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IC:
Character name: Marisa Kirisame
Fandom: Touhou Project
Timeline: Great Fairy Wars (TH12.8)
Age: late teens
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
Marisa is a witch - a human that learned how to use magic and continually studies to expand her magical knowledge and power, conducting research experiments. Unlike everyone else in Gensokyo, Marisa wasn't born with any special powers nor was she gifted with them. She learned everything she knows through hard work and perseverance.
Skilled in danmaku - a form on non-lethal magical duels using designated spells written on spell cards - Marisa is capable of creating magical 'bullets' usually star-shaped and lasers of varying strength at will. The majority of her magic takes on a celestial feel due to her apprenticeship under Mima and Marisa has also 'stolen' several spells from others. Master Spark (from Yuuka Kazami), Non-Directional Laser (from Patchouli Knowledge) and Orreries Sun (from Mima) are the best examples of this ability of Marisa's to analyze the magic of others and adapt the spells for her own use. This is furthered in her own grimoire where she lists various spells from various other residents of Gensokyo, giving her personal analysis of the spell and commentary on whether she could some day duplicate it or if it is racial/divine based. She is constantly working on developing new spells.
Most of Marisa's extremely powerful spells utilize Mini-Hakkero, a small hand-held furnace created by Rinnosuke Morichika, the shop owner of Kourindou, by combining magic and technology. It helps amplify and control the spells, though it is not needed to cast them, but who really wants a spell strong enough to blow up a mountain (Master Spark) being used without control?
Like most residents of Gensokyo, Marisa can fly and it was assumed she could only fly on her broom and not free-fly. She uses her flight capability for general travel and she's extremely skilled at dodging lasers and other such attacks called 'grazing'. She's one of the fastest residents of Gensokyo behind the tengu and Youmu Konpaku. In Great Fairy Wars, it was shown that she doesn't need her broom to fly and further strengthens her ability to manipulate and adapt spells as she took her powerful normal spells and created, on the fly, watered down spells that kept the same feel but definitely weaker versions as to not kill her opponent.
Marisa is also skilled in potion creation. In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she has exploding potions and her time as an apprentice and the way she learned magic strongly supports the skill. Assisting with this is her mathematical aptitude. In Mountain of Faith, Marisa comments that she could recite all the digits of pi before she could reach the top of the mountain as a way of complaining that she'll never get there.
Marisa's physical abilities are a little on the lower end of the spectrum given her petite stature, but she can wield her broom like a staff if needed. She's canonically insane from her use of materials in her research such as arsenic and mercury and thus immune from abilities and powers that would cause insanity, such as looking at the full moon or Reisen's Lunatc Eyes Ability. Also, Marisa is a thief, a kleptomaniac, with pretty good stealth and escape abilities, shown to be an accomplished pickpocket in the Wild and Horned Hermit manga. She is the only one in canon known to be able to sneak past the Scarlet Devil Mansion's gatekeeper and into Voile - Patchouli Knowledge's personal library.
How would they use their abilities?:
Marisa would use her flight to travel around the SS Thor given it's the size of a city and to help get-away should she decide to partake in illegal activities. Also, she will always be continuing to expand her spell repertoire so most of her powers would be used in research and experimentation of new spells or the adaptation of magic she's observed others possessing. She will defend herself using her magic and tends to retaliate with a 'shoot first, ask questions later' mentality.
She could use her potion skills to make money, but that would be on a whim and, any mission where she could get an edge using her magic, she will do so without hesitation. She finds danmaku battles to be extremely fun, so trading spells in a non-lethal way serves as entertainment.
Appearance: Marisa is a short young woman, approximately 5'1", with gold eyes. She has long blonde hair that she keeps flowing freely except for a section on her left side that she keeps braided. Typically, Marisa wears a black skirt with petticoat and jumper-style top over a frilly white blouse, though there are many variations of the top. The outfit is completed by a pointed back 'witch' hat with a white bow and white trim giving her the nickname in canon of 'black-white'. She has two main possessions she's almost always with - her bamboo broom and Mini-Hakkero.
