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Erythrite

2014-01-23T04:17:43Z

Bigbo:

Seika Miuchi

2014-01-23T04:16:00Z

Bigbo: I'm not a special sunshine anymore! D:

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! style="background:#E56717; border: 2px #990012 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Seika Miuchi'''
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! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Seika_basic.jpg|260px|Seika Miuchi.]]
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! style="background:#E56717; border: 2px #990012 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Seika Miuchi
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! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| Masque Feu
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! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
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! style="text-align:left" | Species:
| Human
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! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 16 (July 7, 1997)
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! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'7"
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Black
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! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Grey-blue
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! style="background:#E56717; border: 2px #990012 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Dossier'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Organization:
| [[Organization: The Magic Association|Magic Association]]
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! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Soeur of Blessed Flame
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! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Juuban Public School|Juuban Public School]] (Grade 10)
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! style="text-align:left" | Council Position:
| High school council secretary
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! style="background:#E56717; border: 2px #990012 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Stars of the Silver Night]] (OC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Bigbo|Bigbo]]
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'''Seika Miuchi''' is a girl from a wealthy background currently attending [[School: Juuban Public School|Juuban Kotogakko]] in Tokyo. A dignified young woman notable for her private-school mannerisms and for being one of the school's preeminent ojous, she leads a double life - largely at night - as Masque Feu, a member of the ancient order of the Soeurs of the Silver Star.

==History==

Seika Miuchi was born on July 7, 1997, at 6:07 a.m. That is a special moment because it is when a a silver shooting star passed over the Earth, undetectable to science.

She was born in Nagoya to Yukio, a wealthy vice-president of marketing for an electronics company, and Shizuka, a highly successful model. She had one sibling, brother Shirou, about eight years older than her. With her father often jetting around the world on business and her mother doing the same, Seika and Shirou scarcely knew their parents and grew up largely in the care of the family's maid and child keeper.

Growing up with little influence from her parents led Seika to mould herself around Shirou's more outgoing character in some ways. She never lost her basic dutiful, obedient nature or her interest in one day being a successful woman of high class, but she also picked up Shirou's streak of independence. As a young student at a prestigious elementary school in Nagoya she started off soft-spoken and retiring, but bythird grade she gained an outward air of confidence drawn in part from her mom's elegant-rich-girl act and her brother's wilful streak. As she came out of her shell, she began to get involved in the elementary school's extracurricular world, filling her life with school to try and make up for her parents' absence in her home life. By the time middle school rolled around, Seika was popular enough to be voted class president at her academy in Nagoya. She stayed there for her middle school years, where a good teacher helped her learn that maturity could be cool.

Just after Seika turned 14, though, her family moved to Tokyo after her father scored a big promotion, which would necessitate even more travel for he and Seika's mom. Seika was taken out of school. For lack of time for her to take an entrance exam at Ohtori - and frankly at her own insistence, she finding the Ohtori school grounds blood-curdlingly uncomfortable when she took a tour - she ended up at Juuban with the rest of the hoi polloi. She managed to squeeze the entrance exam in just in time after a serious cram session and ended up acing it, though she had trouble with the English language segment. She found herself at something of a disadvantage at first because she came from a rich background and most of her peers did not, but she soon began winning a heart or two - then more - by flashing a faint smile past her usual icy, queenlike cool now and then. She ended up being named class rep in the ninth grade and developed a reputation as a straight-up ojou. She joined up with the baseball team and developed a wicked pitching arm, and she joined the music club, demonstrating a breathtaking singing voice. Come tenth grade, she ran for student council again and was elected secretary of the high school student government, relishing the chance to get that involved.

Fast forward to Sep. 6, 2013, when Seika stayed late for a round of softball and missed her bus on the way back to the apartment near the school her parents rented for her but she lives in alone. At the bus stop, though, a high-pitched male voice called out to her. She looked around for the voice, but found no men around. Assuming it was just a prank, she got on the bus and left the voice behind after just a few seconds.

When she got home she called up her brother, who was now a shipping worker in Tokyo, to tell him about her awesome game of softball that day. He didn't answer. She found out why the next day: Shirou had gone missing the same night. A worried Seika gave what info she could to the police, but after three days they turned up nothing.

