The Mundane

Name: Tanaka Aya

Age: 31

Regular Appearance:
Standing around 5'6, Aya has a fit and athletic build which is due to years of training in her grandfather's dojo. Aya is actually a mixed heritage with her father being Japanese and her mother hailing from China. She takes more after her father in appearance, but her eyes closely resemble her mother's wise upturned gaze. Aya prefers to wear her hair down, but ties it back into a ponytail when she's teaching class or working out. Her typical in-school attire consists of an Ayame High t-shirt, track pants, and running shoes. Outside of class she prefers to dress more effeminately; opting for skirts or dresses in a range of colors. Despite her lithe appearance, she actually harbors an unusual amount of strength for her size.

Subject: P.E. Teacher

Personality: Aya has a cheerful motherly persona that enables her to make quick friends with almost any of the students. She views her students as if they were her own kids and encourages them to come to her if they're having difficulties. During classes, Aya becomes the biggest cheerleader for her students and drives them to push their limits and become stronger, much like she was taught when she was their age. However... this loving personality will shatter in an instant if Aya thinks any of her students are hurt or in trouble. Gone will be the supportive P.E. teacher and she turns into a being other teachers can only describe as the "she-devil". Using her training, Aya will hunt down the problem bothering her 'kids' and see that it's dealt with. One way or another.

In addition, Aya is also something of a hopeless romantic. She has long since wanted to settle down and have a family of her own, but her unusual strength and intense personality will get in her way more often than not. When not at school, Aya can often be found getting drunk at a local bar in Tokyo, or at home reading trashy romance novels.

Bio: Born into a mixed household, Aya's father was a well-known doctor who met her mother while on a trip to mainland China. Hailing from a long line of martial artists on her mother's side, Aya and her younger brother spent many summers in their grandparents' home in China learning their family's karate style. The young girl quickly picked up the skills and was deemed a prodigy by her family. Despite leading her high school to the national championships in martial arts and being scouted for a top university, Aya's rapidly developed strength and frequent trips away from home began to make her a social outcast among her peers. Many students viewed her as a 'freak' and this left her with a strong desire to just fit in and be a normal girl.

Keeping these desires to herself, Aya continued her martial arts career through college, but you could tell her heart wasn't in it. A string of bad luck in her dating life didn't help things either. After losing a fight in nationals that would have been an easy victory, she was visited by her grandfather after the match. Irate that his own granddaughter could lose to a "rank amateur", he demanded an explanation. His anger turned to shock when Aya's frustrations boiled over and she shouted she'd lost her passion for the sport. Shortly after this blowout, Aya was challenged by her grandfather to a match. If she won, he'd give her his blessing to leave the dojo and pursue her own goals.

The two traded blows for nearly three hours before Aya's grandfather finally yielded. Sensing her resolve, the old man honored her wishes and Aya was free to choose her own path. Meanwhile, her brother became the inheritor of the family dojo. After finishing her studies, Aya decided she wanted to try her hand at being a teacher. She quicky earned her teaching license and got certified to be a physical education teacher.

Ever since getting a job as a P.E. teacher at Ayame high, Aya has found a new fulfillment in her life. Rather than striving for some unattainable goal of perfection, she can just be the passionate supporter for the kids. She still harbored many of her regrets about her own high school years and will flip out into her 'she-devil' mode if she senses any students are being ostracized or put in harms way by anybody be they students, faculty, or an outside group.

Other:
-Aya's love of the romance genre has recently gotten her into gaming. She mainly plays visual novels or beat 'em ups.
-Despite saying she wants to settle down, Aya has begun to give up the possibility of finding love. She actively enjoys being the "cool aunt" to her brother's kids (and seeing her beat their dad up when they spar ;)
-Being one of the more sociable teachers at the school, Aya will often ask her co-workers if they wanna meet up for a drink outside of the job. However, news of her high tolerance has spread fast around the school and few can actually keep up with her.

