Blue Glass Moon

Name: Kagome Hitomi

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Appearance: "Huh. "
Hitomi is unusually tall for a female of Japanese descent, topping six
foot three. It's somewhat awkward for her when she's in her birthplace;
everyone assumes that she's a foreigner when... well, she's not. That
she can flawlessly fit in otherwise ought to indicate that she has spent
much of her life here, regardless of appearances. A close examination
of her body reveals that she seems to do a lot of physical exercise,
though more centred around feats of acrobatics and agility than
strength, and much of it indoors or at night, when it's cooler.

Personality: Hitomi here... well, she likes a challenge. After all, it's not
every day that something comes along which calls upon her skills as a
magus, so the chance to do something other than laze around or
'boring magecraft studying' is one to leap at. She's also known for her
appreciation of beauty, sometimes to the extent of spending hours
looking at one particularly eye-catching portrait in an art gallery... or
walking up to someone and tilting their face up to get a better look and,
sometimes, steal a kiss if they're looking dreamy enough.
Despite her forthrightness, the blonde magus rarely says much,
preferring to let her body language or actions speak for her. When she
does speak, bluntness tends to be the order of the day. If anyone was
ever keeping count of how many times she'd said "You're/It's/So
pretty, " then they'd have failed after the first month.

Backstory: When Hitomi was born, her parents were confused that she
was so scared of... well, everything. It wasn't until a few months later
when they realised that her eyes were, in fact, an example of their
family's other (apart from an ingrained tendency towards
Reinforcement and Alteration) Sorcery Trait, one that skipped
generations every so often. After determining that their daughter had
been born with some rather... worrying Mystic Eyes, they blindfolded
her on advice from Hitomi's paternal grandmother and started looking
for someone fit to perform complex magical surgery on a child's eyes.
In the end, the youngest two generations of the Kagome family left
Japan on a year-long search to locate a certain member of a magical
surgery-using family that was attempting to learn what they could from
, the Mage's Association. Rather than operate on both eyes, leaving
Hitomi lacking a powerful tool in her arsenal, the surgeon chose to only
degrade one eye. The other, for much of Hitomi's life, has been covered
by an eye-patch.
Having noticed the opportunities available in Europe, and not having
time to fully train their daughter themselves, Hitomi was sent back to
be raised by her grandparents until such time as she could receive their
family's Thaumaturgical Crest. Rather than remain in Japan she also
chose to go to Europe, taking advantage of its higher number of mages
to get her hands on some rather... interesting mystic codes, notes, and
valuables. Recently, on hearing that someone was killing mages in
Sagen, she rushed back to check her grandparents were okay.
Fortunately, they've yet to be targeted. Her maternal grandparents,
over in Tokyo, are in no immediate danger, though her grandfather there
has apparently recently gotten over a cold.

Profession: Magus and phantom thief.

Equipment/Weapons: Hitomi's main Mystic Code is her assault rifle, an
AK-47 so heavily modified that the only moving part any more is the
trigger, lending credence to her claim that it's just a toy. That it feels
like plastic to the touch only improves the situation, though she still
tries not to show it off. It is, effectively, a magical taser, ranging from
something she can stab with, if held correctly, to fully automatic fire.
For no readily apparent reason, except maybe the fact that it didn't
really make it any more draining to wield, pretty blue lines cover it
whenever it's in use.
She also has a stash of mystic codes, neatly packed away, that, in
many cases, she doesn’t even know the intended use of. The most
useful is effectively a magical lockpick.

Abilities:
Elemental Affinity of Lightning
Reinforcement/Alteration Specialist
Mystic Eye of Illusion (left eye). Since this doesn't appear to be
specified anywhere, it creates illusions that anything can see, even
security cameras, so long as she can see part of it. However, the
illusions are specifically visual, so it's not hard to tell they're not real.
It's good for hiding things, though. The use to pretend things are there
is somewhat debatable since her colour-blindness in this eye makes
anything other than greyscale images somewhat difficult, since she
can't check the shades are right.
Mystic Eye of Phantasms (right eye). If Hitomi ever takes off that eye-
patch, use of this eye immediately becomes possible. If she manages to
look into someone's eyes, for even a fraction of a second, whilst the
eye is 'properly' active (when it can only see darkness, it's in a dormant
state; it becomes a steady drain on prana when looking at anything)
then the person so trapped will begin to hallucinate that something is
attacking them. That 'something' is always their worst fear or a
weakness of some kind, so long as it's dangerous, and if it hits then
any injuries inflicted are actually transferred to their body. How hard it
is for this fear to successfully land a blow is dependent on the amount
of prana Hitomi is willing to use.
The downside to this Sorcery Trait is that Hitomi constantly sees her
own fears, even though they won't attack, when she can see anything
with this eye. It has colour vision, however, and isn't long-sighted like
the other.
Acrobatics and some gymnastic tricks. How else would she keep that
wonderful body~?