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Personality:
On the surface, Marisa is a carefree, straightforward, human witch with a lot of self-confidence. She likes to flaunt her power and talks big, sometimes even lying outright. When she's outmatched, she admits it, even when she doesn't want to. It's part of the rules of danmaku to admit defeat when out of spell cards, and Marisa's solution to that is to knock her opponent out before she runs out of spell cards. With Marisa, competition such as danmaku is never an endurance contest. She believes that magic should be flashy, best when unleashed at full power. She has a tremendous amount of destructive power and she knows it. Control... that takes a bit more effort. How Marisa describes casting Master Spark - her signature spell - says a lot about her views on magic: "How to Spark: Concentrate your mind. Mutter the spell to Mini-Hakkero tenderly. Aim it as someone you don't like. Now unleash your annihilation of love!"
Underneath the surface, there is a lot more to Marisa. Unlike the other main humans in Gensokyo, Marisa isn't naturally gifted with talent like Reimu - the shrine maiden with the power of the gods at her disposal - or possessing of a unique ability like Sakuya - the perfect maid with the ability to briefly stop time. Everything Marisa can do, she worked hard for. She studied under a semi-evil spirit, Mima, to learn magic in the first place and constantly researches magic to try and find new spells, new versions of already existing spells and ways to innovate things so she can be stronger, so she can be as good as the others. She really is very human, very ordinary, having gotten everything through her own blood, sweat, tears and cunning. She goes well out of her way to hide the amount of effort she puts into her magic, wanting to appear as if she's just as talented as Reimu. Marisa works hard so that she's not recognized for her hard work. The more it looks like having the level of power she does looks natural, the less people will question how she achieved her power.
Mixed in with all that is a tremendous amount of charisma and an almost impulsive need to collect things, books especially. Many magic grimoires are unreadable to a magician unless they already possess the power level needed to cast the spells, so Marisa tends to use the magic books others have to try and broaden her knowledge and eventually be able to read these more advanced grimoires that the youkai magicians create. She also steals just about anything she wants, stashing it somewhere until later. Unfortunately, she has so much stuff stashed away that she either forgets she has it in her possession or she gets distracted by something else. When confronted about it, she claims she's just borrowing the items and the owners can have them back when she dies. Being from a land of youkai, with most of her friends having vastly greater life spans than a mere human, it makes perfect sense to her, even if pointing out that she will eventually die might seem a bit heartless. To Marisa, it's a fact of life that she will one day die and her friends will live on, so she sees no reason to pretend it won't happen. She's definitely a little out there, but she has stated in canon that she's already insane, so why deny it?
Background:
In the magical land of Gensokyo where the majority of the population are youkai or other mystical creatures, there exists a single Human Village where all those humans that were either fighting the youkai when Gensokyo was first formed or spirited away settled to live their lives. It was in this village that a beautiful baby girl, Marisa Kirisame, was born to a shop keeper and his wife. A spitten image of her mother, Marisa had a normal early childhood in the village, learning to be wary of the wild youkai until one day her mother died under questionable circumstances. Was she brutally murdered or had it been an accident? Marisa would never know the real truth to that question, but it changed her.
It also changed her relationship with her father. He had a business to run, after all, and couldn't really devote the time his wife had to the little girl that looked so much like her, instead throwing himself into his work. Perhaps it was that every time he looked at Marisa he saw his dead wife. Perhaps it was Marisa's growing interest in magic, something that may have contributed to his wife's death that made them grow apart. Either way, they would never connect like a father and daughter should. It would never be known what caused Marisa and her father to become so estranged, but the most likely reason was Marisa's determination to learn magic - something of the youkai as most humans believed - and who she chose to learn it from that sealed the deal.
For one day, while exploring the very dangerous Forest of Magic where she remembered her mother telling her stories about, the girl came across Mima. A vengeance spirit, something about Mima, something familiar, drew the little girl and soon Marisa began her magic tutelage under Mima and the spirit took her deeper into the forest, showing her the old house within it that coincidentally had been the same house the girl's mother had grown up in before meeting her father in the Human Village. Was this really coincidence or was there more behind Marisa's vague familiar feeling when she met Mima? Did Mima choose to take Marisa on as an apprentice to groom her into a useable tool or was there more to it? Again, these are questions Marisa would never really learn the real answers to, and if asked, Mima claims to have never been alive. But was she telling the truth or was lying about her origin, in reality being a creation from the death of Marisa's mother? The budding witch would never knew the truth of the matter, but there was enough familiarity combined with how much she missed her mother, that Marisa latched onto Mima as a maternal figure.
