Renko Usami

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Renko Usami; Ordinary Magician
Topic Started: Apr 27 2008, 09:23 PM (9,473 Views)
Renko	Apr 27 2008, 09:23 PM Post #1
Magic Gunner Posts: 148 Group: Spring Fujita Member #840 Joined: April 23, 2008	Name: Renko Usami Age: 17 Grade: 9 Appearance: An ordinary, drab looking girl with neck length black hair and light brown eyes. She’s rather short for her age, standing at about 5’1”, her figure isn’t very developed either. Her normal outfit is usually a white long sleeved blouse, a neck tie, a grey skirt, and high cut boots. One thing she is almost always wearing is a black pork pie hat with a rather large bow tied around it. When asked about it she always says “Because a witch should always have her hat.” Or something similar. Personality: Her personality is sometimes described as disagreeable but it’s really best described as straightforward. A very self-confident person that likes to stick her nose into every trouble out of curiosity. Despite her outward appearance of being a slacker, Renko is fiercely competitive, a hard worker who tries to catch up to others with lots of natural born talents and abilities with her secret training and magic development. Because of this, she often gets jealous of those who never train but still exceeds her with their talent alone. Although she possesses sharp wisdom, she normally doesn’t use it to her benefit preferring to lead a self-indulgent life full of playing. Though she is an accomplished magus, this is more thanks to her natural curiosity and her drive to satisfy it rather than any sort of philosophy or higher goal. Stingy, self-indulgent, and with a certain lack of concern to her fellow-man, Renko can still stand by her friends on occasion. She doesn’t make any effort to gain favor with anyone and she can be a bit cruel to those she doesn’t particularly like. A strong willed individualist who believes first and foremost in herself. Character Image Song: Laser is Not Difficult! by COOL&CREATE Download Link: http://www.badongo.com/file/10579297 Weapons/Powers and Abilities: Mage Craft Primer: Mage Craft, Thaumaturgy, or Sorcery. The artificial reenactment of True Magic, which is essentially a miracle, or the ability to reproduce what can be scientifically realized regardless of time and funds. There are different interpretations, but the general idea is the mechanism of "using mana inside the body of the user to affect the external world". To simplify, think of it as an electrical device. The practitioner operates on a "system" by sending a "command" through a circuit to execute a pre-determined "program". The current required for that command would be mana, the circuit being the magic circuits, the pathways etched on a person’s soul that mana flows through, and the "command" would be the spell. Mage Craft is often seen as omnipotent, but it generally rests on the principle of fair exchange(give and take) to perform an effect. Renko's talent and characteristic of being able to manage no matter what doesn't prevent her from being regularly short on cash. Mana itself, despite being drawn from the environment, isn’t really an infinite supply, and if used up, will take time to recover. Furthermore, the human body isn’t made to perform sorcery. The activation of a person’s magic circuits by filling them with mana affects the body’s nerves (since the magic circuits more or less follow the pattern of the body’s nerves, the major difference being that the nerves are found on the body whilst the magic circuits are found on the person’s soul.) The body tends to feel numb when practicing sorcery, especially around the area of mana concentration. After a longer period, the numbness turns into genuine pain as the body starts to react adversely to the mana flowing through it. Thus, the amount of mana a magus can expend is limited by his circuits and his physical body. Renko has a slightly above average number of circuits, totaling at 27 thanks to her lineage, allowing her to perform sorcery without any particular problems. However, since Renko lacks any sort of formal magic education, she is severely limited in her knowledge of sorcery beyond the fundamentals and what she was able to learn from reading books. At the moment, she can only do three kinds of sorcery which she learned from her mother's books. Even though she can do these spells particularly