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Spoiler: The Vivacious Viv Makes Her Debut! (click to show/hide)

Name: Viverra (Usually goes by Viv) Femella (Magical girl name: The Vivacious Viv)
Age: 17
Gender: Female

Appearance: Untransformed: Viv is a 5'2 female with brownish skin, and bleached sandy hair styled as an undercut, with half of it shaved down to a short fluff, and the other draping down to a bit below her shoulder. She is of modest build, as a person who does regular exercise, and her assets are nothing to scoff at. She has sandy yellow eyes, similar to her hair color, and she usually wears a decent amount of makeup with more sandy yellow lipstick. She has two earrings on each ear, and one septum piercing on her smallish, round nose. Her outfit varies most days, but a couple of favorites are her fluffy black sweater-dress with some black pumps, a cap and overalls with some light denim jeans, and a singlet with shorts (typically for exercise.)

Transformed: Vivacious Viv is much slimmer than Viverra, with a thin line for a torso and limbs, and a perfectly round head. Her hair is now a bob, and her whole body is in shades of black and white. She has old-style cartoon eyes, a long nose with a rounded end (still pierced), and a pair of small, pouted lips. Her hands are now puffy white gloves, and she has a pair of heels for shoes. In this form, she has a complex dress with various patterns and lace, and multiple gems inserted into different parts of it. It is shaped like a typical dress with puffy shoulders, a bottom that spreads out down to her knee, and stops there. The bottom part of her dress is considerably wider than the torso, although the chest of the torso is moderately large. She also has a sparkling tiara in this form, and an old-looking mobile phone with a star on the end of it's antenna. In this form she is in gray-scale, but there is also a light film-grain effect on her body.

Personality: Viverra is a pretty lively person. She is typically quite enthusiastic, and most of the time she is driving a group or attempting to make friends. She isn't super intelligent, but she's quite likable. She's also a massive klutz, tripping over anything and everything (at least, when she's not transformed).

Background: Viv grew up on the coast of Italy, raised by a fairly traditional mother and father who were quite strict on her childhood activities. She resented her parents for most of her life, and took the opportunity to exchange to Japan as soon as it arrived. However, when it became apparent she wouldn't return, her parents decided to follow. Her father, an animator, didn't need to be in any particular place to work, while her mother was a local merchant. This meant that only the father could travel, and this lead to an unhappy divorce of the two.

Viverra, however, didn't feel too bad about it. It lead to her becoming much more free, as her father further isolated himself in his work, pouring out years of animation without purpose, before he passed when Viv was 15 years old. She became her own sole provider, but thankfully the landlord they rented from was generous enough to help her feed and clothe herself. She lives comfortably, especially for someone in her situation. No news of her mother, however, had arrived for sometime.

That was, until, the day her powers developed. While she was scouring through her father's old frames that she had never taken the time to sort through, the ones he left in his study. A particular theme ran through all of them, one of a cellphone that had magical abilities. It featured in every proposed cartoon. After months of sorting through the stacks, she stumbled across a box of belongings, one such object being the phone in question. Confused, she grabbed hold of it, and was granted knowledge. Knowledge of the ACME Warehouse, and her father's last thoughts as he descended into madness, and her mother... The last location her mother was seen. A palace of ice in a storm-cloud world.

Equipped with this incredibly cryptic piece of knowledge, Viverra continues her education, mostly unsure about her powers still. She knows they are there, but she hesitates to use them, in fear of what might happen.

Advantage: ACME-Brand Spirit: Viv has the abilities of an old-timey cartoon character, when transformed. This means that she can stretch, be squished, crushed, burned, melted, dissolved, and still push on. She doesn't feel as much pain as others, and it takes a real beating to properly kill her. She can also run pretty fast, and has a lot of creative avenues of attacking people. She also suffers less from negative effects, due to her cartoonish body not really having heaps in the way of nerves.

Stats:

Melee: 0. She's not one to get close to enemies. She can throw a punch, but not one that will do much.
Ranged: 4. A proficient ranged fighter, Viv typically throws objects at enemies, and can do so pretty competently. She can throw pretty much anything that isn't like, a skyscraper or a tank. 
Mobility: 2. Her cartoon physics allow her to run pretty fast, but she doesn't really use it to dodge, instead just taking hits head-on.
Defense: 6. Due to Viv's cartoon physics, she can be squashed, burnt, broken, beaten, bashed, splatted, disintegrated, and many other things, but she's very tough. Well, more so the injuries she gets from those have less effect.
Super: 2.

Skills:
[Passive] ACME-Brand Soulphone: Her magical cellphone that comes with her transformed body allows her to make calls to the ACME Company, a mystical multidimensional warehouse which supplies beings of all kinds. This phone lets her order varied objects from the warehouse that appear in a space nearby her. She can only make a few calls a day, though.
[Active]{5} Massive Mallet: Viv summons a very large hammer to use in combat. It disappears if it's used in an attack, or just hits something too hard.
[Active]{4} Frame Redraw: Viv erases herself with a giant eraser, and then reconstitutes herself as a different form. She can transform into vehicles, animals, and other normal entities. She can't hold this form for very long, though.
[Active]{3} Finger Flechettes: Making a gun shape with her hands, Viv fires spreads of weak bullets out of her fingers. These bullets aren't strong, but close-up they can deal some damage.
Supers:
ACME-Mergency Call: Phoning a special number, Viv's phone turns into a portal that spews various objects, suited to whatever she might need at the particular moment. This does not count to her normal allowance of object summons. 

[Jilladilla]

Annnnnnnd Sheet! Let me know what you think ok? Feel free to yell at me if you spot anything wrong with it ok?

Spoiler: And You're Grounded! (click to show/hide)

Name: Agatha Klein / Magier Madel Stein
Age: 15 years, 5 months, 3 weeks, 6 days
Gender: Female
Appearance: Pale of skin and fairly short for her age, which combined with her fairly thick pair of glasses tends to create the appearance that she would be blown away by a stiff breeze. This brown-haired German girl views the world with notable wonder present in her eyes. She typically wears heavy brown, black or grey clothing. Of note, Agatha is also notably almost always covered with dust and dirt, as if she walked through a very large dirt cloud recently. She never seems to mind or even notice this, or even other dirt stains she may have accumulated.

Her 'Transformation Sequence' involves a very localized sand/dirt/earth storm, and while the outcome is technically minor, she does cut a very different appearance with her normally brown hair replaced with a stony grey, her glasses exchanged with a very long blindfold (which is nearly immediately moved upwards, converting it into a headband), whatever clothes she was wearing with a long, thick, brown 'wizard robe', and a few extra centimeters of height, although that is entirely due to a pair of stone boots with very thick soles. Also included is a staff seemingly made from obsidian, but it's much too durable to be as such.
Notably, she is still very much near-sighted, and has learned to toss her glasses away from her in a sphere of stone, preventing them from being 'consumed' by the transformation. It's annoyed her enough to be disillusioned a little to the glamour of being a 'Magical Girl', and somewhat rejects the name the media has given her.

Personality: One who has not exactly had much experience in interacting with her peers, Agatha tends to default towards a mixture of shy and aloof and slight curiosity with strangers. But towards those she considers friends, she is friendly and willing to lend a hand with just about anything they may need help with. As long as it doesn't involve planes.

Background: Coming from a family with a long standing tradition of Earthen magic, while also believing in 'Pragmatic Necromancy'; they believe that for the most part, Necromancy is not inherently evil, it just has absolutely terrible PR. After all, one can exclusively boil ones blood with pyromancy or rob another's breath with aeromancy, and their favorite reply to the 'necromancy is terrible and evil' spiel is 'I can bury you alive or let you have one last talk with a loved one who has passed away, and only the latter is necromancy. Tell me, which is more evil?'; most magic is as such not evil, how it is used, however, is. As a result, they have no issue with a skeleton or non-infectious zombie horde, or with summoning spirits of the deceased and requesting or bartering with them for their services. Of course, zombie apocalypses, killing people just to get more fodder, enslaving spirits or just using them as fuel for something are all things that would draw their ire against you.

As for Agatha herself, she herself sees no inherent evil in the act, only in the intent and manner of execution, despite being a complete derp at the art herself. This lack of skill is counterbalanced by a great affinity with the Earthen magic also practiced by the family, however. Also of note is that she very much prefers being on the ground, with the most notable incident with this being her, immediately after disembarking the plane that brought her to Japan as part of a cultural exchange program, hugging the ground while proclaiming that she would 'Never let you go' and 'Will never leave you again!'. They needed a crowbar to pry her off the ground feeling a perfectly normal amount of relief at leaving that flying aluminum deathtrap called an airplane.

After leaving Touto's International Airport, Agatha wandered around the city a bit, taking in the sights and layout, while grumbling about how he likely wouldn't be able to transfer to Hokuto, and be far away from those infernal things called planes. But for now, she remembers her family asking her to check into the Zoanthrope problem while she's here, and at least confirm or deny whether this is yet another hopped up necromancer showing off his latest generation 'zombie' horde or something completely different, and while she is a complete derp as a necromancer, they trust her to recognize an undead when she sees one! Now if only she knew where to look...  And so, her search begins.....