The more Marisa spent with Mima, the less she was around the Human Village. It held nothing for her, not with the way her and her father just didn't get along. He didn't approve of her learning magic, certainly didn't approve of her teacher - did he suspect what Marisa subconsciously did? - and Marisa had reached that age of first rebellion. The girl never did anything small, and that included rebelling. Marisa moved completely into that house in the Forest of Magic, dyed her hair red, and started spending her time when she wasn't studying at Kourindou, an odd sort of antique shop outside the Human Village run by Rinnosuke Morichika who had once worked for her father before setting up Kourindou.
In a way, Rinnosuke grew to be more of a father than Marisa's real father as he took care of her when she showed up, let her pour through the contents of his store, including many things from the Outside World. He was a collector himself and tolerated a lot of 'creative borrowing' as Marisa began her habit of stealing things she found interesting from Kourindou. They would sit for hours talking about the things in his shop, about magic, and eventually Marisa gave him the nickname 'Kourin' because of his shop. They were close and Kourindou was Marisa's home away from home, and Rinnosuke was the one to make and give Marisa what she considers her greatest treasure, the Mini-Hakkero she uses to control and amplify her most powerful spell as well as heat tea in a pinch.
Slowly, the insides of Marisa's house in the Forest of Magic filled with random items 'borrowed' or outright stolen and, like her father, Marisa worked hard at her magic. She wanted approval from Mima, wanted to make something of herself and perhaps even prove people wrong about humans being able to be great magicians. Slowly, being the apprentice of a vengeance spirit would start to rub off onto her as Mima's great plan to get revenge on all of humanity turned into an Incident involving the Shrine Maiden of Paradise, Reimu Hakurei, an encounter that would change Marisa's goals.
Marisa lost to Reimu when she tried to defend Mima against the shrine maiden. Marisa hated to lose and would always hate to lose, but especially to someone like Reimu who was blessed with their gifts and didn't have to work for her power. This was the beginning of Marisa's long rivalry with Reimu. Anytime an incident or thing of interest occurred in Gensokyo, Marisa was right there with Reimu, but her motives were far different. She wanted to beat Reimu, be better than her, find things out before her, and make Mima proud. She also wanted cool things just to have them such as the ICBM she won when the ruins appeared outside the Hakurei Shrine or unique magic power that she could use to strengthen herself even more such as the power she felt from Yuuka when she felt the surge from the lake where Yuuka was.
Most of Marisa's involvement in solving and/or dealing with incidents was for those two reasons, but she was also a thrill-seeker that constantly pushed her limits. “If it's going to bring me a boring life, I'd rather die!” , “I just don't think about losing.” and “C'mon, doesn't a big 'KEEP OUT' sign just
make you want to see what's behind it?” are things Marisa would say in the course of the incidents along with her rampant lying. After the Mist Incident, when Marisa first encountered the Scarlet Devil's sister, a very powerful and volatile vampire, Marisa initially identified herself as Reimu. The Yama, herself, lectured Marisa on her lying ways and her sassy mouth, cautioning her to change her ways and threatening to cut her tongue out. This, naturally, does nothing to stop Marisa's lying and thieving ways.
Eventually, as the years passed and she no longer was Mima's apprentice but a witch in her own right, the rivalry with Reimu turned into a friendship. It didn't look like much of one to anyone but her and Reimu, but the witch spent a lot of her free-time when she wasn't engrossed in research hanging out at the shrine with Reimu. Her motivations for helping out during incidents changed slightly as well. Sure, she was still looking for cool things to steal, ways to one-up Reimu, and new sources of magical power that she could use, but she cared more for the land and was able to be talked into dealing with larger problems by some of the smarter youkai and because it felt like the right thing to do.
She helped get the real moon put back into the night sky and wasn't affected by the full moon rays due to her own insanity at the urging of Alice for the fake moon would cause major problems. She traveled to the top of Youkai Mountain when the new shrine appeared and demanded the Hakurei Shrine - so important for the existence of Gensokyo - be shut down to increase the faith of the new mountain god to see what was really going on. She helped the mountain gods and Reimu come to an understanding so that both shrines could exist. Marisa also ventured into the Underground at the behest of several youkai to help set something she didn't even understand right even though all she really wanted was the hot springs that had occurred because if the underground-caused geyser.
