PalusAbel
2013-11-04, 04:20 PM
This is the in-character thread of the game between myself as GM, The_Admiral, Lentrax, jamieth, Musashi, and Magatsu Izanagi.
1. What game system are you running (D&D, Call of Cthulu, Palladium, GURPS, etc.), and if applicable what edition (Original, Classic, Revised, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 10th, etc.)?
Magical Burst
2. What 'type' or variant of game will it be (i.e. "Shadow Chasers" or "Agents of Psi" for d20 Modern)? What is the setting for the game (eg. historic period, published or homebrewed campaign setting, alternate reality, modern world, etc.)?
We will be using the normal rules as laid out in the text. The story is set in the modern Western world.
3. How many Players are you looking for? Will you be taking alternates, and if so, how many?
Five. Alternates are welcome.
4. What's the gaming medium (OOTS, chat, e-mail etc.)?
OOTS.
5. What is the characters' starting status (i.e. experience level)?
Characters begin the story fresh out of character creation.
6. How much gold or other starting funds will the characters begin with?
Not applicable.
7. Are there any particular character classes, professions, orders, etc. that you want... or do not want? What are your rules on 'prestige' and/or homebrewed classes?
Not applicable.
8. What races, subraces, species, etc. are allowed for your game? Will you allow homebrewed races or species? 'Prestige' races or species?
Not applicable.
9. By what method should Players generate their attributes/ability scores and Hit Points?
Attributes are determined as described in the character creation section. Dice will not be rolled for attributes.
10. Does your game use alignment? What are your restrictions, if so?
There is not a strict alignment system in place for Magical Burst, but I would rather the player characters not be moral monsters.
11. Do you allow multi-classing, or have any particular rules in regards to it?
Not applicable.
12. Will you be doing all of the die rolling during the course of the game? Will die rolls be altered, or left to the honor system? If players can make die rolls, which ones do they make, how should they make the rolls, and how should they report them?
There will be a separate die-rolling thread. Players will include links to pertinent rolls in their posts.
13. Are there any homebrewed or optional/variant rules that your Players should know about? If so, list and explain them, or provide relevant links to learn about these new rules.
There are none at the moment, but some may appear later.
14. Is a character background required? If so, how big? Are you looking for anything in particular (i.e. the backgrounds all ending up with the characters in the same city)?
I won't lay out a specific number of sentences or paragraphs or anything like that. Write as much as you think you need to in order for your character to shine through. I would prefer that the backgrounds describe the five player characters meeting up in the recent past. How exactly that occurs needs to be discussed.
15. Does your game involve a lot of hack & slash, puzzle solving, roleplaying, or a combination of the above?
A combination of the above, though the greatest focus is on roleplaying.
16. Are your Players restricted to particular rulebooks and supplements, or will you be allowing access to non-standard material? What sources can Players use for their characters?
Players are to use Magical Burst v3. Homebrew will be considered.
Name: Sarah Young
Reason for becoming a magical girl: I’d rather go down fighting.
Wish: NA She became a magical girl to fight, the wish is just a nice bonus to not dying without one. Though she would wish for all the youma in the world to just disappear forever.
Element: Rock (The music genre)
Power: Transit Timing
Effects: The Wasserman Effect (Regeneration), Sweet Riffs (Magic Strike)
Finishing Attack: Rocking Out (Barrage Attack)
Weapon: Electric Guitar
Crisis: She's hopelessly attracted to Linda Newman, the band's keyboardist, and she has absolutely no idea why. She's got it under control for now, but she's not sure if she even wants to stop it.
Age 17
Aggro 5
Cool 3
Sharp 6
Social 7
Magic 4
Heart 8
Fury 6
Sarah was an ordinary kid, she had a B- GPA, was in a band and was doing okay. The most major part of her life however was music, specifically the guitar, she could riff with the best and she still can. This ordinary life changed with the appearance of the Youma.
She first ran into these creatures on the way back from band practice, she shrugged it off as her imagination. However, they started making more frequent appearances until she could not ignore them. Gathering up her courage she began investigating them.
