Here's the first draft. Title might be a place holder until I find something else... [hider=Sayuri / Kaeru] [center] [img]https://i.ibb.co/kxqgsd1/2023-08-17-18-27-23-Window.png[/img] [/center] [color=fff79a][center][h1]Sayuri Kotowaza[/h1] [h2]Kaeru[/h2] [h3]17[/h3][/center][/color] [center] [hider= Kaeru][img]https://i.ibb.co/XFLx5rm/Frog-girl.jpg[/img][/hider] [/center] • [color=fff79a]Emblem[/color]: A small and plain ancient looking ring with the carving of a small frog standing as if on the ring. A family heirloom. • [color=fff79a]Sweet Arm[/color]: Her 'weapon', so to speak, takes the form of an old rolled up bamboo parchment she can carry either strapped on her back or in her hands for fights. The parchment itself is, of course, magical and can be used to deflects some blows that come her way, but that is far from it's main purpose. • [color=fff79a]Magic[/color]: Kaeru's magic took an... odd form, as far as Magical Girls go. The magic itself is rather simple. Her Sweet Arm - the large parchment at her back - is used to focus her magic with which she can summon things. All sort of things! BUT... mainly Frogs. And toads! Some, of a rather peculiar kind. Sayuri can invoke forth anything from your run of the mill frog in [i]impressive[/i] quantity to Toads of old tales and legends with special abilities. The reason as to why her magic is as such is unknown, but Sayuri believe it to be linked to the old Deity that resided in her family's shrine before...Perhaps. [b][u][color=fff79a]Background / Writing Sample[/color][/u][/b] Sayuri comes from a family who's ancestors, as far as memory serves, has always tended to one of the many old shrines dotting the mountains surrounding the modern Hibusa Town. The shrines themselves parts of some older beliefs that may or may not still be followed by a select few, and on a larger scale reduced to local customs without anyone truly recalling where said customs originated from. The Kotozawa family, however, unfailingly kept attending their duties as shrine keepers despite modernity taking over... Until the family's young daughter, at least. Like a flaming beacon of modernity these halls and forest paths had never seen, Sayuri walked - a flamboyant bridge of old and new. Anything, from her bright blonde hair and colorful accessories to her energetic attitude, screams of the city and it's youth. Yet despite this and despite her choice to reject the more traditional customs and decorum of the family, Sayuri still feel at home in in the mountain retreat where she grew up and still participated in the family duties, willingly. The girl also attended school in the heart of the city, happily traveling for hours to and from school, seeming completely carefree and blissfully unaware of how unorthodox this might be for others. A positive force to the people and the world around her, Sayuri's boundless energy can sometimes be hard to match by more mundane individuals. Always running from places to places or finding new activities and events to attend and keep herself busy, she nevertheless also always found time to be there for friends and family; chasing away tears and forcing out smiles like the sun chases away night. What people were unaware of, however, was of Sayuri's hidden duties. Perhaps she liked the calmness of the mountain [i]because[/i] she spent so much time in the City. Either attending the various activities available there or hunting down Miseria as one of the few remaining untainted Magical Girls of Hibusa. Sayuri took her duty seriously, but with the same light and carefree attitude that was her own. - - - - [color=fff79a]"Bye bye, Mr. Miseria!" [/color] The jolly looking girl said as she waved what looked like vapors rising up in the morning skies, evaporated by the comings rays of an early sun. The blond girl stowed away a large parchment horizontally onto her lower back and, with both hands on her hips, she raised on her toes and let out a sigh just as she fell back flat on her feet. [color=fff79a]"Phew! I'm [i]beat[/i]. Between Karaoke night and this, it's gonna be hella hard to actually wake up. Geez... what's with this town anyway. Why is literally everyone so gloomy all the time.[/color] Sayuri walked to the edge of the building she was onto and dropped down with both legs hanging over the side, looking at the sun rising over the water's horizon. [color=fff79a]"Ahh... this makes it alllll worth it."[/color] Of course, she knew the answer to her previous question. That would be the bunch of lazy and somewhat selfish self-proclaimed Dark Magical girls. Sure, they took out Miseria here and there... when it suited them, and for personal reasons. As far as Sayuri was concerned, they probably had a hand in why there's so many in this town. Besides, they were no fun at all either. She yawned and stretched out her arms, falling onto her back - hat blocking off her view. In this position, at this moment, she might have caught up some of her missing sleep if it wasn't for something... wet, round and [i]croaky[/i] that just landed on her nose. She raised her hat and her eyes were met by the confused ones of a Frog staring back at her. [color=fff79a]"Oh, you're still around? Go on, back home with you!"[/color] As she said so, as it was. In a puff of smoke, the Amphibian disappeared. Sent back to whatever pond of water it originated from. With this, Sayuri was back to taking a well deserved morning nap. [/hider]