Over the years, Marisa became more focused on prioritizing the protection of humans when it came to incidents, as she told Byakuren, instead of just exterminating youkai like Reimu. A bit of maturity on the witch's part? Perhaps. Years of dealing with the worst of Gensokyo along with the best of Gensokyo can change a human. Marisa even reached a point where she no longer immediately blasted anyone in danmaku with her most powerful spells, as seen when Cirno won the Fairy Wars and then challenged Marisa. In a rare show of maturity, she recognized that her most powerful lasers would probably kill Cirno, so she chose to water them down, weaken them, and face her in danmaku that she ended up losing. Recognizing that even with her most powerful spells, Cirno could have given her trouble, Marisa was a bit humbled. Silently more respectful of how even weak youkai could get stronger (through hard work, of course), Marisa would always keep that loss in mind.
Unfortunately, the odds of her ceasing to steal, lie and be contrary would probably never be very good.
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1st person sample:
[The guide turns on to show one blonde-haired witch with gold eyes staring up at the camera as she lays on her back holding it above her.]
You know, for as much as me and my father never really got along... I kinda miss him.
[She sighs.] We hadn't exchanged more than, like, five words in the last couple years, but now that Gensokyo's gone, I can't help but think about him, ze. Did he even survive, ending up here like I did? I mean, what would I say to him?
'Sorry I couldn't save the world?'
'Sorry I might have somehow caused it?'
'Sorry you were right about the whole magic thing?'
Makes me wish I'd at least had dinner with him last week when I was in the Village.
[Marisa sighs, runs a hand over her face as she mumbles something and rolls her eyes.]
Hey... anyone else from Gensokyo make it onto this rocket? [She suddenly grins mischievously.] I'm tired of moping, and there's all sorts of new stuff to check out!
3rd person sample: (Sample originally written for Amatomnes RP)
When living in a land of mystical and magical, youkai, spirits and even vampires, when one just happened to be the natural prey of most of the the things that go bump in the night, an active mind is usually an asset. And being one of the humans that could not only survive but was respected and feared by those same youkai meant that the ordinary witch sprawled across the bed wearing absolutely nothing was used to having vivid dreams. The thing was, her vivid dreams were usually just that - dreams. Marisa wasn't sure what she wanted to do as she lay in the bed staring at the ceiling.
On one hand, she really liked that dream and wouldn't mind having it again. Maybe then she'd be able to narrow down who she'd had such an intense dream about. She couldn't quite figure out how much of that blonde hair was her own or whether the purple was actually the sheets was laying on or something more familiar. And then there had been those flashes of red and a very faint sense of victory that just confused her. Yet, in the end, she decided it was a damn good dream.
On the other hand, she was in the same room that dream had taken place in and that wasn't supposed to happen. Dreams were supposed to stay dreams, even if they were about... that. It wasn't the first time she'd had those kinds of dreams, but usually they didn't leave her so in need of a bath. She could handle her body's natural response to that kind of thing; she was a healthy, blooming eighteen year-old girl. Most of the girls her age back in the human village were at least dating, if not married. It was perfectly normal. Except when one wasn't normal - ordinary, yes, but not exactly normal.
It was the room that was giving Marisa the heebie-jeebies and prevented her from even attempting to fall back asleep. The theory was sound in a place like Gensokyo. If she fell asleep and made herself have that dream again, when she woke up, she should be back in her house. Then she could wash up and head over to the shrine in time to mooch dinner off of Reimu. She liked this theory, except the room wouldn't let her get to sleep. And then she realized it wasn't the room that was giving her that feeling. It was the collar around her neck. Okay, the dream was no longer a good dream and whoever was messing with her needed to stop it before she decided to make them.
The sudden knock on the door caused Marisa to immediately sit up. The covers fell off her, exposing her body, and the quick shift reminded her about the mess down below that she had to clean up. And there was someone on the other side of the door. Marisa's face went bright red, she jerked the sheets up over her breasts, and she started fumbling around for Mini-Hakkero. She decided the moment she got her hands on it, she was going to introduce whoever was on the other side of the door to her favorite spell before going to get clean.
Then she'd ask questions.
Questions?: Can Marisa bring her Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) she's named Mimi-chan that she won in Phantasmagoria of a Dim Dream to the SS Thor? She'll never use it to actually blow anything up since her magic is far more powerful. She just thinks it's cool and one her most prized possessions.