The Magical

Transformed Appearance:
Aya's transformed appearance blends elements of her past and present into a beautiful visage. Her dress resembles a traditional Chinese cheongsam, but retains a loose elegant nature that embodies Aya's ideals of beauty and freedom. Her changes into a mix of Chinese and Japanese styles to exemplify finding her own path.

Weapon: In this form, Aya wields a pair of glowing white ethereal gauntlets she refers to as the "Fists of the Maiden". With them, her already impressive strength in doubled and she can lift and carry weights much heavier than her own. A test of the fists even showed they're strong enough to punch holes through solid metal!

When not transformed, the fists are disguised as a pair of fingerless gloves on Aya's person. When she needs to transform, Aya slams gloves together and she assumes her magical girl form!

Magic: Due to being a brawler, Aya's skills lie more on the physical side of combat. However, that doesn't mean she lacks any magical abilities.

Shotput Bomb: Focusing her "Fighting Spirit" into her palms, Aya creates a dense ball of energy and fires it like a shotput at her enemy. The bomb explodes on impact.
Full Throttle: When Aya gets REALLY angry, she throws everything into her punches and unleashes a barrage of energy blasts shaped like her fists.
Pump it Up!: By cheering on her teammates, Aya can spur their natural growth and increase their physical capabilities. Her allies become stronger, faster, and much more durable. Eventually, she can unlock her friends' hidden potential.
Teacher's Aid: When friends or students get injured Aya can use the Fists of the Maiden to heal wounds. In order to do so, she must have physical contact with her target and the Fists must remain connected until the wound is closed.[color=gold][/color]

Other:
- In this transformed state, Aya's 'she-devil' persona comes out in full force. The idea that anything could hurt her kids is something that enrages her and she refuses to let them be harmed.
- The Fists of the Maiden actually cover Aya's hands like a glowing armor, but she can dispel them while in this state if she needs to interact with people or things around her.
- If Aya can control her more destructive tendencies, Lux has informed her this could be the gateway to uncovering greater power and discerning her 'purpose'.

The Mundane

Name: Misugi Aiko

Age: 28

Regular Appearance:



Aiko prefers to dress in a modest and traditional (or as her students say, “old fashioned”) manner. She doesn’t actually need her glasses, but likes to wear them because she thinks they give her a more professional appearance.

Subject: Music

Personality: Aiko is a demure and soft spoken young woman who is always quick to offer a kind word of encouragement, or piece of helpful advice. Serene and gentle, most students believe Miss Misugi doesn’t have a single mean bone in her body. Polite in the extreme, she never yells, and rarely even raises her voice, content to speak in the warm and tranquil tone that has become her trademark. Ironically, her calm demeanor seems to sooth her students to such a degree, that any disruptions that might warrant a harsher, more forceful approach never even occur in the first place.

Bio: The youngest child of a family of musicians, it seemed only natural that Aiko would take up an instrument of her own. However, the Misugis were also a highly traditional family, and all modern musical genres and instruments were heavily frowned upon. If Aiko was to play, it would be a proper instrument, used to create proper music. For her part, Aiko seemed to accept this, and her natural talent for the violin won her the praise of her teachers and family. She was always the perfect student, the perfect daughter, getting good grades and dutifully obeying her parents’ every wish. But Aiko had a secret…

In her final year of high school, she had met Kuroko, a new transfer student. Brash, loud, crude, and carefree, she was everything Aiko was not, yet, somehow, the two became fast friends. They took care to keep that friendship hidden, of course, since both were well aware of what would happen if Aiko’s parents ever found out about the company she was keeping. It was certainly a bit of a challenge, but Aiko soon came to find the subterfuge oddly exciting. She would tell her parents she was studying at the library, or doing some other innocuous thing, when, in reality, she was hanging out with Kuroko and her friends. Sometimes, if it was too late for those excuses to be feasible, she would even straight up sneak out. After she’d been fully disguised by a new outfit, make up, and even a wig, Aiko would tag along as they went to arcades, karaoke lounges, and sometimes even clubs. Thanks to Kuroko’s fake IDs, they could get into all sorts of places. It all provided her with a freedom she had never imagined, and she found herself loving every minute of it.

