[OOC] Ignite Heart! A Magical Girl RP

[VitaVitaAR]

The sun sinks low as you walk home from school, your friends already have gone their separate ways for the day. At the moment, you're feeling a little bit alone, to be honest. At least the sky is pretty, the setting sun panting the clouds in shades of orange and red as it slowly sinks towards the horizon. For the moment, your mind is on various concerns having to do with school. Your grades, all the homework you have due... ah, it's not so bad but still, thinking of homework can be a little bit stressful, right? So your mind drifts to other matters, as you adjust the skirt of your school uniform after pausing for a moment. You're a little embarrassed to admit it, but one of the matters that floats through your brain is the fact that, well... Ever since you were a little girl, you always wanted to be some kind of hero! And you'd heard about them, those girls who were lucky enough to get those incredible powers... Ah, it's something you'd always wanted!

You'd spent so much time looking at fansites, reading up about everything anyone knew about magical girls. Even with the popularity polls and everything, no-one actually knew the identities of the girls. In a way, that was exciting, wasn't it? One could be at your school! But there was also that feeling of jealousy. How did they get picked out, and why hadn't you been picked if so? There had to be some reason, though... right?

You sigh as you walk along. Maybe you shouldn't be too worried about this... maybe it's better to just try and focus on your homework, and forget about a silly little dream you had since you were a little girl.

Until you hear that voice from behind you. It's a small one, and as you turn it's revealed to be the voice of a little girl. No, no, not a child, a girl who could literally sit in the palm of your hand. And she has wings... and... and... it's a fairy?!

"Hi there!" the girl says brightly, proudly displaying the badge on her chest. "Would you like to be my partner, so I can ignite your heart and you can be a hero?!"

You say yes faster then you can even think.

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For years, there have been magical girls. Girls who have gained incredible, magical powers in order to defend the innocent from evil. And these girls are the world's best defense against the Negari. Monsters of all sorts of shapes and sizes, magical girls are the only ones who can effectively fight and defeat them whenever they appear.

Thanks to magical beings known as fairies, tiny winged girls, form partnerships with human girls in order to give them the power they need to defeat the Negari wherever they appear. And so, across the world, hundreds upon hundreds of magical girls balance their daily lives and their duties to defeat the Negari!

The largest concentration of magical girls is in Japan, and something that has come to exist across the years is popularity poll for magical girls, one for each city and a larger national one conducted once a year. In addition, numerous magical girl fansites have sprung up on the internet.

Of course, fame and popularity gets to some magical girls' heads, and disagreement between girls can turn into full-blown fights over who gets to patrol where or who takes what spot in the polls.

Still, even with these conflicts, rarely is anyone seriously hurt, and the magical girls keep defending the innocent!

And yet, something strange has been happening recently. Lately, there has been an unusual amount of Negari appearing in and around the coastal Umitori City. This has resulted in fairies being a bit more aggressive in their search for magical girl candidates, often looking for anyone who remotely has potential. However, there's rumors that someone else might be after these candidates...

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So, a magical girl RP!

Tonally, I'd like this to actually start out fairly light and even silly at times. However, it will have a serious plot and fights are intended to usually be fairly serious. It'll get increasingly serious as it goes on, as well.

Magical girls can vary a lot in appearance, as their outfits and powers are influenced by the girls' subconscious. As a result, no two magical girls are alike!

Every magical girl has a fairy. Fairies have assigned themselves the job of searching for candidates. They all possess some level of magical healing ability, so if a magical girl is injured, her fairy can help her get back on her feet.

Fairies carry a book of regulations, with three top rules for magical girls at the beginning.

RULES:
1. Magical Girl Candidates must be from 8 to 18. However, once a magical girl candidate becomes a magical girl, they remain one.
2. MAGICAL GIRLS MUST BE GIRLS!!!
3. Magical girls may not use their abilities against nonmagical individuals. The exception is when a nonmagical individual poses a serious threat to a magical girl.

