I rolled up a character, as I have no patience whatsoever. I guess she can serve as a model or something? She ended up being rather overpowered and a potential TPK as a witch, so she'll probably go unused. (In vain, I keep editing her personality and abilities so that maybe, maybe she'll be useable. Ah, the joys of making characters who are more inclined to stories than roleplays.) [hider=Lucy Sterling] [b]Name[/b]: Lucille “Lucy” Sterling [b]Age[/b]: 14 [b]Theme Color[/b]: [color=MediumSlateBlue][b]Blue-Violet.[/b][/color] [b]Appearance[/b]: Slender and somewhat uncoordinated, Lucy stands a mere 5 feet tall and weighs 107 pounds. Her eyes are large and round, lilac in color. She has fluffy dark purple hair that falls just above her shoulders, with bangs that peek out just above her eyes in a disorderly fashion. Lucy is rarely seen without a hat, most commonly her navy newsboy cap. Her fashion is quirky and somewhat disorganized; she frequently mixes patterns and has no real sense of color coordination. Whatever she wears, it almost always has some kind of purple in it. Her Soul Gem is a bluish violet and rests on a plain bracelet when she is untransformed. As a magical girl, she wears a frilled powder blue vest combined with a flowing dark purple dress that falls just above her knees, with silver stockings that cover the rest of her legs. Her black shoes are flat and have several violet-blue bows. She wears a dark slate-blue hat with small white wings adorning each side. [b]Nationality[/b]: American [b]Personality[/b]: Lucy is a kindhearted and outgoing person, with a lot to say. She's a charismatic classroom leader whose constant chattering is forgiven thanks to her kind heart and eloquent tongue. She tends to have wild mood swings and struggles with severe anxiety, constantly fretting and performing poorly under pressure. She's not very confident and tends to second-guess herself on just about every decision she makes. She wants nothing more than to be able to help people, to the point of obsession--given her past, this is understandable, but still rather damaging to her mental health. However, this ideal has a dark side: she sometimes will trigger negative events so she can fix them. [b]Backstory[/b]: Lucy was born in Massachusetts, in a small suburb close to Boston. When she was seven years old, Lucy’s father fell into a disastrous drug addiction. He worsened slowly, first avoiding most social events within the family, becoming irate and abusive, and finally losing his job by the time Lucy turned ten. Lucy, his favorite child, tried her best to help him with her limited knowledge of the situation and her love for her father, but as things got more dangerous and the family’s financial situation got worse, Lucy was forced to grow up quickly. Still, she never lost hope in her father, trying to redirect his fury from her siblings and return him to the loving daddy he used to be. Once he lost his job, however, things spiraled fast, and for the worst. The day before Lucy’s birthday, she found him hanging in the bathroom, a note for her by his side, as he knew she'd return home from school before her siblings and be the one to find him. After this, her family moved across the country to be with her mother’s family in Santa Barbara, and slowly splintered. Lucy’s mother blamed her for the death of her husband, and did little to acknowledge her. Lucy spent more and more time away from the house and with friends, trying her best to maintain a facade of security and keep her positive personality. When she was thirteen years old, she came home to find her things packed in a few suitcases with a goodbye note. It said that if she chose the same path as her father, please make sure to donate the contents of the suitcases to people who needed and deserved them. She was taken in by her friend Alexis and her mother, and still resides with them. She is obsessed with helping people and frequents suicide support websites, spending most of her free time doing things she thinks will help prevent people from choosing the same path her father did. She says she's doing this for his sake, but it's more than anything for her own. She's rather selfish in this regard and sometimes will cause trouble so she can be the hero. [b]Wish[/b]: [color=mediumslateblue][b]"I wish to be able to sense suicidal and self-destructive thoughts and save those with them by whatever means possible.”[/b][/color] [b]Skills[/b]: [u][i]Manipulation[/i][/u]: Lucy is regarded very highly among her peers and it's not an impossible or even hard task to get them to believe or even do what she wants. [u][i]Reflexes[/i][/u]: Though she is physically weak, Lucy is quick to react. [u][i]Quick Learner[/i][/u]: She picks up new skills relatively easily, has a passion for learning and absorbs new knowledge readily. [u][i]Cheerful[/i][/u]: Absurdly so, to the point where when she is in her good states of mind her Soul Gem darkens at a much slower rate than most magical girls. [b]Weaknesses[/b]: [u][i]Poor Physical Strength[/i][/u]: While her physical capabilities were enhanced by her contract, she remains in mediocre shape compared to other girls her age and relatively weak to magical girls. [u][i]Selfish[/i][/u]: A self-centered white knight who's more interested in helping people for her own sake than for theirs. [b]Magical Weapon[/b]: An ornate wand that can extend into a sectioned staff with parts connected by chains. [b]Magical Ability[/b]: [u][i]Colors[/i][/u]: Lucy can see people’s emotional state via aura-like “colors.” She can manipulate these emotions or absorb them. The colors can flare to life for others to see if she probes too deep; thus she must be careful when trying to alter mental states. They are always visible when she summons their field effects. The corruption cost at which she performs these actions increases with intensity and scale of the effects. [b]Secondary Abilities:[/b] [i][u]Physical Manifestation[/u][/i]: She can convert golden joy into wings, slow enemies down with swirling slate melancholy, and attack witches with their own rage, firing deadly slashing rounds of reddish energy. There is potential for more applications, but this is what she can do thus far. [b]Signature and Finisher[/b]: As of yet unattained. [b]Threads of Fate[/b]: 8+1=9. A combination of a far-reaching wish and innate talent grant her a powerful, yet difficult to control core ability. [b]Experience[/b]: 2. Lucy has been in a few battles, but is still inexperienced and fumbling about with the possibilities of her powers. She has yet to meet another magical girl and has only herself and Kyubey as reference. [b]Despair[/b]: 21%[/hider]