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Name:
Age:
Picture: (remember that Henzai only allows citizens to wear shades of gray + black and white)
Appearance details: (height, mannerisms, and/or other things the picture doesn't communicate)
Personality:
Favorite things: (optional)
Activities: (things they might do when not in Umbra, such as an occupation - I will use these to add details to the plot)
Home: (a short description is fine)
Family: (names and relations are all that are required)
History: (be as brief or detailed as you wish)
Picture: (the Neon Shadows would preferably wear brightly colored clothing as part of the rebellion against Henzai; their physical appearance can and probably should be wildly different from their "real" form as this is the secret illegal internet)
Shadow color: (their "magical girl name" is [Color] Shadow)
Motif: (an element that forms their attacks)
Weapon: (can be anything, from a sword to a gun to a magic wand to a tennis racket)
Special attacks: (only names are required)
Details Height: 1.64 m Weight: 55 kg 3 sizes: B79/W57/H81
Personality: A meek girl who defers to her elders and does as she has been taught and told. She doesn't have trouble speaking and has an easygoing aura about her that makes her very suited to attending to shrinegoers. Even when she's very critical of or displeased by or dislikes something, she rarely brings up her feelings unless prompted - but when she does, she pulls out all the stops. While serious in her dedication, she's regularly seen with a small smile on her face. Likes: The shrine, manners, seafood, schoolgirl uniforms, men having beards, virtual reality, talking to shrine goers, gardening Dislikes: Stupidity, loud noises, bread, skimpy clothes, skyscrapers, men having long hair, reading on tablets rather than books, crafts, chewing gum, workouts
Activities: Works as a miko at her family's shrine. Does not attend school, instead is educated by the best private tutors money can buy. When not being tutored or working at the shrine, she likes to take care of the house garden and read from books. In spite of how much she doesn't like them, she also works out almost religiously to conserve her figure in spite of how much she eats. Home: A small house, built to outwardly appear to be of traditional Japanese style, located behind the family shrine. It is connected to the shrine by a passageway. The house has a miniature central garden, several rooms connected by halls with wooden floors. The rooms have sliding doors, but the rooms themselves are as high tech as can be. Her room is the one closest to the shrine.
Family Parents: Miyako (Alive; 42; Head Priestess) & Ryouta (Alive; 56; Businessman) Siblings: Ryouji (Alive; 24; Businessman) Paternal Grandfather: Yamato (Alive; 88; Head Priest, Patriarch)
History: Mikan was born as the second child and only daughter of the Urukawa family, a clan that has long lived in the Inner Gear. They managed to silence and avert an attempted crime by her grandmother. Mikan's family has been for generations now lead a Shinto shrine.
After the incident with Mikan's grandmother, all Urukawa descendants are strictly controlled and approved by the Patriarch of the family (currently, her paternal grandfather), and as if to appease Henzai, their doctrine includes now the idea that Henzai is the ultimate manifestation of the kami on Earth.
The firstborn men are sent to private schools and then encouraged to find jobs that provide the most possible monetary income to the family, while the firstborn women are homeschooled and trained to lead the shrine, no questions asked. Further children are frowned upon but if conceived will likely have their futures decided according to the family needs at the time. Firstborn males, upon the birth of their own firstborn male grandson, must retire from their obligations and become the Head Priest of the shrine.
Mikan, as the firstborn girl of her generation, is fated to take over the shrine, both performing the rituals and managing its multiple aspects (financial, public relations, etc). Now 17, Mikan is also one year away from being married to a man of her parents' choosing, in order to have children as quickly as possible to repeat the cycle...
She discovered Umbra by accident after reading some of the wishes that were written in one of the shrine's festivals, and began living a double life she can hardly believe.