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Name: Sin
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IC:
Character name: Marisa Kirisame
Fandom: Touhou Project
Timeline: Great Fairy Wars (TH12.8)
Age: late teens
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
Marisa is a witch - a human that learned how to use magic and continually studies to expand her magical knowledge and power, conducting research experiments. Unlike everyone else in Gensokyo, Marisa wasn't born with any special powers nor was she gifted with them. She learned everything she knows through hard work and perseverance.
Skilled in danmaku - a form on non-lethal magical duels using designated spells written on spell cards - Marisa is capable of creating magical 'bullets' usually star-shaped and lasers of varying strength at will. The majority of her magic takes on a celestial feel due to her apprenticeship under Mima and Marisa has also 'stolen' several spells from others. Master Spark (from Yuuka Kazami), Non-Directional Laser (from Patchouli Knowledge) and Orreries Sun (from Mima) are the best examples of this ability of Marisa's to analyze the magic of others and adapt the spells for her own use. This is furthered in her own grimoire where she lists various spells from various other residents of Gensokyo, giving her personal analysis of the spell and commentary on whether she could some day duplicate it or if it is racial/divine based. She is constantly working on developing new spells.
Most of Marisa's extremely powerful spells utilize Mini-Hakkero, a small hand-held furnace created by Rinnosuke Morichika, the shop owner of Kourindou, by combining magic and technology. It helps amplify and control the spells, though it is not needed to cast them, but who really wants a spell strong enough to blow up a mountain (Master Spark) being used without control?
Like most residents of Gensokyo, Marisa can fly and it was assumed she could only fly on her broom and not free-fly. She uses her flight capability for general travel and she's extremely skilled at dodging lasers and other such attacks called 'grazing'. She's one of the fastest residents of Gensokyo behind the tengu and Youmu Konpaku. In Great Fairy Wars, it was shown that she doesn't need her broom to fly and further strengthens her ability to manipulate and adapt spells as she took her powerful normal spells and created, on the fly, watered down spells that kept the same feel but definitely weaker versions as to not kill her opponent.
Marisa is also skilled in potion creation. In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she has exploding potions and her time as an apprentice and the way she learned magic strongly supports the skill. Assisting with this is her mathematical aptitude. In Mountain of Faith, Marisa comments that she could recite all the digits of pi before she could reach the top of the mountain as a way of complaining that she'll never get there.
Marisa's physical abilities are a little on the lower end of the spectrum given her petite stature, but she can wield her broom like a staff if needed. She's canonically insane from her use of materials in her research such as arsenic and mercury and thus immune from abilities and powers that would cause insanity, such as looking at the full moon or Reisen's Lunatc Eyes Ability. Also, Marisa is a thief, a kleptomaniac, with pretty good stealth and escape abilities, shown to be an accomplished pickpocket in the Wild and Horned Hermit manga. She is the only one in canon known to be able to sneak past the Scarlet Devil Mansion's gatekeeper and into Voile - Patchouli Knowledge's personal library.
How would they use their abilities?:
Marisa would use her flight to travel around the SS Thor given it's the size of a city and to help get-away should she decide to partake in illegal activities. Also, she will always be continuing to expand her spell repertoire so most of her powers would be used in research and experimentation of new spells or the adaptation of magic she's observed others possessing. She will defend herself using her magic and tends to retaliate with a 'shoot first, ask questions later' mentality.
She could use her potion skills to make money, but that would be on a whim and, any mission where she could get an edge using her magic, she will do so without hesitation. She finds danmaku battles to be extremely fun, so trading spells in a non-lethal way serves as entertainment.
Appearance: Marisa is a short young woman, approximately 5'1", with gold eyes. She has long blonde hair that she keeps flowing freely except for a section on her left side that she keeps braided. Typically, Marisa wears a black skirt with petticoat and jumper-style top over a frilly white blouse, though there are many variations of the top. The outfit is completed by a pointed back 'witch' hat with a white bow and white trim giving her the nickname in canon of 'black-white'. She has two main possessions she's almost always with - her bamboo broom and Mini-Hakkero.