well, she lags far behind in knowledge to a magus with formal training (Even a begginer knows at least a set of 12 spells). Mana Crystallization Renko excels in transformation of energy, particularly the storage of mana in objects. Because the amount of energy a magus can release at one time is restricted by bodily limitations, Renko learned to accumulate and store the mana generated by her body through jewel crystallization. When Renko’s stored power is needed, she can detonate her jewels on contact with an object resulting in a release of energy equivalent to a high explosive deivce, capable of destroying a small vehicle. She only has a few jewels on hand. A single jewel required for the process to store mana is very expensive. Costing about 300,000 yen. At the moment, she only has 3 fully charged jewels on hand and she's too poor to even consider getting another one. *Gand: Her most common offensive spell is a Finnish technique known as Gand, which concentrates mana into Renko’s forefinger, resulting in a hazy bluish-white orb which is subsequently fired like a bullet. Originally intended to curse, Renko’s variation on Gand* takes an unusual corporeal form. Shooting an orb of made up of heat and light instead of ill will. The orb carries enough heat and force to melt and punch through thin metal. Past 30 meters, the orb has dissipated enough to be practically useless unfortunately. This is Renko’s best sorcery as she has used it the most. She is able to bypass any need for a verbal component to initiate this spell and she can fire multiple Gand shots repeatedly. In any case, it's only really effective when fired repeatedly. The shots are only accurate up to a distance of 10 meters. Far below the effective range of a handgun. When you think about it, it would be far simpler to just use a handgun. Though not as flashy. Reinforcement: One of the most difficult types of mage craft with the purpose of pushing a basis to the utmost. It is the same as adding something to an object that is already complete, in case of failure the target will receive it as a poison. (failure to reinforce, say, a lamp would result in breaking it.) Success requires a good grasp of the inner structure to fill openings with mana. Reinforcing the purpose of existence would be increasing the sharpness of a knife or the nourishment of food. It is impossible to reinforce something that is vague (like concepts such as taste or intelligence. So you can’t really use this particular sorcery to make good food or to pass exams). Additionally, as living things will resist invasion of your mana, reinforcing another living thing is the most difficult. Putting this into application, aside from making simple things more durable, Renko is able to make repairs to simple things like repairing the cracks and nicks in a blade, making a busted soccer ball useable again, or fixing up ripped clothing. Provided that she has the same raw materials to make those repairs. (i.e. cloth to fix clothing, metal to fix the blade, or rubber for the ball). Lacking materials, mana can be substituted. This is temporary however, as Renko then has to maintain it with a constant supplement of mana, making this method somewhat useless. The time it takes to cast differs from object to object depending on Renko's knowledge of the inner structure of the target. She has to hold the full image of the object, along with the inner structure, in her mind to be able to accurately apply the mana. Effectively limiting the objects Renko is able to reinforce to objects with no internal workings. Anything more complicated than, say, a knife or sword would require a large amount of study to grasp the internal workings intimately for this spell to be remotely effective. Since she studied the theory very well, Renko once experimented on purposely “failing” to reinforce something as an easy way to destroy it. Forgetting that there is such a rule in sorcery that says “one curse digs two graves”, the result was a severe backlash that knocked her out. You really can’t blame a person for trying though. Kaleido Prism, Magical Maiden’s Armaments: Form: Dormant = Choker Awakened = Pistols The magical weapons granted by the Stardust named Hematite and Pyrite. A pair of dark blue pistols that crackles with golden sparks. They shoot out magical bullets made by absorbing the surrounding mana in three shot bursts that strike the target