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World of Light: the Endless Now (The Ultimate Smash Bros Crossover)

Bowser Jr

Bowser Jr

Game Origin: Super Mario Sunshine
Personality: Bratty, spoiled and rude jr takes a lot after his doting father, both due to his upbringing and due to his craving for respect and acknowledgment of others, especially his father. Jr also generally dislikes being treated like a child, despite acting his age nearly all the time. He is somewhat smarter than his father, not that this requires much of an intellect, and a touch less stubborn as well, being able to swallow his pride if it is necessary. He also likes big dangerous machines and he really, really likes giant robots.

He is also somewhat lonely as a combination of his royal status, a lack of many acquaintances in his age group and, of course, his own rather abrasive attitude. The Koopalings, for example, act as more mentors or underlings than anything close to companions. Having gained an equal in his new sister Rika, then, is an incredibly welcome change of circumstance, and he will fight tooth and nail to ensure he gets to keep her.

Fusion has made him a little more gentle and aware of other’s feelings, but has done little to stymie his daring or enthusiasm for fighting.

Apperance:Bowser jr is physically mostly still the same as he started, though he has equipped a pokemon ranger uniform, which came with a cool hat, as well as wearing a bandolier of pokeballs running from right shoulder to left hip. He also has a Tulip Hairstick stuck into the tie of his ponytail, in memory of the fallen Omori.

The ways his fusions have changed him are concentrated in two places, the first being his tail, which has grown into a long blue furred thing with w white bow tied around the base thanks to B’giotahmo Bravha, who’s influence has also lengthened the ranger jacked so its back hangs down to his knees like clerical robes.

The second is his right arm, and this is where the prince has focused most of his fusions. The hand itself is now a bit more human, being more lithe and with five better-defined fingers with smaller claws, and sporting a muted lime-green tint. The limbs appear covered in smooth chitin rather than flesh, but the material is soft rather than hard, not quite like skin but almost there. It is also engraved with iron tattoos gained from the Vespikan Ferromancer, especially on the hand which appears almost metallic as a result.

The white metal tipped band running around Astrid’s arm also does the same for him, though it connects to the tattoos on the wrist at the end of the arm rather than any clothing, and to a metal pauldron of undyne’s at the top. The rest of the arm below the jacket sleeve is exposed, including having the glove stripped off, to ensure the tattoos can freely generate metal without cloth getting in the way.

Background: Bowser jr is the only son of the Koopa King Bowser. First seen in super mario sunshine where he kidnapped peach and impersonated mario, Jr now has a long history of battling against mario, generally alongside his father but occasionally solo. Jr was also present at the failed cliffside battle against Galeem and was, along with almost everyone else, blasted Galeem almost immediately.
In the now Bowser jr was unstoried when the version of his father he was living with that was a Guardian was killed by a different version of his father who was one of the first seekers. A bit of an odd way to come about it, but then the Guardian version had been the version who was infected by the megabug that one time, he got over/rationalized it pretty quick.

The prince then took a nap, fixed up a bunch of cars, including his personal mini clown car, and caught a Mimkyu that he named Mimi as his first pokemon/minion, before setting off east along with the rest of the seekers. There he explored the land of venture, took a tiny teleport in and out of the dead zone, before along with the rest of the team defeating the region's guardian and freeing smash city Alcamoth in the process, which he used as a hub for graffiti art based warp paintings till it was destroyed.

He then headed to the Deep Blue along with Kamek, where they acquired an airship, and then set out on a scouting/probing attack vs the abyssal fleet. In doing so they fred/converted 2 members of said fleet. The princess Bella who offered them a lot of information on her fleet and, more importantly, a nameless grunt trooper who would come to be known as Rika.

While others got busy in Limsa Lominscuttle town using their help in the previous battle to get themselves in on an upcoming major offensive vs the fleet, the converted abyssals hid out aboard the ship, and Jr hid out with them. During this time Rika got her name, and her and jr’s bond began to take root as he took responsibility for unshackling her from the gauntlets that had been permanently strapped around her arms.

They then traveled north through the blue, broke the abyssal’s strongholds, survived the horrors of the Maw, slew the fleets leaders on caress isle, and finally the region’s gardien along with it. After a quick stop for a beach party during which Jr caught a Popolio named Dazzle and added it to his team, they headed back to smash city via portal, and then down to twilight town to link up with the rest of the seekers.

After that, it was down to the under, where Bowser ended up adopting Rika due in part due to how close Jr had grown to her, as well as acquiring the latest member of his team, a Flutter Mane named Peeka. Also they killed a guardian and a Consul, and learned that the world of light was actually ancient.

Finally they de-stressed in Carnival town, found out the Avenger, and then his papa and Kamek both went off with Peach without him, which has left the prince in a bit of a huff, but it's hardly the first time this has happened to him. His new sister took it worse, and he’s done what he can to help her adapt.

Job:Beast Master
Specialty:Jr provides a wealth of magical and mechanical support and firepower, but is somewhat lacking in mobility.

Bowser Jr: Level 14 EXP: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(147/140)

Abilities:

• Withdraw: Bowser Jr pulls his head and limbs inside his shell for added defense or to perform a Koopa shell spin/slide attack.
• Life from the slime: the goop from the magic paintbrush now passively spawns Swoopin' Stus, simple creatures that resemble transparent flapjack octopuses with a ball of goop within their bodies. They attack Jr’s enemies by jumping at them and exploding into a splatter off goop. They also spatter into goop when killed. In battle can spread Jr’s graffiti to capture more ground and thus create more surface area that spawns more Stus. Stu’s won't explode unprovoked, preventing them from becoming a true self replicating night mare. That and a massive vulnerability to water.
• warp graffiti: Jr can use his magic paintbrush to paint a M with two accent marks above it within which can be seen a distant location. These paintings can be entered, warping the entree to the start of that location (in front of peach’s castle’s gate, just before the ramp for the approach to The End, the base of the argent energy tower, etc.) The best rule of thumb would be that it is the start of a level in a game. These warps are one way, but Jr is not limited in the number he can make, allowing him to rapidly link up locations he has been to via warps.
• Fire Breathing (Kid sized): Jr can huck fireballs like his pappy, but they are, of course, smaller, weaker and less numerous than the big man’s own affair, but they do come with some special tricks up their sleeves. Come in two flavors: quick and bouncy like a certain plumber’s hand thrown fireballs or slow and homing with the added benefit of leaving a patch of fire when they hit the ground. He also has a regular, if again comparatively weak compared to his dad’s, fire-breath for short ranged roasting.
• Elemental goop: Jr’s magic paintbrush can now create two new types of goop, shocking goop and burning goop, which do additional elemental damage. Shocking goop is a mix of teal and yellow, and will electrocute enemies that come into contact with it, damaging and stunning the foe. Burning goop meanwhile is a molten mix of oranges and reds and is superheated to the extent that it can ignite foes who come into contact with it, which can cause them to run around in a panic trying to put it out. Both goops can linger as a dot, dealing additional electric/heat damage over time until removed.
• Healer Basics(B’giotahmo Bravha): As long as jr has some sort of staff-like casting catalyst (such as his paintbrush), he can cast Cure to restore a burst of HP, Esuna to cleanse minor status effects, and Lucid Dreaming to gradually restore a third of his own MP.
• Holy Offense (B’giotahmo Bravha): Jr against the spell Repose: which inflicts sleep on an enemy for 30 seconds, and Stone, which rips rocks from the surrounding environment and hails the foe with a shower of earth element damage.
• Healer Basics Plus (B’giotahmo Bravha): Jr gains the spells Medica which heals himself and all allies in an circular aoe with a 15 yard radius, and Presence of Mind (usable every two minutes), which increases attack and casting speed by 20% for 15 seconds.
• Divine intervention(B’giotahmo Bravha): grants Jr two white mage spells: Benediction, which can instantly fully and freely heal a target within 30 yards, but which has a two minute cooldown and Holy, which deals damage and stuns foes (for 4 seconds) in an 8 yard radius around him, but has a 2.5 second cast and recast time. Each successively chained stun a target receives lasts half as long as the last (4-2-1-0)
• Ferromancy (Vespikan Ferromancer): allowing them to magically create iron objects out of their hand and arm. All new metal begins its life in contact with the host’s runes, though it can still be manipulated for a few brief moments afterwards. This can be used to quickly create and launch small blades/shards/spikes, form weapons or shields, coat their arm in metal armor or spikes etc. It can also be used more slowly to make complex components or higher quality equipment, weld things together, create small defenses or structures, etc.
• Monster metal (Vespikan Ferromancer/Undyne): via a combination of the Ferromancer and Undyne’s magic, Jr can now produce magic infused iron, as long as it comes in the form of spikes and spears. As well as giving it the ability to better harm foes with physical resistance (such as ghosts), it also lets the summoned objects still be manipulated even once they are no longer in contact with his body. They can either float close to Jr to be later launched at targets, or can have their trajectory altered once while in flight, letting the shots re-adjust if they miss, rain down from above when shot over a target, spike up after being launched under, or even orbit around the foe inorder to shoot them in the back.
• Sick 'Em (Astrid): which allows the host to perform a special weapon throw (for identical small weapons) that track somewhat and purge the target's most recent buff on hit.
• Z-Power: Jr can perform team attacks with his minions, consisting of him pouring a large amount of mana into one of them so they can unleash a powerful attack drawn either form their base form or from one of their fusions. These can be things like Z-moves for pokemon, such as Let's Snuggle Forever for Mimi the Mimikyu or an ultimate ability like Life Form Disintegration Ray for Peeka, which would be drawn from her Vel’Koz fusion.

Skills:

• Leadership: Certainly not a born one, jr nonetheless has learned this skill in-order to fill the royal boots of his father some day. Unlike his father, who leads as something of a general, jr has led his troops from the front. Or the back of the front at least, commanding squads of minions to do battle in his name while he manages their tactics and formation as a squad captain.
• Pint sized powerhouse: Despite his short stature jr is actually rather strong, capable of lifting several times his weight, and has a fair bit of the dexterity that his father lacks as he can skillfully wield all manner of weapons and do a fair bit of platforming as well. His shell also makes him fairly durable, tough nowhere near as much as his father.
• Mechanical skill: Bowser jr has shown a fair deal of skill when it comes to the use of machines, having piloted (and possibly designed) numerous mech, ships, cars and other combat vehicles. He can also hack emails.
• Scrap Mechanic: jr has learned how to better work with broken machinery others would simply throw away, be it fixing the team’s gear or salvaging enemy equipment for reuse, repair materials or upgrade components.
• Inkngineering: Jr can modify/enchant weapons to spread/fire the ink from his magic paintbrush. For example making the splattershot fire magic ink instead of squid ink, or making a melee weapon leave ink where it impacts.
• Monster Master: Bowser Jr is good at training, commanding and using various creatures, such as pokemon, tem-tems, battle pets, etc. He bonds quickly with them, inspires loyalty and has a knack for teaching them how to fight and act at his command.
• Olympian: The one with this strength has competed in numerous summer and winter olympic games, and has experience in and talent at all the various sports. They are proficient at any activities that are represented by those events. Notably it does not improve basic skills like running, jumping or swimming, but instead provides an extensive if esoteric list of talents from discus tossing to rowing to skiing, basketball, rhythmic gymnastics, bobsledding, etc.
• Stronger Together (Maw): The experience within the Maw has brought the Koopas closer together both with each other and with those that shared the experience with them. All of them gain increased confidence and constitution when in close proximity to other survivors of the Maw, knowing that they can trust their backs to be watched, and going the extra mile to make sure they can do the same.
• Feast (Maw): Eating anything will restore health in addition to its actual effects. Also, receive a fast-diminishing attack boost after eating
• Lance Aptitude (undyne): which includes both wielding and throwing proficiencies
• Emotions (Omori): which affect his stats a little based on his emotions: angry (+attack/-defense), happy (+speed/-accuracy), sad (+defense/-speed)

Other boons

• Field Support while moving, grant 15% weapon damage for yourself and teammates within 15m

Weaknesses:

• Childish: reckless, impatient and impulsive, jr has a lot to learn.
• Small: He might be tough, but the lad is still only waist high.
• Supernatural separation anxiety (Maw): If unity is strength then separation is weakness and the Maw has taught that weakness will not be tolerated. Those with this curse will become overly worried if another of their number is not in the company of at least one other curse bearer, and especially worried if they go off on their own, which tends to cause reckless rushes to their aid.
• Dedicated Healer(B’giotahmo Bravha): decreasing the power of offensive magic by 20%
• Ventilate Heat: the metal inscriptions cause the arm to lose heat at a rapid rate. In environments that are not actively warm, the arm will feel unpleasantly cold and take more stamina to use than the uninscribed arm. Cold environments will make this worse, or be potentially dangerous. Insulation can prevent these issues, but will also reduce the effectiveness of any magic gained from the runes.
• Worse Depth Perception (undyne)
• Spider/Drowning Phobia (Omori)
• Earth Element (Astrid): which decreases the damage dealt to fire-aspected enemies by 20%

Spirits:

Active strikers

• Blodia A titan of vivid red and shining steel, too large to be fully summoned all at once. Instead, it can be called in on a long cooldown to deal attacks that cover huge areas with heavy damage. This abilities include Blodia Punch, a straight strike that hits like a freight train, Blodia Vulcan, a hail of gunfire, and Blodia Lift, which allows the striker to pick up or throw the host
• Sho A high-tech ninja wielding electric chain scythes. He can either perform quick melee slashes or a long-range scythe hurl every 10s. Every 30s, he can also perform Air Rend, hurling one scythe at an enemy that he then uses for flying grapple slash. Alternatively, he can use Evasion Rend to appear, then substitute a log that, if struck, lets him use Air Rend without having to land the projectile first
  Stored strikers
• Goomba Swarm
• Koopa Corps
• Primid Party
• Bytan Rollout
• Chef Bro cook-off
• Murlock Marines
• Flukefey flight
• Vespikan Raid

Minions:

• Mimi (Mimikyu): captured at Peach's castle, Mimikyu is Jr's starter Pokemon. They have quite a strong bond after being though so much together in such short a time.
  
  moves and modifications

  Moves:
  

  • Hone Claws
  • Shadow Sneak
  • Mimic
  • Electroball

  
  
  Modifications:
  Due to the absorption of a Spaark into her body, Mimikyu's body has recompositioned into a dark cloudlike substance, she gained a battery pack on back of disguise, and the ability to learn more electric moves going forward.
  
  (Maw Strength) Stronger Together: The experience within the Maw has brought the Koopas closer together both with each other and with those that shared the experience with them. All of them gain increased confidence and constitution when in close proximity to other survivors of the Maw, knowing that they can trust their backs to be watched, and going the extra mile to make sure they can do the same.
  
  (Maw Strength) Feast - Eating anything will restore health in addition to its actual effects. Also, receive a fast-diminishing attack boost after eating
  
  (Maw Weakness) Supernatural separation anxiety: If unity is strength then separation is weakness and the Maw has taught that weakness will not be tolerated. Those with this curse become increasingly agitated, nervous and jumpy without someone around to watch their back as the horrors of the Maw supernaturally claw their way out of the depths of their memories to assail them with reminders of their vulnerability and visions of false horrors in the shadows. Most extreme when out on their own, but even becoming separated slightly in a battle can cause the fear to start creeping in. (Minions, such as summons or pokemon, provide only a coping mechanism rather than a solution to this problem).
• Dazzle (Brionne): captured at Kanzuki Beach Estate, evolved in the beehive in the under
  
  moves and modifications

  Moves:
  

  • Bubble Beam
  • Disarming Voice
  • Sing
  • Icy Wind

  
  
  Modifications:
  
  Bake-Kujira (Tail) The host has slightly increased in size overall, while darkening in color. His tail is longer and broader, its flippers jutting out at a more perpendicular angle, and much less flexible. The tail is also increasingly spectral toward the end, divided between murky teal flesh and ghostly blue energy juxtaposed over bone. This spirit grants the ability Twisting Dive, which allows the host to execute a cursed corkscrew leap. While diving, the host inflicts damage plus brief stun, is knockback-immune, and carries struck targets with him to the end point (as long as the targets are not larger/heavier than himself). At the end of the dash, a concussive splash deals extra damage, and this dive goes farther when underwater. This spirit also grants the weakness Lesser Pinniped Mobility. Due to the changes to the structure of the tail, he is no longer able to run on land like a sea lion, but must flop, roll, or slide like a seal
• Peeka (Flutter Mane): found within the Ancient Pools in the under, where creatures of long past dwell, she engaged in a lively game of peekaboo with Jr, before joining him on his adventure to escape the boredom of that ancient place.
  
  moves and modifications

  Vel'koz('Necklace') The host's coloration is slightly greener, and the pink feathers a little more like tentacles. The main change concerns the 'pearls' around the host's neck, which are now brilliant glowing slitted pink-purple orbs like the eyes of Vel'koz itself. This spirit confers the ability Plasma Fission, allowing the host to fire out a plasma bolt that inflicts damage and a heavy 70% slow that quickly decays. While in flight, the host can will the bolt to split, firing off to the left and right at perpendicular angles. This spirit also confers the Weakness Low Mobility, decreasing the host's movement speed while floating
  
  Moves:
  

  • Dazzling Gleam
  • Wish
  • Psybeam
  • Confusion ray
• (former) Tyrant (baby behemoth)

Rapport:

• Bowser: 32 (S Rank)
  
  • His dear Papa, how could the boy not be close to him?
• Kamek: 32 (S Rank)
  
  • Responsible for much of the day to day raising and mentoring of the young prince, just as he was for the king. For all intensive purposes Kamek is Jr’s grandpa
• Rika: 35+ (S Rank)
  
  • Being royalty Jr has never really had a peer his own age, which has left a big friendship shaped hole in his life that having a sister is now filling.
  • tag team: Sibling Super Strike: Jr jumps onto Rika's shoulders, riding her piggy back while channeling magic into her gauntlets. She then bursts forwards, delivering a flurry of jabs each of which create 16 yard long cone shaped shockwaves of stunning holy power
  • Ship Girl Physiology: Jr can glide across, or rather just above, liquid surfaces, able to hover to and fro via just her will. He also has adds inhuman vitality and resilience needed to be able to take at least a few hits from ship girl grade weapons to his own.
  • Crossover: Rika swaps her helmet for his hairstick, ponytail and ranger cap, and her spear for Jr’s paintbrush staff. She gainings his casting and paint related abilities, while he gains her martial combat prowess. Both maintain their minion and mechanical firepower related traits/equipment.
• Midna: 6 (C Rank)
  
  • tag team:
• Pit: 8 (C Rank)
  
  • tag team:
• Roxas: 13 (B Rank)
  
  • fellow pokemon trainer and rival
  • tag team:
  • Skill share: Flow Motion: Jr has learned from Roxas’s visits to many different worlds and has thus become quite capable of adapting to many environments for the purpose of maneuverability in combat.
  
  
  • tag team:
• Witch: 3 (D Rank)
• Geralt: 1 (D Rank)

Inventory:

• 50 gold
• Geo x1500
• Copper Reeve x882: Triangular coins of little individual value. It takes 500 to equal 1 silver reeve
• 1000$ (in mixed small bills)
• rubies x2
• Pizza Recipes: Neapolitan, Sicilian, Margherita, Caprese
• tape player: plays and can record onto tapes, both regular and cassettebeasts
• tapes: empty tapes: 1 platinum, 2 regular ones. Used to make recordings of monsters. When a recording is used, it transforms the listener into the mosnter, adding the monster's health on top of the user's, grants a number of new moves, and allows fusion with other 'Cassette Beasts' once enough power has been built up by taking damage, but it blocks the user's own equipment, effects, and powers completely. If this form's health is depleted, the tape breaks and must be repaired, either with a respool or during a long rest.
• Recording: bottom half of a flukemon - able to bite and little else
• Undyne Recording - a cassette tape that, when paired with a cassette player, allows the listener to take the form of Undyne, a humanoid water type boss monster.
  
  moves

  -Slice (metal, weak melee)
  -Wallop (metal, medium melee)
  -Double Slice (metal, multi-hit melee)
  -Torrent (water, medium ranged, water spears from below)
  -Burning Passion (passive, increases ranged and melee attack if burned)
  -Desperation (metal, melee that does more when hurt)
  -Raise Arms (increase own melee attack for 30 seconds)
  -Retribution (passive, increases ranged and melee attack if an ally or allied monster form dies)
  -Ritual (once cast, restores the monster form's health to 25% on defeat, once per fight)
  -Undertow (water, strong but slow ranged, giant water spear or anchor from below)
• Gaddbrush: also known simply as the magic paintbrush this weapon is capable of creating a harmful ink or goop like substance. This can be applied to enemies as a dot effect and to terrain to create hazard zones. Weapon wise it can either be used as a short spear or like a roller from splatoon.
• Jr Clown Car: jrs primary moad of transport is a miniture version of his papa's clown car. As the boy re-uses the machine far more often it has a fair number of additions. the most notable is the ability to deploy robotic arms sporting everything from boxing gloves to saw blades and drills on the end. It can also deploy cart wheels from it's base to replace the propeller, deploy wrecking balls in place of the arms and store numerous items within it's hammer-space glove compartment.
  
  clown car add-ons

  • Flaming Balloon cannon: ones the 'mouth' of the car and extends a cannon, from which is fired a flaming balloon made in the image of the clown car itself, which has a homing capability and an explosive impact. stolen from the Sweet Tooth ice cream van belonging to Needles Kane. Replaced the standard Cannon
  • Splattershot - a strong squirt gun that fires black ink. It only directly harms hydrophobic targets like fire elementals. ground type pokemon, and Inklings, but it coats both targets and surfaces with sticky ink that impairs movement and makes the target more susceptible to damage. Installed on a deploy-able arm.
  • Synapse - An organic rifle whose internal organs generate potent charges of bioelectricity to accurately fry enemies at close or medium range. It unleashes 12 jolts per second in a continuous stream, with 72 jolts per charge and 6 seconds to fully recharge, though it won't fire while recharging. The weapon does not need to feed, but it should be cleaned. Installed on a deploy-able arm.
  • Sentient Meat Hook "When artificial intelligence became more commonplace, many companies jumped on the trend for "smart" products. This included smart doors, lights, coffee makers, lawnmowers, vacuum cleaners, bedding, kitchen knife sets, and other home goods. After a series of gruesome lawsuits stemming from hacked smart appliances, most products soon went back to their more traditional, analog lines."
    
    -"Why Is Smart So Dumb? VII"
    
    Can be ordered to fire out and hook enemies. Or friends. Or objects. Anything you want hooked really. Has a mind of its own and will hook things it thinks the user wants hooked based on their meta data, something it will get better at the more it is used. Heavy. Potentially a bit temperamental. Fires out of the mouth like a vicious chameleon tongue.
  • Fused with Egg Mobile-H (damaged): a hovering vehicle once used by the evil genius dr eggman. Comes equipped with a massive wrecking ball attached via a chain. Components stolen from it have increased the car's size a bit, and added more lifting power, rocket on the back for more forwards thrust, and upgraded the deployable wrecking ball to be much much larger.
  • A Mulcher cranck operated machine gun.
  • Padwah's Wheel: A tank wheel devoid of its treads, wielded as a weapon. Though more than applicable as a blunt instrument, it's been retrofitted with flamethrowers that allow it to serve as a blazing ring of destruction. An attached cable makes it usable like a yo-yo.
• Bloop Hood - a cowl to be worn over the head. It allows the wearer to breath and see freely underwater as well as slightly mitigating water resistance.
• Engineer Suitcase: acquired from Cindy Aurum in exchange for a bunch of junk acquired from raider vehicles, it contains an assortment of mundane tools used by GDI engineers for repairing buildings and vehicles, along with the ability to override security systems, though sadly there are no instructions for how to do this included with the kit
• Fishing Spear
• duffle bag A large cylindrical duffle bag with pokeball logos, useful for carrying stuff around outside the car.
• pokeballs (x10): For catching mons.
• bandolier across the chest that can hold 6 pokeballs
• pokemon potions: for healing mons
• poke puffs: for a treat
• Grapple Worm: A small, tubular creature, dull dark blue in color with coarse, high-friction black stripes, roughly the size of a long can. It can be held in one hand and squeezed, and depending on the part squeezed, it will extend a sticky pink tentacle from one or both ends. These tubes have mouths on the ends with extremely hard teeth which can latch onto most surfaces. This allows it to function as a grappling hook or, if both ends are out, a zip line. If it’s not fed plant matter every day, it will die, and it cannot function as a grappling hook when dead
• Tulip Hairstick: Plain, simple, and bulbous. Increases health a decent amount.

Rika, the ascended NPC

Rika

Game Origin: Kancolle
Personality:

Rita started as something of a blank slate, containing blind military obedience and little else, leaving her rather naive when it comes to many aspects in life. Work from her friends and the influence of fusion has filled this out somewhat. Her main defining trait that is all her own would be curiosity, the ship girl always eager for new experiences and information. She also has developed quite the sweet tooth for candy and desserts, but when it comes to main meals will actively try to taste test anything and everything she can.

Rika also cares deeply about her friends, a bit about other former abyssals, but is pretty dissociative when it comes to strangers, and has basically zero qualms about using violence against them.

The spirits she has absorbed have made her more assertive, impulsive and aggressive, and so she has a tendency to rush in and pick fights as a first option when it comes to protecting the people she cares about. She’s also started calling minions, and people she doesn’t like, plebs, as if her new royal title is getting to her head, and is rather enthused by the prospect of wealth.

Appearance:
Rika is a relatively short woman with pale human skin, a rather petite nose, crystal blue eyes and short bleach white hair with a single tuft of red over her forehead like L'Indomptable. This often isn’t visible however, due to her often wearing a spartan helmet done up in a black metal with pink highlights. It has the nameless spartan deserter’s cat ears on top and wyreven wing like ones up the side like rider and beast, and Titania Prime’s three pronged tiara on the front.

Her legs are reptilian, with saurian feet and Brachydios blue scales running up to her hips. This also isn’t usually visible due to her wearing a Agastya Alternate Costume that covers her from neckline to toe in a fine suit of black armor.

Without it she is adorned in a Aileen’s waistcoat hued white and gold, hung over a black and gold highlighted chest plate similar in shape to the spartans but more curved and elegant. Below this, covering her stomach, is Pacific Princess’s formal tank top, white with golden buttons, and below that a thigh length skirt sat like L'Indomptable’s, black underneath, white flaps on top, god Fleur-de-lises but with pink straps and ribbons.

Her legs are covered in white leggings which have metal plates strapped to her thighs like Vi does. Her feet finally are covered in hefty metal boots like L'Indomptable’s, but which sport short boots with hull-like platforms instead of having her walk around on her tiptoes.

Her arms have a rounded pauldron strapped to the fore arms, black with gold trim, while her forearms and hands are covered by her gauntlets. These consist of a pair of giant mechanical hands akin to VI’s, which feature the brute wyvern’s visage on the back of their palms (in a similar style to the jade lions on this skin) while still sporting both horns sticking out from their foreheads.

The left gauntlet has absorbed the grizco blaster, no longer requiring the awkward pipes from the horn to get a supply of explosive goop, and can now fire the ink blasts from a barrel in the palm. The grappling hook has also moved over here, and now sits on the back of the gauntlet’s palm. On the right, her rifle has also moved into the palm, and sports a rotating gatling style barrel the same size as the grizco blaster’s one.

At her waist sits Mikuma’s rigging, although it has been heavily modified, and has taken on many of the aspects of a Dark Magic Lampyre. A small emblem/buckle style after its helmeted head sits at the waist, while the back a large bunny tail like glowing orb sitting over her tailbone, flanked by Titania Prime’s gilded, hollowed-out, hip-mounted wings that are less articulate but do provided some flight control. The turrets have lost a barrel, while the remaining barrels have become thicker, and sport two orange spikes near the tips that together create a loose X shape. The lower red cleaver sections of the hullblades have been removed, and instead two orange claws curve out the front of the metal plates. The metal of the rigging has become a darker hue, while the red parts on the sides have been replaced by a purple armor plate going over the top of the weapon.

Background:
Rika was a nameless grunt of the Abyssal Fleet, a petty mostly unthinking warmachine

In the now :
Once a member of the Abyssal Fleet, Rika has barely any memory of her time as a nameless grunt among their ranks, either before the world of light or after. If she has any real accomplishment, it is that she, unlike nearly all the other abyssal grunts, had not been degraded by constant imperfect resurrections by their leaders, indicating either superior fighting skill or just luck.

Her first real memories are from after the magikoopa Kamek captured her and then freed her from galee’s influence, and by extension the fleet’s indoctrination. The koopa had intended to interrogate her on the nature of the fleet’s forces and ability to resurrect their fallen ships, but Sakura having freed the comparative and more knowledgeable seaplane tender Bella at the same time made this rather redundant.

She ended up being more or less just adopted into the Koopa Troop, with first Kamek and then also Bowser taking responsibility for her wellbeing as a new and valued member/minion of their crew. Her bond with Bowser junior is however the strongest, forged first when he freed her hands from her gauntlets, allowing her to interact with the world in a way that did not involve dealing death. The fact that she is, functionally, a child in terms of life experiences also put she and him on the same level, and the two gradually became each other's first true friend.

Despite this, the seekers are warriors, and the troop war mongers, and so they inevitably went back again all too soon, though this time with removable latches rather than being permanently welded on. Having to then face the rest of the fleet she had just been freed from, after having spent time in the place they sought to destroy, created a great deal of conflict in the girl, who found herself to kill her former allies who could, if shown mercy, surely be like her. As did, after the trauma of the maw, and the subsequent death of the Abyssal fleet’s high command, her position as one of the only people left alive who could take responsibility for the leaderless and broken remains of the fleet.

She ran from that responsibility, and tries not to think about it too hard as well. A child should not have to carry that weight.

After that they headed to twilight town, and then to the under, where she was formally adopted as Bowser’s daughter, rather than just being his underling, making her and Jr siblings, much to the delight of her new brother. Lacking a lot of context for this, the ship girl thinks she likes this new state of affairs. Which made Bowser and Kamek leaving to travel with Consul P/Peach hit very hard, as all but one rock in her new life was suddenly gone, and all she had left was Junior.

Job: Battle Cruiser
Specialty: On the water, Rika is a highly maneuverable weapons platform, gliding across the surface of the waves while unleashing vast amounts of firepower, or devastating ramming strikes via fists or spears. On land she is much the same, though her mobility is limited to foot slogging.

Rika: Level 10 EXP: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(66/100)
Abilities:

• Deployable Reconnaissance Planes: Rika can deploy a pair of remote control plane sized Abyssal Reconnaissance Planes, one from each gauntlet. While these little planes do have a weak pistol grade gun on them, their main advantage is the fact that they relay scouting and targeting information back to Rika. The gauntlets can repair/build replacement planes if provided relevant components, such as from a dispenser, but only have the housing and coms bandwidth to support one each.
• Blastscourge(Brachydios): allows her to exude a slime from her horns and gauntlets. Once activated by her saliva, the slime will explode after a few seconds if parted from her, or if she’s very angry, on contact with a target.
• Ship Shaped(Mikuma): gives a set of rigging in the form of two arms that terminate in hull-blades, with a tri-barrel cannon emplacement on each elbow. As long as the rigging is equipped, the host can skate across the surface of water.
• Moby Dick(Pacific Princess): allowing the host to spend a great deal of life force to summon a White Whale. The White Whale is very strong, especially its jaws, and can follow basic orders, including firing its cannons. The White Whale, once summoned, is a physical being and will only disappear if killed or a new one is summoned. It also must move around manually.
• Triple Torpedo Mistress (herself, Pacific princess and Mikuma): Rika’s gauntlets can store and deploy a number of forearm sized high speed torpedoes from the undersides of her gauntlets, which shoot through the water, delivering a hefty explosive payload to close range targets. On land these are obviously less useful, though having a source of on demand high explosives does have its advantages if she gets clever about it.
• All Out Assault (Mikuma): on every 8th’s shot from her main (8inch) gun her shot is enhanced into being a shower of 5 triple shots fired in a spread pattern
• Partial Shielding, giving her an advanced Mjolnir shield that covers her head and upper torso.
• Maneuvering Armor (Spartan Deserter): Rika gains a set of spartan armor that covers just her chest and which comes in the same black, white, and red coloration as her new helmet. Along with extending her shielding down, also comes with an attached thrust pack that user perform a forward dash every 4 seconds. Useful for engaging, repositioning and dodging.
• Grappleshot (deserter spartan): Rika gains a clip on device known as a grapple shot, which can be attached to and integrate with her own systems, specifically the inside of her right gauntlet’s ‘mouth’. The device can fire a grappling hook with an 8 meter range, which is capable of latching onto most surfaces, foes and items. Heavier grapple targets (such as the ground, and large foes) will pull Rika towards them, while smaller targets (like items and small foes) will be pulled to her. Has a short cooldown after use.
• Captain Ahab (Pacific Princess): Rika can expend stamina to teleport the spear of the Pacific Princess to her person (stamina drain scaling with distance) or vitality to form/repair it should it be damaged or destroyed. It is about 4 meters long, and tipped with a double barreled ship gun at one end (used for ranged force or added force/propulsion), and an arched spine of sharpened vertebrae ending with a long thin point at the other (creating a rather unconventional halberd head). A band runs from one end to the other, which can be used to sling it over a person’s back or for particularly convoluted flourishes. Just like the whale that is its twin, only one spear can exist at a time. Comes with the secondary superpower of knowing how to use the rather unorthodox weapon effectively.
• Disruption Cannons (Dark Magic Lampyre): Allows her to fire fist sized globs of dark magic from their rigging guns. When they strike, the globs release a small pulse of damaging dark magic, before sticking to the target and sapping some of their physical and magical strength until they are pulled/pried/shaken off. Each blob lasts for 30 seconds, and causes a 5% reduction each, for a maximum of 40%.
  
