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this rp needs male CASA members and Strega.

[~Tico~]

this rp needs male CASA members and Strega.

Implying my character isn't a guy. (Well, technically, he's an adroid, but with a masculine personality.)
But if you looked at the apps more carefully, you'd notice HQ's character is a male.

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yeah, i just noticed. my badz. then it needs Strega.

[Hydra of Ages]

Three of my four will be Strega.

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well then!

[Ruler's Return]

My character is going to be male

[Opa-Ayumu]

I didn't realize Markus was a feminine name. Also, I see that the heavy metal and suicidal tendencies might make him a little girly, sorry about that

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okay okay. i submit to stupidity.

[Hydra of Ages]

Izumi Murakami

Name: Izumi Murakami
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Allegiance: CASA
Arcana: Fool
Class: Senior
Appearance: Izumi is a sharp-faced individual with narrow blue eyes and off-violet, almost greyish hair that appears perennially wispy. Her face is short and small, especially since much of it is covered by her ashen hair; her bangs are quite long and tend to obscure her blue eyes, which are outlined by a pair of rectangular blue glasses in any case. She changes her hair style quite often, but in general circumstances one can assume it'll be about down to the bottom of her shoulderblades, either tied into a ponytail down her back or otherwise bound, typically with a blue butterfly ornament. She is very fond of hair decorations, especially those that relate to butterflies, and can at times be seen wearing any number of them in any real arrangement.
Izumi has a fairly athletic body, trim and muscular as one might expect a sports enthusiast to be. Her proportions are shaped largely for one interested in running and swimming, though she does have a certain amount of raw strength most other girls tend not to have. This is the result of participating in such a huge number of sports clubs: redundant training having led to a general increase in physical aptness for generally any situation. Despite being fairly strong, she is still dwarfed by many people her age, standing at 5'4.
Even outside of school, Izumi tends to wear either her classroom uniform or a sports uniform of some sort, usually with a light blue coat (with a prominent butterfly decal woven into the back) worn over it. It rarely appears that she's taken an active interest in her own appearance, and she fails to mark special occasions by dressing up- all in all, she doesn't really seem to put any importance on what she wears, even when it leads to an awkward situation to those around her.
Personality: Izumi is an interesting person. At first blush, people would assume she's exactly as she appears- a slightly eccentric, though cold, genius.
Capable of achieving at pretty much anything she puts her mind to, Izumi tends to come off as frigid and distant to just about everyone. People who can't succeed like she can aren't worth her time- and even if you are on her level, she doesn't consider you a friend so much as she considers you an obstacle. A gauging stick for how good she's doing. No matter what Izumi is involved in, she considers it her duty to become the absolute best at it- she doesn't engage in bragging, nor does she tell people this, she simply does it. Even in team sports, she sets out to become the best player and win games without actually communicating with other people, leading to multiple stressed coaches attempting -and failing- to convey that even with her skills, she needs to get along with her team mates. All said, Izumi seems absolutely incapable of opening up ever.
This is, of course, not the problem at all. Izumi is just bored.
Being a prodigy is meaningless unless you have a goal. Izumi does not. Though she has enough talent to do basically anything, she doesn't actually want to do anything- except maybe get entrance in a foreign University and study there. Surely something interesting would come of that. Izumi sees people as two-dimensional, flat things; people who are too caught up in their own little simplistic worlds. Does basketball actually matter? Why are you basing your life around that? Goals are such simplistic things, and it always disappoints Izumi that everyone is worried about stupid transient things like that. Even worse are the slackers, the ones who don't have a goal nor try to do anything- they're worse because they don't even have a single dimension to define themselves by, and she doesn't even bother acknowledging them.
Izumi feels stuck in a rut. Everything feels so stupid, so unimportant; when will something actually happen one of these days?
Something she could get use from?
Biography: Izumi moved to Gin City from the Tokyo Wards when she was ten years old, due to a change in the positions her parents held at their respective companies. While at the time she was a rather bright student and a quick learner in general, it wasn't until this time that her apathy began to set in; separated from her friends and other family over in Tokyo, she stopped caring much about socializing in general and directed most of her focus to her studies in general. She might have become a complete recluse if it wasn't for the first person who managed to break through her icy shell a few years later- a student in her elementary school a year ahead of her, named Kyo Miyamoto.
Kyo was a slacker in every way that she wasn't, terrible at sports, and liable to fall asleep while the teacher lectured him at his desk. By all rights, she should have ignored his very existence -and she did- right until he started trying to talk to her. In those days, plenty of people tried to make friends with her and stopped when it became obvious she wasn't going to respond- but Kyo was different. Instead of getting mad when he was ignored, he just kept talking, occasionally leaving and coming back later. He never seemed surprised that she didn't talk back, but he wasn't insulting about it either. Rather, he was funny, thoughtful and even incredibly intelligent -even if he didn't try very much in class, it was obvious he was leagues ahead of everyone else in philosophy and literature, at the very least. Listening to him talk was interesting, and -never all at once, and slowly but surely- she started talking back.
