• Name: Tokuda Yukio

• Title: N/A

• Age: 19

• Class: Warrior (Shield)

• Aspect of Soul:
Tower Shield - This shield, while large and cumbersome, is the equivalent of a wall and while it lacks offensive capabilities it is an exceptional defensive item that covers the entirety of the body.

• Abilities:
Wall - This ability allows Tokuda to properly brace for any attack and he will not give up an inch of ground from any attacks that he takes. While it does not stop any damage to himself, it does mean he will not move.

See through - With the Tower Shield being so large, Tokuda can see through it allowing him to keep his eyes on any attacker that may be in front of him. To a lesser extent, he can see through thin walls made of wood, as well though his vision is heavily obscured and cannot see to the distance he could through his shield.

• Background:
Tokuda was born to be the oldest member of his three siblings, which quickly followed him after his with his little sister only being four years his younger. He grew up leading a marginally normal life, acting as the protective one of the siblings who would chase away bullies simply because he was older than them. This was the time of Tokuda’s life where he was happiest the most, but that changed when he inevitably became the bully that he normally chased away from his own siblings. It was this that led to him being beaten by a victim’s older brother in Junior High School, forcing Tokuda have to stay at home to recover for a good few days.

This beating made Tokuda into a timid, coward and he withdrew from what had previously been an outgoing life, but he did learn from his mistakes. Tokuda would go through the rest of his school life away from his friends and family, merely driven by his own self-resentment for a good long time. However, this did not stop him from gradually leading a life of his own when he began university where he would come out of his shell though, not by much.

Then, one day, a tower appeared in the sky and when he tried to point it out to his small group of friends, none of them believed him and they would poke fun at him for it. Tokuda spent much time doubting if it was actually real or not, believing himself to be crazy, but somehow he knew that it was real. He needed to investigate it, perhaps away from his friends so they did not believe him to be even crazier than he probably already was.

• Inventory: N/A

• Other:
Tokuda is studying to be a robotics technician.

Tokuda lives in his University dormitory with a roommate.

Tokuda’s hands shake from nervousness when presented with a stressful situation of any kind, a mental scar from his past.

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• Name: Yamatora Kikyou
• Title: N/A
• Age: 17
• Class: Rogue | Sword
• Aspect of Soul:
Saber: A slashing sword held in one hand with a single edge. Has a guard to protect the hand in sword clashes. Has an emphasis on speed and reprisals while leaving Kikyou in motion.

• Abilities:
Heroic Presence: Kikyou's dazzling smile and poise in the face of adversity draws the attention of friend and foe, shining brighter the greater the odds to overcome and manifesting it as a bright sheen upon her sword and back. This acts as a natural taunt to foes, drawing their enmity onto her so long as she remains standing and armed to battle. In turn, the more who attack her, the faster she can react and the sharper her saber becomes, rising to meet the challenge as she dances on a knife's edge of balancing improved physique for even greater hazard to herself.

Counter Wave: Whenever Kikyou clashes her blade with another or guards with it against an attack, it absorbs the energy behind it in the form of a crimson hue along the saber. When desired, her next swing with her saber will launch a wave of cutting force along with it, hitting foes at range with an arcing attack as wide as the blade itself. The range, speed, and cutting force increase with the accumulation of energy in the sword, causing more drastic shifts in coloration and an increasing vibration along its length.

• Background:
There's always that one girl. You don't know her personally but you always hear of her, of that one girl whose campaigning in every grade to be student council president. Who takes part in two athletics clubs and still manages to get her homework in on time. Her grades are praised in spite of the heavy workload going against her. When she's seen in the halls, it's usually surrounded by a gaggle of friendly acquantences and well wishers, her polite laughter the strongest memory of her passing.

A distant existence, one familiar but still entirely alien to the layman who puts in their hours, keeps their head down, and counts the minutes till their burdens end for the day. Yamatora Kikyou is in all things, an over-achiever.

She didn't throw a fit if she got a B on an assignment. She studied an extra hour a day till she made it an A, and she did it with a drive her fellows lacked but applauded nonetheless. In all things Kikyou puts her mind to, she does it with passion and a positive attitude.

Between high school classes, tennis, gymnastics, and a bit of fencing on the side as her guilty pleasure, Kikyou doesn't have enough hours in the day to keep up a vibrant social life. That was a matter she couldn't tackle as easily as she could others without coming across as overbearing, so she settled for making herself as amenable to approach as she could possibly conceive.

Fortunately a distraction came into her life, one that was marvelous and grand beyond measure. One that was secret from most the world around her, only her eyes glimpsing the Tower and its splendor before her. Wonderstruck, there was no doubt in her mind that she had to reach out and embrace the mysterious structure, and as in all things, she'd give it her all.

