Reika Kamiya
| Reika Kamiya | |
|---|---|
| A.K.A. | Rei, "Echo" |
| Age | 24 |
| Voice Actor | |
| Relatives | Yuuta Kamiya - little brother Kagami Kamiya - little sister Masaru Kamiya - father Setsuko Amaragi - mother |
| Series | Original from Puella Magi Madoka Magica |
| Player | Sigma_Astra aka Heather |
- Name: Reika Kamiya
- Age: 24
- Sex: Female
- Birthday: February 10th (Aquarius)
- Parents: Masaru Kamiya & Setsuko Amaragi
- Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan (Chiyoda Ward)
- Nationality: Japanese
- Specialty: Magical Girl of Sound/Electricity
- Hobbies: Riding her motorcycle at night, inline skating, & making remixes
- Likes: Exercise, music, helping others, the newest gadjets, & cooking
- Dislikes: Witches, being deceived or taken advantage of, & getting caught in the rain
- Favorite Food: Cheeseburgers
- Least Favorite Food: Sea Urchin (Ume)
- Favorite Music: Trance, Chillstep
- Favorite Sport: Professional Inline Skating
- Most Valuable Possessions: Soul Gem
- Level of Education: College Graduate, Masters in Digital Media Production & Communications
- Job: Recording Engineer at a local late-night radio station
- Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
- Physical Stats
- Height: 5'6" (5'7"-ish with her heels)
- Weight: 138 lbs.
- Eyes: Bright green
- Hair: Jet black
- Special: Has a bright, almost neon, single green streak through the front of her bangs that fades back into her natural, black hair color. Reika also has a black tattoo under the corner of her left eye that is a group of three, outlined stars varying in size together. Her fading streak often confuses others about her natural hair color being either black or lime green. Either way, it's suited just fine for her career path.
Contents
Appearance
Reika is a modestly attractive, young Japanese woman with a slight height differential. A little taller than the average Japanese woman, she can sometimes intimidate most men of her age. She likes to keep her body fit for personal reasons, but also mostly for her second "job". The same goes for her hair style, Reika loves to keep her hair short and with a "sassy" overtone because it's much easier to maintain and care for. Her second excuse is always "I don't always have time to mess around like the airheads who put it in cute, little girly braids hoping my senpai will notice me like an idiot. I'm too old for that crap."
When Reika isn't gallavanting around as a savior and protector for the oblivious, she likes to stay casual and comfortable for her everyday wear. Jeans, jackets, t-shirts, pull-overs, tank tops, boots, etc are things you'll always find her in. Dresses, tights, skirts, and girly sweaters? Not so much.
Personality
Reika has always been an averagly good person. Easy-going, sincere, loyal, and responsible are just a few of her qualities. Even as a kid, she was always the type of girl that you could depend on to help you out with studying for an upcoming test or beating up boys on the playground for pulling on your hair. There are a few times that she can be childish, but no adult is perfect. When it comes to a challege or fight however, Reika does have a strong competitive side and treats all bouts as a stepping stone in her training. This rings much truer in her Puella Magi form when she's battling against Witches and can even become a little more fierce or reckless at times, often pushing herself to go farther than what her body can allow.
Background
Years After Madoka's reign...
It's safe to say that Reika had a pretty normal childhood growing up within the Chiyoda Ward of Tokyo, Japan. She has her parents: Masaru Kamiya, a prominent Japanese businessman working for a large company that specializes in the production and distribution of various electronics locally and overseas, and Setsuko Amaragi, a Japanese housewife who cared for Reika along with her younger siblings, Yuuta and Kagami. Growing up, Reika had always tried to set a good example for her young brother and sister and still does to this day. Her life was pretty normal with very few bumps or complications in her way aside from the usual school-related stresses. Her avid love of music was ever present during those years as well.
Moving forward, Reika's life didn't really start to become more complicated until the age of 14 when she was a second-year in middle school. At that time, Reika's family was going through a tough financial crisis when her father was laid off from his job in order to make way for new, younger employees. With Reika's mom having no such "luxury" as valuable working experience, money was becoming incredibly tight. Her parents weren't even sure how they would continue to afford putting Reika through school while still trying to care for her brother and sister in day care at the time.
As Reika was walking home from school through a local park, she caught a glimpse of some strange white cat-like creature flickering through the bushes. Naturally curious as a kid, she wandered off the path, past the ground barriers, and into the foliage. Pushing away branches and leaves, she finally came to a small, sunlit clearing where the creature stopped to sit in the middle. The creature was no bigger than a small dog even and introduced itself as "Kyuubey the Incubator". Most fourteen year old girls would run away shrieking about a strange animal talking to them, but since this is Japan were talking about, Reika merely stared at the thing confused and silent.
