Gensoukyou:Chiyuri Kitashirakawa

Background
Chiyuri, as she now calls herself, is a being that used to live in a very far away place, belonging to an ancient civilization that had developed its scientific theory to the point that a Grand Unified Theory was established and implemented in their scientific communities. With such immense breakthroughs in scientific theory and innovation, these beings were on an entirely new level of scientific prowess than could ever be hoped for by the human race any time in the near future. Despite this, they are a race that is completely against the mere possibility of anything that cannot be proven scientifically which is reflected in the way the community operates. The average Earth child finishes their pre college schooling at the age of 18, while this other civilization’s children finish graduate courses at the age of 13.

Chiyuri was one such graduate who majored in courses such as Deep Space Engineering in preparation for becoming an engineer on some of the vessels that would depart to gather information on the surrounding planets. However, before she could enact these plans, two years after she had finished all of her necessary schooling, she was approached by a woman who was interested in creating a vessel that would outclass even the most advanced exploration vessels currently available.

Chiyuri was...a very odd person, considering what society is like on her homeworld, an oddity, much like the person who held a chance of giving her something far greater than what she had originally intended to look into for her career. She accepted wholeheartedly, and together the two of them began their work on the Probability-Space Hypervessel. The project’s funding was almost cut completely multiple times, only saved by Yumemi’s vehement assurance that the project was worth the university’s time and resources. However, in the end, even that was not enough, and Yumemi decided that she would have to steal the vessel in order to conduct her research properly. Of course, something like that was cause for the launch of several warships to detain the rogue vessel. However, the Probability-space Drive worked as intended, rendering the pursuit of the warships a pointless endeavor as the ship seemed to vanish entirely.

Yumemi and Chiyuri spent several months travelling the cosmos, chasing rumours, myths, and legends. It was during this time that Yumemi also constructed a second example of her artificial magic system, giving it to Chiyuri as a means of utility and self defense. Eventually, their search brought them to a large planetary system near the galactic core. There they found a world not entirely unlike their own, home to a vaguely similar species, albeit considerably less advanced. Most promising, however, was the fact that the people here held fairly notable beliefs in various mystical and supernatural qualities. Analysis of radio traffic coming from this world also allowed some sampling of the local languages, and it was from this data that Chiyuri adopted the name she would later be known by - a pre-emptive measure recommended to her by Yumemi- to make interacting with the locals easier, should that be required.

Upon scanning the area, it seemed that there was a large, spatial anomaly that certainly seemed to fit what Chiyuri and Yumemi were looking for, and they landed in an available space after using all of the ship’s power to force a way through the barrier. Soon after, multiple people showed up to investigate the ship with the promise of some sort of reward. The outsiders were in luck! They were sure that they had found what they were looking for.

Chiyuri and Yumemi participated in duels with these people in order to collect data on the supernatural phenomena they performed. After all was said and done, Yumemi and Chiyuri prepared to return home. Unfortunately, they were in pretty big trouble when they got back, due to having stolen the ship in the first place. Chiyuri, however, was spared any penalty when Yumemi took it upon herself to pay off all the fines, since that whole ordeal was her idea in the first place.

However, instead of being commemorated for the work she had done, Yumemi was branded a fraud, which was something that deeply upset Chiyuri; she had been there and helped Yumemi collect the data herself, there is no way that the information was false. However, since she wasn’t exactly qualified in the field of study that was concerned with this matter, she was quickly brushed off as a lunatic.

Chiyuri later learned that Yumemi had bought the ship from the university with the remainder of her money, intending on returning back to that magical place they had visited before. She felt that she couldn’t let this opportunity slip away, as she had no regrets about the actions she took the first time around. And besides, she had come to appreciate her fellow lunatic as a friend during their time away from home; she couldn’t just let her leave like that.

Although Yumemi told her that her presence would only be an inconvenience, she knew Yumemi well enough by now to see this was a joke. Together, the two returned to Gensoukyou, leaving their homeworld behind.

