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Name: Rayne Kanzaki
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Country: Japan
Occupation: Student
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Likes: Splurging (though she never gets to do it), hard work for the people she cares about, cheese.
Dislikes: Rayne dislikes the mage's association for considering them not worth bringing up. Anything against her family, meat (she'd be vegetarian if it was consistently the cheapest stuff to eat), people who take stuff for granted.
Wish: To one up the Mage's association and pave a better life for her family
Personality: Rayne is an honest hard worker. She doesn't take shortcuts and thinks practical, probably a lot more practical than befits her age for understandable reasons. Having to take care of everything for their family for several years now, everything had to be handled by her and no bundle of money was going to make her not have to learn it. The collective fortune was reasonable but not all that great, not enough to keep them going for the rest of their lives. She is more fun loving by nature but has major issues with duty and responsibility vs loosening up since she feels the duty to be just that necessary. Even participating in this war is a gamble to her as she is well aware that she might die over the course of it. She has an extremely one track mind, though, and tends to tunnel vision hard. So despite her lack of being so sure, she is going forwards with full focus. And yes, she is juggling preparing for the war with taking care of her brother and will probably still be doing that during the war.
Bio: There are some families blessed with great status and magical ability and some that are not. The established ones have a lot of support and curry the favor of the Mage's association in the name of preserving magical purity. Those not so pure are hardly considered so important and only by a few possibilities can they become anyone significant in the magical world. The Kanzaki family was one of D rank magi and an occasional C rank, nothing that impressive. If there was anything special about them, it was their tendency to produce specialists with no elemental affinity but rather a specific origin that they would focus on. In magus terms, that meant that they were unimportant plebians who lacked talent and occasionally would produce a one trick pony. They weren't entirely wrong but it was rather insulting to be classified like that. They didn't dwell too deeply on it as a family, though, content with not being in the center of all the scrabbling for influence. That was fine for them as they were different from other, more pure families anyway. They lived normal lives, held non-magical jobs, and hung out with non-magical people. They had few books on magic since the family tendency made them inept at the most mainstream kinds of magic. This of course made them especially deplorable for "treating magic as a hobby". While they mostly didn't care and on their way towards dying out, Rayne was made to care. Her mother had already died from an illness and when she was 14, her father died from being shot during a petty robbery as a bystander. Saddled with a fair sum of money left over from her father and some extra baggage in the form of a 7 year old younger brother with no relatives to speak of, she turned to the mage's association for some help, knowing that adoption was fairly common with magical families due to the issue of getting magically gifted kids.
As it turned out, Rayne got prettymuch laughed out. The Mage's Association wasn't interesting in finding a place for the magically viable but not so gifted. In not so many words, they were interested in retaining purity and not so much about helping anyone for the sake of helping them. Being ever the practical one, Rayne did the math and figured out pretty quick that the chances of being able to live on the inherited money till she was making her own were pretty bad. She was too young to legally work in the non-magical world so she bit her lip and began working as something akin to a servant girl for various families contacted through the mage's association while she doubled with going to school. Manual labor was decently rare among the Mage's association on account of pride so only the really desperate ended up doing it. The more affluent magical families couldn't hire normal humans either as they wouldn't understand the magic that went on and would panic. Of course, Rayne was never allowed near any of the libraries and was sent off to cook, clean, and serve while being treated more like a dirty piece of hired labor. The more affluent the family, the more poor the treatment. Nevertheless, she put up with it for three years, honing her small brand of magic in between after receiving the brand of a potential master a year in. Rather than try to match the other magi in power, she aimed to beat them in application. She saw the holy grail war as a way to prove her worth. If she won, they would be instantly recognized as an important magical family on par with the three great families. Their deplorable family trait would be heralded as a great gift. The glory she cared little for but the position would allow her and her brother to grow up without him worrying because he saw her up late at night studying all the time or because of the concerned look she had whenever she balanced the checkbook which wasn't really that bad at the moment but she was always looking years into the future and projecting her dismal part time income. So no matter how much she saved, it wasn't realistically going to look good. Already graced with the advantage of living in Fuyuki, she knew the area well and stopped working 6 months prior to the start of the war to focus on school, actually get some rest, and prepare for the war. Unlike the major families, that included very little spell learning and a lot more moving about. At the unintentional behest of her brother who was much more magically gifted but woefully uneducated magically, she took what she knew of kendo, got a real sword, and aimed to make it her medium. His logic was based on anime. If you couldn't blow up big buildings, you should get a sword instead and cut them down instead. In final fantasy terms "If you ccan't be a black or white mage, be a red mage". He was of course also unaware of the impending war and treated magic more like a hobby and a game, less like the life and death war that Rayne was about to wade into.
[BCOLOR=#080808][BCOLOR=#080808]Magus rank: D[/BCOLOR][/BCOLOR]
Magical background: Rayne has a pretty short magical background, mostly learned from books. Incapable of any elemental spells, her origin is Effort and her magic is mostly physical enhancement magic which is usually considered support magic for the weak who are unskilled in dueling. She can chant for them at high speed, almost on par with a high speed aria. Her personal magic is spell stacking, allowing her to cast multiples of the same spell and layer them. It has better efficiency and can be done by her despite her level due to it being her origin but it is nothing that a stronger magus couldn't technically accomplish though they probably never would. The mass of casting even cheap spells makes her ill suited for long fights but that doesn't make much of a difference since she can't hold up to most magi in straight power to begin with even with her enhancements. So she either finishes it quickly or won't be able to.
[BCOLOR=#080808]Gear: A sword that Rayne uses as a medium for her spells. It is not a family thing as she had very little instruction before having to rely on books. [/BCOLOR]