Name: Rachel St. Claire

Age: 29

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Appearance: She's more cheerful now than she used to be.

Personality: With the goal of her family in mind—to try and pack as
much prana into a human frame and open the path to Akasha—despite
her own desire to be an author. She likes fiction a lot more than
magecraft and, though she devotes time to that which she's been
raised to do from birth, Rachel tends to look at a lot of things like
stories. Nowadays, she actually tends to write stuff, though she still
pays a lot of attention to her magecraft out of fascination with what
you can actually do despite overspecialisation.

Backstory: Born to a vastly wealthy family of magus, Rachel was raised
from birth to carry on the tradition of the maternal line. In a feat of
cosmic irony, it was only a few months after successful transferral of
the family crest (a network of lines on her back mapping out every
major blood vessel in her torso) that her mother was killed in a car
accident. Seeking a means to get her back and retrieve the only person
she was really close to, she rushed to a grail war with a justification
about a research trip. There she picked up a daughter. This daughter
was none other than jack the Ripper, who gave her what she wanted
despite never finishing the war: someone to be close to. In exchange
for alerting the Einzberns to the rip-offs of their grail that were being
constructed and providing huge amounts of prana over the course of a
few weeks (as well as giving them interesting research), they helped
give Helen a flesh and blood body, complete with some circuits. Much
more finesse than Angra Mainyu.
Wanting to get away from the Holy Grail War entirely, she moved to
Japan, taught her daughter to write, and settled into a quiet life by the
coast. Caravaggio's actions are annoying... but she's not that worried.
She's had years to protect her house and her immediate defences even
if they're breached are scary.

Profession: Magus/Aspiring Author

Equipment/Weapons:
Stasis Bandages: The bandages always wrapped around her wrists
stop the wounds there from healing but also from bleeding, at all. As far
as her body is concerned, they're flesh. Constantly draining a little
prana from the blood, most people wouldn't see the point in them.
Wealth: Her father's a good businessman, even if his ability as a magus
is rather lacking. He wants her to visit home some time.
Her House: Implausibly perched on a cliff overhanging the sea, it
shouldn't be a safe place, if not for blood-engraved Bounded Fields that
stop anything from collapsing. Its garden goes right up to the edge of
the cliff. Japanese-style, since she likes the architecture.

Abilities:
Elemental Affinity: Blood. Starting off as a mere sub-element of water,
it's more or less an entirely distinct element by this point in her life.
Having fully caught up to her family's research and applied it and
started to branch out on her own, blood is the whole element.
Prana-Packed Blood: As her family believes that containing the
maximum amount of prana is necessary to attain the Root, her blood
vessels are magic circuits and her blood is as much mana as matter,
especially with a few modifications made to make it even better at
holding things. Whilst a few years ago this sacrificed the ability to use
normal magecraft properly due to lack of power, the final modifications
required by her ancestors involved complex spiritual surgery and, using
her blood itself as the operating tool, allowed them to use her blood as
a supply of prana as well as converting them to use the fats of their
nearest physical analogues as their own rudimentary supply before her
blood is involved (though this makes her rather more clumsy than she
used to be). As a result, the amount of prana Rachel has on supply is
enormous... though it isn't overly quick to replenish.
Blood Control: So long as it contains prana, she can direct her blood—
or any blood it contaminates, along with water so long as it doesn't
grow too dispersed before she seizes control—to form weapons,
shields, surgical implements, tiny tendrils that last for hours but are
good for cooking and writing... you know, using small amounts to be
convenient.
Physical Oddness: Possibly as a result of being so magical, Rachel's
concerned that she doesn't really... age normally. Her mother didn't
look her age when she died, though, she looked rather like Rachel does
now... and that's thirty, years down the line. She'll probably have to
help Helen about that...

Name: Ryuuzaki Kotori (Japanese order)
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Appearance: Courtesy of a friend. What the picture doesn't show is just how tall she is.