Things took a turn for the worse as she ran into one of the creatures and all she could do was run. Fortunately, or unfortunately she ran into a strangely dressed twin of herself who offered her a choice, become a magical girl, fight and live, or reject the offer and die. She chose to fight and came out swinging, figuratively.
Appearance: In her normal form she generally wears jeans and a random assortment of T-Shirts. She has short red hair and green eyes.
As a Magical Girl, her costume consists of a pair of short black legging, a short skirt and a midriff baring top with a red an white motif, dominantly red. A pair of finger-less gloves cover her hands, and large boots her feet.
Relationships:
Heart Relationship with The Band
Heart Relationship with Kevin Collins, "dude, Batman beats Superman, hands down."
Magic relationship with Erika, "I was handling myself perfectly fine."
Magic relationship with Ellen, "This is awesome, we're superheroes and this is like one of those team up comics!"
Heart relationship with Lisa, "Must act normal,"
Name: Erika Larsen
Girl type: Girl Band Vocalist
Reason for becoming a magical girl: I can't let my friend fight alone.
Wish: I wish I can be strong enough to defend those I love.
Element: water
Power: Flight
Effects: Waters of Life (Regeneration), Water Celebration(Magic Strike)
Finishing Attack: Neptune's Trident (Precise Attack)
Weapon: Magic Staff
Age 17
Aggro 3
Cool 7
Sharp 5
Social 6
Magic 6
Heart 8
Fury 4
Relationships:
Heart -> Mia Dremma, Girlfriend and confidant.
Heart-> Magical Grrls. :smalltongue:
Magic-> Sarah.
Backstory:
Erika was just an ordinary girl.
Well, maybe not that ordinary. She is, after all, the singer in a rock band. A classically trained singer, Erika sang in her first opera at twelve years old. As she grew older, she performed in many other productions and musicals. The girl America saw onstage was perfect. A perfect girl, with a perfect life.
High school saw her soar to her height of popularity. People wanted to know her, girls wanted to be her. And Erika smiled for all of them.
The girl at home, was far from perfect. Her parents fought, her father drank, and eventually her family was torn apart. Erika, disillusioned to the world around her, found a group of girls that would let her sing her angst out to the world.
Forming a rock band with her new friends, Erika fought back against everything that had gone wrong with her life. She yelled and screamed and sang her soul out to the world. She sang of being broken and beaten, of being downtrodden and used. And her popularity grew. And for a while, life got good again. Maybe even normal.
But then even that went out the window when Sarah flew through the back wall of the venue they were playing at. She wouldn't get up. Erika didn't know what to do. Then it appeared. It looked just like her, except in the eyes, which looked a very bright purple. She looked at herself, cocked her head and smiled.
<You can save her, you know. Just make a contract with me and become a magical girl!>
Since then, she has stood in front of her band, which she still adamantly tries to rename 'Magical Grrls' and fights demons to protect the ones she loves.
Linda Newman
Girl type: Neglected
Roots: If I make a wish I can fix everything that's gone wrong.
Wish: I wish everyone I killed were alive again.
Magical Element: Rainbows
Weapon: a keytar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keytar)
Magical Power: Force Field - You have the ability to general a nearly invisible wall of force that can serves as a barrier.
Magic 9
Heart 5
Fury 4
Cool 7
Smart 6
Aggro 5
Social 3
Magical effects:
Magic Shield ("Prismatic Wall")
Magic Strike ("Prismatic Volley")
Finishing attack: Binding attack ("Rainbow chains")
Backstory: Linda was a rather normal girl. Cheerful, friendly, moderately bright. Then, one day when she was 11, a weird fire happened in her home, killing Linda's mom and kid brother. For Linda and her father, it was a terrible shock; the man started drinking - and it got progressively worse, to the point where he is now rarely somber enough to acknowledge her existence - , and the girl refused tot talk for weeks after the accident... it was then when doctors tried to use music as a kind of therapy for her. And it worked, it seems - by now, even though Linda is still rather unsociable, she can at least talk with other band members more or less normally... as long as no one talks about the accident, at least.
