Name: Akira Hoshino
Title: Shining Hero Celestial
Gender: Female
Appearance:
She's slightly above average heightwise, standing at 5'4". As Celestial, she wears a black undersuit with a constantly shifting star pattern, as well as a breastplate with white gems arranged to resemble the form's constellation, pauldrons, vambraces (the Compass being incorporated into the right one) and greaves. The colour of these armour pieces changes based on her current form (yellow for Leo, red for Sagittarius and blue for Capricorn). In addition, the suit's helmet changes, they each have large green eyes, with Leo's baring a stylised mane design, Capricorn's having goat horns and Sagittarius's resembling a stylised Corinthian helmet.
Personality: Akira is a generally pleasant and cheerful individual with a penchant for terrible puns. She tries to do the right thing, regardless of any risk to herself and has a strong sense of justice. She's generally good at controlling her temper, but threatening or attacking those who can't defend themselves is a good way to get her mad. While she's not completely inflexible, she can be somewhat stubborn once she's set her mind on something. Unfortunately, this means she's unlikely to retreat when fighting a superior opponent and can take a bit to be convinced to follow someone else's plans or look at things from a different angle.
Ideals: JUSTICE! Protecting those who can't help themselves, punishing evildoers and all that jazz.
Biography: Akira is the only child of an office worker and an archaeologist. Her father spent a lot of time travelling, and often returned with stories about ancient civilisations and the artifacts they had left behind. Her life was mostly uneventful; go to school, graduate, go to college, nothing special, until roughly a year ago. Her father was returning from Greece and Akira was to meet him at the airport. A number of individuals in dark robes set upon them in the terminal, attempting to steal her father's briefcase. During the attack, the briefcase was knocked aside and a strange voice called to Akira, seemingly from within it. Time seemed to slow as she opened it to find the golden brace and put it on. Thanks to the Compass's power, she was able to chase off the strange assailants and protect her father. In the time since, she has done her best to balance her studies with seemingly once a week attacks by monsters and the aforementioned dark robed figures.
Powers: By attaching the Celestial Compass to her right wrist and shouting an activation phrase, Akira can transform into the armoured hero, Celestial. As Celestial, her strength, endurance and speed are enhanced to above-human levels, though the exact levels vary between the forms. Each form has a "Nova" attack which, true to the name, displays far more power than normal. However, these abilities tend to be draining enough that they're generally only used to finish a fight.
Leo: Akira's most agile form and an effective melee fighter. In this form, she relies heavily on hand-to-hand combat and can create energy claws to power up her attacks. Leo Nova gives Akira a sudden burst of energy, allowing her to unleash a barrage of empowered claw slashes on a target.
Capricorn: Akira's balanced "all-rounder" form, it's stronger than Leo, but also slower. Capricorn arms Akira with a large axe which doubles as a guitar, making it an effective melee weapon that can also create short-ranged sonic attacks to disorient enemies. Capricorn Nova allows her to unleash a quick riff that temporarily paralyses a target, keeping them in place for the follow-up, a powered up axe swing.
Sagittarius: The least mobile and weakest melee fighter, this form makes up for it with rapid fire ranged attacks. Sagittarius carries a bow which creates a fiery projectile when its string is drawn back. Sagittarius Nova requires a short charging period, after which Akira fires a larger than normal arrow at high speed. This projectile creates a large explosion on impact.
Weapons: Under normal circumstances, none. Capricorn and Sagittarius summon an
axe and
bow respectively.
Equipment: Akira carries the Celestial Compass, a golden brace with a large white gem embedded in it. Other than that, just her clothes.
Universe of Origin: An original tokusatsu-inspired universe.
