Kanako Kuga

Crazy Otaku Girl

Kanako Kuga was a middle class highschool girl from Toronto who Awakened and wound up on the NWO high priority shortlist. The combined efforts of Takezo Kenshin, Tia Mazu, and Proteus managed to scoop her out of trouble and she wound up going to Winnipeg, then New York, then back to Winnipeg, before finally ending up in Vancouver. She is the reincarnation of Miho, an Akashic lady samurai involved in the Opium Wars.

A high level otaku, Kana's orphan paradigm actually revolves around anime tropes and cosplaying. She has few quams about foisting her hobby onto anyone nearby. All in all, it's probably a good thing she didn't wind up going Marauder.

Vital Statistics

Name: KUGA Kanako
Player: Mal
Tradition: Orphan
Avatar: Primordial
Demeanor: Gallant (Artistry; Flamboyance)
Nature: Celebrant (Passion; Intemperance)
Arete: 4
Quint: 2/5
Dox: 8
Willpower: 6/7
Exp: 11/74

Attributes

Physical

Strength: 2
Dexterity: 4 (Acrobatically)
Stamina: 1

Social

Charisma: 3
Manipulation: 4 (Convincing)
Appearance: 3

Mental

Perception: 3
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 3

Abilities

Talents (13)

Alertness: 2
Artistic Expression: 3
Athetics: 2
Awareness: 0
Blatancy: 5 (Anime Related)
Dodge: 3
Expression: 3
Streetwise: 1
Subterfuge: 1

Skills (9)

Disguise: 2
Etiquette: 1
Fastdraw: 1
Firearms: 1
Leadership: 1
Melee: 4 (Alchemical Weapons)
Stealth: 1

Knowledges (5)

Computers: 1
Linguistics: 1
Enigmas: 3

Backgrounds

Ally: 2 (Pam, Kano)
Arcane: 4
Avatar: 5
Resources: 4 (shared)

Spheres

Correspondence: 0
Entropy: 0
Forces: 2
Life: 0
Matter: 3
Mind: 0
Prime: 3
Spirit: 0
Time: 0

Merits and Flaws

Catlike Balance (1)

Obsession: Otaku (-2)
Child (-1)
Short (-1)
Echoes: Wind of Fanservice (-1)

Equipment

Alchemical Masterwork Katana + Catpin (Hit Difficulty: 6/Dmg: Str+5)
Chrome-plated .44 Pistol (Hit Difficulty: 8/Dmg: 5)

Cosplay Egos

Natalie Lamperouge

Natalie is a dark, icy, vaguely loli tsundere who goes to school in serafuku by day while sometimes appearing by night as the Blackrock Shooter. (This makes it a cosplay-within-a-cosplay.) Her concept is a zippy sword-wielding city guardian with blurring speed and an obviously magical left eye.

Effects: Gains a dodge pool of eight dice against flying metal projectiles.

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Other

Generic Maid - Cobbled together from her new school's drama class assets. Seen briefly on the sidelines during the battle with Baitoboss.

Hong Meiling - Made for Tia at Pam's urging. Given Tia is an Akashic Kungfu fighter, it is oddly appropriate. It has no special powers. Yet.

Magic

Paradigm

Kanamagic is based on the belief that depictions in otaku culture (anime, manga, and some videogames) are a valid and meaningful reflection of reality. There are two basic pillars of her magic:

1. Common tropes, story elements, and a reality that has an objective morality, working for one side or another in a given situation.

2. Becoming a character, replicating an item of power, or emulating a situation so depicted allows the duplication of the relevant effects.

Generally, the first type requires her to be acting in a certain way. The second type requries some degree of artistic work (making her something of an Artomancer rather than a Technomancer) and is limited to finite specific abilities.