Special Attacks Photon: -"The light purges!"- Flicks the gohei like a magic wand and shoots from it a small blast of light. Travels in a straight line. up to 500 m. Increased focus and energy expenditure can result in a continuous laser. Concussive and energetic. Substantially heats up the point of impact Solid State: -"Put your faith in the light!" - Swings the gohei in front of her and summons a shimmering hexagon. Size varies but at minimum is large enough to cover Yellow Shadow. The hexagon can deflect physical/concussive and energetic attacks. The hexagon stays there until dispelled. Can be used as a stepping platform. Up to 3 can be created at a time. Heavenfall: -"The light shall burn you!"- Calls down a pillar of light from the heavens to deal area-of-effect damage. The pillar will strike wherever Yellow Shadow has pointed her gohei, in a 500 m radius around her Has concussive + energetic properties. Even indirect hits can blind targets temporarily. Can be used indoors but it will result in massive property damage. Requires significant focus and energy expenditure.
Appearance details: She's a lot stronger than she may look, concealing her muscles under baggy clothes. Nore thinks she's too short at 170cm, but she hopes she'll enter a growth spurt. Any day now. She's great at hiding her emotions, and she's usually as cold and unfeeling as the picture would suggest.
Personality: A girl who's learnt the hard way to keep her thoughts and emotions to herself, as no one will treat her with anything else than disrespect if she speaks up. She's lived a tough life, but she's learnt what a real friend actually is, and she's learnt the value of loyalty. Something she thinks very few people understands, and she has no trouble discarding those who don't share her values or makes no effort to understand her--fake friends. In the end, she knows she doesn't need anyone else. If anything, they need her more than she will ever need them. While she's a hardass at her core, she sometimes shows kindness if she pities someone pathetic, or tries to lighten the mood if it's awfully dour.
Likes: Honesty, strength, fortitude, violence, dark humour, daydreaming, cats.
Dislikes: Liars, feeble-minded fools, excessive swearing, arrogant inner gear inhabitants.
Activities: Slavery (Whatever odd jobs she can find in the fringe gear, usually arduous labour. She's a diligent, underpaid worker, and she's aware of it. There're not a lot of people who wants to deal with her for extended periods.)
Rapping. (She'd never do it in the open, but when she's at home alone, she likes creating rhymes, singing, spitting out lyrics with the speed of lightning.)
Exercising. (She loves pushing herself to the limit and going beyond.)
Weightlifting Home: Cardboard box. (Not really.) Nore lives with her aunt and Suki in a two room apartment in the fringe gear; She suspects she's got family in the other gears, since her aunt keeps mentioning her useless father, but she can't remember ever meeting any of them. She tries her best to not annoy her aunt and best friend, as they share a fairly small space. Family:
Yoshima Shizune, 53, aunt
Suki Kawaguchi, 18, best friend/closest thing to a sister History: At a young age, when her aunt had taught her how to read, Nore began to feel that every text she read sang to her. They each had their own sound, and she could recognize an author based on their rhythm if she'd read them before.
This was an entirely meaningless skill for someone who lived in the fringe gear, who would never get to truly experience music.
Nore was a problem child. Her teachers would either say that she was too silent, timid, or they would reprimand her for being a bully. There was no way for her to win in their eyes, and they began to treat her as if she was an idiot.
Maybe she was, but it still hurt when they made it so clear what they thought about her.
She skipped school a lot in her teens, eventually dropping out. It didn't interest her much, and she didn't get along with anyone. It felt like they were on a different level than her -- way higher; there was no one who believed in her abilities at the time. She doubted her own intellect, but she learnt how to protect herself from vultures who wanted to pick on her. After she broke a couple of arms, they cemented her as a villain, and for once, she was content with the role they'd assigned to her.
Yeah, she could be a villain. It was easy.
Nore met her first real friend when she was fourteen, by accident, and not on good terms, yet there was an undeniable attraction between them, as if they were looking at mirror versions of themselves. Everyone else seemed to be a copy of a copy, but they'd never met their own copy before, and they'd assumed their mold was unique -- and utterly worthless.
Nore and Suki began supporting each other, because on some level it felt like they were helping a twin, or a family member, and they could make more money co-operating. It was easier to live well in the fringe gear with a partner; previously Nore had only had her aunt, and Suki had lost her own guardians in a fire.
