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Name: Ken
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Character In-game: N/A
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Name: Tsubasa Kazanari
Canon: Senki Zesshou Symphogear
Canon Point: After GX/Season 3.
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Appearance: [Here.]
History/Background: Episodes and summaries.
Born to the noble and influential Kazanari family, Tsubasa was conceived with an intent - to become the family's heir and lead it forward. However, her desire became rooted in song, and these things - for better or worse - intersected when she was found to be adept and compatible with being a wielder of power born from Relics scattered across the world. It led her to being able to adopt the "Symphogear" armor to combat the forces of seemingly ruthless monsters called "Noise." This of course was not before her song woke an undying being named Finé at a young age, who overtook the body of one Ryoko Sakurai. With her partner Kanade, she fought hard against the Noise until the young woman's untimely death, leaving Tsubasa alone.
Tsubasa fought alone for a couple years until Hibiki Tachibana, the girl Kanade died saving, appeared with Kanade's Symphogear. Through a series of hardships and battles, what starts out as animosity towards Hibiki becomes understanding, and confrontations with Finé's servant Chris Yukine also in turn shift her into being their ally. Together, they stop her from her ambitions to literally shoot the moon and save the planet.
Later on, an organization named F.I.S. and a treacherous scientist named Dr. Ver spark an incident that begins with holding countries of the world hostage with their power, and ends with Ver threatening to obliterate most of the life on the planet. In the previous incident, there was disorganization and subterfuge to throw them off - this time, the Mobile Disaster Response Corps act far more efficiently, with Tsubasa acting often at the forefront as the senior Symphogear wielder. During this time, she's faced with battling Chris again, and diverting her from a path that would have ended in her own death had she failed. Together with the F.I.S. Wielders - Maria, Shirabe, and Kirika - they defeat Ver and - surprise surprise - save the world again.
The third major incident happens some considerable time later. An alchemist named Carol Malus Dienheim and her servants struck out against their organization, now named S.O.N.G., in order to "dissect the world." She used the Symphogear Wielders to her own ends, setting up a situation in which their powers were destroyed and reconstructed in a way that would only further her plans via a crafted, yet convoluted, sequence of events that involved throwing the lives of her servants away. During this, Tsubasa was faced with the reality of her family and forced to finally come to terms with it, before the six united Symphogear users managed to defeat Carol... even if it was at the cost of basically all Shinjuku. Tsubasa went to return to her singing career, but obviously things can only remain quiet for so long...
Personality: On the surface level, Tsubasa Kazanari would seem to be a rather simple to read person. Outwardly, she is cool and collected at almost all times, passion springing forth only during battle and song. Intellectually sharp and wise of the world around her. A stalwart protector of the weak, strong and unflinching. Some of these things are... well, correct. Others? Not so much.
There are few people who know Tsubasa beyond the pop idol/perfect school princess. Fewer still, even among those she would call friends, who truly know everything that makes her tick. Even beyond that, there are things that she keeps close to her chest, things that only she knows - because they are either that deeply rooted in her fears or concerns, or she mistakenly tries to tell herself they aren't important.
Throughout various stages of her life, Tsubasa has acted very differently. As a young child she was impressionable but put upon by family politics and the expectation to be the Kazanari clan's true heir. Still, her love of music persisted, and her natural acclimation to the Relics and ability to wield the Symphogear armor made her an ideal candidate as a Wielder. She was caught between two worlds - her dream of music that could bring joy to both her and others, and using that music as a weapon, as she was molded into a "sword" to fight and protect those same people she wished to entertain.
When faced with Kanade Amou, a young girl whose family was taken from her by the Noise and driven to be a Wielder and annihilate them with a resounding vengeance, young Tsubasa was sort of enamored. She took after Kanade, looked up to her, followed after her. With Kanade she was able to embrace her dream of being a performer, which was used as a cover at the same time to conduct further research on the Relics. Even then, she was like a scared little girl. No matter how well she could sing, no matter how hard she could fight, it wasn't enough. Kanade sacrificed her life to save a girl named Hibiki Tachibana and Tsubasa was almost instantly hardened.
She became that very sword her family had pushed her towards, and while she did not abandon her dream, it was pulled back to a degree. She was still this successful, top charting pop idol, and yet would not reach beyond the borders of her own country due to her mission. It was too important, and anything that got in the way of that would need to be removed. Such as Hibiki, when she appeared two years later wielding Kanade's Symphogear. Tsubasa was enraged, spiteful and cruel towards the girl, treating her with contempt and threatening to remove her. In time however, as Hibiki proves herself and Tsubasa comes to realize the person she was becoming, she begins to lighten. To become much more like the girl she was, even if she never truly can go back there. Her memories of Kanade drive her, but not towards vengeance - at this point, she'd still considered herself a weapon, but saw where she could maybe grow beyond that.