Advantage: Ablative Dust: The ever-present dust and dirt and occasional bit of gravel lodged somewhere isn't just for show, or because she takes frequent rolls in the dirt or strolls through dust clouds, but a neat trick she figured out allowing it to form an inconspicuous ablative layer of protection; with her control over the earth, these small bits and pieces form a sturdy, if thin and fragile layer of armor. While there are very few things this can block fully, it can still absorb a fair bit of damage for what it is, and Agatha is capable of co-opting airborne dust and dirt into the armor to restore damaged sections. As such, it's fairly convenient that many of her attacks tend to create a lot of miniature bits of earth in their aftermath, is it not?
However, it's less effective when wet, as mud tends to clump together and said clumps tend to eventually become too heavy for her subconscious to passively control, and either fall or just stick.

Stats
Melee: 1
While she may be occasionally empowered by the Strength of the Earth, if one engages her at close range it very quickly becomes apparent that she has absolutely no clue how to leverage that strength or fight in melee; she is utterly reliant on her endurance and hoping that she nails the attacker with a Blade Wind, which she often fails to do so due to panic. Really, she hopes that someone comes in and delivers help.

Ranged: 5
In spite of her near-sightedness she is much more effective fighter from a distance, whether it's by flinging stone spikes, causing the ground to do its best quicksand impression, or saturating the area with her signature Blade Wind. Her favored tactic involves immobilizing the target before tossing a really big rock at it. Simple, easy, but likely not to work against a serious opponent, or in anything other than a 1v1. Of course, she isn't anywhere near helpless in such an event, it just isn't so simple as merely throwing boulders at the problem.

Mobility: 2
As expected of her Elemental preference, Agatha prefers to stand her ground. She is not a fast runner (although she does have good endurance), nor are her reflexes above the norm. However, she can cause the ground under her feat to erupt, catapulting her a distance rapidly, of course, she doesn't take to the air gracefully; lots of flailing is involved in this impromptu 'flight' and it usually ends in a face-plant or similar landing style, and the times she does land on her feet her shock at actually 'sticking the landing' tends to eliminate any benefit this would give over just face-planting.
It's really only useful if getting away from her current location RIGHT THIS MOMENT is really, really important, as just about anyone with functional legs can make up most of the distance she gained before she recovers.

Defense: 6
With skin as hard as steel, raised earthen barriers and her Ablative Dust augmenting her personal defenses, Agatha is a defensive juggernaut on the battlefield. While her style of overwhelmingly preferring blocking over dodging can cause her issues, although she would say that with her defenses and level of mobility, it is the more efficient course of action.
Of course, Agatha is skilled not only in personal defenses, but also with bolstering the defenses of her allies. The earthen barriers can be raised to intercept attacks meant for any allies she may have, and she may bestow upon them the Strength of the Earth, not to mention the more traditional magics of earth, such as a basic stoneskin, as well.

Skills:
Strength of the Earth [3]
This spell infuses its target with the implacable essence of the Earth itself, bolstering their strength and granting them the everlasting endurance of the Earth. It also grants them a metaphysical weight as well, they will find their enemies having a harder time knocking them around, physically picking them up, or levitating them through supernatural or mundane means. Although some would hesitate to call that last bit a benefit, Agatha calls them flighty fools who would abandon the sturdiness of stance that being on the ground inherently grants you.

Earth Meld [4]
This spell is meant to trap and immobilize enemies, and as such allows Agatha to keep her distance, Earth Meld transmutes a great swath of ground, making it gain a property that makes it rather similar to quicksand, except that this magically enchanted ground actively pulls on those caught in it, before discharging its magic to revert it back to normal, if temporarily augmented, earth. It typically does not last long enough to bury a person unless an external force aided in that endeavor, or if they were lying down or similar.
As one can expect, this has practically no effect on those who can fly or levitate, unless they were forcibly moved into it or if they were on the ground when it was cast.

Blade Wind [5]
Agatha's Signature Spell, Blade Wind summons a very large assortment of metallic blades, and propels them at great speeds towards the target area. While it isn't exactly very accurate, nor are the blades very magical in themselves, being almost totally mundane, Blade Wind makes up for this with sheer numbers; and most things tend to react poorly to many sharp pieces of metal colliding with it at high speeds. It would be a devastating spell at point blank range, if only Agatha would stop panicking and missing something that was right there...

Maws of the Earth [6]
An ancient spell passed down throughout Agatha's family, this is a masterpiece of great power; normally it requires a sacrifice of a congealed source of pure Earthen magic, however Agatha's raw affinity with Earth allows her to substitute this. Mostly. It's really painful.
Either way, this spell causes the ground to split open, and with protrusions of stone eerily similar to a maw, it will actively attempt to 'consume' anything near the target of it, typically resulting in them being buried and crushed and ground under magically reinforced stone. The Maws are quite rapid and are capable of lunging, and can easily snatch a low flying victim out of the air.

[kj1225]

Spoiler: This has been bugging me. (click to show/hide)

Name: Ragnar Lothbrok/ Armor Pattern Gamma "Queen Bee"
Age: 17
Gender:Male
Appearance: A young man with a very fit build, his body covered in muscle. He’s clean shaven and his hair is well kempt, being styled professionally.  He has a fondness for suits as they conceal his personal armor nearly perfectly. In his personal armor his appearance is more insectoid, like what the bad guys from those old sentai shows would look like. This is in part because it's made of millions of small insectoid constructs, controlled by a combination of the "Queen Bee" core and the latent psychic potential of Ragnar. The main colors are shiny red and black.

Personality: One may think that being raised as a science experiment for many years of your life, where you undergo strange surgeries and creepy magical rituals (don't ask about the "paint"), would cause you to be a bit on the unstable side. Well, that's mostly the case when you're being experimented on by the "screw basic human decency we have money" crowd. Ragnar, partly because he's the son of the owner and partly because the Lodbrok company didn't get where they are by selling things that turn people into psychos, is mostly normal. His father is a little cold but his mother loves him unconditionally, which is part of the reason he's been so eager to go out and save people. The other part is that because he's never really been around other people his age he kind of accepts anime and stuff as something of a mirror of reality and he thinks that because he has powers he's supposed to be a hero. As such, when he's suited up Ragnar tries to act very... well, the closest comparison would be that he acts very "Captain America" like. Of course, in comparison when unsuited Ragnar has absolutely no idea how to interact with normal people so he tries to be very polite, mostly because he wants to finally have friends. Some people might think he's trying to hard though.

Background: Some people think that every human has latent psychic potential, the ability to make things happen with their mind. They're wrong, it's an exceedingly rare trait that few people exhibit even if they were to be bred for it. The Lodbrok company spent years studying this genetic condition in secret and only recently made a significant breakthrough. Specifically, they brought out the ability to control "insects" (They're really just magical constructs in the form of insects. It's surprisingly efficient to use according to the testing he's gone through.) in the son of the company's owner with the help of the Queen Bee core, a piece of technology they received from a rival company called IRIS Inc. They haven't fully figured out the core beyond they fact that when given to a person with latent psionic potential it can amplify their powers greatly. Since the Lodbrok Company doesn't want to waste the investments they put into researching both parts of this they decided that they should use Ragnar to gather data on the limits of psionic powers and hopefully figure out how the Queen Bee core works through field testing. In reality this just means that he goes out to fight Zoanthropes and they make him wear a camera or fill out forms after sometimes.


It was during a "test run" as they call it in the company that Ragnar met Juliet. They had both apparently targeted the same Zoanthrope, a rather large one which of course meant it was more powerful. Together they beat it and Ragnar invited her to a later meeting over coffee. It was there that the two would team up on the condition that Juliet come in to get a proper costume. (Ragnar would never work with someone who didn't have an immediately recognizable theme.) Truth be told, Ragnar has been more excited to work ever since because of it.

Advantage: Using the latest in Psionic technology the Lodbrok company has made major advancements in personal infantry equipment. Ragnar shows this off with the Queen Bee Core. (That's not actually the name, Ragnar just can't remember the actual one and people just think he's doing a hero thing.) It is, in essence a conductor for psionic energy from the one that it's implanted into and in Ragnar's case enables him to control an army of small insectoid constructs to armor him from attacks and to arm him with a spear and shield. (He calls them his Wasp Spear and Beetle shield.) Due to the insects having access to heightened intellect through psionics, they automatically adapt to better protect Ragnar.

Stats: Describe your character's abilities. These are the sum total of their abilities after all factors; for example, if you're not very strong, but you've got a miniature mech that you ride around and crush things in with overpowering strength, you've got a high melee stat. 14 points to be assigned at the start.
Melee: 5 Ragnar is a master of skillfully using a spear and shield, having been learning since he was a kid. There are few people today that can match him even when he isn't assisted by his hive. (He does know it's a boring choice, he just likes it.)
Ranged: 3 Ragnar has recently been experimenting with ranged use of his drones, specifically splitting his consciousness between him and an autonomous drone for use in controlling other hives.
Mobility: 4 Ragnar tends to have to walk menacingly at people since he needs to concentrate and conserve energy to maintain his armor. This often leaves people unprepared for when he takes flight, leaping long distances quickly to get into the fray.
Defense: 7 Ragnar isn’t actually any tougher than the average human. However, his hive is almost unrivaled in its ability to analyse incoming attacks and shape itself to minimize damage to the user. It’s especially good at guarding against missiles which is fortunate as modern warfare makes more use of them. After some thought and inspiration from some very spicy noodles, Ragnar has had a breakthrough in using his constructs for regenerating, subconsciously healing himself as time passes at relatively high speeds.
Supers: 2

Skills: Active or passive effects that your character uses, beyond normal combat abilities. You get four to start, and more after certain points.
 
