March
A Hug, Wrapped in a Cuddle and Soaked in Affection
Fantasy Characters:
Name: Sakura Mizu
Age: 18
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Background: Sakura was born in a small town miles from any other settlement and had a fairly happy childhood, except for one thing.
Her parents entered the village only long enough to place Sakura in the middle of the street. She was adopted by an old hermit who raised her with assistance from a village woman.
Her lack of biological parents rarely concerned Sakura and she grew up happy, though her father's odd ways rubbed off on her and most people who encounter Sakura find her her personality to be a little odd, though they would be hard pressed to name specific flaws.
She had a fairly traditional upbringing, with her mother teaching her the appropriate skills for a woman, while her father made sure she learnt her letters, a rare luxury in her village which she honestly never excelled at.
The differences in her parent's attitudes towards society began to show as Sakura entered her teen years and her mother began looking for a good match amongst the village men, while her father was more prone to scaring off suitors and encouraging Sakura to build up an unapproachable image like he had before taking her in, so that she would be left alone and perhaps become a scholar.
Sakura discovered her magic by accident one day after she accidentally summoned hundreds of magical flowers, crushing a (fortunately empty) house.
Needless to say this ruined any chance of her mother finding a match, no man wanted a wife who could crush houses at will.
Whats more is that this ostracised her from much of the village, which like most rural areas feared and mistrusted any form of magic.
Eventually Sakura's parents reached the point where they could no longer raise her, her father had only taken her in as a learning experience and though he loved her it was time he returned to other studies and for Sakura to learn on her own.
Her mother couldn't afford to keep feeding a full grown adult forever as she had retired from her work as a seamstress and was unable to find anyone willing to marry Sakura.
Though she attempted to find work and her skills in cooking, cleaning, gardening and sowing would normally guarantee a job as a general servant, Sakura's magic was all that it took to deter potential hirers.
It was on her nineteenth birthday that an answer appeared before Sakura, a group of traveling merchants arrived in the village on their way across the border and wowed the village children with stories of the cities they had seen and mages fighting monsters to protect the weak.
Amazed by what sounded like an amazing world, Sakura approached the caravan leader and offered to work in return for traveling with them to their destination.
Fortunately the merchants were neither experienced at cooking or repairing clothes and Sakura managed to use those skills to buy passage to a fairly large city where she hoped to find her purpose in life and perhaps a teacher to help train her powers.
Magic: Sakura's magic allows her to summon vast amounts of magical sparks shaped as an unidentifiable flower, a skilled mage could use these flowers to make barriers, weapons, imprison an enemy, or simply make them explode, unfortunately Sakura is not a skilled mage and can so far only manage to make the flowers explode.
Skills: Sakura's mother drilled many skills inter her, such as sewing, cooking, singing and dancing.
While her father taught her the more practical skills of reading, writing, map reading, and how to properly tend to a small herb garden.
Weaknesses: Sakura is both short at only 5.3 feet, and a little clumsy, occasionally breaking flower pots or other objects.
She also has very few physical and can be quite timid around strangers, usually responding to fights by hiding under a table or frantically blasting any attackers with magic.
Sakura has difficulties with mathematics, and can never quite budget enough or tell if she is being underpaid, this has unfortunately caused her to accumulate a sizable debt.
Unlike most mages who have masters or guilds to teach them how to use their magic, Sakura has had no training and despite technically having a large amount of magical power she has no idea how to do much more throwing magical petals at opponents until they drop.
Sakura also has an irrational fear of the ocean but not of rivers and lakes, a fact her father once attributed to her parents before shutting up and refusing to elaborate.
Extra: Sakura doesn't quite understand weather and has been known to wear very little in icy environments.
What she wants most of all is somewhere to live where she fits in and can have a normal life and perhaps even find someone to love.
