Gensoukyou:Rika

Background
For the most part, Rika has always been a pretty ordinary lady. There never was much to set her aside from anyone else. Unless you count an unhealthy obsession with science and mechanics a difference. Which, back then in Gensoukyou was a pretty big deal. Rika was completely fascinated with all things scientific. She never cared one bit for magic. Whereas the other children would go off to school and play outside, Rika spent all her time tinkering with various machinery that she put together. And she was damn good at it. By age nine, she'd 'invented' something she called a "Bang Bang Device", which essentially was a grenade launcher. Hey, kids have daft names for things. She then went on, making bigger and better things, things she called 'tanks', a name she'd yanked out of a technology book she found one day in a certain shop. She didn't care if people looked and shook their heads, or scorned her for ignoring magic. If it made her happy, she was going to damn well do it.

Fast forward a few years. In this time, Rika's mechanical prowess skyrocketed. So much so, that someone had apparently taken interest in her machines. A letter came in for her one day, requesting a large order of her machines to be mass produced. Of course, she didn't really stop to think how suspicious this was. After all, no one else cared for her machinery, so to get something like this was pretty odd. No, she was way too ecstatic about finally getting recognized! So naturally, she took the order, and got to work. Fast forward a little further, to the Story of Eastern Wonderland incident. The order was finished, and dispatched. Another letter had come in the day before, telling Rika to prepare herself as well for battle. She'd yet to test some of her vehicles in combat, so this was a good way to do so, yes? Well, you all know the drill. Reimu blasted her way through her machines, and even took out the Flower Tank. Pretty disappointing for Rika, and she ran off. But this was all according to plan!

After the incident was over and done with, Rika put her revenge plans into action. A letter of challenge was sent to the Hakurei Shrine, and like a moth to a flame, a certain Miko accepted. This was it! Her greatest invention to date, Evil Eye Sigma, would win her this fight!

Except it didn't. After a pretty long, difficult fight, Reimu emerged victorious. Her pride crushed, Rika returned to the village. And yet, her mind was already racing to come up with new inventions, more powerful creations, so as to finally have science recognized in the world! Until then, she opened up her own little mechanic shop in the village. She rarely got customers, but those she did get always came back for more! Life is good.

Personality
Rika is a prideful, arrogant girl with a bit of a superiority complex. She tends to view herself as being better than others, especially when it comes to brain power. She does sort of have a right to in that last regard, as she is exceptionally clever for her age, but she tends to take it a tad far, often downright insulting other people who she has never even met before. This is why she has no friends, and quite a lot of enemies. She also has a pretty short temper, flying off the handle at even the smallest things.

Lesser Creations
Bakebake: Ghost-like entities created by Rika. Weak, but come in large numbers. Discontinued project.

Evil Eye: Bat-like creatures with one, large eye. More powerful than the Bakebake, and can fire projectiles. She still has one or two lying around her workshop, but also a discontinued project.

Flower Tank


Background
The Flower Tank was Rika's first experiment with larger machinery, and it was a huge success. Sporting strong weapons, armour and decent mobility for its size, Rika still uses this tank to date, though upgraded.

Power/Combat
The Flower Tank is equipped with a large cannon attached to a rotating turret, which is its main form of offence. While devastating to immobile targets, like buildings, the turret's slow turning speed makes it difficult to hit moving targets. As such, it's also equipped with top-mounted cannons, which are much faster at both turning and shooting. The tank sports very thick armour, giving it impressive resistance to attacks, though its weak points are its treads, which are only partially covered in armour. It's also very slow.

Spellcards
"Petal Cannon" - A Flower Tank exclusive move. Essentially a more powerful "Cluster Grenade", though the splitting shells release sunburst patterns of bullets, and the Flower Tank's other weaponry can still fire while this attack plays out. No negative consequences.

Bloom - "Raining Death" - A Flower Tank exclusive move. The tank's cannon aims into the air, and fires a shell that explodes at the peak of it's arc, raining powerful bullets down on the surrounding area. The tank is covered in a limited Reflector, that deflects friendly and enemy bullets alike. It has a limit, and the tank can be damaged by its own bullets if it does wear off. No consequences.

"Wildfire Blossom" - A Flower Tank exclusive move. Loading a special shell into the main gun, the tank fires a shell that explodes into a blanket of flame, igniting an area for a time. The Tank's side weaponry also adopts similar Flame-based ammo. The main cannon has a short cooldown after firing five shells.

Evil Eye Sigma


Background
Evil Eye Sigma is Rika's most powerful invention. Taking the design of the Evil Eyes she created during the Story of Eastern Wonderland events, she further built upon them, and created the Ultimate Weapon, as she calls it. It lost many vital functions in its battle with Reimu, though its shell is intact.

