Kyouko Sakura - Revision history

Daala at 08:20, 29 September 2017

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Daala: /* Background and History */

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‎Background and History

Daala at 05:40, 29 September 2017

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Daala: /* Relationships */

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‎Relationships

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‎Abilities

Daala: /* Background and History */

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‎Background and History

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Daala at 05:25, 29 September 2017

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-File:SakuraFamily.pngYoung Kyouko, Father, and little sister Momo.
+File:SakuraFamily.png|Young Kyouko, Father, and little sister Momo.
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-File:SakuraFamily.png|Official.  Young Kyouko, Father, and little sister Momo.
+File:SakuraFamily.pngYoung Kyouko, Father, and little sister Momo.
-File:Kyouko Non Henshin Reference Art.jpg|Official.  Non Henshin Reference.
+File:Kyouko Non Henshin Reference Art.jpg
-File:Kyouko Henshin Reference Art.jpg|Official.  Henshin Reference.
+File:Kyouko Henshin Reference Art.jpg
-File:SakuraChurchExterior.jpg|Official.  Exterior Sakura Church in Ruin.
+File:SakuraChurchExterior.jpg
-File:SakuraChurchInterior.jpg|Official.  Interior Sakura Church in Ruin.
+File:SakuraChurchInterior.jpg
-File:KyoukoSpearFanArt1.jpg|Unofficial.  Multi-segmented spears.
+File:KyoukoSpearFanArt1.jpg
-File:KyoukoSpearFanArt2.jpg|Unofficial.  Flurry of spears.
+File:KyoukoSpearFanArt2.jpg
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 ''Note: The second and third portions, "Kyouko, the Girl" and "Kyouko, the Magical Girl" occur simultaneously, in parallel.  They’ve been split to reflect both halves of the dual life she was leading, as her mundane self and as a Puella Magi respectively.''
-'''Kyouko, the Original:''' Kyouko grew up as a preacher’s daughter in the town of Kazamino.  Her family’s fate was tied to her father’s fortunes, and the comfort she knew as a small child was whisked away as her father began to stray from the dogma of his faith, preaching new sermons based on new doctrines.  When his maverick proselytizing saw him cast out of the church of his creed, he took his message to the streets, desperately searching for congregants amongst the apathetic strangers of the city, even as his wife and two daughters suffered terribly in shared misfortune.  Kyouko believed in her father’s sermons because she believed in her father; she always had.  But hers was a child’s faith, rooted in an unquestioning acceptance of the wisdom of her parents.  Her heart broke as everybody they encountered treated their father like a nuisance or a heretic.  Between Kyouko’s emotional turmoil and her unrealized potential, Kyuubey sought her out in this state to offer the power of a Puella Magi, finding her an excellent candidate for his intentions.  Kyouko wished that people would listen to her father.  It’s true that she thought that she could help make the world a better place in doing so, but in her heart of hearts, she wished as she did in a desperation to spare her father of the brutal downward spiral that he had endured for his beliefs.
+'''Kyouko, the Innocent:''' Kyouko grew up as a preacher’s daughter in the town of Kazamino.  Her family’s fate was tied to her father’s fortunes, and the comfort she knew as a small child was whisked away as her father began to stray from the dogma of his faith, preaching new sermons based on new doctrines.  When his maverick proselytizing saw him cast out of the church of his creed, he took his message to the streets, desperately searching for congregants amongst the apathetic strangers of the city, even as his wife and two daughters suffered terribly in shared misfortune.  Kyouko believed in her father’s sermons because she believed in her father; she always had.  But hers was a child’s faith, rooted in an unquestioning acceptance of the wisdom of her parents.  Her heart broke as everybody they encountered treated their father like a nuisance or a heretic.  Between Kyouko’s emotional turmoil and her unrealized potential, Kyuubey sought her out in this state to offer the power of a Puella Magi, finding her an excellent candidate for his intentions.  Kyouko wished that people would listen to her father.  It’s true that she thought that she could help make the world a better place in doing so, but in her heart of hearts, she wished as she did in a desperation to spare her father of the brutal downward spiral that he had endured for his beliefs.
 '''Kyouko, the Girl:''' The very next morning, Kyouko’s father was sought out for his sermons, not by a handful but by groups of six to twelve at least and coming in swarms.  The preacher was stunned, and knew that God Almighty had miraculously intervened to vindicate his faith.  It was the perfect confirmation that his path was the true and righteous route.  The tithes and support of the shepherd’s new flock were as revolutionary a shift as his earlier excommunication.  Acquiring a vacant temple on the market, the family enjoyed a degree of comfort surpassing any they’d ever known, and the happy serenity newly perched in their household was as joyous as things had been hungry and desperate such little time ago.  Nevertheless, buried deeply beneath all of that a splinter had stabbed its way into Kyouko.  For the first time, she had a truth to conceal from the rest of her family, a lie known only to her that shouldered the weight of all of their newfound happiness.  She was so relieved by her father’s renewed vitality that she came close to missing the splinter’s presence entirely, but a hole had been irrevocably punched through her faith, seeing her father for the first time as less of a prophet and more of a man channeling his ignorance into delusion.  If he was so confidently wrong about the nature of his turn of fortune, he could have been as confidently wrong about God knows what else.  But such thoughts were buried deep, and even as they slowly grew they occupied so minuscule a presence that ignoring them was fairly simple.  It grew more and more difficult for Kyouko to lead a double life as an active Puella Magi, and as the girl, daughter, and student that she had been.  Her father eventually became aware of her nature, and like the exponential decay of a dam after springing a first leak, his worldview rapidly eroded.  To Kyouko’s father’s perception, none of his flock were there of their own free will.  Either his religion was a lie or he had been deceived into serving its devil.  Descending into a despairing madness, one night, while Kyouko was out hunting a familiar that was attempting to settle into a drug rehabilitation center, Father Sakura murdered their family.  When she returned home, weary from battle, her home was a pulsating inferno.  Kyouko’s magic allowed her to survive the flames, desperate to find her family.  When she did, she could see amidst the flames that they were past saving, laying in pools of boiling blood.  She could make out the butcher’s knife where it fell an inch or two away from her father’s hand.  Kyouko would never know exactly what had taken place, or what rationale her father had taken to justify so horrendous a crime, but she understood that she had set it all into motion all the same.