Because, for her, it wasn't an accident. She knows exactly which chemicals reacted in the kitchen sink to start a fire, and who exactly stole said chemicals from the science class... and failed to clean them properly after an "experiment" the teacher specifically warned them against trying on their own.
So, she struggled through her life, hardly hoping for it to get better - nor believing she deserves it to - until the day it all went weird at the concert. There was the wall burst, and the rubble hit her on the head, sending the girl unconscious foe a moment... and when she came to her senses, what she saw was Sarah shooting some kind of... rays from her guitar, trying to hold a weird monster away, while Erika nearby was standing nexdt to a girl who looked exactly like Linda - except wearing a metallic-colored unitard with glowing lines of every color. The next moment, Erika... changed. And the Linda's twin approached her, and Linda felt the words forming right inside her mind, <Is there something you want? Something you want so much you would risk your life for it? You can have it, you know. Even if it is impossible, you can still have it. You just need to form a contract with me and become a Magical Girl>
Crisis: Linda's father is facing a Termination of parental rights hearing, on basis of neglect, and, while it might very well be deserved, Linda can't afford to end up in a foster care - that would certainly bring her carefully constructed semblance of normal life to an end, damaging her already frail mental health... not to mention, she kinda enjoys the additional freedom said "neglect" provides for her.
Relationships:
Heart: Band
Heart: Ron Newman
Heart: Sarah. Linda knows when someone is hiding her emotion, and she knows, by experience, that it usually leads to no good. So, seeing as Sarah acts around her, she has to do something to help.
Human Name: Ellen Wanebrook
Magical Girl Name: Mystic Girl Wonder Ellie
Age: 15
Girl Type: Outcast
Magical Girl Roots: No one's ever going to take advantage of me again.
Wish: I wish for demons to drag her down to hell.
Crisis: I found evidence that I died 10 years ago.
Costume: a punk dress, all in dark blue and sienna. There are long torn ribbons wrapped in her hair, and around her wrists.
Appearance: white-skinned, pale brown eyes, dirty blonde hair worn in a pixie cut. She's got big scars on her face and arms.
Magical Weapon: Ribbon
Magical Element: Earth
Magical Power: Nightmare
Magical Effects: Swift Action, Double Action
Finishing Attack: Barrage Attack, dubbed "Ley Lines".
Normal Attributes: Cool 7, Aggro 6, Sharp 5, Social 3.
Magic Attributes: Magic 8, Fury 7, Heart 3.
Resolve: 18/18
Background: when she was a little kid, Ellen was victim of a car accident. After several months and surgeries, she got to look human again, even with the scars that would never fade. However, she feared she would be rejected at school because of the scars. Fortunately, a couple friends stood by her side, and helped her regain the confidence she'd lost.
It went quite well until middle school. There, to her surprise and dismay, she started facing two different reactions, with very little in-between, both from adults and students: pity, or disgust.
One girl in particular, Kathleen, started tormenting her. It started in little ways, like pretending a boy she had a crush on would reciprocate her feelings. (The rejection that ensued was terribly awkward for all parties involved, and hilarious for Kat and her clique.)
Ellen complained about it to her teachers. Kat did not like it one bit, and turned especially nasty. Bizarre and cruel rumors were spread. Ellen found herself stuffed in her locker once or twice. When Ellen tried to appease things by applying make-up over her scars, she only got teased more. The few who appeared to help only did so in order to look good in public, but never took care of the actual problems.
But fortunately, a tsukaima appeared, and Ellen knows exactly what to wish for. Plus, she gets to fight monsters and be a hero. And people who are rescued tend to overlook the scars of their savior.
Personality: Ellen is a bitter girl who hates the pity or disgust she often gets, and so far, only the lack of strength prevented her to lash out at the offenders. Yet, when the rare person treats her no differently because of her appearance, she instead tends to cling to them without further question. She's very loyal and protective toward the few people she can call friends.
Ultimately, while she believes what happened to her was terrible, she doesn't want to change a single thing of her past, for her near-death experience gave her a valuable insight on pain, death and life.