Name: Chiara Lil Grande
Age: 19
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Background: Chiara was born into a lower middle class family in a fairly large city to a pair of very loving parents, they raised her well despite the occasionally lacking funds. Their financial situation actually helped to stop Chiara becoming spoiled as she learnt to budget from a young age due to a small allowance that her parents gave her to make up for working most of the day.
It didn't take long before Chiara was testing her parent's patience, on her eleventh birthday she managed to become wanted for a day after stealing an extremely valuable amulet from a noble who left it within arms reach while Chiara was wandering around the wealthier parts of the city.
She was caught trying to sell it to a pawnbroker and promptly arrested, earning her parents a fine that ate up their meagre savings, and 48 hours in a pitch black cell.
As a result Chiara is now terrified of the dark and never travels at night.
On her thirteenth birthday Chiara's parents took her to a professional mage appraisal as a combined twelth and thirteenth birthday present, figuring that it might help catch the eye of a man that wanted magic in his bloodline of Chiara tested positive.
The appraiser searched Chiara's mind and soul for hidden abilities before declaring her a weapon summoning mage, most likely of the firearm variety, unfortunately the only person willing to teach the art of weapon summoning was far out of the Lil Grande family's price range.
Chiara had one particularly close friend during her childhood, a merchants daughter who she did everything with, and who even taught Chiara what she knew about magic once they both developed weapon summoning magic, which was just one more thing that drew them together.
At the age of sixteen, Chiara had been reading romantic novels that her mother had once enjoyed and as a result she had a fairly idealistic idea of love.
So when she began feeling strange around her friend and getting nervous while speaking, the answer was obvious in her mind and she took her friend aside one day while visiting, and kissed her.
Before Chiara could gauge the reaction or even finish the kiss, her friends mother entered the room and pulled them apart, after having dozens if insults shouted at her she was told never to associate with that family again and nearly did, before her friend began crying and Chiara fled.
When the incident eventually reached her parents ears, Chiara felt nothing but shame and guilt upon seeing the looks of disappointment on her parent's faces.
After three years of frosty treatment and ashamed looks from her parents, who had believed her mad for the first year and almost sent her to the cities asylum, Chiara's parents finally seemed to forgive her completely out of the blue, telling her that family have to make compromises for each other and that surely it was just an accident.
Chiara was thrilled at this sudden acceptance, that is until she met her parent's new favourite person.
A noble was looking for a wife with magical abilities to strengthen his claim on several magic based family enterprises and had chosen Chiara.
Completely horrified at the prospect of having to marry a thirty something man Chiara fled the city with no real goal in mind.
Several days later she had finally reached a point where she felt safe and began to worry about her family, they had been relying on the marriage to stay afloat in a collapsing economy and Chiara had ruined that.
Out of a sense of loyalty to her family she almost returned and went through with the marriage, but instead caught sight of a poster advertising a bounty for defeating a certain monster.
On a whim Chiara took the job and managed to use her magic to great effect, which convinced her to become a mercenary and support her family that way as long as possible.
Magic: Chiara uses weapon summoning magic, specifically she summons firearms which have a bottomless clip fueled by her magic.
These guns all have different ways of doing damage such as explosive rounds or ice shots.
Skills: Chiara has picked up a few skills in her life so far, such as haggling, hiding and shooting almost as well as someone with professional training.
She also knows a fair bit about patching up scrapes and cuts from her time wandering around the city as a child though she would have no idea to treat something serious.
Weaknesses: Chiara is surprisingly easy to embarrass and a kiss from an attractive girl will actually distract her so much that she will struggle to use magic.
Due to being locked up in the dark Chiara has a crippling fear of darkness and shuts down completely if caught at night with no light.
Chiara has focused entirely on her shooting and magic skills, and is useless if someone gets into melee range.
Extra: Chiara was once described as a 'tsundere' by a strange traveler she met on the road.
The noble's marriage offer still stands and Chiara is still not sure that she should refuse when her parents need the money.
Name: Koun'na Yoroi
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Magic: Enhancement
Background: Koun'na was born to a family that rarely practiced magic due to their warrior ancestry and as such it was an incredible shock when at the age of twelve she was found to have latent magical abilities after creating a basic barrier.
