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Miyuki Takamachi
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Character Name: 高町 見有季 (Takamachi Miyuki)
Aliases: Miss Blue (working name)
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Height: 161cm
Weight: 49kg
Measurements: B75/W58/H77
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Stands at 161cm with shoulder length Silver/Greyish hair, pale blue eyes and somewhat pale skin. Sports fairly lean build, lacking in any highly developed musculature, generally a body built like a gymnast rather than a body builder. The hair style is generally utilitarian, and swept back neatly along one side. Wears whatever is convenient or appropriate, with a preference to pants over skirts. Clothing colours are generally dark or neutral, because they get visibly dirtied less easily than brighter colours.

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Professional Attire.

Occupation: Student, Personal Combat Trainer for Selene Frostfire, Intelligence Officer for Arcadia Wind Division, Contract Mage for Hire
Grade Level: 3rd Year
Powers/ Abilities:

Krav Maga
Krav Maga (Hebrew קרב מגע, 'close combat') is an eclectic self-defense and military hand-to-hand combat system developed in Israel, which assumes no quarter will be given, and emphasizes maximum threat neutralization in a "real life" context. The complete article is found here.

Miyuki practices it as a means of self-defense in a physical context. As she can't expect to fight big, burly people directly, if she wants to get physical at all she must use physics and tactics against them rather than competing in an exchange of blows. She has a preference towards breaking joints and striking the throat, and generally wears sapgloves when employing it.

Ultimate Accuracy Potential
Competence with ranged attacks and projectile weapons. It's not simply being able to shoot accurately, but the ability to do so under duress and less than ideal conditions. She is able to track and engage targets the size of a matchbox up to a kilometre away with unaided vision with a variety of rifles, pistols, and other such things as bows and arrows, and is generally a superb shot. If she's intimately familiar with a given weapon, she could probably perform trickshots with them as well. Among other things, she is also capable of quickdrawing at such speed that the time from decision to draw and fire to having the barrel lined up with the target (and possibly trigger pull) is about 0.37 seconds.

Improvisation
Resourcefulness. The ability to apply her knowledge of physics, mechanics, and ingenuity to produce useful tools out of whatever is on hand, such as bombs out of detergent or antiseptics, a shiv out of an ID card or eyeglass frames, a triggering device out of a printer's optical scanner, or a crossbow out newspaper and elastic, etc.

Not so much the ability of a genius as much as the skills of an average person with alot of creativity and knowhow.
Magecraft
Magecraft, thaumaturgy or sorcery (魔術 majutsu) is the artificial manipulation of the world to the will of the user through systems not generally recognised by science. There are different methods, but the general idea is the mechanism of "using energy inside the body of the user to transform the external world". This ability is individual’s skill in traditional spell casting. As she isn't really a 'true' dedicated magician (魔術師 majutsushi), she is more accurately described as a magecraft user (魔術使い majutsu tsukai). She can only effectively utilise a few spells, but is fairly knowledgeable regarding magic and mythos regarding it in general, and can notice or detect others using it and identify what sort they are using (usually, assuming it isnt too unusual. Also, she herself can be noticed by others with similar ability.). Someone who specialises in fighting paranormal people and things basically.

Her magus 'origin' (that is, 'the direction that her life as a magus will naturally follow') is "conclusions." (that is, 'making something reach it's destined end')

  • 'Reinforce'
    Type: Support
    Effect:
    An elementary skill, but a difficult one to master. The base of all thaumaturgy is to send one's Prana into an object. However, because of the degree of freedom in it, a clear form of execution doesn't exist. The movement of energy from 1 thing to another. Her one 'Mystic Code'. While her other abilities and skills are armaments belonging to "Magus Killer" Takamachi Miyuki, this ability is representative of the magus Takamachi Miyuki.

    This is simply the ability to transfer energy from one source or another and the basis of all her magic. In theory she could drain someone else's magical energy supply, but as it requires physical contact, she considers use in such a way impractical.
  • 'Rulebreaker'
    Type: Anti-thaumaturgy
    Effect:
    While she cannot actually improve something's performance, by filling an object (such as her fists, a pencil, a knife, or preferably a bullet) with prana, the object can be made so as not to be limited to just physical interference, but also have effects that extend on to meaning/natural laws/concepts.