After a bit, it asked her "Do you wish to become a magical girl?" and Reika merely replied in a questionable tone, "Magical girl...? You mean like the ones on TV and in manga...?" In return, the creature dismissed her question and just responded, "Become one and I'll grant you one wish in return for carrying the responsibility of the role". Reika blinked and toiled the offer over and over in her mind, remembering her family's current dilemma at the time, and nodded her head as she thought to herself "What's the worse that could happen...?". "Excellent! What will your wish be...?", spoke Kyuubey while waggling it's fluffy looking tail as it waited for Reika to respond. "To always have a future. I want my family and myself to always have a financially stable future", she spoke in a rather determined and sincere tone. The creature nodded once, did this crazy magic on Reika, and then explained the importance of her Soul Gem to her before telling her to transform. At that point, Reika became the Puella Magi known for her distinguishing attacks of sound and electricity.
Ever since that fateful day, Reika has become an almost eternal Puella Magi. While balancing her home life and education, she's been faithful to her second duties as a magical girl charged with protecting innocent lives from Witches for ten, long years. Regarded as one of the few "senior" or "master" Puella Magi due to her long-term experience, Reika takes her job very seriously. She's gone through enough struggles, tribulation, and grief to realize that her life will never, ever be as simple as she would like and that it's all mostly her fault because of the contract. So, rather than whine over the situation she put herself in, she tries her best to make the most out of it every time.
Reika has come to a few close calls over the course of her life that could have resulted in death, but her stubbornness keeps her from falling victim to it each and every time. As a Puella Magi, she's also been given the nickname "Echo" by Kyuubey for her magical properties and also for fading into near-death situations and coming back each and every time. Echo is also an alias she uses for making remixes as well.
Her fondness for music and with the help of her wish has gotten Reika through a college education as well and into a job pertaining toward her field of study shortly after she graduated high school. She's been working at a local late-night radio station for about three years now as a well-known recording engineer. The perfect set-up towards having a life, but still being able to successfully take care of her magical girl priorities on the side.
Skills
(These include all learned skills, as well as a relative rating from Abysmal to Amazing. The character's level of mastery in something that can be taught or at least rated by other people follows the scale: Abysmal, Novice, Good, Very Good, Incredible, Amazing)
Physical Skills:
- Alertness - Very Good +3 (Civilian Only), Incredible +4 (Magi Only)
- Athletics - Very Good +3 (Civilian Only), Incredible +4 (Magi Only)
- Stealth - Incredible +4 (Magi Only)
- Inline Skating - Very Good +3
Social Skills:
- Subterfuge -
- Streetwise - Good +2
- Intimidation - Good +2
- Leadership - Good +2 (Magi Only)
- Expression - Good +2
- Etiquette - Good +2
- Performance (making remixes) - Incredible +4 (Civilian Only)
Mental Skills:
- Computers - Incredible +4
- Investigation - Good +2
- Medicine
- Law
- Occult - Good +2
- Politics
- Science
- Technology - Amazing +5
Other Skills:
- Driving - Very Good +3
- Survival
- Empathy - Good +2
- Animal Ken
- Cooking - Good +2
Special Abilities
(These are skills, things that can be learned or trained, like martial arts techniques, Jutsu or magic spells. Abilities that are outside the norm of regular humans, but only because they have not had access to them.)
- Karate - Reika dabbled into a few courses of Karate to learn the basics of self-defense and discipline herself physically as well as mentally/spiritually. At this point, she's an ongoing purple belt with some ways to go before obtaining a black belt.
Powers & Merits
(Unique, or hereditary, in-born powers, whether due to genetics or magic, things that can't be taught to others or simply gifted to this person from an outside force. Powers based on weapons should go in the Items. Merits can also go here.)
- Puella Magi Magic - Stationary - Limited (Reika's weapons cannot be duplicated an unlimited amount like Mami's flintlock rifles or pull a variety of weapons out like Homura either.)
- Digital Storm - Like all Puella Magi, Reika has one exclusive finishing move for fending off Witches and their little followers. Digital Storm involves Reika fusing both of the plasma blades of her dual katars together in order to form a much larger and more reasonably intimidating blade of electricity, like a sword. In the process, a furious electrical current builds up around her body into a swirling storm that super charges the blade even further. Once the build up is complete, she'll charge forward quickly and rear the blade up over her head before swinging it back down to literally slam head on into the Witch. Think of an over-the-top, cinematic, one-shot Final Smash and you're good. Class: Heavy Hit
- Skyline Fracture - An uppercut move that utilizes the dual katars's plasma blades fused together until they are just one blade with the two hilts interlocking into one another. In short, Reika would keep the blade low towards the ground at an enemy before quickly raising it up in a diagonal swing to strike the opponent's front side heavily, from the naval and up at point blank range. The end result will also release a small aftershock of lightning arcing out from the blade as well. Class: Medium Hit
- Photon Slicer - A single horizontal swing of just one of Reika's plasma katars can generate a small arc of static that gathers itself and forms into a solid mass of electricity. Much akin to an energy blast, the crescent-shaped arc will be fired and rush forward toward wheoever stands in its trajectory. The mass of energy does not always follow a straight path and can be quite erratic so it can be dodged, blocked, or possibly ricochet off of other objects. When it does hit its target, it will heavily shock and cause a light explosion to take place. Class: Light Hit
- Binary Field - A small, concave, and rounded frontal shield made from Reika discharging a short burst of static electricity that will nullify the energy of opposing attacks aimed towards her. It does not cover her fully so her back is left open for attack. Class: Defense
- Disruption - An AOE effect strike that Reika implements when she shoves one or both plasma blades into the ground in order to generate and run an electrical current through it. With one blade, the voltage is 15V with an effect radius of only 5 ft; with two blades, the effects are doubled but so is stamina consumption. This move is meant for disarming and keeping large groups of enemies at a distance. Class: Medium Hit
- Soundwave - A small blast of air pressure that can be emitted from Reika's palms that can cause light damage as well as knocking back a foe. A very handy move for close-knit combat if she is unable to use her blades at the time, a back-up. Class: Light Hit
Merits
- Double-Jointed (1): Athletics rolls involving escape or dis-entangling are at -1 Difficulty.
