[hider=Shocking] [center][hider=The Best Has Arrived] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/iWZ7Yxn.jpg[/img][/center] [/hider][/center] [u]Name[/u]: Charlotte Marie Louisa de Normandie [u]Title(s)[/u]: “Ojou-sama of the West”, “Lightning Princess”, “Thundertits” [u]Gender[/u]: Female [u]Age[/u]: 27 [u]Alignment[/u]: Chaotic Good [u]Rank[/u]: (Your capability as a Magus in the eyes of the Mages Association. This will be given to you on approval.) [u]Objective for the Grail[/u]: Her participation alone is assumed by some others to be to gain praise and strike down lesser magi, and her family sent her to secure the land for them to move on and become proper Second Owners. Her family expects she will use the Holy Grail for their benefits if she gets it somehow as well, in particular to help heal her elder brother and the family’s heir...who is currently undergoing treatment to try to regain his health. Truthfully, no one knows if she even has personal motivations or desires for this Holy Grail War. [u]Command Seal[/u]: [hider=The Seals] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/ScwSwZi.png[/img][/center] [/hider] [u]Personality[/u]: A proud and bold individual, a true “princess” who holds her head high no matter the situation. She possesses a high level of pride in herself and her heritage, and loathes insults or perceived insults to it with a passion. At times can potentially be a hothead, and with her occasionally ‘stubborn’ and determined will she can usually push herself to do quite well in a lot of things unless it gets in the way. Due to all of this, it is easy to see why she is easily assumed to be a “hotheaded, cocky rich girl who is a total idiot”. Not that she is bad with magecraft, one of her skills she takes some pride in. [u]Bio[/u]: A long-lived French family currently on its 12th generation, who began from humble origins and rose to be among the levels of French nobility through plot and cunning and marriage. They are a strong-blooded and wealthy lot, surviving the centuries and decades to form enough business connections to keep them and their research afloat for generations to come. They specialize in Wind (Lightning) magecraft, with a lot of variety having been developed for its use over centuries of work. They are known to be a haughty bunch, with many ties back at the Clock Tower and “investments” towards that area that continue to “pay handsomely” at times for them on the regular. They have for a long time been aligned towards the Barthomeloi faction as well, in regards to their allegiances at the Clock Tower. However, their latest heir, who possesses the crest, fell into a coma after a particularly nasty fall from a balcony when he was arguing with his siblings. To this end, the family has been pulling on strings and has sent one of the heir’s siblings (aka “backup heirs to them”) to participate in the Holy Grail War. Charlotte herself grew up a wealthy heiress and well-trained and drilled magus of her family’s bloodline. She has lived like a princess, albeit one with the training and responsibilities of a magus. She was sent to the Clock Tower for a time to learn as a student, in part as a gesture of respect to the organization to keep in good standing, and then was drilled in other training at home otherwise to master her family’s magecraft. While at the Clock Tower, she gained the nickname of “Thundertits” from fellow female students for...somewhat obvious reasons when looking at her. This being said, she has been close to her younger sister, a highly-trained magus, and a seeming pawn of her family’s will her status being used as a “valuable investment” to try to to ensure their future prosperity (and heir’s recovery on the side if she somehow gets the grail) without a doubt. --- [u]Magic Circuit Switch[/u]: The feeling of sexual excitement coursing through her body. [u]Number of Magic Circuits[/u]: B [u]Quality of Magic Circuits[/u]: A --- [u]Elemental Affinity[/u]: Wind [u]Magecraft[/u]: [b]General Magecraft[/b] – A very solid and somewhat advanced grasp of all of the basics for a Magus, especially a student of the Clock Tower. [b]Normandie Lightning Magecraft[/b] – Her family’s specialty stemming from their wind element, worked and honed over many generations of development and hard work. The foundation for this magecraft lies in a large blending of cultures and beliefs as time went on since the time of their ancestor, starting with Greco-Nordic-Celtic beliefs on lightning, and combination of three prominent lightning gods in each of those cultures into a sacred triad/triple deity to far better solidify the foundation using old tricks. With this syncretism built into the foundation and used to build it, some minor other influences from local culture as it developed. It is very well-developed