It's by the end of the first season that she truly and honestly becomes the person she will be for the rest of the series - strong and stoic, and yet with an unflinching kindness towards those she will reach her hand out to. Be it Chris where she happily tried to literally extend a hand of friendship to after they'd spent half the series trying to murder one another, or Hibiki whom... Well, when the berserk nature of the girl's Symphogear engulfed her, rather than truly fight her, Tsubasa subdued her by taking a brutal hit from her, hugging her, and then pinning her shadow to the ground so she could try and defeat their opponent herself, nearly sacrificing her life. Tsubasa is hard willed, but with a softness she tried for a long time to hide - and doesn't always let out except for those she's closest to.
Except... well, even there she does still retain some difficulty. Circumstance through her life has sort of emotionally stunted Tsubasa in some ways - her father, or who she was supposed to view as her father seemingly treated her in a harsh, dismissive, and demanding manner. Even if his intention was to push her away from her family obligations, such a thing does not play well with a child's mind. She was at her most bright eyed and optimistic with Kanade, but then she died. She spent the next couple years shutting herself off emotionally from everything, and has spent her entire life training to be a warrior, a "sword", that she never had time for anything else. Fun with friends. Love, dating. For a long time, Tsubasa was only her career and her duty.
As such, social situations and cues that others may have a strong reaction to can leave Tsubasa almost not realizing she should react. When Ryoko once spoke of her stories of love and romance, Miku and Hibiki were are sparkles and blushes - Tsubasa merely stares on with a look of dull surprise. When she tries to console Hibiki, she admits to not being very good with it. She finds herself overjoyed when getting to have a day on the town with Hibiki & Miku, and thus times when she gets to act like a normal girl do seem to spark something in her. It's just something she had buried for a very long time.
However, practice makes perfect and Tsubasa is perceptive enough about certain things to pick up when someone else is struggling. Namely, her former rival and enemy, Chris Yukine. When Chris enrolled in their school, she was uncertain of her place in it, having difficulty fitting in. Tsubasa - someone who had never really engaged her classmates on a personal level before that year herself, had never had time for "fun" - encouraged Chris to put herself out there. To sing and make friends and act her age, effectively. This led to Chris opening up more, acting less generally nervous about certain things, singing before the entire school. In effect, Tsubasa slid into a role for Chris much like what Kanade was for her - someone who could guide her, from someone who had also suffered in the past. In a way it can be seen as a subtle, final way she's moved on from Kanade's death, and done so almost entirely of her own power - she became that mentor, that "senpai" who could truly make a difference for someone. This led to Tsubasa and Chris being able to rely on each other in battle better, as well.
Which was handy when dealing with Chris' suicidal bid to infiltrate their enemies, which probably would have just thrown her life away pointlessly and not worked if she HADN'T been there for the girl. So, Tsubasa by this point had not only learned the value of trust and understanding others, but had taken great leaps to instill it in Chris, something which then dictates her actions later on in the series.
For all of the younger Symphogear Wielders, Tsubasa has become someone to look up to, and she tries to abide by that. The exception to this being Maria, who was at one time a peer in the music industry, and then a new rival working for their enemies, before finally allying with them and becoming a comrade and friend. Maria shows that people who are already strong and mature, who don't need her guidance, who are her peers and equals are the sort that Tsubasa via her development has actually become easily comfortable being around. Maria is the only (living) person she refers to by their first name, and the only person she's opened up to about her family. Her trust to her newer stage partner is quite evident, and a very, very far cry from who she started out as - which is a fitting note to how far she's come.
It's been alluded to, but her family is something that uniquely impacts her personality, and is probably the crux of the majority of her issues. Simply put, her father, grandfather, and uncle - the latter being S.O.N.G.'s Commander, Genjuro Kazanari - are ... none of those things. Her grandfather is her true, biological father, having impregnated her mother to keep the Kazanari bloodline pure and set her up as the new heir of their fortune and influence. Her half-brother acted as her "real" father, and led to him trying to present himself as a cruel man so Tsubasa would leave her clan's duties behind, which then led to her other half-brother and "uncle" to then probably be in her life far more than either the man who sired her or the one who was SUPPOSED to raise her.