    Along the lines of, for example, writing over "unaging" or "noncorporeal" with the idea of "natural life" and "conclusion", allowing spiritual or magical phenomena to be affected as if they were normal real-world object (e.g. being able to shoot a ghost or vampire to kill it permanently like you would a normal human, or being able to break through a magical barrier by shooting it) and disperses unnatural concentrations of prana.

    Simply put, it neutralises supernatural effects, prevents magical regeneration of damage (such as by vampires and the like) and those killed cannot be resurrected by magical means. Natural healing is possible, and modern science could help it, but mystical and magical means are right out.
  • 'Broken Phantasm'
    Type: Anti-Personnel
    Effect:
    While generally able to merely affect a supernatural body when used on a normal object, by charging bullets from her specially modified Contender pistol or her specially prepared knives, Miyuki can destroy most 'lower grade' supernatural bodies, often in a single shot, or cause severe harm on higher ones. Use in this way is instantly detectable, and precludes any possibility of stealth.

    Anyone with any sense of the supernatural at all will note massive amounts of magic being drawn into her weapon, the space around it seems to distort, and the air itself will seem to freeze with a chilling feeling similar to being pricked by thorns. Basically, it's very obvious when she's about to perform such a thing, and it feels ominous right up to the moment of discharge.

    This extreme form of use attempts to crush an opposing concept by attempting to erase it's concept of existance. Absolute negation that goes beyond the concept of "presence" and "non-presence.", it attempts to make an object's 'concept' (soul, essence of being, record in avesta, whatever you want to call it) stop continuing from that point. A curse to stop existance.

    Basically, if the world were a computer, Broken Phantasm can be compared to attempting to delete a person or concept's program while it's running, resulting in the running program crashing and being unusable. Of course, some targets are more resistant, and may require multiple shots to destroy.

    Full Power use in such a manner is only possible with the Contender in the 7.92mm Mauser configuration, and is limited primarily by how much ammunition she has, though more than a few (4-5) average-power shots will rapidly exhaust her reserves of magic, and a full power shot , besides draining everything, causes damage to herself as well.
  • 'Rejection'
    Type: Support
    Effect:
    Basically, circulating Prana within one's magical circuits to get rid of any "impurities".

    The power to resist spells (Particularly those that invade a target and cause internal effects such as sleep, restraint, enforcement, geasi and mind control) An ability originating from the natural rejection of Prana outside of one's own circuits by one's circuits.

    However, what is being canceled out is Prana itself, not the spell. If a spell can be compared to a river, the prana is the water, and rejection is a dam that prevents the water from getting through (although a sufficiently powerful river could overflow and continue regardless).

    The equivalent of a 'save vs.'


Equipment You Have:
Eye Glasses
That which makes her a meganekko. There is nothing special about them, and she actually has good eyesight. They are purely aesthetic, though she pretends she needs them to throw people off.

Chase-Durer Pilot's Watch, Model CD250.1BB2-BR04 (resized)
High quality (and rather expensive) watch she received for her 16th Birthday. Because it's actually a men's watch, it had to be resized to fit her. Other than that, it's a standard, high-quality Swiss-made watch, identical to all other watches of the same model. She treasures it beyond most other things.

BlackBerry Curve 8330 PDA
Standard model 8330 Curve from BlackBerry, with all standard features, and an HS-655 type headset. Doubles as her mobile phone. Primarily used for reading during long commutes (she stores pdfs of books she intends to reach on it) and using Google-Earth.

A spare LION battery
Standard Lithium-Ion Battery, suitable for use in such things as her PDA.

General school supplies
Paper, Pencils, Pens, Textbooks, and whatnot.

Knives, Switchblade type.
A collection of basic switchblades of simple design, generally with thin, tapering profiles and suitable mainly for stabbing. Good for quietly slipping between a man's ribs, but ill suited for direct combat. Balanced for throwing. Owns a set of 8, and typically carries about 4, generally hidden on her person.

Hewlett Packard Compaq nx9030 Laptop (and charging equipment)
Rarely brought with her, due to it's bulk, but often stays in her room. A somewhat old laptop, unsuited for high-end games, but workable for visual novels, school work, browsing, and general work. Standard specifications except for the Harddrive, which was replaced with a higher capacity 150GB one, rather the standard 30GB model. Comes with a standard Wifi adapter, headset, Creative Labs "Live!" model Camera, a standard Optical Mouse, and charging equipment.