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Personality:
On the surface, Marisa is a carefree, straightforward, human witch with a lot of self-confidence. She likes to flaunt her power and talks big, sometimes even lying outright. When she's outmatched, she admits it, even when she doesn't want to. It's part of the rules of danmaku to admit defeat when out of spell cards, and Marisa's solution to that is to knock her opponent out before she runs out of spell cards. With Marisa, competition such as danmaku is never an endurance contest. She believes that magic should be flashy, best when unleashed at full power. She has a tremendous amount of destructive power and she knows it. Control... that takes a bit more effort. How Marisa describes casting Master Spark - her signature spell - says a lot about her views on magic: "How to Spark: Concentrate your mind. Mutter the spell to Mini-Hakkero tenderly. Aim it as someone you don't like. Now unleash your annihilation of love!"
Underneath the surface, there is a lot more to Marisa. Unlike the other main humans in Gensokyo, Marisa isn't naturally gifted with talent like Reimu - the shrine maiden with the power of the gods at her disposal - or possessing of a unique ability like Sakuya - the perfect maid with the ability to briefly stop time. Everything Marisa can do, she worked hard for. She studied under a semi-evil spirit, Mima, to learn magic in the first place and constantly researches magic to try and find new spells, new versions of already existing spells and ways to innovate things so she can be stronger, so she can be as good as the others. She really is very human, very ordinary, having gotten everything through her own blood, sweat, tears and cunning. She goes well out of her way to hide the amount of effort she puts into her magic, wanting to appear as if she's just as talented as Reimu. Marisa works hard so that she's not recognized for her hard work. The more it looks like having the level of power she does looks natural, the less people will question how she achieved her power.
Mixed in with all that is a tremendous amount of charisma and an almost impulsive need to collect things, books especially. Many magic grimoires are unreadable to a magician unless they already possess the power level needed to cast the spells, so Marisa tends to use the magic books others have to try and broaden her knowledge and eventually be able to read these more advanced grimoires that the youkai magicians create. She also steals just about anything she wants, stashing it somewhere until later. Unfortunately, she has so much stuff stashed away that she either forgets she has it in her possession or she gets distracted by something else. When confronted about it, she claims she's just borrowing the items and the owners can have them back when she dies. Being from a land of youkai, with most of her friends having vastly greater life spans than a mere human, it makes perfect sense to her, even if pointing out that she will eventually die might seem a bit heartless. To Marisa, it's a fact of life that she will one day die and her friends will live on, so she sees no reason to pretend it won't happen. She's definitely a little out there, but she has stated in canon that she's already insane, so why deny it?
Background:
In the magical land of Gensokyo where the majority of the population are youkai or other mystical creatures, there exists a single Human Village where all those humans that were either fighting the youkai when Gensokyo was first formed or spirited away settled to live their lives. It was in this village that a beautiful baby girl, Marisa Kirisame, was born to a shop keeper and his wife. A spitten image of her mother, Marisa had a normal early childhood in the village, learning to be wary of the wild youkai until one day her mother died under questionable circumstances. Was she brutally murdered or had it been an accident? Marisa would never know the real truth to that question, but it changed her.
It also changed her relationship with her father. He had a business to run, after all, and couldn't really devote the time his wife had to the little girl that looked so much like her, instead throwing himself into his work. Perhaps it was that every time he looked at Marisa he saw his dead wife. Perhaps it was Marisa's growing interest in magic, something that may have contributed to his wife's death that made them grow apart. Either way, they would never connect like a father and daughter should. It would never be known what caused Marisa and her father to become so estranged, but the most likely reason was Marisa's determination to learn magic - something of the youkai as most humans believed - and who she chose to learn it from that sealed the deal.
For one day, while exploring the very dangerous Forest of Magic where she remembered her mother telling her stories about, the girl came across Mima. A vengeance spirit, something about Mima, something familiar, drew the little girl and soon Marisa began her magic tutelage under Mima and the spirit took her deeper into the forest, showing her the old house within it that coincidentally had been the same house the girl's mother had grown up in before meeting her father in the Human Village. Was this really coincidence or was there more behind Marisa's vague familiar feeling when she met Mima? Did Mima choose to take Marisa on as an apprentice to groom her into a useable tool or was there more to it? Again, these are questions Marisa would never really learn the real answers to, and if asked, Mima claims to have never been alive. But was she telling the truth or was lying about her origin, in reality being a creation from the death of Marisa's mother? The budding witch would never knew the truth of the matter, but there was enough familiarity combined with how much she missed her mother, that Marisa latched onto Mima as a maternal figure.
