible enough that she can change some details (a spell granting energy resistance could be selected for a different energy type on every cast, for instance).
Spells:
ELEMENT_FIELD - Enhances Honoka and her allies, providing greater resistance from a specific form of energy (fire, cold, electricity, etc.) as well as adding it to their attacks.
PRIMALTHUNDER - Damages all enemies within the area of effect, with greater damage the closer to Honoka. She can fine-tune who, specifically, is targeted.
PURGER - Binds spirits and similar immaterial Nightmare entities and forces them to manifest in a physical form. As long as the song’s effects persist, materialized creatures are vulnerable to mundane attack and cannot dematerialize except by escaping the area of effect.
MAGE_DISRUPTION - Disrupts the ability of others to use magic in the area, by essentially filling it with magical “chaff” or noise. Honoka’s own will reinforces the area around her, and reduces the overall effectiveness of enemy (or just all other) casters’ spells. A sort of countersong, if you will.
LIMIT_BREAKER - Enhances the physical ability herself and allies in the affected area. They’re stronger, faster, and have sharper senses and reflexes. Generally, this translates in an overall increase in combat effectiveness, even for the primary focus on ranged combat in the modern era. Creative uses for these improved abilities are, of course, up to the individual.
PRISM_RIOT - Creates a dazzling light show,not dissimilar to a laser show or stage pyrotechnics. The end result is it’s difficult to perceive and track anything in the area of effect, with all the conflicting shadows and extra illumination.
EMOTION_MATRIX - Magically influences the emotions of targets in the area of effect. Usually just for uplifting spirits and inspiring good energy and a near-irresistible want to dance, cheer, ignore other things in one’s surroundings. Honoka could sing a sad song and instead make people sad, or angry, and so-on, but why would she want to do that. Can be used to cancel or clear negative emotion effects, such as fear, etc.
Membership: Fairly new. Probably no more than a year.
Equipment:
Specially-made idol uniform: Of Honoka’s own design, this stage outfit is made out of bulletproof fabric, and is specially treated with a super-hydrophobic outer coating to resist staining and liquids. As armor, it’s extremely light, but it does look nice, and offers some level of protection.
Pinpoint Barrier System: Built into parts of Honoka’s outfit, specifically jewlery and other such things, this advanced piece of Thremont-manufactured magitech can produce a barrier-like shield to deflect or stop incoming attacks. It does, however, have an operational limit before saturating and becoming useless.
Courlandt Pulsar: A taser which fires darts containing wireless capacitors. Not as strong as some self-defense weapons, in terms of overall kick, but non-lethal, and effective primarily in case “fans get too unruly”.
Honoka owns no “real” weapons, and even the taser is probably something she has to keep well hidden.
Relationships: Forthcoming
Character Impressions: Also forthcoming
Theme Song: Other than the ones for her spells, probably this.