Thompson CenterArms Contender G2 Pistol
The Contender was developed in 1967 by the American company Thompson Center Arms. It is a single shot pistol with a break-open cartridge chamber. This gun is essentially a pistol for target shooting sport. It is simple yet powerful, and the barrel chamber can, with little modification, shoot various calibres of ammunition from .22LR to even rifle bullets.

The structure is simple, with minimal accessories between the break-open barrel and the trigger, and the hit rate is high. This one has an 12 inch long barrel with a grip and foreend made from carved walnut. Overall length is 394mm, and weighs 1587g. The simple exterior of the gun resembles that of percussion pistols from the end of the middle ages.

Miyuki's is fitted to fire calibre 7.92x57mm Mauser rounds, a bottleneck rifle cartridge with size and power on a level far greater than mere pistol rounds like the .45ACP. The 7.92mm Mauser round packs more power than the modern 7.62mm NATO round used by large military rifles, and far beyond that of even the so-called "handcannon class" Magnum rounds or even the .50AE cartridge used by the famous Desert Eagle. Over-excessive firepower for a hand gun.

It's true threat doesnt lie in physical destructive power (though a single well-placed shot will kill a person regardless, as at close range, it will cleanly obliterate a human skull), but it's use combined with her magecraft to smash her magus origin into a target, allowing destruction of supernatural beings and items. Her trump card, intended for use only as a last resort.

Though she owns barrels to convert it to other calibres, she does not have them with her, and left them in her home town. Furthermore, the current configuration is the only one to which she has applied mystical treatment on the rifling and firing pin for the use as a high-power augmentation device for her magic.

Because it has a fairly flat and small profile, it is usually easy to conceal. Generally hidden away in a hollowed out Hardbound copy of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, along with 10 additional rounds of ammunition (+1 kept in the chamber), and maintenance equipment. She generally takes measures to ensure nobody knows of it's existence or purpose if it can be helped, and she is an excellent shot with it.

A Copy of War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
A novel by Leo Tolstoy, it is a very long, hefty tome (1500 pages in most versions, Miyuki's copy has 900), with the book having larger physical dimensions than the original case for Miyuki's Contender pistol. As such, the inside has been hollowed out to serve exactly as such, with only the first few hundred pages remaining untouched. The dimensions are 44cm x 20cm x 12cm. It's fitted to accommodate the weapon, 10 rounds of ammunition, and cleaning tools. The book is hardbound, and is generally secured by several buttons to prevent it from opening. The binding also has visible metal straps on the edges and spine, to explain why it sets off metal detectors. Kept in her bag wherever she travels, even to casual trips.

SAP Gloves
Tactical high-quality leather gloves, kevlar lined, containing 5oz or so of powdered lead or around the knuckle area (1oz per knuckle). Protects the back of the hand from sharp blows by dissipating the force of the impact. The lead is powdered, so the impact of knuckles is absorbed. Used primarily for protecting the hands.

First Aid Kit
Fairly simple first aid kit, containing Q-tips, disinfectant, painkiller, water purification tablets, esbit tablets and some bandages and sterile dressing. The sort you'd see on the belt of a mall security guard. Kept in her bag or person at all times.

Aluminium Powder (Hawkeye Brand Polishing Powder)
Available for about ¥800 per bottle, hardware catalog registry HAWPPAL. A generic brand of aluminium powder used for polishing, model detail and decals, fingerprinting, and limited UV shielding of sensitive equipment. Contains 40g of fine powder, generally applied by a cotton swab.

1993 Yamaha V-Max
A motorcycle manufactured by the Yamaha Motor Corporation, which is known for its powerful V4 engine, shaft drive, and distinctive styling. While famed for its quick acceleration, it is often criticized for its poor cornering ability and soft suspension. The vehicle os 2,300 millimetres (90.6 in) long, 795 millimetres (31.3 in) wide, and 1,160 millimetres (45.7 in) high.

