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Chibi-Usa Tsukino

2024-03-07T02:52:56Z

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Chibi-Usa Tsukino

2024-03-07T02:52:17Z

Cowstian Dior: It was brought to my attention that we lacked a Chibs page... now we do not!

Yumi Ohzora

2023-01-04T20:20:50Z

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Yumi Ohzora'''
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! colspan="2" align="center" | [[File:Yumi Commission 3-16.jpg|300px|Yumi in Uniform!]]
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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yumi Ohzora
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| The Witch of Lost Ivy, Ivy
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 17 (Oct. 31, 1998)
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! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'10"
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Gray
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Pink
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Scorpio
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| A
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Toro sushi
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| Hospital food
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subject:
| Magic
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subject:
| Physical Education
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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Dossier'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Organizations:
| [[Organization: The_Magic_Association|Magic Association]], Former: [[Chevaliers and Shepherds|Shepherds]]
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Apprentice Witch (MA)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Infinity Institute|Infinity Institute]] (Grade 11)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Clubs
| [[Art Club]], [[Fashion Club]] (Grade 11)
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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Lost Inheritor Yumi]] (OC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
|-
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'''"Staff of Lost Ivy, hear me! In my hand remembered be!" '''

Becoming a great witch is hard work! But Yumi doesn't exactly advertise to most of her classmates that she's trying. A student at Infinity Institute's high school program, Yumi is known as something of an odd girl, remembered more for her illness and habit of staring into space than her academic talents. Even among those who know of her magical abilities there are some ugly rumors that her place at Infinity, as a student since elementary school, was bought by her family--noted donors to the school--rather than earned. Her skill as a painter quashes most of those, but not all. Besides, she's easy to like, even if she's weird; her energetic personality tends to outstrip her frail body, and she spends a lot of her time in the nurses' offices. Still, being a witch isn't her /only/ secret. Another big one is the fact that thanks to a fateful night meeting her cat, Tama--who lives in the dorms with her, of course--she is now a magical girl, spending long nights wielding the Staff of Lost Ivy to protect her school, city, and world from ogres who seek to eat the hearts of its people, and from the mysterious Hungry Queen whose servants command them.

==Abilities==

==History==

Yumi Ohzora was born on a dark, stormy Halloween night. October 31st, _______________________REDACTED_______________________
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______________REDACTED________________the only child of the Ohzora family, into which her mother had married a few years before her birth. They were, in general, rich just by being rich; Yumi's mother was an investment banker, but her father had no need for a mundane occupation. Most would say that he simply invested his inheritance, but in truth he was a noted wizard, and did a brisk trade in minor magical objects _________________________________________REDACTED__________________________________________ ________________________REDACTED________________________ to the Magic Association, of course. ___________REDACTED____________ ________________________REDACTED________________________ But Yumi would simply come to know that her family was magical, and that she would be expected to live up to it.

She learned this early on. For the first year or so of her life, her mother was distant, and her father was pleasant but not her primary caretaker. That would go to a series of maids who never quite lasted. Yumi was ill often, of poor health even as a very young child, _________________________________________REDACTED_________________________________________ Health problems ran through her father's side of the family; ________________________________________REDACTED_______________________________________ _________REDACTED________, her mother quietly blamed her husband for it, and simply never spoke of the matter around Yumi, as if nothing at all was wrong with her to begin with.

As Yumi grew near school age, she had spent much of the time that many children spend playing outside on indoor activities. She was kept amused largely by books, music, and art, though her favorite form of art was painting. She also developed, thanks to her father, a love of humor and jokes. She knew her mother as firm and driven, but not cruel. Her mother would read to her, or practice small spells in front of her, to let her grow accustomed to magic, ______________________REDACTED_______________________ ___________________________________REDACTED____________________________________ she had a loving family. They were very strict about what activities she'd engage in, but they were her parents. Her chances to play were largely when she'd meet with the kids of other parents in her parents' social circles; sometimes the wealthy, sometimes the magical. ...Under supervision, of course, ostensibly because of her health. Occasionally, during some of these 'playdates', Yumi would catch her mother and someone else talking very seriously; sometimes it would be people she didn't recognize at all. She decided her mother was a very mysterious witch.

Her mother largely gave up on hired help when it was time for Yumi to start at school, instead simply arranging for herself or her husband to be present as needed when Yumi got home. _______________________________REDACTED________________________________ ___________________________________REDACTED____________________________________ When her poor health flared up, a servant would be blamed. Yumi never got the chance to get to know any of them very well, though she welcomed the chance to see her parents more. Her mother spent a lot of time at home; Yumi just had to go to her room sometimes or go play on her own while her mother conducted business. Her mother had an awful lot of business that Yumi wasn't allowed to ask about. Adult business, maybe. Her father, meanwhile, was often travelling, so she didn't get to see him as much. He brought back souvenirs, though.

She didn't have many friends, growing up. She didn't really know how to approach other kids, and had trouble participating in a lot of the more social activities. This made her isolated; she in time wasn't sure which was worse. Being laughed at, or /not/ being laughed at. Her fainting spells made some activities dangerous; exerting herself too much was painful, and could land her in the hospital again, where she spent a lot of time already. She had a rich inner life growing up, though; if she couldn't make many connections, she could still see many things in the world. There was also something new to occupy her. Her mother had decided that it was time to begin her magical education, and begin she did. Besides, as long as she did well, she got praise and attention for it. If it was also true that sometimes she felt worse after a lesson, that must just have been because magic is difficult.

At school, she tried many different things; it's normal for Infinity to have a variety of classes, to try out new things, and Yumi was by no means an exception. Dance, singing, sports--these she had little success at, but she found other things to try. Her education would have been woefully incomplete if all she'd studied was magic. Indeed, she didn't even start at Infinity's magic program until later. Sports failed quite abysmally, but she at least showed a talent for art that would stick with her throughout her time at school. Her grades in general classes were good. Never quite good enough for her mother, but Yumi had trouble paying attention.

Yumi's mother ensured that she had all sorts of activities to expand her mind and broaden her horizons; music, art, going to museums. Many of these were supervised; Yumi has fond memories of going out with her mother to museums, aquariums, and many other places. ...Only the aquarium the once, though; wherever Yumi went, it seemed that the fish would avoid her, swim away. A shark hurt itself trying to put distance between her and it. Nothing she could be blamed for, of course, but it stuck with her; her mother avoided taking her places with animals in the future, but she couldn't avoid them entirely. They just didn't seem to like her. Still, the others she kept seeing, and she got a very broad education. Sometimes her father came with them, or would be the one to take her out, but usually it was her and her mother.

As of middle school, Yumi was told that she would be living in the dorms henceforth. She was shocked, to say the least, and asked why. After all, the idea was scary; she didn't have many friends at school, despite having been there since elementary school. Worse, she would be starting at the magic program at Infinity rather than undergoing her mother's lessons. She looked to her father, but he had nothing to say. To her mother, she cried... and that day she saw her mother /angry/. The very room seemed to crackle with power, and Yumi's mother told her that crying was unbecoming of her, of what she must become, and that she never wanted to see it happen again. ...So Yumi didn't cry in front of her again. It was the first time she'd been truly afraid of her mother.

So, Yumi went off to the dorms to live, with just enough time to settle in for a time before her first year of middle school started. To her surprise, life in the dorms wasn't that bad. It was shared, which was an adjustment, but she started to make friends, living with other girls. Friends, and learning what it was like to miss sleep because somebody next door was really talkative on the phone late into the night. She shared her rooms with two other girls; all of them were loud, but the friendship she sparked with an athletic girl named Hanae who she'd never have met otherwise would stick with her. She remembers the other roommates she's had, but there's something special about the nights she stayed up with Hanae talking about tests, or Hanae's upcoming meets, or griping about loud dormmates, or any number of things.

She also of course started in Infinity's magic program. For all that she'd resisted losing her special time with her mother, Yumi found that she liked the group setting, and there were so many things she had yet to learn. Besides, there was something fun about praticing magic with the others at Infinity. There was nothing terribly unusual about her early magical education being done at home, given her family, but she soon excelled in the classes she was given. ...At least, in terms of the theory. In practice, she had a harder time with the simple magics meant to train mages to bring happiness to others. She was better at those for other purposes, the ones that Infinity didn't teach openly.

Her health reached more of an equilibrium, too. While she still spent a lot of time in the offices of the school nurses or in hospital rooms, she didn't miss so many classes as of middle school, though her gym performance remained abysmal, and even the idea of trying out for a sports club was far out of reach. She had a friend who could tell her about the latest in the athletic world though, and she would spend more time in the Art Club as her health allowed it. Indeed, her favorite nurse (Nakahara-san to her; she was new to the school) particularly encouraged her art. All this, plus living in the dorms, made it a little bit easier to socialize, and Yumi's classmates discovered that, given the chance, she was pretty funny. She would regularly talk to both of her parents on the phone, though not at the same time, and would visit on special occasions. They were often busy, but so was she. Yumi did try to ask about what they'd talked about before--what it was she was supposed to grow up to /be/, what she was to 'become'. Her mother only told her that she would see--and in time, that she was proud of the strength Yumi was learning to display. Her mother often told her it was important that Yumi show she could stand on her own.

Those words would prove prophetic, and not as Yumi expected. A shadow was cast over her high school entrance examinations; the death of her father, apparently from opportunistic illness contracted on his travels. Yumi remembers the funeral in complete detail. ...She also remembers spying on her mother the same day, and the sheer power she felt as her mother confronted someone over implying, of all things, that /she/ had killed him.

That would bother her for a long time to come. She felt more isolated than ever from most of the other students at school and in the dorms; that year, she wasn't living with Hanae anymore. Even friendly acquaintances seemed distant. She still worked on her painting, but all she would paint around that time were dark things, frightening or melancholy by turn, that certainly didn't get her out much. But she made a friend here, too; another member of the Art Club was interested in the emotion of her painting, and Takahiro never required much of her; he just kept talking to her, even when she was doing badly with her father's loss. Sometimes he'd even walk with her to her favorite art store.

Adjusting to high school would have been hard even discounting what had happened. Everything felt bigger to her; crushes, worries, class loads. And she no longer had her father to talk to at all. Her mother seemed to be even busier than before. Without her mother's pressure, and with the difficulty that she was having, Yumi's grades dropped. So without being able to continue her old way, she had to make changes, and it was her friends that helped her do that. She applied with Hanae to room together again for their first year of high school. She even joined a new club, as eventually she decided to try something new since she was a high schooler now. ...She still complained, of course, about the adjustments, but it was easier to have people to complain /to/. Her grades didn't entirely recover, but she was happier.

The biggest adjustment, though, was only recent. The day that Yumi found Tama--and the Staff of Lost Ivy that the cat kept and safeguarded--would change her life, but it didn't start that way. In fact it seemed a very ordinary night to her, coming back from her favorite art supplies store, until she came across a cat curled atop a small wall. The cat didn't run from her as she approached, which would itself be a recipe for a big day for Yumi--except that she saw quickly that it wasn't just a lack of fear. The cat was hurt, bleeding. Unsure what to do, she finished her approach and started talking to it, trying to reassure it. "What's your name?" she asked. The cat seemed to understand her, looking up at her, and that's when Yumi noticed its ornate collar, with a tiny orb hanging from it.

But the moment broke; the ground shook under her feet as a monster taller than most tall men lumbered around the corner, gray with scraggy hair and yellowed teeth--and a gigantic club over his shoulder. "...Give," he said as he set eyes on the little cat, "And maybe not get smashed." His greatclub smashed against the asphalt behind her. The cat bolted, despite her injures, and the ogre lumbered off in pursuit. Yumi tried to run after, but found herself slowing despite her wishes; it /hurt/. "I-it's fine!" she called as the cat scrambled up a tree and the ogre watched. "I can do somehing! I'm a witch!" Without any of her ritual tools, Yumi drew on her mother's lessons as much as anything, and threw out both her hands along with a vicious incantation. ...The curse bounced off the ogre, whose reaction to the prickling was to turn around and swing his club at her. Yumi hit a wall and was pretty sure she was about to die. But there was a light, from up in the tree. It was from the cat's neck, brilliant and green.

In Yumi's hand appeared a white staff taller than she is, and in her mind appeared the words of an incantation. "Staff of Lost Ivy, hear me! In my hand remembered be! Uncountable price, unknowable cost! I assume the ancient debt! Let our hearts be bound as one!" Yumi spoke the words, and in a flash of brilliant green light she was standing, not even having to lean on her staff. ...And then the combat really started. Eventually, with the cat's help, she unleashed a spell that banished the ogre from whence it came. Her transformation faded, and she fell back to her knees, out of breath. The transformation's power had, in its first light, healed both her wounds and the staff's keeper, but now she had to stop and think about all that had just happened.

Eventually, the cat answered that her name was Tama. And she had a lot to say. ...Yumi remembered less than half of it the first time; she just took the cat home with her, and later the rest would come. She learned of the Hungry Queen, and that she was trying to unleash an awful force that the Staff of Lost Ivy's previous wielder had sealed. She learned that she had a responsibility, as the Staff's new wielder, to oppose her and to banish the monsters she summoned and save the people they would try to eat for power for their master. And she learned that Tama is less grumpy if she gets petted.
She received a call a few days later. Her mother would be cancelling her sixteenth birthday celebration. Yumi hasn't spoken with her since. _________________________________REDACTED_________________________________
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Things have happened since the end of this, including resuming contact with her mother. As well, it downplays her hospital stays. But there's a lot yet to come...

==Relationships==

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==Gallery==

[[File:Yumi Commission 3-16.jpg|300px|Yumi in Uniform!]]

[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Magic Association]][[Category:Infinity]]

2022-10-14: Fire and Ice

2022-10-14T12:09:58Z

Cowstian Dior:

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Title: Fire and Ice'''
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|'''Summary''': 
''After delivering a message through Mikoto to Yumi, Conflagria comes back to the mansion to gloat. Takes place after [[2022-10-14 - Conflagria Appears! It's A Battle Of Words For Mikoto!?]]''
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| '''Who:''' 
[[Benio Asuna|Conflagria]], [[Kinjiro Hiyama|Glacien]]
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| '''Where:''' 
A Mysterious Mansion
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| '''OOC - IC Date:''' 
October 14, 2022 - January 19th, 2016
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|}
[[Category:Cutscenes]]

---

The gilt halls shine, opulent, as Conflagria walks through them. She is a woman of average height aided by a formidable presence and a good pair of heeled boots, dressed all in red. Her dress shines in the firelight, with wide sleeves and a belted waist, and her long black hair hangs loose, but for two locks in the front secured with clips in the shapes of flames.

And she makes a stop in a room, opulent with its paintings and golden table and fine wooden chairs, to stop in to see the man there. "It's done," she says sweetly, and he looks in turn to her with cold eyes.

Glacien, for that is his title, regards Conflagria skeptically. "Is it, now?" He is not done up in magic, but in a black suit with a white tie and blue dress shirt. This does not stop him from much of anything.

"Honestly... Using that girl to deliver your message. It's unseemly."

"It's perfect," Conflagria counters. "She'll pass it along, and even 'help'. Maybe even help that boy to an early grave, if our little witch doesn't keep her properly contained. And even if she does..."

"Her Majesty's will shall be carried out. Another stop closer."

"...Yes. We serve Her. Remember that... next time you get so close to revealing how much we know to her. The HiME is not as stupid as you think."

"She's a child with a sword, unprepared for the realms in which we move, as she always was. She is no threat. And the witch won't know we know about her. 'Yumi Ohzora' remains ignorant."

"...Keep it that way, or /I/ won't be the one to take issue..."

"Hmph. Don't question my loyalty, Glacien."

"Only your competence, my dear."

Conflagria rolls her eyes. "We'll see who's laughing when my Ogres are on the march. I don't know why I bother keeping you updated..." She starts to wander off.

Glacien watches her go. "I can't allow her to gain the upper hand..."

His hand curls, and he deliberates.

2022-10-14: Fire and Ice

2022-10-14T11:46:50Z

Cowstian Dior:

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|'''Summary''': 
''After delivering a message through Mikoto to Yumi, Conflagria comes back to the mansion to gloat. Takes place after <insert link here>''
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| '''Who:''' 
[[Benio Asuna|Conflagria]], [[Kinjiro Hiyama|Glacien]]
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| '''Where:''' 
A Mysterious Mansion
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| '''OOC - IC Date:''' 
October 14, 2022 - January 19th, 2016
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---

The gilt halls shine, opulent, as Conflagria walks through them. She is a woman of average height aided by a formidable presence and a good pair of heeled boots, dressed all in red. Her dress shines in the firelight, with wide sleeves and a belted waist, and her long black hair hangs loose, but for two locks in the front secured with clips in the shapes of flames.

And she makes a stop in a room, opulent with its paintings and golden table and fine wooden chairs, to stop in to see the man there. "It's done," she says sweetly, and he looks in turn to her with cold eyes.

Glacien, for that is his title, regards Conflagria skeptically. "Is it, now?" He is not done up in magic, but in a black suit with a white tie and blue dress shirt. This does not stop him from much of anything.

"Honestly... Using that girl to deliver your message. It's unseemly."

"It's perfect," Conflagria counters. "She'll pass it along, and even 'help'. Maybe even help that boy to an early grave, if our little witch doesn't keep her properly contained. And even if she does..."

"Her Majesty's will shall be carried out. Another stop closer."

"...Yes. We serve Her. Remember that... next time you get so close to revealing how much we know to her. The HiME is not as stupid as you think."

"She's a child with a sword, unprepared for the realms in which we move, as she always was. She is no threat. And the witch won't know we know about her. 'Yumi Ohzora' remains ignorant."

"...Keep it that way, or /I/ won't be the one to take issue..."

"Hmph. Don't question my loyalty, Glacien."

"Only your competence, my dear."

Conflagria rolls her eyes. "We'll see who's laughing when my Ogres are on the march. I don't know why I bother keeping you updated..." She starts to wander off.

Glacien watches her go. "I can't allow her to gain the upper hand..."

His hand curls, and he deliberates.

2022-10-14: Fire and Ice

2022-10-14T11:45:50Z

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Yumi Ohzora

2022-10-13T02:41:58Z

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Yumi Ohzora'''
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! colspan="2" align="center" | [[File:Yumi Commission 3-16.jpg|300px|Yumi in Uniform!]]
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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yumi Ohzora
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| The Witch of Lost Ivy, Ivy
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
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! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 17 (Oct. 31, 1998)
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! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'10"
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Gray
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Pink
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Scorpio
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| A
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Toro sushi
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| Hospital food
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subject:
| Magic
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subject:
| Physical Education
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Dossier'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Organizations:
| [[Organization: The_Magic_Association|Magic Association]], Former: [[Chevaliers and Shepherds|Shepherds]]
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! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Apprentice Witch (MA)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Infinity Institute|Infinity Institute]] (Grade 11)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Clubs
| [[Art Club]], [[Fashion Club]] (Grade 11)
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
|-
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| [[Lost Inheritor Yumi]] (OC)
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| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
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'''"Staff of Lost Ivy, hear me! In my hand remembered be!" '''

Becoming a great witch is hard work! But Yumi doesn't exactly advertise to most of her classmates that she's trying. A student at Infinity Institute's high school program, Yumi is known as something of an odd girl, remembered more for her illness and habit of staring into space than her academic talents. Even among those who know of her magical abilities there are some ugly rumors that her place at Infinity, as a student since elementary school, was bought by her family--noted donors to the school--rather than earned. Her skill as a painter quashes most of those, but not all. Besides, she's easy to like, even if she's weird; her energetic personality tends to outstrip her frail body, and she spends a lot of her time in the nurses' offices. Still, being a witch isn't her /only/ secret. Another big one is the fact that thanks to a fateful night meeting her cat, Tama--who lives in the dorms with her, of course--she is now a magical girl, spending long nights wielding the Staff of Lost Ivy to protect her school, city, and world from ogres who seek to eat the hearts of its people, and from the mysterious Hungry Queen whose servants command them.

==Abilities==

==History==

Yumi Ohzora was born on a dark, stormy Halloween night. October 31st, _______________________REDACTED_______________________
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______________REDACTED________________the only child of the Ohzora family, into which her mother had married a few years before her birth. They were, in general, rich just by being rich; Yumi's mother was an investment banker, but her father had no need for a mundane occupation. Most would say that he simply invested his inheritance, but in truth he was a noted wizard, and did a brisk trade in minor magical objects _________________________________________REDACTED__________________________________________ ________________________REDACTED________________________ to the Magic Association, of course. ___________REDACTED____________ ________________________REDACTED________________________ But Yumi would simply come to know that her family was magical, and that she would be expected to live up to it.

She learned this early on. For the first year or so of her life, her mother was distant, and her father was pleasant but not her primary caretaker. That would go to a series of maids who never quite lasted. Yumi was ill often, of poor health even as a very young child, _________________________________________REDACTED_________________________________________ Health problems ran through her father's side of the family; ________________________________________REDACTED_______________________________________ _________REDACTED________, her mother quietly blamed her husband for it, and simply never spoke of the matter around Yumi, as if nothing at all was wrong with her to begin with.

As Yumi grew near school age, she had spent much of the time that many children spend playing outside on indoor activities. She was kept amused largely by books, music, and art, though her favorite form of art was painting. She also developed, thanks to her father, a love of humor and jokes. She knew her mother as firm and driven, but not cruel. Her mother would read to her, or practice small spells in front of her, to let her grow accustomed to magic, ______________________REDACTED_______________________ ___________________________________REDACTED____________________________________ she had a loving family. They were very strict about what activities she'd engage in, but they were her parents. Her chances to play were largely when she'd meet with the kids of other parents in her parents' social circles; sometimes the wealthy, sometimes the magical. ...Under supervision, of course, ostensibly because of her health. Occasionally, during some of these 'playdates', Yumi would catch her mother and someone else talking very seriously; sometimes it would be people she didn't recognize at all. She decided her mother was a very mysterious witch.

Her mother largely gave up on hired help when it was time for Yumi to start at school, instead simply arranging for herself or her husband to be present as needed when Yumi got home. _______________________________REDACTED________________________________ ___________________________________REDACTED____________________________________ When her poor health flared up, a servant would be blamed. Yumi never got the chance to get to know any of them very well, though she welcomed the chance to see her parents more. Her mother spent a lot of time at home; Yumi just had to go to her room sometimes or go play on her own while her mother conducted business. Her mother had an awful lot of business that Yumi wasn't allowed to ask about. Adult business, maybe. Her father, meanwhile, was often travelling, so she didn't get to see him as much. He brought back souvenirs, though.

She didn't have many friends, growing up. She didn't really know how to approach other kids, and had trouble participating in a lot of the more social activities. This made her isolated; she in time wasn't sure which was worse. Being laughed at, or /not/ being laughed at. Her fainting spells made some activities dangerous; exerting herself too much was painful, and could land her in the hospital again, where she spent a lot of time already. She had a rich inner life growing up, though; if she couldn't make many connections, she could still see many things in the world. There was also something new to occupy her. Her mother had decided that it was time to begin her magical education, and begin she did. Besides, as long as she did well, she got praise and attention for it. If it was also true that sometimes she felt worse after a lesson, that must just have been because magic is difficult.

At school, she tried many different things; it's normal for Infinity to have a variety of classes, to try out new things, and Yumi was by no means an exception. Dance, singing, sports--these she had little success at, but she found other things to try. Her education would have been woefully incomplete if all she'd studied was magic. Indeed, she didn't even start at Infinity's magic program until later. Sports failed quite abysmally, but she at least showed a talent for art that would stick with her throughout her time at school. Her grades in general classes were good. Never quite good enough for her mother, but Yumi had trouble paying attention.

Yumi's mother ensured that she had all sorts of activities to expand her mind and broaden her horizons; music, art, going to museums. Many of these were supervised; Yumi has fond memories of going out with her mother to museums, aquariums, and many other places. ...Only the aquarium the once, though; wherever Yumi went, it seemed that the fish would avoid her, swim away. A shark hurt itself trying to put distance between her and it. Nothing she could be blamed for, of course, but it stuck with her; her mother avoided taking her places with animals in the future, but she couldn't avoid them entirely. They just didn't seem to like her. Still, the others she kept seeing, and she got a very broad education. Sometimes her father came with them, or would be the one to take her out, but usually it was her and her mother.

As of middle school, Yumi was told that she would be living in the dorms henceforth. She was shocked, to say the least, and asked why. After all, the idea was scary; she didn't have many friends at school, despite having been there since elementary school. Worse, she would be starting at the magic program at Infinity rather than undergoing her mother's lessons. She looked to her father, but he had nothing to say. To her mother, she cried... and that day she saw her mother /angry/. The very room seemed to crackle with power, and Yumi's mother told her that crying was unbecoming of her, of what she must become, and that she never wanted to see it happen again. ...So Yumi didn't cry in front of her again. It was the first time she'd been truly afraid of her mother.

So, Yumi went off to the dorms to live, with just enough time to settle in for a time before her first year of middle school started. To her surprise, life in the dorms wasn't that bad. It was shared, which was an adjustment, but she started to make friends, living with other girls. Friends, and learning what it was like to miss sleep because somebody next door was really talkative on the phone late into the night. She shared her rooms with two other girls; all of them were loud, but the friendship she sparked with an athletic girl named Hanae who she'd never have met otherwise would stick with her. She remembers the other roommates she's had, but there's something special about the nights she stayed up with Hanae talking about tests, or Hanae's upcoming meets, or griping about loud dormmates, or any number of things.

She also of course started in Infinity's magic program. For all that she'd resisted losing her special time with her mother, Yumi found that she liked the group setting, and there were so many things she had yet to learn. Besides, there was something fun about praticing magic with the others at Infinity. There was nothing terribly unusual about her early magical education being done at home, given her family, but she soon excelled in the classes she was given. ...At least, in terms of the theory. In practice, she had a harder time with the simple magics meant to train mages to bring happiness to others. She was better at those for other purposes, the ones that Infinity didn't teach openly.

Her health reached more of an equilibrium, too. While she still spent a lot of time in the offices of the school nurses or in hospital rooms, she didn't miss so many classes as of middle school, though her gym performance remained abysmal, and even the idea of trying out for a sports club was far out of reach. She had a friend who could tell her about the latest in the athletic world though, and she would spend more time in the Art Club as her health allowed it. Indeed, her favorite nurse (Nakahara-san to her; she was new to the school) particularly encouraged her art. All this, plus living in the dorms, made it a little bit easier to socialize, and Yumi's classmates discovered that, given the chance, she was pretty funny. She would regularly talk to both of her parents on the phone, though not at the same time, and would visit on special occasions. They were often busy, but so was she. Yumi did try to ask about what they'd talked about before--what it was she was supposed to grow up to /be/, what she was to 'become'. Her mother only told her that she would see--and in time, that she was proud of the strength Yumi was learning to display. Her mother often told her it was important that Yumi show she could stand on her own.

Those words would prove prophetic, and not as Yumi expected. A shadow was cast over her high school entrance examinations; the death of her father, apparently from opportunistic illness contracted on his travels. Yumi remembers the funeral in complete detail. ...She also remembers spying on her mother the same day, and the sheer power she felt as her mother confronted someone over implying, of all things, that /she/ had killed him.

That would bother her for a long time to come. She felt more isolated than ever from most of the other students at school and in the dorms; that year, she wasn't living with Hanae anymore. Even friendly acquaintances seemed distant. She still worked on her painting, but all she would paint around that time were dark things, frightening or melancholy by turn, that certainly didn't get her out much. But she made a friend here, too; another member of the Art Club was interested in the emotion of her painting, and Takahiro never required much of her; he just kept talking to her, even when she was doing badly with her father's loss. Sometimes he'd even walk with her to her favorite art store.

Adjusting to high school would have been hard even discounting what had happened. Everything felt bigger to her; crushes, worries, class loads. And she no longer had her father to talk to at all. Her mother seemed to be even busier than before. Without her mother's pressure, and with the difficulty that she was having, Yumi's grades dropped. So without being able to continue her old way, she had to make changes, and it was her friends that helped her do that. She applied with Hanae to room together again for their first year of high school. She even joined a new club, as eventually she decided to try something new since she was a high schooler now. ...She still complained, of course, about the adjustments, but it was easier to have people to complain /to/. Her grades didn't entirely recover, but she was happier.

The biggest adjustment, though, was only recent. The day that Yumi found Tama--and the Staff of Lost Ivy that the cat kept and safeguarded--would change her life, but it didn't start that way. In fact it seemed a very ordinary night to her, coming back from her favorite art supplies store, until she came across a cat curled atop a small wall. The cat didn't run from her as she approached, which would itself be a recipe for a big day for Yumi--except that she saw quickly that it wasn't just a lack of fear. The cat was hurt, bleeding. Unsure what to do, she finished her approach and started talking to it, trying to reassure it. "What's your name?" she asked. The cat seemed to understand her, looking up at her, and that's when Yumi noticed its ornate collar, with a tiny orb hanging from it.

But the moment broke; the ground shook under her feet as a monster taller than most tall men lumbered around the corner, gray with scraggy hair and yellowed teeth--and a gigantic club over his shoulder. "...Give," he said as he set eyes on the little cat, "And maybe not get smashed." His greatclub smashed against the asphalt behind her. The cat bolted, despite her injures, and the ogre lumbered off in pursuit. Yumi tried to run after, but found herself slowing despite her wishes; it /hurt/. "I-it's fine!" she called as the cat scrambled up a tree and the ogre watched. "I can do somehing! I'm a witch!" Without any of her ritual tools, Yumi drew on her mother's lessons as much as anything, and threw out both her hands along with a vicious incantation. ...The curse bounced off the ogre, whose reaction to the prickling was to turn around and swing his club at her. Yumi hit a wall and was pretty sure she was about to die. But there was a light, from up in the tree. It was from the cat's neck, brilliant and green.

In Yumi's hand appeared a white staff taller than she is, and in her mind appeared the words of an incantation. "Staff of Lost Ivy, hear me! In my hand remembered be! Uncountable price, unknowable cost! I assume the ancient debt! Let our hearts be bound as one!" Yumi spoke the words, and in a flash of brilliant green light she was standing, not even having to lean on her staff. ...And then the combat really started. Eventually, with the cat's help, she unleashed a spell that banished the ogre from whence it came. Her transformation faded, and she fell back to her knees, out of breath. The transformation's power had, in its first light, healed both her wounds and the staff's keeper, but now she had to stop and think about all that had just happened.

Eventually, the cat answered that her name was Tama. And she had a lot to say. ...Yumi remembered less than half of it the first time; she just took the cat home with her, and later the rest would come. She learned of the Hungry Queen, and that she was trying to unleash an awful force that the Staff of Lost Ivy's previous wielder had sealed. She learned that she had a responsibility, as the Staff's new wielder, to oppose her and to banish the monsters she summoned and save the people they would try to eat for power for their master. And she learned that Tama is less grumpy if she gets petted.
She received a call a few days later. Her mother would be cancelling her sixteenth birthday celebration. Yumi hasn't spoken with her since. _________________________________REDACTED_________________________________
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Things have happened since the end of this, including resuming contact with her mother. As well, it downplays her hospital stays. But there's a lot yet to come...

==Relationships==

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==Gallery==

[[File:Yumi Commission 3-16.jpg|300px|Yumi in Uniform!]]

[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Magic Association]][[Category:Infinity]]

2022-10-08 - A Gift of the New Year

2022-10-08T20:39:53Z

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Title: A Gift of the New Year'''
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|'''Summary''': 
''Yumi receives a present from her mother, and hopes for the new year.''
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| '''Who:''' 
[[Yumi Ohzora]], [[Kimie Ohzora]]
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| '''Where:''' 
(Mostly) Infinity Institute Dormitories
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| '''OOC - IC Date:''' 
<10/08/2022 - 01/17/2016> (But includes elements from Jan 1st)
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[[Category:Cutscenes]]

'''EARLIER, AT THE TURN OF THE YEAR:'''

"The new year... full of new possibility. Who knows? Perhaps we will find something important this year. This year, which will be your final year of high school..."

"...It will, won't it?" Yumi asks, without the little flourishes and 'I guess'-es she might add in more casual conversation. It is never casual with her mother.

"Yes, it will. I want you to do your best."

"I will, Mother."

"...I've sent a present to your dormitory. I find that a new task to occupy the mind is a good way to start the new year."

"...?" Pause. "Oh. Thank you, Mother." She can't really hide her curiousity--what could it be...? Personal gifts are rare from her mother, except on occasions like this, or birthdays.

"Good. Use it well. ...Happy New Year, Yumi-chan." She smiles at her daughter.

"Happy New Year, Mother." A rarer thing still, her mother's smile. Yumi smiles back.

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"Hmm, so..."

Yumi's dorm is big, as dorms go, even accounting for Infinity's style. The spaces around the couch and behind the kitchen bar are wide, and the two internal doors--to the bedroom and to the bathroom--are centrally located. This gives plenty of space for decoration, and it's a very home-y dorm indeed. There are pictures and even paintings on the walls, carefully chosen cushions for the couch, little end tables with cute baskets, and even the signs of life like old homework on the coffee table, ready to be finished.

The floors are clear, though, because the whole point of the larger proportions of this room is greater accessibility--like for a wheelchair, though Yumi doesn't usually use one.

And just now, Yumi is on the couch, metal clinking in her hands as she works with an intricate puzzle. "If I move it like this, then..."

"You've been at that for a while now," comes a voice from the other couch, its owner curled into a little ball on the cushion. Tama, her familiar, is a black cat with deep green eyes, and her tail is lashing lazily.

"Of course! Mother gave it to me!" Yumi enthuses. "So I've got to figure it out..."

"Hmmm, and yet you haven't yet despite the week involved. Curious." The familiar's voice is distant, aloof, as always.

"Hey, be nice. I was... busy. With stuff." Yumi complains a little, but it's not really harshly meant.

"Of course you were." On the other hand, Tama does like Yumi, despite... certain appearances.

"And I--Oh!" Yumi turns the pieces again, and there's a faint 'clack' as the outermost layer of the puzzle comes undone. "Oh wow! Look at that! It's..." Pause. "Oh. It's more puzzle."

Tama's tail abrubtly stops lashing and she lifts her head, looking intently at the puzzle. "...I sense magic, Yumi."

"...Duh," says the young witch. "I mean, it came from Mother. Of course it's magical. I can feel it too, now that you mention it."

"...Hmmm," Tama says. "True, your mother is a witch as well..." There's the sense of a frown in her voice, but all she says is, "Well, it's probably fine, then."

"It's obviously fine. I don't get a lot of presents from Mother. She said I needed to figure this out..." Yumi starts marveling at the change in the puzzle; it's more intricate than she'd realized.

"...Mm. Have fun, then." Tama curls herself back up, and settles in for a proper familiar nap.

"Yeah. Fun..." Yumi keeps working, until, a little drowsy, she dozes off.

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''"a...h.......l..h......l.....l..."''

As Yumi opens her eyes, she hears a chant that she can't quite make out, low voices droning from all directions. It should be strange, but Yumi finds it's normal. Of course there's chanting.

But Yumi herself doesn't speak. She looks around the wide chamber, black-clad witches all around standing in broad circles, and before her--a stone doorway. She knows, somehow, that she is to enter the doorway.

The gray stone is dusty, but inorganic; there is no plantlife peeking up through the stones, no old grass or new weeds poking their way through. Yumi wonders about that; it's a little sad. But the thought is easily forgoten as she steps forward, and walks across the threshold.

Stone walls, stone ceiling, stone floor; all around her there is more and more stone, blackened as if by fire. It is a maze, and she starts to make her way through it; a turn here, a passage there. Her footsteps clack across the rock. She's wearing boots, she notices--a witch's outfit, complete with hat, though all in black and grey, not the green of her henshin.

''".l..ha......al.h......ll....l..."''

And she walks, and walks... and all the while, the chanting continues.

Until, eventually, Yumi walks to a small chamber in the center, where she sees a strange hand puzzle. It murmurs to her, wishes her to pick it up, and as she does, it whispers a secret into her hands.

-=-=-

Yumi wakes up on her couch. Suddenly she knows--the next step. She blihnks, and starts to pick up the puzzle that had fallen into her lap.

But the next step after that will not be as simple...

Setsuna Higashi

2022-08-08T22:20:27Z

Cowstian Dior:

Shizuru Fujino

2022-08-08T22:00:06Z

Cowstian Dior: /* Logs and Cutscenes */

Yumi Ohzora

2022-08-08T21:55:36Z

Cowstian Dior: /* Logs and Cutscenes */

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! colspan="2" align="center" | [[File:Yumi Commission 3-16.jpg|300px|Yumi in Uniform!]]
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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yumi Ohzora
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! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| The Witch of Lost Ivy, Ivy
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! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
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! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 17 (Oct. 31, 1998)
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! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'10"
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Gray
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! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Pink
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! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Scorpio
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! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| A
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Toro sushi
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| Hospital food
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subject:
| Magic
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subject:
| Physical Education
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! style="text-align:left" | Organizations:
| [[Organization: The_Magic_Association|Magic Association]], Former: [[Chevaliers and Shepherds|Shepherds]]
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! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Apprentice Witch (MA)
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! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Infinity Institute|Infinity Institute]] (Grade 11)
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! style="text-align:left" | Clubs
| [[Art Club]], [[Fashion Club]] (Grade 11)
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! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Lost Inheritor Yumi]] (OC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
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'''"Staff of Lost Ivy, hear me! In my hand remembered be!" '''

Becoming a great witch is hard work! But Yumi doesn't exactly advertise to most of her classmates that she's trying. A student at Infinity Institute's high school program, Yumi is known as something of an odd girl, remembered more for her illness and habit of staring into space than her academic talents. Even among those who know of her magical abilities there are some ugly rumors that her place at Infinity, as a student since elementary school, was bought by her family--noted donors to the school--rather than earned. Her skill as a painter quashes most of those, but not all. Besides, she's easy to like, even if she's weird; her energetic personality tends to outstrip her frail body, and she spends a lot of her time in the nurses' offices. Still, being a witch isn't her /only/ secret. Another big one is the fact that thanks to a fateful night meeting her cat, Tama--who lives in the dorms with her, of course--she is now a magical girl, spending long nights wielding the Staff of Lost Ivy to protect her school, city, and world from ogres who seek to eat the hearts of its people, and from the mysterious Hungry Queen whose servants command them.

==Abilities==

==History==

Yumi Ohzora was born on a dark, stormy Halloween night. October 31st, _______________________REDACTED_______________________
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______________REDACTED________________the only child of the Ohzora family, into which her mother had married a few years before her birth. They were, in general, rich just by being rich; Yumi's mother was an investment banker, but her father had no need for a mundane occupation. Most would say that he simply invested his inheritance, but in truth he was a noted wizard, and did a brisk trade in minor magical objects _________________________________________REDACTED__________________________________________ ________________________REDACTED________________________ to the Magic Association, of course. ___________REDACTED____________ ________________________REDACTED________________________ But Yumi would simply come to know that her family was magical, and that she would be expected to live up to it.

She learned this early on. For the first year or so of her life, her mother was distant, and her father was pleasant but not her primary caretaker. That would go to a series of maids who never quite lasted. Yumi was ill often, of poor health even as a very young child, _________________________________________REDACTED_________________________________________ Health problems ran through her father's side of the family; ________________________________________REDACTED_______________________________________ _________REDACTED________, her mother quietly blamed her husband for it, and simply never spoke of the matter around Yumi, as if nothing at all was wrong with her to begin with.

As Yumi grew near school age, she had spent much of the time that many children spend playing outside on indoor activities. She was kept amused largely by books, music, and art, though her favorite form of art was painting. She also developed, thanks to her father, a love of humor and jokes. She knew her mother as firm and driven, but not cruel. Her mother would read to her, or practice small spells in front of her, to let her grow accustomed to magic, ______________________REDACTED_______________________ ___________________________________REDACTED____________________________________ she had a loving family. They were very strict about what activities she'd engage in, but they were her parents. Her chances to play were largely when she'd meet with the kids of other parents in her parents' social circles; sometimes the wealthy, sometimes the magical. ...Under supervision, of course, ostensibly because of her health. Occasionally, during some of these 'playdates', Yumi would catch her mother and someone else talking very seriously; sometimes it would be people she didn't recognize at all. She decided her mother was a very mysterious witch.

Her mother largely gave up on hired help when it was time for Yumi to start at school, instead simply arranging for herself or her husband to be present as needed when Yumi got home. _______________________________REDACTED________________________________ ___________________________________REDACTED____________________________________ When her poor health flared up, a servant would be blamed. Yumi never got the chance to get to know any of them very well, though she welcomed the chance to see her parents more. Her mother spent a lot of time at home; Yumi just had to go to her room sometimes or go play on her own while her mother conducted business. Her mother had an awful lot of business that Yumi wasn't allowed to ask about. Adult business, maybe. Her father, meanwhile, was often travelling, so she didn't get to see him as much. He brought back souvenirs, though.

She didn't have many friends, growing up. She didn't really know how to approach other kids, and had trouble participating in a lot of the more social activities. This made her isolated; she in time wasn't sure which was worse. Being laughed at, or /not/ being laughed at. Her fainting spells made some activities dangerous; exerting herself too much was painful, and could land her in the hospital again, where she spent a lot of time already. She had a rich inner life growing up, though; if she couldn't make many connections, she could still see many things in the world. There was also something new to occupy her. Her mother had decided that it was time to begin her magical education, and begin she did. Besides, as long as she did well, she got praise and attention for it. If it was also true that sometimes she felt worse after a lesson, that must just have been because magic is difficult.

At school, she tried many different things; it's normal for Infinity to have a variety of classes, to try out new things, and Yumi was by no means an exception. Dance, singing, sports--these she had little success at, but she found other things to try. Her education would have been woefully incomplete if all she'd studied was magic. Indeed, she didn't even start at Infinity's magic program until later. Sports failed quite abysmally, but she at least showed a talent for art that would stick with her throughout her time at school. Her grades in general classes were good. Never quite good enough for her mother, but Yumi had trouble paying attention.

Yumi's mother ensured that she had all sorts of activities to expand her mind and broaden her horizons; music, art, going to museums. Many of these were supervised; Yumi has fond memories of going out with her mother to museums, aquariums, and many other places. ...Only the aquarium the once, though; wherever Yumi went, it seemed that the fish would avoid her, swim away. A shark hurt itself trying to put distance between her and it. Nothing she could be blamed for, of course, but it stuck with her; her mother avoided taking her places with animals in the future, but she couldn't avoid them entirely. They just didn't seem to like her. Still, the others she kept seeing, and she got a very broad education. Sometimes her father came with them, or would be the one to take her out, but usually it was her and her mother.

As of middle school, Yumi was told that she would be living in the dorms henceforth. She was shocked, to say the least, and asked why. After all, the idea was scary; she didn't have many friends at school, despite having been there since elementary school. Worse, she would be starting at the magic program at Infinity rather than undergoing her mother's lessons. She looked to her father, but he had nothing to say. To her mother, she cried... and that day she saw her mother /angry/. The very room seemed to crackle with power, and Yumi's mother told her that crying was unbecoming of her, of what she must become, and that she never wanted to see it happen again. ...So Yumi didn't cry in front of her again. It was the first time she'd been truly afraid of her mother.

So, Yumi went off to the dorms to live, with just enough time to settle in for a time before her first year of middle school started. To her surprise, life in the dorms wasn't that bad. It was shared, which was an adjustment, but she started to make friends, living with other girls. Friends, and learning what it was like to miss sleep because somebody next door was really talkative on the phone late into the night. She shared her rooms with two other girls; all of them were loud, but the friendship she sparked with an athletic girl named Hanae who she'd never have met otherwise would stick with her. She remembers the other roommates she's had, but there's something special about the nights she stayed up with Hanae talking about tests, or Hanae's upcoming meets, or griping about loud dormmates, or any number of things.

She also of course started in Infinity's magic program. For all that she'd resisted losing her special time with her mother, Yumi found that she liked the group setting, and there were so many things she had yet to learn. Besides, there was something fun about praticing magic with the others at Infinity. There was nothing terribly unusual about her early magical education being done at home, given her family, but she soon excelled in the classes she was given. ...At least, in terms of the theory. In practice, she had a harder time with the simple magics meant to train mages to bring happiness to others. She was better at those for other purposes, the ones that Infinity didn't teach openly.

Her health reached more of an equilibrium, too. While she still spent a lot of time in the offices of the school nurses or in hospital rooms, she didn't miss so many classes as of middle school, though her gym performance remained abysmal, and even the idea of trying out for a sports club was far out of reach. She had a friend who could tell her about the latest in the athletic world though, and she would spend more time in the Art Club as her health allowed it. Indeed, her favorite nurse (Nakahara-san to her; she was new to the school) particularly encouraged her art. All this, plus living in the dorms, made it a little bit easier to socialize, and Yumi's classmates discovered that, given the chance, she was pretty funny. She would regularly talk to both of her parents on the phone, though not at the same time, and would visit on special occasions. They were often busy, but so was she. Yumi did try to ask about what they'd talked about before--what it was she was supposed to grow up to /be/, what she was to 'become'. Her mother only told her that she would see--and in time, that she was proud of the strength Yumi was learning to display. Her mother often told her it was important that Yumi show she could stand on her own.

Those words would prove prophetic, and not as Yumi expected. A shadow was cast over her high school entrance examinations; the death of her father, apparently from opportunistic illness contracted on his travels. Yumi remembers the funeral in complete detail. ...She also remembers spying on her mother the same day, and the sheer power she felt as her mother confronted someone over implying, of all things, that /she/ had killed him.

That would bother her for a long time to come. She felt more isolated than ever from most of the other students at school and in the dorms; that year, she wasn't living with Hanae anymore. Even friendly acquaintances seemed distant. She still worked on her painting, but all she would paint around that time were dark things, frightening or melancholy by turn, that certainly didn't get her out much. But she made a friend here, too; another member of the Art Club was interested in the emotion of her painting, and Takahiro never required much of her; he just kept talking to her, even when she was doing badly with her father's loss. Sometimes he'd even walk with her to her favorite art store.

Adjusting to high school would have been hard even discounting what had happened. Everything felt bigger to her; crushes, worries, class loads. And she no longer had her father to talk to at all. Her mother seemed to be even busier than before. Without her mother's pressure, and with the difficulty that she was having, Yumi's grades dropped. So without being able to continue her old way, she had to make changes, and it was her friends that helped her do that. She applied with Hanae to room together again for their first year of high school. She even joined a new club, as eventually she decided to try something new since she was a high schooler now. ...She still complained, of course, about the adjustments, but it was easier to have people to complain /to/. Her grades didn't entirely recover, but she was happier.

