The Broken Universe:Akane

Akane Hinamori is a character in The Broken Universe, played by RoadsOfShadow.

Profile

Name: Akane Hinamori

Age: 15 (first year of high school)

Magical Girl Name: Starlight Magician Akane

Appearance

Normal

Akane is about 160cm, with a thin framed, that's only ever highlighted by her preference for slightly to large clothing. Her eyes are a dull stormy gray that doesn't quite fit with her dark, short brown hair.

Magical Girl

When transformed Akane is dressed in well fitted midnight blue pantsuit highlighted by it's own dawn pink trimming. Small light patterns of silver and brass stenciled in where more conventional clothing would have sticking or seems add an unearthly depth, almost appearing to make the suit an extension of the night sky. Those are not the only changes Akane undergoes, her eyes brighten, the storm cloud gray giving way to the clear blue of cloudless skies over open ocean, seeming to grow wider, and, somehow, sharper as well. Her hair likewise lengthens and lightens, flowing into a light auburn shades light browns intermingled with just a hint of warmer reddish hues as its new length settles comfortably around her shoulders. For all its added length it never moves to obscure her face, as if it is reluctant to hide the strange glow of health that seems to settle on Akane whenever she uses her magic.

Personality

"It's not that I don't like people, most people just aren't all that interesting you know? " Akane is... perhaps a touch contradictory in her behavior. She goes through every day trying her level best to be cheerful and open with everyone around her, but she does that this so as to keep her distance. She is nice and helpful at first, but she brushes away almost any attempt by others to get closer to her. She helps out, but she doesn't hang around to make sure that it takes. She will happily introduce people who might be good friends, but she never seems to reach out to make friends for herself. She knows its good for others, but she remains unconvinced that any of it is worth it to her.

What convinced you to make a pact?

"I... don't think I understand the question?" Akane can't think of a reason for turning away from a pact, being well and truly magical is a dream come true, it feels real, it feels important in a way so few things she has ever done have felt real. This feels important in a way nothing else in her life has. And saving the world? Well, want kind of jerk wouldn't like saving the world?

What is your wish?

"I want to be able to show my magic to everyone!"

Crisis: Whispers in the Dark

Ever sense her magic was unlocked, she has been catching bits of whispered or muttered speech from shadows and places just out of sight. Those snatches are becoming longer, more consistent and more understandable by the night. She still doesn't know what’s being said, but can't believe that’s going to be the case much longer.

Game Info

• Magical Element: Fortune
• Magical Weapon: Playing Cards
• Magical Power: Illusions
• Magical Specialization: Priestess

Stats

• Resolve: 18 / 18

Normal Attributes

Charm	5 (4+1)
Insight	6
Tenacity	4

Magical Attributes

Heart	7 (6+1)	Attack
Fury	4	Defence
Magic	9 (8+1)	Support

Talents

Talent	Category	Action	Uses	Cost	Short Description
Boost	Basic	Free Action	3/Scene	1 Overcharge	Take overcharge for additional dice
Recover	Basic	n/a	2/Episode	n/a	Regain 1d6+2 Resolve (out of combat only)
Shield	Common	n/a	n/a	1-3 Support Overcharge	Reduce damage to self or friend by 5 per point of overcharge
Remedy	Priestess	Minor Action	2/Scene	0+ Support Overcharge	Remove negative status effects range 0-2
Make an Opening	Priestess	Major Action	2/Scene	n/a	Basic Attack that allows allies basic Move actins away from enemies or +1 to attack challenges.

Advances

Episode One

One Tier One: +1 Heart, I Loved, and wish to Love Harder.

Episode Two

Two Tier One: +1 Magic, I've been Practicing. +1 Charm, I can be Social.

Relationships

PCs

To be added

NPCs

To be added

Fluff

Initiator: This single tarot like playing card is the focus that Akane uses during her Transformation, experimentation has shown that it is not strictly necessary, but she is always able to draw it out she tends to make use of it. On the front the image of Akane and the Starlight Magician leaning against opposite sides of the frame, looking one another in the eye across the image of a slowly rotating Earth.

The Spell Code: Shortly after Akane transformed for the first time, she took to experimenting with her new found abilities with great zeal, such early experimentation was uneven, frequently ended in painful, or at least embarrassing heartache and never worked according to plan. Frustrated by the lack of reliability and precision in her magical abilities, Akane set to finding a way to improve her control. This lead to the development of her ‘Spell Code,’ in the beginning she used playing cards as a focus, assigning ideas and values to them and trying to make the act of moving the card one and the same with moving her magic. She succeeded beyond her wildest hopes, shortly after she began, she noticed the slight impression of wires and thread between the cards she was using, and so she started letting a bit of the power she was balancing in the cards flow between into these wires, this she quickly learned gave her even better of how her magic fitted together and reached out to affect the world around her. Not long after she stopped using physical cards, and began using the visual/haptic illusions she still uses. As she continued to practice and develop her skills, she started to notice something strange, while her power flowed in accordance with the logic she rules she imposed on the Code, she started to find more and more little quirks and interaction within the Code which had effects she had not intended. As more and more of the Code is defined in the Starlight Grimoire, less of it is her invention, and more of it discovered. Maybe it’s some natural trait of her magic, or her subconscious mind, perhaps it’s something to do with the Whispers, or something else besides. Right now, she just wished she knew where this Other Logic came from.

The Starlight Grimoire: As she began to development and formalization of Spell Code, it occurred to Akane, that is she wanted a reliable and consistent intermediary to help her control her magic, then it would likely be a good idea to create a written record of her process, if for no other reason than to force herself to take an extra step in the learning process. When the Code started to expand beyond her original intent, she become very thankful she already had something to record her discoveries, but, as seems to happen with everything involving Akane’s magic, it expanded beyond that.

The Grimoire is comprised of three journals, each detailing a record of different parts of her magical life. The first, the Blue Journal, includes all the notes and research Akane has created relating to the Code, and her understanding thereof. The second, is the Green Journal, this is part diary, part examination of her life as a magic girl, including such things as notes from her scattered meeting with Kekku, her encounters with others like her, and the frightful close encounters with daemons she has experienced. More than that, it has her musing on how it feels to use her magic, as opposed to the more clinical dissection of her power included in the Blue. Akane doesn't recall what she had once intended for the Black Journal. Only that a half dozen pages at the front are torn up or buried in ink and illusions. She does know exactly what it has and will keep on being for, and that is to chronicle the jumbled ramblings and ravings of the Whispers. She knows not where they come from, and thus far she has been avoided mentioning them, even to Kekku, who had warned her of some possible strangeness connected to her developing magic. She doesn't know what she’s going to do with them, especially as they keep getting clearer. For now she records what she can, and buries what she can’t, and hope.