Residency Request:
Fudo

Schedule:
Homeroom: Hiro
1st: Supernatural Studies
2nd: Science
LUNCH
3rd: History

Personality Description:
An usual amalgamation of almost contradictory traits. To an outsider, seemingly quiet and reserved, with a tendency to speak in "keigo" form of Japanese (the most polite possible form), but actually being a rather outspoken, and occasionally somewhat playful, although still quite analytical and critical of everything around her. In trope terms, think the vocabulary of a Yamato Nadeshiko mixed with the personality of The Cool Big Sis, with a dash of the Deadpan Snarker. Idealistic and cynical at the same time.

Almost a walking contradiction, while she dresses and speaks in a dignified manner, she is just as likely to walk into a high class restaurant as she is a gyuudon stand depending on which is closer, provided the food is acceptable and prepared quickly enough then gobble it down in a rush after paying for it with a food coupon.

She is highly intelligent and incredibly curious, and will often pursue any line of investigation that interests her. Furthermore, she has an unusual preoccupation with systems (mechanical or numerical being her favourites, particularly firearms), and can often be lost in what she calls "the beauty of a perfectly assembled system" of sorts for extended periods.

Winning her friendship can be somewhat of an ordeal, due to her belief that "friendships should not be based on the best of a person, but the worst of a person," though she is essentially still nice to casual acquaintances. However, she tends to be harsh or dismissive of those with "plastic" or false personalities put up for show, as she thinks "true devils are better friends than false angels, as knowing where you really stand is important in a relationship." Ironically, she goes through a great deal of trouble to hide her own background.

Alignment is somewhere on the fuzzy border between Type-4 True Neutral and Neutral Good, with maybe a few lawful tendencies. While she hates any unnecessary destruction of any sort, her definition of 'unnecessary' can be quite flexible, and she will kill anyone who attacks her or something she cares for (or at least considers 'under protection') without hesitation or remorse.

Despite this, she appreciates the value of life and living, perhaps more so than her peers, primarily because she knows just how fragile it really is. Hobbies include reading, analysing systems, and somewhat into popular culture (she doesn't get into many series, but is practically an encyclopaedia on those she likes). Her favourite authors are Nasu Kinoko and Tom Clancy, and has a subscription to the Jane's Information Group. She also speaks fluent English, with an oxford accent.

Oh, and she dislikes flowers, primarily due to a pollen allergy.

Personal History:

Born on the 7th August in Yokosuka, Japan during the early 1990s, to a father who worked as a bodyguard and a mother who was a magus. Her childhood was fairly normal (or as normal as it could be), and she developed fairly well adjusted, though she was told to keep what she was taught at home a secret, and may have taken it abit too far, resulting in a fairly small number of formed friendships.

She was generally closer to her father, who would regale her with tales of famous gunfighters, soldiers, bodyguards, and his own stories of work. Though generally reared as the successor to her family's magecraft, her father also taught her many things useful for her eventual line of work, such as basic survival skills, first-aid, firearms handling, self-defense in close quarters and improvised weaponry.

Though today it may have seemed abit paranoid, it seemed justified at the time, and she understood that her father only wanted her to be able to fend for herself and be independent.

When it was later found she had precious little actual talent for magecraft, being only reliably her other, more physical talents instead made her more ideal as someone who hunted them instead, but she continued her studies in the field anyway. Though her mother was understandably upset by the development, she taught her appropriately regardless, since it was better than nothing.

A second child was born in February 2000, which would be her younger sister. Since she had more potential as a mage than she did, her mother began grooming her for succession instead, and she happily shifted her focus back to being taught by her father.

On her 16th Birthday, she received a pilot's watch from her father, his last gift to her before a business trip to the Middle East to protect a client. He was killed with his client by a roadside IED two months later. With the loss of his income (death benefits for dependents of bodyguards are quite... poor to say the least), she ended up taking various sidejobs to help support the family, as her mother was at that point, in no particular condition to take a steady job. If nothing else, she sought to at least pay for her own living expenses so her mother could more freely use the pension.

She primarily took employment as a sealing agent, under the alias 'Blue', primarily dealing with errant supernatural phenomenon, mages, and the sort, making use of her uniquely adapted skillset to seal errants who were considered troublesome for various assocations, or retrieval of various magical objects.

She primarily used tools and weapons that her father had collected when he was alive, eventually settling on his old Contender G2 pistol, which she found best suited her, and a collection of knives. Though their use was technically illegal, she generally avoided using them whenever possible. She did however, have them properly registered as soon as she turned 18.

