Name: Sapphire Pink
Title: Persistant Nuisance
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Allegiance: Heaven
Weight: None. The closest material analogue of what she's made out of is light.
Race: Woof, also, bundle of woof shaped negative emotional energy.

History: Sapphire Pink arose spontaneously from the complex tangled emotions of the Nexus. And she hooked up with Heaven because of her natural alignment. She fought in a battle but wasn't strong enough, so she decided to do whatever she could to support from the sidelines. She may never have been anywhere else, but she's sure it's really great here and she wants to do her best to help out.

Powers:

Negative Emotion Eater- Sapphire is fueled by negative emotions. In that she consumes and destroys them to generate the magical energy which composes her being. Getting a hug from Pink will always make you feel better, because she will literally start eating any emotion that is making you feel bad just by touching you. Note, this is emotions that are making YOU feel bad, not some arbitrary universal standard, so if the emotion of say, happiness, causes you physiological pain, Sapphire will eat that right up.

Mirror of Desire- Sapphire can transform herself into whatever inanimate object or appearance someone else desires. So, if someone else wanted her to look like Juno (and that person knew what Juno looked like), Sapphire could use this to look like Juno. Similarly, if someone was like "Ack, I need a sword!" Pink could transform into a sword. However, she doesn't do both appearance and inanimate object at the same time. So, if you want a sword, and use Pink, it's going to be extremely pink. She can still use her magic while in object form, and can communicate telepathically with anyone touching her. Her limit is her apparent mass (she couldn't look like Jormundgar or tranform into a Longship) and for inanimate objects specifically, she has to understand how to transform into them, so she can't turn into a Chevalier suit for example. Sapphire, of course, does not count as someone else to be able to copy her own desires.

Negative Emotion Sensing- Pink can sense the general direction of nearby negative emotions. It seems to somehow be connected to her sense of smell.

Power of Heart- Sapphire primary attack is beams of intangible holy energy that harm demons and phase through anything else.

Lighter than a Feather- Quite literally. Sapphire doesn't have mass and is very very quick, and flies with just as much ease as she walks. She tends to create a cloud of sparkles to zip around on, but this is more or less purely aesthetic.

Glitter Magic- Illusion magic for people who just want to be showy rather than disguise anything. Being showered in illusionary glitter might be distracting, but she can't really disguise anything.

Resistances & Immunities: Things such as acceleration, dizziness, blindness, blood loss, or nerve gas don't tend to have any effect on something that is just a bundle of magical heaven aspected emotional energy that looks like a person. It requires magic damage (such as Machina weapons are equipped with) or demon corrosiveness to damage her (although it will have some difficulty getting through her angelic resistance) Just throwing a boulder at her will smush her but she can quickly reform, as none of the stuff that makes up her being has been harmed.
Weaknesses: Does not have the usual superhuman physical capacity (baring speed, cause she cheats) and is in fact, sub average-human in that respect. This is due to the fact that her body has momentum but not mass, and her attempting to impart momentum on things is very very energy inefficient for her. Also, given her only attack harms only demons, and she can't eat most machines negative emotions, she's more or less entirely helpless in a direct fight against Machina, unless they have a highly visible off switch.

Skills:
Crafting/Enchanting- In an effort to become more useful to Deva, Sapphire has been learning how to forge and enchant items. As a bit of a shortcut to the laborious process of learning that, her current method is to infuse her own energies and self into the material, and shift it into shape. This cannot be accomplished in battlefield time, but does help her get around her limitations. However, this means that the items she make can only be enchanted with her own powers, Shapeshifting, Negative Emotion Eating/Sensing, and pure holy energy that only damages demons. She still has much to learn about enchanting before she make anything she might be commissioned for, rather than what her natural talents gift her.

Weapons & Equipment: She is weapons and equipment. And can make weapons and equipment. But she does not wield weapons and equipment, as she would have trouble lifting them.

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To be posted later. I've been gunning for Pink asking Chen some questions, and he doesn't have his laptop yet.

The Butcher was an experiment. He wasn't meant to see actual combat, he was to test the capabilties of the Stealth Field Technologies. How far, how fast, how much the Field could take. However, the testing was becoming more and more successful, and The Butcher was learning. He was becoming incredibly adept at the use and deployment of the Field and his abilities to the point he was ruled out as a simple test machine any longer.

They re-outfitted him, giving him a body that would better suite his already apparent skills. Finally it came to the moment of truth, real combat testing. He performed flawlessly, despite his prodigious size he was in and out without a sound and all that was left of the Angelic lieutenant was a pile of eviscerated flesh.



Hyper-Augmented Servos: Butcher's entire frame has been created with the idea of mobility in mind. He can twist, turn and bend in many directions at incredible speeds, allowing this 21 meter monster of a machine to move faster than almost anything in a similar size class.

Stealth Field: The Butcher is a stealth mecha, and as such is equipped with a light refraction cloak, a heat dispersal field, and a sound dampener. When activated The Butcher becomes almost impossible to find by conventional means. This field can be upheld for long periods of time, however attacking will power down the field for roughly 2 minutes.

