Yeah, I'm just saying that it isn't unusual for someone to take a while making their character. Considering that he won't be able to enter until after the weekend posts finish, I think it might be a little soon to question if he has dropped just yet. I looked back, and he indeed joined us on Tuesday.
I don't think there's anything wrong with asking if someone is still joining the rp. I wasn't rushing anyone to complete their cs.
She's cold and distant. Her and Pandora would be the best friends. Partners in Crime and tearing down the other girls.
Name: Ryoka (涼香) Hosoi (細井)
Age: 15
Year: First
Alias: "Silver Ghost"/"Magic Marksman"
Height: 162.4 cm (5 feet 3.94 inches)
Weight: 61.9 kg (136.47 lbs)
Extracurricular Activities: Rifle Shooting
Element: Motion
Personality: Ryoka is a person which uses cold, disinterested and other passive repulsive behavior to hide her own emotional scars, inexperience in socialization and fear of gaining, and then losing someone dear to her. Under the mask Ryoka built lays a scarred and wast wasteland of a bad memories, negative emotions, torn happiness and countless deaths; all of which leads to Ryoka's strong front being nothing more then just that, a strong front to protect her own heart and mind. Due to her past at the current point of time she finds comfort only in the safety of her always present, and hidden, stun gun and her own abilities as a magical girl.
Theme Song:
"Field of Innocence" by "Evanescence"
Battle Themes:
Usual:
"This Is War" by "30 Seconds To Mars"
After taking damage/in a bad situation:
"I Will Not Bow" by "Breaking Benjamin"
Ryoka was born in Osaka, to Aki Hosoi (father), a diplomat, and Mio Hosoi (mother), a nurse at the Japanese Red Cross. During the first five years of Ryoka's life the family lived a peaceful life in Japan until Ryoka's father was to join a number of diplomats and other staff that were to set up a consulate in the capital of a country split between a faction which called for modernization and liberal reforms and one which was against them. Japan and it's allies were supportive of the liberal movement and the consulate was a step towards the strengthening of ties and boosting relations with this faction. After a serious talk Mio decided to also leave for that country as a part of a mission of the Japanese Red Cross. Thous the series of events that would change Ryoka forever were set in motion, beginning with the Hosoi family arriving in the capital of the country in the middle of a civil war.
The months went just fine and by the middle of the fall of Ryoko's sixth year of life the anti-liberal faction was evicted from the crucial areas of the country and retreated into the mountains, forests and the few larger settlements still in their hands. But during the harshest part of the winter well-hidden and prepared units of the anti-liberal faction that were waiting in the areas the liberals took, begun a massive assault coordinated with the rest of their forces in a offensive that swept aside the forces of the liberal faction, resulting in the liberals losing most of the taken ground. In the middle of the charge a group of anti-liberals attacked the relief camp of the now international mission of the Red Cross in which Mio Hosoi was present, and raped all the women, pillaged to their heart's content, proceeded to kill everyone, burned down the campsite and finally left the bodies in a visible place for brave reporters, spy drones or whoever else could get the tale to the world. Trough struck by sadness and grief after the loss of his wife Ryoka's father just asked for three days off and a decreased number of work hours for the need of taking care of Ryoka, with a slight help of a babysitter he found.
But this was not the end of the troubles of the Hosoi family, and three months later, as the last snows melted the liberal forces were forced into the narrow river valley in which the capital stood and numerous small holdouts all over the place, with the capital itself on the front lines. It was at the time that the higher ranked diplomats begun evacuating, until Ryoka's father became the highest one and oversaw all the remaining diplomatic staff, but soon most of them went back to Japan, many boarding the first airplane, train or bus out of the country, leaving only a small team to handle the few duties they had to take care off. Aki was planning to leave the city as soon as the advancing lines of the anti-liberal forces reach half a mile from the airport, but little he did know that the liberals were not honest about the advancement of their enemies, and released outdated information about the positions of the anti-liberal forces. As such, Aki and Ryoka were trapped in the capital without an easy and safe way out. Soon it was obvious to Aki that what the liberals did and in despair he frantically begun to search for a way out of the city for him and his daughter. Finally as the fighting approached the consulate he managed to make a deal with a local ex-taxi driver to leave the city with his help in return for a large sum of money. So as night fallen the two surviving members of the Hosoi family got into a car driven by the ex-taxi driver, but only a few minutes later all the hopes that they had were crushed when they were driven to and handed over to one of the anti-liberal posts near the now empty consulate. Ryoka was separated from her father and knocked unconscious, never to see him again.
