Middle Name: Heinrich
Last Name: Schweinborg
Age: 16
Birthday: April 19th
Gender: Female
Appearance: Standing at a sparse 133 centimeters and weighing a mere 34 kg, Erika is best and simply described as a grade schooler in appearance. When not in a predetermined uniform, she dons a pure white robe similar to that a miko would wear, one that adds a sort of dignity to her otherwise diminutive frame. A childish innocence and dark blue hair of a length reasonable for one who appears to be at the age of a child.
Class: N/A, Witch.
Theme: Not the user of magic based in conventional animalistic ideals, but rather drawing on the notion of the "human" as an animal. An animal's magical affinity is determined by its nature. Thus, magic of the 'human' alignment can be said to operate upon the human ideal of control. Control of environment, of space, of time, of self, of life, of death. This is the theme of the man.
Abilities: Spells are divided into three "layers," based on the capabilities of the spell and its corresponding magic drain to cast. Level Ones are used easily in or out of battle, Level Twos are relatively tiring but often depend on the circumstance, and Level Threes are last-resort style spells whose very use drives her to the brink.
First Layer
Devil's Maze: Control of space. Allows an attack or state of affair to be imposed upon a different spatial state. Range of 50 meters.
Laguz's Requiem: Control of time. Allows an attack or state of affair to be imposed upon a different temporal state. Range is 24 hours ini either direction.
Midgard Skin: Control over self. Magnifies material hardness of user's body, scaled so normal body functions continue. Increases physical capabilities proportionally.
Eye of Providence: Control over sight. See that which God Sees. The ability to analyze a scene before her, through the use of her mind, to allow her to see "Anything" within the radius of fifty meters. The items seen this way are considered "Recorded" within her mind.
Eye of Truth: Control over memory. Lens of Past Rendering. The ability to record entire scenes for future reference. These scenes can be shown to others through their "Mind", and these scenes are over the moment they begin, not having an actual "Runtime". Though seemingly a useless ability, it has its uses for proving the events had actually occurred.
Second Layer
Compounding: Allows for Devil's Maze and Laguz's Requiem to be used repeatedly on one thing, so it affects multiple temporal or spatial states for an instant.
Devil's Projection: Control over environment. The ability to "recreate" items that have been "seen" by the user. The item in question must "No longer exist in its previous form" or "No longer exist in the current world". Using magic, one can create a perfect "Image" of anything, a perfect replica with all the traits and abilities of the original, though the "Image" is merely a fabrication of the former item, and would not be a completely accurate replication of the "Image" in question; the item in question becomes fueled by the user's magic, therefore stronger "concepts" require more magic to actually bring forth into reality. The user inherently controls the image completely and utterly as their own possession, and can dispel them at any time if needed.
Third Layer
Hell's Gouging Sword: Control of death. An attack of meant to be a certain kill. Takes the form of an arrow of black light. Carries the concept of "killing" what it strikes. Against something such as a rock or a house though, it will have no effect. The arrow of light can be disrupted by another attack, so long as it is a magical or soul-based strike that meets the arrow. Complete negation requires an incredibly powerful attack by a being of equal or greater power to Erika herself, and will result in both attacks being negated. If struck by a weaker attack, it will continue forward but not be a certain kill any longer, though it will deal a heavy amount of damage it is unlikely to be a killing blow. It is unable to be altered by any abilities that ordinarily allow for manipulations/alterations of energy and the like due to its unique status, meaning the only way for it to be negated is by striking an attack. Can only be used once a "battle", which when coupled with its easy negation makes it near-useless. The only good point about it is its speed, for all intents and purposes it is the "fastest" offensive spell, and will reach within a few inches of the enemy before they're able to react, as well as being capable of use without any delay; all that is required is an instant of concentration on the user's part, the verbal command being optional. As it can still be disrupted at this distance though, this further limits its usability to sneak attacks. In other words, an attack that would seem to be near-omnipotent on paper, but when actually used "fails to live up to the hype."
Goshintai: Release restraint: The ability to utilize Devil's Projection without the normal magic cost. One merely spends a fixed amount of magic to use this technique, roughly a third of her total energy, and for the next thirty seconds, one can use a proposed unlimited amount of "images" stored within the mind.
Personality: Such a calm mask, lackadaisical and simple. Friendly and outgoing, silver-tongued, never speaking out of turn, never rude or derisive, always so calm and collected until one peels back the skin.
Odd. Such an odd construct.
All too often, words and thoughts are moved into the void. Burned into nothing. Unmade by their own creator, god of its domain. She had no need for them currently. She cannot allow herself to muse for too long, her mind is a place that not even she can bear to stand within for too long.
She sees the world as an assortment of events that she cannot understand, and to that end she has tried to comprehend it with all her ability. Even with knowing of gods, the Truth eludes her. Philosophy, she has read far too much in such a quest, and it has not been enough. The world irks her, the way it eludes her understanding, and to that end she has decided that it does not deserve to be understood.
So many things were false.
If language wants to "speak the language" of illusion, it must become a seduction. As for "speaking the language" of the real, it would not know how to do it...because language is never real. Whenever it appears to be able to designate things, it actually does so by following unreal, elliptic, and ironic paths. Objectivity and truth are metaphoric in language.
Reality is constrained by a lack of reality. Boring. Boring boring boring. So then, let us have a bit of fun. Let us try to find the real.
Others, others are interesting to her. They are not a part of World, they are their own enclosed world. Her mind, her individual world frightens him, so she enjoys looking into the minds of others. It's so very interesting, seeing how they operate.
As she learns how they operate, she learns how the world operates, and from there she moves towards what she considers his purpose. Understanding her own nature.
But now, now we look back to the odd.
Insane. Yes. She is most definitely mad, despite what her exterior might imply. One could say that the outside she puts up is a different sort of Erika, and the inside is not her true self but just a different valence of her. Regardless, she is not an ordinary being.
All the same though, she is rational. She understands and reacts as if to say that the outside Erika is the true core.
Morality, an odd construct and a decidedly human one, but one that she finds endearing all the same. Perhaps that is why she fears the depths of herself, because she worries that she will truly become a monster.
A strange word, monster, but not one that fits her.
A shell with a contradiction at its center. This. Is. Erika- a monstrous girl with a silver tongue- who will observe and observe and observe, calm and psychotic and strangely caring.
She has to go outside herself and into you, after all, or she'd have to go deeper into her mind. And her mind is such a frightening place.
Backstory: Born into magecraft, forged and tempered with magecraft, the essence of Erika is rooted in the essence of magic itself.
Though she attended schooling and wore the guise of human, this came secondary to her instruction in the art of her family. Her gift was nurtured and perfected at a young age.
The problem with nurturing the power without ensuring the stability of the mind though, is that the mind can go mad.
So she wondered. She wondered what would occur if she broke the unsaid rules.
Suppose...suppose I were to kill them all.
So she did. Such is all that needs to be said. She was stronger, so she won.
And of course she felt bad, so she thought he could bring them back, could conquer and control life and death in full. But that couldn't happen, no, that was against the rules.
So...so then, she wanted to find a way to make the world better.
"You have power but are disgusted with the world. Do you change the world, or yourself?"
The world. Always the world.
So she would observe and break everything that was. She'll do it all for them, all for you, so the world can improve. Before you can fix a watch, you must pry off the back. Before you can fix the world, you must purge it completely.
She's such a kind person.
Other: While her powers are unusually varied as a witch, the overall "magic power" she possesses is not up to par. In a battle of brute force with a witch of her level or higher, she will surely lose. This is why she has developed her magic to work "indirectly."