  The Disruption cannons take a large amount of a resource called SP to fire, which slowly regenerates on its own, but can also be actively regenerated by taking a few seconds to rest.
• Electro-swarm Hangers (Dark Magic Lampyre): Rika can now use SP to launch small swarms of insects (that look a bit like fireflies) formed out of pure electricity from her gauntlet mounted hangers. For a small amount of Sp she can launch a diversion swarm, which buzz around a target and flash and blink distractingly, lowering their accuracy. For a larger SP cost, she can create a shocker swarm, which upon closing with the foe discharge their electrical charge in a series of small lightning bolts which can deal a hearty amount of damage if they all manage to go off, while also draining some stamina from the foe as well.
• Vault Breaker (Vi): Rika can now charge her gauntlets with mana, which she can then use to unleash a punch that flings her forwards at breakneck speed, smashing foes that she collides with aside or even straight up into the air. The charge can be held for a maximum of 4 seconds, the first 1.25 of which increase the range, strength and speed of the punch. If the maximum time is eclipsed, the mana is forcibly vented to prevent damage to the gauntlet.
• Denting Blows(Vi): If Rika can land a series of 3 punches (vault breakers included) on a target within 4 seconds of each other, the third blow will be empowered. This third blow deals extra damage equivalent to 15% of the enemies max hp (though there is a hard cap of 3 punches worth of extra damage, and armor/defense still reduces the damage), as well as increasing her attack speed by 60% and reducing enemy armor by 20% (both for 4 seconds). The effects do not stack, but can have their durations refreshed, and the third blow procs her Hexed-teched weakness, disabling the fist that deals the third blow for 2 seconds.
• I Will Not Yield (L'Indomptable): boosting evasive abilities by 15% and giving the host a last stand that activates when she would otherwise be destroyed, preventing death for 2.5 seconds and granting a random buff to either ranged firepower, deployed explosives, accuracy, or reload time.
• Vichya's Black Lance and Shield (L'Indomptable): Rika can instantly transform Captain Ahab (the Pacific Princess’s halberd), into L'Indomptable’s armaments, a levitating lance and shield combo which work incredibly effectively on the charge, but are a lot less nimble than the thin halberd they replace. The lance increases a struck target’s vulnerability to Rika’s ranged attacks by 15%, while the shield has a rack of 3 torpedoes it can launch over the top of itself and a 20 mm flak cannon on the front.

Skills:

• Arm Cannons: Rika has a set of massive gun gauntlets strapped to her arms. Despite their weight and her less than muscular arms she can still hold them up thanks to antigravity modules built into them and powered via cables attached to her back (she also uses these to help walk on land and get some floaty jumps too). One houses a 8inch Triple Gun and the other a 6inch Twin Rapid Fire Gun. They also have impressive ammo stores that defy their conventional size. As these are functionally part of her, they can be modified by fusions.
• Ship Girl Physiology: Rika can glide across, or rather just above, liquid surfaces, able to hover to and fro via just her will. She also has the inhuman vitality and resilience needed to be able to take at least a few hits from ship girl grade weapons.
• Military Subordinate: Rika was a more or less unthinking soldier as part of the abyssal fleet and while she is her own person now, she still has the instincts from back then. Rika is a decent enough fighter at even just an instinctual level, and has a knack for following orders and plans swiftly and efficiently.
• Stronger Together(Maw): The experience within the Maw has brought her closer together both with those that shared the experience with her. She gains increased confidence and constitution when in close proximity to other survivors of the Maw, knowing that they can trust their backs to be watched, and going the extra mile to make sure they can do the same.
• Famine(Maw): While hungry, gain speed boost and stamina regain that ramp up the hungrier you are
• Kai Flagship Upgrades: Rika gains a full suit of upgrades to push her ship class to its full potential, increasing her armor and vitality a fair margin but mainly massively raising her evasion, the ship girl becoming quite the artful dodger.
• Brute Strength (Brachydios): Despite being built with a pair of massive gauntlets, Rika was not designed for close combat. This little number fixes that problem by imbuing her with Wyvernian strength and battle prowess of the mighty Brachydios, making her quite the slugger.
• Lancefaire (Rider and Beast): imparts skill with polearms and a slight damage increase while using them.
• Bullet Jump (Titania Prime): substantially boosts the host's movement abilities The host can launch into a quick slide, double jump, aim glide, wall run, wall climb, and high jump.
• Shark Weapon(Aileen): giving the host's main aquatic summon the power to launch a volley three bombs through the air, which fly in an arc.
• Land Pirate (Aileen): the user’s aquatic summons can treat solid ground like water, allowing them to swim through it, though this does not affect it otherwise, and so they are, for example, functionally blind while inside of it. The material also still has to bear their weight/force, meaning weak/unstable surfaces might collapse if an attempt to swim up/through them is made.

Other Boons

• Kindred of Rot's Exultation: Raises attack power when poisoning or rot occurs in the vicinity. "Rot for the scarlet goddess. O scarlet blossoms, flourish in distant lands, and return to us, the unwanted children"
• Pest’s Glaive Slightly increases non-physical damage negation. Though men might recognize the keen intellect of the pests evidenced by this spear's uncanny design, it will never be understood by them
• Dated Sunglasses: a pair of dark sunglasses reminiscent of those from a certain fill series. When the wear dodges these produce an invisible field 5ft around the user, which slows hostile projectiles by 30%, making it easier to avoid getting shot.
• Prisoner in Deep Confinement(set): Increases HP, DEF, ATK, and SPD by equivalent amounts, increase ATK by a furthur 12%, In addition, for every DoT (up to 3) the target enemy is afflicted with, the wearer will ignore 6% of its DEF when damaging it. DoTs include poison, bleed, burn, etc.
• Krull's Amulet: A spiky metal fishhook. Provides a small buff to attack and hp. If equipped with Krull's weapon and armor, they will provide a set effect that boosts hp by 30%
• Tidal Dash (Poseidon) - when a dash / bullet jump concludes, release a burst of water that damages and knocks foes away

Weaknesses:

• Born yesterday: Rika has only been an actual person for a handful of days and is as a result currently going through a crash course on how to be a person. Her main mentors being the self declared bad guys of the Koopa Troop is probably skewing her perspectives and priorities quite a bit too. Very susceptible to being tricked and outmaneuvered in social situations.
• Beached: Rika is a ship in the shape of a girl, and was not built to be on land. She is relying on the antigravity in her gauntlet’s to keep herself upright while on land, and those failing will massively cripple her maneuverability.
• Aqua Bane(Brachydios): giving her a mild weakness to water-based or aspected weapons and attacks plus a more severe one to ice
• Little Sister(Mikuma): making her more susceptible to intimidation and mental attacks.
• No Surrender(Pacific Princess): Rika is unwilling to accept defeat
• Supernatural separation anxiety (Maw): If unity is strength then separation is weakness and the Maw has taught that weakness will not be tolerated. Those with this curse will become overly worried if another of their number is not in the company of at least one other curse bearer, and especially worried if they go off on their own, which tends to cause reckless rushes to their aid.
• Headshot (Nameless Spartan Deserter): which means that once her shields are broken, a single shot to her helmet from any precision weapon is fatal
• Axebane (rider and beast), increasing the amount of damage taken by axes by 50%
• Bright light(Dark Magic Lampyre): which prevents the user from disabling the glowing orb on the back of their rigging, making sneaking very difficult, and drawing additional attention to them in and out of combat.
• Hexed-tech (Vi): Rika’s gauntlets really weren't designed to work with mana, and the overlapping energy systems unfortunately interfere with each other. If a gauntlet is used to perform a mana expending ability, it (and anything installed on it) will subsequently shut down for two seconds as the technology recovers from having magic run through it.
• Pixieweight(Titania Prime), decreasing the host's effective weight, strength, and durability by 15%
• Short (L'Indomptable): making it harder to climb things, reach things, see long distances, and be respected by taller people--and of course, if someone jokes about her height, she will become Enraged
• Nonoptimal Range (Aileen): decreasing combat effectiveness (Accuracy, damage, and attack speed down by 10%) at short range

Spirit list:

Active strikers

• Maria A dark knight wielding a blood-red twinblade. She can appear to swing twice with her swordblades, incurring just a 10s cooldown. She can also be summoned to perform a counter, using an empowered version of her basic attack when struck, though a 15s cooldown is incurred whether or not she's hit. Finally, she can perform Blood Rain over the course of two summons; the first one empowers her (10s), and the second performs a bloody slam that heals the host for all damage inflicted (40s)
• Vespikan Ichor Queen: A towering wasp woman adorned in crimson robes and with red ribbons trailing from her antenna, armed with a single colossal clever blade who can be summoned (on a long cooldown) for a few second to either attack with her cleaver and venomous stinger, or to cast one of the one of a number of spells:
  
  Lightning Bolt: the queen channels electricity into her blade for a moment before thrusting it forwards, shooting out a powerful lighting bolt that can do heavy damage to a single target
  
  Pull from the grave: the queen kneels in prayer to her dark god for a moment before stabbing the ground with her sword. This causes a 5 meter patch of ground within 25 meters to manifest a flurry of earthen hands, which attempt to grab and drag any undead beings they can find back into the earth where they belong. Has no effect on any other kind of being or entity.
  
  Draining touch: the queen reaches out and touches the body of a target with her hand, and in so doing begins to drain a mundane human’s worth of vitality from them over the duration of the cast time, transferring it to her summoner.
  
  All of these spells take 2 seconds of channeling before they are cast. If the summoner is harmed (either directly or via feedback) the queen enters into a berserker rage, interrupting any spellcasting she was attempting to do as she blindly charges the culprit and tries to deliver a singular devastating cleaver strike to them, regardless of the desires of her summoner, or the feasibility of her reaching her target before her timer expires
  
  Inactive Strikers
• Cloyster The Bivalve Pokemon. It has pretty good physical defense and decent physical attack, but unimpressive stats otherwise. Its moves are Icicle Spear, a short range 5 shot burst damaging ice-type move, Whirlpool, which creates a water hazard in an area for a little while, Protect, a potent block that can't be used in quick succession, and Razor Shell, a mostly dependable damaging water-type move. Medium cooldown
• War Cleric An axe-wielding priestess with a medium cooldown, able to be summoned for up to two seconds at a time to perform a single action. The actions she can perform are a quick advancing chop, a slow overhead slam, and Heal, which restores 25% hp
• Knight An heavily armored knight with a claymore a medium cooldown, able to be summoned for up to two seconds at a time to perform a single action. The actions he can perform are an armored sword thrust, a slow overhead slam, an advancing shield bash, and block

Rapport

• Bowser: 18 (B rank)
  
  • father
• Kamek: 24 (A rank)
  
  • freedom
• Jr: 35 (S rank)
  
  • friendship
  • Tag Team: Sibling Super Strike: Jr jumps onto Rika's shoulders, riding her piggy back while channeling magic into her gauntlets. She then bursts forwards, delivering a flurry of jabs each of which create 16 yard long cone shaped shockwaves of stunning holy power
  • Skill swap: Monster Master: Rika is better at training, commanding and using various creatures, such as pokemon, tem-tems, battle pets, etc. She bonds quickly with them, inspires loyalty and has a knack for teaching them how to fight and act at her command.
  • Crossover: Rika swaps her helmet for his hairstick, ponytail and ranger cap, and her spear for Jr’s paintbrush staff. She gainings his casting and paint related abilities, while he gains her martial combat prowess. Both maintain their minion and mechanical firepower related traits/equipment.
• Blazermate: 3
• Pit: 2
• Witch: 3 (D Rank)
• Geralt: 1 (D Rank)

Inventory:

• Geo x2005
• tape player: plays and can record onto tapes, both regular and cassettebeasts
• tapes: empty tapes: 1 platinum, 4 regular ones. Recordings: bottom half of a flukemon
• the Beast Recording - a cassette tape that, when paired with a cassette player, allows the listener to take the form of the Beast, an eight meter long centipied boss monster.
  
  moves

  -Bite (beast, heals 50% of damage done thanks to carnivore )
  -Carnivore (increased the heal of Bite from 25% to 50%)
  -Pustule Bomb (Poison, spray of purple globules that cause poison for 30 sec)
  -Sharpen (raise own melee attack for 30 sec)
  -Mountain Smash (earth, a strike with horns that lowers melee defense for 30 sec)
  -Burrow (earth, burrows under ground become immune to most attacks, but needs to emerge partialy or fully to attack)
• Poison Card - When applies to a weapon, allows the weapon to build up and then inflict poison on struck targets. Applied to her rifle, causing it's bullets and bayonet to inflict a stacking poison dot.
• Fancy sundress: exactly what it says on the tin. No special properties other than being cute.
• Grizzco Blaster: A gun that fires short fuse slime explosions at a respectable fire rate of 60 rpm. It is powered by a combination of an electric goop swooping stu in the rear tank, saliva in one of the jars up top, and Brachydios slime from one of Rika's horns. The three other canisters contain ink from Bowser Junior's magic paintbrush, that can give it fire, electric, or poison type damage. The whole thing has been built into Rika's left hadn gauntlt, replacing the 8 inch gun found therein.
• Red Baron & Ace: 'Ace' is a pair of augmented boxing gloves, with blades attached. 'Red Baron' is a set of six red orbital machines that can join together into a pylon for carrying or storage. Once activated by Ace, Red Baron's segments can be controlled to fly around using their rockets, acting as airborne blades. Their high potential power is offset by the difficulty of controlling them. Integrated into Rika’s gauntlets.
• universal ammo box x3: can be used once to fill out any gun's ammo reserves (so a few magazines, shells, rockets, granades etc. basically whatever amount a person could/would reasonably carry)
• MauldroneA somewhat intelligent insect the size of a dinner plate, rather heavy and quite durable. Balanced between speed and attack, it deals blunt damage by ramming into its targets on the wing. However, the only way to communicate with it or get it to do something is via light or chemical signals; it does not understand intention or speech
• Featherfall Rune Can be squeezed to launch high up into the air, then slowly descend down for a duration. Squeezing it during the descent cancels it
• Agastya Alternate Costume An Alternate Costume that can fit anyone who puts it on, encasing them in a fine suit of black armor with pale gold trim and a collar of burgundy feathers, leaving only the head exposed
• Fan of Knives A weapon mod (instaled on her left gauntlet) forged from the silver fragment left behind by Tian the Assassin, the bloodstained blade of the ratlike Urikki race. Charged by dealing damage in battle, it can be unleashed to manifest and throw a fan of seven knives that cause Bleeding
• High-quality Bandages x2 Useful for stopping Bleeding and temporarily increasing Bleed resistance
• Treats: assorted goodies for the sweet toothed ship girl
• golden spinner: a device that is very effective at capturing and taming monsters, and works exactly like a pokeball. Curently holds a white whale.
• Hardcore Metal Band ring: a ring made of a dried and rotted shell shed from something larger. Grants the BULWARK effect, accumulating a stack each time the wearer takes damage. Each stack lasts for 10 seconds, stacks up to 3 times, and grants 7/13/18% damage resistance at 1/2/3 stacks.

The Twilight Princess

Midna

Origin: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Appearance:Midna now stands at 1.7 meters tall, has a lean and toned physique of an agile warrior and her skin is the hue of a late sunset, topaz shades graying as night sets in, body closer to night, face closer to day. She is entirely humanoid, save for a long draconic tail coming out of a port at the rear of her armor, which has pale green scales, ridged with short golden spines and tipped with flygon tail fans.

Her hair is still done up in a ponytail, but is now a veritable mass of hair going down to the small of her back, and is a smoky orange filled with Norah’s blue jewels like stars. Her chin has become strikingly pointed, her eyes a dark orange, lips painted soft green, and her ears are now smooth and pointed like an elf’s. Each ear is adorned with three golden loops, smaller versions Urbosa’s, along their length, as well as having a golden ‘sheath’ over the tips like Ariel.

The twin crests on her helm now slope backwards, melding with a pair of gold-black dragon horns sprouting from her forehead. The pair of worm-like engraving on its front have become a pair of long bodied dragons, rear claws gripping the horns while the front pair grip a red eye like jewel on the forehead over which they seem to be battling. The psycho mask is permanently attached to the front of the helm, and turned into the snarling red face of Murasame, while Shemira’s eye mask covers both eyes and the top of the face.

Her shoulders bear a pair of large pauldrons, gold rimmed ‘scales’ filled with red, which match the similarly striking red and gold chest plate that covers her from shoulder to waist, that is relatively thin and form fitting. A black sleeveless jacket, open at the front and with a popped collar, is wrapped over the back of this armor. A round core of magic hums at the center of the chest, lighting crackling out of it and dancing across the metal, suffusing all her armor in electricity.

Her two sets of arms emerge from the sides of this armor like Orendi’s do and are clad in thin black, fingerless, elbow length gloves. Akira Howard’s cuffs and astral chain adorn her (real) wrists, but are of a golden metal, and are much slimmer and compact, closer to Ariel’s stylish wrist guards than bulky handcuffs

A black dress rests on her waist below the armor, trailing down to just above knee height at the front, just below it at the back, while leaving the thighs exposed. On her legs she wears a set of sturdy black thigh length heeled boots done up with cross stitching, which have golden metal caps on their toes who’s metal runs around the edges of her feet and down underneath as well. Both heel and toe tips are mechanically articulated, causing the boot to be flexible rather than rigid. This, combined with a set of dragon energy claws permanently extending from the toes and heel, allow the heels to enhance rather than restrict her mobility.

Her magic, dragon energy, lightning and astral chain have all now harmonized to have a black core inscribed with green twilight runes, all encased in a similarly green aura, in the same manner as her twilight volley bombs. Her shadow hands continue to match the hue of her hair however.

Personality: Midna is not exactly a picture of princessly grace and virtue, as she can be manipulative, mocking, selfish, vengeful and violent to get her way, as well as being impulsive, unpredictable, and prone to colorful expressions thanks to Orendi. However, she also takes the responsibility of her royal title to heart, having a deep concern for the well-being of her people, one which she has learned to apply to others beyond her kingdom. Ariel and Urbosa’s influence have added a warrior’s spirit and deepened her sense of nobility to this protectiveness, though her tendency to tease, joke and taunt can sometimes make her seem more rogue than royal knight.

Shemira has made her more willing to help selflessly as well, while the undead woman’s pessimism is suppressed by Ariel’s belief in a better world, because though Galeem’s may be cruel and unfair, the only thing to be done is fight against fate. Part of that also comes from a belief in the divine, that there other great powers out there, that need only be freed from Galeem’s grasp such that they might be able to aid in undoing the damage it has done.

She has also inherited Norah’s muse, if not her talents, and finding musical inspiration coming to her at unexpected times, which when combined with Orendi results in sometimes humming or whistling tunes, or even more rarely, singing them.

Background: Midna was once the princess of twilight, heir to the throne and future ruler of the Twili, a race of beings who lived in a shadow realm their sorcerer ancestors had been banished to from the light world of Hyrule. Upon the death of the previous ruler Midna was chosen to succeed them, but was soon overthrown by one of the failed claimants to the throne, Zant. Using powers gained from his new “god” he conquered the twilight realm, transformed its people into monsters and cursed Midna with an impish form before banishing her from the realm. Rather than sink into obscurity or die in disgrace however, Midna aimed to rebuild the Fused shadow, an ancient artifact of shadow magic, and use it to reclaim her throne.

She recruited the aid of Link, who had been transformed into a wolf, a sacred beast of her people, and together they embarked on a quest to first reassemble the fused shadow, and then, once its pieces were stolen from them by Zant and Minda is almost killed, the rebuilt the Mirror of Twilight which they would use to take the fight to Zant in the twilight realm.

Together they overcame first Zant, and then (with the aid of princess Zelda) Gandorf, who, as he is want to do, had revealed himself to be the man behind the man of Zant’s usurpation. Midna died in the process of defeating the villain, but was revived by the light spirits into her true form. She then returns to her home to claim her throne, but as she does so she destroys the twilight mirror to prevent the two antithetical realms from ever coming into conflict again

Then some crazy yarander called Cia tares time and space apart because of their crush on Link, re-implifying midna, reviving Zant and chucking her out of her kingdom again. After a brief misunderstanding she teams up with the Hylians to successfully regain her kingdom, beat Cia and then return to her own time, only to come back to Linkle’s time for a final battle against Ganon who pulled another true final boss maneuver and before finally returning to her kingdom for the third time. She did not get her true form back this time however. She was just getting into the swing of being the imp sized queen of an entire dimension when reality got torn apart for a second time and she ended up being dumped in Smash City.

In the now Midna was one of the many heroes who had resided in "Smash City" Alcamoth taking part in the fighting tournaments there. When freed by the Seeker’s slaying of the ender dragon, she joined their quest, traveling east into the desert.

Within it she slew Urbosa for her crime of being unwillingly partnered up with a shadow of Ganondorf, something she would later come to regret despite having built much of her current fighting style around that spirit's power. Beyond that she traveled north, losing and gaining friends and allies, till she ascended the split mountain and slew its guardian.

She then traveled to twilight town, learned to drive, was part of the seekers meet and greet, before traveling to Midgar, where her portal placement ability proved vital for swift navigation around the city, and their eventual dive into its heart to slay its guardian. Having left the city without power by accident, those seekers escaped the city, only to be chased by a consul and be saved by the Lost numbers, who they then joined. After that, they regrouped with the rest of the seekers in carnival town, where she learned the other team had recruited Gandorf of all people.

She swallowed her pride and agreed to work with him, but will never turn her back to the man as long as she lives.

Job: Armored Cavalry
Specialty: Midna has a variety of mounts and minions at her disposal, as well as martial and martial prowess, letting her get in fast and hit hard
Midna: level 9 EXP: //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (132/100) (+1 bonus pending)

Abilities:

• Summon Wolf Mount: Midna can summon up to one of threeTwilight Wolfos, a wolf-like creatures which are definitely not a retextured Wolf Link with an added head decorations. These Wolfos are summoned from the twilight realm via a small portal when Midna is in need of a mount, and can be sent back there just as easily. Fast, agile and armed with sharp fangs and claws, the Wolfos makes an excellent mount for the diminutive Midna. Each of the three is a unique and living being, and thus they are all capable both of absorbing spirits and being killed outright.
  
  Call of the pack allows her to shift the size of her mount to suit nay size changes she herself incurse from Spirit absorption or other sources.
  
  Current Wolfos status:

  twilitght Flygon

  This wolfos has now evolved into a flygon, crossed with a saboquill. The disk on its head has fused with its chitin, giving it a dark metallic crest, one with the wider fronds of the Saboquill. Its green hues are much darker, and the reds on its wings and eye protectors have turned teal. Its arms are more akin to the Saboquill, with wide spiked shoulders (which sport circular teal twilight markings) and larger claws. Its thighs are similarly spiked, and its feet have gained small clawed toes. Its fan-like tail tip sports a metal band/shackle at its base, has been filled with a darker red and has gained several more segments, making it look like a 2d dragon fruit.
  
  Powers:
  Moves:
  Dragon Breath: breaths a blast of purple energy that will paralyze the target 30% of the time.
  Bug Buzz: Buzzes it's wings to create harmful sound waves and will increase vulnerability to non-physical moves 10% of the time.
  Dragon Claw: The user slashes the target with purple energy wreathed claws
  Earthquake: The user sets off an earthquake that strikes those around it. Technically a physical attack, as they need to touch the ground to perform it.
  
  Strengths:
  Hit Reflect: which causes 50% of all damage dealt to the host to be inflicted to the attacker as well, calculated prior to defense modifiers and immunities. This also applies to the vibrava’s owner if both are together. Damage delivered via retaliatory volleys of cactus needles/spikes.
  
  Ground/Dragon type resistances: Immune to electricity, half damage from poison and rock moves.
  
  Levitate: able to fly, and immune to ground type moves as a result.
  
  Physical attacker: Its physical (melee) attacks are 25% more effective than special (ranged) attacks
  
  Weakness
  Ground/Dragon type weaknesses: quad damage from ice, double from dragon and fairy
  
  Plant Property: increasing the host’s fire weakness to 4x

  
  
  

  Twilight wolf-cycle

  Appearance:
  This wolfos has become considerably more draconic in shape akin to that of Maridon, with a longer serpent like neck with a glowing throat pouch, and thicker, sturdier hind legs that sport a wider stance. It has also become more mechanical, with the nest of black ‘hair’ turning into metal cables that extrude to where the forehead plate, which itself is now fused to the flesh rather than floating above it, and its eyes are now those of Maridon. Its snout is wider and bulkier, its lower jaw is metal rather than flesh like the rampaging cyborg and its gullet is distinctly cannon shaped.
  
  Its back sports a metal plate shaped like a motorcycle seat, while a second around the base of the neck provides 2 extensions that can be used as handlebars, as well as sporting a hatch in between them that can be used to load ammunition. Its tail is medium length and made up of the same energy filled tubing of its throat.
  
  Its legs are the most drastically cybernetisised, coated from head top to bottom in Maridon blue metal, and sporting several jet thrusters. The front ones are akin to Khan’s with their attachment to the legs and blade like wings, only they stick out a 45 degree angle out and away so as to not simply burn it’s rear legs or it’s rider, while the rear ones are akin to Maridon’s with two Kahn ones attached on the outside acting like auxiliary thrusters. Each ankle has an extension holding a hubcap of a wheel on it, and when brought together with its twin on the opposite leg, it will cause maridon’s tyre to form between them, transforming the beast into a motorcycle. Finally its feet now consist mostly of three large razor sharp claws.
  
  Powers
  Metal Wolf Chaos(rampaging cyborg):: granting a cannon on its back. The cannon can fire projectiles loaded into it at high enough speed to explode on impact. If not manually loaded with actual ammunition, it will extract a chunk of the host's flesh at the cost of HP to use instead
  
  Thunder(Maridon): which drops a shower of 6 thunderbolts in an moderate area. Each one deals appreciable damage, but they have low individual AoE and fall randomly, so smaller targets can evade them.
  
  Point-blank Shot(Khan): a high-damage, low-range, single-target projectile condensed from the host's primary element. If it's a critical hit, it's even stronger than a normal crit.
  
  Weaknesses:
  
  Powered (rampaging cyborg): If not powered by an energy cell, the host's cyborg parts remain inert, rendering the gun unusable and lowering its movement speed
  
  Bog Standard(Maridon): decreasing the power of standard/normal attacks (such as biting) by 30%
  
  All-out Attacker(Khan): decreasing defense and resistance by 15%

  
  
  

  A regular Wolfos

  Equipment
  
  Spit: A sticker that, when applied, allows the user to spit damaging projectiles that fly in a slow arc. They deal damage of whatever single element most closely matches the wearer (in this case shadow/dark)
  
  Deegahla Hide Scale Mail: a set of light, durable armor, that also has a saddle with stirrups to help Midna fight from it's back, as well as two holsters for pistols, and saddle bags modified so it is easier for Midna to open portals in them.
  
  Disposable Missile Launcher (strapped to the back of the armor): a cardboard assembly that can be used to fire a swarm of 12 homing missiles every 45 seconds.
• Dark energy zone: Midna projects a growing ring of dark energy around herself and her mount. This ring starts out small but gradually grows to a significant radius. Once activated Midna makes the power held in the ring lash out at enemies within its dark interior, stunning them with an electrical attack and allow her mount to quickly lunge between all targets stunned by the field
• Call the pack: Midna can temporarily summon her other two wolfos into combat at the same time as the one she is using as a mount. The summoning window is brief, a few seconds at best, making it optimal to use them as part of attacks that act as permanent troops. The wolves can pinwheel like spinning blades, spin dash like drills and even run circles to create vortexes that draw foes in or keep them in place, as well as use any other abilities they might pick up.
  
  They wolfos can also be larger than the one being used as a mount, though whether this is indicative of their true size or a magical buff is unclear. Whichever is the case, the hulking beasts can be devastating to groups of enemies, careening through them before vanishing back to the twilight realm only to reaper from another angle a number of seconds later.
  
  Passively, this power also lets Midna adjust the size of the wolfos she is riding to suit any shifts in size or proportions she herself experiences.
• Dragon Type (flygon): Midna has the capability to learn all Dragon-type moves a Flygon can, as well as the starting moves Dragon Claw and Dragon Dance.
• Siren Sands (Flygon): Midna gains sand manipulation abilities that give her the equivalents of the following moves:
  Sand Attack: Sprays the target with sand, irritating their eyes and reducing their accuracy
  Sand Tomb: Creates a localized sandstorm around the target. Does not do a lot of initial damage, but remains active for ten to twenty second, slowly sapping the target’s strength and bogging them down, preventing them from escaping.
  Sand Storm: Whips up a large sandstorm that indiscriminately buffets everyone inside it.
  
  Sand based attacks cannot use naturally occurring sand and instead Midna has to dump sand into the environment from the realm of Twilight. Other than its color this black and silvery sand is mostly normal, except for the fact that it wordlessly “sings” as it flies through the air. Bringing more sand out takes more time: Sand attacks can be hurled out at once straight from a small portal, each sand tomb needs its own brief prep time and a sand storm needs an almighty amount of twilight sand dumped into the environment in-order to be pulled off. Already dumped sand is, of course, reusable, allowing the combining of sand attacks into sand tombs, and then sand tombs into a full blown storm if the princess focuses on using this ability in a fight.
• Thunder Blade (Urbosa): Midna can store up to four ‘bars’ of electrical energy in a metal weapon, and then use it to unleash short ranged electrical attacks when swinging that blade. Abilities include shooting a tight beam of lightning, firing out a short ranged but wide thunderbolt, having 3 bolts hammer a small area around a blow, create a vortex of 3 swirling lightning steams, launch an electrical sword beam and so on. (basically everything from the combos section of this video except the last massive 2 combo’s massive aoe lightning.
  
  Using lightning uses charge, which can be regained by charging, which involves holding the weapon close to her body to fill it with lightning once more. Charging generally refills one ‘bar’ per second, but starting to charge right after an attack can steal back some of the used power and charge one bar instantaneously.
  
  Simply hammering on foes with the sword will also build static electricity, but this takes a fair bit longer than stepping back and charging it would.
  
  Midna’s lightning is a limey twilight green, and she and her mounts are naturally resistant to it, or at least enough to prevent themselves from being fried by being so close to the blast zone, but not enough to protect them if they are literally in said blast zone.
• Twilight warp: Midna can set down gateways (at her own location) that allow her to fast travel between them by skimming along the boundary of the twilight realm. This hop does not go deep enough to expose the traveler to the mutating energies of the twilight realm, and so it can be used to safely transport light-worlders as well as the princess herself. The creation of each gate requires a charge. She begins with 3, and gains one more each time she gains combat exp.
• Twilight volleybomb: Midna can charge up large translucent-green spheres of energy from her shadow hand, the maximum size which can be quite astounding which she can then ‘serve’ and then ‘spike’ at her foes. Most of the sphere can phase harmlessly through solid matter except a solid core. When that core impacts with something, it creates an explosion the same size as the sphere, which can, again, be very large.
  
  There are a couple of downsides. First off, charging to max size takes a few seconds, is incredibly obvious when being done, and has a lot of friendly fire potential due to the size of the explosion. The ball also has a kind of weight, causing larger balls to travel slower, resulting in lower ranges. Finally, the volleyballing attack method is not proclivity to the greatest accuracy or attack speed, also limiting the effectiveness of smaller balls.
• Twilight Darknut: Midna adds a reanimated Darknut to her roster of creatures she can summon from the twilight realm. As with the other’s it is its own entity (one cobbled together from spare Midna discovered in the equivalent of a dusty broom closet in her twilight storage room, having used a few of these as captains of her short lived personal army during the time war) capable of both death and fusion.
  
  The darknut itself is a towering figure, close to twice as tall as the average human, and clad in thick metal armor. It is also equipped with a large round shield that it is highly capable at blocking blows with. Combine these defenses with its undead nature, and it is safe to say that Twilight Darknut is an incredibly resilient combatant, at least when it comes to physical damage.
  
  Its main weakness is a very slow movement speed, the armored warrior able to at best advance at a walking pace, although its turn speed is comparatively nothing to be sniffed at. High caliber weapons, electricity, heat, and other types of attack that counter heavy metal armor are also natural counters to the towering knight, as are holy, light and other undead killing damage types.
  