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Shadow color: Onyx Motif: Lava. Onyx possesses one of the greatest destructive forces in the world -- pure, raw lava. She always looks like she's sweating, with a thin layer of steam emanating from her skin, and her legs appear to be burning hot -- whatever they contain is in constant swirling motion. She leaves trails of orange glowing footsteps where she steps. Onyx's method of fighting is entirely offensive, and she becomes a nigh unstoppable berserker when she unleashes her flames and magma. Weapon: Massive flail with spikes and an extendable chain. (Gigas Flail.) Special attacks:
Erupt, Corrupt
VolcanoZ
Magma of Wrath
Spitting Flames
Appearance details: Anna stands in at a statuesque 6'2". She's not shy, not by a longshot, but she isn't necessarily completely open to the world, either. The glasses, also, aren't just for show. As she's farsighted in reality, she needs the glasses for mechanic work. When making a point, even in VR, Anna will close her eyes and clean her glasses off, though at least in VR, she has enough sense to quickly realize she doesn't have glasses on her avatar.
Personality: Happy and upbeat with a sadistic streak. Friendly to most, if not all. Sometimes world-weary, sometimes the first to engage a conversation, Anna's mood is as unpredictable as the weather (prior to the geo-engineering and meteorology satellites). Her sadism only rears its head when things are going wrong for her, thankfully, and it's rare for her to turn it on her friends.
Favorite things: European supercars. Her dream is to eventually do work on one, even if it's just tightening screws or checking oil.
Activities: She's an auto mechanic for a living, and studies engineering in her free time. Anna loves to tinker with things, and her bedroom is littered with half-finished projects and failed inventions. Every once in a blue moon, when her job and other duties allow it, she'll try ice skating. In secret, of course. She's not very good at it, though, due to rarely getting an opportunity to practice.
Home: A small apartment in the downtown area. One bedroom, one bathroom, and a kitchen that doubles as her living room.
Family: Anna only has her father, Joseph Decarion. The relationship between these two is strained, to put it mildly.
History: Anna, as you might expect, isn't from Henzai. Her father, and herself, are of German descent. They only came to be Henzai "citizens" when her father was hired to be a lead programmer on the government-funded VR project, having worked on similar things in the Fatherland. They weren't emigrated normally, so as to uphold the illusion of ethnic purity to the general public. They weren't even allowed out during the day, when the streets would be packed with people. Needless to say, Anna got fed up with this fairly quickly. Two years later, she got herself a job, struck out on her own, and cut off all contact with her father. Two more years later, she's put her dislike for Henzai to good use being a Neon Shadow. Also needless to say, her Shadow Avatar is a much better skater than she is in reality.
Picture:
Shadow color: White
Motif: Ice, specifically skating.
Weapon: A small pistol, easy to aim and handle with one hand.
Special attacks: Crystal Shot, Frozen Simulacrum, Cryoseism, Crystal Guard, Crystal Rain
Fantasy of all kinds★★!! Here's a list: modern/urban, magic and swords, otherworldly/fish out of water, faeries and unicorns, sometimes dark, sometimes superhero-ish, sometimes mixed with sci-fi. The Boo Girlie's always down for weird, wild or whimsical! Yayuh!! :3 Oh! And Sky Pirates too~~!!
Ayami is a small girl yet with a curvy build; she's not chubby nor flabby but could use a bit of exercise. She has chestnut coloured hair that comes to her chin coupled with eye length bangs. The teen will normally use one or two clips to part her hair (which are the fanciest accessories she is allowed to use) but for the most part she keeps her hair in a 'hand-combed mop' style if only to rebel against sleekly styled conformity. Full pink lips are usually set in a small smile or smirk. She has a small upturned nose and which she crinkles and rubs when she makes things up or flat out lies. Big, bright hazel coloured eyes always seem to glint when excited or amused and will dip into hues of browns or greens depending on moods. She has a tendency to wink every so often and will expertly raise a lone eyebrow too.