When she woke up Ryoka found herself in a truck, driving somewhere into the mountains far from the capital, and full of other women. This might have been the end of the line for Ryoka if the convoy in which the truck transporting her didn't come under attack by die-hard remains of the liberals occupying mountainous and forested areas of the country. Thous after a quick and decisive battle Ryoka and the other prisoner were saved from who knows what horrible fate and taken to one of the hideouts of the group that rescued them. The prisoners then were split into various work groups to do things to support the fighters, or even joined the fighting themselves if they could. So Ryoka spend three years this way - helping out with various task while training to become physical strong enough to fight. When she was nine she begun learning to shoot and at the age of eleven she begun, first in second-line and then front-line duty, to actually participate in the still ongoing war. During the long year of her joining the fighting she proven herself as a capable fighter and excellent marksman, while at the same time, helped by the forces of one of the supportive countries, the liberal forces slowly fought and retook the capital and most of the country. It was during the aftermath of the capture of the capital that Ryoka was interviewed by one of the foreign reporters, allowing most of her story, now another sad memory of hers, to reach the ears of her aunt, Ariko Hosoi, which then managed to get Ryoka on a plane and back to Japan.
Back in Japan, Ryoka quickly adapted to her new life, and trough she had grown into a cold and distant child in her aunt's eyes, she had no problems with going on to enter junior high school after a crash course to learn what she needed, which was mostly Japanese due to a good enough education from an several teachers back in that country. So after taking tests to elevate her academic ability and upon doing more then satisfying on them, was allowed to enroll into a junior high school. This part of Ryoka's life would be uneventful, as she slowly settled into being a good and studious student, if in her third year a even happened and showed her being a magical girl. During the first week of her third year she saw one of the new girls being bullied by older ones, something that happened to her, but unlike her this victim didn't just coldly walk away from the bullies and situation. So Ryoka got into a fight with the bullies and during it noticed the possibility of her being a magical girl, to be precise she noticed that she could sense the motion of the objects near her, allowing her to evade attacks from blind spots and recognize the right time to counter an attack more easily. With this not only did she defeat the bullies, but beat the crap out of them without even getting hit once. After talking with her aunt it was decided that Ryoka should go into a normal high school at first, but as time went by Ryoka showed the marks of being a capable magical girl, and one day she meet with a person that would make her rethink everything about her life. This person was Lieutenant Kaede Subaru and in private conversations with her Ryoka decided to become a magical girl, reasons known only to Ryoka. Her aunt was surprised at both the change in Ryoka's choice for the future and the sudden will to go down the path she chose. And so after graduating from junior high Ryoka enrolled in the Elite Magical Girl Academy.
Motion Tracker is the basic ability that Ryoka possesses, it is a ability that provides her the information about any object in motion in a certain range. The standard setting is objects between 5 mm (~3/10 of a inch) and 50 m (~150 feet, enough to include the largest airplanes on the world) in diameter, that are moving in speeds up to 1 km/s (~2250 m/h, just above the record speed set by the SR-71 Blackbird) in a 50 m radius, trough the settings can be changed at the cost of increasing the usage of one's magic power for increased range of detection; be it the size of the object, the speed that it is traveling at or the radius of the detection itself. It should be noted that the ability doesn't detect anything that is not physical, any attack based purely on magic as well as any attack with something that is outside the set detection range (like a laser, at least on the standard setting), will not be detected by it. At standard setting it would use up her magic in a period longer then a day as it uses little magic. At the maximal setting, that can be used only for twelve seconds, only objects smaller then 1 femtometer, moving at the speed of light (c) or larger then 1 AJ and outside of 10 light years are outside her detection scope.
