✣ Name: Mana Kuroi
✣ Age: 16, 2nd Year

✣ History: Mana’s life was never labeled as “normal”, especially in her earlier years. As the daughter of a powerful Yakuza who oversaw many of the local comings and goings, it was only natural that those who found out the truth to her heritage would regard her with scorn. By choice or chance, Mana’s early life involved making several enemies, though not of her own making. The sins of her family lineage weighed heavily in her blood and one day those sins would be hers to pay.

Even so, Mana generally ignored the shady dealings of her family and committed to living a regular school life. Those that stuck close even through hardship were true family as far as she was concerned and worthy of her presence despite the risks it gave. Of course, she couldn’t ignore the Yakuza forever; indeed, it was only a matter of time before the darkness within her clan began to grow rampant and spread like wildfire.

Only Mana knows exactly how she came to obtain her Ta'ge Symbiont. Some have come to guess it was by experimental summoning on the Yakuza’s part, to bring about more power and control through means of other worldly forces. After all, the perfect vessel would be the up and coming Yakuza Princess; but in the end, these are just rumors. Who really knows what occurred in these certain events? The only one willing to share is Mana herself and only to those she deems worthy.

✣ Personality: Mana is a girl of few words. That much has been bred into her just in proximity to her family, though she’s not to the point of becoming a social recluse. She prefers to rely on actions more so than words and values the intent behind them. After all, words can hold little to no meaning, but there is no questioning the extent of one’s actions; or so Mana believes. She speaks only when needed to and only when addressed, but in Mana’s experience, getting things done is more favorable than any sort of empty talk. This dogma persists even under the influence of her Ta'ge Symbiont, though in more drastic measures. When transformed, she has a certain tendency to shoot first and ask questions later.

✣ Ta'ge Symbiont: As per all Tagers, Mana has access to powers unbefit of mortal beings. Her particular Symbiont takes the form of a monstrous gunslinger clad in crystal. Whether this form has any bearing on the being attached to Mana or something more personal has yet to be seen.



✣ Ta'ge Persona: While ordinarily quiet and almost reserved, Mana’s personality becomes slightly skewered when transformed. Communication is almost nearly impossible to make with her as she prefers to let her guns do most of the talking than anything else. Some could say she even enjoys the act of murder and gunning down her enemies, though it’s difficult to tell when she’s so close-lipped. Even so, closed-eyed observers can note the subtle body language she gives off to display her enjoyment of bloody and wretched situations, especially in combat.

✣ Hybrid Form: When sliding into her Hybrid Form, Mana’s eyes become slit like a cat’s pupils. When using her powers in this way, she gains her control over space. She’s freaked out her fair share of hapless victims by suddenly tapping them on the shoulder via an arm sprouted from a portal behind them.

Name: Kishimoto Haru

Age: 16; Second year highschool

Appearance: Haru exudes an unfriendly aura, with her eyes usually in a glare when someone looks over to her. However, this is just her case of a resting bitch face. Nevertheless, she doesn't mind that it seems to repel people from nosing into her business. She often dyes the tips of her hair various colors, currently it is dyed blonde. It wouldn't be a rare instance to find Haru with fresh wounds and bandages. She usually has a bandage over the tattoo under her eye which most brush off. She has many faded scars littered all over her body.

History: Haru did not grow up in a good place. With her father being a gambling addict and her mother barely having enough energy to keep up two jobs and taking care of her useless husband and Haru, she ended up being neglected. She had to grow up fast. However unfortunate it was, Haru had turned to destructive hobbies. She had begun staying out when she was starting out middle school, getting into fights at a very young age. Her mother was always worried whenever she came back from a fight but Haru never listened to her. Maybe she should have. Maybe her life wouldn't be like what it was if she did.

The streets taught her many things about life. If you weren't strong enough, fast enough, skilled enough, you weren't going to survive. The rebellious young girl would go against school rules until she just became a problem student who most teachers just didn't want to deal with. It was a miracle she wasn't kicked out of the school yet, and maybe it's because she got decent grades and the academy just gave up on trying to reign her in. The sooner she graduated, the sooner she would be out of their hair.

Five years ago, her mother died. That year she got a tattoo under the bottom of her eye for her mother. And yet, Haru simply became more detached to the world. Her mother's sister came and took her away from her father, who was now wasting his life away even more. Haru heard later that her father had owed the local yakuza a big sum which was why her mother was overworking herself. She never wanted to see the waste of space she calls a father ever again. Rurika was taking care of her now and she seems to have instilled a sense of calmness into Haru. She's mellowed down from seeking constant fights but she's still seen as one of the delinquents of the academy. Arguably infamous in it, even.

