[hider=Xiao Yu]
[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/fsm4Q9Q.png[/img]
[i]"Since you appear to have started this campaign mired in ignorance, perhaps it behooves me to at least offer you this enlightenment. That is: of the true nature of Conquest. To truly call yourself a Conqueror, to achieve a lasting prosperous rule, sustained by loyalty, you must know this...
To truly Conquer is to win without killing, to control without humiliating, to repurpose without destroying. There will be times, perhaps, where those things are ultimately necessary, but cruelty should never be the first response. The truest Conquest is to attain the respect, admiration and even love of your enemies. For once you have that, all doors are open to you."[/i][/center]
[b]Name:[/b] Xiao Yu
[b]Titles:[/b] Magia Vulcan (Dark Magical Girl Alias)
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Age:[/b] 0 (17? - post timeskip)
[b]Affiliation:[/b] Reincarnate Alliance, Enormeeta (Leader), Earth Kingdom (ostrich horse ranchers)
[b]Physical Description:[/b] Black hair and blue eyes, along with a surprisingly smooth and pale complexion in spite of her active, sunny lifestyle. Her black hair grows to hang somewhat tousled around her chin, and she starts to blossom into a rather shapely figure. Under other circumstances, she could perhaps even be defined as a "jade beauty", a somewhat humorous coincidence in light of the meaning of her name. Will likely peak at 5’5-7” in height at adulthood. The secret to her smooth complexion is, in fact, the slow, subtle regeneration effect of her otherwise dormant magic when not transformed, preventing her from being permanently scarred or marred in any meaningful way. Even while dirtied and tired, she is an effortless, unnatural beauty.
[hider=Dark Magical Girl Form (post-timeskip)]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/r6iz3DF.png[/img]
[/hider]
[b]Personality:[/b] A proud girl with bold ambitions, Yu has decided to take this new life by the reins and build herself the sort of future she's always dreamed of. A glory-seeker and battle junkie, she seeks thrills, adventure and power with an unending thirst, yet retains a sense of self-preservation. At her core, she is a girl of ego, and yet, that ego is channeled more into self-improvement now than it is arrogance. She charges from the front as often as she hangs back with a calculating glint in her eyes. With a sense for flare and [b][i]PRESENTATION[/i][/b], she can be a flamboyant showboater, a rabble rouser, a harsh task-mistress and a methodical, scheming cynic equally, but underneath it all, there ultimately lies the heart of someone who cares about the little guy, who wants to to build a better world... and fight for the ever-distant golden dawn.
[list]
[*]Likes: Sweet and spicy food, reading and writing fiction, sparring, gaining power, discovering secrets and acquiring knowledge, defeating a worthy opponent/challenge, seeing "justice" done unto true evil, leading from a "vizier" position.
[*]Dislikes: Pumpkin flavored anything, bitter food, infringements on her freedom, being humiliated or humbled, being beholden to any authority she did not specifically choose and approve of.
[*]Fears: Death, threats to her mind, selfhood and free will. Dying unremarkable.
[*]Dream: Immortality... probably. Before, she lived day to day and hobby to hobby, never quite sure where she wanted to end up at the end of it all. She just knew she wanted to be happy in the end. So, maybe if she can just give herself endless time to figure things out, the answer will be revealed to her. In the meantime, she'd like to go on an adventure and truly enjoy her isekai, to explore magic and bending and all the wild twists the future has in store. And at the end of it all? Perhaps she'd like to leave a legacy worth admiring.
[/list]

[b]Short Biography:[/b] She never had much in the way of grand ambitions in her past life. She'd worked a number of minor, mediocre jobs but never really found a true calling in life. One could perhaps call her a drifter, a jack of several trades, master of none, who preferred to indulge online hobbies. Her flighty attitude led her to never want to settle for one thing and fully commit out of a professed desire to "not spend her life on something she wouldn't enjoy". Yet, in the end, she could never find that one thing that sparked her interest and so languished in mediocrity. The things she was truly passionate about didn't make enough money to truly live on or were locked behind time and experience requirements she wasn't able to provide, and she came to believe somewhere in her heart that -in many ways- she was simply born in the wrong era. She was adrift and aimless, struggling to find a path and growing more concerned and downtrodden the longer it evaded her.

The beginnings of depression and hopelessness were beginning to creep in by the time she met her untimely demise and was brought before Aang. And in that moment, she realized that this was something of a dream come true. An isekai to a world in need of saving? Cheat powers? A second chance to truly make something of herself? It was everything she could have ever wanted. Better still, she was fairly familiar with Avatar: TLA; it was a series she had watched to completion in the past, and although her memories were a bit rusty now... that was nothing one of the offered cheat powers couldn't fix. And so, she grabbed onto the opportunity with both hands and leapt into the deep end without hesitation.

Xiao Yu was best familiar with the series that started it all, Avatar: the Last Airbender, having watched it from start to finish at least once in her life. As for the sequels... Well, she gave Korra a chance but ultimately found herself uninterested in the brash fool that somehow managed to lose the Avatar State. She spoilered herself on much of major events of Korra's era of seasons but certainly didn't watch them all the way through. And after hearing vaguely of hints of a new season in the works premised upon the consequences of one final fuck up from Korra as the Avatar, she's pretty sure that entire shitstorm of events has no business being allowed to occur in [i]this[/i] timeline...