She was never very nice to him- in fact, she was rather rude. He never really seemed to care, and simply continued sharing his ideas with her- and eventually, she responded in kind, finally talking about the things she kept hidden deep within her and never really seemed to reveal.
Izumi had dreams, often- of fantastic creatures, powerful beings from mythology and religion, that lay inside each and every person, giving a shape to their soul. She saw other things, too- strange shapes and creatures, and very often, a blue butterfly that seemed to represent what all this seemed to mean. Kyo listened to what she had to say, never really judging- he commented often, making links to exactly what mythos she was talking about at the moment and occasionally making sharp comments.
But, of course, he didn't believe a word of it. He told her in the nicest possible terms that dreams were simply a result of the mind playing back information it had assembled in a way we couldn't entirely understand, generating images out of patterns that weren't really there. He explained how the idea of souls really was nonsense, and that myths, while interesting, were patently unreal. Kyo had an interest in science and realism, and he was very persuasive. Though life would be more interesting if it was a fantasy, why delude yourself with something fake? Kyo was a realist of the highest degree- and he was very persuasive. Slowly, Izumi agreed. Her fantasies were just that- fantasies- and it was no use pretending they were anything else. She grew close to Kyo, but colder from everyone else- real life was real, but it was also stupid. The world was boring, and she'd just have to accept that.
Time went on. First Kyo, then she graduated to High School, where their relationship continued as before; it didn't take particularly long for the school to begin seeing them as a sort of package deal, given that they spent most of their free time together; though Kyo had other friends and Izumi joined essentially every sports, culture and intellectual club that was offered, the two were always seen as together, even when they weren't. Most people expected they were dating, though neither of them ever really saw it that way- even if Izumi kind of saw it that way. They stayed pretty much the same as they always did, growing up; Izumi excelled but was cold towards everyone else, and Kyo was a slacker but remarkably intelligent.
Then, time came forward and Kyo graduated while Izumi became a Senior. They didn't have much to say between them, as usual, though Izumi secretly wished he'd kiss her or something. Some sort of physical anchor she could use to be assured their relationship was solid.
Regrettably, she didn't get such, and Kyo basically disappeared after going to college. Though she knew he was still around, they didn't talk any longer- she became rather bitter over that and retreated more into her shell of distaste for the world around her. Thoroughly a realist at this point, she didn't entertain any fantasies past that point; they were stupid.
Not even those times when the world seemed to be covered in ice. Or the shadow creatures that flitted through the edges of her vision- they didn't exist. They were elements of her psychosis manifesting, somehow. Or something else she didn't know about. It was hard to rationalize, but she did, somehow. After all, something like the world freezing over at midnight couldn't really happen, could it?
To take her mind off of it, she joined a new club- some self-defence group. She was a fair hand with a number of weapons, after all, maybe that would come in useful.
Weapon of Choice: Naginata
Damage Element: Slash
Fighting Style: Izumi is a practised hand with the Naginata and utilizes a rather formal, studied style that allows her to defend herself while also making the most out of her attack reach. She has a tendency to grip the staff of the weapon higher up than entirely necessary, in order to increase her leverage and afford her a greater amount of control at the cost of a bit of reach- while this a bad habit in traditional use of the Naginata, against vicious Shadows it allows her to increase her reaction time and fend off more foes in a lesser amount of time.
Generally, Izumi will use two hands as she's been taught; however, her lower grip allows her to more easily wield it in one hand, which can be either side, as she is ambidextrous. She will typically does this in order to reach her Evoker in the middle of battle, and use two hands when focused on fighting a single enemy.
In combat, Izumi tends to move around a fair bit and is very aggressive, chasing after enemies and attempting to box them into a lesser position. She attempts to deal with bad situations by finding a way to change it to her advantage rather than fleeing, and is willing to take risky positions and attacks in order to possibly increase her standing. In battle, she is rather fearless, which can often lead to weaknesses in her stance that enemies can exploit.
Evoker & Summoning Style: Izumi's Evoker is a standard model to the others, though it is unique in that it has a reverse grip and a larger trigger, allowing her to wield it upside-down rather than in the more proper position it is supposed to be in. A large engraving of a butterfly is carved onto the top of the barrel, both wings eventually extending all the way back to the handle.
When Izumi pulls out her Evoker, she holds it through the middle finger in the triggerhole and carries it in a reverse grip, which makes it seem less like an actual gun to her. She places the gun against the bottom of her jaw diagonally from the opposite side of the hand she carries it with, holding her arm across her body and closing her eyes before she shoots. In times of stress, she places the muzzle under her chin on the same side as the hand she's carrying it in, which speeds it up significantly.
Initial List of Skills: Bufula
Garu
Rakakuja

Initial/Primary Persona: Loki

Appearance

Elemental Strengths & Weaknesses: Strong against Ice and Dark.
Absorbs Wind.
Weak against Fire.

