Talk:Kanako Kuga

Through interaction with proper Tradition mages (including chantrymates) and time spent in Tradition horizon realms such as the Pharos of Abkazia, Sasayama, and Victoria Station, Kana has become vaguely aware of how the nine traditions distinguish themselves and the nine spheres of magic. Her own paradigm does not recognise the spheres as somehow metaphysically discrete, nor the specific practices of any of the Traditions as particularly complete. A mage of a given tradition is simply a willworker who belongs to her organisation - an organisation that has become comfortable in willworking in one specific way.

A Multi-Tradition mage should be perfectly permissable and Kana finds it mildly surprising that more don't exist.

History

Season 1

Kana awakened through the course of the 2009 school year with things coming to a head in May or so when Technocratic WiB and arch-traitor Amy Lee approached her for capture to MECHA. Akashic master and past life soul-mate Takezo KenshinM.M.

Season 3

Kana began her

Schedule

Week 1-Week ? November

• Continued Lunar Vacation?

Late November (possibly)

• Pass through Vancouver/Arcus Prima

December

• Meet China.
• Fix Hardsuit
• Rescue Arita
• Steal the Gundam

New Year

• Comiket
• Pass through Vancouver/Arcus Prima if not done in November.
• Sort Arita's shit out assuming nothing terrible occurred.

April 2010

• Ethercademy

Late July-Late August

• Reckoning

Cosplays and Aliases

Kana continues to amass these at a steady rate.

Kanako Kuga (True)

"True Kana" may be Kana's most powerful form, as well as the riskiest to use – a sort of limit break. It may have reduced Arcane and/or require that she achieve an Arete of 6. In theory, True Kana has the most flexible magical style, able to mash props and cosplays in wild ways to achieve generally vulgar effects. Kana started off as True Kana and formed the protective shell of Kana around herself early on in her career.

Kana

Kana normally presents herself as "Kana" to her allies and acquaintences is simply out of convenience and because outright giving a fake name could be troublesome later on. She often shortens her name to just "Kana" or writes it in alternate ways. Compared to her chantrymates, she is flighty and unreliable (or at least difficult to coordinate with), has a moderate amount of firepower but a relatively high adaptability and skills. She almost always tries to get by with only mundane skills, preparation, magical gear, and whatever magic from the first two parts of the Kanadigm Trinity she can pass off as coincidental. Nonwithstanding her typical advantages in Blatancy and the permissiveness of reality in her areas of operation, Kana is a comparatively fastidious mage with an intense aversion to triggering paradox or using her most powerful limited-use abilities. When necessary however, Kana can quickly don a costume and wield a prop to go "all out".

Even in normal situations, Kana wears clothing and accessories that are mundane at first glance but gives her some measure of power. The most common and flexible option is a school uniform (a topic in which she is well versed), but wearing the street clothes of various characters that can either quickly transform or otherwise use superhuman abilities is also possible.

Natalie Lamperouge
The alias of Season 2, Natalie was a dark, icy, and vaguely loli tsundere who went to school in Vancouver (in a serafuku) by day while sometimes appearing by night as an anti-heroine similar in appearance to the Black Rock Shooter. Due to exposure, she has an Arcane of 4. [1]

Haruho Artaria-Jurai
An alias of Season 3, Haruho is an aloof but cunning daughter of someone terribly important in the Japanese Underworld. She has myriad Yakuza connections and runs the secretive and mysterious The Artaria Foundation.

Hideki and Q1
An alias within a alias. This was Haruho personally doing footwork in the name of The Artaria Foundation. She dressed up/got into a giant bioroid while Shu dressed up as a cyber ninja.

U.N.Owen and U.F.Owen
Kana is a folk hero in Okhun, a part of the Hollow Earth that she saved from some marauding iron oni raiders. During their brief airborne antics there, Kana and Pam borrowed wings from Flandre Scarlet and Nue Houjuu of Touhou.

Reimu Hakurei ~Sun Priestess version~
After it was revealed that the strange Miko in the caverns was not a priestess mind-controlled by Tokomandilin but actually Tokomandilin in a bad disguise, Kana temporarily replaced her as a Reimu Hakurei variation, unleashing the sun shard's power in a massive final spellcard.

Leading Private Kuga
Under some other given name, Kana infiltrated the JSSDF's nascent tactical armour program.