RIP IT OUT 5: Ragnar commands the insects infesting an enemy to return, tearing their way out of the host. Requires the enemy to have a lingering effect from Ragnar's Hive.

Stick it to 'em 5: Ragnar shoves a spear into his enemy's vulnerable bits where it can't be pulled out that easily. The Spear slowly degrades, the insects infesting the enemy and attacking their eyes and genitals painfully and distractingly.

Regeneration protocols 6: The hive activates to replace damaged and missing parts of Ragnar, reducing his defenses in return for rebuilding health. (As a side note, don't look to closely while it happens if you want to sleep soundly that night.)

Flight of the Bumblebee 4: Ragnar blinds an enemy with a swarm of insects to their eyes, opening them up for attacks on their vitals.

Passive: Improved Adaption: Ragnar's defense's adapt to damage faster now.

Supers: Describe your supers here, if any. These are very powerful versions of Skills, often capable of changing the tide of battle.

Hive Establishment Protocol: Decentralization: Ragnar splits off a clone of himself, made up of many constructs and controlled by a "Hive Queen" type drone. This clone has access to the same skills as Ragnar.

Hive Protocol: Protect the Nest: Ragnar calls his clones back, removing them, but increasing his defense dramatically as they form additional layers of armor.

Spoiler: An interview with Ragnar. (click to show/hide)

[The Video opens to a generic scientist looking man sitting at a table with a variety of snacks in front of him. The upper half of the man's head is covered in shadow, obscuring the color of his messy hair. What's apparently the single light source in the room is pointed so that his glasses glint and also obscure the color of his eyes. The lower half of his face has a short beard, revealing that his hair is blonde. He wears a blue sweater under his open lab coat and an ID card reveals that his name is "Dr. Carlsson". He sits patiently, helping himself to some of the snacks. He notably avoids the sweets. Soon Ragnar walks in and sits down on the other side of the table.]

Dr. Carlsson: Good Evening Ragnar. I trust that you've had a pleasant day?
Ragnar: Yes Doctor. My day has been pleasant.

[Ragnar stares at the sweets on the table but doesn't move to grab them.]

DC: Very good. Your performance in the field was more than satisfactory of course. You are most certainly a credit to our research...
[Doctor Carlsson seems to notice that Ragnar is paying more attention to the sweets on the table than what he's saying. He gestures to the sweets.]
DC: Ragnar, you know you're allowed to have anything on the table.

[Ragnar quickly grabs one of the bowls and starts snacking on the candy ravenously.]

DC: Now then, let's start with the basic questions. Have you sustained any injuries that are causing you ongoing problems and/or are you experiencing any emotional distress that will hinder your work?

[Ragnar looks up and shakes his head.]

R: No sir, my armor has been as effective as usual... And my feelings of course don't get in the way of testing.

[Carlsson nods and leans back in his chair with a very slight frown.]

DC: Alright then. And in general, how do you feel?

[Ragnar is silent for a rather long time.]

R: I'm fine.

[The Doctor's response is quiet enough that Ragnar apparently can't hear it.]

DC: You say that every time... have to remember to note that subject continues to bottle up feelings. (Dr. Carlsson coughs and returns to a normal volume.) So how does testing make you feel?
R: I enjoy helping people, so I really enjoy it. Plus it lets me go outside for once so that's good as well.
DC: That's very good. Have you made any friends while you're out?

[Ragnar is silent for a while before shaking his head.]

DC: Well... give it time. I'm sure you'll meet someone. You could even bring them around sometime! I'm sure your father would be very pleased.

[At the mention of his father Ragnar perks immediately, beaming.]

R: I'll be sure to do that Doctor! ... May I please leave, There's a special I want to watch right now.
DC:  ... Well, I'm sure we can finish up later. Run along now.

[Ragnar hurries off through the door. The video ends.]
Just before the screen cuts to black a symbol of an eye appears. Underneath it says "Harnessing the supernatural for a safer future".

[Aliemma]

AAAAAaand PTW. Expect a sheet... eventually, probably this week.

[Glass]

AAAAAaand PTW. Expect a sheet... eventually, probably this week.

Eyo Jerila

[Gary_S_Modd]

Spoiler: It's a perfect day for some mayhem! (click to show/hide)

Name: Junko Hayato (Nickname: Hayato-chan; Magical girl Name: Jun-kun (pronounced, Junk-un when she is speaking, but probably more like jshun-kun by anyone else))
Age: 12
Gender: F
Appearance: Hayato is a young girl with short blonde hair, light-ish colored skin (tan from lots of sun), and gold-brown eyes. when not in magical-girl form, she wears a yellow tank top, long green cargo shorts, and orange and brown hiking boots.
Her transformation sequence is fast, being nothing more than a somewhat violent explosion.
In magical girl form, her hair stands up and slicked back, as if she had had her face a bit too close to an explosion. Her tank top is replaced by a harness that barely does its job of covering her (but does, mind you), but does a pretty decent job holding the 8 grenade shaped fire extinguishers strapped to it (four on each side). Her shorts become tattered, and her left leg, and left arm become covred in light armoring. Her face changes slightly as well, going from what appears to be a perfectly innocent girl to the face of one who is crazed, and possibly high on sugar; her extremely wide eyes being the most obvious change. Her facial expressions often perfectly reflect her mood, and would almost seem cartoonish if they weren't real.
Her voice is that of a young girl, but she has a thick Australian accent, and still has a hard-ish time with Japanese.

Personality:
Hayato is often happy, and gets excited easily. She seems to have an endless amount of energy that could explode into hype if not kept in check.
When she is in magical girl form, she prefers to be called ‘Jun-kun’, and she becomes near-crazed, obsessing over explosives and constantly cracking jokes or making snappy comments.

Background:
Junko Hayato, or Hayato-chan, was born in Japan, but was raised in the Australian Outback for 10 years. Her mother was from Japan, and worked as a school nurse, while her Father was from Australia and had a small ranch out in the Outback. Her mother died when she was two in a car accident, and she went to Australia with her Father due to him not having many other connections to Japan.
Her life in Australia was simple. She did home-schooling as she was far from civilization on her father’s old ranch. Her Uncle had bought the ranch right after her father left to be with her mother and her uncle was kind enough to let her father was being allowed to stay until he got his life back together. That being said, she also spent quite a few years learning how to build traps to catch wildlife and other survival techniques.
Hayato-chan’s love for pyrotechnics stared when her father brought home a firework for her 10th birthday. She was fascinated by the large concussive blast it made that made her feel alive inside. She started researching on the internet, and with the few trips she got to the library every month, how to build such things; much to the dismay of her father and uncle. For a year and a half, she worked hard to learn as much about explosives as she could, and even built several working prototypes that she ended up using as traps; even if they did leave almost nothing left of what they wanted to catch.
Realizing that this probably wasn't the best for her, her Father made the decision to back to Japan so she would have a shot at a normal life; this didn't stop her, however, from attempting to make more devices; even if she did have to make them much smaller than before.
One evening, while Hayato was out searching the back allies of down-town Hokuto near her father’s for materials to use to make her new, smaller, explosives, she stumbled upon a strange cart with some fireworks that she didn't recognize. With little hesitation, she quickly made away with a few handfuls of them and fled back to her room to dismantle them and turn them into something fun. Putting on her protective gear (light armoring on her left arm and leg, and a harness with miniature cylindrical fire extinguishers, and a pair of old pants that she didn’t care about getting ruined), she began to carefully take them apart, fascinated with the power’s purple-ish hue. Upon removing the paper from the last one, and spreading the powder to reduce the pressure on it, a small spark ignited it and the blast burned away her shirt and blasted her hair back, burning the tips.
In the aftermath of this sudden bang, she felt a strange, almost magical, energy surge through her like an explosion. Her eyes widened and she felt happier than normal; she didn’t want this feeling to leave her. Unfortunately, her father came knocking on her door, and she quickly changed into actual cloths and hid all evidence of her experimenting, claiming she fell out of bed and landed on a bag of potato chips… and somehow got away with it.
The next evening, while she was yet again finding more materials to make bombs with, she came face to face with a Zoanthrope. Without hesitation, she started to flee. As her foot hit the pavement there was a sudden bang, and she was sent flying forward, and the feeling she had felt the previous night returned. Looking down, she was now somehow wearing her protective gear and, as it was right after the explosion, she was missing her tank top. Just as she was about to continue to flee, she bumps into a young man who had not been standing there a few seconds prior.
“Get out da, way, Mate! That thin’s bout ta chew both our heads off!” she yelled as she grabbed him, despite him being quite a bit taller, and started running, or rather, blasting their way to safety… at least until he got away from her and fought the thing off.
When settled, she, surprisingly, imploded back to her normal cloths. After some discussion about what just happened, she found out the young man’s name was Ash, and peculiarly had a similar accent to her own despite not knowing what ‘Australia’ was. “What an odd bloke”.
Advantage:  “The Beat-Down At The Bar?!?!”: Hayato gets mad every time she misses, and thus put more effort into every consecutive attack until she lands a solid hit. If she misses in this turn, she gets a 1.5x damage multiplier on her next turn.
Stats:
Melee: 5 [Explosives to damage. Thus, punching one’s enemies in the face with them does more damage! And throwing a copy of a landmine you built when you were 11 into their face does even more!]
Ranged: 2 [though unable to launch explosives to long distances, she can throw them… but she can’t aim for anything]
Mobility: 5 [turns out, being able to jump on top of a landmine and not get damaged allows you to move super quickly; well, that and creating small explosions under your feet while you run (also allows for short-distance flight if focused correctly)]
Defense: 2 [resistant against all explosives, and immune to her own]
 Super: 0 [N/A]

Skills:
[PASSIVE] “Anybody what some barbeque!”: If she has built an explosive or trap in the past, she can make a copy of it and use it in battle!