Personality: Haru comes off as detached from the world, most of the time. She doesn't want to bother with most people and is just waiting to graduate and somehow find a job. She's generally seen as unfriendly by most of the populace, and has been described as "scary" and "should be avoided". She avoids physical fights nowadays but is still uninterested in school or following authority. After all, they haven't really done any favors for her or her family, have they?

To those who approach her in a cordial manner, Haru does try to prevent herself from snapping at them but she retains her blunt attitude. She tries to not be unnecessarily rude but she still tends to come off as this due to the lack of proper interaction with other people who aren't jabbering at her to in anger or reprimanding her for doing something. Haru does have a penchant for helping others in her own way, usually preventing other delinquents from bullying others. Was it repentance? Perhaps.

After the Symbion'ts fusion, Haru would find herself to be impatient and uncaring to the world, even more than she originally was. She becomes more goal oriented instead of pushed by sympathy. Haru would try to be as efficient as possible, doing things quickly instead of elongating a process, even at the risk of a break in morality. Intimidation and veiled threats become more commonplace instead of outright aggressiveness.

Ta'ge Symbiont



Natural weapons:

• Claws: The Blademaster has long, sharp claws that are capable of slicing through flesh easily. These can also be used for climbing onto vertical spaces.
• Tail: The Blademaster grows a prehensile tail that acts like a third hand. It can be used to pick up objects to throw or to simply be used as a whip. It has a razor-sharp tip.
• Blades: The Blademaster has blades portruding out of its arms which can be taken off to be used as proper swords in a fight.
• Throwing Knives: She is equipped with eight sharp, feather-like substances that she can throw like knives. These knives regrow in under a second. These are three inches long each.

Limit Weapon:
Demon's Run: Once she activates this weapon, she is practically gliding off the ground as her speed is nearly indiscernible by even the supernatural sight of her enemies and allies. This allows her to make multiple attacks in quick succession within a fraction of a second.

Other supernatural Abilities: Blademasters boast speeds that exceed that of other tagers and a faster reaction to match up with this. While they are as strong as the other tagers, they rely more on hit and run tactics. Due to their speed, they can create harmless afterimages to confuse their opponents. They have a sharper sense of hearing which makes it easy for them to navigate through echolocation alone. They emit this clicking sound from their throats to use for echolocation.

Personality traits: Blademasters are subtle and they wish for things to end quickly, no matter the resolution. They have a manipulative streak but isn't opposed to taking things into their own hands.

Hybrid Form: Haru's eyes turn into a solid midnight blue. She gains the power of the claws and the supernatural hearing.

Name: Nakamura Kioko
Age: 16, 2nd year

History: When Kioko was 10, her family fled to the Kojiki Arcology as refugees, displaced by a disastrous Deep One invasion of Seattle that was repelled, but not before the fighting had reduced most of the city to rubble. After arriving at Kojiki Arcology with naught but what they could carry in their car, the family set themselves up over the next few years as eccentric, reliable booksellers, eventually setting up a two-story bookstore, Books of Wonder, in the downtown area of the arcology.

While her family was setting themselves up in their new home, Kioko slowly became known for her knowledge, and her habit of keeping her distance from nearly everyone after a certain point. This self-isolationism has left her with very few friends, although she is familiar with most of the students in her year.

Personality: Kioko is an outwardly kind and happy person with a ready smile, who usually has a book (or books) close at hand. She is also an optimistic realist, knowing that true evil exists in the world, but firmly believing that good (or at least justice) can win out in the end. However, her escape from the ruins of of Seattle, and the subsequent move across the world have left Kioko feeling like she is without a solid home, as if she doesn’t truly belong anywhere. Because of this, while she is friendly with everyone, she finds it extremely difficult to actually befriend others, subconsciously believing that “If I have to run again, friendships and closeness will only bring pain, so why bother?”

Her symbiote is pushing her to connect with people both more frequently, and to a deeper degree, firmly believing (and forcing that belief onto Kioko) that the closer one is connected to people, the better they can fight to save them, not considering the effect on its host when those people are hurt or killed.

Notes: Kioko is ambidextrous

Ta'ge Symbiont “Caduceus”

Natural weapons:
Right Arm: Bio-Bolt: Caduceus can fire darts filled with a number of concoctions out of a set of symbols on her right hand as a single-target attack.
Concoctions and Venoms:
- Regen: Greatly enhances a Tagers natural regeneration for a short time.
- Boost: Customize-able buff that enhances one trait of an ally (e.g. strength, speed, senses).
- Stun: A paralytic agent useful for capturing weaker opponents and making tougher opponents easier to defeat (It can fully paralyze a weaker enemy, but stronger ones may only be slowed, for example).