The biggest adjustment, though, was only recent. The day that Yumi found Tama--and the Staff of Lost Ivy that the cat kept and safeguarded--would change her life, but it didn't start that way. In fact it seemed a very ordinary night to her, coming back from her favorite art supplies store, until she came across a cat curled atop a small wall. The cat didn't run from her as she approached, which would itself be a recipe for a big day for Yumi--except that she saw quickly that it wasn't just a lack of fear. The cat was hurt, bleeding. Unsure what to do, she finished her approach and started talking to it, trying to reassure it. "What's your name?" she asked. The cat seemed to understand her, looking up at her, and that's when Yumi noticed its ornate collar, with a tiny orb hanging from it.

But the moment broke; the ground shook under her feet as a monster taller than most tall men lumbered around the corner, gray with scraggy hair and yellowed teeth--and a gigantic club over his shoulder. "...Give," he said as he set eyes on the little cat, "And maybe not get smashed." His greatclub smashed against the asphalt behind her. The cat bolted, despite her injures, and the ogre lumbered off in pursuit. Yumi tried to run after, but found herself slowing despite her wishes; it /hurt/. "I-it's fine!" she called as the cat scrambled up a tree and the ogre watched. "I can do somehing! I'm a witch!" Without any of her ritual tools, Yumi drew on her mother's lessons as much as anything, and threw out both her hands along with a vicious incantation. ...The curse bounced off the ogre, whose reaction to the prickling was to turn around and swing his club at her. Yumi hit a wall and was pretty sure she was about to die. But there was a light, from up in the tree. It was from the cat's neck, brilliant and green.

In Yumi's hand appeared a white staff taller than she is, and in her mind appeared the words of an incantation. "Staff of Lost Ivy, hear me! In my hand remembered be! Uncountable price, unknowable cost! I assume the ancient debt! Let our hearts be bound as one!" Yumi spoke the words, and in a flash of brilliant green light she was standing, not even having to lean on her staff. ...And then the combat really started. Eventually, with the cat's help, she unleashed a spell that banished the ogre from whence it came. Her transformation faded, and she fell back to her knees, out of breath. The transformation's power had, in its first light, healed both her wounds and the staff's keeper, but now she had to stop and think about all that had just happened.

Eventually, the cat answered that her name was Tama. And she had a lot to say. ...Yumi remembered less than half of it the first time; she just took the cat home with her, and later the rest would come. She learned of the Hungry Queen, and that she was trying to unleash an awful force that the Staff of Lost Ivy's previous wielder had sealed. She learned that she had a responsibility, as the Staff's new wielder, to oppose her and to banish the monsters she summoned and save the people they would try to eat for power for their master. And she learned that Tama is less grumpy if she gets petted.
She received a call a few days later. Her mother would be cancelling her sixteenth birthday celebration. Yumi hasn't spoken with her since. _________________________________REDACTED_________________________________
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Things have happened since the end of this, including resuming contact with her mother. As well, it downplays her hospital stays. But there's a lot yet to come...

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==Gallery==

[[File:Yumi Commission 3-16.jpg|300px|Yumi in Uniform!]]

[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Magic Association]][[Category:Infinity]]

Mami Tomoe

2022-08-08T21:53:27Z

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! style="background:#FFFF00; border: 2px #000000 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Mami Tomoe
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! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| Senpai
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! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
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! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 17 (June 5, 1998)
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! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'2"
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Blonde
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! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Honey
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! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Gemini
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! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| O
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Cake
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| Pickled Plums
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subject:
| English
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subject:
| Mathematics
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! style="text-align:left" | Organization:
| [[Magic Association]] (Formerly [[Chevaliers and Shepherds|Chevaliers]])
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! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Veteran
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! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Ohtori Academy|Ohtori Academy]] (Grade 11)
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! style="text-align:left" | Clubs:
| Go-Home Club (She doesn't have time...)
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! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]] (FC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
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'''"Late nights are the enemy of beauty..." '''

Mami Tomoe, a glamorous student at Ohtori Academy for her entire academic career thus far, is /also/ a highly experienced magical girl--a veteran even as many now-veteran girls got their start. For a long while, this and her own troubled past with other magical girls kept her distant from the rest of the community, but now she counts the magical girls of Tokyo as equals, and allowed herself to set down a little of her facade in favor of more even partnerships. Her relationships with others have healed much of her cynicism, allowing her to act more truly to her altruistic principles and sense of justice--and even if her partner, Sayaka Miki, is gone, she'll continue their mission to protect the world from the darkness as long as she can. ...But her life isn't terribly balanced even now between ordinary and supernatural; her dedication takes a significant toll on her social life outside the magical girl community, and while she's bothered less by the speculation at the cutthroat Ohtori of what keeps her so busy, she still has something of a reputation for trouble. Still, she has her true wish, and she looks forward to a bright tomorrow.

==Skills and Magic==

One of Mami's first loves was always and remains baking; while she's a good cook who's tried a variety of things, she's a /great/ baker who is happy to make elaborate cakes for herself and her friends. (Her sweet tooth is considerable.) She can bake other things, but doesn't tend to favor pies. Tarts maybe.

She's also very, very good at matters of fashion and style; she can braid like no one's business, and generally work with hair because she loves doing it. Want your nails painted? Mami will cheerfully spend time with her friends that way. There are few things she gets to do as a normal girl, but these things are among them.

We're not talking about her grades.

As a Puella Magi, she has access to considerable combat magic. Her weapon and special power both are ribbons, which she can conjure and manipulate to an absolutely startling degree, from immobilizing foes to shaping objects to use as a shield. She can even make things and leave them past when she's around them.

This comes to her weapon, which Mami learned after painstaking work to craft out of her ribbons: Percussive-action rifles, firing gold balls and bright light. She can make big guns, small guns, long guns, and short guns. Fat guns and skinny guns, but her favorites are elegant rifles that she can call up en masse to deal with her foes.

Mami Tomoe is known as the Golden Queen of Shibuya for a reason, and the fact that she holds the Central Yamanote Territory is only part of it.

==Background==

''(Adjusted slightly from her app)''

Mami was born to the wealthy Tomoe family, an only child, almost seventeen years ago now. Her early life was, in the grand scheme, fairly uneventful; her parents doted a bit, but also made sure that as soon as she was old enough, she was immersed in various activities. They would be the main real social contact she'd have. She had peers, people also in the various expensive child programs, but none of these relationships really seemed to last past the end of that given activity. So, while she learned the very proper ways of interacting with others, she also developed a rich inner life: she took some o the hobbies she'd learned, the ones she really had a knack for, like baking, but she also was enchanted by certain shows as she grew up. The idea of transforming heroines fighting for love and justice made her happy, and gave her a little boost whenever she was feeling down. This would become somewhat ironically important later, but at the time, it's not all that strange for a little girl to enjoy such things. It's in fact pretty normal! And despite the fact that she didn't quite keep a 'best friend' or anything, she really delved into what she did; she had a clear love for life from a young age, curious and active.

This distance did not change as she actually grew through the grades at school; she had people to speak to in class, and would say she had friends. She just didn't manage to /stay/ close to anyone, really--her parents, of course, were proud of her successes, as she was doing rather well for herself in general absent that one little issue, even if they did grow increasingly busy with their own responsibilities as she became older and thus a little more self-sufficient. And maybe she would have been able to be more than the distant, talented girl in time.

She didn't get that time, however, and neither did the Tomoe family as a whole. When it happened, it happened suddenly; it was a blur, but the details were etched into her mind. The accident was between her family's car and an out-of-control semi; the little sedan simply didn't stand a chance. She lay in the back, in shock at the blood she was quickly losing, able to think of almost nothing else, when a little white creature, like a stuffed animal, appeared in the window. He offered a contract; a wish, a chance for /something/, and she did not have the luxury of considering the fine print. She wanted to live, and that's what she got.

It wasn't the only thing she had really wanted, though. From that day forward, Mami had 'luckily' survived the car accident that claimed both of her parents. She had only very distant relatives, so she was the sole inheritor of their estate.

No one at school really knew what to say to her; it was awkward, at best, but she would soon no longer have time to concern herself with her peers anyway. Kyubey explained her responsibilities, and Mami learned well. The idea was terrifying, of course. She'd made a wish to /live/, and now she was set to risk her life all the time. But she found ways to boost her confidence; /acting/ as if she had no cares or fears made it easier to pretend that it was true; emulating the heroines with which she'd grown up gave her a further boost, calling out the attacks she managed to form with her new magic. The danger became worth it; she'd been saved for a purpose. To help others, to fight for justice, meant that her living on had meaning. And that was something she would often cry over on her own--that she, alone, survived.

She quickly came to the attention of many others somewhat like her, as she went about her work. There were many other magical girls with whom she came into contact, including a number from the Tuner Organization, which she leapt at the chance to join. This alliance, though, would be short-lived; the group's intense cynicism wasn't something she could tolerate. In fact, Mami made a reputation for herself as something of a lone wolf, having a great deal of trouble working with others. She left the organization after not terribly long.

She had to do many things she would rather not have done, and Mami did not go through these years unscathed mentally. But one bright point was meeting a girl named Kyouko Sakura, who would be her partner for some time after they met. It was a wonderful partnership, and Mami adored her family who she was even brought over to visit as a friend. When tragedy struck however and Kyouko made her decision about her new way of life, Mami couldn't accept it. They fought over the matter... And Mami lost. With that wound in her heart, and a threat from Kyouko in her ears, she left and did not contact with her again. This wound would affect much of what was to come in her life.

Mami's school life worsened even further, and she became an unknown girl, nice and remembered by her class but no longer receiving any invitations to go out or study together or anything of the sort after she turned them down enough. Such was life.

The world seemed more cynical still, but Mami would help people, and get satisfaction from that, at least. By this point she'd acquired an apartment in the city, near the Ohtori Academy midle school she attended; she contented her daily life with keeping things nice, with enjoying the things she could, and with spending most of the rest of her time hunting the Witches and other creatures to keep the world safe.

As the Long Dark Night began, she had her work cut out for her. For better or worse, she would not continue on without others forever.

==Relationships==

====The Five====

'''[[Madoka Kaname]]''' - One of Mami's two best friends. Mami is very protective of her, but not so much so that she won't let her come along when she and Sayaka go out. Nevertheless Mami will go very far if it's for Madoka. Mami deeply loves her, and likes her just the way she is. Madoka in turn understands her on a deep level. Her ideal life includes Madoka prominently.

'''[[Sayaka Miki]]''' - Mami's other best friend, and her precious Puella Magi partner. Mami adores her, every stupid dorky thing of her just as her incredible moments of gallantry. She relies on Sayaka very heavily in many arenas. Mami considers Sayaka a moral bedrock, and also harbors romantic feelings for her.

'''[[Eri Shimanouchi]]''' - Mami's ex-girlfriend and current enemy. The truth is that Mami loves Eri very much, but can't accept her hunting practices or her intentions with the Shepherds, and her heart is torn this way. Eri knows her better than almost anyone else, however, and Mami knows it full well. Maybe Eri has a point about Mami's happiness, but even so...

'''[[Kyouko Sakura]]''' - Mami's former partner. They worked together for a while years ago, which ended in tragedy and Mami being driven out to be alone again. Mami loves her still as the closest thing to family she has, but she still can't accept Kyouko's way of life. She has some jealousy for Kyouko for a few things, and is not comfortable with Sayaka and Kyouko together nonviolently after what Mami views as Kyouko taking Sayaka behind her back long before the war. Incredible respect; Mami views Kyouko as someone she can't defeat.

'''[[Homura Akemi]]''' - Mami's rival. COMPLICATED. Jealous. Resentful. ...Understanding? Mami hasn't told anyone about their battle at the school's outskirts, or what she learned there.

====The Chevaliers====

'''[[Ren Aizawa]]''' - Mami's friend. Mami doesn't know her terribly well yet, but she likes her energy; she doesn't talk to many girls older than her and actually get along with them. Mami wants the chance to do so, though.

'''[[Nori Ankou]]''' - Mami's model. Mami /likes/ Nori, and not only because she is beautiful and elegant and represents someone to share an interest in fashion with, but for her heart, for her poetic nature, and for the fact that Nori showed her something beautiful when they visited the Sea of Tears. That place has retained a niche in Mami's heart, and only made her feel closer to the Red Future. The fact that Nori has fought at her side is true of many Chevaliers, and Nori is among Mami's close, dear friends.

'''[[Lera Camry]]''' - Mami's buddy. Lera is a rare friend who is her age, who naturally sidesteps the business of being senpai. Their relationship has waxed and waned over time, but remains one Mami cares about greatly. ...Also they can drink together, don't tell anyone.

'''[[Garnet]]''' - Mami's adult figure. Mami doesn't have very many of these in her life, almost none who know of magic, outside the Magic Association which can be... awkward. Mami respects her all around, and likes the subtle warmth this tall woman has.

'''[[Tsubasa Kazanari]]''' - Mami's rescuer. They met by Tsubasa sweeping in to save Mami from a sneak attack by Sailor Uranus, and it made a good impression. Mami approves of her serious nature... But is a bit nervous that her own difficulties with staying in her ordinary life's expectations will lead to friction with this cool young woman.

'''[[Endo Naoki]]''' - One of Mami's personal favorite boys. She admires his moral standing and his fighting ability, but also just finds him pleasant to be around. There's more to get to know! Maybe she can learn a favorite flavor...

'''[[Nanoha Takamachi]]''' - Mami's new friend. Mami doesn't know this girl well yet, but she's acquitted herself well in their discussions about the Chevaliers, and a friend of Fate's automatically gets a leg up. ...Mami has also heard of some of this girl's exploits magically. Mami is attempting to befriend her further, finding it easy to talk with her. She'll have to come back to Midori-ya know that she knows her better.

'''[[Utena Tenjou]]''' - Mami's ally. They aren't close, necessarily--Mami has spoken more with her Bride--but everything about Utena Tenjou is appealing to Mami, from her princely approach at life to her heroic style to her dashing looks. Mami would love to sit down for tea with her though. Maybe if she brought Sayaka and asked Anthy for the four of them...

'''[[Fate Testarossa]]''' - Mami's guilt. Oh they're friends now, to be sure, and Mami is continually amazed by Fate's clear-headedness... But Mami worries for her too, and she knows that their past conflicts--before the Chevaliers--may have made Fate's troubles worse, in addition to hurting her. She enjoys time with Fate despite those difficulties.

====The Outer Senshi====

'''[[Michiru Kaioh|Sailor Neptune]]''' - Mami's enemy. Tangling with Sailor Uranus means tangling with Sailor Neptune, as Mami has discovered painfully first hand over time. The calm of this young woman is dangerous; Mami's been overwhelmed by her before making the mistake of focusing only on Uranus.

'''[[Setsuna Meioh|Sailor Pluto]]''' - Not Mami's. Mami respects this woman greatly, and knows they will both do as is necessary to protect those they care about and the world in their own ways. They've worked together on that front before. ...But they completely disagree on what the best way is; Mami simply does not believe that Pluto is /right/ about Hotaru Tomoe. Secretly, Mami is more than unsettled by her timeless nature.

'''[[Haruka Tenoh|Sailor Uranus]]''' - Mami's enemy. They've clashed more than once, and while Uranus is deadly competent, Mami has always disagreed with her methods--and usually with her choices. They're well beyond even talking about their issues right now. Unfortunately, Uranus has great insights into Mami's personality... And the pain that brings makes Mami resent her even more.

====Early Friends====

'''[[Anthy Himemiya]]''' - Mami's friend. Mami saved her once from Nanami Kiryuu's goons, and while that painted a target on Mami's back she considers it worth it to have gotten to know this girl if only a little. Maybe in another life she'd have become closer with her... But it was still a good jar of jam. Maybe they can spend more time together.

'''[[Usagi Tsukino]]''' - Mami's friend. Usagi--Sailor Moon--is both adorable and inspiring to Mami, and while the truth is that the rise of magical girls like her made her wonder if she was obsolete herself, Mami feels that Usagi /needs/ protecting in order to stay the wonderful way she is. ...Not sure what to do with her acting like a child over cake though.

====Complications====

'''[[Kasagami Araki]]''' - Mami's enemy. Mami outright hates this girl; her work kidnapping her friends would have seen to that on its own already, her arrogance enough to seal the deal, but Kasagami has made her school life measurably worse, and in ways that others can see. Mami's considered dropping out of school at the level of bullying she's endured and can do nothing about, given the Student Council. At least in matters of the War, she can fight back.

'''[[Nanami Kiryuu]]''' - Mami's tormentor. Long before Kasagami and Mami even spoke, Nanami caught wind of this lovely girl who was on the outskirts of her class, who had stepped in against her minions, and pushed back against her. Nobody can make Mami cry as reliably as Nanami can, and Mami can't do anything about it.

'''[[Kozue Kaoru]]''' - Mami's enemy. They were friends in a way, and Mami once allowed her despair to tempt her into a bad decision with Kozue... Which she didn't regard as that bad a decision until Kozue turned around and betrayed Sayaka overtly. Things are very complicated with this girl, because they were briefly close, but Mami cannot forgive what she's done... Or for making Mami herself feel so ill-used.

'''[[Mai Tokiha]]''' - Mami's senpai... Technically. They have a complicated relationship, as while Mami thinks her heart in the right place, she also finds that Tokiha drives her nuts and is far too reckless with others' lives. Unfortunately Mai has a point about Mami's hypocrisy, and the power to back up her ideals.

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[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Ohtori]]

Setsuna Higashi

2022-08-08T21:39:14Z

Cowstian Dior:

Setsuna Higashi

2022-08-08T21:33:19Z

Cowstian Dior: Logs organizational update!

Talk:Setsuna Higashi

2022-08-08T21:29:11Z

Cowstian Dior:

Attempting to merge the log lists for Setsuna and Eas (and throw in cutscenes, too)
2014 logs:

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2014-07-01 - Lucky Clover

2022-08-08T18:25:23Z

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Title: Lucky Clover'''
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|'''Summary''': 
''Eas contemplates her progress with Pretty Cure.''
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| '''Who:''' 
[[Eas]]
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| '''Where:''' 
The Labyrinth Mansion
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| '''OOC - IC Date:''' 
Uhhhhhhh good question!!! Uploading this late so I'd have to check.
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[[Category:Cutscenes]]

Through the trees the winter wind brushes past, leaving a rustling in its wake that only seems to complement the noise of the great mansion hidden out here slowly settling. It creaks as its roof is pushed slightly under the wind, and the window before Eas, denizen of Labyrinth, rattles in its frame.

The dark-haired girl stands at the moment in a smaller area, dusty, a little kitchen with a small window on the first floor. In her hand is held, delicately, the loop on which hangs a little glass clover--green, with four leaves. Thoughtfully, she watches it, red eyes reflecting its glint slightly as the old flourescent bulb in the ceiling flickers. It sways, the loop only lightly held between two fingers. She thinks back...

In the shadowy room where she faced the robed figure, his features obscured--as if it mattered, since it was only a projection--Eas barely looked up at him. He asked her her thoughts, after all, and...

"They can only oppose us because of the magic they hold when transformed. Without it, they're just ordinary human girls."

She asked for this task. And now...

The hiss of the kitchen appliances' heat draws her back to the moment, where she finds herself still looking into the necklace. "Hmph. Find my happiness," she says, shaking her head. It's what Love had said, after all, when she gave it to her.

"With this, I can get even closer to Pretty Cure."

Eas's lips come together in satisfaction, and she inclines her head, finally replacing the loop about her neck with both hands. Only then does she return her attention to the counter. Her ingredients are laid out; beef, the skewers, a whole onion, a green bell pepper. She looks over each, considering. It would be foolish to waste Mobius-sama's resources by throwing away the food she'd bought, after all. But...

She tilts her head as she looks further at one item in particular. Its shape seems so familiar for some reason, like something she's seen. ...Maybe...

Eas picks up the green pepper, examining it carefully from each angle, rotating it here and there in her hand. Casually, she sets it to her mouth and takes a big bite.

Her eyes widen. "Mmph--"

The pepper hits the floor and bounces, while Eas gags over the sink. "Gh--Who /eats/ something like--"

It takes her all night and three cups of coffee to wash the taste out of her mouth.

Setsuna Higashi

2022-08-08T18:20:12Z

Cowstian Dior:

File:Setsuna Eas Passion headshot.jpg

2022-08-08T18:19:33Z

Cowstian Dior: A triple picture of Setsuna's identities.

A triple picture of Setsuna's identities.

Setsuna Higashi

2022-08-08T18:12:40Z

Cowstian Dior:

2022-08-07 - There's Many Different Foods On Earth

2022-08-08T05:30:15Z

Cowstian Dior:

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''There's Many Different Foods On Earth'''
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|'''Summary''': 
''The new girl on the Track Team has a lot of rumors flying about her! Setsuna investigates!''
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| '''Who:''' 
[[Setsuna Higashi]], [[Kyouka Okazaki]]
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| '''Where:''' 
Juuban High School / Asakusa Traditional District
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| '''OOC - IC Date:''' 
08-07-2022 - Saturday January 02, 2016
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[[Category:Logs]]

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"Hello!" Setsuna Higashi had greeted Kyouka Okazaki after a little meetup of the track team, making a point of lingering after to talk to her. "I know we already welcomed you..." You would think she'd trail off to finish that sentence, but instead she just lets it go and says instead, "Would you like for me to show you around? I was new here once, too. There are a lot of nice places near the school!"

For context, Setsuna--purple-haired and red-eyed--is a /very/ quiet girl; she's popular in the club, but doesn't actually say very much. She's very intent and focused on club activities, and is known to have good grades as well as academics. And of course, she still has a little of that transfer student magic, though she's more recognized now.

And now she's invited Kyouka to hang out! Despite the rumors about her; a few people are already buzzing about this, considering those, and it'll surely be all over the school soon enough.

"There's a lot of good food out in the temple district," she suggests, and smiles.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
It was... an interesting time for Kyouka to join the school year, an unfortunate byproduct of the timing of her family's move to Japan. Kyouka had just enough time to get some familiarity with some of the students and classses before finals and winter break, including a chance to get introduced to the track club.

On the track? She could definitely hold her own with the rest of the students. Off the track? Friendly, but perhaps a tad awkward still. So she was a little surprised when Setsuna approached her--either because anybody at all had bothered to talk to her, or because it was the normally-quiet Setuna. Perhaps a little bit of both.

"Oh, hi! Um... Higashi, right?" Lots of new names to remember, but she was trying. She listens curiously, noting the dropped sentence, but perking up a bit when the offer of a show around comes. "Oh! Um... yeah. Yeah! Thanks, I'd really appreciate it. I've been so busy getting set up with school I haven't been able to look around as much as I'd like."

Kyouka stood out for enough reasons already, but the black and purple dyed hair probably didn't help her blend in any. She was pretty decent academically, though she hadn't had much chance to show that off around here, yet (though her performance in the placement exams might have circled a bit) but definitely got it more from hard work rather than being born with a genius IQ.

Speaking of rumors, the truly observant might have noticed she had taken to wearing a leather bracelet all the time, wholly unremarkable in other respects, but she didn't start her stint at Juuban with it, and it only showed up exactly when some particular rumors started to circle...

Kyouka grins, "Okay, if there's good food to be had I'm /definitely/ going to be there."

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna probably /should/ be awkward, but somehow she just isn't. For instance: she doesn't even react to the idea that it might be surprising to hear from her. She doesn't show a whit of hesitation. Instead she answers, "Yes! And you're Okazaki." She is pretty good with names. But the show around, "Great." A nod, and then--hmm. Purple and black dyed hair... That does stand out. As does the bracelet. Now, any subtle girl at all would of course know not to mention either of those things. However:

Setsuna Higashi is not very subtle.

"There is," she confirms, good food. And... "Let's go this way; the bus should be coming shortly."

She'll lead her along, though she pauses, and looks back. "Do you dye your hair?" she wonders. "I think that's a good color." Onward!!

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka seemed to do far better with akwardness once she let her guard down a bit, though that hadn't happened a lot so far in her short stint here. She nods a bit to acknowledge her last name. "Right! That's... me." Was there a bit of hesitation in her voice there? Probably nothing. She just nods along to the suggestion of the bus, turning from the direction she'd been heading previously to follow along with her classmate.

"I love trying new foods, actually," she says conversationally as they head towards the bus. "It's, uh... pretty handy trait when you've moved around as much as I have, you know?" Despite her being a transfer student being the most obvious 'strange' thing about her, she actually tried not to drop the fact that she's moved a lot into conversation all that much.

She blinks a bit at the question about her hair. "Uh... yeah. It's, uh... not too weird, is it?" She looks a bit taken aback by the compliment, but then smiles a bit sheepishly. "Oh, thanks."

"So... how far away is this place, anyway?"

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna doesn't even notice the hesitation. Or at least, she doesn't seem to. She just tilts her head and smiles again. In point of fact, one thing that may be noticeable about Setsuna is that she sometimes looks a little... blank, when she thinks no one is looking, like she forgot to put on an expression or something. But not just now!

"Is that so?" Setsuna asks at the conversational tone. "Oh, yes. That would make sense. There are many different foods on Earth." Pause. Did she say something funny? Nah, it's probably fine. "I haven't done a lot of moving, myself," she decides to say instead. "But I also like new foods."

Then she shakes her head. "It is not too weird at all! The two-tone effect is very nice."

"Not far," she answers then. "A few minutes by bus?"

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka gives Setuna a bit of an odd sidelong glance when she mentions 'on Earth.' It's... /technically/ a true statement, but... not how she would normally phrase that. Still, that's not /that/ out of the ordinary, either, so she lets it pass. "Well, if you like new foods but haven't moved a lot, um... you should come over to my place to study sometime?"

She kicks herself mentally for phrasing that as a question, and hastily adds, "What I /mean/, is, I /also/ like to cook, so I could probably whip up some stuff you haven't tried before, if you're interested." Is this how making friends goes? Why did this feel so much easier when she didn't feel like she was rooted in a place?

Did being in an actual high school just add stakes to everything? That was ridiculous.

Kyouka ran her fingers through her hair to muss it up a bit more, "Oh, cool then. Thanks. I'm glad you like it."

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna looks at Kyouka as she's talking, but doesn't have any particular reaction to that odd glance. Maybe she didn't notice? But more improtant to her is the offer that Kyouka makes. Setsuna goes '!' and blinks once.

"I would like that," she says pleasantly, evenly. On the bright side, she does seem sincere--on the other... she doesn't offer any assurance that it wasn't awkward.

"Yes!" Then, "Oh, it's just over here..."

There will probably not be a lot of time for talking on the bus, busy as it's likely to be at this hour. But that's fine. If it's too busy to talk, then they can pick up conversation a few minutes later!

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka is definitely relieved that her offer of study and food was accepted. Not that she wanted to bribe friendship out of everyone but... gotta put yourself out there at some point, right? Right. "Cool. Then... yeah, we can set something up sometime. Maybe... see if some of the other people in the club want to join in?"

Trying to make multiple friends at once. Now that was living dangerously, for sure.

The hustle and bustle of the bus is such that carrying on a conversation is a bit difficult, but she can still enjoy watching the scenery pass by and the chance to get to see more of her new neighborhood. Regardless, she does make sure to keep an eye on Setsuna to make sure she doesn't miss the stop.

Upon stepping off the bus and getting to properly take in the scene, she lights up. "Oh, hey. I love the atmosphere here already." Busy shops, lots of people--she inhales deeply through her nose. Mmm. The smell of food.

But most importantly, just a place with a good /vibe/. Definitely different than if she was trying to visit a place like Shibuya.

She turns to Setsuna, "Sooo, where to first?"

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"That's a nice idea," Setsuna agrees about inviting others. She is very willing to be sociable!! Living dangerously or not! But the scenery is indeed nice, and Setsuna calmly waits for their stop until it's time--at which point she steps off and makes sure Kyouka is with her before looking around.

"Good!" she replies about loving the atmosphere. Setsuna, still in uniform, starts down the sidewalk immediately, turning to Kyouka and pausing a moment to let her smell the roses, as it were. "I have a friend who works at a shrine in the area... but she's probably busy today." Pause. "I was thinking we could visit a ramen stand I know out here. It's a little down the way, but that means you'd have a chance to look around before we get there. If you want to stop at any of the stalls or shops that's OK too."

That's a lot of words for her! She may need a moment to recover before she speaks more.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka does her best not to spend /too/ much time on smelling the food instead of actually taking action to go get some for real. She quickly follows along with Setsuna, also in her uniform, naturally. It feels a bit weird wearing one still, and especially going out in it, but... well, it seems to be the norm around here, so she should just get used to it.

"A shrine, huh?" she says thoughtfully. "I've been wanting to check one out at some point..." Then she hastily adds, "But we don't have to do it today, or anything. Visiting a ramen stand would also be interesting, too. I'll follow along with whatever you think is best."

She does her best to make small talk as they walk along, without wearing the other girl out. Kyouka can be very talkative once she gets over her initial awkwardness and gets rolling, but can also enjoy some amicable silence, too. "So... what do you like to do outside of school?"

She does take advantage of the invitation to look at the shops and stalls, though more with an eye to come back later instead of purchasing a lot right at that moment. Gotta get the lay of the land, first.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

There are plenty of other youths in uniform out on the streets, some of them Juuban, some of them other schools. Setsuna doesn't think to point out each as she goes; she just turns back to Kyouka, and nods. "Then hers would be a good one to visit later," Setsuna says. "It's the Hikawa shrine. Her name is Rei Hino. She goes to Ohtori."

A ramen stand it is! This is what Setsuna is good at!! Arranging food! As for small talk, well. That is /not/ what she's very good at, Kyouka might have the time to discover. Because she answers, "I enjoy spending time with my friends, hiking, and music."

...That's /all/ she answers at first, though true to her word, she's happy to stop and wait for Kyouka to look through the stalls. She even does a little looking herself!

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka does actually recognize a few of the other uniforms that are out and about--she checked out a few different schools before deciding on Juuban, but likewise lets them go unremarked.

"Hikawa shrine...." she says to herself, just to help her commit it to memory. "Got it. Yeah, I definitely wouldn't mind making another trip back here. Several, in fact. Seems like there's a lot to see and do here."

The other girl is more than willing to put in her share of the conversational work, at least. But despite the sparse reply, there /is/ something for her to follow up on. "Hey, I like hiking, too. And camping, too, actually. Maybe I can ask you about some good trails in the area sometime? Hopefully ones that allow dogs, so I can take mine with me. Oh, um... I've got a siberian husky named Wolfy at home.... do you have any pets?" She's doing her best to keep some semblance of a conversation moving without just wearing Setsuna out.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna doesn't really seem to notice how considerate Kyouka is being about not wearing her out, but on the other hand she seems to be in a good mood hanging out with her anyway. So maybe that's good enough?

"Good! It's easy to reach from the school and is a very nice area."

She brightens visibly as Kyouka mentions that she also likes hiking. Her red eyes sparkle a little as she looks over. "Camping is also fun!" she agrees. "My girlfriend is the one who got me into both of those," she volunteers. "You can definitely ask me. I think a lot of the trails are very pet-friendly if you're willing to clean up after." Then she 'hmms'. "Wolfy... Yes, good." Nod, nod.

Pets? She thinks about it. "No," she says, "But I help at Buki's parents' animal hospital sometimes."

Easier to talk about for her: her friends!

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka can /also/ enjoy amicable silence, so doesn't feel the need to push the conversation too hard... though she does a tiny bit just to try and learn about her classmate.

"Yeah, most days I just head home from school, though sometimes I run by the store to pick something up for dinner." She gets a little contemplative at that, as if remembering something, but quickly shakes it off.

"Oh yeah?" she replies as Setsuna mentions who got her into hiking and camping. "Cool! Does your girlfriend go to our school? For me it was my Dad who got me into it. Camping's our favorite thing to do together. Well, that and fishing. I, uh, might have also applied my cooking talents to freshly-caught fish before." No need to mention that she's also an old hand at gutting a freshly-caught fish to prepare it to be cooked. She's not bothered by it, but a lot of people are.

"Yeah," she says in regards to cleaning up, "that's not a problem for me." She actually blushes just a bit when you contemplate on the name Wolfy. "I, uh... I was 8 when I named him, so... yeah. But he's super friendly."

"An animal hospital, huh? That's kinda cool, actually... What kinds of things do you do there?"

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"I live farther away from our school than most, so I tend to plan in advance if I go somewhere else."

"There are a lot of good things to eat in the stores around here," she answers to that, rather than pushing about the thing she's remembering. She smiles again when discussing the people in their respective lives, though. "She doesn't. She goes to Infinity Institute. But I think that's nice." She seems to stop a moment to try to think a little harder. But she can't quite figure out what she wants to say. She looks down. Then, up again! "Fresh food is very good."

But Wolfy! "Does that age have significance to wolves?" she wonders, tilting her head thoughtfully. But she doesn't dwell on it, instead righting herself and saying, "I like dogs."

"I help to care for the animals. I don't have the skills to treat them medically, but I can feed them and give them social interaction as well as exercise."

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka nods a bit when Setsuna mentions planning more due to the distances involved. "Ahh, I see."

"Yeah, there are," she says in agreement about the stock the stores have. "My Mom and I take turns cooking dinner. She's actually a teacher, though she's not teaching at Juuban." Thankfully. She notices Setsuna pause for a moment, and waits before asking, "Everything okay?"

"No, no, it's not significant it's just... I was a little kid when I named him, that's all." She rubs at the back of her neck a bit. "So, you know, I might've named him something different if I was doing it today. But anyway, I'm sure you'll like Wolfy when you get a chance to meet him. He loves everybody."

She nods along as Setsuna describes what she does at the hospital. "That's still pretty neat, though... Social interaction and exercise are important. For dogs and people both."

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"Oh, I see." Setsuna nods along at the explanation. "...I sometimes help my mother with dinner. My sister and I both do." Then she takes a moment to actually address the question, saying, "...I know someone else who likes to fish, but I don't get to talk with him very often," she says, and it is a little sad the way she says it. She doesn't really like talking about Westar, these days.

But the explanation. "Oh," she says. "I see. So you would name him something different now that you're older..." She isn't sure she gets it, admittedly. "I think that seems likely," she agrees pleasantly of the dog though.

"Yes," she says. "I agree. I used to avoid it more... but I learned otherwise, when I made some friends."

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka files that little tidbit away. "Oh, you have a sister? That's cool. I'm an only child, so... Most of the time it's just me and my mom, when my dad's busy with his work." Her voice softens when Setsuna explains about her friend. "I'm sorry, that... can be rough." It's her turn to look lost in thought for a moment, as she turns slightly away. "One of the downsides of moving around a lot," she says glumly, but doesn't elaborate any further on that thought. She's definitely missing some context, to say the least, but she's doing her best to commisserate regardless.

She doesn't really feel the need to make any more comments on the dog name, and she's definitely eager to get onto a happier topic. "Soo... ummm..." She tries to play back the conversation to see if there's anything else she hasn't followed up on. "So what kind of music do you like?" Music was a thing that got mentioend, right?

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"Yes!" Setsuna answers. "I live with my sister and her parents, and now they're my parents, too." However confusingly worded that might or might not be, she sounds fond when she talks about them. It's hard to explain her life to someone without knowing if they know about magic, but she has adapted well enough. "...It's nice, to get to spend time with a parent."

But Kyouka seems thoughtful too. "Thank you," Setsuna says first of her friend. But then, "...I see. Yes. I moved away from my home once. I understand... a little, at least."

But she's content to move to a happier topic. Music! "I like dance music," she answers. "But I'm not much of a dancer. I have friends who are, though!" She seems to think for a moment, and remembers something. "What kind of music do you like?"

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka has to chew on that description for a moment. Eventually she reaches the conclusion that there's... some sort of adoption or foster arrangement at play, maybe. Like a... half-sibling that got adopted, maybe? That.... almost made that description work. Almost. Regardless, she's not one to judge someone's family situation. "Yeah, it is," she says in agreement to being able to spend time with a parent.

She gives Setsuna a little nod when the other girl says 'Thank you.' There's... not really a lot of good things to say in response to that line of dialog. In response to Setsuna saying she moved and understands... Kyouka does something that's probably more American than Japanese. She puts an arm around Setsuna's shoulders and gives her a little sideways half-hug thing, along with a pat on the shoulder, as a silent gesture of commisseration. Then she promptly remembers herself and draws back.

"... Sorry if that was too familiar," she says quietly.

"Dance music, huh? Um... I'm guessing you mean more like... club music or something? I haven't listened to a lot of that." She perks up a bit at the mention of friends who dance. "Oh yeah? Do they like dancing to club music or..." She thinks on how to answer that. "How do I put it... This is kind of a weird thing to describe, but like... cultural music, if that makes sense? They usually have their own dance styles that go with it, too, and I've picked up a number of those. Oh, and... I /do/ kinda like rock and roll and stuff like that." At least there's one fairly normal thing she likes in there.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

If Kyouka decides to indulge in GOSSIP she will learn that Setsuna was adopted by a nice family after a mysterious past. If she doesn't, well, foster adoption arrangement is close enough. Setsuna doesn't explain for the moment. Instead--

She goes '!' at the half-hug. She doesn't actually startle or flinch, but it's sort of an obvious surprise moment. She smiles back at her when she draws back. "...It's okay," she says. "I was surprised, but I appreciate the thought."

She /likes/ hugs, she's just even less touchy than most.

"Mm, more like..." She thinks about humming it, and then instead says, "Oh! I have a music player. When we sit down I'll show you some of it. That's easier than explaining. I'm not very good at understanding culture..."

"Rock! Yes, Lera likes that too."

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka will keep her ears open, but hasn't been around long enough to really be hooked into all of the gossip... and she's not about to go around specifically asking about a hopefully new friend she's /just/ made. That would be kind of creepy.

She smiles back when Setsuna assures her that the hug was okay, nodding. "Good." Even though she was receiving and not getting in that hug, it did her some good too.

"Oh! Sure, that's be cool. How much further is it to the ramen place, anyway?" It had honestly slipped her mind for a bit with all of the stuff they'd been discussing. "Oh, and I'll show you some of the stuff I was thinking of sometime, too. It's not really stuff you'll find on the charts or anything, but... I dunno. I kinda find all of the history and culture around this stuff interesting."

"Lera?" She tries to match the name up to something mentioned previously, and takes a guess at someone mentioned but not named. "Is that your girlfriend you mentioned?"

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna will explain eventually, probably.

When it comes to things like hugs, Setsuna's very shy herself. But it's nice. As for the ramen place... "Oh!" Setsuna says, "Yes, I almost forgot too. We're nearly there! It's just over that way."

She points, and then proceeds to start walking towards it, presumably with Kyouka. "Oh?" she says. "I'd like that," of being shown these things. "I also find culture very interesting."

But she didn't name her girlfriend before--so realizing her mistake, Setsuna nods. "That's right! Lera Camry. She's part of why I decided to stay around here."

The ramen stand, as advertised, is a stand, and it has the delicious scent of handmade ramen and broth wafting forth towards them. Here, Kyouka will discover two things: one, that this is a great ramen stand. Two... that Setsuna can eat a /lot/ of food.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka looks to where Setsuna is pointing, and grins, rubbing her hands together. "Alright! I can't wait to give it a try." She, of course, does follow Setsuna over--part of the point of this whole trip, after all.

"Oh, cool. Yeah, I've got stuff from... literally all around the world. Oh! And I've gone hiking and camping in a bunch of places, so I've got a bunch of cool pictures I could show you, too!" She might be getting a bit excited at the thought of making a friend who shares a number of her interests. It definitely doesn't show or anything.

And again, that phrasing is... well, it's not /wrong/ but it does does have some weird implications if you think about it too hard. "Your girlfriend is why you decided to stay here? Like, in Tokyo?" She's never had the option to choose where she stays or not, but maybe Setsuna's situation is different.

Kyouka is definitely very estatic when we finally reach the booth and she gets to inhale all of those delicious smells. She's ordering from all over the menu, trying to sample as much as she can. She's a pretty big eater herself--lots of physical exercise and muscle tone means her metabolism cooks along at a pretty good rate. But eventually she has her limits and she has to sit back and take a break.

"Dang... I don't know if I've ever met someone with an even bigger appetite than I have..." She actually sounds legitimately impressed. "Remind me to prepare a lot of extra servings when I have you over for studying." There's not a single trace of mean intent in her voice, either. She really just wants to make sure she takes care of her guests properly.

Of course, sitting together for such a long time might offer the best look yet at the bracelet secured snuggly to Kyouka's wrist, should one be interested in keeping an eye out for that sort of thing.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"That sounds great." Despite the lack of exclamation, to look at Setsuna she means it completely--she's just not a very demonstrative person. The truth is that she's also excited though.

"Mm!" Setsuna answers, nodding once and then explaining, "Not the whole reason. The Momozonos took me in when I didn't have anywhere else to go. But she's part of why I decided that I wanted to."

Setsuna just sort of chows along. She gets one thing, but it's a really /big/ one thing, to the point that the guy at the front might question it... if he hadn't seen her here before. It's fine. Super fine.

"Mm! It's very good," Setsuna answers, and then--she does sound impressed, doesn't she? "If it's not any trouble," she replies to that sentiment. ...But it sure looks like she's looking forward to it. Then, she considers. How to do this subtly... How to best bring up...

"Your bracelet is unusual!" she decides.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka thinks she might be starting to get a better read on her classmate after spending the afternoon chatting, so is perfectly willing to take her excitement at her word.

She guesses that the Momozonos is the family that adopted her, based on context, so doesn't afsk for confirmation on that one. "I'm glad there was somebody able to take you in when you needed it." She definitely doesn't push on that any further. If Setsuna wants to tell her sometime, she will.

Kyouka is eagerly chatting with the shopkeeper while she eats, but even more so after she has to pause, asking about different ingredients and preparations and so on--though always respectful not to veer into anything that's in 'secret family recipe' territory or the like. But it's clear that even if she hasn't cooked ramen before, she definitely knows her way around a kitchen.

"Yeah, delicious," she agrees. To the chef she says, "I'll /definitely/ be back." Kyouka just grins at Setsuna, "Nah, not any trouble at all. I'll just be glad not to be the only one going back for thirds anymore."

And then there's the topic change. She blinks a little bit, and not-so-subtly tried to pull the sleeve of her blazer down a bit to hide it better. "O-oh, this thing? I didn't think it was /that/ unusual. Just... something I picked up somewhere, you know?" Technically true, though Kyouka's got kind of a bad poker face, being caught off-guard as she is.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"Yes," Setsuna answers, sincerely once again. She is very grateful to the Momozonos! And she is glad that she went to seek out Kyouka now. It has been a good time. But eventually she does need to consider one of the reasons she sought out the new girl...

The shopkeeper's happy to discuss; in fact, he's /eager/ to discuss with someone who appreciates it, especially someone who knows her way around a kitchen! Kyouka might've made more than one new friend today.

"Good!" the chef says, and laughs, tending to another customer as they finish the conversation. "That I'm happy to help with!" Setsuna says.

But she has... not managed to very subtly go into this. Hm. Setsuna is not very good at lying these days. "Oh, it's unusual in a good way!" she follows up, and then decides that that doesn't really help. "I see..."

She considers. "Well," she says brightly, "If you ever want to talk to other people who like unusual accessories, I can put you in touch!"

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Perhaps only one of the only things Kyouka loves more than good food, is discussing food--well, anything, really--with someone passionate about their craft and knows a lot about it. So she'll definitely be coming back for both good food and good conversation.

Kyouka is... a bit conflicted. She is actually pretty desparate to talk to someone who might know anything about Strike Wolf, or even just intelligent devices in general. Strike Wolf didn't seem to come with a user manual (probably one of the many, many things that didn't get installed correctly), but on the other hand... her first encounter with another magical entity kind of trashed a city block in the process of stealing Strike Wolf, so she's feeling the need for an abundance of caution.

Even so... "In a... good way, huh?" She studies Setsuna silently for a few moments and finally decides to take the leap. "So..." She pulls the sleeve back again, but this time very specifically uncovering Strike Wolf's standby form clearly. "So... you've seen something like this before?" Kyouka is perhaps a little bit better at being subtle, but it's still a bit nerve-wracking in the moment.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna could be wrong, of course; it could be that the rumors are just a misunderstanding. But Setsuna has been involved in the magical world for some time, and her instincts are good. So while she doesn't know about Kyouka's experiences... She can only try to be someone worth talking to, if indeed there is something like that going on.

"Yes," Setsuna answers, a little lamely. She seems troubled; even she realizes this isn't going very well for a moment. But when Kyouka asks her about it...

"Yes," Setsuna answers. "I've seen... Devices like this before." If Kyouka doesn't know what an Intelligent Device is, she'll just think it's odd phrasing. If she does, then maybe...

Setsuna pulls out her cellphone at this point, and sets it down on the counter. But it's not an ordinary cellphone; it's white, and flips open at the side, and is beautifully ornate. It's not the same as an Intelligent Device, but fair seems fair to her--it might help.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
There's some /definite/ recognition showing at the word 'device' there. A widening of the eyes, a sharp little intake of breath. She knows. And what's more, she knows that /you/ know. That's /far/ too specific a word choice, even for the girl who sometimes phrases things a bit oddly or has some complicated explanations for things that you can kind of rationalize an explanation for.

And there's a gear turning in the back of her head. But she looks down at the cellphone that Setsuna puts on the counter, and... She's looking at it. /Really/ looking at it. For far, far longer than anyone not involved with magic might look at it. Slowly she looks back up from the cell phone to you, even more gears turning now that she's seen that, and she softly states, "So... there's many different foods... on Earth, huh?" There's just the barest of emphasis on the last part of that question. She might not be able to make an astonishing deductive leap to figure out everything behind what Setsuna's said... but she's definitely open to the possibilities.

She looks down at her empty bowl and takes a deep breath. She pulls her wrest into her lap, fidgeting with the bracelet a bit. "I, uh... if you know somebody that knows about these then... I'd appreciate that."

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

There--Setsuna sees it. It's enough! This is a risk itself; Setsuna could be revealing herself to an enemy... but that might be why Setsuna is the best person to /take/ this risk.

