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| | =="Sensei"== | | =="Sensei"== |
| | An old ex-assassin Japanese martial artist living in Roanapur, 'Sensei' (the only name by which Noriko knows him) has been helping Noriko learn how to fight with the naginata. Or, as he put it the first time he saw her form, "That stance is great if you're trying to win a tournament and will get you killed in a real fight." He has been teaching her the Higo Koryu school style. In return for the training, she's occasionally helped him out with the occasional odd job (which so far have *not* involved violence, just stuff like 'go get my groceries', 'make me dinner', or 'clean this area that I can't quite reach anymore because of my bad back'). He's casually sexist (which annoys Noriko, but she holds her tongue) and she suspects he's mostly okay with teaching her how to use the naginata because it's a 'woman's weapon.' Noriko doesn't think he knows she's a magical girl; he only interacts with her when she's 'off-duty' so to speak. He lives in a little two floor building, with the ground floor being the dojo (and has quite a few weapons on display) and the second floor being his living space. | | An old ex-assassin Japanese martial artist living in Roanapur, 'Sensei' (the only name by which Noriko knows him) has been helping Noriko learn how to fight with the naginata. Or, as he put it the first time he saw her form, "That stance is great if you're trying to win a tournament and will get you killed in a real fight." He has been teaching her the Higo Koryu school style. In return for the training, she's occasionally helped him out with the occasional odd job (which so far have *not* involved violence, just stuff like 'go get my groceries', 'make me dinner', or 'clean this area that I can't quite reach anymore because of my bad back'). He's casually sexist (which annoys Noriko, but she holds her tongue) and she suspects he's mostly okay with teaching her how to use the naginata because it's a 'woman's weapon.' Noriko doesn't think he knows she's a magical girl; he only interacts with her when she's 'off-duty' so to speak. He lives in a little two floor building, with the ground floor being the dojo (and has quite a few weapons on display) and the second floor being his living space. |
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| | + | The second-in-command of the Doyle family gang and its chief enforcer, Monreau fled as soon as he got words that his boss was killed by Doll. He is still looking to rebuild the gang for himself, and as such he sees Doll as the biggest obstacle in his way. Ruthless and merciless, he'll stop at nothing until he gets what he wants. |
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| | + | A so-called "informed mortal" who knows about the magic world, Howard is a teenage math geek with a thing for cryptology. He was forced into a secret branch of the British intelligence specialized in the paranormal after he decoded their secret telegraph. He is Doll's handler whenever she works for the British intelligence, and the two has an on-and-off romantic relationship. |
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| | =Julie= | | =Julie= |
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| | ==Yefrem Kaminsky== | | ==Yefrem Kaminsky== |
| | An affable Mafia lieutenant who enjoys a fine evening of dinner and entertainment as much as he enjoys showing his enemies that he means business | | An affable Mafia lieutenant who enjoys a fine evening of dinner and entertainment as much as he enjoys showing his enemies that he means business |
| − | *Relationship to Shizuka: Shizuka has often been hired by Yefrem for jobs that require a more precise brand of badassery than his men are used to, and Yefrem serves as one of Shizuka's last reminders of the life she used to lead; the two occasionally enjoy a good bottle of wine after a successful job. | + | *Relationship to Shizuka: Shizuka has often been hired by Radomir for jobs that require a more precise brand of badassery than his men are used to, and Radomir serves as one of Shizuka's last reminders of the life she used to lead; the two occasionally enjoy a good bottle of wine after a successful job. |
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| − | ==Rosella Provenzano== | + | ==Lin Féng== |
| − | Somewhat of a self-styled rumormonger and journalist, that publishes weekly gossip paper. Even if her stories weren't completely true, they usually contain some nugget of useful information
| + | A violent Triad assassin frequently used when her superiors need to "make an example" of someone. |
| | + | *Relationship to Shizuka: Shizuka and Lin hold a mutual distate for each other; Shizuka considers Lin to be savage and uncouth, while Lin thinks Shizuka is haughty and shallow. |
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| | =Cynthia= | | =Cynthia= |
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| | =Yumi Suenami (Demon Hunter Yumi)= | | =Yumi Suenami (Demon Hunter Yumi)= |
| | ==Sylvia Fan Pei Hsi, the Gunner Saint== | | ==Sylvia Fan Pei Hsi, the Gunner Saint== |
