nightelf37: Okay. Here comes my second entry. Reviewers, I'll get around to doing yours. Please wait.
Fictional Work: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Character: Sayaka Miki
Name: Clara Blewis
(Written in hiragana, the word sayaka can mean "clear", "fresh", or "bright" in Japanese. Clara is latin for "clear, bright, famous". Blewis is a surname of Scottish origin, a patronymic of the word "blue", which is Sayaka's color theme.)
Gender: Female
Backstory: Hailing from Mistral, the tomboyish Clara always dreamed of becoming a Huntress in order to impress a boy she knows, who is unfortunately oblivious to her feelings. As soon as she was of age, she was quick to jump at the chance. However, during her training, she discovered that her "boyfriend" was already seeing another girl. Worse, Clara knew this girl, who in turn knew Clara's feelings for the boy, even allowing Clara to make her move first. Clara refuses to discuss to anybody what happened, and the girl refuses to say anything of the matter either.
Appearance: Clara has a plain and flat figure, but her outfit and chest size (B-cup) still render her quite attractive. Her light blue hair is cut to a boyish length, but it has a diagonal line in the back so that it straddles between short and medium length. Also on her hair is a yellow hairpin in the shape of "ƒƒ", the musical notation for "fortissimo".
Her outfit consists of a diagonal-cut skirt, a shoulderless top, long white stockings that go past the knee, a large white cape, white gloves with cuffs over blue long ones reaching the elbow, and sea blue slightly-heeled boots. The skirt is denim blue and is kept on by a belt of a darker shade, which also holds scabbards for Clara's weapons. The top is dark blue and wraps around the chest area, and below it is white cloth that completely covers her midriff and is wound tight enough so it cannot be blown upward in the wind. On her navel is a blue wide C-shaped jewel piercing, which serves as her symbol.
Personality: Clara has an idealized sense of justice and often works hard—sometimes too hard—to live up to this ideal. Compiled with a stubborn streak, as well as bravery bordering on foolhardiness, she also has a tendency to turn aside offers of assistance, even from her own teammates in some cases, because she wishes to protect them. As a result, her teammates have to rein her in often, even slap her hard in the face to snap her out of her funk.
In spite of these flaws, she's protective of others, a devoted friend, and a dedicated Huntress. Also, deep down, she just wants to be loved, not simply as friends but in a romantic way.
Weapon(s): Clara's weapons consist of two cutlasses, which are short swords with curved blades, complete with hand guards, best used for slashing. At least that's how ordinary ones go. These cutlasses' blades are thick for extra parrying power and built into the hilts are revolving chambers to hold Dust canisters. By rotating these chambers, the swords gain additional effects when used to slash. She names them Decretum and Conturbatio, even though the two blades are completely identical.
(Decretum and Conturbatio are the titles of Sayaka's Leitmotifs.)
Semblance: Pain Nullification. No matter what hits her, no matter how far hard she's flung into anything, so long as her Aura is not depleted, she won't flinch and can get back on her feet instantly. This may sound like an advantage, since there won't be any delays that come from recovering, but it can easily become dangerous as without being able to feel pain, she may not know when it's a good idea to pull back (given her personality) until she actually gets hurt, which without Aura can range from serious to crippling to fatal. Thankfully, she can 'turn off' this Semblance when calm to prevent it from interfering with non-combat life.
Fighting Style: Due to her highly "protective" aura, Clara is an impulsive fighter bordering on "berserker", especially when fighting Grimm. Due to being able to cancel out pain thanks to her Semblance, she often has little care for her own safety in combat, which worries her teammates a lot.
Likes: justice, music (preferably classical)
Dislikes: "critical" secrets, mocking of her ideals
nightelf37: Huh. For some reason, I kept seeing a lot of similarities between Sayaka Miki and Ruby Rose, as both desire to be heroes who fought for what was right and protected those who couldn't protect themselves. However the difference is that for Sayaka, this is not what "magical girls" are (at least necessarily) and can often be the opposite. As for Ruby, heroes are what Huntresses and Huntsmen are, even if it's not that idealistic as she sees them as.
And I'm sorry for writing my Sayaka expy a bit negatively. Ironically, she's one of my favorites, although that could be my "bare shoulder" fetish talking.
See ya on Third!
