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May. 14th, 2023 12:27 amPlayer Name: Bayleaf
Contact: bespin @ plurk, lanayru#6010 @ discord
Pronouns: she/they
Invited By: Kia!
Character Name: Kaede Takehara
Character History: Full history is here, but the tl;dr version is that Kaede is an android, built by her father and creator, a gentlehearted, if naive man who loves her dearly but isn’t quite prepared to raise a daughter that that possesses a computer bank’s worth of knowledge but also the personality of a shy, inquisitive child. She grows up idolizing magical girls, which have become something of an industry in her world, idolizing one in particular named Shining Star Guardian Hikari, and she dreams of being a magical girl herself one day.
Kaede and her father live in a remote mountainside village in rural Japan where she has trouble meeting others her age, but she is able to make a friend online, Meiko, through their mutual appreciation of magical girls and video games, and though she has difficult interacting with others in person and expressing her humanity, Kaede is happy and hopeful as she grows up - that is, until her father passes away suddenly from an advanced illness, leaving her utterly alone. Shortly after, she awakens to her magical girl powers, which more or less put her in the right place at the right time to help people with very minor, incredibly mundane inconveniences (carrying groceries, rescuing cats from trees, etc).
It’s not exactly glamorous and doesn’t bring in the attention or wealth other magical girls enjoy, but Kaede makes the most of it, eventually moving to Tokyo with Meiko and scraping by from job to job as she helps others in need. She programs on the side, but has difficulty making it her full time gig due to her magical girl responsibilities often commandeering her time. During a routine backup data transfer from her consciousness, she winds up being teleported to what seems to be a digital world, but turns out to be the future of her own world after it fully merges with the digital plane and humanity has seemingly disappeared. After meeting some of its denizens, she’s able to return home, but now she is burdened with a responsibility that is fitting of her childhood dream to be a magical girl who saves the world.
She just never expected it would happen like this.
Canonpoint: After returning from the digital world and telling Meiko and her mechanic Dayu about it.
Guild Choice: Scholars Guild! Though she has difficulty organizing the quantity of information she possesses, Kaede is highly intelligent and contributes best to group efforts when thinking her way through things. She’s a nerd.
Element Choice: Light, Fire, Earth
Canon Powers: As an android, Kaede possesses a library’s worth of knowledge in her mind, and she is able to quickly absorb new things when she is taught. Her android body grants her enhanced strength and stamina, though not anything superhuman, and while she does not technically need to eat or sleep, she still enjoys doing so. She’s also like, really fucking heavy, good luck trying to carry her ass anywhere.
On the magical girl side of things, Kaede’s powers grant her a transformation, of course, complete with tiara and scepter, that triggers anytime someone has an inconvenience around her that she can easily solve. That’s literally it - a cool outfit upgrade and the ability(??) to be in the right place at the right time.
Character Wish(es): For both the digital world and reality to coexist so humanity doesn’t disappear and the creatures of the digital world still get to exist in the future, too. Also, to meet Shining Star Guardian Hikari.
Character Fear(s): Failing as a magical girl, outliving all those she cares for, not seeing herself or being seen by others as human
Strengths & Weaknesses:
Sample: Here's a TDM style post based off the second beta test post! Let me know if this doesn't work or you need something additional!
a. who am i to disagree (questboard i)
b. help wanted (internship)
Contact: bespin @ plurk, lanayru#6010 @ discord
Pronouns: she/they
Invited By: Kia!
Character Name: Kaede Takehara
Character History: Full history is here, but the tl;dr version is that Kaede is an android, built by her father and creator, a gentlehearted, if naive man who loves her dearly but isn’t quite prepared to raise a daughter that that possesses a computer bank’s worth of knowledge but also the personality of a shy, inquisitive child. She grows up idolizing magical girls, which have become something of an industry in her world, idolizing one in particular named Shining Star Guardian Hikari, and she dreams of being a magical girl herself one day.
Kaede and her father live in a remote mountainside village in rural Japan where she has trouble meeting others her age, but she is able to make a friend online, Meiko, through their mutual appreciation of magical girls and video games, and though she has difficult interacting with others in person and expressing her humanity, Kaede is happy and hopeful as she grows up - that is, until her father passes away suddenly from an advanced illness, leaving her utterly alone. Shortly after, she awakens to her magical girl powers, which more or less put her in the right place at the right time to help people with very minor, incredibly mundane inconveniences (carrying groceries, rescuing cats from trees, etc).