The more Marisa spent with Mima, the less she was around the Human Village. It held nothing for her, not with the way her and her father just didn't get along. He didn't approve of her learning magic, certainly didn't approve of her teacher - did he suspect what Marisa subconsciously did? - and Marisa had reached that age of first rebellion. The girl never did anything small, and that included rebelling. Marisa moved completely into that house in the Forest of Magic, dyed her hair red, and started spending her time when she wasn't studying at Kourindou, an odd sort of antique shop outside the Human Village run by Rinnosuke Morichika who had once worked for her father before setting up Kourindou.
In a way, Rinnosuke grew to be more of a father than Marisa's real father as he took care of her when she showed up, let her pour through the contents of his store, including many things from the Outside World. He was a collector himself and tolerated a lot of 'creative borrowing' as Marisa began her habit of stealing things she found interesting from Kourindou. They would sit for hours talking about the things in his shop, about magic, and eventually Marisa gave him the nickname 'Kourin' because of his shop. They were close and Kourindou was Marisa's home away from home, and Rinnosuke was the one to make and give Marisa what she considers her greatest treasure, the Mini-Hakkero she uses to control and amplify her most powerful spell as well as heat tea in a pinch.
Slowly, the insides of Marisa's house in the Forest of Magic filled with random items 'borrowed' or outright stolen and, like her father, Marisa worked hard at her magic. She wanted approval from Mima, wanted to make something of herself and perhaps even prove people wrong about humans being able to be great magicians. Slowly, being the apprentice of a vengeance spirit would start to rub off onto her as Mima's great plan to get revenge on all of humanity turned into an Incident involving the Shrine Maiden of Paradise, Reimu Hakurei, an encounter that would change Marisa's goals.
Marisa lost to Reimu when she tried to defend Mima against the shrine maiden. Marisa hated to lose and would always hate to lose, but especially to someone like Reimu who was blessed with their gifts and didn't have to work for her power. This was the beginning of Marisa's long rivalry with Reimu. Anytime an incident or thing of interest occurred in Gensokyo, Marisa was right there with Reimu, but her motives were far different. She wanted to beat Reimu, be better than her, find things out before her, and make Mima proud. She also wanted cool things just to have them such as the ICBM she won when the ruins appeared outside the Hakurei Shrine or unique magic power that she could use to strengthen herself even more such as the power she felt from Yuuka when she felt the surge from the lake where Yuuka was.
Most of Marisa's involvement in solving and/or dealing with incidents was for those two reasons, but she was also a thrill-seeker that constantly pushed her limits. “If it's going to bring me a boring life, I'd rather die!” , “I just don't think about losing.” and “C'mon, doesn't a big 'KEEP OUT' sign just
make you want to see what's behind it?” are things Marisa would say in the course of the incidents along with her rampant lying. After the Mist Incident, when Marisa first encountered the Scarlet Devil's sister, a very powerful and volatile vampire, Marisa initially identified herself as Reimu. The Yama, herself, lectured Marisa on her lying ways and her sassy mouth, cautioning her to change her ways and threatening to cut her tongue out. This, naturally, does nothing to stop Marisa's lying and thieving ways.
Eventually, as the years passed and she no longer was Mima's apprentice but a witch in her own right, the rivalry with Reimu turned into a friendship. It didn't look like much of one to anyone but her and Reimu, but the witch spent a lot of her free-time when she wasn't engrossed in research hanging out at the shrine with Reimu. Her motivations for helping out during incidents changed slightly as well. Sure, she was still looking for cool things to steal, ways to one-up Reimu, and new sources of magical power that she could use, but she cared more for the land and was able to be talked into dealing with larger problems by some of the smarter youkai and because it felt like the right thing to do.
She helped get the real moon put back into the night sky and wasn't affected by the full moon rays due to her own insanity at the urging of Alice for the fake moon would cause major problems. She traveled to the top of Youkai Mountain when the new shrine appeared and demanded the Hakurei Shrine - so important for the existence of Gensokyo - be shut down to increase the faith of the new mountain god to see what was really going on. She helped the mountain gods and Reimu come to an understanding so that both shrines could exist. Marisa also ventured into the Underground at the behest of several youkai to help set something she didn't even understand right even though all she really wanted was the hot springs that had occurred because if the underground-caused geyser.