On the fourth day, she came home - only to find a turtledove had somehow gotten into her apartment and perched on the back of her armchair. After a startling encounter, the two visited an empty portside warehouse, encountering Shirou being fed a cup of blood by a group of dead-eyed vampires. The dove explained the vampires had picked up Shirou mistakenly, but they'd been seeking her, because she was born under a silver star at a moment of fate and power. Moments later, he passed off a blessed mask to her. Long story short, she donned the mask and promptly transformed into Masque Feu, magical maiden of the blessed flame. The dove subsequently guided the thoroughly nonplussed Masque Feu through stomping the crap out of the vampires, then explained the story behind it all: As Masque Feu, she would be one of the Soeurs of the Silver Star, charged with stopping a demon called the Night Lord. Long sealed away in an urn, the demon had been unleashed in Tokyo - as had the spirit of the strongest of the Soeurs, Masque Croix, who locked her own soul into the urn to ensure the Night Lord would remain sealed.

Under Augustine's guidance, Seika began to embrace being Masque Feu, using her powers to safeguard the night, to seek out more of her comrades, the Soeurs of the Star, including Masque Croix - and to save Shirou.

==Personal Traits==

The TVTropes version is that Seika Miuchi is the Ojou and a Class Representative but is also a Type 2 Kuudere and a Lonely Rich Girl to boot. Her glasses hint at a soft Meganekko side in there.

Outwardly Seika can be regal, with a coolness about her that makes her somewhat difficult to get close to, but enough hints of her softer side creep through that she remains approachable. She's not one to hit someone with unsolicited unkind words because she's unfailingly polite and graceful to just about everyone at first glance. She controls her emotions to such an extent that she only lets small signs show outwardly. A faint, short-lived shadow of a smile from her is as close as she gets to laughing, and a larger smile carries a lot of weight because she doesn't share them all that often. She doesn't yell so much as furrow her brows a bit and speak in a low, commanding voice with an imperial, frigid edge. But she's also prone to offering up quiet words of encouragement or offering a classmate in need a bit of a helping hand, particularly with academic pursuits.

Seika is in fact a a kind person, but she's also fiercely independent and doesn't like to rely on others unless she has to. She's someone who likes to take the lead and have all the answers, because her parents have seldom been there to help her find the answers she's needed; she's used to simply having them on her own.

Seika is a fantastic vocalist and tends to be the one schools call upon whenever they need a lead singer, and she's prone to busting out her most glamorous dresses for the occasion. Singing allows her to get her pent-up, well-concealed emotions off her chest, and doing it makes her feel good about herself for a little while. She's also active on Juuban's baseball team. She's good at it for a high schooler but she'll never go any further than that because she balances out a lethal fireball of a pitching arm with a fairly rotten batting average. She also runs a little book club where she and a few like-minded nerdy girls get together and share reading recommendations and book reviews. She loves reading; she tends to spend her downtime devouring books. She carries a BlackBerry, not an iPhone, and considers doing so a point of pride. Her Twitter handle is @MiuchiSeika and she takes great pride in posting with good grammar and spelling, though she mostly links to local news articles. She also has a Facebook but mostly uses it to connect with her friends and post the occasional picture of her dinner, which she inevitably buys pre-made or frozen or just has delivered, since her cooking is generally on par with fresh dookie in terms of taste.

Despite having a driver to ferry her around, she also holds a light motorcycle license and rolls around town on a 10-year-old Suzuki FXR150 she bought herself from some dude in Saitama. She loves motorcycles in general - it's one of her non-girly interests - and is basically counting the days until she's 18 and can get the straight-up full-power sport bike she wants. She doesn't want a car because she can never figure out where her bumpers are and tends to hit poles, walls and other cars a lot.

==Abilities==

Pending.