Due to Japanese gun control laws, despite being a handgun, the Contender is officially registered as a Rifle instead (And the weapon technically indeed, can be configured in a way that it is considered a rifle by Japanese law), and registering as a contestant in firearms competitions, in which she competes as often as feasible.

Despite being technically legal however, she soon found that Japanese views on firearms instead forced her to keep even owning it a secret from others, reinforcing her belief that such things should be kept under wraps. She was also annoyed to learn that knowing thaumaturgy was more socially acceptable than even owning a firearm.

During her line of work, she ended up developing a reputation for going to almost ridiculous lengths to accomplish a given job, such as stopping a magical ritual on the top floor of a guarded and booby-trapped building by leveling the building, or sinking a ship at sea to prevent it's cargo from reaching land, or maintaining her cover in an infiltration operation by murdering her lover (Who, apparently, was Elza's older brother).

Regardless of her colourful background, she was still only 18, and thus still a student, and ended up leading an odd double life of mostly normalcy in school and cold detachment at work. The weariness of it began to take it's toll, and as such she sought a way to tidily wrap it up.


S1 History:
She was hired by one Jameson B. Willicott to act as a bodyguard for his travels to Hyakuji, Considering Hyakuji is generally a weirdness-magnet, she had figured that living, working and studying there would be easier than pretending to be normal with her public life and then travelling all about in her private life to do work. Things didn't quite work out that way, but she decided to stay in the city regardless, as it was at least less stressful than hiding who she was in Yokosuka.

She was involved in various operations with Jameson as a contractor for the Arcadia group, ultimately working as a scout and barrier-breaker for a mission to retrieve their Leader. Unfortunately, personal differences in philosophy and Jamesons' general reckless tendencies that unfortunately often caused excessive collateral damage and others coming to harm, coupled with his rhetoric on justice despite his actions, lead to her severing the contract, although she continues part-time work at Arcadia as an intelligence agent.

Midway through the year, Miyuki was also involved in an incident in a Hokkaido beach, involving Aisia Asakura and Elza Lanster. The end result would later indirectly lead to the creation of the Strike Rangers.

Moving Dorm residencies to Fudo to avoid Jameson, she ended up as Elza's roommate. Following an... unusual turn of events, she seems to have ended up as a surrogate Older sister. At present, she recieves income from Frostfire Industries as the personal combat trainer to one of the family heirs (Selene) and her work as an Arcadia intelligence officer.

RP Sample:

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"You're not particularly into on the whole 'avoiding notice' business are you?" a cynical voice asked in English

Miyuki's mannerisms were the same in both English and Japanese. The accent was quite obviously flawless Oxford English, but the smug tone was still there.

She looked alot different since the last time Kaiser saw her. She had glasses, and wore a similar dress shirt and tie, but with a vest, long pleated skirt, and a large red coat. Other than her face, hair, and posture, there was little that was visually similar from that time.

Either way, she was standing casually behind Kaiser and gave another exaggerated shrug when they looked at her. Such things seemed to be common for her.

"Well, what you do with your history is up to you I suppose," she continued, "but I would have expected someone with relatively few resources to try to keep a low profile."

Afterall, wasn't it normal to hide the less 'normal' aspects of one's self? Especially in a place like Japan, where non-conformity was looked down upon. Besides... sometimes, some parts of a person were best left private. What was she supposed to say afterall? 'Hi, I'm trained to rig explosives from drain cleaner and can kill people with a tubesock and loose change. Oh, and I'm a majutsutsukai.'

...Right.

Sometimes, shutting up about things and never mentioning them was the best course of action.


Mashed Potatoes? The proof is in the pudding, for it is the 31st here and I prefer to work off my own Timezones. Actually the next day is the 1st isn't it? Meh, same deal anyway...
Edited by Yosuke, Jan 28 2009, 01:12 AM.
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Eugh, after reading what a mess it originally, was, man theres alot of fixing to do.

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Occupation: Student, Personal Combat Trainer for Selene Frostfire, Intelligence Officer for Arcadia Wind Division, Contract Mage for Hire


Replacing her entire magecraft and reinforcement section under powers.
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Krav Maga
Krav Maga (Hebrew קרב מגע, 'close combat') is an eclectic self-defense and military hand-to-hand combat system developed in Israel, which assumes no quarter will be given, and emphasizes maximum threat neutralization in a "real life" context. The complete article is found here.