The cellphone--more properly a Linkrun--is white and red. It has no recognizeable brand attached to it, no logos. It could just be a fancy phone case. But it isn't.

"...Yes," Setsuna answers, and thinks--she thinks that Kyouka knows somethnig more about her, now. "I've only been in Tokyo for a couple of years now," she explains without fully explaining. But Kyouka fidgets and asks, so--

"This isn't a good place to talk about that," she says quietly, "But I do." She looks to the bracelet, and says, "Hello."

Then she looks back up to Kyouka, "But if you're willing... I can arrange a meeting?"

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Funnily enough, Kyouka has the same reservations about potentially revealing herself to an enemy as Setsuna does, though... well, she was going to have to take that risk at /some/ point, really. Unless she just got lucky and found Strike Wolf's creator, returned h8im and then...

Well, that didn't bear thinking about at the moment. Either way, to get more leads she was going to have to find someone she could trust. She's developed a sense for people just by dealing with lots of different people, and hopefully... hopefully that sense isn't leading her astray at the moment.

When Setsuna explains about how long she's been here, Kyouka looks up. "Must have been a hell of a move," she says quietly. She was ready to commisserate about moving readily before, but now that she's got an inkling of the truth... there's a deeper note of empthy there.

She nods, "Right, yeah, let's... yeah." Then, when she speaks to Strike Wolf, Kyouka glances very briefly at the shopkeeper and the other patrons--all thankfully paying very little attention to the two of them.

"It's okay," she says in the quietest of voices.

There's a small shmmer of light from the intelligent device as it says, <Hello.>

Kyouka smiles a bit at Strike Wolf, and then looks somberly up to Setsuna. "I'd like that," she says with a small nod.

2022-08-07 - There's Many Different Foods On Earth

2022-08-08T05:30:02Z

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Title: There's Many Different Foods On Earth'''
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|'''Summary''': 
''The new girl on the Track Team has a lot of rumors flying about her! Setsuna investigates!''
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| '''Who:''' 
[[Setsuna Higashi]], [[Kyouka Okazaki]]
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| '''Where:''' 
Juuban High School / Asakusa Traditional District
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| '''OOC - IC Date:''' 
08-07-2022 - Saturday January 02, 2016
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[[Category:Logs]]

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"Hello!" Setsuna Higashi had greeted Kyouka Okazaki after a little meetup of the track team, making a point of lingering after to talk to her. "I know we already welcomed you..." You would think she'd trail off to finish that sentence, but instead she just lets it go and says instead, "Would you like for me to show you around? I was new here once, too. There are a lot of nice places near the school!"

For context, Setsuna--purple-haired and red-eyed--is a /very/ quiet girl; she's popular in the club, but doesn't actually say very much. She's very intent and focused on club activities, and is known to have good grades as well as academics. And of course, she still has a little of that transfer student magic, though she's more recognized now.

And now she's invited Kyouka to hang out! Despite the rumors about her; a few people are already buzzing about this, considering those, and it'll surely be all over the school soon enough.

"There's a lot of good food out in the temple district," she suggests, and smiles.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
It was... an interesting time for Kyouka to join the school year, an unfortunate byproduct of the timing of her family's move to Japan. Kyouka had just enough time to get some familiarity with some of the students and classses before finals and winter break, including a chance to get introduced to the track club.

On the track? She could definitely hold her own with the rest of the students. Off the track? Friendly, but perhaps a tad awkward still. So she was a little surprised when Setsuna approached her--either because anybody at all had bothered to talk to her, or because it was the normally-quiet Setuna. Perhaps a little bit of both.

"Oh, hi! Um... Higashi, right?" Lots of new names to remember, but she was trying. She listens curiously, noting the dropped sentence, but perking up a bit when the offer of a show around comes. "Oh! Um... yeah. Yeah! Thanks, I'd really appreciate it. I've been so busy getting set up with school I haven't been able to look around as much as I'd like."

Kyouka stood out for enough reasons already, but the black and purple dyed hair probably didn't help her blend in any. She was pretty decent academically, though she hadn't had much chance to show that off around here, yet (though her performance in the placement exams might have circled a bit) but definitely got it more from hard work rather than being born with a genius IQ.

Speaking of rumors, the truly observant might have noticed she had taken to wearing a leather bracelet all the time, wholly unremarkable in other respects, but she didn't start her stint at Juuban with it, and it only showed up exactly when some particular rumors started to circle...

Kyouka grins, "Okay, if there's good food to be had I'm /definitely/ going to be there."

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna probably /should/ be awkward, but somehow she just isn't. For instance: she doesn't even react to the idea that it might be surprising to hear from her. She doesn't show a whit of hesitation. Instead she answers, "Yes! And you're Okazaki." She is pretty good with names. But the show around, "Great." A nod, and then--hmm. Purple and black dyed hair... That does stand out. As does the bracelet. Now, any subtle girl at all would of course know not to mention either of those things. However:

Setsuna Higashi is not very subtle.

"There is," she confirms, good food. And... "Let's go this way; the bus should be coming shortly."

She'll lead her along, though she pauses, and looks back. "Do you dye your hair?" she wonders. "I think that's a good color." Onward!!

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka seemed to do far better with akwardness once she let her guard down a bit, though that hadn't happened a lot so far in her short stint here. She nods a bit to acknowledge her last name. "Right! That's... me." Was there a bit of hesitation in her voice there? Probably nothing. She just nods along to the suggestion of the bus, turning from the direction she'd been heading previously to follow along with her classmate.

"I love trying new foods, actually," she says conversationally as they head towards the bus. "It's, uh... pretty handy trait when you've moved around as much as I have, you know?" Despite her being a transfer student being the most obvious 'strange' thing about her, she actually tried not to drop the fact that she's moved a lot into conversation all that much.

She blinks a bit at the question about her hair. "Uh... yeah. It's, uh... not too weird, is it?" She looks a bit taken aback by the compliment, but then smiles a bit sheepishly. "Oh, thanks."

"So... how far away is this place, anyway?"

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna doesn't even notice the hesitation. Or at least, she doesn't seem to. She just tilts her head and smiles again. In point of fact, one thing that may be noticeable about Setsuna is that she sometimes looks a little... blank, when she thinks no one is looking, like she forgot to put on an expression or something. But not just now!

"Is that so?" Setsuna asks at the conversational tone. "Oh, yes. That would make sense. There are many different foods on Earth." Pause. Did she say something funny? Nah, it's probably fine. "I haven't done a lot of moving, myself," she decides to say instead. "But I also like new foods."

Then she shakes her head. "It is not too weird at all! The two-tone effect is very nice."

"Not far," she answers then. "A few minutes by bus?"

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka gives Setuna a bit of an odd sidelong glance when she mentions 'on Earth.' It's... /technically/ a true statement, but... not how she would normally phrase that. Still, that's not /that/ out of the ordinary, either, so she lets it pass. "Well, if you like new foods but haven't moved a lot, um... you should come over to my place to study sometime?"

She kicks herself mentally for phrasing that as a question, and hastily adds, "What I /mean/, is, I /also/ like to cook, so I could probably whip up some stuff you haven't tried before, if you're interested." Is this how making friends goes? Why did this feel so much easier when she didn't feel like she was rooted in a place?

Did being in an actual high school just add stakes to everything? That was ridiculous.

Kyouka ran her fingers through her hair to muss it up a bit more, "Oh, cool then. Thanks. I'm glad you like it."

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna looks at Kyouka as she's talking, but doesn't have any particular reaction to that odd glance. Maybe she didn't notice? But more improtant to her is the offer that Kyouka makes. Setsuna goes '!' and blinks once.

"I would like that," she says pleasantly, evenly. On the bright side, she does seem sincere--on the other... she doesn't offer any assurance that it wasn't awkward.

"Yes!" Then, "Oh, it's just over here..."

There will probably not be a lot of time for talking on the bus, busy as it's likely to be at this hour. But that's fine. If it's too busy to talk, then they can pick up conversation a few minutes later!

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka is definitely relieved that her offer of study and food was accepted. Not that she wanted to bribe friendship out of everyone but... gotta put yourself out there at some point, right? Right. "Cool. Then... yeah, we can set something up sometime. Maybe... see if some of the other people in the club want to join in?"

Trying to make multiple friends at once. Now that was living dangerously, for sure.

The hustle and bustle of the bus is such that carrying on a conversation is a bit difficult, but she can still enjoy watching the scenery pass by and the chance to get to see more of her new neighborhood. Regardless, she does make sure to keep an eye on Setsuna to make sure she doesn't miss the stop.

Upon stepping off the bus and getting to properly take in the scene, she lights up. "Oh, hey. I love the atmosphere here already." Busy shops, lots of people--she inhales deeply through her nose. Mmm. The smell of food.

But most importantly, just a place with a good /vibe/. Definitely different than if she was trying to visit a place like Shibuya.

She turns to Setsuna, "Sooo, where to first?"

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"That's a nice idea," Setsuna agrees about inviting others. She is very willing to be sociable!! Living dangerously or not! But the scenery is indeed nice, and Setsuna calmly waits for their stop until it's time--at which point she steps off and makes sure Kyouka is with her before looking around.

"Good!" she replies about loving the atmosphere. Setsuna, still in uniform, starts down the sidewalk immediately, turning to Kyouka and pausing a moment to let her smell the roses, as it were. "I have a friend who works at a shrine in the area... but she's probably busy today." Pause. "I was thinking we could visit a ramen stand I know out here. It's a little down the way, but that means you'd have a chance to look around before we get there. If you want to stop at any of the stalls or shops that's OK too."

That's a lot of words for her! She may need a moment to recover before she speaks more.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka does her best not to spend /too/ much time on smelling the food instead of actually taking action to go get some for real. She quickly follows along with Setsuna, also in her uniform, naturally. It feels a bit weird wearing one still, and especially going out in it, but... well, it seems to be the norm around here, so she should just get used to it.

"A shrine, huh?" she says thoughtfully. "I've been wanting to check one out at some point..." Then she hastily adds, "But we don't have to do it today, or anything. Visiting a ramen stand would also be interesting, too. I'll follow along with whatever you think is best."

She does her best to make small talk as they walk along, without wearing the other girl out. Kyouka can be very talkative once she gets over her initial awkwardness and gets rolling, but can also enjoy some amicable silence, too. "So... what do you like to do outside of school?"

She does take advantage of the invitation to look at the shops and stalls, though more with an eye to come back later instead of purchasing a lot right at that moment. Gotta get the lay of the land, first.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

There are plenty of other youths in uniform out on the streets, some of them Juuban, some of them other schools. Setsuna doesn't think to point out each as she goes; she just turns back to Kyouka, and nods. "Then hers would be a good one to visit later," Setsuna says. "It's the Hikawa shrine. Her name is Rei Hino. She goes to Ohtori."

A ramen stand it is! This is what Setsuna is good at!! Arranging food! As for small talk, well. That is /not/ what she's very good at, Kyouka might have the time to discover. Because she answers, "I enjoy spending time with my friends, hiking, and music."

...That's /all/ she answers at first, though true to her word, she's happy to stop and wait for Kyouka to look through the stalls. She even does a little looking herself!

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka does actually recognize a few of the other uniforms that are out and about--she checked out a few different schools before deciding on Juuban, but likewise lets them go unremarked.

"Hikawa shrine...." she says to herself, just to help her commit it to memory. "Got it. Yeah, I definitely wouldn't mind making another trip back here. Several, in fact. Seems like there's a lot to see and do here."

The other girl is more than willing to put in her share of the conversational work, at least. But despite the sparse reply, there /is/ something for her to follow up on. "Hey, I like hiking, too. And camping, too, actually. Maybe I can ask you about some good trails in the area sometime? Hopefully ones that allow dogs, so I can take mine with me. Oh, um... I've got a siberian husky named Wolfy at home.... do you have any pets?" She's doing her best to keep some semblance of a conversation moving without just wearing Setsuna out.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna doesn't really seem to notice how considerate Kyouka is being about not wearing her out, but on the other hand she seems to be in a good mood hanging out with her anyway. So maybe that's good enough?

"Good! It's easy to reach from the school and is a very nice area."

She brightens visibly as Kyouka mentions that she also likes hiking. Her red eyes sparkle a little as she looks over. "Camping is also fun!" she agrees. "My girlfriend is the one who got me into both of those," she volunteers. "You can definitely ask me. I think a lot of the trails are very pet-friendly if you're willing to clean up after." Then she 'hmms'. "Wolfy... Yes, good." Nod, nod.

Pets? She thinks about it. "No," she says, "But I help at Buki's parents' animal hospital sometimes."

Easier to talk about for her: her friends!

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka can /also/ enjoy amicable silence, so doesn't feel the need to push the conversation too hard... though she does a tiny bit just to try and learn about her classmate.

"Yeah, most days I just head home from school, though sometimes I run by the store to pick something up for dinner." She gets a little contemplative at that, as if remembering something, but quickly shakes it off.

"Oh yeah?" she replies as Setsuna mentions who got her into hiking and camping. "Cool! Does your girlfriend go to our school? For me it was my Dad who got me into it. Camping's our favorite thing to do together. Well, that and fishing. I, uh, might have also applied my cooking talents to freshly-caught fish before." No need to mention that she's also an old hand at gutting a freshly-caught fish to prepare it to be cooked. She's not bothered by it, but a lot of people are.

"Yeah," she says in regards to cleaning up, "that's not a problem for me." She actually blushes just a bit when you contemplate on the name Wolfy. "I, uh... I was 8 when I named him, so... yeah. But he's super friendly."

"An animal hospital, huh? That's kinda cool, actually... What kinds of things do you do there?"

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"I live farther away from our school than most, so I tend to plan in advance if I go somewhere else."

"There are a lot of good things to eat in the stores around here," she answers to that, rather than pushing about the thing she's remembering. She smiles again when discussing the people in their respective lives, though. "She doesn't. She goes to Infinity Institute. But I think that's nice." She seems to stop a moment to try to think a little harder. But she can't quite figure out what she wants to say. She looks down. Then, up again! "Fresh food is very good."

But Wolfy! "Does that age have significance to wolves?" she wonders, tilting her head thoughtfully. But she doesn't dwell on it, instead righting herself and saying, "I like dogs."

"I help to care for the animals. I don't have the skills to treat them medically, but I can feed them and give them social interaction as well as exercise."

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka nods a bit when Setsuna mentions planning more due to the distances involved. "Ahh, I see."

"Yeah, there are," she says in agreement about the stock the stores have. "My Mom and I take turns cooking dinner. She's actually a teacher, though she's not teaching at Juuban." Thankfully. She notices Setsuna pause for a moment, and waits before asking, "Everything okay?"

"No, no, it's not significant it's just... I was a little kid when I named him, that's all." She rubs at the back of her neck a bit. "So, you know, I might've named him something different if I was doing it today. But anyway, I'm sure you'll like Wolfy when you get a chance to meet him. He loves everybody."

She nods along as Setsuna describes what she does at the hospital. "That's still pretty neat, though... Social interaction and exercise are important. For dogs and people both."

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"Oh, I see." Setsuna nods along at the explanation. "...I sometimes help my mother with dinner. My sister and I both do." Then she takes a moment to actually address the question, saying, "...I know someone else who likes to fish, but I don't get to talk with him very often," she says, and it is a little sad the way she says it. She doesn't really like talking about Westar, these days.

But the explanation. "Oh," she says. "I see. So you would name him something different now that you're older..." She isn't sure she gets it, admittedly. "I think that seems likely," she agrees pleasantly of the dog though.

"Yes," she says. "I agree. I used to avoid it more... but I learned otherwise, when I made some friends."

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka files that little tidbit away. "Oh, you have a sister? That's cool. I'm an only child, so... Most of the time it's just me and my mom, when my dad's busy with his work." Her voice softens when Setsuna explains about her friend. "I'm sorry, that... can be rough." It's her turn to look lost in thought for a moment, as she turns slightly away. "One of the downsides of moving around a lot," she says glumly, but doesn't elaborate any further on that thought. She's definitely missing some context, to say the least, but she's doing her best to commisserate regardless.

She doesn't really feel the need to make any more comments on the dog name, and she's definitely eager to get onto a happier topic. "Soo... ummm..." She tries to play back the conversation to see if there's anything else she hasn't followed up on. "So what kind of music do you like?" Music was a thing that got mentioend, right?

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"Yes!" Setsuna answers. "I live with my sister and her parents, and now they're my parents, too." However confusingly worded that might or might not be, she sounds fond when she talks about them. It's hard to explain her life to someone without knowing if they know about magic, but she has adapted well enough. "...It's nice, to get to spend time with a parent."

But Kyouka seems thoughtful too. "Thank you," Setsuna says first of her friend. But then, "...I see. Yes. I moved away from my home once. I understand... a little, at least."

But she's content to move to a happier topic. Music! "I like dance music," she answers. "But I'm not much of a dancer. I have friends who are, though!" She seems to think for a moment, and remembers something. "What kind of music do you like?"

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka has to chew on that description for a moment. Eventually she reaches the conclusion that there's... some sort of adoption or foster arrangement at play, maybe. Like a... half-sibling that got adopted, maybe? That.... almost made that description work. Almost. Regardless, she's not one to judge someone's family situation. "Yeah, it is," she says in agreement to being able to spend time with a parent.

She gives Setsuna a little nod when the other girl says 'Thank you.' There's... not really a lot of good things to say in response to that line of dialog. In response to Setsuna saying she moved and understands... Kyouka does something that's probably more American than Japanese. She puts an arm around Setsuna's shoulders and gives her a little sideways half-hug thing, along with a pat on the shoulder, as a silent gesture of commisseration. Then she promptly remembers herself and draws back.

"... Sorry if that was too familiar," she says quietly.

"Dance music, huh? Um... I'm guessing you mean more like... club music or something? I haven't listened to a lot of that." She perks up a bit at the mention of friends who dance. "Oh yeah? Do they like dancing to club music or..." She thinks on how to answer that. "How do I put it... This is kind of a weird thing to describe, but like... cultural music, if that makes sense? They usually have their own dance styles that go with it, too, and I've picked up a number of those. Oh, and... I /do/ kinda like rock and roll and stuff like that." At least there's one fairly normal thing she likes in there.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

If Kyouka decides to indulge in GOSSIP she will learn that Setsuna was adopted by a nice family after a mysterious past. If she doesn't, well, foster adoption arrangement is close enough. Setsuna doesn't explain for the moment. Instead--

She goes '!' at the half-hug. She doesn't actually startle or flinch, but it's sort of an obvious surprise moment. She smiles back at her when she draws back. "...It's okay," she says. "I was surprised, but I appreciate the thought."

She /likes/ hugs, she's just even less touchy than most.

"Mm, more like..." She thinks about humming it, and then instead says, "Oh! I have a music player. When we sit down I'll show you some of it. That's easier than explaining. I'm not very good at understanding culture..."

"Rock! Yes, Lera likes that too."

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka will keep her ears open, but hasn't been around long enough to really be hooked into all of the gossip... and she's not about to go around specifically asking about a hopefully new friend she's /just/ made. That would be kind of creepy.

She smiles back when Setsuna assures her that the hug was okay, nodding. "Good." Even though she was receiving and not getting in that hug, it did her some good too.

"Oh! Sure, that's be cool. How much further is it to the ramen place, anyway?" It had honestly slipped her mind for a bit with all of the stuff they'd been discussing. "Oh, and I'll show you some of the stuff I was thinking of sometime, too. It's not really stuff you'll find on the charts or anything, but... I dunno. I kinda find all of the history and culture around this stuff interesting."

"Lera?" She tries to match the name up to something mentioned previously, and takes a guess at someone mentioned but not named. "Is that your girlfriend you mentioned?"

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna will explain eventually, probably.

When it comes to things like hugs, Setsuna's very shy herself. But it's nice. As for the ramen place... "Oh!" Setsuna says, "Yes, I almost forgot too. We're nearly there! It's just over that way."

She points, and then proceeds to start walking towards it, presumably with Kyouka. "Oh?" she says. "I'd like that," of being shown these things. "I also find culture very interesting."

But she didn't name her girlfriend before--so realizing her mistake, Setsuna nods. "That's right! Lera Camry. She's part of why I decided to stay around here."

The ramen stand, as advertised, is a stand, and it has the delicious scent of handmade ramen and broth wafting forth towards them. Here, Kyouka will discover two things: one, that this is a great ramen stand. Two... that Setsuna can eat a /lot/ of food.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka looks to where Setsuna is pointing, and grins, rubbing her hands together. "Alright! I can't wait to give it a try." She, of course, does follow Setsuna over--part of the point of this whole trip, after all.

"Oh, cool. Yeah, I've got stuff from... literally all around the world. Oh! And I've gone hiking and camping in a bunch of places, so I've got a bunch of cool pictures I could show you, too!" She might be getting a bit excited at the thought of making a friend who shares a number of her interests. It definitely doesn't show or anything.

And again, that phrasing is... well, it's not /wrong/ but it does does have some weird implications if you think about it too hard. "Your girlfriend is why you decided to stay here? Like, in Tokyo?" She's never had the option to choose where she stays or not, but maybe Setsuna's situation is different.

Kyouka is definitely very estatic when we finally reach the booth and she gets to inhale all of those delicious smells. She's ordering from all over the menu, trying to sample as much as she can. She's a pretty big eater herself--lots of physical exercise and muscle tone means her metabolism cooks along at a pretty good rate. But eventually she has her limits and she has to sit back and take a break.

"Dang... I don't know if I've ever met someone with an even bigger appetite than I have..." She actually sounds legitimately impressed. "Remind me to prepare a lot of extra servings when I have you over for studying." There's not a single trace of mean intent in her voice, either. She really just wants to make sure she takes care of her guests properly.

Of course, sitting together for such a long time might offer the best look yet at the bracelet secured snuggly to Kyouka's wrist, should one be interested in keeping an eye out for that sort of thing.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"That sounds great." Despite the lack of exclamation, to look at Setsuna she means it completely--she's just not a very demonstrative person. The truth is that she's also excited though.

"Mm!" Setsuna answers, nodding once and then explaining, "Not the whole reason. The Momozonos took me in when I didn't have anywhere else to go. But she's part of why I decided that I wanted to."

Setsuna just sort of chows along. She gets one thing, but it's a really /big/ one thing, to the point that the guy at the front might question it... if he hadn't seen her here before. It's fine. Super fine.

"Mm! It's very good," Setsuna answers, and then--she does sound impressed, doesn't she? "If it's not any trouble," she replies to that sentiment. ...But it sure looks like she's looking forward to it. Then, she considers. How to do this subtly... How to best bring up...

"Your bracelet is unusual!" she decides.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka thinks she might be starting to get a better read on her classmate after spending the afternoon chatting, so is perfectly willing to take her excitement at her word.

She guesses that the Momozonos is the family that adopted her, based on context, so doesn't afsk for confirmation on that one. "I'm glad there was somebody able to take you in when you needed it." She definitely doesn't push on that any further. If Setsuna wants to tell her sometime, she will.

Kyouka is eagerly chatting with the shopkeeper while she eats, but even more so after she has to pause, asking about different ingredients and preparations and so on--though always respectful not to veer into anything that's in 'secret family recipe' territory or the like. But it's clear that even if she hasn't cooked ramen before, she definitely knows her way around a kitchen.

"Yeah, delicious," she agrees. To the chef she says, "I'll /definitely/ be back." Kyouka just grins at Setsuna, "Nah, not any trouble at all. I'll just be glad not to be the only one going back for thirds anymore."

And then there's the topic change. She blinks a little bit, and not-so-subtly tried to pull the sleeve of her blazer down a bit to hide it better. "O-oh, this thing? I didn't think it was /that/ unusual. Just... something I picked up somewhere, you know?" Technically true, though Kyouka's got kind of a bad poker face, being caught off-guard as she is.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"Yes," Setsuna answers, sincerely once again. She is very grateful to the Momozonos! And she is glad that she went to seek out Kyouka now. It has been a good time. But eventually she does need to consider one of the reasons she sought out the new girl...

The shopkeeper's happy to discuss; in fact, he's /eager/ to discuss with someone who appreciates it, especially someone who knows her way around a kitchen! Kyouka might've made more than one new friend today.

"Good!" the chef says, and laughs, tending to another customer as they finish the conversation. "That I'm happy to help with!" Setsuna says.

But she has... not managed to very subtly go into this. Hm. Setsuna is not very good at lying these days. "Oh, it's unusual in a good way!" she follows up, and then decides that that doesn't really help. "I see..."

She considers. "Well," she says brightly, "If you ever want to talk to other people who like unusual accessories, I can put you in touch!"

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Perhaps only one of the only things Kyouka loves more than good food, is discussing food--well, anything, really--with someone passionate about their craft and knows a lot about it. So she'll definitely be coming back for both good food and good conversation.

Kyouka is... a bit conflicted. She is actually pretty desparate to talk to someone who might know anything about Strike Wolf, or even just intelligent devices in general. Strike Wolf didn't seem to come with a user manual (probably one of the many, many things that didn't get installed correctly), but on the other hand... her first encounter with another magical entity kind of trashed a city block in the process of stealing Strike Wolf, so she's feeling the need for an abundance of caution.

Even so... "In a... good way, huh?" She studies Setsuna silently for a few moments and finally decides to take the leap. "So..." She pulls the sleeve back again, but this time very specifically uncovering Strike Wolf's standby form clearly. "So... you've seen something like this before?" Kyouka is perhaps a little bit better at being subtle, but it's still a bit nerve-wracking in the moment.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna could be wrong, of course; it could be that the rumors are just a misunderstanding. But Setsuna has been involved in the magical world for some time, and her instincts are good. So while she doesn't know about Kyouka's experiences... She can only try to be someone worth talking to, if indeed there is something like that going on.

"Yes," Setsuna answers, a little lamely. She seems troubled; even she realizes this isn't going very well for a moment. But when Kyouka asks her about it...

"Yes," Setsuna answers. "I've seen... Devices like this before." If Kyouka doesn't know what an Intelligent Device is, she'll just think it's odd phrasing. If she does, then maybe...

Setsuna pulls out her cellphone at this point, and sets it down on the counter. But it's not an ordinary cellphone; it's white, and flips open at the side, and is beautifully ornate. It's not the same as an Intelligent Device, but fair seems fair to her--it might help.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
There's some /definite/ recognition showing at the word 'device' there. A widening of the eyes, a sharp little intake of breath. She knows. And what's more, she knows that /you/ know. That's /far/ too specific a word choice, even for the girl who sometimes phrases things a bit oddly or has some complicated explanations for things that you can kind of rationalize an explanation for.

And there's a gear turning in the back of her head. But she looks down at the cellphone that Setsuna puts on the counter, and... She's looking at it. /Really/ looking at it. For far, far longer than anyone not involved with magic might look at it. Slowly she looks back up from the cell phone to you, even more gears turning now that she's seen that, and she softly states, "So... there's many different foods... on Earth, huh?" There's just the barest of emphasis on the last part of that question. She might not be able to make an astonishing deductive leap to figure out everything behind what Setsuna's said... but she's definitely open to the possibilities.

She looks down at her empty bowl and takes a deep breath. She pulls her wrest into her lap, fidgeting with the bracelet a bit. "I, uh... if you know somebody that knows about these then... I'd appreciate that."

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

There--Setsuna sees it. It's enough! This is a risk itself; Setsuna could be revealing herself to an enemy... but that might be why Setsuna is the best person to /take/ this risk.

The cellphone--more properly a Linkrun--is white and red. It has no recognizeable brand attached to it, no logos. It could just be a fancy phone case. But it isn't.

"...Yes," Setsuna answers, and thinks--she thinks that Kyouka knows somethnig more about her, now. "I've only been in Tokyo for a couple of years now," she explains without fully explaining. But Kyouka fidgets and asks, so--

"This isn't a good place to talk about that," she says quietly, "But I do." She looks to the bracelet, and says, "Hello."

Then she looks back up to Kyouka, "But if you're willing... I can arrange a meeting?"

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Funnily enough, Kyouka has the same reservations about potentially revealing herself to an enemy as Setsuna does, though... well, she was going to have to take that risk at /some/ point, really. Unless she just got lucky and found Strike Wolf's creator, returned h8im and then...

Well, that didn't bear thinking about at the moment. Either way, to get more leads she was going to have to find someone she could trust. She's developed a sense for people just by dealing with lots of different people, and hopefully... hopefully that sense isn't leading her astray at the moment.

When Setsuna explains about how long she's been here, Kyouka looks up. "Must have been a hell of a move," she says quietly. She was ready to commisserate about moving readily before, but now that she's got an inkling of the truth... there's a deeper note of empthy there.

She nods, "Right, yeah, let's... yeah." Then, when she speaks to Strike Wolf, Kyouka glances very briefly at the shopkeeper and the other patrons--all thankfully paying very little attention to the two of them.

"It's okay," she says in the quietest of voices.

There's a small shmmer of light from the intelligent device as it says, <Hello.>

Kyouka smiles a bit at Strike Wolf, and then looks somberly up to Setsuna. "I'd like that," she says with a small nod.

2022-08-07 - There's Many Different Foods On Earth

2022-08-08T05:11:34Z

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|'''Summary''': 
''The new girl on the Track Team has a lot of rumors flying about her! Setsuna investigates!''
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| '''Who:''' 
[[Setsuna Higashi]], [[Kyouka Okazaki]]
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| '''Where:''' 
Juuban High School / Asakusa Traditional District
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| '''OOC - IC Date:''' 
08-07-2022 - Saturday January 02, 2016
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[[Category:Logs]]

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"Hello!" Setsuna Higashi had greeted Kyouka Okazaki after a little meetup of the track team, making a point of lingering after to talk to her. "I know we already welcomed you..." You would think she'd trail off to finish that sentence, but instead she just lets it go and says instead, "Would you like for me to show you around? I was new here once, too. There are a lot of nice places near the school!"

For context, Setsuna--purple-haired and red-eyed--is a /very/ quiet girl; she's popular in the club, but doesn't actually say very much. She's very intent and focused on club activities, and is known to have good grades as well as academics. And of course, she still has a little of that transfer student magic, though she's more recognized now.

And now she's invited Kyouka to hang out! Despite the rumors about her; a few people are already buzzing about this, considering those, and it'll surely be all over the school soon enough.

"There's a lot of good food out in the temple district," she suggests, and smiles.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
It was... an interesting time for Kyouka to join the school year, an unfortunate byproduct of the timing of her family's move to Japan. Kyouka had just enough time to get some familiarity with some of the students and classses before finals and winter break, including a chance to get introduced to the track club.

On the track? She could definitely hold her own with the rest of the students. Off the track? Friendly, but perhaps a tad awkward still. So she was a little surprised when Setsuna approached her--either because anybody at all had bothered to talk to her, or because it was the normally-quiet Setuna. Perhaps a little bit of both.

"Oh, hi! Um... Higashi, right?" Lots of new names to remember, but she was trying. She listens curiously, noting the dropped sentence, but perking up a bit when the offer of a show around comes. "Oh! Um... yeah. Yeah! Thanks, I'd really appreciate it. I've been so busy getting set up with school I haven't been able to look around as much as I'd like."

Kyouka stood out for enough reasons already, but the black and purple dyed hair probably didn't help her blend in any. She was pretty decent academically, though she hadn't had much chance to show that off around here, yet (though her performance in the placement exams might have circled a bit) but definitely got it more from hard work rather than being born with a genius IQ.

Speaking of rumors, the truly observant might have noticed she had taken to wearing a leather bracelet all the time, wholly unremarkable in other respects, but she didn't start her stint at Juuban with it, and it only showed up exactly when some particular rumors started to circle...

Kyouka grins, "Okay, if there's good food to be had I'm /definitely/ going to be there."

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna probably /should/ be awkward, but somehow she just isn't. For instance: she doesn't even react to the idea that it might be surprising to hear from her. She doesn't show a whit of hesitation. Instead she answers, "Yes! And you're Okazaki." She is pretty good with names. But the show around, "Great." A nod, and then--hmm. Purple and black dyed hair... That does stand out. As does the bracelet. Now, any subtle girl at all would of course know not to mention either of those things. However:

Setsuna Higashi is not very subtle.

"There is," she confirms, good food. And... "Let's go this way; the bus should be coming shortly."

She'll lead her along, though she pauses, and looks back. "Do you dye your hair?" she wonders. "I think that's a good color." Onward!!

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka seemed to do far better with akwardness once she let her guard down a bit, though that hadn't happened a lot so far in her short stint here. She nods a bit to acknowledge her last name. "Right! That's... me." Was there a bit of hesitation in her voice there? Probably nothing. She just nods along to the suggestion of the bus, turning from the direction she'd been heading previously to follow along with her classmate.

"I love trying new foods, actually," she says conversationally as they head towards the bus. "It's, uh... pretty handy trait when you've moved around as much as I have, you know?" Despite her being a transfer student being the most obvious 'strange' thing about her, she actually tried not to drop the fact that she's moved a lot into conversation all that much.

She blinks a bit at the question about her hair. "Uh... yeah. It's, uh... not too weird, is it?" She looks a bit taken aback by the compliment, but then smiles a bit sheepishly. "Oh, thanks."

"So... how far away is this place, anyway?"

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna doesn't even notice the hesitation. Or at least, she doesn't seem to. She just tilts her head and smiles again. In point of fact, one thing that may be noticeable about Setsuna is that she sometimes looks a little... blank, when she thinks no one is looking, like she forgot to put on an expression or something. But not just now!

"Is that so?" Setsuna asks at the conversational tone. "Oh, yes. That would make sense. There are many different foods on Earth." Pause. Did she say something funny? Nah, it's probably fine. "I haven't done a lot of moving, myself," she decides to say instead. "But I also like new foods."

Then she shakes her head. "It is not too weird at all! The two-tone effect is very nice."

"Not far," she answers then. "A few minutes by bus?"

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka gives Setuna a bit of an odd sidelong glance when she mentions 'on Earth.' It's... /technically/ a true statement, but... not how she would normally phrase that. Still, that's not /that/ out of the ordinary, either, so she lets it pass. "Well, if you like new foods but haven't moved a lot, um... you should come over to my place to study sometime?"

She kicks herself mentally for phrasing that as a question, and hastily adds, "What I /mean/, is, I /also/ like to cook, so I could probably whip up some stuff you haven't tried before, if you're interested." Is this how making friends goes? Why did this feel so much easier when she didn't feel like she was rooted in a place?

Did being in an actual high school just add stakes to everything? That was ridiculous.

Kyouka ran her fingers through her hair to muss it up a bit more, "Oh, cool then. Thanks. I'm glad you like it."

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna looks at Kyouka as she's talking, but doesn't have any particular reaction to that odd glance. Maybe she didn't notice? But more improtant to her is the offer that Kyouka makes. Setsuna goes '!' and blinks once.

"I would like that," she says pleasantly, evenly. On the bright side, she does seem sincere--on the other... she doesn't offer any assurance that it wasn't awkward.

"Yes!" Then, "Oh, it's just over here..."

There will probably not be a lot of time for talking on the bus, busy as it's likely to be at this hour. But that's fine. If it's too busy to talk, then they can pick up conversation a few minutes later!

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka is definitely relieved that her offer of study and food was accepted. Not that she wanted to bribe friendship out of everyone but... gotta put yourself out there at some point, right? Right. "Cool. Then... yeah, we can set something up sometime. Maybe... see if some of the other people in the club want to join in?"

Trying to make multiple friends at once. Now that was living dangerously, for sure.

The hustle and bustle of the bus is such that carrying on a conversation is a bit difficult, but she can still enjoy watching the scenery pass by and the chance to get to see more of her new neighborhood. Regardless, she does make sure to keep an eye on Setsuna to make sure she doesn't miss the stop.

Upon stepping off the bus and getting to properly take in the scene, she lights up. "Oh, hey. I love the atmosphere here already." Busy shops, lots of people--she inhales deeply through her nose. Mmm. The smell of food.

But most importantly, just a place with a good /vibe/. Definitely different than if she was trying to visit a place like Shibuya.

She turns to Setsuna, "Sooo, where to first?"

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"That's a nice idea," Setsuna agrees about inviting others. She is very willing to be sociable!! Living dangerously or not! But the scenery is indeed nice, and Setsuna calmly waits for their stop until it's time--at which point she steps off and makes sure Kyouka is with her before looking around.

"Good!" she replies about loving the atmosphere. Setsuna, still in uniform, starts down the sidewalk immediately, turning to Kyouka and pausing a moment to let her smell the roses, as it were. "I have a friend who works at a shrine in the area... but she's probably busy today." Pause. "I was thinking we could visit a ramen stand I know out here. It's a little down the way, but that means you'd have a chance to look around before we get there. If you want to stop at any of the stalls or shops that's OK too."

That's a lot of words for her! She may need a moment to recover before she speaks more.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka does her best not to spend /too/ much time on smelling the food instead of actually taking action to go get some for real. She quickly follows along with Setsuna, also in her uniform, naturally. It feels a bit weird wearing one still, and especially going out in it, but... well, it seems to be the norm around here, so she should just get used to it.

"A shrine, huh?" she says thoughtfully. "I've been wanting to check one out at some point..." Then she hastily adds, "But we don't have to do it today, or anything. Visiting a ramen stand would also be interesting, too. I'll follow along with whatever you think is best."

She does her best to make small talk as they walk along, without wearing the other girl out. Kyouka can be very talkative once she gets over her initial awkwardness and gets rolling, but can also enjoy some amicable silence, too. "So... what do you like to do outside of school?"

She does take advantage of the invitation to look at the shops and stalls, though more with an eye to come back later instead of purchasing a lot right at that moment. Gotta get the lay of the land, first.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

There are plenty of other youths in uniform out on the streets, some of them Juuban, some of them other schools. Setsuna doesn't think to point out each as she goes; she just turns back to Kyouka, and nods. "Then hers would be a good one to visit later," Setsuna says. "It's the Hikawa shrine. Her name is Rei Hino. She goes to Ohtori."

A ramen stand it is! This is what Setsuna is good at!! Arranging food! As for small talk, well. That is /not/ what she's very good at, Kyouka might have the time to discover. Because she answers, "I enjoy spending time with my friends, hiking, and music."

...That's /all/ she answers at first, though true to her word, she's happy to stop and wait for Kyouka to look through the stalls. She even does a little looking herself!

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka does actually recognize a few of the other uniforms that are out and about--she checked out a few different schools before deciding on Juuban, but likewise lets them go unremarked.

"Hikawa shrine...." she says to herself, just to help her commit it to memory. "Got it. Yeah, I definitely wouldn't mind making another trip back here. Several, in fact. Seems like there's a lot to see and do here."

The other girl is more than willing to put in her share of the conversational work, at least. But despite the sparse reply, there /is/ something for her to follow up on. "Hey, I like hiking, too. And camping, too, actually. Maybe I can ask you about some good trails in the area sometime? Hopefully ones that allow dogs, so I can take mine with me. Oh, um... I've got a siberian husky named Wolfy at home.... do you have any pets?" She's doing her best to keep some semblance of a conversation moving without just wearing Setsuna out.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna doesn't really seem to notice how considerate Kyouka is being about not wearing her out, but on the other hand she seems to be in a good mood hanging out with her anyway. So maybe that's good enough?

"Good! It's easy to reach from the school and is a very nice area."

She brightens visibly as Kyouka mentions that she also likes hiking. Her red eyes sparkle a little as she looks over. "Camping is also fun!" she agrees. "My girlfriend is the one who got me into both of those," she volunteers. "You can definitely ask me. I think a lot of the trails are very pet-friendly if you're willing to clean up after." Then she 'hmms'. "Wolfy... Yes, good." Nod, nod.

Pets? She thinks about it. "No," she says, "But I help at Buki's parents' animal hospital sometimes."

Easier to talk about for her: her friends!

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka can /also/ enjoy amicable silence, so doesn't feel the need to push the conversation too hard... though she does a tiny bit just to try and learn about her classmate.

"Yeah, most days I just head home from school, though sometimes I run by the store to pick something up for dinner." She gets a little contemplative at that, as if remembering something, but quickly shakes it off.

"Oh yeah?" she replies as Setsuna mentions who got her into hiking and camping. "Cool! Does your girlfriend go to our school? For me it was my Dad who got me into it. Camping's our favorite thing to do together. Well, that and fishing. I, uh, might have also applied my cooking talents to freshly-caught fish before." No need to mention that she's also an old hand at gutting a freshly-caught fish to prepare it to be cooked. She's not bothered by it, but a lot of people are.

"Yeah," she says in regards to cleaning up, "that's not a problem for me." She actually blushes just a bit when you contemplate on the name Wolfy. "I, uh... I was 8 when I named him, so... yeah. But he's super friendly."

"An animal hospital, huh? That's kinda cool, actually... What kinds of things do you do there?"

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"I live farther away from our school than most, so I tend to plan in advance if I go somewhere else."

"There are a lot of good things to eat in the stores around here," she answers to that, rather than pushing about the thing she's remembering. She smiles again when discussing the people in their respective lives, though. "She doesn't. She goes to Infinity Institute. But I think that's nice." She seems to stop a moment to try to think a little harder. But she can't quite figure out what she wants to say. She looks down. Then, up again! "Fresh food is very good."

But Wolfy! "Does that age have significance to wolves?" she wonders, tilting her head thoughtfully. But she doesn't dwell on it, instead righting herself and saying, "I like dogs."

"I help to care for the animals. I don't have the skills to treat them medically, but I can feed them and give them social interaction as well as exercise."

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka nods a bit when Setsuna mentions planning more due to the distances involved. "Ahh, I see."

"Yeah, there are," she says in agreement about the stock the stores have. "My Mom and I take turns cooking dinner. She's actually a teacher, though she's not teaching at Juuban." Thankfully. She notices Setsuna pause for a moment, and waits before asking, "Everything okay?"

"No, no, it's not significant it's just... I was a little kid when I named him, that's all." She rubs at the back of her neck a bit. "So, you know, I might've named him something different if I was doing it today. But anyway, I'm sure you'll like Wolfy when you get a chance to meet him. He loves everybody."

She nods along as Setsuna describes what she does at the hospital. "That's still pretty neat, though... Social interaction and exercise are important. For dogs and people both."

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"Oh, I see." Setsuna nods along at the explanation. "...I sometimes help my mother with dinner. My sister and I both do." Then she takes a moment to actually address the question, saying, "...I know someone else who likes to fish, but I don't get to talk with him very often," she says, and it is a little sad the way she says it. She doesn't really like talking about Westar, these days.

But the explanation. "Oh," she says. "I see. So you would name him something different now that you're older..." She isn't sure she gets it, admittedly. "I think that seems likely," she agrees pleasantly of the dog though.

"Yes," she says. "I agree. I used to avoid it more... but I learned otherwise, when I made some friends."

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka files that little tidbit away. "Oh, you have a sister? That's cool. I'm an only child, so... Most of the time it's just me and my mom, when my dad's busy with his work." Her voice softens when Setsuna explains about her friend. "I'm sorry, that... can be rough." It's her turn to look lost in thought for a moment, as she turns slightly away. "One of the downsides of moving around a lot," she says glumly, but doesn't elaborate any further on that thought. She's definitely missing some context, to say the least, but she's doing her best to commisserate regardless.

She doesn't really feel the need to make any more comments on the dog name, and she's definitely eager to get onto a happier topic. "Soo... ummm..." She tries to play back the conversation to see if there's anything else she hasn't followed up on. "So what kind of music do you like?" Music was a thing that got mentioend, right?

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"Yes!" Setsuna answers. "I live with my sister and her parents, and now they're my parents, too." However confusingly worded that might or might not be, she sounds fond when she talks about them. It's hard to explain her life to someone without knowing if they know about magic, but she has adapted well enough. "...It's nice, to get to spend time with a parent."

But Kyouka seems thoughtful too. "Thank you," Setsuna says first of her friend. But then, "...I see. Yes. I moved away from my home once. I understand... a little, at least."

But she's content to move to a happier topic. Music! "I like dance music," she answers. "But I'm not much of a dancer. I have friends who are, though!" She seems to think for a moment, and remembers something. "What kind of music do you like?"

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka has to chew on that description for a moment. Eventually she reaches the conclusion that there's... some sort of adoption or foster arrangement at play, maybe. Like a... half-sibling that got adopted, maybe? That.... almost made that description work. Almost. Regardless, she's not one to judge someone's family situation. "Yeah, it is," she says in agreement to being able to spend time with a parent.

She gives Setsuna a little nod when the other girl says 'Thank you.' There's... not really a lot of good things to say in response to that line of dialog. In response to Setsuna saying she moved and understands... Kyouka does something that's probably more American than Japanese. She puts an arm around Setsuna's shoulders and gives her a little sideways half-hug thing, along with a pat on the shoulder, as a silent gesture of commisseration. Then she promptly remembers herself and draws back.

"... Sorry if that was too familiar," she says quietly.

"Dance music, huh? Um... I'm guessing you mean more like... club music or something? I haven't listened to a lot of that." She perks up a bit at the mention of friends who dance. "Oh yeah? Do they like dancing to club music or..." She thinks on how to answer that. "How do I put it... This is kind of a weird thing to describe, but like... cultural music, if that makes sense? They usually have their own dance styles that go with it, too, and I've picked up a number of those. Oh, and... I /do/ kinda like rock and roll and stuff like that." At least there's one fairly normal thing she likes in there.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

If Kyouka decides to indulge in GOSSIP she will learn that Setsuna was adopted by a nice family after a mysterious past. If she doesn't, well, foster adoption arrangement is close enough. Setsuna doesn't explain for the moment. Instead--

She goes '!' at the half-hug. She doesn't actually startle or flinch, but it's sort of an obvious surprise moment. She smiles back at her when she draws back. "...It's okay," she says. "I was surprised, but I appreciate the thought."

She /likes/ hugs, she's just even less touchy than most.

"Mm, more like..." She thinks about humming it, and then instead says, "Oh! I have a music player. When we sit down I'll show you some of it. That's easier than explaining. I'm not very good at understanding culture..."

"Rock! Yes, Lera likes that too."

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka will keep her ears open, but hasn't been around long enough to really be hooked into all of the gossip... and she's not about to go around specifically asking about a hopefully new friend she's /just/ made. That would be kind of creepy.

She smiles back when Setsuna assures her that the hug was okay, nodding. "Good." Even though she was receiving and not getting in that hug, it did her some good too.

