Sazama Shirai

Male || 25 || Human
_{"I swear to God... if I have to fight one more demon lord I'll have a fucking aneurysm!"}

Despite his rather... emo appearance and withdrawn nature, Shirai is a very cheerful, compassionate, and resilient person in actuality. One who, oddly enough, doesn't consider his present circumstances to be all that bad when compared to the ones he used to have back on Earth. And where most might judge him as some manner of edgelord based on appearance alone, those closest to him know he is anything but. As a matter of fact, he seems to have a compulsive aversion to brooding moodily in dark corners or spouting the same tired spiel about some ambiguously tragic past, to say nothing of his taste in clothing - which is motivated less by a desire to make everyone around him think he looks cool in a dark and menacing way, and more by a genuine appreciation for the minimalistic nature of the ensemble itself. Lastly, Sazama has a very strong dislike for demon lords. At least the world or dimension conquering kind anyway, mostly because he's had to fight so many since he was first taken from his home that it's - quite frankly - gotten really fucking tiring. In truth, his distaste for them has grown to the point where he won't even waste time on the usual hero/villain pleasantries when confronting them. He'll simply kill them on sight if possible.

Additionally, Sazama happens to curse like a sailor when upset.

Just because he's pleasant to be around once you get to know him doesn't mean he's a saint after all.

Tall with an athletic build, fair complexion, a short cropping of dark hair, and inhumanly good looks, just like the majority of isekai protagonists out there; with the addition of having an aesthetic taste centered around simpler or more minimalistic fashion. In regards to what he used to look like back on Earth, well the answer is much the same, only scrawnier and with slightly above average levels of physical attractiveness. So just like everyone else, really, albeit a lot worse for wear around the time he was first summoned to another world thanks to his living situation at the time, if it can even be called living that is. He was such a mess that, upon arriving in the realm to which he had been called, the sorceress performing the ritual thought she'd made a mistake and conjured the wrong person by accident. It was only after going back over her notes that she realized he was the hero the kingdom was looking for.

Of course she couldn't present him to the ruling nobility in such a sorry state, so she held him back for a couple of years, during which time she subjected him to a rigorous physical and mental workout regimen. Once that was done she conducted the standard slew of magical treatments given to all summoned heroes to boost their physical capabilities to superhuman levels so they actually stand a chance of going toe-to-toe with the demon lord and their forces. Skip forward a couple of years and the result is what you see here.

Sazama was, at one point in his life, a normal person just like everyone else. He had a decent upbringing, did well in school, and eventually moved out of his parents house to live on his own. From there he got a job in the IT department of a local tech company using the skills he'd acquired from university and the web, started earning a stable wage, and even began dipping his feet into the online dating pool. Life was - for the foreseeable future anyway - pretty damn good. Then, as it so often does, tragedy struck. At first things were manageable enough, a few missed bill payments here and there that he was able to pay off in time with the amount of money he made, as well as a few hits and misses when it came to his romantic prospects but nothing too major. Around a year or so into his first serious relationship though is when shit really began to hit the fan. First came a lack of upward mobility in his workplace, which included his boss constantly passing him over for promotion regardless of how hard he worked. This then led to him pushing even harder at the office, which resulted in less time for him to spend with his significant other, and that itself led to the steady decline of their relationship with one another.

Shirai's life just continued to spiral from there, eventually seeing him and his partner break up and Sazama himself being fired from his job. Still he refused to give up hope and continued to push on, looking for more employment opportunities in spite of it all. Despite his best efforts, however, he just couldn't seem to catch a break and ultimately found himself living on the streets. It was here, when he was at his lowest, that he was pulled into another world. Given a second chance at life, he made the most of it like he always had - working with the kingdom that had summoned him to get stronger so he could kill the demon lord. Fast forward a couple of years, several summoning's, a hundred or so dead demon lords later, and here we are...

More or less.

Enchanting: A school of magic covering the imbuement of weapons, armor, and other inorganic items with magical properties. With just this specialization alone Shirai can create things like flaming swords or rings that turn flesh to solid stone. After a fair bit of practice and study, however, Sazama found himself capable of forging bows that fire lightning bolts capable of destroying castles, and near-invincible suits of armor that heal the wearer, just to name a few.

