Soth didn't seem to respond to the respect another horror was paying to him, though to Annabelle this was rather normal. He only spoke as he saw fit, and in this case he didn't see fit to respond to the "humble apologies" given to his emissary/harbinger for doing what they were. However, Annabelle felt a feeling creep into her, somewhat like a desire to not get involved in this little "battle" that was to take place before her between the other two magical girls. Mentally shrugging at her patron's subtle enough hinting in this manner, her orb merely floated next to her as she walked over to lean on a wall. More than that, the broken store window next to her had an abandoned bag of fresh popcorn, perhaps left my some unwitting patron who'd been eaten up out here! Ah.
Snatching up the small bag happily, Annabelle began to watch the battle commence from her position.
Seemed the little vampire didn't like metal, if that sword was any indication. Sword girl seemed to get in a few good blows, even, as things went on. Not bad, though the old and/or Shakespearean type of speech she was going on with was kinda annoying to the void-harnessing magical girl herself. However, the moment that range was created between the fighters, Annabelle smirked a bit at things. Ah, that was a mistake. Sword girl was great in melee from the looks of it, but this little vampire of a girl seemed far better at range, or at least more range than sword girl herself. That much, at least, was Annabelle's observations of the situation. However, the end of the battle swiftly seemed to follow, leaving naught a trace to the rose knight.
But was she really dead, consumed by the darkness? Heh, Annabelle had no idea.
Instead, the magical girl waved to Noir once casually, and began to walk away to go back to her base. Not much to see now, not really the mood to talk. Maybe.
I feel slightly at a loss for what to do with Nyma atm. One group is trying to make peaceful talks, the rest of us want EXP probs. Or something of the sort. XD
"....Chieko? Hiro?" Aerith said, her voice perhaps the first among the three to creak out again as the situation hit her like a freight train. Her face was deadly pale, a tremble in her voice initially.
Blood filling her lungs, unable to scream, the feeling of being stabbed over and over with sharp instruments, trying to grip onto life, trying to fight back.....but for nothing. She could remember the feeling of the life leaving her limps the weight of death hanging over her like a hangman's noose, and the slumber of death having some over her in its gruesome, terrible manner.....but then this happened. She opened her eyes again. She was breathing again. She, Chieko, and Hiro were standing in the same positions as they had been when they first appeared here. They were in the same spot and place, the same ruffling of her own clothes even. It was like deja vu, but all of it was real. It felt real, seemed real, she could remember it all in all the gore and other details prior to that. She had died, they all had maybe died, and they were back here again.
She had no idea how....was this like a video game? Going back in time at death? The feeling she was getting about this was all too real for this to be anything but....the equivalent of living this same bit over again. Oh no....oh nononononono-
-wait. Irene and Vasilis. The two who had sensed them, who had tried to help them, they had been outnumbered. Were they? If this was anything like those damned Isekai anime then they might not-......and so if they kept on that current course.....oh dear heavens. Nonononono. They were going to die again if something didn't change. If they didn't try to change things. But who would listen to them? A girl who just woke up from death, and two others who she had no idea how they would react to this situation. No idea whatesoever. It had all started off so well, and now.....THIS. Even Areith herself felt thrown off her game, off her rocker a good bit at the moment, and the first instinct to hit her mind was-
"Ah...ah! Irene and Vasilis, we are all going to die if we don't do something! Hiro, take care of Chieko! I've got to go help them!" Aerith shouted at Chieko and Hiro, before her feet took to the ground at top speed.
Aerith ran, adrenaline pumping in her veins. She went down the same route she remembered seeing Hiro leave this alley out of. She ran down the same street they had met Irene and Vasilis on. By the gods, if this place had such things, she had to try something. Even if it was stupid, something to save them and keep them all alive this time. She put on a mask as well, one of her best, enough to perhaps garner attention as she would try to find and approach them. Use the emotion to her advantage to put on a face.
'Now think, Aerith, think. What can you do to get them out of there, what can you say? There's gotta be something.'
She had to improvise. She had to improvise on the spot for this kind of thing. Usually a game had dialogue options, usually the hero or heroine in a crappy isekai had to redo things a few times over with mechanics like this....before they got it right. Shit shit shit! This was not good. Think fast. New to the world? Yes. Look like and can come off as a foreigner? YES. Ok, that was one excuse down. Next maybe she could say something....the two had been seemingly looking for activities in the area, suspicious figures. Yes, that aura she and the other apparently had, maybe overhearing some chatter....shit. This was banking on something stupid, and if she died again it would only....ah. The feeling sent a terrible shiver down her spine.