- Concentration (1): You are very good at focusing, and suffer no penalty for distractions, stress or having to repeat yourself often.
- Clear-Sighted (3): You are not fooled by illusions, and you get an Alertness roll to see through illusions, Difficulty 7, any time you face one.
- Acute Sense (1): One of your five senses is incredibly sharp, and Alertness rolls involving this sense have a +1 Bonus. You must buy this merit separately for each sense. (Hearing)
- Reputation (2): You've built yourself an excellent reputation amongst your kind. Add +2 to Social rolls when dealing with the people in your sept/clan/chantry/freehold/etc.
- Graceful (2): You are extremely agile and delicate in your movements. +1 Bonus on all Athletics rolls.
Unique Items
(Madougu, magical weapons or other unique or special weapons, as well as all techniques related to them, as without it technically the character is NOT able to use these abilities.)
- Soul Gem - Allows her the ability to transform into a Puella Magi. The source of her power and her limitations as a magical girl. As a civilian, she wears her soul gem as a ring on her finger with a symbolic marking on her fingernail, as a magi her Soul Gem becomes part of the "ear muff" in her headphone visor. Her Soul Gem is bright green with a soft, luminescent glow to it. The symbolic marking of her Soul Gem is a single bright green lightning bolt.
- Headphone Visor - A critical part of Reika's defense when she's transformed as a Puella Magi. The headphone visor allows her to dull most of her senses into just hearing and amplifies that sense. The visor allows her to pick up the sound waves or frequencies of other people and objects. This gives her the ability to, in an odd fashion, "sense" and anticipate some actions before they get to her if given enough time by listening and learning through sound.
- "Obituary Stars" Electric Dual Katars - A pair of katars with a very "techy" and black design to their handles, almost like something out of Tron, with ethereal blades made from electric plasma. The blades will shock whoever they touch automatically, it IS pure plasma. The blades themselves are also a bright neon green color instead of the typical neon yellow. They can also be connected from the bottom of their hilts below the handle grips by a rope-like stream of plasma, similar to the way that nun-chucks are connected to each other. Reika is only able to use this weapon when she's in magical girl form.
Items Of Note
- K2 Alexis Boa Women's Inline Skates - A fashionable, equally expensive, but decent pair of roller-blades in Reika's favorite color combination of green and black.
- Kawasaki "Ninja" 1000 - Reika's one and only motorcycle that she's had for quite a while. She always laments that it's her favorite one thus far. (Probably because it's green and black.)
Weaknesses & Flaws
Flaws can go here. Balance is key!
Destruction of Soul Gem - If Reika's soul gem is destroyed completely at any time, it will result into a permanent death for Reika herself. The Soul Gem is the physical manifestation of a Magi's soul/heart, when it goes they go as well.
Soul Gem Displacement - If Reika's Soul Gem is taken away from her for any reason at any time, it can put her into a comatose state for as long as she is separated from it by. In that condition, she is unable to do anything and is extremely vulnerable.
Flaws
- Overconfident (1): You think you can do everything even though you probably can't, and you try to prove your belief as often as possible.
- Phobia of Slimey Things (1): Reika isn't a huge fan of frogs or slugs. Actually, she's not a huge fan of anything wet and slimey. She's not gonna shriek like a girly girl, but it is going to make her feel uncomfortable and leery.
- Otherworldly Taint "Lime Green Streak" (2): You have a physical peculiarity (odd hair/eye color, glowing eyes, etc.) and/or just an odd aura about you which may make you stick out. Someone who suspects you're not "normal" may make an Alertness roll, difficulty 7, to determine what you are.
- Bound (5): You owe some nut, angel, demon, spirit, whatever, and you owe him BIG. This is a Very Bad Thing. (Damn Kyuubey.)
- Allergic (3): Reika is pretty damn allergic to bee stings. Another thing she can't stand and a good reason to always have an EPI pen on hand for someone to stab her leg with. Fun times!
- Curiosity (2): Your incredible curiosity often overrides your common sense. Resisting temptation requires a successful Wits roll, difficulty depending on the situation. A very bad flaw to take with certain evil sadistic GMs.
- Addiction (3): Technology. Reika couldn't possibly live without her gadgets and gizmos. Don't expect her to function properly in a remote or rural region.
NPC(s) to go with char
None at the moment.
