Age: 16

Personality: Energetic might be a little bit of an understate when it comes to Shun. She is like what would happen if you bottled lightning and turned it into a girl; constantly in motion, never able to sit still for long and constantly, always cheerful. This combined with her endless confidence makes it easy for her to make new friends as she is willing to approach anyone and everyone at least once, but it also makes flighty as she tends to commit to plans with people without thinking and over-booking herself.

She can reckless, as well as tactless, as she has a habit or acting and speaking before thinking and getting herself into trouble, but is more often than not able to escape trouble using the same traits that got her in trouble in the first place. This lack of consequences has left her somewhat over-confident, or at least with the impression that things will always work themselves out in the end. Although, this attitude has been put to the test somewhat recently.

Skills: As a capable soccer player and a member of her school’s team, Shun was athletic even before gaining her new abilities. She has good situational awareness from her time on the pitch and is used to working together with other people for a common goal.

Backstory: A simple child from a simple family, Shun always considered herself to be the typical teenage girl. Her parents worked average jobs, she was an only child like most of her classmates, she hated studying and always left her homework to the last minute; typical high school stuff. The only thing that really made her stand out from the crowd was the fact that she played soccer on the school team; well, that and the fact that she was really good at it. Good enough that her team had a shot at making it to nationals for the first time in years.

It was something that she was proud of; even though she was only playing the sport because she loved it, even though she would have kept playing even if she terrible at it, it was nice to actually be good at something she cared to be good at. She didn’t buy into any of the talk about her being a future star, a future pro, since she knew that there were better players than her out there; still, if that kind of talk kept her teams spirits up then let them dream for her. If they were able winning then that just meant they could play together longer.

They won the final match of the regional tournament, earning their school a spot in nationals for the first time in a decade, but during the final ten minutes of the match Shun was hit by a bad tackle that left her with a sprained ankle. Hardly the worst injury, but it meant she would be out of commission for the first match of nationals. The team was disheartened, but Shun wasn’t; all they had to do was win one match without her and she’d be able to join them for the rest. No big deal. She waved them off from her crutches as they boarded the bus to their first match.

They lost, of course.

Shun didn’t blame them for it, though they all felt devastated. She had got them to nationals and didn’t even get to compete, but she had no hard feelings about it, the other team was just better than them. The same couldn’t be said for the rest of her team however; no matter how much she tried to put a brave face on things, she couldn’t help but think that maybe he team blamed her for being injured , for letting them down. That hurt more than the disappointment or her ankle.

She began to distance herself from the team and from soccer in general. Even after her ankle had healed she didn’t hop back on the pitch or even touch a soccer ball. Some of the spark that made her love the sport had been lost. Then the fairy appeared and she suddenly had a lot more to worry about than just her school team’s feelings.

Magical Girl:

Concept: Archery

Archetype: Sagittarius

Abilities:
- Enhanced speed and agility.
- Enhanced vision; increased range, able to see in the dark and has enhanced visual acuity.
- Can summon an ornate bow to her hands and is granted the knowledge and skill to use it effectively. Though it doesn’t come with arrows, it instead shoots arrows of pure star light.
- Is able to pinpoint her opponent’s weak spots.

Name:
Takara Suzukaze
Age:
14
Gender:
Female
Appearance:
Standing a bit short for his height, Takara sports long, messy black hair and is often dressed in somewhat baggy, ill fitting clothing. She tries her best not to stand out too much with her clothing, which consequently, sometimes means she stands out too much. Though, that is fine too. The more unapproachable she looks, the less likely it is she'll be bothered by people.
Personality:
Takara's personality is like night and day sometimes. In her day to day life, she's quiet, keeps mostly to herself, and generally sometimes as unnoticeable as the trashcan sitting in the corner of a classroom. Not that she's shy, no, she's just a very self involved person and doesn't quite like overly complicated things and spending time with other people. Still, she's fairly pleasant, as long as you don't mind someone who will tell you you're being a dumbass when you are. Especially doesn't like those who try to do more than they're seemingly capable of.

As a magical girl life though, one wouldn't be able to even guess that these two would be the same people initially. A good hero needs a secret identity, after all!

Loud, rambunctious and very, very eager to prove her worth as a hero like she always wanted even with some conflict of desire with the situation in question. Perhaps a little overeager to fight. While she isn't overly eager to express a more like of girly things when she can be herself, she definitely wouldn't say no if someone invited her along to do...girly things. Or invited her along for a slumber party. Or just hanging out in general. Perhaps this is how she really feels, or perhaps she's just putting on heirs. Maybe she's not entirely certain herself. Has a tendency to announce herself to enemies before engaging in battle.
Skills:
Decently skilled in the kitchen and can play the guitar just somewhat. Otherwise, doesn't have too many notable relevant skills unless you count a vast knowledge of superhero and similar shows.
Brief Backstory:
Takara was once a fairly average, normal guy with fairly mundane interests. Specifically, music and the more culinary arts. Overall, there was nothing hugely impactful in his life negatively. If anything, he ended up where he is now purely because of a childish sense of justice and wanting to help people. He grew up with a huge love of manga, super sentai shows, super heroes, and spent more than a lot of time as a young kid consuming such media. The fact his father was a higher up in the local police force who, at time time, he considered to be his main role model helped to cement this mentality.

