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Name: Willow Voltaire

Nicknames:

Age: 16

Birthday: November 13th [A Friday]

Sign: Scorpio

Blood Type: B+

Fav. Food: Meats and Sweets

Hated Food: Any Veggies.

School: Crystal

Why? Because her parents know how she likes to take challenges. So they challenged her to take the opportune chance to go to crystal. So despite Willows normally slight lack of motivation, she had that challenge to remember. (And the possibility of a car, as a reward, from her parents when she graduates in .... 2 or 3 years....)

Hobbies:

- Studying the Occult Willow loves the Occult, from trying to capture proof of ghosts right down to fortune telling. She believes that eventually she can help others. Of course because of this some days she can be studying Wicca and the next have moved onto telling fortunes and reading palms (Well... not really palm readings she's still working on perfecting that). Then it seems on weekends and lots of times during the summer (speically in a thunder storms as it's believed that's when most paranormal activity is at it's peak.)

- Supporting Wild Life Foundations Willow wants to help support and save wild life. Especially those animals that are endangered. While she can’t always help her parents or volunteer at the local zoo she normally takes an hour or two out of her day to see if there’s anything supporting any of the Wildlife Foundations. When she finds things that have proceeds going to the foundation, she’ll buy the items and either stash them away or if it is something like soap she’ll use it.

- Watching TV Willow watches TV like it’s going out of fashion, that said she also likes to watch late night movies that come on TV. She’s got one of those fancy DVR’s so she can record her favorite shows and watch them whenever she likes or has some down time. She tends to pick up sayings or general knowledge from the TV especially when she’s channel surfing. But when those light night movies she watches ends up being horror flicks she’s just a little more paranoid than she was before watching them.

Gemstone: Amethyst [Talismanic Stone of Scorpio]

Virtues:

- Challenge-loving Willow loves a challenge. She can’t back down from one. She may occasionally be hesitant because of a fear or what not, but in the end, her pride wins out. When she actually completes a challenge, it makes her feel warm and fuzzy inside. It also helps root out a little fear, not much, because it’s still there, but a little. She finds studying the occult to be a challenge when it comes to the religions and beliefs of certain societies, she'll spend days trying to find common ground and flipping back and forth to dictionary websites to find meanings of words that might be just out of her vocabulary.

- Curious Willow has a curious nature. When something catches her attention or ear, she has to go see what it is. If it’s a noise in a house, for example the one she stays in, she occasionally carries a bat. (Depending on how many horror movies she’s seen.) In case it’s someone that she has to defend herself from. However, sometimes what catches her attention is a little less dramatic. Sometimes it’s something close to, “is that psychically possible?” Also Willow will grab the TV remote and channel surf during commercials, heck sometimes even when a show is on considering she has one of those satellite dishes. If she finds something on that she hasn't seen or knows the title of but hasn't seen that particular one she'll just have to watch it. Never mind your movie.

Flaws:

- Personal bubble space Willow hates having her space invaded. When she's talking with people and specially when there are large groups Willow has a tendency to make more space between her and the people she's around, while still being close enough to talk to them without shouting. This also creates a problem if she's basically cornered with no way out. A slight eye twitch will develop while she mentally begs for them to move, or attempts to push her way out of the enclosed space. This some times hinders her TV watching. If the chair/sofa/etc is too small to seat her and someone else with an arm's length space between them (even if she's sitting on the arm of said object). She'll then take the kindasortaabadveiwoverhere chair giving those big sad kitten eyes. (Heck she'd sit on the floor if there was enough room or the back of the couch if it's not a lazy boy and could fly out from under her.) This often effects her on a day to day bases because she finds some of the classroom tables seat people too close to her, desks do as well, and sometimes she starts to panic trying to find a way to make herself feel less surrounded. Including requesting seats in the back of the classroom or in the front, which ever is closest to the door out. It also causes a problem in settings when she's shopping, she tends to get those associates that like to stand right on top you wanting to help her which just drives her nuts.

