Gensoukyou:Meira

Background
Meira is the only child that is born to the 13th generation of the once prestigious Meijin Family. As a girl, she was not deemed worthy to be the head of the family, and thus the authority of the Main Family could now be taken by the male heirs present in the Branch Family. However, this resulted in a lot of bloodshed between the branch families, and internal politics began to fill the words of the household. At the age of 18, Meira could no longer handle the day to day fear of assassination that plagued the mood of the Household, and as such stole the family relic, a sword which was passed down from generation to generation as a symbol of authority. Little did the inexperienced Meira know that the sword possessed power, and was once known as Mugen, Sword of Infinity.

Meira decided that the only way she could stop the bloodshed was to gain an authority that no-one could argue with, and decided to usurp the powers of the Hakurei Bloodline, believing that even she could defeat the young Shrine Maiden. However, her rosy dreams were shattered; the Shrine Maiden proved her skill and ability and effortlessly defeated Meira. After that event, Meira all but vanished from the eyes of her family, discarding her last name and title, leaving behind the life she once had and mixing into the day to day society, wishing to train herself to defeat the shrine maiden. She sold her clothing and bought instead some more normal clothes, and used the excess money from that sale to help her get by in the first few weeks. She cut her hair shorter and changed her entire image as a ruse to escape detection.

Meira tried several times to get into the Human Defence Force, however was rejected because she failed to meet the basic physical tests. Meira took on various odd jobs in the time to make ends meet, helping out in various places across the Human Village at first, whilst she aimed towards her ambition to join the Defence Force. It was in these jobs that she developed the basic skills that were denied to her during her life in the Meijin Household, and she began to appreciate the hard work the normal people put in to live their day to day lives. In the end, the Defence Force recognised her dedication, and allowed her to train with them, helping her build up the necessary skills necessary for the job. Meira didn’t have the necessary muscle weight, so instead on focusing on her strength; she decided to work on stamina and technique, using an unconventional technique where she parries attacks instead of taking them head on.

She eventually became a valued member of the Defence Force, but with that distinction came fame, and the shadows of her past life began to haunt her again, as agents sent by her old family began joining the Defence Force in an attempt to find information about her. The spying eventually ended in a confrontation, however, the Defence Force refused to give up Meira over to the hands of the Meijin Family, Meira had already proven her worth and dedication to protecting the Human Village, whilst the Meijin Family had, over the years, withdrawn itself from the responsibility, moving from the front to the back lines, and eventually disappearing from the scope entirely, moving over to more profitable and less risky endeavours such as business and politics. Meira was extremely moved by this show of trust, and promised to herself to protect her newfound friends and family as long as she was alive.

With time, she grew to like her new life filled with hardship and freedom, and her desire for revenge began to fade, and instead the changing day to day life charmed her. She realised that she never wanted to return to the life she once had, even she could get anything she wanted, it would not give her the same satisfaction as the life she lived now.

Personality
Character behaviour: While Meira has long left the rules and monotony of her past, Meira still retains some of her past habits of her life before as a sheltered member of the main family, which extends to her way of speaking and her day to day interactions. Otherwise, she is quite a pleasant person to talk to; she tries her best to listen to others. She lapses into a flurry of over-formal and stiff conversation when she encounters a topic that is difficult for her.

Positive characteristics: Meira is a self motivated person who tries her best to better herself, trying to cast off the influence from her childhood and become one with the community. While difficult at first, Meira gives her trust to people wholeheartedly, often relying on her neighbour’s advice on things. She takes things at face value, and gets swayed by multiple opinions, especially with regards to fads or new things.

Negative characteristics: Meira is blunt and quite condescending of people who don’t do something for themselves. Whilst much improved compared to her life in the Meijin Household, she still occasionally displays lack of tact, especially with regards to relationship issues. She also is quite wary of new people, considering that she is still a fugitive from the influence of her own family. In addition, Meira hasn’t QUITE mastered the nitty gritty of proper saving, and often purchases interesting or strange objects on a whim.

Mugen, Sword of Infinity
Mugen is a beautifully crafted runed black katana with a cloth grip and a simple guard. Mugen has the ability to accumulate magical power, and is a symbol of the strength of the Meijin Family. The Founder of the Meijin Household had once used this sword to fend off youkai, and they were once regarded as protectors of the Village. Since the sword draws from the magical reservoirs of its wielder, the sword stimulates the flow of magic within its wielder, gradually increasing their magical capacity and thus their power over time as the body gets accustomed to the flow of energy.

