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Name: Lucy Selene

Age: 20

Normal Appearance: Lucy stands at a respectable 5’10, with a slender build and a few hints of muscle around the arms and legs. She tends to keep well-dressed for the current Lakewood climate, typically with jeans, boots, a scarf, and a cropped black leather jacket typically worn over a t-shirt which is only guaranteed to be school appropriate on weekdays. She has well-kept blonde hair that almost goes down to her shoulders, and wears a pair of black glasses whenever she’s not sleeping.

Medium Appearance: Lucy’s appearance differs depending on whether she’s summoning or channeling. When Summoning, most of her body is hidden  underneath a large green cloak and scarf that glow faintly in the dark.  The top half of her face is covered in a similarly glowing mask, shaped like a luna moth and styled like something one might find in a masquerade. Her hair stays done up in a high ponytail, the now extended ends of which glow a similar shade of green.

When Channeling, the cloak unfurls into a pair of beautiful glowing moth wings, uncovering a shimmering white dress, long gloves and boots, generally all of the various accoutrements of your typical magical girl. Her mask gains a pair of emerald compound eyes over the eye holes, and she wields a silver scepter topped with a glowing sickle in the shape of a crescent moon.

Channeling Abilities, Spells, Stats, etc: When Channeling, Lucy trades out Lunasa's sheer volume of projectiles with superior agility and finesse. Swinging the Crescent Scepter can shoot up to five sickle-shaped projectiles at once, and flipping it around changes it into a strange rifle that can shoot lasers with pinpoint accuracy, which works especially well when used alongside the compound vision of the mask to see across wide areas and identify weak spots. Lunasa’s power over gravity becomes far versatile when Channeling, as Lucy can make herself lighter, float, and even fly with the aid of her wings. While making herself lighter, she can jump far higher than she could normally, making jumping off of various surfaces an effective way to get around.

Occupation: Student Teacher

Personality: Lucy has a lot of qualities that could make her a great teacher: She takes a genuine interest in the well-being of those around her and wants to see them be the best they can be. She also has a somewhat loose respect for the rules and isn’t afraid to bend them a little or do things her own way if it means doing the right thing and she’s convinced that effort will pay off. On the other hand, she doesn’t take particularly good care of herself, being prone to various irresponsible behaviors whenever it’s not directly related to her work. One could say that she hasn’t quite grown up yet, and while she’s realized this to a certain extent, she has trouble processing a solution.

Background: Lucy grew up in an upper middle class home with little to complain about. She studied for all the high grades her parents wanted, signed up for every sport or club that she had to pretend to be interested in after her parents saw her trying it once, that sort of thing. Her only (rather minor) attempts to break from expectations and establish her own identity went more or less uncontested, but as she got older she realized that living life on a track had left her with no real desires of her own. All she really cared about was helping or pleasing other people in some way or another. She eventually just kind of crashed by the time she finished high school, not sure what to do with her life now that she had a choice. She needed to take a year to find herself.

Or, at least, that was the excuse. She mostly just kept crashing until she found her Spirit, who, in a strange way, helped keep her active. Hunting rogue Spirits and playing the superhero role became part of her routine, and eventually that alternate persona bled back into her normal life. She went from a mess to a mess that had some idea of what she wanted to do and some real passion for doing it. Wherever she went in life, she was going to make it.

Spirit Name: Lunasa

Spirit Classifications: Guardian

Spirit Personality: Lunasa is, ironically, rather down to earth as far as Spirits go. While she finds humans to be rather obnoxious, she recognizes their importance and is willing to work with them, even if she’ll make it clear she isn’t happy about it. She truly desires to be left alone, but understands that it’s better for her to be as strong as possible. She’ll pressure her Medium into making choices that are beneficial for her, though she won’t attempt to push too far if she sees she’s close to a breaking point.

Spirit Appearance: Lunasa bears the appearance of an extremely large luna moth, with a plump, fluffy body and a wingspan comparable in size to a condor’s, over ten feet long. While certain details, such as a pair of large bladed forelegs, may draw some alarm, the Spirit projects a serene, almost otherworldly aura. Its intricate wings glow faintly in the dark, and bright under the light of the moon.

