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[ENROLLMENT] Anna Walpurgis, Witch of Despair [APPROVED]

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Sosiqui

Enduring Muse

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:20 pm


WARNING: BEYOND THIS POINT THERE ARE VAGUE SPOILERS FOR PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA.



YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

° ω °

















Carry on? biggrin
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:21 pm


AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORM



Note: You might want to read Anna's history first! It explains a lot.


Name: Anna Walpurgis
Nicknames: None, it's pretty damn hard to make 'Anna' any shorter. :B
Gender: Female
Age: 16

Faction/Race Reaper - Witch of Despair
(aka a Witch as depicted in the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Natural Ability:
Racial Ability: Summon Familiar - Anna can summon her familiar, an Incubator named Shibey. (Don't call him Shibby. ° ω °)
Natural Ability: Banquet of Despair - Anna feels revitalized/gets a charge from being around people who are genuinely suffering. In other words, she can 'feed' off of true, gut-wrenching despair and may feel the urge to drive others to it deliberately. (She has NOT had this ability all her life and is uncomfortable with it - see history below.)

Also, like all witches/warlocks she can cast magic, though her ability to work with things that aren't curses has become extremely erratic. (I.E. a fireball spell will probably go off in her hand or fly off-course to burn someone else even if she doesn't aim it at them.) This is very frustrating to her, as she used to be able to cast most basic spells at a manageable level. Eventually she will be completely unable to cast spells that aren't curses/hexes.


Personality: Anna is inclined to be a little shy and... well, fairly ordinary. She isn't exceptionally gifted at anything, isn't particularly beautiful nor particularly scary. She considers herself to be solidly mediocre. Or boring, if she's feeling bummed about life. She tries to be hopeful about her prospects, but when all the adults in her life are sighing and moaning about how terrible things are it's hard to keep a smile on your face. She tried to be a good girl and please those above her, especially her parents, hoping to get some attention and be validated as something more than just... ordinary.

However, she recently went through a great change in her life (see history), and is still reeling from the effects. She is anxious, unsure if she can trust herself, and very unsure about trusting Shibey. She is also grief-stricken, mourning her fallen original familiar and the circumstances that caused her family to (at least temporarily) reject her.

As her bond with Shibey deepens, and her FEAR shifts and begins to change her, Anna will discover a cruel edge to herself. Spurred on by her new ability to feed off of negative emotion, she will find herself encouraged to draw those emotions out of others through her actions - though she will pick her targets, she's not going to be a jerk to absolutely everyone. Still, being a subtle bully is definitely not outside the realm of possibility for her.

She will also find her ego growing a bit, as she truly does have more power than she ever thought she might. Trickles of madness will creep into her mind, manifesting themselves in sadistic glee at other people's unhappiness... though, again, she will pick her targets. This will be an excellent trait for a scarer of humans, but not so good for interpersonal skills. She will obey authority, but she will poke at every boundary she can in the process.

With others, she is currently shy and withdrawn, afraid to make close connections; if she can't trust herself, why should she expect others to? And yet, later on, she will find herself driven to make friends and create anchors to cling to as she erodes and changes. In the far future, she will likely have many acquaintances but few close friends, unless she makes them early and manages to keep them.

Basically, she's a walking work in progress. Stand back, and keep your hard hat on.


Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy? Her parents sent her there after she made a serious mistake.


FEAR: Hopeless Curse (FEAR Type: The Mind) - Working with Shibey, Anna can induce a feeling of hopeless despair (and related emotions - unease, sadness, anxiety, etc.) in those she targets - how much this affects the target is based on Anna's experience. The target's vision will also shift a bit, giving the world a mad fever-dream look. (If you've ever seen Puella Magi Madoka Magica, you know what the inside of a Witch's Barrier looks like. Yeah.)


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As a side note before we get started, I would strongly prefer if an artist who can draw in anime style could draw Anna & Shibey. <3 That's what I'll be going for when I bribe and enter customs and stuff! Since she's roughly based on a concept from an anime, I'd like for her to be drawn in anime style also.

And, no matter what, her expression should be slightly concerned/worried/uncomfortable. Not happy... not yet. Heh.



Eye Colour: Sharp cyan.
Hair Colour/Style: Light, loose curls, with a gradient of white to icy blues.
Skin Colour: Caucasian - pale, though not bone-white or unearthly white.
Clothing Style/Colours: Exactly as seen at left! biggrin

Extra: As in the art to the left~ at the first stage, faint bits of corruption should be visible on her body here and there. NOT very much. This image is another good example.

Also, please include Shibey in her art! He is an Incubator, so should be drawn exactly like this reference. Keeping that facial expression is very important! Instead of pink/red, Shibey's fur is colored in shades of blue, and his ear-bracelet-thingies are silver, not gold.


