"Hail, your majesty. What needs to be done?"
Title - The Lightning Queen
Faction - Plenoran
Role - ♛ Queen ♛
Race - Homunculus. A construct created through the power of alchemy, and animated by an artificial soul, Alaysia's physical body is tremendously fragile, and very easily disrupted by magic. Conversely, however, her physical strength, speed, and capacity for survival is far beyond that of a Human, even without taking her Queen's Crest into consideration. Although normally her form is a perfect replica of a Human body, any part of her body that becomes damaged is broken away from her artificial soul and reduced to the component dust from which it is formed, but can be replaced by simply absorbing earthen matter and/or water, which will then shape itself back into her normal form. Even when she sustains wounds that would be fatal to a normal human, so long as her core/brain, the manifestation of her artificial soul, and her heart survive, she can recover. This process takes intense concentration and quite some time, however, so she won't be, say, regrowing limbs in the middle of a battle. But, she is incredibly hard to kill, nevertheless, even moreso now that she has her Queen's Crest and the further increase to her regenerative capacity that comes with it.
Another feature of her Homunculus body is her artificial soul's nature. Having been summoned from the essence that animates life, it thus provides her with a direct connection to the root of all magic. While this connection is obviously tremendously limited by her body's fragility, it nonetheless allows her a passive increase in her base energy capacity, energy regeneration, energy efficiency, and physical stats, as the energy rushing through her body serves as a sort of reinforcing agent, increasing her strength, speed, and endurance, although the latter-most is still tremendously low. Additionally, by targeting enemy magic directly at its source - the Will of Magic, to which she is connected - she can cut off enemy spells, canceling their existence with her own magic, thus giving her a certain level of countering ability to compensate for her massive weakness to enemy magic. A side effect of this connection, however, is that if she uses too much power, her body might start to crumble into dust from the strain, making her increased magical ability a double-edged sword.
As mentioned above, she possesses an artificial soul that is what allows her to continue living, a core that allows her to think, and a heart that allows her body to function. If any of the above were destroyed, Alaysia would be irreparably damaged, capable of surviving only with the healing powers of a pawn. If her heart was destroyed, her body would continuously collapse into dust, immobilizing her and leaving her a perpetually melting wreck. If her core was destroyed, she'd simply shut down, like a machine with its plug pulled. And, if her soul was destroyed, she would lose all of her powers and, although continuing to live, would be left as an empty shell of a person, with no feelings, identity, personality, memory, or thoughts. Her heart and core are made of crystals, and exist in the same place where a normal human's heart and brain would be, respectively. Her soul, meanwhile, takes the form of her weapon of choice, the magic pistol pictured below.
Gender - Female
Appearance - Standing at the surprisingly short height of only five feet, five inches, the infamous Lightning Queen is actually rather smaller than one might expect. With a physical appearance like the body of a 16-ish year old girl, she certainly doesn't exactly fit her image. Her physique is thin and slender, with her build clearly focused towards her limbs, but bearing very little apparent muscle - or fat - upon it. She seems almost like a statue, with a curving, delicate figure carefully crafted to meet an image of elegance and beauty whilst also maintaining some utility in the form of flexibility and long, limber arms and legs. With a narrow waist, flat stomach, and feminine build, she's not a person most suspect of the true strength and dexterity she actually possesses.
Her hair is long, reaching almost to her waist, and very straight. In hue, it is a raven black color, although it seems to shimmer slightly when it catches the light. With a silken texture, it, like her body, gives a somewhat false image of beauty and innocence. But her face, although appearing girlish and innocent, does not accentuate this image further. With soft, unblemished pale skin - a side effect of her regenerative abilities - rounded cheeks, soft pink lips, white teeth, and a petite nose, chin, and ears, she would normally look perhaps younger than she already does. But the determined, pointed look in her deep purple eyes, and the usual half-grin of amusement that plays upon her lips display an emotion that belies her apparent age, and hints a bit more accurately at the true self within.
When wandering in Gardenia, she generally wears a simple outfit, almost like that of a schoolgirl, consisting of a simple blouse, black jacket, and skirt. When serving as Queen, however, her attire shifts to a more formal outfit, almost like a military uniform. With a gold-trimmed blue blazer, a lace-trimmed skirt, her attire doesn't exactly change much, but it does appear a great deal more impressive whilst still not hindering her capacity to move. In any case, her main disguise is the way her expression and attitude changes between encounters. In her everyday persona, she seems like an ordinary, cheerful schoolgirl, and conceals her gun/soul artifact within a large blue bag. When in her "Queen" persona, however, she becomes cold and combative.