Eventually Aerith picked out the two figures she was looking for. Yes. They looked distinct enough from the crowd, this might make sense.
"Hey!" Aerith called out to Irene and Vasilis, slowing down her pace and waving them down as if she was a slightly spooked visitor to the city, taking care to approach as carefully as she could in the subtle sense to avoid potentially getting...er....killed on the spot maybe by these two, "May i talk to you both a minute?"
'Please let the aura get their attention, but not get me killed. Please let them want to talk to me since i am approaching them peacefully, and not kill me. Please let this work. It has to work. Or i have to keep trying.' Aerith thought to herself in the back of her head.
Though it could always be worse than dying as she had, even though the feeling still sent shivers down her spine. Ugh.
Arriving at the scene rather quickly, Annabelle wasted no time in tapping a foot on the ground as she watched the spirit flit about. Well, fleeing. In her direction. With blind terror. Out from the inky orb floating around her poured darkness, a darkness infused with the essence of "the Void" itself. A barrier she was forming in the air that would erase all that touched it, though in this case her lord was involved in it as she could feel. He was making it where the essence of the spirits would be gathered to him in this case as the spirits were "erased" so he could conserve that portion. Annabelle began to walk forward, the barrier twisting and stretching before her as it absorbed the fleeing spirits, the large amount of them doing such in the face of this....other magical girl who had seemingly consumed the bodies of the slain people.
It was such a macabe thing to do she got a bit giddy over it.
"Ooh! Boss, is she the servant of someone similar to ya? Is she? Is she?"
At first there was silence, before the back part of her orb facing her seemed to open up towards her.
'Indeed, my servant. Such consumption and endless hunger i feel here, this variant i know of in only one particular being. For now, proceed as you would normally.'
A hum came off of the red-robed girl's lips, the wail of fleeing spirits who clambered into her barrier without looking was....a delicious thought as it were. Ah, only made her want that burger she was craving back at the base. Regardless, she pulled back the barrier after a bit, the black wall shrinking back into the orb it has emerged from. Eerie, but normal for Annabelle when it came to her work. Her boss didn't seem to be worried at all about the situation, so she wouldn't be either. Seemed rather reasonable a thing to do anyways.
Though the other girl seemed to be stabbing up some of the strays she hadn't taken up, and that was fine. She wasn't here to fight them over dead bodies or anything. She'd gotten a good haul of spirits in the meantime, and that seemed to be the case since her boss was usually silent when she was doing a good job unless he wanted to say something about things. Interesting habit, and she didn't mind. However, it seemed the other two were about to have a showdown of sorts. Simply with her orb near her, Annabella put her hands behind the back of her head and sauntered over with a casual stance and a grin on her face.
"Cmon' girls, you're both pretty, honest," Annabelle said, grinning nearly ear to ear now before she continued to speak, her voice becoming a little sing-song after she continued speaking, "Though it looks like soooooooomebody poked at a local taboo here if i had to guess~"
Nina Kujo and Alice Honorsby
"Mmmf?" Alice said, a grimace on her face as she swallowed her last bite of breakfast, continuing to watch with her scope and its abilities at the scene, "Seems a confrontation's goin' on. Someone with little bat wings decided to eat up dead bodies, maybe, after putting up a barrier, another one with a sword seems to be confronting her. Then some other freaky girl with a barrier walked up and snatched up a lot of those spirits, maybe most of em' or just a good amount of em'. Hard to tell from ere'."
Cannibals. Any magical girl who partook in the consumption of other humans was a cannibal, even if they had been twisted into a monster in her mind. She'd seen some in the past, a couple of whom had just simply gone insane to stoop to that level. Some mostly served horrors of some kind, or other beings that sought to taste the flesh of mankind among such things. Disgusting. As much as she didn't flinch at such things, it was still as ever disgusting to her as a concept.
".....Yare yare. See how the fight goes. Or if they even fight," Nina said in response, body having frozen at the idea of cannibalism catching her attention abruptly in the middle of cleaning dishes in the sink. However, her tone had a rather subtle tone of disgust to it, which combined with the furrowed brows was a sign of her anger. A minor sign, but as Alice knew by the tone it could escalate soon depending on how the situation went.
