[CHAR] Fate/esoteric facsimile

[Dblade26]

My Master, Mamoru Hayashi

Name: Mamoru Hayashi

Age: 14

Gender: Male

Appearance: a rare moment outside the wheelchair

Personality: Mamoru has always believed that with enough training, dedication and preparation any obstacle can be overcome. Despite being instructed by his family to do anything it takes to win and attempting to put on a ruthless facade, Mamoru secretly dreams of being a Hero of Justice and protecting the weak since he is often viewed as weak himself. As such, while he is prepared to use underhanded tactics where necessary he would prefer to ally with other Masters rather than fight them. So in short while he tries to come off as a cool and cynical tactician, he's secretly kind, optimistic and somewhat childish.

Abilities: Mamoru's elemental affinities are Water and Earth. Despite his young age, he's been training as hard as he possibly can in Magecraft to use it as a tool for overcoming his disabilities. As such he's been able to develop some interesting techniques, specializing in manipulating and imbuing items with Prana.

Factory of Artificial Manservants-Galatea Genesis Mamoru's primary ability which allows him to create small familiar-like constructs he's dubbed "golems". Mamoru can see and hear what they do and they function off of a shared hivemind but because they are somewhat ditzy on their own, he mostly uses them for spying and general help around the house. The golems' real value is in their ability to form together into a single much larger, stronger, faster and more intelligent golem. Due to the hivemind coming from a ghost, when the golems are in their fused together form they are capable of taking on a human appearance and personality.

Defend Motion Enhance-Mamoru's most notable asset is his Mystic Code, Defend Motion Enhance. While ordinarily taking the form of his wheelchair, when Mamoru sends a signal of prana through the chair it forms a shield around him and automatically reinforces itself to become much faster and more durable, turning into something akin to a small, highly mobile tank, minus the artillery of course.

Background: Mamoru is the second son of the Hayashi family of mages. Despite both his disability and already being put out of the running for inheritor of the family's Magic Crest, Mamoru has always been determined to prove himself worthy to his family. So, when the opportunity of the Grail War came up, he practically begged to be allowed to participate until his family complied, already concerned about the potential ramifications if someone of an evil nature were to acquire the grail.

[VitaVitaAR]

Since we're close to starting, I feel it'd be a good idea to clarify who needs to be paired again.

Accepted Servants:

• Berserker - Played by @Rin
• Rider - Played by @NRVNQSR
• Caster - Played by @Yuri
• Rider - Played by @clanjos

Accepted Masters:

• Kawajima Yumiko - Played by @PKMNB0Y
• Hayashi Mamoru - played by @Dblade26

Looks like we're in serious need of more Masters. ^^;

[Rin]

• Name: Sister Phoebe Miriam
• Age: 22
• Gender: Female
• Appearance: Whee.
• Personality: Phoebe is what most would describe as the ideal for a holy woman. Innocent, devout, and focused on her duties. However, this innocence comes with a somewhat naive nature. While she is not foolish, she does not know of all the workings of the world. She is not blindly trusting, and yet she does not always realize what is going on around her. Her knowledge of modern technology is more befitting of a traditional magus then anyone else. She enjoys peace and quiet and good books.
• Skills: Unlike other notable members of the Church, Phoebe was never an Executor; her combat skills are negligible at best, and whilst she technically has the potential to use Black Keys the fact that she knows nothing of swordplay means that attempting to use them would most likely end with her hurting herself. She's more suited towards more bookish fields, and is well versed in the sacraments of the church and various supernatural phenomena related to her religion. Her cooking skills are terrible enough to technically count as a "power"; never accept anything cooked by her, as it most likely counts as a biohazard.
• Abilities: Sister Phoebe has been taught the magic of the church, the holy sacraments that they consider to be non-heretical for one of their own to use. Her magic is mostly centered around support, and thus it has practically no directly offensive applications; it is mostly centered around healing and her elemental affinity for light. To help keep her alive as she investigates this supposed Grail, she has been gifted a protective Mystic Code, Deo Juvante: Vestments of the Saint. These vestments provide her additional protection from mundane weaponry (such as knives and small arms fire) and offensive magecraft, although naturally it is just as durable as regular clothing when faced with a Noble Phantasm (ie. not at all).
• Brief Backstory: Orphaned at a young age, Phoebe was raised by the Catholic church and, naturally, grew up to become a nun. She was very devout and pledged to do anything for the Church, but rarely left her convent and was sheltered throughout her childhood. When the Church learned of a new Grail War, they naturally wanted to see if the replica was a true achievement in reproducing a holy relic. In addition to deploying the usual overseer, now someone far better equipped for overseeing the grail war, they also chose to enter their own competitor. With surprisingly high-quality magic circuits for an orphaned child, Phoebe was trained in magecraft in order to pose as a more powerful challenger for the Grail, in spite of the Church's views on the practices. Now, Phoebe has been flown to the United States to enter the Grail War for the sake of her Church, which she would do anything for.