  Offensively, it is armed with a hulking broadsword and a lighter longsword as a back up, which it wields with impressive skill and speed despite its armor. It can be equipped with other weaponry, though it’s proficiency with new gear is related to how closely it matches the starting gear.
  
  
  modifications

  Roadblock
  The host is now a hulking seven-foot titan of yellow and black metal, futuristic in make and fantastical in style. Nigh impervious to slashing, and resistant to practically anything else, it is an immovable object on the battlefield that foes are forced to play around, although its slow speed and short range make it somewhat one-note. This spirit confers the Power Obstacle, allowing it to project a large rectangular energy barrier from the shield on its left arm. Allies can move and shoot through it, but enemies cannot do either, and it can take some serious punishment. This spirit also confers the Weakness Mighty Glacier, making the Darknut unable to jump or run
• Crescent Moon(Mursame): This special sword slash allows Midna to near-instantly draw and strike with a bladed weapon and taunts the enemies it hits, making them more likely to target the host.
• Mass-produced Legionis (Clone of Akira Howard), which allows her to use a legatus to summon a bound Beast Legion from its core, connected to her by an astral chain. She can also now see chimeric entities clearly. The Beast Legion is an agile close-range fighter and can be ridden or used to track scents. It cannot be seen or attacked by most enemies. The astral chain can be used to send it out, pull it back, pull the host over to the legion, or bind enemies by encircling them. The Legion can also be modified with spirits.
• Cyclone Kick(Ariel): a powerful high thrust kick that unleashes a bright green magical tornado to deal heavy wind impact damage in an upside-down cone, with a 160% chance to stun for 5 seconds. This ability must be charged by landing wind-type attacks, and after a target is stunned, it gains stun resistance for several minutes.
• Tortured Souls (Shemira): making the host able to summon souls of the dead (who look like Poes) that spiral around her (with a radius of a couple of meters) to deal continuous damage over 12s, with 50% of their damage returning to the host as health. Tortured Souls constantly drains mana while active.
• Rainbow Rondo (Norah): By strumming a stringed instrument, the host can bestow a boon upon nearby allies that lasts 20s. Whenever such an ally takes a hit, even if it deals no damage, the host has a 1/3 chance to perform a musical counterattack, dropping three magical notes on the attacker.
• Storm Sands (Flygon/Urbosa): Midna can cause the grains of her sand attacks to swirl such a way that they generate static electricity. This gives her basic sand attacks an extra sting, causes sand tombs to apply the paralyze effect (slowing movement and potentially interrupting 1/4 of actions) while swirling around a foe, and turns sandstorms into thunderstorms that periodically blast anything within them (that is not immune to electrical damage) with bolts of lighting.

Skills:

• Twilight Princess: Midna has regal authority over the denizens and beasts of her realm such as other Twili and Shadow Woflos. She also has the ability to claim command over beasts or beings corrupted by that realm, like the twilight Kargarok, and some affinity for other creatures of shadow not from her universe/dimension.
• Basic Shadow Magic: Midna can float in the air, hide in shadows and teleport short distances. None of these abilities are fast enough to be used for dodging anything but the slowest of attacks but they can be useful for hiding, bypassing obstacles or basic locomotion.
• Monstrous Cavalry: Midna has a talent for mounted combat using unusual steeds such as Wolfos and Kargarok. She can easily command her strange steed and fight at the same time and is able to adapt to new mounts with relative ease.
• Champion Mindset(Urbosa): increasing Midna's natural authority and charisma and giving her a complete affinity for the Divine Beast Vah Naboris.
• Champion Moveset (Urbosa): Midna can draw on the spirit of the Grudo champion’s martial talent, a flowing melding of might and magic that gives the princess increased skill and versatility when it comes to melee combat. It also gives her proficiency with various melee weapons, most notably the Urbosa favored armaments, the ever-reliable combo of the sword and shield.
• Skirmisher Style(Orendi), increasing Midna’s agility and acrobatic sense to allow her to better avoid damage through mobility without having to rely on flight or hiding in shadows.
• Earth Dragon Resistances (flygon): Gain the flygon's typing's resistance, resulting an in immunity to electric type damage and effects, as well as a 50% resistance to poison, fire and rock type moves

other Boons

• Climber’s Bandana:A light piece of headgear that decreases stamina consumption appreciably
• Harbinger MaskA strange, full-face rebreather that seems almost molded from flesh, worn stuck to the face. It somehow doesn't obstruct visibility, but it does amplify the sound of the wearer's breathing. In exchange, it provides immunity to Poison and Burn, as well as variants of those afflictions, and 75% fire damage reduction
• Night Bloom (Selene) - grants a hex, charged by casting magic, that automatically raises the last susceptible slain enemy (once charged) to fight as an ally for 12 seconds

Weaknesses:

• Imp Body: Midna’s imp body isn’t exactly the hardiest of forms, nor is it the strongest. Finding suitably scaled armor or weapons is also difficult. after fusing with Urbosa she is now somewhat larger and notably more muscular, reducing this weakness somewhat.
• Light Based Attacks: While mere sunlight is no longer enough to damage her, as a Twili Midna still has a weakness to light based weapons or attacks (lasers, light magic, etc.). On top of this bright light is uncomfortable for her to bear and she is more vulnerable to being blinded/stunned by flashes or high intensities of light.
• Fated End(Urbosa): Suffers heavy stress when facing either electric enemies or enemies wielding a sword and shield, and near-paralysis if facing an enemy with both
• Dragon Weakness(flygon): Midna takes more damage from both dragon-aspected and anti-dragon attacks and weapons, as well as Fairy-type Pokemon moves and ice
• IWHBYD(Orendi):: making her much more likely to compulsively spout off whatever comes to mind, even in combat or potentially awkward social situations
• Can't Fly (Mursame): making the host unable to fly under her own power
• Born for One Thing Only (Clone of Akira Howard): disables all of the host's Strikers and spitting out their spirits, as well as preventing the gaining of new ones
• Critical Fire Bane (Shemira): resulting in 50% extra damage from fire-aspected attacks
• Auto Battler (Ariel): more likely to zone out and fight without thinking in battles that don't interest her
• Hard of Hearing (Norah): making the host's hearing worse

Spirits: N/A

Rapport:

• Sectonia: 17 (B rank)
  
  • royalty should stick together, even if one is light and one is shadow
  • team attack:
  • skill share: Powerful Mage: Midna has gained a very high affinity for and familiarity with magic on top of her own. She can detect its usage and even identify magic in use, discerning its effects. She exhibits a great deal of control over her own mastered spells, including potency, direction, and precision.
• Primrose: 7 (C rank)
• Roxas: 12 (B rank)
  
  • born between light and dark, and therein lies twilight
  • team attack:
  • skill share: Flow Motion: Minda has learned from Roxas’s visits to many different worlds and has thus become quite capable of adapting to many environments for the purpose of maneuverability in combat.
• Goldlewis: 8 (C rank)
• Geralt: 4 (D rank)
• Bowser Jr: 6 (C rank)
• Bowser: 3 (D rank)
• Kamek: 4 (D rank)
• Therion: 3 (D rank)
• Juri: 3 (D rank)
• Edward: 9 (C rank)
• Ganondorf: -3 (F rank)

Inventory:

Money:

4100 Zenny

Fused Shadow (1/4th) Worn by Midna as a helmet this physical manifestation of Shadow magic gives Midna the ability to transform her ponytail into a large prehensile limb tipped with a large hand. This hand has immense strength, capable of smashing foes aside, grabbing and hurling people or things and wielding large weapons. The force of blows or weight of lifting is not applied back to Midna, which is convenient as otherwise usage of this artifact would likely break her neck. The fully completed artifact is many times more powerful than its component parts. Despite its appearance it does not damage her depth perception.

Spaulders of the Bat - A pair of shoulder guards that bind to the wearer when equipped, meaning they will be destroyed if discarded or given to someone else. They provide extra physical protection and incremental increases to intellect, stamina, and haste (casting / attack speed). With the Andrew Oikonny sticker applied, the wearer is also a little more launch resistant, flying back a shorter distance when launched. With the Maglev mod equipped, the wearer's slide speed is boosted by a notable 30%, but with 30% less friction she's also a bit slower/slipperier both to get started and to stop moving on all surfaces (no effect while airborne)

Breastplate of Valor Increases physical defense, maximum mana, and mana regeneration. Most importantly, reduces cooldowns by 20%

Mimic Tooth Necklace When worn, any chest the wearer attempts to open will be unlocked automatically if locked, and also be a mimic. The mimic deals more damage depending on the quality of what’s inside it and behaves as if whatever’s inside it is equipped.

Rosary: Rope knot made from the threads of habits of monks deceased in ancient times, crafted by Engracia to whom all other’s works paled to such an extent they were branded a heretical. Holds Beads that can grant boons to the wearer.
Beads:
Frozen Olive: Summer fruit trapped in an endless winter. Born from an olive tree turned into a prison, its frosted oils bolster the wearer's defenses (by 50%) when their strength is nearly exhausted (at 20% or less hp).
Piece of a Golden Mask
Piece of embossed gold, part of a mask broken years ago. The nuns of the Convent of the Charred Visage swear never to let the world see their burned faces, and the conviction of its old wearer has permeated the metal. A rosary bead that grants 25% protection against flames

Psycho Mask - a wearable statement of freedom--freedom from society, morality, and sanity, all in one. It has no actual effect on the wearer but features a built-in filter which can purify incoming air, and two ports that gas canisters can be plugged into

Biteturn Charm - a charm of human bone with a touch of the Stranger’s power. Whenever a bladed weapon strikes the holder it will take massive durability damage, enough to shatter conventional weapons. When this happens, however, one of the wearer’s teeth will turn black and fall out. The tooth cannot be regrown via healing.

Cursed Sword - a strange blade imbued with fell sorcery. It deals extreme damage when used as a weapon but is difficult to grasp and use effectively. While equipped, any damage taken by the user will result in an instant kill

X-Naut Uniform: An Alternate Costume that, when applied to a person, near-instantly clothes them in a perfectly tailored version of the comfy red and poofy white suit, gloves, shoes, and hood of the X-Nauts. Includes goggles. In addition to being comfortable and warm, it also pretty much completely masks the wearer’s identity

Sharpnened Volcano Fragment
Deals less damage than your average axe on hit, but will light the target on fire, causing the target to take damage over time until the flames are quenched or 7.5 seconds pass

Sun on a Stick
Deals less damage than your average bat on his, but will deal a critical hit to a burning target without putting the target out. Also grants 25% protection against flames while in hand

Clubba Club:A heavy weapon of solid metal. Its weight makes it a pain to use but a whole lot more pain for anyone it’s successfully used against. Just picking it up and dropping it is more practical than actually trying to swing it

Freindship bracelets: A simple metal bracelet sporting a heart shaped emblem made from a red stone. When worn the two ‘lobes’ each gain their own stylised icon representing the two people wearing the matched bands. When the bands are close together (so in the same general area sucha s a room, small building or garden) each half of the stones will glow softly, with the light intensifying the stronger the bond is between the two wearers.

At a base the band increases damage by 5% and movement speed by 6% even when the wearers are not around each other, but it can raise it by up to a maximum of 15/18% respectively for incredibly close friends. This the current owning pair most certainly are not, but they still gain a decent 7.5% damage and 9% movement speed boost, and could easily raise this to a pleasant 10%/12% by spending a bit more time with/around each other.

Comes with an instruction pamphlet that attempts to translate the glow intensity to various stages of friendship (from simple acquaintances all the way up through BFFs and Ace life partners) and effect efficiency, but fails to deliver the above information to the wearers particularly effectively.

The bracelet can also prevent the wearers from being forced to fight each other via various mind control or enrage effects, the effectiveness of this effect again being based on how close they are.

Mordant Dew: A whole vial of the nasty, toxic venom that Stingers inject into their victims. While underwhelming at first brush, it is actually a very valuably magical and alchemical opponent, as well as one of the requisite ingredients of the Grim Talisman, a charm that -when equipped- allows the user to build up his or her special resource with every landed attack

Carven Stone: harvested from a Construct Sentinel, this enchanted stone is one third of the ingredients of the Grim Talisman, a powerful amulet

A boat load of survival rations of various kinds.

A now rather small amount of wooden crates stollen off the back of a truck (empty)

A cheap watch (which she got overchaged for)

A bottle of blood themed shampoo

Treespear: Golden spear with tree-like design. Hits are infused with yellow lightning, their strength dependent on the wielder's Faith. Requiring superior dexterity to wield, this greatspear can perform consecutive thrust attacks despite its larger size.

Prometheus Torch type 1: A torch researched thoroughly to allow a pyrokinesis psionic to unleash their full potential. Damages the taget with fire and bashing. Lakcing pyrokinetic ability, Midna uses this less refined and bulkier version of the torch purly for bashing

Power Cell: A cartridge loaded with electricity. Its built-in converters mean that it can be used to fully charge almost any device that runs on electric power

Orange Gel: A sweet medicinal jelly capable of providing 33% instant healing when eaten

Commando auto-pistol (x2): an auto pistol able to fire off 3 rounds a second, as well as firing a piercing phase round every 6 seconds. Unlimited ammo and no reloads necessary.

Erendira‘s Gun-lance: a long lance that, along with being able to be used for stabbing, can also shoot small purple aura bolts, or swept to the side to launch a wide angle projectile. It must be charged by supernatural energy to use projectiles

Eliacube: A mysterious artifact. Under normal circumstances the cube is dark and closed, with a texture like jade, and it never opens. It seems to hold some sort of restorative ability, and it can hold a seemingly limitless amount of energy, but how -and perhaps why- it works is an enigma. It's rather interesting and gives off an important feeling. Probably warrants further study. Could it have some sort of psychic effect on those who own it? Or is it just a mirror, reflecting your own uncertain face back at you, and its magic is all in your head?

Ice Shield: A somewhat cumbersome medium shield, decorative and heavy. It nevertheless provides great defense, especially against ice, water, air, and slash attacks.

Ice Geode: Smithing material that's great for ice enchantments or making ice-themed weapons, though it'll take a master to put it to good use

Psi Stone of Dissonance: A crystalline pyramid that can be used to launch a conical energy wave that deals mental damage, applying high stagger. It takes a long time to recharge, however, and can only be used effectively once every five minutes. It darkens after use and starts glowing again when ready to blast

Serrated Knife: A large dagger most infamously wielded by General RAAM of the Locust Horde. Although it is a knife in the hands of RAAM, by human standards, it is a short sword.

Royal War Fan: A fan outfitted with blades and usable as a versatile dexterity weapon. Its attacks are supplemented with minor wind damage, which can also create gusts or small wellsprings, or allow it to be thrown like a sawblade

Daora Gem: An organic gemstone formed from gradual deposits of impurities deep within the bowels of a Kushala Daora elder dragon. Its glow is breathtaking, and it could be used to forge Daora weapons of highest quality

Dead End Express: A pair of huge, heavy mechanized clubs forged from the remains of Wartrain Gouon, six feet long and a thousand pounds apiece. Each miniature locomotive boasts eleven grinding sawblade wheels that spin at high speed. Though nigh-impossible to wield, they boast terrifying destructive power, and can even be straddled or otherwise ridden and used as a vehicle

lyre: a humble isntrument

Nightsky Ripper, if user attuned to Shadow element: increase DEF when HP is 50% or above.

World of Light: the Endless Now (The Ultimate Smash Bros Crossover)

Bowser Jr

Bowser Jr

Game Origin: Super Mario Sunshine
Personality: Bratty, spoiled and rude jr takes a lot after his doting father, both due to his upbring and due to his craving for respect and and acknowledgment of others, especially his father. Jr also generally dislikes been treated like a child, despite acting his age nearly all the time. He is somewhat smarter than his father, not that this requires much of an intellect, and a touch less stubborn as well, being able to swallow his pride if it is necessary. He is also somewhat lonely as a combination of his royal status, a lack of many acquaintances in his age group and, of course, his own rather abrasive attitude. The Koopalings, for example, act as more mentors or underlings than anything close to companions.

He also likes big dangerous machines and he really, really likes giant robots.

After fusing with B’giotahmo Bravha jr has become more calm and gentle.

Apperance: Jr initaly appeard as he does in Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle.

After fusing his ears and tail with B’giotahmo Bravha he has gotten taller with more humanoid proportions. His tail is longer, thinner, and has a mix of blue and orange fur running along the top of it. The host's hair is the same, a mix of blue and orange, and is a bit longer, with cat ears poking out the top. The host has a more human face, and is now wearing a white long coat with red lining

After fusing with Vespikan Ferromancer his right arm has become covered in an inflexible chitin in place of scales, onto/into which iron runes have been carved/tattooed. The hand is absolutely covered in these, making it appear almost entirely metallic.

After fusing both Undyne and Omori into his right arm, the scales on Junior's right arm turn a bit more blue, but then the colors on his arm got more muted overall. It has some light piece of metal armor strapped around the forearm and bicep, as well as a light gauntlet and shoulder plate.

Background: Bowser jr is the only son of the Koopa King Bowser. First seen in super mario sunshine where he kidnapped peach and impersonated mario, Jr now has a long history of battling against mario, generally alongside his father but occasionally solo. Jr was also present at the failed cliffside battle against Galeem and was, along with almost everyone else, blasted Galeem almost immediately.
In the now Bowser jr was unstoried when the version of his father he was living with that was a Guardian was killed by a different version of his father who was one of the first seekers. A bit of an odd way to come about it, but then the Guardian version had been the version who was infected by the megabug that one time, he got over/rationalized it pretty quick.

The prince then took a nap, fixed up a bunch of cars, including his personal mini clown car, and caught a Mimkyu that he named Mimi as his first pokemon/minion, before setting off east along with the rest of the seekers. There he explored the land of venture, took a tiny teleport in and out of the dead zone, before along with the rest of the team defeating the region's guardian and freeing smash city Alcamoth in the process, which he used as a hub for graffiti art based warp paintings till it was destroyed.

He then headed to the Deep Blue along with Kamek, where they acquired an airship, and then set out on a scouting/probing attack vs the abyssal fleet. In doing so they fred/converted 2 members of said fleet. The princess Bella who offered them a lot of information on her fleet and, more importantly, a nameless grunt trooper who would come to be known as Rika.

While others got busy in Limsa Lominscuttle town using their help in the previous battle to get themselves in on an upcoming major offensive vs the fleet, the converted abyssals hid out aboard the ship, and Jr hid out with them. During this time Rika got her name, and her and jr’s bond began to take root as he took responsibility for unshackling her from the gauntlets that had been permanently strapped around her arms.

They then traveled north through the blue, broke the abyssal’s strongholds, survived the horrors of the Maw, slew the fleets leaders on caress isle, and finally the region’s gardien along with it. After a quick stop for a beach party during which Jr caught a Popolio named Dazzle and added it to his team, they headed back to smash city via portal, and then down to twilight town to link up with the rest of the seekers.

After that, it was down to the under, where Bowser ended up adopting Rika due in part due to how close Jr had grown to her, as well as acquiring the latest member of his team, a Flutter Mane named Peeka. Also they killed a guardian and a Consul, and learned that the world of light was actually ancient.

Finally they de-stressed in Carnival town, found out the Avenger, and then his papa and Kamek both went off with Peach without him, which has left the prince in a bit of a huff, but it's hardly the first time this has happened to him. His new sister took it worse, and he’s done what he can to help her adapt.

Job:Beast Master
Specialty:Jr provides a wealth of magical and mechanical support and firepower, but is somewhat lacking in mobility.

Bowser Jr: Level 14 EXP: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(147/140)

Abilities:

• Withdraw: Bowser Jr pulls his head and limbs inside his shell for added defense or to perform a Koopa shell spin/slide attack.
• Life from the slime: the goop from the magic paintbrush now passively spawns Swoopin' Stus, simple creatures that resemble transparent flapjack octopuses with a ball of goop within their bodies. They attack Jr’s enemies by jumping at them and exploding into a splatter off goop. They also spatter into goop when killed. In battle can spread Jr’s graffiti to capture more ground and thus create more surface area that spawns more Stus. Stu’s won't explode unprovoked, preventing them from becoming a true self replicating night mare. That and a massive vulnerability to water.
• warp graffiti: Jr can use his magic paintbrush to paint a M with two accent marks above it within which can be seen a distant location. These paintings can be entered, warping the entree to the start of that location (in front of peach’s castle’s gate, just before the ramp for the approach to The End, the base of the argent energy tower, etc.) The best rule of thumb would be that it is the start of a level in a game. These warps are one way, but Jr is not limited in the number he can make, allowing him to rapidly link up locations he has been to via warps.
• Fire Breathing (Kid sized): Jr can huck fireballs like his pappy, but they are, of course, smaller, weaker and less numerous than the big man’s own affair, but they do come with some special tricks up their sleeves. Come in two flavors: quick and bouncy like a certain plumber’s hand thrown fireballs or slow and homing with the added benefit of leaving a patch of fire when they hit the ground. He also has a regular, if again comparatively weak compared to his dad’s, fire-breath for short ranged roasting.
• Elemental goop: Jr’s magic paintbrush can now create two new types of goop, shocking goop and burning goop, which do additional elemental damage. Shocking goop is a mix of teal and yellow, and will electrocute enemies that come into contact with it, damaging and stunning the foe. Burning goop meanwhile is a molten mix of oranges and reds and is superheated to the extent that it can ignite foes who come into contact with it, which can cause them to run around in a panic trying to put it out. Both goops can linger as a dot, dealing additional electric/heat damage over time until removed.
• Healer Basics(B’giotahmo Bravha): As long as jr has some sort of staff-like casting catalyst (such as his paintbrush), he can cast Cure to restore a burst of HP, Esuna to cleanse minor status effects, and Lucid Dreaming to gradually restore a third of his own MP.
• Holy Offense (B’giotahmo Bravha): Jr against the spell Repose: which inflicts sleep on an enemy for 30 seconds, and Stone, which rips rocks from the surrounding environment and hails the foe with a shower of earth element damage.
• Healer Basics Plus (B’giotahmo Bravha): Jr gains the spells Medica which heals himself and all allies in an circular aoe with a 15 yard radius, and Presence of Mind (usable every two minutes), which increases attack and casting speed by 20% for 15 seconds.
• Divine intervention(B’giotahmo Bravha): grants Jr two white mage spells: Benediction, which can instantly fully and freely heal a target within 30 yards, but which has a two minute cooldown and Holy, which deals damage and stuns foes (for 4 seconds) in an 8 yard radius around him, but has a 2.5 second cast and recast time. Each successively chained stun a target receives lasts half as long as the last (4-2-1-0)
• Ferromancy (Vespikan Ferromancer): allowing them to magically create iron objects out of their hand and arm. All new metal begins its life in contact with the host’s runes, though it can still be manipulated for a few brief moments afterwards. This can be used to quickly create and launch small blades/shards/spikes, form weapons or shields, coat their arm in metal armor or spikes etc. It can also be used more slowly to make complex components or higher quality equipment, weld things together, create small defenses or structures, etc.
• Monster metal (Vespikan Ferromancer/Undyne): via a combination of the Ferromancer and Undyne’s magic, Jr can now produce magic infused iron, as long as it comes in the form of spikes and spears. As well as giving it the ability to better harm foes with physical resistance (such as ghosts), it also lets the summoned objects still be manipulated even once they are no longer in contact with his body. They can either float close to Jr to be later launched at targets, or can have their trajectory altered once while in flight, letting the shots re-adjust if they miss, rain down from above when shot over a target, spike up after being launched under, or even orbit around the foe inorder to shoot them in the back.
• Sick 'Em (Astrid): which allows the host to perform a special weapon throw (for identical small weapons) that track somewhat and purge the target's most recent buff on hit.
• Z-Power: Jr can perform team attacks with his minions, consisting of him pouring a large amount of mana into one of them so they can unleash a powerful attack drawn either form their base form or from one of their fusions. These can be things like Z-moves for pokemon, such as Let's Snuggle Forever for Mimi the Mimikyu or an ultimate ability like Life Form Disintegration Ray for Peeka, which would be drawn from her Vel’Koz fusion.

Skills:

• Leadership: Certainly not a born one, jr nonetheless has learned this skill in-order to fill the royal boots of his father some day. Unlike his father, who leads as something of a general, jr has led his troops from the front. Or the back of the front at least, commanding squads of minions to do battle in his name while he manages their tactics and formation as a squad captain.
• Pint sized powerhouse: Despite his short stature jr is actually rather strong, capable of lifting several times his weight, and has a fair bit of the dexterity that his father lacks as he can skillfully wield all manner of weapons and do a fair bit of platforming as well. His shell also makes him fairly durable, tough nowhere near as much as his father.
• Mechanical skill: Bowser jr has shown a fair deal of skill when it comes to the use of machines, having piloted (and possibly designed) numerous mech, ships, cars and other combat vehicles. He can also hack emails.
• Scrap Mechanic: jr has learned how to better work with broken machinery others would simply throw away, be it fixing the team’s gear or salvaging enemy equipment for reuse, repair materials or upgrade components.
• Inkngineering: Jr can modify/enchant weapons to spread/fire the ink from his magic paintbrush. For example making the splattershot fire magic ink instead of squid ink, or making a melee weapon leave ink where it impacts.
• Monster Master: Bowser Jr is good at training, commanding and using various creatures, such as pokemon, tem-tems, battle pets, etc. He bonds quickly with them, inspires loyalty and has a knack for teaching them how to fight and act at his command.
• Olympian: The one with this strength has competed in numerous summer and winter olympic games, and has experience in and talent at all the various sports. They are proficient at any activities that are represented by those events. Notably it does not improve basic skills like running, jumping or swimming, but instead provides an extensive if esoteric list of talents from discus tossing to rowing to skiing, basketball, rhythmic gymnastics, bobsledding, etc.
• Stronger Together (Maw): The experience within the Maw has brought the Koopas closer together both with each other and with those that shared the experience with them. All of them gain increased confidence and constitution when in close proximity to other survivors of the Maw, knowing that they can trust their backs to be watched, and going the extra mile to make sure they can do the same.
• Feast (Maw): Eating anything will restore health in addition to its actual effects. Also, receive a fast-diminishing attack boost after eating
• Lance Aptitude (undyne): which includes both wielding and throwing proficiencies
• Emotions (Omori): which affect his stats a little based on his emotions: angry (+attack/-defense), happy (+speed/-accuracy), sad (+defense/-speed)

Weaknesses:

• Childish: reckless, impatient and impulsive, jr has a lot to learn.
• Small: He might be tough, but the lad is still only waist high.
• Supernatural separation anxiety (Maw): If unity is strength then separation is weakness and the Maw has taught that weakness will not be tolerated. Those with this curse will become overly worried if another of their number is not in the company of at least one other curse bearer, and especially worried if they go off on their own, which tends to cause reckless rushes to their aid.
• Dedicated Healer(B’giotahmo Bravha): decreasing the power of offensive magic by 20%
• Ventilate Heat: the metal inscriptions cause the arm to lose heat at a rapid rate. In environments that are not actively warm, the arm will feel unpleasantly cold and take more stamina to use than the uninscribed arm. Cold environments will make this worse, or be potentially dangerous. Insulation can prevent these issues, but will also reduce the effectiveness of any magic gained from the runes.
• Worse Depth Perception (undyne)
• Spider/Drowning Phobia (Omori)
• Earth Element (Astrid): which decreases the damage dealt to fire-aspected enemies by 20%

Spirits:

Active strikers

• Blodia A titan of vivid red and shining steel, too large to be fully summoned all at once. Instead, it can be called in on a long cooldown to deal attacks that cover huge areas with heavy damage. This abilities include Blodia Punch, a straight strike that hits like a freight train, Blodia Vulcan, a hail of gunfire, and Blodia Lift, which allows the striker to pick up or throw the host
• Sho A high-tech ninja wielding electric chain scythes. He can either perform quick melee slashes or a long-range scythe hurl every 10s. Every 30s, he can also perform Air Rend, hurling one scythe at an enemy that he then uses for flying grapple slash. Alternatively, he can use Evasion Rend to appear, then substitute a log that, if struck, lets him use Air Rend without having to land the projectile first
  Stored strikers
• Goomba Swarm
• Koopa Corps
• Primid Party
• Bytan Rollout
• Chef Bro cook-off
• Murlock Marines
• Flukefey flight
• Vespikan Raid

Minions:

• Mimi (Mimikyu): captured at Peach's castle, Mimikyu is Jr's starter Pokemon. They have quite a strong bond after being though so much together in such short a time.
  
  moves and modifications

  Moves:
  

  
  
  • Hone Claws
  • Shadow Sneak
  • Mimic
  • Electroball

  
  
  Modifications:
  Due to the absorption of a Spaark into her body, Mimikyu's body has recompositioned into a dark cloudlike substance, she gained a battery pack on back of disguise, and the ability to learn more electric moves going forward.
  
  (Maw Strength) Stronger Together: The experience within the Maw has brought the Koopas closer together both with each other and with those that shared the experience with them. All of them gain increased confidence and constitution when in close proximity to other survivors of the Maw, knowing that they can trust their backs to be watched, and going the extra mile to make sure they can do the same.
  
  (Maw Strength) Feast - Eating anything will restore health in addition to its actual effects. Also, receive a fast-diminishing attack boost after eating
  
  (Maw Weakness) Supernatural separation anxiety: If unity is strength then separation is weakness and the Maw has taught that weakness will not be tolerated. Those with this curse become increasingly agitated, nervous and jumpy without someone around to watch their back as the horrors of the Maw supernaturally claw their way out of the depths of their memories to assail them with reminders of their vulnerability and visions of false horrors in the shadows. Most extreme when out on their own, but even becoming separated slightly in a battle can cause the fear to start creeping in. (Minions, such as summons or pokemon, provide only a coping mechanism rather than a solution to this problem).
• Dazzle (Brionne): captured at Kanzuki Beach Estate, evolved in the beehive in the under
  
  moves and modifications

  Moves:
  

  
  
  • Water Gun
  • Disarming Voice
  • Aqua Jet
  • Icy Wind

  
  
  Modifications:
  
  Bake-Kujira (Tail) The host has slightly increased in size overall, while darkening in color. His tail is longer and broader, its flippers jutting out at a more perpendicular angle, and much less flexible. The tail is also increasingly spectral toward the end, divided between murky teal flesh and ghostly blue energy juxtaposed over bone. This spirit grants the ability Twisting Dive, which allows the host to execute a cursed corkscrew leap. While diving, the host inflicts damage plus brief stun, is knockback-immune, and carries struck targets with him to the end point (as long as the targets are not larger/heavier than himself). At the end of the dash, a concussive splash deals extra damage, and this dive goes farther when underwater. This spirit also grants the weakness Lesser Pinniped Mobility. Due to the changes to the structure of the tail, he is no longer able to run on land like a sea lion, but must flop, roll, or slide like a seal
• Peeka (Flutter Mane): found within the Ancient Pools in the under, where creatures of long past dwell, she engaged in a lively game of peekaboo with Jr, before joining him on his adventure to escape the boredom of that ancient place.
  
  moves and modifications

  Vel'koz('Necklace') The host's coloration is slightly greener, and the pink feathers a little more like tentacles. The main change concerns the 'pearls' around the host's neck, which are now brilliant glowing slitted pink-purple orbs like the eyes of Vel'koz itself. This spirit confers the ability Plasma Fission, allowing the host to fire out a plasma bolt that inflicts damage and a heavy 70% slow that quickly decays. While in flight, the host can will the bolt to split, firing off to the left and right at perpendicular angles. This spirit also confers the Weakness Low Mobility, decreasing the host's movement speed while floating
  
  Moves:
  

  
  
  • Dazzling Gleam
  • Wish
  • Psybeam
  • Confusion ray
• (former) Tyrant (baby behemoth)

Rapport:

• Bowser: 32 (S Rank)
  
  
  
  • His dear Papa, how could the boy not be close to him?
• Kamek: 32 (S Rank)
  
  
  
  • Responsible for much of the day to day raising and mentoring of the young prince, just as he was for the king. For all intensive purposes Kamek is Jr’s grandpa
• Rika: 35 (S Rank)
  
  
  
  • Being royalty Jr has never really had a peer his own age, which has left a big friendship shaped hole in his life that having a sister is now filling.
  • tag team: Sibling Super Strike: Jr jumps onto Rika's shoulders, riding her piggy back while channeling magic into her gauntlets. She then bursts forwards, delivering a flurry of jabs each of which create 16 yard long cone shaped shockwaves of stunning holy power
  • Ship Girl Physiology: Jr can glide across, or rather just above, liquid surfaces, able to hover to and fro via just her will. He also has adds inhuman vitality and resilience needed to be able to take at least a few hits from ship girl grade weapons to his own.
  • Crossover: Rika swaps her helmet for his hairstick, ponytail and ranger cap, and her spear for Jr’s paintbrush staff. She gainings his casting and paint related abilities, while he gains her martial combat prowess. Both maintain their minion and mechanical firepower related traits/equipment.
• Midna: 6 (C Rank)
  
  
  
  • tag team:
• Pit: 8 (C Rank)
  
  
  
  • tag team:
• Roxas: 8 (C Rank)
  
  
  
  • tag team:

Inventory:

• 50 gold
• Geo x1500
• rubies x2
• Pizza Recipes: Neapolitan, Sicilian, Margherita, Caprese
• tape player: plays and can record onto tapes, both regular and cassettebeasts
• tapes: empty tapes: 1 platinum, 2 regular ones. Used to make recordings of monsters. When a recording is used, it transforms the listener into the mosnter, adding the monster's health on top of the user's, grants a number of new moves, and allows fusion with other 'Cassette Beasts' once enough power has been built up by taking damage, but it blocks the user's own equipment, effects, and powers completely. If this form's health is depleted, the tape breaks and must be repaired, either with a respool or during a long rest.
• Recording: bottom half of a flukemon - able to bite and little else
• Undyne Recording - a cassette tape that, when paired with a cassette player, allows the listener to take the form of Undyne, a humanoid water type boss monster.
  
  moves

  -Slice (metal, weak melee)
  -Wallop (metal, medium melee)
  -Double Slice (metal, multi-hit melee)
  -Torrent (water, medium ranged, water spears from below)
  -Burning Passion (passive, increases ranged and melee attack if burned)
  -Desperation (metal, melee that does more when hurt)
  -Raise Arms (increase own melee attack for 30 seconds)
  -Retribution (passive, increases ranged and melee attack if an ally or allied monster form dies)
  -Ritual (once cast, restores the monster form's health to 25% on defeat, once per fight)
  -Undertow (water, strong but slow ranged, giant water spear or anchor from below)
• Gaddbrush: also known simply as the magic paintbrush this weapon is capable of creating a harmful ink or goop like substance. This can be applied to enemies as a dot effect and to terrain to create hazard zones. Weapon wise it can either be used as a short spear or like a roller from splatoon.
• Jr Clown Car: jrs primary moad of transport is a miniture version of his papa's clown car. As the boy re-uses the machine far more often it has a fair number of additions. the most notable is the ability to deploy robotic arms sporting everything from boxing gloves to saw blades and drills on the end. It can also deploy cart wheels from it's base to replace the propeller, deploy wrecking balls in place of the arms and store numerous items within it's hammer-space glove compartment.
  
  clown car add-ons

  
  
  • Flaming Balloon cannon: ones the 'mouth' of the car and extends a cannon, from which is fired a flaming balloon made in the image of the clown car itself, which has a homing capability and an explosive impact. stolen from the Sweet Tooth ice cream van belonging to Needles Kane. Replaced the standard Cannon
  • Splattershot - a strong squirt gun that fires black ink. It only directly harms hydrophobic targets like fire elementals. ground type pokemon, and Inklings, but it coats both targets and surfaces with sticky ink that impairs movement and makes the target more susceptible to damage. Installed on a deploy-able arm.
  • Synapse - An organic rifle whose internal organs generate potent charges of bioelectricity to accurately fry enemies at close or medium range. It unleashes 12 jolts per second in a continuous stream, with 72 jolts per charge and 6 seconds to fully recharge, though it won't fire while recharging. The weapon does not need to feed, but it should be cleaned. Installed on a deploy-able arm.
  • Sentient Meat Hook "When artificial intelligence became more commonplace, many companies jumped on the trend for "smart" products. This included smart doors, lights, coffee makers, lawnmowers, vacuum cleaners, bedding, kitchen knife sets, and other home goods. After a series of gruesome lawsuits stemming from hacked smart appliances, most products soon went back to their more traditional, analog lines."
    