This double life would reach its crescendo when Kuroko decided to form a band. Because Aiko had the most amazing voice out of the group, she would be the lead singer, a prospect that was initially frightening, but soon became exhilarating. Although she had performed on stage before, those had been formal, refined affairs. Now, instead of a reserved and stoic audience, she stood before riotous, deafening crowds. Instead of a violin played with precision and grace, she now shredded an electric guitar with wild abandon. And instead of remaining silent and demure, she belted out harsh lyrics at the top of her lungs. Being able to become a completely different version of herself, the real version of herself, was immensely liberating for Aiko, but, sadly, it was not to last.

Kuroko had always lived her life without a single care for the consequences of her actions, taking insane risks without batting an eye, and, just before graduation, the inevitable occurred. One of her rivals had challenged her to a motorcycle race on a rain-lashed mountain road, and although Aiko had begged her not to go through with it, Kuroko had been insistent. She knew it was dangerous, but if she backed out, she would never be able to live with herself. She had sworn a long time ago to meet every challenge head on, and this one would be no exception. Tears filled Aiko’s eyes as she watched Kuroko ride off into the rainy night, already knowing in her heart that it would be the last time she would see her friend alive.

Kuroko’s death brought with it the death of Aiko’s secret life. At university, she closed herself off to her true passions, putting on the tranquil facade of the perfect young lady she had grown so accustomed to. What was the point of pursuing what she loved, when such things only reminded her that Kuroko was gone? No, instead she would devote herself entirely to being the daughter her parents wanted, only pursuing music of a serene and elegant nature, not only to appease her family, but also in the hopes that it might wash away her past self and the agonizing pain that went with it. For the most part, she has been successful in this. Having gone into education as a music teacher, Aiko does her best to impart a love of the more soothing and harmonious aspects of music to her students, yet, deep within her heart there still remains a desire to encourage them to be true to themselves, even if she is unable to do the same for herself.

Other: Her old double life remains a closely guarded secret, with none save her former friends/bandmates having any knowledge of who she used to be. That said, she still has an irrational fear of one of them potentially spilling the beans about it, and the fact that she severed all ties with them in the wake of Kuroko’s death hasn’t helped matters.

The Magical

Transformed Appearance:



Weapon: A jagged-edged electric guitar, which serves as the instrument (pun intended) via which most of her magic is cast. Several sharp spikes, and even twin razorblades, can also magically extend from it, turning it into an ax in a very literal sense.

Magic: Aiko’s magic is based on the rock music (a mix of punk and metal) that she used to play in Kuroko’s band.

• Epic Shredding- Aiko goes nuts with her guitar and produces a series of sonic-based ranged attacks.
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• Sonic Blast- Raising her pick high above her head and then bringing it crashing down against the strings in a mighty sweep, Aiko creates a massive wave of sonic energy.
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• Pyrotechnics- An additional set of effects capable of being added to either of the previously listed attacks, Aiko can cause a rapid-fire stream of blazing sparks, crackling arcs of lightning, and gouts of flame to shoot out of her guitar.
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• Crank it up to 11- A last ditch super move, this allows Aiko to overcharge her normal attacks and conjures a par of flaming skulls to further augment them with the speakers mounted in their eye sockets.

Other: In her transformed state, Aiko looks and acts like a completely different person, in particular, an older version of the badass punk rocker persona she used during her time in Kuroko’s band. She even goes by the stage name she used in those days, “Nails” (chosen because her father once said the kind of music they played sounded like “nails on a chalkboard”). However, despite her harsher demeanor, she remains the same kind and caring person at heart, willing to do anything for the sake of her students.