Clothing and style wise, obviously, there is no choice but to wear the restrictive bland and monochromatic schemes of the Henzai command. She will, however, sometimes 'forget' to wear matching socks and will wear a wrist support brace on her left hand 'due to previous injury.' Even though dance and excess expression is prohibited, Ayami has a bit of a bounce in her step, and a wiggle in her walk when she is excited. And on the opposite side of the emotional spectrum, a lowered chin and downcast eyes when she is ho-hum glum. She tends to daydream a lot and will be spotted with her left index finger pushing up at her lower lip, eyes wide, green and dancing with hints of gold.
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~Persona~
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+ | A Good Girl - Tries hard to please and tries hard to do a good job. Polite, respectful and friendly enough. Always willing to bend over backwards to help, especially for her mom. Saves allowance for things she needs/desires, but will donate money for a better cause. + | Creative - She has that artistic eye and talent. Always practicing her art'ing skills and is happy to do them. A photographer first, sketcher/painter second, messy room third. Also, gives her little brain a few little ideas to rebel against Henzai. + | Manual Dexterity - she can draw and fix electronic things and finds some 'Zen' in doing them. She has excellent hand-eye co-ordination and a steady hand as well. She does not mind challenging herself when it comes to her fine manipulations; Ayami is constantly doing projects that require testing handiwork finesse and prowess anyways.
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- | Emotions on her Sleeves - Just like when she is happy, when Ayumi is upset, she cannot help but show it off to the world. This goes against Henzai's code of excess, but also she can be a total pain in the ass. Normally she is upbeat and positive, but when she swings low... ughs. Look out for the teenaged belly-aching, mopey, cannot take an 'L,' heavily sighing, downer girl. - | Daydreams - That creativity streak keeps her mind moving, but sometimes to the point where she no longer pays attention and just lets her mind go. She is not a loner, but sometimes she will ditch friends, even in the middle of a conversation to fulfill an idea she has dreamed up. - | Allergic to Manual Labour - Although Ayumi is not fat nor lazy, she will do almost anything to escape having to do heavy lifting or manual labour. She even helped build a pet robot from scratch to avoid heavy lifting... and cleaning her room.
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Favorite things: Old fashioned DSLR digital cams, sketching with her Heillio Kittie Stylus while riding the train, singing in the shower (not very good though. No really. It's cute that she tries but... Just no. Really.), playing VARPs on her mobile gear, doing exciting and creative things that Henzai does not like (especially going to black market for sweets!), dance parties with her family at the Miz House, fixing up the 'fatter and cuter' older generation robots, a little clothing rebellion to spice things up, and of course...
Takuji, her hard working pet robot!
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~Life~
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Activities: Photography, Sketching, VARP (Virtual Action Role-Playing), Older Gen Trash Robot Repairs.
Home: There is always between 3-5 too many bodies in their live in compound-style house in the middle of a small robot grave/junk yard. 'Relatives' are all welcome to stay as long as they pitch in for work and as long as there is still reasonable space and food. 'Relatives' does not necessitate blood relation, since people are always coming and going. Yes, it is forbidden to house any other than blood relatives in a household, lest there be a chance for procreation in the Fringe Gears, (which of course, is against decreed Henzai Law) but in all the years they have been running the business, no punishment has ever been dropped on the Mizuno house. As for the house itself, it does look like a run down 2 storey block of cement and steel, but it is actually rather modern and well maintained internally. Not as sleek as Inner Gear homes, the Mizuno house is equipped with most equivalent amenities; this is a family of electricians, fabricators, repair technicians, mechanics and robot engineers afterall. Oh and of course, do watch out for the jump-jet equipped guard dog automatons if you step upon premises uninvited.
History:
The Mizuno's are a hard working family under a single mom's rule. It's always been this way; 'Mama-san Miz' is the matriarchial title and she is charged with running daily household activities and running the family business: on site repairing, refurbishing, and re-selling the older generation trashed/obsolete/to-be-recycled robots. The current Miz is Ayami's mom, Kokoro, the youngest of the 3 children of former matriarch, Chihiro Watanabe.
