Character Age: 16
Character Gender: Cis-male
Nationality: American, originally from Seattle, Washington.
Appearance:




Personality: Alexander is the mischievous spirit. He loves pulling harmless pranks mostly making things disappear, performing jump scares, and seeming to appear out of thin air. Though he'll never get tired of the old water bucket trick. A classic.

Outside of pranking, Alexander runs rather than walks. He can't sit still for longer than five seconds without jittering. He picks up fads and tires of them quicker than most even realize they exist. He's constantly on the look out for the newest fashions and trends and trying the most outrageous foods and styles.

He wears his heart on his sleeve and tries to cheer everyone up around him. Despite his forced silence, Alexander is loud and bold.

Faction: Moon Prince

Magical Weapon: Deck of Cards. Although he loves to fidget with them, they are actually razor sharp. They always fly in a straight line when thrown and detonate on contact. They can be commanded to grow five feet tall and three feet wide, providing either cover or a platform. Both forms are perminately fixed in space until returned to the deck or broken. Replenishing the deck takes little effort but uses some magic.

Magical Powers:

-Pulling out the Rabbit: Alexander pulls an ally he can see or is linked with to him through his hat while leaving a calling card in its place. It sings happy birthday before detonating.

-Telepathy: Unable to speak, Alexander projects his voice directly into the mind of those he can see. With permission, Alexander can establish a telepathic bond temporarily with other Prince's.

-Vanishing Act: Alexander tosses up his hat with a sharp smirk and vanishes into it before appearing near someone he is telepathically linked to or somewhere he is familiar with.

-52 Card Pick Up: Alexander let's all his cards fly. They whirl rapidly, creating a ten foot sphere around a target. Accidently brushing against one causes them all to detonate simultaneously. With a little extra magic, Alexander can detonate them early if need ne.

Strengths: Alexander stays out of the immediate action and mostly observes, providing support for his allies. While streamlining communications, pinning down possible enemies, and creating new pathways, Alexander tries to pick out the best way to prank his teammates.

Weaknesses: Mobility and stress management. Alexander likes to stick to one place and assist. When he gets overwhelmed, he tends to panic and forget to maintain communications before disappearing if possible.

Biography:
It was a car crash that did it. At the age of two, his mother and her boyfriend decided to take a family trip- at two in the morning after twelve shots of vodka each- and loaded her three year old son into the car before taking off at breakneck speed. Five minutes and a house later, the man died instantly, his mother lost her right arm, and seven shards of glass and metal inbedded into the child's face and neck. Although the boy lived, the multiple surgeries couldn't save his voice. Heavy scarring covered his neck but as he grew older, they faded.
Afterwards, his mother struggled. Although she avoided jail and managed to keep him despite child endangerment charges, she lost her job and had to find a way to finish school. Alexander matured quickly and learned how to cook and clean at a young age. In order to keep him in a special school, pay bills, and keep her self in school, his mother worked two jobs and sometimes picked up the odd one under the table here and there.

He discovered card tricks rather in middle school. They were easy and fun and it made people pay attention to him. He mastered easy ones like the elevator card and the fold quickly and moved on to magic tricks past cards. Optical illusions and slight of hand found his attention next and he discovered the only hobby to hold his interest longer than a week. He picked up every book, read every article, and listened to every podcast on stage magic and two years later he would perform magic tricks at every school talent show or stage competition.

Just as he entered high school at age 14, his Mom graduated and landed a job as a Japanese translator in Japan, forcing them to relocate without so much of a good bye to many of his friends. He had sulked for a solid six months before finding a new arena for his shows and realizing there was an entire fashion culture he didn't know about. He perked up, forced himself to learn JSL, and decided to enjoy life. His mother suffered enough guilt as it was. He still wrote to his old friends sometime but in became less and less frequent as time moved on.

Now at age 16, he enjoys strolling through the inner city gardens, practicing magic tricks, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and being a Cosmic Prince apparently. The only downside was losing his telepathy after transforming back but that was survivable. The magic was fun, the telepathy amazing, and even hunting shadows with others was nice. What more could a boy ask for?