Over the years, Marisa became more focused on prioritizing the protection of humans when it came to incidents, as she told Byakuren, instead of just exterminating youkai like Reimu. A bit of maturity on the witch's part? Perhaps. Years of dealing with the worst of Gensokyo along with the best of Gensokyo can change a human. Marisa even reached a point where she no longer immediately blasted anyone in danmaku with her most powerful spells, as seen when Cirno won the Fairy Wars and then challenged Marisa. In a rare show of maturity, she recognized that her most powerful lasers would probably kill Cirno, so she chose to water them down, weaken them, and face her in danmaku that she ended up losing. Recognizing that even with her most powerful spells, Cirno could have given her trouble, Marisa was a bit humbled. Silently more respectful of how even weak youkai could get stronger (through hard work, of course), Marisa would always keep that loss in mind.
Unfortunately, the odds of her ceasing to steal, lie and be contrary would probably never be very good.
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1st person sample:
[The guide turns on to show one blonde-haired witch with gold eyes staring up at the camera as she lays on her back holding it above her.]
You know, for as much as me and my father never really got along... I kinda miss him.
[She sighs.] We hadn't exchanged more than, like, five words in the last couple years, but now that Gensokyo's gone, I can't help but think about him, ze. Did he even survive, ending up here like I did? I mean, what would I say to him?
'Sorry I couldn't save the world?'
'Sorry I might have somehow caused it?'
'Sorry you were right about the whole magic thing?'
Makes me wish I'd at least had dinner with him last week when I was in the Village.
[Marisa sighs, runs a hand over her face as she mumbles something and rolls her eyes.]
Hey... anyone else from Gensokyo make it onto this rocket? [She suddenly grins mischievously.] I'm tired of moping, and there's all sorts of new stuff to check out!
3rd person sample: (Sample originally written for Amatomnes RP)
When living in a land of mystical and magical, youkai, spirits and even vampires, when one just happened to be the natural prey of most of the the things that go bump in the night, an active mind is usually an asset. And being one of the humans that could not only survive but was respected and feared by those same youkai meant that the ordinary witch sprawled across the bed wearing absolutely nothing was used to having vivid dreams. The thing was, her vivid dreams were usually just that - dreams. Marisa wasn't sure what she wanted to do as she lay in the bed staring at the ceiling.
On one hand, she really liked that dream and wouldn't mind having it again. Maybe then she'd be able to narrow down who she'd had such an intense dream about. She couldn't quite figure out how much of that blonde hair was her own or whether the purple was actually the sheets was laying on or something more familiar. And then there had been those flashes of red and a very faint sense of victory that just confused her. Yet, in the end, she decided it was a damn good dream.
On the other hand, she was in the same room that dream had taken place in and that wasn't supposed to happen. Dreams were supposed to stay dreams, even if they were about... that. It wasn't the first time she'd had those kinds of dreams, but usually they didn't leave her so in need of a bath. She could handle her body's natural response to that kind of thing; she was a healthy, blooming eighteen year-old girl. Most of the girls her age back in the human village were at least dating, if not married. It was perfectly normal. Except when one wasn't normal - ordinary, yes, but not exactly normal.
It was the room that was giving Marisa the heebie-jeebies and prevented her from even attempting to fall back asleep. The theory was sound in a place like Gensokyo. If she fell asleep and made herself have that dream again, when she woke up, she should be back in her house. Then she could wash up and head over to the shrine in time to mooch dinner off of Reimu. She liked this theory, except the room wouldn't let her get to sleep. And then she realized it wasn't the room that was giving her that feeling. It was the collar around her neck. Okay, the dream was no longer a good dream and whoever was messing with her needed to stop it before she decided to make them.
The sudden knock on the door caused Marisa to immediately sit up. The covers fell off her, exposing her body, and the quick shift reminded her about the mess down below that she had to clean up. And there was someone on the other side of the door. Marisa's face went bright red, she jerked the sheets up over her breasts, and she started fumbling around for Mini-Hakkero. She decided the moment she got her hands on it, she was going to introduce whoever was on the other side of the door to her favorite spell before going to get clean.
Then she'd ask questions.
Questions?: Can Marisa bring her Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) she's named Mimi-chan that she won in Phantasmagoria of a Dim Dream to the SS Thor? She'll never use it to actually blow anything up since her magic is far more powerful. She just thinks it's cool and one her most prized possessions.
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