nightelf37: Now it's time for another Puella Magi.


Fictional Work: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Character: Kyouko Sakura

Name: Apria Scarlet

(杏子, which apparently translates to kyoko means "apricot tree", although it also means "mirror". Apria means "from the apricot" in Latin. Scarlet is a variant of the color red.)

Gender: Female

Backstory: Apria hails from Vacuo and comes from a poor family. Due to this background, she had to resort on stealing to survive, but she always made sure not to be recognized. Thanks to an incident where she ended up saving the life of a veteran Huntress, she was offered a chance to become a Huntress herself. After hearing of the high pay grade, she jumped at the opportunity, all to help her family.

Appearance: Apria is a dark red-haired and red-eyed cat Faunus, whose ears are also similarly colored. Her red hair is tied into a ponytail and grows past her back. This ponytail is tied by a black ribbon that strangely does not hide her cat ears, but is positioned behind them.

Her outfit consists of a red dress with pink trimming open in the front. Underneath it was a skirt—also red—, a black shirt, and red kneee-high boots over black leggings. Right above her chest area is an opening that bears a gold chest ring holding a red oval, making it look like an eye. It also serves as her symbol.

Personality: Apria used to be the typical ideal kind of Huntress; selfless, fighting for justice, and such. However, after an unspecified incident, Kyoko now prefers to fight on her own. While the nature of being a Huntress requires her to be in a team, this only means she decides to go ahead of the others, or—if the team needs to split up—go by herself. She's also become callous, caring more about slaying Grimm than protecting the people, not to mention a bit of a sadist. Even before that, she's somewhat abrasive, and rather fiery.

She has a bit of a selfish streak because of her poor background deeming it necessary when it comes to competing with other thieves. Having lived a impoverished life, she hates it when food gets wasted, going so far as to make death threats on those who nonchalantly throw it away. And that's why no food fights ever take place in her presence.

She also doesn't take any crap from Faunus haters, and will readily beat up anybody who badmouth her simply because of what she is.

Weapon(s): Apria's Huntress Weapon, which she calls Rosso Fantasma, is a modular spear with a silver tip that is red i its interior. While the spear is steel hard, it is extremely flexible, and can extend or bend easily. The shaft can be broken down into numerous pieces, connected by a chain, allowing her to attack or defend over a wide area. The chain runs along the handle, ending in a heavy ball at the blunt side. The ball's weight is used to easily wrap the chain around foes, restricting them.

Unlike most Huntress weapons that aren't simple ancestral blades and such, Rosso Fantasma does not have a gun form, but its potential for long range compensates for that.

Semblance: Enchantment. Apria is able to create illusory clones of herself to distract her foes. They can appear wherever Apria can see, dissipate whenever struck, and she can call as many as she wants. She doesn't use this often, however, due to the unspecified incident.

Fighting Style: Apria serves best as either a "lone wolf" or a pointman. Due to her callousness, Apria's teammates know to stay out of her way. She prefers to count on no one but herself, but she's learned not to turn aside help when it is offered.

Hobbies/Interests: eating (particularly sweets), Grimm-reaping

Dislikes: self-sacrificing people, Faunus haters, those who waste food, swimming


nightelf37: Due to a Huntress lifestyle being different from that of a Puella Magi, I deeply regret having to change a couple of things that make Kyouko who she is. I guess that's another reason why I wanted you guys to write a different name for them; to solidify their difference from their "canonical" counterparts. I was tempted to try and fit in Kyouko's last name in somehow, but thought better of it.

Now that I notice the imprecticality of detached sleeves, and the lack of them in any of the canon Huntresses, I decided to omit them in "my" Puella Magi (sans Sayaka/Clara for some reason).

And the swimming part is from a Drama CD (which I looked up in TV Tropes). See ya on Third!