Power/Combat
Evil Eye Sigma is armed with multiple kinds of weaponry. Its main weapons are the several Gatling guns fixed to its body, as well as the high-powered eye-mounted laser cannon, which could be fired in a spread of five beams in varying directions, or a single, devastating shot that rivals some of Gensoukyou's top lasers. It also packed a device that could cause small explosions at a fixed point, at a moment's notice. Evil Eye Sigma is capable of flight due to rocket boosters in the rear, its wings used as stabilizers, surprisingly quick at that for its size, and sported a reflector shield that could reflect certain, weaker types of danmaku. It's heavily armoured even moreso than the Flower Tank, enough that it could withstand a full Master Spark and still function normally. All of it is armoured in such a way, including the wings. The cockpit is fitted near the top of the creation, and houses a fireport. Inside, Rika keeps a very high powered rifle, that can fire a shot faster than the eye can track. Of course, she has to let go of the controls for this, so it's a sitting duck in the meantime. The purple tendrils dangling from its body aren't just for show, as they can be used for powerful physical attacks. They are only lightly armoured, granting them great flexibility. Even its halo is a weapon, able to be fired off as a boomerang towards the opponent.

Spellcards
"Sigma Shower" - The Gatling cannons affixed to Evil Eye Sigma begin firing wildly, blanketing the entire area in front of it in high powered fast danmaku. Nothing special to this one, just straight up bullet spam.

"Remote Charges" - A ring appears around Rika's opponent and shortly after, explosions begin to go off around them, though the blast radius does not reach the centre of the ring. As such, they are trapped within, and the Gatling guns begin firing in swaying streams.

"Sigma Cannon -Spread-" - One of two variations on Sigma Cannon. Evil Eye Sigma's eye begins glowing, and it fires several lasers at the opponent. Hidden ports open at the top of Evil Eye Sigma, and begin firing streams of bullets down on either side of her opponent, that travel straight down, bounce off the floor, and fly back upwards, slowly closing in. After a time, Sigma will begin to move, changing the flight path of the bullets.

Sigma Cannon -Armageddon- - Rika's most powerful weapon in her entire arsenal. Sigma's eye glows much brighter than with "Sigma Cannon -Spread-", and after a charge, fire devastating twin lasers, that rip through the air with enough to force to create explosions as they travel. These explosions release sunbursts of bullets, while the Gatling cannons fire rotating streams.

Delta Vanguard


Background
Not much is known about the Delta Vanguard as of yet. Rika's been working on this piece of machinery for a while now. Blueprints show it's designed to be a quadrupedal walker, with a human-esque upper body, but nothing else is known.

Power/Combat
Based on blueprints alone, the Delta Vanguard seems to be a quick assault vehicle, armed with twin lances for close quarters combat. Charts show it to be smaller than the Flower Tank, but about twice as large as an average adult, male human. Of course, this is subject to change.

Spellcards
Unknown as of yet

Power/Combat
Rika's abilities in combat is entirely reliant upon her equipment. Her physical body is weak, and she has never trained in hand to hand combat, meaning without her weaponry, she is as weak as any other human. Typically her equipment consists of various projectile-based weaponry, of which she always carries multiples. Her arsenal contains handguns, rifles, miniguns, shotguns, grenade launchers, missile launchers, laser weaponry, sub machineguns, and a wrench, her only form of melee defence, which she's frankly terrible with. None of her weapons contain lethal ammunition, and instead are used as catalysts of sorts for danmaku. Artificial danmaku, but it functions in the exact same way, going as far as to grant her spell cards. However, due to the high energy output required, her weapons can overheat at any time, and even explode, rendering them unusable. She carries her weapons in various holsters as well as her backpack, which in itself doubles as a jetpack to enable her to fly.

Important Note: Naturally, these weapons aren't anywhere close to the design of modern military weapons, being rather primitive in comparison, but their functionality is similar enough that the author feels it appropriate to call them as they are.

Spellcards
Double Up "Rapid Fire" - An attack using twin handguns. Rika rapidly fires both weapons wildly, without any care for aiming. After this card is used, both weapons will overheat.

Trigger Happy "Bullet Time" - An attack using twin sub machineguns. Like Rapid Fire, Rika unloads upon the immediate area with both weapons. The trick this time is that there are a lot more bullets, that are a lot faster, and they come out much quicker. Both weapons overheat afterwards.

"Cluster Grenade" - An attack using the grenade launcher. Rika loads a special shell, that when fired, explodes after a few seconds into several, smaller grenades. Each of these grenades then do the same, explode and release smaller grenades. Three grenades can be launched before the weapon overheats in this manner.

"Spray and Pray" - An attack using the minigun. Rika revs up, and fires a massive barrage of bullets that ricochet off of any surface they touch. There are two kinda of bullets, blue and red. The blue ones merely ricochet once, while the red ones will split into two blue bullets after one bounce, both of which have another bounce in them. The minigun overheats afterwards. Rika has to be grounded to use this card.

Major
Rikako Asakura : An old friend of Rika's, as a fellow follower of the scientific arts. She trusts Rikako, and respects her greatly.

Ruukoto : A robot that she repaired with Rikako, who she then took into her home. Current owner alongside Rikako, and is in the process of upgrading the robot.

Minor
Honjou Shiren : Fellow resident of the Village, and the one who gave her the task of constructing defences for the village.

Reimu Hakurei : Rika doesn't really think too highly of Reimu, though she does at least recognize the shrine maiden's skill in combat, and can respect her for that. Still, she has a lot to repay Reimu.