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The Negari steadily became more and more common as humans grew more and more clustered together. While there are so many benefits to cities and inter-connectivity, unfortunately this has lead to negative emotions more easily clustering together and birthing more Negari. The stronger the negative emotion that creates a Negari, the more powerful that Negari is.

The most basic form can be destroyed in droves by any competent magical girl, but more powerful types of Negari can prove to be a serious danger even to the most skilled among them. There's even Negari who might be fully intelligent and humanlike, if born from powerful enough negative feelings.

Regardless of type, they nearly always attempt to hurt innocent people, though it's possible they can be directed by a stronger power, or that the intelligent Negari may have more complicated motivations.

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• Name:
• Magical Girl Title:
• Age: 8-18
• Gender: Female(MAGICAL GIRLS MUST BE GIRLS!!!)
• Appearance:
• Magical Girl Appearance: (Usually just an outfit change, very rarely does any physical change)
• Personality:
• Skills: (What they can do as a regular human).
• Abilities: (What powers they have as a magical girl. Include attacks here!)
• Weapon(s): (Most magical girls have some kind of tool or weapon!)
• Brief History:
  • Fairy Name:
  • Fairy Appearance:
  • Fairy Personality:
• Theme Song:

[Crimmy]

Name: 葛 馮虚 (Katsura Hyoukyo)

Magical Girl Title: Copenhagen Star

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Appearance:


Magical Girl Appearance: Hyoukyo, when transformed, dons a navy blue overcoat with golden trim, creating an impression that she seems immobile. However, that is far from the case; despite the seeming bulkiness of her garb, with its silver, majestic epaulettes, it is particularly easy for her to move in this form, and underneath the coat is sleeveless, grey and silver vest with a simple golden orb at its centre, alongside navy blue trousers. A single, darkly-glowing orb hairpin also manifests on the left side of her head.

Personality: In her day to day life, Hyoukyo is the very image of the model student: a polite and reserved young woman who carries herself with nothing less than the appropriate decorum. She greets everyone with a warm smile, and is never deficit in kind words to give to her compatriots, whether they be simple shopkeepers, the teachers at her school, or her classmates. Her marks, particularly amongst the sciences, are consistently high, the reward borne from her diligent studying and sharp mental faculties. In fact, the class representative-like student will, if queried, courteously explain to you that her ambitions lie in the field of physics, and that much of her hard work serves her quest to enter an university course related to such.

Knowledge is something Hyoukyo cherishes highly, and her highly analytical mind cannot help but absorb and categorise everything she sees and learns. She views it as incredibly important to know as much as possible, although she prefers to keep much of what she learns close to the heart unless the situation prompts it (and if it would suit her own plans and purposes). Indeed, when not surrounded by textbooks, her powerful curiosity drives her to investigate many other things, learning and growing from all the knowledge she consumes.

Despite her zeal in that regard, she is a remarkably patient figure, proper and unflappable to a fault. Of course, this does not prevent her from being subtly condescending to those she dislikes, particularly if they have displayed too obvious a weakness, and her views can be tinged somewhat by a sense of exasperation that the stranger things in life. Her sense of humour is also rather dry, and her polite manner of speech only serves to convey this. She can also be particularly talkative on subjects she enjoys; it isn't too strange to hear diatribes on them from time to time.

While she tries to hide it, of course, Hyoukyo also has a strong sense of right and wrong. While she may not be the most personable of people beyond giving polite advice to those she feels needs it, she will fight to address anything that conflicts with her moral code. It may not be overly present, but her heart does burn with heroism, and thus she will act to channel those energies against her foes.

Skills: What stands out the most about Hyoukyo is her intelligence: the analytical young woman is blessed with a sharp mind, allowing her to excel in both school and in areas that require the use of her brain. She thinks particularly rapidly, and is also very good at solving problems. She is also very skilled in regards to tennis, and regularly works out to keep fit for her sporting participation. She's reasonably fluent in English as well (and due to her parentage, knows a few phrases of German).