Personality
Similarly to Yumemi, Chiyuri is considered to be a very strange individual, if in an entirely different way. She is an outgoing, fiery-spirited person, easily finding ways to get passionate about the work that she does. She isn’t as much of a scientist as her senior is, but she is a very objective and straight forward person who holds nothing back when speaking to other people. She comes across as needlessly blunt, though not usually in a way that upsets other people. On the contrary, most people just think that she spouts random nonsense anyway when she gets really excited. But, if one were to listen closely, she does make at least a little bit of sense.

In addition to this, Chiyuri is incredibly loyal and determined, never finding herself wanting to give up or feeling that she is unable to do something. On the contrary, she “sets her sights far beyond even the stars themselves, deep into the darkness of the void where no one else has even thought about going before!” Such a trait could probably be defined as adventurous, and that is mostly right. She is open minded, never discounting something entirely without a good reason for doing so. Because of her open mindedness and general attitude, there are very few people that Chiyuri doesn’t like, although the feeling is not always mutual.

Power/Combat
Chiyuri, much like Yumemi, possesses no real training in the way of combat, and further still, she is not quite as experienced with the Artificial Magic System as Yumemi herself. Over time, this difference has become negligible, but her own system is missing the experimental features present in Yumemi’s AMS, as they are currently deemed to be unsafe.

Artificial Magic System
A system of her senior’s design, that attempts to replicate "magic" via precisely applied technological means. The Artificial Magic System consists of a neurally-linked control lace, together with subdermal contact points for fine control, and makes use of a femtofilament casting array and nanocloud-based target acquisition and tracking sensors. Power is derived from a combination of bioelectric impedance (for the control system) and quantum vacuum energy for casting. The system generally maintains a low power state until it goes active, which means there is a small lag time before it achieves full power, although once powered it can sustain that state near indefinitely.

Advantages


 * Once powered, the system can cast from its array of known spells instantly, without any set up or preparation rituals. It can also sustain casting at a rate determined by its onboard capacitors, without any "channelling fatigue".


 * As "spells" are stored in onboard memory, access to the complete repertoire is functionally instantaneous.


 * The system can be reconfigured to support different effects.

Disadvantages


 * Adding "spells" is a reasonably complex procedure, as the desired effect must first be decomposed into forces that the system supports, and then be programmatically added to the system's memory.


 * The system cannot support large-scale spells without access to external resources - there is a hard limit on its total power capacity that can only be expanded by means of significant modification.


 * Reconfiguration to handle different spells requires up to several minutes, during which the system can only function at greatly limited capacity.

Common Functions

 * Gravimetric Compensation: A ring 0 or primary function, that is responsible for all the system's control of physical forces, by means of interaction with the local planetary body's own gravitational field. By bringing into existence small gravitational anomalies in rapid succession, it can produce quite precise disjunct forces. It is also responsible for allowing the system's user to fly.

Particle Stream Collation: A ring 1, or active, function. This is one of the basic offensive/defensive functions. It is capable of rapidly forming and directing powerful particle beams and fields, that can be used to attack targets directly, or to either actively intercept or passively redirect incoming projectiles.
 * Photonic Containment: Another ring 0 function, that essentially uses the supporting nanocloud as an external capacitor to temporarily store additional power in preparation for casting larger spells. When active, it causes the air around the user to glow faintly.


 * Ambient Resource Induction: A ring 1 function that mediates use of ambient environmental resources - such as superheating air to create plasma for fire spells, or drawing in atmospheric moisture for water spells. It generally then hands these resources off to another subsystem for actual deployment, but it can function alone as a basic utility interface.

Major
-Yumemi Okazaki: Yumemi seems to be one of the few people who will tolerate Chiyuri’s strangeness, and the two have become quite good friends over the period of time they’ve spent together. However, for the most part, Chiyuri acts as a subordinate, referring to Yumemi as ‘Captain’ or ‘Professor’.

Minor
- Those who participated in helping she and Yumemi conduct their research: While none of them stand out specifically to her, she finds all of them to be subjects of great interest. She really wouldn’t mind seeing them again, given the chance.

Trivia
-Chiyuri actually does talk like a sailor sometimes, due partly to habit, and partly because she likes the sound of it.

-Chiyuri won’t hesitate to use the particle gun she carries for self-defense if she has to, though she would prefer not to actually kill anyone.