Personality: Ryuuzaki sees herself as a modern day samurai of sorts, and is something of a traditionalist as her clothing choices seem to imply. She applies herself to any task she performs with utmost seriousness, and can come off a little intimidating at first, but she is a well meaning, honest and loyal to a fault. She dreams of becoming a "Samurai of the People", not bound to a single lord but pledged to help mankind as a whole, and as such tries her hardest to trust the word of those she meets completely, her staunch belief in the better nature of people often coming off as a naivety at odds with her otherwise serious demeanour. She seems as though she was born a few centuries too late, and would've been much more at home during the time of the samurai; she's not at all comfortable with the modern world and finds it difficult operating most appliances. She can come off as somewhat tomboyish, and were this being written in Japanese she would refer to herself using masculine pronouns. Ryuuzaki hates her given name, Kotori, and prefers to be called by her family name, Ryuuzaki.

Backstory: A member of the Ryuuzaki clan, a family of demon hunters who branched off from the Nanaya clan long ago due to believing that the Nanaya were becoming little more than a pack of immoral murderers. Her family is a family of traditionalists, who revere the samurai of old and their bushido code. As such, Ryuuzaki was brought up believing that to follow the code was the most noble path in life, and through intense training from almost the very moment she started walking she has achieved a level of swordsmanship almost without peer. Her skills are hired out to help fight demons and keep the unknowing public safe, but more often than not she refuses to accept any payment more than the bare minimum she needs to survive.

Profession: Demon Hunter
Equipment/Weapons: Wields the cursed sword Daikyouken, Blade of Calamity, what looks like a simple wooden katana but is in fact nigh-indestructable and capable of slicing through solid rock. As a cursed weapon, it is able to harm spirits, ghosts and other incorporeal entities. The sword is an heirloom of her family; thus, Ryuuzaki will not part with it for any reason.

Abilities: Insanely skilled with her sword. As a member of a branch family of the Nanaya clan, she possesses Pure Eyes, which work pretty much the same as Shiki's did before they became Mystic Eyes. She's also generally atheletic all around, and possessed of far greater strength and agility than one would expect from a regular human. Ryuuzaki is also a somewhat skilled cook; whilst she's not exactly the best cook around, her food is still usually delicious and edible. She also plays the ryuteki, and has a wonderful singing voice.

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Name: Helen St. Claire (formerly Heroic Spirit "Jack the Ripper")
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Race: Human. Formerly Heroic Spirit
Appearance: A nasty surprise, a devil in disguise.

Personality: Kind of an oddball. She's a walking contradiction, shy yet overly talkative (especially about some rather weird and possibly disturbing topics), childish yet quick of thought, pure yet cruel. She repays kindness and cruelty alike, and whilst her mother has tried to make some progress with her, the fact remains that she is still somewhat mentally unstable, although she's a lot better than how she used to be. She loves her mother very much; insulting and/or hurting her is the quickest way to attract her ire (or, more likely, a knife in the gut). She uses first person plural pronouns, such as "us" and "we", to address herself for some unknown reason.

Backstory: An orphan who was adopted by a magus, and who has pledged to fulfil her adoptive mother's dream. Sounds somewhat familiar, right? Well... Helen is actually the Heroic Spirit "Jack the Ripper", summoned to fight for the Holy Grail. However, she and her Master quickly realized that, now that they had each other, they didn't really want anything else from the Grail, and instead decided to just skip town rather than risk getting killed by one of the other participants in the war. After somehow seeking out the Einzbern family and somehow convincing them that helping her would be a good experiment, Jack (now Helen, after the "From Hell" letter) somehow had her spiritual body converted to flesh and blood. From then on, the two tried their best to have the closest thing to a normal life as they could together. Settling down in Sagen, Helen started attending school there (after her mother had taught her how to read and write), and is currently studying in hopes of becoming a surgeon in the future.

Profession: Student, former serial killer and Servant.
Equipment/Weapons:

• Maria the Ripper - ''The Holy Mother of Dismemberment: A rather distinctively shaped knife. It is seemingly indestructable (or at least very resilient), and during foggy nights it seems to power up against female targets. As she is no longer a Servant, Helen cannot use her Noble Phantasm to its full effect without experiencing a collosal mana drain. As such, she only ever carries one of the knives around with her, and leaves the other three with her mother.
  

Abilities: Almost superhumanly swift and agile, to the point that she can run across vertical surfaces if she builds up enough speed. Her skill with a knife is almost unparalleled, and she is possibly one of the best knife fighters in the entire world (only a schoolboy with magical eyes and his evil doppelganger seem to outmatch her (Ryougi isn't counted due to being from a different world anyways)). She can seemingly hide from sight completely whenever she wishes (as long as there is cover, at least), and people tend to have a hard time remembering her for some reason.

This interests me. I'll go inspire myself with images, and then I'll make a sign up.

Well, thank goodness for that!

Picture is a bit on the silly side. Other than that, seems fine to me.

Okay, I should be able to find a picture soon...

EDIT: Found.