That's a bit of an exposition dump, but it's important to describe the next part of Tsubasa's thought patterns, and probably the sickest thing of all - she went on through nineteen years of her life acting as if this was normal. She was clearly bothered by it, to be sure - but she would shrug it off. Make excuses for her "father," trying to justify it. "That's just the way our relationship is." It's only when Maria was exposed to this, to her childhood room being untouched and yet oddly... clean that Tsubasa got the clarity she needed. That even if his methods were kind of awful, her "father" was attempting to push her more towards her dream than her family. In a way, what was built for her was a life she would never want to return to, so she could pursue her true goals. Yet all that time, her room had been unmoved and yet, always cleaned - by her "father," her brother, who still wanted the best for her even if he had the worst way of demonstrating it.
Once Maria gets that through to her, Tsubasa realizes fully and at last she is not a sword, she is not a weapon. She is a force that can decide her own future, and from here on all of the experiences and growth she's gone through can give her the wings to do that.
...
So long as that does not involve picking up after herself. Tsubasa is, in actuality, in spite of her image? A complete and utter slob. Her assistant, Ogawa, is constantly tasked with picking up after her because no matter where she goes, be it her own home or a hospital, she inevitably leaves a mess in her wake that would send the crew of Hoarders running for the hills.
This is all very long winded, and goes through various stages of her development, but hopefully it demonstrates how important those evolutions are to the woman she's become. Because even the stuff that's left behind isn't forgotten - in Season 2, she slips back into her angrier, forceful self when Hibiki's health is putting her in danger, and in Season 3, nightmares induced by their new powers show she is still fearful of getting too close to people. That she will still inevitably bring their demise, just as she did Kanade. The woman she once was can always bubble back to the surface, for better or worse. Tsubasa is simply not a static character, for all her stoic image may present.
But in the end, Tsubasa is what she is - a protector who will defend all who need to be defended, and a young woman doing everything she can now to carry on with her dream the whole while, because she's learned one very important thing: These two roles are not mutually exclusive.
Skills/Abilities: Although at her core a normal human being, Tsubasa is someone who is clearly very athletic and in top form. Even before invoking the abilities granted by her Symphogear, she's displayed capability to perform combative and gymnastic feats that are more than a little impressive. She's a skillful warrior adept at using whatever is at hand to dispatch her foes, be it the sword at her side, or the multitude of motorcycles she's gone through. (Please think twice before you lend yours, if you have the latter.)
She is most often aided by her status as a wielder, able to tap into the power of ancient relics to form Symphogears, a powered armor that a select few are able to resonate a frequency to in order to unlock their potential. More specifically: They do so through songs. Tsubasa's Gear is "Ame no Habakiri," which leaves her clad in blue and white armor wielding a multitude of swords. As she sings, "Phonic Gain" generates and allows her to access more and more powerful levels of her potential battle strength, some of which damaging and life threatening to her if wielded improperly.
Here, her Gear will not be a factor, so her personal skill in fighting, especially with a sword, and inherent athletic skill are what she carries forward. She does have some base mechanical skill, able to work on and repair motorcycles and presumably similar such vehicles. Beyond that, Tsubasa's powerful songs have propelled her to international star status, able to convey her feelings beyond language barriers, something that is her primary focus when not being drawn out to save the world.
Magic Weapon: [Sakimori] (example) - A sharp katana that has a black grip with blue markings and a silver crossguard, the curved blade tapers off into a wing-like design around said crossguard.
It's ability is an "Aura Blade," formed from her mana. At first it envelopes Sakimori tightly, only making it look like it's glowing, and is not very cost effective to that mana, making her only be able to use that ability on the impact of strikes. As she grows in strength and can regulate her mana better, the Aura Blade too will stabilize and grow larger. Since Sakimori is being used as a conduit for an energy blade around it, it maintains its weight and makes it possible for her to wield it without super strength. At mastery it's possible to briefly form an even larger Aura Blade around her katana, in accordance with her remaining mana - but at the cost of it, too. The Aura Blade retains Sakimori's sharpness, should Tsubasa's focus remain intact. Otherwise, its cutting power is the first thing to go before she's unable to maintain it at all.
Carrier:
Tsubame - A tiny swallow-like bird very much like the sort you could find in Japan, but with black, white, and red feathers. The feathers themselves look almost sharp enough you could prick your fingers on them (even though you can't.) The little bird doesn't socialize well with other Carriers, and would honestly rather preening himself or flying about wherever he pleases when not carrying out what Tsubasa requests.
