[OOC] Ignite Heart! A Magical Girl RP

[VitaVitaAR]

I knew it was because they ran out of manga. I mean I didn't know for sure but it felt like the kind of ending you have when you run out of manga. ^^;

Anyway hopefully will have a post up later.

[Raineh Daze]

I mean that even more slice of life series manage to have a less abrupt final episode.

[Crimmy]

Will post once @HereComesTheSnow escapes his car hell to respond.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Mercurial: I'm honestly stuck on what to do. I think you might want to just do a fresh intro post instead and we'll discount what happened because the character kind of leading the scene is gone.

[TheHangedMan]

@VitaVitaAR You think I can return with Yuri?

[VitaVitaAR]

I think so.

[Rin]

@VitaVitaAR You think I can return with Yuri?

@TheHangedMan

@VitaVitaAR is always down for more yuri, yes.

[HereComesTheSnow]

Will post once @HereComesTheSnow escapes his car hell to respond.

@Crimmy

Sorry man I'll try for tomorrow if I can recover from that contest by then

[ChickenTeriyaki]

Am I approved yet? :|

[VitaVitaAR]

@ChickenTeriyaki: Oh sorry, accepted.

[TheHangedMan]

@VitaVitaAR great! Copy-pasted from the last one:

Name:
Kaneko Yuri

Magical Girl Title:
Golden Flower

Age:
16

Gender:
"Is this even a question?"

^{No point crediting the artist lol}

Appearance:

Regular Appearance:
Tall for her age, with shoulder length brown hair that she often ties into a ponytail. She has almond shaped eyes with somewhat thick eyebrows, and a constant smirk/grin on her face, depending on present company. Somewhat muscular and stocky, though with noticeably ample bust and blessed figure. She has two noticeable scars - one across the side of her neck, and one stretching from her collarbone down to her chest, though the latter isn't visible with clothes on.

Usually wears a tank-top and jacket with short-shorts, though sometimes she switches to jeans and sweaters on particularly chilly days. Has a habit of not wearing a bra, due to finding the damn things too annoying to deal with, unless someone close to her insists.

Magical Girl Appearance:
Her magical girl outfit is a simple, short red kimono with a large golden lily on the back, and golden flame trims on the sleeve and back. The kimono is open at the front and tied around the waist, and the sleeve of the right arm looks as though it was torn off. Her chest is wrapped in golden sarashi. She has gold-colored thigh-highs, and is wearing red single-stilted geta. Her hair glows a radiant gold while in battle.

Personality:
FOR Yuri, strength is everything. Of course, her definition of strength is somewhat nebulous, so when asked what is strength for her one is likely to receive a different answer every time, but nevertheless, her pursuit of strength is what defines her. She respects an abundance of it, and disdains a lack of it - and does so openly and without hesitation. Some would say she's an honest girl, while others would call her arrogant; it doesn't matter to Yuri, as the truth has always been far simpler:

She lives the way she wants to, with little regard for others opinions or beliefs.

HER motivations aside, she's someone who enjoys a challenge, and her favorite method of enjoying herself is none other than battle. Whether it be against Negari or other magical girls, the thrill she gets from pitched, high-stakes combat is perhaps unmatched among all other magical girls. In fact, among her peers, she's infamous for her reputation as an unrepentant combat junkie. Of course, this attitude extends to actions outside of combat, and in every aspect of her life, Yuri will undoubtedly give it her all if it means overcoming what she deems a challenge. In that sense, for Yuri, it's all or nothing. If something fails to garner her interest, then it may as well not exist for her; if does, however, then she's prepared to go above and beyond the norm.

SOMEWHAT predictably, she's often at odds with other magical girls, as unlike the majority of them, her sense of right and wrong is somewhat skewed - though not nonexistent. Blatant acts of injustice and evil will hardly get a pass from her, but beyond irredeemable crimes, she will tend to ignore them in favor of her own pursuits.

IN terms of relationships, Yuri is hardly what one would call a good friend, but neither is she someone that one would regret having at their side. It is simply that meeting the requirements for her to consider someone her friend sets the bar high enough, sustaining those requirements would be considerably more difficult to those unprepared. To those that she does consider friends though, she is ready to assist no matter what the trouble is, even if her assistance might not always be the most comfortable thing to have.

All-in-all, the Golden Flower is the flower that blooms freely, unhindered by weather or war.

Skills:

• Even in her human guise, Yuri is a beast in a melee, so much so that those that have had the misfortune to feel her skill first-hand wonder if she's doing drugs. She's not formally trained in martial arts, but her instinct combined with a lifetime of picking fights have led her to develop her own fighting style.
• She's also a surprisingly good cook - out of necessity more than anything. Following a self-imposed diet is easier when you're the one doing the cooking, and if one has to cook, they may as well make it taste good.
• She's also smarter than many give her credit for. More street smart than book smart, but she's no slouch in either department.

Abilities:
- As Golden Flower she's acquired physical abilities that totally eclipse that of the normal enhancements of magical girls, giving her strength and endurance far above the regular magical girl, with speed not far behind; it is such that she is usually able to bulldoze her way through regular Negari.

- Asides from her physical capabilities, she can wreathe a golden flame across her body that fans of hers have given the moniker "Golden Empress Aura". In simple terms, it completely nullifies any attempts to bind or move her. She cannot be pushed, pulled, tied or constricted, etc; however, it does not work as a physical barrier for damage of any kind, so in some cases it may actually work to her detriment - attacks that her body might have instinctively dodged, or otherwise mitigated slightly, will instead take the full brunt of it. So while she may not be pushed by an incoming flying car, she sure as heck is going to feel it.