White Jade Sheathe
The Sheathe is a rune reinforced crafted scabbard which magically maintains the edge and lustre of Mugen. It is quite capable of being used as a medium of accumulating magic, and works in a set with Mugen, acting as an energy reservoir for the katana. It has many runes engraved along its side, and has a simple cord wrapped around it tightly for ease of carrying the weapon.

Combat Style
Type of Danmaku: Meira doesn’t have a set shape or style of danmaku, she can freely change the design of her danmaku at will. However, she needs to charge her danmaku to be able to shoot larger ones, and for these particular ones, she utilizes Mugen’s natural accumulation skills to fire them off from the sword itself.

Strengths: Meira can change the style and shape of her danmaku to meet the situation, varying between small and large, fast and slow as well as changing the shape of the danmaku to provide her with a solid mix-up of danmaku. She also uses an unconventional fighting method which relies on parrying, allowing her to open up advantages in combat. She is quite nimble and moves her body effectively, reading her opponents moves and reacting in tow.

Weaknesses: Meira lacks any real defining moves, all she has is her danmaku and her sword skills, and lacks the real force that other characters has. She is also physically weak in comparison to her co-workers, relying on technique instead of strength in order to be able to compete on an equal playing field.

Other Skills
Danmaku Styling ~Skill Type – Danmaku ~What it does – Meira possesses an innate trait which means her danmaku is not restricted to any one shape or style. It means she can easily manipulate her danmaku to suit the tides of battle. She augments the size by using Mugen to store up power to fling the larger danmaku at opponents.

Resistance to Pain ~Skill Type – Body ~What it does – Driven by her initial desire for revenge against the Hakurei Miko, Meira asked her trainer to teach her in the fastest way possible. The trainer relented, however, finally agreed. The training method was brutal combat practice, in the words of her instructor after the first shock session, “If you wish to learn fast, then I will not hold back. I will pound the sensation of death into your body. Your body will develop its own reflexes and you will grovel while you find your own style to figure out how to stop the pain.” That same first session left Meira unable to attend the training for 3 days, her body too sore to move properly. However her pride made her keep coming back to training. Thanks to the first year of being battered over and over again by her instructor’s shinai, Meira’s body began to develop a resistance to pain, which exceeds the resistance of most of the people in the defence force, since the other members decided to take a more conventional approach to training; through memorizing forms.

Warrior’s 6th Sense ~Skill Type – Sensory ~What it does – Meira’s training regime was long, painful and brutal. During her training sessions, her instructor would mercilessly attack at any opening that Meira created. After 10 years of brutal training experience, Meira has gained an innate ability to sense “killing intent” of any sort, allowing her to gauge locations of opponents even through an illusion. She also developed heightened reflexes and timing, a skill necessary for her to parry attacks.

Katana Proficiency ~Skill Type – Weapon Proficiency ~What it Does – Meira has trained herself for the past several years in the way of the katana after her graceless defeat to the Shrine Maiden. In addition, her unconventional fighting style was developed from pure trial and error training, relying on good control of her footing and positioning in order to take advantage of her opponent’s weaknesses when they’re put off by her unusual moves. Meira has attained a high level of swordsmanship.

Heightened Mana Reserves ~Skill Type – Body ~What it does – After a decade of training with the sword Mugen, her mana pool has been stimulated and increased significantly in comparison to many of her colleagues in the Defence Force. However, Meira does not have any knowledge in magic which she could utilize this larger mana pool with, and instead utilizes it purely for danmaku.

Heightened Regeneration ~Skill Type – Passive Enhancement ~What it does – Due to the nature of the sword Mugen, the weapon promotes a good flow of mana throughout Meira’s body, and as long as the sword is on her person/, her rate of regeneration and wound recovery is higher than that of a normal human being.

Indomitable Willpower ~Skill Type – Mental ~What it does – Meira initially had a very strong will, and it was pushed and made to increase due to her training. Combined with her bloodline and her very strong sense of self, and as such is naturally resistant to attacks made on her mind.

Spellcards
Meira does not have any spellcards at this point in time.