@Ponn Tell you what, I'm hoping to get my catch-up post in fairly soonish, possibly tonight even, so we can save the conversation for yours and have it all be from Olivia's POV. That way, I can set a little bit of the stage and progress their dual timeline a tad beforehand. I'll shoot you a PM, so we have a place to work with.
@Ponn Oh, you might have misunderstood. Camelot actually takes secret identities pretty seriously. She's not going to escort the group right out in the open where any random civilian could see a magical girl just walking around with a bunch of supposed normals. She'll stay close enough to react, but she's on the rooftops and not really in casual conversation distance with the rest of the group. If Olivia decides to dip back and forth between groups, that's one thing, but Camelot would be a separate interaction.
At this point, based on how far forward everyone else is, we may be getting into the realm of some severe timey-whimey shenanigans, so I'm down for a collab to smooth out any conversation they have on the way over so it happens in 1 or two posts at most. By the end of my next post, at minimum, I want to have Camelot's timeline moved up to the point at which Charlotte speaks to her.
@Ponn Camelot's post will have her settling for performing escort duty from the rooftops. She decides to stay transformed to stave off any surprise dangers, since she's still fairly fresh compared to most of the group, energy-wise. She leaves an open offer to Olivia to patrol with her and chat or to go with the rest of the group. Ultimately, as she is playing guard duty, Camelot will arrive at the gates at the same time regardless and will then finally release her transformation.
@The 42nd Gecko Well now, you have me invested. It's a funny thing about how Bonnie assumes Camelot is still with the group though... I swear, TheWendil must be precognitive, because once again, I couldn't have asked for a better set-up.
Dude, could you please just edit your posts instead of unnecessarily bumping the thread. The GM is a slow responder, and it really would be so much better if everything you wanted him to see was in one place. Instead we've got all this empty space filled with single line (or hell, single WORD) posts. It's maddening. Just... BRUH. Please, cut back on the spam. The edit tool exists for a reason.
@Villamvihar Uhhh, heads up, but Chinami is super 100% not okay with her actual name being used while she's Camelot. Nicknames are still massively pushing it, but her full civilian name? Yeah, no. She is very no-nonsense about this and treats it like having a DC secret identity, not like seemingly everyone in the MCU taking off their masks at the drop of a hat. She will be genuinely offended about this despite it being (or rather, especially because it's) Wilhelmina doing it, because someone that close to her should presumably know better by this point.
It is worth mentioning that she attempts to emphasize Captain Goodhope's Magical Girl name and makes leading gestures towards all the potential witnesses around them directly beforehand, which makes things doubly worse, especially since Chinami already introduced herself to Olivia while specifically forgoing using her civilian name. The hints were very much there, though OOC, it's an understandable misstep considering I never personally mentioned this specific button of hers (except I actually kind of did in her commentary, when Lumiere dropped her own transformation).
Just putting that out there in case you want to edit that. If not, cool, call it a slip-up or whatever from excitement, but that isn't going to much change Chinami's reaction. Carelessness kills, after all (at least, according to her paranoia).
@Villamvihar Chinami is the sort who prefers not to have nicknames most of the time, even with people she likes, but she dislikes being pigeon-holed by actually descriptive labels even more (she's a bit prickly on this particular subject, yes, since she dislikes people assuming things about her simply for her Grimoire). Since she likes Wilhelmina, "Nami" is fine. In turn, if she shortens Wilhelmina's name, it tends to be to "Mina" or "Mina-chan", since those roll off the tongue far more naturally for someone that speaks Japanese fluently. Though, she will try to call her "Helmi" mostly in front of others if the other nicknames have been conveyed to her as bothersome in some manner. Wilhelmina would also presumably have had the context of "-chan" as a term of endearment explained to her at some point, likely after asking when Chinami slipped up and first used it.