"Oh! Sure, that's be cool. How much further is it to the ramen place, anyway?" It had honestly slipped her mind for a bit with all of the stuff they'd been discussing. "Oh, and I'll show you some of the stuff I was thinking of sometime, too. It's not really stuff you'll find on the charts or anything, but... I dunno. I kinda find all of the history and culture around this stuff interesting."

"Lera?" She tries to match the name up to something mentioned previously, and takes a guess at someone mentioned but not named. "Is that your girlfriend you mentioned?"

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna will explain eventually, probably.

When it comes to things like hugs, Setsuna's very shy herself. But it's nice. As for the ramen place... "Oh!" Setsuna says, "Yes, I almost forgot too. We're nearly there! It's just over that way."

She points, and then proceeds to start walking towards it, presumably with Kyouka. "Oh?" she says. "I'd like that," of being shown these things. "I also find culture very interesting."

But she didn't name her girlfriend before--so realizing her mistake, Setsuna nods. "That's right! Lera Camry. She's part of why I decided to stay around here."

The ramen stand, as advertised, is a stand, and it has the delicious scent of handmade ramen and broth wafting forth towards them. Here, Kyouka will discover two things: one, that this is a great ramen stand. Two... that Setsuna can eat a /lot/ of food.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka looks to where Setsuna is pointing, and grins, rubbing her hands together. "Alright! I can't wait to give it a try." She, of course, does follow Setsuna over--part of the point of this whole trip, after all.

"Oh, cool. Yeah, I've got stuff from... literally all around the world. Oh! And I've gone hiking and camping in a bunch of places, so I've got a bunch of cool pictures I could show you, too!" She might be getting a bit excited at the thought of making a friend who shares a number of her interests. It definitely doesn't show or anything.

And again, that phrasing is... well, it's not /wrong/ but it does does have some weird implications if you think about it too hard. "Your girlfriend is why you decided to stay here? Like, in Tokyo?" She's never had the option to choose where she stays or not, but maybe Setsuna's situation is different.

Kyouka is definitely very estatic when we finally reach the booth and she gets to inhale all of those delicious smells. She's ordering from all over the menu, trying to sample as much as she can. She's a pretty big eater herself--lots of physical exercise and muscle tone means her metabolism cooks along at a pretty good rate. But eventually she has her limits and she has to sit back and take a break.

"Dang... I don't know if I've ever met someone with an even bigger appetite than I have..." She actually sounds legitimately impressed. "Remind me to prepare a lot of extra servings when I have you over for studying." There's not a single trace of mean intent in her voice, either. She really just wants to make sure she takes care of her guests properly.

Of course, sitting together for such a long time might offer the best look yet at the bracelet secured snuggly to Kyouka's wrist, should one be interested in keeping an eye out for that sort of thing.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"That sounds great." Despite the lack of exclamation, to look at Setsuna she means it completely--she's just not a very demonstrative person. The truth is that she's also excited though.

"Mm!" Setsuna answers, nodding once and then explaining, "Not the whole reason. The Momozonos took me in when I didn't have anywhere else to go. But she's part of why I decided that I wanted to."

Setsuna just sort of chows along. She gets one thing, but it's a really /big/ one thing, to the point that the guy at the front might question it... if he hadn't seen her here before. It's fine. Super fine.

"Mm! It's very good," Setsuna answers, and then--she does sound impressed, doesn't she? "If it's not any trouble," she replies to that sentiment. ...But it sure looks like she's looking forward to it. Then, she considers. How to do this subtly... How to best bring up...

"Your bracelet is unusual!" she decides.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Kyouka thinks she might be starting to get a better read on her classmate after spending the afternoon chatting, so is perfectly willing to take her excitement at her word.

She guesses that the Momozonos is the family that adopted her, based on context, so doesn't afsk for confirmation on that one. "I'm glad there was somebody able to take you in when you needed it." She definitely doesn't push on that any further. If Setsuna wants to tell her sometime, she will.

Kyouka is eagerly chatting with the shopkeeper while she eats, but even more so after she has to pause, asking about different ingredients and preparations and so on--though always respectful not to veer into anything that's in 'secret family recipe' territory or the like. But it's clear that even if she hasn't cooked ramen before, she definitely knows her way around a kitchen.

"Yeah, delicious," she agrees. To the chef she says, "I'll /definitely/ be back." Kyouka just grins at Setsuna, "Nah, not any trouble at all. I'll just be glad not to be the only one going back for thirds anymore."

And then there's the topic change. She blinks a little bit, and not-so-subtly tried to pull the sleeve of her blazer down a bit to hide it better. "O-oh, this thing? I didn't think it was /that/ unusual. Just... something I picked up somewhere, you know?" Technically true, though Kyouka's got kind of a bad poker face, being caught off-guard as she is.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

"Yes," Setsuna answers, sincerely once again. She is very grateful to the Momozonos! And she is glad that she went to seek out Kyouka now. It has been a good time. But eventually she does need to consider one of the reasons she sought out the new girl...

The shopkeeper's happy to discuss; in fact, he's /eager/ to discuss with someone who appreciates it, especially someone who knows her way around a kitchen! Kyouka might've made more than one new friend today.

"Good!" the chef says, and laughs, tending to another customer as they finish the conversation. "That I'm happy to help with!" Setsuna says.

But she has... not managed to very subtly go into this. Hm. Setsuna is not very good at lying these days. "Oh, it's unusual in a good way!" she follows up, and then decides that that doesn't really help. "I see..."

She considers. "Well," she says brightly, "If you ever want to talk to other people who like unusual accessories, I can put you in touch!"

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Perhaps only one of the only things Kyouka loves more than good food, is discussing food--well, anything, really--with someone passionate about their craft and knows a lot about it. So she'll definitely be coming back for both good food and good conversation.

Kyouka is... a bit conflicted. She is actually pretty desparate to talk to someone who might know anything about Strike Wolf, or even just intelligent devices in general. Strike Wolf didn't seem to come with a user manual (probably one of the many, many things that didn't get installed correctly), but on the other hand... her first encounter with another magical entity kind of trashed a city block in the process of stealing Strike Wolf, so she's feeling the need for an abundance of caution.

Even so... "In a... good way, huh?" She studies Setsuna silently for a few moments and finally decides to take the leap. "So..." She pulls the sleeve back again, but this time very specifically uncovering Strike Wolf's standby form clearly. "So... you've seen something like this before?" Kyouka is perhaps a little bit better at being subtle, but it's still a bit nerve-wracking in the moment.

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

Setsuna could be wrong, of course; it could be that the rumors are just a misunderstanding. But Setsuna has been involved in the magical world for some time, and her instincts are good. So while she doesn't know about Kyouka's experiences... She can only try to be someone worth talking to, if indeed there is something like that going on.

"Yes," Setsuna answers, a little lamely. She seems troubled; even she realizes this isn't going very well for a moment. But when Kyouka asks her about it...

"Yes," Setsuna answers. "I've seen... Devices like this before." If Kyouka doesn't know what an Intelligent Device is, she'll just think it's odd phrasing. If she does, then maybe...

Setsuna pulls out her cellphone at this point, and sets it down on the counter. But it's not an ordinary cellphone; it's white, and flips open at the side, and is beautifully ornate. It's not the same as an Intelligent Device, but fair seems fair to her--it might help.

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
There's some /definite/ recognition showing at the word 'device' there. A widening of the eyes, a sharp little intake of breath. She knows. And what's more, she knows that /you/ know. That's /far/ too specific a word choice, even for the girl who sometimes phrases things a bit oddly or has some complicated explanations for things that you can kind of rationalize an explanation for.

And there's a gear turning in the back of her head. But she looks down at the cellphone that Setsuna puts on the counter, and... She's looking at it. /Really/ looking at it. For far, far longer than anyone not involved with magic might look at it. Slowly she looks back up from the cell phone to you, even more gears turning now that she's seen that, and she softly states, "So... there's many different foods... on Earth, huh?" There's just the barest of emphasis on the last part of that question. She might not be able to make an astonishing deductive leap to figure out everything behind what Setsuna's said... but she's definitely open to the possibilities.

She looks down at her empty bowl and takes a deep breath. She pulls her wrest into her lap, fidgeting with the bracelet a bit. "I, uh... if you know somebody that knows about these then... I'd appreciate that."

<Pose Tracker> Setsuna Higashi [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.

There--Setsuna sees it. It's enough! This is a risk itself; Setsuna could be revealing herself to an enemy... but that might be why Setsuna is the best person to /take/ this risk.

The cellphone--more properly a Linkrun--is white and red. It has no recognizeable brand attached to it, no logos. It could just be a fancy phone case. But it isn't.

"...Yes," Setsuna answers, and thinks--she thinks that Kyouka knows somethnig more about her, now. "I've only been in Tokyo for a couple of years now," she explains without fully explaining. But Kyouka fidgets and asks, so--

"This isn't a good place to talk about that," she says quietly, "But I do." She looks to the bracelet, and says, "Hello."

Then she looks back up to Kyouka, "But if you're willing... I can arrange a meeting?"

<Pose Tracker> Kyouka Okazaki [Juuban Public School (10)] has posed.
Funnily enough, Kyouka has the same reservations about potentially revealing herself to an enemy as Setsuna does, though... well, she was going to have to take that risk at /some/ point, really. Unless she just got lucky and found Strike Wolf's creator, returned h8im and then...

Well, that didn't bear thinking about at the moment. Either way, to get more leads she was going to have to find someone she could trust. She's developed a sense for people just by dealing with lots of different people, and hopefully... hopefully that sense isn't leading her astray at the moment.

When Setsuna explains about how long she's been here, Kyouka looks up. "Must have been a hell of a move," she says quietly. She was ready to commisserate about moving readily before, but now that she's got an inkling of the truth... there's a deeper note of empthy there.

She nods, "Right, yeah, let's... yeah." Then, when she speaks to Strike Wolf, Kyouka glances very briefly at the shopkeeper and the other patrons--all thankfully paying very little attention to the two of them.

"It's okay," she says in the quietest of voices.

There's a small shmmer of light from the intelligent device as it says, <Hello.>

Kyouka smiles a bit at Strike Wolf, and then looks somberly up to Setsuna. "I'd like that," she says with a small nod.

Yumi Ohzora

2021-03-17T00:24:02Z

Cowstian Dior:

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Character Name'''
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! colspan="2" align="center" | [[File:Yumi Commission 3-16.jpg|300px|Yumi in Uniform!]]
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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yumi Ohzora
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! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| The Witch of Lost Ivy, Ivy
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! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
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! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 17 (Oct. 31, 1998)
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! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'10"
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Gray
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! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Pink
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! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Scorpio
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! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| A
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Toro sushi
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| Hospital food
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subject:
| Magic
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subject:
| Physical Education
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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Dossier'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Organizations:
| [[Organization: The_Magic_Association|Magic Association]], Former: [[Chevaliers and Shepherds|Shepherds]]
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! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Apprentice Witch (MA)
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! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Infinity Institute|Infinity Institute]] (Grade 11)
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! style="text-align:left" | Clubs
| [[Art Club]], [[Fashion Club]] (Grade 11)
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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''OOC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Lost Inheritor Yumi]] (OC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
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'''"Staff of Lost Ivy, hear me! In my hand remembered be!" '''

Becoming a great witch is hard work! But Yumi doesn't exactly advertise to most of her classmates that she's trying. A student at Infinity Institute's high school program, Yumi is known as something of an odd girl, remembered more for her illness and habit of staring into space than her academic talents. Even among those who know of her magical abilities there are some ugly rumors that her place at Infinity, as a student since elementary school, was bought by her family--noted donors to the school--rather than earned. Her skill as a painter quashes most of those, but not all. Besides, she's easy to like, even if she's weird; her energetic personality tends to outstrip her frail body, and she spends a lot of her time in the nurses' offices. Still, being a witch isn't her /only/ secret. Another big one is the fact that thanks to a fateful night meeting her cat, Tama--who lives in the dorms with her, of course--she is now a magical girl, spending long nights wielding the Staff of Lost Ivy to protect her school, city, and world from ogres who seek to eat the hearts of its people, and from the mysterious Hungry Queen whose servants command them.

==Abilities==

==History==

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______________REDACTED________________the only child of the Ohzora family, into which her mother had married a few years before her birth. They were, in general, rich just by being rich; Yumi's mother was an investment banker, but her father had no need for a mundane occupation. Most would say that he simply invested his inheritance, but in truth he was a noted wizard, and did a brisk trade in minor magical objects _________________________________________REDACTED__________________________________________ ________________________REDACTED________________________ to the Magic Association, of course. ___________REDACTED____________ ________________________REDACTED________________________ But Yumi would simply come to know that her family was magical, and that she would be expected to live up to it.

She learned this early on. For the first year or so of her life, her mother was distant, and her father was pleasant but not her primary caretaker. That would go to a series of maids who never quite lasted. Yumi was ill often, of poor health even as a very young child, _________________________________________REDACTED_________________________________________ Health problems ran through her father's side of the family; ________________________________________REDACTED_______________________________________ _________REDACTED________, her mother quietly blamed her husband for it, and simply never spoke of the matter around Yumi, as if nothing at all was wrong with her to begin with.

As Yumi grew near school age, she had spent much of the time that many children spend playing outside on indoor activities. She was kept amused largely by books, music, and art, though her favorite form of art was painting. She also developed, thanks to her father, a love of humor and jokes. She knew her mother as firm and driven, but not cruel. Her mother would read to her, or practice small spells in front of her, to let her grow accustomed to magic, ______________________REDACTED_______________________ ___________________________________REDACTED____________________________________ she had a loving family. They were very strict about what activities she'd engage in, but they were her parents. Her chances to play were largely when she'd meet with the kids of other parents in her parents' social circles; sometimes the wealthy, sometimes the magical. ...Under supervision, of course, ostensibly because of her health. Occasionally, during some of these 'playdates', Yumi would catch her mother and someone else talking very seriously; sometimes it would be people she didn't recognize at all. She decided her mother was a very mysterious witch.

Her mother largely gave up on hired help when it was time for Yumi to start at school, instead simply arranging for herself or her husband to be present as needed when Yumi got home. _______________________________REDACTED________________________________ ___________________________________REDACTED____________________________________ When her poor health flared up, a servant would be blamed. Yumi never got the chance to get to know any of them very well, though she welcomed the chance to see her parents more. Her mother spent a lot of time at home; Yumi just had to go to her room sometimes or go play on her own while her mother conducted business. Her mother had an awful lot of business that Yumi wasn't allowed to ask about. Adult business, maybe. Her father, meanwhile, was often travelling, so she didn't get to see him as much. He brought back souvenirs, though.

She didn't have many friends, growing up. She didn't really know how to approach other kids, and had trouble participating in a lot of the more social activities. This made her isolated; she in time wasn't sure which was worse. Being laughed at, or /not/ being laughed at. Her fainting spells made some activities dangerous; exerting herself too much was painful, and could land her in the hospital again, where she spent a lot of time already. She had a rich inner life growing up, though; if she couldn't make many connections, she could still see many things in the world. There was also something new to occupy her. Her mother had decided that it was time to begin her magical education, and begin she did. Besides, as long as she did well, she got praise and attention for it. If it was also true that sometimes she felt worse after a lesson, that must just have been because magic is difficult.

At school, she tried many different things; it's normal for Infinity to have a variety of classes, to try out new things, and Yumi was by no means an exception. Dance, singing, sports--these she had little success at, but she found other things to try. Her education would have been woefully incomplete if all she'd studied was magic. Indeed, she didn't even start at Infinity's magic program until later. Sports failed quite abysmally, but she at least showed a talent for art that would stick with her throughout her time at school. Her grades in general classes were good. Never quite good enough for her mother, but Yumi had trouble paying attention.

Yumi's mother ensured that she had all sorts of activities to expand her mind and broaden her horizons; music, art, going to museums. Many of these were supervised; Yumi has fond memories of going out with her mother to museums, aquariums, and many other places. ...Only the aquarium the once, though; wherever Yumi went, it seemed that the fish would avoid her, swim away. A shark hurt itself trying to put distance between her and it. Nothing she could be blamed for, of course, but it stuck with her; her mother avoided taking her places with animals in the future, but she couldn't avoid them entirely. They just didn't seem to like her. Still, the others she kept seeing, and she got a very broad education. Sometimes her father came with them, or would be the one to take her out, but usually it was her and her mother.

As of middle school, Yumi was told that she would be living in the dorms henceforth. She was shocked, to say the least, and asked why. After all, the idea was scary; she didn't have many friends at school, despite having been there since elementary school. Worse, she would be starting at the magic program at Infinity rather than undergoing her mother's lessons. She looked to her father, but he had nothing to say. To her mother, she cried... and that day she saw her mother /angry/. The very room seemed to crackle with power, and Yumi's mother told her that crying was unbecoming of her, of what she must become, and that she never wanted to see it happen again. ...So Yumi didn't cry in front of her again. It was the first time she'd been truly afraid of her mother.

So, Yumi went off to the dorms to live, with just enough time to settle in for a time before her first year of middle school started. To her surprise, life in the dorms wasn't that bad. It was shared, which was an adjustment, but she started to make friends, living with other girls. Friends, and learning what it was like to miss sleep because somebody next door was really talkative on the phone late into the night. She shared her rooms with two other girls; all of them were loud, but the friendship she sparked with an athletic girl named Hanae who she'd never have met otherwise would stick with her. She remembers the other roommates she's had, but there's something special about the nights she stayed up with Hanae talking about tests, or Hanae's upcoming meets, or griping about loud dormmates, or any number of things.

She also of course started in Infinity's magic program. For all that she'd resisted losing her special time with her mother, Yumi found that she liked the group setting, and there were so many things she had yet to learn. Besides, there was something fun about praticing magic with the others at Infinity. There was nothing terribly unusual about her early magical education being done at home, given her family, but she soon excelled in the classes she was given. ...At least, in terms of the theory. In practice, she had a harder time with the simple magics meant to train mages to bring happiness to others. She was better at those for other purposes, the ones that Infinity didn't teach openly.

Her health reached more of an equilibrium, too. While she still spent a lot of time in the offices of the school nurses or in hospital rooms, she didn't miss so many classes as of middle school, though her gym performance remained abysmal, and even the idea of trying out for a sports club was far out of reach. She had a friend who could tell her about the latest in the athletic world though, and she would spend more time in the Art Club as her health allowed it. Indeed, her favorite nurse (Nakahara-san to her; she was new to the school) particularly encouraged her art. All this, plus living in the dorms, made it a little bit easier to socialize, and Yumi's classmates discovered that, given the chance, she was pretty funny. She would regularly talk to both of her parents on the phone, though not at the same time, and would visit on special occasions. They were often busy, but so was she. Yumi did try to ask about what they'd talked about before--what it was she was supposed to grow up to /be/, what she was to 'become'. Her mother only told her that she would see--and in time, that she was proud of the strength Yumi was learning to display. Her mother often told her it was important that Yumi show she could stand on her own.

Those words would prove prophetic, and not as Yumi expected. A shadow was cast over her high school entrance examinations; the death of her father, apparently from opportunistic illness contracted on his travels. Yumi remembers the funeral in complete detail. ...She also remembers spying on her mother the same day, and the sheer power she felt as her mother confronted someone over implying, of all things, that /she/ had killed him.

That would bother her for a long time to come. She felt more isolated than ever from most of the other students at school and in the dorms; that year, she wasn't living with Hanae anymore. Even friendly acquaintances seemed distant. She still worked on her painting, but all she would paint around that time were dark things, frightening or melancholy by turn, that certainly didn't get her out much. But she made a friend here, too; another member of the Art Club was interested in the emotion of her painting, and Takahiro never required much of her; he just kept talking to her, even when she was doing badly with her father's loss. Sometimes he'd even walk with her to her favorite art store.

Adjusting to high school would have been hard even discounting what had happened. Everything felt bigger to her; crushes, worries, class loads. And she no longer had her father to talk to at all. Her mother seemed to be even busier than before. Without her mother's pressure, and with the difficulty that she was having, Yumi's grades dropped. So without being able to continue her old way, she had to make changes, and it was her friends that helped her do that. She applied with Hanae to room together again for their first year of high school. She even joined a new club, as eventually she decided to try something new since she was a high schooler now. ...She still complained, of course, about the adjustments, but it was easier to have people to complain /to/. Her grades didn't entirely recover, but she was happier.

The biggest adjustment, though, was only recent. The day that Yumi found Tama--and the Staff of Lost Ivy that the cat kept and safeguarded--would change her life, but it didn't start that way. In fact it seemed a very ordinary night to her, coming back from her favorite art supplies store, until she came across a cat curled atop a small wall. The cat didn't run from her as she approached, which would itself be a recipe for a big day for Yumi--except that she saw quickly that it wasn't just a lack of fear. The cat was hurt, bleeding. Unsure what to do, she finished her approach and started talking to it, trying to reassure it. "What's your name?" she asked. The cat seemed to understand her, looking up at her, and that's when Yumi noticed its ornate collar, with a tiny orb hanging from it.

But the moment broke; the ground shook under her feet as a monster taller than most tall men lumbered around the corner, gray with scraggy hair and yellowed teeth--and a gigantic club over his shoulder. "...Give," he said as he set eyes on the little cat, "And maybe not get smashed." His greatclub smashed against the asphalt behind her. The cat bolted, despite her injures, and the ogre lumbered off in pursuit. Yumi tried to run after, but found herself slowing despite her wishes; it /hurt/. "I-it's fine!" she called as the cat scrambled up a tree and the ogre watched. "I can do somehing! I'm a witch!" Without any of her ritual tools, Yumi drew on her mother's lessons as much as anything, and threw out both her hands along with a vicious incantation. ...The curse bounced off the ogre, whose reaction to the prickling was to turn around and swing his club at her. Yumi hit a wall and was pretty sure she was about to die. But there was a light, from up in the tree. It was from the cat's neck, brilliant and green.

In Yumi's hand appeared a white staff taller than she is, and in her mind appeared the words of an incantation. "Staff of Lost Ivy, hear me! In my hand remembered be! Uncountable price, unknowable cost! I assume the ancient debt! Let our hearts be bound as one!" Yumi spoke the words, and in a flash of brilliant green light she was standing, not even having to lean on her staff. ...And then the combat really started. Eventually, with the cat's help, she unleashed a spell that banished the ogre from whence it came. Her transformation faded, and she fell back to her knees, out of breath. The transformation's power had, in its first light, healed both her wounds and the staff's keeper, but now she had to stop and think about all that had just happened.

Eventually, the cat answered that her name was Tama. And she had a lot to say. ...Yumi remembered less than half of it the first time; she just took the cat home with her, and later the rest would come. She learned of the Hungry Queen, and that she was trying to unleash an awful force that the Staff of Lost Ivy's previous wielder had sealed. She learned that she had a responsibility, as the Staff's new wielder, to oppose her and to banish the monsters she summoned and save the people they would try to eat for power for their master. And she learned that Tama is less grumpy if she gets petted.
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Things have happened since the end of this, including resuming contact with her mother. As well, it downplays her hospital stays. But there's a lot yet to come...

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Yumi Ohzora

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! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yumi Ohzora
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! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| The Witch of Lost Ivy, Ivy
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! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
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! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 17 (Oct. 31, 1998)
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! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'10"
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Gray
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! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Pink
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! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Scorpio
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! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| A
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Toro sushi
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| Hospital food
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subject:
| Magic
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subject:
| Physical Education
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! style="text-align:left" | Organizations:
| [[Organization: The_Magic_Association|Magic Association]], Former: [[Chevaliers and Shepherds|Shepherds]]
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! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Apprentice Witch (MA)
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! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Infinity Institute|Infinity Institute]] (Grade 11)
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! style="text-align:left" | Clubs
| [[Art Club]], [[Fashion Club]] (Grade 11)
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! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Lost Inheritor Yumi]] (OC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
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'''"Staff of Lost Ivy, hear me! In my hand remembered be!" '''

Becoming a great witch is hard work! But Yumi doesn't exactly advertise to most of her classmates that she's trying. A student at Infinity Institute's high school program, Yumi is known as something of an odd girl, remembered more for her illness and habit of staring into space than her academic talents. Even among those who know of her magical abilities there are some ugly rumors that her place at Infinity, as a student since elementary school, was bought by her family--noted donors to the school--rather than earned. Her skill as a painter quashes most of those, but not all. Besides, she's easy to like, even if she's weird; her energetic personality tends to outstrip her frail body, and she spends a lot of her time in the nurses' offices. Still, being a witch isn't her /only/ secret. Another big one is the fact that thanks to a fateful night meeting her cat, Tama--who lives in the dorms with her, of course--she is now a magical girl, spending long nights wielding the Staff of Lost Ivy to protect her school, city, and world from ogres who seek to eat the hearts of its people, and from the mysterious Hungry Queen whose servants command them.

==Abilities==

==History==

Yumi Ohzora was born on a dark, stormy Halloween night. October 31st, _______________________REDACTED_______________________
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______________REDACTED________________the only child of the Ohzora family, into which her mother had married a few years before her birth. They were, in general, rich just by being rich; Yumi's mother was an investment banker, but her father had no need for a mundane occupation. Most would say that he simply invested his inheritance, but in truth he was a noted wizard, and did a brisk trade in minor magical objects _________________________________________REDACTED__________________________________________ ________________________REDACTED________________________ to the Magic Association, of course. ___________REDACTED____________ ________________________REDACTED________________________ But Yumi would simply come to know that her family was magical, and that she would be expected to live up to it.

She learned this early on. For the first year or so of her life, her mother was distant, and her father was pleasant but not her primary caretaker. That would go to a series of maids who never quite lasted. Yumi was ill often, of poor health even as a very young child, _________________________________________REDACTED_________________________________________ Health problems ran through her father's side of the family; ________________________________________REDACTED_______________________________________ _________REDACTED________, her mother quietly blamed her husband for it, and simply never spoke of the matter around Yumi, as if nothing at all was wrong with her to begin with.

As Yumi grew near school age, she had spent much of the time that many children spend playing outside on indoor activities. She was kept amused largely by books, music, and art, though her favorite form of art was painting. She also developed, thanks to her father, a love of humor and jokes. She knew her mother as firm and driven, but not cruel. Her mother would read to her, or practice small spells in front of her, to let her grow accustomed to magic, ______________________REDACTED_______________________ ___________________________________REDACTED____________________________________ she had a loving family. They were very strict about what activities she'd engage in, but they were her parents. Her chances to play were largely when she'd meet with the kids of other parents in her parents' social circles; sometimes the wealthy, sometimes the magical. ...Under supervision, of course, ostensibly because of her health. Occasionally, during some of these 'playdates', Yumi would catch her mother and someone else talking very seriously; sometimes it would be people she didn't recognize at all. She decided her mother was a very mysterious witch.

Her mother largely gave up on hired help when it was time for Yumi to start at school, instead simply arranging for herself or her husband to be present as needed when Yumi got home. _______________________________REDACTED________________________________ ___________________________________REDACTED____________________________________ When her poor health flared up, a servant would be blamed. Yumi never got the chance to get to know any of them very well, though she welcomed the chance to see her parents more. Her mother spent a lot of time at home; Yumi just had to go to her room sometimes or go play on her own while her mother conducted business. Her mother had an awful lot of business that Yumi wasn't allowed to ask about. Adult business, maybe. Her father, meanwhile, was often travelling, so she didn't get to see him as much. He brought back souvenirs, though.

She didn't have many friends, growing up. She didn't really know how to approach other kids, and had trouble participating in a lot of the more social activities. This made her isolated; she in time wasn't sure which was worse. Being laughed at, or /not/ being laughed at. Her fainting spells made some activities dangerous; exerting herself too much was painful, and could land her in the hospital again, where she spent a lot of time already. She had a rich inner life growing up, though; if she couldn't make many connections, she could still see many things in the world. There was also something new to occupy her. Her mother had decided that it was time to begin her magical education, and begin she did. Besides, as long as she did well, she got praise and attention for it. If it was also true that sometimes she felt worse after a lesson, that must just have been because magic is difficult.

At school, she tried many different things; it's normal for Infinity to have a variety of classes, to try out new things, and Yumi was by no means an exception. Dance, singing, sports--these she had little success at, but she found other things to try. Her education would have been woefully incomplete if all she'd studied was magic. Indeed, she didn't even start at Infinity's magic program until later. Sports failed quite abysmally, but she at least showed a talent for art that would stick with her throughout her time at school. Her grades in general classes were good. Never quite good enough for her mother, but Yumi had trouble paying attention.

Yumi's mother ensured that she had all sorts of activities to expand her mind and broaden her horizons; music, art, going to museums. Many of these were supervised; Yumi has fond memories of going out with her mother to museums, aquariums, and many other places. ...Only the aquarium the once, though; wherever Yumi went, it seemed that the fish would avoid her, swim away. A shark hurt itself trying to put distance between her and it. Nothing she could be blamed for, of course, but it stuck with her; her mother avoided taking her places with animals in the future, but she couldn't avoid them entirely. They just didn't seem to like her. Still, the others she kept seeing, and she got a very broad education. Sometimes her father came with them, or would be the one to take her out, but usually it was her and her mother.

As of middle school, Yumi was told that she would be living in the dorms henceforth. She was shocked, to say the least, and asked why. After all, the idea was scary; she didn't have many friends at school, despite having been there since elementary school. Worse, she would be starting at the magic program at Infinity rather than undergoing her mother's lessons. She looked to her father, but he had nothing to say. To her mother, she cried... and that day she saw her mother /angry/. The very room seemed to crackle with power, and Yumi's mother told her that crying was unbecoming of her, of what she must become, and that she never wanted to see it happen again. ...So Yumi didn't cry in front of her again. It was the first time she'd been truly afraid of her mother.

So, Yumi went off to the dorms to live, with just enough time to settle in for a time before her first year of middle school started. To her surprise, life in the dorms wasn't that bad. It was shared, which was an adjustment, but she started to make friends, living with other girls. Friends, and learning what it was like to miss sleep because somebody next door was really talkative on the phone late into the night. She shared her rooms with two other girls; all of them were loud, but the friendship she sparked with an athletic girl named Hanae who she'd never have met otherwise would stick with her. She remembers the other roommates she's had, but there's something special about the nights she stayed up with Hanae talking about tests, or Hanae's upcoming meets, or griping about loud dormmates, or any number of things.

She also of course started in Infinity's magic program. For all that she'd resisted losing her special time with her mother, Yumi found that she liked the group setting, and there were so many things she had yet to learn. Besides, there was something fun about praticing magic with the others at Infinity. There was nothing terribly unusual about her early magical education being done at home, given her family, but she soon excelled in the classes she was given. ...At least, in terms of the theory. In practice, she had a harder time with the simple magics meant to train mages to bring happiness to others. She was better at those for other purposes, the ones that Infinity didn't teach openly.

Her health reached more of an equilibrium, too. While she still spent a lot of time in the offices of the school nurses or in hospital rooms, she didn't miss so many classes as of middle school, though her gym performance remained abysmal, and even the idea of trying out for a sports club was far out of reach. She had a friend who could tell her about the latest in the athletic world though, and she would spend more time in the Art Club as her health allowed it. Indeed, her favorite nurse (Nakahara-san to her; she was new to the school) particularly encouraged her art. All this, plus living in the dorms, made it a little bit easier to socialize, and Yumi's classmates discovered that, given the chance, she was pretty funny. She would regularly talk to both of her parents on the phone, though not at the same time, and would visit on special occasions. They were often busy, but so was she. Yumi did try to ask about what they'd talked about before--what it was she was supposed to grow up to /be/, what she was to 'become'. Her mother only told her that she would see--and in time, that she was proud of the strength Yumi was learning to display. Her mother often told her it was important that Yumi show she could stand on her own.

Those words would prove prophetic, and not as Yumi expected. A shadow was cast over her high school entrance examinations; the death of her father, apparently from opportunistic illness contracted on his travels. Yumi remembers the funeral in complete detail. ...She also remembers spying on her mother the same day, and the sheer power she felt as her mother confronted someone over implying, of all things, that /she/ had killed him.

That would bother her for a long time to come. She felt more isolated than ever from most of the other students at school and in the dorms; that year, she wasn't living with Hanae anymore. Even friendly acquaintances seemed distant. She still worked on her painting, but all she would paint around that time were dark things, frightening or melancholy by turn, that certainly didn't get her out much. But she made a friend here, too; another member of the Art Club was interested in the emotion of her painting, and Takahiro never required much of her; he just kept talking to her, even when she was doing badly with her father's loss. Sometimes he'd even walk with her to her favorite art store.

Adjusting to high school would have been hard even discounting what had happened. Everything felt bigger to her; crushes, worries, class loads. And she no longer had her father to talk to at all. Her mother seemed to be even busier than before. Without her mother's pressure, and with the difficulty that she was having, Yumi's grades dropped. So without being able to continue her old way, she had to make changes, and it was her friends that helped her do that. She applied with Hanae to room together again for their first year of high school. She even joined a new club, as eventually she decided to try something new since she was a high schooler now. ...She still complained, of course, about the adjustments, but it was easier to have people to complain /to/. Her grades didn't entirely recover, but she was happier.

The biggest adjustment, though, was only recent. The day that Yumi found Tama--and the Staff of Lost Ivy that the cat kept and safeguarded--would change her life, but it didn't start that way. In fact it seemed a very ordinary night to her, coming back from her favorite art supplies store, until she came across a cat curled atop a small wall. The cat didn't run from her as she approached, which would itself be a recipe for a big day for Yumi--except that she saw quickly that it wasn't just a lack of fear. The cat was hurt, bleeding. Unsure what to do, she finished her approach and started talking to it, trying to reassure it. "What's your name?" she asked. The cat seemed to understand her, looking up at her, and that's when Yumi noticed its ornate collar, with a tiny orb hanging from it.

But the moment broke; the ground shook under her feet as a monster taller than most tall men lumbered around the corner, gray with scraggy hair and yellowed teeth--and a gigantic club over his shoulder. "...Give," he said as he set eyes on the little cat, "And maybe not get smashed." His greatclub smashed against the asphalt behind her. The cat bolted, despite her injures, and the ogre lumbered off in pursuit. Yumi tried to run after, but found herself slowing despite her wishes; it /hurt/. "I-it's fine!" she called as the cat scrambled up a tree and the ogre watched. "I can do somehing! I'm a witch!" Without any of her ritual tools, Yumi drew on her mother's lessons as much as anything, and threw out both her hands along with a vicious incantation. ...The curse bounced off the ogre, whose reaction to the prickling was to turn around and swing his club at her. Yumi hit a wall and was pretty sure she was about to die. But there was a light, from up in the tree. It was from the cat's neck, brilliant and green.

In Yumi's hand appeared a white staff taller than she is, and in her mind appeared the words of an incantation. "Staff of Lost Ivy, hear me! In my hand remembered be! Uncountable price, unknowable cost! I assume the ancient debt! Let our hearts be bound as one!" Yumi spoke the words, and in a flash of brilliant green light she was standing, not even having to lean on her staff. ...And then the combat really started. Eventually, with the cat's help, she unleashed a spell that banished the ogre from whence it came. Her transformation faded, and she fell back to her knees, out of breath. The transformation's power had, in its first light, healed both her wounds and the staff's keeper, but now she had to stop and think about all that had just happened.

Eventually, the cat answered that her name was Tama. And she had a lot to say. ...Yumi remembered less than half of it the first time; she just took the cat home with her, and later the rest would come. She learned of the Hungry Queen, and that she was trying to unleash an awful force that the Staff of Lost Ivy's previous wielder had sealed. She learned that she had a responsibility, as the Staff's new wielder, to oppose her and to banish the monsters she summoned and save the people they would try to eat for power for their master. And she learned that Tama is less grumpy if she gets petted.
She received a call a few days later. Her mother would be cancelling her sixteenth birthday celebration. Yumi hasn't spoken with her since. _________________________________REDACTED_________________________________
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Things have happened since the end of this, including resuming contact with her mother. As well, it downplays her hospital stays. But there's a lot yet to come...

==Relationships==

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[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Magic Association]][[Category:Infinity]]

Mami Tomoe

2020-09-26T23:33:38Z

Cowstian Dior: Relationships yet to come, profile update!

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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Mami Tomoe
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! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| Senpai
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
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! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 17 (June 5, 1998)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'2"
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Blonde
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! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Honey
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! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Gemini
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! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| O
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Cake
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| Pickled Plums
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subject:
| English
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subject:
| Mathematics
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! style="text-align:left" | Organization:
| [[Magic Association]] (Formerly [[Chevaliers and Shepherds|Chevaliers]])
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! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Veteran
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! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Ohtori Academy|Ohtori Academy]] (Grade 11)
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! style="text-align:left" | Clubs:
| Go-Home Club (She doesn't have time...)
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! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]] (FC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
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'''"Late nights are the enemy of beauty..." '''

Mami Tomoe, a glamorous student at Ohtori Academy for her entire academic career thus far, is /also/ a highly experienced magical girl--a veteran even as many now-veteran girls got their start. For a long while, this and her own troubled past with other magical girls kept her distant from the rest of the community, but now she counts the magical girls of Tokyo as equals, and allowed herself to set down a little of her facade in favor of more even partnerships. Her relationships with others have healed much of her cynicism, allowing her to act more truly to her altruistic principles and sense of justice--and even if her partner, Sayaka Miki, is gone, she'll continue their mission to protect the world from the darkness as long as she can. ...But her life isn't terribly balanced even now between ordinary and supernatural; her dedication takes a significant toll on her social life outside the magical girl community, and while she's bothered less by the speculation at the cutthroat Ohtori of what keeps her so busy, she still has something of a reputation for trouble. Still, she has her true wish, and she looks forward to a bright tomorrow.

==Skills and Magic==

One of Mami's first loves was always and remains baking; while she's a good cook who's tried a variety of things, she's a /great/ baker who is happy to make elaborate cakes for herself and her friends. (Her sweet tooth is considerable.) She can bake other things, but doesn't tend to favor pies. Tarts maybe.

She's also very, very good at matters of fashion and style; she can braid like no one's business, and generally work with hair because she loves doing it. Want your nails painted? Mami will cheerfully spend time with her friends that way. There are few things she gets to do as a normal girl, but these things are among them.

We're not talking about her grades.

As a Puella Magi, she has access to considerable combat magic. Her weapon and special power both are ribbons, which she can conjure and manipulate to an absolutely startling degree, from immobilizing foes to shaping objects to use as a shield. She can even make things and leave them past when she's around them.

This comes to her weapon, which Mami learned after painstaking work to craft out of her ribbons: Percussive-action rifles, firing gold balls and bright light. She can make big guns, small guns, long guns, and short guns. Fat guns and skinny guns, but her favorites are elegant rifles that she can call up en masse to deal with her foes.

Mami Tomoe is known as the Golden Queen of Shibuya for a reason, and the fact that she holds the Central Yamanote Territory is only part of it.

==Background==

''(Adjusted slightly from her app)''

Mami was born to the wealthy Tomoe family, an only child, almost seventeen years ago now. Her early life was, in the grand scheme, fairly uneventful; her parents doted a bit, but also made sure that as soon as she was old enough, she was immersed in various activities. They would be the main real social contact she'd have. She had peers, people also in the various expensive child programs, but none of these relationships really seemed to last past the end of that given activity. So, while she learned the very proper ways of interacting with others, she also developed a rich inner life: she took some o the hobbies she'd learned, the ones she really had a knack for, like baking, but she also was enchanted by certain shows as she grew up. The idea of transforming heroines fighting for love and justice made her happy, and gave her a little boost whenever she was feeling down. This would become somewhat ironically important later, but at the time, it's not all that strange for a little girl to enjoy such things. It's in fact pretty normal! And despite the fact that she didn't quite keep a 'best friend' or anything, she really delved into what she did; she had a clear love for life from a young age, curious and active.

This distance did not change as she actually grew through the grades at school; she had people to speak to in class, and would say she had friends. She just didn't manage to /stay/ close to anyone, really--her parents, of course, were proud of her successes, as she was doing rather well for herself in general absent that one little issue, even if they did grow increasingly busy with their own responsibilities as she became older and thus a little more self-sufficient. And maybe she would have been able to be more than the distant, talented girl in time.

She didn't get that time, however, and neither did the Tomoe family as a whole. When it happened, it happened suddenly; it was a blur, but the details were etched into her mind. The accident was between her family's car and an out-of-control semi; the little sedan simply didn't stand a chance. She lay in the back, in shock at the blood she was quickly losing, able to think of almost nothing else, when a little white creature, like a stuffed animal, appeared in the window. He offered a contract; a wish, a chance for /something/, and she did not have the luxury of considering the fine print. She wanted to live, and that's what she got.

It wasn't the only thing she had really wanted, though. From that day forward, Mami had 'luckily' survived the car accident that claimed both of her parents. She had only very distant relatives, so she was the sole inheritor of their estate.

No one at school really knew what to say to her; it was awkward, at best, but she would soon no longer have time to concern herself with her peers anyway. Kyubey explained her responsibilities, and Mami learned well. The idea was terrifying, of course. She'd made a wish to /live/, and now she was set to risk her life all the time. But she found ways to boost her confidence; /acting/ as if she had no cares or fears made it easier to pretend that it was true; emulating the heroines with which she'd grown up gave her a further boost, calling out the attacks she managed to form with her new magic. The danger became worth it; she'd been saved for a purpose. To help others, to fight for justice, meant that her living on had meaning. And that was something she would often cry over on her own--that she, alone, survived.

She quickly came to the attention of many others somewhat like her, as she went about her work. There were many other magical girls with whom she came into contact, including a number from the Tuner Organization, which she leapt at the chance to join. This alliance, though, would be short-lived; the group's intense cynicism wasn't something she could tolerate. In fact, Mami made a reputation for herself as something of a lone wolf, having a great deal of trouble working with others. She left the organization after not terribly long.

She had to do many things she would rather not have done, and Mami did not go through these years unscathed mentally. But one bright point was meeting a girl named Kyouko Sakura, who would be her partner for some time after they met. It was a wonderful partnership, and Mami adored her family who she was even brought over to visit as a friend. When tragedy struck however and Kyouko made her decision about her new way of life, Mami couldn't accept it. They fought over the matter... And Mami lost. With that wound in her heart, and a threat from Kyouko in her ears, she left and did not contact with her again. This wound would affect much of what was to come in her life.

Mami's school life worsened even further, and she became an unknown girl, nice and remembered by her class but no longer receiving any invitations to go out or study together or anything of the sort after she turned them down enough. Such was life.

The world seemed more cynical still, but Mami would help people, and get satisfaction from that, at least. By this point she'd acquired an apartment in the city, near the Ohtori Academy midle school she attended; she contented her daily life with keeping things nice, with enjoying the things she could, and with spending most of the rest of her time hunting the Witches and other creatures to keep the world safe.

As the Long Dark Night began, she had her work cut out for her. For better or worse, she would not continue on without others forever.

==Relationships==

====The Five====

'''[[Madoka Kaname]]''' - One of Mami's two best friends. Mami is very protective of her, but not so much so that she won't let her come along when she and Sayaka go out. Nevertheless Mami will go very far if it's for Madoka. Mami deeply loves her, and likes her just the way she is. Madoka in turn understands her on a deep level. Her ideal life includes Madoka prominently.

'''[[Sayaka Miki]]''' - Mami's other best friend, and her precious Puella Magi partner. Mami adores her, every stupid dorky thing of her just as her incredible moments of gallantry. She relies on Sayaka very heavily in many arenas. Mami considers Sayaka a moral bedrock, and also harbors romantic feelings for her.

'''[[Eri Shimanouchi]]''' - Mami's ex-girlfriend and current enemy. The truth is that Mami loves Eri very much, but can't accept her hunting practices or her intentions with the Shepherds, and her heart is torn this way. Eri knows her better than almost anyone else, however, and Mami knows it full well. Maybe Eri has a point about Mami's happiness, but even so...

'''[[Kyouko Sakura]]''' - Mami's former partner. They worked together for a while years ago, which ended in tragedy and Mami being driven out to be alone again. Mami loves her still as the closest thing to family she has, but she still can't accept Kyouko's way of life. She has some jealousy for Kyouko for a few things, and is not comfortable with Sayaka and Kyouko together nonviolently after what Mami views as Kyouko taking Sayaka behind her back long before the war. Incredible respect; Mami views Kyouko as someone she can't defeat.

'''[[Homura Akemi]]''' - Mami's rival. COMPLICATED. Jealous. Resentful. ...Understanding? Mami hasn't told anyone about their battle at the school's outskirts, or what she learned there.

====The Chevaliers====

'''[[Ren Aizawa]]''' - Mami's friend. Mami doesn't know her terribly well yet, but she likes her energy; she doesn't talk to many girls older than her and actually get along with them. Mami wants the chance to do so, though.

'''[[Nori Ankou]]''' - Mami's model. Mami /likes/ Nori, and not only because she is beautiful and elegant and represents someone to share an interest in fashion with, but for her heart, for her poetic nature, and for the fact that Nori showed her something beautiful when they visited the Sea of Tears. That place has retained a niche in Mami's heart, and only made her feel closer to the Red Future. The fact that Nori has fought at her side is true of many Chevaliers, and Nori is among Mami's close, dear friends.

'''[[Lera Camry]]''' - Mami's buddy. Lera is a rare friend who is her age, who naturally sidesteps the business of being senpai. Their relationship has waxed and waned over time, but remains one Mami cares about greatly. ...Also they can drink together, don't tell anyone.

'''[[Garnet]]''' - Mami's adult figure. Mami doesn't have very many of these in her life, almost none who know of magic, outside the Magic Association which can be... awkward. Mami respects her all around, and likes the subtle warmth this tall woman has.

'''[[Tsubasa Kazanari]]''' - Mami's rescuer. They met by Tsubasa sweeping in to save Mami from a sneak attack by Sailor Uranus, and it made a good impression. Mami approves of her serious nature... But is a bit nervous that her own difficulties with staying in her ordinary life's expectations will lead to friction with this cool young woman.

'''[[Endo Naoki]]''' - One of Mami's personal favorite boys. She admires his moral standing and his fighting ability, but also just finds him pleasant to be around. There's more to get to know! Maybe she can learn a favorite flavor...