| − | Sylvia is a magical girl who took Yumi under her wing soon after her contract with Kanzoutsukamu and taught her much of what she knows about demons and magic. She's known as the Gunner Saint because of the religious motif of her outfit and her formidable skills with the dual magical revolvers that she favors for fighting demons and rival magical girls. Sylvia most often works with Mr. Chang as a supernatural troubleshooter, with most of Yumi's early jobs having her assisting Sylvia in taking down demons, cultists and the occasional summoner who tried to make trouble for him. She has also lent aid to the Church of Violence on a number of occasions, usually involving taking out rival arms dealers, cultists, and those involved in the underground trade of tomes used to summon demons. She has a very standoffish relationship with Anton Lamonte, who she knows was once a summoner, and doesn't trust the man one bit. | + | Sylvia is a magical girl who took Yumi under her wing soon after her contract with Kanzoutsukamu and taught her much of what she knows about demons and magic. She's known as the Gunner Saint because of the religious motif of her outfit and her formidable skills with the dual magical automatics that she favors for fighting demons and rival magical girls. Sylvia most often works with Mr. Chang as a supernatural troubleshooter, though she's also lent aid to the Church of Violence on a number of occasions. |
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| − | Sylvia is one of the only ''mahou shoujo'' who has fought Yumi's enemy, the Creeping Chaos with a Thousand Faces, and lived to tell the tale. She lost her entire team to the Awakened Demon on that horrible night -- Steel Witch Haruka, Fate Guardian Masami, Fire Invoker Ruby Heart, and her sempai, Crystal Warrior Marian, whose death bore a very troubling parallel to what happened to Yumi's sister, Yuri Suenami. Sylvia has never been the same since that night, and Yumi has sworn to avenge the deaths of Sylvia's fallen sisters-in-arms as well as her own sister's torture and the loss of her existence to the Awakened Demon.
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| | ==Anton Lamonte== | | ==Anton Lamonte== |
| − | Once upon a time, Anton was a freelance demonologist who hired out to syndicates in need of supernatural firepower for jobs. But when he hired out his services for a demon cult that Yumi was hired to take down, the cult's leader recognized Anton as a former member of a powerful secret society in the occult underground, one which Anton had left after a falling out over their vile practice of torturing people to turn them into vectors for demonic possession. The leader, seeking to curry favor with the society in question, used his sorcery to turn the demon Anton summoned against him, had him beaten to within an inch of his life, and then, as a final humiliation, sought to have Anton sacrificed to the very demon he summoned. Despite Yumi's hatred for summoners (which is equal to her hatred of demons), she saved Anton's life and killed the leader and the demon that Anton helped to summon. He has since become something of a loremaster of things occult and demonic, with his extensive library containing many tomes of forgotten lore about demons, among them a certain volume by a certain mad Arab. Because many of the tomes of Anton's library are quite valuable to summoners, Anton takes their theft VERY seriously, and Yumi will often get hired to retrieve the tomes in question before they are used to unleash big bad nastiness upon the city. From time to time, Anton also feeds Yumi info on various goings-on in the occult underground, including info on demon cults and what they're up to, as well as summoners that Yumi has taken contracts on. Anton knows that he is only alive today because of Yumi, and Yumi has made it very clear what she will do to him if she finds out that he was involved in another demonic summoning, and it's ''not going to be pretty''.
| + | Anton is a freelance demonologist who hires out to syndicates in need of supernatural firepower for jobs. Yumi's taken down several of the demons he's brought into Roanapur, but the two have only met face-to-face once, when Yumi needed assistance to take down a demon summoned by a rival demonologist. Yumi ''despises'' Anton, much like she hates anyone who summons demons, while Anton views her as a worthy, if fairly amusing, opponent. |
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| − | ==Yuri Suenami, the Starlight Sentinel==
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| − | For four long years, Yumi thought that her older sister was dead. One does not normally survive being eaten alive by a demon, much less an Awakened Demon, and especially not over four years. But through an accident of demonic awakening and a sheer refusal to die, Yuri has returned to Roanapur, where she was rescued from scumbags by BlackRoseWhisper and Longshot, and then reunited with Yumi. But while Yumi's older sister is alive, she is not whole. Much of her existence has been consumed by the Creeping Chaos with a Thousand Faces, and most of her memories are gone, but she has fought hard to hold on to the memories she has of her little sister. Because of the nature of her ordeal at the hands of the Creeping Chaos, Yuri appears to be the same age as she was on that horrible night while she is in her normal form, and she bears the distinctive scars of her torture at the Awakened Demon's hands on her back.