[Yuri]

Master

Melanie Marigold

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Age: 21
Gender: Female
Servant:
Powers/Abilities:
--Magecraft (Familial)
-General Magecraft (Supplemental)
-Mental Interference (Supplemental)
-Magic Specialty (Fire)
Covers the usage of the Marigold Family's favoured crafts, which operates as a less offence-oriented application of the Fire element. Contains the specialty of the Marigold Family, Instantaneous Self-Combustion, which uses the user's own body heat and surrounding oxygen as fuel for spellcasting (surprisingly efficient!). To support this, they also developed methods of protecting oneself from extreme temperatures and functioning despite increased body temperatures. A fire barrier, and a rather complicated spell to seek out targets based on temperature are also possible.

--Magecraft (Personal)
-General Magecraft
-Broom Riding
-Elemental Magecraft (Fire)
Applies the concepts of the Fire Element to the non-direct aggressive actions, as suited to Mel's fighting style. Most particularly, includes a technique that, when triggered, burns all of the oxygen in a given area over several seconds (with a larger-scale, ritual form). Additionally, she has an ability to rapidly superheat the surrounding air, burning the lungs and exposed skin of those nearby. Besides these, she can use several more mundane skills, such as a spell that quickly produces a blinding flash of light at one's fingertip, one that creates immobile torches, and one that influences the smoke produced by certain substances.

-Bounded Field Creation
Includes Fields with the properties of preventing the passage of oxygen, concealing from the eyes of non-magi, and preventing the influence of external sources of light. At this point of mastery, Bounded Fields become difficult to detect, although not so much as to be considered a first-class Magus.

--Misc. Skills
-Street Fighter
-Amateur Swordsmanship
-Strong Reasoning Ability

Personality: Mel is a socially inept young woman who makes up for her lack of charm with a large helping of natural sass. She's never been that good at making friends, so her solution was to just cut out that part of her life entirely, instead retreating to the lifestyle typical of a complete social hermit. She's a raging otaku and NEET, who adamantly believes that the 3D world is not worth the effort. She's cool headed and unmotivated, but becomes frustrated when she has to talk to people, resulting in her trademark lethal sarcastic remarks.

She thinks of magecraft as an integral part of her routine, and while she does not care much for her family's history or legacy, she is at least slightly willing to practise it in order to reach her goal. Her final destination is her ideal, 2D dream, whereby either she can join the perfect world of Two-Dimensional girls, or where she can make her one true love, Archtype-DESTINY, into a reality.

Short Biography: Hailing from a Britain-based Mage family, one would be very confused if they both knew about Mel's heritage and what she spends her time doing today. However, since a young age, Mel has always disliked other people. She was always looking for something else to fill the void in her life, something to take up the space that human interaction would ordinarily fill. And then, she discovered the world of the 2D, where everybody loved her. Her parents had no idea, but she secretly pursued a certain kind of lifestyle, related to a certain country in particular.

After she finished her early training as a Magus, Melanie managed to somehow fool her parents into thinking she was going to go devote her life to magic research, in an attempt to master the family's secret arts. She received a large sum of money as funding from her family assets, and moved disappeared into the night, secretly moving to the far east to pursue her 2D dream world.

Other:
-Her favourite anime is "Fictional Hypernova Loli Omega Battlestrange: Golden ~nanodesupoi ★"
-Her waifu is Archtype-DESTINY, from the aforementioned series.
-Once cosplayed as Hyper Ultimate Mecha Archtype-DESTINY.
-Has never cosplayed since then, at least not in public.
-Owner of the Mystic Code, "Phantasia Autonova", which appears like an intricate wooden smoking pipe.
-Has a small collection of authentic Japanese Swords, including an Katana called "Suzume-tan".
-Secretly possesses several small bags of a certain poisonous plant, which produces harmful smoke when burned.

[vFear]

Name:
Annalena von Einzbern - although it may be of note that the 'von Einzbern' has effectively dropped off after she renegaded the family.

Age:
Has the appearance of a 21 (twenty-one) year old, although she's lived just under 8 (eight) years.

Gender:
Female.

Appearance:
Annalena stands at 5 feet and 7 inches tall with a pale and clear complexion accompanied by conspicuous white hair and a pair of vibrant red eyes. Her hair is grown and often worn in a plat, which is then twisted around and secured in a tight bun at the back of her head.