Sealed Appearance: When not active, Lunasa changes into the form of a small, glow-in-the-dark moth keychain. She can also turn into a smaller, mundane luna moth, though it draws more attention when indoors.

Summoning Abilities and Stats: Lunasa is a ranged Spirit, first and foremost, with moonlight and gravity foci. She holds power the moonlight itself, and with a flap of her wings can scatter up to a dozen sickle shaped Lunar Scales that spin towards opponents and slice into them like claws. In addition, she can focus that power even further into intense lasers that can burn through steel in a couple of shots. Power over gravity doesn’t provide much for someone who can already fly, but she can use it to alter the path of her projectiles to a degree. Her compound eyes are great at keeping track of multiple threats from wide angles, and she excels at keeping opponents pinned down through large quantities of projectiles and staying on the move.

Spirit Charge: Lunar Impact: Lucy and Lunasa charge up their respective lasers, pooling their power together into a projectile that creates a damaging cone of light that embeds and drills itself into whatever it hits, acting as a beacon for their next move. The two then jump into the air and Lucy readies herself for a dive kick before Lunasa fuses with her to the absolute best of their ability, altering their form even further before turning into a beam of light that zooms straight through the target. The two turn back to normal after they land on the other side.

Weakness and Limitations: First and foremost, neither Lucy or Lunasa are proficient in melee combat. Lunasa simply isn’t physically built for anything beyond swiping and biting, and Lucy has a strong kick, but it isn’t boosted much by channeling, leaving her falling behind other channelers in terms of strength. In addition, using the gravity focus makes them more mobile, but also a lot easier to smack around when they’re lighter.

Lucy awoke with a groan. Why did she break into her stash again? Three years on her transition? Something like that, she couldn’t remember the date… Or what day it was. She must have been on some trip, since she didn’t recognize the bed she was in. It was easily bigger than a king sized bed, and decorated with pretty white sheets and fancy drapes. As she slid out of the bed, she felt… nicer. Not with any sort of warmth, but the room was somehow spotless and shiny, despite being various shades of radiant white and contrasting grays. The furniture and architecture were lovingly detailed, but not distractingly so. It was a sort of calming beauty. A pale young woman in a shining white and green dress was looking out an open window, onto a bright white field filled with craters. She wore a strange tiara upon her head, with what looked like antennae protruding from it.

Yeahhhhh, Lucy thought. This can’t be real. Like, is that a moon princess? She usually couldn’t have any control over herself in her dreams, though.

“Hello, human.” The princess said, her white hair moving across her neck and slowly falling down as she turned her head towards her.

“Uhhh, hi.” Lucy responded. “That wouldn’t be your bed I woke up in, would i-”

“This world is a product of our entwining consciousness,” The pale lady cut her off. “Its existence is… transient.”

“Uh huh…” Lucy said slowly. The phrase “Entwining consciousness” sounded pretty suspect, too, but she decided not to press it.

“I come with a proposition,” the lady continued. “You are, perhaps the biggest mess of a human I have seen across millennia. But you possess a latent power that I need to become whole once more; the power of a Spirit Medium. Let us pool our power together into a Pact, and we can both begin to make use of this power. The power to save the world.”

“And why would I want to do that?” Lucy asked. “I want, like, a sense of direction, not whatever that is.”

“What do you feel here?” The princess countered. “Serenity. Clarity. Comfort. You have my word, I will do my best to draw this out of you as well. In both respects, it will be a journey we must take together. Will you accept?”

Lucy thought for a moment.

“You know,” she mused, with a hand to her chin. “I’m probably way too blasted to be accepting Faustian deals with weird dream spirits, but… let’s do it. The name’s Lucy.” She offered the princess a hand, with her pinky finger extended. The princess tilted her head for a moment, staring at the hand with confusion, before grabbing Lucy’s pinkie in both hands and shaking it up in down.

“You may call me Lunasa…” She said with a smile, before everything began to fade to black…

Man, what a crazy dream...