- Prideful Willow has a sense of pride, a rather large one. She doesn’t like to embarrass herself in front of others by admitting she’s scared of something. She might occasionally hiss a hurry, and make it sound urgent they get to their destination, but her, scared? That’s a laugh. She’ll do anything to prove that she’s not a wuss, because she prides herself in being, well what she thinks is being strong. (Unfortunately her pride likes to get the better of her when there’s dares or challenges that come up, which she doesn’t want to admit she’s a bit scared of doing.) They always say curiosity killed the cat, but I think it’s pride that killed it.

Physical Description:

Hair: Black - Long (at least down to her knees) with sherbert orange Highlights (Orange color #f7b379 or something close)
This for her hairstyle.

Eyes: Ice Blue, slightly catish shaped

Eyes Maybe something close to 14 or 16 in shape.

Face: Looks sort of Asian.

Body: Thin, kind of lanky, with just a hint of fluff, and little bit of a Tan. Stands at about 5'4~5'5.

Fashion: A lot of Gothic/Lolita stuff, sometimes large baggy pants with a nice shirt, always darker colors [purples, maroons, blacks, darker blues, some greens] nothing in the 'powder' colors only thing she wears that's an exception to this is oranges and whites. She also likes lacy accessories and funny/awesome goth/lolita and animal themed hats and head bands. (Like tiger/cat ears or hats or Skeleanimal hats) She also prefers small animal/coffin shaped/print backpacks to purses.

*Willow's heritage on her mother's side is of Asian descent, mostly from China but there are other Asian countries in the mix. Her father is white/American, though his family heritage hails from France.

Alternate stuff if stuff above doesn't work.
Sailor Scout Attack: An Apple (Based on An Apple, a Day keeps the Doctor away)
Halley summons a slice of apple which when eaten temporarily protects from a certain amount of damage. The attack only lasts for a max of one minute depending on the severity of the attacks against it and vanishes very quickly if an actual magic is used again it. This attack can only be used twice per battle and has a recharge time after that of at least half an hour.

Super Sailor Scout Attack: A Super Apple
Halley summons two slices of apple which when eaten temporarily protects from a certain amount of damage. Halley can either eat both slices; give one slice away or both slices away. Depending on the amount of slices consumed is how long the attack lasts. If one slice is consumed the attack only lasts for a max of one minute depending on the severity of the attacks against it and vanishes very quickly if an actual magic is used. If two slices are consumed the attack time doubles unless a magical attack is used. This attack can only be used twice per battle and has a recharge time after that of at least an hour.

Eternal Attack: Broken Mirror
When Sailor Halley calls this attack it summons a set of four mirrors around the target. To get out the target has to break the mirrors or find a way to get out of the box without breaking the mirrors. Their friends can help. However, if the mirrors are broken it’s likely to reflect bad luck on the person inside the box because they are likely to be cut. The mirrors are high enough off the ground the person inside could try to crawl out, however if they accidently bump one of the mirrors that mirror still breaks as they are rather fragile hanging by themselves. To dispel this attack effectively without getting hurt one must either crawl out, or a magical attack would have to be used to blast the attack away, (IE cat’s head beam lazer would be effective). These last only about a minute unless the mirrors are broken or dispelled.

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FAQs

Turning this into a faqs section

Q. Why does Willow Ghost Hunt?
A. She want's to explain the 'unexplainable'. As well as define what is and isn't explainable.

Q. Doesn't Willow get Discouraged when she can't find a ghost?
A. Willow does occasionally get discouraged when she doesn't find a ghost. However, she continues to dabble in ghost hunting because she wants to settle fears of others.

Q. Why does she want to settle fears of others?
A. Willow knows that fearing something is sometimes more dangerous than the actual thing placing the fear. She wants to show people there's nothing to be scared of when dealing with the paranormal.

Q. Does Willow work with others?
A. Willow doesn't like working with others when it comes to ghost investigations. Mainly because the more people you have, the more contamination there is. She wants to try to keep that down. However as a senshi or doing school work she'll work with others when there need is there.

Q. What kinds of occult stuff does Willow dabble in?
A. Willow dabbles in a lot of things, mainly as to keep her fascinations occupied. She doesn't like or trust ouija boards because they leave you unnecessarily vulnerable and aren't reliable. However she does study lots in superstitions, the tarot, other random fortune telling ways dating back to at the least the gypsy's. (She's still working her way back on that one). Wiccan practices, As well as other demi-satanic, and creatures of the occult studies. She takes things one day at a time though, so her interests shift sometimes daily, on what she studies.