"Fresh Meat": The Butcher can power himself on Demonic or Heavenly energy if extracted correctly. When the Butcher kills a creature with a high concentration of Demonic or Heavenly energy. (I.E. Enemy characters, Powerful Minions.) or a large number of weaker creatures. He can absorb and filter that energy to power himself and reset his Stealth Field.



Immunity to Poison: Being a machine with no pilot, The Butcher has nothing to fear from poisonous attacks.

Heavy Resistance to Psionics: The Butcher does not have a mind in the conventional sense, and has little to fear from Psionic attacks with the exception of Psychokinesis.

Resistance to Heat: The Butcher is made of an alloy that is purposely made to resist high temperatures, as he wields blades that can melt many metals. Fire or Heat based attacks will have a hard time damaging his internal components.



Thin Armor: While The Butcher's armor plates are strong, they are also quite thin. This lack of bulk is what allows The Butcher to travel at the speeds he does, but makes him much more prone to being damaged.

Demonic Corruption: The Butcher absorbs much more demonic corruption than the average Machina unit as he is almost entirely Melee based. As a result almost all of his tactics are hit-and-run as spending too long around the forces of Hell could result in a less than favorable outcome.

'The Numbers Game': The Butcher is primarily made to take out single targets, and thus tends to lose when dealing with much greater numbers (Assuming those numbers are powerful enough to even damage his armor)



Hunter-Killer: The Butcher was made with Assassination as his primary function, thus he is very adept at hunting down single targets and offing them. This could come in the form of finding tracks on the ground or using his systems to track magical energy.



Thermal Vibroblades: The Butcher wields six vibrating, heated blades. These weapons are capable of cutting through most material like a hot knife through butter, however their effectiveness drops off significantly if faced with armor that is thicker than the blade is long. Cooling the blades by some other means also causes them to drop in effectiveness, making them no more than sharpened pieces of metal. Still effective as weapons, but not nearly as good as when they are heated and vibrating.

Saw-Lance Tail: The Long, bladed tail extended out of the Butcher's end is covered in rotating blades much in the way a chainsaw operates. At the end lies a high-powered Laser Lance. Used to pierce thick armor as well as cut through obstacles too thick for the Vibroblades.

Name: Saef Harken

Title/Epiphet: Heavenly Thaumaturge, Captain 1st Heavenly Mechanised Squadron

Allegiance/Faction: Heaven

Race: Ascended Human

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Height: 6'1"

Weight: 180 lbs out of armor. 310 lbs in armor.

Appearance:


Backstory:

Saef did not grow up in the Nexus. Rather he was born on Dinas Affaraon, a technologically advanced world that was absorbed into the Nexus roughly a year ago. In that time it was subjected to a Demonic invasion that made the planet all but uninhabitable. The first ten months essentially one long list of military defeats and horrendous massacres the globe over.

When the war started Saef was one of the foremost scientists on the planet. He spent the first few months being shifted between a dozen different research projects, each one a hopeful new wonder weapon or defensive technology. That didn't mean he was safe of course. The front lines frequently collapsed without warning and he repeatedly had to help fight off Demonic infiltrators.

As the conflict went on he became less scientist and more soldier. The death of his family and many of his friends lighting a burning desire for revenge deep within him. Attrition makes for speedy promotions, and the death toll in this war was particularly steep. His knack for small unit tactics and the fact that he hadn't died yet quickly raised Saef to his current rank of Captain.

When Heaven sent an army ten months in the former scientist dove into the study of their magic like a man possessed. It was exceedingly effective against Demons, which made it the perfect tool for Saef. Even two months later when the invasions had been beat back and the portal to Hell closed it wasn't enough. When word spread that Heaven was recruiting Saef was one of the first to sign up.

Powers:

Heavenly Body

Upon accepting Heaven's offer the new recruits from Dinas Affaraon underwent a transformation. Their bodies changed, becoming more idealized versions of themselves. Features became sharper and more defined. Muscles were denser and organs more robust.

They became superhuman. Many times stronger and faster than a normal person. The group could now take blows that would have most certainly killed them before. It would still hurt but they wouldn't be removed from the battle just because they caught a punch from the wrong demon.

A Glimpse of the Truth

When Saef ascended something unexpected happened. While cosmic energies swirled around him the former scientist, now soldier and thaumaturge caught a glimpse of something. For the barest of moments the very bones of the universe were layer bare to him. That glimpse changed him.

On the surface the only clue of his extra transformation is a head of permanently white hair. The real changes run much deeper though. When Saef looks at something or thinks of it he can't help but see how it works. Magical or scientific the mechanics are always laid bare.

It's not an instantaneous thing though. The more complicated a thing is the longer it takes him to figure it out. Nor does it allow him an automatic immunity to illusions. Any mental effects will still take place, he will simply be able to know that there is some sort of spellcraft taking place and eventually be able to puzzle through the mechanics of it.

Divine Thaumaturgy

While still young at the craft Saef has learned enough of the how's and why's to manipulate the mana and underlying principles of the holy spells taught to all the new warriors from his world.