Name: Yui Tachibana

Age: 27

Gender: Female

Normal Appearance: Though only five and a half feet tall, Yui has quite the presence to her. She has an incredibly well-trained body to match her slim frame, over which she typically wears a drab, hooded green jacket over a plain shirt alongside blue jeans. Her clothes are all fairly worn, not from a lack of quality so much as constant travel. Her jet black hair has a similar quality to it; though it goes down past her shoulders, it has a somewhat sloppy cut, as if she cuts it herself. Somehow, she makes it all work.

Around her neck lies what is probably her only valuable possession; a golden locket. What lies inside is known only to her.

Medium Appearance: Though its plating changes depending on what Remnant she uses, Yui’s entire body becomes covered in darkly-colored powered armor and stands noticeably taller, her face obscured by a glowing, vaguely T-shaped visor. Three rectangular slots lie attached to her left arm, belt, and right leg, typically filled with the Remnant Cards Yui draws her power from. The device she uses to transform stays attached to her waist, jet black and pulsing with strange white lights when in use.

Channeling Abilities: Despite having once formed a bond with a powerful Spirit, and studied ancient methods to hone her own spiritual powers, all of this has since been lost to her. Instead, she uses a belt-like apparatus called the Remnant Gear to summon powered armor and channel the modified Remnants of defeated Spirits, making their power her own to use alongside various mundane martial arts.

Belt: Provides the "base" for the transformation in terms of basic physical parameters like durability, strength, and speed as well as an elemental effect if the original spirit had one as well. It has an additional slot to “reformat” any Remnants obtained in the field into the field into the Remnant Cards she can use, though this can take some time depending on the power of its Spirit.

Arm: Summons a weapon based on the Spirit, inheriting its attributes.

Leg: Adds additional effects to the base suit, such as another element, physical changes and abilities, etc.

When the Remnant of a defeat Spirit is processed by PHANTOM, it becomes what is known as a Remnant Card. These can no longer be used by Mediums or their Spirits by themselves, but they contain a more defined memory of the Spirit’s original abilities, and can be used by certain devices like the Remnant Gear to replicate some of their powers.

Category 3 Guardian "Justice" ~Wind Hopper: Yui's debut Remnant. Formerly a guardian of the winds of migration, the Remnant of this grasshopper Spirit grants Yui all-around increases to physical attributes, with a particular boost to leg strength that results in extraordinary jumping and kicking abilities, as well as the ability to control a purifying wind that can remove lingering hazards such as fire and slowly cure ailments. This Remnant is almost always used in the belt slot, and gives the suit a distinctive pair of antennae as well as a flowing grey scarf.

Category 3 Elemental "Priestess" ~Darkness Bat: A Spirit of the dark, this Remnant can be used in the belt slot to grant Yui a pair of batlike wings, a pair of bat ear-like protrusions from her helmet that grant increased hearing, and the ability to shoot cutting waves of darkness from her arms. In the arm slot, its power manifests as a razor-sharp black katana that can be used for lightning fast iaijutsu attacks. In the leg slot, it creates a large black cape that can be manipulated to parry most projectile attacks.

Category 3 Meta “Strength” ~ Power Beetle: A former spirit of strength and growing power, this Remnant can be used in the belt slot to empower Yui's armor, granting her greatly increased bulk and physical strength while decreasing her speed and agility. In the arm slot, it summons a greatsword that has its own slot to be empowered by other remnants with element effects, though it's unwieldy enough that it requires enhanced strength to use properly. In the leg slot, it manifests a pair of small shields attached to the arms, which can optionally be detached and combined into a larger shield held in a more traditional fashion. When used as a base form, she gains additional, bulkier armor plating and a large horn sprouting from the helmet.

Category 2 Meta "Devil" ~Avarice Mantis: Originally a lower-level Spirit of hunger, this Remnant is better suited to the secondary slots. It grants Yui either a pair of curved, serrated blades held like the forelegs of a praying mantis, or a series of serrations along the forearms and legs that tear into opponents.

Category 2 Elemental "Sun" ~Bombardier Beetle: Originally a fire Spirit, it can be used in the leg slot to add an explosion to every blow, but overheats with repeated use. In the arm slot, it manifests a large revolver that shoots powerful explosive shots that appear in the free hand. These need to be loaded in manually, however.