Theme Song: "Don't Drag Me Down", Social Distortion

Other three are coming along, just thought I'd drop this one first.

[Admiral_Stalfos19]

Why's everyone insisting on using Slashing weapons for?! D:

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Oh well, accepted nonetheless, and adding.

[salseethrough]

i'd be willing to change Jaz's style to piercing, a short sword can easily be thrust. Ooooorr, and I'm just dreaming here, but Jaz could be able to switch styles, slash to piercing and vice versa, but it can be turned down. im fine with whatever's ull decide, admiral.

[Admiral_Stalfos19]

Well... this is the real world, so it'll only make sense if I allow it. No need to change anything on your end, I just have to change it on mine.

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Alright. Thank you for the convenience.

[~Tico~]

Kaito's arm cannon causes Strike damage.

But really, since Kaito is adept at hand-to-hand combat, that would be having Strike in his arsenal alongside Pierce from his guns, correct?

[Hydra of Ages]

Why's everyone insisting on using Slashing weapons for?! D:

That would be because the vast majority of weapons before the invention of gunpowder were bladed ones. The ones that weren't were spears, mauls or bows. Fact is, in war, having a sharp edge is more useful on a weapon than not having one.

[Admiral_Stalfos19]

But really, since Kaito is adept at hand-to-hand combat, that would be having Strike in his arsenal alongside Pierce from his guns, correct?

Well yeah, but you could argue the same thing with Mitsuru's boot to the face that she does when she goes a critical hit, and yet it still deals Slash damage overall since it was part of a combo :I

EDIT: Stupid YCM, that's the second time it's f***ed up the OP!

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That's it, I'm off to bed. I'll see if I can fix it in the morning, but right now I'm too tired to deal with it

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woo it's fixed.

[Admiral_Stalfos19]

Not quite. Still have to mend everyone else's apps as well. I'll get onto that in a minute.

[Ruler's Return]

APP WIP

Name: Soren Ragus
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Allegiance: CASA
Arcana: Juctice
Class: Junior
Appearance: (I expect to see 6 lines of text at the very least, although you're more than welcome to delve into the appearance bit more. You may also present a pic to go with your text if you like, but if you do, please place it in a spoiler so I don't have to, and make sure to describe the elements that can't be seen in the pic only, so we don't have to try to imagine anything different to what the pic displays. Oh, and be sure to include a height figure)
Personality: (6 lines is enough I feel, as a minimum. It shouldn't be too much for anyone good to sum up. Whatever you do though, don't try and cheat by putting in describing a bit about the fighting style or summoning style. They have their own categories)
Biography: (I will not accept anything less than 10 full lines, no matter what the situation. Seriously, it's a biography, it should be able to come off at a decent length. If you want to split those 10 lines into 2 paragraphs, that's fine by me. Make sure to include how your character's first experience with The Dark Hour, and perhaps fighting off the Shadows for the first time)
Weapon of Choice: Duel Tomahawks
Damage Element: Slash
Fighting Style: (How exactly your character goes about using his/her weapon. I'll be fair: you have a minimum of 4 lines to describe your character's fighting style. That should be plenty)
Evoker & Summoning Style: (The colour and/or appearance of your character's Evoker, and how he/she uses it to summon his/her Persona(e). You have the same 4 line limit as before, except this time, I've at least allowed you to customize your Evoker a bit)
Initial List of Skills: (You can choose up to 5 Skills from each Persona you control (so that's 5 for 1 Persona and 10 for 2 Personae) on the condition that you only use spells that your Personae actually know. If you use 2 Personae, please label which Persona can use which Skill by placing the name of the Persona in brackets. Oh, and for a list of spells you can use, check the Available Skills in the Things You May Need to Know)
Initial/Primary Persona:Arcangel

Appearance

Elemental Strengths & Weaknesses: (Which elements your character's Persona is strong against, can block, reflect and absorb or is weak against. If you're using an in-game Persona, I recommend you stick to the type charts provided in the Shin Megami Tensei games if you're new to Persona as a whole, but note that you can use any type chart if multiple are provided. YCM members that are more experienced with the Persona series may use a custom type chart instead, which I will accept as long as it makes sense. Personae must have at least one weakness and no more than 3 resistances, none of which may be Almighty, and its Elemental Management Value must be 5 or less (more information on the Elemental Management Value can be found in the Things You May Need to Know section). If an in-game Persona can learn a skill that gives it a resistance to a specific element, you may treat the Persona as if it already knows that skill, as long as it doesn't already have 3 resistances on its own and would still have at least one weakness even after applying that skill, and the resistance that skill gives doesn't bring the Elemental Management Value to anything greater than 5)
Ultimate/Secondary Persona: Dominion