Character Name: Mitsuru Sazanami
Title: Prince of Smoke
Character Age: 16
Character Gender: Non-binary (They/them pronouns)
Nationality: Japanese
Appearance: Androgynous. Slim, frail frame. Vacant-looking eyes. 175cm and 60kg. Noticeably pale. When transformed, their hair turns into a glowing yellow, Super Saiyan style. Their cloak is constantly billowing behind them like smoke, whether their ability is activated or not.



Personality:
Mitsuru expertly wears the façade of a well-adjusted teenager. They’re polite, confident, knows when to crack a joke, is a consistently excellent student, and is pretty good-looking to top it all off. Teachers see their elegance and attitude as befitting of a future Student Council President, while adoring fangirls (and fanboys) see them as “princely”. Mitsuru commands attention and respect with ease, making them seem like an excellent leader-type person.
Mitsuru is pretty good at socialising and making light conversation. Being a straight A student, their hardworking nature and natural intelligence is something to brag about. But they’ve never really been the type to show off. They do however, have occasional ditzy moments, such as ineptitude in sport and general clumsiness. Most people dismiss them as endearing traits. Very few people know that these moments are due to their illness.
In reality, Mitsuru is quite cynical and irritable, the latter due to their illness’ symptoms. However it would be a stretch to call them pessimist. Because of the mindset they were forced to grow up with and the recent magical developments in their life, Mitsuru is unsure of how to go on from this point in time. They have latched themselves to the ideal of a ‘hero’, choosing to portray themselves as a noble warrior of justice during their Cosmic Prince duties. Although they approach their new role with enthusiasm and gratitude, their preoccupation with what they should be doing, rather than what they want to, is quite rigid. A side effect of this trait is that they treat the Sun Princes with disdain and view them as selfish scum, mostly because they are unable to comprehend the nonchalance and freedom that the Sun Princes possess.
More worryingly, this attitude has instilled in Mitsuru a martyrdom complex. Mitsuru is not afraid of death but they can’t exactly be deemed suicidal either. They know to exercise restraint when throwing themself into the thick of battle but if the odds are too low and the stakes are too high, Mitsuru will gladly give their life. This would be an incredibly virtuous trait if it were done with an actual purpose. Mitsuru lived for four years with the knowledge that they would die before they reached the age of twenty. Now with magic erasing most symptoms of their illness, they have yet to adapt from their previous mindset and acceptance of fate. This martyrdom is possibly an unconscious manifestation of this, a way to return things to the way they were before.

Faction: Moon Prince
Magical Weapon:
A curved double bladed staff. Mitsuru’s staff is a formidable close-ranged weapon that possesses an impressive amount of attack power. A common attack used with this weapon is to rush a horde of enemies and essentially clothesline them while racing past.
The staff can also turn into a bow at times, shooting magical energy projectiles. However, Mitsuru rarely ever uses this function and is nowhere as skilled with it as they are with its staff form.


Magical Abilities:

Strengths: Speed/mobility, offense, tactics, keeping cool under pressure.
Weaknesses: Lacking in defence (sturdiness), weak in beliefs (susceptible to being swayed or corrupted), fatalistic, vulnerable to electricity in smoke form.

Biography:
Mitsuru was born and raised in Tanzaku City, the second child to a middle-to-upper class family. They were an obedient child, hardworking and smart. Their family was kind, financially stable, well liked within the community. Mitsuru’s sister, Honoka, played with them often and was as talented as Mitsuru was predicted to be.
At the age of 12 they were diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS. The doctors told the Sazanami family that Mitsuru would be lucky if they lived to age 20. Bucketloads of medicine were consumed to offset the symptoms but as time went on, Mitsuru’s condition only got irreparably worse. They would wake up every morning in a great deal of pain. They had to enter a restricted diet. Physical activity became almost impossible unless they had the whole day to prepare for it, and even then they were in pain. Worst of all were the mood swings, the sudden lapses between laughter and crying, the sheer inability of it all. Mitsuru’s body was a torturous prison.
Despite it all, Mitsuru wasn’t a complainer. They contained all their sadness, all their frustration and hatred within themselves. They never let their family see the devastating emotional effects it had on their youngest child. Mitsuru begged their parents to keep it a secret within their family and to let them attend school like any normal kid. They wouldn’t have been able to bear the piteous looks from their peers. The ones they received from their family were hurtful enough. All this would seem to be an attitude that was far too relaxed, coming from a not-even teenager faced with their mortality. And it really was.
Mitsuru had always been a reasonable, well-behaved kid. So with an uncanny amount of calm, they had accepted it on the drive back from the doctor’s office that day. They were going to die. No amount of tears or anger was going to change it. Although there was a sea of rage under that unnerving façade of acceptance, Mitsuru never let show how distraught they were. They continued living in greyscale, depression. They learned to live with it. They were fine.
Then they received their powers. All at once, the physical symptoms of their ALS disappeared. For the most part, the mental symptoms did too, though it is uncertain if they have left completely. Mitsuru tentatively started living normally again, unsure of what to do now that their fate had been erased. For now, they would fulfil their duty as a Cosmic Prince.