Trajectory Adjustment
Allows the trajectory manipulation of objects which are ether seen or detected on the Motion Tracker. It might be changing the path of one's own attacks to avoid the protection of the enemy or deflecting an enemy attack from a direct hit into a graze or into ones own block/protection. The larger the change of the the trajectory the more magical power is used. A basic multipurpose ability. It is the only basic ability of Ryoka's that works on magical attacks too. Currently she can use it 212 times for changes smaller then 10 degrees before emptying her magic and on up to two objects at the same time, with the use on the second object needing twice as much magic power, while using it on purely magical attacks also doubles the cost. The usual range of the ability is 50 m but can be increased by 50 m multiple times, as many times as one wants, only with having to pay the price of magic usage going up by half and having to wait for a second for the Trajectory Adjustment to adjust, making it unusable for that second, for each time the range is increased.
Reverse Values
Reverses all the values of a single motion except for mass, turning them from positive into negative (and vice versa), essentially reversing the motion back to it's starting point. It is primary a counter-attacking defensive ability, aimed at protecting one from harm while returning the attack to the source. It is not applicable to magic attacks. Like Trajectory Adjustment, the object must also be visible or detected by Motion Tracker. With her current magical power this can be done 174 times on objects bellow 100 kg of mass traveling bellow three times the speed of sound (in standard atmosphere).Added Velocity
Multiplies the velocity (speed) of an attack (or attacks) by a certain factor, increasing kinetic energy of the attack and providing some magic to it, allowing penetration of weaker magical barriers. The cost of this ability depends on the number of attacks affected by it and the multiplication factor. Currently Ryoka can use it to double the speed of 41 attacks at the same time, triple it for 12 attacks at the same time and quad it for 2 attacks at the same time. If used only to double one attack it can be used 92 times, to triple 63, to quad 30, to quintuple it 10 times and finally to multiply six times once. Affecting more then one attack at the same time also requires more time, 1 second per attack for doubling, 2 seconds per attack for tripling and 4 seconds per attack for a four times increase (8 seconds per attack would be required for five times).
Magic Bullet
Charges a bullet, or bullets, with a homing (auto-direction changing) or penetration (velocity increasing) spell. Currently it can be used up to 100 times for homing and 102 for penetration spells, without any difference between charging one bullet at the time or multiple bullets at the same time. A bullet can have both a homing and penetration spell, which supplement each other, giving it both better homing and penetration ability. When charging more then one bullet there is a 0.5 second wait for each bullet charged. Room for developing more advanced versions of the ability exists.Hypersonic Bombardment
Ryoka accelerates a object to speeds of 6-10 times the speed of sound (in standard atmosphere), attacking her enemy with it. The heavier the object and the more she accelerates the greater the power of the attack. Usually for this use she carries a 2kg lead ball encased in tungsten carbide on hand (usually in her school bag), trough if possible other heavier objects will be rather used (cars make a good ammo for this magic if available). Ten to one time(s) is the maximal times that Ryoka can use this magic, depending on what she fires and at which speed. Usually this attack is kept for when there is a opportunity for a undisturbed attack on a immobilized or pinned down enemy.
The costume is also equipped with flying gear that utilizes magic to fly. Currently Ryoka can only fly for a hour and half in ideal conditions, trough this would probably equal 15-20 minutes of flight in a real fight, especially against other magical girls.
The costume comes together with a ten round magazine multipurpose rifle (MPRX 10 as baptized by Ryoka) that combines the functions of a battle rifle and sniper. Trough ammo can be loaded manually the gun is also fully capable of creating it's own ammo of .50 BMG caliber at the cost of some of Ryoka's magic, all of the created rounds also carry a faint magical charge, allowing them some degree of attack against magic targets. The gun can create rounds specialized for different tasks, from long-range sniping, magic barrier penetration or even bullets of pure magic. Ryoka still hasn't explored most of them and is familiar with only SMPR (Standard Multipurpose Round), SAPR (Standard Armor Penetration Round), MBPR (Magic Barrier Penetration Round) and SMSR (Standard Multipurpose Sniper Round). Ryoka also knows about PMR (Pure Magic Round), SAAR (Standard Anti-Armor Round), STER (Saboted Tungsten Enchanted Round), LRER (Long-Range Enchanted Round) and MIR (Magic Incendiary Round). The MPRX fires in single, triple burst and full auto modes at the maximal fire rate of 720 RMP with the efficient rate of fire being 14 RMP.
The costume's appearance if probably the combination of the science fiction literature which Ryoka became interested in after returning to Japan and desire to protect herself in some sort of armor, mentally or literary. The weapon is probably the result of her actual experience with guns combined with her desire for strength and the already mentioned interest in science fiction.