Using those as a basis he has expanded his offensive repertoire immensely. He can now freely manipulate holy light in offensive and defensive manners as well as a variety of other spells generally associated with the angelic.

As a subset of this power Saef has learned how tonsee magical energy. It takes the form of different types of light, each type of magical energy looking like a different color and the strength of it measured by brightness.



Skills:

Doctorate level education in several fields, primarily in energy and particle physics.

A Glimpse of the Truth has only enhanced his already prodigious intellect. While not strictly speaking smarter, there aren't many fields of study he can't easily gain a work in knowledge of.

Weapons & Equipment:

Hywelbane

Despite being a member of the armies of Heaven Saef and his comrades came from a highly technological world. Their weapons and equipment show that.

Hywelbane has two modes. The first takes the shape of a three foot long golden scepter with a white crystal at the end. Arcane runes run the length of the rod and the entire thing pulses with a soft white light.

In this form Hywelbane focuses and enhances Saef's power. Allowing him to perform greater feats of magic with more finesse.

When the second form is activated the scepter shortens to two feet. The extra material comes up to form a crosshilt and a blade the same color as the crystal extends.

The blade can be as long or as short as the wielder wishes it to be and is is made up of holy light. The sharpness of the blade depends on the abilities of the user. With Saef's skill at light magic the edge of Hywelbane can be measured in single digit photons.

LSW-27 (Modified)

Every good soldier needs a backup weapon and this is what most people used on Saef's home world.

A sleek looking silver pistol, the LSW-27 Saef carries has been extensively modified. Using some techniques that he only recently figured out the weapon has been converted into something truly magical. The power cell now feeds into a heavily rune inscribed crystal. Said crystal converts that energy into blasts of holy light capable of melting half a foot through solid stone.

Duban-X7-99

The Duban is a suit of highly advanced power armor and a big part of why the people of Dinas Affaraon could fight demons at all. Now that Saef has ascended the strength and speed enhancements are less obvious but even so it is a highly useful set of equipment.

Metal/ceramic armor plating is augmented by holy barrier. While the shielding can take several hits it wasn't designed to withstand a sustained barrage. Instead the designers built it to survive short bursts of fire, after which they would start to recharge.

It's not an instantaneous charge. If all the capacitors are empty it can take up to a full minute to refill from the onboard reactor. A long time in a pitched battle.

An onboard sensor suite uses a wide variety of means to keep track of the user's surroundings. Not designed as a scout or full scanning platform the Duban's passive scanners can keep an accurate reading of the battlefield out to about two hundred and fifty meters.

That's not factoring in things like the binocular function on the helmet. It's an average of what the onboard computer can tell the user at any one moment.

Technological filtration systems and holy purification enchantments have been combined to create an extremely effective built in gas mask. The user can survive in just about any location with a theoretically breathable atmosphere. With a few modifications this includes underwater operations, even if said modifications require a properly equipped workshop to perform them.

Duban has two different types of comms. The first is your traditional radio. It's usually kept locked down when fighting Machina. The second is quantum entanglement. Each suit has a series of entangled particles linked to both fellow squad members and command.

Communication between those so linked is crystal clear and unhackable no matter how far apart they are. The downside is that it only extends to people with linked particle pairs.

The last major piece of the suits is the jetpack built into each one. Technically called Quantum Particle Propulsion Systems, most everyone just calls them jetpacks.

Since it uses newly created quantum particles for thrust the user never has to worry about running out of fuel. However the system is quite the power hog. Power has to be diverted to it when in full use leading to reduced sensor range or increased shield recharge time.



After many long hours spent with Librarian Si, the combination of magic and science that is "Knowledge Is Power" was crafted. Aside from the fact that it is double the size of a standard book the primary thing to catch an observer's eye is how white the thing is. The covers are made out of a nonmagnetic white metal alloy and the pages all look crisp and new. It's not completely white though. The name of the book is emblazoned on the front in letters that glow an electric blue and is surrounded in an intricate magical circle of similar luminescence.

Of course carrying such a large and heavy book at all times would be a major pain. To circumvent that a few extra features have been added. When not in use the tome is stored in a personal pocket dimension. Nothing else can enter the dimension either with the book or by itself.

When called upon "Knowledge Is Power" activates a combination of antigravity technology and levitation magic to hover in the air near its master. The tome moves according to Saef's thought but cannot go more than a couple yards away at any one time

In order to prevent a predicted increase in size and weight the two who made it pulled a little trick with the pages. When a reader is about halfway through pages that have already been read will start to vanish. As this happens new pages will appear under the yet to be read pile. It is essentially a never ending book.

Of course those are all ease of use side benefits. The real power of the book lies in the name. Everything that Saef considers useful information is automatically captured by the book. The book then turns that information into power. The more important or useful the information is the more more power the tome can draw from it. These facts are not consumed to create magical energy but rather they add to the book's capacity to generate mana.

TLDR: It's a magic floating book that acts as a secondary mana generator for Saef. The more interesting stuff he finds out the more power it can give him.

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