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Player Name: Amber
Contact: novakaisers in the discord
Invited by: I live here now
Other Characters: Pannacotta Fugo, Shio Takahata, Josuke Higashikata, Byleth Eisner, Rika

Character Name: Cordelia "Lia" Brooks
Canon: Original
Canon History: It says so in the comment itself, but still be aware: CW for mentions of gun violence and attempted murder. History can be found here.

Canon Abilities: Detailed here!

Canon Personality:
- The first impression one will get of Lia is that she's a cheery and open individual. She's friendly and often forthcoming, even with strangers.
- She tends to be generally helpful by nature, she's always ready and willing to help people--friends, family, she'll even go out of her way to help strangers if they need it.
- She generally tries to be kind to everyone she meets. If you can brighten someone's day just a little, it's worth it, and life's too short to be dicks to each other anyway.
- Lia is willing to give most people a chance, even if it's... ill-advised. Prickly, overly rowdy, horrible chaos gremlin, even bloodthirsty-- none of these are particular problems, so long as you haven't committed atrocities or personally harmed Lia or someone she cares about. (Even the "harming Lia" part can be set aside, so long as it wasn't particularly personal in nature--one of her associates is in fact a killer for hire who's clashed with Lia a few times on the job. They both handle it very professionally at this point.)
- She tends to be firmly of the belief that more often than not, a stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet.
- For the most part, she's not too into holding grudges--as long as you haven't harmed one of her loved ones or you're not looking to cause harm again, at least. Life's too short for that!
- She is stubborn as all hell. I wouldn't necessarily say it's her way or the highway, but if you're looking to change her mind on something, you'd better have a damn good argument before you're dragged along for the ride.
- She's not big on restraining herself from things she enjoys--life's too short to deny yourself the things you like!
- Despite appearances and general attitude, Lia's particularly concerned with practicality. Why go chasing the wild, complex solutions to problems when simpler, sensible ones are right there?
- On that note, only suckers fight fair, as far as Lia's concerned. Honor and rules are for organized events--in a fight where survival's the main priority, anything goes.
- (This does not stop her from being flashy as hell when she does fight, she just tries to temper that with practicality.)
- Just because she isn't typically outwardly mean or cruel doesn't mean she's incapable. When she is pushed to that point, you'd better believe she's a big believer in the idea of cruel mercy. It can be harder to live with the things you've done, after all.
- For all that she tries to handle things sensibly and practically, this does not stop her from following her impulses... a lot. She doesn't always think things through and this has gotten her in trouble.

AU Name: N/A
AU Age: 24
AU Birthday: May 29
Faction: The Black Order

AU History: - Lia was born to a paranormal aware family in New York. Her parents were kind and attentive, and Lia was very close with her older sister in particular growing up.
- While having been aware of magic since she could comprehend the idea of it existing, it started becoming a major part of her life when she was around the age of 7, when her older sister's magical abilities started becoming apparent... on the heels of a particular change in her appearance.
- (While their parents were a bit freaked out at the change, they definitely agreed that this was preferable to, say, uncontrollable fireballs or something.)
- Lia thought the change was cool, and paid close attention to the sorts of abilities her sister had awakened to.
- Lia's direct experiences with magic of her own started five years later at age 12-- she unwittingly uses teleportation to save herself when she falls out of a tree. That night isn't the first time she dreams of being a magical girl, but it is the first time she dreams of monsters invading a world two steps from being in shambles, and of a boy she can't put a name to.
- At first, Lia doesn't think much about telling her sister or her parents about the dreams she's started having, but she quiets down after a warning from her mother: "Keep such things to yourself, or the Black Order might find you and take you away." An explanation of the group later, and Lia does, in fact, remain silent about her dreams... for a few years, at the very least.
- To Lia's credit, she did pretty well at keeping things under wraps. It was only once she turned 18 and she'd transformed in public to keep someone safe that she got concerned about ending up on the Black Order's radar--and for good reason. She caught wind of Guardians in the area, asking around about her soon after.
- Unwilling to get involved with the Black Order and equally unwilling to potentially put her family in danger, she gathered up her belongings and fled under the cover of night.
- Lia spends a few years traveling around the country after that, never settling in one place for too long. She does what she does best while she does, tackling odd jobs for money to get by and generally trying to help the people she meets.
- During these few years, she stops in Kaisou for a while a few times, but after she starts hearing about increased Order presence in the city, she starts avoiding it.
- Not that it lasts, really. Eventually, Lia hears through the grapevine that there's been something of a revolution at the Order, and she starts doing some investigating on her own once she hears it's under new management.
- Once she confirms the news for herself, Lia... takes a bit to think, now that she's not being chased around the country. Given everything that has happened, everything that Lia herself has witnessed the past few years, she comes to the realization that the world does need people like The Black Order, and--perhaps most importantly--people who truly believe in its cause and will join willingly.
- After considerable thought and a long conversation with her still skeptical older sister, Lia decided to finally join up with The Black Order--if it means helping and protecting others, Lia wants to do what she can.
- It's almost a relief to be assigned to Kaisou, given how much she enjoyed being here before and missed it afterwards. She'll do her best! ... Even if she's still got three or so months of training left.

