Abilities: Megumi is a Sign user. Her sign is called Radiance, and its power scope mainly revolves around light and heat. By itself, she is able to heat up things and generate fire, plus use it as a projectile weapon. As she has undergone experimentation to modify her Sign, she has some abilities that are not normally accessible to Sign users. The modification basically involved linking her soul charge to that of a medium-sized class F star in the Andromeda Galaxy. It was part of a series of experimentations in imbuing non-sentient objects with self-sustaining soul charges of their own.
As a result, she is able to access the energy output of the star, giving her advanced abilities such as 'creating' stellar plasma, radiation and magnetic fields. In reality, it involves siphoning the star's output and materializing it in her vicinity. This also makes her immune to radiation. She usually manifests these abilities as 'laser beams' or energy orbs reminiscent to Touhou danmaku that explode on impact. However, as full activation of her star link would result in lethal amounts of radiation and heat being put out from her body, she wears at least three limiters at all times to prevent the link from being accessed too much. One of them is removeable and acts as an interface for her to put out electricity for digital devices, she wears it as a necklace. The other two are silver bangles on her arms which cannot be removed unless by her partner, since they are locked to his Sign signature. They sap her 'ambient' output of energy (since she leaks heat all the time) and also act as storage devices - there is a blue line running along the edge of each bangle, being the 'battery bar indicator'. The energy stored inside the bangles can be used as portable power sources when interfaced through her necklace. They need to be discharged once they reach 90% capacity, or risk hitting full limit and overload themselves.
Sign users at Eden schools all undergo Negative combat training. Traditionally, each user is expected to 'overlay' a combat outfit over their usual clothes (again, magical girl tropes) to protect them from injury while fighting, as well as give them weapons. As these outfits come from the individual's soul field, the person is able to 'design' them so to speak. Megumi's is mostly red with black accents, and she also wears a scarf. Her weapons are two swords which can transform into guns (shooting lasers). What is notable is that her combat clothes carry indicators of how much energy she is putting out - there are 'Tron lines' running down her uniform which glow red depending on the intensity of her output. She is also able to fly while in 'transformed' mode, due to the production of two miniature plane wings from her back. It is powered by her internal energy output - while fast, it is hard to maneuver at high speeds, as directional control is dictated only by rotation of jets of hot air that come out from the ends of the wings. Gravity is nullified while they are activated as part of her star link abilities.
There are two aspects of Megumi's Sign that she isn't aware of - firstly, she has a nerve implant in the back of her neck that would kill her if she overuses her ability (while limitless in capacity, there is a limit to how much energy her soul charge can materialize from the star per given span of time). It basically severs her brain stem and shuts down her consciousness immediately, thus closing the star link completely, similar to a 'dead man's switch'. The second is that under certain circumstances, she cannot die. If her physical body is damaged to the point of death while she is still awake (and thus sentient), the star link will restore said physical damage to her body while generating vast amounts of heat. There are two main ways to kill her without this ability kicking in - to knock her out first (as is the action of her nerve implant), or to destroy her body before it finishes regenerating (the star link needs her body to be intact to work).
Alignment: Sosyne. Megumi presents a rather interesting dichotomy in her reactions - she is open-minded and very tolerant of others, but once her line is crossed she explodes into a terrifying fury. She also has good practice in calming herself down in tense situations, out of necessity to prevent her powers (which are amplified by anger) from going out of control.
Other: She already has a lot of limiters on, but I don't mind adding more. What I would prefer not to lose is her ability to fly, however.
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Megumi is a Sign user. Her sign is called Radiance, and its power scope mainly revolves around light and heat. By itself, she is able to heat up things and generate fire, plus use it as a projectile weapon. As she has undergone experimentation to modify her Sign, she has some abilities that are not normally accessible to Sign users. The modification basically involved linking her soul charge to that of a medium-sized class F star in the Andromeda Galaxy. It was part of a series of experimentations in imbuing non-sentient objects with self-sustaining soul charges of their own.
As a result, she is able to access the energy output of the star, giving her advanced abilities such as 'creating' stellar plasma, radiation and magnetic fields. In reality, it involves siphoning the star's output and materializing it in her vicinity. This also makes her immune to radiation. She usually manifests these abilities as 'laser beams' or energy orbs reminiscent to Touhou danmaku that explode on impact. However, as full activation of her star link would result in lethal amounts of radiation and heat being put out from her body, she wears at least three limiters at all times to prevent the link from being accessed too much. One of them is removeable and acts as an interface for her to put out electricity for digital devices, she wears it as a necklace. The other two are silver bangles on her arms which cannot be removed unless by her partner, since they are locked to his Sign signature. They sap her 'ambient' output of energy (since she leaks heat all the time) and also act as storage devices - there is a blue line running along the edge of each bangle, being the 'battery bar indicator'. The energy stored inside the bangles can be used as portable power sources when interfaced through her necklace. They need to be discharged once they reach 90% capacity, or risk hitting full limit and overload themselves.
Sign users at Eden schools all undergo Negative combat training. Traditionally, each user is expected to 'overlay' a combat outfit over their usual clothes (again, magical girl tropes) to protect them from injury while fighting, as well as give them weapons. As these outfits come from the individual's soul field, the person is able to 'design' them so to speak. Megumi's is mostly red with black accents, and she also wears a scarf. Her weapons are two swords which can transform into guns (shooting lasers). What is notable is that her combat clothes carry indicators of how much energy she is putting out - there are 'Tron lines' running down her uniform which glow red depending on the intensity of her output. She is also able to fly while in 'transformed' mode, due to the production of two miniature plane wings from her back. It is powered by her internal energy output - while fast, it is hard to maneuver at high speeds, as directional control is dictated only by rotation of jets of hot air that come out from the ends of the wings. Gravity is nullified while they are activated as part of her star link abilities.
There are two aspects of Megumi's Sign that she isn't aware of - firstly, she has a nerve implant in the back of her neck that would kill her if she overuses her ability (while limitless in capacity, there is a limit to how much energy her soul charge can materialize from the star per given span of time). It basically severs her brain stem and shuts down her consciousness immediately, thus closing the star link completely, similar to a 'dead man's switch'. The second is that under certain circumstances, she cannot die. If her physical body is damaged to the point of death while she is still awake (and thus sentient), the star link will restore said physical damage to her body while generating vast amounts of heat. There are two main ways to kill her without this ability kicking in - to knock her out first (as is the action of her nerve implant), or to destroy her body before it finishes regenerating (the star link needs her body to be intact to work).
Alignment: Sosyne. Megumi presents a rather interesting dichotomy in her reactions - she is open-minded and very tolerant of others, but once her line is crossed she explodes into a terrifying fury. She also has good practice in calming herself down in tense situations, out of necessity to prevent her powers (which are amplified by anger) from going out of control.
Other: She already has a lot of limiters on, but I don't mind adding more. What I would prefer not to lose is her ability to fly, however.
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