Fate Testarossa
| Fate Testarossa | |
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| IC Information | |
| Full Name: | Fate Testarossa |
| Aliases: | Golden Flash |
| Species: | Human (Artificial) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Age/Birthdate: | 10 (Unknown) |
| Height: | 139 cm |
| Hair Color: | Blonde |
| Eye Color: | Red |
| Favorite Color: | Black |
| Favorite Food: | Cake |
| Favorite Subjects: | Magic, Mathematics, Physical Education |
| Dossier | |
| Organization: | Tuners |
| School: | Infinity Institute (4) |
| Combat Rank: | B |
| OOC Information | |
| Source: | Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha |
| Chartype: | FC |
| Player: | Eri |
"If we need to fight against them and win to get our words across, I feel like I’ll be able to fight without hesitation."
Fate Testarossa has earned no small amount of notoriety from her time as both an enforcer of Dark Fall and victim of Precia Testarossa’s ambitions. After her mother’s apparent demise during the Garden of Time incident, she has left Dark Fall to join the Tuners and is currently being fostered by the Harlaown family. A quiet, shy, and somewhat withdrawn girl Fate has substantial trouble accepting affection from others due to a lifetime of abuse. Recently she’s made significant progress thanks to her newly adopted family and friends whom she regards with awe, considering them her saviors, and vowed to protect their smiles to make up for her wrongs. Her kind and sweet nature has quickly endeared her to her classmates at Infinity Institute, but less so amongst the Tuners who look upon her defection with justified suspicion. Despite being on closely scrutinized probation she’s been grudgingly accepted for the firepower that she and her dutiful Intelligent Device, Bardiche bring to the table. The aerial mage has swiftly earned the nickname ‘Golden Flash’ from the color of her mana and the speed she’s known for.
Background
If I think back, my first memories are of my mother. The smell of the food she made for me before a picnic in a park. The sound of her voice, always so tired yet loving. The moments we shared and the promises we made in the short time we'd get together every night before my bedtime. These memories were when I was the happiest...
They aren't mine. The girl in them had a different name... Alicia. My last memory of hers was of a loud noise and running to the balcony of our home, and then a bright light in the distance at the plant where my mother worked.
My first real memory is of waking up. My mother's voice... being told there was an accident and that everything was going to be okay. Then stars and soft bedsheets.
My mother was wrong. Nothing was okay. I was made to replace her real daughter, and I failed at that within minutes of waking up. Later she told me I wasn't as dutiful, or as kind as Alicia. That I liked different things, that I didn't listen. That I didn't care how she felt.
Was she right or wrong? I still don't know. All I know is that she was never kind to me ever again. She was distant at best, and angry at worst. I didn't know she couldn't stand the sight of me, that she created someone to raise me just so she wouldn't have to.
I guess it was appropriate now that I think about it. One of my mother's creations raising another of them. Linith gave me all the love she could in her place. It was her teachings that allowed me to save Arf by turning her into my familiar, it was her gift of Bardiche that allowed me to fight.
And then one day she was gone... and my mother had a mission for me... on a distant planet called Earth.
That's how I met the girl who changed my life forever.
Nanoha.
Personality
Fate is both gentle and tough at the same time. This may seem contradictory, however that is what she is. In social situations unless she's with someone she's built up a comfort level with, she can seem shy, meek, and unconfident. Gestures of affection from acquaintances and strangers are something she doesn't accept quite so readily, in fact she's generally uncomfortable receiving them due to a past history of neglect in that regard and abuse.
The most certain way to bring out her tough side is to bring up something she feels strongly for or against or to challenge her to any sort of competition. Fate has a strong sense of pride and a determination to win. This applies to both sports, and in battle. Fate is very proud of her skills as a mage and her athletic ability. She rarely holds back because she feels it's an insult to her opponent, often giving it her all.
Fate can be extremely kind, both to her friends and to her enemies, however when it comes to her enemies that kindness is tempered with the fact that they're making the choice to hurt people. The wrong choice in her eyes, and she she has to defeat them to get her point across. She fully believes that strength can allow one's words to get through to anyone, can bring understanding even in situations where her opponents think none can be found.
Fate is very submissive to authority however, unless she feels authority is abusing their power. In the past this wasn't true and she was submissive to authority ubiquitously, but she's quite likely to back down otherwise. While she respects her elders, age alone isn't enough to make one an authority figure in her life, it takes a combination of other factors.
She's extremely resilient for her age, having suffered a great deal since her creation, from her mother, from Dark Fall. Her coping mechanisms for trauma are extremely well formed for her age, but still she's a child, and sometimes it becomes too overwhelming.
Unfortunately Fate Testarossa doesn't buy that she's a person. She instead believes she's a magical construct, both a failure and a fake, thinking nothing is real about her other than her feelings. As a result she's far too willing to put herself into danger, to risk too much of herself in every battle, because she believes her life is worth less than those of her friends, or even some of her foes. She believes she can give her life purpose by protecting the smiles of her friends, and she puts her all into it. That doesn't mean she's seeking out her death, as she very much wants to live, but she's far more willing to recklessly endanger her life if she believes it's for a good cause.
Powers and Abilities
Athletic - Fate is extremely athletic for her age, watch out for her in a dodgeball match unless your side has Suzuka on it...
Math - Fate's math grades are about as good as it gets for her age, quite precociously so in that she even tutors older students... and the same applies to...
Magic - Fate is an extremely skilled Midchildan Aerial Mage, who was trained initially to have a style that would take most Midchildan Mages by surprise. Her attacks emphasized taking down opponents rapidly in mage duels. Wearing down their barriers through bombardment before closing into melee range to end it. She's skilled in ritual magic when it comes to weather alteration, and almost all of her attack spells are infused with lightning due to her bloodline affinity. Most of her spells are channeled through her loyal device, Bardiche, and are further amplified by the Belkan cartridge system she recently integrated into him.
Flight - Fate is a prodigy when it comes to flight magic, especially at high speed. Flying to her comes as easily as walking, perhaps even moreso.
Current Events
Bardiche drained by the being inside Hotaru Tomoe.
Bardiche shattered during an attack by Vita and a mysterious masked girl.
Joined the Chevaliers.
Travelled off-world to deliver an ancient Belkan Device to its final resting place.
Installed the Belkan Cartridge System inside Bardiche to upgrade him to Bardiche Assault.
Aided the Chevaliers in their fight against the Shepherds - in particular the Outer Senshi.
Learned the true nature of Vita and Signum as Wolkenritter - Guardians of the Book of Darkness.
Aided the Tuners in attempting to capture Vita and Signum. The mission resulted in failure.
Gallery
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