[list][*][u][b]Name:[/b][/u] Kobayakawa Atsuko
[*][u][b]Age:[/b][/u] 10
[*][u][b]Gender:[/b][/u] Female
[*][u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u] [url=https://safebooru.org//samples/3329/sample_84363fbffc6a413f3bdcbd5e56bedee61c4194fd.jpg?3461289]The Endlessly Reborn Magus[/url]
[*][u][b]Personality:[/b][/u] Intelligent, high-handed, and experienced. Arrogant and self-confident, but backing it up with capability and experience. This is the nature of Kobayakawa Atsuko. Despite being a child of no older than 10, Atsuko carries herself as an experienced magus with a wide range of knowledge. Confident and self-assured, and with good reason, one could say she is a model picture of the Kobayakawa family's goals. Atsuko is mature, quite similar to an adult in her demeanor. She avoids allowing any sort of personal morality interfering with her decisions, and presents herself as logical in her approach to the Holy Grail War. She will do what she must in order to achieve her goals, but she will not go further then she has to.
At least, this is the demeanor she attempts to present.
In reality, it cannot be denied that Atsuko is a child. The simple fact is that, in spite of the experience and knowledge of every prior incarnation inhabiting her mind, the process of rebirth is unable to replicate the same person in full. In reality, she is frightened of the prospect of the Holy Grail War. In reality, while she has some pride in herself, it is her family's expectation that drives her forward. To her benefit, the fact she does have pride does mean her outward demeanor is not a lie in its entirety. If nothing else, she does have faith in her magecraft and her bloodline. But she does not want to hurt others. She does not want to get hurt. Her maturity is born from her observation of adults and attempts to act like them, rather then being genuinely mature. For all her boasts of being cooly logical, she doesn't want to hurt innocent people even if the secrecy of the Holy Grail War is exposed to them.
In spite of her family's belief that she is their legendary head reborn, that she is child only in chronological terms and in physical appearance, it is far better to describe her as a child who happens to have the knowledge and experience of her prior incarnations.
Atsuko likes animals and sweets, and also enjoys reading. She dislikes being alone.
[*][u][b]Skills:[/b][/u] In terms of personal skills, Atsuko's almost entirely revolve around magecraft and knowledge of related topics. To put it simply, she's hopeless at anything else.
[*][u][b]Abilities:[/b][/u] Atsuko's pride is not misplaced. With an extraordinary amount of magic circuits of high quality, her capacity as a magus is first-rate. Having the same affinity as her original incarnation, Air and Fire, allows her a number of highly potent offensive spells as well as a fairly wide variety when it comes to utility. Strands of her hair can be utilized as heat-seeking drones that explode on contact with the target, and she is capable of compressing air to create explosions, or removing the air from a sealed space. Additionally, she can perform more conventional spells, such as launching fire or bursts of compressed air as projectiles. Most impressive is less directly offensive but no less potent, the bounded field Multi-Layer Recursive Mind. By the application of the contradictory properties of the 'outgoing' nature of fire and the 'evasive' nature of air, those who enter the bounded field are forced to repeatedly loop their previous actions. While mental defenses are obviously capable of preventing this assault, it's still quite likely that those targeted by the spell's effects will find themselves returning to the entrance of the room and reenacting their own actions for at least a few times before they catch themselves.
[*][u][b]Assets:[/b][/u] Atsuko is quite wealthy, possessing a large amount of funds. Her family also keeps retainers, who are armed with low-grade mystic codes capable of damaging spiritual bodies. Naturally, they are nothing compared to a Servant, but their presence is to be noted.
[*][u][b]Brief Backstory:[/b][/u] Well over two hundred years ago, the Kobayakawa family's founded died without completing their life's work. They were a legendary prodigy, a magus who possessed capabilities that eclipsed many of their peers. It would be impossible for the family to produce another prodigy of that level. It would be impossible to recapture that natural talent. It would be impossible to complete their goal. The remaining family members could not even master the founder's techniques.
Thus, they instead chose to recreate their founder. Again and again, the heir would be born not as their own person, but as a recreation of their founder, retaining their experience, their thoughts, their personality. A reincarnation, an endlessly reborn magus. This was the solution that the Kobayakawa family devised.
Their expectations, their beliefs, would be foisted upon the new incarnation.
This is the environment Atsuko was born into. She possessed the knowledge and memories of the founder from birth, just as intended.
However...
Was this correct?
Was this intended?
As Atsuko grew, she realized that she did not feel as if she was the founder reborn. No matter what she remembered, no matter what skills she had, she wasn't an adult reborn into a new child body. Rather, she was a child born with the memories and skills of an adult.
Was she a disappointment?
Was she born wrong?
The prospect was terrifying to her, and only one solution arose in her mind. She had to act as if she was a perfect rebirth. As if she had truly achieved the family's goal.
If she didn't, who knew what would happen?
It was only natural, then, that Atsuko would become the family's representative in the Holy Grail War.
Who better then their legendary founder, whose victory would be a stepping stone to their original goal?[/list]