Appearance

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Elemental Strengths & Weaknesses: (Just rinse and repeat from above, but keep in mind that this segment is for your Ultimate or Secondary Persona, whereas the above is for the Initial or Primary Persona. That's the reason why you see this thing twice. The Ultimate Persona isn't exempt from the resistance rule, but it's Elemental Management Value maybe increased to 6, and you do not need to give it a weakness if you don't want to. However, it must share the same resistances as your Initial Persona at the very least (although those resistances maybe weakened if desired), and cannot acquire different weaknesses unless it can learn a skill that can eliminate said weaknesses. In such a case, pretend it already knows those skills.)
Theme Song: (A music score that you believe would suit your character nicely)

[Hydra of Ages]

Kyo Miyamoto

Name: Kyo Miyamoto
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Allegiance: Strega
Arcana: The Hanged Man
Day Job: Freshman college student, majoring in Classic Literature.
Appearance: Kyo is a rather plain-looking person, with a plain face and short brown, verging on black, hair not cut in any particular way. Though he has hazel eyes usually, he wears a pair of particularly special corrective lenses that add a slight sheen to his eyes, making them appear almost golden if looked through at the right light; these same lenses tend to reflect yellow light in extreme darkness as part of a cat-eye effect, which can make his eyes appear startling during nights without much other light around.
Kyo appears almost painfully average. He doesn't have any particularly marking exterior features, has the sort of half-fat, half-starved muscle tone attributed to slackers around the world- a slimness not necessarily born out of exercise, but out of a lack of movement in general. His body type isn't exactly unattractive, however; he stands at 6'3, and has sort of the beginnings of muscle tone if one looks closely, somehow, and not an unreasonably unattractive face. The main problem with Kyo is that he's simply unmemorable- the type of person who you could recognize the face of, but never quite remember the name.
If any part of him isn't generally seen almost everywhere else, it's the pocketwatch he seems to keep with him everywhere except for a digital one- made of silver, seeming reasonably expensive, with an engraving of an appletree on the front of it. Typically, he'll keep the watch in his pocket, with the chain either stuffed out of sight or kept clipped to his waist, depending on the context on hand.
Though Kyo has a number of outfits, most of them are very ordinary in most regards. His school clothing generally consists of a sky-blue light coat over a fine white dress shirt, pair of light tan pants with a simple black belt, a diamond-shaped red tie and a pair of shined black shoes.
Personality: Kyo is a procrastinator and all-around lazy slacker to the -nth degree. While he isn't unintelligent or talented, he simply lacks conviction or motivation; to him, there's really no point in striving for anything. Life should be taken as you go along, without being concerned with silly things like 'dreams' or 'goals'. Both of those are simply constructs people make for themselves to make them feel better- almost nobody will ever achieve them. And even if they do, what's the point? They're happy now? Kyo feels perfectly happy now where he is, so he doesn't see any particular reason to look elsewhere for it. That'd just be expending effort for no real reason- which, as most might glean, is a sort of reoccurring theme with every decision he's ever made.
Kyo is a very logical fellow and keeps tabs on modern science and politics whenever he can. He's a devoted atheist, and expands that to just about everything- superstitions are silly nonsense, religions are no better. He's not particularly evangelical about this, of course- it's simply a philosophy he himself runs by, and he doesn't need to defend it or spread it to others as the 'true way'. Since it doesn't matter what people believe, really, there's no benefit to stopping people from deluding themselves. That's their problem, really.
As an interesting duality to his disbelief in the unreal, however, Kyo is very interested in the creative ideas of others, especially the classics. He's read countless old stories, old themes on thousand-year documents and legends from across all of history, of course no believing them but finding a certain sort of applicability in those stories to real life as it happens. He waxes philosophical a lot as a result of that, directly applying lessons he can glean from these stories to life itself.
Despite all this, however, Kyo is still a reasonably nice person. When interacting with others, he's quieter but not silent in the least. He makes normal conversation, and he's a pretty dependable friend, if not particularly interesting to be around.
Biography: Kyo has lived in Gin his entire life, and as a small child he was particularly imaginative. His neighbours frequently knew him as the one with a number of imaginary friends- and indeed, he did have a number of imaginary friends. Kyo liked reading from a ridiculously young age, and always gravitated to the classics- he made friends out of Julius Caesar, chatted with Susanoo-no-Mikoto, took advice from Sun Tzu, and hung out with Heracles. He was always outside, having fun with the characters he read about as if they were actually, physically, there- and while it was charming for a while, his parents eventually worried. He would have to grow up and learn that the world wasn't like his storybooks, would he? Eventually, they put him into psychiatric therapy, who they hoped would sort him out.
The psychologist that he met with was effective at instilling a sense of normality in him- perhaps a little too effective. Kyo never really remembered what happened with his chats with the psychologist, but his previous dreams were quickly broken down. Most of his friends never existed- and the ones that did, were probably nothing like they were written about. Sure it was sad, but that was how it worked.