That being the case, a lot has been expected of Kokoro's children. And all has been going well so far. Ayami is the 3rd youngest of her 6 siblings and she has grown up to be a well-adjusted and respectful young lady. Her birth father's family is actually the founders of their business, but she does not remember her birth father due to his mysterious and not-talked-about disappearance. Her best friends are her little robot labourer, Takuji and her younger sister, Usagi. She has been taught the family trade and does have proficiency in robotics engineering and electrical engineering, however, her true skills lie in her artistic talents.
Rebuilt classic robot models have become all the rage recently due to owners raving over the 'uniqueness' of the repairs and non-original parts. And now 2D HD resolution retro-images are trending. Ayami is riding that wave with great success, since she is really into photography and image rendering. The teen girl also has a classic digital DSLR cam and a working Go-Pro original. And now, after winning a contest from Henzai marketing, she has been invited to work as one of a select group of human artists on a marketing campaign. Her familiy is ecstatic that she will be the first Watanabe-Mizuno to ever enter the Inner Gear.
And then that other life-altering moment. All the girl from the junkyard wanted was a donut. It was to be shipped from some small city in Canada. The deal was too good to be true. But all the girl from the junkyard wanted was a donut. She made the deal. And got caught. She was going to lose her contract and dream of being a professional artist. And worst of all her entire family and their business was going to pay for her misguided selfishness. Yes, they were going to pay and pay very hard. All because the girl from the junkyard wanted a donut.
Enter Umbra. Someway, somehow, they saved her and broke all links to her identity and black web dealings. They had been watching her and tracing her through social media and during her VARP sessions. Umbra saved her and they wanted her to return the favour. She was going in as a mole into the Inner Gear for Umbra and she welcomed it. An online warrior was born as her alter-ego and she succeeded in her mission. But now something is happening. Something bad. And now Ayami must enlist once more as the Sangria Shadow.
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~Shadow~
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Shadow color: ~The Sangria Shadow~
The Sangria Shadow is much taller when compared to Ayami. She is a sinewy-muscular figure complete with red eyes, purple-chrome coloured armour and dusky purple cyber-metallic wings. The majestic wings are lit with golden sigils that flash and fade genlty whist there is still yet calm. In the heat of battle, they flash and dance in time to the movement and rhythm created by the song of the sword, Escalation. She has silvery hair which has length similar to Ayami however, that is where any similarity ends. The Shadow wears a black metal tiara with matching black metal boots, vambraces and gauntlets. The cyber-archangellic being dons a sangria coloured, light-reflective battle skirt with some flowing white frills and trimmed with golds. When the Sangria Shadow shows off her powers, her wings light up, metallic surface swirling with bright purple-reds and the sigils flash golds in sequence from her shoulders to wing tips.
Motif: ~Wind~
Sangria has the gift of flight and winds enhance her speed and strikes. Her wings may be used as shields and wind power acts as a buffer to reduce incoming attacks striking force. As a tactic, she may create small wind gusts to push back enemies with wind via her wing motions to give her breathing room while in battle.
Weapon: ~Escalation, the Singing Sword~
When in battle, the fluted nature of the blade seemingly plays a grand tune when swung about and sounds out a reverating sound when it strikes or blocks an attack. The striking sound is musical in nature and gives out an appropriate note matching its 'battle song.'
Special attacks: ~Flechette Blossom Overload~ ~Aegis of the Winds~ ~Escalation Limit Break~
Personality: Sakura has a heart of gold... and a brain of lead. She barely passes most of her classes, and dreads getting a label of "unproductive" from Henzai. Despite this, she does whatever she can to help others, even those labeled undesirable. She knows the risks, but she just can't bring herself to walk away. She's also a big athletics nut, and has begun learning judo to help her with her heroing.
Activities: Running, judo
Home: Sakura's family has a small apartment in the Outer Gear, clean and comfortable, yet nothing fancy.
Family: Ai Kawamura, Mother
Ken Kawamura, Father
History: Sakura's life was nothing special. She went to school, and took Henzai's daily brainwashing without question. When she was eight, she broke her leg in a car accident, and spent several months in a wheelchair. Ordinarily, a schoolgirl in a wheelchair would get stares, but under Henzai's anti-disability policies, she got death glares. It wasn't fair, it wasn't right! This was the moment she got her motivation, and swore that Hanzai would fall so that nobody would be condemned for the simple bad luck of not being normal.