And finally done. That took a while - hopefully it will not require much/any changes. Will be waiting for feedback.
Name: Ryoka (涼香) Hosoi (細井)
Age: 15
Year: First
Alias: "Silver Ghost"/"Magic Marksman"
Height: 162.4 cm (5 feet 3.94 inches)
Weight: 61.9 kg (136.47 lbs)
Extracurricular Activities: Rifle Shooting
Element: Motion
Personality: Ryoka is a person which uses cold, disinterested and other passive repulsive behavior to hide her own emotional scars, inexperience in socialization and fear of gaining, and then losing someone dear to her. Under the mask Ryoka built lays a scarred and wast wasteland of a bad memories, negative emotions, torn happiness and countless deaths; all of which leads to Ryoka's strong front being nothing more then just that, a strong front to protect her own heart and mind. Due to her past at the current point of time she finds comfort only in the safety of her always present, and hidden, stun gun and her own abilities as a magical girl.
Theme Song:
"Field of Innocence" by "Evanescence"
Battle Themes:
Usual:
"This Is War" by "30 Seconds To Mars"
After taking damage/in a bad situation:
"I Will Not Bow" by "Breaking Benjamin"
Ryoka was born in Osaka, to Aki Hosoi (father), a diplomat, and Mio Hosoi (mother), a nurse at the Japanese Red Cross. During the first five years of Ryoka's life the family lived a peaceful life in Japan until Ryoka's father was to join a number of diplomats and other staff that were to set up a consulate in the capital of a country split between a faction which called for modernization and liberal reforms and one which was against them. Japan and it's allies were supportive of the liberal movement and the consulate was a step towards the strengthening of ties and boosting relations with this faction. After a serious talk Mio decided to also leave for that country as a part of a mission of the Japanese Red Cross. Thous the series of events that would change Ryoka forever were set in motion, beginning with the Hosoi family arriving in the capital of the country in the middle of a civil war.
The months went just fine and by the middle of the fall of Ryoko's sixth year of life the anti-liberal faction was evicted from the crucial areas of the country and retreated into the mountains, forests and the few larger settlements still in their hands. But during the harshest part of the winter well-hidden and prepared units of the anti-liberal faction that were waiting in the areas the liberals took, begun a massive assault coordinated with the rest of their forces in a offensive that swept aside the forces of the liberal faction, resulting in the liberals losing most of the taken ground. In the middle of the charge a group of anti-liberals attacked the relief camp of the now international mission of the Red Cross in which Mio Hosoi was present, and raped all the women, pillaged to their heart's content, proceeded to kill everyone, burned down the campsite and finally left the bodies in a visible place for brave reporters, spy drones or whoever else could get the tale to the world. Trough struck by sadness and grief after the loss of his wife Ryoka's father just asked for three days off and a decreased number of work hours for the need of taking care of Ryoka, with a slight help of a babysitter he found.
But this was not the end of the troubles of the Hosoi family, and three months later, as the last snows melted the liberal forces were forced into the narrow river valley in which the capital stood and numerous small holdouts all over the place, with the capital itself on the front lines. It was at the time that the higher ranked diplomats begun evacuating, until Ryoka's father became the highest one and oversaw all the remaining diplomatic staff, but soon most of them went back to Japan, many boarding the first airplane, train or bus out of the country, leaving only a small team to handle the few duties they had to take care off. Aki was planning to leave the city as soon as the advancing lines of the anti-liberal forces reach half a mile from the airport, but little he did know that the liberals were not honest about the advancement of their enemies, and released outdated information about the positions of the anti-liberal forces. As such, Aki and Ryoka were trapped in the capital without an easy and safe way out. Soon it was obvious to Aki that what the liberals did and in despair he frantically begun to search for a way out of the city for him and his daughter. Finally as the fighting approached the consulate he managed to make a deal with a local ex-taxi driver to leave the city with his help in return for a large sum of money. So as night fallen the two surviving members of the Hosoi family got into a car driven by the ex-taxi driver, but only a few minutes later all the hopes that they had were crushed when they were driven to and handed over to one of the anti-liberal posts near the now empty consulate. Ryoka was separated from her father and knocked unconscious, never to see him again.