Sometimes, in battle as a queen, she wears a hooded red and white cloak to conceal her identity, but casts this away once she grows serious.
Personality - How Alaysia acts depends on whether she's serving as Queen, or simply wandering the city in disguise. In the case of the latter, she seems like a perfectly normal girl. Quiet, but cheerful and polite, she's kind but not overly social, although this isn't to say she's aloof, either. She simply doesn't really speak up much unless there's a need for her to. When she does, though, she's very rarely rude, and generally respects the wishes and opinions of others above her own. A selfless, gentle girl, she is, however, somewhat quirky. She has a tendency to take things very literally, causing most instances of sarcasm to go clear over her head. She gets excited easily, although she never breaks her composure even when she does so, and is a little bit gullible. Very naive and even childish, she's a rather goofy, yet lovable and sociable individual despite her very quiet demeanor. Even in this personality, however, she is absolutely loyal to the orders of her King, and will carry them out with little hesitation, if a bit of reluctance in certain cases. But, in this mindset, if not directly commanded to go after the enemy, she'd probably be willing to have a cheerful outing with an enemy, even if she had already sensed exactly who it was with whom she was interacting.
When she enters battle, however, she changes completely. By connecting to the Will of Magic, her own mind becomes altered and switches into a nigh sociopathic "combat mode." In this mindset, no matter what stands in her way, she will always complete her objective, whatever it might be. She becomes cruel, and takes intense enjoyment in the thrill of battle, getting caught up in the rush of the moment. She displays her emotions much more readily in this persona, but not in a good way. She's not exactly rude to her enemies, but she is most definitely much more focused on her mission than she is on trying not to harm people, even if they're someone she's befriended in her other personality. Interestingly enough, she thinks much more tactically in this form, and becomes a very capable combat strategist, planning many of her actions a long time in advance and using the surroundings to her advantage. She's pragmatic, and willing to do whatever it takes to win, even if it means resorting to things most people would consider dirty tricks. Another unusual thing to note is that she not only gains an understanding of sarcasm in this form, but actively uses it to a great extent. Over all, this persona is almost directly opposite of her usual actions.
Weapon(s) - A long-barreled pistol, shown in the pictures. As mentioned above, this pistol is actually the manifestation and the container for her artificial soul. This, like her nature, is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, she can control the weapon remotely as though it was a piece of her body, and it serves as a means of further amplifying her magic. On top of this, it's very, very durable, and it need not be reloaded, for the bullets it fires are magical embodiments of both her soul's energy and the Will of Magic, upon which she draws heavily. But, on the other hand, were it ever destroyed, her existence would be along with it, providing an easy means of killing her. Still, it's a very potent weapon, even if it's also her greatest weakness.
Fighting Style - Alaysia's combat style relies on two things: speed, and overwhelming storms of attacks. Using her Queen's Crest and Homunculus body, she can attain truly astounding levels of velocity, allowing her to blur around the battlefield, raining attacks from her pistol. Firing off showers of spreadfire attacks with her magic - see below - and targeting the magic of her enemies, she does her best to circumvent defenses both physical and arcane, and to eliminate her targets by backing them into a corner and simply overwhelming them. Due to her fragile body, she avoids going on the defensive, if at all possible, and instead pushes to attack as much as possible, using her own tremendous energy efficiency, energy reserves, and ability to target enemy magic to outlast her opponents in battles of attrition, and her speed and rate of fire to wear away at their bodies bit by bit until they finally can't fight anymore. It's a very straightforward, single-focus style, and, while powerful, is also overly specialized enough to leave some serious flaws in her methods. Although her offense is second to none, and her mobility is truly staggering, her defense leaves much to be desired.
--Abilities--
Role Ability 1) Ability Name: Queen's Crest Augmentation
Description: Her power is increased to fit the queen position. This takes affect on all four of her abilities, increasing her raw power unilaterally, but especially her natural healing abilities.
Role Ability 2) Ability Name: Sense Presence
Description: Alaysia is capable of locating all other pieces within a large radius, forewarning her to their presence even if they conceal themselves. In her case, this ability is even more powerful than it otherwise would be, due to her contact with the Will of Magic allowing her to see through magical shrouds, making it very difficult to fool her.
1) Ability Name: Homunculus Nature
Description: As mentioned above, Alaysia has tremendously increased speed and strength, even further bolstered by her Crest. She can survive even mortal wounds so long as her brain, heart, and pistol are not destroyed. By absorbing water or earthen matter, she can regenerate her body, converting these things into normal human body parts. However, this comes at a cost, for her body is very weak against magical attacks, and could easily be reduced to dust by a direct hit. Even when what's hitting her isn't even magic, she's still tremendously fragile. Her nature also takes the form of her gun, which amplifies magic cast through it, and creates its own ammunition.