Relationships:
Fury - Thomas (older brother)
Heart - Mary (childhood friend)
Magic - Sarah (yeah, superheroes!)
Magic - The Band (rock is awesome, mkay?)
Name: Cassandra Luna
Age: 19
Girl type: Former rock idol
Reason for becoming a magical girl: I've seen what youma can do. We need to stop them. / Those fools need me. They could get killed otherwise.
Crisis: Powerful youma have been killing or otherwise screwing with just about everyone I've cared about.
Wish: I wish all the youma in the world would just disappear forever.
Weapon: Dual batons
Element: Rage
Power: Telekinesis
Effects: Magic boost, swift action
Finishing attack: Powerful attack
Aggro 7
Cool 3
Skill 6
Social 5
Magic 6
Heart 4
Fury 8
Backstory:
Cassandra Luna's parents, Michael and Katherine Luna, had been up-and-coming rock musicians before their careers were abruptly ended under suspicious circumstances. When Cassandra was 6, Katherine died in a bizarre gardening accident that authorities were ultimately unable to solve. Several months later, Michael was found dead at an after-show party; the official cause of death was given as pulmonary aspiration of vomit, with his friends suspecting that he had actually choked on someone else's vomit. With both of her parents dead, Cassandra was then sent to live with her paternal grandmother, Francesca Luna.
Francesca encouraged Cassandra to take up music as a way to honor the memory of her parents. As a result of her grandmother's encouragement, Cassandra eventually mastered the piano, guitar, bass, drums, and violin and became a proficient vocalist. Elementary and middle school came and went without much incident; Cassandra was consistently noted to be an above-average student, though one of her art teachers in middle school bluntly remarked that she was "retarded artistically" and "idiotic in other respects."
Cassandra soon proved that naysayer wrong in her freshman year of high school, when she became the frontwoman for a burgeoning garage band. She and the band enjoyed a modest amount of local success throughout freshman and sophomore years, though it was ultimately not meant to last. During junior year, the band gradually tore itself apart due to academic pressures and irreconcilable differences in artistic vision. A simple explanation on the surface, but there were far more complex and insidious influences in play...
Throughout high school, Cassandra had begun to hear and see things, though she would not actually recognize those things as youma until much later. She initially dismissed them as simple manifestations of stress, and as she tried to get further ahead with her studies and her band, she likewise tried to push those manifestations into the back of her mind. However, the youma were not so easily ignored. In the leadup to the band finally folding, Cassandra had noticed that her bandmates were behaving very unusually, though at the time, she wasn't quite able to put her finger on why; it would only be in hindsight that she could recognize her former bandmates' behavior as symptomatic of a youma attack.
Fortunately for Cassandra, the hallucinations/youma manifestations largely stopped after the band broke up, and she was able to get through senior year without much incident. She has just finished her first year of college, and to celebrate this accomplishment, she decided to visit her old home town. After hearing that a new band was on the rise in town, she decided to catch one of their performances, though it was certainly not the kind of show she was expecting...
The drummer spontaneously combusting on stage and the back wall of the venue exploding should have been Cassandra's cues to run, but she stayed, transfixed by the spectacle unfolding in front of her. All of a sudden, she appeared before her, a perfect doppelganger clad in an ornate military uniform. The following words soon entered Cassandra's mind, where they would remain for some time: "This has happened before, and it will keep happening again unless you do something about it. Just make a contract with me and become a magical girl, and you can have the power to make this suffering all end."
Appearance: This picture (http://i.imgur.com/b5L0vE1.jpg) is a good approximation of Cassandra in civilian attire. Asian, fair complexion, black hair in twintails, gray eyes, semi-formal attire (blazer, collared blouse, pleated miniskirt, kneesocks, Mary Janes). People tend to remark that she's overdressed for most occasions.
Cassandra's magical girl attire, while certainly extravagant by civilian standards, is actually quite conservative by the standards of her profession. Her chosen uniform consists of a white long-sleeved collared blouse, black tie, Prussian blue double-breasted coat and pleated miniskirt with gold trim, black thigh-high stockings, black combat boots, and a blue kepi. Her batons are kept at her sides when not in use.