Character Name: Ivan Dorovich
Title: Prince of the Sun
Character Age: 15
Character Gender: Male
Nationality: Russian
Appearance (and theme):

When not transformed, he dresses in an average suit with a hat and his hair is shorter.

Personality: Ivan wants nothing more than glory. He packs his actions with flair and flamboyance, aiming to outshine even the sun. Anyone who has met him would summarize him with the word "showy". However, Ivan doesn't want this glory for himself - instead, he attributes all his glory to his homeland, the great Mother Russia.

Faction: Sun Prince
Magical Weapon: Ivan wields a brilliant bow that shoots arrows made of magical light. This light bursts upon impact, resulting in a firework-style effect and fire- or light-based magic damage in addition to the explosive physical blast.

Magical Abilities:
Light Trickery: Ivan can manipulate light to produce illusions, illuminate dark areas, or even remove light from an area. The effect is reduced the further out of sight the target is, similar to the way light can shine around corners at a reduced vibrance.

Noble Steed: Ivan's trusty dog Makar transforms with him, becoming a mammoth covered in glorious golden armor. Makar is capable of providing Ivan with a mighty solar lance should the situation necessitate it; otherwise, he attacks with his golden tusks.

Solar Beam: Ivan's signature Magical Boy finisher attack. Ivan uses magical light to create multiple foci (AKA lenses) that magnify natural light into a single deadly beam. This laser cannot be formed on naturally cloudy days, though magical clouds and darkness have no effect.

Strengths: Ivan is best when fighting at range, on Makar's back or not. He is also incredibly nimble, even for a Prince - after all, it was his agility that earned his status as a Prince.
Weaknesses: Ivan's power significantly falls when forced into a close-range battle, or when an ally is too close to the target to avoid friendly fire. Despite having training in the use of Makar's solar lance, Ivan remains fairly unskilled with it in combat. Ivan also falls behind the other princes in brute strength.

Biography: Thousands of years ago, the Cosmic Princes were founded. Using both his power and his personal charisma, The Prince of the Sun worked to found Russia. By way of actions probably too graphic to describe on this public forum, The Prince of the Sun ended up being a part of the family tree of all true Russians. Thus, all Russians became candidates for inheriting The Prince of the Sun's powers.

The Prince of the Sun, not wanting to cause strife within his people, laid out plans for a tournament to determine prospective successors. Participants would be tested in many areas deemed important to The Prince of the Sun's fighting style to make sure that the most capable would be chosen. The top contestants would then be brought before Makar, The Prince of the Sun's dog, who would make the final decision as to who would inherit the powers of The Prince of the Sun.

So it was for thousands of years that The Prince of the Sun was selected in secret by the Russian people. In the present day, school P.E. incorporates training for the tournament into the basic curriculum, regardless of whether the position is open. The government keeps the real meaning behind the tournament under wraps, but it has become so ingrained into culture that none think to question it. You wouldn't question drying your hands after washing them, after all.

Ivan enters the story in the present day, two years after the demise of the previous Prince of the Sun. Ivan used his outstanding agility to perform well in all the tournament events, landing him among the top contestants and earning him a meeting with Makar. Ivan was chosen, and he accepted the powers after swearing to glorify Russia in all his acts as Prince of the Sun.

Presently, Ivan is in Japan investigating reports of Chaos Witch activity that had begun affecting the eastern cities of Russia.