She'd heard Alice's opinions on such things, and she was of a similar mindset. Disgusting filth, garbage of the higher kind. However, losing her cool right here on it was stupid. Yare yare, daze. She couldn't believe that such a situation was developing now as she wanted to just get back to watching her channels for the moment, at least until that little chuuni of a patron of her and Alice came back to them with the next mission. But if it was "wait in line for this new anime being sold at this store" for the second time this week.....well, she would have words with the goddess. Few but strong words.
It had been a spar, nothing more. Runes had taken care of things quite nicely, and his opponent had seemed to stomp off in a fury. Such was the nature of things of this particular thing. His opponent was strong, yes, a worthy test and opponent to be sure. But his priorities lied elsewhere after this. There was that riot and such details of it his Revelation told him of when using his runes to gain temporary "Clairvoyance" again, though the masters and humans were better left to it for now. There were civilians to assist in his line of work, for such was the job of a hero. Heroes brought salvation, they fought against fate, they brought miracles to bear. Such was the nature of a heroic spirit in general, such was their duty as proper heroes at least. Even the mundane-seeming tasks were of note.
So to this end, after the fight he'd gone over to where the train wreck had occurred. Using healing runes, he had begun to create circles or runes around the survivors to heal them in groups. Another servant seemed to be there as well, and the most Sigurd had done was ask him and Gudrun (if she weren't already out healing others too) to help ferry people into the circles after the people were stabilized first. Streamline the system. Create an order. Smooth transition of one group to another into his circles. Production line, a creation of humanity that would serve this situation well in the end with the application of ancient magic. An ironic thing, really.
For hours Sigurd tirelessly worked, his runic circles being used to heal otherwise, to get out old bodies from wreckage and respectfully lay them out and cover their faces as seemed to be a future custom for respecting the dead in these incidents. These people from the land known here as Japan, they didn't deserve this. He could know the right words to say to comfort them at times, his skill being useful for this, and by the time morning had cracked....the dawn overlooking the horizon.....Sigurd had done more than an army of modern men could have. With his own two hands he had even sorted wreckage out and repaired/strengthened the tracks as best as he could with his runes. Innumerable faces had been healed in groups in his circles, the dead had been placed to the side with respect away from the tracks near the scene.
And yet his determination never changed. His hands kept up their works. His mind kept on track. Temporary clairvoyance gained to be used along with his revelation was used a combo he applied once in a while to note the situation here and how things were developing elsewhere. There was a lot, but this city did not deserve to die. This bastion of human work had become something, only for the greed of dragons and such things to interfere. His pride as a hero meant he could not ignore this, the pleas of the common man here as well.
The call of the Grail was there, Gudrun was ever by his side again now, and he didn't even seem to break a sweat in his activities. To fight "that" man again would arrive, and many others had yet to be tested for their worthiness for the Grail.
But in the end, he had done his job as a hero, and finally now wrapping this up here would be a nessecity before he moved on.
"I think that about wraps up this disaster."
Nothing more needed to be said, really, at this venture.
Dealing With A Salty Chunni Heroic Spirit, Ajax's Grave
"Gudrun, dear, there is someone coming for me. You have likely sensed it too. If you wish to be involved, so be it. But i do not wish to see you fall here."
That was all he had said ahead of time, plenty ahead of time before what came next. It was abnormal for him to say, and yet for Gudrun's sake he spoke like a proper husband in this instance.
"SIEGFRIEEEEEEEEEED!"
That name. Ah. Indeed it was "that" man who had mistaken him for that "other" heroic spirit then. It made sense, the fire, the rage like that of a beast, that armor which was a Noble Phantasm, this particular tactic of attacking method. He had seen this ahead of time, looking a bit into the future between a combination of Revelation and his temporary Clairvoyance. He had seen the results of the battle between the Achaean and Japanese Prince as well and such things as what was to come for this battle. To Sigurd, a hero on par with King Arthur, it was of no consequence to battle this man. In fact, it was both a test and a battle, a setting of combat that would allow their mettle to be tested. His beloved sword, at least for now, was not necessary to use.
Had he chosen to do so, this man would be dead in the air before he even hit the ground.
Runes Activated: All 18 Original Runes Deployed. Runic Shield Created.
A barrier, one that could block a high-ranking Noble Phantasm and fully defend against it, was deployed in an instant at the right moment. The right moment that the attack could not be diverted in time, and that the protection of this barrier would be up before any harm could come to he or Gudrun. Primarily the latter. Such was the nature of Sigurd's skill with runes. So as his opponent would make contact, he would never get through. It was a simple as that.
"You cannot discern that i am not actually 'that' man, hmm? Ah, but you likely do not care it would seem either way."
And there was his lecture for the day. At least, to this man.
The poorest section of town, dirty alleys, run-down buildings, but still it had the cheapest rent for apartments. That was nice. Regardless, instead of a low-rent apartment here, or a better one in the nice parts of the city of Penrose, Soth had guided her here. Here to set up base in an old building, a former school that had been replaced with a newer one on the better side of town. Place some sigils here, place some sigils there, draw this pentagram here, a diagram there of something else, write a bit in blood on the walls in an alien language. Boom, her patron had total influence over this old school building from the tip of the roof down to the bottom of the basement. Even a bit on the grounds of the school outside of the building. It had taken a few days for him to toy with what he could do there, but in his usual fashion he had fashioned the school into a base without making it look any different from the outside.
Inside, one of the first floor classroom had been converted into a proper bedroom/living room as Annabelle had gone out to buy furniture and such. Couches, giant bed, cozy sheets, a fridge, carpets placed on the floor, the works so to say that with some nudging here and there include free satellite TV with rather good reception here due to her patron's advice. Some minions were kept manning the cafeteria, others were repairing the place inside to a proper stable state and reinforcing it with magic and magic circles and sigils and even other physical materials. Many minions were left merely prowling the halls at her patron's command, or even worked installed washing machines or such in the basement that had been salvaged and restored by magic from elsewhere. All this after the building had been brought under his influence. Regardless, from the outside it would remain the appearance of a harmless, abandoned building.
It had taken days after arriving here to get this far, but he base was as good as ready by now. Albeit, now was her first mission from her patron in this new city, at least following this initial one of "secure a base of operations in the manner i will instruct you in". The school being the base after that first mission upon getting here to Penrose had been ironic, but now there was something going on. Something....exciting~
'Annabelle, there are some spirits amok in the city. I am sending you the coordinates mentally, since this new domicile of yours has become my domain. Destroy as many as you can, so that i may acquire their essence. But seek to minimize the human lives lost if you tear the spirits out of them. I'd prefer you not to be hunted so soon after arrival.'
"Kay' boss. I'll see what i can get, haha," Annabelle said in return to her patron's voice as it echoed into her head and a slightly errie smile came to her face, having been lying back on her new couch and watching the latest Food Channel shows.
Jumping up, the mind-bent magical girl felt the rush of blood from her head, giving a light giggle at the sensation.
"Enter the Void, and let darkness descend from the heavens.”
In an instant darkness, deep, seemingly endless darkness had wrapped her body in it like a cocoon, before removing itself and leaving her standing there in her transformed state. Though her eerie smile had shifted to a Cheshire grin that almost seemed to stretch from ear to ear. Finally. There was something to do. There was some things to go kill, or some enemies to fight, she didn't much care so along as she finally got to so something else after all these days of sitting about. Not that she hadn't needed a break, though, but all play and no work made the free time more boring to her. Though she could always raid the cafeteria again for food. Maybe that triple-decker "Kitchen Sink" burger she'd seen today could be made there, since the place had been restocked by her patron. Ooh, that could work nicely.
Blitzing out of her room and down the hall at speed, Annabelle burst out from the back double doors before taking off towards the scene. Ah, spirits again, eh? This would be interesting. Most interesting. Though what would a being who was the Void itself want with the energy of spirits? Meh, wasn't her time to ask questions or such, really.
Nina Kujo and Alice Honorsby
"Yare yare, daze. Alice, Someone's gone out of their way to unleash spirits on people? What a waste of time, a call for attention by some brat," the slightly annoyed but disinterested tone of Nina Kujo rang out as she sat at the dinner table of her and Alice's apartment.
Alice had been looking out of the window of their rather high-floored apartment using her rifle and mainly its scope, the apartment having been procured by the two girls' Patron and being bigger than anything "past her" had seen during a trip to Japan. It was comfortable, but at times boring. Having just arrived in this city yesterday, it had taken a little bit to fill up things here and the fridge at that. Annoying, but at least breakfast today had been nice. Eggs and bacon, bit of soy sauce on them. She'd told Alice to come eat, but the other girl had kept looking out the window. Perhaps old habits died hard?
But Alice had told her something interesting as she had been observing a few places. Something about a magical girl, the unleashing of spirits.
"You're right, but the local girls might take actions sooner than later. We could always pick off a few, get a bit of payment afterwords," the red-headed magical girl said, already in her form by this point due to having had to be in it to use her rifle, lightly adjusting her rifle's position in the process and the scope as if it was nothing but an everyday habit, "I can hit em' from ere', but you might wanna get close for the action. Ey, punchy?"
"Oi, for now let's just look and see if others show up. If no one does i'll get out there. Such a bother," the white-haired girl said, taking another bite of bacon and soy-sauce coated scrambled eggs as she kept to her seat.
"Hi bother, i'm dad," Alice said, a smirk coming to her lips as an annoying sigh reached her ears, "Look, i'll tell ya if it gets worse, ok? Just bring my breakfast over here......please? Extra pepper on top."
Alice could tell Nina was rolling her eyes right now, but kept silent as a small grin came to her face when the sounds of a chair being pushed back and the clink of plates and scooping of food came to her ears. She didn't have to look to know what Nina was doing, but she was thankful the other girl was willing to bring the breakfast over. If push came to shove Nina would step up to the plate without a doubt to save the people. She'd seen it more times than not, so many by now it was like the two could read each others' minds. Haha.
But jumping in on this new turf, and not knowing the locals here yet, that was scary. Some magical girls were...terribly territorial, and some could be just happy for the added help. Some Patrons didn't like it, some did. And many a thing in-between could also be the case. She was used to how things worked, so much so it was almost scary. She hadn't been seven anymore for a very long time, and thinking about it that could be rather scary....if one took to thinking too hard on it anywho.
Name: Nina Kujo, magical girl name is "Stardust Crusader"
Age (Magical Girl): 15
Age (Before Magical Girl): 35
Gender: Female
Gender (Before Magical Girl): Female
Transformed Untransformed
Specialization: Spirit – She can utilize her powers to deal with spirits, summon them, and utilize them in a general manner like any other Spirit spec magical girl, though her nature as being Gifted in this area has transformed her talents into something unique she can use this for.
She can summon and utilize special spirits unique to her that have varying powers that can utilize other kinds of specializations. In other words, indirectly via summoning certain unique spirits only she has access to due to her Gifted abilities she can utilize other specializations through using said spirits. For example, summoning a spirit with powers over fire, summoning a spirit who can freeze time for objects or such, and/or even a spirit who can manifest physically as metal and punch others.
Weapon: She wears a pair of metal gauntlets from her hands down to her elbows, made from tough magical metal that in application is virtually indestructible. They stand up to her mighty strength and then some.
Power: Killing Blow (Special move is - Ora: “Nice Watch - Shame I’ll Have To Break It, Your Face That Is”. Only has to call out “Ora” to be able to use it)
Perks:
*Enhanced Outfit – Her outfit, considered a form of overly elaborate cosplay by her patron who chose it based on an anime she’d enjoyed watching somewhere in the multiverse, is made to last. And then some. Able to shrug off heavy weapons/ordinance fire and Minotaur axes like its nothing, as well as channels her magic far better than normal.
*Ally – After becoming a magical girl she gained a noted ally in her work, who also serves the same deity as her to boot. Neat.
*Overcity Shift - Can force herself an a small portion of surroundings into the Overcity to minimize damage and similar reasons in battle or otherwise.
*Eternal Style – Her body and clothes are always in pristine condition, no matter the situation. Further, she can summon pretty much any clothing she wants to wear onto her body whilst untransformed, though these clothes summoned like this disappear 2 hours after being removed from her body. (Other specifics can be seen in the CYOA itself.)
*Gifted – She is abnormally gifted with her magic, to the extent she is able to draw upon a unique Spirit Specialization ability of summoning/utilizing many lesser spirits with their own specializations. Essentially, she has become incredibly versatile by being able to summon and use spirits who utilize magic and specializations she herself does not have. Neat.
Patron: Majora, Goddess of the Dead, Weapons,.....and Entertainment; The Ebon Mint
Patron Benefits:
*Paragon – Though a young goddess, Majora desired that her first champion be a mighty as possible. As such she strengthened her body to fit this better, even outside of magical girl form.
*Divine Competence – As a magical girl and even outside of that form, she has a masterful competency in areas related to her patron’s abilities. This includes funerary rites, how to properly bury the dead, craft and forge weapons of a masterful sort and the various techniques to go along with this, how to identify weapons and their craftsmanship, and....as much as the goddess hates to admit....great competency with video games and knowledge of various other forms of entertainment as well.
*Physical Prowess – Majora was being serious when she wanted to make her champion strong, and so added more strength to her body for this purpose.
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[Extra]
*Mystic Might – Desperate to make her champion “the best of all time”, as she so said, Majora decided to add a boost to her champion’s magical power as well. What a min-maxer.
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[Ebon Mint]
*Black Coin – A single black coin is always on her person. This token from the Ebon Mint, who had helped her deific patron find her in the first place upon request. Will she spend it or not? That is left up to question for her personally.
*Non-Exclusivity – She works for her deific patron, but in the end does have ties to the Ebon Mint.
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Patron Drawbacks:
*Unknown – Majora is a goddess unknown to the world, being the result of generations of breeding amongst divinities that has finally given rise to a “modern” goddess of sorts who has no headway. She does not seem to mind much, simply having her fun and using her powers as she sees fit so far and not even having proper rites yet save for things she’d filched from ancestors and others about funerals and the dead and such. What a slacker.
*Arrogance – Cocky at times, Majora may overestimate the abilities of her chosen champion when it comes to facing obstacles. Then again, she can also be fast to realize this and panic or try to help if she can in the aftermath. She is, according to her own words, “still trying to learn to do this whole goddess thing better”.
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[Extra]
*Clueless – Majora, as much as she means well, as much as she has the power the grant boons and such and pay her champion and other with coins....has little idea about the magical world. Its hilariously dumb, and she knows it, getting rather pouty over the matter in general if it is pressed or brought up.
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[Ebon Mint]
*Debt – If she spends this coin of hers, she will be in debt to the Ebon Mint. Further if the Mint helps otherwise she can still put herself into debt. So far she’s only had the Black Coin, not spent it, and has relied on her skills and deific patron to get by, along with her ally.
*Betrayal – Just Another Brick In The Wall, unless they see her as valuable enough to continue to keep about.
Fighting Style:
Due to her incredibly strong outfit making up her defenses and covering her body rather well, her battle style is personally getting in close and beating the literal hell out of people. Between her great strength and fist weapons, she is best suited to melee alone.
However, she supplements this with the spirits she summons who can use their own abilities to augments hers, supplements hers, assist in a fight, and/or simply deal with enemies at medium and long ranges even as is needed. This as well as her other Spirit Spec abilities that can be used. She is highly versatile as a result of her abilities, but is most deadly in close range.
Definitely not a magical girl to underestimate.
Stats (Untransformed): (+1 to all Phys stats due to Paragon)
STR: 4 AGI: 4 VIT: 4 MAG: 3 LCK: 3
Stats (Transformed):
STR: 20 AGI: 5 VIT: 5 MAG: 18 LCK: 4
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Calculations:
-->+14 MAG (+1 Enhanced Outfit Perk, +1 Gifted Perk, +1 Elaborate Outfit, +1 Underdeveloped Body, +3 from Spec, +1 Mystic Might, +4 from 4 bronze, and +2 from 1 silver)
-->+16 STR (+2 Weapon, +1 Any/Ally Perk, +1 Paragon, +1 from Killing Blow, +4 from 1 gold, +6 from 3 silver, +1 from Physical Prowess)
-->+1 AGI and +1 VIT due to Paragon
Personality: A highly perceptive, intelligent, and quick-learning individual, who herself tends to keep a disinterested and cool attitude about her at all times and can push herself to make hard decisions and can seem rather callous and cold to others. When agitated she can be fierce and intense, making her that much more dangerous in this state, but otherwise deep down has a gentle and good heart when it comes down to it and can be soft in private with those closest to her. In the end she wants the best for those she cares about, but also wants to make the best decisions she can as well too. However, when she puts her mind to something she can be stubborn and act without any hesitation as a result.
History: Nina Kujo is the daughter of a Japanese man and an American woman who were married and lived in the US proper. Always a bit of an anime fan and a gamer, she enjoyed a fun and healthy life from a young age alongside some exercise. She went to school, had a few friends, and eventually graduate high school and went into the world. Nearly two decades later, and she was working as a successful store manager at a local grocery store whilst keeping her anime and gaming hobbies alive at home. It all seemed very average, very average indeed, though she was always an intelligent individual in life.
Then one night after leaving her store, she was attacked by starving monsters looking for a meal. Enter a magical girl who was serving Majora, a young goddess with not much knowledge and a knack for several things due to her....mixed heritage. Or high deific inbreeding among the gods. Regardless, the magical girl died protecting her, before Majora stepped in with her power to save Nina by turning her into a magical girl, wiping her current personality but not her memories in the process. Though for Nina it’s like her old memories are alien to her in this new form, like it wasn’t her. Regardless, the monsters were soon dispatched, the Ebon Mint popped in right after to gift her a coin, and she started out work as a magical girl. Now she’s over the last few years made her way to Penrose on command of her deific patron, though that Ebon Mint coin remains with her as a reminder of what she could have...and what it could cost her.
Incantation: “Yare yare, daze.” (this text color is her color for the RP, er the one to be used for her anyways in posts)
Additional Info: Yes this is pretty much a female Jotaro magical girl.
Name: Alice Honorsby, magical girl name is "Red Rifle"
Age (Magical Girl): 14
Age (Before Magical Girl): 7
Gender: Female
Gender (Before Magical Girl): Female
Transformed Untransformed
Specialization: Air
Weapon: Ranged – A long-barreled rifle, with a scope that can be materialized on it, that has multiple modes on the scope such as infrared, x-ray, act as a scrying orb, and similar things etc.
Power: Focused Assault – By putting more of her mana into attacks to deal far more punishing and penetrating attacks. Can be melee or ranged attack, not limited like Killing Blow but not as powerful as Killing Blow.
Perks:
*Flexibility – Her body is unnaturally flexible, able to twist and bend and rotate in ways never normally possible. Albeit she still isn’t literally made of rubber.
*Gifted – Her talents with air are....incredible, though limited in scope by her magical power. The phrase “bending the bullet midair” comes to mind when her abilities are in play, and she is not to be underestimated in what she can do regardless of limitations.
*Awareness – Her senses as a magical girl and even untransformed are far more keen than the normal or standard. A scent in the air, a feeling on her skin, the presence of someone in the shadows, knowing the wind direction instinctively, many a thing is possible for her due to this ability.
Patron Benefits:
*Paragon – Though a young goddess, Majora desired that her servants must be a mighty as possible. As such she strengthened her body to fit this better, even outside of magical girl form.
*Divine Competence – As a magical girl and even outside of that form, she has a masterful competency in areas related to her patron’s abilities. This includes funerary rites, how to properly bury the dead, craft and forge weapons of a masterful sort and the various techniques to go along with this, how to identify weapons and their craftsmanship, and....as much as the goddess hates to admit....great competency with video games and knowledge of various other forms of entertainment as well.
*Physical Prowess – Majora was being serious when she wanted to make her magical girls strong, and so added more strength to her body for this purpose.
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*Mystic Might – Desperate to make her champions “the best of all time”, as she so said, Majora decided to add a boost to her champions’ magical power as well. What a min-maxer.
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Patron Drawbacks:
*Unknown – Majora is a goddess unknown to the world, being the result of generations of breeding amongst divinities that has finally given rise to a “modern” goddess of sorts who has no headway. She does not seem to mind much, simply having her fun and using her powers as she sees fit so far and not even having proper rites yet save for things she’d filched from ancestors and others about funerals and the dead and such. What a slacker.
*Arrogance – Cocky at times, Majora may overestimate the abilities of her chosen champion when it comes to facing obstacles. Then again, she can also be fast to realize this and panic or try to help if she can in the aftermath. She is, according to her own words, “still trying to learn to do this whole goddess thing better”.
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*Clueless – Majora, as much as she means well, as much as she has the power the grant boons and such and pay her champion and other with coins....has little idea about the magical world. Its hilariously dumb, and she knows it, getting rather pouty over the matter in general if it is pressed or brought up.
Fighting Style: Long-ranged combat from the air or various locations is her usual style. Sniping, hitting targets at long range, and using air to deal with those getting too close to her position or two flee away quickly. Her attacks when made are low-cost due to begin bullet-sized, but combined with Focused Assault and Wind she can fire super-smart homing shots with higher power than normal to hit targets. Magical girl or monster or otherwise alike, this is not something to underestimate. Even at medium range her attacks are no joke and are extremely hard to dodge, much less withstand on impact.