Abilities: Hyoukyo's main ability allows her to bend and twist space around her, using it in ways such as bringing her closer to her foes in the blink of an eye or diverting attacks off course from her. However, her changes to the fabric of 'space' do not tend to be permanent, and any modification she makes will eventually 'spring' back into its original shape when she stops actively making use of her power. It is possible for her to affect a permanent change if an immense amount of her energy is exerted, but she tries to abstain from doing so as to prevent herself from becoming extremely exhausted.

It is from this power that she derives her 'signature attack', the "Stellar Degeneration Blast", which is essentially a ball of darkness fired from her body towards an enemy, twisting and distorting space in its wake. Those nearby will notice that it grows warmer and warmer the further away it gets from Hyoukyo. Its range is limited, but it is a high-power attack, serving as her 'finisher'. Indeed, the amount of energy it requires from her dictates such, for otherwise her reserves will be left completely empty.

She is working on getting some more mundane special moves to work, however.

Her physical strength is noticeably greater than the average human's as well, allowing her to carry her large weapon.

Weapon(s):


Brief History: The only daughter to a pair of physicists, Hyoukyo is partly of German descent, with her Japanese father having first met her mother at a conference in Munich. Following their courtship, they gave birth to her in Hokkaido, and she would be raised in the island nation for the rest of her life, taking in far more of her father's culture than that of her mother's. This would only be helped along by the growing rift in her parents' relationship, which ended in a divorce that gave custody of her to her father. Thus, the girl was cut off from her German heritage at a young age, and was from then on taken care of singlehandedly by the elder Katsura.

It would be not long after her thirteenth birthday that her father fell in love once more with a woman from Umitori, marrying and immediately moving the household to the coastal city to join her new stepmother. While the change in scenery, and the presence of a new parental figure, was admittedly hard to get used to for Hyoukyo, she was soon able to acclimate to her new home, and threw herself headlong into her studies once more. Tensions did rise between her and her stepmother from time to time, but they would grow to understand one another, and Hyoukyo would view her as just an important figure in her life as her birth mother.

Nowadays, Hyoukyo is a proud student of East Umitori High School, where she also serves as a class representative for Class 3-G.

Fairy Name: Kanaria

Fairy Appearance: Kanaria is a palm-sized little girl with googly glasses and azure hair tied into pigtails. She wears a red baseball cap on top of her head, which tends to be one of the few constants of her appearance (due to her frequent change of doll clothes). Her wings, which allow her to fly, possess blue feathers and are rather birdlike.

Fairy Personality: Kanaria is a foul-mouthed girl, contrasting greatly with the demeanour of her contractee. She's overly talkative, incredibly exuberant, and generally full of the vices you wouldn't expect such a tiny creature to have. She adores money, and is willing to do anything to get as much dosh as possible. Her sense of humour is rather immature, and she adores the strangest of puns. However, despite her myriad flaws, her heart is in the right place, and she cares greatly for Hyoukyo.

Theme Song: youtube.com/watch?v=i-7XwEBa6YE

[VitaVitaAR]

@Crimmy: Accepted. I like her outfit and her abilities.

I'll be having my own bio up hopefully soon!

[VitaVitaAR]