'''[[Nanoha Takamachi]]''' - Mami's new friend. Mami doesn't know this girl well yet, but she's acquitted herself well in their discussions about the Chevaliers, and a friend of Fate's automatically gets a leg up. ...Mami has also heard of some of this girl's exploits magically. Mami is attempting to befriend her further, finding it easy to talk with her. She'll have to come back to Midori-ya know that she knows her better.

'''[[Utena Tenjou]]''' - Mami's ally. They aren't close, necessarily--Mami has spoken more with her Bride--but everything about Utena Tenjou is appealing to Mami, from her princely approach at life to her heroic style to her dashing looks. Mami would love to sit down for tea with her though. Maybe if she brought Sayaka and asked Anthy for the four of them...

'''[[Fate Testarossa]]''' - Mami's guilt. Oh they're friends now, to be sure, and Mami is continually amazed by Fate's clear-headedness... But Mami worries for her too, and she knows that their past conflicts--before the Chevaliers--may have made Fate's troubles worse, in addition to hurting her. She enjoys time with Fate despite those difficulties.

====The Outer Senshi====

'''[[Michiru Kaioh|Sailor Neptune]]''' - Mami's enemy. Tangling with Sailor Uranus means tangling with Sailor Neptune, as Mami has discovered painfully first hand over time. The calm of this young woman is dangerous; Mami's been overwhelmed by her before making the mistake of focusing only on Uranus.

'''[[Setsuna Meioh|Sailor Pluto]]''' - Not Mami's. Mami respects this woman greatly, and knows they will both do as is necessary to protect those they care about and the world in their own ways. They've worked together on that front before. ...But they completely disagree on what the best way is; Mami simply does not believe that Pluto is /right/ about Hotaru Tomoe. Secretly, Mami is more than unsettled by her timeless nature.

'''[[Haruka Tenoh|Sailor Uranus]]''' - Mami's enemy. They've clashed more than once, and while Uranus is deadly competent, Mami has always disagreed with her methods--and usually with her choices. They're well beyond even talking about their issues right now. Unfortunately, Uranus has great insights into Mami's personality... And the pain that brings makes Mami resent her even more.

====Early Friends====

'''[[Anthy Himemiya]]''' - Mami's friend. Mami saved her once from Nanami Kiryuu's goons, and while that painted a target on Mami's back she considers it worth it to have gotten to know this girl if only a little. Maybe in another life she'd have become closer with her... But it was still a good jar of jam. Maybe they can spend more time together.

'''[[Usagi Tsukino]]''' - Mami's friend. Usagi--Sailor Moon--is both adorable and inspiring to Mami, and while the truth is that the rise of magical girls like her made her wonder if she was obsolete herself, Mami feels that Usagi /needs/ protecting in order to stay the wonderful way she is. ...Not sure what to do with her acting like a child over cake though.

====Complications====

'''[[Kasagami Araki]]''' - Mami's enemy. Mami outright hates this girl; her work kidnapping her friends would have seen to that on its own already, her arrogance enough to seal the deal, but Kasagami has made her school life measurably worse, and in ways that others can see. Mami's considered dropping out of school at the level of bullying she's endured and can do nothing about, given the Student Council. At least in matters of the War, she can fight back.

'''[[Nanami Kiryuu]]''' - Mami's tormentor. Long before Kasagami and Mami even spoke, Nanami caught wind of this lovely girl who was on the outskirts of her class, who had stepped in against her minions, and pushed back against her. Nobody can make Mami cry as reliably as Nanami can, and Mami can't do anything about it.

'''[[Kozue Kaoru]]''' - Mami's enemy. They were friends in a way, and Mami once allowed her despair to tempt her into a bad decision with Kozue... Which she didn't regard as that bad a decision until Kozue turned around and betrayed Sayaka overtly. Things are very complicated with this girl, because they were briefly close, but Mami cannot forgive what she's done... Or for making Mami herself feel so ill-used.

'''[[Mai Tokiha]]''' - Mami's senpai... Technically. They have a complicated relationship, as while Mami thinks her heart in the right place, she also finds that Tokiha drives her nuts and is far too reckless with others' lives. Unfortunately Mai has a point about Mami's hypocrisy, and the power to back up her ideals.

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[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Ohtori]]

Tarte

2020-06-07T03:31:28Z

Cowstian Dior: Special Ability use

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! colspan="4" align="center" | [[File:Tarte_FPC.jpg]]
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| colspan="3" | [[Setsuna Higashi]] (Cure Passion), Inori Yamabuki (Cure Pine), Miki Aono (Cure Berry), and Love Momozono (Cure Peach)
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| colspan="3" | 3 lbs
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| colspan="3" | Donuts! Tarte even has a job that pays in donuts!
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! style="text-align:left" | Cuteness:
! | 4
! style="text-align:left" | Roughness:
! | 2
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! | 3
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! style="padding-right:70px" | 4
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| colspan="3" | Tarte loves sweet things of many stripes, appropriately enough. He's more than willing to share... but can go to very underhanded lengths, even /stealing/, for his favorites.
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| colspan="3" | Tarte's primary duties include taking care of Chiffon, and he is an expert in fairy childcare... but also is the first to worry and act when such a youngster is in danger.
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| Fresh! [[Pretty Cure]] (FC)
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| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
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'''Tarte''' is a cute cute fairy, and not a ferret or a weasel or something. Don't forget it!!

Tasked with looking after the adorable baby fairy Chiffon, Tarte also serves as advisor and general friend to the Fresh! Pretty Cure, living with Love Momozono and Setsuna Higashi at their house in the cunning disguise of an ordinary ferret. Notable for his kind nature and thick accent, he is hardworking and knows everything that needs to be known about caring for Chiffon in general. He even has a job!

He is an ICE CREAM THIEF, but also is the Prince of the Sweets Kingdom!

''Note:'' Tarte used his EMERGENCY DONUTS to help motivate the group past an open door to where a group of terrible villains were eating delicious food, supplying his own.

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Tarte

2020-06-05T21:37:46Z

Cowstian Dior: forgot a section

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! style="text-align:left" | Roughness:
! | 2
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! style="padding-right:70px" | 4
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! style="text-align:left" | Tarte's Sweet Tooth:
| colspan="3" | Tarte loves sweet things of many stripes, appropriately enough. He's more than willing to share... but can go to very underhanded lengths, even /stealing/, for his favorites.
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! style="text-align:left" | Expert Caretaker:
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|-
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|-
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| Fresh! [[Pretty Cure]] (FC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
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'''Tarte''' is a cute cute fairy, and not a ferret or a weasel or something. Don't forget it!!

Tasked with looking after the adorable baby fairy Chiffon, Tarte also serves as advisor and general friend to the Fresh! Pretty Cure, living with Love Momozono and Setsuna Higashi at their house in the cunning disguise of an ordinary ferret. Notable for his kind nature and thick accent, he is hardworking and knows everything that needs to be known about caring for Chiffon in general. He even has a job!

He is an ICE CREAM THIEF, but also is the Prince of the Sweets Kingdom!

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[[Category:Mascots]]

Tarte

2020-06-05T21:35:34Z

Cowstian Dior: Fixed an error

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| colspan="3" | Donuts! Tarte even has a job that pays in donuts!
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! style="text-align:left" | Cuteness:
! | 4
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! | 2
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! style="text-align:left" | Tarte's Sweet Tooth:
| colspan="3" | Tarte loves sweet things of many stripes, appropriately enough. He's more than willing to share... but can go to very underhanded lengths, even /stealing/, for his favorites.
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! style="text-align:left" | Expert Caretaker:
| colspan="3" | Tarte's primary duties include taking care of Chiffon, and he is an expert in fairy childcare... but also is the first to worry and act when such a youngster is in danger.
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! style="text-align:left" | Miracle Donuts:
| colspan="3" | While Tarte generally lacks overt magical powers, he does have one ace up his (nonexistent) sleeve: He always has a few donuts with him for just the right moment!
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| Fresh! [[Pretty Cure]] (FC)
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| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
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'''Tarte''' is a cute cute fairy, and not a ferret or a weasel or something. Don't forget it!!

Tasked with looking after the adorable baby fairy Chiffon, Tarte also serves as advisor and general friend to the Fresh! Pretty Cure, living with Love Momozono and Setsuna Higashi at their house in the cunning disguise of an ordinary ferret. Notable for his kind nature and thick accent, he is hardworking and knows everything that needs to be known about caring for Chiffon in general. He even has a job!

He is an ICE CREAM THIEF, but also is the Prince of the Sweets Kingdom!

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[[Category:Mascots]]

Tarte

2020-06-05T21:32:03Z

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! style="text-align:left" | Magical Girl Partner:
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! | 2
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! style="text-align:left" | Quickness:
! | 3
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! style="padding-right:70px" | 4
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|-
! style="text-align:left" | Tarte's Sweet Tooth:
| colspan="3" | Tarte loves sweet things of many stripes, appropriately enough. He's more than willing to share... but can go to very underhanded lengths, even /stealing/, for his favorites.
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Expert Caretaker:
| colspan="3" | Tarte's primary duties include taking care of Chiffon, and he is an expert in fairy childcare... but also is the first to worry and act when such a youngster is in danger.
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="4" | '''Special Ability'''
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Miracle Donuts:
| colspan="3" | While Tarte generally lacks overt magical powers, he does have one ace up his (nonexistent) sleeve: He always has a few donuts with him for just the right moment!
|-
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|-
! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| Fresh! [[Pretty Cure]] (FC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:CowstianDior|CowstianDior]]
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'''Tarte''' is a cute cute fairy, and not a ferret or a weasel or something. Don't forget it!!

Tasked with looking after the adorable baby fairy Chiffon, Tarte also serves as advisor and general friend to the Fresh! Pretty Cure, living with Love Momozono and Setsuna Higashi at their house in the cunning disguise of an ordinary ferret. Notable for his kind nature and thick accent, he is hardworking and knows everything that needs to be known about caring for Chiffon in general. He even has a job!

He is an ICE CREAM THIEF, but also is the Prince of the Sweets Kingdom!

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[[Category:Mascots]]

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2020-06-05T21:21:54Z

Cowstian Dior:

Uminari Matsuri

2020-05-15T03:24:40Z

Cowstian Dior: /* Notable Booths: */

'''Uminari Matsuri is a BF special event that runs through the middle of May 2020.'''

[[File:Uminari_matsuri_1.PNG|center|500px]]

'Matsuri' means festival, usually a local festival, somewhere between neighborhood block party and carnival. They're often sponsored and supported by a combination of community institutions such as shrines or temples, small business owner organizations, cultural associations, neighborhood watches, and the like.

One of the most famous and beloved of Tokyo's festivals is Shitamachi's Uminari Matsuri, named after its location -- the street that runs outside Uminari Seaside Park is shut down to cars and filled with festival booths, while the park itself is transformed by lanterns and other decorations into a truly magical setting.

[[File:Uminari_matsuri_2.PNG|left|500px]]

There's a lot to do, with sponsors organizing dozens of [[Food#Festival_Food|food booths]], crafts booths, game booths, souvenir booths, and so on, all of which require volunteers and desire patronage. Not everyone there is there to work, of course, but even the temps are expected to slip away and get some time mingling with the crowds and seeing the sights. Yukata are not required but there will never be a better excuse to wear one, so the plumage on display is often spectacular.

Uminari Matsuri both celebrates the conclusion of summer and is one of its highlights. There's more than enough festival fun to generate many scenes, large and small, over its long, warm IC evening. We'll be kicking it off the weekend of May 15th and wrapping it up the following weekend, with plenty of suggestions for things groups can do on their own, as well as an overarching, GMed plot to bookend the event.

The Sister Schools are not sponsors of this event, but basically any other shop, restaurant, cultural site or other organization can be. So if you'd like to have been roped into running a booth for part of the night by a parent, friend, or other connection (even just being a sufficiently enthusiastic customer of a sponsor is enough), by all means note in the bullet list below what booth you're associated with, and who the sponsor is! We've seeded the list with a few suggestions that you're welcome to put yourself into, but you're equally encouraged to add more booths, and indeed we've deliberately left off some classics for others to seize. If you'd like to just show up and party, that's great too! And if all of this has inspired you to do any scenes between now and when the festival starts doing some IC setting up, that's all the better.

[[File:Uminari_matsuri_3.PNG|left|500px]]

==Notable Booths:==
* The '''Shave Ice Booth''', sponsored by '''Game Center Crown'''.
:* '''Volunteers:'''
* The '''Mask Making Booth''', sponsored by '''Pino Karaoke Lounge'''.
:* '''Volunteers:''' [[Yumi Ohzora]]
* The '''Fortune-Telling Booth''', sponsored by '''Tomoe Laboratories'''.
:* '''Volunteers:''' [[Eudial|Yuuko Arimura]], [[Mimete|Mimi Hanyu]]
* The '''Goldfish-Scooping Booth''', sponsored by '''Hikawa Shrine'''.
:* '''Volunteers:''' [[Rei Hino]], [[Usagi Tsukino]]
* The '''Senbonbiki Booth''', sponsored by '''Yamamoto Fishing Industries'''.
:* '''Volunteers:''' [[Ai Yamamoto]], [[Inori Yamabuki]]
* The '''Crepes Booth''', sponsored by '''Tanaka Custom Footwear And Polish'''.
:* '''Volunteers:''' [[Kasagami Araki]], [[Anthy Himemiya]], [[Utena Tenjou]]
* The '''Insert Booth Here''', sponsored by '''Sponsor Name Here'''.
:* '''Volunteers:'''

==Logs==

Please include 'Uminari Matsuri' in the title of all of your logs and cutscenes, and they'll automatically appear here.

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[[Category:Special Events]]

Previously On Battle Fantasia

2019-02-10T23:41:30Z

Cowstian Dior: Shizuru update T3

'''''Previously On Battle Fantasia is a special event that started on Battle Fantasia on 11/11/18.'''''

The five years of Battle Fantasia MUSH roleplay have established a miraculous and tragic [[Timeline|timeline]]...

...but it wasn't the first timeline.

__TOC__

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm2UHRMKtic Cue the music!]

[[File:Previously_on_Battle_Fantasia_labels.png|800px|center|link=Previously_On_Battle_Fantasia]]

===The Wayback Machine===

It is September 20, 2013.

The height of fall. Tokyo is golden and beautiful, afternoons still warm with the memory of summer; beginning to be crisp, in the early morning, with the promise of winter.

It is the second year of the Sister Schools program, which is still new enough to be exciting and also a little uncomfortable. Juuban Public School is about to host the joint sports festival, brushing up their fields. Infinity Institute and Ohtori Academy anticipate shoddiness, but are going to find sportsmanship instead.

But some students suddenly find themselves having to balance the challenge of finding the right partner for the three-legged race with a new life -- a double life -- a secret life.

That's because two weeks ago the demonic army of Dark Fall swept into the heart of the magic worlds, the Fairy Realms, and dislodged their masters. They possessed ancient artifacts and used them to explode fairy castles, and they sealed fairy queens away in teacups. They shattered souls, and remade worlds in their own dark image. And so the cries for help went out -- all of them, drawn by an unseen force, to the same blue ball in Space.

And so it is that today, on Earth, the consequences of centuries, millennia, of planning and battles have come to fruit, as Dark Fall and Ends of the World alike descend not as one, but at once. The greedy fingers of corporate masters tear the dreams out of children's chests in the hunt for the miracle-granting Embryo. A coterie of Belkan Knights root in the shadows for the Linker Cores of the innocent - leaving them half dead and bereft of magic. Orphans stir on Southern Cross Island, finding victims to feed on, as their master's mark blazes in the sky. Underground, the Order of the Glittering Crux seeks to release the seals that will allow them to summon their magitechnological wonders into the real world, and seize it for their own. Witches throng in the shadows, their attention called by the despair of those who see how bleak the world is, their Kiss drawing still more into that trap. Above, the Castle Where Eternity Dwells silently waits to see whose heart will next be savaged by the Duels it oversees. And in the North, Queen Beryl's empire rises again, to finally and absolutely conquer the Earth and therefore the crown jewel of the universe...

But the guardians of Earth are rising. Tokyo is where that battle will be fought; as Pretty Cures are found by the refugees of the Fairy Worlds, and HiME once more flock to the Land of Fuuka, now called Southern Cross Island, and the Silver Millennium's Sailor Senshi stir at last from their millennia-long slumber. The darkness is deep; but once, a great queen wished for a light to outshine any darkness.

She will not be disappointed.

She has you.

---

Welcome to 'PREVIOUSLY ON BATTLE FANTASIA', our game's next major plot. Starting immediately, we're taking a trip back in time to our world as it was in September 2013: a more innocent time, with more innocent characters. New transfer students are new once again. Virtually everyone is a freshly recruited magical girl, taking their first steps into the world of fighting evil by moonlight -- youma are scary and their masters mysterious and unknown. Balancing normal and magical life is not old hat but an often-overwhelming act of frantic rushing around and the occasional guilty lie.

And beautiful friendships are about to be born.

===Frequently Asked Questions===

'''WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?'''

Frankly, the game has been in a very dark place for a very long time, and everyone needs a break. PREVIOUSLY ON BATTLE FANTASIA will occasionally tackle some heavy truths, but overwhelmingly its tone is intended to be lighthearted and fun -- or at least not oppressively, inescapably awful. It is an opportunity for everyone to get a fresh take on their characters, exploring, in a backwards way, exactly how far they've come.

It is also, frankly, an opportunity for some fan service, and the staff is taking requests on 'alternate timeline' plot points you'd like to see worked into the story. Please email your ideas to battlefantasiastaff@gmail.com or join the brainstorming shared document [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TPfzE1C2d5w4waeg4u8qvS0409jtesO9i4FU8c3eimU/edit?usp=sharing here]!

'''IS EVERYTHING THE SAME?'''

No, and we will get into the differences between the first timeline and the final timeline (our regular game) [[#Timelines|below]].

Obviously, one major difference is that themes and characters that joined the game after September 2013 will have joined it earlier and younger: take a look at your 'school' entries, you'll see you've been sent back two grades! '''(If you are one of these characters, the staff wants to work out the details of your earlier arrival with you -- please contact Pink Moon Stick for a brainstorming session!)'''

Characters from later SEASONS of certain themes who weren't around at game start (here's looking at you, Chibi-Usa-chan) will not be present in September 2013, but can rejoin us as the timeline catches back up with them.

'''WAIT, TIMELINES PLURAL?'''

Yes. We are going to do several, one at a time, and in so doing tell a story, as a game, about the MANY ways things have changed from everyone's original destiny to their current one (not just the hairstyle of Homura Akemi). In each timeline we will be skipping around through the intervening year and a half between past and present to hit various highlight events from the old days that some of our players missed out on, and others would enjoy revisiting.

If you want to remind yourself and come up with a possible wishlist, http://battlefantasia.pinksugarheartattack.net/Timeline is hideously out of date, but it's the earlier stuff we're especially eager to do, so in that sense it's still a useful resource!

'''BUT I WANT TO KEEP DOING 2015 ROLEPLAY!'''

That's completely fine. All 'Previously On' logs are going to be labeled as such; you are welcome to roleplay in the 'current' timeline privately if you like, especially to give yourself a little denouement after certain major events, if you don't want to wait. We stopped at the end of the IC night of May 27, 2015, and will be picking back up on May 28, 2015 eventually; for various spooky plot reasons, please keep your roleplay within the next two days, May 28-29, 2015.

===Timelines===

For log titles, please label which timeline you're roleplaying in with the prefix: TIMELINE #:. So, a scene set in the first timeline might
have the title TIMELINE 1: Welcome To Tokyo!

Each timeline has a game-wide theme designed to help guide the overarching plot of Previously On Battle Fantasia across timelines. There is also a list of differences from the 'final' timeline (regular BF) to help people keep things straight and create prompts for interesting scene opportunities.

Please add to the bullet point list beneath the current timeline to document significant differences as they appear. We will be adding later timelines to this page gradually, along with their notable changes from the previous timeline required to get the roleplay a'rolling.

====Timeline One====
'''THEME: FRIENDSHIP.''' ''Everyone is meeting each other for the very first time. Friendships are born, and they are beautiful. Over the course of the first timeline, the innocence and passion of the magical girl community will be powerful enough to forge a grand alliance, in some respects the opposite of the final timeline. A good opportunity for bitter enemies to become dear friends. That doesn’t mean there is no tension among magical girls, but rivalries tend to be less painful and more hopeful.''

* '''IC Starting Date: September 2013'''
* '''Starting Plots: Sister Schools Athletics Festival, Hosted By Juuban Public School; Fusion'''
:* Madoka Kaname is a newly Contracted Puella Magi and Homura Akemi is a normal girl.
:* Themes/characters that joined at game start are rolled back to... game start.
:* Later themes/characters' integration deals will need to be explained here, please add them in brief after discussing your plan with the staff.
::* '''Miraculous Ladybug''' is pretty much the same except that Hawk Moth began his plot in September 2013 instead of later on. Everyone received their Miraculouses as normal, only they're a little bit younger and cuter.
::* '''Steven Universe''' arrived in Tokyo a little earlier and a little younger, with his powers almost completely unexplored and untested (eg, early season one), because Beach City decided to make their move in 2013 instead of 2015.
::* '''Kasagami Araki''' arrived much earlier and younger in this timeline, as a middle schooler in 9th grade. She notably lacks her cynicism about the world and people in general, being overall more positive and utterly new to her powers as a Duelist.
::* The New Transfer Student List, September 2013:
:::* Homura Akemi
:::* Kasagami Araki
:::* Utena Tenjou
:::* Mai Tokiha
:::* Mikoto Minagi
:::* Makoto Kino
:::* Lera Camry
:* After an eventful transfer to Ohtori - a ''car'' was cut in ''half'' on the boat ride over - Mai is bowled over by a strange girl who moves to attack her, only to run away instead. Mai finds her fainted in a hedge, and realising how hungry she is, brings her home to make some ramen. This is apparently the best thing which has ever or will ever happen, and the girl, Mikoto, attaches to her immediately.
:* 'Buki, amidst trying to get Ohtori students to join her Animal Care Club in the days before the festival, realises that a strange girl is trying to get at the birds in the greenhouse, and meets Mikoto and the cat she's trying to help get a snack. Luckily, she always comes prepared, and she has some canned food Mikoto can offer to her friend instead. Mikoto proceeds to... help... Inori try and get club members, and in the process volunteers herself to help out, instead.
:* Mikoto and Endo meet as the two last entrants to a broom racing contest, and despite the strange match-up, they sweep the competition.
:* After rampaging into the pool, Mikoto is taken to the sports festival's first aid tent, where she is restored by a caring civilian named Yumi Ohzora. She teaches her important facts about money and ownership.
:* Homura Akemi flees the sports festival that occurs on her second day of school, feeling depressed. Madoka, Mami and Eri (a Puella Magi trio, and already fast friends) go to look for her. They find her in a labyrinth, about to be taken by a Witch, and rescue her just in time.
:* Homura, Sayaka, and Hitomi are among the civilians given MIRACLE LIGHTS by the fairy mascots, in order to give the magical girls the power to defeat Fusion. Most of them don't remember this event clearly afterwards, though Homura does.
:* Eri and Mikoto separately come upon a stray cat and start to care for her. When she gives birth, their paths collide. They recruit Madoka, Nori and Homura to help take care of the kittens, which initially are hidden in the Garden Club shed at Ohtori, and eventually are moved to the Kaname household when everyone has to get on a train to go to Hokkaido.
* '''Winter 2013 Plot: Hokkaido and the Star Shards'''
* It is Sunday, December 22nd, the day after final exams -- and the second day of the school trip to Hokkaido (which began immediately after exams ended). As everyone has known for over an IC month, the Sister Schools have decided to pack everyone up and spend their Winter Break all together in the frozen paradise of Hokkaido! For most of an IC week, everyone will be staying at the Kubota Ski Resort (with occasional organized trips into Sapporo proper), skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating, and enjoying the rightfully famous all-you-can-eat crab buffets! While school trips are not /technically/ mandatory, they might as well be -- parents won't let their kids get out of it. It's all been paid for out of the joint Sister Schools Initiative fund, so money is no object.
* In the last three IC months, monster-of-the-day attacks have become all too commonplace (it's mostly been youma and the occasional evil lieutenant). Magical girls have gained a little more experience and comfort with their new powers, but, a few months into their double life, are beginning to really feel the wear and tear of all those little white lies, evenings spent fighting instead of studying, and so forth.
* Characters have had numerous opportunities to meet one another and become friends off the battlefield, allies on the battlefield, or both. People are encouraged to gently hash out progress in their relationships OOCly to make sure they're on the same page, since some fast forwarding is required.
* The major scuttlebutt in the magical community has to do with seven golden "star shards" which have fallen to Earth and nestled themselves in the hearts of seven humans -- if united, they are rumored to be able to grant one single wish. Six of them have emerged (and been fiercely contested by magical girls, men in black, and monsters), though no one is sure who currently has how many. The seventh shard has yet to appear.
:* After distracting a bear from Niramo when the two of them wander away from the lodge, Mikoto becomes worried about that bear not hibernating like all the students say bears are supposed to. Dismissive explanations lead her to investigate on her own, where she runs into Eas, instead. They briefly clash, and Eas immediately exploits the upper hand as she realises that Mikoto is holding back. Luckily, she's willing to talk, if only to make demands, and after Mikoto explains that she really just is out here to investigate the bears, Eas lets her go. Mysteriously, the bear problem is solved.
:* In December 2013, Steven Universe awakens his magical powers on Hokkaido, in the midst of a dire wish to end Christmas; filled with its spirit by his friends and classmates, he manifests his shield for the first time. The resonance of his first Rose Shield tears the wish apart, returning the world to normal.
:* The Moon Princess appears very early (compared to the original timeline), on Hokkaido, after the Maiden of Nightmares sends a lethal attack at Sailor Moon which is taken by Madoka Kaname instead. The Princess wields the Ginzuishou, and a miracle occurs on Christmas Eve.
:::* The Maiden is redeemed by the unlikely forgiveness of her assumed enemies.
* '''Spring 2014 Plot: White Day and Queen Beryl'''
* It is March 13, 2014, and tomorrow is White Day -- the distaff counterpart of Valentine's in Japan, the day that girls give chocolates to their friends and loved ones. It's a stressful time. Who can find enough hours in the day to sit their final exams, defeat the forces of evil, AND make (or even buy!!) chocolate for tomorrow -- and what will happen if this symbol of romance /isn't/ realized? Especially when the battles are reaching a feverish pitch. Most of the Jewel Seeds have been found, and possession over the last few will likely make or break the outcome. The Dueling Game is in full swing. Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite and Kunzite, the Four Heavenly Kings, have died in their pursuit of the Moon Princess and her Ginzuishou, as have innumerable youma. There have been countless clashes between Magical Girls, Orphans, and men in black, clashes which are starting to seem like they serve some greater, darker purpose. Last night Sailor Moon and her Court went to the Moon, then returned with the dual burdens of terrible knowledge and a cursed sword. Everyone else woke up this morning having just experienced the same dream about it (+bbread 12/110, 12/111). The very same dream. Winter is just now yielding to spring. The bite in the air has softened into promising warmth. Tiny leaves and other nascent greenery makes the treetops look like they're inhabited by ghosts. The plum trees have blossomed, but the sakura haven't quite yet.
* In the last three IC months, the fledgling bonds of the magical girls have strengthened immeasurably through both battle and time spent in their fledgling, normal lives. Profound relationships have formed. Large sleepovers and other magical girl gatherings have become normal (though, oof, so difficult to find time for). Their might is waxing, as they come into their true power -- the deeper, stranger, more wondrous power of the heart. But so is their danger, for the very same reason, as an open heart... is a vulnerable one.
:* Sailor Moon and friends go to the Moon on the night of March 12, while everyone else suffers a disturbing silvery nightmare, so Madoka calls for a sleepover on White Day, March 14 so they can face the night with the support of one another.
:* At the sleepover, Mami Tomoe coins the group name 'Covenant of Style', which catches on like wildfire.
:* On the morning of March 15, Beryl issues her challenge to the world: threatening all life on it and daring the magical girls to stop her. They disrupt her evil ritual and she is slain at the hands of the Outer Senshi, but not before she murders her much-hated Princess Serenity first. Usagi is revived by the Ginzuishou, which responds to the feelings of her friends, and afterwards they all defeat Queen Metallia together.
:* After the events of the North Pole, Mikoto reassures Homura by carrying her up a tree and showing her how nice high places are.
* '''Summer 2014 Plot: Orphans, and an orphan'''
* It is August 6, 2014. Cicadas whirr staccatos, forcing them through the oppressively heavy air. Nary a breeze stirs across Tokyo Bay; there is no respite from the concrete-gathered might of the sun as it absorbs and re-emits from every surface in the city. Sweat beads at temples, at necklines, at the bottom of the back. But it just makes the ice cream sweeter. The resumption of school is weeks away and the obligations of summer homework might as well be on another planet. It's a long, hot, lazy summer. What a great time to be alive.
* In the last five months: After defeating Queen Metallia and returning home, the magical girls resolved the Jewel Seed Incident (approximately per canon, with the apparent death of Precia and the redemption of Fate, and also per BF canon, with the full withdrawal of the TSAB from Earth and the stranding of Lindy). In terms of trouble on the /rise/, it mostly takes the form of increased Orphan attacks (HiME are busting out all over) and greater activity by Labyrinth -- Nakewameke out the ears, as they strive to fill their Fuko Gauge to the brim, harvesting the despair of Tokyo citizens. Also, everyone went up a grade, which means some middle schoolers are now in high school. Though school is not currently in session.
* Chibi-Usa and Sailor Pluto have arrived in Tokyo. (Black Moon won't be far behind, while the Death Busters were always here but have yet to start overt operations; similarly the Wolkenritter have been present but are just now starting to become truly desperate.) And so has Northa.
:* Mai finds an Orphan during her summer job as a lifeguard, and when the night falls she and Mikoto take care of it. Then Mikoto drags her off to the party which was distracting all the civilians, even though they didn't have an invitation.
:* An Orphan attacks Sensouji Temple, threatening to eat all the cold snacks, only to be brought down by a group of magical girls. It's believed to be a lion dance with very good effects in the aftermath, and the people involved in the battle are lauded as excellent actors.
:* Mikoto continues trying to get through to Eas, finding her after a Nakewameke attack. They share donuts and surprisingly friendly conversation, and Eas gives Mikoto advance warning about her next attack.
:* Kasagami hosts a fancy summer party on behalf of the School Council, featuring the impromptu D.J., Steven Universe.
:* Mikoto and Kasagami spar and no one gets stabbed for real.
:* Steven, Niramo, Ami and Mikoto band together to create THE ULTIMATE SANDCASTLE (plus one whale lord.)
:* Mikoto drags Endo out from his job at the convenience store to go watch fireworks instead.
:* Eas creates her ultimate Nakewameke, and sends out invitations to the magical girls of Tokyo to meet her at Tokyo Tower for a showdown. She nearly succeeds--but when she emerges from her command post to talk to the assembled magical girls, Klein activates his failsafe, and they're left to save themselves /and/ her; she stays on Earth, as a (relatively) ordinary girl.
:* Marinette is caught by her parents one night talking to Chat Noir and thinks they're going out. After a date night at Marinette's residence, the fiction becomes a reality.
* '''Timeline One: Walpurgisnacht'''
:* Walpurgisnacht comes to Tokyo. The magical girls rise to confront it en masse, but not without casualties. Among them are Eri Shimanouchi and Mami Tomoe, which leaves only Madoka Kaname to deal the final blow -- which, legend says, must be dealt by a Puella Magi. She sacrifices herself in order to save the city -- and her friends. And especially Homura Akemi, who hears her last words.
:* Homura makes a Contract with Kyuubey: ''I want to redo my meeting with Kaname-san. But this time, instead of her saving me... I want to be the one to save her!'' She becomes a Puella Magi, and the magic of her wish sends her back in time... ending Timeline One.

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====Timeline Two====
'''THEME: DREAMS.''' ''Homura's dream has come true -- and that makes it easier for everyone else to pursue theirs, because the life of a magical girl is a whole lot safer when they have an ally who can stop time to keep them from harm. It's mostly a good thing, but there's nothing like peril to inspire rapid bonding, so although the magical girl community is still (relatively) unified, it is slightly more loosely knit than it was in Timeline One. And with a little less magical stress in their lives, people are able to focus more on their individual goals rather than joint ones -- pursuing their different, unique, beautiful dreams.''
* A few months have passed since the timeline began, along with a few major events:
:* Homura Akemi is a newly Contracted Puella Magi who has joined the Mami/Madoka/Eri konbi, and is still learning how to master her unusually difficult powers. Unable to keep the secret, Madoka spilled her guts to Sayaka about being a magical girl within the first forty-eight hours.
:* As with the original timeline, the Sports Festival was a big success, but it seems to have really inflamed competitive spirits and the rivalry between the Sister Schools is more pronounced than before.
:* Fusion was defeated without the girls being sucked inside his soul and freed by their friends and Miracle Lights; it was just a conventional (though the first physically gigantic, and still relatively dramatic) battle.
:* Believing the monster to have eaten her best friend, Puella Magi Madoka battled Dessert Witch Charlotte, alone and crippled by grief. But Sayaka Miki had just been lost in the Labyrinth, and contracted on the spot upon witnessing the battle. Madoka narrowly avoided losing her head as the two defeated their first Witch together.
:* On Hokkaido, the Maiden of Dreams was redeemed without her killing Madoka Kaname or awakening Princess Serenity (because of a timely Homura rescue). That means the identity of the Moon Princess is still a mystery, and the hunt is on. Zoisite and Kunzite are still alive and Queen Beryl has yet to enact her North Pole ritual.
:* Because the timeLOOP has begun, weird temporal effects are occurring, and one of them is that Sailor Pluto basically hit a weird patch of timenoise on her way over, and accidentally overshot her trip. She has arrived just now, in April 2014. (Chibi-Usa will still arrive post-Beryl.)
* There are other minor differences between the second and first timelines as well.
:* In haste, Sayaka wished for the first thing that came to mind. Now with each mystically assured victory the Ohtori Middle School Softball team achieves on its way to an inevitable championship, Sayaka feels less and less fulfilled...
:* Ye-jin Song arrives and is elected new captain of Ohtori Dance Club. Secretly, she's come to help hunt HiME...
:* Madoka has the unusual combination of confidence, time, and commitment to self-improvement to actually go out for sports for once. She joins the Archery Club where she studies diligently alongside Rei.
:* Natsuki and Mikoto's battle on the cruise liner was more serious this time around, and several floors were damaged, but the ship remained structurally intact. Mai's efforts have, once again, seen them going from enemies to friends.
:* Mikoto was introduced to the Puella Magi by Homura, this time, who was eager to meet her old friend again. Mikoto was initially shy, but soon warmed up to her, alongside Madoka, Eri, and the others.
:* Upon realising that Homura was trying to learn how to fight, Mikoto relented to Kasagami's attempts to get her to join Kendo club, so that she could figure out how to teach her.
:* Rather than unintentionally insulting Rei, Usagi instead pleaded for her help in the wake of the bus incidents outside Hikawa Shrine, prompting Rei to commit to protecting Usagi early.
* '''IC Starting Date: April 2014'''
* '''Starting Plots: Student Council Ball; The Jewel Seed Incident'''
* It is April 17, 2014, and the cherry blossoms are in bloom. It's the second week of the new school year. A transformative time, as students acclimate to their new classes, their new classmates, their new clubs (or incessant club recruiters, for the holdouts) -- and now, tonight, their new student councils. Elections are over, and the Sister Schools are celebrating with a shared social that really can only possibly be called a ball, because Ohtori Academy is hosting. Besides having the best venue, they also have the most surprising outcome: Kasagami Araki is the new Ohtori High School Student Council President, having won her victory by a single vote (secretly, Akio Ohtori's, because the Academy is not a democracy...).
* But life isn't just sparkling apple cider and roses. The Jewel Seeds -- called 'Lost Logia' by the offworlders pursuing them, but to any magical girl recognizable as magical jewels that contain the cross-section of terrible power and the potential to grant wishes -- have almost all been found. The dark mage Fate Testarossa, and her allies in Labyrinth, have claimed roughly half; the radiant newcomer, Nanoha Takamachi, and her friends, have the rest. Can Fate's heart be reached before something terrible happens?
:* At the 2014-2015 Sister Schools Student Council Inauguration Ball, Niramo and Takeo get in a fight with some boys who were harassing Suzuka Tsukimura and are disciplined by Kasagami in her role as the new Ohtori Student Council President. Rei and Usagi join the Dance Queen competition with predictable results. Utena encourages Anthy (a Dance Queen nominee) to attend and therefore does as well, wearing one of the dresses they were gifted by the dance committee in solidarity. Disaster strikes as Nanami (who arranged the nomination and the dresses) causes Anthy's dress to dissolve in the middle of the dance floor, but Utena comes to the rescue.
:* At a Dance Club recruitment drive held at Ohtori shortly after the Inaugurational Ball, Niramo receives some much needed confidence from both Ye-Jin and Fumiko. It's enough that Niramo actually reconsiders her choice in clubs, dropping her enrollment in the Anime Club and taking up Dance at Juuban instead.
:* Nanoha Takamachi leads the magical girls in confronting her rival Fate Testarossa; she proposes an all-out one on one duel for the Jewel Seeds, and Fate accepts. But Precia intervenes, ostensibly out of concern that Nanoha's friends will jump in and gang up on her enforcer, and forcibly duplicates Fate with magic, creating a wild battle. Despite her numbers advantage, Fate loses anyway; Precia seizes the Jewel Seeds before Nanoha can and leaves, but not before punishing Fate for her failure both physically and emotionally. Nanoha takes a broken Fate home.
::* Lindy Harlaown makes contact with Nanoha, as does Arf, who can give them the coordinates to the Garden of Time. Nanoha and her friends climb aboard the Arthra to confront Precia in her fortress before she fully activates all the Jewel Seeds and causes an existential threat to the foundations of the multiverse. Fate stays behind, but encouragement from Arf and (unexpectedly) Eas, as well as bearing witness to the support of her friends now fighting Precia in her name, allows her to regain her will to fight. She and Eas catch up and rescue the group at a crucial moment, and then everyone proceeds to confront Precia.
::* But reality is fragmenting quickly, and the group winds up having to pass through Precia's past in order to reach her in the present. A dialogue begins, but whether or not Precia's heart was moved will remain an eternal mystery, because at the moment of truth, she is murdered by Northa, Chief Executive of Labyrinth, who immediately orders Eas to join her in exterminating her allies. Eas tries to bargain with Northa for their lives, which Northa takes as disloyalty; she uses the Jewel Seeds to create doppelganger replacements for all the magical girls, INCLUDING Eas, to be her new, loyal, army. The magical girls must confront these dark reflections of themselves and defeat them before the Garden of Time collapses into less than nothingness; they manage to do so, together, and escape on the Arthra in the nick of time. In the battle, Eas is forced to destroy her Data Diamond to defeat her double, and she joins them without her powers on the ship.
::* As the Arthra returns to Earth, it is abruptly and unexpectedly destroyed by an enormous blast of Dark Energy that came from the North Pole. The magical girls (and the crew) are able to escape, teleporting back to Tokyo just in time to watch the contrails of the surprise attack fade from the sky. It's terrifying power... but now they know where they need to go to put an end to the threat of Queen Beryl.
:* Mami Tomoe and Sayaka Miki acknowledge their growing attraction to one another and begin to date. Homura Akemi and Madoka Kaname are inseparable, but not officially together.
* '''Summer 2014 Plot: North Pole'''
:* The sakura faded and the trees grew leaves -- soft breezes became oppressive heat -- and spring yielded into summer. In late June, school hasn't quite let out for vacation, but that hasn't stopped the Sailor Senshi from taking a trip to the Moon, in part hoping for a way to release the kidnapped Mamoru Chiba, now known as Dark Endymion, from Queen Beryl's brainwashing. The Midchildans, meanwhile, have finished running analyses of the blast that destroyed their spaceship, and are able to organize an operation to storm the pinpointed spot in the Arctic by surprise.
:* The magical girls get separated at the North Pole and begin fighting their way into the Dark Kingdom against the army that appears to defend it. The Inner Senshi die getting their Moon Princess into position to defeat Queen Beryl, but in the aftermath, Usagi is able to revive them. Everyone celebrates, then joins together to oppose the true dark power behind even Beryl's throne, the destructive entity Queen Metallia. The Maiden of Dreams, rescued on Hokkaido, reappears to help at this critical moment. Everyone's hearts join together, and the explosive power of their dreams defeat Queen Metallia. Overcome by their feelings and the transcendent moment, Sayaka and Mami share their first kiss.
:* However, Madoka Kaname uses up all of her magic, and collapses even as Queen Metallia is destroyed for good. Her Soul Gem becomes a Grief Seed, and she becomes a massive Witch, Kriemhild Gretchen. Her friends are forced to face this horror, but Homura Akemi turns away. Armed with the horrible truth of the Puella Magi, she jumps back to the past again to try to prevent this future from ever happening... ending Timeline Two.

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====Timeline Three====
'''THEME: TRUST.''' ''As in its complexities, its limitations, and its breakdown. Up until now, being a magical girl has included automatic membership in a sort of collective sisterhood -- the world has been divided into 'the magical girls' and 'the bad guys'. But a simple question changes everything: 'What if the fairy mascots and other sources of power don't actually have the magical girls' best interests at heart?' It's an unbelievable idea, but simply rejecting it means that, for some reason, Homura Akemi is trying to drive a wedge between magical girls and their mascots. In other words: not all magical girls can be trusted. Once planted, this seed of uncertainty can only continue to flower, and has done so spectacularly.''
* Numerous factors have further exacerbated the issue of trust between magical girls. Major examples include:
:* Competitions for limited magical resources, such as Star Shards, Jewel Seeds, and Grief Seeds, have all been far more intense than in previous timelines, with ugly consequences for would-be friendships.
:* Friendly fire is more of a narrative problem in this timeline than it has been (or will be) in others; even girls with the best of intentions might damage the trust of their allies by accidentally clipping them with one of their attacks, in a critical moment.
:* Magical girls are generally less willing to explain themselves and their actions to one another, since it's harder to know who to trust.
:* Secret identities are far more tightly protected than in Timelines One and Two. This means that sometimes people are friends as magical girls and, separately, friends as civilians, but that the crucial bond of trust that connects the two worlds is often missing. Sometimes, things are even more complicated, and magical girl rivals have no idea that their opposite number is their best friend at school.
* Although things are far from outright war, the magical girl community is under strain, and cracks are beginning to show. Rivalries are more heated and less friendly. 'Teams' can also sometimes be understood as 'schisms'. Conversely, true bonds of trust between individual girls are more precious and beautiful than ever. (And like all precious things -- they are vulnerable.)
* '''TIMELINE THREE IS SUBSTANTIALLY DARKER (OR, AT MINIMUM, MORE COMPLEX) THAN TIMELINES ONE AND TWO.''' It is not, however, an exercise in misery. The main 'tragedy' of the timeline, compared to the previous ones, is the environment of paranoia that has sprung up in the community. Even the most open-hearted magical girls have reasons to think more critically and carefully about their counterparts, and the ways of the world, than they normally would. (More reasons, in fact, than in the prime timeline, which did not have Homura Akemi sowing seeds of doubt from the start, nor such extreme competitions for the Star Shards and Jewel Seeds.)
* An entire year has passed since the beginning of this timeline; it is picking up several months after the last one ended, in fact (September; T2 ended in late June). All this is to say that quite a bit has happened, and happened differently, and happened in a way to put strain on trust between magical girls (while in turn forging some unbreakable bonds along the way):
:* The Fall 2013 Sports Festival, and Fusion's assault on Tokyo, occur essentially as they did in Timeline Two.
:* After spending enough time rebuilding her magical girl friendships that they'd have reason to trust her, Homura Akemi reveals the awful truth that Puella Magi are tricked by Kyuubey into accepting a fate where they will become Witches. It does not go over well, and creates a FIRESTORM of rumor and speculation that reaches all corners of the magical girl community. Everyone has heard about it. '''Nobody believes it (no exceptions!).''' Everyone has different opinions on why Homura would make such a claim, some more generous than others.
:* For a variety of reasons which certainly include heightened anxiety, magical girls' unanswered wishes are at the forefront of their minds when the Star Shards' existence becomes revealed, and the fight over them becomes (almost) as vicious between magical girls as it is between magical girls and Dark Fall demons/men in black from Ends of the World.
::*In the end, the star shards are never gathered in one place. Individual shards are painstakingly hidden by their current owners. The Maiden of Dreams remains a broken, nameless entity suffering endless torture within her seven golden prisons -- and nobody even knows that she exists.
:* The Jewel Seeds are hotly contested for basically the same reason. The Device-users of Earth do not line up neatly behind Nanoha Takamachi in her efforts to oppose Fate Testarossa; Endo Naoki especially wants to seize them for himself, which damages his relationship with Ren Aizawa.
::* Precia Testarossa does get her hands on all the Jewel Seeds eventually, after washing her hands of Fate. The magical girls are forced to unite to stop her from permanently sundering reality, and manage to do so, though not everyone participates in the operation. The Harlaowns are not involved; the Arthra is never allowed to come to Earth, due to rampant distrust between the TSAB and the Magic Association. Afterwards, Fate lives with the Takamachis.
:* Events surrounding the North Pole go more similarly to the PRIME timeline than either timelines one or two. In late summer 2014, once Usagi Tsukino is revealed as the Moon Princess, Mamoru Chiba is kidnapped and brainwashed into Dark Endymion, and the Four Heavenly Kings are dead, Queen Beryl issues her collective challenge to the magical girl community and dares them to stop her from making her dark wish.
::* Arriving in disorganized, separate groups, they fail. So, every magical girl in the world except for Sailor Moon and the Inner Senshi are banished to the Multidimensional Chaos World by the force of Beryl's wish. Adventures in bizarro spacetime ensue.
::* Back on Earth, the Inner Senshi die getting Sailor Moon past the DD Girls. She is forced to confront Beryl and Dark Endymion alone, and is narrowly able to do so. Afterwards, her wish for her friends revives the dead and recalls the missing, and everyone gathers together to put a permanent end to Queen Metallia.
::* The Maiden of Dreams is not present to help the girls gestalt their power, and so instead this battle is messy and dangerous. The magical girls triumph without anyone dying, but the aftertaste is a little bittersweet, tainted by injuries, plus the trauma of the uncontrolled dimension-hopping which resulted from Beryl's dark wish.
:* The World Tree roars onto everyone's radar when it's attacked by weird, sword-wielding shadows seemingly trying to disrupt a mysterious sparkly magical girl ritual, and by the end of summer everyone knows it exists, that it's a vitally important conduit of Earth's magical power, and that there's a more-and-less subtle battle being waged between men in black, Dark Fall demons and operatives (especially agents of Labyrinth such as Eas and Soular), Orphans, and the Magic Association, for control of the nexuses of magic that harness the World Tree's strength.
:* The Outer Senshi are present, active and renowned for their brutal determination to save the world by any means necessary without bothering to explain their methods -- in other words, they're the poster girls for how not all magical girls can be trusted.
:* The Wolkenritter are also getting active, creating rumors about magical girls who attack other magical girls in dark alleys -- and fear.
:* Drawn to investigate the source of the crazy rumor about Puella Magi and Witches, Kyouko Sakura and other Puella Magi close in on the Konbi's neighborhood. There aren't enough Grief Seeds to go around, and the question of hunting familiars becomes crucial. Tensions are rising.
:* Summer vacation happened. There was no trip to Okinawa. The return of school is something of a relief for kids stuck in the sweaty concrete prison of Tokyo.
:* Despite everything, magical girls also give each other reasons to trust one another as well. Every day is another act of kindness. Every friendship is its own miracle.
* There are other differences between the second and third timelines as well.
:* You are encouraged to add other differences between the second and third timelines to this list!
:* Please put your September 2013-September 2014 differences here, they're fun and interesting to imagine, especially as things have changed quite a bit between timelines two and three! Weird temporal effects continue to justify larger changes, such as when a character first came to Tokyo or first became a magical girl, as long as it happened after September 2013 (the beginning of Homura's time loops). Please run truly strange ideas by the staff first.
:* Mikoto Minagi and Natsuki Kuga's battle on the ship was once again more serious, with a large hole blown through several floors to expose the fight to the sky, but the ship managed to retain its structural integrity.
:* Mikoto spends a lot of her time searching for her brother, and so she has no time for clubs. Most of her associations are people she's met through Mai; on her own she is awkward and gruff, and does not generally reach out to make friends. Much of her involvement in early magical conflicts simply came down to the fact that Mai was there, rather than any urge of her own to get involved. What was seen as feline whimsy in the prime timeline now becomes much more suspicious: why does Mikoto so often go off on her own? Where was she when they needed help at the North Pole, or when Precia was threatening the world? And why does she keep herself shrouded in such mystery..?
:* The strain of the magical community means that Mikoto has had less exposure to kind life lessons, and so she is a much fiercer fighter. Mai has made what she doesn't approve of clear, and so Mikoto generally tries to avoid killing or doing severe injury to human opponents and will defend civilians, but she has no compunctions against hitting her opponents so hard that they don't want to get up again. She has a wild and unrestrained fighting style which makes it very easy for mistakes to happen and for allies to get hit.
:* Endo Naoki more than briefly considered using the Jewel Seeds to grant his own wish, leading to various squabbles with other Mages. He eventually came around to help stop Precia Testarossa, but harsh feelings may remain. With less sources of trusted support Endo tries to shoulder more of Tokyo's burdens, and listens more closely to the advice of his intelligent device, Fallen Stern.
:* Ye-jin Song is hunting HiME. . .
:* Shizuru Fujino is moving in secret towards the goals of Ends of the World. As the men in black continue to show up at various flashpoints of magical import, a woman in black with a strange red naginata often accompanies them. Her identity is unknown, but she has already shown a frightening ruthlessness that only adds to the cloud of suspicion in place.
* '''IC Starting Date: September 2014'''
* '''Starting Plot: SEARRS Invasion'''
* It is September 10, 2014, and Southern Cross Island is apparently infested by vampires. Or maybe it's a stalker. At any rate, girls who go out alone at night are being found unconscious and, from the disarray of their possessions, have been searched for valuables. Magical girls suspect that this is really someone trying to identify them within the ordinary student population of Ohtori Academy. The school has implemented an extremely strict campus curfew enforced by Disciplinary Executive patrols, however, which makes it slightly more difficult to mount the kind of MAGICAL patrols needed to investigate and guard against the real threat. Those who've taken the risk anyway have discovered that the true perpetrators are Orphans -- the native demonic enemy that HiME were born to fight. But Orphans have always seemed mindless in their monstrosity. Could something -- or someone -- be directing their actions?
* From a more normal perspective, summer is finally over, Fall Semester is in session, and for 9th-graders especially, it also brings High School Entrance Exams into focus as a looming existential threat to their ordinary lives. It is harder than ever to find enough time for it all.
* The Fall 2014 Sports Festival is coming up soon. Juuban had it last year, and now it's Ohtori's turn to host, and despite the campus safety issues the plan seems to be moving forward. That makes it roughly the one-year anniversary of most magical girls' careers; a time for reflection. How have things changed since they discovered the world of magic? How have THEY changed?