Chronokinesis: A school of magic covering the halting, slowing, or acceleration of time for brief periods. Shirai can manipulate the time of individual people or objects to age them to dust in seconds or freeze them outright. Naturally as his skills grew over the years he eventually became capable of several reality breaking feats such as traveling through time, healing himself by reversing the age of his injuries, making objects immune to decay by locking them in time, and creating a whole city in seconds by accelerating time around its foundation.

Spatiokinesis: A school of magic covering the manipulation of gravity and physical space however one desires. With it Shirai can turn the world upside down, crush people with gravity, and teleport nearly anywhere in an instant. Some of his more creative applications of this ability include tearing people apart with condensed blasts of space, altering the course of celestial objects, and creating pocket dimensions by shearing off sections of reality.

Enhanced Strength: Sazama possesses strength beyond that of a normal human thanks to the magical treatments he was given. At base level, his strength is several times greater than other members of his race at their peak, and he is able to lift heavy objects such as cars, large boulders, vans, and most other objects that are bigger than him with ease. He is also able to exert great physical force from various parts of his body (prominently through his hands), sending enemies flying through walls or breaking their bones instantly with a single punch. Due to the physical force exerted on his body as a result of his enhanced strength, Shirai also possesses increased durability so as to not destroy himself both from the force of impact and general exertion.

Requiem, Annihilation of the Undying: An ornate katana that Shirai enchanted during his quest to defeat the first demon lord, rendering it not only damn near unbreakable, but making it capable of cutting through almost anything as well - including that which is intangible such as spirits or ghosts. He's a little peeved about the name everyone in the first kingdom gave it though, considering it far too edgy for his tastes, but accepts it regardless since it's not like he can change it now in any case. The name bears a legend, and legends bear weight no matter what world you're in.

Foxley

Male || 16 || Critter
_{"Watch out, world! I’m gonna be a hero, whether you like it or not!"}

Foxley is the classic, stars in his eyes, wannabe hero. He's up for anything that'll help the people, including saving cats(that are usually bigger than him) from trees, saving princesses from dragons(whether they want to be or not), and just saving innocent civilians from anything dangerous in general. He would love to save the whole of Aeldun from an evil overlord, not really understanding the full scale of evil an evil overlord would have to be to be, well, an evil overlord, and also not thinking about how many atrocities they would pull, but anyway, because there (thankfully) isn't one, Foxley settles for helping others instead.

He also hates being seen as helpless and feeble, and will often work himself to exhaustion to get stronger and be seen as weak, often collapsing in his mech suit(whether it looks like a normal human or has Gundam-like armor on) when his body gets to a certain point that it can't handle the pain anymore.

As for how he acts while being in his mech suit, he acts like how he thinks one of the heroes in the storybooks he read as a kid would act: loud, friendly, and larger than life(he would be flirtatious, too, but for some reason, he isn't into any species(including other Critters) of any gender, so he just doesn't bother). He often regales anyone who will listen about all the things he's supposedly done(but which most of them he can do with his mech suit), but will readily help people, too, both because he genuinely wants to and he also secretly loves all the attention and praise he gets when he does.

I've already drawn his real form(just pretend that his tail is attached to his butt; I forgot to do that while drawing him), so just know that his fur and ears are orange and white, and his eyes are a light green. He's also 2 feet and 9 inches tall.

As for his mech suit, its default form is a handsome, square-jawed "hunk of a man" named Rob Lightning. He has a lot of "muscles", he's 6 feet and six inches tall, and he's totally not what Foxley would want to look like in a perfect world plus all his Critter features, what are you talking about-

Also, don't worry, he also comes with clothes(the typical fantasy adventurer clothes, to be precise)!

Its battle form, meanwhile, has armor that looks exactly like the main Gundam from Mobile Suit Gundam, except the armor is mainly orange, white, and silver.

Okay, so-

Basically, Foxley is from a more technologically advanced society than the rest of Aeldun.

Living in the far away mountains, the Critters have a very distinct niche of being able to build incredible inventions and machines, though they’re also very secretive and only give the things they make to “a select few people”(AKA, Isekai heroes, chosen ones, and chosen Isekai heroes).

They’re usually not in the spotlight, and are side characters/cute mascots in another hero’s/hero team’s story.

Foxley, however, doesn’t want to be a cute mascot; he wants to be a hero, and has wanted to be one ever since he was a little kid, reading about various heroes from storybooks while the other young Critters were learning the trade of machinery.