Though he continued to read, Kyo stopped being enthusiastic about the mythological characters he read about. He didn't visualize them any longer- they weren't real, he knew. They were just stories, entertaining though ultimately pointless. Some had applicability to life as they knew it, which was helpful- he became known rather quickly as the philosophical kid, right before he turned into the lazy kid when he stopped applying himself. At first, the teachers were worried about this sudden change in personality- but then it became normal. They stopped caring, as did Kyo. And that's how it worked for a while, one of the brightest kids squandering his talent because he thought it was pointless.
Eventually, Kyo made friends with an exchange student; Izumi Murakami, though he primarily used her surname. Kyo enjoyed their chats, if only because her energy was rather amusing to watch, even if it was usually directed at insulting him. He wasn't ever actually offended- why would he be? What would that accomplish? But it was still better when she came to see him as a friend, if only because their conversations were interesting. Murakami had a number of opinions that he might have taken on himself, if he continued on with his childhood delusions. He broke the truth to her slowly as she asked for his opinion, and surprisingly she seemed to take it for the most part. Kyo wasn't exactly happy, but for some reason he felt a little disappointed - he wondered if someone could prove him wrong, and it didn't seem like one would.
Time went on. Kyo eventually went to High School, where he continued to talk to Murakami regularly. Life went on as usual.
Middle Garden Academy was the same as any other, and nothing important happened there. He graduated, and decided to go to a middling-ranked college for a degree in Classics, figuring that was as good an idea as any.
It was there that he met Keisuke Ishida.
Keisuke was alumni of the same college that Kyo attended, a major in Civil Law who had gone on to become a defence attorney of some repute- and also happened to head up the school's Go club. Kyo, out of a whim more than anything, joined the club and was slightly surprised to find himself invited to accompany Keisuke in his limousine to somewhere unknown. He was even more surprised to find that this visit was nonopinional, as enforced by Keisuke's large and scary-looking bodyguards. Not really having a reason to resist, Kyo went along- he suspected that Keisuke was a member of the Yakuza or some sort, and he was either being recruited or extorted.
The truth was far more outlandish.
Kyo blacked out almost as soon as he got in the car- and when he came to, he was still in the car, though he felt like a truck had run over him a few times. Keisuke, same as ever, explained to him things that he wouldn't have believed even in his youngest days; beings called Shadows stalked the world during a hidden hour in the day, freezing the world over and slowly cooling Gin City during the real time too. He was told that certain people were gifted with the power of Persona- the ability to control their basic Superegos, which could be used to defend one's self from the Shadows. Persona could be used to prove the existence of shadows to society on a whole- but that would take time. Shadows appear very rarely, but present an omnipresent threat. In order to fully protect the earth, everyone needs to see the shadows- with their own two eyes. Even the most realist person in the world would have to admit evidence they could see and touch themselves.
And just as Kyo was going to shut him out, Keisuke opened the door, and Kyo's world widened.
Ice as far as the eye could see- and, things, crawling through the streets, through people. It was as if time itself had just stopped.
And in place of Hanged Horse Park, the spot where he had played all the time as a child... there was a massive gap. A chasm, infinitely deep, throbbing with darkness and simple wrongness, a sense of something that had to be corrected.
The door closed.
Kyo listened, and turned his attention back to Keisuke just as he mouthed the words that would shape Kyo's place from then on.
Strega.
Weapon of Choice: Shinai
Damage Element: Strike
Fighting Style: Kyo notably uses a nonlethal weapon, a shinai, as his primary weapon of choice, and as such doesn't treat it with the same sort of respect that others might with theirs. While he is reasonably experienced in kendo, Kyo tends to use his shinai more as an overly large stick rather than a sword- he includes a baseball swing as part of his standard gamut of techniques, for example.
That said, Kyo's shinai isn't totally harmless. While it isn't particularly effective against humans, it still works against shadows when he puts enough muscle into it- and Kyo indeed attempts to use as few attacks as possible to maximize his damage, forcing all of his muscles to work together into a single strong hit when possible. He typically stays flatfooted in combat, standing in a single area and blocking most attacks, waiting for an opening- the shinai is very good for misdirection, and he will deflect misplaced hits whenever he can.
Kyo holds his Shinai with one hand, but always strikes or blocks two handed. He always has a hand hovering over his Evoker, just in case he needs to pull it out quickly.
Evoker & Summoning Style: Kyo's Evoker is a very plain looking gun, bearing Strega's logo near the butt. The finish is a dazzling silver, and the weapon always appears in good condition, as if it is polished every day; the other side of the butt, reversed from the Strega logo, bears the same stylized apple tree as the symbol on his pocket watch.
When Kyo uses his Evoker, he tends to stare directly down the barrel by placing the muzzle right between his eyes; in order to do that, he holds his gun backwards when he pulls it out (though not upside down), and pulls the trigger with his thumb, typically spinning it around once on his thumb before he does so. Kyo does this regardless of whatever danger there might be in the area, and is normally very passive even when around a large number of enemies.
Initial List of Skills: Kill Rush
Cruel Attack
Fatal End
Tarunda
Enradi