with searing heat. It is possible to shoot larger bullets that fire at a slower rate. Naturally, such shots drain much more mana from the weapons. While dormant, Kaleido Prism actively draws stray mana from the environment and stores enough to shoot twelve normal shots or four charged shots divided between both pistols. It takes around five seconds to gather enough for a three round burst and ten seconds for one charged shot. The magical bullets have a range of about twenty feet. Beyond that they have dissipated enough to be useless as the mana that was gathered tends to return to the environment. Incantation: Hematite und Pyrite Beginnen Sie Vorsprung Bestimmen Sie Entwicklungsideologie Stellen Sie sich Grundkern vor Endklangf・le der Besitz-Erfahrung Alle vollendeten Prozesse PRISMA-BARREL VOLL OFFEN Translation: Hematite and Pyrite Begin projection Determine creation ideology Envision base core End resonance of possession experience All processes completed PRISM BARREL FULL OPEN Notes: Shots fired by Kaleido Prism are white hot like Renko's Gand shots only instead of blue they have a prismatic hue to them. Sort of like white-hot spheres reflecting multiple colors. The dormant form of Kaleido Prism takes the form of a pendant shaped as the Fourth Pentacle of Mars. It seems Hematite and Pyrite decided to honor Renko’s knowledge. Story: “Renko’s fallen asleep… well with that story it couldn’t be helped.” The magician tucks her daughter into bed. Gazing at her daughters face, the magician feels a sense of fulfillment that she never thought she would attain. Practicing sorcery. Reaching for miracles. Sacrificing her body so that she could reach for it. But here, here lay a true miracle. Something that her sorcery was not needed for. The story she read was that of Snow White. A classic tale, told to all children. She reflected on it as she stroked her daughter’s hair. “But I wish that this girl won’t be the magician trapped in dreams.” “But the wonderful magician spreading dreams.” ** “ALRIGHT! Are you prepared? Then let’s go Renko!” A father’s excited voice as he prepares to take his daughter fishing. An activity that is usually shared between father and son. But since his daughter took a liking to it, there shouldn’t be any problems. “We’re going! Yeah!” His daughter replies. “WAAAAAAIIIITTT!!!” The disapproving voice of the mother. “You’re taking her out again on your own! Renko is a girl, you know!!” “Her speech is becoming rougher! Y, you should . . . let’s see. . . You should let her have a bit more sentimental education!” A little girl’s voice shouts from outside. “I’m going ahead!” “All right! Here it comes!” The little girl lifts her pole. Smoothly pulling the fish out of the water and into a waiting net. “You’re getting better Renko.” Soon the sun sets. Father and daughter, laughing at the time shared, walk home with their catch. However, something unexpected greets them. The anguished face of their neighbor as he rushes to meet them. “Oh! Usami-san! It’s terrible!” “She was such a spirited person… I don’t understand. I just heard about her falling down but…” “It’s sad. Renko-chan is still so small.” With wide eyes and cold sweat on her brow, The magician’s daughter rushes into their house. The neighbor’s voices fill her ears as she runs. “With only Renko-chan, it’ll be tough for her father. . “ “Can’t say that it’s nothing more than bad fortune.” A few years have passed. As a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix. The magician’s daughter immersed herself in her mother’s work. “Oi, Renko, shape up. How long do you think has passed since then?” Her father’s drunken voice. He never took his wife’s passing well. “. . . . .” Seemingly ignoring him, the magician’s daughter immerses herself in her book. “How long will you cling to that fantasy? Magic? Sorcery?” “It’s nothing but a handful of delusions. Give it up!” He says as he throws his daughter’s book into the fire. “You can’t return to the way things were.” “WHAT’S WITH THOSE EYES!!!??” The father screamed as he struck his daughter. Grabbing her by the hair, he threw her out of the house in a drunken fit. “DON’T COME BACK UNTIL YOU’VE COOLED YOUR HEAD!!” Was it his daughter’s defiant eyes, or the memories brought by the image of his daughter, who resembled someone he missed dearly, reading through those same books that pushed him over the edge? With tears in their eyes. Father and daughter part ways. “Father?” The magus, Renko Usami, wakes up. “That dream again. Shit.” “Ah – I thought the idea of a dream was something fleeting.” She says to herself as she makes her way to the refrigerator. “. . . Something fleeting is more the idea of this fridge. Nothing’s inside huh?” Which isn’t exactly accurate. There was, at least, a bit of milk left inside. Pouring herself a cup of milk, Renko sings a rather silly song. “A magical girls breakfast is a cup of dreams~” “But today’s cup is only milk~” “Ah, I’m full!