and practiced, a foundation that has built on its roots but stays true to them as well in order to maximize versatility and power. The foundation conceptualizes the user into the “hammer” which “forges” lightning, their status as an instrument of power and punishment, and a “living storm” and “lightning forge” which is united with the element itself at their core. This foundation developed from the three main groups that had influence in what is now France, the family's ancestors starting as Celts who fought the Romans, being incorporated into Roman lands eventually, and then blending with the Nordic men who settled in Normandy under the leadership of Rollo. From simple zapping bolts of myriad forms and kinds for attacking, to producing electrical fields to various effects such as alerting her to intruders, to transforming objects into “batteries” for electricity (metal or not, but metal is best for this), to even detection (passive or active) of living things based on the faint electrical impulses going off in the bodies of other living things. Her attacks are imbued with the concept of lightning as something which punishes and smites. She can also utilize this magecraft with the material of lightning ashes, casting spells to heal. Similarly, the concept of the word for “arrow” being tied to thunderbolts in the Torah, and also grounded in the concept of Zeus, has been incorporated into some spells to help shape them, one being a simpler one-line (one word) spell that cast a cluster of three “arrows” of lightning at targets for a simple but destructive spell in application. Rituals tied to affecting the weather or changing it can also be used, rooted in the concept of lightning as the tool of sky deities and weather events caused by gods of lightning. There are also spells tied to cycles, rooted in the symbolism of the six-or-eight-spoked wheel in Celtic culture being tied with their thunder god Taranis. A high tier of versatility and power are possessed by this magecraft, which has been developed over 12 generations of research and hard work. [b]Western Curses[/b] – Enough skills and experience here to effectively create and apply/use countercurses, if she so needs them. In terms of offense, she is highly adept at the one thing she can use best: the “Evil Eye”, a simple but anciently-rooted means of cursing requiring only bad intentions/feelings aimed towards the targets and a nasty glare to cast it (causing misfortune and injury to targets as a result). Essentially a side magecraft to “round herself out” somewhat when learning back at the Clock Tower and dealing with her peers. She has some solid skills in verbal curses as well. [u]Crest[/u]: (she does not have it, though she and her younger sister were trained well as magi regardless due to her parents' desire to have spare "backups" for the family's heir; likewise, her family prides itself on skill and trained her and her younger sister to showcase their might as well for publicity's sake) [u]Weapon[/u]: [b]Zeus’ Shockstick[/b] – A mystic code made to protect the user, it takes the form of a small but ornate metal rod she keeps on her person. Lightweight enough to carry around, it does have a well-insulated and protected iron core at its center. When used, it pulls in surrounding mana into it and channels it into a torrent of lightning in return. This is useful for the wielder on a personal level, being good for close-medium range battle from a single person’s perspective (aka this isn’t a range on the servant scale of things). Can be considered a magus equivalent of “a concealable lethal super taser” and seemingly most good for just combat, but is very simple in design and use. It can also be used as a focus for her lightning magecraft. [b]Thunderstone[/b] – A mystic code crafted using her family’s magecraft, it is kept within a very small pendant she wears around her neck at all times. It wards her against spells (magecraft) and witchcraft up to D rank spells. It does this by merely rejecting magical energy, not being on the level of a servant's Magic Resistance. [u]Exceptional Benefit[/u]: Contacts- You have friends within local organizations. You may make reasonable requests to any mundane organization within Paris and have it fulfilled(discretely). Examples include having a hospital send fresh cadavers to your location, or gaining access to the Mayors office with ease. Requests above and beyond the normal have a chance for failure. [u]Lightning Magecraft Sources[/u]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderstone_(folklore) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taranis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor https://www.whats-your-sign.com/symbolic-meaning-of-lightning.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summanus [/hider]