She generally wears a pair of dark shaded cargo pants, complete with an assortment of zips and pockets and hels up by a belt, that lead down to a pair of black redback terra cotta combat boots where they are either bloused off or tucked into the boot. A white 3/4 sleeve top is worn on the torso with a white and black hoodie worn atop. Additionally, she wears a black shemagh around her neck. Her hood is normally worn up and her hair run into the back of her shemagh to conceal herself as a homonculi, where she may be tracked by the Einzberns or by other masters.
More interestingly, when she's overtly acting as a master or suspects she's been or is about to be detected, she wears a white mask with black mesh over the eyes as to prevent the eyes being identified - considering they stand out a little bit - with black checkers detailing the right hand third of the mask; the mask is worn with a black beanie, which conceals the white hair

Personality:
Annalena is a cautious, cunning, and pragmatic girl, with a soft spot for being caring that she represses and keeps kicking herself in the side for having. As it may seem, she's objective, driven towards her goal, and even a little bit greedy with her intentions for the grail and how she may very well attempt to get it, and this is frequently reflected in her actions.
Those who know Annalena well though, such as members of family she was close with prior to her renegade, know her as a girl who's afraid of not being normal, with a desire to care for others and maintain a spotless garden.

Skills:
Annalena, as an Einzbern maid, was trained to be able to defend the future Einzbern holy grail - given the event ever came up again - among various other things. Her peculiar fighting style for a magus reflects this: she fights hand-to-hand, using a range of complex light grapples and strikes, in a nimble and well-practiced manner, with the focus on being able to effectively take down a target - non-lethal of otherwise - unarmed; of course, fighting a servant might be a whole different story, but she's more interested in the masters. She's quite capable of climbing, scaling, descending, and all sorts of similar adjectives various obstacles and heights with aid form her magic, has a keen eye for detail, and above all of her other skills: is an amazing gardener! The Einzbern garden was at its peak when she was taking care of it, everyone agrees!

Abilities:
As a homonculi, Annalena has very powerful magic circuits capable of outputting masses of magic through methods she knows; the flipside of this being that she entirely lacks reproductive abilities and has a shorter lifespan than the norm: selective losses with her intention of being a maid to defend the next Einzbern holy grail.

Annalena is an adept in kinetic magic, being her magic of specialization, and has experience with lesser healing magic. She primarily uses kinetic magic to compliment her fighting style; bursts of kinetic energy boost her speed and drive her around the battlefield and provide extra oomph to her strikes and grapples, kinetic walls and shields allow her to block with her limbs without taking damage, smash through fragile obstacles scott-free, create armor-piercing spikes for her strikes, and can even shield her from onslaughts, provided she can maintain it, whilst her minor healing magic allows her to relieve pain, tend to minor wounds, stabilize an array of injuries, improve adrenaline rates, and an array of other such tasks.
In summary, she's much more about buffing and maintaining using kinetic and minor healing magic. All of these could be put on someone else and she could become a dedicated support, but she's only vaguely trained in this and would need to spend a bit of time familiarizing herself with it for who she intends to use it on.

Brief Backstory:
Annalena von Einzbern was created by the Einzbern family - a well known family for their contributions to the conception and implementation of the Holy Grail War, for providing a vessel for the Holy Grail each year, summoning Avenger and turning the Holy Grail into a means for Angra Mainyu and, in turn, corrupting the Holy Grail and turning it into a means of bringing forth all evil of the world, and for making the controversial decision to outsource in the fourth holy grail war which effectively led to Shirou's victory of the fifth - with the intention of becoming a maid and bodyguard for the next planned vessel for the holy grail. As is standard for homonculi, she took in all she needed to learn from the world around her and was very quickly off on her way to learning what she needed to learn from appropriate instructors to effectively carry out her job within the Einzbern family.

Shortly after her seventh "birthday", even if that in itself is a technicality, Annalena started to dabble in the affairs of "normal" humans more frequently with her trips into Fuyuki city for groceries and such. Gripped by curiosity, she found herself learning more and more about what life for normal people is like, and it soon came to grasp her like a vice. That's what she wanted - she didn't want to spend her short lifespan locked away, serving the Einzbern holy grail and tending the gardens of the castle, she wanted to spend her short lifespan fulfilling her dreams so that, if she must live a short life, it would be short and content. The first step for that is to become normal.

Annalena spent 3 months conspiring against her family, organizing all sorts of escape routes and supply dead drops among various other things, before she made her grand escape. She made the mistake of leaving the Einzbern holy grail, who she held dearly, a goodbye letter which was intercepted by the other maid who met her in battle in the lobby. A deadly and destructive clash ensued as the two maids of white - one with a large halberd and the other unarmed - fought with mixed emotions, destroying a significant amount of the lobby in the process. In the end, she struck down her fellow maid and left her in a critical yet stabilized condition in the lobby before fleeing into the forest; by nightfall, she was on a plane to Australia where she would cover her tracks before proceeding on to Britain, to infiltrate the clock tower to begin an extensive investigation on the holy grail war. She knew she was a vessel, even if not an ideal one, and even if there was a chance of being used then reborn again, she would take it.

When word of a new holy grail appearing in Redrock reached her - perhaps one that wouldn't require her gambling sacrifice and rebirth - she was there within 36 hours. She skulked and she prowled, lifting all she could with the intention of down a master to take their command seals; when it so happened that the top of her left forearm became clad in command seals suddenly, she smirked at her entry and moved on to the process of summoning a servant.