MAGUS, shunka yanagi

[SHUNKA YANAGI]

SHUNKA YANAGI
THE THANKLESS HOLY PRAISE
IS LEFT ALONE WHY BOTHER
TO CAST A STONE IN THE WATER
- ASTRINGENT RAPTURE -

NAME:
shunka yanagi, although some do take to calling her shun.

AGE:
nineteen years old, born december fifth.

GENDER:
female and heterosexual.

CLASS:
magus.

AFFILIATION:
during her stay in japan, shunka has taken up work as a receptionist in a fairly popular hotel. she has cut off most ties to the mage's association, due to her personal experiences with them, and as such can be considered freelance.

ALIGNMENT:
chaotic neutral.

ORIGIN:
acknowledgement.

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PERSONALITY:
a young woman domineered by her emotions, shunka initially comes off as composed and collected. she has a calculating manner about her and seems to constantly be observing and dissecting others with her gaze. cold seeming and indifferent, shunka regard others in an unbiased, callous manner. she is highly perspective not of people's feelings but rather their habits and quirks, what sets them off, and is as well very observant of her surroundings. yet she is quick to judge and her feelings for others are easily clouded by such judgments, typically made from her observations of those around her. shunka believes first impressions to be everything, part of her reason for always coming off as much more collected than she really is, and for those that fail to impress her (which are many), she finds it hard to change her initial opinion of them.

while she would lead others to believe herself apathetic, shunka is in fact a wild card. hot tempered at her finest, she is a ticking time bomb. the smallest things can set her off. shunka regards to most events around her with excitement or anger and when she is angry, she desires to crush everything around her and when she is excited, she struggles to keep it secret. prone to irrational decisions, shunka would love to think in the long term, but the truth is, her hot temper often causes her to ruin any long term plans. as a result of this nature of hers, she's become highly adaptable and is quick to make adjustments as need be. while she can be an emotional roller coaster, shunka does keep anything concerning herself and her motives highly secret. whatever she feels inside is externally expressed as, most often, frustration. in her worst moments, when shunka can't even become frustrated, she holes herself up for days. concerning others, however, shunka is more apt to cry if she finds something sad, to laugh if she finds something funny, and to become angry when things anger her. despite this, she does not attach herself to people and in fact finds it genuinely hard to become close to others.

as a result of this, she finds it easy to manipulate and use those around her. shunka is rather callous towards people in the end and she does not permit herself to feel or give into remorse. ambitious to the end, shunka justifies deceiving others as a means to further her own goals and to achieve what she wants. it is not a fact she is proud of, and when called out on it, shunka responds in the best way she knows how - through anger. while far from an actress given her wild emotions, shunka knows how to lie and how to play others.

shunka is, in addition, incredibly prideful. unwilling to admit to mistake or flaw, shunka can come off as arrogant. she is stubborn as can be and doesn't work well with most people due to this. what she would rather people not know though is she is aware of her flaws (and the great many there are) and in fact has an incredibly low opinion of herself. furthermore, shunka finds it incredibly hard to apologize or even admit to mistake, only furthering the idea that she is, in the end, worthless.

HISTORY:
coming from a small lineage of magic users (the yanagi family goes two generations back), shunka has always had a certain pressure set upon her by her parents to be something great. they had moved to britain to be part of the mage's association and as such, shunka was sent to schooling in the academy there. while she could control her magecraft well enough, shunka was by no means exceptional at it. combined with her rather short lineage, shunka was often a source of pity and ridicule to her peers. condenscending remarks became a daily aspect of her life. furthermore, she was just as much a disappointment to her parent's. perhaps because they did not entirely understand magecraft themselves (their own parent's hadn't actually had much interest in the practice) they did not consider perhaps it was normal for shunka to not be as great at it as others. instead, they only looked down on her with disappointment. it was worse than that and shunka knew they saw her inadequate in other areas. she was never smart enough no matter what grades she made, never talented enough no matter what she could do, she was never pretty enough or good enough or anything enough. she was, always, a disappointment. the contempt and arrogance from her peers only furthered such thoughts and shunka became embittered by these realizations that, no matter what she did, she would never be ideal in any manner. frustrated with this and herself for being so flawed, she took to holing herself up to do nothing more than learn, cutting herself off from both friends and enemies and even her parents.