• Name: Fujimori Akane
• Magical Girl Title: Magical Girl Dragonblade Akane
• Age: 16
• Gender: Female
• Appearance: "I want to be a hero..." With bonus school uniform design.
• Magical Girl Appearance: "This Blade burns with Justice!" In either form, her hair is red, she has light skin, and green eyes. Her armor and clothing as a magical is predominately red, but with gold decoration. Her horns are also gold, as well as her tail. A rarity among magical girls, Akane's horns and tail are actually a part of her body for the duration of her transformation.
• Personality: Fujimori Akane, from a very young age, held a dream close to her heart. Her dream was to be a hero, to be someone who protects others and keeps them safe from harm. As a result, she always looked up to magical girls, and still does to this day. Akane deeply believes in justice and believes it is absolutely the duty of a magical girl to uphold it, to be a shining champion of hopes and dreams. She still holds her dream close to her heart to this day. However, in public, she can be a little shy at times and actually lacks confidence in herself, in spite of her private desire to be a hero. There's a reason it's a largely private desire. She's also fairly easily embarrassed, and it's not hard to make her exasperated at times. Still, Akane firmly believes that to be a magical girl is to be a champion of justice, hopes, and dreams. To protect the innocent, to fight against evil, Akane dreams of doing these things. But as of now, she's still prone to being a little shy when it comes to people she doesn't know especially. Still, if someone were in trouble, she'd try to step in and help them out. After all, that's what a hero does, isn't it? And indeed, it's Akane's greatest, if private, dream to be a hero. Aside from hero-related desires, Akane likes sweets a great deal and has a fairly large appetite. However, to her dismay, her attempts at baking tend to turn out less then good.
• Skills: Akane is a decent sprinter and can name foreign sweets off the top of her head.
• Abilities: As Magical Girl Dragonblade Akane, Akane gains a huge boost in speed and strength, moreso then some other girls. She also sprouts a dragon tail and dragon horns, the former of which can produce a stream of flames from the tip. Indeed, most of her abilities in this state revolve around projecting and controlling fire, as well as coating her sword in flames. The armor that forms on her body is decently defensive, especially the plating on her right arm, which can be used to block basic attacks and blows. In addition, while it's not her main mode of attack, her strength combined with her gauntlet can make for some potent punches.
  • Dragon Flame!: Akane thrusts Dragon Edge forward and releases a burst of flames towards her target.
  • Dragon Heat!: Akane coats her sword in fire.
  • Dragon Cut!!: Flames concentrate on the edge of Dragon Edge's blade, heating it and increasing its cutting ability further. In addition, it can be released into a thin arc of fire.
  • Dragon Spiral!!: Akane releases fire from both her sword and the tip of her tail before spinning rapidly through the air, releasing a whirling spiral of fire and a sharp edge.
  • Super Dragon Blade!!!: Plating coats Dragon Edge and locks in place, increasing Dragon Edge's size enormously and coating it in white-hot dragonfire. She swings Dragon Edge in an arc, cutting through most foes entirely. One of Akane's finishers.
  • Grand Dragon Blaze!!!: A raging inferno swirls around Dragon Edge. Akane raises it above her head and swings it downwards, unleashing an enormous blast of white-hot dragonfire that incinerates her foes. One of Akane's finishers.
• Weapon(s): Dragon Edge, a thick, heavy, sharp sword wielded in Akane's right hand. Akane has the ability to alter its size, and it is capable of being used to project flames for many of her named and unnamed attacks.
• Brief History: Akane was born to a fairly average Japanese family. However, when she was very young, a powerful Negari attacked her home, broke into it, and nearly killed both her and her mother. Akane vividly remembers the blazing light and the flashing speed of the magical girl who suddenly appeared on the scene and annihilated the Negari in one powerful attack. Ever since then, Akane has deeply desired, deep in her heart, to be a magical girl. As she's grown, this desire has remained unshakeable, but her confidence and ability to vocalize this desire has waned. Still, to think of what she would do if she actually got the chance...
  • Fairy Name: Melody
  • Fairy Appearance: "It's time to ignite your heart!" I'll have my own sketch of her sooner or later.
  • Fairy Personality: Exuberant and energetic, Melody is utterly dedicated to the job of being a magical girl's fairy. She is determined to be the best fairy possible, and extremely excited to be Akane's partner. She wears the badge of a magical girl's fairy with pride, proudly displaying it on her chest, and she's sure to carry the rulebook wherever she goes. However, she's a bit easily upset the moment things don't go her way, prone to tearing up at times. She is also a staunch ally of Akane, eager to help her in many ways. Perhaps a few too many ways, as Melody might even try to help Akane in her daily life outside of being a magical girl even if it seems like there's no way she should be able to.
• Theme Song: Eternal Blaze, by Mizuki Nana

[Pudding]

Now that there's an OOC, I better put Up my CS xD

[VitaVitaAR]

I'm looking forward to it!

