KoL

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PS:

I'll be posting something soonish as well, I've been sidetracked, but I really have plans to do here.

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@Lewascan2@Ponn, seems like we need the two of you to move things forward. In case you can't post soon-ish, could you at least let us know?

Tower of Fable

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"How unbecoming of my cousin, don't you think, my dearest Esa?" Said a mysterious blonde girl who landed beside Katie, after leaping from one of the crumbling pillars of the old abyssal ruins, almost as if she manifested from a ripple through time. Her voice sounded unfazed—playful even—despite the world being literally undone before her very eyes as she spoke to a hooded, silver-haired girl standing beside her while watching the fate of Runa and Nephy with intensity.

"I—Is it really right to speak like this when the situation is this bad, Master? I thought we came here because you were worried about Miss Katie," the girl called Esa answered even as she continued to observe the crumbling world, with Katie's "friends" on a side, they on the other, and the grotesque fusion of Runa and Nephy standing somewhat in the middle. Not that any sense of absolute direction could remain in the current state of this floor.

"A little teasing never killed anyone," the blonde answered. Despite her words, she knelt beside Katie and helped the dark-haired girl up, while checking whether or not she was actually hurt or just needed to catch her breath. "Besides, even if I came here to help... I'm also half-Valkyrian. I can't help but be enraptured by the tragic sight of brave warriors who are trying to fight against the shackles of Fate," she added as she turned her gaze to Runa and Nephy.

"Master, please can't we—" Esa tried to plead something, but it was already too late.

"O, brave warriors, Einherjar! If you wish to break the bonds of Fate, let me—Valkyrie Erika Reinhardt—be the judge of thy worth!" Erika was fully committed to her act now.

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PS:

Also, yes, I may look like a ghost, but I'm still here lurking... waiting.

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So I know this thing is full but I made a character anyway.

Valeria Weizenbaum

Name: Valeria Weizenbaum
Magical Girl Name: Waffenhändler
Age: Appears 20
Nationality: Germany
Appearance: Transformed

Untransformed


Description: A feisty and wild girl from Bavaria who has been an occasional ally of the Grand Ministry in recent years. She is fiercely independent and prefers to keep her own path, driving the world in her mystical van to collect trinkets, talismans, and most importantly to her, metal junk to smith guns and prosthetics. She proudly immerses herself in punk culture from her homeland and never plays well with authorities. Her and Ozma go way back, and she was one of the first magical girls to work with her. She offers her services to other magical girls these days as a vendor and sometimes helping hand.

History: She was born with hypochrondroplasia or small limbed dwarfism in the 1940s during the Hitler years. At this time it was German Nazi party policy to euthanize the genetically inferior. Her family attempted to plead with the government for her life while she lay in the hospital. During her stay, she’d discover the fable story that’d become her grimoire and restore her limbs with silver metal. Fleeing Germany afterward filled her with a sense of independence, and a demand to travel the world around her instead of the culture that rejected her. With her new magical girl powers, she constantly creates new limbs for herself and has found her trade in her producing, buying, finding, and selling just about any needed item in the magical world.
Grimoire: Das Mädchen ohne Hände (The Girl Without Hands)
Classification: Fable
Description: An old german story over a miller’s daughter who must give up her hands due to her father making a deal with the devil. She finds and falls in love with a King and is given new hands made of silver.
Grimoire’s Power: Incredible powers of creation with her prosthetic hands, able to mend and mold metal in seconds to create devices ranging from guns and artillery to cars and buildings. She is able to heat them up to smelt iron and adjust them into various tools to make herself into a living and breathing foundry. In a pinch, she can turn them into hand cannons and explode her enemies with shrapnel and cannon.
Misc: She is a huge fan of Einstürzende Neubauten, Kraftwerk, and Can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWAK9W6o6Qw

@ShadowSunRisen

I'm surprised she isn't a certain runaway princess to say the truth.

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The solution of the riddle:

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Also, now I realize I got the 501st post.

This requires a suitable theme:

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Hmmmmmmm… My headcanon is that grimoires are pretty much self-regenerating and self-evolving or else all magical girls will be dependent on a “grimoire tuner” to grow, which I don’t like.

I think a more interesting angle would be that she’s a “Grimoire Modder” that provides various buffs and mods to enhance and/or modify a grimoire’s power. Perhaps she can also hasten the repair process of a truly damaged grimoire.

@Izurich

That's an interesting idea to consider. Grimoires self regenerating and evolving is probably how they work to some extent indeed. My idea was always to provide a boost to that or fine tune the direction of the changes.

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Or she’s the Librarian. I think this is the route I’m going to decide with.

@TheWendil

She was already gonna live in the library and hard ever leave for any reason anyway. Since she has a body too weak to fight in the frontlines.

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PS:

By the way, I'm thinking of introducing a new Support character later. A "Grimoire Tuner", after all, the girls will need someone to repair and enhance their grimoires if they hope to survive the endless war against the tides of darkness.

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Goddamn, they really do look-alike, and better yet, it's a total coincidence at that. An exquisite meme. Simply magnifique.

On an IC note, I have posted.

@Izurich

Lilian: "But, as the older sister, I have a more appealing figure."