obsessive studying and practicing on her own eventually led shunka to become aware of the holy grail. she became obsessed with the idea of winning it. perhaps then she would achieve the approval she desperately craved not only from her parent's, but those around her. she set about summoning a servant. while she had her heart set on a specific class, shunka, as she is apt to do, managed to ruin it and summon a class entirely different from her original choice.


EXTRA INFORMATION:
✤ her parents were initially from around osaka, japan, and combined with growing up in a predominantly english environment, shunka's japanese is rather odd to hear being a mixture of kansai dialect and british accent influence.

✤ shunka has an excellent memory for just about anything. she's one of those people that remembers even the most small, offhand details about a person or story. a well of information, shunka can at times be a know it all.

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OOC NAME:
retro.

OTHER CHARACTERS:
none.

FACE CLAIM:
FINAL FANTASY TYPE 0 • sice -- shunka yanagi.

SANDBOX:
i uh i don't know

[SHUNKA YANAGI]

SHUNKA YANAGI
I WRITE TO GIVE WORD THE WAR IS OVER
SEND MY CINDERS HOME TO MOTHER
THEY GAVE ME A MEDAL FOR MY VALOR
- ASTRINGENT RAPTURE -

STATUS INFORMATION:

[/b] C+
AGILITY: B-
MANA: C
LUCK: D-
ENDURANCE: B[/ul]

WEAPON:
✤ while shunka's primary weapon is her magic, she does have a concealed dagger in the event things become too close combat for her taste.[/size][/blockquote]

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SPELL LIST:

[/b] B affecting the area under her target, shunka is capable of making the ground rapidly sink in, creating a sink hole around two feet that, if not successfully avoided, can cause her opponent to became momentarily stuck or even cause them to stumble. it uses seven prana and is one of the spells within her thaumaturgical crest.
BAYONET: C affecting the ground near her target again, shunka can cause a spike of earth to shoot up about two feet. while easily avoidable due to rumbling of the ground underneath and a slower casting time, it can pierce flesh if it makes contact. it uses five prana.
CULTIVATE: B a special skill of her family, shunka can cause plants to rapidly bloom. the size of the plant and the stage it is at affects the consumption of prana but it generally doesn't exceed six units. it has no current battle use, much to her chagrin.
RESTORE: D when shunka uses up all of her available prana, she is capable of restoring it at a faster rate than others via meditation and absorbing it from the mana around her. she can restore no more than ten units in a day and it takes about three hours of perpetual sitting and relaxing (things that she's quite bad at) to achieve.
DESCRY: C by absorbing the mana in the air, shunka can use it to basically know of any current events that may have taken place in or near the area she is at. the mana 'whispers' to her. she expends about four units of prana for every five seconds of information she achieves. it is, in a way, like listening to nature and she can only do it in areas that have high levels of mana. she needs to have a clear image of what she wants to know or else the mana tends to freely interpret her wishes.[/ul][/size][/blockquote]

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SKILL LIST:

[/b] B proficient in using her fists and most close range objects, shunka is more than capable of defending herself should melee combat be forced upon her.
ENHANCED ENDURANCE: B shunka makes up for her lack of magic adeptness and even strength via her ability to simply endure anything that comes her way. she is excellent at forcing her way through pain and lets little stop her.
SPRINTING: C in a normal school, shunka might have been a track star. while by no means an olympic runner, she can move surprisingly fast for brief periods. it has its uses when she's chasing someone or trying to outrun someone else and is further enhanced by her ability to pivot around to cast a spell.[/ul][/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]

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