[3] “Aiming is Overrated!”:  Focusing explosions in specific directions allows Jun-kun to move quickly and out of the way of enemy attacks

[4] “Ill just… leave this here”: Hayato-chan’s past experience with laying traps to catch animals in the outback makes her skillful at hiding traps in plain sight for the enemy to unknowingly wonder into

[6] “Get Ready for a Shock!”: Jun-kun summons a rocket that, on reaching its target, explodes in a large ball of colorful fire and deals large amounts of damage to the enemy; however, she is unable to move after launching it

Special notes on the magic and other lore:
The magic that caused the transformation was meant as a weapon, that would cause the target to be blown up from the inside. However, because she received a super small dose of it, combined with some other magic that had been snuck into the device, her current state had been saved, as to be accessed at any time by simply blowing herself up.
Her home schooling was much better than what you would expect, and she specialized it to focus on what interested her most: being engineering and, later, explosives.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Alright, boyos, time for the first sheet review. Anyone I don't get this time around because you haven't made a sheet yet, I'm having a look at your sheets next Friday, so that'll give you guys about an extra week to fix yours.

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Nothing to report. Backstory's good. You're all set.

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The only mechanical issue I have with this is that Incapacitating Conjuration has a useless drawback as Juliet is a balanced attacker now rather than a ranged speedster. You'll need a stronger drawback. Backstory-wise, you're good.

Just fix the drawback and you're set.

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BLANK BANSHEE needs to run off of Mobility rather than Defense. Anything to do with rolling around or phasing to avoid attacks is Mobility rather than Defense; think of it as the difference between avoiding an attack and wearing armor to negate it. Videotape is a pain to run, so I'd prefer not to run it unless absolutely necessary. If possible, do try to restrict it to Taro. LOADING is a no-go; it screws directly with turn-order, which goes against the 'no crunch can affect the system' rule.

Backstory-wise, very interesting. I like it.

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We fixed the main mechanical issue with this last night, and backstory-wise you're good. Nothing to report.

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Your stats are all over the place and very inaccurate for what they do, in particular your ranged attacks. Rune Storm, any ranged Pyrokinesis, Maelstrom and anything else you have at range is going to be absolutely terrible at 2 Ranged, even if you super-focus your stat description on them. Also, I'd like you to be clearer on what Enchant Magic Item does. If it's a permanent enchantment, I'm noping it; persistent things between battles are an automatic no. His actual role is also very unclear; it seems like Ash is trying to do too much of everything and failing very badly at it.

Backstory-wise, it seems very sparse and rushed to me, and all the detail seems to be filtered out in favour of quantity of events. You need to expand on this a lot more if you want this to be better.

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No tanking stuff by taking it in the backside. Aside from that, you're good. Backstory's interesting, so that's a point in your favour.

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Nothing to report on mechanically and an interesting backstory. You're good to go.

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Shield Wall has a bad drawback; as with Juliet's drawback, it weakens Brynhildr in a stat that she hardly uses anyway, as Brynhildr doesn't dodge and doesn't have the capability to dodge anyway. Give it a more substantial drawback. Also, she has no way of drawing aggro or forcing enemies to engage her, which weakens her as a meatshield tank; if she can't force enemies to attack her, they'll just ignore her and attack her allies. She needs either some way of closing in (which would go off her very weak Mobility stat) or some way of dragging them in to her.

Backstory-wise, needs more elaboration on the genetic bloodline part and who the Lodbroks are. That's a potentially interesting lore hook that gets more or less sidelined, and as you've not put much about Ragnar himself it's not particularly great on that front either.

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Kaboom does nothing; her explosions are already covered by what her stats do, and neither does Explosooooooshun, as you could fluff her transformation as her first attack to begin with. Anybody want some Barbeque is noped; it persists between battles, which is a pain to keep track of.

Backstory-wise, nothing in particular to say.

People with sheets that don't need fixing: Jilladilla, BlitzDungeoneer, KingMurdoc, spümpkin
People with only minor fixes needed: DragonRage, Gary_S_Modd
People with major fixes needed: Sl4cker, kj225, Glass

Anyone I forgot or who hasn't submitted a sheet yet, I will get around to you next Friday.

[Glass]

I guess Ash wasn't communicated very well, and the stats don't line up great with what I already had in mind.
Oh well. Time to figure out something else.

Spoiler: Octavian Grey (click to show/hide)

Name: Octavian Grey
Age: 22, 2, or 1941 years old based on your metric.
Gender: Male
Appearance: Typically, he simply appears as a mostly normal young Italian man, though one that has a good half foot on average people, grey eyes, a taste for colors like silver and black, and slightly grayish skin. While transformed, he appears like a metal statue of himself, mainly silver with black and white highlights, and with a purple glow shining from his eyes.
Personality:
Octavian, due to being from Ancient Rome, is still kind of awkward in social situations due to social norms having changed greatly since his first life. Having a strong sense of honor, he will not break a promise if he can help it. Due to his upbringing, he still holds the outdated view that women need protecting (he likely won't think this for long once the game starts). He will occasionally slip into Latin if he's A. excited to talk about the subject, B. not paying attention, or C. just really tired.

In battle, Octavian is paying attention above all else, looking for weak spots on both the enemy team and his own, the former to exploit them, the latter to cover them. As a defensive fighter, he sees it as his responsibility to defend his allies, and may fall into depression for a few days if something really bad happens that he (thinks he) could have prevented. Like the metal he is made of, the heat of battle rarely affects his temperament greatly, at least in the moment; he can be trusted to never panic on the battlegrounds unless everyone really screwed up.


Background:

August 24 CE 79. Mount Vesuvius erupts, removing the city of Pompeii from the face of the Earth. Among the dead is one Octavian Grey, aged 20, devout worshipper of Vulcan.
The last thing he saw was a beast of fire and magma circling through the sky.

August 24 CE 2018 (2 years before game start). 12:00 AM, midnight. Octavian suddenly became aware of a bright red blur directly in front of him, causing him to recoil in shock. It was a red butterfly that had landed on his nose, and it promptly flew off, startled at the statue's reaction. It was then that Octavian got a chance to realize that he was suddenly not dead. In addition, he was a metal statue, albeit one that was swiftly changing to more closely resemble an actual human; it had already shifted in shape to Octavian's original form, but the color was slower in change. It never would really reach a truly natural color, but that was a later concern.

Octavian tried for a while to stay away from the modern world - being wholly unfamiliar with the concept - but there are simply not enough untouched space to hide in. As Octavian came to terms with his second chance at life over the course of the first six months, he also began to work his way into society, all the while feeling: I was sent here for a purpose.

He did not know why he was sent to this unfamiliar land, but he knew there was a reason. It would be another six months before he realized the specific one.

Over that time frame, he began to discover his powers. Of course, he'd already figured out his affinity for all metal tools, but he became aware of his ability to manipulate metals over this time, and began to train it.

Then, August 24 CE 2019. A volcanic eruption on the Ring of Fire. There was panic; a monster had come, and nobody knew what it was. It would later be forgotten when the Zoanthropes arrived.

Octavian knew what it was, though; he remembered it. The Demon of Vesuvius.

It was the first time he had fought... anything, really. It was also when he learned of his other abilities. By instinct, Octavian called the metal in a nearby car to attack the burning beast. The steel spears couldn't kill the molten monster, but they did some amount of damage. And when the creature closed in, Octavian, by instinct again, pulled another car into a bulwark - one that got semi-melted, but an essential wall nonetheless.

From there, it was a long and drawn-out battle, each whittling away at the other. Octavian had his fair share of scorch marks, but the constant barrage on the demon was wearing it thin, as more and more non-molten rocks sloughed off its weakening body. In the end, it retreated, with whereabouts currently unknown.

Octavian knew what he was sent here for. One day, he would kill that beast once and for all. Under his watch, it would never destroy anyone's home ever again.

Since then, life has gone on. Octavian is still adjusting to the intricacies of modern life, despite being here for two years. His skill with all things metal has helped in this regard, but the culture of modern people is so far removed from Roman civilization that he still gets a sense of vertigo from time to time. Nonetheless, he has a job as a blacksmith with a very good reputation, and he does commissions regularly. He has not seen many Zoanthropes since his battle with the monster of his first life, and they've only appeared in the past couple of months; those that he has seen have been relatively weak ones, and were easily fended off, but he has sworn to not allow anything to destroy his new home the way his first one was. However, Octavian still keeps an ear out for rumors of the volcanic villain that ended his first life, hoping to one day seek it out and end it permanently...

So it is fated, so it shall be done.


