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Player Information

Name: Adrian
Age: 22
Contact details: Discord @ RossoFantasma#9078 RossoFantasma
Other characters: N/A

Character Information

Name: Kyoko Sakura
Canon: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Canon Point: Immediately pre-death
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: CRAU
Age: 15

World Information: https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica

Phantasmal Rift was an exploration/mystery game about investigating and stabilizing tears in the setting's world, all while trying to discover what caused the Fissures to begin with.

Personal History:

Kyoko Sakura is a Magical Girl contracted by the mysterious Kyubey to fight Witches, in exchange for one wish and sweet magic powers. Her father was an excommunicated priest with unusual ideals, leading her family to living in hunger. She learned that every piece of food was precious, because they never knew if they would even have a meal the next day.

So Kyoko's wish was for people to listen to her father's words, believing that if people were to just give him a chance they would see he was right.. She believed they would save the world together, him leading people in public, her fighting monsters in the dark.

During her duties as a Magical Girl, Kyoko met Mami Tomoe. A veteran Magical Girl in her own right, Mami took Kyoko under her wing and helped her develop her abilities. She became something resembling a big sister to Kyoko, someone who she could come to about anything.

Eventually, her father learned of her contract with Kyubey. The knowledge that his followers were only there because he had been unwittingly controlling them broke him. He descended into alcoholism, eventually snapping completely and killing his family besides Kyoko, and lighting his church on fire before killing himself.

This resulted in a major shift in Kyoko's world view, which lead to her falling out with Mami. She decided that magic should only be used for one's own gain, as you can never truly know what another person is thinking. Mami heavily disagreed with this, even going so far as to fight Kyoko to stop her from leaving. Kyoko won the fight, becoming a Magical Girl that only fought for herself. She began to use any method possible to obtain more Grief Seeds, including feeding humans to Familiars.

Eventually news of Mami's death in Mitakihara reached her, and she decided to take over her teacher's old territory. It was there she met Sayaka Miki, a beginner Magical Girl. Her ideals, so similar to the ones Kyoko used to hold, initially infuriated Kyoko. She held a fierce rivalry with the girl, even attempting to kill her after a statement that particually angered her.

Her anger at Sayaka slowly changed into respect over the course of several days, as she began to learn more about why Sayaka fought as a Magical Girl. She felt like she could understand the girl, and maybe Sayaka could eventually come to understand her.

However, thier rivalry was interrupted by the shocking reveal of some hidden truths about the soul gem. The knowledge that it was her very soul that she held was an eye opener for Kyoko, leading her to try to connect with the only other girls she knew that had also been tricked by Kyubey.

Those same truths led Sayaka into despair, resulting in her becoming a Witch. Kyoko, desperate to not lose the bond that had started to form between them, attempted to reason with the Witch, hoping to return Sayaka to her senses. Once it began clear that what she was trying was impossible, she resolved herself to killing the Witch Sayaka became. However, after being so lonely for such a long time herself, she wasn't about to let her die alone. She gave her all in a literal suicide attack. It was just before the strike connected that she was brought to Phantasmal Rift.

She emerged in the city of Incendia, a Fissure that would catch fire every night and reset itself every morning. If not for the kind words of Princess Arianna of Caledonia, another person who fell through a Fissure, she would have thought herself in Hell.

Having little else to do, Kyoko joined the Fissure exploration teams. Over time, she would begin to recover and open up, even accepting Arianna as an adoptive older sister. The unstable nature of the Fissures had several effects on Kyoko, making her Soul Gem capable of producing a Doppel and allowing her to change into a centaur.

Perhaps the most personal thing the Fissures brought to her wasn't anything that affected Kyoko directly at all, but a Pokemon egg. She took care of the egg until it hatched, and named the resulting Growlithe after her deceased sister, Momo.

Personality:

Kyoko is crude and aggressive, with her answer to conflict usually being violence. She does care far more than she would like to let on, but her self-loathing tends to turn this into trying to drive the people she cares about away, believing the connecting factor between the various tragedies in her life to be herself.

CRAU developments:

Kyoko's in a far better place than she was before her CR, though that really isn't saying much. Having failed to keep her promise to follow Sayaka into the afterlife, she resolved to become a person Sayaka would have approved of instead, even if she's still not entirely sure as to how to go about doing that. Arianna's unfailing compassion helped her open up to others, showing that she can become close to people without something going wrong. Raising Momo also contributed to this, the Growlithe's adoration of her trainer causing Kyoko to become deeply attached to her.

Key themes:

Loneliness and intent are major themes for Kyoko from her canon, with redemption joining in due to her CRAU.

Main Motivation:

She wouldn't want to say it out loud, but Kyoko's greatest motivator is protecting the people she cares about. She's lost so much in her life that she desperately clings to what she has left.

Skills:

Illusion magic

Compelling voice (Magical Girls abilities are based on their wishes, granting her voice the same effect her father's had.)

Weapon creation (can make as many of her spear as she needs as long as she has the magic for it, including giant variants.)

Enchantment (can improve mundane objects, even giving them magical effects)

Latticework Barrier (can create linked metal diamonds to serve as a barrier)

Superhuman speed and strength

Expert at spear fighting

Telepathy (can mentally communicate with others, can only hear thoughts intended for her.)

Centaur transformation

Soul Gem (her actual soul, torn from her body and crystalized. The source of her powers. She becomes unable to control her body if it is moved over one hundred meters from her, and worsens emotional states when tainted. If the corruption of her Soul Gem reaches full, she will unleash her Doppel.)

Doppel Ophelia (The result of the Fissures altering her Soul Gem, Ophelia is something between Witch and Magical Girl. It produces fog and controls fire, but tends to act with a mind of it's own.)

Item:

Momo-chan the Growlithe

Sample:

Making a new friend.

Catching up with Senpai.

Taking self loathing to a new level.