AU Personality Differences: - Overall, Lia is a generally less intense person than canon due to having a considerably more normal life in comparison. She also doesn't have the violent near-death experience under her belt that made her double down on all the things she says "life's too short" about in canon--that isn't to say she doesn't believe in them here, though! She does believe it and try to act on such things, but it sure is a lot less of a big deal for her.
- Knows what a hinge looks like enough to fake having one
- While she's still impulsive, she's less so given her circumstances in the AU. Too much impulse-following could've gotten her in trouble with the Black Order! Similarly, she's spent a while not operating under the idea that a stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet.
- A bit less inclined to solve her problems with violence, given the fewer scenarios that require it.

Element: Light
Purchased Powers:
- Canon ability: Magical Girl transformation (4 points - based on the fact that magical girl transformations are 3 points in Gacha Goodwill.)
- Canon ability: Magical weapon creation: Only usable after her transformation. Lia can turn her magic into physical weapons for her to use, and they'll disappear after a fight. She cannot arm anyone else this way, cannot alter the weapon's properties after she's created it, and creating the weapon doesn't come with the knowledge of how to use it. (It's basically an element-neutral version of the elemental weapon creation.) (3 points, as discussed on Discord)
- Canon ability: Improved Physical Abilities (Enhanced Bulk): Only while Lia has transformed into her magical girl form, her strength, speed, durability, and reflexes are enhanced. (4 points)
- Canon appearance: Basic hair color change. Brown to sky blue. (1 point)
- Kaisou ability: Teleportation (Low) (3 points)
- Kaisou ability: Regeneration (Medium) (2 points)
- Kaisou ability: Improved Vision (Super) (3 points)

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Canon History

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CW FOR MENTIONS OF GUN VIOLENCE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER

- So in another setting where Capitalism Ruins Everything, a massive corporation called Zen Dynamics assumed control of a country called Denestvia, and a development during this ensuing mess led to something incredibly important: the rediscovery of magic. Between the advanced technology at the fingertips of the corporation and the magic that had been rediscovered, some folks decided trying to harness both things to punch through reality into some other dimension in an attempt to use said other dimension's properties to solve the country's energy crisis.
- As it turns out, punching holes in the fabric of reality with only the vaguest idea of what you're doing is kind of a stupid idea, who would've guessed. Because of all of... well, this, creatures that came to be known as Nightmares started coming into the world. Created of darkness and magical energy, they were uniformly hostile and, unfortunately, resistant to conventional weaponry. Magic wasn't especially helpful, either, as its use tended to be clunky and difficult, and unsuited for anything like battle.
- Attempts to stop these creatures were costly in both resources and lives, but eventually, a ray of hope shone on the world--a girl in a bright, fancy outfit had stepped forward to fight one of these Nightmares on her own, using a crystalline blade to cut it to ribbons. A girl who could use magic as easily as breathing, and to a greater extent than anyone had ever seen. Others began to awaken to similar powers, with seemingly no rhyme or reason as to who. The good news was there were now people who could consistently fight against these Nightmares. The bad news... these powers weren't especially picky about who they awakened in. They were powers born of strong hope, but that hope could be as selfish or selfless as anyone pleased.
- Born to a chemist and a weapons designer, Lia is one of those that awakened to such powers. She had grown up in a... mostly ordinary household other than that, though as a teenager, she started using her powers in earnest. This eventually led her to working as a magical girl "mercenary" of sorts.
- She eventually ended up on the payroll of a corporation that had some big ambitions and some questionable plans for how to attain those--plans that Lia was not meant to overhear.
- So. You know. Of course she did. It was very much a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but that hadn't mattered to her employers, who decided she needed to go.
- Ultimately, this ended with Lia catching several bullets to the back and being left in a shallow grave. The only reason Lia didn't die is a combination of the magic running through her system desperately trying to keep her alive and it managing to do so just long enough for a nosy healer to save her life.
- The healer in question, a young man who goes by "Reverie", spent a lot of energy to make sure she recovered. Once she had, the two of them became best friends, as well as frequent partners in dealing with Nightmares.
- They get into various troubles and misadventures, largely by way of Lia not being able to leave well enough alone.
- (These misadventures may have included tangling directly with the Zen Dynamics CEO and discovering the woman also had magical powers of her own.)
- Lia's more proactive nature and approach to dealing with problems gradually leads to Reverie deciding to sideline himself less, revealing his abilities to be closer to biomancy than healing.
- Ultimately, all of this culminates in taking on an extremely powerful Nightmare, one more humanoid in form, with the help of many of the other people in the city with magical abilities. Lia manages to achieve an upgraded form of her powers called Overdrive, enhancing her offensive ability to near ludicrous levels.
- Not a lot changes after that, really. Nightmares still have to be fought off occasionally, and Lia and Reverie continue to keep an eye out for the next major threat.