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 ''“You know what the food chain is, right? I'm sure you learned about it in school.”''

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 ==Relationships==
-Placeholder / Work in progress, subject to change.
+(Work in progress)
 ===[[Shepherds|Shepherds]]===

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 ==Abilities==
-As a teenage girl, Kyouko is nimble and athletic, comfortable using parkour to navigate the many alleys of the city and to evade nosy authority figures.  She is well practiced and well known in the arcades of the city, and particularly adept at Dance Dance Revolution, where she is known as one of the luminaries of the hallowed game's pantheon of champions.  Few, if any, are aware that she is a very gifted singer with a strong choral background.
+As a teenage girl, Kyouko is nimble and athletic, comfortable using parkour to navigate the many alleys of the city and to evade nosy authority figures.  She is well practiced and well known in the arcades of the city, and particularly adept at Dance Dance Revolution, where she is known as one of the luminaries of the hallowed game's pantheon of champions.  Few, if any, are aware that she is a very gifted singer with a strong choral background.  Her appetite is legendary, even among those unaware of her magical nature; Kyouko is on a first name basis with a surprising proportion of food stand vendors in the city, and enjoys an informal line of credit from cooks accustomed to her sudden departures and unerring diligence in returning to balance her tab.  A gifted cat burglar, Kyouko makes her money from small time larceny, and is careful to keep her activities distant from her common haunts.
 As a Puella Magi, Kyouko is a savage and berserk fighter of uninhibited aggression.  She is known to unleash overwhelming displays of force upon her enemies in swift attacks.  Originally, illusion magic was central to her fighting style, and Kyouko fight more cerebrally, making use of deception and surprise.  Since losing her abilities to traumatized regret, Kyouko has compensated by amping up her bloodthirst, becoming an unrelenting spear fighter and leaving her vanquished foes in a hole-punched display of a few dozen stab wounds.  Kyouko is capable of stabbing with a magical multitude of spears, hurling her weapons as immense javelins and chains, and summoning a wall of latticed shafts to ensnare or escape.
 ==[[Grief Seed Territory|Territory]]==

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 Kyouko Sakura is a predatory Puella Magi for whom the world is a savage garden.  Ruthlessly pragmatic, she considers Witches her prey, and humans as the fodder to fatten them up before slaughter.  A self-interested lone wolf living a solitary and satisfied life of physical pleasures, she often climbs buildings or plays Dance Dance Revolution, and is never without some savory snack to eat.  Kyouko only forms relationships with stronger allies or individuals that manage to catch her interest in some way, and has few friendships to speak of.
-Though these connections have somewhat softened her rougher edges, this essential core of her personality and world view endures.
+Though these connections have somewhat softened her rougher edges, the essential core of her world view endures.
 ==Background and History==