After a fairly long argument, her family agreed to Koun'na's request to awaken her power and took her to a professional mage who performed the ceremony, which Koun'na and her parents regretted immediately.
Her power was that of 'enhancement' a rare ability that allows someone to boost their physical abilities massively and who usually have a larger store of magic power than most.
However this comes at a cost.
Enhancer mages lose an ability, the magnitude of which effects the size of their magic reserves.
Koun'na was horrified to find that she had lost the use of her legs and left ear, which shattered her parents dreams of an all warrior family.
Fortunately Koun'na made somewhat of a recovery when she managed to purchase magical greaves that allowed her to walk, and an earing that restored her deaf ear, (though that was just a lucky bonus to her).
After getting used to walking again she immediately set out to travel the world and use her magic for fun, adventure, and... Admittedly a little profit.
Weaknesses: Koun'na is unable to walk without her greaves and if they sustain enough damage she is pretty defenceless.
Extra: Koun'na is a lot more physical than most mages due to her extremely rare magic type, which catches other mages off guard and has helped win quite a few battles.
Sci-fi Characters:
Name: Aria
Age: Maturity tests place at between 19 and 22.
Species: AI (Marigold 9.03 Architecture).
Gender: Female
Background: Aria is one of a dozen AI in her particular line, which was discontinued after it was discovered that they had a tendency to fall for people they worked with, which deeply disturbed most people.
Aria was given packages to allow her to work in most fields, and is capable of navigation, accounting, advanced social interaction, and even coding.
Though her clothing was designed as intentionally flashy and a little bit skimpy in order to help Aria gain attention and distract people.
Weaknesses: The 9.03 model of Marigold has several flaws such as entering a drunk like state after running too many processes, and often crashing when experiencing large amounts of negative emotion.
Also as a program, Aria has no physical body and therefore would be unable to defend her AI core without assistance.
Extra: Aria is capable of communicating with all surviving AI that share her architecture.
Name: Sakura Mizu
Age: 18
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Background: Sakura was born in a small town miles from any other settlement and had a fairly happy childhood, except for one thing.
Her parents entered the village only long enough to place Sakura in the middle of the street. She was adopted by an old hermit who raised her with assistance from a village woman.
Her lack of biological parents rarely concerned Sakura and she grew up happy, though her father's odd ways rubbed off on her and most people who encounter Sakura find her her personality to be a little odd, though they would be hard pressed to name specific flaws.
She had a fairly traditional upbringing, with her mother teaching her the appropriate skills for a woman, while her father made sure she learnt her letters, a rare luxury in her village which she honestly never excelled at.
The differences in her parent's attitudes towards society began to show as Sakura entered her teen years and her mother began looking for a good match amongst the village men, while her father was more prone to scaring off suitors and encouraging Sakura to build up an unapproachable image like he had before taking her in, so that she would be left alone and perhaps become a scholar.
Sakura discovered her magic by accident one day after she accidentally summoned hundreds of magical flowers, crushing a (fortunately empty) house.
Needless to say this ruined any chance of her mother finding a match, no man wanted a wife who could crush houses at will.
Whats more is that this ostracised her from much of the village, which like most rural areas feared and mistrusted any form of magic.
Eventually Sakura's parents reached the point where they could no longer raise her, her father had only taken her in as a learning experience and though he loved her it was time he returned to other studies and for Sakura to learn on her own.
Her mother couldn't afford to keep feeding a full grown adult forever as she had retired from her work as a seamstress and was unable to find anyone willing to marry Sakura.
Though she attempted to find work and her skills in cooking, cleaning, gardening and sowing would normally guarantee a job as a general servant, Sakura's magic was all that it took to deter potential hirers.
It was on her nineteenth birthday that an answer appeared before Sakura, a group of traveling merchants arrived in the village on their way across the border and wowed the village children with stories of the cities they had seen and mages fighting monsters to protect the weak.