==Relations==

===Theme Connections===

* '''Shirou Miuchi:''' Even after Shirou, Seika's older brother, went off into the world and chose to forsake his inheritance to become a working stiff in the shipping business, Seika kept in regular contact with him. The two are closer than most siblings because they grew up in a home where their parents were often absent. More than anyone in the world, Seika trusts Shirou to help her with her problems and guide her. Of course, now he's been snapped up by the Midnight Circle and Seika doesn't know why. More importantly, she's without the person closest to her, and she's been left to try and take his independent thinking to heart and blaze her own path. She'd sell her own mother to try and find him again.
* '''Yukio and Shizuka Miuchi:''' Seika's parents play a role in her life but it's mostly in abstentia. They're the source of Seika's trust fund and bank account and they ensure she lives a life of privilege, but they're also never there because Yukio's away on business most of the year and Shizuka jets around the world being a model. Part of Seika wants to be a successful businessperson, and she once held her mother's air of casual glamour up as an ideal, but she also deeply resents them for not being there for her and leaving her to try and find affection from others. The truth is that she is not very close to either of them and they have very little in common, and she's bitter enough at what she sees as their effective abandonment of her that she's given up trying to love them beyond the general sense of unconditional love a child has for a parent. Their interactions are stiff and seem like going through the motions of what a parent and child relationship should be.
* '''Augustine the Heretic:''' Seika's first impression of Augustine, the Soeurs' turtledove mentor, was to wonder how a bird could talk - but she's begun to warm up to him a little and has slotted him mentally as a coworker and a teacher. While she respects his knowledge of the Midnight Circle and believes he can help her be the best magical girl she can be so she can find her brother, she likes him personally - he's earnest, even if his views on the world are kind of skewed and archaic because he's a 600-year-old bird now. She is not above feeding him birdseed.

===Friends===

* '''[[Yukimi Amane]]:'''
* '''[[Mio Kuroki]]:'''
* '''[[Maron Kusakabe]]:'''

===Foes===

* '''[[Sakana Yagikima|Sister Six]]:'''

===Ambiguous others===

* '''[[Minako Aino|Sailor V]]'''

[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Magic Association]][[Category:Juuban]]

Stars of the Silver Night

2014-01-23T00:17:49Z

Bigbo:

'''Stars of the Silver Night''' is the story of the Soeurs of the Silver Star, an ancient order of magical girls originating in Renaissance Europe. In the past, girls born under a silver shooting star rose and donned blessed masks forged by a heretic monk to battle an ancient demon and his army of dark-dwelling undead. The sealed evil, the Night Lord, has returned, and with him comes a new generation of Soeurs, led by the original monk - who has since become a turtledove.

==Cast==

* [[Seika Miuchi]]/Masque Feu

==Background==

At a very technical level, Stars of the Silver Night has its roots in the days of the Silver Millennium, when a powerful demon terrorized the Moon Kingdom. This demon joined in Queen Beryl's ravaging of the lands, turning people into vampires and liches and seeking to envelop Queen Serenity's kingdom in darkness. When Queen Serenity made her wish, the demon was sealed away, with the help of a number of priestesses. The sealing created a silver shooting star, which passes over the earth every decade and a half or so, appearing for just a minute before winking out - and whenever it passes, it casts its blessing onto any girls below born in that very moment.

The Soeurs themselves, though, originate in Europe in the late 1400s.

The continent was flung suddenly into a spiritual crisis after a group of French academics got together and dabbled in witchcraft and occult magicks. The stuffy French students and professors managed to summon a demon. It was not just any demon, but the one sealed away during the days of the Silver Millennium. The demon quickly stole the life force of the academics, transforming the students into vampires and their professor into a lich, turning them into its servants. The group of them, deeming themselves the Midnight Circle and servants of the Night Lord, proceeded to terrorize the lands, calling forth terrifying creatures of the night, turning more citizens into vampires and seeking to shut out the sun and create a world of darkness and night where the sun shone - if at all - only upon emptiness.

Only a series of magic masks forged by a French monk, a dumpy man considered blasphemous for his belief in magic sent from God, gave the world hope. Guided by the memory of a shooting star he'd seen 16 years before, the monk, Augustine the Heretic, toiled in secret to create the Blessed Masques. Each one was shaped like a simple ballroom mask, but when girls born beneath the silver shooting star wore it, the Masques could be used to tap into a special reservoir of power left behind by the star's blessing and channel it into magical powers. Augustine gave the masks to several girls, each one tailored to the feelings in their heart, and created the Soeurs of the Silver Star, a mystical order of magical girls charged with defeating the Midnight Circle. Their leader was Masque Croix, a highly virtuous young woman of incredible power and equally incredible selflessness.