Thus, she started talking to a few other kids who harbored some anti-Henzai sentiments. They didn't do much, just running supplies to the downtrodden, but she developed friendships with some of her recipients, most notably Megumi, a blind girl in the fringe gear. Two weeks ago, the Umbra group got wind of her, and reached out for contact. She agreed wholeheartedly, knowing she could do far more good in Umbra than she could ever accomplish in meatspace.
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Shadow color: Blue Shadow
Motif: Water
Weapon: Wand
Special attacks:
Water Wall
Tsunami Blast
Let Freedom Rain!
Aquapocalypse
Appearance details:
Senki suffers from rod achromatopsia, or total color blindness. Her eyes are also red because of lack of pigment which makes them more photosensitive than normal people's eyes. She is tall, frail with hands to arms covered in calluses and scars, little body fat for a female, not much muscles either. Skin and hair has patches of paler, almost white areas due to piebaldism, the same condition that caused the red eyes.
Height: 5'8"/172cm
Weight: 110lbs
Personality:
At first glance Senki is what you find in every stereotypical scientist or scientist want to be, calm, collective, calculating, she constantly dismisses most tasks as "easy" and completely doable but never actually completes them without a good reason to do so. It is easy to say that she is arrogant, but in reality she just has a good placement of herself in the world and confidence in her ability, with the skills to back it up. Though that confidence is more of a daily persona as her calmness disallows it to cloud her judgment of the situation, but she does tend to judge people and situations with a snarky and sadistic edge in conditions that she has control of. In addition to the insensitivity, she is also unable to read the mood in most situations and use rationality for all decisions. It makes her unlikable to more serious people, especially with her tendency to not do things unless they interest her, and to be way too absorbed into something she is passionate about.
Favorite things:
Mathematics and Quantum Physics, Speed Calculating, Puns, Mechanics, Blueprints, Taoism, Virtual Reality and Colors (these are related because despite being completely color blind in real life, she can "see" colors in neurological connected VR)
Activities:
Math and physics and engineering, attends school just under the orders of the Henzai, she is both a student and teaching assistant. trying to keep her family's mental state together, secretly taking care of her "unfit" sister.
Home:
In the Outer Gear a normal looking apartment, each family member who is an adult or teen gets their own room due to the family's collective need for solitude, the insides of each room is extremely messy only cleaned by her aunt once in awhile, masses of blueprints, papers, office supply, technology and machines piles up almost everywhere. There's a living area where the family can gather only to decide who's turn is it to clean up. A small compartment in the basement exists, home to a secret family member determined unfit by Henzai.
Family: Shirofeza "Firu" Hoiken (辉剑 白羽）- 39 - Birth Father, an easy going doctor and geneticist, seems to be of part European origin, his middle name/nickname "Firu" is believed to be diverted from the Japanese pronunciation of "Phil".
Tobubyo Hoiken (辉剑 飞秒) - 20 - Brother, studying to become a teacher as planned by Henzai, but wishes to be a researcher above anything else, he is secretly studying the Henzai's programming.
Densho Hoiken (辉剑 伝承）- 28 - Uncle, quiet and sickly young man who works maintaining automated transportation, but has a tendency to help those in need and has an unyielding spirit to the Henzai or his own sickness
Nanomi Hoiken (辉剑 奈纳米) - 10 - Adopted Sister, she was brought back by Densho, a young girl with savant syndrome. She has amazing calculative abilities but is mentally unable to tend for herself, and was abandoned by the Henzai the family cares for her in secret.
Shijari Shikoshi (白砾 白石) - 29 - Family Friend, childhood friend to her parents and uncle who works as a drone monitor on the edge of the Outer Gear, he's in the house to escape arranged marriage, and was thus exile from the Inner Gear for doing so
Yukino Ushiran (五十岚 雪伦）- 30 - Aunt (non-blood related) Sonya's younger sister and Shirofeza's adopted sister, cheerful aeronautics engineer who was thrown out of the Inner Gear for writing poetry.