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Food

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Japanese cuisine is highly seasonal, with many dishes using ingredients only available at the right time. Modern technology has eased this burden, but it is still traditional to eat certain foods at certain times of year.

''Special thanks to Kuniko Saito's player for contributing the Winter entry of this guide!''

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==Autumn==
Some in Japan call autumn the 'season for eating.' Coming off the heat of summer, there's a trend towards savory dishes that celebrate the bountiful harvest, and nice warm comfort food to eat as the weather turns colder.

'''Sanma''' (literal translation 'autumn knife fish'), or Pacific Saury, are sleekly silver fish that rise fat and juicy for fishermen in the fall, considered an iconic centerpiece of autumn cuisine. They are typically served whole (even as sushi!), and when cooked, sanma are seasoned with salt and grilled over a charcoal fire. The crispy skin is a much-beloved part of the experience, often garnished with soy sauce. In early September, Tokyo's Meguro district holds a festival where many thousands of charcoal-grilled sanma are given away for free tasting!

'''Satsumaimo''', or Japanese sweet potatoes, are purple on the outside, bright yellow on the inside, and are drier in texture, but sweeter and creamier in taste, than yams. Traditionally, they are roasted whole, on hot stones outside (lending themselves well to the centerpiece of a scene where characters tend, then consume, their roasting sweet potatoes while raking leaves or otherwise enjoying the season; they are also sold, steaming hot, out of the open backs of minivans, by men who attract their customers by singing an iconic lamenting song). Satsumaimo are also popular fried, mashed, or boiled. The stereotypical consequence of overeating satsumaimo is a popular source of fart jokes among the young (and sometimes the old).

'''Kabocha''' are essentially Japanese pumpkins. On the outside they're green rather than orange, and on the inside they're somewhat sweeter than the Western squash, with a rich, butternut flavor. In the fall, they're made into soups, barbecued, battered and fried as tempura (alongside maple leaves, '''Momiji Tempura''', an unusual autumn treat!), and, yes, even used in Western-style pies.
* The most classic comfort food preparation of kabocha, however, is as a filling for breaded and fried croquettes, locally called '''korokke''' -- kabocha (also, satsumaimo) korokke are an often-homemade autumn snack. Watch out for the hot oil when it pops! Independent of season, korokke made with regular potatoes, or sometimes with ground meat, are popular throughout the year, and are sold at delightfully hot temperatures for pocket change prices at the konbini.

'''Matsutake''' pine mushrooms are the most prominent of the fungi that, nurtured by summer's high humidity, pop up for harvesting in the fall. Impossible to cultivate, they're highly prized and very expensive, starting at a hundred thousand yen per pound for the premium grade, and occupy a similar position of honor in Japanese cuisine as truffles do to the French. To make a few matsutake mushrooms stretch a long way, they are popularly featured in a seafood broth soup called '''Matsutake Dobin Mushi''', which is served in a clay teapot. When eaten whole, their delicate, smoky flavor is best preserved by grilling them on an open flame, and they are sometimes sprinkled over rice. Cheaper mushrooms are also popular in autumn, with hearty mushroom broth sometimes replacing the standard cup of miso soup served alongside a meal.

'''Kaki''', or Japanese persimmons, are ubiquitous in the fall, a sweet and tangy fruit found ripening on trees all over the country. Making a day out of a kaki picking trip is a common weekend treat. Besides eating them straight off the tree, they are often served chilled, or dusted with sugar and dried (a treat called '''hoshigaki''').

'''Kuri''', also commonly called by their French name '''maron''', are Japanese chestnuts (with a similar omnipresence to kaki, seen on trees everywhere, but an entirely different taste -- creamy, sweet and rich). They're usually sold uncooked so that they can be prepared at home, but you can get bags of roasted kuri at your supermarket or konbini for a good sidewalk snack. Roasting your own at the end of a trip to a kuri picking farm makes for a good finale to a September day!
* '''Shinmai''', or "new rice," comprises the first harvests of rice in autumn. Shinmai is said to be moister, sweeter, and more beautiful than ordinary rice, and starting in late September one of the best ways to prepare it is with kuri boiled alongside rice in the pot, creating a hearty sticky rice dish ('''kuri-gohan''') with a tiny dose of sweetness. Gingko nuts are also a popular shinmai topping, because of their subtle flavor, which allows the rice's unique qualities to shine through.
* Boxes of '''kuri-kinton''', or candied chestnuts, are popular gifts for friends and family in autumn -- in this treat, kuri are steamed, mashed, combined with sugar, then twisted into a bun shape. The snack is popularly enjoyed with a cup of hot tea. Kuri are also used in many other Japanese sweets, including '''kuri-manju''' cakes.

==Winter==
The prototypical dish for winter cuisine in Japan is the '''hot pot''', also known as ''nabemono''. Ingredients are combined in a pot and boiled, forming a rich broth; it is typically shared, with individual diners plucking out their favored morsels, and the broth typically mixed with rice at the end and consumed as a final course. Eating nabemono with your friends would be an excellent reason for a social scene; gather together, stick your legs underneath the kotatsu, and enjoy the warmth of friendship and flavor.

Nabemono is very versatile. Indeed, the name can be translated as "cooking pot stuff." Here are some common styles of nabemono; all of them can be considered to have vegetables such as bok choy and daikon involved, as well as varieties of mushroom.

* '''Sukiyaki:''' Thinly sliced beef (sometimes pork) simmered with vegetables and a soy sauce/sugar/sweet rice wine sauce. Before eating, the hot ingredients are usually dipped in a small bowl of raw beaten egg. Common at year-end parties and suitable for all ages.
* '''Shabu-shabu:''' Thin sliced beef is boiled in water or broth and eaten with dipping sauces. This dish may be considered similar to the "fondue" style meals available in America. It is quite suitable for service with fine ingredients, particularly wagyu beef and other marks of conspicuous consumption.
* '''Yosenabe:''' A combination style of nabemono which combines all sorts of things and cooks them well together: meat, seafood, tofu, egg, and vegetables. A common "homestyle" meal, often with a thicker sauce than is typical for nabemono.
* '''Yudofu:''' Nabemono prepared in a kombu stock and featuring tofu as the primary protein, with citrus and spicy sauces. Socially considered as vegetarian, though small amounts of fish are typically involved.
* '''Chankonabe:''' A nabemono dish that is a common restaurant meal, it was originally a heavy dish eaten by sumo wrestlers to put on weight efficiently. Very high in protein, often with chicken, fish, beef and various vegetables, chankonabe is a good meal for growing young'ns when served in less heroic proportions.
* '''Ishikari-nabe:''' A Hokkaido specialty, this hot pot features salmon and potato as well as butter.

'''Oden''' is another characteristic winter dish, prepared in a manner similar to hot pot but made available as its own individual dish in many venues. Featuring boiled eggs, daikon, fishcakes and a soy/dashi broth, most convenience stores have a bubbling pot of oden to sell by the cup during the winter months.

'''Tori zosui''' is another winter favorite; a thick rice soup with chicken, often prepared with leftover rice and served with sliced scallions on top. It's an excellent and popular way to warm up after a bitterly cold day.

====Winter Holidays====
There are also some specifically traditional holiday dishes, associated with an individual day or days. Your character is likely to eat them, and may well help prepare them!

* '''Christmas Cake:''' These cakes are typically a simple sponge cake, frosted with whipped cream and decorated with strawberries plus a chocolate plate that says "Merry Christmas!" Something of a more structured strawberry shortcake. It is eaten on Christmas Eve, which is, in Japan, typically celebrated as a romantic holiday a la Western Valentine's Day, and is thus perhaps the hardest night of the year to get a table at a nice restaurant. Yule Log cakes are also popular.
* '''KFC:''' There is a tradition of obtaining Kentucky Fried Chicken meals as a Christmas dish, in part because turkey is an absolute unknown in Japan. A 1974 advertising campaign started a tradition, and now a bucket of KFC "Christmas Chicken" (with salad and a cake) is typical fare on Christmas, often ordered months in advance to beat the lines.
* '''Osechi ryori:''' An umbrella term for food prepared specially for the New Year's period, these dishes come in a huge range of ingredients that are meant to encourage good luck and fortune for the upcoming year. They are typically sweet, sour, dried or otherwise preserved, as they come from a time before refrigeration was common, and when many markets would be closed for some time. Traditionally, nothing should be cooked on New Year's Day, so the preparation of osechi is finished before New Year's Eve. Osechi ryori is arguably the most important meal of the year, with each dish serving as a symbol or wish for the coming year. The food is even eaten in a special way by using chopsticks that are rounded on both ends; one side for the humans to use, one side for the gods. There are so many varieties that space would prohibit easy discussion. A more detailed discussion is present at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osechi Wikipedia] including a plan for a three-tiered "jubako" box.
* '''Toshikoshi soba:''' This is eaten at night on New Year's Eve. A simple meal with buckwheat soba with toppings such as seaweed, fried tofu, or vegetables. The long noodles are said to symbolize a long life, their consumption representing "crossing over from one year to the next," the meaning of ''toshi-koshi''. Another theory is that it is very simple to make - a relief after preparing several days' worth of osechi for the upcoming celebrations! It is often considered bad luck to leave any of your toshikoshi soba uneaten.
* '''O-zoni:''' A soup eaten during on the morning of New Year's Day, considered very lucky, featuring local ingredients and lots of mochi. While many areas have their own specialties, the typical Kanto-area meal uses a soy sauce/dashi broth, squared and grilled mochi, and meat and vegetables to preference.
* '''Nanakusu gayu:''' Eaten on January 7th, this is a collection of seven wild edible herbs eaten with rice in order to ease the stomach after all of the things listed above, which have been eaten over the course of several weeks.

==Spring==
Spring cuisine is all about appreciating the beginning of the growing season, as shoots and ferns unfurl from the ground, and petals blossom on fruit trees. These events are cause for major public celebrations, and, in turn, the fruits and vegetables in question are heavily featured in a variety of dishes.

Besides the bounty of the rich brown earth, there are naturally seasonal selections from the deep blue sea:
* '''Tai''', or Red Sea Bream, are rich-tasting fish that are in season in spring, and famously symbolize good luck in Japan. Besides eating them as sashimi or grilled with salt, '''Tai-chasuke''' is a dish where tai is served on rice with dashi fish stock poured on top.
:* For people who can't abide the fish, but still want their good luck, there is also '''Taiyaki''', a traditional Japanese sweet named after and shaped like tai. They're filled with '''anko''' (sweet red azuki bean paste), and often served at cherry blossom viewing parties (called hanami).
* '''Ika''' (Squid) is available good and fresh throughout the year, they're sweetest in the spring. '''Hotaru-Ika''' (firefly squid) are particularly popular served as a snack accompanying drinks, prepared in a variety of ways, including as sashimi, sauted, or boiled in soy sauce.
* '''Magaki''' (Pacific Oysters) are in season from late winter to spring, where they become bigger and sweeter. They're often served in an all-you-can-eat format, grilled, steamed, or even fried.

'''Sansai''' are much-beloved Japanese mountain vegetables that sprout in spring and are enthusiastically consumed. Many are picked from the wild; indeed, most are difficult to cultivate on a mass scale, and they're often quite bitter and tough until boiled or otherwise processed to consume. Besides serving them raw in salads, seared on the grill, or battered and fried as tempura, there are numerous specific dishes unique to a given mountain vegetable.
* '''Nanohana''' are the young spring shoots of rapeseed plants; though they're available in plain green at supermarkets for most of the year (and are closely related to broccoli -- the florets, stems and leaves are all edible), in spring they are prized for their bright yellow flower buds, which arrive in late March, in between the plum and cherry blossoms. Wandering through yellow fields of nanohana is a much-beloved practice, and fields outside of Tokyo are planted and sculpted into mazes, not unlike corn mazes in North America during Halloween. Unlike many sansai, nanohana isn't bitter or tough, so no pretreatment is required to enjoy it. Flowering nanohana is traditionally used as a side dish called '''ohitashi''', where it is briefly boiled until tender, and served with soy sance, dashi, bonito flakes and/or toasted sesame seeds. '''Karashiae''' is a similar dish, but the soy sauce is seasoned with spicy mustard.
* '''Takenoko''' (literally "child of bamboo") is a bamboo shoot, which can only be picked in a very tight window of the correct size and tenderness. Even then, takenoko must be boiled in rice bran water (with a couple of hot chili peppers added to, paradoxically, increase the bamboo's sweetness) for over an hour, to soften the flesh and reduce its bitterness. '''Takenoko-gohan''', or bamboo shoot rice, involves steaming precooked takenoko in rice (sometimes with fried tofu and shiitake mushrooms), flavored with soy sauce, dashi, mirin (sweet rice wine) sake and sugar. As a solo entree, larger pieces of bamboo cooked in a similar seasoning blend are served as '''takenoko no nimono''' ("simmered bamboo shoots"). Takenoko is also featured prominently in stir fry, in the spring.
* Other sansai, essentially all of which require advance parboiling, include '''Fuki''' (Butterbur), in which both the stalks and buds are used; spiraling, curled '''Kogomi''' (Ostrich Ferns) which are blanched and simmered; '''Shungiku''' (Spring Chrysanthemum) which are often served with a sesame dressing, or added to soups and hot pots; '''Tara no Me''' (the fresh shoots of the Angelica tree, sometimes called the "king" of sansai) which are particularly popular as tempura; '''Wasabina''' (Wasabi Mustard Greens) often used in salads; and '''Yama Udo''' (Mountain Asparagus) which is typically thinly sliced and pickled in miso, vinegar and sugar, or, if served fresh, can be grilled or sauteed.

'''Ichigo''' (strawberries) are in season in Japan from December to March, making them the go-to fruit for early spring. They're much beloved for their ability to brighten up this dreary time of year, and appear everywhere, in everything. Particularly fancy breeds of premium berry are marketed as high class gifts in department stores, but anyone can buy normal strawberries -- including going out to greenhouses to pick them, a spring activity known as '''ichigo kari'''.
* '''Daifuku''' are a very popular traditional Japanese sweet, comprised of a glutinous rice ball filled with sweet white or red anko, but in spring, they're sold with an entire strawberry inside, and called '''ichigo daifuku'''. These are hawked from the food stall to the konbini and back again, and are best enjoyed with a cup of green tea.
* Strawberry shortcakes in Japan are sponge cake and whipped cream layer cakes with fresh strawberries between the layers and on top (Christmas cakes are usually strawberry shortcakes), which is a little different from the cake with the same name in the West.

'''Ume''', the Japanese plum, is the first major tree to blossom in spring, and its flowering is avidly anticipated by the populace (though without quite the intensity of the excitement surrounding sakura blossoms, see below). Accompanying all this hype are uses of its fruit flavor. Since ume is often pickled as unbelivably sour, salty '''umeboshi''', it's available year-round, but when the weather starts to warm and spring is around the corner, ume-flavored chips (which are sort of like fruity salt and vinegar chips) and other snacks and sweets, appear on the shelves of the supermarkets and konbini.

'''Sakura''' blossoms are the main event for the celebration of the arrival of spring (even though ume come first and are also celebrated separately). In Tokyo, they begin to bloom in April, and as the public eagerly follows the cherry blossom front (as forecasted by the weather bureau, as it moves from South to North) to find out exactly when the blossoms will pop, you'll find sakura-flavored (or at least sakura-colored) everything; there's Sakura Kit Kats, Starbooks lattes, donuts, tarts, roll cakes, ice cream, taiyaki, mochi, and more. Sakura fever turns the shelves of the supermarket bright pink.
* '''Sakura-mochi''' is the iconic traditional sweet associated with hanami (as well as Hinamatsuri, the Girls' Festival, celebrated on March 3rd); it is the sweet, pink mochi of spring, wrapped around anko and topped with an edible leaf from a sakura tree (which is the only part of the sweet, actually, that involves actual sakura).

====Bento====
'''Hanami''' (literally, "flower viewing") is the traditional Japanese custom of throwing a party under flowering trees (especially sakura trees) in order to properly appreciate the blossoms in the brief time that they're around -- only a week or two a year! People gather in huge numbers, play or listen to music, and hold elaborate feasts on picnic blankets. Although there are often food stalls in larger parks, preparing and packing your own food is common, making this a great place to discuss '''bento''', the Japanese boxed lunch.
* Making yourself a great lunchbox is satisfying, but the true importance of bento comes from the feelings you put into preparing them for other people. It's a chance to imbue love into every bite -- parents make bento for their children if they can, and giving a specially prepared bento to a friend (or crush!) is a great demonstration of affection.
* Bento boxes (which can, themselves, vary greatly, ranging from elegant to cute to steadfastly functional to straight-up disposable -- and the same is all true of the chopsticks packed with them) are usually designed with a few subdivisions, to separate small portions of multiple dishes, such as rice, meat, and pickled or cooked vegetables. Everything tends to be served in bite-sized pieces, for convenience, and it's not uncommon for individual pieces of food to be cut into whimsical shapes, such as apple-rabbits, hot dog-octopi, and so forth.
* Taking the decorative element one step further, '''kyaraben''' ("character bento," as in anime/manga character) and '''okekakiben''' ("picture bento") arrange all of the elements of a bento into a recognizable image. Such meals require snapping a picture on your cell phone to immortalize your beautiful lunch before eating it!
* Not all bento are made by a loved one; anyone can buy bento from convenience stores or supermarkets, and some restaurants specialize in takeout bento. You can even purchase bento at railway stations ('''ekiben'''), which is a surprisingly old tradition with a huge variety of offerings, where local specialties compete for the appetites of travelers. Purchasing a box lunch at a station shop -- or while on a train, for longer trips -- remains one of the special treats of Japanese railway travel.

==Summer==
Executive summary about the themes of summer cuisine in Japan.

Savory:
* Somen
::* Nagashi somen
::* Zaru somen
* Hiyashi Chuka Noodles
* '''Hiyayakko''' (sometimes called hiyakko or yakko-dofu) is chilled tofu, served with various toppings; its name refers to the servants of samurai in the Edo period. Chopped green onion, dried tuna flakes, and soy sauce are one common combination of toppings, but you can also find hiyayakko topped with shiso, yuzu rind, daikon, ginger, plum paste, or even mustard.
* Rei Shabu
* Unagi
::* Grilled
::* Hitsumabushi

Sweet:
* Watermelon -- Kozue Kaoru
* Kakigori -- Endo Naokki
* Garigari-kun

Drinks:
* '''Mugicha''' (barley tea) is just the thing to cool a person down on a hot summer's day, or even a hot summer's night, since it's caffeine-free. Plain mugicha is a mellow brown color and has a savory, roasted taste with a touch of bitterness; sometimes it's sweetened with sugar. It can be purchased at any konbini or made at home using roasted barley teabags.
* Ramune -- Lera Camry
* Umeshu

====Festival Food====
Summer is the season of festivals so let's do a food stall feature!
* Ayu
* '''Yakitori''' -- literally grilled chicken, but not necessarily chicken! The important part is it's bite-sized food on skewers, grilled over charcoal. It's a regular festival and event food, and also popular to have while drinking! It's pretty ubiquitous. Generally it's going to be meat charred on sticks, often (maybe even mostly) with vegetables as well. It might go with salt, but with tend to have sauce; 'tare' sauce is one option, a mix of sake, soy sauce, mirin, and sugar, but the idea is something sweet and savory. The particular cut of meat isn't all that important--while the most traditional is chicken, as mentioned it might have beef, octopus, or sausage just as a start.
* Karaage
* Takoyaki -- Mikoto
* Ikayaki -- Pluto
* Hotate Butter Yaki
* Okonomiyaki -- Steven Universe
* Yakisoba -- Masque
* '''Yakitomorokoshi''' is just corn on the cob (on a stick), except that it isn't 'just' anything. Rather than being boiled, buttered and salted, its preparation is uniquely Japanese. After a brief boil to soften it up, chefs throw their corn on a charcoal grill and brush the corn's surface with some combination of soy sauce, mirin and sugar, which forms a glaze. The smell is amazing, somehow nutty, salty and sweet at the same time, and many a customer is led to this stall by simply following their nose.
* Tai is a spring fish but '''taiyaki''' is as valid an entry at any summer festival as it is at hanami viewing. These traditional Japanese pastries are shaped like the fish they're named after, and are somewhere between a waffle and a cake, stuffed with sweet azuki red bean paste (or, more recently, custard, chocolate, or even cheese or meat). Part of the fun of taiyaki at festivals is that you get to see them made in specially molded griddles, right there in the stall -- and the art of flipping over a half-baked 'fish' with a chopstick without getting batter and filling everywhere is fine, indeed...
* Crepes
* Dango
* '''Jaga bata''' means butter potato, and it's pretty much exactly that -- potatoes, steamed in wood ovens, and stuffed with butter, salt, and soy sauce. It's especially popular to use the smaller 'reject' potatoes for this purpose, turning them into a nearly bite-sized street food, but the paper boats they come in sometimes just have one big potato instead.
* Karumeyaki
* Bebi Kasutera
* Watame -- Fuu
* Ringo Ame
::* Ichigo Ame
::* Mikan Ame
::* Ume Ame
* '''Choco bananas''' are frozen banana treats, covered in chocolate. While the chocolate is traditionally milk chocolate, there are also varieties made with white chocolate, strawberry chocolate, or other varieties - which can make for a dazzling rainbow of snacks. They're often topped with sprinkles, nuts, coconut flakes, or other sweets. Don't worry about getting your hands dirty, because they're served on sticks, just like toffee apples. Choco bananas are staples of Summer festivals, and they're a common sight in stalls.

==Favorite Foods==
Everybody has a favorite food -- and often it isn't just the food, but the story of why they like it, who they like it prepared by, and where and when they most like to eat it.

* Add your character's favorite food to this bullet list -- one long paragraph recommended.
* Please include your character's name and both a cultural summary of the food and its particular significance and specifics for the character. It's okay if your food was mentioned already elsewhere in the guide -- no two bowls of ramen are alike, after all.
* [[Mikoto Minagi|Mikoto Minagi's]] favourite food is Mai Tokiha's '''ramen noodles'''! Ramen is a common Japanese dish - wheat noodles, served in broth which is typically meat- or fish-based, with a variety of toppings. Many regions of Japan have their own variation of ramen: Tokyo's own spin on the recipe involves curly noodles and chicken broth with a little dashi, though perhaps Mai's own tendency to use chicken in her ramen is also because chicken is cheaper than some of the other meats in the market. Mai's ramen noodles were Mikoto's introduction to the fact that food could taste /good/ instead of just being plain sustenance, and she is forever grateful to her friend for revealing that there were wonders of taste she had never before experienced. She'll never be able to forget the wonders of that very first meal. Though Mai can make many other more complicated dishes which exhibit her skills as a cook, Mikoto's first choice for dinner is always Mai's ramen. It's never quite the same thing twice - there are always different ingredients on sale, after all!

For more information, please see: [[Holidays and Events]], [[Culture]]
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Land of the Lotus Eaters

2018-06-24T00:21:04Z

Cowstian Dior: /* Fantasy Worlds */

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''"Sleep -- sleep as my Master sleeps, lie in an endless dream between life and death. Dream peacefully. Dream beautifully. This is my final gift to you, children of a doomed world."''

'''''LAND OF THE LOTUS-EATERS is a special event on Battle Fantasia MUSH that will run through the second half of June.'''''

Magical girls have been absorbed, body, mind and spirit, into the fully unleashed Book of Darkness, who claims to be granting her Master's final wish by giving them all the gift of eternal peace: an endless, perfect dream, surrounded by their friends and loved ones.

A fantasy where no one is missing -- no one is lost.

And everything is fine...

[[2018-06-10_-_What_Lies_Beneath_18|What Lies Beneath 18]]

Over the next two weeks, magical girls will explore their own, personal fantasy worlds, complete with idealized versions of their family and friends, enemies and allies -- and know temptation. Eventually they will encounter one another, not as each other's fantasies, but as fellow prisoners, and must search for the truth at the heart of the lie. And they will have to decide for themselves whether or not the ugly reality outside is really worth fighting for -- given who and what they'll have to leave behind.

Meanwhile, in the real world, the Book of Darkness is beginning to run rampant. She threw a vastly powerful Barrier across Tokyo, shifting the initial violence caused by her simple presence over by one dimension, but it won't be strong enough to stop NachtWal from destroying the Earth. In the meantime, those magical girls who weren't trapped in the Book must contend with a Tokyo fast transforming into an unfamiliar hellscape of grinding pillars of stone and howling pillars of magma. And the Barrier is far from perfect -- millions may have become hundreds, but there are still ordinary people trapped in there with them, too... all too vulnerable.

As magical girls escape from their dreams and into a waking nightmare, they will join their allies outside in doing what they can to protect what's left of Tokyo.

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==The Three Phases==

There are there phases to the Land of the Lotus-Eaters plot:

* The Fantasy World
* The Shared Dream
* The Waking Nightmare

Players who absolutely want to opt-out of having a character absorbed by the Book can proceed directly to the third phase, 'The Waking Nightmare', where they will be gradually joined by Book of Darkness escapees.

Everyone else wakes up inside The Fantasy World!

===The Fantasy World===

Anyone who wants their character to have been absorbed into the Book of Darkness (and this is highly, highly encouraged) is welcome to assume they were there on the margins of the magical girl army that witnessed her rebirth, and should read the contents of [[2018-06-10 - What Lies Beneath 18|What Lies Beneath 18]] and consider it IC knowledge.

Characters absorbed by the Book awaken in not only their own bed but the /ultimate/ bed, the bed that most feels like home, a bed that may have been lost forever or even one that has never existed. They are safe and surrounded by the ones they love most, who are eager to comfort them from the nightmare they just experienced, and help them adjust back to 'reality', in a lovely, peaceful world.

Constructing a character's fantasy world is an opportunity to:

* Bring back dead characters, returning them to living, happy selves.
* Reimagine living characters through the lens of your character's fantasy; enemies could become allies, crushes could become romances, broken friendships mended, lost souls saved.
* Rewrite history wholesale, if things went off the rails years ago and your character might awaken in an extremely different life than the one they had.
* Ultimately, explore the ways in which the real world is better than the fantasy one. If Fate Testarossa hadn't had a broken family, she never would have met Nanoha Takamachi. In what ways have the trials of the real world made it worth saving?

It is not an opportunity to:

* Create a Candy Land where all the buildings are made out of choco parfait and takoyaki, NAGISA MISUMI. >:|
* In more seriousness, these dreams are powerful simulations driven by the characters' memories and desires, but they do fundamentally simulate the character's ideal /world/, as in a recognizable Earth, and furthermore, unless it is absolutely unworkable, their ideal Tokyo (for reasons that will become obvious).
* Unfortunately for those who were eager to get into trippy dream logic, it is NOT obviously a dream; the fantasy world has verisimilitude in terms of being a real place filled with real people, even if everything else feels impossible. Impossibly wonderful, that is.

Players are encouraged to introduce their character's fantasy world through a cutscene of their characters first awakening and discovering that everything up until this point has 'all been a bad dream,' posted to the wiki with the following format: YYYY-MM-DD - LOTUS AWAKENING: Character Name. (They can of course also put it on the MUSH bulletin boards if they like.) These cutscenes, besides being an opportunity to really pull on the heartstrings, are useful worldbuilding that can be referenced by other players, because:

During the first phase, any given scene can only exist in a single character's dream. All other participants are invited and encouraged to discuss NPCing special, important characters featured prominently in the main character's fantasy (such as dead family members), but can, alternatively, play the fantasy version of their own character, as envisioned deep in the heart of the main character.

* For example: Fate Testarossa, Nanoha Takamachi and Vita want to have a Fantasy World scene. They decide to let Fate be the main character. Nanoha volunteers to NPC Alicia Testarossa, and Vita appears as a version of herself that Fate dreams of being friends with. (Fate and Nanoha discuss OOCly who the fantasy Alicia Testarossa is, her role within the dream; Fate and Vita do the same about fantasy Vita. Players are encouraged to be flexible about conforming to the fantasies of the main character, as roleplaying (admittedly often somewhat Stepford) alternative versions of themselves, as wished for by another character, is a pretty unique gameplay opportunity. Fantasizing players are expected to keep it classy, as is always the case on Battle Fantasia.)

===The Shared Dream===

Many characters will be unable to break out of their fantasy without intervention by another. The Shared Dream begins when Fate Testarossa confronts the truth that her dream is not and cannot be real, and that she wants to leave it behind -- and discovers the World Tree at the heart of her dream. She can then use it to transport herself into someone else's dream, replacing her dream double.

Once this happens (it will be flagged both via bbpost and on this wiki page), all of The Fantasy Worlds begin to merge into The Shared Dream. During phase two, The Shared Dream, characters are now wandering through each others' fantasies, in a single, larger fantasy. Given that most characters want to live blissfully in a Tokyo-like location, this is often seamless, but not always. Still, the power of the Book of Darkness is very strong, and the Land of the Lotus-Eaters is very seductive; even as prisoners are able to meet one another and speculate as to what's going on, the Book tends to keep mortal enemies apart, unless reuniting with one another is a deeper level of their fantasy. The Shared Dream is still a beautiful dream -- many beautiful dreams, fading into one another.

* For example: Fate Testarossa, Steven Universe and Saki Hyuuga want to have a scene in The Shared Dream. Fate is already fully awake, and replaces her dream double; the world of this scene is is a blend of Steven and Saki's ideal worlds. As this is a shared dream, Fate and Steven can encounter Saki's fantasy version of Michiru Kiryuu, or Fate and Saki can encounter Steven's fantasy version of Rose Quartz, or both...

It is worth noting, however, that the 'idealized' PCs and NPCs within their fantasy are also aware that this is only a dream; they want to keep their main character safe and happy within the dream, but are also willing to grant them absolution to leave them behind and depart into the real world. This is a rare opportunity for closure, though not required.

Players are strongly encouraged to allow others (whether 'awakened' PCs, or idealized but actively posed PCs and NPCs) to help them find the strength to leave the Land of the Lotus-Eaters, as it should not be easy or trivial to be willing to depart; the journey of accepting and embracing a more painful reality is far better undertaken as an interactive scene rather than as a cutscene alone. However, for those who prefer it, cutscenes are also welcome. In either case, logs/cutscenes involving this turning point in any character's arc should be named under the following scheme: YYYY-MM-DD - LOTUS INCEPTION: Character Name(s)

Once fully awakened and accepting of reality, characters can stay in The Shared Dream to help free their friends, or escape the Book of Darkness via the World Tree, which exists at the heart of all of their dreams, and will return them to the shattered deadwood corpse of the real Tree in Tokyo.

This begins the third phase: The Waking Nightmare.

===The Waking Nightmare===
[[History: Modern Times#The Book of Darkness|A generation ago, the magical girls of Earth were decimated trying to contain and defeat the Book of Darkness]]; it was the most significant magical event of the new millennium, until the Long Dark Night in 2013. It is widely understood IC knowledge that Signum, Vita, Shamal and Zafira, aka the Wolkenritter, aka the Cloud Knights, have been ambushing magical girls and draining their magic into the Book of Darkness in order to fill all of its pages -- at which point the Book of Darkness will basically go supernova in a world-ending-threat-level event.

Apparently the first stage of 'supernova' was the Book transforming into a scary woman who calls herself the Tome of the Night Sky. The first thing she did was suck every magical girl she could sense into the Book of Darkness' Fantasy World. The second thing she did was spread a Barrier across Tokyo.

A 'Barrier', in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha terms, is a particular class of magical spell: a wide-area field that shifts everything within that field about half a dimension to the left, metaphysically metaphorically speaking. The chief effect that it has is to remove all noncombatants and other non-magical people from the area it encompasses, which allows magical combat to continue with only minimal risk of collateral damage.

The Book of Darkness' barrier won't protect the world from ending when the automated defense program within her being known as NachtWal goes berserk, since that blast is far greater than her barrier can contain.

And, because Tokyo is so huge and there are so many people in it, neither is it totally successful at keeping all the noncombatants out. A small handful of noncombatants, usually either already-magical people or people closely connected to magical people, such as friends and family, have found themselves drawn inside... and Tokyo, on the other side of the barrier, is an ugly place.

('''''This is strictly optional.''''' There are a handful of people stranded in Battlefield Tokyo for exactly two reasons, narratively: first, to have people to rescue on general principles, and second, for characters who want to be OUTTED to a normal friend or family member to have a dramatic opportunity to do so, in rescuing them (Recognition Inhibition is still 'on', but this is a good reason for it to fail if someone wants it to fail in order to tell their story). If you've wanted your parents to find out what you do, or want your long-misled best friend in on the secret, this is a good time for that!)

The Waking Nightmare is yellow-and-black-skied, with a great deal of purple lightning. It is filled with eerily empty streets and skyscrapers, punctuated here and there with jagged stone spires and immense geysers of magma, created by the seismic instabilities already beginning to engulf the world as the Book of Darkness' power unfolds.

* The Book of Darkness herself, if engaged, will immediately suck combatants into the Fantasy World, which is another way of saying DON'T.
* Fleeing from her, finding allies, protecting civilians and lamenting the state of things is more the order of the day.
* There is also some pathos to be had wandering through the creepily empty, shattered cityscape.

When everyone has escaped the Shared Dream and regrouped to confront the Book of Darkness, we will be at the true finale of What Lies Beneath.

==Frequently Asked Questions==
Q: I wasn't at What Lies Beneath 17-18, can I still have been sucked into the Book of Darkness?

A: Yes! It is safe to assume your character was on the margins of those events; the Book of Darkness cast a very wide net when she absorbed everyone in.

Q: What's the approximate OOC timeline here?

A: Since there's a lot of pathos to go around, we expect to spend around a week in The Fantasy World and a week in The Shared Dream, with maybe each of those being a bit less than a week to make some space for The Waking Nightmare (though it is the least important of the three for participants of the entire plot, since its experience will in most senses be covered by the plot's actual finale).

A2: Individuals can go at their own pace, if they want to spend more time in The Fantasy World after Fate's escape initiates The Shared Dream. Time is all very relative right now, anyway.

Q: I need someone to NPC my dead parents! What should I do?

A: Ask! The staff will be on hand to provide NPC support, but the playerbase is also very strongly encouraged to volunteer.

==Fantasy Worlds==
Please add yourself and a one-sentence description of the core concept of your character's dream world to the list.
* '''[[Fate Testarossa]]''' is living happily with her mother, sister, and teacher.
* '''[[Niramo Umokeshi]]''' has a family who is always there for her, and is the leader of the magical protectors of Earth, the Stardust Champions.
* '''[[Nori Ankou]]''' is in a storm-wracked and gothic Tokyo, where everyone is gorgeous, especially the precious ones.
* '''[[Fuu Hououji]]''' is a regular schoolgirl, her adventures as a Magic Knight now the province of a tabletop RPG campaign.
* '''[[Mai Tokiha]]''' is a carefree teenager with a pet bird, independent of magical trouble, Ohtori weirdness, or anyone depending on her.
* '''[[Eri Shimanouchi]]''' is an average middle schooler, free of contracts and obligations, living her best life with her family and friends.
* '''[[Inori Yamabuki]]''' is brimming with confidence and getting her happiness as a normal girl.
* '''[[Lera Camry]]''' is back on Midchilda, with her mother... and father, who is alive and well.
* '''[[Mikoto Minagi]]''' and her beloved family deal with monstrous threats from their shrine on Mount Moto, so that the world of Tokyo below can remain peaceful and happy.
* '''[[Steven Universe]]''' is just a human with his mother, Rose Quartz back. Beach City has wholly relocated to Tokyo, and all Gems get along with humans!
* '''[[Kasagami Araki]]''' is the King of Tokyo, fighting the Darkmoon Empire alongside a royal court of valued allies and enemies.
* '''[[Kimiko Akane]]''' is just a regular teenager with a normal family consisting of her mother, younger sister and father.
* '''[[Nanoha Takamachi]]''' is a normal, happy and carefree kid surrounded by many friends and her loving family.
* '''[[Setsuna Meioh]]''' is a magical girl in a Tokyo that never suffers world-ending threats, which leaves plenty of time for beach trips with Small Lady.
* '''[[Setsuna Higashi]]''' lives with her father Moebius outside Clover Town, representatives of advanced Labyrinth here to meet and help Earth people.

==Logs==

Please include 'LOTUS' in the title of all of your logs and cutscenes, and they'll automatically appear here.

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2018-06-13 - LOTUS AWAKENING: Setsuna Higashi

2018-06-13T22:35:38Z

Cowstian Dior:

{|class="toccolours" cellspacing="2"
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Title: LOTUS AWAKENING: Setsuna Higashi'''
|-
|'''Summary''': 
''Setsuna awakens from an awful dream... in time for morning coffee.''
|-
| '''Who:''' 
[[Setsuna Higashi]]
|-
| '''Where:''' 
Nishitama Park District
|-
| '''OOC - IC Date:''' 
2018-06-13 - April 25th, 2015
|-
|}

The sunlight creeps through the window, sneaking right through the gap in the curtains to land directly on Setsuna's face. ...Her nose wrinkles, and she turns with a vague groan, the red comforter shifting off her pajama'd shoulder in the process. She stirs, her shoulders huddling forward as she tries to shake off the feeling of the bad dream she just left, as her eyes slowly open, and settle upon a glint of green in the morning light.

Her eyes open the rest of the way immediately, widening to look at the green glass clover necklace gathered on her nightstand. For an instant it seems terribly, terribly important and wrong, as if it couldn't be there, but she reaches out and it's solid against her fingers, just as solid as the cellphone it rests on. ...She'd been sure it had broken, that she'd lost it. "Mm..." Shifting back over, Setsuna stretches out her arms and then starts to sit up, red eyes still half-open from drowsiness. The room is small, of course; it never had been very large. Older floral wallpaper, a desk on the wall, her nightstand, her closet cracked open... a giant plush black cat against the wall at the foot of her bed. Her mouth shifts into a small frown; she's /sure/ something isn't quite right, here.

Shifting her legs off the bed, the purple-haired girl slips out from under the covers and rises, turning back and thoughtfully making up her bed. Her gaze keeps drifting back towards her closet, until eventually she walks over and opens it the rest of the way. "Hmm..." Tilting her head, she reaches out a moment later, for two hangars; a long, pale purple dress... and a fitted white top to pair with it. Satisfied, she steps back.

---

Quietly, Setsuna makes her way down the hall of the mansion, dressed but still unsettled; one hand holds the clover now hanging from her neck as she looks around, with the sense that she shouldn't be here. It's like waking from a dream; glancing at her phone, she only has a few contacts; the latest message is a still of a kitten halfway off a table, with the apt caption 'Hang in there!' from Buki, and the others... explain little, really. But she steps out of the hallway and--

Her phone tumbles to the ground and bounces off of the wooden floor as Setsuna regards the stern-looking older man--bald, in a crisp suit--seated in a sitting-chair reading a newspaper. He lifts one eyebrow and pauses, looking questioningly to the girl in the doorway who stares at him as if she's just seen a ghost.

It starts to flood back quickly, the things that have happened, and she freezes, eyes wide in fear and shock, trying to catch her breath. "M-Moe--"

The room is cozy; a large television along the wall remains off, doing little to do away with the comfortable chairs and small tables, the bookcases that she this room is more for spending time together than anything.

The man, meanwhile, looks at her for a few more moments and then closes his paper, setting it to the side and rising to his full, considerable height, walking over. "...It must have been another of your nightmares," he says, his voice low, wise. "Come. Have a seat, Setsuna, tell me about it." He motions with his head to the table, where there's a pot of coffee and an extra three mugs beyond his own; four total.

"I--B-but, I--" Overcome, Setsuna finds she can't say anything at all at first, rooted to the spot in dismay.

The stern man shakes his head, looking down with concern etched in his sharp features, yellow eyes as intent as always. "It must have been a bad one, if it seems so strange that a father would want to hear what's bothering his favorite daughter." He lifts a hand to nudge Setsuna's chin up to look at him. "It's all right."

"...Here." With that, Moebius gently takes his daughter by the shoulder and guides her to a seat, where she sits with her wide-brimmed hat in her lap, hands folded, and thinks of the awful dream she's about to explain.

...It must have been a dream.

[[Category:Cutscenes]]

2018-06-13 - LOTUS AWAKENING: Setsuna Higashi

2018-06-13T22:33:47Z

Cowstian Dior:

{|class="toccolours" cellspacing="2"
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Title: LOTUS AWAKENING: Setsuna Higashi'''
|-
|'''Summary''': 
''Setsuna awakens from an awful dream... in time for morning coffee.''
|-
| '''Who:''' 
[[Setsuna Higashi]]
|-
| '''Where:''' 
Nishitama Park District
|-
| '''OOC - IC Date:''' 
2018-06-13 - April 25th, 2015
|-
|}

The sunlight creeps through the window, sneaking right through the gap in the curtains to land directly on Setsuna's face. ...Her nose wrinkles, and she turns with a vague groan, the red comforter shifting off her pajama'd shoulder in the process. She stirs, her shoulders huddling forward as she tries to shake off the feeling of the bad dream she just left, as her eyes slowly open, and settle upon a glint of green in the morning light.

Her eyes open the rest of the way immediately, widening to look at the green glass clover necklace gathered on her nightstand. For an instant it seems terribly, terribly important and wrong, as if it couldn't be there, but she reaches out and it's solid against her fingers, just as solid as the cellphone it rests on. ...She'd been sure it had broken, that she'd lost it. "Mm..." Shifting back over, Setsuna stretches out her arms and then starts to sit up, red eyes still half-open from drowsiness. The room is small, of course; it never had been very large. Older floral wallpaper, a desk on the wall, her nightstand, her closet cracked open... a giant plush black cat against the wall at the foot of her bed. Her mouth shifts into a small frown; she's /sure/ something isn't quite right, here.