Amazed by what sounded like an amazing world, Sakura approached the caravan leader and offered to work in return for traveling with them to their destination.
Fortunately the merchants were neither experienced at cooking or repairing clothes and Sakura managed to use those skills to buy passage to a fairly large city where she hoped to find her purpose in life and perhaps a teacher to help train her powers.
Magic: Sakura's magic allows her to summon vast amounts of magical sparks shaped as an unidentifiable flower, a skilled mage could use these flowers to make barriers, weapons, imprison an enemy, or simply make them explode, unfortunately Sakura is not a skilled mage and can so far only manage to make the flowers explode.
Skills: Sakura's mother drilled many skills inter her, such as sewing, cooking, singing and dancing.
While her father taught her the more practical skills of reading, writing, map reading, and how to properly tend to a small herb garden.
Weaknesses: Sakura is both short at only 5.3 feet, and a little clumsy, occasionally breaking flower pots or other objects.
She also has very few physical and can be quite timid around strangers, usually responding to fights by hiding under a table or frantically blasting any attackers with magic.
Sakura has difficulties with mathematics, and can never quite budget enough or tell if she is being underpaid, this has unfortunately caused her to accumulate a sizable debt.
Unlike most mages who have masters or guilds to teach them how to use their magic, Sakura has had no training and despite technically having a large amount of magical power she has no idea how to do much more throwing magical petals at opponents until they drop.
Sakura also has an irrational fear of the ocean but not of rivers and lakes, a fact her father once attributed to her parents before shutting up and refusing to elaborate.
Extra: Sakura doesn't quite understand weather and has been known to wear very little in icy environments.
What she wants most of all is somewhere to live where she fits in and can have a normal life and perhaps even find someone to love.
Name: Chiara Lil Grande
Age: 19
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Background: Chiara was born into a lower middle class family in a fairly large city to a pair of very loving parents, they raised her well despite the occasionally lacking funds. Their financial situation actually helped to stop Chiara becoming spoiled as she learnt to budget from a young age due to a small allowance that her parents gave her to make up for working most of the day.
It didn't take long before Chiara was testing her parent's patience, on her eleventh birthday she managed to become wanted for a day after stealing an extremely valuable amulet from a noble who left it within arms reach while Chiara was wandering around the wealthier parts of the city.
She was caught trying to sell it to a pawnbroker and promptly arrested, earning her parents a fine that ate up their meagre savings, and 48 hours in a pitch black cell.
As a result Chiara is now terrified of the dark and never travels at night.
On her thirteenth birthday Chiara's parents took her to a professional mage appraisal as a combined twelth and thirteenth birthday present, figuring that it might help catch the eye of a man that wanted magic in his bloodline of Chiara tested positive.
The appraiser searched Chiara's mind and soul for hidden abilities before declaring her a weapon summoning mage, most likely of the firearm variety, unfortunately the only person willing to teach the art of weapon summoning was far out of the Lil Grande family's price range.
Chiara had one particularly close friend during her childhood, a merchants daughter who she did everything with, and who even taught Chiara what she knew about magic once they both developed weapon summoning magic, which was just one more thing that drew them together.
At the age of sixteen, Chiara had been reading romantic novels that her mother had once enjoyed and as a result she had a fairly idealistic idea of love.
So when she began feeling strange around her friend and getting nervous while speaking, the answer was obvious in her mind and she took her friend aside one day while visiting, and kissed her.
Before Chiara could gauge the reaction or even finish the kiss, her friends mother entered the room and pulled them apart, after having dozens if insults shouted at her she was told never to associate with that family again and nearly did, before her friend began crying and Chiara fled.
When the incident eventually reached her parents ears, Chiara felt nothing but shame and guilt upon seeing the looks of disappointment on her parent's faces.
After three years of frosty treatment and ashamed looks from her parents, who had believed her mad for the first year and almost sent her to the cities asylum, Chiara's parents finally seemed to forgive her completely out of the blue, telling her that family have to make compromises for each other and that surely it was just an accident.