♚ OOC
Name: Ken
Age: 31
Contact:
Character In-game: N/A
♛ IC
Name: Tsubasa Kazanari
Canon: Senki Zesshou Symphogear
Canon Point: After GX/Season 3.
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Appearance: [Here.]
History/Background: Episodes and summaries.
Born to the noble and influential Kazanari family, Tsubasa was conceived with an intent - to become the family's heir and lead it forward. However, her desire became rooted in song, and these things - for better or worse - intersected when she was found to be adept and compatible with being a wielder of power born from Relics scattered across the world. It led her to being able to adopt the "Symphogear" armor to combat the forces of seemingly ruthless monsters called "Noise." This of course was not before her song woke an undying being named Finé at a young age, who overtook the body of one Ryoko Sakurai. With her partner Kanade, she fought hard against the Noise until the young woman's untimely death, leaving Tsubasa alone.
Tsubasa fought alone for a couple years until Hibiki Tachibana, the girl Kanade died saving, appeared with Kanade's Symphogear. Through a series of hardships and battles, what starts out as animosity towards Hibiki becomes understanding, and confrontations with Finé's servant Chris Yukine also in turn shift her into being their ally. Together, they stop her from her ambitions to literally shoot the moon and save the planet.
Later on, an organization named F.I.S. and a treacherous scientist named Dr. Ver spark an incident that begins with holding countries of the world hostage with their power, and ends with Ver threatening to obliterate most of the life on the planet. In the previous incident, there was disorganization and subterfuge to throw them off - this time, the Mobile Disaster Response Corps act far more efficiently, with Tsubasa acting often at the forefront as the senior Symphogear wielder. During this time, she's faced with battling Chris again, and diverting her from a path that would have ended in her own death had she failed. Together with the F.I.S. Wielders - Maria, Shirabe, and Kirika - they defeat Ver and - surprise surprise - save the world again.
The third major incident happens some considerable time later. An alchemist named Carol Malus Dienheim and her servants struck out against their organization, now named S.O.N.G., in order to "dissect the world." She used the Symphogear Wielders to her own ends, setting up a situation in which their powers were destroyed and reconstructed in a way that would only further her plans via a crafted, yet convoluted, sequence of events that involved throwing the lives of her servants away. During this, Tsubasa was faced with the reality of her family and forced to finally come to terms with it, before the six united Symphogear users managed to defeat Carol... even if it was at the cost of basically all Shinjuku. Tsubasa went to return to her singing career, but obviously things can only remain quiet for so long...
Personality: On the surface level, Tsubasa Kazanari would seem to be a rather simple to read person. Outwardly, she is cool and collected at almost all times, passion springing forth only during battle and song. Intellectually sharp and wise of the world around her. A stalwart protector of the weak, strong and unflinching. Some of these things are... well, correct. Others? Not so much.
There are few people who know Tsubasa beyond the pop idol/perfect school princess. Fewer still, even among those she would call friends, who truly know everything that makes her tick. Even beyond that, there are things that she keeps close to her chest, things that only she knows - because they are either that deeply rooted in her fears or concerns, or she mistakenly tries to tell herself they aren't important.
Throughout various stages of her life, Tsubasa has acted very differently. As a young child she was impressionable but put upon by family politics and the expectation to be the Kazanari clan's true heir. Still, her love of music persisted, and her natural acclimation to the Relics and ability to wield the Symphogear armor made her an ideal candidate as a Wielder. She was caught between two worlds - her dream of music that could bring joy to both her and others, and using that music as a weapon, as she was molded into a "sword" to fight and protect those same people she wished to entertain.
When faced with Kanade Amou, a young girl whose family was taken from her by the Noise and driven to be a Wielder and annihilate them with a resounding vengeance, young Tsubasa was sort of enamored. She took after Kanade, looked up to her, followed after her. With Kanade she was able to embrace her dream of being a performer, which was used as a cover at the same time to conduct further research on the Relics. Even then, she was like a scared little girl. No matter how well she could sing, no matter how hard she could fight, it wasn't enough. Kanade sacrificed her life to save a girl named Hibiki Tachibana and Tsubasa was almost instantly hardened.
She became that very sword her family had pushed her towards, and while she did not abandon her dream, it was pulled back to a degree. She was still this successful, top charting pop idol, and yet would not reach beyond the borders of her own country due to her mission. It was too important, and anything that got in the way of that would need to be removed. Such as Hibiki, when she appeared two years later wielding Kanade's Symphogear. Tsubasa was enraged, spiteful and cruel towards the girl, treating her with contempt and threatening to remove her. In time however, as Hibiki proves herself and Tsubasa comes to realize the person she was becoming, she begins to lighten. To become much more like the girl she was, even if she never truly can go back there. Her memories of Kanade drive her, but not towards vengeance - at this point, she'd still considered herself a weapon, but saw where she could maybe grow beyond that.