In her new life, at her request, she has found herself reborn behind the towering, secure walls of Ba Sing Se, capital of the Earth Kingdom, within the Lower Ring. Born to a humble, civilian family of ranchers whose main business is breeding and training ostrich horses as war steeds, she now avails herself of security in obscurity, as she plays the part of the everyday girl... for now.

[b]Inventory:[/b]
[list]
[*][b]Evil Transformation Star:[/b] The magical device used to most easily transform into her dark magical girl form. Technically, it can be done without through training or enough heightened emotions, but it still remains an invaluable tool and set of training wheels for the purposes of getting familiar with her magical powers. When not in use, she can hide it away inside a pocket of storage magic, preventing it from being lost or stolen.
[/list]

[b]Skills:[/b]
[list]
[*][b]Languages - English and Japanese:[/b]
Having a language that (presumably) doesn't exist in this new world allows her the advantage of making unique coded messages that (among other things) would only be immediately legible to other PCs or those she educates. Having learned Japanese, she can potentially hold conversations that wouldn't be understood by anyone but another multilingual PC.
[*][b]Calligraphy:[/b]
While her dexterity has naturally temporarily suffered due to her age and physical abilities, writing was her passion in her past life, and while most of that was done using keyboards, learning Japanese correctly required a steady hand to depict kanji and hiragana. She is therefore a deft, practiced hand with articulating delicate linguistics.
[*][b]Poker Face/Acting/Manipulation:[/b]
A result of roleplaying and being in many customer service industries in her life, when she actually tries, she is an able manipulator and deceiver, having even been told in her past life she was "quite the negotiator". Concealing her true feelings is second nature to her, and "playing a part" is something she can slip into like putting on her favorite shoes, wearing whatever face she needs to in order to get what she wants. And right now? Well, the part she's supposed to be playing is that of one of this world's saviors, she supposes.
[*][b]Martial Arts:[/b] At one point, due to increasing disillusionment with cerebral pursuits, she pursued Tae-Kwon-Do and generally found it to her liking, enjoying the feeling of self-improvement and the ability to vent her burgeoning battle junkie tendencies under controlled conditions. Owing to her nature as a drifter, however, she advanced decently high but never committed enough to reach black belt, bowing out before the finish line. Despite this, she got far enough to successfully attain an instinct for the "flow of battle" as well as largely ridding herself of the burden of hesitation inflicted by a peaceful society. As a result, if she were ever to get into a real fight, especially one of life and death, she would immediately resort to ruthlessly efficient violence, rather than freezing or cowering like the average civilian.
[*][b]Medieval Tactics:[/b] While she was not all that interested in the trappings and finer details of modern weaponry most of the time, she could conversely be described a bit of an otaku when it came to using more archaic or fantasy methods of waging war. Though, she was not much of a wargamer, she consumed much media on the subjects, drawing knowledge from such literature as Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire, along with certain roleplaying games. While this does not necessarily translate perfectly, it gives her a strong leg up and makes her an able leader of massed armed forces if provided the opportunity.
[/list]

[b]Tropes:[/b]
[list]
[*][b]Crossover Power - MahoAko Magic (Dark):[/b] You have access to the MahoAko magic system, specifically the side of it used by the villains, allowing you to become a dark magical girl (and gradually grow into all the powers that entails) and access your very own interdimensional evil fortress that seems to be a replica of the infamous Nacht Base. Truly, the perfect powerset to [s][i]rule[/i][/s] save the world with.
[*][b]Crystal Memory:[/b] Flexible and subjective to the series being used for the insert, this is the trope of the reincarnate/insert somehow always retaining perfect -or at least nearly so- memory of their metaknowledge and past life, unaffected by time and what should be the natural degradation of memories.
[/list]

[b]Bending/Crossover Power:[/b]
[list]
[*][b]Earthbending:[/b] Born in the heart of the Earth Kingdom, you were born with the capacity for Earthbending.
[*][b]Dark Magical Girl (MahoAko):[/b] She possesses the ability to summon and use an Evil Transformation Star, allowing her to awaken her magical potential for the "Power of Feelings" and take the form of a dark knight villainess. The transformation device grants powers and an outfit unique to whoever uses it, and Yu's powers tend towards a theme of "Volcano". Her magic also allows her to use a number of omni-magics that anyone of her magical girl type has access to, and the magic typically comes to her very intuitively. The transformation device also grants her the ability to make portals to an interdimensional pocket, where a dark fortress and its resources lie waiting... mysteriously barren of any other signs of ownership.
[/list]

[b]Current Goals:[/b]
Short Term: Gain greater agency, acquire and train new powers, reconnect with other inserts, have good fights.
Long Term: Save the world, become a Legend, live the life she's always dreamed about to the fullest.

[b]Extra:[/b]
[hider=Themes]
[youtube]https://youtu.be/nnAX7mf-zTU?si=NbstiG7yfeldVZLM[/youtube]
[youtube]https://youtu.be/KseHlULVKaM?si=Jfe5C5HdQDNogl6f[/youtube]
[youtube]https://youtu.be/js7mx3EgiDU?si=0wj7MELt4JhShRCl[/youtube]
[youtube]https://youtu.be/aFgxMI_sO3M?si=fVcDp7EGyiijrNzw[/youtube]
[youtube]https://youtu.be/20S_R1XODRQ?si=zSmcO9-9v4Mn33UX[/youtube]
[/hider]

[/hider]