And when Chinami offers to "carry her back", it should be relatively apparent (to someone familiar with her straightforward approach) she means a full-on princess carry roof-top-hopping spree, since said carry is technically the safest/most comfortable way an armored person could transport a not-so-armored person, especially while making super-strength leaps.
Titles: Overclock, Fastest Woman Alive, Bane of the Heaven Seeker, The Deathlight, Vanquisher of the Unspoken, The Hero Who Never Was
Age: 21 physically... and a fair bit older mentally if one considers her living extended periods with an accelerated mind.
World: Earth Q is an Earth variant world once reduced to a post-apocalyptic wasteland by decades-long war with a Wuxia-style Invader, were it not for Jen's final heroic act during her ascension restoring it to a golden age of relative peace. Magic and supernatural abilities are a fairly new phenomenon on this world, barely 30 years old, and are thus poorly understood and with shaky foundations for training.
Race: A black-souled/Perceiver human(?), Jen developed from her youth a natural and intuitive connection to the forces of Speed. By all accounts she is otherwise a bog-standard human woman of Japanese descent... at least on the surface.
Form: Jen appears as a young human woman of what could be described as be Japanese heritage. As a result of her ascension, this appearance is more a thin veneer than anything. Having been forced to cast aside her mortal form in truth, the illusion falters when she uses her powers to any real degree, revealing a semi-ethereal blue humanoid being that appears to be more a living, moving galaxy than anything else.
Legend: Jen's world was woefully unprepared for an invader with the bullshit of a Wuxia protagonist behind them. A war of decimation with the goal of godhood was waged against her world, and Jen from the age of 11 found herself participating. The war went on for a full decade from her joining, and Jen's power over Speed was cultivated and mastered in that time, her personally confronting the Invader many a time and often being the only thing between her world and annihilation. She in many ways became the face of the resistance, and her very presence tended to at least guarantee that the enemy could not win outright.
Widely hailed as humanity's savior, she was a one-woman army, known to slay and save thousands in the blink of an eye, entire armies liberated or laid to waste at her leisure. Rumor said that should one have a way by which she may hear them and so much as call her name, she could cross the ocean to aid the besieged before the words ceased to flow. Her final battle with the Invader would see her finally initiating a last desperate stage of her personal cultivation, resulting in her victory, along with her ascension and removal from the entirety of her world's memory and history.
Will: Jen dedicated herself to heroism and war from a young age. Time and again she has fought for the sole purpose of saving lives and opposing an unparalleled tyrant of a madman. Despite having finally defeated said tyrant once and for all, she cannot lay such instincts completely to rest. That said, facing a new world with new people and evils, Jen can only feel a looming sense of... exhaustion. Having sacrificed everything for her world and spent half her life at war, Jen now desires to try living for herself for a change, to seek personal peace instead of peace for the sake of others. To that end, she intends to explore the new limits of her existence/body and shatter them all over again, to cast down any threat to her peace, and to finally have what she always reserved for others... hopefully without compromising her moral compass... much. It's time for the selfless hero to be a bit selfish for once.
Mastery: Jen has long cultivated a natural intuition for manipulating the primal forces of Speed, to a degree that steps even into the realm of space-time. Her mastery has seen her surpass even the speed of light and the flow of time itself, and her ascension has seen the obtainment of near-immortality through the stark transformation of her body to one more akin to an elemental of Speed than anything else. Broadly speaking, if one can so much as conceptualize a usage of speed, it's fair to assume she can make it happen -or figure it out if not; she is basically a living embodiment of Speed. However, her mastery is very much White Arts focused. Red Arts are comparatively unexplored territory for her.
Ascent: When faced with the genocidal ascension to godhood of the Invader that had long terrorized her world, Jen was forced to finally attempt time travel. In order to prevent a worldwide paradox and ensure success, she exploited her time-space manipulation through her mastery of Speed to sacrifice her own past/history. As a result, her body began to unravel from the self-contained paradox, and she was forced to craft a new shell of a body from the fundament of Speed around her while she reversed time.