~” Sighing. Renko remembered her dream. How was her father doing? It was nearly two years ago since she last saw him. Since then she made a living on her sorcery by putting on fire work shows and doing monster exterminations. Thanks to that however, she’s gone farther from the common behavior of magi which is secrecy and preservation of information. A rumbling sound emanates from her stomach. No matter how many times you tell yourself that you’re full, it won’t really work. No sorcery exists for that. It’s probably out of reach for True Magic as well. “It can’t be helped. Maybe I’ll get some bread from the other students.” “I think I heard something about the culinary class’s natural-yeast bread or something.” Coming to the island of Aogashima was a fairly obvious choice for a person like Renko Usami. The school of Midori held the best promise of improving her sorcery and the fact that there were many strange things there piqued her curiosity. Putting on her clothes, making sure her hat was on straight. She ventures out to get some bread. Class applying for: Culinary Class (Mostly eats the food rather than makes it) Club applying for: Mythical Studies Additional information: Renko’s specialty is light and heat magic. She says “It’s not magic if it’s not flashy.” A surprisingly heavy drinker. Despite the fact that she is underage. Holds the title for a steak eating contest in a beef shop in Tokyo. Renko is quite knowledgeable about mushrooms and grows some suspicious looking ones. As is characteristic for a magician, she can speak extremely quickly at low volumes. As she usually has to live on a very low budget, Renko is unusually skilled in making dishes that stretch cheap ingredients. In other words, she eats like a homeless person most of the time. Enjoys video games. Particularly RPGs and curtain fire shooting games. Roleplaying Sample: "Here's your milkshake and pink lemonade." The man said as he set drinks on the table. ". . . I believe we ordered some sake though." The girl wearing the black hat asked. "Aren't you girls underage?" “Places that don’t give ladies a bonus seem to be pretty common these days.” “Well then, here are some free snacks to go with your drinks.” “That I can be thankful for.” The girl in the black hat is named Renko Usami. Along with her companion, they came to this bar to discuss their previous activities. “Ah! I wanted lemonade too!” Renko protested as her companion sipped the lemonade. “Egg yolk does have a high nutritional value, you know.” Renko’s companion answered. “It also has a high cholesterol value.” CLANK. The barkeeper set another glass of lemonade on the table. “A bonus.” He said. “. . . Thanks.” “This place must be really popular now.” Renko remarked as the barkeeper walked away. “Getting to the point. After I, Renko Usami, found the magical boundary separating their space, the both of us finally managed to track those strange humanoids down.” “That was hardly a frenetic search. And I was the one who looked for the boundary.” “Was it so, then? Well, either way is fine. Anyway, we at last succeeded in making contact with some of the local inhabitants of this island!” “The souvenirs we took we’re very propitious.” “Alcohol is indeed the world’s most common language” Renko remarked with a smirk. “. . . And after that?” The two girls stared blankly at each other for a moment. “Well, just as you Renko.” “I guess, I don’t remember a thing.” Dormroom Assign: -Leave this, a staff member will update this- Residence in Yanabe Residential Estate: -Not compulsory. A detail of your house is required if you wish to have one. Do not go overboard by saying you own an entire compound. A mansion is the limit- Email: -Compulsory for communication uses- MSN: -not necessary- AOL: -not necessary- AIM: -not necessary- ICQ: -not necessary- Edited by Niño Fury**, Nov 3 2009, 03:47 PM.