The Mundane

Name: Bianchi, Amber

Age: 44

Regular Appearance:

Like any proper Italian, Amber has a fantastic dress sense. Unlike a proper Italian, the way she dresses just barely conforms to school guidelines. She’ll wear a sweater with a low neckline, only to wear a tank underneath to hide her cleavage (as to not “spill” while bowing towards students.) Sometimes she dips more into business casual than formal, and how good her hair is depends on what time of day you check in on her. She looks pretty good in the morning, with her hair becoming all bent and frizzled by the evening.

Subject: Home Economics

Personality: Amber is gruff. She is no student’s favorite teacher as she lacks the bubbly, jovial nature most of the Japanese teachers have. She takes her class seriously and expects her students to do the same. That’s not to say that her classes aren’t well taught. They are made to be as engaging as possible. But Amber knows none of the children will remember her a year from now, and she probably won’t remember them either. She’s just here to give them the skills they need to survive out in the world.

Japanese people tend to view westerners as a little rowdy, and that’s not incorrect for Amber. She’s very hard on delinquents and bullies, and god help you if the student you just gave a wedgie to informs Amber about it. Best case scenario she yells at you. Worst case scenario she does nothing, only to show up at your home while you’re eating dinner to tell your parents how shameful your behavior is. She used to take things a bit further in the past, but no longer does as it gets her in trouble with the principle.

Amber doesn’t go out of her way to get to know the other teachers very well. She’ll greet them in the morning and show up to meetings, but is content to stay out of their lives. She’s a busy body that always has somewhere to be and can only allow so much time on any given interaction. Most who know her regard her as a hard worker that could stand to be a little more polite.

Bio: Amber was born in Italy, but her parents moved to the states while she was quite young. Mr Bianchi was quite the engineer and specialized in the kind of plastic manufacturing plants that were being built in Texas at the time. He did a lot of traveling, but his lucrative job easily supported his family. So well that Mrs Bianchi could spend her days raising their children. They never entered public school as Mrs Bianchi wanted to teach them all herself. She got a hold of all the textbooks and all of her children did very well. The only issue with homeschooling was that none of them had a high school diploma to show their efforts. Once they were of age, they needed to find entry level jobs to get experience and support themselves. College was getting expensive, and Mr Bianchi couldn’t put all three of his children through college. Amber begrudgingly took on a job working retail at a bargain clothes outlet.

That was where she encountered Jomei, her future husband. The boy had taken a shining to Amber, and it wasn’t hard to see why. She was a blond bombshell with a chipper personality. Jomei was a mysterious foreign stud who could speak English better than some of the locals. He was brash and unashamed. The second time he met Amber he asked her out on a date. When she said she was working, he proceeded to stick around the store, occasionally buying things to appear as a normal customer. He even got some Chinese takeout that they ate together during her lunch hour. He was rebellious, and she felt liberated being around him. But he was only in America because of his student visa, and planned to return to Japan someday soon. Amber could keep on working this dead end job, or she could go on an adventure with Jomei. Visit strange new lands, experience cultures, all with a boy that loved her. Amber was 18 when she moved to Japan, and got married in the same year. She gave birth to her first child not even a year later. She was so happy she decided to get out of America.

But it wasn’t meant to last.

Jomei grossly overestimated his ability to sustain a family, and it wasn’t like Amber could bring in the cash as a retail worker. The financial pressure put a lot of strain on their relationship, but Amber refused to get a divorce. Unfortunately for her, it’s not difficult for a Japanese native to file for divorce without their foreign spouse’s consent. She lost custody of her two boys, had no place to live, and had no way to support herself. She was only allowed to live and work in japan because she was married to Jomei. She did not know if she was going to have enough money to buy a flight out of Japan, let alone pay child support. But Amber was too proud to return to her family for help, and too stubborn to let herself get kicked out of Japan.

As it turned out, all of those skills her mother had taught her so long ago made her perfectly suitable for teaching Home Economics and doing odd jobs. Not only that, but there were a lot of things she didn’t have to pay people for because she could do them herself. She was even able to get her marriage visa turned into a work visa so that she could do all of this legally. But it was a lot of work, and she didn’t have much time for leisure or relationships. After a few decades, the bubbly young girl turned into a bitter middle-aged woman. Her dreams of going on an adventure or finding love died with the young woman she used to be.