Category 2 Guardian “Hanged Man” ~Slowing Spider: Originally a minor cave Guardian, it can now be used in the arm slot to create a kusari-gama that can both batter and ensnare opponents with the weblike weight and chain as well as bite and slice into them with the fanged sickle. The sickle itself is coated in a potent poison that slows movement. In the leg slot, it allows her to walk on walls and ceilings unhindered.

Personality: Yui, on the surface, gives off the impression of a sage; someone who has seen the world and gleaned its wisdom. She holds something of a “zen” outlook and has little concern for the simpler, worldly desires that she may have held at one point, though she always has a determined answer for problems of the heart and soul. She can come off as rather preachy, with musings often ironically sounding like spiritual nonsense, but she knows when to keep quiet and when her words are outright wasted.

Dig too deep or hit a nerve, however, and you’ll find someone coldly calculating, with a downright ruthless streak to her. To her, she’s lost everything, and she’s determined to get it back, no matter who gets in her way. While she’s ideologically aligned with PHANTOM, her loyalty ultimately lies with her own agenda above all else.

Background: Yui began her life in a rather privileged family. She quickly began believing that she was entitled to greatness, as if it were some sort of grand destiny. She grew up obsessed with the idea, and worked hard until she was approached by a Spirit when she turned 15. She accepted, not considering the consequences, and the two quickly began to resent each other: The Spirit hated having to deal with what it saw as an entitled brat, and Yui saw it and the constant escapades it embroiled her in as a distraction from her studies

Eventually, Yui stalled out, unable to fulfill her own desires or that of her Spirit, withdrawing from her obligations. To her, that path to success she had been craving was long gone.

It took a long time before the Spirit felt like it could remotely understand what Yui was feeling, and even longer to admit that it wanted a solution out of anything more than necessity, but when it did it approached Yui with a solution: If Yui’s plans for her life were ruined, then they would simply create a new one. They left their old lives behind, and began to travel the world together, in what they referred to as their second Pact. As the two began to grow more fond of each other, and met so many other Mediums, they began to take interest in the true nature and history behind Mediums, Pacts, and Spirits themselves. Yui studied various forms of spirituality from across the world, eventually honing her spiritual powers beyond anything she could have imagined, and even began to learn what few tidbits of information they could gather about The First Pact.

The two had grown downright inseparable over the course of their journey, and Yui believed that her findings were meant to be shared. This, however, was where she drew the attention of forces within the world’s governments dedicated to keeping the very existence of Spirits a secret. The two failed to realize just how out of their depth they were, and their choice to fight was met with a terrible consequence.

Yui lost her Spirit.

Its physical form was shattered, and it wasn't coming back.

While she herself made it out alive, she had fractured her soul and lost her one true partner, perhaps forever. Living on the run, it was only a matter of time before she crossed paths with PHANTOM. Their revolutionary cause struck a chord with her, and she managed to quickly make herself useful and rise in notoriety within the organization, participating in high profile missions and liberating a scientist who would later become one of PHANTOM’s most useful assets. She regained her previous resolve, determined to see through her single most powerful desire, even if it meant taking on all the conspiracies and legends the world could throw at her.

She would see her Spirit again.

Other:
As Yui has not formed a Pact with her current Spirit, she cannot perform Spirit Charges. Instead, she can summon even further power from her equipped Remnant Cards to perform a lesser version of the technique known as a Remnant Charge, temporarily increasing their abilities far beyond their usual performance. Though individually weaker than a Spirit Charge, she can potentially charge all three equipped Remnant Cards at the same time, which helps when it comes to levelling the playing field. Charging a Card overheats it, rendering it unusable for the next hour. 

Justice, The Devil, The Sun: Burning Crash~ Yui leaps high into the air and comes down with a foot extended, and her arms crossed while the mantis blades grow to double their typical size and length. She kicks into her opponent with extreme force and creates a massive explosion centered on the surface of impact as she backflips off of them and delivers a final cross slash with the mantis blades in midair.