He knew he wouldn't be taken seriously if he went out as himself, however, so he built Rob Lightning fairly easy and, after running away from his small mountain town at age 15, made a new life for himself as Aeldun's Friendly Neighborhood(?) Critter/Mech Suit.

To this day, nobody knows what Rob Lightning really is, or that Foxley is piloting him. All they know is that he's seemingly a capable, if childish, adventurer, though no one says that he's childish to his face.

When he's piloting Rob Lightning, Foxley has access to a vast array of abilities, including super strength(can only easily move things three times his size and smaller; anything more than that, and he starts to struggle), super durability, super speed, and limited flight(can only handle going seven feet in the air without problems, and doesn't often use this ability due to Rob's feet and hands going into its body in order to make room for its giant propellers).

Foxley himself has no powers, but he makes up for it with his genius level intellect(concerning machinery and robotics, anyway), his quick wit, and his sharp observation and resourcefulness skills.

Two Kawas [+]

Two Karasus [+]

Kawa/Karasu

F || About 70 (69, but Kawa won’t tell you that) || Light Elf/Dark Elf
_{"Come find me… where the waters meet dreams…"
"So maybe you should sleep in the river?"}

Kawa is terrifically neurotic and excellent at hiding it. She feels overwhelmed by a lot, but it’s a rare day when you’ll see her frown or twitch or shed a tear or really express anything. She tries very hard to be the mysterious prophet she’s supposed to be, so hard that you may never understand what she’s talking about. Which means she’s pulling it off?

Karasu is a reckless trickster and joyful manipulator. She watches what Kawa sets up and jumps at chances to knock it down. She steals things because she can and misleads people because it’ll be funny. Sometimes she fixes her own messes, but then again, there’s always Kawa for that. She’s not evil, but chaotic, and sometimes a little evil. She can also be normal… sometimes.

Kawa is tall, slender, and pale, with piercing blue eyes that may rarely well up with frustration or internal panic, only to be swiftly concealed as she looks away, leaving a beautiful sparkling trail of tears. Her pure white hair flows to her knees when loose, but she changes up the style often. Her demeanor and outfits are, above all, ladylike: quiet composure, slow walks in fields, stares in profile; expensive dresses, flower pins, symmetry.

Karasu’s appearance has a few constants: black haired, red eyed, elf-eared woman Kawa’s age. Everything else can change each time she appears, from face shape to skin color, hairstyle, or hair length. She’s prone to poker faces and mischievous grins, and her clothes will use less fabric than Kawa’s – more casual, less modest. If she’s stolen anything shiny lately, she’s wearing it.

Elvish DNA is famously prone to radical mutation during meiosis – that’s why there are so many kinds! Kawa has had worse luck than most, in that she was born to a clan of mountain-dwelling light elf sages not as a light elf, nor a dark elf, but as a light elf and a dark elf alternating. There was no tradition for how to deal with this.
Her clan foresaw the coming plot thousands of years hence. Being the youngest and most bewildering of the clan, she was, to her dismay, sent down from the Sentinel Peaks to warn The Heroes. Either they expected her to just know or they were in too much of a hurry to get rid of her: no one actually told her who or what or where The Heroes are.
Karasu has been tagging along for their entire life, and Kawa tries pretty hard to act like she hasn’t – which means she never warns anyone, and gets embarrassed and quiet if it ever comes up. This is yet another source of endless amusement for Karasu.

Kawa knows an eclectic mix of light/good/natural arcana, with gaps in her knowledge in a few inconvenient places. She can heal. She can’t Turn Undead. She can banish lesser demons. She can’t smite them or anything. She can talk to animals. They might listen…

Karasu is no magician, but she has a both practiced and natural sense for darkness and stealth, so she can appear in strange places. She can talk herself out of trouble, or into it, or both at once. She isn’t seasoned in any kind of combat, but has plenty of ways around it.

Kawa and Karasu are two separate personalities and two separate bodies taking turns at living the same life, to the bemusement and disorientation of most, not helped by Karasu’s occasional sabotage.
They switch at random, usually infrequently, and only when whoever’s “fronting” is currently unobserved. Kawa has more control by day, and Karasu comes out at night, but turning your back on one may beget the other at any time, and keeping watch on one means she’ll definitely stay put. They spend more or less equal time at the wheel.
When not in control, they can experience the other’s senses, but not communicate, or in any way empirically exist. For the most part, whoever’s benched will take this time to sleep.