Other:

• Amber is distrustful of most Japanese natives, but reveres the principle. They helped her out when she was at her weakest.
• Some of her odd jobs involve patching clothes, working in soup kitchens, and running street stalls.
• Amber hasn’t spoken with her family since she was 18.
• Likes having her nose booped, but will still retaliate to keep up appearances.
• She might be romanceable, but I discourage it.

The Magical

Transformed Appearance:

Her magical form makes her appear a bit younger. Only a bit.

Weapon: Masterwork Great-Bag-of-Infinite-Holding +5 - A giant, durable backpack that’s larger than the tiny adventurer carrying it. It’s heavy and durable enough that it can be used to block attacks. It also comes with various cooking instruments that can double as more practical weapons such as a ladle, frying pan, a mixing spoon, and several small utensils. But Amber’s favorite weapon to use is the pantaku, which is a pair of frying pans bound together with a chain. She can only use it properly when she isn’t wearing her backpack. Alternatively, she can use some vegetables as ranged weapons, like carrots and turnips.

Magic:

• Hammerspace - Amber can reach into her bag of holding and draw any mundane item she can think of. The only limit is that it has to be something she’s come in contact with at least once and can’t be larger than her bag.
• Mend - Amber’s magic sewing bag lets her use her sewing needle and thread to fix anything. That includes non-cloth items like steel and glass.
• Alchemic Genius - Amber can quickly brew potions of Strength, Speed, and Durability. But a recipient of a potion may only be under the effect of a single buff at any one time. She can also brew more harmful things such as potions of alchemic fire, poison, and fog. Her star ladle can be used to lob these potions great distances.
• Adventure Financing - Amber can pull golden coins out of her bag of holding and throw them. Minions of the shroud seem to be attracted to them, and are more likely to attack magical girls that are holding them.

Other: Amber goes by the title “Oros the Shrewd” when she’s in her magical girl form, and tends to be far more optimistic. Like a brave adventurer facing the dangers of a dungeon. Her magical girl form looks unusual because she brewed a “potion of lemur” when she first awakened her powers. The potion gave her a youthful appearance, but some unusual animal traits. Her nose can also be safely booped in this form.

Yui never knew her parents. She had been either abandoned or lost them somehow, and so the one person that actually took care of her was the old woman she got to call 'Gran'. She was the woman taking care of the Orphanage Yui had been taken into and who later adopted Yui as her own. Gran was the kindest person Yui ever knew and was responsible for the paragon of hope and selflessness that Yui grew up to become. Since as far as anyone can remember, Yui strived to be like a lighthouse for those people lost in the fog of despair.

Her years as a young teenager were rather... complicated, and many tumultuous events took place that led her to discover a long lost sister with whom they had a falling out, and that event alone was the single most marking event in her life at the time... but the grand details of that complicated story are now consigned to memory alone, remnants of what seemed like another lifetime.

Or so she thought.

A grown up Yui had been building up her life for quite some time now and actually did good for herself; Her own little apartment, a decent job as a teacher at a local school as well as a steady boyfriend with whom she is now living with and engaged to. Her dream had always been of being able to save up enough to open her own Orphanage and finally be able to give back all the love and care that her own caretaker gave. All in all, the last decade had been relatively calm for Yui...

...but it was about to change.

Other
Yui had actually already been a Magical girl as a younger girl, which she mostly keep to herself.



Weapon
None.

Magic
Yui's magic is at the same time very simple but also malleable and comes in two forms; Life and Light.

Light
Light represent Hope. In magical form, it gives Yui the ability to conjure up semi translucent constructs generally in the shape of flowers which she use to various effects like defense, offense and mobility.

Life
Life represent the future. In magical form, it gives Yui the capacity to grow plants and control those. She does not control existing plants, but infuse Life into new creations born of her magic and tied to her.