Perhaps, one would find it odd he'd be a bit bullied over this. It wasn't anything severe, really, but he had never been particularly strong or athletic. With his somewhat quiet and subdued demeanor, it made him a bit of an easy target. But that, to him, was fine. Better him than someone else who couldn't handle it, right? Even if it hurt a bit. Besides, he had also gained someone he'd consider an inseparable friend who shared many of the same interests, too. It was when he was utterly helpless to help someone, that he realized just how weak and silly his goals were.

A fire broke out in the school. It wasn't until later that the body of his best friend, someone who had shared his somewhat fanciful dreams of childish heroism, would be found. Frustration. Anger. Himself being so weak and unable to help. Anyone would be depressed from not being able to help their best friend in such a situation, but it hit Takara particularly hard. For sometime after, he had given up such fanciful dreams, thinking it'd be best to grow up and put all of that behind him.

It was when this little fairy showed up. At first, he thought he was merely having some grieving dream or something. He'd say yes without hesitation, not even bothering to get the full details from the fairy. When She woke next morning, she didn't even initially see anything was wrong until she went to go take a shower.

Needless to say, she was absolutely livid but the fairy merely 'Tee-heed' and flew away after telling Takara of her new responsibilities. She tried to tell her parents, but they seemed to not mind or even register. Seemed like she was the only one that remembered this and now he...she, was a magical girl of all things.

On one hand, she could totally beat up bad guys! On the other hand, why was she a girl now!? Grrr, if she ever sees that fairy again, she's getting punted into the sun!

Magical Girl Appearance:

Concept:
Storms
Archetype:
Hecatoncheries
Abilities:
Hecatoncheries. The hundred armed and hundred faced giants from myth. Said to possess a myriad of abilities and supernatural abilities. In Takara's case, she has the Concept of storms and possess their abilities relating to it.

- Currently, she can manifest up to eight arms of light, able to strike at foes individually and control them as she would her own two arms. They appear as somewhat translucent, ethereal bluish white arms coming from her back.
- She can manifest loud reverberating booms of sound, much like thunder claps to both disorient and cause localized pressure waves of pure destruction. Often used by throwing punches at something and having it activate on contact with the target, but it could be used much more wide scale.
-While she doesn't have fine control over air currents or wind itself, she can create large air currents and whip up small whirlwinds from her arms and voice.

Name: Kana Asakura
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Appearance:

Personality: Kana is an odd mix of a what you would call a samurai and a delinquent. Outwardly she comes across as a calm and stoic person, though she also tends to have a very delinquent like speech pattern and actions. She is an extremely determined individual and comes off as very intense at times, though she’d still a just person and will defend the weak, when it comes down to it.

Skills:
Kana is a expert martial artist and street brawler. As the heir to the Asakura dojo, she uses the martial arts style known as “The That Quells the Seas and Silences the Storm” or in less mouthy terms, Asakura Style Karate. Asakura Style Karate’s originates from the Asakura family’s samurai route, due to being a group of traditionalists the form has seen less changes compared to modern Karate, keeping it’s battlefield routes and effectiveness, even keeping weapons handling as part of it’s training.

Motorcycle driving: She has both the license and the image to drive one around. She uses a chopper style bike to get around, it may seem masculine, but she’s always been a bit of a masculine kind of person.

Brief Backstory: Kana’s mother died when she was young, she died giving birth to her younger brother, but both did not make it. Her father and her didn’t know how to deal with that grief and how to properly connect to each other, so he tried the only way he knew how, as the head of the dojo and the heiress. The strict training, only caused the rift to grow between them. As a response Kana became a delinquent in middle school lashing out at everyone and terrorizing those who got in her way, using the martial training she was given.

One day, she saw a student bullying another meeker student. Normally she would have just walked away, but the bullying student has pissed her off earlier, so she punched them out, but before she could leave, the bullied student called out to her and then shot out a rapid fire string of word, which Kana could barely understand, but somehow she got caught in the pace of the other student, who revealed her name to be Kaori.

Kaori became Kana’s only and best friends, their friendship caused Kana to soften just a little, if only so she doesn’t actively starts fights on her own, though she would still raise her hand to protect her best friend if she needed to. They were inseparable, At least until High School. Kaori and Kana started to become distant and Kana didn’t know why. Kaori all of a sudden was really busy and tended to cancel plans and just disappeared out of nowhere and Kana decided to find out why.

Kana tailed Kaori in secret, finding out that she was heading to an abandoned area of town. When she finally stopped Kana finally found out her secret, as she transformed in front of her eyes to combat monsters. Kaori was a magic girl and unfortunately Kana was caught in the middle, even worse this wasn’t a normal Shade either, this was a very powerful Shade, that had enough power to direct other Shades, something that Kaori didn’t realize. The battle didn’t end well, especially since Kaori took a serious injury when the shade realized Kana was there and Kaori got in it’s path to protect her, though she managed to cause a big enough distraction for Kana to drag Kaori out of there.