Miyuki practices it as a means of self-defense in a physical context. As she can't expect to fight big, burly people directly, if she wants to get physical at all she must use physics and tactics against them rather than competing in an exchange of blows. She has a preference towards breaking joints and striking the throat, and generally wears sapgloves when employing it.

Ultimate Accuracy Potential
Competence with ranged attacks and projectile weapons. It's not simply being able to shoot accurately, but the ability to do so under duress and less than ideal conditions. She is able to track and engage targets the size of a matchbox up to a kilometre away with unaided vision with a variety of rifles, pistols, and other such things as bows and arrows, and is generally a superb shot. If she's intimately familiar with a given weapon, she could probably perform trickshots with them as well. Among other things, she is also capable of quickdrawing at such speed that the time from decision to draw and fire to having the barrel lined up with the target (and possibly trigger pull) is about 0.37 seconds.

Improvisation
Resourcefulness. The ability to apply her knowledge of physics, mechanics, and ingenuity to produce useful tools out of whatever is on hand, such as bombs out of detergent or antiseptics, a shiv out of an ID card or eyeglass frames, a triggering device out of a printer's optical scanner, or a crossbow out newspaper and elastic, etc.

Not so much the ability of a genius as much as the skills of an average person with alot of creativity and knowhow.
Magecraft
Magecraft, thaumaturgy or sorcery (魔術 majutsu) is the artificial manipulation of the world to the will of the user through systems not generally recognised by science. There are different methods, but the general idea is the mechanism of "using energy inside the body of the user to transform the external world". This ability is individual’s skill in traditional spell casting. As she isn't really a 'true' dedicated magician (魔術師 majutsushi), she is more accurately described as a magecraft user (魔術使い majutsu tsukai). She can only effectively utilise a few spells, but is fairly knowledgeable regarding magic and mythos regarding it in general, and can notice or detect others using it and identify what sort they are using (usually, assuming it isnt too unusual. Also, she herself can be noticed by others with similar ability.). Someone who specialises in fighting paranormal people and things basically.

Her magus 'origin' (that is, 'the direction that her life as a magus will naturally follow') is "conclusions." (that is, 'making something reach it's destined end')

  • 'Reinforce'
    Type: Support
    Effect:
    An elementary skill, but a difficult one to master. The base of all thaumaturgy is to send one's Prana into an object. However, because of the degree of freedom in it, a clear form of execution doesn't exist. The movement of energy from 1 thing to another. Her one 'Mystic Code'. While her other abilities and skills are armaments belonging to "Magus Killer" Takamachi Miyuki, this ability is representative of the magus Takamachi Miyuki.

    This is simply the ability to transfer energy from one source or another and the basis of all her magic. In theory she could drain someone else's magical energy supply, but as it requires physical contact, she considers use in such a way impractical.
  • 'Rulebreaker'
    Type: Anti-thaumaturgy
    Effect:
    While she cannot actually improve something's performance, by filling an object (such as her fists, a pencil, a knife, or preferably a bullet) with prana, the object can be made so as not to be limited to just physical interference, but also have effects that extend on to meaning/natural laws/concepts.

    Along the lines of, for example, writing over "unaging" or "noncorporeal" with the idea of "natural life" and "conclusion", allowing spiritual or magical phenomena to be affected as if they were normal real-world object (e.g. being able to shoot a ghost or vampire to kill it permanently like you would a normal human, or being able to break through a magical barrier by shooting it) and disperses unnatural concentrations of prana.

    Simply put, it neutralises supernatural effects, prevents magical regeneration of damage (such as by vampires and the like) and those killed cannot be resurrected by magical means. Natural healing is possible, and modern science could help it, but mystical and magical means are right out.
  • 'Broken Phantasm'
    Type: Anti-Personnel
    Effect:
    While generally able to merely affect a supernatural body when used on a normal object, by charging bullets from her specially modified Contender pistol or her specially prepared knives, Miyuki can destroy most 'lower grade' supernatural bodies, often in a single shot, or cause severe harm on higher ones. Use in this way is instantly detectable, and precludes any possibility of stealth.