Left Arm: Bio-Blaster: This ‘grenade launcher’ is in fact a mystical Area of Effect attack cast from symbols on the palm of her left hand. 3 meter blast radius.
Grenade Effects:
- Darkness: blankets the afflicted area in a mist that blinds any Dhoanoids within the area, and shows their outlines to linked tagers.
- Flash-bang: An extremely powerful flash of light, coupled with a very loud explosion, leaves targets temporarily blinded and disoriented.
- Explosive: A magical explosion that damages enemies and terrain that hasn't been reinforced.

Left Arm: Injection Blade: This melee weapon is a stabbing weapon that can be used to inject any of the bolt potions into a target, lashing out similarly to how a mantis shrimp strikes its targets, or being extended fully and used as a more traditional blade. This weapon is usually used as a last resort.

Limit Weapon: Black Tentacles: Caduceus performs a verbal summoning rite and dozens of small summoning circles appear off of any solid surface, and once the rite is completed the portals, maximum total radius of 5 meters, open and untold amounts of tentacles pour out from their sealed envelope in space, hungry for flesh, bone, and soul. Any who get entangled within their grasp are sapped of their life force, while Caduceus’ allies are rejuvenated and refreshed. [Insert Size of Portals]

Abilities: Flight, Compound Sight (The ability to track multiple independent targets at once, even at great distances, as well as the ability to immediately identify Dhoanoids and active magic within visible range), Mind Link (The ability to link with other shifted Tagers to form a tactical network, sharing senses between linked tagers and displaying a sort of mini-map to all members of the link), and Healers Vision (This allows Caduceus to see health and status of a focused target, friend or foe, within visual range).

Personality traits: The Caduceus ta’ge give their hosts a driven need to save everyone they possibly can, and to further that aim by connecting with as many people as possible. The ta’ge idealizes friendships and loving relationships for this purpose, although it doesn’t necessarily understand these relationships.

Hybrid Form: When in hybrid form, Kiokos eyes become compounded, like that of a bug, and glow the color of polished gold. She gains the Compound Sight, Healers Vision, and Mind Link abilities.

Name: Saya Koizumi
Age: 14, 3rd year middle school
Appearance:

Saya is average in overall height and build. She obviously suffers from albinism, with characteristic pale skin, eyes that are a sort of pale pink or purple in color, and extremely light hair. She usually wears sunglasses when out and about, or wears glasses with lenses that tint automatically when exposed to bright light or UV. She isn’t the sort to keep up with current fashion, and most of her clothes that aren’t her school uniform are far behind the latest trends. Due to her illness, Saya has several surgical scars.

History:
Saya’s family are caretakers and priests for one of the local shrines. As a result, she has an actual house that’s a good size and something of a rarity in an arcology. Her parents are traditional and strict when it comes to duties to the shrine, but otherwise Saya can usually avoid trouble if she’s got a good enough cover story and luck on her side. She has an older sister whom she adores. The two sisters get along well enough ,with the usual amount of friendly ribbing, and they split the household chores between them. They both have to work to maintain the shrine’s grounds and help out during festivals.

Saya wasn’t really born healthy, and she wasn’t born lucky, either. In addition to her lack of pigment and associated vision problems, she’s struggled with illness for much of her life. Modern medicine keeps her living a surprisingly active lifestyle, but she still needs frequent hospital visits and surgery to replace failing organs or otherwise treat her frequent medical woes.

Saya’s school life is probably what one would consider unremarkable. She’s not very smart, so she works hard for her grades. She has a few friends and hangs out with them. She watches weird shows and makes costumes based on the characters. Sometimes she tries to drag her friends into doing the same. Her unusual appearance alone is enough to set her apart, leading to the occasional odd look or people talking behind her back. Usually, it stops there, but sometimes things escalate into outright bullying. Saya putting up with things in as much good humor as possible likely does not help matters either.

She and Mako are acquaintances, having met several times at the school nurse's office, or occasionally at the hospital. Outside of small talk, she doesn't know the older girl very well.

Personality:
Despite her weak constitution, Saya is energetic, outgoing, and positive. She works hard to get what enjoyment she can out of her good days, and rather than depend on others, tries to be someone they can depend upon. She helps others who she feels are suffering or in trouble, and she is perhaps a little too naively trusting.

She is also delusional. She believes herself to be a magical girl, even if she is demonstrably not. Surely, she can rush headlong into danger and things will work themselves out just like she’s the protagonist of some sort of show. This seems to be something of a coping mechanism for what’s happened to her.

Since her union with her symbiont, Saya has slowly become more cold-tempered, cruel, and violent. She’s more intimidating than she has any right to be, and seems to enjoy frightening her enemies with displays of her own strength. Even if she wants to befriend or get through to an enemy, she’s more than happy to beat them into submission first.

