[list][*][u][b]Name:[/b][/u] Yukimura Noriko [*][u][b]Magical Girl Title:[/b][/u] The Ripper. As it turns out, you attract a rather strange following when your fighting ability involves lots of knives and even the most innocent person is prone to a disturbing alias. Further not helped by the lack of anything flashier to go by... but at least she's not named for her hair or something, right? [*][u][b]Age:[/b][/u] 18 [*][u][b]Gender:[/b][/u] Female [*][u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u] [url=https://safebooru.org//images/1517/e92f956df2174a5a1a88383a9fa43dca9b76995c.jpg?1589004]A traditional girl and an old art.[/url] [*][u][b]Magical Girl Appearance:[/b][/u] [url=https://safebooru.org//images/276/8267b9e3b8968779e8a14491c039764b400a76ca.jpg?276312]Is the hair shorter or just tied implausibly well? With a magical girl, it's hard to tell.[/url] [*][u][b]Personality:[/b][/u] Being raised without much interaction with those of your own age and a certain set of standards to uphold has downsides. In Noriko's case, it means that her approach to friendly association, even with her fellow magical girls, is distant politeness. When in her magical girl persona and not recognised, she's far more expressive. Particularly with her appreciation for magical girls, their physiques, their beauty... If someone connects her exuberant magical girl persona to Noriko, it's much easier to work out that the admiration and interest is always there behind the layers of politeness. [*][u][b]Skills:[/b][/u] Noriko is perhaps unusual for a magical girl in that her ability to handle herself in a fight has nothing to do with her newly gained transformations. The style itself might be completely derived from her magical abilities, but her instincts for these things and her reflexes were honed through martial arts, armed and unarmed both. Following in her ancestors' footsteps, this extends to having learned the techniques of their old but unremarkable sword school. Outside of this, her abilities lie in polite society and such things as flower arrangement or tea ceremonies. Her more practical, and particularly modern, skills are significantly below average. [*][u][b]Abilities:[/b][/u] There are exactly two abilities that come with Noriko's transformation (three, counting the weapon itself): abnormal speed and an uncanny ability to locate vulnerable points on enemies or objects. On the plus side, this is a transformation with a nearly infinite amount of stamina provided that she can avoid getting injured herself, since it requires simply thrusting into weaknesses when available and taking full advantage of her surroundings to whittle enemies down through dozens of cuts. On the other hand, it lacks any specific means to end a fight other than repeatedly going for the weakest point. However, she can point it out (in general terms) to other magical girls if she can't land a finishing blow. It's strange to be a magical girl without a specific finishing attack. [*][u][b]Weapon(s):[/b][/u] Knives. It might be traditional for magical girls to name their weapons but when you seem to have an infinite supply of plain and unremarkable (definitely not double-bladed) knives to take on the enemy with, thrown or not, then it's hard to consider naming them. [*][u][b]Brief History:[/b][/u] Noriko's childhood was unfortunately marked by poor health. Her family, desiring a strong heir for their wealth, attempted to improve this through two avenues: the most advanced medicine money could buy and the most traditional lifestyle that could be arranged, with as much instruction in their art as she could handle. This instruction came at a social price, as Noriko's attendance to any sort of school was marred for years and, even when her health improved substantially, her ability to involve herself with her peers was limited. It was in her second year of high school that a fairy approached her, offering to solve her health problems entirely if she would become a magical girl. The icing on the cake, however, was the opportunity to get to know other magical girls without her former lack of presence or, Noriko hoped, her limited technological experience casting a shadow over things. More than a year later, she's let to make any strong friends this way but holds out hope nonetheless. [list][*][u][b]Fairy Name:[/b][/u] Butterscotch [*][u][b]Fairy Appearance:[/b][/u] [url=https://safebooru.org//images/1567/57aa94725a7306faad9e1820e9f00e43edbbd998.png?1641363]Fancy.[/url] [*][u][b]Fairy Personality:[/b][/u] Butterscotch is a worrier. If prevented with any indication that things are going wrong, she will take it to the worst possible conclusion. A shining example of this is her attempts to find a magical girl: the first two had neither the inclination nor the time to devote to it... and she concluded that she must be worthless. It was good for her that a third person was around to ask why she was so upset.[/list] [*][u][b]Theme Song:[/b][/u][/list] I can't theme song D: