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"Everything is against me... and so, I am up against everything. There's no turning back..."-Name-Rinato Dormi
"Lapis Lazuli"
"Witch of Hope"
-Age-19 (16 physically)
-Species-Half-Alive (explained in her abilities section) / Witch
-Gender-Female
-Personality-Rinato, masked or not, is a hard person to get along with, if you first meet her. She first appears as a very solitary figure, constantly making risks and being ambitious to do things her way on her own. She even considers that she wouldn't be loyal to anyone else but herself. This is due to past events. However, get through that solitary shell of hers, and Rinato is more than just an ambitious bounty hunter. Get on her good side, she would try to break away from her 'solo' act and try to be a friend for a first. A tsundere, if that makes this simpler. Yet, her emotions are usually unstable due to the stress of her past events and her line of work.
-Bio- Rinato didn't want to stick around her strung-up rich family, and moved out to decide on how she would make her living. Only at the age of 14, Rinato was welcomed in a city gang with the help of a man named Nathan. However, it didn't take long for her to be betrayed by the gang three years after her recruitment, being shot numerous times and left in an empty alleyway to die. What she didn't know before she would 'die' was that she was born with a mark, and it activated the moment before she would die. This mark made it possible for her to become a solo bounty hunter, Lapis Lazuli, giving herself a double life of a college freshman by day and deadly vigilante by night.
However, she would cross her ties with her employer, Exe, and be a target on the run from other bounty hunters. During her trek, she runs into a mysterious cat... and in return for sheltering the feline for a night... the cat whisks her away to a world, the Metaworld to be exact. The cat is revealed to be Bernkastel, and for the chance to protect herself even more, the Witch proposes a chance for Lapis to obtain a power for that protection. What the Witch of Miracles asks in return, is a simple amusement, that the Witch would watch over her actions every step of the way. So the girl agrees, and thus, becomes known as the Witch of Hope. Last time she has been seen, the girl renounced herself as a solo bounty hunter in order to make herself go by.
-Abilities-Mark of CristalliumDue to her lineage and having experienced a 'near-death' scenario, Rinato's mark has been activated, allowing her to manipulate crystals in various ways (generating energy attacks from the crystals, manifesting new crystals, etc.). The three crystals (dubbed 'Adamas Trias') that primarily carries around with her are her main weapons when taking full use of her mark, while normal crystals are only generated and used to stab or ram into foes. Whenver she uses her mark, her eyes turn to a shade of sky blue, and the same goes to a small portion of her hair. If her main three crystals are damaged in any way (and could be repaired) Rinato would feel the pain of it and probably faint. If those three crystals are destroyed, she will die. If she chooses to, she can share her mark with another person who is close to death to give them a second chance, permanently creating a telepathic bond between the pair. If one person in the connection dies, the other will die in unison.
Experienced Weapon UserWith the training and tasks given to her when she took the name of the bounty hunter 'Lapis Lazuli,' Rinato is familiar with all modern day weapons. Firearms, blades, explosives, etc. You name it. She is most familiar with her custom gunblade, Gleaming Cleaver (ammo count: 10 rounds loaded max, currently 150 rounds in storage), and her three crystals, the Adamas Trias.
Half-AliveShe is technically dead physically, meaning that she has no need to eat, sleep, etc. Anything that requires basic physical work externally and internally, she does not have to do those things. However, she is still alive mentally. How this works is unknown, but this may be a result of a Miracle bestowed by the Witch Bernkastel. It is impossible to kill her (unless you destroy all three crystals stemming from the Adamas Trias) due to how she is technically both alive and dead, and thus, neither alive or dead.
EquipmentGleaming Cleaver
Adamas Trias
Kakera Shard
-Universe of Origin-Original / Umineko No Naku Koro Ni
-Other-Lapis's PoemThere is a thickening darkness...
It crawls up the walls,
Slithers around ankles,
And grows heavy in the corners.
Darkness, layered upon darkness...
Suffocating...
Growing...
Consuming...
There is an impending chill,
It dances up my spine,
Strangles with a shudder,
And silences breath.
Cold fingers, twisting...
A clank of broken bones...
Screeching...
Deafening...
There is mouthless, silent scream,
It travels wordlessly,
Cuts through air,
And stops the world.
Blood curdling, design...
Alarmingly eerie...
Terrifying...
Horrifying...
There is a thickening darkness...
It crawls up the walls,
Slithers around ankles,
And grows heavy in the corners.
I wish I could imagine
such a world where suffering
wasn't the basis of life
and where we must suffer
to understand the love behind all feelings.