It's by the end of the first season that she truly and honestly becomes the person she will be for the rest of the series - strong and stoic, and yet with an unflinching kindness towards those she will reach her hand out to. Be it Chris where she happily tried to literally extend a hand of friendship to after they'd spent half the series trying to murder one another, or Hibiki whom... Well, when the berserk nature of the girl's Symphogear engulfed her, rather than truly fight her, Tsubasa subdued her by taking a brutal hit from her, hugging her, and then pinning her shadow to the ground so she could try and defeat their opponent herself, nearly sacrificing her life. Tsubasa is hard willed, but with a softness she tried for a long time to hide - and doesn't always let out except for those she's closest to.
Except... well, even there she does still retain some difficulty. Circumstance through her life has sort of emotionally stunted Tsubasa in some ways - her father, or who she was supposed to view as her father seemingly treated her in a harsh, dismissive, and demanding manner. Even if his intention was to push her away from her family obligations, such a thing does not play well with a child's mind. She was at her most bright eyed and optimistic with Kanade, but then she died. She spent the next couple years shutting herself off emotionally from everything, and has spent her entire life training to be a warrior, a "sword", that she never had time for anything else. Fun with friends. Love, dating. For a long time, Tsubasa was only her career and her duty.
As such, social situations and cues that others may have a strong reaction to can leave Tsubasa almost not realizing she should react. When Ryoko once spoke of her stories of love and romance, Miku and Hibiki were are sparkles and blushes - Tsubasa merely stares on with a look of dull surprise. When she tries to console Hibiki, she admits to not being very good with it. She finds herself overjoyed when getting to have a day on the town with Hibiki & Miku, and thus times when she gets to act like a normal girl do seem to spark something in her. It's just something she had buried for a very long time.
However, practice makes perfect and Tsubasa is perceptive enough about certain things to pick up when someone else is struggling. Namely, her former rival and enemy, Chris Yukine. When Chris enrolled in their school, she was uncertain of her place in it, having difficulty fitting in. Tsubasa - someone who had never really engaged her classmates on a personal level before that year herself, had never had time for "fun" - encouraged Chris to put herself out there. To sing and make friends and act her age, effectively. This led to Chris opening up more, acting less generally nervous about certain things, singing before the entire school. In effect, Tsubasa slid into a role for Chris much like what Kanade was for her - someone who could guide her, from someone who had also suffered in the past. In a way it can be seen as a subtle, final way she's moved on from Kanade's death, and done so almost entirely of her own power - she became that mentor, that "senpai" who could truly make a difference for someone. This led to Tsubasa and Chris being able to rely on each other in battle better, as well.
Which was handy when dealing with Chris' suicidal bid to infiltrate their enemies, which probably would have just thrown her life away pointlessly and not worked if she HADN'T been there for the girl. So, Tsubasa by this point had not only learned the value of trust and understanding others, but had taken great leaps to instill it in Chris, something which then dictates her actions later on in the series.
For all of the younger Symphogear Wielders, Tsubasa has become someone to look up to, and she tries to abide by that. The exception to this being Maria, who was at one time a peer in the music industry, and then a new rival working for their enemies, before finally allying with them and becoming a comrade and friend. Maria shows that people who are already strong and mature, who don't need her guidance, who are her peers and equals are the sort that Tsubasa via her development has actually become easily comfortable being around. Maria is the only (living) person she refers to by their first name, and the only person she's opened up to about her family. Her trust to her newer stage partner is quite evident, and a very, very far cry from who she started out as - which is a fitting note to how far she's come.
It's been alluded to, but her family is something that uniquely impacts her personality, and is probably the crux of the majority of her issues. Simply put, her father, grandfather, and uncle - the latter being S.O.N.G.'s Commander, Genjuro Kazanari - are ... none of those things. Her grandfather is her true, biological father, having impregnated her mother to keep the Kazanari bloodline pure and set her up as the new heir of their fortune and influence. Her half-brother acted as her "real" father, and led to him trying to present himself as a cruel man so Tsubasa would leave her clan's duties behind, which then led to her other half-brother and "uncle" to then probably be in her life far more than either the man who sired her or the one who was SUPPOSED to raise her.