Chiara was thrilled at this sudden acceptance, that is until she met her parent's new favourite person.
A noble was looking for a wife with magical abilities to strengthen his claim on several magic based family enterprises and had chosen Chiara.
Completely horrified at the prospect of having to marry a thirty something man Chiara fled the city with no real goal in mind.
Several days later she had finally reached a point where she felt safe and began to worry about her family, they had been relying on the marriage to stay afloat in a collapsing economy and Chiara had ruined that.
Out of a sense of loyalty to her family she almost returned and went through with the marriage, but instead caught sight of a poster advertising a bounty for defeating a certain monster.
On a whim Chiara took the job and managed to use her magic to great effect, which convinced her to become a mercenary and support her family that way as long as possible.
Magic: Chiara uses weapon summoning magic, specifically she summons firearms which have a bottomless clip fueled by her magic.
These guns all have different ways of doing damage such as explosive rounds or ice shots.
Skills: Chiara has picked up a few skills in her life so far, such as haggling, hiding and shooting almost as well as someone with professional training.
She also knows a fair bit about patching up scrapes and cuts from her time wandering around the city as a child though she would have no idea to treat something serious.
Weaknesses: Chiara is surprisingly easy to embarrass and a kiss from an attractive girl will actually distract her so much that she will struggle to use magic.
Due to being locked up in the dark Chiara has a crippling fear of darkness and shuts down completely if caught at night with no light.
Chiara has focused entirely on her shooting and magic skills, and is useless if someone gets into melee range.
Extra: Chiara was once described as a 'tsundere' by a strange traveler she met on the road.
The noble's marriage offer still stands and Chiara is still not sure that she should refuse when her parents need the money.
Name: Koun'na Yoroi
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Magic: Enhancement
Background: Koun'na was born to a family that rarely practiced magic due to their warrior ancestry and as such it was an incredible shock when at the age of twelve she was found to have latent magical abilities after creating a basic barrier.
After a fairly long argument, her family agreed to Koun'na's request to awaken her power and took her to a professional mage who performed the ceremony, which Koun'na and her parents regretted immediately.
Her power was that of 'enhancement' a rare ability that allows someone to boost their physical abilities massively and who usually have a larger store of magic power than most.
However this comes at a cost.
Enhancer mages lose an ability, the magnitude of which effects the size of their magic reserves.
Koun'na was horrified to find that she had lost the use of her legs and left ear, which shattered her parents dreams of an all warrior family.
Fortunately Koun'na made somewhat of a recovery when she managed to purchase magical greaves that allowed her to walk, and an earing that restored her deaf ear, (though that was just a lucky bonus to her).
After getting used to walking again she immediately set out to travel the world and use her magic for fun, adventure, and... Admittedly a little profit.
Weaknesses: Koun'na is unable to walk without her greaves and if they sustain enough damage she is pretty defenceless.
Extra: Koun'na is a lot more physical than most mages due to her extremely rare magic type, which catches other mages off guard and has helped win quite a few battles.
Sci-fi Characters:
Name: Aria
Age: Maturity tests place at between 19 and 22.
Species: AI (Marigold 9.03 Architecture).
Gender: Female
Background: Aria is one of a dozen AI in her particular line, which was discontinued after it was discovered that they had a tendency to fall for people they worked with, which deeply disturbed most people.
Aria was given packages to allow her to work in most fields, and is capable of navigation, accounting, advanced social interaction, and even coding.
Though her clothing was designed as intentionally flashy and a little bit skimpy in order to help Aria gain attention and distract people.
Weaknesses: The 9.03 model of Marigold has several flaws such as entering a drunk like state after running too many processes, and often crashing when experiencing large amounts of negative emotion.
Also as a program, Aria has no physical body and therefore would be unable to defend her AI core without assistance.
Extra: Aria is capable of communicating with all surviving AI that share her architecture.
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