It’s not exactly glamorous and doesn’t bring in the attention or wealth other magical girls enjoy, but Kaede makes the most of it, eventually moving to Tokyo with Meiko and scraping by from job to job as she helps others in need. She programs on the side, but has difficulty making it her full time gig due to her magical girl responsibilities often commandeering her time. During a routine backup data transfer from her consciousness, she winds up being teleported to what seems to be a digital world, but turns out to be the future of her own world after it fully merges with the digital plane and humanity has seemingly disappeared. After meeting some of its denizens, she’s able to return home, but now she is burdened with a responsibility that is fitting of her childhood dream to be a magical girl who saves the world.
She just never expected it would happen like this.
Canonpoint: After returning from the digital world and telling Meiko and her mechanic Dayu about it.
Guild Choice: Scholars Guild! Though she has difficulty organizing the quantity of information she possesses, Kaede is highly intelligent and contributes best to group efforts when thinking her way through things. She’s a nerd.
Element Choice: Light, Fire, Earth
Canon Powers: As an android, Kaede possesses a library’s worth of knowledge in her mind, and she is able to quickly absorb new things when she is taught. Her android body grants her enhanced strength and stamina, though not anything superhuman, and while she does not technically need to eat or sleep, she still enjoys doing so. She’s also like, really fucking heavy, good luck trying to carry her ass anywhere.
On the magical girl side of things, Kaede’s powers grant her a transformation, of course, complete with tiara and scepter, that triggers anytime someone has an inconvenience around her that she can easily solve. That’s literally it - a cool outfit upgrade and the ability(??) to be in the right place at the right time.
Character Wish(es): For both the digital world and reality to coexist so humanity doesn’t disappear and the creatures of the digital world still get to exist in the future, too. Also, to meet Shining Star Guardian Hikari.
Character Fear(s): Failing as a magical girl, outliving all those she cares for, not seeing herself or being seen by others as human
Strengths & Weaknesses:
Strengths:
Hopeful: Despite the loss of her father, her tendency to overwork and her struggles with her own humanity, Kaede remains hopeful for the future and really believes she can make a difference if she gives being a magical girl her all.
Intelligent: Kaede is not only very knowledgeable by her very nature, but she is also a quick thinker and clever problem solver. She can think on her feet under pressure.
Kindhearted: Much like her father, Kaede has a gentle heart and she tends to put others before herself. She believes the best in those around her.
Weaknesses:
Disorganized: Due to the vast amount of data floating around in her mind, Kaede can be rather disorganized and has difficulty sorting through her own thoughts and tidying things up, mentally and physically.
Socially anxious: Around new people and crowds, Kaede becomes very nervous and tends to become jumpy and nervous. She speaks without thinking and runs her mouth, and has difficulty reading the cues of others.
Gullible: Because Kaede gives anyone and everyone the benefit of the doubt, even when she shouldn’t, she is easily deceived and has been fleeced several times because of it.
Sample: Here's a TDM style post based off the second beta test post! Let me know if this doesn't work or you need something additional!
a. who am i to disagree (questboard i)
[ You would think that someone with the capacity to create maps in her head as she explores wouldn't get lost so easily, and yet here Kaede is, in the middle of the Woodlands with no idea how to extract herself. This is her first real outing, too...she needs to be better than this! She accepted this solemn responsibility--
But even if she weren't lost, a bloobette has certainly caught her attention. She's never seen anything like it before...and though she at least has the sense of preservation to not get too close to it, she can't help her innate instinct to want to learn everything about it...
...and it doesn't hurt that it's super cute, too.
Cautiously, she extends one of the blue chamomile flowers to the bloobette in an attempt to lure it a little closer, but instead it just extends its gelatinous arm traps both the flower and Kaede's hand within its grasp. Oh. ]
H-hey! That's not -- take the flower, not my hand, not my hand!
[ ...She could use a little help, here. ]
b. help wanted (internship)
[ At least...she is used to picking up whatever kind of odd job comes her way. Got to make money somehow, right? Yet somehow she doubts that this one is going to last especially long, as she has somehow been appointed as an intern...person who stands on the corner in a hot dog costume to lure customers into a shop. This isn't the weirdest job she's ever had, but it's up there...
But hey, everyone has to start somewhere, right? And her sign-flipping skills are quite impressive. She's rather well-coordinated--
At least, until potential customers approach!! Okay, she's got this, she just has to remember her admittedly brief 15-minute training! ]
Hey! You! [ Yes. You. ] H-hot dog!
[ She fingerguns. God help her. ]