Real name: Tachibana Hotaru
Magic Girl Identity: Higanbana (Red Spider Lily, means memory loss, abandonment)
DOB: 9/23/20XX
Living: Furuzeki City
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
Blood Type: A
HT: 159 cm
WT: 47 kg
Age: 15
Eyes: [In MG Form]: Red
Hair: [MG form]: A lighter shade of brown than in her normal form.
What convinced you to make a contract: I am lonely. Could this allow me to finally make real friends? I want a real friend… I want to be someone else.
What is your wish: I wish to be someone else! Some bolder and braver than I am now!
Crisis: My closest friend is dead. No one will ever replace her!
Family: She lived with her youngest aunt and grandmother until she joined the Aries. While her parents are alive, they live in a different city. Her parents wanted her to be taught at a very specific school.
Phrase: Durch die brennende Leidenschaft meiner Seele! (By the burning passion of my soul!)
: Hotaru's first outfit was very much a traditional magical girl style. However, after the death of her friend Umi, she changed it completely. She adopted a punk goth outfit that has a red and black color scheme. She wears a short sleeved black shirt with red trim on the sides and cuffs, long black fingerless gloves, a red tie, a black shirt, red and black stockings, and engineer boots. The only original element of her original uniform she retains is her ribbons. Sometimes she wears a hooded black cloak, though that is not very often.
Magical Attacks:
Energy Control: Allows for her to control the heat in a given area, so that she can use flame spells to greater accuracy. This allows her to also displace most of her kinetic energy into her hands to allow for a very powerful punch.
Smoke Bomb: A basic elemental spell that strikes toxic smoke in the eyes of opponents. Doesn't deliver major damage but can blind a foe for five hours.
Fire Strike: A simple spell that can be shot from the hands while using the heat of the air around her, it is a weak attack but effective.
Fire bolt: Slightly stronger than Fire Strike, it wields a much longer range since she uses the Flame Katana to increase the spells power. Downside is that it uses up mana.
Fire Wave: The Flame Katana is now at full power can literally cut foes in half using fire. This is the most mana draining attack in her arsenal and tends to be a finishing move.
Weapons: The Flame Katana: By itself, the Katana has quick, low damage, strikes that can quickly overwhelm an enemy and defeat those at low health. Combined with her fire powers, it can be a tool powerful enough to slice a foe in half with flames alone.
Mascot: Saru-san
Personality: Hotaru was a much neglected young woman. She can be secretive and reluctant to share her feelings due to her reserved and introverted sensibilities. Hotaru is extremely fussy and is a worrier. She conceals too much of her emotions, to which she is afraid of giving way because she does not trust others, nor does she have confidence in herself and her judgments when it comes to her personal life. As Higanbana, she is the polar opposite of her normal self, rough around the edges and a brawler. Higanbana can be very harsh and bad-mouthed, constantly insulting her foes and mascot.
Features: She has a habit of changing the looks of her civilian form. Since she's constantly on the patrol or the move trying to avoid detection from both Saru and the Witch, Hotaru's style is rarely the same. She will often dress in boy's clothing because it is more comfortable to her. Hotaru wears glasses and has dark brown that is often worn in pigtails or a pony tail. She wears dull colors, mostly greys and blacks. She is rarely seen without her leather shoulder bag.
Origin: Hotaru's father was a neglectful, but kind parent. He had nearly constant pressure from his company job. While she enjoyed a more formal relationship with her mother before middle school, this too ended when her mother was required to find a new job when finances became tight. When she turned 13, her parents sent her to Furuzeki City in order to attend the well-respected Furuzeki Academy. Before she became a magical girl and joined the Aries, she lived with her maternal grandmother and her aunt in a small apartment in the middle of town.
One night she was visited by a strange winged monkey that called itself Saru-san. It wanted to know if she wanted to be a magical girl. If she contracted, then she could make all the friends that she wanted to! She quickly agreed. Hotaru became known as the Higanbana, the Red Spider Lily. Both her personality and looks changed! She was more straightforward and relaxed.
Saru-san introduced her to a girl named Umi Ueda who was a part of the Aries. The team lasted for more than eight months and their cream bracelets color schemes reflected the Earth and Fire elementals. They were never told the full details behind their fights against the Purple Team, other than they were the bad guys. Hotaru would often buttheads with the founder of the Aries because she was from an elite family. Umi's sister, Nanami seemed to have a great distaste for Hotaru as well. Being the youngest members of the team, Umi and Hotaru were often left behind from battles altogether or were only called in at the last minute.
However, one night the Aries were ambushed by the sole member of the Purple Team left standing, called the Amethyst Witch. With all the other girls gravely wounded, both Hotaru and Umi attempted to battle the Witch. Knowing that many magical girls had been killed in this war so far, Umi sacrificed herself to keep Hotaru from being killed. Her last words to Hotaru were to run away and never come back to the life of the Aries. However, Hotaru's stubborn mind refused to part. She witnessed Umi's death with her own eyes. In a stroke of pure rage, Hotaru was able to find the Witch's weakness and managed to force the Witch to retreat. This was the first time that any magical girl had managed to overcome this foe. However, in the aftermath of the battle she was forced out of the Aries and now works solo.
Hotaru is now in mourning. She has not gone back to school or her true home for over a month. Not that really seems to matter as she's slowly starting to notice that no one seems to be aware that she is even missing….
However, Saru-san has mentioned that a new girl with a high level of power he has never seen before has been found. It is now Hotaru's duty to find this girl and be her partner. Hotaru is not thrilled with the idea of having a new partner just yet.