    Anyone with any sense of the supernatural at all will note massive amounts of magic being drawn into her weapon, the space around it seems to distort, and the air itself will seem to freeze with a chilling feeling similar to being pricked by thorns. Basically, it's very obvious when she's about to perform such a thing, and it feels ominous right up to the moment of discharge.

    This extreme form of use attempts to crush an opposing concept by attempting to erase it's concept of existance. Absolute negation that goes beyond the concept of "presence" and "non-presence.", it attempts to make an object's 'concept' (soul, essence of being, record in avesta, whatever you want to call it) stop continuing from that point. A curse to stop existance.

    Basically, if the world were a computer, Broken Phantasm can be compared to attempting to delete a person or concept's program while it's running, resulting in the running program crashing and being unusable. Of course, some targets are more resistant, and may require multiple shots to destroy.

    Full Power use in such a manner is only possible with the Contender in the 7.92mm Mauser configuration, and is limited primarily by how much ammunition she has, though more than a few (4-5) average-power shots will rapidly exhaust her reserves of magic, and a full power shot , besides draining everything, causes damage to herself as well.
  • 'Rejection'
    Type: Support
    Effect:
    Basically, circulating Prana within one's magical circuits to get rid of any "impurities".

    The power to resist spells (Particularly those that invade a target and cause internal effects such as sleep, restraint, enforcement, geasi and mind control) An ability originating from the natural rejection of Prana outside of one's own circuits by one's circuits.

    However, what is being canceled out is Prana itself, not the spell. If a spell can be compared to a river, the prana is the water, and rejection is a dam that prevents the water from getting through (although a sufficiently powerful river could overflow and continue regardless).

    The equivalent of a 'save vs.'


Replacing her entire personality section (ended up too different)
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Takamachi Miyuki is a strange woman. She has an almost dual personality, an unusual amalgamation of almost contradictory traits. Idealistic and cynical at the same time, she can be both kind and compassionate or cold and detached depending on the circumstances.

She seems she is just as likely to walk into a high class restaurant as she is a gyuudon stand depending on which is closer, provided the food is acceptable and prepared quickly enough then gobble it down in a rush after paying for it with a food coupon.

She is highly intelligent and incredibly curious, and will often pursue any line of investigation that interests her. Furthermore, she has an unusual preoccupation with systems (mechanical or numerical being her favourites, particularly firearms), and can often be lost in what she calls "the beauty of a perfectly assembled system" of sorts for extended periods.

Winning her friendship can be somewhat of an ordeal, due to her belief that "friendships should not be based on the best of a person, but the worst of a person". Furthermore, she tends to be harsh or dismissive, and essentially a jerk in public, although she's quite capable of being kind and nice, although her kindness, more often than not, is to point out flaws to be corrected rather than someone who avoids 'rocking the boat' so to speak.

Fiercely independent due to her father's influence, she believes that people should never be afraid to do what they believe is right, but should also bear in mind and prepare for the consequences.

Alignment is Type-4 True Neutral with maybe a few lawful tendencies. While she hates any unnecessary destruction of any sort, she doesn't shirk from violence if necessary, and can actually be scarily ruthless if the situation requires it, and sufficiently detached from her work that she has more than once killed people she cared about, and hasn't really lost any sleep over it.

Despite this, she appreciates the value of life and living, perhaps more so than her peers, primarily because she knows just how fragile it really is and how quickly it can suddenly come to a halt.

She hates wasting lives or seeing them wasted, but isn't afraid to spend them. Her main wish really is to see people happy and achieve the best outcome she can. If achieving what she considers the 'best' outcome just happens to involve hostage taking, negotiating in bad faith, murder, destruction, or otherwise anything people might find disagreeable, so be it.

Hobbies include reading, analysing systems, shooting, jogging, archery, and fishing.

Her favourite authors are Urobochi Gen and Tom Clancy, and has a subscription to the Jane's Information Group. She also speaks fluent English, with an oxford accent. She is also fluent in German (to the degree that she swears in it and occassionally lapses into it unconsciously) with a Bavarian accent, and passable in Russian with a Saint Petersberg accent.


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Born on the 7th August in Yokosuka, Japan during the early 1990s, to a father who worked as a bodyguard and a mother who was a magus. Her childhood was fairly normal (or as normal as it could be), and she developed fairly well adjusted, though she was told to keep what she was taught at home a secret, and may have taken it abit too far, resulting in a fairly small number of formed friendships.