Q.If Willow's faced with a conflict how would she handle it? What would drive her to henshin up?
A. Willow of course hates to see people fighting. Especially friends, she tends to try to step in a break up the fight. If she has leverage by the fact she knows you, she'll guilt you down and make you (well try to anyways) feel guilty of what you've done.

As far as what would drive her to Henshin up to protect the people. Weird things like monsters that shouldn't exist, even in the paranormal world, mystical beasts are mystical beasts. They don't exist outside of story books. Also things like dangerous looking people, be it senshi or nega, if she thought they were out to harm someone. She doesn't like to see people hurt, or people hurt people. It may actually take a few times before she actually realizes, "Oh s**t, these guys need to be stopped."

Q. Would Willow ever take advantage of someone's troubles?
A. Willow doesn't take advantage of troubles, however if there's a dare on the table that is 'unusual and cruel punishment' type deal. She will take advantage of things she knows about the person/friend that suggested the dare to get back at them.

An Eye for an Eye.

Q. I'm Not touching you~~~
A. Willow would like to point out that she doesn't invade your personal space, now back up.

ON THE CIVILIAN:

Virtues/flaws are pretty sparse right now. In order to give me a full sense of Willow, I think you should try to define her more. She is a curious girl who loves a challenge with some personal space issues and a pridefulness that can get her into trouble. This is fine, but it could be sharper, more fully-formed.

Also, PERSONAL BUBBLE reads more like a little quirk than an actual flaw. You should probably refine this into a more in-depth discussion of her issues with closeness. How does this affect her friendships? How does this hurt her day-to-day life? The way it is written now just sounds too minor for me to see it is as a major flaw of her character.

ON THE SENSHI:

I would caution against using the dice roll for her attacks. I think you should just trust the other player to RP it out. If someone hits one wire, do they all disappear? I think it is too OP if this giant sprawling mass of energy cracks can hit an enemy multiple times as they try to stumble free. So either shrink the total area of effect, or have them disappear once someone trips one of the cracks.

For super, two minutes is a long duration for it. If it disappears once someone trips over one of them, then this is probably okay, but if it persists after one blow, you should cut down the duration considerably.

For eternal, I'm not sure how much this follows the previous two. Her sphere is superstition, but the first two attacks are really about stepping on cracks. And then the eternal is randomly a protection ring. I think you should either make each stage of her attacks based around a different superstition, or keep them all about the 'step on a crack' idea. In general, the eternal attack just doesn't fit. It goes from offensive to an incredibly long-lasting defensive attack. I would rewrite it with a TIME duration (not posts/rounds) and restructure it to be offensive like the previous attacks.

As you illustrated by adding in quotes from the mule in the revised attack post, Sailor Jupiter has three offensive attacks, not two offensive and than a random defensive one. You go offensive-offensive-defensive right now, which I mentioned in my above criticism as something that would need to be fixed. Yes, your eternal attack can be a variation on the sphere that is not a direct, black-and-white relation to the previous two, but the salt ring still does not, in my opinion, work.

This is a nebulous sphere and so determining the powers can take a little finessing. I am trying to help you streamline it and make it fit within the game while still following the general spirit of the rules for powers -- which, again, you really don't need to quote in your post (it isn't part of the form) unless you are trying to send me some sort of secondary message.

So please correct your eternal attack based on the feedback I gave you if you would like to receive a stamp.

New shop, new form, and all that jazz. I just noticed that the quotations had been added now when they were not there previously, despite you not actually changing anything having to do with your powers except the duration. If they were added now to help you come up with new powers, then you would have come up with new powers, I would think. If I am mistaken, then I apologize.

But yes, please update your eternal attack based on the criticism that I gave you in addition to the things you pointed out in your posted quotations from the mule. An attack evolution should follow logically. There are always going to be weird spheres where we really have to bend things to give it some structure, but in this case, you should stick to the offensive-offensive-offensive.