2) Ability Name: Will of Magic
Description: Alaysia's soul is directly connected with the Will of Magic, the source of all arcane power in the world. This allows her several things. Firstly, by drawing on some of its power passively, she automatically has a much greater capacity for using magic before she grows tired, as her store of energy is much greater than the average caster. Similarly, she can recover from the strain of using magic very quickly, and, due to her streamlined connection with the Will of Magic, she finds using magic less taxing that it otherwise would be. The most formidable aspect of this ability, however, is that she can actually target the source of other people's spells, and, by shooting the magic of other people with her gun, dispel it with her own energy, cutting it off at the source. To do this, however, she does need to expend energy of her own to match and negate the enemy's spell. However, due to her efficiency with her abilities, this is nonetheless a practical method. However, it doesn't work on powers derived specifically from ones' own physical body. For example, shooting a vampire wouldn't negate that Vampire's enhanced speed and strength. Her bullets do, however, exploit the weaknesses of her targets to some extent, so shooting a vampire in the heart would be just as effective as staking it with yew wood. This power is, over all, however, as much of a weakness as it is a strength, as her body's weakness to magic limits the amount of energy she can channel at once, and using too much power at a time would actually cause her to begin to turn to dust. This ability does, however, have the side effect of making it almost impossible to assimilate control of her spells.
3) Ability Name: Lightning Ruler
Description: Alaysia has the power to summon and manipulate lightning. This takes many forms, but, most usually, it is used to magnetically propel rounds from her gun, firing the weapon like a railgun and massively increasing the speed and power of the shot. By adding lightning to the shot, she can actually make her pistol fire bullets of ball-lightning, too, or even beams of chain-lightning. And, when she fires, the resulting discharge of electricity can also be used to create an arcane energy field to deflect attacks, taking the form of a cluster of magic circles and emblems made of pure power. Perhaps the most unusual use of this ability in her repertoire is that, by combining this ability with her bodily control as a Homunculus, and with her connection to the Will of Magic, she can actually transport her three vitals through the Will while converting her body directly to a lightning bolt, striking upward into the sky, then back down to the earth at a different location over a reasonably short range, where it can be reformed into her body, allowing her vitals to return to it. This ability is, of course, largely impractical outside of combat, however, as it takes a tremendous amount of power, is rather short-ranged, and each teleportation causes a rather large explosion. In any case, these aren't the only uses of this power, but they're some of her main ones.
4) Ability Name: Hydrogen Alchemy
Description: This ability allows Alaysia to perform Atomic Hydrogen Welding by using any electrical energy in the air to break apart H2O into individual Hydrogens and Oxygens, then fuse the Hydrogens back together to form H2, creating a tremendous release of heat in the process, which causes the now free and highly concentrated Oxygen molecules to fuel a combustion reaction. The more energy in the air, the wider spread this effect is. In short, it allows her to create explosions of intense heat and flames with strikes of lightning. Note that she has no actual control over the flames themselves, so unlike her other powers, they can be assimilated by an enemy mage.
History - Created accidentally in an alchemist's weapon experiments - from which her gun was also a result - she was the first perfected form of alchemically created life in her world, one of blended magic, alchemy, and technology. Sentient, possessing a soul of her own, and having capabilities far beyond those of an ordinary human, she was also immediately loyal and submissive to her "Father," who, being a kind and generous man, decided that he'd keep his new "daughter" around, overjoyed at the unexpected success of his research. For the first several years of her life, she served as a laboratory assistant, learning more about magic and alchemy all the while, and about her own unique powers. Over time, she grew stronger, but at the same time, more and more people began to notice her and her unusual nature. People became suspicious of the strange girl who had appeared, and about how her soul seemed displaced. Although her Father tried to hide the truth, that she was actually a successful Homunculus - something unheard of in her world - when she failed to age at all from the day she'd been created, people became suspicious. Eventually, the truth came out, and almost immediately, the foremost mages and scholars, who were the rulers of society in that place, immediately set upon experimenting upon her. Although her Father tried to protect her from this fate, he was killed for his trouble. At that moment, something snapped inside her. Alaysia flew into a rage, connecting fully with the Will of Magic and entering her combat persona. To avenge her deceased and beloved Father, she went on a rampage, slaughtering those who had killed her creator, then destroying everything in sight until her body finally just fell apart from the strain. Her soul, core, and heart were sucked into the Will of Magic, and transported by it into Gardenia, where she awoke with no memories of her past, just the feeling that there was someone she should be serving, and the knowledge of her duty...