References: THAT SHINY TO THE SIDE. That. Exactly. Oh yes.

Sosiqui

Enduring Muse


Sosiqui

Enduring Muse

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:23 pm


History: Anna was born into a family of (normal) witches who have always been bonded to familiars at birth. While their family was once widely respected for their ability to scare, in recent generations their fortunes have reversed. Children have been born with less and less magical/FEAR power, and the family is now considered mediocre at best. Very ordinary, not really worth much.

Worried about their future, Anna's family made a last-ditch effort to increase their family's power and renown. They spent a great deal of money and called in many many favors to obtain a beautiful gem, in which was said to sleep a very powerful familiar. They intended to bond this familiar to the next child born. However, Anna snuck in to where the gem was stored to have a look at it. When she opened the box, she happened to touch the gem... and, with a flash of light, she found herself confronted by the familiar within.

He offered her more power than she could ever dream of, in exchange for making a contract with him. And oh, how she wanted to be special, to make her family proud...

Anna agreed, and the creature - who introduced himself as Shibey - promptly devoured Anna's original familiar in a wave of FEAR and pain. When she awoke, she found her own FEAR had been altered, and new hungers gnawed at her mind.

... But she does have power now. More power than anyone else in her family, though it's really not exceptional by Amityville Academy standards. Still, it's better than it was. But she spoiled a lot of plans, and as such was sent away until her family felt ready to deal with things again.


Anna's Relationship to Shibey: Is mixed, currently. He did grant her 'wish', but he also ate her original familiar, which was painful and traumatic both emotionally and FEAR/magically. She's not certain if she trusts him, but he always speaks so calmly and with apparent wisdom... and the familiar bond they now share encourages her to be kind to him, even if she's not entirely comfortable.


Future: As Anna's life continues, Shibey will continue to 'grant her wish'. The increased FEAR he granted her will infuse her body and soul, making her more powerful but also corrupting her from within. Given that this is Halloween, this is a good thing, and what anyone would expect from someone bonded to an Incubator familiar. But it's still not going to be super pleasant to go through.

As Anna uses her FEAR more and more, at Shibey's urging, it will corrupt her more and more. As her stages continue, a visible 'corruption' will appear on her flesh - perhaps at the last stages her skin will have cracks here and there through which the darkness (and witch 'textures' from PMMM) are visible. She will gradually change from a fairly run of the mill reaper into a Witch to be feared. Just as she wanted!

It's just that the journey from Point A to Point B won't be very pleasant.



Random Questions:

Is Anna exceptionally powerful?
A: By Amityville standards? Nope! She does not have homgamazing powers. But her power now is greater than before she contracted with Shibey, and greater than what her family generally possesses. Basically, she comes from a rather mediocre-powered family, and has gone up in the world to become decently-powered.

Anna Walpurgis? She's not THE Walpurgis Night, is she?
A: Hell no. XD It's just a reference.

Shibey? WTF?
A: It's based off of the names of the other Incubators in Puella Magi canon. "Kyuubey's name's spelling is supposed to be Kyuubey by Puella Magi Kazumi Magica logic. There is another Incubator called Juubey (which is "Juu" (ten) + bey). Thus, Kyuubey is "Kyuu" (nine) + bey." Shibey is "Shi" (four, an unlucky number in Japanese culture) + bey.

Can Shibey make contracts with/grant the wishes of others?
A: Nope. Anna's the only one for him!
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:33 pm


Right, I think this s**t is ready to go. Feel free to crit if the mood takes you; I can try to crit-swap!

P.S. Many thanks to Zoo and Frig for helping me brainstorm! <33

Sosiqui

Enduring Muse


Frigoris

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:38 pm


Already gave you my crits so I won't repeat them but I didn't give you a hug so... *hug*. Good luck, Anna's character concept looks pretty darn awesome. heart
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:29 pm


<3 thx Frig! smile

Sosiqui

Enduring Muse


chiickadee

Princess Hoarder

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:54 pm


at first i was like

there's no way she can make adorable puella magi fit into halloween. uh uh. no way.

then i was all

DAYUMMMMMM.

sosi you're amazing at plotting. i wish you nothing but luck on this QQQQ <333
PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:07 pm



Sosi you are a goddess. Srsly. I wish i could find something to critique you on...but i can't. Because it is that awesome. I only wish i could have come up with something so epic.

Getsurae


Sosiqui

Enduring Muse

PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:16 pm


Pff, thanks guys~ <3

I'll also take questions too, looking to flesh her out a bit at least in mah head. :>
PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:21 pm


Added awesome art and pinned down Anna's 'official' character design, huzzah! :>

Sosiqui

Enduring Muse


Sosiqui

Enduring Muse

PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:33 am


biggrin
PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:43 am


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It was one of those rare moments where the secretary had actually approved the application.

Zoobey
Artist

Magical Incubator

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