    -"Why Is Smart So Dumb? VII"
    
    Can be ordered to fire out and hook enemies. Or friends. Or objects. Anything you want hooked really. Has a mind of its own and will hook things it thinks the user wants hooked based on their meta data, something it will get better at the more it is used. Heavy. Potentially a bit temperamental. Fires out of the mouth like a vicious chameleon tongue.
  • Fused with Egg Mobile-H (damaged): a hovering vehicle once used by the evil genius dr eggman. Comes equipped with a massive wrecking ball attached via a chain. Components stolen from it have increased the car's size a bit, and added more lifting power, rocket on the back for more forwards thrust, and upgraded the deployable wrecking ball to be much much larger.
  • A Mulcher cranck operated machine gun.
  • Padwah's Wheel: A tank wheel devoid of its treads, wielded as a weapon. Though more than applicable as a blunt instrument, it's been retrofitted with flamethrowers that allow it to serve as a blazing ring of destruction. An attached cable makes it usable like a yo-yo.
• Bloop Hood - a cowl to be worn over the head. It allows the wearer to breath and see freely underwater as well as slightly mitigating water resistance.
• Engineer Suitcase: acquired from Cindy Aurum in exchange for a bunch of junk acquired from raider vehicles, it contains an assortment of mundane tools used by GDI engineers for repairing buildings and vehicles, along with the ability to override security systems, though sadly there are no instructions for how to do this included with the kit
• Fishing Spear
• duffle bag A large cylindrical duffle bag with pokeball logos, useful for carrying stuff around outside the car.
• pokeballs (x10): For catching mons.
  
  [8] bandolier across the chest that can hold 6 pokeballs
• pokemon potions: for healing mons
• poke puffs: for a treat
• Battery
  Sometimes paired with assault, but best used for small electronic devices
• frigid javelin: An ice forged throwing spear that, after striking, melts and reforms in its thrower’s hand. On hit it will ignite the struck foe with freezing flames that block passive hp regen (but not active regen like potions or spells) and deal 1 more javelin hits’ worth of damage over 2 seconds.
• Glyphid Trophy Hunter Experimental Plasma Charger: Bullets are so last year. Instead, why not incinerate your enemies from the inside out with a highly experimental anti-matter-powered gun firing supercharged plasma bolts? What's the worst that could happen? (If you find out, please report to R&D). Not upgraded
• Glyphid Trophy Hunter Deepcore GK2: A dependable, hefty weapon. Usually not the first choice of proper Dwarves, but the combination of heft, weight, and satisfying boom makes it worthwhile all the same. Not upgraded, and also ammoless.
• Grapple Worm: A small, tubular creature, dull dark blue in color with coarse, high-friction black stripes, roughly the size of a long can. It can be held in one hand and squeezed, and depending on the part squeezed, it will extend a sticky pink tentacle from one or both ends. These tubes have mouths on the ends with extremely hard teeth which can latch onto most surfaces. This allows it to function as a grappling hook or, if both ends are out, a zip line. If it’s not fed plant matter every day, it will die, and it cannot function as a grappling hook when dead
• Tulip Hairstick: Plain, simple, and bulbous. Increases health a decent amount.

Rika, the ascended NPC

Rika

Game Origin: Kancolle
Personality:

Rita started as something of a blank slate, containing blind military obedience and little else, leaving her rather naive when it comes to many aspects in life. Work from her friends and the influence of fusion has filled this out somewhat. Her main defining trait that is all her own would be curiosity, the ship girl always eager for new experiences and information. She also has developed quite the sweet tooth for candy and desserts, but when it comes to main meals will actively try to taste test anything and everything she can.

Rika also cares deeply about her friends, a bit about other former abyssals, but is pretty dissociative when it comes to strangers, and has basically zero qualms about using violence against them.

The spirits she has absorbed have made her more assertive, impulsive and aggressive, and so she has a tendency to rush in and pick fights as a first option when it comes to protecting the people she cares about. She’s also started calling minions, and people she doesn’t like, plebs, as if her new royal title is getting to her head, and is rather enthused by the prospect of wealth.

Appearance:
Rika is a relatively short woman with pale human skin, a rather petite nose, crystal blue eyes and short bleach white hair with a single tuft of red over her forehead like L'Indomptable. This often isn’t visible however, due to her often wearing a spartan helmet done up in a black metal with pink highlights. It has the nameless spartan deserter’s cat ears on top and wyreven wing like ones up the side like rider and beast, and Tristana Titania Prime’s there pronged tiara on the front.

Her legs are reptilian, with saurian feet and Brachydios blue scales running up to her hips. This also isn’t usually visible due to her wearing a Agastya Alternate Costume that covers her from neckline to toe in a fine suit of black armor.

Without it she is adorned in a Aileen’s waistcoat hued white and gold, hung over a black and gold highlighted chest plate similar in shape to the spartans but more curved and elegant. Below this, covering her stomach, is Pacific Princess’s formal tank top, white with golden buttons, and below that a thigh length skirt sat like L'Indomptable’s, black underneath, white flaps on top, god Fleur-de-lises but with pink straps and ribbons.

Her legs are covered in white leggings which have metal plates strapped to her thighs like Vi does. Her feet finally are covered in hefty metal boots like L'Indomptable’s, but which sport short boots with hull-like platforms instead of having her walk around on her tiptoes.

Her arms have a rounded pauldron strapped to the fore arms, black with gold trim, while her forearms and hands are covered by her gauntlets. These consist of a pair of giant mechanical hands akin to VI’s, which feature the brute wyvern’s visage on the back of their palms (in a similar style to the jade lions on this skin) while still sporting both horns sticking out from their foreheads.

The left gauntlet has absorbed the grizco blaster, no longer requiring the awkward pipes from the horn to get a supply of explosive goop, and can now fire the ink blasts from a barrel in the palm. The grappling hook has also moved over here, and now sits on the back of the gauntlet’s palm. On the right, her rifle has also moved into the palm, and sports a rotating gatling style barrel the same size as the grizco blaster’s one. The chainsaw bayonet now runs along the back of her gauntlet’s hand and in between the middle knuckles, giving her punches from that hand some extra bite during and after impact.

At her waist sits Mikuma’s rigging, although it has been heavily modified, and has taken on many of the aspects of a Dark Magic Lampyre. A small emblem/buckle style after its helmeted head sits at the waist, while the back a large bunny tail like glowing orb sitting over her tailbone, flanked by Titania Prime’s gilded, hollowed-out, hip-mounted wings that are less articulate but do provided some flight control. The turrets have lost a barrel, while the remaining barrels have become thicker, and sport two orange spikes near the tips that together create a loose X shape. The lower red cleaver sections of the hullblades have been removed, and instead two orange claws curve out the front of the metal plates. The metal of the rigging has become a darker hue, while the red parts on the sides have been replaced by a purple armor plate going over the top of the weapon.

Background:
Rika was a nameless grunt of the Abyssal Fleet, a petty mostly unthinking warmachine

In the now :
Once a member of the Abyssal Fleet, Rika has barely any memory of her time as a nameless grunt among their ranks, either before the world of light or after. If she has any real accomplishment, it is that she, unlike nearly all the other abyssal grunts, had not been degraded by constant imperfect resurrections by their leaders, indicating either superior fighting skill or just luck.

Her first real memories are from after the magikoopa Kamek captured her and then freed her from galee’s influence, and by extension the fleet’s indoctrination. The koopa had intended to interrogate her on the nature of the fleet’s forces and ability to resurrect their fallen ships, but Sakura having freed the comparative and more knowledgeable seaplane tender Bella at the same time made this rather redundant.

She ended up being more or less just adopted into the Koopa Troop, with first Kamek and then also Bowser taking responsibility for her wellbeing as a new and valued member/minion of their crew. Her bond with Bowser junior is however the strongest, forged first when he freed her hands from her gauntlets, allowing her to interact with the world in a way that did not involve dealing death. The fact that she is, functionally, a child in terms of life experiences also put she and him on the same level, and the two gradually became each other's first true friend.

Despite this, the seekers are warriors, and the troop war mongers, and so they inevitably went back again all too soon, though this time with removable latches rather than being permanently welded on. Having to then face the rest of the fleet she had just been freed from, after having spent time in the place they sought to destroy, created a great deal of conflict in the girl, who found herself to kill her former allies who could, if shown mercy, surely be like her. As did, after the trauma of the maw, and the subsequent death of the Abyssal fleet’s high command, her position as one of the only people left alive who could take responsibility for the leaderless and broken remains of the fleet.

She ran from that responsibility, and tries not to think about it too hard as well. A child should not have to carry that weight.

After that they headed to twilight town, and then to the under, where she was formally adopted as Bowser’s daughter, rather than just being his underling, making her and Jr siblings, much to the delight of her new brother. Lacking a lot of context for this, the ship girl thinks she likes this new state of affairs. Which made Bowser and Kamek leaving to travel with Consul P/Peach hit very hard, as all but one rock in her new life was suddenly gone, and all she had left was Junior.

Job: Battle Cruiser
Specialty: On the water, Rika is a highly maneuverable weapons platform, gliding across the surface of the waves while unleashing vast amounts of firepower, or devastating ramming strikes via fists or spears. On land she is much the same, though her mobility is limited to foot slogging.

Rika: Level 10 EXP: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(66/100)
Abilities:

• Deployable Reconnaissance Planes: Rika can deploy a pair of remote control plane sized Abyssal Reconnaissance Planes, one from each gauntlet. While these little planes do have a weak pistol grade gun on them, their main advantage is the fact that they relay scouting and targeting information back to Rika. The gauntlets can repair/build replacement planes if provided relevant components, such as from a dispenser, but only have the housing and coms bandwidth to support one each.
• Blastscourge(Brachydios): allows her to exude a slime from her horns and gauntlets. Once activated by her saliva, the slime will explode after a few seconds if parted from her, or if she’s very angry, on contact with a target.
• Ship Shaped(Mikuma): gives a set of rigging in the form of two arms that terminate in hull-blades, with a tri-barrel cannon emplacement on each elbow. As long as the rigging is equipped, the host can skate across the surface of water.
• Moby Dick(Pacific Princess): allowing the host to spend a great deal of life force to summon a White Whale. The White Whale is very strong, especially its jaws, and can follow basic orders, including firing its cannons. The White Whale, once summoned, is a physical being and will only disappear if killed or a new one is summoned. It also must move around manually.
• Triple Torpedo Mistress (herself, Pacific princess and Mikuma): Rika’s gauntlets can store and deploy a number of forearm sized high speed torpedoes from the undersides of her gauntlets, which shoot through the water, delivering a hefty explosive payload to close range targets. On land these are obviously less useful, though having a source of on demand high explosives does have its advantages if she gets clever about it.
• All Out Assault (Mikuma): on every 8th’s shot from her main (8inch) gun her shot is enhanced into being a shower of 5 triple shots fired in a spread pattern
• Partial Shielding, giving her an advanced Mjolnir shield that covers her head and upper torso.
• Maneuvering Armor (Spartan Deserter): Rika gains a set of spartan armor that covers just her chest and which comes in the same black, white, and red coloration as her new helmet. Along with extending her shielding down, also comes with an attached thrust pack that user perform a forward dash every 4 seconds. Useful for engaging, repositioning and dodging.
• Grappleshot (deserter spartan): Rika gains a clip on device known as a grapple shot, which can be attached to and integrate with her own systems, specifically the inside of her right gauntlet’s ‘mouth’. The device can fire a grappling hook with an 8 meter range, which is capable of latching onto most surfaces, foes and items. Heavier grapple targets (such as the ground, and large foes) will pull Rika towards them, while smaller targets (like items and small foes) will be pulled to her. Has a short cooldown after use.
• Captain Ahab (Pacific Princess): Rika can expend stamina to teleport the spear of the Pacific Princess to her person (stamina drain scaling with distance) or vitality to form/repair it should it be damaged or destroyed. It is about 4 meters long, and tipped with a double barreled ship gun at one end (used for ranged force or added force/propulsion), and an arched spine of sharpened vertebrae ending with a long thin point at the other (creating a rather unconventional halberd head). A band runs from one end to the other, which can be used to sling it over a person’s back or for particularly convoluted flourishes. Just like the whale that is its twin, only one spear can exist at a time. Comes with the secondary superpower of knowing how to use the rather unorthodox weapon effectively.
• Disruption Cannons (Dark Magic Lampyre): Allows her to fire fist sized globs of dark magic from their rigging guns. When they strike, the globs release a small pulse of damaging dark magic, before sticking to the target and sapping some of their physical and magical strength until they are pulled/pried/shaken off. Each blob lasts for 30 seconds, and causes a 5% reduction each, for a maximum of 40%.
  
  The Disruption cannons take a large amount of a resource called SP to fire, which slowly regenerates on its own, but can also be actively regenerated by taking a few seconds to rest.
• Electro-swarm Hangers (Dark Magic Lampyre): Rika can now use SP to launch small swarms of insects (that look a bit like fireflies) formed out of pure electricity from her gauntlet mounted hangers. For a small amount of Sp she can launch a diversion swarm, which buzz around a target and flash and blink distractingly, lowering their accuracy. For a larger SP cost, she can create a shocker swarm, which upon closing with the foe discharge their electrical charge in a series of small lightning bolts which can deal a hearty amount of damage if they all manage to go off, while also draining some stamina from the foe as well.
• Vault Breaker (Vi): Rika can now charge her gauntlets with mana, which she can then use to unleash a punch that flings her forwards at breakneck speed, smashing foes that she collides with aside or even straight up into the air. The charge can be held for a maximum of 4 seconds, the first 1.25 of which increase the range, strength and speed of the punch. If the maximum time is eclipsed, the mana is forcibly vented to prevent damage to the gauntlet.
• Denting Blows(Vi): If Rika can land a series of 3 punches (vault breakers included) on a target within 4 seconds of each other, the third blow will be empowered. This third blow deals extra damage equivalent to 15% of the enemies max hp (though there is a hard cap of 3 punches worth of extra damage, and armor/defense still reduces the damage), as well as increasing her attack speed by 60% and reducing enemy armor by 20% (both for 4 seconds). The effects do not stack, but can have their durations refreshed, and the third blow procs her Hexed-teched weakness, disabling the fist that deals the third blow for 2 seconds.
• I Will Not Yield (L'Indomptable): boosting evasive abilities by 15% and giving the host a last stand that activates when she would otherwise be destroyed, preventing death for 2.5 seconds and granting a random buff to either ranged firepower, deployed explosives, accuracy, or reload time.
• Vichya's Black Lance and Shield (L'Indomptable): Rika can instantly transform Captain Ahab (the Pacific Princess’s halberd), into L'Indomptable’s armaments, a levitating lance and shield combo which work incredibly effectively on the charge, but are a lot less nimble than the thin halberd they replace. The lance increases a struck target’s vulnerability to Rika’s ranged attacks by 15%, while the shield has a rack of 3 torpedoes it can launch over the top of itself and a 20 mm flak cannon on the front.

Skills:

• Arm Cannons: Rika has a set of massive gun gauntlets strapped to her arms. Despite their weight and her less than muscular arms she can still hold them up thanks to antigravity modules built into them and powered via cables attached to her back (she also uses these to help walk on land and get some floaty jumps too). One houses a 8inch Triple Gun and the other a 6inch Twin Rapid Fire Gun. They also have impressive ammo stores that defy their conventional size. As these are functionally part of her, they can be modified by fusions.
• Ship Girl Physiology: Rika can glide across, or rather just above, liquid surfaces, able to hover to and fro via just her will. She also has the inhuman vitality and resilience needed to be able to take at least a few hits from ship girl grade weapons.
• Military Subordinate: Rika was a more or less unthinking soldier as part of the abyssal fleet and while she is her own person now, she still has the instincts from back then. Rika is a decent enough fighter at even just an instinctual level, and has a knack for following orders and plans swiftly and efficiently.
• Stronger Together(Maw): The experience within the Maw has brought her closer together both with those that shared the experience with her. She gains increased confidence and constitution when in close proximity to other survivors of the Maw, knowing that they can trust their backs to be watched, and going the extra mile to make sure they can do the same.
• Famine(Maw): While hungry, gain speed boost and stamina regain that ramp up the hungrier you are
• Kai Flagship Upgrades: Rika gains a full suit of upgrades to push her ship class to its full potential, increasing her armor and vitality a fair margin but mainly massively raising her evasion, the ship girl becoming quite the artful dodger.
• Brute Strength (Brachydios): Despite being built with a pair of massive gauntlets, Rika was not designed for close combat. This little number fixes that problem by imbuing her with Wyvernian strength and battle prowess of the mighty Brachydios, making her quite the slugger.
• Lancefaire (Rider and Beast): imparts skill with polearms and a slight damage increase while using them.
• Bullet Jump (Titania Prime): substantially boosts the host's movement abilities The host can launch into a quick slide, double jump, aim glide, wall run, wall climb, and high jump.
• Shark Weapon(Aileen): giving the host's main aquatic summon the power to launch a volley three bombs through the air, which fly in an arc.
• Land Pirate (Aileen): the user’s aquatic summons can treat solid ground like water, allowing them to swim through it, though this does not affect it otherwise, and so they are, for example, functionally blind while inside of it. The material also still has to bear their weight/force, meaning weak/unstable surfaces might collapse if an attempt to swim up/through them is made.

Smelter Skills:

• Kindred of Rot's Exultation: Raises attack power when poisoning or rot occurs in the vicinity. "Rot for the scarlet goddess. O scarlet blossoms, flourish in distant lands, and return to us, the unwanted children"
• Pest’s Glaive Slightly increases non-physical damage negation. Though men might recognize the keen intellect of the pests evidenced by this spear's uncanny design, it will never be understood by them
• Dated Sunglasses: a pair of dark sunglasses reminiscent of those from a certain fill series. When the wear dodges these produce an invisible field 5ft around the user, which slows hostile projectiles by 30%, making it easier to avoid getting shot.
• Prisoner in Deep Confinement(set): Increases HP, DEF, ATK, and SPD by equivalent amounts, increase ATK by a furthur 12%, In addition, for every DoT (up to 3) the target enemy is afflicted with, the wearer will ignore 6% of its DEF when damaging it. DoTs include poison, bleed, burn, etc.
• Krull's Amulet: A spiky metal fishhook. Provides a small buff to attack and hp. If equipped with Krull's weapon and armor, they will provide a set effect that boosts hp by 30%

Weaknesses:

• Born yesterday: Rika has only been an actual person for a handful of days and is as a result currently going through a crash course on how to be a person. Her main mentors being the self declared bad guys of the Koopa Troop is probably skewing her perspectives and priorities quite a bit too. Very susceptible to being tricked and outmaneuvered in social situations.
• Beached: Rika is a ship in the shape of a girl, and was not built to be on land. She is relying on the antigravity in her gauntlet’s to keep herself upright while on land, and those failing will massively cripple her maneuverability.
• Aqua Bane(Brachydios): giving her a mild weakness to water-based or aspected weapons and attacks plus a more severe one to ice
• Little Sister(Mikuma): making her more susceptible to intimidation and mental attacks.
• No Surrender(Pacific Princess): Rika is unwilling to accept defeat
• Supernatural separation anxiety (Maw): If unity is strength then separation is weakness and the Maw has taught that weakness will not be tolerated. Those with this curse will become overly worried if another of their number is not in the company of at least one other curse bearer, and especially worried if they go off on their own, which tends to cause reckless rushes to their aid.
• Headshot (Nameless Spartan Deserter): which means that once her shields are broken, a single shot to her helmet from any precision weapon is fatal
• Axebane (rider and beast), increasing the amount of damage taken by axes by 50%
• Bright light(Dark Magic Lampyre): which prevents the user from disabling the glowing orb on the back of their rigging, making sneaking very difficult, and drawing additional attention to them in and out of combat.
• Hexed-tech (Vi): Rika’s gauntlets really weren't designed to work with mana, and the overlapping energy systems unfortunately interfere with each other. If a gauntlet is used to perform a mana expending ability, it (and anything installed on it) will subsequently shut down for two seconds as the technology recovers from having magic run through it.
• Pixieweight(Titania Prime), decreasing the host's effective weight, strength, and durability by 15%
• Short (L'Indomptable): making it harder to climb things, reach things, see long distances, and be respected by taller people--and of course, if someone jokes about her height, she will become Enraged
• Nonoptimal Range (Aileen): decreasing combat effectiveness (Accuracy, damage, and attack speed down by 10%) at short range

Spirit list:

Active strikers

• Maria A dark knight wielding a blood-red twinblade. She can appear to swing twice with her swordblades, incurring just a 10s cooldown. She can also be summoned to perform a counter, using an empowered version of her basic attack when struck, though a 15s cooldown is incurred whether or not she's hit. Finally, she can perform Blood Rain over the course of two summons; the first one empowers her (10s), and the second performs a bloody slam that heals the host for all damage inflicted (40s)
• Vespikan Ichor Queen: A towering wasp woman adorned in crimson robes and with red ribbons trailing from her antenna, armed with a single colossal clever blade who can be summoned (on a long cooldown) for a few second to either attack with her cleaver and venomous stinger, or to cast one of the one of a number of spells:
  
  Lightning Bolt: the queen channels electricity into her blade for a moment before thrusting it forwards, shooting out a powerful lighting bolt that can do heavy damage to a single target
  
  Pull from the grave: the queen kneels in prayer to her dark god for a moment before stabbing the ground with her sword. This causes a 5 meter patch of ground within 25 meters to manifest a flurry of earthen hands, which attempt to grab and drag any undead beings they can find back into the earth where they belong. Has no effect on any other kind of being or entity.
  
  Draining touch: the queen reaches out and touches the body of a target with her hand, and in so doing begins to drain a mundane human’s worth of vitality from them over the duration of the cast time, transferring it to her summoner.
  
  All of these spells take 2 seconds of channeling before they are cast. If the summoner is harmed (either directly or via feedback) the queen enters into a berserker rage, interrupting any spellcasting she was attempting to do as she blindly charges the culprit and tries to deliver a singular devastating cleaver strike to them, regardless of the desires of her summoner, or the feasibility of her reaching her target before her timer expires
  
  Inactive Strikers
• Cloyster The Bivalve Pokemon. It has pretty good physical defense and decent physical attack, but unimpressive stats otherwise. Its moves are Icicle Spear, a short range 5 shot burst damaging ice-type move, Whirlpool, which creates a water hazard in an area for a little while, Protect, a potent block that can't be used in quick succession, and Razor Shell, a mostly dependable damaging water-type move. Medium cooldown
• War Cleric An axe-wielding priestess with a medium cooldown, able to be summoned for up to two seconds at a time to perform a single action. The actions she can perform are a quick advancing chop, a slow overhead slam, and Heal, which restores 25% hp
• Knight An heavily armored knight with a claymore a medium cooldown, able to be summoned for up to two seconds at a time to perform a single action. The actions he can perform are an armored sword thrust, a slow overhead slam, an advancing shield bash, and block

Rapport

• Bowser: 18 (B rank)
  
  
  
  • father
• Kamek: 24 (A rank)
  
  
  
  • freedom
• Jr: 35 (S rank)
  
  
  
  • friendship
  • Tag Team: Sibling Super Strike: Jr jumps onto Rika's shoulders, riding her piggy back while channeling magic into her gauntlets. She then bursts forwards, delivering a flurry of jabs each of which create 16 yard long cone shaped shockwaves of stunning holy power
  • Skill swap: Monster Master: Rika is better at training, commanding and using various creatures, such as pokemon, tem-tems, battle pets, etc. She bonds quickly with them, inspires loyalty and has a knack for teaching them how to fight and act at her command.
  • Crossover: Rika swaps her helmet for his hairstick, ponytail and ranger cap, and her spear for Jr’s paintbrush staff. She gainings his casting and paint related abilities, while he gains her martial combat prowess. Both maintain their minion and mechanical firepower related traits/equipment.
• Blazermate: 3
• Pit: 2

Inventory:

• Geo x2005
• tape player: plays and can record onto tapes, both regular and cassettebeasts
• tapes: empty tapes: 1 platinum, 4 regular ones. Recordings: bottom half of a flukemon
• the Beast Recording - a cassette tape that, when paired with a cassette player, allows the listener to take the form of the Beast, an eight meter long centipied boss monster.
  
  moves

  -Bite (beast, heals 50% of damage done thanks to carnivore )
  -Carnivore (increased the heal of Bite from 25% to 50%)
  -Pustule Bomb (Poison, spray of purple globules that cause poison for 30 sec)
  -Sharpen (raise own melee attack for 30 sec)
  -Mountain Smash (earth, a strike with horns that lowers melee defense for 30 sec)
  -Burrow (earth, burrows under ground become immune to most attacks, but needs to emerge partialy or fully to attack)
• Poison Card - When applies to a weapon, allows the weapon to build up and then inflict poison on struck targets. Applied to her rifle, causing it's bullets and bayonet to inflict a stacking poison dot.
• Fancy sundress: exactly what it says on the tin. No special properties other than being cute.
• Grizzco Blaster: A gun that fires short fuse slime explosions at a respectable fire rate of 60 rpm. It is powered by a combination of an electric goop swooping stu in the rear tank, saliva in one of the jars up top, and Brachydios slime from one of Rika's horns. The three other canisters contain ink from Bowser Junior's magic paintbrush, that can give it fire, electric, or poison type damage. The whole thing has been built into Rika's left hadn gauntlt, replacing the 8 inch gun found therein.
• Red Baron & Ace: 'Ace' is a pair of augmented boxing gloves, with blades attached. 'Red Baron' is a set of six red orbital machines that can join together into a pylon for carrying or storage. Once activated by Ace, Red Baron's segments can be controlled to fly around using their rockets, acting as airborne blades. Their high potential power is offset by the difficulty of controlling them. Integrated into Rika’s gauntlets.
• universal ammo box x3: can be used once to fill out any gun's ammo reserves (so a few magazines, shells, rockets, granades etc. basically whatever amount a person could/would reasonably carry)
• Mauldrone
  A somewhat intelligent insect the size of a dinner plate, rather heavy and quite durable. Balanced between speed and attack, it deals blunt damage by ramming into its targets on the wing. However, the only way to communicate with it or get it to do something is via light or chemical signals; it does not understand intention or speech, so rika controles it via a cheap laserpointer
• Snake Shotgun A shotgun with recoil and others stats comparable to a sawed-off. When its trigger is pulled it shoots three green snakes at once. The snakes are alive and can be killed but don't have spirits. After being shot they single-mindedly pursue the nearest living thing they can smell in order to bite them. The bites are venomous, causing pain and paralysis that builds up over multiple bites. The snakes can and will attack both allies and the shooter if they're too close. The trigger can be pulled ten times for a grand total of thirty snakes before the shotgun is useless. Ammo pickups do not replenish the
• Featherfall Rune Can be squeezed to launch high up into the air, then slowly descend down for a duration. Squeezing it during the descent cancels it
• 2-10x42 Rifle Scope Made from extremely durable aircraft-grade aluminium alloy and features multi-coated optics for super sharp vision. Shock proof, fog proof and waterproof for those extreme hunting conditions where a good scope makes all the difference. Can be affixed to a precision weapon to provide 2x-10x magnification
• Berserker's Barrage Equal parts instrument of punishment and implement of execution, this axe is wielded to mete out bloody justice amid the insanity of the battlefield. Thus, to grip its haft is to surrender oneself to the iron madness of blood lust. Only usable by axe masters. Its special attack, Savage Surge, can both deal heavy elemental damage and temporarily increase allies' attack by 40%
• Agastya Alternate Costume An Alternate Costume that can fit anyone who puts it on, encasing them in a fine suit of black armor with pale gold trim and a collar of burgundy feathers, leaving only the head exposed
• Fan of Knives A weapon mod (instaled on her left gauntlet) forged from the silver fragment left behind by Tian the Assassin, the bloodstained blade of the ratlike Urikki race. Charged by dealing damage in battle, it can be unleashed to manifest and throw a fan of seven knives that cause Bleeding
• Mack FL1-R 'Stinger'A small flying corebot that functions as an expedition assistant. Similar to Deep Rock's Bosco drone, it can help out by carrying things or providing light. Thanks to its core, it's self-sustaining, but its energy will be lost and eventually depleted if it takes damage. It has a small rifle in its rear, but low caliber rounds and low stability mean it can be little more than a distraction under normal circumstances. Most importantly, it can kind of be worn like a miner's cap
• Blood Vial x3 Special blood used in ministration. Restores HP. Once a patient has had their blood ministered, a unique but common treatment in certain rumor-shadowed places, only successive treatments can reproduce that same sublime feeling of invigoration
• High-quality Bandages x2 Useful for stopping Bleeding and temporarily increasing Bleed resistance
• Treats: assorted goodies for the sweet toothed ship girl
• golden spinner: a device that is very effective at capturing and taming monsters, and works exactly like a pokeball. Curently holds a white whale.

The Twilight Princess

Midna

Origin: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Appearance:Midna now stands at 1.7 meters tall, has a lean and toned physique of an agile warrior and her skin is the hue of a late sunset, topaz shades graying as night sets in, body closer to night, face closer to day. She is entirely humanoid, save for a long draconic tail coming out of a port at the rear of her armor, which has pale green scales, ridged with short golden spines and tipped with flygon tail fans.

Her hair is still done up in a ponytail, but is now a veritable mass of hair going down to the small of her back, and is a smoky orange filled with Norah’s blue jewels like stars. Her chin has become strikingly pointed, her eyes a dark orange, lips painted soft green, and her ears are now smooth and pointed like an elf’s. Each ear is adorned with three golden loops, smaller versions Urbosa’s, along their length, as well as having a golden ‘sheath’ over the tips like Ariel.

The twin crests on her helm now slope backwards, melding with a pair of gold-black dragon horns sprouting from her forehead. The pair of worm-like engraving on its front have become a pair of long bodied dragons, rear claws gripping the horns while the front pair grip a red eye like jewel on the forehead over which they seem to be battling. The psycho mask is permanently attached to the front of the helm, and turned into the snarling red face of Murasame, while Shemira’s eye mask covers both eyes and the top of the face.

