”This War is such a pain…. I just want to be done with it and get that Grail back home.”
Tohsaka Syone (Pronounced Shione)/Shi-chan/The Tohsaka’s Biggest Failure
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Personality: Syone’s appearance very much matches her personality. She is lazy, disheveled and has little care of what others think of her.
She wishes she could just live her life however she wants, but obviously that is not possible, not for her anyways. So, in an intent to rebel against her family, she goes against them in any way she can. To do this, however, she has had to nurture some abilities, whilst leaving others that may seem more essential given her current position.
For example, she has a silver tongue…. she can lie her way through anything you throw at her and, by extent, she is also a great actor. Despite her nerdy looks, she is not at all shy to either voice her opinion nor is she afraid to deceive others in order to gain something.
She also knows how to adjust her personality to match any given situation. Invited to a ball? Give her a dress and she’ll be the perfect lady. Need her to act intelligent in a business meeting? Give her a pair of glasses with a black frame and she’ll trick any CEO into believing that she actually knows what she’s talking about.
Syone is, of course, very intelligent, even if she does not let others know that, and her main hobby is training her magic, regardless of what her family thinks of her. She’s grown numb to insults and attempts at trying to diminish her.
”You wonder why I don’t let what others say get my self-esteem low? Well, that’s my secret cap… My self-esteem was always low.” (I can’t fit that anywhere in the RP and just thought it up… so just lemme use it here XD)
Appearance: Standing at roughly 4’9’’, and weighing an undisclosed weight of 95 pounds, she’s underwhelmingly petite for the kind of mess she has gotten herself in.
Certainly, people might underestimate the small, bespectacled brunette girl but they certainly shouldn’t… some may say that letting your guard down around her might be a really big mistake.
Syone usually dresses in baggy, long sleeved sweaters, long sleeved shirts and shorts. Most always she does use stockings of some sort when going out of course, though she does not have an eye for fashion, nor the slightest intention of combining the colors of her clothes.
Usually she is seen using her pink framed glasses.
Biography: The firstborn of the Tohsaka family for this generation, she was expected to become the head of the house and was trained for such since a young age. Bad thing for them, though, Syone had very different plans of her own. And with the approaching Holy Grail War, that also meant that she was meant to be the Master representing the Tohsaka's for the fight.
Despite being born with an exceptional talent for magic and high quality magic circuitry... for a Tohsaka, she’s always been a free spirit, ever since she was little…. a very lazy free spirit, but a free spirit nevertheless. She wouldn’t be constrained by the desires of her family, not by a longshot. And most certainly, she wouldn't die at the beck and call of others.
So she went on ahead to use the brilliant head she’s got between her shoulders, and devised a plan so machiavellic even Machiavelli himself would’ve been impressed.
Syone started showing more.... mediocre performances. She was not failing completely, but something was certain: she was not apt, or at least seemed to not be apt, of being the Master representing the Tohsakas. Her parents decided to stop training her for it, instead focusing on the more political and social aspects of being the head of the Tohsakas.
Eventually, and by unanimous decision, Syone was labeled ‘The Tohsaka’s Biggest Failure’, due to her excellent aptitude towards becoming a great mage, and master of the Tohsaka for the Grail War, and failing completely at it.
Everything should’ve been fine and good then, right? Wrong.
She did have a tutor. Her very much beloved tutor that behaved more like a father to her than her real father ever did. He taught her everything she knows of the world, of life, and, as a naive young woman, also of love, but she has since then grown out of those feelings(after a rejection from the man’s side nonetheless). Fact of the matter is, she still loves him, as a father, but that love is very much real.
And, unbeknownst to her, plotted in the sidelines, and in a machiavellian turn she would’ve loved to come up with, her tutor, that beloved man that she admired so much, was to be the Tohsaka representative for the Holy Grail War. He accepted the honor, of course, while leaving Syone out of the loop. He knew her better than anyone… and he knew she’d try to stop him.
Once the news reached her ears, that was exactly the case, and she couldn’t help but think that, for all he knew about her, he still didn’t know enough. Like the fact that she is more stubborn than he ever believed, and that she wouldn’t let this go so easily.
Using the knowledge in magic her tutor provided her with, mish-mashing information from books she got her hands on, Syone performed the ritual on her own…. and succeeded, even without a catalyst, thus taking the place of her tutor as the Master for the Tohsaka’s in the Holy Grail War.
Now, the only question is, how in all the seven circles of hell does she plan to get herself out of the mess she got herself in?
Family History: TohsakaOrigin: ‘Star’
Elemental Affinity: Fire
Number of Magic Circuits: C
Quality of Magic Circuits: D
Od: B
Magecraft: The Tohsaka’s signature magecraft, Jewel Magecraft. Using jewels, Tohsaka mages are able to store energy inside Jewels and then release it all at once, making them act as ‘portable’ or ‘expendable’ mystic codes.
Most of Syone’s have inside fire based attacks, to be released in short bursts that can effectively light up any normal human being in fire… obviously not something you want to be subjected to.
As they store energy, Syone can also use that same piled up energy to power the attacks coming from other jewels by using the energy inside them, effectively breaking the jewel from where she is taking the energy. She can also use them to prepare rituals and such.
Syone is knowledgeable in curses, like Gandr, as well as several rituals, most of them to place bounded fields that can turn a battle in her favor, by placing sigils that, upon contact with fire will also explode in a burst of fire, making the attack all the more powerful.
Aside from this, Syone can also use several healing spells, including high-ranking healing magic, closing wounds in matters of seconds, albeit at the expense of either her own power, and body, or several jewels.
Equipment: Two bracelets with jewel pendants strapped to her wrists, one in each. They act as a deterrent for fire based attacks, so long as they come from another human mage. Rank: D
Her glasses, even if they don’t look like it, are also a Mystic Code. They are capable of identifying Magecraft, as in where it has been cast and traces of it being cast, and Thaumaturgy whenever the user needs to, though at the cost of having to use Jewels to fuel them.
And of course, at least 20 jewels she carries on her person at all times. Their ranks, and sizes, vary. She carries 12 that are D rank, 5 that are C rank, 2 that are B rank and a single one(very expensive, last resource gem) at A rank.
Skills: Knowledgeable, resourceful and clever mage. She likes to think herself capable of getting herself out of any situation, no matter how complicated it might get.
For whatever it is worth, and thanks to her father being paranoid, Marksmanship.
Notes: She’s as blind as a mole without her glasses.
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