Ah, I think I'll go with ALICE and EX-S Gundam instead. Though, since ALICE is purely an AI and I don't really want to play Ryou Roots here, is it fine if ALICE has some sort of body or a projection due to the dimensional shenanigans?
@Scio Hm, in that case perhaps I'll wait for January and the others' collab post. I still also need to wait for Bass and see where Alice and Alex's teamup go.
I'll PM you my plan soonish regardless. Nothing too complicated, just depends a lot on Varus' and people's situation when Alice goes into offensive.
@Scio Thinking of having Alice do something to Varus, but it's a bit elaborate and I'm not sure how should I do it since it would depend a lot on how Varus acts in response to the chain of actions.
Any ideas on what should I do for something this interaction-heavy?
"Meased to pleet you, I'm Tianzi and I'm here to end you."
Name: Tianzi Hua Xiaohui Gender: Female Age: 31
Appearance:
No records of her proper height and weight exists.
A male body that she uses as her public face. While she can really just settle with someone that looks like a normal average businessman, she can't resist the temptation to make one that depicts herself well instead. This homunculi is slightly of better quality compared to the other ones she have, though not by much.
Personality: Quiet, and maybe mischievous to a degree, nevertheless Tianzi always prioritize a careful approach to almost everything. She's someone that prioritizes herself above everything else, but if it's necessary for her, she does have the capability to act selflessly or to show some kindness to others. However, most of the time she pretty much just performs any actions for the sake of her own amusement while continuing her own magical studies. She has little to no remorse on things she has done, but she's not an outright evil person; she's simply someone that is too self-centered and whimsical to differentiate between good and evil.
Has a tendency to spout incomprehensible garbled mess of a quote or koan whenever she likes it, usually to rile others for the sake of her own amusement. It matters little whether others would see her as competent or not, and she believes that it’s best to be known as a fool rather than being seen as a threat.
Despite of her flighty, trickster-like personality, she's actually really competitive even in things that she had no real stakes on. Even if she has to resort to dirty tricks, it'll be alright in her books since she doesn't view it as something wrong. Perhaps it’s just her ego speaking, but when she throws her hat into something for whatever reasons, she’s going to do her best on it, and by that she means that she’ll win it, no matter what.
She never knew about the heart of people, and never bothered to know more about it. She's on her own for most of her time, and her researches were a lot more interesting than other human beings. A life in eternal seclusion as she continued doing what she wanted to do was her wish, deep inside.
Biography and Family History: An unimpressive heir to an unimpressive family. That would be the first impression someone would have towards Tianzi. Born from a practically unheard of family focusing on Dao-related Thaumaturgy with low amount of Magic Circuits throughout the generations, it was quite a surprise when it was known that her magic quality was quite high in quality despite not having much of it. Nevertheless, with efforts from both herself and others, she managed to enroll to the Clock Tower, where she showed a promising start. She then took her time to focus on Alchemy, and utilized both western and eastern styles to try figuring out a way to create fast and cheap homunculi.
She didn't want to admit it, but she had some obsession with the perfection of a human being. She required the homunculi to be cheap and fast since they're meant to be disposable for her research. She believed that Akasha can be reached if she figured out the perfect, untainted human body of the ancient times, A body untainted by death and degeneration of the first humans and perhaps their ancestors, since Tianzi believed that even the varying bodies of humanity will converge into one singular point if she traced it back long enough.
For that reason, she required her homunculi to be cheap for the time being. They're only bodies she studied to figure out the nature of a human body and its relation to nature. As she continued to research on it however, she ended up figuring out something else instead. It was a bit crude, but she figured out a nifty trick on how she could impose part of her will and consciousness to a homunculus, by transplanting a minor part of her Magic Circuit which would overwrite said homunculi's programming, purging it from any interference and leaving it an empty vessel for her researches, not dead but not truly alive either.
She decided to leave the Association out of both concern that they might try to mess with her researches, and because she felt that the environment was too suffocating for her. Keeping her tricks a secret, she lived as a hermit for years, and it looked like it'd stay that way for a while. Of course, until she was summoned before the man in golden armor, talking about a Holy Grail War. While she had no wish in mind except for furthering her studies, the thought of competing and showing her superiority to the other magi were quite enticing, enough for her to immediately depart to Judea the moment she could to start her preparations for the Grail War.