Shifting her legs off the bed, the purple-haired girl slips out from under the covers and rises, turning back and thoughtfully making up her bed. Her gaze keeps drifting back towards her closet, until eventually she walks over and opens it the rest of the way. "Hmm..." Tilting her head, she reaches out a moment later, for two hangars; a long, pale purple dress... and a fitted white top to pair with it. Satisfied, she steps back.

---

Quietly, Setsuna makes her way down the hall of the mansion, dressed but still unsettled; one hand holds the clover now hanging from her neck as she looks around, with the sense that she shouldn't be here. It's like waking from a dream; glancing at her phone, she only has a few contacts; the latest message is a still of a kitten halfway off a table, with the apt caption 'Hang in there!' from Buki, and the others... explain little, really. But she steps out of the hallway and--

Her phone tumbles to the ground and bounces off of the wooden floor as Setsuna regards the stern-looking older man--bald, in a crisp suit--seated in a sitting-chair reading a newspaper. He lifts one eyebrow and pauses, looking questioningly to the girl in the doorway who stares at him as if she's just seen a ghost.

It starts to flood back quickly, the things that have happened, and she freezes, eyes wide in fear and shock, trying to catch her breath. "M-Moe--"

The man looks at her for a few more moments and then closes his paper, setting it to the side and rising to his full, considerable height, walking over. "...It must have been another of your nightmares," he says, his voice low, wise. "Come. Have a seat, Setsuna, tell me about it." He motions with his head to the table, where there's a pot of coffee and an extra three mugs beyond his own; four total. His, of course, rests beside him on the side table, along with one of the books from a nearby shelf and the large television along the far wall.

"I--B-but, I--" Overcome, Setsuna finds she can't say anything at all at first, rooted to the spot in dismay.

The stern man shakes his head, looking down with concern etched in his sharp features, yellow eyes as intent as always. "It must have been a bad one, if it seems so strange that a father would want to hear what's bothering his favorite daughter." He lifts a hand to nudge Setsuna's chin up to look at him. "It's all right."

"...Here." With that, Moebius gently takes his daughter by the shoulder and guides her to a seat, where she sits with her wide-brimmed hat in her lap, hands folded, and thinks of the awful dream she's about to explain.

...It must have been a dream.

[[Category:Cutscenes]]

2018-06-13 - LOTUS AWAKENING: Setsuna Higashi

2018-06-13T22:29:36Z

{|class="toccolours" cellspacing="2"
|-
! style="background:#CC6699; border: 2px #CC0033 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Title: LOTUS AWAKENING: Setsuna Higashi'''
|-
|'''Summary''': 
''Setsuna awakens from an awful dream... in time for morning coffee.''
|-
| '''Who:''' 
[[Setsuna Higashi]]
|-
| '''Where:''' 
Nishitama Park District
|-
| '''OOC - IC Date:''' 
2018-06-13 - April 25th, 2015
|-
|}

The sunlight creeps through the window, sneaking right through the gap in the curtains to land directly on Setsuna's face. ...Her nose wrinkles, and she turns with a vague groan, the red comforter shifting off her pajama'd shoulder in the process. She stirs, her shoulders huddling forward as she tries to shake off the feeling of the bad dream she just left, as her eyes slowly open, and settle upon a glint of green in the morning light.

Her eyes open the rest of the way immediately, widening to look at the green glass clover necklace gathered on her nightstand. For an instant it seems terribly, terribly important and wrong, as if it couldn't be there, but she reaches out and it's solid against her fingers, just as solid as the cellphone it rests on. ...She'd been sure it had broken, that she'd lost it. "Mm..." Shifting back over, Setsuna stretches out her arms and then starts to sit up, red eyes still half-open from drowsiness. The room is small, of course; it never had been very large. Older floral wallpaper, a desk on the wall, her nightstand, her closet cracked open... a giant plush black cat against the wall at the foot of her bed. Her mouth shifts into a small frown; she's /sure/ something isn't quite right, here.

Shifting her legs off the bed, the purple-haired girl slips out from under the covers and rises, turning back and thoughtfully making up her bed. Her gaze keeps drifting back towards her closet, until eventually she walks over and opens it the rest of the way. "Hmm..." Tilting her head, she reaches out a moment later, for two hangars; a long, pale purple dress... and a fitted white top to pair with it. Satisfied, she steps back.

---

Quietly, Setsuna makes her way down the hall of the mansion, dressed but still unsettled; one hand holds the clover now hanging from her neck as she looks around, with the sense that she shouldn't be here. It's like waking from a dream; glancing at her phone, she only has a few contacts; the latest message is a still of a kitten halfway off a table, with the apt caption 'Hang in there!' from Buki, and the others... explain little, really. But she steps out of the hallway and--

Her phone tumbles to the ground and bounces off of the wooden floor as Setsuna regards the stern-looking older man--bald, in a crisp suit--seated in a sitting-chair reading a newspaper. He lifts one eyebrow and pauses, looking questioningly to the girl in the doorway who stares at him as if she's just seen a ghost.

It starts to flood back quickly, the things that have happened, and she freezes, eyes wide in fear and shock, trying to catch her breath. "M-Moe--"

The man looks at her for a few more moments and then closes his paper, setting it to the side and rising to his full, considerable height, walking over. "...It must have been another of your nightmares," he says, his voice low, wise. "Come. Have a seat, Setsuna, tell me about it." He motions with his head to the table, where there's a pot of coffee and an extra three mugs beyond his own; four total.

"I--B-but, I--"

The stern man shakes his head. "It must have been a bad one, if it seems so strange that a father would want to hear what's bothering his favorite daughter. Here."

Gently, Moebius takes his daughter by the shoulder and guides her to a seat to talk all about the awful dream that has just passed.

[[Category:Cutscenes]]

School: Ohtori Academy

2018-05-18T03:58:44Z

Cowstian Dior: Shizuru went up a year...!

Ohtori Academy was founded by the Ohtori Group in the early 1900s on Southern Cross Island. The Academy was built out of a number of smaller schools acquired by the Group, but all of those are now just parts of the Ohtori machine. Based on principles of elegance, nobility and talent, Ohtori Academy is considered an elite institution for elite people. As it boasts a healthy, even aggressive, scholarship program, students from the middle classes and up are perfectly capable of attending, but the best-known students are for the most part very wealthy, very powerful, and very dangerous. That density of wealthy students gives Ohtori a disproportionate influence, with businesses lining up around the block to win the favor of future magnates.

Ohtori Academy's emphasis on personal greatness gives it a number of eccentricities. Its sports programs eschew 'commoner' activities for gentleman's sports; while [[Juuban Public School|Juuban]] practices lacrosse and [[Infinity Institute|Infinity's]] as likely as not to field an ultimate frisbee team to a regional event, Ohtori's top coaches teach combat sports like fencing and boxing, and refined athletics like basketball and rugby. Similarly, Ohtori expects all of its students to obtain a broad education, bulwarking its wide-based general program with after-school arts programs. Unlike Infinity, it offers little in the way of specialty programs; Ohtori expects excellence in everything, from everyone.

By far the most unique feature of the school, however, is Ohtori Academy's enormously powerful student council. A powerful student government has been a part of the Ohtori Group's dream since the foundation of the school, and the student council has long wielded very wide powers. In the modern Ohtori that power has expanded to the point the students wield sometimes more authority than the staff.

Although an informal rule, it is widely known among students that those who oppose the student council quickly find themselves expelled, and by the same token, working with the council provides enormous benefits. Nominally, the student council's task is to protect the interests of the student body, but the current council often seems more interested in its own...

The student council is broken into two parts: The actual Student Council itself, which governs the junior and senior high schools; and the Guardians, a smaller, somewhat more idiosyncratic body which protects the interests of the elementary school students. The youthful Guardians are easily the more idealistic, and although technically they govern different spheres, there are plenty of rumors about the Guardians and Student Council coming to blows over one or the other overreaching their authority.

Ohtori, being a home for elites and nobles, is inevitably rife with intrigue. The Student Council, and a select few other students, wear a rose signet they guard jealously; some say there are others around campus who wear a strange golden mask. People in black suits who won't talk to anyone, businessmen of world-class companies who come by seemingly much too often. Ohtori is a hub of mysterious agendas and transformative people, and the rumors about those many agendas are myriad.

Unbeknownst to the normal students but nakedly obvious to those with the sight, Ohtori is a veritable goldmine of mystic power. Where Infinity's very foundations were designed to leash the World Tree's power, and Juuban draws strange people to it like a magnet, Ohtori Academy's grounds are rife with the seals and signs of ancient evil. The island is so thick with ancient powers of the soul that emotion on the island runs thicker - passions higher, obsessions hotter, loves more powerful and hates more virulent.

Perhaps that should have been the first sign of the doom that lives on Southern Cross Island, but it is far from the only. The clock in the library ticks on, but not to anything so pedestrian as tomorrow; the mine in the hills leads down, but what is the light at the bottom? Witches, Orphans and Noise throng across the island, drawn to a rich stew of emotion, and in turn thickening that miasma of obsession. Above it all, the Castle Where Eternity Dwells looms invisible and insubstantial over the island - a silent harbinger of the coming revolution of the world.

__TOC__

==History==
Long ago, in another Age, there was the Land of Fuuka - a shining island of light and wonder. In that place, the Obsidian Lord held court over his kingdom; a demon king of phenomenal power, sealed away by the power of the Silver Crystal. To placate him, and to serve as entertainment for the masses, once in three hundred years the HiME Festival was held, where those chosen by the King's power would battle for supremacy, the King's hand in marriage - and the honor of a single miraculous wish from their new groom. It was one such wish that allowed the release of Metallia, bringing about the fall of the Silver Millennium.

Amid the ruins of the Serenity Dynasty, the Silver Queen's bindings shattered, and at last the Obsidian Lord was free. Summoning to his side the spirits and powers of his innumerable brides past, the Obsidian Lord called forth the beacon of his omnipotence, the HiME Star. With the Senshi fallen and the Earth Court sundered, the few surviving HiME themselves were forced to rise to the challenge, binding the King to Fuuka, and using great magic to seal the island away; then giving their lives to hurl the HiME Star far into space, where Serenity's final wishes ensured it would once again wander, lost.

The Age turned, as ages do; but the new world would not be safe forever. Clow Reed wouldn't break the Earth's seals for hundreds of years, but another force found its way across the stars, an alien race seeking respite from the destruction of their world by their own hubris. Crashing to Earth, the power that their science could barely contain blew through the seals hiding the Land of Fuuka from the world; when people arrived to investigate, the visitors begged for the aid of magic to seal away the accursed legacy they had created, and together, they settled what would become Southern Cross Island - and buried yet another terrible secret beneath its hills.

The greatest seal broken, the HiME Star veered toward Earth anew, beginning yet again the ancient Festival - more savage now, without the Silver Queen's bindings to soften the Obsidian Lord's ravenous malice. But the Earth was lucky, for the Obsidian Lord's new bride was cunning and brave, and found a way to cast him back to sleep and send the Star hurtling back into space. On the site of the island, before vanishing into history, she founded an academy that became the moniker for the whole island: Southern Cross.

More recently, Southern Cross Academy and several other Island schools were acquired by the wealthy Ohtori family, and the whole collection of schools renamed after its new masters. Patterning the new curriculum after Western academies and building toward a future of excellence, Ohtori became known for its harsh studies but sterling graduates. Building on that tradition of superiority, the Ohtori student council was given phenomenal power, and faculty allowed to override them only rarely. In time, a young prodigy in the elementary school campus, with bright eyes and a powerful insight, even convinced the Family to create the elementary section its own body, to protect the hearts and interests of the younger students: The Guardians.

In the last few years, the present head of the Ohtori house has fallen ill. The position of president of Ohtori Academy - de facto master of the grounds - has fallen to his daughter's fiance, Akio. Akio is perhaps the most hands-off president the school has ever seen, leaving things largely to the respective principals and student bodies of the various schools; however, when Akio speaks, every student listens.

==Student Body==
''This list can be edited by players to add their characters and NPCs to their appropriate grade. Feel free to add your name as a link to your character page!''

{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="border:0px solid #ffffff;background: #ffffff;vertical-align: top;"
!style="text-align: left;background: #hhhhhh; width:1000pt"|''Ohtori's Student Body''
|-
|
'''[[Schools: Faculty and Staff#Ohtori Academy|Faculty and Staff]]''': [[Midori Sugiura]], Akio Ohtori, Souji Mikage, Yuu Nikaidou.

'''University''': [[Shizuru Fujino]]

'''Grade 12''': Kyouichi Saionji, [[Mamoru Chiba]], Touga Kiryuu.

'''Grade 11''': [[Azyana Konstantinov]], [[Chihaya Izumi]], [[Juri Arisugawa]], Kanako Watanabe, [[Mai Tokiha]], Natsuki Kuga, Shiori Takatsuki, [[Takeo Akamizu]], Takuta Tsunashi, [[Ye-jin Song]], Yua Chouku.

'''Grade 10''': Georgia Jenks, [[Kasagami Araki]], [[Mami Tomoe]], [[Mikoto Minagi]], Nao Yuuki.

'''Grade 9''': [[Anthy Himemiya]], Daiki Asuka Jr., [[Eri Shimanouchi]], Homura Akemi, [[Madoka Kaname]], [[Meimi Haneoka]], [[Nori Ankou]], Rei Hino, [[Sachiko Majime]], [[Sayaka Miki]], [[Inori Yamabuki]], Umi Ryuuzaki, and [[Utena Tenjou]].

'''Grade 8''': [[Miki Kaoru]], [[Kozue Kaoru]], Nanami Kiryuu, Takara Maki.

'''Grade 7''': Kukai Souma, Haruka Haruno.

'''Grade 6''': Amu Hinamori, Kairi Sanjou, [[Nadeshiko Fujisaki]], [[Tadase Hotori]].

'''Grade 5''': Yaya Yuiki.

'''Grade 4''':

'''Grade 3''':

'''Grade 2''':

'''Grade 1''':

'''Grade K''':
|}

==Student Council==
Among the significant adults of Ohtori's staff, Elementary School Principal Tsukasa Amakawa and Middle/High School Principal Mashiro Kazahana report directly to the headmaster of the overall academy; the Ohtori clan patriarch is presently very ill, however, and so the acting headmaster is Akio Ohtori, the fiance of the Ohtori heiress. Akio engages his duties extremely rarely, but when he does, his word is absolute.

However, Ohtori is notable for its especially powerful student body. This is an old tradition, and it is one of the few things Akio Ohtori has involved himself directly in maintaining. The Middle and High School Student Councils in particular wields nearly absolute authority, even able to overrule Principal Kazahana if they wish to... although that might be more the fact that the faculty lives in elemental terror of [[Juri Arisugawa]]. Indeed, there is a policy - informal and yet absolute - permitting the council to unilaterally expel students who defy their will (although often the Guardians of the Elementary School involve themselves when this clause is enacted).

It is entirely common for positions to be made up and eliminated by the Councils as necessary. While there are occasionally elections, Ohtori isn't exactly a bastion of democracy, and councilors are often summarily replaced by siblings (or rivals!) if they become mysteriously unable to perform their duties.

''If you'd like to join the Student Council (new characters can easily be retconned in), please contact the Staff on-game.''

{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="border:0px solid #ffffff;background: #ffffff;vertical-align: top;"
!style="text-align: left;background: #hhhhhh; width:1000pt"|''Ohtori's Student Council''
|-
|
====High School Student Council====
* '''President:''' Touga Kiryuu
* '''President's Dubiously-Ranked Flunky:''' Kyouichi Saionji
* '''Vice President:''' [[Ye-jin Song]]
* '''Secretary:''' Currently vacant.
* '''Treasurer:''' [[Juri Arisugawa]]
* '''Disciplinary Executive:''' Yukino Kikukawa

====Middle School Student Council====
* '''President:''' Open!
* '''Vice President:''' Open!
* '''Secretary:''' [[Miki Kaoru]]
* '''Treasurer:''' Takara Maki

====The Guardians====
* '''King's Chair''': [[Tadase Hotori]]
* '''Queen's Chair''': Open!
* '''Jack's Chair''': [[Nadeshiko Fujisaki|Nagihiko Fujisaki]]
* '''Ace's Chair''': Yaya Yuiki
* '''Joker's Chair''': Amu Hinamori
* The '''Chair of Ten''' through the '''Chair of Two''' currently don't exist, but would be invented on the spot by Tadase and Tsukasa if they were needed.
|}

==Clubs==
Owing to its venerable history, Ohtori's clubs are often especially formal and tradition-heavy. Many observe their own small holidays on especially significant dates, such as the anniversary of the club's founding. Clubs of the same and different types often engage in intrigue against one another, to their own ends or simply for pleasure.

''This list may be edited by any player who wishes to note the on-camera existence of their club. There are many other clubs at Ohtori not listed here because they don't currently have any player characters in them.''

{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable" style="border:0px solid #ffffff;background: #ffffff;vertical-align: top;"
!style="text-align: left;background: #hhhhhh; width:1000pt"|''Clubs of Ohtori''
|-
|
====Aikido and Aiki-ken Club====
Founded by Morihei Ueshiba, Aikido is a 'peaceful' martial art performed by blending with the motion of the attacker and redirecting the force of the attack rather than opposing it head-on. This requires very little physical strength, as the defender 'leads' the attacker's momentum by using entering and turning movements. The techniques are completed with various throws or joint locks. It is a very 'ki' centered style. In addition there is the Aiki-ken club; Aiki-ken is the art of the sword based upon the principles of Aikido, originated by Ueshiba and his student Morihiro Saito. Aiki-ken uses wooden bokken, and currently shares the Aikido-club's funding.

'''Members''': [[Azyana Konstantinov]]

====Animal Care Club====
For horse enthusiasts who don't care to focus on competitive riding, and budding veterinarians.

'''Members''': [[Inori Yamabuki]]

====Boxing Club====
This is not Fight Club, so you can talk about it. Widely admired throughout the school.

'''Members''': Touga Kiryuu, Yua Chouku

====Crafts Club====
Ohtori has clubs specializing in every conceivable art and craft; essentially all of them see the Crafts Club as a bunch of amateur dilettantes, because this club's stated goal is to explore and enjoy different crafts through weekly, monthly and annual projects. For those interested in being a jack of all trades but a master of none, it makes for a fun, relatively casual place to be.

'''Members''': [[Madoka Kaname]], Kairi Sanjou

====Dance Club====
All people, they love to dance. Separate from Ohtori's extra-curricular dance classes, dance club focuses on creative choreography and fierce competition. Classical styles are always in fashion, but more modern routines also see some representation.

'''Members''': [[Ye-jin Song]]

====Falconry Club====
A school as prestigious as Ohtori wouldn't be complete without sports of nobility, and it's Falconry Club is both well funded and well respected among animal lovers as well as those that enjoy hunting. It's birds are both rare and expensive, the club's members sparing no expense in showing their mastery over such beautiful, dangerous birds.

'''Members''': [[Kasagami Araki]]

====Fashion Club====
Ohtori's fashion club is about as cutthroat as the industry itself, but friendships are founded here on shared enthusiasm and obsession, and there are very real connections to be made with Ohtori alums who've gone professional.

'''Members''': [[Inori Yamabuki]]

====Fencing Club====
With over a century of tradition behind it, Ohtori Academy's fencing club is among the most glamorous clubs on campus, and unquestionably the most prestigious fencing club in Japan. They primarily practice classical fencing, but swap to sports fencing a few times a year in order to dominate regional, national, and even international meets. They don't win everything all the time, but it's always notable when they lose. Members who are not dedicated and passionate for the sport do not last long, but no prior experience with a blade is expected in order to join the fun; they train fencers at every level, from the simple to the sublime.

'''Members''': [[Juri Arisugawa]] (Captain), [[Miki Kaoru]], [[Nori Ankou]], Umi Ryuuzaki

====Gardening Club====
Landscaping is a little bit declasse by the standards of Ohtori's elite, who mostly prefer less dirty and more formal clubs like ikebana, but the gardening club toils gloriously onward with justifiable satisfaction: the Academy is overflowing with flowers, and while they certainly don't tend every lawn or trim every terrace, most of the truly spectacular manicured gardens and endless fields of blooms are their pride and joy. Those sufficiently interested in the study of botany, such that they're willing to get their hands a little dirty, can learn many secrets about the language of flowers, and other, more subtle plants besides. With the destruction of most of the forests of Southern Cross Island, the Gardening Club is leading the effort to restore greenery around campus.

'''Members''': [[Eri Shimanouchi]], [[Madoka Kaname]], [[Tadase Hotori]], [[Anthy Himemiya]] (vague affiliate)

====Kendo Club====
The ancient art of kendo has been performed at Japan's most prestigious private school for a very long time. They enjoy a proud and ancient tradition -- and a rivalry with the fencing club.

'''Members''': Kyouichi Saionji (Captain), Masashi Takeda (Sub-Captain), Kairi Sanjou, [[Kasagami Araki]], [[Takeo Akamizu]], Touga Kiryuu

====Music Club====
Ohtori actually has lots of music clubs which form along genre lines or a desire to form a coherent band, but the overarching umbrella exists, mostly to give them more clout in efforts to lobby the Student Council for funding. It tends to focus on classical music.

'''Members''': [[Georgia Jenks]], Yua Chouku

====Softball Club====
Sumo may be Japan's ''official'' national sport, but everyone knows it's actually baseball. In the Softball Club, the balls are a little softer, but the romance of the ballgame is the same. Pitchers stare down batters for an elemental duel, home runs rush toward the sky with all the force of an untamed metaphor, and individuals become something more as part of a team. A few times per academic session, the coaches will wrangle seats at a professional game, too, and the club will go meet their jerseyed heroes.

'''Members''': [[Sayaka Miki]] (centerfield/batter), [[Sachiko Majime]] (starting pitcher)

====Swim Team====
Ohtori has a long and proud tradition in swimming, an underwater torch carried forward into the future by its latest batch of students. The sweet silence beneath the water, the roar of the stands above it, the burn of screaming muscles... it's all here.

'''Members''': [[Eri Shimanouchi]], [[Kozue Kaoru]]

====Tea Ceremony Club====
One of Ohtori's oldest clubs, the Tea Ceremony Club owns millions of yen in equipment and kimono (a sentence they would find redundant). Many of the wealthiest children are enrolled in elementary school, and the clique is a tight one. Visitors by invitation only.

'''Members''': [[Chihaya Izumi]], Shizuru Fujino

====Tennis Team====
A very popular and glamorous sport at Ohtori, played extensively by many students; the girls' team tends to get more attention.

'''Members''': [[Chihaya Izumi]], Nanami Kiryuu, Wakaba Shinohara
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==Uniforms==
Ohtori Academy's yellow-themed uniforms may be found [[Schools: Uniforms#Ohtori Academy: Elementary|here]].

For more information, please see: [[Schools]], [[Organization: Ends of the World]], [[Theme]]

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Space Jail

2018-05-06T18:54:24Z

Cowstian Dior: /* Cell Block Tango */ update!

'''''SPACE JAIL is a special event on Battle Fantasia MUSH that runs from 05/05/2018 to 05/12/2018.'''''

A UFO (technically, two UFOs) showed up on Earth and abducted the Crystal Gems, all of the Sailor Senshi except for Sailors Moon, Neptune and Uranus, and a lot of their allies, too!

[[2018-05-04 - The Return: A UFO Appears!]]

So, what's next?

1. Abducted magical girls were essentially all* knocked out of their transformation along the way thanks to a very scary weapon called the Destabilizer, and their transformation wands, gems, fairies and other such artifacts are locked up somewhere, while the girls themselves have been tossed into holding cells*.

2. These cells are on Jasper's green ship (which looks like a giant hand), which is currently docked, inside Rubeus' much larger Black Crystal Ship (which looks like an even more giant, spikey exploding crystal). A corvette inside a frigate, as it were.

3. Over the next week, Jasper's prisoners will be able to break out of their cells, and have adventures to reclaim their transformation artifacts so that they can meet up, fight back and escape in next weekend's Jail Break!

4. Meanwhile, [[2018-05-06 - Rubeus' Ultimatum|Rubeus delivered an ultimatum]] to Sailor Moon: surrender the Silver Crystal and Chibi-Usa, or he'll kill everyone, starting with the Inner Senshi. The magical girls remaining in Tokyo will have to respond, in more and less organized ways. The Chevaliers, Shepherds, Magic Association and Tuners all have opinions, priorities and resources to contribute to this mission in various ways, but you don't have to be in any of these groups to save your friends as long as you can find someone to go with -- or your own way into The Battle In Space!

==IC Details==

===Destabilizers===

1. The Destabilizer looks like this:

[[File:Destabilizer.png|height:200px]]

It is a melee weapon, one-handed. Its lightness does not preclude its danger.

Getting hit with its energy at all directly temporarily destroys the magical bodies of Gems, and temporarily destroys the transformations of Magical Girls. It looks like it should feel like a taser, but that's only the beginning. No, getting Destabilized feels like your magic being set on fire, inside and out, all over your skin and even in your veins. (It's yellow fire, visually.) After a second or so of burning, there's a sharp, severing shock -- and then your magic is gone, and you're a normal, vulnerable, and also usually unconscious or at best very weak and miserable person. Your transformation artifact falls away from you, and there's always a narrative opportunity for someone to pick it up and take it away (as happened in The Return).

Even if a magical girl is able to keep or reclaim her artifact, it takes at least a few hours to regain enough strength to walk, and about half a day for their bodies to become capable of transformation. Trying before then is a self-immolating act, as their bodies reject the magic and they are momentarily engulfed in a pillar of flame as the power burns away. (This does not actually leave lasting physical damage, it's just incredibly painful in the moment. Dramatic, sustained wounds from a Destabilizer tend to be on the order of a black eye.)

===The Homeworld Ship===

2. The Homeworld Ship where characters are being held is mostly as green on the inside as it is on the outside, but there are touches of yellow, also. The temperature is cool but not freezing, and it is /eerily/ silent for a massive motive machine. What sounds do drift through are from people rather than systems. Peridot and Jasper arguing. Jasper and Rubeus posturing. Rubeus and Wiseman muttering. Other prisoners shouting.

Distantly, a woman singing...

The walls are very hard and very smooth and if you touch them for too long it's uncomfortably cold, a reminder that the vacuum of space is very near, indeed. Like the floors, the walls have faint patterns of interlocking diamonds engraved on them. There are diamond-angles, gemstone-facets, everywhere in the design, including that of the cell 'doors' (really force fields), which are hexagonal.

The cells are dark and windowless, except for that field across the front, which is a translucent yellow and allows visibility through both sides. This is strongly similar to Destabilizer energy, and it administers a nasty shock to any magical girl who tries to pass through it. Apparently something of the experience of being Destabilized has marked even full humans with something that causes the fields to react that way even though they aren't transformed.

The hallways are many and similar and very confusing since they're unmarked or at least not marked in a familiar way. Now and again there are evidence of the systems that must run the ship, particularly in yellow tubing that runs through its structure like veins, and the occasional touch screen.

There are viewports, some small and some large, but instead of showing the vast beauty of space, they show only blackness. That makes sense -- the smaller UFO is docked inside the larger one, after all.

There are few doors, other than the cells; separation of space, privacy, don't seem to be major concepts around here. This makes it difficult, though not impossible, to hide. To hide from Jasper and Peridot and, when they visit, Rubeus and Wiseman; and to hide from the many rolling Robonoids that patrol the halls and endlessly connecting rooms, beeping thoughtfully to themselves and each other.

There are a few important areas on the Homeworld Ship that bear discussion.

* The Cell Blocks are hallways filled with cells. There are a lot of them spread all over the place and it isn't necessarily easy to find a specific other person's cell.

* The Bridge is behind closed, sliding doors, and inaccessible, but that's okay for now because the people running this show are clearly in or around there most of the time. AVOID.

* The Engine Room, where all those yellow tubes inevitably lead to, is similarly inaccessible unless and until it becomes possible to blast one's way into it (see: next weekend).

* Storage Rooms are scattered throughout the ship, though, and awesomely, they have opaque doors which open and close with simple touchpads. They are about the size of a large living room, and filled with sweet little egg-like gray balls, each of which contains somebody's transformation artifact -- or a weird alien creature -- or really the ball is a Robonoid, which immediately attacks! It is theoretically possible to clear out a storage room and claim it as a temporary base. Naturally, you require unambiguous OOC consent to discover the transformation artifact of anyone but yourself.

* It isn't obvious how one enters or leaves the ship, but searching for that (nonexistant) airlock is a really good and logical reason for people to spend a lot of time sneaking around.

==Dramatis Personae==

===Captors===
There are a number of antagonist NPCs present who may exist in some form in your scenes. You have explicit permission to emit them passing by as they go about their business, though they will not stop to chat with prisoners; below we detail a couple specific conversations that you are encouraged to overhear, and we'll also discuss their use in the Scene Suggestions section.

'''Jasper''' seems to be in command of the Homeworld Ship. She is large and in charge and loudly unwilling to let her new Black Moon Clan allies totally run the show. She often wanders the ship, and sometimes can be seen interrogating Gem prisoners, but mostly walks straight past cells containing mere humans. She can be glimpsed from afar by escapees, or her approach fled from, but that's it; any interaction with Jasper /at all/ is an automatic fade to black, wake back up in a cell by yourself with any goodies you collected taken away and stored somewhere else.

'''Rubeus''' is the one who activated the gravity beam that made it so easy for Jasper to take you all prisoner, and he apparently captains the larger UFO that this one is docked inside. He's done some bad things in the past like almost killing people in Jindai Botanical Garden with a black hole. He isn't around much in the Homeworld Ship, but he occasionally shows up to trade barbs with Jasper. As with Jasper, direct character interaction with Rubeus is a no-go; it is an automatic fade to black with some sad 'mission fail' music.

'''Wiseman''' seems to be a floating black cloak with a crystal ball. There are glittering eyes, deep in the cowl's shadows. Apparently he works with Rubeus, and is only ever seen in his company. Sometimes he seems to look directly at escapees, but never points them out or interacts with them in any way, just moves along. His gaze is chilling, like that of an abyss.

'''Peridot''' is an extremely high-strung technician. She's in charge of this ship's systems and periodically makes the rounds to check on her Robonoids. She is clearly both frustrated by and afraid of Jasper, and mutters a lot about efficiency as she goes by. Like Jasper, she is armed with a Destabilizer, and for the time being, once you're out of your cell, a similar Instant Lose condition (though she accomplishes her capture with a little help from her Robonoids).

'''Robonoids''' are pseudosentient spherical robots. They are constantly on patrol. There is an essentially unlimited number of them. They spray sticky teal goop to try to immobilize and recapture their enemies, and are real good at it, and when defeated they explode into even more goop, to boot. If they aren't shut up very quickly they will sound a shipwide alarm which inevitably leads to being back in your cell, which provides some time pressure for every encounter. Robonoids are youmas, and available to NPC for each other using the Battle Fantasia Youma Repository System, or just fight 'em without the csys if you prefer.
:Robonoids have a Youma form, #50. To see its sheet, +youma/sheet 50. To see its attacks, +youma/attacks 50. To see its description, +youma/desc 50. To summon its form onto yourself to use as a GM, +youma/summon 50, then +transform Y.

===Prisoners===

There are also some other prisoners. Some of these can be interacted with more meaningfully, so we'll provide some more guidelines as to their personalities. It is completely fine to have conversations with Ruby and Lapis, but they won't join a 'party' and move around with them; interactions tend to be relatively brief cameos.

'''Ruby''' is a tiny, pugnacious, FURIOUS little red chick with a spunky headband, tank top, and shorts, who is endlessly pacing and/or punching her cell, or else curled up in one of its corners facing the wall. She greets escaped prisoners with suspicion and frustration, but will asked to be let out so she can find 'Sapphire', who she discusses with urgency and desperation. Only Steven is allowed to rescue her, but once she's out she can also be encountered rushing and pacing around, searching for Sapphire, and players are encouraged to try to help her on her quest. EXTREMELY impatient, Ruby won't stick around for more than a moment before continuing on her way, and she has an uncanny ability to vanish around a corner and just be gone.
Signature quotes (recommended for scene usage):
* "Let me out! Please! I have to find Sapphire! She's all alone, I need to find her!"
* "SAAAAAAAAPHIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE!!!!"
* "UGH, I don't have time for this!!"

'''Lapis''' is the water witch who stole the ocean that one time, but apparently now she's in a cell too. She is a slender blue maiden with short hair and an absolutely desolate expression, and she never gets up from where she's sitting in the corner of her cell. She mostly refuses to converse with anyone who approaches her, but if they persist, will try to convince escapees to surrender before they get hurt. If they try to free her anyway, she will shout to summon the guards.
Signature quotes (recommended for scene usage):
* "Stop! No! I don't want your help. Things are bad enough as it is. I've already made too much trouble."
* "Whatever you're doing, just stop. If we do everything they say, they might go easy on us."

'''Alien Samples''' are random little aliens found in the gray eggs in Storage Rooms each of which might or might not hold someone's transformation item. None of them are even as intelligent-seeming as the average puppy. They tend to be weird; think a group of chiming rainbow bubbles that rapidly float away into the hallway, or a little flower that sprouts roots and toddles off to explore, or a flickering, bug-eyed bit of orange flame that, alarmed by the interruption to its slumber, flares, then vanishes into soot. Feel free to be creative here and make up your own odd things that emerge from opened pods; keep the tone relatively wondrous, or lightly scary. They are not here to present moral dilemnas.

'''Sapphire''' is a tiny, serene, SINGING little blue chick in an aristocratic gown and whose eyes are never visible behind her long bangs. For that matter, her feet are invisible beneath her skirts, too, and she appears to be hovering. She spends most of the time in her cell singing, and is the source of the mysterious wordless music drifting through the prison. She will be found and released next weekend; her cell is extremely near the bridge and cannot be approached in other scenes. Often Jasper can be seen there, trying to interrogate her. Her answers are, universally, too soft to be overheard.

'''Pearl''' is missing. So are '''Sailors Mars, Jupiter and Venus'''. They simply cannot be found on the Homeworld Ship.

===Overheard Conversations===

Here are some conversations or dialogue from otherwise unapproachable NPCs that characters are encouraged to overhear, either from within their cells or while sneaking around.

---

Jasper and Peridot are arguing as they walk down a hallway together.
"We can't leave yet!" protests Peridot hotly. "The whole point of coming here was to check on the Cluster!"

Jasper is unmoved, other than to narrow her eyes at this challenge to her authority. "Rose Quartz takes priority. Get back to the bridge and plot a course for Homeworld. We'll be leaving as soon as I finish dealing with our... friends."

Peridot grumbles as she departs. "'Go to earth', they said. 'It'll be easy,' they said."

---

Peridot is muttering at her Robonoids as she checks on a patrol -- or cleans up after a destroyed one. "Can't believe this," she grunts, "The ONE THING!" she scrubs at something, "ONE! THING! BUT NO... suddenly the /CLUSTER/ isn't even /IMPORTANT?!?/"

---

Jasper pounds on the cell wall above Sapphire's head. "STOP SINGING!!"

---

Jasper is giving Rubeus a tour of the ship. "I've been told that we've integrated these Black Crystals of yours into our highly advanced technology, to great effect."

Rubeus grunts. "In exchange for securing the Silver Crystal and the death of the Rabbit?"

"That's right," Jasper agrees steadily. "Seems like a pretty raw deal to me, we didn't need this stuff to accomplish our own mission at all. I've got half a mind to leave right now."

"No," Rubeus insists, a little heatedly. "A deal's a deal. When the hostage exchange is complete, you may go. Until then... relax and enjoy our hospitality. If you'd care to sample some delicacies straight from the court of Prince Demando..."

Jasper does a double-take as they move on. "Tell me more about your Diamond," she demands.

---

Rubeus wanders through the green halls accompanied by a floating cloaked figure he refers to as Wiseman. "You really believe this will work?"

"Yes," says the spooky voice emitting from the cowl. "Have faith, Rubeus. Your just reward is coming very soon... as is the Silver Crystal and the Rabbit."

Rubeus clenches a fist. "Right. Right! Yes, finally success is within my grasp. Soon I'll be rid of this miserable place and back at the side of my Prince, where I belong."

"At his right hand," agrees Wiseman, soothingly...

==Scene Suggestions==

If you've read this far you can probably see where we're going with this: SPACE JAIL is an event designed to be run without staff GMs, by players, for players, with players, as characters wake up in their cells, discover their circumstances, escape, find their transformation artifacts, and start looking for a way out. The setting provided is fairly defined but still with plenty of room for improvisation. If you aren't sure if something would be allowed, just ask!

===INSIDE THE CELLS===

For whatever reason, most cells have two people in them, but a few have one or three. They are very cramped, especially with multiple people. Inexplicably, ice sometimes forms in a corner and water drips out of it, which can be caught and drunk. After the first round of potty complaints, Peridot programs the cells to periodically extrude little half-sphere toilets, giving people the ability to get rid of their waste. This does not happen without commentary and complaint about the vagaries of organic anatomies.

Often, NPCs go by, especially Robonoids floating along on patrol but occasionally other people. Adjacent cells can easily hold a conversation -- voices carry down the hall.

It is recommended to have at least one desolate, hopeless, scary scene in your cells before the scene where you escape, because imprisonment sucks and is a pretty rare roleplaying opportunity, so why not take advantage of it?

===ESCAPING THE CELLS===

The cell containment can be circumvented in the following ways:

* Steven Universe is relatively immune to the fields, able to (painfully) move in and out, or block their emitters with his arm so that others can escape. Arranging a scene to be let out of your cell by Steven is the #1 absolute best way to be released, and highly recommended. But it isn't the only way.

* From the OUTSIDE, it is possible to open someone else's cell by operating a little dimmer switch on the wall, after unlocking it by solving a small touchscreen puzzle that's a cross between Sudoku and Frogger, but that isn't obvious at first glance and should only be noticed at first by exceptionally technically inclined magical girls (examples: Fuu Hououji, Setsuna Meioh, Ami Mizuno) or Crystal Gems familiar with Gem technology, or sentient mascots (once reclaimed). They can teach others the trick. Also, it takes about fifteen minutes to hack open a cell door, and Robonoid patrols go by every ten.

* As it is a serious emergency situation, mascots who are inherently connected to their transformation artifact are capable of struggling free of their little gray eggs... but they have to leave the artifact behind, for now, and INVARIABLY they get lost finding their partners and won't be able to lead the way back. If you want (for example) to watch Flappy take an hour to fail at the minigame to hack Saki's cell, occasionally having to frantically hide from the Robonoids, until he finally gets her out, that is A-OK. If you don't have a mascot appropriate to this, you'll just have to wait for help.

* However, you can't do an escape CUTSCENE; even if it's one mascot letting out two people in adjacent cells, make sure you're with someone when you escape! And it's generally preferable to let another PC get you out than an NPC.

===OUTSIDE OF THE CELLS, PART 1: FINDING YOUR ARTIFACT===

* Once you're out, you're in immediate and terrible danger. Remember that, having been Destabilized, besides being without your magic you also kinda got wrecked, and are likely to be initially groggy and weak. Obviously, reclaiming your transformation artifact has to be your number one objective -- and something, deep in your heart, indicates that it's on board... somewhere.

* Large groups attract more attention; four is the absolute maximum before it becomes essentially impossible to move around the ship without getting caught and punked by Jasper, etc (though more than four could gather in a room together for a few moments). This is still true for magical girls as well as regular humans.

* It is possible to find an alcove or little room to rest in now and then, but having a friend nearby and awake is a must. It's very dangerous to sleep alone. Remember that not all that much time is passing here, this OOC week is only an IC day or two.

* You can fight Robonoids while untransformed (because they really kinda suck), but not very effectively (you are advised to just not use the csys, freeform it). It is much, much, much better to run from them, and any combats should be very desperate, like 'a group of norms' versus 'a single puny robonoid' is a MAJOR challenge that will probably require trickery and cleverness to overcome. There are no exceptions to this rule, no matter who you are normally.

* If you're recaptured, please don't play it for laughs. They don't need /everyone/ for a hostage, after all, and the potential of making an example out of someone is a very real threat.

* The 'IC Details' section above extensively discusses the experience of being outside of the cell; a lot of hallways, a high probability of getting lost, a lot of patrols to desperately hide from, occasionally familiar faces to stumble across and rescue from their cells or otherwise meet up with to plot. It is a tense, scary situation, but also a happy one as friends find one another.

* And, of course, the Storage Rooms, described above, which is where you'll find your artifact. If you're wanting to do LOTS of these scenes, you can of course take the option to not even find your artifact in the first Storage Room you visit, there are lots of them...

* Storage Rooms have water, and you could /try/ eating stuff in them but it wouldn't go well, nasty tastes are guaranteed. They exist in this setting to be a 'climax' for people reclaiming their artifacts as the (often) final scene of their little adventure, and then afterwards to be a (relatively) safe space to rest in.

===OUTSIDE OF THE CELLS, PART 2: MAGICAL GIRLS===

* It is totally fine, even encouraged, for reclaiming your artifact to be your final scene before Friday, and then the story picks up directly from there. But if you'd like to do more scenes between then and the jailbreak, bear in mind that the prison riot isn't starting until Friday (5/11/18).

* Because of the lingering effects of Destabilization, nobody* is allowed to successfully re-transform again, full stop, until Tuesday of next week (5/8/18). They can find their artifact sooner but will discover the ill effects described in the above section about Destabilizers.

* Once you're transformed, Robonoids are no longer a terrifying threat but more of a satisfyingly manageable fight, even in larger numbers. However, 'unapproachable' NPCs are still that way, and will punk you with a Destabilizer and chuck you back in your cell if you're seen, hiding your artifact somewhere else and leaving you unable to transform again until Friday's scene; if you feel that your character would attack Jasper on sight no matter what and you don't want to get recaptured, then don't let her find Jasper.

* Once transformed, it's a lot less scary to move around (because of the relative ease of defeating Robonoids, mostly) though still something that requires some amount of stealth (because of Jasper et al). It's now possible to just blast a control panel next to a cell to kill the field. Anyone still in a cell after Tuesday is encouraged to be saved very easily.

* The big question that comes to mind once one is transformed again is 'how to escape', and answering that question, and finding some kind of airlock, are the same thing to a lot of people. There are an infinite number of 'sneaking around, looking for the way out' scenes to be done. There are good reasons not to just blast out of there/onto the bridge/into the engine room, not least that you need a way back to Earth. But you may not be able to leave at all before doing something about Rubeus' UFO (see: the weekend)...

* There is also the matter of those unaccounted for: Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Pearl are nowhere to be found anywhere in the cell blocks, and can be searched for indefinitely.

===More Ideas===

Scene concepts don't need to be as grand as 'saving someone from their cell' or 'finding an artifact'. There are a million tiny snapshots that can be a part of this adventure. Here are some examples to get you started on your own:

* You're in your cell, reflecting on everything you've left behind, everything still at stake. Large and small, there's a lot to be unpacked. At least you don't have to do it alone...
...you're cellmates with your best friend!
...you're cellmates with your worst enemy!
...you're cellmates with a total stranger, and you have to get to know each other!
...okay, you're alone, but you can talk to people in adjacent cells!

* You're out of your cell, slowly working your way through the ship with your friends, and being as quiet as possible because you can hear Jasper further down the hallway, talking to someone. Things get tense when they start to change course...
...but you're able to hide from them and you listen to more of their conversation!
...but it turns out they were just stopping for a minute, whew!
...and you see one of your friends coming from another direction, and have to silently get their attention/beckon/drag them out of the way!
...and then Ruby rushes down an adjacent hallway, shouting, and you have to run for your life as Jasper storms towards her!

* You and your friends find another prisoner...
...and rescue them, but in the middle of getting into their cell, a robonoid appears!
...but it's Ruby, and she yells at you to go away!
...but it's Lapis, and SHE yells at you to go away, and calls the guards when you don't!
...but it's Sapphire, and you can't get close because Jasper is yelling questions at her about Rose Quartz!
...and you've both escaped already, so you have to quietly find a place together to talk safely, and there are Robonoids in the way!

* You're in a storage room...
...taking turns taking naps and talking quietly, resting, recuperating.
...brainstorming what to do next.
...and your friend that you haven't found yet walks in, making for a happy reunion!
...and your worst enemy walks in, making for a tense situation!
...looking for water. Or a toilet. There are no toilets outside of the cells. :/
...opening pods, and one is a Robonoid!
...opening pods, and a weird Alien Sample appears and starts making way too much noise!

==Notable Exceptions==

* Steven, Amethyst, Pearl and Lapis were not Destabilized, just knocked out the old fashioned way via Jasper's mighty fists and feet.

* That means that once Steven and Amethyst are out, they're out fully powered, and make outstanding escorts for untransformed people (though enough Robonoids, or any of the NPCs, are still a huge threat; tension remains high).

* Steven is in fact relatively immune to Destabilization, able to take the shock of its energies without being too badly harmed (which is why he can handle the containment fields), though he cannot summon his shield or use his other powers at the same time as a Destabilizer is in contact with him, and it isn't a pleasant feeling.

* The Inner Senshi (Venus, Mars and Jupiter) are Rubeus' special prisoners, and have been crucified on Black Crystal crosses in a dark chamber on his ship, inside an energy-sucking field that is a torment to endure and almost impossible to move within (something that has been televised back on Earth, but isn't known to their fellow prisoners, they're just missing, unfindable in the cell blocks). They were also not Destabilized, because Rubeus whisked them away before Jasper had a chance.

* Rubeus had Mercury too, but he and Jasper traded her and Pearl as a sort of hostage-trade-within-the-larger-hostage-situation that also has some kind of meta implications about each of them thinking of their respective trade as their least valuable prisoner, to their extreme detriment... So Mercury is in the cell blocks with everyone else (and Jasper totally Destabilized her on the way in), while Pearl is nowhere to be found.

==Frequently Asked Questions==

Q: I couldn't make Friday's scene but I don't want to miss out on Space Jail! What do I do?

A: Any magical girl could have seen the UFO in the sky and been a face in the crowd of first responders, and abducted with all the rest. You are entirely welcome to have been here all along! Please make sure to read the log to understand in full detail what went down: http://battlefantasia.pinksugarheartattack.net/2018-05-04_-_The_Return:_A_UFO_Appears!