That's a bit of an exposition dump, but it's important to describe the next part of Tsubasa's thought patterns, and probably the sickest thing of all - she went on through nineteen years of her life acting as if this was normal. She was clearly bothered by it, to be sure - but she would shrug it off. Make excuses for her "father," trying to justify it. "That's just the way our relationship is." It's only when Maria was exposed to this, to her childhood room being untouched and yet oddly... clean that Tsubasa got the clarity she needed. That even if his methods were kind of awful, her "father" was attempting to push her more towards her dream than her family. In a way, what was built for her was a life she would never want to return to, so she could pursue her true goals. Yet all that time, her room had been unmoved and yet, always cleaned - by her "father," her brother, who still wanted the best for her even if he had the worst way of demonstrating it.
Once Maria gets that through to her, Tsubasa realizes fully and at last she is not a sword, she is not a weapon. She is a force that can decide her own future, and from here on all of the experiences and growth she's gone through can give her the wings to do that.
...
So long as that does not involve picking up after herself. Tsubasa is, in actuality, in spite of her image? A complete and utter slob. Her assistant, Ogawa, is constantly tasked with picking up after her because no matter where she goes, be it her own home or a hospital, she inevitably leaves a mess in her wake that would send the crew of Hoarders running for the hills.
This is all very long winded, and goes through various stages of her development, but hopefully it demonstrates how important those evolutions are to the woman she's become. Because even the stuff that's left behind isn't forgotten - in Season 2, she slips back into her angrier, forceful self when Hibiki's health is putting her in danger, and in Season 3, nightmares induced by their new powers show she is still fearful of getting too close to people. That she will still inevitably bring their demise, just as she did Kanade. The woman she once was can always bubble back to the surface, for better or worse. Tsubasa is simply not a static character, for all her stoic image may present.
But in the end, Tsubasa is what she is - a protector who will defend all who need to be defended, and a young woman doing everything she can now to carry on with her dream the whole while, because she's learned one very important thing: These two roles are not mutually exclusive.
Skills/Abilities: Although at her core a normal human being, Tsubasa is someone who is clearly very athletic and in top form. Even before invoking the abilities granted by her Symphogear, she's displayed capability to perform combative and gymnastic feats that are more than a little impressive. She's a skillful warrior adept at using whatever is at hand to dispatch her foes, be it the sword at her side, or the multitude of motorcycles she's gone through. (Please think twice before you lend yours, if you have the latter.)
She is most often aided by her status as a wielder, able to tap into the power of ancient relics to form Symphogears, a powered armor that a select few are able to resonate a frequency to in order to unlock their potential. More specifically: They do so through songs. Tsubasa's Gear is "Ame no Habakiri," which leaves her clad in blue and white armor wielding a multitude of swords. As she sings, "Phonic Gain" generates and allows her to access more and more powerful levels of her potential battle strength, some of which damaging and life threatening to her if wielded improperly.
Here, her Gear will not be a factor, so her personal skill in fighting, especially with a sword, and inherent athletic skill are what she carries forward. She does have some base mechanical skill, able to work on and repair motorcycles and presumably similar such vehicles. Beyond that, Tsubasa's powerful songs have propelled her to international star status, able to convey her feelings beyond language barriers, something that is her primary focus when not being drawn out to save the world.
Magic Weapon: [Sakimori] (example) - A sharp katana that has a black grip with blue markings and a silver crossguard, the curved blade tapers off into a wing-like design around said crossguard.
It's ability is an "Aura Blade," formed from her mana. At first it envelopes Sakimori tightly, only making it look like it's glowing, and is not very cost effective to that mana, making her only be able to use that ability on the impact of strikes. As she grows in strength and can regulate her mana better, the Aura Blade too will stabilize and grow larger. Since Sakimori is being used as a conduit for an energy blade around it, it maintains its weight and makes it possible for her to wield it without super strength. At mastery it's possible to briefly form an even larger Aura Blade around her katana, in accordance with her remaining mana - but at the cost of it, too. The Aura Blade retains Sakimori's sharpness, should Tsubasa's focus remain intact. Otherwise, its cutting power is the first thing to go before she's unable to maintain it at all.
Carrier:
Tsubame - A tiny swallow-like bird very much like the sort you could find in Japan, but with black, white, and red feathers. The feathers themselves look almost sharp enough you could prick your fingers on them (even though you can't.) The little bird doesn't socialize well with other Carriers, and would honestly rather preening himself or flying about wherever he pleases when not carrying out what Tsubasa requests.
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