Origin: Purification Elemental Affinity: Wind Number of Magic Circuits and Quality of Magic Circuits: 5 magic circuits of A Quality Magic Circuit Switch: Tapping her finger to a flat surface three times. Magecraft: Wind Magecraft: Capable of utilizing wind magecraft. Due to her smallish pool of mana and lack of ability to use it efficiently, she prefers on operating on a small scale. .Her favorite spell is using high pressured air to form a bounded field around her, refracting light and preventing anything inside from being seen, or alternatively, utilizing the air pressure to either propel her, or strike her target. It's cheap and effective, perfect for her. Overwrite: Small parts of her magic circuit are capable of being transplanted into a homunculus to purging their soul and any trace of impurities from their circuits, leaving them empty for her to either fill new programming to them, or utilize temporary Consciousness Transferrence to control their body. Presumably capable of being used to a magus, but it carried way too much risk and an actual surgery for now. Alchemy (Homunculi): Her primary focus of study. As she pirated most of her knowledge and designs from a certain family, she never really showed much of her researches here to other magi. She mainly used tubes to grow them, and while their quality's far below average, the materials she used to create them are really cheap in comparison to others, and the fact they deteriorate fast wasn't a concern to her. Currently, she have 5 active ones with remaining time of 3 weeks on average, wiht one of them acting as her public face. It would take her five days to create another one, but right now she's lacking in resources. Mystic Codes and Equipment: None
@Dawnscroll@Slime Alright, another try for Tianzi. Trying to work on a slightly different angle right now. I think if the overall concept is fine, I'll stick with this one, so tell me if there's anything I need to tone down.
It took Alice a while to reconsolidate herself after her failed attempt to attack Varus, although, despite her pride being hurt and the initial shock she had on how bad it backfired, Alice had to admit to herself that it was a poor attempt on her part. At the very least, she knew that Varus had some sort of explosive magic with him. What kind though? Her arm didn't get blown up by it, and while it was somewhat painful along with the great knockback she felt, something still felt off about the explosion. Before she could really do anything else however, the area immediately got covered with fog, much to her bemusement.
"...Were that person trying to sabotage everyone else's attempt or something? How troublesome..."
Despite trying her best to not show it, Alice was worried, of course. While she could clearly hear the chaos around her as the other students continued their efforts, she was focusing on the fact that she couldn't even see anything now outside of a pretty short range near her. Her magic required her to pinpoint the exit's location using her sight. She couldn't just make the exit anywhere she liked, and so this meant that she had to get close to Varus, wherever he would be right now, otherwise she wouldn't be able to do anything. Perhaps alternatively she could find the foggy person and knock them out, but that'd be harder to do. At the very least Varus was a loud person.
She lost track on where her baggage was, but it's not the time to think about that. Her notebook was on the smaller bag she's carrying around at least, and she was elated to know that it was still there. Though...hm...she thought about something for a bit. The goal here would be impressing Varus, not defeating him although that would be possible. Alice was not in a position to defeat him without just being a support to others (and she'd get barely any credits if she did that). So, even if she's just scratching him a bit, if it's done in a ballsy-enough way...
Alice smiled as she tore some the back, empty pages of her notebook. She also unbuttoned her vest and jacket, making sure that she could take them off at any moment's notice. She would only get one chance to do this, and it's pretty risky anyway, as it would eat up almost every single one of her remaining Windows for the day. Now what she would need=
"Need some help?"
"Uh, I-"
Alice turned around, and her heart skipped a beat as she saw the wonder of the earth behind her. Silverish gray hair perhaps, earrings, and most importantly, dead-on handsome. The routes kept on opening themselves to her! What a lucky day to be alive. Even in her dating sims, things didn't happen this conveniently. Alice praised her luck and charms inside as she continued to look at the young man in silence. At first she was comparing him to Nico and started to weigh in which one of the two should she pursue with the knowledge she had now, though her thought drifted to the possibility of romancing both and-
"I'm Alex by the way, and you are?"
"A-aah! I-I mean...I'm Alice. It's...nice to meet you, Alex."
Alright, that should sound enough like a lovestruck shy girl. Though, her fantasies didn't last long as the fog made her realize what she's supposed to be doing. It's not the time for her to be a dating sim heroine, she's supposed to be a chosen one that led and impress the masses now! Not that they're mutually exclusive, but Alice had to remind herself that there's a time and place for everything, and romantic first meeting wasn't something she should indulge herself with now. With her mind back on track, Alice decided to get back to the important topic.
"Err...say, could you perhaps lead us to rush towards Varus' direction? I think I have an idea, but that'd require you and me to be close to him...
And well, I need you or someone you know to either throw me or my jacket high enough above. U-uh! I don't mean to push you around r-really, I just thinking that perhaps what I am planning can work."
@banjoanjo Mainly thinking about Killer Queen since KQ also leaves the objects it turns to a bomb (in this case, Alice's arm) unharmed. though really the only reason i guessed it like that is because Varus likes felines
@Scio Aight, just confirming. I have an idea of what I can have Alice do, but that would depend on what the others do to Varus.
Also heh, i missed the no-weapons thing. She'll probably argue that it's a general purpose tool and not a weapon, though it's going to be fun seeing her punished. Depending on what it is it'd probably knock a bit sense to her or fuel her special snowflake syndrome further.
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