Her shoulders bear a pair of large pauldrons, gold rimmed ‘scales’ filled with red, which match the similarly striking red and gold chest plate that covers her from shoulder to waist, that is relatively thin and form fitting. A black sleeveless jacket, open at the front and with a popped collar, is wrapped over the back of this armor. A round core of magic hums at the center of the chest, lighting crackling out of it and dancing across the metal, suffusing all her armor in electricity.

Her two sets of arms emerge from the sides of this armor like Orendi’s do and are clad in thin black, fingerless, elbow length gloves. Akira Howard’s cuffs and astral chain adorn her (real) wrists, but are of a golden metal, and are much slimmer and compact, closer to Ariel’s stylish wrist guards than bulky handcuffs

A black dress rests on her waist below the armor, trailing down to just above knee height at the front, just below it at the back, while leaving the thighs exposed. On her legs she wears a set of sturdy black thigh length heeled boots done up with cross stitching, which have golden metal caps on their toes who’s metal runs around the edges of her feet and down underneath as well. Both heel and toe tips are mechanically articulated, causing the boot to be flexible rather than rigid. This, combined with a set of dragon energy claws permanently extending from the toes and heel, allow the heels to enhance rather than restrict her mobility.

Her magic, dragon energy, lightning and astral chain have all now harmonized to have a black core inscribed with green twilight runes, all encased in a similarly green aura, in the same manner as her twilight volley bombs. Her shadow hands continue to match the hue of her hair however.

Personality: Midna is not exactly a picture of princessly grace and virtue, as she can be manipulative, mocking, selfish, vengeful and violent to get her way, as well as being impulsive, unpredictable, and prone to colorful expressions thanks to Orendi. However, she also takes the responsibility of her royal title to heart, having a deep concern for the well-being of her people, one which she has learned to apply to others beyond her kingdom. Ariel and Urbosa’s influence have added a warrior’s spirit and deepened her sense of nobility to this protectiveness, though her tendency to tease, joke and taunt can sometimes make her seem more rogue than royal knight.

Shemira has made her more willing to help selflessly as well, while the undead woman’s pessimism is suppressed by Ariel’s belief in a better world, because though Galeem’s may be cruel and unfair, the only thing to be done is fight against fate. Part of that also comes from a belief in the divine, that there other great powers out there, that need only be freed from Galeem’s grasp such that they might be able to aid in undoing the damage it has done.

She has also inherited Norah’s muse, if not her talents, and finding musical inspiration coming to her at unexpected times, which when combined with Orendi results in sometimes humming or whistling tunes, or even more rarely, singing them.

Background: Midna was once the princess of twilight, heir to the throne and future ruler of the Twili, a race of beings who lived in a shadow realm their sorcerer ancestors had been banished to from the light world of Hyrule. Upon the death of the previous ruler Midna was chosen to succeed them, but was soon overthrown by one of the failed claimants to the throne, Zant. Using powers gained from his new “god” he conquered the twilight realm, transformed its people into monsters and cursed Midna with an impish form before banishing her from the realm. Rather than sink into obscurity or die in disgrace however, Midna aimed to rebuild the Fused shadow, an ancient artifact of shadow magic, and use it to reclaim her throne.

She recruited the aid of Link, who had been transformed into a wolf, a sacred beast of her people, and together they embarked on a quest to first reassemble the fused shadow, and then, once its pieces were stolen from them by Zant and Minda is almost killed, the rebuilt the Mirror of Twilight which they would use to take the fight to Zant in the twilight realm.

Together they overcame first Zant, and then (with the aid of princess Zelda) Gandorf, who, as he is want to do, had revealed himself to be the man behind the man of Zant’s usurpation. Midna died in the process of defeating the villain, but was revived by the light spirits into her true form. She then returns to her home to claim her throne, but as she does so she destroys the twilight mirror to prevent the two antithetical realms from ever coming into conflict again

Then some crazy yarander called Cia tares time and space apart because of their crush on Link, re-implifying midna, reviving Zant and chucking her out of her kingdom again. After a brief misunderstanding she teams up with the Hylians to successfully regain her kingdom, beat Cia and then return to her own time, only to come back to Linkle’s time for a final battle against Ganon who pulled another true final boss maneuver and before finally returning to her kingdom for the third time. She did not get her true form back this time however. She was just getting into the swing of being the imp sized queen of an entire dimension when reality got torn apart for a second time and she ended up being dumped in Smash City.

In the now Midna was one of the many heroes who had resided in "Smash City" Alcamoth taking part in the fighting tournaments there. When freed by the Seeker’s slaying of the ender dragon, she joined their quest, traveling east into the desert.

Within it she slew Urbosa for her crime of being unwillingly partnered up with a shadow of Ganondorf, something she would later come to regret despite having built much of her current fighting style around that spirit's power. Beyond that she traveled north, losing and gaining friends and allies, till she ascended the split mountain and slew its guardian.

She then traveled to twilight town, learned to drive, was part of the seekers meet and greet, before traveling to Midgar, where her portal placement ability proved vital for swift navigation around the city, and their eventual dive into its heart to slay its guardian. Having left the city without power by accident, those seekers escaped the city, only to be chased by a consul and be saved by the Lost numbers, who they then joined. After that, they regrouped with the rest of the seekers in carnival town, where she learned the other team had recruited Gandorf of all people.

She swallowed her pride and agreed to work with him, but will never turn her back to the man as long as she lives.

Job: Armored Cavalry
Specialty: Midna has a variety of mounts and minions at her disposal, as well as martial and martial prowess, letting her get in fast and hit hard
Midna: level 9 EXP: //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (132/100) (+1 bonus pending)

Abilities:

• Summon Wolf Mount: Midna can summon up to one of threeTwilight Wolfos, a wolf-like creatures which are definitely not a retextured Wolf Link with an added head decorations. These Wolfos are summoned from the twilight realm via a small portal when Midna is in need of a mount, and can be sent back there just as easily. Fast, agile and armed with sharp fangs and claws, the Wolfos makes an excellent mount for the diminutive Midna. Each of the three is a unique and living being, and thus they are all capable both of absorbing spirits and being killed outright.
  
  Call of the pack allows her to shift the size of her mount to suit nay size changes she herself incurse from Spirit absorption or other sources.
  
  Current Wolfos status:

  twilitght Flygon

  This wolfos has now evolved into a flygon, crossed with a saboquill. The disk on its head has fused with its chitin, giving it a dark metallic crest, one with the wider fronds of the Saboquill. Its green hues are much darker, and the reds on its wings and eye protectors have turned teal. Its arms are more akin to the Saboquill, with wide spiked shoulders (which sport circular teal twilight markings) and larger claws. Its thighs are similarly spiked, and its feet have gained small clawed toes. Its fan-like tail tip sports a metal band/shackle at its base, has been filled with a darker red and has gained several more segments, making it look like a 2d dragon fruit.
  
  Powers:
  Moves:
  Dragon Breath: breaths a blast of purple energy that will paralyze the target 30% of the time.
  Bug Buzz: Buzzes it's wings to create harmful sound waves and will increase vulnerability to non-physical moves 10% of the time.
  Dragon Claw: The user slashes the target with purple energy wreathed claws
  Earthquake: The user sets off an earthquake that strikes those around it. Technically a physical attack, as they need to touch the ground to perform it.
  
  Strengths:
  Hit Reflect: which causes 50% of all damage dealt to the host to be inflicted to the attacker as well, calculated prior to defense modifiers and immunities. This also applies to the vibrava’s owner if both are together. Damage delivered via retaliatory volleys of cactus needles/spikes.
  
  Ground/Dragon type resistances: Immune to electricity, half damage from poison and rock moves.
  
  Levitate: able to fly, and immune to ground type moves as a result.
  
  Physical attacker: Its physical (melee) attacks are 25% more effective than special (ranged) attacks
  
  Weakness
  Ground/Dragon type weaknesses: quad damage from ice, double from dragon and fairy
  
  Plant Property: increasing the host’s fire weakness to 4x

  
  
  

  Twilight wolf-cycle

  Appearance:
  This wolfos has become considerably more draconic in shape akin to that of Maridon, with a longer serpent like neck with a glowing throat pouch, and thicker, sturdier hind legs that sport a wider stance. It has also become more mechanical, with the nest of black ‘hair’ turning into metal cables that extrude to where the forehead plate, which itself is now fused to the flesh rather than floating above it, and its eyes are now those of Maridon. Its snout is wider and bulkier, its lower jaw is metal rather than flesh like the rampaging cyborg and its gullet is distinctly cannon shaped.
  
  Its back sports a metal plate shaped like a motorcycle seat, while a second around the base of the neck provides 2 extensions that can be used as handlebars, as well as sporting a hatch in between them that can be used to load ammunition. Its tail is medium length and made up of the same energy filled tubing of its throat.
  
  Its legs are the most drastically cybernetisised, coated from head top to bottom in Maridon blue metal, and sporting several jet thrusters. The front ones are akin to Khan’s with their attachment to the legs and blade like wings, only they stick out a 45 degree angle out and away so as to not simply burn it’s rear legs or it’s rider, while the rear ones are akin to Maridon’s with two Kahn ones attached on the outside acting like auxiliary thrusters. Each ankle has an extension holding a hubcap of a wheel on it, and when brought together with its twin on the opposite leg, it will cause maridon’s tyre to form between them, transforming the beast into a motorcycle. Finally its feet now consist mostly of three large razor sharp claws.
  
  Powers
  Metal Wolf Chaos(rampaging cyborg):: granting a cannon on its back. The cannon can fire projectiles loaded into it at high enough speed to explode on impact. If not manually loaded with actual ammunition, it will extract a chunk of the host's flesh at the cost of HP to use instead
  
  Thunder(Maridon): which drops a shower of 6 thunderbolts in an moderate area. Each one deals appreciable damage, but they have low individual AoE and fall randomly, so smaller targets can evade them.
  
  Point-blank Shot(Khan): a high-damage, low-range, single-target projectile condensed from the host's primary element. If it's a critical hit, it's even stronger than a normal crit.
  
  Weaknesses:
  
  Powered (rampaging cyborg): If not powered by an energy cell, the host's cyborg parts remain inert, rendering the gun unusable and lowering its movement speed
  
  Bog Standard(Maridon): decreasing the power of standard/normal attacks (such as biting) by 30%
  
  All-out Attacker(Khan): decreasing defense and resistance by 15%

  
  
  

  A regular Wolfos

  Equipment
  
  Spit: A sticker that, when applied, allows the user to spit damaging projectiles that fly in a slow arc. They deal damage of whatever single element most closely matches the wearer (in this case shadow/dark)
  
  Deegahla Hide Scale Mail: a set of light, durable armor, that also has a saddle with stirrups to help Midna fight from it's back, as well as two holsters for pistols, and saddle bags modified so it is easier for Midna to open portals in them.
  
  Disposable Missile Launcher (strapped to the back of the armor): a cardboard assembly that can be used to fire a swarm of 12 homing missiles every 45 seconds.
• Dark energy zone: Midna projects a growing ring of dark energy around herself and her mount. This ring starts out small but gradually grows to a significant radius. Once activated Midna makes the power held in the ring lash out at enemies within its dark interior, stunning them with an electrical attack and allow her mount to quickly lunge between all targets stunned by the field
• Call the pack: Midna can temporarily summon her other two wolfos into combat at the same time as the one she is using as a mount. The summoning window is brief, a few seconds at best, making it optimal to use them as part of attacks that act as permanent troops. The wolves can pinwheel like spinning blades, spin dash like drills and even run circles to create vortexes that draw foes in or keep them in place, as well as use any other abilities they might pick up.
  
  They wolfos can also be larger than the one being used as a mount, though whether this is indicative of their true size or a magical buff is unclear. Whichever is the case, the hulking beasts can be devastating to groups of enemies, careening through them before vanishing back to the twilight realm only to reaper from another angle a number of seconds later.
  
  Passively, this power also lets Midna adjust the size of the wolfos she is riding to suit any shifts in size or proportions she herself experiences.
• Dragon Type (flygon): Midna has the capability to learn all Dragon-type moves a Flygon can, as well as the starting moves Dragon Claw and Dragon Dance.
• Siren Sands (Flygon): Midna gains sand manipulation abilities that give her the equivalents of the following moves:
  Sand Attack: Sprays the target with sand, irritating their eyes and reducing their accuracy
  Sand Tomb: Creates a localized sandstorm around the target. Does not do a lot of initial damage, but remains active for ten to twenty second, slowly sapping the target’s strength and bogging them down, preventing them from escaping.
  Sand Storm: Whips up a large sandstorm that indiscriminately buffets everyone inside it.
  
  Sand based attacks cannot use naturally occurring sand and instead Midna has to dump sand into the environment from the realm of Twilight. Other than its color this black and silvery sand is mostly normal, except for the fact that it wordlessly “sings” as it flies through the air. Bringing more sand out takes more time: Sand attacks can be hurled out at once straight from a small portal, each sand tomb needs its own brief prep time and a sand storm needs an almighty amount of twilight sand dumped into the environment in-order to be pulled off. Already dumped sand is, of course, reusable, allowing the combining of sand attacks into sand tombs, and then sand tombs into a full blown storm if the princess focuses on using this ability in a fight.
• Thunder Blade (Urbosa): Midna can store up to four ‘bars’ of electrical energy in a metal weapon, and then use it to unleash short ranged electrical attacks when swinging that blade. Abilities include shooting a tight beam of lightning, firing out a short ranged but wide thunderbolt, having 3 bolts hammer a small area around a blow, create a vortex of 3 swirling lightning steams, launch an electrical sword beam and so on. (basically everything from the combos section of this video except the last massive 2 combo’s massive aoe lightning.
  
  Using lightning uses charge, which can be regained by charging, which involves holding the weapon close to her body to fill it with lightning once more. Charging generally refills one ‘bar’ per second, but starting to charge right after an attack can steal back some of the used power and charge one bar instantaneously.
  
  Simply hammering on foes with the sword will also build static electricity, but this takes a fair bit longer than stepping back and charging it would.
  
  Midna’s lightning is a limey twilight green, and she and her mounts are naturally resistant to it, or at least enough to prevent themselves from being fried by being so close to the blast zone, but not enough to protect them if they are literally in said blast zone.
• Twilight warp: Midna can set down gateways (at her own location) that allow her to fast travel between them by skimming along the boundary of the twilight realm. This hop does not go deep enough to expose the traveler to the mutating energies of the twilight realm, and so it can be used to safely transport light-worlders as well as the princess herself. The creation of each gate requires a charge. She begins with 3, and gains one more each time she gains combat exp.
• Twilight volleybomb: Midna can charge up large translucent-green spheres of energy from her shadow hand, the maximum size which can be quite astounding which she can then ‘serve’ and then ‘spike’ at her foes. Most of the sphere can phase harmlessly through solid matter except a solid core. When that core impacts with something, it creates an explosion the same size as the sphere, which can, again, be very large.
  
  There are a couple of downsides. First off, charging to max size takes a few seconds, is incredibly obvious when being done, and has a lot of friendly fire potential due to the size of the explosion. The ball also has a kind of weight, causing larger balls to travel slower, resulting in lower ranges. Finally, the volleyballing attack method is not proclivity to the greatest accuracy or attack speed, also limiting the effectiveness of smaller balls.
• Twilight Darknut: Midna adds a reanimated Darknut to her roster of creatures she can summon from the twilight realm. As with the other’s it is its own entity (one cobbled together from spare Midna discovered in the equivalent of a dusty broom closet in her twilight storage room, having used a few of these as captains of her short lived personal army during the time war) capable of both death and fusion.
  
  The darknut itself is a towering figure, close to twice as tall as the average human, and clad in thick metal armor. It is also equipped with a large round shield that it is highly capable at blocking blows with. Combine these defenses with its undead nature, and it is safe to say that Twilight Darknut is an incredibly resilient combatant, at least when it comes to physical damage.
  
  Its main weakness is a very slow movement speed, the armored warrior able to at best advance at a walking pace, although its turn speed is comparatively nothing to be sniffed at. High caliber weapons, electricity, heat, and other types of attack that counter heavy metal armor are also natural counters to the towering knight, as are holy, light and other undead killing damage types.
  
  Offensively, it is armed with a hulking broadsword and a lighter longsword as a back up, which it wields with impressive skill and speed despite its armor. It can be equipped with other weaponry, though it’s proficiency with new gear is related to how closely it matches the starting gear.
  
  
  modifications

  Roadblock
  The host is now a hulking seven-foot titan of yellow and black metal, futuristic in make and fantastical in style. Nigh impervious to slashing, and resistant to practically anything else, it is an immovable object on the battlefield that foes are forced to play around, although its slow speed and short range make it somewhat one-note. This spirit confers the Power Obstacle, allowing it to project a large rectangular energy barrier from the shield on its left arm. Allies can move and shoot through it, but enemies cannot do either, and it can take some serious punishment. This spirit also confers the Weakness Mighty Glacier, making the Darknut unable to jump or run
• Crescent Moon(Mursame): This special sword slash allows Midna to near-instantly draw and strike with a bladed weapon and taunts the enemies it hits, making them more likely to target the host.
• Mass-produced Legionis (Clone of Akira Howard), which allows her to use a legatus to summon a bound Beast Legion from its core, connected to her by an astral chain. She can also now see chimeric entities clearly. The Beast Legion is an agile close-range fighter and can be ridden or used to track scents. It cannot be seen or attacked by most enemies. The astral chain can be used to send it out, pull it back, pull the host over to the legion, or bind enemies by encircling them. The Legion can also be modified with spirits.
• Cyclone Kick(Ariel): a powerful high thrust kick that unleashes a bright green magical tornado to deal heavy wind impact damage in an upside-down cone, with a 160% chance to stun for 5 seconds. This ability must be charged by landing wind-type attacks, and after a target is stunned, it gains stun resistance for several minutes.
• Tortured Souls (Shemira): making the host able to summon souls of the dead (who look like Poes) that spiral around her (with a radius of a couple of meters) to deal continuous damage over 12s, with 50% of their damage returning to the host as health. Tortured Souls constantly drains mana while active.
• Rainbow Rondo (Norah): By strumming a stringed instrument, the host can bestow a boon upon nearby allies that lasts 20s. Whenever such an ally takes a hit, even if it deals no damage, the host has a 1/3 chance to perform a musical counterattack, dropping three magical notes on the attacker.

Skills:

• Twilight Princess: Midna has regal authority over the denizens and beasts of her realm such as other Twili and Shadow Woflos. She also has the ability to claim command over beasts or beings corrupted by that realm, like the twilight Kargarok, and some affinity for other creatures of shadow not from her universe/dimension.
• Basic Shadow Magic: Midna can float in the air, hide in shadows and teleport short distances. None of these abilities are fast enough to be used for dodging anything but the slowest of attacks but they can be useful for hiding, bypassing obstacles or basic locomotion.
• Monstrous Cavalry: Midna has a talent for mounted combat using unusual steeds such as Wolfos and Kargarok. She can easily command her strange steed and fight at the same time and is able to adapt to new mounts with relative ease.
• Champion Mindset(Urbosa): increasing Midna's natural authority and charisma and giving her a complete affinity for the Divine Beast Vah Naboris.
• Champion Moveset (Urbosa): Midna can draw on the spirit of the Grudo champion’s martial talent, a flowing melding of might and magic that gives the princess increased skill and versatility when it comes to melee combat. It also gives her proficiency with various melee weapons, most notably the Urbosa favored armaments, the ever-reliable combo of the sword and shield.
• Skirmisher Style(Orendi), increasing Midna’s agility and acrobatic sense to allow her to better avoid damage through mobility without having to rely on flight or hiding in shadows.
• Earth Dragon Resistances (flygon): Gain the flygon's typing's resistance, resulting an in immunity to electric type damage and effects, as well as a 50% resistance to poison, fire and rock type moves

smelted items

• Climber’s Bandana:A light piece of headgear that decreases stamina consumption appreciably
• Harbinger MaskA strange, full-face rebreather that seems almost molded from flesh, worn stuck to the face. It somehow doesn't obstruct visibility, but it does amplify the sound of the wearer's breathing. In exchange, it provides immunity to Poison and Burn, as well as variants of those afflictions, and 75% fire damage reduction

Weaknesses:

• Imp Body: Midna’s imp body isn’t exactly the hardiest of forms, nor is it the strongest. Finding suitably scaled armor or weapons is also difficult. after fusing with Urbosa she is now somewhat larger and notably more muscular, reducing this weakness somewhat.
• Light Based Attacks: While mere sunlight is no longer enough to damage her, as a Twili Midna still has a weakness to light based weapons or attacks (lasers, light magic, etc.). On top of this bright light is uncomfortable for her to bear and she is more vulnerable to being blinded/stunned by flashes or high intensities of light.
• Fated End(Urbosa): Suffers heavy stress when facing either electric enemies or enemies wielding a sword and shield, and near-paralysis if facing an enemy with both
• Dragon Weakness(flygon): Midna takes more damage from both dragon-aspected and anti-dragon attacks and weapons, as well as Fairy-type Pokemon moves and ice
• IWHBYD(Orendi):: making her much more likely to compulsively spout off whatever comes to mind, even in combat or potentially awkward social situations
• Can't Fly (Mursame): making the host unable to fly under her own power
• Born for One Thing Only (Clone of Akira Howard): disables all of the host's Strikers and spitting out their spirits, as well as preventing the gaining of new ones
• Critical Fire Bane (Shemira): resulting in 50% extra damage from fire-aspected attacks
• Auto Battler (Ariel): more likely to zone out and fight without thinking in battles that don't interest her
• Hard of Hearing (Norah): making the host's hearing worse

Spirits: N/A

Rapport:

• Sectonia: 17 (B rank)
  
  
  
  • royalty should stick together, even if one is light and one is shadow
  • team attack:
  • skill share: Powerful Mage: Midna has gained a very high affinity for and familiarity with magic on top of her own. She can detect its usage and even identify magic in use, discerning its effects. She exhibits a great deal of control over her own mastered spells, including potency, direction, and precision.
• Primrose: 7 (C rank)
• Roxas: 12 (B rank)
  
  
  
  • born between light and dark, and therein lies twilight
  • team attack:
  • skill share: Flow Motion: Minda has learned from Roxas’s visits to many different worlds and has thus become quite capable of adapting to many environments for the purpose of maneuverability in combat.
• Goldlewis: 8 (C rank)
• Geralt: 4 (D rank)
• Bowser Jr: 6 (C rank)
• Bowser: 3 (D rank)
• Kamek: 4 (D rank)
• Therion: 3 (D rank)
• Juri: 3 (D rank)
• Ganondorf: -3 (F rank)

Inventory:

Money:

4100 Zenny

Fused Shadow (1/4th) Worn by Midna as a helmet this physical manifestation of Shadow magic gives Midna the ability to transform her ponytail into a large prehensile limb tipped with a large hand. This hand has immense strength, capable of smashing foes aside, grabbing and hurling people or things and wielding large weapons. The force of blows or weight of lifting is not applied back to Midna, which is convenient as otherwise usage of this artifact would likely break her neck. The fully completed artifact is many times more powerful than its component parts. Despite its appearance it does not damage her depth perception.

Spaulders of the Bat - A pair of shoulder guards that bind to the wearer when equipped, meaning they will be destroyed if discarded or given to someone else. They provide extra physical protection and incremental increases to intellect, stamina, and haste (casting / attack speed). With the Andrew Oikonny sticker applied, the wearer is also a little more launch resistant, flying back a shorter distance when launched. With the Maglev mod equipped, the wearer's slide speed is boosted by a notable 30%, but with 30% less friction she's also a bit slower/slipperier both to get started and to stop moving on all surfaces (no effect while airborne)

Breastplate of Valor Increases physical defense, maximum mana, and mana regeneration. Most importantly, reduces cooldowns by 20%

Mimic Tooth Necklace When worn, any chest the wearer attempts to open will be unlocked automatically if locked, and also be a mimic. The mimic deals more damage depending on the quality of what’s inside it and behaves as if whatever’s inside it is equipped.

Rosary: Rope knot made from the threads of habits of monks deceased in ancient times, crafted by Engracia to whom all other’s works paled to such an extent they were branded a heretical. Holds Beads that can grant boons to the wearer.
Beads:
Frozen Olive: Summer fruit trapped in an endless winter. Born from an olive tree turned into a prison, its frosted oils bolster the wearer's defenses (by 50%) when their strength is nearly exhausted (at 20% or less hp).
Piece of a Golden Mask
Piece of embossed gold, part of a mask broken years ago. The nuns of the Convent of the Charred Visage swear never to let the world see their burned faces, and the conviction of its old wearer has permeated the metal. A rosary bead that grants 25% protection against flames

Psycho Mask - a wearable statement of freedom--freedom from society, morality, and sanity, all in one. It has no actual effect on the wearer but features a built-in filter which can purify incoming air, and two ports that gas canisters can be plugged into

Biteturn Charm - a charm of human bone with a touch of the Stranger’s power. Whenever a bladed weapon strikes the holder it will take massive durability damage, enough to shatter conventional weapons. When this happens, however, one of the wearer’s teeth will turn black and fall out. The tooth cannot be regrown via healing.

Cursed Sword - a strange blade imbued with fell sorcery. It deals extreme damage when used as a weapon but is difficult to grasp and use effectively. While equipped, any damage taken by the user will result in an instant kill

X-Naut Uniform: An Alternate Costume that, when applied to a person, near-instantly clothes them in a perfectly tailored version of the comfy red and poofy white suit, gloves, shoes, and hood of the X-Nauts. Includes goggles. In addition to being comfortable and warm, it also pretty much completely masks the wearer’s identity

Sharpnened Volcano Fragment
Deals less damage than your average axe on hit, but will light the target on fire, causing the target to take damage over time until the flames are quenched or 7.5 seconds pass

Sun on a Stick
Deals less damage than your average bat on his, but will deal a critical hit to a burning target without putting the target out. Also grants 25% protection against flames while in hand

Ammo Synthesis: A consumable device that creates enough ammunition to fully replenishes a single weapon when configured (a straightforward, intuitive process) and used

Clubba Club:A heavy weapon of solid metal. Its weight makes it a pain to use but a whole lot more pain for anyone it’s successfully used against. Just picking it up and dropping it is more practical than actually trying to swing it

Freindship bracelets: A simple metal bracelet sporting a heart shaped emblem made from a red stone. When worn the two ‘lobes’ each gain their own stylised icon representing the two people wearing the matched bands. When the bands are close together (so in the same general area sucha s a room, small building or garden) each half of the stones will glow softly, with the light intensifying the stronger the bond is between the two wearers.

At a base the band increases damage by 5% and movement speed by 6% even when the wearers are not around each other, but it can raise it by up to a maximum of 15/18% respectively for incredibly close friends. This the current owning pair most certainly are not, but they still gain a decent 7.5% damage and 9% movement speed boost, and could easily raise this to a pleasant 10%/12% by spending a bit more time with/around each other.

Comes with an instruction pamphlet that attempts to translate the glow intensity to various stages of friendship (from simple acquaintances all the way up through BFFs and Ace life partners) and effect efficiency, but fails to deliver the above information to the wearers particularly effectively.

The bracelet can also prevent the wearers from being forced to fight each other via various mind control or enrage effects, the effectiveness of this effect again being based on how close they are.

Mordant Dew: A whole vial of the nasty, toxic venom that Stingers inject into their victims. While underwhelming at first brush, it is actually a very valuably magical and alchemical opponent, as well as one of the requisite ingredients of the Grim Talisman, a charm that -when equipped- allows the user to build up his or her special resource with every landed attack

Charr Pirate Musket: A somewhat primitive, somewhat fantastical smoothbore rifle with less-than-spectacular accuracy and reload time, but boasts the property of infinite ammunition. in the form of metal slugs

Therian Viral Rifle: A long-barreled marksman carbine that utilizes compressed air to launch projectile syringes at high speed, long range, and high precision. The syringes can be loaded with a viral compound, which causes bothersome irritation on the skin around the infected point of biological targets, or a a hyper-restorative compound that circulates healing medicine throughout the bloodstream. A cumbersome reload process and the limited number of syringes limit its frequency of use

A boat load of survival rations of various kinds.

A now rather small amount of wooden crates stollen off the back of a truck (empty)

A cheap watch (which she got overchaged for)

A bottle of blood themed shampoo

A bag of smoke powder, which by itself isn't enough to create an effective smokescreen

Smoke Grenade x2: The J4-M35 Smoke Grenade has helped many soldiers out of dire situations. Simply throw the grenade wait for the smoke to spread and change firing positions when the enemy can’t see you

Treespear: Golden spear with tree-like design. Hits are infused with yellow lightning, their strength dependent on the wielder's Faith. Requiring superior dexterity to wield, this greatspear can perform consecutive thrust attacks despite its larger size.

Warthog: a light tactical ground vehicle fitted with a M41 Vulcan turret.

moterbikes x2: stolen, or rather confiscated, from deliquents in Gutsford.

Prometheus Torch type 1: A torch researched thoroughly to allow. a pyrokinesis psionic to unleash their full potential. Damages the taget with fire and bashing. Lakcing pyrokinetic ability, Midna uses this less refined and bulkier version of the torch purly for bashing

Power Cell: A cartridge loaded with electricity. Its built-in converters mean that it can be used to fully charge almost any device that runs on electric power

Orange Gel: A sweet medicinal jelly capable of providing 33% instant healing when eaten

Commando auto-pistol (x2): an auto pistol able to fire off 3 rounds a second, as well as firing a piercing phase round every 6 seconds. Unlimited ammo and no reloads necessary.

Shinra's Golden Gun: A very expensive-looking pistol with a black grip embossed by the logo of the Shinra Electric Power Company, and engraved golden body. It's only a golden veneer though, otherwise the weapon would be unusable. It's a small sidearm that fires 9mm rounds, just enough to kill the average person, but otherwise lacking stopping power. It has never seen expert maintenance, but then again, it's probably never been fired

Mutagen Shotgun (5 rounds available): a 7 round capacity shotgun with 120 RpM

Erendira‘s Gun-lance: a long lance that, along with being able to be used for stabbing, can also shoot small purple aura bolts, or swept to the side to launch a wide angle projectile. It must be charged by supernatural energy to use projectiles

Eliacube: A mysterious artifact. Under normal circumstances the cube is dark and closed, with a texture like jade, and it never opens. It seems to hold some sort of restorative ability, and it can hold a seemingly limitless amount of energy, but how -and perhaps why- it works is an enigma. It's rather interesting and gives off an important feeling. Probably warrants further study. Could it have some sort of psychic effect on those who own it? Or is it just a mirror, reflecting your own uncertain face back at you, and its magic is all in your head?

Ice Shield: A somewhat cumbersome medium shield, decorative and heavy. It nevertheless provides great defense, especially against ice, water, air, and slash attacks.

Festive Spycicle: An ice-cold spike wrapped in blinking Christmas lights. Though very strange, it's actually incredibly valuable to anyone with an eye for appraisal. If not for the light on the end it could probably kill someone with a backstab, but it still deals critical damage from behind. If the holder is ignited, it will extinguish the fire at the cost of melting for good

Ice Geode: Smithing material that's great for ice enchantments or making ice-themed weapons, though it'll take a master to put it to good use

Psi Stone of Dissonance: A crystalline pyramid that can be used to launch a conical energy wave that deals mental damage, applying high stagger. It takes a long time to recharge, however, and can only be used effectively once every five minutes. It darkens after use and starts glowing again when ready to blast

Combat Knife

Serrated Knife: A large dagger most infamously wielded by General RAAM of the Locust Horde. Although it is a knife in the hands of RAAM, by human standards, it is a short sword.

Machete and Pistol: Two piratical weapons bound together. The machete is short and broad, dealing unremarkable slash damage while the pistol is a flintlock, with short range, high recoil, and deceptively big damage. However, the pistol is empty and does not accept ammunition. The only way to load it is by landing two subsequent hits with the machete. They share durability and upgrades.

Revolver: A renowned gunblade. What it lacks in power, it more than makes up for with its reliability. Despite its name, it cannot be used as an actual gun, meaning it does not fire projectiles, and can therefore only be used in melee combat. Triggering a round in the gun chamber sends a shock wave through the blade, increasing its damage potential, but the timing required is hard to learn, which is why it takes years to master wielding a gunblade.

Royal War Fan: A fan outfitted with blades and usable as a versatile dexterity weapon. Its attacks are supplemented with minor wind damage, which can also create gusts or small wellsprings, or allow it to be thrown like a sawblade
Daora Gem: An organic gemstone formed from gradual deposits of impurities deep within the bowels of a Kushala Daora elder dragon. Its glow is breathtaking, and it could be used to forge Daora weapons of highest quality

Dead End Express: A pair of huge, heavy mechanized clubs forged from the remains of Wartrain Gouon, six feet long and a thousand pounds apiece. Each miniature locomotive boasts eleven grinding sawblade wheels that spin at high speed. Though nigh-impossible to wield, they boast terrifying destructive power, and can even be straddled or otherwise ridden and used as a vehicle

Dagon A rare twin-headed ice wand that boosts the power of ice spells and has a 50% base chance to inflict Frozen if used as a melee weapon, although its melee damage is fairly low and it loses extra durability when used that way

World of Light

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”Yeesh, these are cramped” Bowser complained as he tried to squeeze himself into one of the drop pods, claws, horns and spikes catching on it not to mention his raw bulk while Kamek simply shook his head at the sight. He at least wasn’t going to have to deal with this, intending to simply teleport out of the ship once the other two were on their way. Blazermate meanwhile had a roomy pod that Kamek could easily pile into, although the teleport plans made that moot. Still, a nice comfy roomy pod for the healer.