Advantage: There's iron worked into my fingertips, I got gold running through my blood, or Steelborn: Blessed by the forge-god Vulcan, Octavian can immediately figure out how to use anything made out of metal in the most effective way possible, be the item a sword, a gun, or a swarm of nanobots. This does not necessarily mean that he can use it that way, just that he knows what the most effective way is.


Stats:
Melee: 1 - although his skin is stronger than a normal person's due to the metal within, Octavian's strength is no greater, and he just generally prefers to avoid melee combat.
Ranged: 5 - Octavian is highly skilled with all metal equipment, and given that a given gun is made of metal (or at least, the important parts are), he knows just how to use it at maximum effectiveness. Furthermore, his sheer amount of Vulcan-given finesse with his Bolts of Steel makes the attack frighteningly effective, able to seek out every exposed point on his opponents - or, if there are none, to put enough force on the weakest point to make one.
Mobility: 2 - one would expect the metal-made Octavian to be weighed down, but this would not be so. With lightweight materials such as titanium alloys in his composition, Octavian is more lightweight than one would expect, allowing him to move as fast as anyone else, and with his control over metal extending to himself, he is able to give himself a boost at the times he really needs it (only when he really needs it though; it takes a lot out of him). Furthermore, in our metal-laden world, he can use metalshaping to grab onto an metal objects and quickly launch himself from one side to another, greatly easing movement when the opportunity presents itself (and when he's actually able to use the ability...).
Defense: 6 - being quite literally made of iron (amongst other, stronger metals) has its advantages. Octavian is exceptionally durable, being immune to all but the strongest physical attacks, as well as having a significant amount of magical resistance due to the integration of such materials as Cold Iron into his form (these materials would not normally have such properties, but Vulcan blessed Octavian's body to provide such materials with the properties they have in legend).
Super: 0


Skills:
Cold Iron Skin (passive): Octavian is resistant to effects that are magical in nature, making him even more resistant to such attacks than his metallic appearance would imply (see defense description for how this works).
Metalshaping (4): So long as he is in direct contact with a metal object, Octavian can shape it however he please, typically into items with utility rather than use for combat purposes.
Bolts of Steel (5): Octavian changes nearby metal items into a very large quantity of liquid metal darts (or lesser quantity of larger metal spears, if the enemy's armor is stronger), which he then sends to pierce through opponents.
Bulwark (4): Octavian can create walls of metal to hold off opponents, giving him and his teammates time to reposition or to evacuate injured personnel.
 
Supers: N/A

EDIT: Octavian is up and ready for review.

[Projeck37]

Spoiler: Yui Akiyama (click to show/hide)

Name: Yui Akiyama // Presto Festique
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Yui Akiyama- In her normal form, Yui stands at 5'4", her body incredibly slim as she only weighs in at 104 lbs. Her black hair is worn down to just below her chest, in length, typically straightened but curled when she wants to go out on the town. Her skin is particularly pale, a sign of her preference for the indoors, where she prefers to read and practice her guitar, which is constantly on her person in its case. Her guitar is a standard red Fender guitar, with a custom mahogany wood fingerboard, and neck, given to her by her father before his passing. Beyond her guitar, she is always seen wearing a grey and black hoodie, partially zipped up. Below her hoodie, is always some form of band t-shirt, anywhere between The Beatles, or Metallica. She's never seen not wearing knee-high socks, with her neon-blue roller-blades. The roller-blades adorn several stickers from various local bands, and local record stores, but not covering up most of the bright coloring of the shoe-wear. Alongside her signature roller-blades, she is always seen with a big pair of Bluetooth headphones on her head, constantly playing music in her ears as she rides around town.

Presto Festique- Yui's magical form, where none of her personal physical traits change. She stands at the same height, with the same physicality. Her clothing transforms, leaving her in a black skin-tight suit, made of some magical carbon-mesh, with neon lighting stripes that change color, depending on what she's doing. The lights normally rest on a neon-blue color, to match her now all-steel neon-blue roller-blades which now have a solid black music-note shaped plate of steel on either side of each roller-blade. When the wheels on the blades spin, they leave a neon-blue trail behind her. Her headphones now flash with bright neon-blue lights, from striped areas of the now-black headset. Her guitar, regardless of whether it was in her case or not, is now strapped to her upper body, the red body of the instrument now lit neon-blue to match the aesthetic of the rest of her outfit.
 
Personality: Yui is typically quiet, and prefers to keep to herself as she considers herself an introvert. However, this doesn't keep her from being comfortable with playing to a crowd, or presenting a school project. She's always been overly nice, offering a bit more than she can chew, but it's helped her make friends in the past. Yui always tries to push herself to be the best version of herself that she can be, finding new skills to try to master at any given point. A lover of books, and music, she is open to things in those categories, upon suggestion. Her curiosity sometimes gets her in trouble, and her quick-to-action personality gave her a reputation for being the quiet girl who tries to help those being bullied.

Background:
Yui was born in a small farming village on the northern tip of the mainland of Japan, to her father Hito Akiyama, a simple rice farmer, and her mother, Arya Akiyama who aspired to go to university to become a nurse. Due to her aspirations, Yui's mother left home while Yui was still very young to pursue her nursing degree, for a better life for her daughter. And it would be her mother, who eventually carried her into the new Special Administrative District of Minatodai, to which Yui would accept with open arms, as they moved to the city of Touto.

During Yui's first year out in Touto with her mother, her father visited from the family farm, his first time in a large city in his lifetime. On his first day in the city, he gifted Yui her first, and only guitar. The red Fender, with mahogany wood, custom made. Little did Yui know that this would be the last memory she would have of her father, as his trip was cut short, as he was killed in a car crash on his way back to their apartment. Yui was devastated, as she loved her father dearly, but used his death as inspiration to pursue learning the guitar. This was the start of Yui's passion for music, as it helped her in the darkest era of her life. It was all on her mom's shoulders now to raise Yui, which was an easy feat, as she was an easy child to raise. She did her homework, did her chores, and practiced her music. She had to adapt to helping her mom, as she worked heavy hours at the hospital, often leaving Yui to grow into a mini-adult early in her life.

In Yui's mid teenage years, she became a part of a band with some of her schoolmates, which gained local popularity. It was an instrumental band, with Yui playing at lead guitar. This let her hone her skills, and she was happy with where her life was going. The band got signed to a gig in a sketchy part of Tokyo, at a local club, but it payed well, so they took it. In the midst of their performance, a group of robbers came into the club, opening fire, and indirectly injuring the bassist of the band. Yui, enraged by the incident in the moment, erupted in a bright light and burst of magical music notes, knocking all of the robbers unconscious. She later woke up in the hospital, with a concussion from the fall after she apparently passed out. She later went back to school in Touto, which the news of what happened in that club spread to, as well as the death of the bassist and fellow student. Her powers now unlocked, as she hid them from the public, as well as her mother. She named her alter ego Presto Festique, after the song they played during the band's tragic accident.

Advantage:
Musical Overload- As Presto plays her melodies and riffs, her personal defense raises, as a screen of music notes slowly surround her as the battle rages on, forming her own musical note rainbow shield.

Stats:
Melee: 0; She's not strong in the slightest, but she's been able to at least hold her enemies attack her unarmed from injuring her.
Ranged: 5; With Yui's high velocity on her roller-blades, she's had to learn to be highly skilled at guitar. Her inspiring playing from her guitar helps out teammates, as red and blue music notes make their way to buff the strength of ally attacks.
Mobility: 6; Yui uses the most of her agile body, and roller-blades to quickly avoid enemy attacks, making her extremely quick in moving from place to place.
Defense: 6; Yui has strengthened her body past her once frail self, while still not the toughest, she continues to make up for it with her strong heals and buffs for her teammates as much as before (and herself).
Super: 2; As any good performance, there is some sort of strong finish to the performance. Yui has mastered her playing over many years of practice.


Skills: Active or passive effects that your character uses, beyond normal combat abilities. You get four to start, and more after certain points.
Accelerando! [5]- Presto Festique pumps up the tempo in her music, and inspires her teammates to move faster to make and move to the beat! She boosts their Mobility considerably, as well as her own. This appears as neon blue music notes trailing behind those affected, left behind before popping into magical dust.

Pesante! [3]- Presto Festique gets real heavy with her music, inspiring her teammates with the music with the almost heavy-metal music, boosting their Defenses as a screen of dark red glowing music notes circle her allies acting as a shield.

Rejuvenating Riff! [6]- Presto lets out a loud musical chord, sending out a large pink wave of musical notes, bursting on contact with her allies. These notes heal her allies, but drains her own life force a little.

Soloist Grandiose- Passive. Due to Presto's Musical Overload, she gains a boost to her defenses every time she casts a musical skill or super, as the shield of music notes grows in size.

Entrancing Siren's Song [6]- An unusual sight, Yui begins to sing an entrancing song, captivating an enemy to lose their action for a certain amount of time depending on the quality of roll.
 
Supers:
Final Crescendo! - Presto cranks up the volume to 10, intensifying her inspiring music. As she wraps up her grand symphony, all allies are surrounded by a swarm of variously colored music notes, raising their relevant attacking stat.