• Appearance:

• Name:
Mamori Heiwajima

• Title:
Sanctuary

• Age:
15

• Class:
Mage/Shield

• Aspect of Soul:
Angel Aegis/Spear of Light - A shield to protect Mamori from the threats she perceives. A bastion to hide from the darkness. With it she can summon a spear of light that can slay monsters, but against the mundane is little more than an illusion to hide her weakness by blinding them with her illusions of grandeur.

• Abilities:
Build Barriers - Mamori is capable of creating both physical and magical barriers to defend herself and her allies, or trap her enemies. Physical barriers take the form of walls made out of whatever material is nearby, popping out from the surface fast enough to intercept attacks. Magic barriers take the form of translucent walls of light that can be passed physically, but prevents magic and magical beings from moving through.

Wings of Mercy - Radiant wings that allow Mamori to fly above others, bypassing the need to ever step foot or be at the same level as normal people. But these wings are meant to support Mamori own doubt and make her believe she’s more capable with her magic than without it.

• Background:
Mamori Heiwajima was a normal girl. A painfully normal girl. She’s always wanted to do more with her life and when she was still young and naive, she really tried. She trained herself, read her books, had a bright look in her eyes as she tried to be everything she wanted to be. But it she learned quickly that hard work isn’t enough to reach her dreams. Even when she succeeded at meeting her goals it felt empty, as a new, greater goal appears and shows that she’s only succeeded in raising the bar higher for herself. Her friends go above and beyond her as she struggles just to keep up. Eventually she just stops trying.

So she escapes to her fantasies. To her own stories and books where she’s the only one capable of doing anything. The chosen one, the reliable one, the one who has to make the hard choices and do what must be done. Mamori longed for the chance to finally prove to others and to herself that she was worthy of being considered great. For the fate to favor her and choose her to lead the world to a greater tomorrow.

That chance happened when she saw a tower in the sky. No one else has ever seen or heard of it before. She saw an angel in the air and she saw Mamori. Without another word she flew towards the Tower, as if guiding the nobody to embrace destiny. This was her chance. Mamori left everything behind so she could finally fulfill her dream.

To be someone special.

• Inventory:
Mamori has been in the Tower long enough to gather her own items to survive the tower without ever having to return to her old world. A ball of light follows her that she can store various items, mostly supplies like food and water, as well as some treasures. She also has something of a “guide” to some parts of the tower that she often frequents, since the chaotic nature of the tower makes conventional maps useless.

• Other:
Mamori has been in the Tower for at least a month now, not that she knows it. She thinks she’s only been in there for a week at most. She doesn’t have a single base of operation as she can easily make a safe shelter for herself using her magic.

She’s an avid reader and consumer of media, and associates most things in the Tower with tropes, nerd lingo, and generally treating her life in the Tower as a video game albeit one that she takes very seriously.

She used to take bojutsu from grade to middle-school, but stopped when she entered high school. She’s since then been honing her skills again in the Tower, adopting her magic and shield into her fighting style. She was never that great but she’s gotten better.

Mamori used to have brown eyes and long hair, but now her eyes are red and she cut her hair short before she had left for the Tower. Her hair hasn't grown any longer since then.

Mamori’s favorite food is Sour Cream and Onion chips and her favorite drink is Mountain Dew. She hates raw fish and any sort of condiment sauce.

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• Name: Kanbaru Otoko
• Title: Fortuna
• Age: 18
• Class: Mage | Rod
• Aspect of Soul:
A blunt key, shaped like a sword but without an edge to cut with, making it more a cudgel then a blade. However, it also serves marvelously as a wand from which abilities can be conducted down its length.

• Abilities:
Water Magic: In a past chapter of her life, Kanbaru had dominion over ice alone, but before that her soul had awoken to use water as her weapon. In the Tower, water has returned to answer her call once again, shifting through states of matter, quantity, and pressure with but a whim and a wave of her Key.

Quick Dash: Launching herself off her backfoot at such speeds she passes unharmed through attacks between the point she moves and the point she lands. Maximum distance is 15ft before she has to stop, re-orient, and dash again.

• Background:
Miso City is no stranger to the magical and the bizarre. There was always something going bump in the night, then followed by something bringing an end to it, only to replaced by something new and unfamiliar. Kanbaru Otoko used to go bump in the night, until the particular form of magic that empowered her disappeared on the wind and left her niche society rather splintered. Close partnerships broken alongside the element that galvanized them, the former Dark Magical Girls of Miso City drifted apart.

It had been a fun ride, even if it was marked by chronic stress fawning over emotionally dysfunctional youths who by their very nature were incredibly selfish, but as it ended Kanbaru prepared to move on as well enroll at a school elsewhere as her family moved to find better paying work.

The day before the move as she laid waiting for sleep to claim her, her cat curled at her feet and hogging the bedsheets most eggregiously, she thought she glimpsed a peculiar sight looming in the sky over Miso. She eyed it, considered it, and ultimately shrugged before turning over to sleep. Her magic was gone, so clearly it was someone else's issue to deal with.

How wrong she was.