The Soeurs battled the vampires across Europe, even in the streets of Rome, and drove them out over the course of several dramatic battles. Somewhere during the course of events, the Night Lord targeted Augustine himself, laying a curse upon him that would cause him to live for all eternity - as a turtledove. Finally it came down to a huge, climactic showdown with the Night Lord. The battle proved immense and involved several Soeurs combining their powers, but it ended with the Soeurs sealing the Night Lord in a holy urn - a sacrifice which took the life of Masque Croix, as she locked her own soul inside the urn to ensure the Night Lord could never leave. The urn was cast into the sea, and the Soeurs quietly slipped out of the public eye, their jobs done.

Some vampires still haunted the land, whenever they rose again, girls born under the star donned the masques, which always seemed to be around when needed. For the most part, though, these outbreaks were sporadic and consisted mainly of freelance vampires either originating from Night Lord servants who laid low after the sealing, from self-created vampires seeking to bring the Night Lord back, or simply coming from other sources. As for the Night Lord, the urn lay for centuries at the bottom of the ocean, moved about by tides and currents and at one point by means of a shark carrying it for miles upon miles, eventually ending up in Asia.

However, the events of 2013 have proven quite another matter. On Sep. 6, someone found an ancient urn lying forgotten on a Japanese shore and opened it. When the urn opened, the seal was broken, and the Night Lord emerged, converting his unfortunate discoverer into a lich - and that first general went on to begin turning more people. The Midnight Circle is rising again, and they're hellbent on twisting the world into a place where all life exists at night and worships the Night Lord. It also means the soul of Masque Croix is also free - and if she could be found, she could be the strongest of all the Soeurs.

Thus, with the Blessed Masques tucked away in a turtledove-manageable bag of some kind, Augustine the Heretic, cursed by his enemy to live on as an immortal turtledove, flapped his way to Japan in search of a new generation of Soeurs of the Silver Star - all girls born when the silver star passed on July 7, 1997, at 6:07 a.m.

==Soeurs of the Silver Star==

The Soeurs of the Silver Star are a mystical order of magical girls originating in the 1400s, when Augustine the Heretic rallied several girls born in the instant a silver shooting star passed overhead, tapping the magic the star left behind by giving each one Blessed Masques to channel the power through. Today's Soeurs are much the same thing as the originals, though their uniforms have been somewhat modernized and they're by no means bound to the same powers as their ancestors - Augustine tends to make a new Masque once in awhile, tailoring each to the girls' personalities and attributes. They are also standing members of the [[Organization: The Magic Association|Magic Association]].

Practically speaking, the Soeurs tend to be Sailor Senshi with the seriousness ratcheted up a few notches, though they're not all serious business. They share the same uniform - a white sleeveless tabard slit from the hips down, with a bit of a halter-style neck, fur trim curving out to the shoulders and designs weaving through it, each with a Renaissance mask. The colours tend to differ; Masque Feu's motif is white with black, gold and rubies, while a hypothetical water-casting Masque Fleuve may do the white tabard with dark blue, silver and sapphires, and so forth. Gloves and boots are taster's choice. They all transform by setting the mask on their face and whispering, "I call upon the power of the _________" - ie. "blessed flame" or "sacred blade" or whatnot.

In terms of powers, the Soeurs tend to have a wide variety of spells, often geared specifically towards fighting creatures with the Power of Darkness flag set. It is not uncommon for them to carry a couple of Purify attacks. All the Soeurs have a secondary Banish finisher suitable mainly for reverting vampires and banishing liches and servitor demons. They also tend to have a couple of named moves on top of their finishers.

By way of example, Masque Feu's primary workhorse finisher is the Crossfire Ignition, which will hurt vampires more with its sacred flame but will generally burn anything. When she needs to cure a vampire or vanish a servitor demon, she will use the Sunfire Halo, the only purpose of which is to strip the dark magic from a creature entirely. She also has a couple of regular go-to moves - the Blessed Spark, which is a highly-focused, high-speed sacred fireball, and the Purespark Barrage, which involves a defense-shattering Gatling-gun blast of fireballs. They do not always yell attack names; Masque Feu will call "I call upon the blessed flame... Crossfire ''Ignition!''" when using that move and "Blessed Spark, burn bright!" when calling that one, but for Sunfire Halo she'll simply call "Sacred flame, burn like the sun!", and for Purespark Barrage it's just "Become light!"

===Naming conventions===

The Soeurs' civilian identities may refer to some extent to their powers. Their Soeur names always follow the convention of "Masque Frenchthing" - ie. "feu" for fire, "fleuve" for flow, "croix" for cross, et cetera.