Relationships:
Magic - The current band
Heart - Francesca Luna
Heart - Cassandra's old band
1. What game system are you running (D&D, Call of Cthulu, Palladium, GURPS, etc.), and if applicable what edition (Original, Classic, Revised, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 10th, etc.)?
Magical Burst
2. What 'type' or variant of game will it be (i.e. "Shadow Chasers" or "Agents of Psi" for d20 Modern)? What is the setting for the game (eg. historic period, published or homebrewed campaign setting, alternate reality, modern world, etc.)?
We will be using the normal rules as laid out in the text. The story is set in the modern Western world.
3. How many Players are you looking for? Will you be taking alternates, and if so, how many?
Five. Alternates are welcome.
4. What's the gaming medium (OOTS, chat, e-mail etc.)?
OOTS.
5. What is the characters' starting status (i.e. experience level)?
Characters begin the story fresh out of character creation.
6. How much gold or other starting funds will the characters begin with?
Not applicable.
7. Are there any particular character classes, professions, orders, etc. that you want... or do not want? What are your rules on 'prestige' and/or homebrewed classes?
Not applicable.
8. What races, subraces, species, etc. are allowed for your game? Will you allow homebrewed races or species? 'Prestige' races or species?
Not applicable.
9. By what method should Players generate their attributes/ability scores and Hit Points?
Attributes are determined as described in the character creation section. Dice will not be rolled for attributes.
10. Does your game use alignment? What are your restrictions, if so?
There is not a strict alignment system in place for Magical Burst, but I would rather the player characters not be moral monsters.
11. Do you allow multi-classing, or have any particular rules in regards to it?
Not applicable.
12. Will you be doing all of the die rolling during the course of the game? Will die rolls be altered, or left to the honor system? If players can make die rolls, which ones do they make, how should they make the rolls, and how should they report them?
There will be a separate die-rolling thread. Players will include links to pertinent rolls in their posts.
13. Are there any homebrewed or optional/variant rules that your Players should know about? If so, list and explain them, or provide relevant links to learn about these new rules.
There are none at the moment, but some may appear later.
14. Is a character background required? If so, how big? Are you looking for anything in particular (i.e. the backgrounds all ending up with the characters in the same city)?
I won't lay out a specific number of sentences or paragraphs or anything like that. Write as much as you think you need to in order for your character to shine through. I would prefer that the backgrounds describe the five player characters meeting up in the recent past. How exactly that occurs needs to be discussed.
15. Does your game involve a lot of hack & slash, puzzle solving, roleplaying, or a combination of the above?
A combination of the above, though the greatest focus is on roleplaying.
16. Are your Players restricted to particular rulebooks and supplements, or will you be allowing access to non-standard material? What sources can Players use for their characters?
Players are to use Magical Burst v3. Homebrew will be considered.
Name: Sarah Young
Reason for becoming a magical girl: I’d rather go down fighting.
Wish: NA She became a magical girl to fight, the wish is just a nice bonus to not dying without one. Though she would wish for all the youma in the world to just disappear forever.
Element: Rock (The music genre)
Power: Transit Timing
Effects: The Wasserman Effect (Regeneration), Sweet Riffs (Magic Strike)
Finishing Attack: Rocking Out (Barrage Attack)
Weapon: Electric Guitar
Crisis: She's hopelessly attracted to Linda Newman, the band's keyboardist, and she has absolutely no idea why. She's got it under control for now, but she's not sure if she even wants to stop it.
Age 17
Aggro 5
Cool 3
Sharp 6
Social 7
Magic 4
Heart 8
Fury 6
Sarah was an ordinary kid, she had a B- GPA, was in a band and was doing okay. The most major part of her life however was music, specifically the guitar, she could riff with the best and she still can. This ordinary life changed with the appearance of the Youma.
She first ran into these creatures on the way back from band practice, she shrugged it off as her imagination. However, they started making more frequent appearances until she could not ignore them. Gathering up her courage she began investigating them.