Sonya Ushiran (五十岚 苍也）- 33 - Uncle (non-blood related) Yukino's older brother and Shirofeza's adopted brother, drone programmer who dreams of being a pilot and leaving the country someday.
Guna Hoiken (辉剑 寓话) - Deceased at 23 - Birth Mother, she became mental unstable one day suddenly and committed suicide, suspected of epilepsy from using VARP, causing the family to be moved to Ouer Gear
*All family members refers to each other by first name, even between children and parental figures, a "tradition" set by Senki's mother.
History:
Senki was born into a family of, quite frankly, complete weirdos. Her parents were originally geneticists who worked in the Inner Gear, but was moved out since she was a baby. It was rumored that she was determined unfit at one point due to her color blindness and albinism, and that the family was forced to leave due to her parent's protectiveness of her. She was actually quite unfazed by this, since her abilities since childhood had proven that she was perfectly fit to exist. As she grew up she found that the true reason was her mother's death, and that the family was determined too unstable to stay, she was always quite confused why her father was unfazed by the events, but soon she realized that the freedom outside of the Inner Gear was something her family has long desired. This set her up to a life full of curiosity, science, and reckless risk taking under the rule of Henzai. She discovered Umbra from her father and uncle, who worked on a way to cure her color blindness. It turned out that despite her eyes being unable to sense color, her brain can process it, so with neurological connections to a VR or AR system, she can see like normal people. With that discovery she has been absorbed by the virtual work ever since.
Shadow color:
Carmine
Motif:
Physics and electrical generation
Weapon:
"Dynamic Prism Combat System"
Dynamo Generator and Conductive/Reflective Prisms
Special attacks: Senki-Kiian (Total Mechanical Reconfiguration)
VR Mode: Allows her Generators to switch between modes used for offence, defense, stamina, support etc. This also allows her Shadow gear's coding to be re-encoded constantly.
AR Mode: Purposely disturbs the syncing of her physical body and virtual body, this allows her virtual body to perform tasks that are limited by her physical capabilities such as teleportation, phasing through objects etc. But over using this mode may cause irrecoverable damage to the brain, and her physical body would be invisible and vulnerable during separation.
Photonic Mirror Prism
VR Mode: Creates a prism of interchangeable shape from light particles, nothing gets in and nothing gets out with high reflective properties.
AR Mode: Similar to VR mode, except it is limted to virtual creations, virtual items connected to physical items (such as the shadows in their AR gear) can still pass through.
Dynamo Lease
VR Mode: Creates a beam of electricity that acts like ropes and can connect and immobilizes targets.
AR Mode: Know as Projectile Lease, since a rendered "rope" can be easily cut off by physical things, instead prisms a hurled at target like projectiles, they can act as damaging weapons or marking devices.
Particle Accel Railgun
VR Mode: A single high powered shot with unrivaled piercing abilities but tiny range.
AR Mode: Similar to VR Mode, it can pass through physical objects (but has not effect on the physical object) to damage virtual objects behind it.
Kugelblitz
VR Mode: A wave of bright light washing over a large area (approx half a mile diameter) that has shattering properties to all material it comes in contact with, intensity of effects are scaled with distance.
AR Mode: Similar to an EMP, it can cause malfunction of electronic devices that aren't well protected.
Endosymbiosis
VR Mode: Analytical technique that is basically data mining, allows the coping of a single property or skill the analyzed specimen possesses, limited to 9-15 minutes use due to automated cache code clearing.
AR Mode: Can be used to take control of simple electrical devices such as traffic lights, but anything that has personal encryption and more complex mechanics is out of the question due to time and cache size constrains.
Mode. Dynamic Dynamo Armor
VR/AR Mode: Self preservation abilities where prisms form a close ranged force field around the user almost like an exosuit, it's shape can bend with the user's movements allowing physical attacks, but it's actually fairly dangerous due to this being a completely different mode of VR/AR, which links subconscious as well as consciousness for quick, instinctive attacks. In AR mode, Total Reconfiguration will happen automatically, meaning the user's virtual body and physical body will be constantly de-synced, causing a glitchy looking effect from a bystander's point of view.