Weapon(s):
Her only weapon, which is a single gigantic, pile-bunker-esque gauntlet that can be used to briefly enhance a single punch to reach levels above her already insane strength before being discarded for twenty-four hours, or otherwise as just a really big metal fist to hit things with. More often than not just used as a trump card and rarely taken out for regular use. She's given it the name "Mountain Breaker".

Brief History:
THE daughter of a construction worker and a school teacher, it is unknown just where exactly her frankly tyrannical mentality came from. If one asked her, and if she felt like answering, then she would say that she could trace it back to the day she was kidnapped.

IT was an incident her parents never knew about, a crime that was resolved before it could even become a crime. The details of what happened are known only to her, and she's never openly discussed what transpired, but whatever happened changed her way of viewing life.

SINCE then, she'd developed a habit of starting fights. When she lost for the first time, she quickly developed a secondary habit of winning fights. Eventually, her infamy spread, to the point where even most delinquents avoided her out of fear; those that didn't, quickly fell in line with the rest.

SHE met Frudie when the latter was being chased by a Negari. The poor fairy contracted the first person she met who had the potential. It could have been anyone, really. This time, it just so happened to be Yuri, who was on her way from a back-alley brawl.

WHAT happened next, according to the fairy, was the most one-sided and anti-climactic beat-down of the century.

IT's been three years since then, and she's only been making a bigger name for herself in the process, though not the kind of name that Frudie approved of, much to the little fairy's dismay.

Theme song:

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Fairy Name:
Frudie (Froo-dee-eh)

Fairy Appearance:
A constantly depressed looking fairy, with long blue hair, lavender-colored eyes, who is usually dressed in a long white and elegant gown and elbow length white gloves, and a short blue cape.

Fairy Personality:
Before meeting Yuri, she was bumbling and somewhat overenthusiastic fairy, especially in terms of finding a partner to contract; she had a rather low self-esteem as well, not being one of the more 'talented' fairies, nor did she consider herself exceptionally attractive. After contracting with Yuri, however, due her constantly having to deal with her contractors . . . 'independent' attitude has sapped her of energy and instilled within her a habit of lamenting her ill-fortune. Still, she is loyal to Yuri and despite what she says outwardly, is in fact more than satisfied with and very proud of her partner.

Theme song:

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[Mercurial]

@VitaVitaAR Before I go doing anything, I have one question; was there a particular result that was needed from the Shadowrender conversation? I mean, we were getting some information out of her, but I wasn't sure if it was building up to anything or not. If not, then I think it would be easy to just have my character leave at this point and do something else, and NightinGem's character can be written off pretty easily from there. Of course, it's another story if you were hoping for a different outcome.

@TheHangedMan Would you say your character's strength has been passed down the Kaneko family line for generations?

[TheHangedMan]

@Mercurial *cue sparkles*
If she gets accepted, I've gotta do a skit like that sometime.

[BurningDaisies]

Posted finally.

I'll just have Saki waffle about on her own, until I can figure out where she should go.

[TheHangedMan]

@VitaVitaAR Before this ends up like the last time - is Yuri good to go?

[Raineh Daze]

@TheHangedMan Er... not without some edits. To put it bluntly, she's far too strong. Being stronger than everyone, tougher than everyone, faster than almost everyone, more skilled than almost everyone, and then having a super-strong attack on top of that... well, something has to give, you can't just have a character that's better than the rest of the cast in pretty much every way. It doesn't go well with a personality of 'self-absorbed asshole' and looks a lot like playing to win rather than RPing.

Also, she's been a magical girl too long, everyone's supposed to be relatively new and not too established. It's mostly a problem because it's been stacked on everything else and just makes things even more overkill. ^^;

... and why have you capitalised the first word of every paragraph? @_@

[Crimmy]

@Raineh Daze Incidentally, how long on average have most of our characters been magical girls? I never really specified how long Katsura's been doing the thing, but I've been playing as someone who's gotten a good handle on the entire thing and has integrated it into her everyday lifestyle pretty well, so I dunno if a year or a little less would be a good timespan for her to have completely adjusted to it being just another normal thing.

[TheHangedMan]

@Raineh Daze ah, I missed the part about no veterans. I'll edit. As for her abilities, I created her to feel more like a meathead in comparison to other magical girls. While all the other girls have esoteric stuff that require a lot of skill or creativity the only thing she'll ever really be capable of is punching stuff hard, so I thought it'd make sense for her have stronger base stats than a normal Magical Girl.

Her weapon is basically just an even bigger punch than normal. I'll tone her down a notch, but I still wanna emphasize her physical strength. Is that fine?

(Also at the time I first wrote this character I was into a web novel that did the whole capital letters thing so it kinda rubbed off on me )

[Raineh Daze]

@TheHangedMan Brute force works really well when you can basically overwhelm everyone else in a way their abilities aren't able to keep up. But being stronger's fine. :P

@Crimmy "On average" is a pretty low number, given how many people just got them or haven't even got them. But just under a year sounds good? I mean the RP's in May, so if you go under a year she could've picked them up and gotten used to the things in the summer break. xD

[TheHangedMan]

@Raineh Daze I didn't consider her as being that strong. I didn't even imply such either - although admittedly I did use fall to using prose to describe her strength. I just wanted to highlight the fact that her body is pretty much her main power, so it gives her the same edge as other magical girls + their abilities, so she would be more or less their equal even without more versatile powers.