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CHARACTER NAME: Kyouko Kougami
CHARACTER SERIES: Original
AGE: 16
Impressions and Powers:


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Kyouko stands at 5’2’’ and doesn’t exactly cut an imposing figure. She’s petite in a way that implies fragility and though she’s (mostly) a healthy build and weight for her height, she still has the look of someone who’s spent a very long time being sick. She makes up for this by being very bouncy and loud, though. It’s actually quite hard to tell that Kyouko’s as small as she is because she’s always moving – big arm gestures, bouncing around, never in one place for more than a few seconds. Her hair is dark brown and aggressively fluffy despite all her attempts to tame it. She has it styled in a shoulder-length bob that she sometimes ties braids or other cute accessories into. Her style of dress is girly, floaty and AGGRESSIVELY PINK AND CUTE.

As Reflector Heart, Kyouko gains about an inch of height and her build is generally a little wider and thicker -- she looks a bit more athletic and muscular. She's even more energetic and bouncy than usual as Reflector Heart and she's constantly moving around and fidgeting no matter what she's doing.

Characters are free to recognize Kyouko as Reflector Heart or vice versa! There's no sort of glamor magic or anything like that keeping people from doing so. The differences between the two are basically the difference between someone decked out in full professional cosplay and just their regular self and Kyouko herself won't be making any attempt to hide who she is. Similarly, if you'd like to have characters fail to recognize her for funsies, that's all good too!

Powers:

Kyouko is a sort of magical girl known as a Reflector and when transformed, she takes the form of Reflector Heart, a reflection of Kyouko's idealized image of herself. She transforms with a Shard, a tiny crystallized piece of her own heart that was born in the Imaginaerium. When transformed, Kyouko's appearance is radically different -- her build and face are fuller and look more healthy and her hair is long and flowing and bright pink. There's no particular time limit on her transformation, but she likely won't shift into Reflector Heart unless it's called for.

Reflector Heart's powers are drawn from the feelings that made Kyouko into a Reflector in the first place. Namely, the desire to be strong enough to stand up and help the people around her. This manifests as Reflector Heart being much stronger and faster than a baseline human -- she's the strongest and fastest out of the three Reflectors and essentially serves as their team's close range DPS. However, because most of Kyouko's powers are based on enhancing her physical capabilities, she's not very versatile and nearly all of her fighting technique is about getting up close and getting a hit in. This means that when she's on her own, Reflector Heart doesn't have a whole lot of other options. She's also mostly used to fighting monsters so the first time she goes up against an opponent who can actually think and strategize she's going to get a nasty surprise.

Reflector Heart's physical abilities are currently nerfed. Her enhanced physical abilities are limited three half hour uses per day before she will need to "recharge" at a mana pool.

Reflector Heart's only other power is a very weak "feeling sense" that allows Kyouko to pick up on potential sources of emotional distress or discord. It's not specific enough to be empathy, since she generally can't tell what emotion is pinging her sense, just a general feeling that "something is wrong with this person". It also doesn't distinguish between different kinds of distress very well; she can be pinged just as easily by "I just lost my job and I'm probably going to starve" as she can by "My favourite character just died in the anime I've been watching".

Please let me know below if you'd like your character to ping Kyouko's feeling sense! This is strictly opt-in as opposed to opt-out and won't crop up in threads if I don't have your permission.

[OOC]

Backtagging: Totally fine!
Threadhopping: Usually A-okay but in more serious or longer threads, please ask first!
Fourthwalling: nah
Offensive subjects: I'd really prefer to avoid things relating to sexual assault and rape, as well as abusive relationships particularly emotional abuse and parental abuse. If these things are going to come up in a thread, please contact me first to discuss them rather than just dropping them on me! In addition, i'm a huge weenie baby with a big ass phobia of spiders and needles! i can handle descriptions of them if they come up in threads but p l e a s e don't spring images of them on me out of nowhere if possible!

[IC]

Hugging this character: honestly, she's probably already hugging you before you've even finished reading this. kyouko is a very grabby girl!!
Kissing this character: she already has a girlfriend (she thinks??) so please leave her be.
Flirting with this character: see above! though honestly even if you try, she probably won't notice.
Fighting with this character: Kyouko Kougami is always dtf (down to fight) and she's very punchy and strong! You can get a quick rundown of her powers below which will give you an idea of how a fight might shake out. If you're in doubt, drop me a line!
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): I'm pretty good with mostly anything but don't like just up and stab her out of nowhere?! why would you, she's a good girl. for the most part, just assume that anything that has the potential to put her out of commission for a few days should be run by me first.
Killing this character: Not without permission!
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Totally fine! Just hit me up first and I'll give you a rundown of what your character would find.

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