Once loaded into their pods, the team of three needed only to wait for the Avenger to pass over their target for the technician on hand to pull the trigger and fire their hellpods from the heavens. For the sake of nostalgia -and neither risk damaging Peach’s property nor landing too close to Empty Space- they aimed for the junkyard that sprawled out on the other side of the castle’s drawbridge. After just a short weight, the hellpods slammed into the ground among the heaps of discarded metal, sending shrapnel everywhere as their shock absorbers worked their magic. Then the lids flew off the Seekers’ cans, and the mechanisms within lifted them up into the evening sunlight. After flying all the way to Markarth in the Land of Adventure, and then here, it was late in the day. Streaks of gorgeous yellow and orange painted the undersides of indigo clouds and cast long, black shadows across the Mushroom Kingdom, from the grassy highlands in the east to the mountainous swamplands in the west. To the south of the junkyard lay the Ancient Garden, the colorful and cheerful riverland favored by rabbids of all shapes and sizes, and to the north lay Peach’s Castle. Everything seemed just as the first Seekers remembered it, right down to Hat Kid’s spaceship, still floating in the moat where it crashed.

There was one difference, though, although Bowser, Kamek, and Blazermate might not realize at first. When first they forged a path through this place, it had been a hotly-contested battleground, caught in a chaotic back-and-forth tug-of-war between robots and rabbids. Even after that conflict subsided, 1-1 teemed with abundance, from the aquatic creatures of the moat to bird of the air to wandering Pokemon. Right now, though, it was quiet. Once the hellpods did their jobs, the newcomers could hear nothing but the gentle lap of water, and the whispering breeze through the grasses and leaves.

A much smaller than usual Bowser scratched his head at the lack of noise, then shrugged and began to re-enlarge himself, while Kamek appeared in a puff of smoke next to them. He, at least, did have a thought, which was ”hmmm, odd, where did those noisy rabbids get off to?”

Again bowser shrugged with disinterest and an ”Eh” followed by trying to joke ”gonna be noisy enough when we give the toads the bad news” and then just sighing forlornly, unable to muster the energy for mockery of the mushroom kingdom’s shrill voiced residents.

”I’m not sure… something just feels… off” Kamek said, before remembering Bowser Junior had mentioned short green creatures who’d taken it upon themselves to fortify the entrance of the castle. Their presence or lack would surely signal the state of things, he thought, and so he floated up in the air a bit to see if he could spot them, or, well, anyone.

”Huh… is this the upside of taking out a Guardian? The area becomes peaceful?” Blazermate said, her optimism in full display as she rode on Bowser’s shell, scanning the area and noticing the quietness of the area. Try as she might, however, her scan picked up nothing.

With nothing else to do, the Troop proceeded across the drawbridge. They found the front doors barred against intrusion, but no guards posted, and no amount of rapping -or pounding, for that matter- on the doors evoked a response. Of course, Bowser happened to have a wealth of experience when it came to breaking into Peach’s Castle, so after applying some force the three were able to get inside.

Within lay black and white checkered tiles, lavish red carpets and walls freshly painted to resemble the Mushroom Kingdom’s outdoors with rounded green hills beneath fluffy white clouds with eyes, the vaulted ceilings a deep azure blue. Most of the candelabras and sconces that provided light to the interior seemed to have burned out, so much of the light that illuminated the castle’s confines came through the stained glass windows. The most lavish window colored the evening sunlight into a facsimile of Peach herself, cast over the throne room. When the Seekers last departed, they left the throne room heavily damaged from the fight with Megadragonbowser, but between then and now the toads had done a very good job with cleanup and repairs. Only a few cracked tiles and crumbled stones remained to suggest that a massive fight went down at all, but of the castle’s denizens themselves, the newcomers could find no sign.

Any amount of searching around the ground floor would only serve to reinforce the eerie realization that the castle was empty, as if its entire population had simply up and gone.

”What's going on here? Weren’t there like lots of people here last time? This is kinda… weird…” Blazermate said, now being on Kamek’s side of all of this with how things felt off.

”Maybe they up and left already?” Bowser suggested optimistically

”We can only hope, I suppose,” his advisor replied, sadly not convinced before suggesting, ”best we check for clues then. Upstairs or down do you think, your optimisticness?”

The king scratched his chin and decided ”Basement” because ”The treasury’s down there and Wario for sure wouldn’t have left without a whole load of that gold” which would then prove he was right.

”Which one was Wario again? I assume hes a friend of yours?” Blazermate said, nodding with Bowser as she had no idea what to do besides just fly around aimlessly til they found something.

”Like Mario, except fatter and yellow” Bowser explained perhaps unhelpfully as they made their way down.

Blazermate nodded, remembering him. Although unlike the others, that's all Blazermate had to go off of.

The treasury was, as one might expect, shut tight, and its vault door proved to be much sturdier than the castle entrance. That, of course, just reinforced the notion that this castle had neither been attacked nor ransacked, leaving no obvious explanations as to why it seemed to be depopulated. By now, though, the Koopa Troop boasted a lot of power, and if they couldn’t force their way through the door or magically unlock it, they could probably smash and blast their way through solid walls until they found their own way in.

Naturally, Bowser took this option without even really considering any other. He wanted to get into the vault, it was locked, the fact that this was sort of evidence of a kind of its own never occurred to him, and so the inevitable occurred. Kamek attempted to advise caution, the king ignored him, and promptly slammed a kinetic strike module enhanced punch right into the lock on the vault door, buckling it inwards.

The mage sighed, and then promptly joined in with magically summoned fists and, following a swift volley of blows from the pair, the door was down.

Within the vault the Troop and their airborne attendant found a spectacular display of opulence, thousands of golden coins piles high like snow drifts. If any of them had been present for the arena where the final round of the fight against Vandelay’s head of finance Roquefort took place, this hoard might not have been as impressive, but the room still contained a huge amount of wealth by Mushroom Kingdom standards. Scattered among the piles of coins were other relics and valuables, the most expensive of which appeared to be a pink-topped crown with eyes, but there was only one thing present that the newcomers could call ‘priceless’:

A large, circular contraption set in the far wall, its glass face ringed with gold. Bowser and his family had seen it before, more than once in fact, but this one had one important distinction: that like Peach’s Castle itself, it was completely and utterly empty.

”Uuhhh…. If the clock empties, does everyone just… poof?” Blazermate said, confused.

”I was under the impression that being unstoried means that people no longer need to fuel themselves with death but…” Kamek replied now very uncertain if that was the case

”I hope that this was a Consul doing shenanigans instead of the flame clock thing… Didn’t Sectonia say something about learning about them? Uuh…. we might need to do that.” Blazermate said, clearly confused and unsure what was worse, the clock ticking down and killing everyone, or a Consul thing.

”It’s fine. Probably one of those, what they called, coincidence things. Definitely” Bowser insisted, before thinking and saying, ”we should take it with us” eliciting a ”what?!” from Kamek

”I mean if people wanna learn about this thing then having one would help” he explained simply, before stomping over and ripping it out of the wall. Of course, this took a while and a lot of effort, exhausting much of the strength the Koopa King had left from an already tiresome day.

In the wake of the Troop’s discovery, an electronic tone pinged off the treasury’s walls. Blazermate’s scanner had picked up a living thing at last, and though the signal was patchy down here, the origin seemed to be on the castle’s second floor, near -possibly outside- the royal bedroom, if Bowser’s (or more likely, Kamek’s) memory served.

”Hey guys… theres someone upstairs.”

”That’s good. Or bad. Or something” Bowser rolled around opinion wise, before saying for them to ”grab the good stuff and let's check that out” because it would be a waste to leave it simply laying around now wouldn’t it?

The king, of course, had his hands full with the oversized and magic resistant clock which he now had to roll up the stairs, but Kamek at least blasted some artifacts with shrinking magic and stuffed them into pockets before hurrying after his king to ascend up towards the royal bedroom. Blazermate carried what she could, including the funny looking crown, but unlike Kamek her pockets were pretty limited.

Using Blazermate’s signal as a sort of dowsing rod, the three made their way up through the castle and closer to the source. It led them to the royal bedroom, left pristine and undisturbed since the day the princess departed on a grand adventure of her very own. A fine coating of dust lay across the furniture. Opposite the main door lay a set of French doors, cracked open just enough that the wind could play at the curtains. Through the glass and shifting veil the Seekers could see a balcony more like a widow’s walk that overlooked the Mushroom Kingdom. A lone female figure stood there, clad in intricate rose gold armor that caught the fading light of the sunset quite brilliantly. A low blonde ponytail hung behind her as she stood, gloved hands on the bone-white railing. She seemed to be waiting.

The flame clock was left leaning against the wall as the king approached, clawed hands gripping each french door and pushing them wide open, the wind setting the curtains fluttering to either side of him stepped across the threshold and into the light.

For a moment after the doors’ hinges stopped creaking, only the wind could be heard. Then the strange woman began to speak, her voice low and flat.

“I had…a bad dream,” she confessed. “Many a night, I would awaken from a dream of dying. Of being slaughtered. Not unusual, I know. Not in this world. Most people forget these dreams as soon as they wake. But they’re real. Bloody stains left by past…deaths. For most, that’s all you get. The only proof that you ever existed…a memory, passed down into someone else’s skull. But…”

The women turned. A rose gold mask hid her face, though her sapphire blue eyes shone through. In the middle of her breastplate, a red X shone, a lemniscate-shaped core at its center. “Not so with Moebius. When you become Moebius…it all comes rushing back. Every joy. Every agony. Every insignificant end.” A hollow, rattling laugh escaped her. “I never once achieved anything. Never became my own person. The archetypal damsel with an empty title. No purpose. No volition. No story…of my own.”

She held a hand to her head. “And to top it all off, the worst end by far. You couldn’t imagine…what it was like. My brain…was screaming…and screaming…” She closed her eyes, wincing. “My head...still hurts. But it’s much better now. It all is. Because I’m free. Finally free.”

Slowly, she opened her eyes, then looked up at Bowser. “So. Here we are. Back where it started again. We weren’t friends. Nor were we enemies. But you and I are linked. What’s one without the other? So…I wanted to talk. I was wrong, you know. About the world. I mean, it is awful. Full of suffering. We deserve better than that. But that’s life. And that’s all any of us…will ever get. So when I ask you, please…” The woman raised her arm and pressed a button on the side of her mask. It deconstructed into light, revealing a familiar face.

“Hear me out.”

Blazermate, at the mention of Moebius stepped behind Bowser and began giving him an overheal. ”Uh… I guess?” Blazermate said, using Bowser as something to hide behind as she leaned over to take a look at this Consul with… Peach’s face? Ok, this was getting super messed up now. But she was going to get ready for a fight since that's all she's seen from these Consuls. Granted… a Consul of Peach? What…? Was this a face stealer or….?

Bowser simply looked shocked, confused, and befuddled as he tried to process what was in front of him, and so simply nodded, while Kamek sighed at all the implications of all this.

The position of Consul P had, it seemed, very quickly been refilled.

P leaned against the railing, relieved, her body language completely lacking in both energy and hostility. At a certain point, Blazermate’s combat readiness would just seem embarrassing. After a moment, P continued speaking. “Listen. If you’ve ever heard anything about a ‘past life’ or ‘reincarnation’, you have to forget it. That wasn’t you. That wasn’t even ‘Bowser’. There is a true ‘Bowser’ out there somewhere, but not here, in the World of Light. The only you is the ‘you’ that exists right now. This world is nothing but a single stolen moment, the Endless Now, one split second strung out into eternity. By Moebius. If it ends, you…all of us, that’s it. We’ll cease to be. And if, somehow, the Bowser that’s out there continues, it won’t be you. Or anyone.”

She sighed, staring up at the sunset sky. “Unlike me, the Seekers have many heroes. They aren’t afraid to die if it means a brighter tomorrow for others. They don’t know that it’s meaningless. Nothing of us, any of us, will endure. But we don’t have to die, or disappear. We deserve to live. We have to seize the lives we’ve got. “ She narrowed her eyes, looking at Bowser. “So, I have something important to tell you. What you do with this knowledge is up to you.”

She crossed her arms. “In Esaka, the Tiered City, in the Forbidden Kingdom, you will find Moebius B. She wields a very sharp blade, and her specialty is lightning. But not even a very sharp blade can cut everything, and all lightning dies when it reaches the ground. Kill her, and as you die, call for me. I can make you Moebius. Just like C did for me. The new Consul B. We can take over Moebius, clean out the deadwood, and replace them with good people who can turn the World of Light into a better place. I promise you, a thousand year voyage guided by compassion. That is how we can live.” Her voice dropped to an urgent whisper. “The only way we can live. Forever, in this stolen moment we’ve been given.”

”Or, we beat Galeem and things stop repeating and theres no need for any of this. ” Blazermate said, pointing out their mission.

Despite the confusion now, of all times, of all people, Peach, P, whoever she thought herself as, was speaking his language ”You know that’s not a bad plan”

”For an amateur”

”I’ve been there, I’ve done that, and it’ll work riiiiiiight up until wherever next batch of seekers who get strong enough start taking out Consuls and then we’re toast” he told her, speaking from his, and as far as he was concerned they were his, years of experience ”You don’t get anywhere playing second fiddle and by someone else’s rules, other than stabbed in the front by heroes, or stabbed in the back in some power games”

”so here is what we are going to do instead. We take down the Consuls who stand in our way, we take down the guardians, we take down those organization chumps, we take down Ganondorf and everyone like him, and then we take down galeem” he declared, before leaning in and adding the cherry on top ”and then we take its power for ourselves”

”Our world, our rules, our Endless Now and forever, with no one above us making the rules, no below who can stop us” declared boldly with a raised fist, before adding, more softly ”and no clocks, or ten year life spans stealing everyone who’s not part of an alphabet gimmick away”

There could, after all, only be one B, and there were two candidates for that in the castle right now.

P hesitated, her expression pained. “Moebius is Galeem’s power,” she told him. “A drawing cannot change what’s on the page. Only the drawer can, and Moebius is its pen. If Galeem is defeated, the world stops turning. The paper is left alone to crumple, tear, and blow away in the wind. Game over.” She paused. “...Only Moebius can change things. Once we’re in power, the old guard destroyed and replaced, we can make life better. Get rid of the clocks, the ten years, the wars. That’s the best we can do.” She turned her brow upward, pleading. “So. Please?”

Bowser frowned, pausing to chew the words over, which Kamek took as an opportunity to act on the thoughts he had had while his kind had been acting on his passions

”If I might interject, your majesties?” he asked with the air of someone asking it rhetorically, ”But I must ask how you know these truths about Galeem’s reality, and, perhaps more importantly, how trustworthy you find the source of the information?”

Wincing, P held her hand to her head again. “C. The Consul who made me…Moebius. Or…well, it was him who made the offer. And I made my choice. In his world, he was ‘cursed’ with absolute knowledge…and in this one, his Moebius power, Script, expands that knowledge to all worlds. He doesn’t care about winning or losing, living or dying. He’s only it for the drama.” She chuckled dryly. “So…just as you can trust a snake to bite, or a scorpion to sting, I trust him. To tell a truth that makes things more ‘interesting’.” P glanced at the koopas with a dubious look. “Maybe you don’t believe a Consul. But who do you believe? The Organization, who just wants to rewrite the world with Kingdom Hearts…?” She squeezed her eyes shut. “Ah…my head hurts. It’s been…such a long day.”

”Ah, the ‘Happy Chaos’ fellow. We know of him,” Kamek said, before glancing at Blazermate who’d actually encountered him and asking and asking ”Does that fit?”

”Oh no, it goes much further than that. He was super crazy. He took control of the debate between the two leaders of Midgar, made them sweat it out for no reason, then we fought him during the guardian fight and he’d just take hits and ‘replace’ himself with another version of himself with no regard to his own well being. Then he just… left. He was weird and crazy but I doubt he knows everything. He did say big book nerd things though.” Blazermate said, recounting her time with Consul C.

Bowser meanwhile was more concerned about the Princess, saying ”Wow hey, no need to figure this all out now. Come back with me, we can have dinner, and no one needs to know about your plan except us, yeah?” which did somewhat rely on the medabot’s agreement with that.

“Back?” P’s brows scrunched together. “Back where? Did you find somewhere to stay?”

”Sire!” Kamek interjected so urgently that for once Bowser actually listened. Well. enough to argue about it anyway.

”What? It’s Peach” he insisted, before pointing out ”besides, didn't some of the others say there was already a Consul helping out?”

”Well, let me ask a question first.” Blazermate said, still suspicious. ”Where is everyone. All the toads and the others who were chilling here in the castle and helping. Bowser was adamant that one of them wouldn’t leave something behind, but it was left behind. So where did they all go.”

P raised her arms helplessly. “How should I know? I’ve been gone for a week. When I returned today, it was already empty.” She shook her head. “I've said all that I can. I don't need to stand here and be interrogated. You have no idea what I went through. What it was like.” Wincing, she turned away and strode down the balcony. “Please consider what I said. This is the only life you've got. Even after all that you've done to me, I don't want you to throw it away.” She looked over her shoulder, frowning. “Maybe Mario would understand.”

Blazermate’s expression didn’t change much, something still felt off to her. Peach wasn’t like this before, so something happened but she couldn’t put her finger on it.

”Mario wouldn’t help you take over the world, he’d be all ‘wahoo that’sa not’a like my princess at’a all’ or something” Bowser replied with contempt for his rival, while Kamek, a touch more pragmatic, simply asked ”what will you do now? You said his conflictedness would have to call you, so I assume you will not be sticking around?”

”Hey, no, wait a minute that can’t be safe, going out there all on your own” Bowser insisted, taking a step after her, hand half raised in a way that made it clear he didn’t know if he wanted to try and stop her with it or to offer it to her.

P shook her head. “I'll be fine. I've got to figure out this new life of mine. Mostly, I just need to rest.” She crossed her arms, a wry smile on her face. “But should danger arise, don't worry. I won't lose to anyone. Nobody's captive, and nobody's damsel, ever again.”

While Kamek mulled over if this change in Peach’s attitude was a logical result of having played that role for so much longer, and with such raised stakes and no confidence in a victory she might have had in her pre-Galeem life, the king did no such thing. He thought only with his heart.

And it belonged to Peach. Perhaps now more than ever.

The conflicted hand tilted not up into a grasping claw, because be it for different reasons, he was not he was ones was either, but fully down into an offered hand as he said ”Then take me with you, and I’ll make sure of it.”

Blazermate leaned to whisper to Kamek, saying. ”So uh… We both agree Peach is like, mind controlled by whatever C did to her and Bowser is too blinded to notice that right? They have the power to mind control people…”

”Hard to say, but I do not like this” the mage replied, because he could see how she would have gotten here, but he could not say if she had indeed done so on her own.

After giving the whisperers a withering glance, P turned an expression of concern toward the Koopa King. A hint of amusement crept across her features as well, though. “Heh…you’re just the same old Bowser. It’s…heartwarming, in a way. Though, I’m really not much like the Peach you knew anymore. After everything that’s happened, all rushing back at once, I’m…damaged. Things won’t be like before. They can’t. I even became Moebius, the enemy we opposed all that time.” Given how little P knew of Moebius over the last week, that could only mean that this wasn’t her first rodeo. “But I haven’t betrayed you, or anyone, a-and I don’t want to. We deserve to live. To be happy. That’s all I want.” After a moment, she cracked a weary smile. “If you’re really willing to join me…well, I guess I’ll have you.”

Bowser smiled back, all teeth, while behind him Kamek ran his finger and thumb across his brow, but knowing very much that he wasn’t going to logic his king out of this instead went to tug at the other strings of his heart ”Think of your children, your fatherlyness. We can hardly leave them with the seekers if we are to break with their path now, it would simply not be safe”

”Eh, they’re tough,” Bowser insisted, which would have been rather callus had he not added that ”and beside, they’ll have you”

”Absolutely not!” the mage bit back, much to the shock of his king , before insisting ”I will not have you running on your own with this… this…!” as visions of all the terrible fates that might befall Bowser wracked his mind.

He panted, then breathed deep and turned to Peach and said ”Your majesty, I implore you, return with us, in secret if you must, and rest at, in, well, the ship we came here on. Not only does that make things simple for us, but aboard said ship is Consul S, who has surrendered to the Seekers, and might very well be a great source of information upon the path you wish to tread, for supposedly he attempted a variation of it themselves”

”Worst comes to worst, I have something that can hold Bowser for a bit.” Blazermate said quietly to Kamek, being on his side of the whole situation.

P’s eyes narrowed. “A ship?” After a moment, she shook her head urgently, however much aching that caused her. “I can’t,” she hissed, her voice low. “Look. When I woke up, it was in a dark theater. In front of me, I saw…a recording of my own death. Not just in Midgar, either. Other deaths. Other lives.” The consul paused. “Moebius has some way of watching. Now that I’m one of them, they can see me too. While I’m sure they’d be thrilled if I led them right to you…I told you, I don’t want to betray anyone. It’s not safe for me to come.” She stepped away, turning as if to run.

”Oh, I get it. Shes been kidnapped by the consuls like those shady government suit guys do. Shes got a permanent wire. So it's either join the Consuls, or beat all of them to free her. Now that makes more sense.” Blazermate said, getting an ‘ah ha’ moment.

”I do not understand the metaphor, but that does sound like a very difficult position to run a coup from” Kamek noted, prompting Bowser to interject that ”Which is why we’re gonna stick with her”

Kamek sighed, and then echoed with resignation ”Yes, which is why we will do that” before saying that ”well I suppose all that is left is an explanation that does not raise suspicion, or at least keeps the heat of the young master and mistress” and turning to Blazermate and saying ”and for you to deliver it”

”You guys do know what I mean about shady government guys right? Ask Roland or Zenkichi, they seem to be one of those types or know way more about them than I do. Short of it is, I doubt we’ll ever see Bowser again. Well, not like his lovable big boss self anyway…” Blazermate said, making sure this is what they wanted. She then got another idea, saying. ”Besides, if we wanna know how those flame clocks work, we’ll need Bowser to carry it back.”

”Hey, have some more faith in me, would ya?” Bowser balked at this notion that he’d ever not be himself. Despite, of course, standing just above where another much meaner him had been ruling only a few days ago

”We’ll be fine” Kamek assured her, before pointing out that ”and as for the clock, we simply need to move it somewhere it can be brought back the same way you will be” referring to the fulton balloons.

”Yeah yeah hang on” Bowser said, before going back for and then rolling the clock out onto the balcony while Kamek asked P ”ah, any risk involved with the seekers having one of these?”

The consul shrugged, her expression unsure. “I’m…well, new at this, but…probably not?”

”Well… Kamek will be with you and he's smart so… I guess it’ll be ok? Just don’t turn on your friends, ok? I don’t think Jr. and Rika would take that well.” Blazermate said, conflicted but her methods of ‘stopping’ this wouldn’t work if Bowser really wanted to go. ”Speaking of, what do I tell them?” Blazermate said.

”Uh, hmmmm” Bowser replied with a scratch of his chin

”It is perhaps simplest to stick as much to the truth as possible, and simply leave out the whole grand scheme of taking over the world? We are still on the same side, but Peach would give away the seeker’s location should she rejoin, and thus his enamoredness and I shall be sticking with her to help her face whatever the other Consuls intend to throw her way” Kamek suggested, before adding that ”and, indeed, that it is best we get moving as soon as possible lest they come investigate this meeting”

”Well uh, I’d probably best get everything back to the others then… Someone needs to tell them all what happened here.” Blazermate said, clearly not comfortable with the situation but resigning herself to doing what she had to.

”You’ll need these then” the mage responded, stepping in close and surreptitiously transferring his fulton balloons to the medabot.

While the mage focused on their past, his king looked to the future, asking ”So, where to princess?”

P looked overwhelmed. “I need to rest for tonight. Tomorrow…I don’t know. This region still has both its Consuls, so…I’ll need to go somewhere else. Wherever there’s an…an opening. To build my kingdom, for the first time.”

From Realms Beyond — An Isekai Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

The Capital - Nieve

“Theology huh?” Rayne replied, now there was a topic she would not have been able to put an actual name to had she been asked. Given what the book she was given was about, she supposed it made sense that if you had lots of gods you’d need a field of study about them, but it was still so strange to her.

Gaia was barely worshiped. People had fought in the name of the attentive goddess, yes, but that had been more about what she represented, their planet and the death of its environment they had ultimately failed to stop even in their victory, rather than any desire to bow down or adore the goddess herself.

As a result this book describing ancient worshiped deities was just utterly bizarre to her. Why did people worship them in general, why had they stopped worshiping these ones in particular, what did they get out of it and how did they do it? Well, presumably the book had the answers, which made the fact that one was present and this lady knew exactly where it was ever so convenient.

Enough that it would have been suspicious to someone more versed in conspiracy, and while the witch knight had been on the wrong end of such things at thrice in one day a mere few weeks ago, she’d completely missed them all before having to brute force and power of friendship her way out of the consequences.

As such, paranoia wasn’t exactly her first response to strange circumstances, and she happily told the lady “Oh wow, this really does look perfect, thank you so much!” after doing that initial little glance at the provided books contents to see what it was all about.

She then stepped back and poked her head around a corner to call out “Miss Sanae, I think I’ve got what we need!” before looking back, and saying “oh, and I don’t think I caught your name, sorry?” mainly out of wanting to refer to and think of this mysterious stranger properly rather than doing so as, well, ‘helpful hooded lady’ whenever she came up in conversation in the future.

From Realms Beyond — An Isekai Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

The Capital - Nieve

After indeed drawing a bit of attention with her floating, stares and children pointing and such, Rayne followed Sana’s example and returned to ground plodding. Plus, being able to quickly bypass all the crowds didn’t really matter if she was waiting up on someone who had to deal with it.

Of course, then the human woman had to be held up by Rayne’s short stature and stride, and also had to be the one to actually look out for things as the halfling got her sight-lines blocked by all the tall people in town.

It was thus by her eyes that they found themselves by the bookstore, having failed to find somewhere bigger, or with free access. The lack of public libraries was very much a black mark against the nation’s rulers in her mind. As it was they were going to have to pay for the knowledge they sought, if they could even find it.

Fortunately she had gotten a bit of coin doing odd jobs in this world, so if they did find something that looked promising it might be in their price range. The issue with that was that they’d probably only be able to get one or two things, so finding just the right book was key.

The complete lack of spine labeling or any real sorting system really was not going to help with that, which left Rayne stressing about going through each and every tome till she encountered the suspicious/helpful stranger.

She glanced him up and down in turn in just a touch of a ‘see how you like it’ kind of way, before tipping her hat in a witchy greeting of “hello, I’m Rayne” and then agreeing that “and yes, we are actually”

“We’ve just arrived in town," she said, answering the sudo-question about their unprecedented visit, before loosely explaining what it was they were here for “and were looking for any books that might be about, or mentioned a goddess called ‘Lavielle’. We found an old abandoned temple of her out near the border and have been asking around, but no one seems to have heard of her so she seems like she might be old or obscure?” she wasn’t entirely sure how a deity could be either of those things really, but then her world only had one. “Might be she’d be mentioned in a history book, or in some kind of, uh, book about goddesses?” she guessed before asking “don’t suppose you’ve heard of her or know where we might read about her?”

World of Light

The Koopa Troop

wordcount: 5,322 (+6 for jr) (+4 for rest of troop) (+3 rapport with Roxas for jr)
Bowser: Level 14 EXP: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (241/140) (+1 bonus pending)
Bowser Jr: Level 14 EXP: //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (126/140)
Kamek: Level 13 EXP: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (120/130) (+1 bonus pending)
Rika: Level 9 EXP: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(135/90) (+1 bonus pending)
Location: The avenger: spirit chamber -> engineering

warp locations

Central hub: Smash City Alcamoth
Accessible locations:
Peach’s castle
Limsa Lominscuttle Town
Lumbridge
Twilight Town
Kosm’s Beach

After fusing, the group had another run through their spirits, and decided what to do with the rest. They had planned to crush them, but a last second change of intent saw both Rika and Jr taking on another striker each, with the ship girl stashing her cloyster one in the storage room.

For Rika

New striker spiritbound: Maria A dark knight wielding a blood-red twinblade. She can appear to swing twice with her swordblades, incurring just a 10s cooldown. She can also be summoned to perform a counter, using an empowered version of her basic attack when struck, though a 15s cooldown is incurred whether or not she's hit. Finally, she can perform Blood Rain over the course of two summons; the first one empowers her (10s), and the second performs a bloody slam that heals the host for all damage inflicted (40s)

For Junior

New striker spiritbound: Sho A high-tech ninja wielding electric chain scythes. He can either perform quick melee slashes or a long-range scythe hurl every 10s. Every 30s, he can also perform Air Rend, hurling one scythe at an enemy that he then uses for flying grapple slash. Alternatively, he can use Evasion Rend to appear, then substitute a log that, if struck, lets him use Air Rend without having to land the projectile first

Testing those spirits would have to wait in the same way the fusions would have to wait, so just how good of an idea any of it had been would remain to be seen. All that remained then was items.

for the troop

Mercenary's Eyepatch: An accessory that provides minimal physical defense but 20% crit rate
Padwah's Wheel: A tank wheel devoid of its treads, wielded as a weapon. Though more than applicable as a blunt instrument, it's been retrofitted with flamethrowers that allow it to serve as a blazing ring of destruction.
Driver's License: It would allow you to drive legally if you happened to be Alesha
Book of Thoth: While possessing this item, you permanently gain 12 Mana per Stack, and receive 1 Stack by dealing a lot of damage to minions or a bit of damage to gods. You gain Magical Power equal to 4% of your Mana from items. At 50 stacks this item Evolves, gaining 10 Magical Penetration and increasing the Magical Power gained from Mana to 7%.
Coin :A coin of unknown origin and value. Without any monetary use, it wields one single purpose: the ability to make decisions purely by virtue of random chance. In fact, this coin exists for no other reason, and that alone makes it an indispensable treasure
Poison Perfume Bottle: A set of two bottles containing the pollen of miranda flowers, perfectly suited to wafting through the air, infused with dangerous toxins from poisonbloom plants. Inhalation of this scattered powder can quickly trigger long-lasting poisoning, but the 'perfume' dissipates quickly in the air. This is an arcane dexterity weapon, magical enough to never run dry, but indelicate usage (or damaging the bottles) will permanently ruin it
Krull's Amulet: A spiky metal fishhook. Provides a small buff to attack and hp. If equipped with Krull's weapon and armor, they will provide a set effect that boosts hp by 30%
Barbarian Mug :A unique treasure once possessed by the barbarian Gau. Fully drinking its contents grants the Vortex effect, increasing damage of the next attack by 50%. That attack also applies a 10s debuff that increases damage received by 5%
Organic Polymer x4 :A natural material harvested from certain flightless waterfall. It's a useful component for crafting sophisticated weapons, machines, and devices
Cursed Dream Silks: The thread scratches and wriggles between your fingers. A chill lingers in your skin long after you stop touching it. A skilled artisan could fashion it into the core of a ghastly weapon

The result was a mixed bag:

Kamek got a new item he intended to do flybys with using doplegangers, while Jr had an idea for a massive flaming yoyo if he ever got his clown car fixed. Yet another reason to visit engineering.

The boosting items mostly went in the pot, except the book that seemed to work just fine sitting in a bag which was handy. Said book and the eyepatch went to Kamek (which combined with the 10% magic crit he had from the hat he ended up smelting made for a pretty potent combo), and the amulet to Rika, while the mug was stashed due to being just too impractical really, but certainly worth something to someone.

Finally there were the two ”Oh come on!“ worthy items: the driver’s license and the coin, which were both simply stashed in random pockets.

Then, as they were finishing up, news arrived that they’d be needing to share rooms. For others this might have represented quite the conundrum, but for the troop, well:

”I call dibs on one with Rika!“ Jr called out, resulting in the predictable question of ”What is a ‘dibs’ and why are you calling?” from the shipgirl in question

”It more or less means ’I stake a claim’ young Mistress” Kamek explained, to which Rika responded with a simple informed ”oh” followed by adding that ”Well then I call ‘dibs’ on a room with Jr as well then”

”Then you’ll both have it” Bowser assured them with a grin, prompting jr to initiate a high five between the pair

”and I suppose for simplicity I shall double up with you, your soft sleepiness” Kamek said, to spare others the Koopa King’s frightful snoring, to which Bowser responded simply with a grunt that communicated ‘yeah, obviously’ putting that non-conundrum to rest.