When she woke up Ryoka found herself in a truck, driving somewhere into the mountains far from the capital, and full of other women. This might have been the end of the line for Ryoka if the convoy in which the truck transporting her didn't come under attack by die-hard remains of the liberals occupying mountainous and forested areas of the country. Thous after a quick and decisive battle Ryoka and the other prisoner were saved from who knows what horrible fate and taken to one of the hideouts of the group that rescued them. The prisoners then were split into various work groups to do things to support the fighters, or even joined the fighting themselves if they could. So Ryoka spend three years this way - helping out with various task while training to become physical strong enough to fight. When she was nine she begun learning to shoot and at the age of eleven she begun, first in second-line and then front-line duty, to actually participate in the still ongoing war. During the long year of her joining the fighting she proven herself as a capable fighter and excellent marksman, while at the same time, helped by the forces of one of the supportive countries, the liberal forces slowly fought and retook the capital and most of the country. It was during the aftermath of the capture of the capital that Ryoka was interviewed by one of the foreign reporters, allowing most of her story, now another sad memory of hers, to reach the ears of her aunt, Ariko Hosoi, which then managed to get Ryoka on a plane and back to Japan.
Back in Japan, Ryoka quickly adapted to her new life, and trough she had grown into a cold and distant child in her aunt's eyes, she had no problems with going on to enter junior high school after a crash course to learn what she needed, which was mostly Japanese due to a good enough education from an several teachers back in that country. So after taking tests to elevate her academic ability and upon doing more then satisfying on them, was allowed to enroll into a junior high school. This part of Ryoka's life would be uneventful, as she slowly settled into being a good and studious student, if in her third year a even happened and showed her being a magical girl. During the first week of her third year she saw one of the new girls being bullied by older ones, something that happened to her, but unlike her this victim didn't just coldly walk away from the bullies and situation. So Ryoka got into a fight with the bullies and during it noticed the possibility of her being a magical girl, to be precise she noticed that she could sense the motion of the objects near her, allowing her to evade attacks from blind spots and recognize the right time to counter an attack more easily. With this not only did she defeat the bullies, but beat the crap out of them without even getting hit once. After talking with her aunt it was decided that Ryoka should go into a normal high school at first, but as time went by Ryoka showed the marks of being a capable magical girl, and one day she meet with a person that would make her rethink everything about her life. This person was Lieutenant Kaede Subaru and in private conversations with her Ryoka decided to become a magical girl, reasons known only to Ryoka. Her aunt was surprised at both the change in Ryoka's choice for the future and the sudden will to go down the path she chose. And so after graduating from junior high Ryoka enrolled in the Elite Magical Girl Academy.
Motion Tracker is the basic ability that Ryoka possesses, it is a ability that provides her the information about any object in motion in a certain range. The standard setting is objects between 5 mm (~3/10 of a inch) and 50 m (~150 feet, enough to include the largest airplanes on the world) in diameter, that are moving in speeds up to 1 km/s (~2250 m/h, just above the record speed set by the SR-71 Blackbird) in a 50 m radius, trough the settings can be changed at the cost of increasing the usage of one's magic power for increased range of detection; be it the size of the object, the speed that it is traveling at or the radius of the detection itself. It should be noted that the ability doesn't detect anything that is not physical, any attack based purely on magic as well as any attack with something that is outside the set detection range (like a laser, at least on the standard setting), will not be detected by it. At standard setting it would use up her magic in a period longer then a day as it uses little magic. At the maximal setting, that can be used only for twelve seconds, only objects smaller then 1 femtometer, moving at the speed of light (c) or larger then 1 AJ and outside of 10 light years are outside her detection scope.
Trajectory Adjustment
Allows the trajectory manipulation of objects which are ether seen or detected on the Motion Tracker. It might be changing the path of one's own attacks to avoid the protection of the enemy or deflecting an enemy attack from a direct hit into a graze or into ones own block/protection. The larger the change of the the trajectory the more magical power is used. A basic multipurpose ability. It is the only basic ability of Ryoka's that works on magical attacks too. Currently she can use it 212 times for changes smaller then 10 degrees before emptying her magic and on up to two objects at the same time, with the use on the second object needing twice as much magic power, while using it on purely magical attacks also doubles the cost. The usual range of the ability is 50 m but can be increased by 50 m multiple times, as many times as one wants, only with having to pay the price of magic usage going up by half and having to wait for a second for the Trajectory Adjustment to adjust, making it unusable for that second, for each time the range is increased.