Things took a turn for the worse as she ran into one of the creatures and all she could do was run. Fortunately, or unfortunately she ran into a strangely dressed twin of herself who offered her a choice, become a magical girl, fight and live, or reject the offer and die. She chose to fight and came out swinging, figuratively.
Appearance: In her normal form she generally wears jeans and a random assortment of T-Shirts. She has short red hair and green eyes.
As a Magical Girl, her costume consists of a pair of short black legging, a short skirt and a midriff baring top with a red an white motif, dominantly red. A pair of finger-less gloves cover her hands, and large boots her feet.
Relationships:
Heart Relationship with The Band
Heart Relationship with Kevin Collins, "dude, Batman beats Superman, hands down."
Magic relationship with Erika, "I was handling myself perfectly fine."
Magic relationship with Ellen, "This is awesome, we're superheroes and this is like one of those team up comics!"
Heart relationship with Lisa, "Must act normal,"
Name: Erika Larsen
Girl type: Girl Band Vocalist
Reason for becoming a magical girl: I can't let my friend fight alone.
Wish: I wish I can be strong enough to defend those I love.
Element: water
Power: Flight
Effects: Waters of Life (Regeneration), Water Celebration(Magic Strike)
Finishing Attack: Neptune's Trident (Precise Attack)
Weapon: Magic Staff
Age 17
Aggro 3
Cool 7
Sharp 5
Social 6
Magic 6
Heart 8
Fury 4
Relationships:
Heart -> Mia Dremma, Girlfriend and confidant.
Heart-> Magical Grrls. :smalltongue:
Magic-> Sarah.
Backstory:
Erika was just an ordinary girl.
Well, maybe not that ordinary. She is, after all, the singer in a rock band. A classically trained singer, Erika sang in her first opera at twelve years old. As she grew older, she performed in many other productions and musicals. The girl America saw onstage was perfect. A perfect girl, with a perfect life.
High school saw her soar to her height of popularity. People wanted to know her, girls wanted to be her. And Erika smiled for all of them.
The girl at home, was far from perfect. Her parents fought, her father drank, and eventually her family was torn apart. Erika, disillusioned to the world around her, found a group of girls that would let her sing her angst out to the world.
Forming a rock band with her new friends, Erika fought back against everything that had gone wrong with her life. She yelled and screamed and sang her soul out to the world. She sang of being broken and beaten, of being downtrodden and used. And her popularity grew. And for a while, life got good again. Maybe even normal.
But then even that went out the window when Sarah flew through the back wall of the venue they were playing at. She wouldn't get up. Erika didn't know what to do. Then it appeared. It looked just like her, except in the eyes, which looked a very bright purple. She looked at herself, cocked her head and smiled.
<You can save her, you know. Just make a contract with me and become a magical girl!>
Since then, she has stood in front of her band, which she still adamantly tries to rename 'Magical Grrls' and fights demons to protect the ones she loves.
Linda Newman
Girl type: Neglected
Roots: If I make a wish I can fix everything that's gone wrong.
Wish: I wish everyone I killed were alive again.
Magical Element: Rainbows
Weapon: a keytar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keytar)
Magical Power: Force Field - You have the ability to general a nearly invisible wall of force that can serves as a barrier.
Magic 9
Heart 5
Fury 4
Cool 7
Smart 6
Aggro 5
Social 3
Magical effects:
Magic Shield ("Prismatic Wall")
Magic Strike ("Prismatic Volley")
Finishing attack: Binding attack ("Rainbow chains")
Backstory: Linda was a rather normal girl. Cheerful, friendly, moderately bright. Then, one day when she was 11, a weird fire happened in her home, killing Linda's mom and kid brother. For Linda and her father, it was a terrible shock; the man started drinking - and it got progressively worse, to the point where he is now rarely somber enough to acknowledge her existence - , and the girl refused tot talk for weeks after the accident... it was then when doctors tried to use music as a kind of therapy for her. And it worked, it seems - by now, even though Linda is still rather unsociable, she can at least talk with other band members more or less normally... as long as no one talks about the accident, at least.
Because, for her, it wasn't an accident. She knows exactly which chemicals reacted in the kitchen sink to start a fire, and who exactly stole said chemicals from the science class... and failed to clean them properly after an "experiment" the teacher specifically warned them against trying on their own.