Appearance Details: Official: ~ 5'7
~ 148 lbs.
~ Banana Figure, meaning she is flat as a pancake, in both aspects.
~ Glasses are used in replacement of eye implants.
~ Thick ebony-black waves cascade down to her mid-thighs.
~ Not a trace of jewelry can be found on the woman.
Non-Official: ~ Following regulation, Chouko's wardrobe consists of strictly grayscale tones. [tab= Persona][/tab][tab= Persona][/tab][tab= Persona][/tab][tab= Persona][/tab]
Personality: Chaste-- Chouko hates sugar-coating things, or creating intricate mazes out of words that are completely and utterly useless in the big picture of it all. As such, the woman makes it a clear effort to travel directly to the point in her conversations.
Considerate-- Although blunt, Chouko still manages to keep in mind that others have feelings too. With this information, the raven-haired female will soften her words-- but only at her discretion!
Curious-- Deadly in nature, sometimes Chouko just wants to know how something works, or what would happen if she were to just-- yeah, you get the idea. As a result, one can witness Chouko silently muttering questions-- either writing them into a nearby notebook or hoisting them onto an usually-unwilling victim.
Favorite things: Cigarettes-- Sure, they might be bad for you, but cigarettes do a fantastic job of keeping the edge off of knowing you're always being watched by an artificial entity.
Creating-- Being infertile, Chouko has long since past the phase of wanting children. Instead, she takes to her hobby, creating sculptures and naming them names of masterpieces...all before tearing them back down, that is.
Occupation: Professional Ceramics Expert -- Chouko uses all-natural ingredients to create custom orders for those who work in the Inner Ring. As a result, her handiwork of cooking supplies, storage units, and funeral vases created a small reputation that helps her pay the bills.
Hobbies: Sculpting -- People, buildings, landscapes...you name it, Chouko probably has created some rendition of it, along with a few of her own ideas. From time to time, she gets paid to create special requests such as these...however, such requests are too few and far between for her to worry too much.
Painting -- Only in black though, as Chouko wouldn't want to get into too much trouble.
Home: An apartment made for one-- created in the back of the ceramics , near the edges of the Outer Ring. Inside, a seemingly normal and plain interior awaits-- until you lift a floorboard panel, revealing a secret stash of oil-based clay inside a sturdy tin, along with black paint.
Family: Mai Hitomu / Mother / 48 (deceased) -- All Chouko knows about her mother was that her original middle name was replaced with her mother's, as the old woman had died due to undergoing childbirth at such an old age.
Otachi Hitomu / Father / 58 (deceased) -- While the first ten years of Chouko's life were spent being raised by her humble father, the rest of them were not. Dying due to what was labeled as "Heart Attack Caused by Palpitations", Otachi Hitomu left Chouko with nothing but her wits. The woman developed her considerate nature from her father.
Chiyo Ora / Caretaker / 65 -- Chouko finds herself incredibly indebted to the ceramics all-star that is Chiyo Ora. Without her, the younger woman would never have been able to grow her talents to this extent.
History: A mother dying at the birth of her firstborn, and a father dying ten years later-- it seemed as if misfortune followed Chouko around like a lost pup. Dropping out of school due to a need for funding, Chouko had thankfully discovered her love of sculpting earlier on in her life-- her father buying her a fair amount of supplies before his demise.
Practicing diligently, it became clear that the orphan had some talent deep down-- talent that local craftswoman Chiyo Ora just couldn't pass by, it seemed. After hearing various rumors and debunking a majority of them in person, the forty-year-old woman quickly decided to take Chouko under her wing-- training and teaching the girl in the art of pottery and ceramics.
Years pass, and unsurprisingly Kenzai recognizes a now 18-year-old Chouko's as the heir to Ora-Cho Ceramics. With this, Chiyo somewhat retired-- leaving her business to a much more experienced Chouko. Up until the present time, the two women worked together-- making both legal and illegal sculptures whilst under the watchful eye of Kenzai.