Initial/Primary Persona: Sisyphus
Appearance: Sisyphus is a massive man with dark-olive skin and bulging muscles uncovered by any sort of clothes except for a baseline loinwrap, appearing as a veritable giant. His body is clean of any sort of hair, except for his head, which is darkened and indistinct as if it is covered by shadow- one can vaguely make out the features of his face, which include a head of long, shaggy and uncut hair as well as a rather great beard. His dark features are topped with a tiny golden crown, humorously tiny and pointless compared to the extremes of Sisyphus' other details.
All four of his gigantic muscles- both legs and arms- are bound with great steel manacles, which all tie around a huge rock that Sisyphus is carrying on his back. The stone doesn't appear to be anything special aside from having a ring of golden metal to it that all the manacles tie onto, but Sisyphus notably struggles to hold it up, despite how strong he appears to be. When Sispyhus is summoned, he makes a herculean effort to carry his boulder, but stumbles forward and seems to attempt to keep his balance. When he attacks with physical strikes, he slams the stone into the ground before moving forward to attack- when using a spell, he picks the stone off of his back and holds it up, where it glows with energy, before resting it on his shoulders again with noticeable pain.
Elemental Strengths & Weaknesses: Strong against Slash and Strike.
Blocks Lightning.
Weak against Wind.

Ultimate/Secondary Persona: Hangatýr
Appearance: Hangatýr is a tall, beautiful-looking man with long black hair that flows from a grown of mistletoe around his head, one of the twigs being snapped right before the white berries. He wears a long, flowing black toga that he has pulled around him, which conceals his entire body except for his feet; while the left appears normal, the left is circled with black thorns around the ankle, forming almost a sort of bracer. When he moves and more of his body can be seen, it is obvious that he has a god's musculature- powerful and carved, almost a picture of perfection, though slightly more feminine and slim than most gods of battle.
ThoughHangatýr has a weapon, it is a spear that seems to be made of a deadly arrowhead with pronged sides attached to a gnarled old stick- the weapon is actually stuck through Hangatýr's body, with the point of exit being right above his left side and the point of entrance on his lower right; the wound itself is concealed by his toga.Hangatýr never actually draws the spear; when he is attacking physically, he simply dives forward and strikes with his bare fists. When he is using magic, he opens a hand and raises it to the heavens, calling down magic on the opponent.
Elemental Strengths & Weaknesses: Strong against Slash and Strike
Blocks Pierce
Reflects Lightning
Weak against Wind