So, she struggled through her life, hardly hoping for it to get better - nor believing she deserves it to - until the day it all went weird at the concert. There was the wall burst, and the rubble hit her on the head, sending the girl unconscious foe a moment... and when she came to her senses, what she saw was Sarah shooting some kind of... rays from her guitar, trying to hold a weird monster away, while Erika nearby was standing nexdt to a girl who looked exactly like Linda - except wearing a metallic-colored unitard with glowing lines of every color. The next moment, Erika... changed. And the Linda's twin approached her, and Linda felt the words forming right inside her mind, <Is there something you want? Something you want so much you would risk your life for it? You can have it, you know. Even if it is impossible, you can still have it. You just need to form a contract with me and become a Magical Girl>
Crisis: Linda's father is facing a Termination of parental rights hearing, on basis of neglect, and, while it might very well be deserved, Linda can't afford to end up in a foster care - that would certainly bring her carefully constructed semblance of normal life to an end, damaging her already frail mental health... not to mention, she kinda enjoys the additional freedom said "neglect" provides for her.
Relationships:
Heart: Band
Heart: Ron Newman
Heart: Sarah. Linda knows when someone is hiding her emotion, and she knows, by experience, that it usually leads to no good. So, seeing as Sarah acts around her, she has to do something to help.
Human Name: Ellen Wanebrook
Magical Girl Name: Mystic Girl Wonder Ellie
Age: 15
Girl Type: Outcast
Magical Girl Roots: No one's ever going to take advantage of me again.
Wish: I wish for demons to drag her down to hell.
Crisis: I found evidence that I died 10 years ago.
Costume: a punk dress, all in dark blue and sienna. There are long torn ribbons wrapped in her hair, and around her wrists.
Appearance: white-skinned, pale brown eyes, dirty blonde hair worn in a pixie cut. She's got big scars on her face and arms.
Magical Weapon: Ribbon
Magical Element: Earth
Magical Power: Nightmare
Magical Effects: Swift Action, Double Action
Finishing Attack: Barrage Attack, dubbed "Ley Lines".
Normal Attributes: Cool 7, Aggro 6, Sharp 5, Social 3.
Magic Attributes: Magic 8, Fury 7, Heart 3.
Resolve: 18/18
Background: when she was a little kid, Ellen was victim of a car accident. After several months and surgeries, she got to look human again, even with the scars that would never fade. However, she feared she would be rejected at school because of the scars. Fortunately, a couple friends stood by her side, and helped her regain the confidence she'd lost.
It went quite well until middle school. There, to her surprise and dismay, she started facing two different reactions, with very little in-between, both from adults and students: pity, or disgust.
One girl in particular, Kathleen, started tormenting her. It started in little ways, like pretending a boy she had a crush on would reciprocate her feelings. (The rejection that ensued was terribly awkward for all parties involved, and hilarious for Kat and her clique.)
Ellen complained about it to her teachers. Kat did not like it one bit, and turned especially nasty. Bizarre and cruel rumors were spread. Ellen found herself stuffed in her locker once or twice. When Ellen tried to appease things by applying make-up over her scars, she only got teased more. The few who appeared to help only did so in order to look good in public, but never took care of the actual problems.
But fortunately, a tsukaima appeared, and Ellen knows exactly what to wish for. Plus, she gets to fight monsters and be a hero. And people who are rescued tend to overlook the scars of their savior.
Personality: Ellen is a bitter girl who hates the pity or disgust she often gets, and so far, only the lack of strength prevented her to lash out at the offenders. Yet, when the rare person treats her no differently because of her appearance, she instead tends to cling to them without further question. She's very loyal and protective toward the few people she can call friends.
Ultimately, while she believes what happened to her was terrible, she doesn't want to change a single thing of her past, for her near-death experience gave her a valuable insight on pain, death and life.
Relationships:
Fury - Thomas (older brother)
Heart - Mary (childhood friend)
Magic - Sarah (yeah, superheroes!)