Personality: One could call her along the lines of a mellowed-out veteran among magical girls, the kind of person who keeps a chill head but tends to make bad puns and dad jokes. Alice is someone who seems to understand the darker parts of magical girl life, but hasn’t lost the spark of good hope within her. Perhaps a tad jaded and generally unphased when seeing the crazy things, she still can be there for those she cares about with her own relaxed but experienced hand. Her past is a touchy subject, and she has the opinion that she both lost but gained a childhood from becoming a magical girl in some odd sense of things.
History: A veteran magical girl of many years. She started off as a rich girl, someone whose family was more than well-off. They were wealthy, fantastically so, until her father’s company backstabbed him. Framing, a false lawsuit, faked documents, libel, they used it all to seize the family’s wealth and leave them homeless on the streets. Her father was in jail, her mother wet mad, and all seemed lost. It was then that she was approached by a Puchuu who wanted to make her a magical girl, since there was an emergency and numbers were needed. The conditions of her becoming a magical girl were set, and she accepted before taking to the fight. However, after the beast finally fell her Puchuu gave her a book about the magical world and took off with a shrug.
Seemed it didn’t want to stay around for her, or be her proper patron. So Alice on her own took off into the world of Magical Girls, for years and years working as one and learning the tricks of the trade and combat. Eventually, she ran into a new magical girl, named Nina Kujo, who was in the middle of a battle against a number of beasts. Providing a helping hand, she talked to the girl after....and despite the latter seeming to protest she decided to hang around with her. Even signed up with the same Patron as Nina. Something about the girl’s true nature underneath drew her in, the grizzled veteran girl and the chill newbie. And that’s mainly how it’s been ever since for her, in all honesty.
Incantation: “Lock on.” (this text color is also her color to be used in the RP for her, violet that is)
@Ariamis Added untransformed appearances based off of a coupe convenient google searches. :P
If i ever get too crazy wit the spirits' powers, yeah i would need to be stopped so i can tone it back down. Many thanks!
As for the scrying through her scope, since its seen through the limited field of vision of the scope in that sense it is limited. See specific targets and its follows them, zoom your view around to look about the place remotely, zoom in and out from what you are looking at overall in locations, but just the basic things really. XD
Aerith had been just starting to introduce herself as she drug the other girl to follow the Japanese man out of this area. Though it didn't seem like they were going to get too far. Clacking sounds of armored boots, something leaping over them with inhuman skill and strength and landing in front of them. An armored knight, who had apparently used magic if the explosions and such actions of his had been as clear as they were. Albeit, he seemed to talk to them as if they were fugitives after blocking their path. Oh no. Oh nonono. The first part of these kinds of anime, a trope that in real life was all too true.....they stood out like sore thumbs. Badly. Attire aside, they had been running as well, and regardless of their good intentions it would seem that didn't help them blend in any better.
'Shit.'
Though, a bit thankfully, the armored knight's companion seemed to approach them in a more...'polite' manner than her compatriot had. Though her words brought some clarity and worry to Aerith's mind. A "malevolent aura" apparently existed within them, and intense one that had apparently been detectable by magic (which she assumed these two had). Wait. Talus. Was it Talus' power that had done this to them? Was it....was it the one who had wanted her brought here? The one who....loved her? It was odd, very odd indeed, but keeping that mask on Aerith simply gave a polite nod to the nicer of the two knights.
Play the situation. Keep it peaceable. Please, for the love of whatever got us brought here, don't mess this up you two.
"An aura that bad? I don't think we even knew, but that's a bit...worrying," Aerith said, her tone cool and casual, genuine in sound but supported by that mask of hers to cover her other thoughts and such up, giving Chieko's hand a small subtle squeeze to hope she got the idea and hint, being careful to not make sudden actions or such that might come off negatively, "Ah, but my name is Aerith. We are not from around here, foreigners to this land you could say. So this has all been a bit...jarring so far. Such that we wanted to see if we could find a place of reference, which was the reason for our great haste. But if these auras you speak of worry you, we can cooperate peacefully. It's no problem at all."
Please let them get the idea. Please let them get the idea. Please, oh please, oh please let them work with me here. Such were the thoughts of the teenager, who as much as she wanted to keep moving didn't want to....die. Here. Because of the others. Or see them die, for that matter, since it was not exactly good for Chieko and this other guy whose name she didn't know. Though they were all strangers, and this was a thing. Ah. This was not the best start so far.
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