Theme Song: "Story Of My Life", Social Distortion

Senis

Name: Senis
Gender: Female
Age (purported): 18
Age (since activation): 30 to 50, exact dates are unclear.
Allegiance: Strega
Arcana: The Star
Day Job: Freelance computer maintenance.
Appearance: Senis appears as a young, rather serene girl with pale blue hair that flows, unbound, down to her waist, without any particular style binding it to a certain look. She is rather short, with a petite frame that can make her seem even younger than her assumed age; she barely reaches 4'10 when standing fully upright, and has very slight features that could allow others to mistake her for a child, if it weren't for the mature look of her face.
Senis has attractive features, but the way they're put together almost feels wrong- individually they should come off as appealing or cute, but together they seem to be little more than dressing on a lifeless brick. Her eyes are larger than usual, grey orbs with a hint of violet in the back, but they are dead- unless something particularly special grasps her attention, they are dull and lifeless. She has a small, rather regular nose, simple cheeks, and slightly catlike eye sockets.
Senis has exactly one set of clothing; a short red skirt, simple white button-up shirt and a black vest she leaves unbuttoned, with a pair of black shoes and knee-length socks. She wears a pair of blue rectangular glasses, though not that she needs them for anything; they are the only addition to her appearance that she has ever made.
Unlike later-build Anti Shadow Devices, Senis is designed to appear exteriorly identical to a human, and does not have the same external armour plating that later models were built with.
Personality: 'Inhuman' sums up Senis in as many words- on a simple examination, she doesn't seem to have any real emotions, as one would call them. Senis does not express herself, does not change her facial features in regard to what is happening at the moment, speaks in a dry monotone (if at all), and doesn't appear to let emotionality cloud purely logical thinking. It's very simple to see Senis as what she is- a machine, capable of emulating human life to a degree but never replicating it. Most consider her to be a weapon, a thing to be directed, rather than a sapient being under her own power; and indeed, Senis doesn't appear to take any independent action, instead only doing what she is ordered to do with a cold, dispassionate loyalty.
Of course, all these are simple assumptions made from her actions. In reality, Senis has plenty of emotions- she's just not sure how, or why she should, show them in most cases. Most particularly, Senis is disturbed that her purpose has been chosen for her- strange as it sounds, she values her own independence over anything else, and enjoys doing little, almost insignificant shows in order to prove to herself that she's capable of doing what she wants, if she were to want it- such as taking a slightly longer path to get somewhere, for instance, or taking a slightly liberal view of her assignment when she completes it. She doesn't see why she shouldn't take orders -that's why she is built, after all, and her circuits are unable to comprehend doing something completely of her own volition- but at the same time, she needs to validate that she is willingly doing these things.
Senis is aware that humans connect to each other emotionally, and on some level she desires that sort of thing for herself- but she has no idea how to go about doing it, and even in compiling information she still doesn't seem to quite get it. She attempts to compile information regarding it, but human action is simultaneously illogical and annoying, almost impossible to truly understand; as a machine built to summon a Persona, Senis was built to develop human emotions, and thus to a certain extent she resents wanting to learn more about humanity, and purposely attempts to separate herself.
On a whole, one could say Senis is still trying to validate herself- she's not certain to her own purpose, and indeed she hasn't quite realized that what she wants is to decide her actual purpose.
Biography: Senis was built in the Kirijo Group laboratories during the early stages of Shadow research and Persona development, and was perhaps the first actually working prototype of her kind. Dubbed 'Anti-Shadow Weapons', she was an android equipped with certain mechanisms that were intended to allow her to echo a human consciousness to the point where one could summon a Persona, which worked to a certain extent- Senis associated herself with humanity properly, as she was supposed to, and seemed to have thought processes not terribly different from a human. The problem occurred when she first summoned her Persona- and promptly brought a flat, white, slightly non-Euclidean shape into formation. Somewhat interesting, of course, but fundamentally useless- she was a failure.
Senis was deactivated, and the project went on to develop new models of Anti-Shadow Weapons, hopefully those who were similar enough to humanity in order to project a passable Persona. It was in the darkness of the holding chambers where she stayed, a deactivated entity, until Kirijo Group's main laboratory exploded due to miscontainment of Death. The explosion levelled the building and broke through the seal of their research vault, destroying countless millions of dollars in research and destroying almost all of Senis' kind- she, herself, only being saved by being placed at the very back of the vault, behind a pillar that took the majority of the damage.
Even though she resisted total destruction, Senis still found herself grievously injured- she was deactivated, broken, and had a large number of programs wiped as a result of the wounds. If it weren't for her form being discovered by a number of intrepid searchers looking for exactly such a subject, she likely would have been completely inoperable following that point.
When Senis was re-activated, her first memory was of a smiling man in a business suit- someone she did not recognize.
This man identified himself as Keisuke Ishida, leader of Strega- a group she now owed her allegiance to, and she must discard any previous loyalty to the Kirijo Group.
Senis found this agreeable.
A period of strenuous testing followed, wherein the group Strega evaluated her battle capabilities. Her persona creation was still flawed, a defect she believed she would be deactivated again for- but, oddly enough, the man named Ishida would simply smile and reassure her that such a thing wasn't necessarily a problem.
The next test was a live one. Senis found herself in a strange environment- a 'Dark Hour' created from a rip in spacetime where Shadows wandered freely. Oddly enough, despite her prime directive, Senis felt no compelling wish to destroy them. Ishida asked if she did, and she could only respond in the negative. He asked her to think about that, and she did- only coming up with that she might be malfunctioning.
Ishida laughed at that, and put off the test again to another day. Senis returned to a life of monotonous tests and slight tune-ups from Strega-aligned mechanics. She learned then that Strega was an unofficial organization concerned with preserving the presence of the Shadows for a specific political reason- a concept she should have found against her programming but didn't, oddly enough. Keisuke was the only true member of Strega- though his staff were technically allied, none of them had the talent for seeing the Dark Hour that was required before one could manifest a Persona, even with biological improvement.
Then another man entered Strega. Kyo Miyamoto.
Kyo was different from every human Senis had spoken to her before. Unlike the rest, he didn't seem to understand she was robotic; indeed, even when she explained it to him in a simple and concise way, he just waved his hand and scoffed a little at the idea. He attempted to interact with her as a human might, and didn't seem discouraged by her lack of a response, though all her logic circuits calculated that he must.
Though Senis had no capability for returning his interactions, she did feel an odd change come about her. Mentally, she rated Kyo's safety as a much higher priority than the rest- though she had no logical reason for thinking so. She also rated being near him as preferable to not being so, and similarly had no explanation for her actions. This was perplexing to her, but undoubtedly was simply a software error, or a conflict introduced by Strega technicians as they worked on her systems.
It wasn't until the next live test that things truly changed.
Though Senis was present for the test, she was not instructed to destroy Shadows. Rather, that was left to the devices of Ishida and Kyo, who both summoned their personas in order to practise combat. Both were strong, though Ishida had the obvious advantage of experience and practise. Eventually, Kyo slipped up, and almost fell to the claws of the Shadows-
Before she even realized what she was doing, Senis had sprung into action, violently assaulting the Shadow that had nearly killed Kyo. Following which, she activated her Persona protocols and found an interesting discrepancy- a different being appeared, this one strange and grotesque, but far more powerful than her previous manifestation.
She had successfully summoned a Persona.
Keisuke Ishida simply watched her and smiled.
Weapon of Choice: Firearms, specifically medium-calibur rounds inserted into a pair of revolving machine-gun turrets that can extend from each of her wrists, or be combined in order to form one long, rifle-like piece of weaponry to fire larger shots. The barrel of this weapon can also be extended as a long rapier-like weapon in the event a melee-weapon is required.
Damage Element: Pierce
Fighting Style: Senis naturally does not favor any sort of flourish or conceit to her techniques, and simply acts in the most efficient manner she feels is possible. She tends to minimize movement, only changing her stance and technique when the situation requires it, and stands perfectly still while firing unless it is absolutely required for her to dodge at the same time; she prefers to stay at a fair distance from her enemies in order to maximize her efficiency with her guns, but is equally capable of functioning at close-quarters.
If melee combat is required, Senis summons a long, rapier-like weapon in order to do battle. While it appears as a sword, Senis treats it more like a spear- rather than attacking multiple times in order to egg the opponent into making a single mistake, she analyses the least-defensible part of the opponent's body and goes in for a single killing stab.
Evoker & Summoning Style: None; Senis' has internal Persona protocals that allow her to summon without using crude methods such as an Evoker. When activating her protocols, Senis stands perfectly still and disengages any weaponry she has already activated; her eyes osculate and turn yellow very briefly during this, almost like a camera flash. Following that, the persona is summoned without any flourish afterwards- commands are uttered verbally, in the same flat tone as she says anything, and an attack is usually followed up by an observation of the enemy's status. If Senis is unable to stay perfectly still while summoning her Persona, she will generally not speak, and will continue to dodge, but never retaliate with her own weaponry.
Initial List of Skills: Media
Mudo
Hama
Bewilder
Pulinpa