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| − | As a newly minted and reawakened mahou shoujo, Yuri is possessed of a very strong protective instinct and a desire to save lives. She wants to help her sister how she can in this city, won't hesitate to kill if it means saving and protecting others, and will ''not'' tolerate anyone who seeks to hurt Yumi or make her suffer, physically or psychologically. However, she does not share Yumi's desire for vengeance, nor the brutality that her sister sometimes displays in dealing with especially hated enemies -- in fact, the only time she displays anything close to Yumi's level of fury is if a demon or maou shoujo tries to drain off a piece of her soul or that of Yumi or any of her friends, owing to her experience at the hands of the Thing Full of Spiders; or when dealing with abusive assholes, owing to her experience with Mr. Komura, their foster father. That said, Yuri is still a bit inexperienced in the ways of the city, and still needs a bit of help dealing with some things. She does not like the dark or tight enclosed spaces, and owing to her encounter with the Weaver of Lies, she's developed a mild case of arachnophobia.
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| − | The events of the Night From Hell, in which Honkukikaori used his Invocation in violation of the Pact to protect Yumi's enemy, Kukibatokubetsu, from Yumi herself, have made Yuri the only person in Roanapur to have been both a mahou shoujo and a maou shoujo. The fact that Yuri is only alive right now because of the bastard that hurt her in the first place is a source of bitter regret for Yumi, who regards the circumstances leading up to it as one of her biggest failures and has sworn ''never'' to fuck up this badly ever again.
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| − | Manageress of a small restaurant that serves a mix of French and Thai cuisine. She runs the place with a firm but fair hand and doesn't suffer fools gladly. This means that she can be somewhat harsh with those who mess up, especially if she considers it a silly mistake to make. That being said, she also looks out for her employees and offers good wages, advice and even a cheap place to sleep. Yuri Suenami has made the restaurant her new home following her reunion with Yumi, and Yumi has made the place a more frequent stop in order to check on her every now and then.
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| − | However Anastasie is also a bit of a ''mahou shoujo'' fangirl (her office is covered in posters and pictures) and wants nothing more than to get pictures with them -- and even better, to find out their secret identities. This aspect of Anastasie annoys Yumi to no end.
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| | =Susan Stripes= | | =Susan Stripes= |
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| | =Wang Xiahe= | | =Wang Xiahe= |
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| − | Liu Feng is a senior clerk in a well established marine insurance firm. Naturally this places him in a position to know a great deal about the movements of various groups, and sometimes he is prepared to make that information known for the right price. Liu Feng is associated in some way with the United Front Works Department, and it has been made clear to Xiahe that she is expected to cooperate with him.
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| − | Cook and owner of Jalilah's, one of Roanapur's more popular Malaysian restaurants. It's not exactly a secret, but nor is it terribly well known that in her youth, Li Yun was a guerilla in the Malayan People's Liberation Army, and that she wound up in Roanapur when Malaya (as it then was) became too hot for her. It is well known that causing trouble in her place is a bad idea, and Xiahe considers it something of a refuge. Also, the food is really good.
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| − | Manageress of a small restaurant that serves a mix of French and Thai cuisine. She runs the place with a firm but fair hand and doesn't suffer fools gladly this means that she can be somewhat harsh with those who messup especially if she considers it a silly mistake to make. That being said she also looks out for her employees and offers good wages, advice and even a cheap place to sleep. Somchai works there as a singer and performs during afternoon or dinner.
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| − | However Anastasie is also a bit of a magic girl fan (Her office is covered in posters and pictures) and wants nothing more than to get pictures with them and even better to find out their secret identities
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| − | A waiter who works the night shift at Anastasie's restaurant, he is an admirer of Somchai's. He is unaware of the fact that Somchai is a magical girl, but her interest in her combined with the fact that his boss is a huge magical girl fan, there's just no telling how long she can keep the secret.
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| | + | ==Alice== |
| | + | Alice is the kind old grandmotherly type. If you go around her house, then you'd better be prepared to have several cups of tea, two square meals and many biscuits and cakes. She is actually very knowledgeable and gives good advice. Has a fondness for cats. |
| | + | ==Kon== |
| | + | A young man in his early twenties who taught Shade to fight. He has a wicked sense of humor and a love of practical jokes. But when it get's to fighting he is deadly serious. |