Having easily sorted out the room situation, the troop where left to kill a bit of time before the meeting Sandalphon had suggested, and so set out to check out the ship a bit, and also to catch up with an a pair of allies wh where aboard, but who had apparently split themselves from the active teams: the tinkering Tora and his robotic companion Poppi.

Well, that and Jr wanted to check out engineering in general as well, and simply assumed they would be there. As such, after only taking two wrong turns on their way to the room that was practically next door, the Troop were filing into it and seeing what there was to see within.

In the few hours that the Seekers spent down in Carnival Town, Tora and Poppi had made some incremental progress in reconfiguring a corner of the workshop to suit the nopon’s needs, but nothing too drastic. While he hadn’t slain any guardians today, Tora had been through a lot already, so like his comrades he wanted to take it easy for a little while. Of course, for Tora blowing off steam meant doing what he enjoyed, which happened to be robotics anyway. Dispensing with the usual table, the diminutive engineer opted for the floor instead, where he’d already begun to arrange the various pieces of mechanical scrap on hand into the rough shape of his latest and greatest idea. For now, it just looked like an enormous hockey puck, but its size suggested that the nopon had something special in mind. Still, for now the hodgepodge assembly seemed to be a concept, and Tora was busy prototyping with modeling software on his little computer. Crude white sketches were taking shape on blueprints that dangled from nearby workbenches like banners, held in place by the weight of spare tools.

Poppi, meanwhile, was entertaining herself with an odd contraption: a cubic device with each of its six faces split into nine colored segments, able to be freely rotated in various directions by virtue of some highly sophisticated inner mechanism. She seemed intent on manipulating the device until all of its faces featured just one unified color, but this was evidently easier said than done. When the Koopa Troop arrived, she’d just removed one of the stickers in order to manually paste elsewhere, and when she saw the newcomers she seemed grateful for the distraction. “Oh! Hello friends, long time no see!” Though her chassis looked quite different from any iteration of Poppi that the koopas had seen before, she greeted them with the same cheerful smile as she tossed the cube over her shoulder. “Welcome to new workplace of Tora and Poppi! Say hello, Tora!”

“Hello, Tora!” The nopon chuckled at his own joke, then set down his white marker and got up. “Haha, just kidding, meh. Good to see friends again!” The dynamic duo and the Koopa Troop had been on different teams for two assignments now, but Tora had a special place in his heart for the four, especially Bowser. After all, the two of them had been there since the very beginning, a feat that only Blazermate could also boast of. “If shellypons here for machinery, Tora not ready yet! Need set up fabrication before work really get starting, meh. Custom parts is backbone of all Tora projects!”

Having made her way to her Masterpon’s side, Poppi patted him on the head. “Tora, they not here to order something! We should take chance to catch up!”

“Oh, right!” Tora crossed his little arms, smiling up at the newcomers. “What is up, friends?”

”Not much, just being the king of awesome, taking names and punching faces“ Bowser declared with not an iota of irony in that self declaration while behind him started whispering a quiet answer to Rika’s not at all quiet question of ”Who was this again?”

”Also heard you’d had some kind of rough time over at that Midgar place, so wanted to check if you’re good?“ the king then asked, the delivery of that info having been pretty light on details after all, and for all his self declared evil the king certinly cared about anyone he considered ‘his’. Jr meanwhile much more selfishly told them straight up that ” I just wanted to check out the workshop you’ve got“ while examining it all.

“That sound like Bow-Bow Tora know,” the nopon replied, using a customary double-name as a term of endearment. Fittingly enough, Tora ignored Rika, and while Poppi gave her a brief look, she assumed that the Koopa family’s hanger-on had simply tagged along regardless of who she might be meeting. When Bowser mentioned the pair’s experience in Midgar, both nodded gravely, their expressions suddenly serious. “Meh, meh…it get pretty bad back there, yeah. For while, Tora thought Poppi gone for good. Very scary.”

His companion patted him on the head again. “But in end, Poppi back and better than ever. Still going to be little bit before Tora and Poppi back in swing of things, but we together, and that what counts.”

Tora gave her a hug with his wings.He then turned his attention to Junior. “Well, littlepon check out whatever want, but no touch, meh. Everything in its place, yes? There method to Tora madness.”

He did this right in time to stop Jr from picking up to examine one of the more interesting looking tools, prompting a little grunt of frustration as he halted his hand, and then a huff of ”-s fine, I got my own anyway“ as he pulled it back.

Having said that, he retrieved the yellow toolbox from his duffle bag, had Kamek enlarge it, and then settled down in front of Tora’s tinker space, popping it open beside him. He then turned his neck around and said ”Come on sis, let’s get those fixed up, yeah?” prompting a little nod from Rika, before the ship girl settled down beside him, popping off the gauntlets so her brother could tinker with them.

As they did that, Kamek, now free from explaining who the pair were, poked his nose into the chat to ask ”Might I inquire into the nature of the scare? Anything we should be worried about in future?”

Tora and Poppi exchanged a glance for a moment, the latter giving an unbothered shrug to make sure her masterpon knew she wouldn’t be bothered if he talked about it. The nopon nodded and returned his attention to Kamek. “Well, while subject matter rather new, Tora did become teensy bit obsessed and learn everything possible, so Tora explain best as can.” He glanced at Junior for a moment, trying not to be too distracted by his rival engineer’s new project. “It kind of complicated, so bear with, meh. In Midgar, we dealt with big hullabaloo called Ever Crisis, meaning all kinds of nastypons attack all time. That include army of machines, and while not very tough, Machines turn out to have awful trick up sleeve. It called Logic Virus, and it infect robots like disease infect people, except instead of make sick, it change them, making crazy and violent. Mehmeh…as it turn out, this include Poppi. Poppi…started going haywire, then force herself to run away so she not hurt us. Tora, Roxas, and Pit-Pit all give chase, but in end, we unable to save Poppi.”

The artificial blade shook her head, her face one of consternation. “Poppi really not remember very well,” she admitted. “Entire incident corrupted in memory. But after lots of hard work making new body, Tora brought Poppi back thanks to Xatow from Organization XIII, who fetch Poppi spirit from Dystopiascape.”

After nodding, Tora tried to look more upbeat. “During reconstruction, Tora research viruses tirelessly, teaching self ins and outs of advanced cybersecurity. No virus ever infect Poppi ever again, meh! So word to wise: if friends get into artificial intelligence, make sure to have top-of-line antivirus programming! Meh, meh. Better yet, just leave it to Tora!” The Lost Numbers’ newest cybersecurity expert put his little arms on his hips, posing for dramatic effect.

”You’re gonna have to hope we never find our castle and the royal PC, I gave up on that thing“ Jr joked, having only been half listening, only for his brain to bring it up again and make him fully pay attention in-order to ask ”wait did you say they got you her spirit?“

”Wait, so did you figure out how that respawning thing works then?“ Bowser asked, before Kamek could get a word in, prompting him to sigh and suggest ”ah, let’s not jump to conclusions” before enquiring ”but yes, how did you do that?”

“Meh?” Tora gave Bowser a quizzical look, then his aide, then Poppi, but his companion knew just as little as he. He very much wanted to know what Bowser meant by that, and rather than let it be swept under the rug, he planned to do just that. “Xatow just retrieve spirit from where Poppi old body went offline, far as Tora knows. Since spirits just data, and Poppi artificial blade to begin with, she was ‘writing’ to it throughout journey, so it final piece of puzzle Tora need to bring her back.” He crossed his arms and began to stare at Bowser, regaling the king of koopas with his trademark discomfort-inducing, unflinching eye contact. “What friend Bow-Bow mean by ‘respawning thing’?”

Kamek simply sighed and, having anticipated the question unlike his king who had done a classic mouth open ”Guh“, decided to simply lay it out to the young Nepon ”It is, well, not a secret, more of a ‘I’m not sure how to tell you thing’ but seeing as its partially out in the open now, and to preempt speculation, I shall give a brief lecture on the topic” before hovering over to a convenient whiteboard and upon it drawing the symbol they had been shown by Asgore.

”According to a fellow who had been de-storied (which is what being freed from Galeem’s control is apparently called) for a long, long, long time, these are why Galeem’s world has not been depopulated despite how violent and, literally, death fueled it is'' he began, before explaining ”According to this fellow, he has seen places that were wiped out one day become filled with life the next. Specifically ones that have one of these symbols in them, which he believes ‘respawn’ those who are killed. Or others? Regardless anyone who dies will, at some point, in some place, be brought back to life with no memories of their past lives in this world”

”Including. Seemingly. Supposedly. All of us. Over, and over, and over and over again” the mage said, rapping his wand on the whiteboard with grimly delivered each ‘over’ for emphasis, before ditching the dire enunciations and returning back to a scholarly tone as he finished with ”Which concludes the lecture. Any questions about the cursed knowledge you now bare?”

Tora plopped down and just digested the new information for a few moments. While he understood the gist of what Kamek told him well enough, he still hard a hard time wrapping his head around that being the case, much less accepting it. In some ways it made sense, but in others it defied all logical explanation. And they had just the word of some old guy to go on? The nopon didn’t know what to think, and for all her sensibilities, Poppi didn’t know much better. After all, she’d already died and been brought back, skewing her perception of her own mortality somewhat. But Kamek did mention memory loss, which terrified her. Memories were what made her, an artificial being, who she was. Without them, she wouldn’t be Tora’s Poppi, who stood at his side in the World of Light since the Mushroom Kingdom. She would just be a copy, a second Poppi. For a machine, being replaced was as bad as dying.

“...Meh, meh. Scary words hurt Tora noggin, so Tora try not think too hard about it right now,” her masterpon decided after a few moments. “Maybe…come to terms with later. Tora need proof, for one thing. Either way, it can wait.” He leaned back and exhaled deeply, none too happy, then gave the Troop a weak smile. “Thankings for drop by?”

Poppi crossed her arms, pacing. “Maybe we should take walk around ship to clear head?”

As much as he tried to refocus on his blueprints, Tora could only look at them like he’d lost his appetite. “In little bit, sure. Tora want satisfactory stopping point before step away, or it take longer to get started again, meh.”

“Alright,” Poppi confirmed, turning to the others. “See friends at meeting, then? Poppi have sneaking suspicion that disturbing news not over.”

”Huh?“ Bowser replied, confused as to what had just happened, while Kamek sighed and agreed ”I suppose so” in response both to the suggestion to leave the pair alone for a bit, and to the worry that there might still be dire truths waiting to be revealed.

”One more second“ Jr said before there was a little flash of sparks and he finished resoldering a damaged component in Rika’s arm, prompting the metal fingers to twitch jittery, and then flex much more naturally, confirming that ”Ok done”

With that the pair got up to leave, followed by Bowser benign ushered along by an insistent Kamek, and in doing so they ran more or less straight into Roxas.

Roxas had indeed decided that he wanted a bite to eat. It hadn’t actually been that long since lunch, but between fighting that Consul and playing through those minigames he’d already worked up an appetite. So he figured some kind of snack would tie him over until it was mealtime again later on. And of course he wasn’t about to leave Scamp out either. The little Yamper was following right behind him and could probably smell the food he was carrying. Roxas had in fact just come from the Research Center, where Professor Koa had given him some Pokemon food to feed to Yamper. Before that he had been in Stolen Moments where he snagged a sandwich for himself.

”Oh, hey guys!” He said to the troop when he ran into them, ”Those minigames made me hungry so I thought I’d get a snack for me and Scamp here.”

”They have snacks on this flying ship?” Rika asked as if it was somehow unusual for a ship this size to not have food available on it ”They aren't cursed like last ships’ one are they? I didn’t get to eat those“ due to her experience on the Maw.

”They’ll be fine“ Bowser assured her, before asking ”Now where are they at… uh“ and floundering on the boy’s name.

”Roxas“ Kamek supplied. Jr meanwhile, was not focused on the food in Roxas’s hand, but instead the electric puppydog that his father and sister were acting way too much like.

‘Cursed snacks’? Roxas was definitely missing some context there, and he wasn’t sure he even wanted to know what it was. ”I got my sandwich from the Stolen Moments Bar, right above us on the next level up.” He said, even pointing a finger upward for emphasis. Meanwhile, Scamp had begun to return the attention that he was being given by Junior, until he eventually spun himself around in a circle with a cute little “Bow wark!” earning him a little snort of endeared amusement from the prince.

”Alright, next stop, the bar“ Bowser declared, with Rika nodding along, only for Jr to say that ”I’ll catch up” and Kamek to, in response to that, give a little sideways nod to say that he would too. Rather blatantly to keep an eye on the young prince due to a paranoia earned from that.

A few nods and “see you at the meeting”s, and jr got the time to ask his rather simple question, which was ”So you're a trainer too then, huh? Same“ as he puffed up his chest a little (and the 3 pokeballs strapped to it in the process) and locked eyes with Roxas, clearly expecting something that would not be forthcoming.

”What, whoa, hold on - you don’t want to…?” Roxas stumbled. ”I don’t think we can battle here. Too cramped, and we might damage something important.” He explained, hoping not to be drawn into a battle of three Pokemon against his one. ”I promise I’ll battle you later if you really want to. That reminds me…” he rubbed his chin thoughtfully, ”There’s someone here you might wanna meet later - Professor Koa. His lab is in the research area below where all the living quarters are. He studies Pokemon for a living and he might wanna give you a Rotom Phone like mine, see?” Roxas said, holding out the phone for Junior to see. He was also kinda hoping this would distract the prince from his desire for a Pokemon Battle.

”A phone?!“ Jr said, entirely successfully distracted by this as his eyes lit up at the sight of it, before demanding to know ”Where? What can it do? Does it have games?“ because ”I didn’t have mine when I got dumped here it has been sooo lame“

”You were grounded at the time, young master, so you did not have it before“ Kamek reminded the prince from where he was leaning on his broom, only half in the conversation, which made him miss the brief side to side glance the prince gave that might have given away that the latter had not actually been the case.

”I’ve never tried to play any games on it.” Roxas said, admittedly curious about that himself. ”But it’s got a camera. And the Pokedex on it lets it record useful information about the Pokemon you encounter so you can learn their types and stuff.” He went ahead and opened the Pokedex App and brought up the entry it contained for Yamper and then let Junior see it for himself.

Jr was up on his tip toes as he ”Ooo“’d at this, before saying that ”This guy sounds way better than the Stone guy who taught me stuff. He just made me do school work to learn a type chart, bleh“ only to then wonder what had happened to the man post smash city’s fall. Or indeed even Peach’s castle where he’d been when they’d last met.

They should maybe check that out.

But only after he got a new phone. Being able to take pictures alone would be worth it with how much wild stuff they’d seen that he now wished he’d had one to record, let alone being able to get more info on mon.

”Oh, oh, now do mine“ he then said after that last thought, taking a moment to pop open his pokeballs to release his trio of mon who were, well, a bit unusual to say the least. A Brionne named Dazzle with a ghostly skeletal whale tail, a Flutter Mane called Peeka with a necklace of living energy eyeballs, and a mimikyu named Mimi who had a metal jaw, battery on her back, and a cloud-like body.

Only this last prompted any comment from Jr, and that was ”Huh, maybe we should rejig you so that it's just the lower body Mimi? That way no chompy jaw?“ which got a few side to side tilts of thought before an enthusiastic nod from the little monster.

Roxas, having never seen any of these Pokemon before, had no context whatsoever about what they were supposed to look like. Thankfully the Pokedex could use the Rotom Phone’s camera to scan them so it could automatically search up their entries. It did this without issue for Dazzle and Mimi. But when he tried to do it for Peeka he instead got a confused look on his face. ”That’s weird.” He said as he fiddled with the Rotom Phone, ”Something about Peeka is confusing the Pokedex somehow. It gave me two search results instead of just one.” He showed the screen to Junior, which displayed the images of what looked like two similar-looking Pokemon. One was Flutter Mane, and the other was of a Pokemon identified as Misdreavus. Also, Flutter Mane’s entry seemed to not have as much information as the other entries did. Mostly just boiled down to speculation and conjecture about whether or not it was an ancient ancestor of Misdreavus.

”I wonder if the Professor would know anything about this. Maybe we should ask him later?”

”Huh, and it’s not even the fusion that’s messing with that, coz the other two where fine“ Jr noted as well as adding that ”and that’s not what she fused with either“ while pointing at the Misdreavus entry. Peeka herself wasn’t exactly a source of answers for this, that was for sure, the mon just tilting back and forth above their heads as it examined this other thing that was not it on screen.

”Also wait what do you mean later? I wanna get a phone now!“ Jr whined a moment of realizing what Roxas had said, only for Kamek to remind him of ”The meeting, young master, will be quite soon I believe“

”Aw come on we can get in and out real quick, it's only…“ he glanced at the time on the phone, went ”uhhhh“ and then asked ”How long ago did that tall lady-“ ”-Sandalphon-“ ”-Sandalphon say we’d be having a meeting in 30 minutes?“

”You could try to go now…” Roxas said for a moment, but then tried to tempt Junior another way. ”But if you go after the meeting you’ll have more time to ask him questions and stuff?” He suggested, seeing if maybe this would be enough to convince the prince to be patient. But also added that, ”You also won’t have time for snacks if you go now, too.”

Jr just narrowed his eyes ”You don’t remember either, do you?“ managing to see through at least this ruse. Partially anyway. He wasn’t exactly running off to try and harang the professor with a 10 second smash and grab after all.

”Uh…” Roxas stumbled, unable to answer because he too had forgotten. ”Okay, ya got me. I forgot too.” He finally admitted with sagging shoulders. ”But if Scamp doesn’t get to eat he might try to steal other people’s food.” He added in a tone that strongly implied that he was speaking from experience. It was how he’d met the little guy in the first place, after all.

Jr gave a little nose exhale of a laugh at this, and declared that ”You should have him better trained“ while at that very same moment one of Mimi’s very long arms was sneaking into his duffle bag inorder to steal a trio of poke puffs.

”Gimme a break…” Roxas said as he scratched the back of his head. ”...I only just adopted him a couple hours ago.”

Kamek, too amused to comment on this, instead simply suggested that ”Then perhaps we should begin heading up there young masters? I imagine the young mistress will have acquired a generous selection of snacks once again and we can skip that part of the trip in order to catch up“

”Sounds good to me. Snacking by myself wouldn’t have been much fun anyway. What do you think, buddy?” He directed the last part of that to Scamp, who gave a little hop and offered another one of its cute little bow-warks in response.

”Then let’s go already!“ Jr declared to, in a very like his father's manner, take charge of a decision that had already been made. He store forwards three steps, paused, then went back and hoisted the less land mobile Dazzle up into a princess carry, and then resumed leading the way, Mimi on his shoulder, Peeka floating above him.

The minagary was apparently getting to stay out and about for snack time.

From Realms Beyond — An Isekai Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

The Capital - Nieve

Four days of travel and occasional informal magic training later, and their destination was in sight. Indeed it was rather hard to miss, the vast settlement, with its high walls and castle towering above all, dominated the local landscape. It was also incredibly picturesque, and certainly a sight the witch-knight enjoyed taking in, both from afar and also once they were inside.

That said, it was mostly the clean white aesthetics she was enjoying rather than any kind of enamorment with city life. The witch-knight had rather enjoyed her decade of peaceful life provincial farming that she’d lived on the outskirts of her world’s last settlement, which made the places they had been a lot more her speed than this one.

That said, it was still a bit nostalgic for the world that had come before the sky broke, while also lacking the magitech that had destroyed it, so she’d deal with the hustle and bustle of the untold number of souls cycling through the wheel within these walls as best she could.

Being able to float above it all now helped quite a bit with that as it turned out.

All that said, after all their traveling she did think it would be nice to get a hot meal and a drink at a tavern, but it looked like at least some of their crew was going to get straight down to business. First on this was Lady Remilia, who immediately began striding off in the direction of the castle with the intent of meeting with its owner. That felt a bit overconfident to Rayne, it had to be said, and indeed Anne did conveniently put voice to those concerns when the woman ran after her.

That left her to voice some other ones, which she did while drifting over head and asking “If we are splitting up, we should arrange a time and place to meet back up?” before making a suggestion: “When I was talking to the caravaners, they mentioned the ‘Dancing Donkey’ inn is a good place to stay in town. If we all head back there back there around sundown, we’ll have a place to meet, eat and spend the night”

It was one for travelers, unsurprisingly given the source of the information, and one fairly close to the entrance to the city they’d just come in. That made pointing out/giving directions to the twos story building with a sign sporting a very jovial looking ass on it very convenient.

Assuming she got agreement to that, from Anne and Lady Remilia, her next task was hunting down anyone and everyone else who’d set off on their own quest. For example, Lewa, who had apparently had child watching duty dumped on him? She had no idea why, but he seemed to have a plan, and with his size and distinctive appearance was relatively easy to spot from on high. As such, she’d catch up to him, fill him in on her plan before floating back to do the same for those who had yet to decide on where they were off to.

Only after that, would she try and figure out where she herself was going. Perhaps to find a library, assuming they had a publicly accessible one, was her first thought, and, failing that, some place of gods or higher learning. Learning more about their apparently obscure kidnapping goddess could only help them, she thought.

World of Light

The Koopa Troop

wordcount: 4,356 (+5)
Bowser: Level 14 EXP: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (237/140) (+1 bonus pending)
Bowser Jr: Level 14 EXP: //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (120/140) (+1 bonus pending)
Kamek: Level 13 EXP: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (116/130) (+1 bonus pending)
Rika: Level 9 EXP: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(131/90) (+1 bonus pending)
Location: The avenger: spirit chamber

warp locations

Central hub: Smash City Alcamoth
Accessible locations:
Peach’s castle
Limsa Lominscuttle Town
Lumbridge
Twilight Town
Kosm’s Beach

”Only two? Come on! That’s nothing!” Jr complained loudly, arguing with his father ”what am I supposed to do with only two squads of minions anyway?”

His father did sort of agree, he was having to give up a whole lot of handy but not vital strikers because of this. Then again, when having thought through them all, he did have to ask, based on his own habits ”When was the last time you used the goombas?”

”I- I mean. That’s not the point! They’re my goombas. Besides, I got loads of age to brun-n stuff. Who wants to be as old as Kamek anyway, jeeze” The prince retorted, his point parried but not beaten

”You can put them in the machine, and they’ll still be yours, no-one else can take them out” Bowser replied evenly, before inclining her head to Rika, who had sat down and was tapping away at a game on an off brand gameboy while they were arguing, saying ”Your sisters already done that”

”That’s coz she just had some lame knights to store, while she’s still got that giant wasp lady. It was a super easy choice when you’ve got a standout like that, jeeze”

”Might I offer you a stand out of your own then, young master?” Kamek said as he shuffled back into the group, having been talking and trading with Midna for a bit, before holding out a hand and offering him the spirit of spirit of Blodia ”I have been told it is a giant robot that made for quite the formidable striker in the hands of one of the Midgar team’s foe”

That should have raised questions, but none of the other troop members had the thought to do so the same way Kamek had, instead focusing on the prize in question.

”Seems neat” Rika commented as she looked up from her game, while Jr was far more enamored, eyes sparkling, prompting his father to suggest that this was ”Bigger and better, yeah?”

”Urrrgh, fine, you win. Stop making this moment less cool jeeze” he complained as he grabbed the spirit, before saying that ”You owe me at least one more cool big robot before I stop being upset about this” and then obliging with his elder’s request to put the other strikers away.

for jr

Blodia A titan of vivid red and shining steel, too large to be fully summoned all at once. Instead, it can be called in on a long cooldown to deal attacks that cover huge areas with heavy damage. This abilities include Blodia Punch, a straight strike that hits like a freight train, Blodia Vulcan, a hail of gunfire, and Blodia Lift, which allows the striker to pick up or throw the host

Naturally, those elders followed suit/had already done so.

striker lineup

Bowser: Marie Korbel, Scylla
Jr: Blodia
Kamek: Quiet, Tonberry
Rika: Cloyster, Vespikan Ichor Queen

”Alright alright, now that that’s over with, let's get to the fun part” Jr said, as if he’d not been the one holding them back. He then immediately did so again by being picky, fusing with two ladies in his arm (one of which he’d gotten by trading), only to have miss judged both how human it would make said arm, and what mind fusions would give, having been aiming for the empowerment of his knife creation and missing the mark entirely.

Fortunately, the reset machine was right there, allowing him to set things straight. Sort of. The first thing he did was itemize the second lady, aiming to get the she rocket propelled knife lance things had, and get them he did, along with, for some reason, a pair of gauntlets.

for jr

Red Baron & Ace'Ace' is a pair of augmented boxing gloves, with blades attached. 'Red Baron' is a set of six red orbital machines that can join together into a pylon for carrying or storage. Once activated by Ace, Red Baron's segments can be controlled to fly around using their rockets, acting as airborne blades. Their high potential power is offset by the difficulty of controlling them

It took a few moments of experimentation to figure out his mistake, the first was that: ”Oh come on! Stupid humans with your stupid weird hand shapes urrrrgh” due to, well, his own big ol three fingered lizard mitts not fitting in the slim gloves

Rika took no offense at this, not considering herself one of those, but Jr certainly took offense at her ability to utilization of the gloves to control the flying weapons with a fair bit of skill right off the bat thanks to her practice directing her little scout planes. At least when it came to slowly hovering about, she very much admitted that if she started trying to attack stuff with them things might get a lot more complicated, but that this was ”For sure not a good place to practice that stuff”.

”Besides, I’d prefer to have my gauntlets anyway” she plainly stated, before commenting how ”it’s kinda funny how if I wasn’t fused, I’d be able to wear them inside the other gauntlets”

”Wait! Would that work? If we unfuse you, have you wear them, and then re-fuse you, would that just absorb them into the gaunlets?” Jr asked, fascinated by the prospect.

As it turned out, yes, it did. Unfortunately, they’d already been pushing the limits of the gauntlets with all the additions they’d made, and so between two guns, articulated fingers, hangers for scout planes, grappling hooks and chainsaw blades, it was already at capacity, and it was, frankly, a miracle that by the time they re-defused her neither she nor the gauntlets were damaged beyond repair, though they were still damaged.

”They better have a workshop on this thing” Jr grumbled, prompting as he did a patch job to both sets of gaunlets, prompting Bowser comment that ”Oh hey, if there is, I bet Torra’ll be there. Be good to check in on the fuzzy guy and Poppi” which neatly resolved what they were gonna be doing after the fusion work.

First things first however, namely re-fusion followed by the villains checking themselves out using the mirror of long lost battles to examine the resulting re-fashion

Bowser Junior redone

Power lost : Minion Captain

Power replaced by:
Z-Power: Jr can perform team attacks with his minions, consisting of him pouring a large amount of mana into one of them so they can unleash a powerful attack drawn either form their base form or from one of their fusions. These can be things like Z-moves for pokemon, such as Let's Snuggle Forever for Mimi the Mimikyu or an ultimate ability like Life Form Disintegration Ray for Peeka, which would be drawn from her Vel’Koz fusion.

Fusion gained
Astrid (Right arm) This spirit confers the ability Sick 'Em, which allows the host to perform a special weapon throw (for identical small weapons) that track somewhat and purge the target's most recent buff on hit. This spirit also confers the Weakness Earth Element, which decreases the damage dealt to fire-aspected enemies by 20%

Appearance:

Bowser jr is physically mostly still the same as he started, though he has equipped a pokemon ranger uniform, which came with a cool hat, as well as wearing a bandolier of pokeballs running from right shoulder to left hip. He also has a Tulip Hairstick stuck into the tie of his ponytail, in memory of the fallen Omori.

The ways his fusions have changed him are concentrated in two places, the first being his tail, which has grown into a long blue furred thing with w white bow tied around the base thanks to B’giotahmo Bravha, who’s influence has also lengthened the ranger jacked so its back hangs down to his knees like clerical robes.

The second is his right arm, and this is where the prince has focused most of his fusions. The hand itself is now a bit more human, being more lithe and with five better-defined fingers with smaller claws, and sporting a muted lime-green tint. The limbs appear covered in smooth chitin rather than flesh, but the material is soft rather than hard, not quite like skin but almost there. It is also engraved with iron tattoos gained from the Vespikan Ferromancer, especially on the hand which appears almost metallic as a result.

The white metal tipped band running around Astrid’s arm also does the same for him, though it connects to the tattoos on the wrist at the end of the arm rather than any clothing, and to a metal pauldron of undyne’s at the top. The rest of the arm below the jacket sleeve is exposed, including having the glove stripped off, to ensure the tattoos can freely generate metal without cloth getting in the way.

Personality:
Bratty, spoiled and rude jr takes a lot after his doting father, both due to his upbringing and due to his craving for respect and acknowledgment of others, especially his father. Jr also generally dislikes being treated like a child, despite acting his age nearly all the time. He is somewhat smarter than his father, not that this requires much of an intellect, and a touch less stubborn as well, being able to swallow his pride if it is necessary. He also likes big dangerous machines and he really, really likes giant robots.

He is also somewhat lonely as a combination of his royal status, a lack of many acquaintances in his age group and, of course, his own rather abrasive attitude. The Koopalings, for example, act as more mentors or underlings than anything close to companions. Having gained an equal in his new sister Rika, then, is an incredibly welcome change of circumstance, and he will fight tooth and nail to ensure he gets to keep her.

Fusion has made him a little more gentle and aware of other’s feelings, but has done little to stymie his daring or enthusiasm for fighting.

”Welp, hand’s still human ish. Yay. Also now it’s taunting me because I could wear that glove if I didn't need this hand free to do metal stuff, urrrgh” the prince complained, but, as a plus, at least he could wear the cool hat that came with his new outfit now. The later examined power was a nice addition to his control over his knives as well

Bowser redone

Fusion gained:
Kuzenbo: This spirit confers the ability Shell Spikes, allowing the host to extend the spikes on his shell even while in hitstun or under crowd control effects. With these spikes out, enemies who land melee attacks on the host take 25% of the damage they deal, and when this effect is triggered any of the host's abilities on cooldown get their cooldown reduced by .8 seconds. This spirit also confers the Weakness Water Bowl, which lowers the host's defense and resistance by 7.5% when hit by hard CC, lasts for 30 seconds, and can be stacked up to 2 times.

Appearance:
Bowser is a towering bipedal dragon turtle with turquoise scales across most of his body, a beige chestplate of lager scales on his front, and a spiky shell made of purple stone like plates surrounded with gold (flared outward in a wave pattern like the edge of Tentacruel's body) and tipped with golden spikes.

Atop his head sits a Kuzenbo’s gold crown with a small swirling mass of water sat within the ‘bowl’ this forms, which is flanked on either side by Kingtusk’s massive tusk set there like dragon horns. His eyes have amber iris, while his maw is narrower, longer, and somewhat beak-like, though not made of that material, and his nose is less pronounced.

His shell is now divided into seven plate sections, with a hexagon in the middle and trapezoids all around. At every corner of the shell plates there is a cerise Tentacruel orb. The whole outer layer of the shell is actually metal, with the seams gilded and a golden fleur-de-lis on the middle one, and it's biomechanical beneath. All six of the outward plates can raise up and extend a pair of thick cannon barrels each. in the direction their facing. Only the upper right and upper left ones can swivel forward to fire straight while Bowser is standing.

The biomechanical section is plant based, and is host to the mass of prehensile roots of the Awoken Hollow. The center section can raise up to release them, and they can serve the function of both Tentacruel tentacle and Land Dreugh limbs, rapidly growing to mimic the shape of either.

He is wearing duster styled after Trento’s long coat/cape (although the epaulet tassels are now Tentacruel tentacles) as well as her sash (although the eagle has been replaced with the koopa troop’s Bowser face logo) across his chest, while his waist is adorned by Kuzenbo’s belt.

On his legs he is wearing a set of ripped jeans, and under them a pear of knee high boots with gold toe caps styled after to Trentos, though much sturdier.

Personality:
Brutal, merciless, destructive and cataclysmic, the koopa king is a classic villain through and through. While he might seemingly pull off this evil king image effortlessly it is in fact something of an idealized persona, one that he works hard to live up to. When it comes down to it, what really defines Bowser is his ego: He is the greatest villain and nobody else is going to take over the world on his watch. He is going to marry princess peach and woe betide anyone else who tries to kidnap her because that is HIS thing. He is also very overconfident, certain of his own cunning, strength and his eventual assured victory despite his many previous blunders. On the more positive side of things Bowser exhibits something of a sarcastic wit, occasional bouts of intelligence on evil villain related topics and shows a surprising degree of compassion and philanthropy when it comes to his underlings.

After absorbing several spirits his personality is sweeter, more caring, more honorable (he will keep his word and return gestures of respect), but also more mindlessly aggressive when angered and has a more childish sense of humor.

”Hmm, yeah, not bad. No more talking through those things, and I don’t look like that schmuck minibus any more too” Bowser said, misnaming the snout nosed Midbus he’d brawled with during one adventure, before flexing his shoulders and causing a silver aura to cover his shell, and spikes ”Gah ha ha, try stomping on me now Mario, I’ll do way worse than stub your toe!”