Magic - The Band (rock is awesome, mkay?)
Name: Cassandra Luna
Age: 19
Girl type: Former rock idol
Reason for becoming a magical girl: I've seen what youma can do. We need to stop them. / Those fools need me. They could get killed otherwise.
Crisis: Powerful youma have been killing or otherwise screwing with just about everyone I've cared about.
Wish: I wish all the youma in the world would just disappear forever.
Weapon: Dual batons
Element: Rage
Power: Telekinesis
Effects: Magic boost, swift action
Finishing attack: Powerful attack
Aggro 7
Cool 3
Skill 6
Social 5
Magic 6
Heart 4
Fury 8
Backstory:
Cassandra Luna's parents, Michael and Katherine Luna, had been up-and-coming rock musicians before their careers were abruptly ended under suspicious circumstances. When Cassandra was 6, Katherine died in a bizarre gardening accident that authorities were ultimately unable to solve. Several months later, Michael was found dead at an after-show party; the official cause of death was given as pulmonary aspiration of vomit, with his friends suspecting that he had actually choked on someone else's vomit. With both of her parents dead, Cassandra was then sent to live with her paternal grandmother, Francesca Luna.
Francesca encouraged Cassandra to take up music as a way to honor the memory of her parents. As a result of her grandmother's encouragement, Cassandra eventually mastered the piano, guitar, bass, drums, and violin and became a proficient vocalist. Elementary and middle school came and went without much incident; Cassandra was consistently noted to be an above-average student, though one of her art teachers in middle school bluntly remarked that she was "retarded artistically" and "idiotic in other respects."
Cassandra soon proved that naysayer wrong in her freshman year of high school, when she became the frontwoman for a burgeoning garage band. She and the band enjoyed a modest amount of local success throughout freshman and sophomore years, though it was ultimately not meant to last. During junior year, the band gradually tore itself apart due to academic pressures and irreconcilable differences in artistic vision. A simple explanation on the surface, but there were far more complex and insidious influences in play...
Throughout high school, Cassandra had begun to hear and see things, though she would not actually recognize those things as youma until much later. She initially dismissed them as simple manifestations of stress, and as she tried to get further ahead with her studies and her band, she likewise tried to push those manifestations into the back of her mind. However, the youma were not so easily ignored. In the leadup to the band finally folding, Cassandra had noticed that her bandmates were behaving very unusually, though at the time, she wasn't quite able to put her finger on why; it would only be in hindsight that she could recognize her former bandmates' behavior as symptomatic of a youma attack.
Fortunately for Cassandra, the hallucinations/youma manifestations largely stopped after the band broke up, and she was able to get through senior year without much incident. She has just finished her first year of college, and to celebrate this accomplishment, she decided to visit her old home town. After hearing that a new band was on the rise in town, she decided to catch one of their performances, though it was certainly not the kind of show she was expecting...
The drummer spontaneously combusting on stage and the back wall of the venue exploding should have been Cassandra's cues to run, but she stayed, transfixed by the spectacle unfolding in front of her. All of a sudden, she appeared before her, a perfect doppelganger clad in an ornate military uniform. The following words soon entered Cassandra's mind, where they would remain for some time: "This has happened before, and it will keep happening again unless you do something about it. Just make a contract with me and become a magical girl, and you can have the power to make this suffering all end."
Appearance: This picture (http://i.imgur.com/b5L0vE1.jpg) is a good approximation of Cassandra in civilian attire. Asian, fair complexion, black hair in twintails, gray eyes, semi-formal attire (blazer, collared blouse, pleated miniskirt, kneesocks, Mary Janes). People tend to remark that she's overdressed for most occasions.
Cassandra's magical girl attire, while certainly extravagant by civilian standards, is actually quite conservative by the standards of her profession. Her chosen uniform consists of a white long-sleeved collared blouse, black tie, Prussian blue double-breasted coat and pleated miniskirt with gold trim, black thigh-high stockings, black combat boots, and a blue kepi. Her batons are kept at her sides when not in use.
Relationships:
Magic - The current band
Heart - Francesca Luna
Heart - Cassandra's old band