[HereComesTheSnow]

time to retool an old concept

[VitaVitaAR]

Looking forward to seeing what you do!

[PentagonWhite]

I'll get a character done soon, sorry for the delays.

[VitaVitaAR]

It's fine, this thread hasn't been up for too long at all!

[Pudding]

@VitaVitaAR Just working on that fairy atm

Uni WIP

★Uni Daiborou★

My Cute Self, The Cutest Magical Girl


You're all so lucky! You get to gaze upon me! Don't worry, regular autographs are free for fans.

Uni is far from an early riser and the morning makes her extremely sluggish. She'll spend most of the morning getting ready to go out and applying makeup and accessories. Her tone of voice isn't ear bleeding high but is rather high, she'll habitually end her sentences with 'Ne' to soften her sentences and add an atmosphere of cuteness to her side of the conversation. She'll always be seen with a somewhat smug expression and can often make insults disguised as compliments, but only if she's in the mood to pick on people.

Uni adores attention and wants to be the center of it, the most popular, the cutest girl ever. Because of her greatest desire she'll do almost anything to be seen as the best. Many of her abilities involve sapping strength or inhibiting others to make herself stronger. Her true fear is being forgotten and a failure. It's unclear if this is because of her acute selfishness or a sense of rock hard pride. But if things started going south and Uni was unable to recover, she may resort to drastic measures.

Whenever Uni meets somebody new for the first time, her eyes dart up and down sizing up and accessing how to interact with this new person. She does this to remember important features that can be exploited and to find apparel weaknesses in a person just to boost her already inflated ego. Although she rarely attempts to make friends with anyone, the inner circle of friendship she prefers to be with are ones she finds extremely valuable and doesn't take the friendship with any shallow nature. Prioritizing discussion, an exchange of ideas and trust when deciding who are valuable to her and who are not. Towards her close allies Uni can be compassionate and extremely helpful, but if lied to or betrayed she may never be able to forgive someone. Towards regulars she has no care for she can be arrogant, sarcastic and fairly dismissive.

Uni is indifferent towards animals. She's never owned a pet, when asked if she would like one, she rapidly shakes her head explaining that it's not worth the massive responsibility. When asked if there's anything she would change about herself, it'd normally be something along the lines of What would I wish to change? He he he... Nothing! I'm perfect the way I am!


Born February 9th,
She lives with her mother and father, nether of her parents have are of extreme note and she's been an only child her entire life. Her mother was simple housewife, teaching Uni house skills and everyday cooking skills whenever given the chance. Her father is a extremely successful businessman who always could afford expensive gifts for the family. Being an only child and always being doted on by her parent was heavan to Uni and she used them to get anything she wanted.

Likes and Favorites
Food: Crepes and Frozen Yogurt
Drink: Passion Punch
Colour: Lavender
Book: Her Diary
Motto/Quote: Vote for me as your favorite Magical Girl!
Hangout(s): Cafe's and Shopping Centers
Possession: Her Idol dress



Magic

Uni is not physically strong and whilst her transformation gives her a dramatic boost in power she may not be able to hold her own against a multitude of opponents at once without employing a little trickery.
Her weapon of choice is sharp wind slicing scythe that's as deadly as Uni's wit. When Uni uses her magic to drain the strength of foes, that that strength is transferred into her scythe for an increase in power.