She was generally closer to her father, who would regale her with tales of famous gunfighters, soldiers, bodyguards, and his own stories of work. Though generally reared as the successor to her family's magecraft, her father also taught her many things useful for her eventual line of work, such as basic survival skills, first-aid, firearms handling, self-defense in close quarters and improvised weaponry.

Though today it may have seemed abit paranoid, it seemed justified at the time, and she understood that her father only wanted her to be able to fend for herself and be independent.

When it was later found she had precious little actual talent for magecraft, being only reliably her other, more physical talents instead made her more ideal as someone who hunted them instead, but she continued her studies in the field anyway. Though her mother was understandably upset by the development, she taught her appropriately regardless, since it was better than nothing.

A second child was born in February 2000, which would be her younger sister. Since she had more potential as a mage than she did, her mother began grooming her for succession instead, and she happily shifted her focus back to being taught by her father.

On her 16th Birthday, she received a pilot's watch from her father, his last gift to her before a business trip to the Middle East to protect a client. He was killed with his client by a roadside IED two months later. With the loss of his income (death benefits for dependents of bodyguards are quite... poor to say the least), she ended up taking various sidejobs to help support the family, as her mother was at that point, in no particular condition to take a steady job. If nothing else, she sought to at least pay for her own living expenses so her mother could more freely use the pension.

She primarily took employment as a sealing agent, under the alias 'Blue', primarily dealing with errant supernatural phenomenon, mages, and the sort, making use of her uniquely adapted skillset to seal errants who were considered troublesome for various assocations, or retrieval of various magical objects.

She primarily used tools and weapons that her father had collected when he was alive, eventually settling on his old Contender G2 pistol, which she found best suited her, and a collection of knives. Though their use was technically illegal, she generally avoided using them whenever possible. She did however, have them properly registered as soon as she turned 18.

Due to Japanese gun control laws, despite being a handgun, the Contender is officially registered as a Rifle instead (And the weapon technically indeed, can be configured in a way that it is considered a rifle by Japanese law), and registering as a contestant in firearms competitions, in which she competes as often as feasible.

Despite being technically legal however, she soon found that Japanese views on firearms instead forced her to keep even owning it a secret from others, reinforcing her belief that such things should be kept under wraps. She was also annoyed to learn that knowing thaumaturgy was more socially acceptable than even owning a firearm.

During her line of work, she ended up developing a reputation for going to almost ridiculous lengths to accomplish a given job, such as stopping a magical ritual on the top floor of a guarded and booby-trapped building by leveling the building, or sinking a ship at sea to prevent it's cargo from reaching land, or maintaining her cover in an infiltration operation by murdering her lover (Who, apparently, was Elza's older brother).

Regardless of her colourful background, she was still only 18, and thus still a student, and ended up leading an odd double life of mostly normalcy in school and cold detachment at work. The weariness of it began to take it's toll, and as such she sought a way to tidily wrap it up.


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She was hired by one Jameson B. Willicott to act as a bodyguard for his travels to Hyakuji, Considering Hyakuji is generally a weirdness-magnet, she had figured that living, working and studying there would be easier than pretending to be normal with her public life and then travelling all about in her private life to do work. Things didn't quite work out that way, but she decided to stay in the city regardless, as it was at least less stressful than hiding who she was in Yokosuka.

She was involved in various operations with Jameson as a contractor for the Arcadia group, ultimately working as a scout and barrier-breaker for a mission to retrieve their Leader. Unfortunately, personal differences in philosophy and Jamesons' general reckless tendencies that unfortunately often caused excessive collateral damage and others coming to harm, coupled with his rhetoric on justice despite his actions, lead to her severing the contract, although she continues part-time work at Arcadia as an intelligence agent.

Midway through the year, Miyuki was also involved in an incident in a Hokkaido beach, involving Aisia Asakura and Elza Lanster. The end result would later indirectly lead to the creation of the Strike Rangers.

Moving Dorm residencies to Fudo to avoid Jameson, she ended up as Elza's roommate. Following an... unusual turn of events, she seems to have ended up as a surrogate Older sister. At present, she recieves income from Frostfire Industries as the personal combat trainer to one of the family heirs (Selene) and her work as an Arcadia intelligence officer.
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