A2: There will also be a group of left-behind magical girls going on a rescue mission as part of next weekend, and probably having some scenes between now and then about how to respond to Rubeus' hostage demands. Either way is fine!

Q: Who am I in a cell with?

A: Whatever other PCs you want (obviously, everyone involved has to agree), up to three people per cell. Please keep track on the wiki page for this event, below.

Q: Do I have to wait for Steven to escape before I escape?

A: Steven has already escaped. He is the Patient Zero of escaping. It may have happened off-camera until he does it on-camera, but it's the case: he was the first, because he had it so easy. If this bends OOC time a bit, that's okay.

Q: I'm not sure who should let me out, what should I do?

A: Ask! If there's someone in particular you want to be rescued by, that can surely be arranged. If not, someone would surely enjoy doing the scene with you. When in doubt, ask Steven -- this is his big chance to be a rescuer, and I'm sure he'd love to rescue you!

Q: You forcibly detransformed my character and stashed her in a cell, but I don't want her secret identity shared with everyone, what should I do?

A: Recognition Inhibition > imprisonment. If you don't want to be recognized by someone for whatever reason (and any reason at all is fine, it's an important genre convention!), just say that the lighting in here is really weird or something. ICly concerned characters could obscure their faces deliberately by making masks out of their clothing, etc, which will of course turn out to be remarkably effective.

Q: Can I schedule a public +scene for any of this? I want to escape/save someone/run some Robonoids!

A: Yes, but bearing in mind that the feel we're going for here is not, initially, 'prison riot,' more like 'mission impossible.' Doing smaller pick-up scenes via LFRP may be better (or you could set a participation cap on your +scene), and please don't let any larger scenes get too loud.

If you want to take all comers for a scene where, for example, magical girls gradually filter into the same storage room and open all the pods together, fight a few robonoids, gawk at a few alien samples, and finally claim it for their own, by all means. No one should feel left out or like they MISSED it, though -- there's more than one storage room to turn into a temporary base, and none of them are safe for too long anyway, inevitably they have to be abandoned every few hours when they're discovered.

==Cell Block Tango==

As characters determine who they're sharing cells with, please update this with your own cell names. There are five facets. Cells in the same facet can converse via shouting. As you escape, please update this as well so we know who's out.

'''Facet 4, Cell 1S3N-Mu:''' [[Endo Naoki]] and [[Mikoto Minagi]]

'''Facet 3, Cell 2K1X-Alpha:''' [[Steven Universe]] (escaped)

'''Facet 3, Cell 2K1Y-Beta:''' Ruby

'''Facet 2, Cell 7F0A-Tau:''' [[Fate Testarossa]] and [[Setsuna Meioh]]

'''Facet 2, Cell 7E9X-Rho:''' [[Nori Ankou]] and [[Yumi Ohzora]]

'''Facet 1, Cell 8V9P-Omega:''' Sapphire

==Logs==

Please include 'SPACE JAIL' in the title of all of your logs, and they'll automatically appear here.

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Shizuru Fujino

2017-10-05T12:23:16Z

Cowstian Dior: /* Relationships */

Shizuru Fujino

2017-10-05T12:11:07Z

Cowstian Dior: /* Relationships */

Shizuru Fujino

2017-10-05T12:07:43Z

Cowstian Dior:

Shizuru Fujino

2017-10-05T10:09:25Z

Cowstian Dior: /* Relationships */

Shizuru Fujino

2017-10-05T10:07:59Z

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Shizuru Fujino

2017-10-04T21:31:47Z

Cowstian Dior:

Mami Tomoe

2017-10-04T20:28:49Z

Cowstian Dior: /* Relationships */

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! style="background:#FFFF00; border: 2px #000000 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Mami Tomoe
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! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| Senpai
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! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
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! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 16 (June 5, 1998)
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! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'2"
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Blonde
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! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Honey
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! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Gemini
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! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| O
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Cake
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| Pickled Plums
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subject:
| English
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subject:
| Mathematics
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! style="text-align:left" | Organization:
| [[Chevaliers and Shepherds|Chevaliers]]
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! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Leader
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! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Ohtori Academy|Ohtori Academy]] (Grade 10)
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| Go-Home Club (She doesn't have time...)
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| [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]] (FC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
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'''Tiro Finale!'''

Mami Tomoe is an elegant and refined high-schooler, a pleasant girl who nevertheless largely keeps to herself. She's known as both wealthy and an orphan, having attended Ohtori Academy for quite some time. However, some ugly rumors have begun to spread about her in recent days. She misses enough school for it to be sharply noticeable, and some days even when she does attend she sleeps through class. Between that and her difficulties with the Student Council, it's said that for all her polished image she's turned into a delinquent. What isn't known to most is that Mami spends most of her time risking her life against supernatural threats, and is dedicated to protecting innocents. A veteran Puella Magi and one of the most experienced magical girls in Tokyo, Mami acts like it, leveraging her experience to others and holding herself apart from most--she even left the Tuners over ideological disputes years ago. Once alone, she fights now with Sayaka Miki, her Puella Magi partner, and still brings Madoka Kaname on many of her hunts. Her lonely lifestyle is further changed by fighting with the Chevaliers as one of their leaders, in order to protect the people of Tokyo from rogue magical girls... even though Mami cares very much about some of those rogues. She can be shockingly ruthless in her efforts to help others, but she's doing her best to live up to the kinder ideals the Chevaliers stand for. Will her work as a magical girl be fulfilling enough to make up for the fact that she's almost entirely sacrificed her normal life?

==Skills and Magic==

One of Mami's first loves was always and remains baking; while she's a good cook who's tried a variety of things, she's a /great/ baker who is happy to make elaborate cakes for herself and her friends. (Her sweet tooth is considerable.) She can bake other things, but doesn't tend to favor pies. Tarts maybe.

She's also very, very good at matters of fashion and style; she can braid like no one's business, and generally work with hair because she loves doing it. Want your nails painted? Mami will cheerfully spend time with her friends that way. There are few things she gets to do as a normal girl, but these things are among them.

We're not talking about her grades.

As a Puella Magi, she has access to considerable combat magic. Her weapon and special power both are ribbons, which she can conjure and manipulate to an absolutely startling degree, from immobilizing foes to shaping objects to use as a shield. She can even make things and leave them past when she's around them.

This comes to her weapon, which Mami learned after painstaking work to craft out of her ribbons: Percussive-action rifles, firing gold balls and bright light. She can make big guns, small guns, long guns, and short guns. Fat guns and skinny guns, but her favorites are elegant rifles that she can call up en masse to deal with her foes.

Mami Tomoe is known as the Golden Queen of Shibuya for a reason, and the fact that she holds the Central Yamanote Territory is only part of it.

==Background==

''(Adjusted slightly from her app)''

Mami was born to the wealthy Tomoe family, an only child, almost seventeen years ago now. Her early life was, in the grand scheme, fairly uneventful; her parents doted a bit, but also made sure that as soon as she was old enough, she was immersed in various activities. They would be the main real social contact she'd have. She had peers, people also in the various expensive child programs, but none of these relationships really seemed to last past the end of that given activity. So, while she learned the very proper ways of interacting with others, she also developed a rich inner life: she took some o the hobbies she'd learned, the ones she really had a knack for, like baking, but she also was enchanted by certain shows as she grew up. The idea of transforming heroines fighting for love and justice made her happy, and gave her a little boost whenever she was feeling down. This would become somewhat ironically important later, but at the time, it's not all that strange for a little girl to enjoy such things. It's in fact pretty normal! And despite the fact that she didn't quite keep a 'best friend' or anything, she really delved into what she did; she had a clear love for life from a young age, curious and active.

This distance did not change as she actually grew through the grades at school; she had people to speak to in class, and would say she had friends. She just didn't manage to /stay/ close to anyone, really--her parents, of course, were proud of her successes, as she was doing rather well for herself in general absent that one little issue, even if they did grow increasingly busy with their own responsibilities as she became older and thus a little more self-sufficient. And maybe she would have been able to be more than the distant, talented girl in time.

She didn't get that time, however, and neither did the Tomoe family as a whole. When it happened, it happened suddenly; it was a blur, but the details were etched into her mind. The accident was between her family's car and an out-of-control semi; the little sedan simply didn't stand a chance. She lay in the back, in shock at the blood she was quickly losing, able to think of almost nothing else, when a little white creature, like a stuffed animal, appeared in the window. He offered a contract; a wish, a chance for /something/, and she did not have the luxury of considering the fine print. She wanted to live, and that's what she got.

It wasn't the only thing she had really wanted, though. From that day forward, Mami had 'luckily' survived the car accident that claimed both of her parents. She had only very distant relatives, so she was the sole inheritor of their estate.

No one at school really knew what to say to her; it was awkward, at best, but she would soon no longer have time to concern herself with her peers anyway. Kyubey explained her responsibilities, and Mami learned well. The idea was terrifying, of course. She'd made a wish to /live/, and now she was set to risk her life all the time. But she found ways to boost her confidence; /acting/ as if she had no cares or fears made it easier to pretend that it was true; emulating the heroines with which she'd grown up gave her a further boost, calling out the attacks she managed to form with her new magic. The danger became worth it; she'd been saved for a purpose. To help others, to fight for justice, meant that her living on had meaning. And that was something she would often cry over on her own--that she, alone, survived.

She quickly came to the attention of many others somewhat like her, as she went about her work. There were many other magical girls with whom she came into contact, including a number from the Tuner Organization, which she leapt at the chance to join. This alliance, though, would be short-lived; the group's intense cynicism wasn't something she could tolerate. In fact, Mami made a reputation for herself as something of a lone wolf, having a great deal of trouble working with others. She left the organization after not terribly long.

She had to do many things she would rather not have done, and Mami did not go through these years unscathed mentally. But one bright point was meeting a girl named Kyouko Sakura, who would be her partner for some time after they met. It was a wonderful partnership, and Mami adored her family who she was even brought over to visit as a friend. When tragedy struck however and Kyouko made her decision about her new way of life, Mami couldn't accept it. They fought over the matter... And Mami lost. With that wound in her heart, and a threat from Kyouko in her ears, she left and did not contact with her again. This wound would affect much of what was to come in her life.

Mami's school life worsened even further, and she became an unknown girl, nice and remembered by her class but no longer receiving any invitations to go out or study together or anything of the sort after she turned them down enough. Such was life.

The world seemed more cynical still, but Mami would help people, and get satisfaction from that, at least. By this point she'd acquired an apartment in the city, near the Ohtori Academy midle school she attended; she contented her daily life with keeping things nice, with enjoying the things she could, and with spending most of the rest of her time hunting the Witches and other creatures to keep the world safe.

As the Long Dark Night began, she had her work cut out for her. For better or worse, she would not continue on without others forever.

==Relationships==

====The Five====

'''[[Madoka Kaname]]''' - One of Mami's two best friends. Mami is very protective of her, but not so much so that she won't let her come along when she and Sayaka go out. Nevertheless Mami will go very far if it's for Madoka. Mami deeply loves her, and likes her just the way she is. Madoka in turn understands her on a deep level. Her ideal life includes Madoka prominently.

'''[[Sayaka Miki]]''' - Mami's other best friend, and her precious Puella Magi partner. Mami adores her, every stupid dorky thing of her just as her incredible moments of gallantry. She relies on Sayaka very heavily in many arenas. Mami considers Sayaka a moral bedrock, and also harbors romantic feelings for her.

'''[[Eri Shimanouchi]]''' - Mami's ex-girlfriend and current enemy. The truth is that Mami loves Eri very much, but can't accept her hunting practices or her intentions with the Shepherds, and her heart is torn this way. Eri knows her better than almost anyone else, however, and Mami knows it full well. Maybe Eri has a point about Mami's happiness, but even so...

'''[[Kyouko Sakura]]''' - Mami's former partner. They worked together for a while years ago, which ended in tragedy and Mami being driven out to be alone again. Mami loves her still as the closest thing to family she has, but she still can't accept Kyouko's way of life. She has some jealousy for Kyouko for a few things, and is not comfortable with Sayaka and Kyouko together nonviolently after what Mami views as Kyouko taking Sayaka behind her back long before the war. Incredible respect; Mami views Kyouko as someone she can't defeat.

'''[[Homura Akemi]]''' - Mami's rival. COMPLICATED. Jealous. Resentful. ...Understanding? Mami hasn't told anyone about their battle at the school's outskirts, or what she learned there.

====The Chevaliers====

'''[[Ren Aizawa]]''' - Mami's friend. Mami doesn't know her terribly well yet, but she likes her energy; she doesn't talk to many girls older than her and actually get along with them. Mami wants the chance to do so, though.

'''[[Nori Ankou]]''' - Mami's model. Mami /likes/ Nori, and not only because she is beautiful and elegant and represents someone to share an interest in fashion with, but for her heart, for her poetic nature, and for the fact that Nori showed her something beautiful when they visited the Sea of Tears. That place has retained a niche in Mami's heart, and only made her feel closer to the Red Future. The fact that Nori has fought at her side is true of many Chevaliers, and Nori is among Mami's close, dear friends.

'''[[Lera Camry]]''' - Mami's buddy. Lera is a rare friend who is her age, who naturally sidesteps the business of being senpai. Their relationship has waxed and waned over time, but remains one Mami cares about greatly. ...Also they can drink together, don't tell anyone.

'''[[Garnet]]''' - Mami's adult figure. Mami doesn't have very many of these in her life, almost none who know of magic, outside the Magic Association which can be... awkward. Mami respects her all around, and likes the subtle warmth this tall woman has.

'''[[Tsubasa Kazanari]]''' - Mami's rescuer. They met by Tsubasa sweeping in to save Mami from a sneak attack by Sailor Uranus, and it made a good impression. Mami approves of her serious nature... But is a bit nervous that her own difficulties with staying in her ordinary life's expectations will lead to friction with this cool young woman.

'''[[Endo Naoki]]''' - One of Mami's personal favorite boys. She admires his moral standing and his fighting ability, but also just finds him pleasant to be around. There's more to get to know! Maybe she can learn a favorite flavor...

'''[[Nanoha Takamachi]]''' - Mami's new friend. Mami doesn't know this girl well yet, but she's acquitted herself well in their discussions about the Chevaliers, and a friend of Fate's automatically gets a leg up. ...Mami has also heard of some of this girl's exploits magically. Mami is attempting to befriend her further, finding it easy to talk with her. She'll have to come back to Midori-ya know that she knows her better.

'''[[Utena Tenjou]]''' - Mami's ally. They aren't close, necessarily--Mami has spoken more with her Bride--but everything about Utena Tenjou is appealing to Mami, from her princely approach at life to her heroic style to her dashing looks. Mami would love to sit down for tea with her though. Maybe if she brought Sayaka and asked Anthy for the four of them...

'''[[Fate Testarossa]]''' - Mami's guilt. Oh they're friends now, to be sure, and Mami is continually amazed by Fate's clear-headedness... But Mami worries for her too, and she knows that their past conflicts--before the Chevaliers--may have made Fate's troubles worse, in addition to hurting her. She enjoys time with Fate despite those difficulties.

====The Outer Senshi====

'''[[Michiru Kaioh|Sailor Neptune]]''' - Mami's enemy. Tangling with Sailor Uranus means tangling with Sailor Neptune, as Mami has discovered painfully first hand over time. The calm of this young woman is dangerous; Mami's been overwhelmed by her before making the mistake of focusing only on Uranus.

'''[[Setsuna Meioh|Sailor Pluto]]''' - Not Mami's. Mami respects this woman greatly, and knows they will both do as is necessary to protect those they care about and the world in their own ways. They've worked together on that front before. ...But they completely disagree on what the best way is; Mami simply does not believe that Pluto is /right/ about Hotaru Tomoe. Secretly, Mami is more than unsettled by her timeless nature.

'''[[Haruka Tenoh|Sailor Uranus]]''' - Mami's enemy. They've clashed more than once, and while Uranus is deadly competent, Mami has always disagreed with her methods--and usually with her choices. They're well beyond even talking about their issues right now. Unfortunately, Uranus has great insights into Mami's personality... And the pain that brings makes Mami resent her even more.

====Early Friends====

'''[[Anthy Himemiya]]''' - Mami's friend. Mami saved her once from Nanami Kiryuu's goons, and while that painted a target on Mami's back she considers it worth it to have gotten to know this girl if only a little. Maybe in another life she'd have become closer with her... But it was still a good jar of jam. Maybe they can spend more time together.

'''[[Usagi Tsukino]]''' - Mami's friend. Usagi--Sailor Moon--is both adorable and inspiring to Mami, and while the truth is that the rise of magical girls like her made her wonder if she was obsolete herself, Mami feels that Usagi /needs/ protecting in order to stay the wonderful way she is. ...Not sure what to do with her acting like a child over cake though.

====Complications====

'''[[Kasagami Araki]]''' - Mami's enemy. Mami outright hates this girl; her work kidnapping her friends would have seen to that on its own already, her arrogance enough to seal the deal, but Kasagami has made her school life measurably worse, and in ways that others can see. Mami's considered dropping out of school at the level of bullying she's endured and can do nothing about, given the Student Council. At least in matters of the War, she can fight back.

'''[[Nanami Kiryuu]]''' - Mami's tormentor. Long before Kasagami and Mami even spoke, Nanami caught wind of this lovely girl who was on the outskirts of her class, who had stepped in against her minions, and pushed back against her. Nobody can make Mami cry as reliably as Nanami can, and Mami can't do anything about it.

'''[[Kozue Kaoru]]''' - Mami's enemy. They were friends in a way, and Mami once allowed her despair to tempt her into a bad decision with Kozue... Which she didn't regard as that bad a decision until Kozue turned around and betrayed Sayaka overtly. Things are very complicated with this girl, because they were briefly close, but Mami cannot forgive what she's done... Or for making Mami herself feel so ill-used.

'''[[Mai Tokiha]]''' - Mami's senpai... Technically. They have a complicated relationship, as while Mami thinks her heart in the right place, she also finds that Tokiha drives her nuts and is far too reckless with others' lives. Unfortunately Mai has a point about Mami's hypocrisy, and the power to back up her ideals.

==Logs and Cutscenes==
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[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Ohtori]]

Mami Tomoe

2017-10-04T19:59:51Z

Cowstian Dior: Relationships update

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! style="background:#FFFF00; border: 2px #000000 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Character Name'''
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! style="background:#FFFF00; border: 2px #000000 solid; font-size: 110%;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''IC Information'''
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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Mami Tomoe
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| Senpai
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 16 (June 5, 1998)
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'2"
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Blonde
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! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Honey
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! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Gemini
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! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| O
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Cake
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| Pickled Plums
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subject:
| English
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subject:
| Mathematics
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! style="text-align:left" | Organization:
| [[Chevaliers and Shepherds|Chevaliers]]
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! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Leader
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! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Ohtori Academy|Ohtori Academy]] (Grade 10)
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! style="text-align:left" | Clubs:
| Go-Home Club (She doesn't have time...)
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! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]] (FC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
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'''Tiro Finale!'''

Mami Tomoe is an elegant and refined high-schooler, a pleasant girl who nevertheless largely keeps to herself. She's known as both wealthy and an orphan, having attended Ohtori Academy for quite some time. However, some ugly rumors have begun to spread about her in recent days. She misses enough school for it to be sharply noticeable, and some days even when she does attend she sleeps through class. Between that and her difficulties with the Student Council, it's said that for all her polished image she's turned into a delinquent. What isn't known to most is that Mami spends most of her time risking her life against supernatural threats, and is dedicated to protecting innocents. A veteran Puella Magi and one of the most experienced magical girls in Tokyo, Mami acts like it, leveraging her experience to others and holding herself apart from most--she even left the Tuners over ideological disputes years ago. Once alone, she fights now with Sayaka Miki, her Puella Magi partner, and still brings Madoka Kaname on many of her hunts. Her lonely lifestyle is further changed by fighting with the Chevaliers as one of their leaders, in order to protect the people of Tokyo from rogue magical girls... even though Mami cares very much about some of those rogues. She can be shockingly ruthless in her efforts to help others, but she's doing her best to live up to the kinder ideals the Chevaliers stand for. Will her work as a magical girl be fulfilling enough to make up for the fact that she's almost entirely sacrificed her normal life?

==Skills and Magic==

One of Mami's first loves was always and remains baking; while she's a good cook who's tried a variety of things, she's a /great/ baker who is happy to make elaborate cakes for herself and her friends. (Her sweet tooth is considerable.) She can bake other things, but doesn't tend to favor pies. Tarts maybe.

She's also very, very good at matters of fashion and style; she can braid like no one's business, and generally work with hair because she loves doing it. Want your nails painted? Mami will cheerfully spend time with her friends that way. There are few things she gets to do as a normal girl, but these things are among them.

We're not talking about her grades.

As a Puella Magi, she has access to considerable combat magic. Her weapon and special power both are ribbons, which she can conjure and manipulate to an absolutely startling degree, from immobilizing foes to shaping objects to use as a shield. She can even make things and leave them past when she's around them.

This comes to her weapon, which Mami learned after painstaking work to craft out of her ribbons: Percussive-action rifles, firing gold balls and bright light. She can make big guns, small guns, long guns, and short guns. Fat guns and skinny guns, but her favorites are elegant rifles that she can call up en masse to deal with her foes.

Mami Tomoe is known as the Golden Queen of Shibuya for a reason, and the fact that she holds the Central Yamanote Territory is only part of it.

==Background==

''(Adjusted slightly from her app)''

Mami was born to the wealthy Tomoe family, an only child, almost seventeen years ago now. Her early life was, in the grand scheme, fairly uneventful; her parents doted a bit, but also made sure that as soon as she was old enough, she was immersed in various activities. They would be the main real social contact she'd have. She had peers, people also in the various expensive child programs, but none of these relationships really seemed to last past the end of that given activity. So, while she learned the very proper ways of interacting with others, she also developed a rich inner life: she took some o the hobbies she'd learned, the ones she really had a knack for, like baking, but she also was enchanted by certain shows as she grew up. The idea of transforming heroines fighting for love and justice made her happy, and gave her a little boost whenever she was feeling down. This would become somewhat ironically important later, but at the time, it's not all that strange for a little girl to enjoy such things. It's in fact pretty normal! And despite the fact that she didn't quite keep a 'best friend' or anything, she really delved into what she did; she had a clear love for life from a young age, curious and active.

This distance did not change as she actually grew through the grades at school; she had people to speak to in class, and would say she had friends. She just didn't manage to /stay/ close to anyone, really--her parents, of course, were proud of her successes, as she was doing rather well for herself in general absent that one little issue, even if they did grow increasingly busy with their own responsibilities as she became older and thus a little more self-sufficient. And maybe she would have been able to be more than the distant, talented girl in time.

She didn't get that time, however, and neither did the Tomoe family as a whole. When it happened, it happened suddenly; it was a blur, but the details were etched into her mind. The accident was between her family's car and an out-of-control semi; the little sedan simply didn't stand a chance. She lay in the back, in shock at the blood she was quickly losing, able to think of almost nothing else, when a little white creature, like a stuffed animal, appeared in the window. He offered a contract; a wish, a chance for /something/, and she did not have the luxury of considering the fine print. She wanted to live, and that's what she got.

It wasn't the only thing she had really wanted, though. From that day forward, Mami had 'luckily' survived the car accident that claimed both of her parents. She had only very distant relatives, so she was the sole inheritor of their estate.

No one at school really knew what to say to her; it was awkward, at best, but she would soon no longer have time to concern herself with her peers anyway. Kyubey explained her responsibilities, and Mami learned well. The idea was terrifying, of course. She'd made a wish to /live/, and now she was set to risk her life all the time. But she found ways to boost her confidence; /acting/ as if she had no cares or fears made it easier to pretend that it was true; emulating the heroines with which she'd grown up gave her a further boost, calling out the attacks she managed to form with her new magic. The danger became worth it; she'd been saved for a purpose. To help others, to fight for justice, meant that her living on had meaning. And that was something she would often cry over on her own--that she, alone, survived.

She quickly came to the attention of many others somewhat like her, as she went about her work. There were many other magical girls with whom she came into contact, including a number from the Tuner Organization, which she leapt at the chance to join. This alliance, though, would be short-lived; the group's intense cynicism wasn't something she could tolerate. In fact, Mami made a reputation for herself as something of a lone wolf, having a great deal of trouble working with others. She left the organization after not terribly long.

She had to do many things she would rather not have done, and Mami did not go through these years unscathed mentally. But one bright point was meeting a girl named Kyouko Sakura, who would be her partner for some time after they met. It was a wonderful partnership, and Mami adored her family who she was even brought over to visit as a friend. When tragedy struck however and Kyouko made her decision about her new way of life, Mami couldn't accept it. They fought over the matter... And Mami lost. With that wound in her heart, and a threat from Kyouko in her ears, she left and did not contact with her again. This wound would affect much of what was to come in her life.

Mami's school life worsened even further, and she became an unknown girl, nice and remembered by her class but no longer receiving any invitations to go out or study together or anything of the sort after she turned them down enough. Such was life.

The world seemed more cynical still, but Mami would help people, and get satisfaction from that, at least. By this point she'd acquired an apartment in the city, near the Ohtori Academy midle school she attended; she contented her daily life with keeping things nice, with enjoying the things she could, and with spending most of the rest of her time hunting the Witches and other creatures to keep the world safe.

As the Long Dark Night began, she had her work cut out for her. For better or worse, she would not continue on without others forever.

==Relationships==

'''[[Madoka Kaname]]''' - One of Mami's two best friends. Mami is very protective of her, but not so much so that she won't let her come along when she and Sayaka go out. Nevertheless Mami will go very far if it's for Madoka. Mami deeply loves her, and likes her just the way she is. Madoka in turn understands her on a deep level. Her ideal life includes Madoka prominently.

'''[[Sayaka Miki]]''' - Mami's other best friend, and her precious Puella Magi partner. Mami adores her, every stupid dorky thing of her just as her incredible moments of gallantry. She relies on Sayaka very heavily in many arenas. Mami considers Sayaka a moral bedrock, and also harbors romantic feelings for her.

'''[[Eri Shimanouchi]]''' - Mami's ex-girlfriend and current enemy. The truth is that Mami loves Eri very much, but can't accept her hunting practices or her intentions with the Shepherds, and her heart is torn this way. Eri knows her better than almost anyone else, however, and Mami knows it full well. Maybe Eri has a point about Mami's happiness, but even so...

'''[[Kyouko Sakura]]''' - Mami's former partner. They worked together for a while years ago, which ended in tragedy and Mami being driven out to be alone again. Mami loves her still as the closest thing to family she has, but she still can't accept Kyouko's way of life. She has some jealousy for Kyouko for a few things, and is not comfortable with Sayaka and Kyouko together nonviolently after what Mami views as Kyouko taking Sayaka behind her back long before the war. Incredible respect; Mami views Kyouko as someone she can't defeat.

'''[[Homura Akemi]]''' - Mami's rival. COMPLICATED. Jealous. Resentful. ...Understanding? Mami hasn't told anyone about their battle at the school's outskirts, or what she learned there.

'''[[Mai Tokiha]]''' - Mami's senpai... Technically. They have a complicated relationship, as while Mami thinks her heart in the right place, she also finds that Tokiha drives her nuts and is far too reckless with others' lives. Unfortunately Mai has a point about Mami's hypocrisy, and the power to back up her ideals.

'''[[Usagi Tsukino]]''' - Mami's friend. Usagi--Sailor Moon--is both adorable and inspiring to Mami, and while the truth is that the rise of magical girls like her made her wonder if she was obsolete herself, Mami feels that Usagi /needs/ protecting in order to stay the wonderful way she is. ...Not sure what to do with her acting like a child over cake though.

'''[[Setsuna Meioh|Sailor Pluto]]''' - Not Mami's. Mami respects this woman greatly, and knows they will both do as is necessary to protect those they care about and the world in their own ways. They've worked together on that front before. ...But they completely disagree on what the best way is; Mami simply does not believe that Pluto is /right/ about Hotaru Tomoe. Secretly, Mami is more than unsettled by her timeless nature.

'''[[Haruka Tenoh|Sailor Uranus]]''' - Mami's enemy. They've clashed more than once, and while Uranus is deadly competent, Mami has always disagreed with her methods--and usually with her choices. They're well beyond even talking about their issues right now. Unfortunately, Uranus has great insights into Mami's personality... And the pain that brings makes Mami resent her even more.

'''[[Michiru Kaioh|Sailor Neptune]]''' - Mami's enemy. Tangling with Sailor Uranus means tangling with Sailor Neptune, as Mami has discovered painfully first hand over time. The calm of this young woman is dangerous; Mami's been overwhelmed by her before making the mistake of focusing only on Uranus.

'''[[Lera Camry]]''' - Mami's buddy. Lera is a rare friend who is her age, who naturally sidesteps the business of being senpai. Their relationship has waxed and waned over time, but remains one Mami cares about greatly. ...Also they can drink together, don't tell anyone.

'''[[Endo Naoki]]''' - One of Mami's personal favorite boys. She admires his moral standing and his fighting ability, but also just finds him pleasant to be around. There's more to get to know! Maybe she can learn a favorite flavor...

'''[[Fate Testarossa]]''' - Mami's guilt. Oh they're friends now, to be sure, and Mami is continually amazed by Fate's clear-headedness... But Mami worries for her too, and she knows that their past conflicts--before the Chevaliers--may have made Fate's troubles worse, in addition to hurting her. She enjoys time with Fate despite those difficulties.

'''[[Garnet]]''' - Mami's adult figure. Mami doesn't have very many of these in her life, almost none who know of magic, outside the Magic Association which can be... awkward. Mami respects her all around, and likes the subtle warmth this tall woman has.

'''[[Nanoha Takamachi]]''' - Mami's new friend. Mami doesn't know this girl well yet, but she's acquitted herself well in their discussions about the Chevaliers, and a friend of Fate's automatically gets a leg up. ...Mami has also heard of some of this girl's exploits magically. Mami is attempting to befriend her further, finding it easy to talk with her. She'll have to come back to Midori-ya know that she knows her better.

'''[[Nori Ankou]]''' - Mami's model. Mami /likes/ Nori, and not only because she is beautiful and elegant and represents someone to share an interest in fashion with, but for her heart, for her poetic nature, and for the fact that Nori showed her something beautiful when they visited the Sea of Tears. That place has retained a niche in Mami's heart, and only made her feel closer to the Red Future. The fact that Nori has fought at her side is true of many Chevaliers, and Nori is among Mami's close, dear friends.

'''[[Ren Aizawa]]''' - Mami's friend. Mami doesn't know her terribly well yet, but she likes her energy; she doesn't talk to many girls older than her and actually get along with them. Mami wants the chance to do so, though.

'''[[Tsubasa Kazanari]]''' - Mami's rescuer. They met by Tsubasa sweeping in to save Mami from a sneak attack by Sailor Uranus, and it made a good impression. Mami approves of her serious nature... But is a bit nervous that her own difficulties with staying in her ordinary life's expectations will lead to friction with this cool young woman.

'''[[Utena Tenjou]]''' - Mami's ally. They aren't close, necessarily--Mami has spoken more with her Bride--but everything about Utena Tenjou is appealing to Mami, from her princely approach at life to her heroic style to her dashing looks. Mami would love to sit down for tea with her though. Maybe if she brought Sayaka and asked Anthy for the four of them...

'''[[Anthy Himemiya]]''' - Mami's friend. Mami saved her once from Nanami Kiryuu's goons, and while that painted a target on Mami's back she considers it worth it to have gotten to know this girl if only a little. Maybe in another life she'd have become closer with her... But it was still a good jar of jam. Maybe they can spend more time together.

'''[[Kozue Kaoru]]''' - Mami's enemy. They were friends in a way, and Mami once allowed her despair to tempt her into a bad decision with Kozue... Which she didn't regard as that bad a decision until Kozue turned around and betrayed Sayaka overtly. Things are very complicated with this girl, because they were briefly close, but Mami cannot forgive what she's done... Or for making Mami herself feel so ill-used.

'''[[Kasagami Araki]]''' - Mami's enemy. Mami outright hates this girl; her work kidnapping her friends would have seen to that on its own already, her arrogance enough to seal the deal, but Kasagami has made her school life measurably worse, and in ways that others can see. Mami's considered dropping out of school at the level of bullying she's endured and can do nothing about, given the Student Council. At least in matters of the War, she can fight back.

'''[[Nanami Kiryuu]]''' - Mami's tormentor. Long before Kasagami and Mami even spoke, Nanami caught wind of this lovely girl who was on the outskirts of her class, who had stepped in against her minions, and pushed back against her. Nobody can make Mami cry as reliably as Nanami can, and Mami can't do anything about it.

''(Unsorted)''

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[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Ohtori]]

Yumi Ohzora

2017-10-01T23:24:54Z

Cowstian Dior:

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! style="text-align:left" | Full Name:
| Yumi Ohzora
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! style="text-align:left" | Aliases:
| The Witch of Lost Ivy, Ivy
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! style="text-align:left" | Gender:
| Female
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! style="text-align:left" | Age/Birthdate:
| 16 (Oct. 31, 1998)
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! style="text-align:left" | Height:
| 5'8"
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Colour:
| Gray
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! style="text-align:left" | Eye Colour:
| Pink
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! style="text-align:left" | Astrological Sign:
| Scorpio
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! style="text-align:left" | Blood Type:
| A
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Food:
| Toro sushi
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Food:
| Hospital food
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! style="text-align:left" | Favorite Subject:
| Magic
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! style="text-align:left" | Least Favorite Subject:
| Physical Education
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! style="text-align:left" | Organizations:
| [[Organization: The_Magic_Association|Magic Association]], [[Chevaliers and Shepherds|Shepherds]]
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! style="text-align:left" | Position:
| Apprentice Witch (MA), Adorable (S)
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! style="text-align:left" | School:
| [[School: Infinity Institute|Infinity Institute]] (Grade 10)
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! style="text-align:left" | Clubs
| [[Art Club]], [[Fashion Club]] (Grade 10)
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! style="text-align:left" | Source:
| [[Lost Inheritor Yumi]] (OC)
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! style="text-align:left" | Player:
| [[User:Cowstian Dior|Cowstian Dior]]
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'''"Staff of Lost Ivy, hear me! In my hand remembered be!" '''

Becoming a great witch is hard work! But Yumi doesn't exactly advertise to most of her classmates that she's trying. A student at Infinity Institute's high school program, Yumi is known as something of an odd girl, remembered more for her illness and habit of staring into space than her academic talents. Even among those who know of her magical abilities there are some ugly rumors that her place at Infinity, as a student since elementary school, was bought by her family--noted donors to the school--rather than earned. Her skill as a painter quashes most of those, but not all. Besides, she's easy to like, even if she's weird; her energetic personality tends to outstrip her frail body, and she spends a lot of her time in the nurses' offices. Still, being a witch isn't her /only/ secret. Another big one is the fact that thanks to a fateful night meeting her cat, Tama--who lives in the dorms with her, of course--she is now a magical girl, spending long nights wielding the Staff of Lost Ivy to protect her school, city, and world from ogres who seek to eat the hearts of its people, and from the mysterious Hungry Queen whose servants command them.

==Abilities==

==History==

Yumi Ohzora was born on a dark, stormy Halloween night. October 31st, _______________________REDACTED_______________________
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______________REDACTED________________the only child of the Ohzora family, into which her mother had married a few years before her birth. They were, in general, rich just by being rich; Yumi's mother was an investment banker, but her father had no need for a mundane occupation. Most would say that he simply invested his inheritance, but in truth he was a noted wizard, and did a brisk trade in minor magical objects _________________________________________REDACTED__________________________________________ ________________________REDACTED________________________ to the Magic Association, of course. ___________REDACTED____________ ________________________REDACTED________________________ But Yumi would simply come to know that her family was magical, and that she would be expected to live up to it.

She learned this early on. For the first year or so of her life, her mother was distant, and her father was pleasant but not her primary caretaker. That would go to a series of maids who never quite lasted. Yumi was ill often, of poor health even as a very young child, _________________________________________REDACTED_________________________________________ Health problems ran through her father's side of the family; ________________________________________REDACTED_______________________________________ _________REDACTED________, her mother quietly blamed her husband for it, and simply never spoke of the matter around Yumi, as if nothing at all was wrong with her to begin with.

As Yumi grew near school age, she had spent much of the time that many children spend playing outside on indoor activities. She was kept amused largely by books, music, and art, though her favorite form of art was painting. She also developed, thanks to her father, a love of humor and jokes. She knew her mother as firm and driven, but not cruel. Her mother would read to her, or practice small spells in front of her, to let her grow accustomed to magic, ______________________REDACTED_______________________ ___________________________________REDACTED____________________________________ she had a loving family. They were very strict about what activities she'd engage in, but they were her parents. Her chances to play were largely when she'd meet with the kids of other parents in her parents' social circles; sometimes the wealthy, sometimes the magical. ...Under supervision, of course, ostensibly because of her health. Occasionally, during some of these 'playdates', Yumi would catch her mother and someone else talking very seriously; sometimes it would be people she didn't recognize at all. She decided her mother was a very mysterious witch.

Her mother largely gave up on hired help when it was time for Yumi to start at school, instead simply arranging for herself or her husband to be present as needed when Yumi got home. _______________________________REDACTED________________________________ ___________________________________REDACTED____________________________________ When her poor health flared up, a servant would be blamed. Yumi never got the chance to get to know any of them very well, though she welcomed the chance to see her parents more. Her mother spent a lot of time at home; Yumi just had to go to her room sometimes or go play on her own while her mother conducted business. Her mother had an awful lot of business that Yumi wasn't allowed to ask about. Adult business, maybe. Her father, meanwhile, was often travelling, so she didn't get to see him as much. He brought back souvenirs, though.

She didn't have many friends, growing up. She didn't really know how to approach other kids, and had trouble participating in a lot of the more social activities. This made her isolated; she in time wasn't sure which was worse. Being laughed at, or /not/ being laughed at. Her fainting spells made some activities dangerous; exerting herself too much was painful, and could land her in the hospital again, where she spent a lot of time already. She had a rich inner life growing up, though; if she couldn't make many connections, she could still see many things in the world. There was also something new to occupy her. Her mother had decided that it was time to begin her magical education, and begin she did. Besides, as long as she did well, she got praise and attention for it. If it was also true that sometimes she felt worse after a lesson, that must just have been because magic is difficult.

At school, she tried many different things; it's normal for Infinity to have a variety of classes, to try out new things, and Yumi was by no means an exception. Dance, singing, sports--these she had little success at, but she found other things to try. Her education would have been woefully incomplete if all she'd studied was magic. Indeed, she didn't even start at Infinity's magic program until later. Sports failed quite abysmally, but she at least showed a talent for art that would stick with her throughout her time at school. Her grades in general classes were good. Never quite good enough for her mother, but Yumi had trouble paying attention.

Yumi's mother ensured that she had all sorts of activities to expand her mind and broaden her horizons; music, art, going to museums. Many of these were supervised; Yumi has fond memories of going out with her mother to museums, aquariums, and many other places. ...Only the aquarium the once, though; wherever Yumi went, it seemed that the fish would avoid her, swim away. A shark hurt itself trying to put distance between her and it. Nothing she could be blamed for, of course, but it stuck with her; her mother avoided taking her places with animals in the future, but she couldn't avoid them entirely. They just didn't seem to like her. Still, the others she kept seeing, and she got a very broad education. Sometimes her father came with them, or would be the one to take her out, but usually it was her and her mother.

As of middle school, Yumi was told that she would be living in the dorms henceforth. She was shocked, to say the least, and asked why. After all, the idea was scary; she didn't have many friends at school, despite having been there since elementary school. Worse, she would be starting at the magic program at Infinity rather than undergoing her mother's lessons. She looked to her father, but he had nothing to say. To her mother, she cried... and that day she saw her mother /angry/. The very room seemed to crackle with power, and Yumi's mother told her that crying was unbecoming of her, of what she must become, and that she never wanted to see it happen again. ...So Yumi didn't cry in front of her again. It was the first time she'd been truly afraid of her mother.

So, Yumi went off to the dorms to live, with just enough time to settle in for a time before her first year of middle school started. To her surprise, life in the dorms wasn't that bad. It was shared, which was an adjustment, but she started to make friends, living with other girls. Friends, and learning what it was like to miss sleep because somebody next door was really talkative on the phone late into the night. She shared her rooms with two other girls; all of them were loud, but the friendship she sparked with an athletic girl named Hanae who she'd never have met otherwise would stick with her. She remembers the other roommates she's had, but there's something special about the nights she stayed up with Hanae talking about tests, or Hanae's upcoming meets, or griping about loud dormmates, or any number of things.

She also of course started in Infinity's magic program. For all that she'd resisted losing her special time with her mother, Yumi found that she liked the group setting, and there were so many things she had yet to learn. Besides, there was something fun about praticing magic with the others at Infinity. There was nothing terribly unusual about her early magical education being done at home, given her family, but she soon excelled in the classes she was given. ...At least, in terms of the theory. In practice, she had a harder time with the simple magics meant to train mages to bring happiness to others. She was better at those for other purposes, the ones that Infinity didn't teach openly.

Her health reached more of an equilibrium, too. While she still spent a lot of time in the offices of the school nurses or in hospital rooms, she didn't miss so many classes as of middle school, though her gym performance remained abysmal, and even the idea of trying out for a sports club was far out of reach. She had a friend who could tell her about the latest in the athletic world though, and she would spend more time in the Art Club as her health allowed it. Indeed, her favorite nurse (Nakahara-san to her; she was new to the school) particularly encouraged her art. All this, plus living in the dorms, made it a little bit easier to socialize, and Yumi's classmates discovered that, given the chance, she was pretty funny. She would regularly talk to both of her parents on the phone, though not at the same time, and would visit on special occasions. They were often busy, but so was she. Yumi did try to ask about what they'd talked about before--what it was she was supposed to grow up to /be/, what she was to 'become'. Her mother only told her that she would see--and in time, that she was proud of the strength Yumi was learning to display. Her mother often told her it was important that Yumi show she could stand on her own.

Those words would prove prophetic, and not as Yumi expected. A shadow was cast over her high school entrance examinations; the death of her father, apparently from opportunistic illness contracted on his travels. Yumi remembers the funeral in complete detail. ...She also remembers spying on her mother the same day, and the sheer power she felt as her mother confronted someone over implying, of all things, that /she/ had killed him.

That would bother her for a long time to come. She felt more isolated than ever from most of the other students at school and in the dorms; that year, she wasn't living with Hanae anymore. Even friendly acquaintances seemed distant. She still worked on her painting, but all she would paint around that time were dark things, frightening or melancholy by turn, that certainly didn't get her out much. But she made a friend here, too; another member of the Art Club was interested in the emotion of her painting, and Takahiro never required much of her; he just kept talking to her, even when she was doing badly with her father's loss. Sometimes he'd even walk with her to her favorite art store.

Adjusting to high school would have been hard even discounting what had happened. Everything felt bigger to her; crushes, worries, class loads. And she no longer had her father to talk to at all. Her mother seemed to be even busier than before. Without her mother's pressure, and with the difficulty that she was having, Yumi's grades dropped. So without being able to continue her old way, she had to make changes, and it was her friends that helped her do that. She applied with Hanae to room together again for their first year of high school. She even joined a new club, as eventually she decided to try something new since she was a high schooler now. ...She still complained, of course, about the adjustments, but it was easier to have people to complain /to/. Her grades didn't entirely recover, but she was happier.

The biggest adjustment, though, was only recent. The day that Yumi found Tama--and the Staff of Lost Ivy that the cat kept and safeguarded--would change her life, but it didn't start that way. In fact it seemed a very ordinary night to her, coming back from her favorite art supplies store, until she came across a cat curled atop a small wall. The cat didn't run from her as she approached, which would itself be a recipe for a big day for Yumi--except that she saw quickly that it wasn't just a lack of fear. The cat was hurt, bleeding. Unsure what to do, she finished her approach and started talking to it, trying to reassure it. "What's your name?" she asked. The cat seemed to understand her, looking up at her, and that's when Yumi noticed its ornate collar, with a tiny orb hanging from it.

But the moment broke; the ground shook under her feet as a monster taller than most tall men lumbered around the corner, gray with scraggy hair and yellowed teeth--and a gigantic club over his shoulder. "...Give," he said as he set eyes on the little cat, "And maybe not get smashed." His greatclub smashed against the asphalt behind her. The cat bolted, despite her injures, and the ogre lumbered off in pursuit. Yumi tried to run after, but found herself slowing despite her wishes; it /hurt/. "I-it's fine!" she called as the cat scrambled up a tree and the ogre watched. "I can do somehing! I'm a witch!" Without any of her ritual tools, Yumi drew on her mother's lessons as much as anything, and threw out both her hands along with a vicious incantation. ...The curse bounced off the ogre, whose reaction to the prickling was to turn around and swing his club at her. Yumi hit a wall and was pretty sure she was about to die. But there was a light, from up in the tree. It was from the cat's neck, brilliant and green.

In Yumi's hand appeared a white staff taller than she is, and in her mind appeared the words of an incantation. "Staff of Lost Ivy, hear me! In my hand remembered be! Uncountable price, unknowable cost! I assume the ancient debt! Let our hearts be bound as one!" Yumi spoke the words, and in a flash of brilliant green light she was standing, not even having to lean on her staff. ...And then the combat really started. Eventually, with the cat's help, she unleashed a spell that banished the ogre from whence it came. Her transformation faded, and she fell back to her knees, out of breath. The transformation's power had, in its first light, healed both her wounds and the staff's keeper, but now she had to stop and think about all that had just happened.

Eventually, the cat answered that her name was Tama. And she had a lot to say. ...Yumi remembered less than half of it the first time; she just took the cat home with her, and later the rest would come. She learned of the Hungry Queen, and that she was trying to unleash an awful force that the Staff of Lost Ivy's previous wielder had sealed. She learned that she had a responsibility, as the Staff's new wielder, to oppose her and to banish the monsters she summoned and save the people they would try to eat for power for their master. And she learned that Tama is less grumpy if she gets petted.
She received a call a few days later. Her mother would be cancelling her sixteenth birthday celebration. Yumi hasn't spoken with her since. _________________________________REDACTED_________________________________
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Things have happened since the end of this, including resuming contact with her mother. As well, it downplays her hospital stays. But there's a lot yet to come...

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