Her Magic is of a darkness variety and can be cast in a few simple ways
-Soul Sucker: Jabbing the hilt of her scythe in the ground will send a dark shock wave across the floor, anything that touches it will be met with a painful dark shock draining some of their combat power. This drain can and will effect allies as well if they're caught by it.
-Midnight Lancet: When her scythe is infused with enough energy it sparks an intense purple beam and can be swung to slice dark shock waves of energy.
-Baden Baden Soul Lilly: An intense wind is created blowing all foes away inhibiting them with a negative aura that can diminish their power slowly.

Theme



Don't get me wrong. It's not that I hate, you're just not as cute as me.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Pudding: While I like what you have so far, I'd like it if you ordered things in the bio format I've got set up already so it's a bit easier to look through and know you filled everything in. ^^;

A couple of images don't seem to be working, and I think you should change her name to a real Japanese name since I can't find anything about that anywhere. ^^;

Please don't take this as rejection or anything, though. I legitimately really like what you have so far and just think you need to tweak some things.

[Pudding]

@Pudding: While I like what you have so far, I'd like it if you ordered things in the bio format I've got set up already so it's a bit easier to look through and know you filled everything in. ^^;

A couple of images don't seem to be working, and I think you should change her name to a real Japanese name since I can't find anything about that anywhere. ^^;

Please don't take this as rejection or anything, though. I legitimately really like what you have so far and just think you need to tweak some things.

@VitaVitaAR

I welcome tweaks, otherwise I would never get any better at this, so thanks.
I'll switch that format for you, no problem. That style is just how I paint out my ideas.

The images seem to work fine on my computer?
gyazo.com/d016b553002510b7a41bfb8a033e..
gyazo.com/76e6c8bf68a2243d518b40f98d35..

Uni - 雲丹 refers to sea urchins which in most media are a dark purple or black, small, prickly and dangerous. Just like Uni.
And ダいぼろう is just that, a last name with no real meaning. I don't it really matters that much in most media.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Pudding: Thank you. ^^;

I'm not sure what's with the images then. Try rehosting them if nothing else? I've had images show up for me but not for other people before and usually rehosting it fixes them.

It's just that I don't think real Japanese people use those as names. This might seem nitpicky but if you want I can even help you pick out names with meanings that fit the character. I'm sure there are some.

[Pudding]

@VitaVitaARI'll prop them up on Imgur that site never lets me down.

Yeah, it'd be highly unlikely for somebody to be called Uni, lasts names could be almost anything though. Shoot us up some names, I'm keen.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Pudding: Imgur seems like a good bet whenever images are being weird, yep.

This site has a bunch of names and their meanings, one that stands up to me is Chouko, which means butterfly child and could easily be applied to her showy nature. As for surnames... I'd take one when it has to do with flowers or something, since again, showy.

[Crimmy]

@VitaVitaAR@Pudding

Personally, I just grab the characters and throw them through Tangorin for the readings.

The characters in the name allow you to make lots of jokes.

For example, Hyoukyo was named because of physics references.

The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Copenhangen is on the island of Zeeland. Zeeland was created by Gefjon.

Gefjon in Japanese is 葛馮.

葛 is a surname with a possible reading being Katsura. It means kudzu, which references the mess her powers can make of space.

馮 when combined with 虚 can be read as Hyoukyo.

虚 is part of 空虚, which refers to a void, hinting at the balls of darkness she throws around.

Thus, 葛 馮虚. Katsura Hyoukyo.

[Pudding]

@Crimmy
That's impressive. I only recently started learning Japanese about a year ago today. So I'm not exactly so delved in this stuff lel

[Crimmy]

@Crimmy
That's impressive. I only recently started learning Japanese about a year ago today. So I'm not exactly so delved in this stuff lel

@Pudding

The nature of East Asian languages means that there's so much you can do with names.

I do have a cousin with a super pretentious name though.

星宇

星 being star, and 宇 in 宇宙, which means universe. His parents had high hopes. He doesn't live up to it.

[Pudding]

Finding a name that I that fits by describing the character is actually difficult.