[SOLDIER First]

Spoiler: Light and darkness are my strength. (click to show/hide)

Name: Given Suzu, sur Hiro / Hecate, Mistress of Sorcery
Age: 20/???
Gender: Female/Female?
Appearance: In her normal form, Suzu is a prim and proper young lady, incongruously tall at five-foot-eleven. She has light, silvery blonde hair down to her middle back and deep blue eyes, set behind square-rimmed glasses. She is clearly of Japanese descent when looking at her face, but that's about it, as she takes much from her mother. Suzu usually wears formal attire; sweaters, collared shirts, knee-length skirts and pumps or boots, and some sort of long socks or stockings.

When transformed into Hecate, she is much different; Suzu is now several inches taller and clad in a long dress made of white fabric, hung over her left shoulder, that trails down to the ground and hides her bare feet. (Except when she floats.) Her hair has darkened to a 'traditional' shade of blonde, become much longer and, no longer straight, falls about her in slight ringlets. The girl's eyes become a deep onyx, dark as the night sky. They're dotted with stars, but the stars do not move with her; her eyes are like windows into space itself.
Personality: Suzu is polite, intelligent, and considerate almost to a fault, but she also tends to overthink, has a habit of speaking in low tones to herself, and can easily talk at length on simple subjects for seemingly no reason at all. Suzu tries her best to be as clear as possible, though her frequency to overexplain often just confuses those listening, which flusters the girl to no end.

When the spirit of Hecate takes over, she becomes reserved and much more to-the-point, so much so that she frequently responds with only a few short sentences, if even more than one.
Background: Suzu is the only child of Hideaki Hiro and Sibyl Savvas-Hiro. Her mother immigrated to Japan about 23 years ago, even before the massive cultural exchange that is Minatodai came about. The two fell in love almost immediately after they met, married after a year and a half, and conceived their daughter a month later.

However, the Savvas family holds an important secret in their blood; it is linked to the spirit of Hecate, goddess of sorcery, night, and ghosts. Once every century a daughter of the Savvas line is granted access to this holy ability, able to call upon Hecate’s magic for whatever purposes they wish. Many elect to use their powers in secret, for the goodness of others. Sibyl informed Suzu (and Hideaki) of their family’s gift when she was a young girl, promising Suzu that she would be able to use it however she willed in due time. Suzu took the information with delight, being privately infatuated with magic and deific legend already by that point.

However, she could not truly access this gift until months ago, despite trying an extensive list of methods to unlock her power - many of which she will never mention to anyone ever again. After finally gaining the ability to call Hecate at wil, Suzu was so elated she actually managed to annoy the goddess with her excited babbling. It fortunately didn’t stick, and the two have constructed an amicable relationship since then. Hecate has permitted Suzu to call upon her powers quite frequently to combat the Zoanthropes, which the goddess does with some enjoyment.

Advantage: Ancient Mysticism: Hecate’s magic has been preserved for thousands of years in the Savvas bloodline. While other religions have shifted and been altered, changing wildly from one incarnation to the next, Hecate’s is absolute. Its very nature is so equivocal and strange that it affects one’s very mind when they she attacks them. Direct, hostile use of Hecate’s magic on a target scrambles their thoughts, leaving them stunned and disoriented. “Indirect” means, such as New Moon’s Embrace, have a similar but lesser effect.

Stats:
Melee / Ranged: 5 / 5 - Hecate is able to call upon strange and unknown sorcery to assist in battle in many different forms. While nebulous in its exact nature, her magic is a force to be reckoned with, bombarding opponents with fierce strength at both close and long range.
Mobility: 4 - Hecate is able to avoid attacks with ease and grace due to her power of levitation; she can “sidestep”, duck, or simply float out of reach as needed. She prefers, however, eliminating the enemy before she needs to do so.
Defense: 0 - Despite her divinity, Hecate is quite physically frail. Several strong hits are enough to take her out of a fight as she is unable to produce a means of protecting herself, for all that her magic is useful for.
Super: None

Skills:

New Moon’s Embrace [3] - Hecate summons a sphere of pure darkness fifteen feet in diameter. Enemies are unable to see while inside, though they can light it as if it were any normal darkness. However, one’s strength is sapped while inside of it.

Tower of Light [4] - Several rings of light form in the air, shrinking rapidly into a blindingly bright orb for a brief moment, and then flashing downwards to strike an enemy.

Ethereal Copy [5] - Hecate creates three exact duplicates of herself. They are identical in every way except for their eyes - the doubles have no stars present in theirs, only an inky void. The doubles persist alongside Hecate until they either get hit once or attack the enemy once, as ordered by Hecate.

Starfall [6] - A massive, swirling vortex of energy begins to emanate from Hecate before it coalesces into a huge orb, floating above the ground. It takes some time to gather this energy, during which Hecate must leave herself vulnerable, but once completed she can direct the orb to crash down upon the enemy with awesome force.

[Akroma]

Spoiler:  Irina Maksimova (click to show/hide)

Name: Irina Maksiomva / the Mean Machine
Theme: Song
Age: 7. That's like early twenties for a Gremlin
Gender: Female
Appearance: Image Irina has fuzzy light-green hair, fitting to her equally fuzzy ears, and stands at about 65 cm, just slighlty above knee-height for most people. Sound weird? Not when you are a Gremlin. Normaly dressed in tiny mechanic overalls or labcoats, usualy unzipped or unbuttoned to a degree that makes people around her uncomfortable, with a pair of Hextech all-purpose goggles^TM , that do little in hidding the thich shadows coming from under her eyes. Sleep is for the dead. You know what the dead don't get? Sick parties.
She doesn't transform in the traditional sense. She boards her toughly human-sized mech, a marvel of science, which she totaly did not rip off the ironman series. No sir, this thing is an entirely unique invention. Like, the ironman-suit is red and gold, this one is green and dark blue, and it has stylized gremlin-ears. And it doesn't have an annoying on-board AI who does all the things for you, it's all driving-skill baby-

Personality: Irina is...untroubled by the complexities of life, or at least, does a good job of maintaining that image. Far too intelligent for her own good, she has long given up look for any meaningful happiness, and traded it for the quick satisfaction of getting completely riggidireeeekd son! She seeks to either diffuse or feign complete disinterest in all serious matters or opinions. She usualy gives her ations more thought than one would assume, and certainly more than she would ever admit.

Background: Irina doesn't talk much about her youth. Period. No matter how drunk, and that is saying something. Those were some looong 7 years. What she can tell you about is that she is the head-technican and co-founder of CERBERUS-SECURITY, an upstart high-tech security company which is upsetting the current market (mostly the ones that protect your home by making loud beeping noises), and court-settings (mostly the cases of family members accidentaly shot by lasers) with their daring and new designs in personal and home defence. They turned down the pentagons offers, they aren't "sell-outs", but immediatly jumped on board with the zoanthrope threat. Afterall literal death-rays MAY be a bit much for your common burglar. This city makes a perfect place to field-test and show-off her business.

Do not feed after midnight. Just don't.

Do not get wet. When Gremlins get wet, they will want to multiply.

Do not expose to sunlight. She is probably hungover, that's just rude, show some consideration.

Do not ovetip while she is watching. But also don't tip too little.

Do not lend her 100$ while near a strip-club or casino.


Advantage: Filthy Corporate Money. Irina is the Batman of Marvel. The ironman of DC. Money and ingenuity and a fair bit of bullshit is her resource, and the forces of magic and darkness all over the world will bow down to this true power of the modern age.

Stats:
Melee: 1: Even when piloting the Mean Machine, Irina seeks to keep her distance. Melee is so uncivilized. But make no mistake, a rocket-powered steel-fist is a rocket-powered steel-fist, no matter who uses it.
Ranged: 4: The Mean Machine brings with it a whole plethora of lasers, miniature missiles, heat- and death-rays, zappers and bonkers, gadgets and prototypes, expermental designs and stuff Irina installed while drunk and totaly forgot about. You may as well be trying to fight against a military base inhabited by not one, not two, but at least three mad scientists, and a 4th one in the basement they deny exists. An arsenal of assist-systems, like in-built target-tracking in her Hextech all-purpose goggles^TM, and means to decrease enemy mobility with sudden goo explosions can make her attacks and whole fighting style unpredictably terrifying to go up against. Or annoying, depending on power-level, but above all, unpredictable.

Mobility: 3: The Mean Machine can not fly, but its movement assist is already a MKII. Small rocketboosters here and there go a long way. Hextech Hookshots (patent still pending), Hextech Beyond-Magnetism adhesive boots^TM and an air-tight tolerance against vertigo and nausea trained by a life-time of substance abuse complete the combo.

Defense: 4: The Mean Machine is, above all else, a suit of highly sophisticated armor. Power-diffusing pading, shock-absorption, blast-deflection, toppest of the nacho. When Irina is even only half-certain that whatever weapon she is testing right now is probably not strong enough to slice through a tank, she will gladly self-test it while wearing this armor. Past experiences show that the in-built parachute and impact-softening air-bags (design stolen by previous mars-rover landing gears) have become a valueable adition to the arsenal, despite the inability of the suit to fly, which sometimes provokes the question where all those crash-landings come from. If all else fails, an emergency eject system is a life-saver.

Super: 2: Sometimes, you gotta dial the funk up to 11, leave the red warning indicator to go into the invisible spectrum and show science that YOU make the rules, not vice-versa.