Kana tried her best to get her friend to the hospital. She had to leave her motorcycle behind to trail Kaori stealthily and their phones didn’t have reception to call an ambulance. The only other person or rather thing around was something that introduced itself as Kaori’s Fairy who was currently trying their best to lead them to the hospital, only for the minor Shades to catch up to them. Surrounded, the fairy gave her a way to save herself. As it turns out Kana did also have potential, but Kaori prevented the fairy from recruiting her in an attempt to protect her, but without any other choice she accepted. Kana transformed and dispatched the Shades handily and got Kaori to a hospital… but it was too late.

Kaori’s death was deemed to be a work of a brutal slasher, as no one would believe that it was a monster made from negative emotions. Kana went to Kaori’s funeral, not just to grieve, but to quietly slay the Shade that would be created by the emotions of grief. She decided that she was going to take up the position of a magical girl and protect the city in Kaori’s place.

Magical Girl Appearance:


Concept: Heavens
Archetype: Susanoo

Abilities:
Kana’s Archetype is based off the Kami Susanoo, god of the storm and seas. In her transformation she gains access to the sword, Ama no Habakiri, which only seems to be a very sharp sword for now. Her physical ability is also increased in transformation.

As Susanoo is the kami of the seas, Kana gains the ability to create and manipulate water. Along with the ability to breathe underwater and other needed abilities to thrive under water, such as underwater pressure resistance and the ability to sense vibrations in water.

Name: Ukiko Hotaru

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Appearance:


Personality: Brash. Daring. Mischievous. Reckless. All these describe Ukiko and her tendency to seek out trouble before it finds her. Displaying fearlessness that borders on arrogance, she acts like every challenge is no problem for her, right down to taunting her enemies as she fights them. She likes hearing scary stories, and telling them. Urban legends, horror movies, haunted houses, you name it - if it gives her the chills, it's right up her alley.

Of course, it's said courage is not the absence of fear, and this is painfully true in Ukiko's case. Not that she'll admit it. Behind her bold mask, she's constantly plagued with terror - of not being strong enough, of failing to defeat her foes, of letting someone down. The attitude she puts on is for the sake of overcoming said fear.

Skills: Knows a lot about urban legends and stories of supernatural occurrences, as they can be hints at where to find shades. She's also good at bolstering people's mood with her bravado - when she's not annoying the crap out of them, in any case.

Brief Backstory: As a child, Ukiko was the opposite of who she is now - she was quiet and timid. She was only comfortable around her best friend Aika, who'd bring her out of her shell and encourage her to try new things. For years, they were as close as sisters, until everything changed one evening.

They were both 12, on their way back from school, and Aika got her to explore the woods. There were rumours about the place, none of them good, but Aika wanted to prove they were false. As they ventured further in, something moved in the distance. Leaves crunched, as if something was chasing them. Both girls turned and ran. Ukiko, in a state of utter panic, didn't look back until she was out of the forest. That was when she noticed her friend wasn't there. Desperate, she sought help.

Thankfully, Aika was found alive. It turned out a mysterious woman had discovered her injured and unconscious, and gotten her to a hospital. While she did make a full recovery, it was a slow one, physically and mentally. She had little memory of the incident, and deep gouges down her back that looked to be from an animal, but nobody could identify what kind. Worse, it was as if the creature had drained the liveliness out of her - she became withdrawn and depressed for months, verbally lashing out whenever Ukiko tried to help. For leaving her, for not even looking back. Something told Ukiko her friend's mental state wasn't solely a result of trauma.

Even after Aika recovered, both girls were torn up with regret over their actions, and drifted apart. A few years later, Ukiko's family moved to Tokyo anyway. Ukiko took this as an opportunity to start anew. She wouldn't be that helpless coward any more. Slowly, she started to face her fears. She researched urban legends, and the weaknesses of the beings they featured. She learned basic self defense. She started putting up a tough front. If anything like that happened again, she wouldn't let anyone else down. She'd do something, somehow.

That determination was what got her chosen as a magical girl. Once Ukiko had gotten over her bewilderment at a fairy appearing to her, offering her the power to fight shades, it all made sense. The attacker in the woods had been a shade, and a magical girl had saved Aika's life. Now Ukiko had the chance to be something other than useless, and make sure the incident wouldn't happen again. She took it right away. That was the day she cast off the last few traces of the scared girl she used to be, at least outwardly.

Magical Girl Appearance:


Concept: Ghosts

Archetype: Chochin-obake (ghost lantern)

Abilities: As is fitting for a spectral magical girl, Ukiko can float, and become invisible for a few seconds at a time. She can also become immaterial and phase through solid objects, although not through shade attacks since shades aren't exactly corporeal beings, or energy attacks if she were to get into a fight with another magical girl - using this ability several times in a short span of time is also a significant drain on her magic reserves.

Her offensive power takes the form of ghostly flames, similar to hitodama, which she shoots at enemies. These flames are blue-green, and cold instead of hot. A chochin-obake familiar accompanies her, able to breathe this same fire. Together, they can combine their attacks for a powerful finishing move.