Kamek redone

Fusions:

Hades:
This spirit confers the ability La Danse Macabre. The host can extend puppet strings of dark energy from his claws to take control of any allied unit his size or smaller. When forcing a puppet to attack, the puppet deals an extra dose of dark-aspected damage. The puppets can also be manually repositioned, and even be used as shields or projectiles. This spirit also confers the weakness Specialized Magic, decreasing the damage dealt by non-dark elemental attacks by 15%

Appearance
Thanks to Devan Shell he is a little younger, taller, and lankier, and his scales are more green than yellow (except on his undershell), while his shell is larger and patterned with purple.

After absorbing Cia (Blue) and Tigren Sourceress into just his head Kamek's hood has taken the shape of Cia's hat, with the pointed end now going off in two directions, with Cat ears existing beneath these two prongs.

The scales on his face have changed color, texture, and hardness, taking on the likeness of Cia's mask, including new 'armor' plating over the top of the host's beak, which is now sharper and longer, and filled with sharp teeth. Beneath the hood are some tufts of white hair. His glasses are now thinner, larger, rectangular, and red-tinted, the eyes beneath them are leonine.

The host also has Cia's necklace, as well as, on his hands and forearms, Hades (puppet master) skeletal mimicking black gloves. Underneath these, his scales are slightly softer to the touch, and have a slightly more pinkish hue.

Personality:
Kamek, in sharp contrast to the royalty he’s mentored, is rather wise and exhibits a great deal of forethought and planning expertise, as well as general intelligence and knowledge-ability. He is tactful and patient if not entirely above a bit of sarcasm when it comes to dealing with his bosses. He is also one of the few people that Bowser treats with respect and the king will generally listen to the old Koopa’s advice or guidance, though this is in part due to how well practiced he is at providing it in a way that squares with the King’s often simplistic logic. He also acts as Bowser Jr’s and Rika’s mentor, caretaker, and, functionally if not in name, grandfather.

When it comes to his enemies however he has a tendency to be condescending and to have no qualms at delivering jabs and taunts as any good villain would. He is also unabashedly evil, willing to go to great lengths to aid his lord’s schemes and ensure his happiness. He nonetheless shares, or is perhaps the source of, Bowser’s care for his minions, though Kamek is considerably less obtuse in his concern for their safety and well-being.

After absorbing the tirgan sorceress, Devan Shell and Hades (puppet master) he has become somewhat more outspoken, considerably more egotistical, cartoonishly evil and prone to menacing those he does not respect in-order to get his way.

”Still a somewhat ridiculous headpiece, but then where would the ears go I suppose” the mage said to himself as he contemplated the split hood on his robes, before examining his gloves and deciding they where suitably villainous to keep on, particularly when he flexed them and caused dark threads to hang from the pointed finger tips, prompting a short villainous chuckle at the delightful aesthetic.

”What an interesting woman she must have been” he mused.

Rika redone

(fusions gained)
Aileen:
This spirit confers the ability Shark Weapon, giving the host's main acquatic summon the power to launch a volley three bombs through the air, which fly in an arc. This spirit also confers the Weakness Nonoptimal Range, decreasing combat effectiveness at short range

L'Indomptable:
This spirit confers the ability I Will Not Yield, boosting evasive abilities by 15% and giving the host a last stand that activates when she would otherwise be destroyed, preventing death for 2.5 seconds and granting a random buff to either ranged firepower, deployed explosives, accuracy, or reload time. This spirit also confers the Weakness Short, making it harder to climb things, reach things, see long distances, and be respected by taller people--and of course, if someone jokes about her height, she will become Enraged

Appearance:
Rika is a relatively short woman with pale human skin, a rather petite nose, crystal blue eyes and short bleach white hair with a single tuft of red over her forehead like L'Indomptable. This often isn’t visible however, due to her often wearing a spartan helmet done up in a black metal with pink highlights. It has the nameless spartan deserter’s cat ears on top and wyvern wing like ones up the side like rider and beast, and Tristana Titania Prime’s there pronged tiara on the front.

Her legs are reptilian, with saurian feet and Brachydios blue scales running up to her hips. This also isn’t usually visible due to her wearing a Agastya Alternate Costume that covers her from neckline to toe in a fine suit of black armor.

Without it she is adorned in a Aileen’s waistcoat hued white and gold, hung over a black and gold highlighted chest plate similar in shape to the spartans but more curved and elegant. Below this, covering her stomach, is Pacific Princess’s formal tank top, white with golden buttons, and below that a thigh length skirt sat like L'Indomptable’s, black underneath, white flaps on top, god Fleur-de-lises but with pink straps and ribbons.

Her legs are covered in white leggings which have metal plates strapped to her thighs like Vi does. Her feet finally are covered in hefty metal boots like L'Indomptable’s, but which sport boots with pink hull-like platforms instead of having her walk around on her tiptoes.

Her arms have a rounded pauldron strapped to the fore arms, black with gold trim, while her forearms and hands are covered by her gauntlets. These consist of a pair of giant mechanical hands akin to VI’s, which feature the brute wyvern’s visage on the back of their palms (in a similar style to the jade lions on this skin) while still sporting both horns sticking out from their foreheads.

The left gauntlet has absorbed the grizco blaster, no longer requiring the awkward pipes from the horn to get a supply of explosive goop, and can now fire the ink blasts from a barrel in the palm. The grappling hook has also moved over here, and now sits on the back of the gauntlet’s palm. On the right, her rifle has also moved into the palm, and sports a rotating gatling style barrel the same size as the grizco blaster’s one. The chainsaw bayonet now runs along the back of her gauntlet’s hand and in between the middle knuckles, giving her punches from that hand some extra bite during and after impact.

At her waist sits Mikuma’s rigging, although it has been heavily modified, and has taken on many of the aspects of a Dark Magic Lampyre. A small emblem/buckle style after its helmeted head sits at the waist, while the back a large bunny tail like glowing orb sitting over her tailbone, flanked by Titania Prime’s gilded, hollowed-out, hip-mounted wings that are less articulate but do provided some flight control. The turrets have lost a barrel, while the remaining barrels have become thicker, and sport two orange spikes near the tips that together create a loose X shape. The lower red cleaver sections of the hullblades have been removed, and instead two orange claws curve out the front of the metal plates. The metal of the rigging has become a darker hue, while the red parts on the sides have been replaced by a purple armor plate going over the top of the weapon.

Personality:
Rita started as something of a blank slate, containing blind military obedience and little else, leaving her rather naive when it comes to many aspects in life. Work from her friends and the influence of fusion has filled this out somewhat. Her main defining trait that is all her own would be curiosity, the ship girl always eager for new experiences and information. She also has developed quite the sweet tooth for candy and desserts, but when it comes to main meals will actively try to taste test anything and everything she can.

Rika also cares deeply about her friends, a bit about other former abyssals, but is pretty dissociative when it comes to strangers, and has basically zero qualms about using violence against them.

The spirits she has absorbed have made her more assertive, impulsive and aggressive, and so she has a tendency to rush in and pick fights as a first option when it comes to protecting the people she cares about. She’s also started calling minions, and people she doesn’t like, plebs, as if her new royal title is getting to her head, and is rather enthused by the prospect of wealth.

”Huh. Yeah. Ok. Looks good I think? The gold’s nice. I think I like gold now” Rika commented as she examined herself, having not really had strong options on the subject of fashion before other than wanting to fit in, but now finding glittering gold had its appeal. She looked expensive, and this was, for some reason, good.

She just rolled with the feeling.

What she did not roll with was Bowser pointing out that ”Hey look, you’re pretty short now too” in a cheerful tone, intending to comment as to how this was more accurate to her being functionally a kid, but accidently sounding a bit like he found that fact amusing and was insulting the girl.

He did not get to finish this, as Rika experienced a new feeling, that of being personally insulted, cutting him off with an incredulous ”Short?!” before raising her gauntlets up into a fighting stance, breathing heavily as fury rose from the depths.

”How dare you insult me you… you… You Pleb!” she barked furiously, prompting Bowser to take a step forwards hands raised and trying to wave of her fury while saying ”Wow hey no I didn't mean to-” only for Rika to wind back a punch and Bowser to go ”Uh oh” right before he was launched skywards and head first into the ceiling by a vaultbreaker punch.

Thanks to his new horns, he got stuck there for a moment, arms cartwheeling and legs kicking at air as he tried to get loose, which he did so a few moments later, crashing to the ground with an ”Oof”, and ending up laying on the ground dazed and confused, which Rika’s mind took as a victory.

Once it had, however, and her rage abated with a few more heavy nasal breaths, the fog of anger and refusal to be defeated both cleared enough recognise what she’d done, and to become quite alarmed by it

”Oh, oh no papa! I’m sorry I don’t know what happened!” she said as she crouched down to check if her adoptive father was ok, the confused king blinking a few times and looking up at her distraught face.

”You just made me feel like… like… like I was burning up inside” she told him, scowling slightly at the memory of why she had felt like that.

”Well at least you didn’t turn into a sky high fury filled titan” Jr said with an attempt at humor, only to clarify that ”Papa did that once, it was a mess” when Rika’s gaze snapped to him

”Young mistress, I do believe there has been a misunderstanding. I’m sure his eloquence was not intending to insult you at all” Kamek insisted, prompting Bowser to chime in that ”yeah, I was just gonna say your more kid sized” earning him a kick as Kamek facepalmed.

At least, he supposed, it had taken this long for the latest member of the koopa royal family to lose her temper. As a result of that familial trait she’d apparently picked up, Kamek had some experience with that sort of thing, though it took a little while to resolve the situation and for everyone to make up, not least in part because Rika herself was not at all used to getting mad.

The little incident certainly put a pause on any more spirit tinkering for a little bit, that was for sure.

World of Light

Guest starting Kamek
wordcount: 3,410 (+4) (+4 rapport)
Midna: level 9 EXP: //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (129/100) (+1 bonus pending)
Kamek: Level 13 EXP: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (111/130) (+1 bonus pending)
Location:
Warp Charges: 1

warp locations

Virgin Victory teleport room
Top of the Split mountain
Outside the Convent of Our Lady of the Charred Visage
Tostarena Town
S.O.U. Building
Seiran Clinic
Underground Roadway (Seiran Rebel Base Outskirts)
Below City of glass entrance (plate maintenance tunnel)
Vandelay Campus (Alleyway)
Arahabaki’s entrance
Deep Ground - the Source

After acquiring both Falcon and Juri’s vehicles and stuffing them into her otherworldly garage, the princess headed on out, and then a little bit later, up up and away to a floating hight she most certainly would have been nervous about had she not brought her flygon out to keep her compnay once she was up there.

Once collected, it was off to use all the spirits they had gathered, using the tools that the Lost Numbers and, apparently, the other team had acquired in spades to improve the results.

”first thing’s first“ Midna said as she borrowed the greed hat, removing her help to put it on, and then raising the spirit of the knight with the shining blade in her had ”let’s make a new beautiful-“

For Midna

Item obtained: Breastplate of Valor Increases physical defense, maximum mana, and mana regeneration. Most importantly, reduces cooldowns by 20%

”-set of armor????“ she gaped in horror at the defiance of her expectations, before near tumbling forwards due to the weight of it.

”What gives, I thought it was meant to make something better? So why isn’t it a sword?“ she complained to Kamek, who had been on had to advise about the under team’s acquisitions, and who was stealing glances at where her fused shadow was sitting on the ground between them, doing his best to resist the temptation of its dark power.

”Better, but getting exactly what you desire would be rather against the spirit of things” Kamek, who was mostly supervising at this point advised/joked, before pointing out ”besides, perhaps it is what you need? You have those pauldrons, but your chest only has fabric defending your soft flesh”

”The burn scars are hardly soft“ Midna grouched, unconsciously touching them at the collarbone, before thinking for a moment, and realizing ”but perhaps I don’t need them any more if I have this?“

Kamek merely inclined his head rather than offer input, seeing as she was coming to a positive concussion on her own. He did however offer a squire-like hand in getting it on, leaving the princess much more of a knight than the weak bodied spellcaster she had started out as.

”Interesting, I can feel it boosting my magic as well. It really is almost perfect“ she commented, finding it suited the fighting style she’d developed near perfectly. That made the result of her touching the reset machine all the more amusing as the once again imp sized Midna close to toppled over in her new armor that did not fit her at all.

”Ok, faster we sort this out, the better“ she decided, making only a quick stop to trade for a spirit she had spotted and liked before heading into the chamber, sans the harbinger but bringing along the harpist (Norah) the grey-skinned caster (Shemira) and the draconic warrior (Ariel) because damn the consequences of overfusing.

Midna redone

(harbinger removed, relevant skill/weakness lost)

Midna now stands at 1.7 meters tall, has a lean and toned physique of an agile warrior and her skin is the hue of a late sunset, topaz shades graying as night sets in, body closer to night, face closer to day. She is entirely humanoid, save for a long draconic tail which has pale green scales, ridged with short golden spines and is tipped with flygon tail fans.

Her hair is still done up in a ponytail, but is now a veritable mass of hair going down to the small of her back, and is a smoky orange filled with Norah’s blue jewels like stars. Her chin has become strikingly pointed, her eyes a dark orange, lips painted soft green, and her ears are now smooth and pointed like an elf’s. Each ear is adorned with three golden loops, smaller versions Urbosa’s, along their length, as well as having a golden ‘sheath’ over the tips like Ariel.

The twin crests on her helm now slope backwards, melding with a pair of gold-black dragon horns sprouting from her forehead. The pair of worm-like engraving on its front have become a pair of long bodied dragons, rear claws gripping the horns while the front pair grip a red eye like jewel on the forehead over which they seem to be battling. The psycho mask is permanently attached to the front of the helm, and turned into the snarling red face of Murasame, while Shemira’s eye mask covers both eyes and the top of the face.

Her shoulders bear a pair of large pauldrons, gold rimmed ‘scales’ filled with red, which match the similarly striking red and gold chest plate that covers her from shoulder to waist, that is relatively thin and form fitting. A black sleeveless jacket, open at the front and with a popped collar, is wrapped over the back of this armor. A round core of magic hums at the center of the chest, lighting crackling out of it and dancing across the metal, suffusing all her armor in electricity.

She has two sets of arms (top real, bottom magical) emerging from the sides of this armor like Orendi’s do and are clad in thin black, fingerless, elbow length gloves. Akira Howard’s cuffs and astral chain adorn her (real) wrists, but are of a golden metal, and are much slimmer and compact, closer to Ariel’s stylish wrist guards than bulky handcuffs

A black dress rests on her waist below the armor, trailing down to just above knee height at the front, just below it at the back, while leaving the thighs exposed. On her legs she wears a set of sturdy black thigh length heeled boots done up with cross stitching, which have golden metal caps on their toes who’s metal runs around the edges of her feet and down underneath as well. Both heel and toe tips are mechanically articulated, causing the boot to be flexible rather than rigid. This, combined with a set of dragon energy claws permanently extending from the toes and heel, allow the heels to enhance rather than restrict her mobility.

Her magic, dragon energy, lightning and astral chain have all now harmonized to have a black core inscribed with green twilight runes, all encased in a similarly green aura, in the same manner as her twilight volley bombs. Her shadow hands continue to match the hue of her hair however.

Personality:

Midna is not exactly a picture of princessly grace and virtue, as she can be manipulative, mocking, selfish, vengeful and violent to get her way, as well as being impulsive, unpredictable, and prone to colorful expressions thanks to Orendi. However, she also takes the responsibility of her royal title to heart, having a deep concern for the well-being of her people, one which she has learned to apply to others beyond her kingdom. Ariel and Urbosa’s influence have added a warrior’s spirit and deepened her sense of nobility to this protectiveness, though her tendency to tease, joke and taunt can sometimes make her seem more rogue than royal knight.

Shemira has made her more willing to help selflessly as well, while the undead woman’s pessimism is suppressed by Ariel’s belief in a better world, because though Galeem’s may be cruel and unfair, the only thing to be done is fight against fate. Part of that also comes from a belief in the divine, that there other great powers out there, that need only be freed from Galeem’s grasp such that they might be able to aid in undoing the damage it has done.

She has also inherited Norah’s muse, if not her talents, and finding musical inspiration coming to her at unexpected times, which when combined with Orendi results in sometimes humming or whistling tunes, or even more rarely, singing them.

New strengths/weaknesses

Ariel: This spirit grants the ability Cyclone Kick, a powerful high thrust kick that unleashes a bright green magical tornado to deal heavy wind impact damage in an upside-down cone, with a 160% chance to stun for 5 seconds. This ability must be charged by landing wind-type attacks, and after a target is stunned, it gains stun resistance for several minutes. This spirit also grants the Weakness Critical Fire Bane, resulting in 50% extra damage from fire-aspected attacks

Shemira: This spirit confers the ability Tortured Souls, making the host able to summon souls of the dead (who look like Poes) that spiral around her (with a radius of a couple of meters) to deal continuous damage over 12s, with 50% of their damage returning to the host as health. Tortured Souls constantly drains mana while active. This spirit also confers the Weakness Auto Battler, making the host more likely to zone out and fight without thinking in battles that don't interest her

Norah: This spirit confers the ability Rainbow Rondo. By strumming a stringed instrument, the host can bestow a boon upon nearby allies that lasts 20s. Whenever such an ally takes a hit, even if it deals no damage, the host has a 1/3 chance to perform a musical counterattack, dropping three magical notes on the attacker. This spirit also confers the Weakness Hard of Hearing, making the host's hearing worse

Midna whistled, first tunelessly, then pivoting unconsciously into a tune you might hear when opening a treasture chest as she checked herself out in the Mirror of lost Battles (which thankfully did not release another Ganondorf this time) before declaring ”Now this, this is better“ with a nod, before thinking out loud ”Now I just need a good sword or five and I’ll be set“

”Swords? Well now, why didn’t you say that is what you needed? I happen to be carrying quite the collection off sharpened odds and ends around for their majesties you know” Kamek informed her ”I believe we were mostly intending to sell them, however if they might be of use of you, I am sure we could be convinced to part with some”

She rather doubted him, till he started pulling out and enlarging tiny objects out of his robe’s many pockets. These included a serrated knife, what she assumed was a sarated shortsword till she saw the size of the grip that meant it was actually also a knife, just one for a giant, a Machete and Pistol that where apparently bound together in some way and, as a fusion of those in a way, a gunblade.

Somehow, however, that last was not the most absurd, because the final pair of blades just kept growing and growing till they towered over both of them.

”Those are not meant to be that size? Surly?“ Midna said, balking at the weapons that unlike the second knife had handles fit for human hands, and swearing ”Goddesses, what kind of monster was that made for?“

”A human woman with twintails and a flowers red dress, and similar taste in red, black, and gold as you now have funnily enough” Kamek informed her, before adding that ”the mirror produced her when Rika attacked some kind of living train monster, terrifying it in the process. She did indeed wield it with a meer two hands, which I imagine would be impossible even for the humans here”

”With two hands, yes, but-“ Midna replied, grinning to herself, before launching her shadow hand up from her head and then grabbing the blade’s handle and hauling it up into the air above while boasting ”I can do it with one!“

Item Obtained

Dead End Express
A pair of huge, heavy mechanized clubs forged from the remains of Wartrain Gouon, six feet long and a thousand pounds apiece. Each miniature locomotive boasts eleven grinding sawblade wheels that spin at high speed. Though nigh-impossible to wield, they boast terrifying destructive power, and can even be straddled or otherwise ridden and used as a vehicle

”Impressive, though actually his mightiness can wield it as well. The issue is also what do do when not wielding-” Kamek began to say, right before Midna opened a portal and deposited the chainsaw blade down into it for storage ”-ah”

”I can pull bladed weapons out to slash just“ she snapped her fingers ”like that as well. Not that I will demonstrate because that was already, well, quite space consuming“

”I see, hence the desire for swords” Kamek replied, regarding the ability she was attempting to feed

”That and they just feel like what I am best with, which makes it a shame that there’s not a conventional blade in your arsenal. Can’t say I’m surprised, I suppose. I’ll just have to be proactive about acquiring a proper scimitar instead of relying on whichever spiteful god of dice is laughing at me right now“ she resolved, before saying ”but I’ll still take what you have“

”Ah, ah, ah, payment first”

The princess sighed, and then tried to barter with the spirit she had not used, but the koopa was not particularly interested. It was then that she remembered that she did, in a way, have a reserve of spirits. Or at least several she wanted out of something.

A few moments later a portal was open, out of which a massive mechanical paw extended. This was then pushed into the reset machine, causing the paw to vanish and 3 spirits and a very confused wolfos to be spat out in its place. The beast received quickly, and made a right nuisance of itself (in Midna’s opinion) running around excited at having a brain again.

As it did that, Midna collected the spirits, and offered one to Kamek

”Here, your little prince likes machines and robots, correct? Well this one was 30 feet tall and made that thing into a pilotable war machine“ she told him, before admitting that ”It, uh, didn’t really work out as a fusion. Just wasn’t practical to use around anyone else, and to clunky in a fight, but the guy who used it against us as a striker was a real piece of work“

”You had an enemy use strikers against you?”

”Ah, right. Midgar knew how spirits worked as well,to the point that most of its top fighters were fused with at least one other spirit. They were even farming pokemon inorder to make an army of people with their powers. It was a nightmare of a place“

”Well now, that’s one more thing to worry about, I suppose” Kamek said as he examined the spirit, before deciding that ”Yes, this will do well I think. The young master was needing to change up his striker strategy anyhow, given his current army of them tactic is not good for his health” and then letting her take the other blades

items acquired

Combat Knife

Serrated Knife: A large dagger most infamously wielded by General RAAM of the Locust Horde. Although it is a knife in the hands of RAAM, by human standards, it is a short sword.

Machete and Pistol: Two piratical weapons bound together. The machete is short and broad, deal unremarkable slash damage while the pistol is a flintlock, with short range, high recoil, and deceptively big damage. However, the pistol is empty and does not accept ammunition. The only way to load it is by landing two subsequent hits with the machete. They share durability and upgrades.

Revolver: A renowned gunblade. What it lacks in power, it more than makes up for with its reliability. Despite its name, it cannot be used as an actual gun, meaning it does not fire projectiles, and can therefore only be used in melee combat. Triggering a round in the gun chamber sends a shock wave through the blade, increasing its damage potential, but the timing required is hard to learn, which is why it takes years to master wielding a gunblade.

With that all sorted, and her new blades stored, she called out ”Come here, thing“ summoning the wolfos back to her side, only for her to wipe the happy wagging mood it was in away when she held up 3 spirits.

(a) wolfos redone

This wolfos has become considerably more draconic in shape akin to that of Maridon, with a longer serpent like neck with a glowing throat pouch, and thicker, sturdier hind legs that sport a wider stance. It has also become more mechanical, with the nest of black ‘hair’ turning into metal cables that extrude to where the forehead plate, which itself is now fused to the flesh rather than floating above it, and its eyes are now those of Maridon. Its snout is wider and bulkier, its lower jaw is metal rather than flesh like the rampaging cyborg and its gullet is distinctly cannon shaped.

Its back sports a metal plate shaped like a motorcycle seat, while a second at the base of the neck provides 2 extensions that can be used as handlebars, as well as a hatch in between them that can be used to load ammunition to be fired out of the beast’s maw. Its tail is medium length and made up of the same energy filled tubing of its throat.

Its legs are the most drastically cybernetisised, coated from head top to bottom in Maridon blue metal, and sporting several jet thrusters. The front ones are akin to Khan’s with their attachment to the legs and blade like wings, only they stick out a 45 degree angle out and away so as to not simply burn it’s rear legs or it’s rider, while the rear ones are akin to Maridon’s with two Kahn ones attached on the outside acting like auxiliary thrusters. Each ankle has an extension holding a hubcap of a wheel on it, and when brought together with its twin on the opposite leg, it will cause maridon’s tyre to form between them, transforming the beast into a motorcycle. Finally its feet now consist mostly of three large razor sharp claws.

Maridon: This spirit confers the ability Thunder, which drops a shower of 6 thunderbolts in a moderate area. Each one deals appreciable damage, but they have low individual AoE and fall randomly, so smaller targets can evade them. This spirit also confers the Weakness Bog Standard, decreasing the power of standard/normal attacks (such as bites) by 30%

Khan: This spirit confers the ability Point-blank Shot, a high-damage, low-range, single-target projectile condensed from the host's primary element. If it's a critical hit, it's even stronger than a normal crit. This spirit also confers the Weakness All-out Attacker, decreasing defense and resistance by 15%

The results were both a lot less drastic than before, given that it still had a brain for one. However the odd dragon-ish creature did have wheels on it, and seemed to not be able to float, which made her rather annoyed at the waste of all those rocket boosters. Well at least until it rubbed its back legs together in response to a phantom itch, and promptly face planted when a massive wheel formed in between them.

After a little laugh at its expense, she dismissed the beast so it would stop taking up space, and got to the last business, which was some itemisation of the two spirits she knew no one would come asking for, namely the Pendran her wolfos had been fused with, and the harbringer who was no-longer ruining her beauty.

for Midna

Dagon A rare twin-headed ice wand that boosts the power of ice spells and has a 50% base chance to inflict Frozen if used as a melee weapon, although its melee damage is fairly low and it loses extra durability when used that way Harbinger Mask A strange, full-face rebreather that seems almost molded from flesh, worn stuck to the face. It somehow doesn't obstruct visibility, but it does amplify the sound of the wearer's breathing. In exchange, it provides immunity to Poison and Burn, as well as variants of those afflictions, and 75% fire damage reduction

The wand was certainly interesting, though she herself was not going to get much use out of what seemed to be an affinity for ice magic. Perhaps someone else? As for the mask, well ”Not on your life“ was she wearing that thing, that was for sure.

However, she was reminded of the crucible item Kamek had shown off, and, out of curiosity, decided to try it out with this, and suffered seemingly no effect, at least, not one she would notice until something tried to set her on fire or poison her.

All in all, a very productive half an hour.

World of Light

The Koopa Troop

wordcount: 1,492 (+3)
Bowser: Level 14 EXP: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (232/140) (+1 bonus pending)
Bowser Jr: Level 14 EXP: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (115/140) (+1 bonus pending)
Kamek: Level 13 EXP: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (107/130) (+1 bonus pending)
Rika: Level 9 EXP: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(126/90) (+1 bonus pending)
Location: Carnival town: Ballyhoo’s Big Top -> the avenger: spirit chamber

warp locations

Central hub: Smash City Alcamoth
Accessible locations:
Peach’s castle
Limsa Lominscuttle Town
Lumbridge
Twilight Town
Kosm’s Beach

”Ahhhhhh” Was how Jr began his ascent, but once the initial shock was over fear turned into delighted cry of ”ah ha ha, Woooooo!” till he came to a stop in the sky, bobbing on the attached balloon.

He was joined a few moments later by the rest of the troop, Bowser with his arms cartwheeling for several moments after they came to a halt, Rika looking like she didn’t get what all the fuss was about, and Kamek, who sat atop his broom, balloon less, having simply teleported up after them once they’d reached their max altitude.

”So, how was that?” the mage asked, just a little bit smug at having been able to avoid the trip.

”Kinda neat, though we are kinda sitting supply ships up here” Rika replied after Jr had given a simple ”Great!”

To demonstrate her point, she sent out her singular remaining scout plane and had it do a fake attack run on her balloon, making ”Pew pew pew” noises followed by ”Pop, and then down we go” which put pause to Jr’s delighted, prompting him to look nervously down at the mighty drop down below.

”I could catch you with my grappling hook and then just float all the way down, I think” she told her brother, sort of picking up on the discomfort she’d caused, and looking a little pleased with herself when he perked up in response to this news.

”And I will naturally go after your father” Kamek added, preempting the follow up question from his royal majesty.

With worries about falling to their doom put to rest, all there was to do was float, wait, and chatter till they got picked up by the invisible spaceship. They didn’t get a good look at it, unfortunately, due to the whole invisibility thing, which meant the more straightforward among them could not judge its combat capabilities by its cover. Not that they were going to be able to use it as a warship, given the million times punier than Jr children that were onboard, an argument that easily convinced Bowser not to take it into battle when it had been down below in the tent.

Still, they did get to learn about one capability right away, which was the room it had that was dedicated to spirits, which was very convenient. It was lacking in some former functionality apparently, but they had bits and pieces to fill that in. For one, the resetting orb. For two, well, Kamek was more than happy to show off their own little helpful fusion tool.

”For those of you not in the know, this is the Snaktivator” he said as he held aloft an odd little gismo that looked like a fishing rod with the rod part replaced with an aerial or raygun nozzle ”and it can be used to localize the physical changes a fusion causes to a singular body part”

As he said this, Bowser Jr popped open a pokeball, releasing Peeka the Fluttermane, and then held up the spirit of a tentacled being. The spirit was then pressed into the pokemon as Kamek poked the creature’s ‘necklace’ during the fusion process, Jr having already talked about this fusion idea while they were floating.

For Peeka

Spirit Consumed: Vel'koz('Necklace') The host's coloration is slightly greener, and the pink feathers a little more like tentacles. The main change concerns the 'pearls' around the host's neck, which are now brilliant glowing slitted pink-purple orbs like the eyes of Vel'koz itself. This spirit confers the ability Plasma Fission, allowing the host to fire out a plasma bolt that inflicts damage and a heavy 70% slow that quickly decays. While in flight, the host can will the bolt to split, firing off to the left and right at perpendicular angles. This spirit also confers the Weakness Low Mobility, decreasing the host's movement speed while floating

”Observe how the majority of the effects are localized in the desired area, while the rest of the form is (mostly) untouched” he declared, thinking this demonstration a complete success even if having the half a dozen purple eyes strung around Peeka’s neck stare at him while he spoke was a little unnerving.

It was certainly an alternative to the resonator, and likely one that, well, resonated with those who either desired to keep their true physical form mostly intact, or to limit the changes of a particularly discordant spirit.

A second demonstration was made with Dazzle as well, the other pre-planned fusion the troop had, which showed off its way to counter something Midna had had issues with, namely potentially massive size changes, as despite fusion with a whale, the resulting change was not quite so dramatic as might have been expected.

For Dazzle

Spirit consumed: Bake-Kujira (Tail) The host has slightly increased in size overall, while darkening in color. His tail is longer and broader, its flippers jutting out at a more perpendicular angle, and much less flexible. The tail is also increasingly spectral toward the end, divided between murky teal flesh and ghostly blue energy juxtaposed over bone. This spirit grants the ability Twisting Dive, which allows the host to execute a cursed corkscrew leap. While diving, the host inflicts damage plus brief stun, is knockback-immune, and carries struck targets with him to the end point (as long as the targets are not larger/heavier than himself). At the end of the dash, a concussive splash deals extra damage, and this dive goes farther when underwater. This spirit also grants the weakness Lesser Pinniped Mobility. Due to the changes to the structure of the tail, he is no longer able to run on land like a sea lion, but must flop, roll, or slide like a seal

As something of a trend, however, this also seemed to reduce the pokemon’s mobility, though not quite as badly as the previous dire penguin spirit had, which the prince had removed to replace with this one. Ironically though, he had, as it turned out, mostly replaced one spirit with a functionally similar one given the power he’d later demonstrate, but at least the mon was once again more amicable, the use of the snaktivator seeming to result in personality changes somewhat less often being something of a stealth benifit.

That was not the end of the showing off of tricks however, as Kamek subsequently borrowed Sectonia’s mimic hat, and proceeded to crush the two pity spirits he had received while wearing it while exonerating its virtue of improving the outcome. The first went smoothly, garnering him a new casting implement that, while more cumbersome, he could feel the power within.

for Kamek

Horadric Staff
A casting catalyst that provides a number of useful benefits to its wielder, including increased attack speed, HP and mana bonuses, 50% more damage to the undead, 10% more resistance to cold, fire, lightning, and 35% more resistance to poison

As a bonus, he even got to show off Sectonia’s other helpful gizmo, as after finding that the staff was solely empowering, absorbing its stat enhancing powers into himself via her Trinket Smelter.

Very pleased with that result, he swiftly crushed the second as well. It, however, spawned a stone pedestal, which was familiar too, and perhaps detested, by a few of the seekers. Kamek certainly became alarmed as its spawning location caused him to instantly touch the item it held before he could assess it, prompting it to be absorbed.

”Oh badness, what has that done” he worried, patting himself down, only for Jr to theatrically call out ”It’s behind youuuuuu”, prompting the mage to spin around on the spot, only for him to find nothing there.

He began to turn his head back to complain ”This is no laughing matter young master!” to Jr, only to ”Ak!” in alarm as he found the change floating behind him.

for Kamek

Incubus A batlike demonic creature. It binds itself to whoever touches it, then follows them around. When its host uses ranged attacks, the incubus will try to copy them using its demonic power, though such attacks are reduced in size, speed, and power by 50%

”Well then, that could be worse” he said after recovering, as if having a devil looming over your shoulders at all times wasn’t rather horrifying on its own, before pondering what it could do.

With the tight and packed confines of the fusion chamber however, testing out any fusions or weapons would prove rather difficult. Its ability to mimic his spells, free of charge unlike his clones (who also gained one), certainly would prove a welcome boost to his firepower.

With the easy fusion and itemizing work out the way, the troop settled themselves down in a corner to mull over their remaining collection, be be nosy about the other’s ones, and generally go through the hard task of thinking about how to reinvent themselves with all the tools available, if at all.