Skills:
MkIII Hextech Deathray^TM (4) : Point at the target of your resentment. Comes with 11 useful settings, starting at "Massage". "Kill" is only the 5th setting, with plenty room upwards. Do not point at eyes, children or pets. This is her standard ranged weaponry in action. Has a really nasty sting.

Settings:

1-Massage
2-Warning-Shot
3-Injure
4-Fake death (causes temporary paralysis in a very similar state to death)
5-Kill
6-Kill (large targets)
7-Shotgun
8-Sniper
9-Delayed Explosive
10- There is only a skull and crossbones etched into whatever was formerly written here.
11- Irina has not cranked this gun to 11 in front of witnesses yet, even in a testing environment. Requires a key to be inserted into the gun.

Hextech Lightgrenade^TM (3) : If for whatever reason you really want to resolve an ecnounter peacefully, or just take a kick out of debilitating your opponent before crashing down on him all the harder, this is what you need. This grenade stuns targets in a small area, and blinds them in a large area. Comes with color-sliders for that 256 color experience.

Hextech Nullfield^TM (4) : In case you have dramaticaly underestimated the enemy, no sort of all can protect you quite as well as actually transporting attacks that are aimed at you elsewhere. Where? We don't know, we don't want to know, as long as this shield, powered by the latest in hextech portal-technology makes sure those pesky bullets don't reach you. Only works on small and fast enough targets, so in melee combat, this is unlikely to teleport your weapon (or fist) to wherever bullets go.

Adaptive Hextech-Core and Customisation-Kit^TM (5) : Hextech-Technology relies heavily on energy-charged crystals not only as fuel, but to bypass any laws of science or reason with a healthy dash of magic. This core, when applied to any sort of item, will temporarily upgrade it to a Hextech version. Doing so can add entirely new, often unexpected functions, or simply assist already existing functions with the powers of a hardly explored or understood pseudo-science!
 
Supers:
UPGRADE!!!: Irina super-charges one of her existing skills, or an item currently powered by the Hextech-Core, to produce results that really underline the whole "mad" part that people in court talk about when describing her kind of scientist. Recklessly dangerous is not strong enough of a description for the sort of energies that get unleashed here.

[Paxiecrunchle]

Wow, this is filling up rapidly.

[Twinwolf]

Spoiler: Amelie Kurosawa (click to show/hide)

Name: Amelie Kurosawa
Age: 16
Gender: Female!
Appearance:
Untransformed: A girl of slightly below-average height (roughly 158cm, a little below 5’5”), with short-ish, dirty-blonde hair and honey colored eyes, and glasses. Her figure isn’t much to write home about. She generally prefers simple-ish clothing, and comfortable. Partly because no fashion sense. Amelie tends to look a little nervous when there’s a lot of people, although not to the point one would call her antisocial. She has a silver amulet with a purple gem set in the center that she wears at all times.

Transformed: Amelie grows to a solid 6-feet (~183cm) in magical form. Her hair grows rather long, down to roughly the middle of her back (rather impractical really, but hey magic) and takes a more white-blonde color. She doesn’t need her glasses in this form, and her eyes become a bright purple. In addition to the height certain other cough aspects of her figure become more defined. It feels sorta like she jumps in age from 16 to 20 or so, although it’s unclear if she actually does. Another odd physical change is… she seems to have become some kind of cat-girl? While she can hide them reasonably easily, she has cat ears and a tail in this form (although this being where it is, she can go without hiding them and just be called a cosplayer) In this form, Amelie is… almost entirely different in her mannerisms, all energy and excitement.
When actually using her power (flying around, usually), her skin turns a light blue with yellow lines criss-crossing it, and she has a general blue glow. No, she doesn’t know what happens if she loses her amulet in magic form. 

Personality: Gonna be in the game.

Background: Not optional, but do tell me about it in PMs if you don't want it publically available.

Amelie Kurosawa lives in Touto city, and has for about a year now. Her father, a Japanese man, met her mother when he was studying abroad in Germany, and basically fell in love right away. Soon after, they both went back to Japan, despite how xenophobic most of the country was.

Growing up in Tokyo, Amelie was… never very popular, looking “weird” - despite the fact she’s half-Japanese, she very clearly and very heavily took after her mother as opposed to her father. She’s had issues with making friends, leading to her quiet and withdrawn personality - although she’s always been good at talking to other not-so-mainstream types of people.

When she was 14, she was visiting her family on her mother’s side in Germany. She’d always been close to her grandmother, speaking with her often over the phone and other things. This time, though, something was different. Her grandmother insisted that she take this family heirloom - a silver amulet with a purple gem set in the center. “For your protection”, she’d said, with an ominous smile, before insisting further that she always wear the amulet. Amelie, generally being the sort to obey her elders, agreed.

For a year, nothing came of this. They’d moved to Touto for her dad’s job, she’d gotten into the new school and continued being her normal self. New place doesn’t mean a new start in personality. But then, something happened. Walking home late - she’d volunteered to help out in the school after-hours - she was assailed by a monstrous creature of some sort. There wasn’t anyone on the street (which was odd, she could have sworn there was a second ago), just her and the monster. And no, it wasn’t friendly, going off the violent lunges.

Amelie ran, but that hardly helped. It caught up easily, and Amelie was sure that was it - but then, her amulet flashed. Flash, flash - purple light filled her vision, and when she blinked it away, Amelie felt… different. One: Taller. Two: Energetic. Three: Powerful. None of these things were things she was familiar with, but she knew she could do this. This was the first time she activated her powers.

Of course, this didn’t mean she could use them properly - even with her new power and adrenaline, it’s still really, really disorienting to suddenly have gravity suddenly switch directions on you. The first several minutes of the fight were spent flying around erratically and at high speed not as a way to dodge but because she didn’t know how to stop. After some time she managed to at least send herself careening towards the monster with a gravity assisted kick or two. She won, with difficulty. It took a while for her to figure out how to change back, and then she ran home.

A quick call to her grandmother explained what had happened - her amulet had protected her, like it had protected her family and others for generations. She didn’t know how it had been made - but what it did was give the wielder power over the force of gravity, and strength to protect themselves and others. Ages ago it had come into the family - her personal theory was that one of their ancestors, perhaps with divine inspiration or just plain old magic, had made it and used it. Since ages long past, it had been passed down - sometimes directly, mother to daughter or father to son, other times it skipped a generation or jumped branches of the family. But that amulet had been a constant, giving people powers - and most times, those granted that power chose to use it to protect people. She herself had done so, in her youth - it felt like a responsibility. The specific form that the power takes varies by the user, as does the physical and mental changes upon them.

Amelie certainly felt like she had that responsibility, whether it was just herself or the amulet. More than that, she simply wanted to be able to do something with her life. And while she’d never admit it… the powers, the change, was sort of fun. Well alright she’d freely admit that flying is awesome, but not so much that that personality change is fun - she says that she ends up acting like herself like she’s really drunk, but being energetic and social is… interesting.
 
After that, whenever she came across a monster she’d fight it as she could, although the transformation sometimes got confusing given the mental effects. When the zoanthropes started showing up, she’d been a hero for a while then. Her parents are unaware of this, beyond thinking that she’s gotten a bit more active lately, not in the “going home” club anymore.

She’s run into a few other individuals with strange powers since then. She’s run into one “Kamen Rider Volt”, Maki, who similarly does hero work, and then this bird-person named Haruko who was accidentally burning down a city block before Amelie stopped her, mistaking her for intentionally attacking. This was of course cleared up soon after.

Advantage: Gravitational Amplification: Amelie’s strikes amplify the force of gravity on a target, making it harder to move and harder to hit their targets.

Stats:

Melee: 5 - Gravity assisted kicks and punches form the majority of Amelie’s moveset. She’s got some amount of skill to her attacks, but hardly any formal training, more of a street-fighting sort of style - this when she sticks around instead of launching a kick and then jumping away. Most of her strikes are about building up momentum to hit real hard, and then move away before the enemy can retaliate.
Ranged: 0 - Kicks hardly have range do they?
Mobility: 6 - Amelie is capable of using her powers to fly - actually she doesn’t so much fly, as tell gravity that it’s going another way and then fall in the desired direction. She can use this notable mobility in a variety of ways, like dodging or closing the distance.
Defense: 3. While Amelie herself isn’t the toughest, she’s got the required secondary powers to not splat when she lands from flight. The majority of this stat is towards her ability to heal, although she’s still at least tough enough to take a hit. 
Super: 0



Skills: Active or passive effects that your character uses, beyond normal combat abilities. You get four to start, and more after certain points.

[Passive] Momentum: What hurts better than a gravity assisted kick? A gravity assisted kick with a windup. The more speed with which Amelie hits an enemy the more damage it does - especially if she didn’t attack the previous turn.

[Active, 3] Ally Shift - Allows Amelie to shift around her allies using her powers for the turn, at a good speed - useful for when they need to move but aren’t fast enough or are bogged down by enemies.

[Active, 4] Healing Magic - What healing has to do with gravity powers is anyone’s guess - well, Amelie’s is that this ability is an extension of the amulet’s purpose as a means of protection. In any case, she’s got a reasonably strong heal.

[Active, 5] Hit And Run: A gravity kick from a distance, aiming for a head or other vital area before kicking off of them to keep moving away. This deals a solid amount of damage and amplifies the effect of her Advantage on the target.
 