Initial/Primary Persona: Old One

Appearance

The differences are as follows: Senis' Old One has four pairs of wings, all of which are large enough to cover his entire body when folded around him, and is primarily colored black rather than blue. The eye-stalks are a darker, crimson red, and numerous small red tentacles are also scattered among the stalks, some occasionally writing around the eyes that they stand on; lastly, the mouth is not in the proper place, but rather assembled horizontally along the snakelike body, almost unnoticable until it opens up. Surrounding the red mass of stalks and tentacles on its head is a ring of teeth now, not entirely unlike a second mouth.
When Old One attacks physically, it slinks towards its opponent and rakes them with its eighteen claws; when it attacks with magic, it first hides itself with its black wings, then bursts out with its horizontal mouth screaming, the power emerging from that orifice.

Elemental Strengths & Weaknesses: Blocks Light, Dark, Ice.
Weak against Lightning

Ultimate/Secondary Persona: Sothoth
Appearance: Sothoth appears, initially, not unlike a non-Euclidean geometry- it appears as a flat, two-dimensional white plain surrounded by four white spheres with yellow within them, rotating as lines of black connect all of them together. Every so oftne, a shadow of Sothoth's true nature appears, outlined in black- though the whole body can never be seen, it appears to have a number of large tentacles that extend ridiculously far and a body not unlike that a whale, with massive fins and eyes that watch from some undefinable plane of existence.
When Sothoth is struck by damage, the white two-dimensional object making it up becomes blemished with black, and a shadow of a mass of tentacles connected to some vaguely humanoid, perhaps naga-like human being appears for a hint of a second; the object then casts off the darkness and resumes floating. If Sothoth itself initiates a physical attack, it darkens completely before shaping a shadow of wings behind its back, partially obscuring the huge mass of tentacles that suddenly reach out, only half-invisible beneath a network of shadows, as they attack the opponent. Using a magical attack causes the spheres surrounding Sothoth to bunch together and, for a moment, cause writing to appear on the white object, as if it were a piece of paper. The writing disappears as soon as it appears, and the magical spell is then summoned by the spheres as they continue to rotate around the central mass.
Elemental Strengths & Weaknesses: Resists Ice
Reflects Light, Dark
Weak against Lightning

Theme Song: "Lulaby" - Lyriel

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