Editing Magica Mima Umbra Puella:Chizuru

'''Name:''' Rika Chizuru

'''Age:''' 15

'''Appearance:''' Glasses, long hair in a ponytail, slightly sloppy, with strands of hair always waving free.  Short and a little out-of-shape, and never dressed fashionably.

'''Contract:''' Has not yet happened.  Will probably involve a desire to understand this new facet of the world.

'''Wish:''' To truly understand how the universe works, all its scientific laws (and magical ones, if there's a difference, and how the two sets fit together).

'''Magical Element:''' Clockwork

'''Magical Power:''' 'Breakdown' – can temporarily disassemble something into a set of easily-comprehensible parts, then reassemble it with no damage done.  The parts float in the air, outlined in different-colored magical glows, and may have connections drawn between them or little schematic annotations floating next to each bit.  Will not work against something alive that doesn't consent to it, including youma.

'''Magical Effects:''' Double Action (clockwork spins backwards), Healing Touch (breaks down the wound into its component parts and reassembles them undamaged)

'''Magical Weapon:'''  Enchanted pocketwatch that can fire cogs, watch hands, or fob chains; can also breakdown and transform into other small weapons, such as a pistol or a knife, though it will always retain its clockwork nature and its clock face.  Does not grant her any powers over time, no matter what other people might think!

'''Costume:''' A little steampunky, or maybe clockpunky, one might say – instead of being a frilly dress or the like, her outfit is based more on overalls or a pantsuit, with bracers and goggles ticking with complicated clockwork.  Still pretty ornate and neat-looking.  Coloration is mostly browns and brass.

'''Normal Attributes:'''
''Aggro:'' 6
''Cool:'' 5
''Social:'' 3
''Sharp:'' 7

'''Magical Attributes:'''
''Magic:'' 8
''Heart:'' 4
''Fury:'' 6

'''Base Resolve:''' 18

'''Finishing Attack:''' Breakdown Gear "'''System Failure'''" (Piercing Magic attack: an energy cog momentarily disassembles armor and barriers as it flies through them)

'''Relationships:'''
* [[Magica_Mima_Umbra_Puella:Tomoe|Oda Tomoe]], best friend.  While Chizuru and Tomoe have different approaches to life, Chizuru really respects her intelligence and her mastery of a skill Chizuru's no good at, and the two get along very well.
* [[Magica_Mima_Umbra_Puella:Miyuki|Kawai Miyuki]], intellectual rival.  Chizuru recognizes Miyuki's intellect, but is utterly appalled that she's wasting it on social networking.
* [[Magica_Mima_Umbra_Puella:Rika_Meiko|Rika Meiko]], mother.  Meiko is very happy as the perfect housewife, and thinks it's the only thing her daughter should be aspiring to.
* [[Magica_Mima_Umbra_Puella:Rouka_Shingo|Dr. Rouka Shingo]], mentor.  Dr. Rouka has been impressed by Chizuru's intellect, and is giving her a window onto the world of scientific research.



Chizuru wants to understand the world.  She loves math, science, and the act of looking at the inner workings of something to find out just how it works.  She's smart, very smart, and proud of it.  She also gets very upset when something doesn't make sense – and much to her annoyance, some things just don't.  She steers clear of being too social – people are really complicated, and society even more so, and she doesn't pretend to understand how it all works – but she gets most upset at parts of science that she thinks are just wrong.  Quantum physics, dark matter, wave-particle dualities – she has this instinctive feeling that these and some other major parts of modern physics are just plain ''wrong'', and that upsets her.  And she doesn't know if it's because she's genuinely seeing that modern science is on the wrong track, or because nobody's explained these theories to her in a way that's not just toned-down-for-the-general-public and their true forms would make more sense, or if she's just plain wrong, and not as smart as she thinks she is.  And not knowing makes her both a bit scared and a bit mad.

She also gets rather upset when someone tries to push her into a stereotypical feminine mode, as for example her mother is constantly doing.  (Dad's a salaryman, Mom's a housewife, and that's all they've ever aspired to be – they're not bad people, but Chizuru really wishes they'd accept there's more to life than what they're pushing on her.)

She's generally fascinated with taking things apart to see how they work.  This can be literal (she's got an old pocketwatch her grandfather left her that she loves to take apart and reassemble, and she's always on the lookout for other pure mechanical watches, music boxes, or other clockwork things to work on) or more abstract (she's a big fan of cryptanalysis – breaking codes – and in her spare time she's read a lot about the codemaking and codebreaking of World War II).