Supers: None yet!

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Time for the second sheet review. Anyone who submits a sheet after this point, there's no guarantee I'll have a look at your sheet or that you'll get in as I will likely be making selections over this weekend.

Anyone who already had their sheets approved, you're good.

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Your fix was approved. You're good to go.

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LOADING can be resisted by opponents with the right stat descriptors, eye of truth will likely have the headache as the true drawback as it'll screw with all of his other skills. Unless you want to further optimise skills, though, you're basically set.

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Cold Iron does not negate magic here lorewise, so you might need to figure another name out for that.  Otherwise, you should be good.

Backstory-wise, we've resolved the main issue. You should be good to go.

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You're good, unless you want to further optimise. Stay Here might want a different drawback though; having lower attack will make it harder for Ragnar to inflict damage on a pinned opponent.

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You haven't fixed anything I asked you to fix. Kaboom is still useless, Exploshuuuun and Anyone want some barbeque still need to be removed. Your Advantage is also useless; as you are a melee character with explosive weapons, you're not likely to miss ever. If you need an example as to how encounters look in this system, look here, it might help you make edits to Junko's skills.

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Apart from optimisation issues and you needing to put down your new Advantage, you're good.

Backstory-wise, you're good to go.

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Soloist Grandiose just improves your Advantage; you don't need to change it, but if you want to change it out for something else, you're good. Also Final Crescendo is going to be quite weak as she has no buffs in her offensive stat descriptors. Otherwise, good mechanics and backstory-wise.

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Apart from anything you might want to optimise, sheet is fine mechanics-wise. I do have to warn you that you're competing in a massively overcrowded niche as it is; at least half the applicants are also doing ranged characters with high damage output and durability.

Backstory-wise, I'm a little iffy on it, but it's nothing that goes against anything I've written up already.

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Mechanics-wise, Amelie's a little bit of a mess; her Mobility doesn't mention anything about her Ally Shift, which weakens it a fair bit, and her lack of skill will make it harder for her to utilise her Momentum or Advantage to the fullest, though that isn't really much of a problem because of what the Advantage does anyway. Hit and Run is likely going to be more useful for mobility rather than damage as a result of your mobility focus. However, there aren't a lot of problems that need immediate fixing, mostly just optimisation.

Backstory-wise, you're a little sparse, but that's my fault for rushing you. Just fill it out a little more and you're golden.

Anyone who decides to submit a sheet after this, be wary that you only have most of tomorrow to submit a sheet before I make selections. I will also not be reviewing your sheets as formally as I have these sheets; if you want feedback, you'll have to either go on the Discord or directly ask for it.

[TCM]

Spoiler: KHAOS GANG ON YA BLOCK (click to show/hide)

Name: Tek-Kashi Williams / Libertine
Age: 18
Gender: Male

Appearance:
Standard: Tek's most noticeable and recognizable feature is his hair color, which is perpetually a dash of rainbow dyes, sometimes straight and other times braided, but always bearing the ostentatious rainbow pattern. Just as garish are the upper row of his teeth, decked out with a rainbow colored grill. The light flesh of his face is riddled with tattoos, including names and mottos as well as a prominent red skull just in front of his left ear that is only fully visible when the long strands of his hair are not concealing it. His build is short and lean, the rest of his body a canvas for more heavy tattoing, such as the 'KHAOS' tattoo that adorns his entire torso.
The rest of his face is not artificially altered, with heavyset brown eyebrows and eyes that, while natural, always seem to worn out from exhaustion and the long term effects of narcotics. A typical outfit for him would consist of a sports jersey for one of the teams of his native Philadelphia or a death metal band (assuming that he is wearing a shirt) and long torn black pants that sag beneath his waistline despite being equipped with a Gucci belt. His shoes are consistently white or red Air Jordans.

Transformed: Tek's transformed gear is not innate but called for by flares to signal an airdrop. Once a room-sized metal crate appears nearby, Tek can open it up to receive both his clothing and ride. This clothing consists of a black suit reinforced with state-of-the-art white plate armor, resembling (at least in function) the armor of a knight. This armor is striped down the chest area, forearms and legs with colors that change for each encounter. Also included is a white studded helmet with a visor, though Tek oftentimes refuses to wear it claiming that it messes with his hair. He does still wear a pair of red-tinted goggles that come with the rest of this supplies.

Personality: Tek lives as the paragon of post-modernist anti-authoritarian hedonism, hence the stage-name Libertine. He lacks any sort of respect of institutionalism but lacks any sort of philosophical or politically ambition outside of having the most octane-fueled existence possible. His idols include the late James Dean, Marilyn Manson and Jack Kerouac, all of whom have their names tattooed on his body. The target of his reverence is his hometown 'KHAOS' squad, a Philadelphia-based street racing posse who aren't precisely a street gang but those of European or Japanese persuasion would call them hooligans.

Tek's interests revolve around his love of street racing, metal-rap, Japanese anime and video games (specifically of the most violent and/or horrorific types), street fashion, and the sins that would coincide with such a lifestyle. Tek's hoodlum mentality emphasis that which is vibrant and exciting, oftentimes dangerous, and views things like formality or politeness as useless trinkets, visages of a gentry that doesn't care about him or his friends. The idea of fighting Zoanthropes utterly thrills him.

It's no secret that Tek comes off as a paradoxical, confusing person either. A hardened kid raised off the street, he is nonetheless emotionally open and vulnerable. All of his words and actions are attempts at achieving an alpha-male, macho position, but he is also obsessed with rainbow colors and fashion. And despite his disregard for authority, the ancient value of loyalty is sacrosanct.

Background:
Born Darren Williams, was the sixth child in a fatherless home raised in the crumbling inner city of Philadelphia. Uninterested by the depleted Philadelphia education system, Darren initially took to sports but found no success with his small stature. He would lurk the streets with his friends, having fun and causing  trouble, the only happy moments to in a decomposing city. At the same time, Darren was committed to not becoming the statistic that the world ordained him to be at birth, there had to be a way out of Philly that wasn't basketball or drug dealing. That's when his older brother introduced him to the world of motor vehicles, which Darren immediately had a knack for. Out in the rural Pennsylvanian countryside, he could compete with boys twice his size and win with the wind whipping through his hair as he took corners and took great jumps from the top of his cream-colored A.T.V.

Darren dropped out of school at the age of sixteen to focus on motorsports, where he quickly became a regional, and then national name within the subculture. At this time he changed his name from Darren to Tek-Kashi, bearing a mix of elements from both Philidelphian and Japanese culture. His friends came with him out of Philidelphia and across the country, some as racers, others as assistants, some just to hop on this wave of fame and glory. This collective attracted more similarly minded people and grew into the 'KHAOS' squad. They were notorious for their racing skills as well as their hedonistic drug-and-sex fueled lifestyles, as well as a close association with neo-metal-rap, a genre and community closely intertwined with these racers. While professional a racer, Tek-Kashi lists himself as an enthusiastic rapper and gamer on the side.

Tek-Kashi was perceptive enough to see that by the time he was eighteen, he was on the decline. He was no longer a fresh new face on the racing scene which itself was diverging into smaller, fractured groups. Additionally, the antics of 'KHAOS' was getting them banned from cities, arrested frequently and there were more attempts for them to be labeled as a gang, which would spell the end for his public career. This is when a Japanese acquaintance informed him of Minatodai, and of the opportunity it presented. Tek-Kashi, being a hot-blooded thrill craving weeaboo, knew it was a no brainer.

Advantage: POLE POSITION 666 - Once he's on his ATV, the abilities of both Tek-Kashi and his vehicle take on John Woo / Bruce Willis qualities that blur the line of magic and science. He can grind on rails like a skateboard, leap over an overturned tractor trailer, and even scale vertical surfaces when necessary. This is primarily a speed/agility ability in the context of combat.

Stats:
Melee: 0 - Tek-Kashi is a small guy, and lets his bigger friends do anything that involves having to get close.
Ranged: 4 - Tek-Kashi's preferred weapons are high powered firearms and related paraphernalia used from the seat of his vehicle, and after years of training he can fire an assault rifle accurately while swerving through a 90-degree corner.
Mobility: 6 - The speed and agility with which the ATV can move defies logic and would be the bane of any physics student who dared to study it.
Defense: 2 - Tek-Kashi and the ATV are armored, but comparatively lightly as compared to his peers; too much armor would extremely hinder the mobility of driver and vehicle.
Super: 2

Skills:
The Fast & The Furious (Passive) - The ATV's high-end performance means that both it and its rider are difficult to hit.

Devil Rays (3) - Tek-Kashi shoots a burst of rainbow-colored energy at a target which can pierce armor.

Party Starter (4) - Tek-Kashi flings a home-made pipebomb filled with nails and metal screws, that creates an explosion that can damage multiple enemies.

Hell's Highway (6) - Tek-Kashi attempts to break the speedometer on his ATV by building up excessive, supersonic speeds and then uses the momentum to fling an explosive javelin into a target. Due to these speeds, any physical damage that Tek-Kashi takes during this turn is amplified accordingly.
 
Supers:

SHUT YOUR EYES AND COUNT TO FUCK - The aircraft that air-drops Tek-Kashi's outfit at the beginning of the battle comes back into the battle to drop a hydrogen bomb on a target, dealing extreme explosive/radiation damage.