In short, she successfully reversed time by more than a decade and assassinated the Invader in the moment they entered her world. However, her not yet completely stable form interacted with the forces laid bare by the Invader's dimensional technique, causing Jen to lose her grip on her world's timeline. Fumbling to stabilize her form, she began to Ascend, as she managed to work a solution together using her accelerated reaction time. Her form solidified, and a force like a sun being birthed within her propelled her uncontrollably forth into the next adventure.
During the Wuxia Invader's ascension ritual, a genocidal sacrifice was initiated, wiping out a large portion of the planet's population and ensuring the Invader's ultimate victory. Instead of allowing such an atrocity to pass, Jen was forced to use time travel. She was wary of causing a paradox, but it was the only thing she had left, and she had a theory about how she could make it work.
Speed of light remains constant irrespective of the observer. It is observed that as the speed of an object increases, time slows down. At the speed of light, time stops. And on further increment of speed greater than light, time reverses. Thus, to travel back in time we have to move faster than Light. And Jen's personal step: sacrifice her own timeline to ensure that her appearance in the past would not cause a paradox.
She didn't just erase the battle, the defeat. She reversed time all the way back to the exact moment the Wuxia Invader had arrived in her world years ago. As she did so, the disappearance of her very past caused her body to begin to come apart at the seams. In order to retain cohesion, she infused herself with the very concept of speed that flowed more freely around her now than ever before, crafting a new body from the fundament of the universe, a part of her mortality inextricably cast away to achieve a stable existence outside her own timeline.
She found the moment of the Invader's entry and attacked him with every bit of her fully cultivated power against his less experienced past self, a merciless barrage of high-speed vibrating attacks that reduced him forever to mere atoms. However, the Invader had still been resolving the effects of his dimensional technique when she struck. The combination of such a technique imploding and Jen's own state of still-resolving ascension and weakened grasp on her world's timeline caused her to be nicked by the collapsing technique and thrust from her world entirely, as her ascension solidified and completed in truth.
Arriving in a place unknown, she found that her very being had been fundamentally changed by the experience. In order to maintain her existence, she had not merely joined herself to the concept of Speed. No, for to join herself with her own universe's rules of reality would have resulted in her unraveling the moment she left. Instead, she had managed to transform herself into a sort of moving "universe of Speed" in the shape of a human. Her very being was a self-sustaining battery of an existence that molded and adapted itself to instead be fueled merely by Jen's own belief and perception of Speed.
Ephemera: The Speed Nexus: A self-sustaining existence within Jen's body of her own semi-unintentional creation. More accurately, her body is the nexus itself, a relatively tiny but growing and hyper-compressed "Universe of Speed" that acts as a protective shell/shield for her memories and soul to guard against the paradox that destroyed her original body. Through this and her own perception of her power, her body has become essentially a walking physical expression of the fundamental force of Speed. This body is a magical nuclear power plant, constantly utilizing the forces of its own existence to generate and store further power, which is partially put towards generation, escalating the speed at which it generates more ad infinitum.
This body doesn't possess an organic growth cycle and as a result is no longer is capable of aging. Nor does it require food, drink or air. However, the body is barely any more durable than a standard human's. This will likely change in time, as it grows in power and "density".
Loyal Fol-... Frien-... Honestly, it's a cult: As a result of erasing her own history/past, very few from her home-world recall her existence, and she has been relegated more to myth than anything. That said, she is not the only being that can step beyond the reach of time, and several that remember cultivate her (presently false) image as a Goddess and search for ways to contact her or bring her home.
@Dead Cruiser Okay, that clarifies things somewhat. Sure, I'll stick with my originally accepted sheet then and pop it in the CS tab. As long as you can help me find a good way for her to use her magic to a passable degree in the short term (assuming such is possible, because I really have no idea the shitstorm I'm about to enter XD), then I've got no further questions. I can see that you really want to keep spoilers to the absolute minimum.