Ta'ge Symbiont


Natural weapons:

• Talons: The nightmare’s hands are tipped with long, deadly talons.
• Tentacle sheathe: The nightmare grows a set of tentacles that are usually retracted into one forearm. They can be used to entangle or grapple an opponent as well as do damage.
• Shoulder Pods: Each shoulder pod fires crimson bolts of energy capable of punching through walls.
• Depthless Strike: A wave of energy fired by striking the ground or another surface. It travels along a physical plane and can even follow it around corners to strike foes out of sight or in cover.

Limit Weapon:
Mystic Blast - Both shoulder pods charge up and unleash a terrifying blast of energy 2 meters wide and as tall as the tager. This blast is capable of taking out walls and even powered armor, damaging anything in its path.

Other supernatural Abilities:
Standing a full head taller than most tagers, Nightmares are stronger and more terrifying. They can often lift and throw cars, or similar feats of extreme strength. Nightmares are just as quick as their brethren, they just hit a lot harder. As well armored as most combat tagers, nightmares regenerate very quickly, often returning from near death to deadly within the span of several minutes. Saya’s has also manifested the ability to detect things by heat signatures.

Personality traits: Aggressive, violent, and overconfident. Nightmares are menacing, bloodthirsty, and always ready to pick a fight. While not driven to be in charge, a nightmare is the sort to question authority, if not outright rebellious.

Hybrid Form: Saya’s eyes become solid black, she gains her thermal vision, and may sprout her claws.

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Name: Mako Kuriyama
Age: 16, 3rd year at Kojiki.


Mako is a demure girl, small framed and easily identifiable by her bold red glasses frames and her strawberry pink hair. Other than being especially cute looking there is little about her physically that gets people talking. She is often seen with bandages on and would not be out of character or called into suspicion at all by there presence.

History: Mako is basically alone at the academy. She has a younger sister who is scheduled to start highschool next year, but she still lives at home with their father and his new wife. Mako's mother passed away years ago to a blood disease. Mako makes frequent visits to the doctor in order to have blood tests done to make sure that she didn't develop the disease as well, so far medications and good health have kept her clear of it. However, the frequent blood tests do cause her to be anemic quite a bit, and she has such a fear of needles that it is all that she can do to have the blood test done and cannot tolerate a transfusion. She is clumsy and accident prone because of this, hence the permission to wear a non-uniform sweater at school and the nearly constant presence of bandages.

Mako and Saya are familiar with each other, having met several times at the school's nurses office, as well as bumping into each other occasionally at the hospital. They know each others names in a formal sense and can usually carry on a polite conversation with just small talk.

Personality: Mako is generally considered shy. Introverted is more like it. She wants to be involved, and outside of her very small group of friends, has a very hard time getting out and doing the things that she wants. Instead she spends the majority of her free time reading Manga, listening to music, and eating pokey- strawberry of course, but chocolate is good too! She is exempted from physical activities at school and that has created a distance between her and her classmates. Those that do try to interact with her, only seem to regard her with pity. After the introduction of the Symbiont, Mako will generally become more confident in her abilities. The healing/regenerative abilities will alleviate her concerns over her health and she will become more involved in the world around her, often times at the prompting of her symbiont.

Ta'ge Symbiont

Taking on the appearance of her Symbiont, she manifests the attributes of the Virgo Harpy. Just like the image above, but the ends of the claws, wings and hair, all tinged in red. The eyes are a solid red. The halo appears to be made of blood and will occasionally drip. Even through the appearance of looking soft and supple, her skin has taken on a stone-like durability.

Natural weapons: Claws and talons, the claws can be tipped in blood to make them longer to gain more reach if needed, even the halo that floats above her head can be split into two chakram that will bounce twice before automatically returning to her once thrown.

Limit Weapon: Mako can place her clawed hand on a nearly or recently defeated foe, draw out its blood and transform it into a swarm of Chakram to be directed at other foes. This can be used to target a single target, or sent out in an arc (cone) to hit an area. However this rarely has enough control to avoid hitting allies that may fall into the area.

Other supernatural Abilities: Flight, perfect sight (can even see in magical darkness). A telekinetic ability to manipulate blood, even when inside the body. This ability takes a great deal of concentration, and a sentient/conscious target can attempt to resist it with either physical strength or will power. Opponents need to be within line of sight. Heat resistance.

Personality traits: The symbiont of Virgo regards itself as perfect. Therefor it is bold and overly confident. Oftentimes impatient to take action.

Hybrid Form: Mako's eyes will turn a solid red. Hidden by her red frames she hopes that the sudden flash of red in her eyes might be missed by her overlooking classmates. She gains the perfect sight ability, as well as the ability to manifest a blood sword.