As Yui cannot Pact and therefore summon a Spirit on her own, Hurricane is instead controlled through a device known as the Binding Chain; a small, cylindrical device that can be used to forcibly capture a Spirit and bind it to the user’s will, creating an ethereal chain linking it back to the user whenever the Spirit is outside of its Sealed Form.. In addition to the one she has now, she has one more for further testing purposes. Due to the limitations of the technology as well as the device’s prototype status, it can only be used to capture relatively weak spirits without a Pact if they are unwilling, classified at Category 2 or below.

Spirit Name: Hurricane

Spirit Classifications: Machina

Spirit Personality: As Hurricane has not formed a pact with Yui or any other medium, its personality is not well understood. Even to other Spirits, it rarely speaks, preferring to remain silent. Nevertheless, it has loyally served PHANTOM for some time, allowing itself to be used for research that led to the development of the Remnant Gear, Binding Chain, and other devices used by the organization. It has a certain machine-like efficiency to its actions, rarely letting emotions or a flare for the dramatic get in its way.

Spirit Appearance: In its normal form, it bears a remarkable resemblance to Yui's power suit formed by the Remnant Gear: A humanoid, nine foot tall robotic being of black steel, but with the addition of various mechanical parts. Heat constantly emanates from the engine purring in its chest, smoke rising from the exhaust pipes extending from its shoulders. Wheels and gears sit embedded behind its shoulders and ankles, which spin as it charges power.

Sealed Appearance: When not in use, Hurricane appears as a flashy and well-maintained but otherwise mundane black motorcycle.

Summoning Abilities and Stats: While Hurricane has no truly extraordinary abilities, it makes up for that in raw strength and speed, able to outmaneuver and overpower more multifaceted Spirits in a typical brawl. In addition, it has the ability to "rev up" by charging its power for a couple seconds, gaining a few seconds of blinding fast speed and increased speed. On repeated use, its body eventually becomes white hot to the point that it can burn unclothed skin on contact until it gets a chance to cool down again.

In addition, Hurricane has the power to turn into a motorcycle form of its own. Far faster and more durable than any human bike, it lacks the finesse of having actual limbs, but on wheels it runs even faster.

While Yui has many powers at her disposal, she needs to swap them all out by hand, which can be difficult if she’s under a lot of pressure in a fight. She’s also completely reliant on Remnant Cards to use any sort of spiritual power, and is rendered powerless without them. The abilities each Card grants come with weaknesses of their own, and their power is always less than the Spirit they came from.

The Binding Chain, while avoiding many of the risks and weaknesses of Pacts, has its own issues as well. Its range is shorter than average, at a mere 15 meters when outside of its Sealed Form, and the chain itself is vulnerable to attack, releasing the captured Spirit if it is ever broken.

Everything she could see looked like static. Everything she heard sounded like footsteps falling on broken glass. She felt a strange sensation, and her skin was covered in goosebumps. Through the miasma, she could sense many figures, but could not focus on any of them.

There was only one she was looking for, but she felt so lost...

"Yui."

Yui woke up with a jolt and bolted into a sitting position. She was met by the bespectacled face of Doctor Harper. She stared into Yui's eyes for a few seconds before scrawling some near-illegible notes onto her clipboard.

"How did you get in here?" Yui asked with a frown.

"I filed for access to your quarters three months ago," She responded in a matter of fact tone. "I've been meaning to study a Medium of your… particular impairment more closely." The scientist promptly added to her notes.

"And that includes watching me sleep?" Yui asked.

"Ignore that part," Harper commanded. "It might affect the results…" Her words were followed by another scribble, this one slightly more aggressive.

"Fine," Yui said with a huff. "I was just having that dream again… Did you need anything else from me, or can you leave?” The scientist jotted down another note before pushing up her glasses.

“Just a few final calibrations for the Remnant Gear,” Harper explained, shuffling through the papers on her clipboard. “After that, I think we’ll finally be ready for field testing. Meet me in the lab in an hour.” Yui’s eyes lit up as she gave a quick nod.

“And this will help you repair my Aura?” Yui asked. Harper put her hand to her chin as she got up and headed for the door.

“It will definitely further my research on the matter…” The doctor said with a chuckle. “Though I must say, this has been a rather enlightening partnership on the whole. I suppose you might even call it our very own Pact…”
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