===Augustine the Heretic===

Once a stuffy French monk, Augustine, the Soeurs' mentor from the 1400s, was locked into the form of a dove by the Night Lord for all eternity as a mocking shot at his piety. The "for all eternity" part slightly backfired because now he can't die of old age until the curse is broken. He's still stuffy, and he's kind of weird because now he thinks about bird things like roosting and seeds alongside keeping his magic masks safe. His wisdom about all things Midnight Circle is off the charts. Essentially Augustine functions as the Soeur's exposition machine, and he is essential in creating new Soeurs because he is the one who can magick new Masques into existence as well as being the one who tracks the shooting star's influence to girls born beneath it who can use the Masques.

Generally Augustine is intended to be somewhat less open to lovebeams than the Girls are. He is in some ways highly stratified and represents the protective, entrenched interests of the Magic Association, and he is not above frumping or being unhappy when the megucas under his watch do things like forgiving the witch or not setting [[Runealy Waldia]] on fire.

===Shooting star addendum===

The silver shooting star was created during the Silver Millennium as one of the keys to the Night Lord's sealing. It's a physical manifestation of that wish, and it appears every few years to grant a few girls the power to fight the Night Lord. It is not always necessary, and sometimes entire generations of potential Soeurs live and die never knowing their power because either no vampires appear or a new generation of Soeurs has come of age in time to deal with it - no sense having a bunch of Soeurs in their 40s, after all.

==Midnight Circle==

The Midnight Circle consists of those badniks who serve the Night Lord, an ancient demon from the Silver Millennium. While some of the Night Lord's servants - typically the regular vampires - are unwilling mortals who have been turned to the side of evil, others are loyal servants created from darkness or warped so far from their human selves that they are beyond saving. Together, their goal is to invert the natural order of the world - to transform all living things into night-dwelling undead and to leave the sun to shine on nothing but a barren world, while all life comes out at night and worships the dark. In a perfect world the Night Lord would love to destroy the sun outright. The Midnight Circle is aligned with [[Organization: Dark Fall|Dark Fall]] but don't so much want to end the world as invert its natural order.

There are a few tiers of Night Lord servants to worry about.

The most common enemies our heroines will face are the vampires and their servitor demons. Both fill the role that youma do in Sailor Moon, but they are of somewhat different types.

The servitor demons are the most directly analogous to youma. They are simply embodiments of darkness created by the more advanced servants of the Midnight Circle, demons of the dark given physical form and sent to terrorize the world. They tend to have very little by way of conscious thought - perhaps rudimentary intelligence or just enough to adopt a human form and be covert for a little while - but they have the advantage of the most diverse variety of forms and powers. Maybe one could be a giant bat and the next could be a gargoyle of some kind - they could be anything. These creatures can be destroyed by any means.

The vampires are of similar stature but present a more complex problem for the Soeurs because they are inevitably humans infected by the Night Lord's servants and transformed. Their wills are stripped away and their blood is chilled by the Night Lord's magic, and they become brooding servants of his will. They may have a range of powers but typically appear as pallid or otherwise gothy-looking humans, and they are more dangerous than the servitors because they have the same cunning and intellect as a human being. This isn't so bad when the Circle turns a big oaf with no subtlety, but many of the vampires are extremely crafty and prone to playing tricks on the Soeurs. In order to cure a vampire, the Soeurs must use their Banish moves to dispel the vampiric curse and cleanse the individual. They can use their go-to attacks, too, but those will only damage the vampire, ensuring that a dose of blood will allow them to recover - or worse, they could kill the vampire, and with it the poor cursed soul the vampire was before being turned.

The Night Lord's generals are the liches. These are his most powerful servants, created from humans who turned to his side willingly and surrendered their souls wholesale in return for incredible power. A lich will typically take on a form much like a Death Knight, being basically a skeletal or heavily decaying figure in armour or robes, though they are capable of disguising themselves with illusions and they'll often have a human form they can adopt as a facade. That said, the lich's body is in many ways a shell, and even when destroyed by a Soeur's Banish maneuver, the lich will regenerate with time and be back the next night. This is because the lich's soul is kept separately in a phylactery guarded by one of the Night Lord's servants. Only by destroying the phylactery can a lich be killed.

==Joining==

Seika Miuchi/Erythrite is the one to contact if you want to join this cast.

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