Reverse Values
Reverses all the values of a single motion except for mass, turning them from positive into negative (and vice versa), essentially reversing the motion back to it's starting point. It is primary a counter-attacking defensive ability, aimed at protecting one from harm while returning the attack to the source. It is not applicable to magic attacks. Like Trajectory Adjustment, the object must also be visible or detected by Motion Tracker. With her current magical power this can be done 174 times on objects bellow 100 kg of mass traveling bellow three times the speed of sound (in standard atmosphere).Added Velocity
Multiplies the velocity (speed) of an attack (or attacks) by a certain factor, increasing kinetic energy of the attack and providing some magic to it, allowing penetration of weaker magical barriers. The cost of this ability depends on the number of attacks affected by it and the multiplication factor. Currently Ryoka can use it to double the speed of 41 attacks at the same time, triple it for 12 attacks at the same time and quad it for 2 attacks at the same time. If used only to double one attack it can be used 92 times, to triple 63, to quad 30, to quintuple it 10 times and finally to multiply six times once. Affecting more then one attack at the same time also requires more time, 1 second per attack for doubling, 2 seconds per attack for tripling and 4 seconds per attack for a four times increase (8 seconds per attack would be required for five times).
Magic Bullet
Charges a bullet, or bullets, with a homing (auto-direction changing) or penetration (velocity increasing) spell. Currently it can be used up to 100 times for homing and 102 for penetration spells, without any difference between charging one bullet at the time or multiple bullets at the same time. A bullet can have both a homing and penetration spell, which supplement each other, giving it both better homing and penetration ability. When charging more then one bullet there is a 0.5 second wait for each bullet charged. Room for developing more advanced versions of the ability exists.Hypersonic Bombardment
Ryoka accelerates a object to speeds of 6-10 times the speed of sound (in standard atmosphere), attacking her enemy with it. The heavier the object and the more she accelerates the greater the power of the attack. Usually for this use she carries a 2kg lead ball encased in tungsten carbide on hand (usually in her school bag), trough if possible other heavier objects will be rather used (cars make a good ammo for this magic if available). Ten to one time(s) is the maximal times that Ryoka can use this magic, depending on what she fires and at which speed. Usually this attack is kept for when there is a opportunity for a undisturbed attack on a immobilized or pinned down enemy.
The costume is also equipped with flying gear that utilizes magic to fly. Currently Ryoka can only fly for a hour and half in ideal conditions, trough this would probably equal 15-20 minutes of flight in a real fight, especially against other magical girls.
The costume comes together with a ten round magazine multipurpose rifle (MPRX 10 as baptized by Ryoka) that combines the functions of a battle rifle and sniper. Trough ammo can be loaded manually the gun is also fully capable of creating it's own ammo of .50 BMG caliber at the cost of some of Ryoka's magic, all of the created rounds also carry a faint magical charge, allowing them some degree of attack against magic targets. The gun can create rounds specialized for different tasks, from long-range sniping, magic barrier penetration or even bullets of pure magic. Ryoka still hasn't explored most of them and is familiar with only SMPR (Standard Multipurpose Round), SAPR (Standard Armor Penetration Round), MBPR (Magic Barrier Penetration Round) and SMSR (Standard Multipurpose Sniper Round). Ryoka also knows about PMR (Pure Magic Round), SAAR (Standard Anti-Armor Round), STER (Saboted Tungsten Enchanted Round), LRER (Long-Range Enchanted Round) and MIR (Magic Incendiary Round). The MPRX fires in single, triple burst and full auto modes at the maximal fire rate of 720 RMP with the efficient rate of fire being 14 RMP.
The costume's appearance if probably the combination of the science fiction literature which Ryoka became interested in after returning to Japan and desire to protect herself in some sort of armor, mentally or literary. The weapon is probably the result of her actual experience with guns combined with her desire for strength and the already mentioned interest in science fiction.
And finally done. That took a while - hopefully it will not require much/any changes. Will be waiting for feedback.
Well ... if someone manages to convince or get Ryoka to join a club or sport but otherwise she has no reason to join one, except if it's mandatory to be in one ...
It isn't mandatory. It's mainly to give your characters a chance to interact with people outside of your class, find people with common interests.