Niño Fury	Apr 28 2008, 12:08 AM Post #2
†Knight of The Holy Flame†™ Posts: 1,898 Group: Technic Architectual Coding Team Member #168 Joined: June 13, 2006	I applaud your work, very interesting with a unique originality. I found myself liking the idea of this character as I read further and further into the application. Jewel like abilities has been something I had thought about once and used it for one of my characters in another forum. The one I made was different but similar to yours, it is too bad the place died before I could expand and develop that. Who knows perhaps my Train will eventually see Midori. Anyways, your abilities are very sound and good weaknesses to incorporate for them. However I am going to have to ask you to give me a good concrete idea of a limit to the amount of Gand Magic she can use. Beyond the 30 meter mark there is no real weakness to it and needs to be changed. We like to have an even balance between skill and drawbacks. That being said, your Reinforcement ability doesn't have much of a weakness. Being able to reinforce anything physical and repair is good and all but you need to state the amount of time it would take her to perform it and the amount of concentration needed. It wouldn't be fair if she could Reinforce anything instantly. So I would like you to think of some changes or additions you can make for both abilities. Before I forget, your Crystallization technique will need to incorporate a number. Seeing as how they are horridly expensive; I wouldn't think she has that many. So I would like an initial number of how many she currently has. Also since your character is a magus, I would assume you intend for your character to be able to cast magical spells. Granted due to the 3 Ability restriction I am going to have to ask you to not try anything like it. Such a thing would exceed the rule of 3 and cause a bit of problems. However once you reach the requirements you can add spells to your character via the Skill Enhancement System. This last paragraph is just to help inform you and give you a good idea. That is it I suppose, everything else is superb and doesn't need to be tweaked. Once you modify the above, I would be glad to review your character once more.



+Yokomura Hirokaji	Apr 28 2008, 12:16 AM Post #3
Advanced Member Posts: 111 Group: Student Leaders Member #207 Joined: July 4, 2006	Edit: Posted at the same time as Rusty! Leaving this here with permission, since we both noticed things the other didn't. And he just asked me to take over for him because he has a lot of posts to do, so.. yeah. Always good to see another Type-Moon fan. :lol: However, I'd like to see some more specific limitations on what type of sorcery she can perform. As it stands, while Gand and Reinforcement are apparently her specialties, Mage Craft seems to be a free license to make stuff up off the top of your head. In addition, Mana Crystallization seems to be a seperate power to me, which puts you over the three powers limit by one. Address these issues and what Rusty pointed out, and I will have no problem approving this.



Renko	Apr 28 2008, 02:14 AM Post #4
Magic Gunner Posts: 148 Group: Spring Fujita Member #840 Joined: April 23, 2008	Quote: Also since your character is a magus, I would assume you intend for your character to be able to cast magical spells. Granted due to the 3 Ability restriction I am going to have to ask you to not try anything like it. Such a thing would exceed the rule of 3 and cause a bit of problems. However once you reach the requirements you can add spells to your character via the Skill Enhancement System. This last paragraph is just to help inform you and give you a good idea. Im going with that. I rewrote it so that the three spells she knows are her "skills" according to your system. But I still felt the need for a sort of primer to explain the method of sorcery that enables those "skills". So I left the Mage Craft entry, but rewrote it so that it just explains the foundation of her abilities rather than being a specific "skill" in itself. Also, the fundamental limitations of sorcery applies to all three "skills" so I really felt that the primer entry would be necessary. Also, eagerly awaiting Maho Tsukai no Yoru. For the Aoko and Alice.



+Yokomura Hirokaji	Apr 28 2008, 04:18 AM Post #5
Advanced Member Posts: 111 Group: Student Leaders Member #207 Joined: July 4, 2006	Much better. Welcome to Midori High! inks up stamp And for the record, I'm more of a fan of Tsukihime. Edit: Almost forgot. Assigned to Spring Fujita room 39.



Niño Fury	Nov 3 2009, 03:49 PM Post #6
†Knight of The Holy Flame†™ Posts: 1,898 Group: Technic Architectual Coding Team Member #168 Joined: June 13, 2006	~ Stardust Weaponry Kaleido Prism has been awarded and added for participation in the board wide Event ~Nightmare SL~ -11/3/2009


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