Name: Hikari Komori
Age: 13
Birthday: November 7
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Class: Elementary School
Grade: 6th
College Major:n/a
Appearance Description:
Pale-skinned and dark-eyed, with delicate features, Hikari has been described to look like a Japanese doll. Her long dark locks are kept long, a curtain that she often hides behind, with at least one eye and most of her face typically covered by it at any given time. She is small and short for her age, she blends easily amongst her classmates despite being older by a year or two.
Personality Description:
Painfully shy and fearful of just about everything in the world, Hikari would spend every day just staying in her room, hiding under the covers and playing with her puppets if she could. Some days, she’s done exactly that, until her puppets forcibly pulled her out of bed and shoved her out the door. Those are the moments she starts to regret her powers, but, considering they are essentially her only friends, beggars can’t really be choosers and she never stays mad at them for long.
The moment she is out of the safety of her room, it is as though Hikari transforms. When alone with her puppets, she is like most thirteen-year-old girls, happy, bubbly and playful. But outside, in the scary wide wide world, she is one bad look away from a full-blown panic attack.
During classes, she always stays at the very back of the class, keeps her head low and never makes a sound. When called on by the teacher or in group works, she starts getting extremely anxious, and her puppets typically take over for her from there.
Powers:
Living Puppetry
Hikari is able to infuse life into puppets, giving them personalities and abilities based on their designs and her own imagination. Because of the nature of her abilities, as well as the way she developed them, her puppets quickly tend to take control of things from her. They are highly independent and capable of fighting back against her, but thanks to the fact that they are all also quite fond and grateful to her for giving them sentience in the first place, any difference of opinion is usually for her own good.
The initial life infused into her puppets are taken from her own life force, so creating one takes a lot out of her. The first time it happened, she was forced into a coma for seven months. It isn’t a fixed amount of time though, and seems to be affected by her knowledge and experience. The second time she did it, she was only taken out for five months, and by the time she made her third living puppet, she was only unconscious for three months.
Eventually, it was speculated that she might be able to do it without losing consciousness at all. In actuality, though it hadn’t been tested yet, it is likely that even if she fully masters her powers, she will still need to rest afters, though the time will be severely shortened to a few days instead.
Every time, she woke up with no ill consequence, not even feeling the typical effects of a comatose state on her body, such as muscle degeneration.
After, the puppets no longer need her life force, at least in such extreme quantities. It is likely that if she dies, all her puppets will die along with her, because their souls were created from her own, and they are still being powered with a small part of her life force.
She has three living puppets at the moment, based on designs she made herself, Sir George the Gallant, Diana the Opera Singer and Tony the Dog.
Species Abilities: n/a
Biography:
Hikari's name means light, and she was named that because she brought light to her parents' life with her birth. For a time, the Komori family was very happy living in Tokyo, Japan. Her father was a robotics engineer, while her mother was a mage, and the two worked together to combining robotics with magic. Somewhat ironically for their respective vocations, they had quite opposing personalities.
Her father had always been eccentric, and he was doing all sorts of strange experiments that no one but him understood. He was also quite brilliant though, and he certainly further proved how thin the line between “genius” and “crazy” could be. Comparatively, his wife was calm and no-nonsense, providing some well needed structure and balance to his life. Though she could be stern, she was also quite compassionate and cheerful. When Hikari had been born, the very best of themselves had been brought out as they happily raised her together.
Then, when Hikari was three years old, the first tragedy struck. Her mother was called off to a faraway country for a secret project, and never returned. Missing in action, she was declared. Just another code word for death. The small family was never the same. Though her father tried his best, her loss was very clearly felt in just about everything. Perhaps it was here that Hikari’s fear stemmed, of a terrible outside world that could rob someone like her mother of her life in an instant with no regrets. Regardless of the cause, Hikari’s light had dimmed from then on.
In reaction to the trauma, her father had become incredibly overprotective of her. With all her own fears brewing, Hikari had happily allowed him to do it. When they were forced to part for the first time for school, it had been a terrible experience filled with tears on both sides. It had not gotten better. Small, shy and strange, she quickly became a target for bullying by her classmates, making her further retreat into her shell. When news of the bullying reached her father, through a tearful Hikari’s explanations, she was immediately pulled out of school, and her father personally took over her education instead. Though he was a scientist, he was also a great teacher. He knew just how to get Hikari’s attention, with hand-puppets that each had their own colorful personalities, and weaving together stories that taught lessons Hikari would remember long after.
For years, Hikari spent pretty much all of her days at home, with her father, or just alone, playing with her various toys, and reading books from the incredible collection they had (their house was practically half-libary). Her absolute favorite thing to do though, was play with the puppets her father used. He taught her how to use different voices, and the fine art of ventriloquism (how a scientist knew this art so well was a mystery) which she picked up with prodigious ease, until she was even better than her father. Perhaps it wasn't the healthiest of lives, for either of them, but they were content in it.
Unfortunately, it was not to last. As though losing one parent was not enough, tragedy further struck their family. One day, when Hikari was ten years old, she was happily playing with her puppets as usual, until something strange happened. Perhaps it was the experiments her father was doing only in the next room, perhaps it was her innate magical abilities just deciding to come out then, but suddenly, Hikari found that her puppet began to glow, and her world began to dim.
There was a flash of light and sound that brought her father, who came into the room to find Hikari unconscious on the floor, and a formerly inanimate knight puppet worriedly calling out “Hikari-ojou-sama” and trying to wake her, to no avail.
She did not wake up, not for a long time, and her father spiraled into despair, the now living puppet became a subject of interest to the people her parents worked for, and he was taken into for experimentation.
Eventually, Hikari did miraculously wake up from her coma, no worse for the wear, looking as though she’d only been conscious for a day, instead of seven months. Her father was overjoyed, and his bosses particularly interested. Finally coming to his senses, and realizing what had been done to the living puppet Hikari had created, he stole back Sir George the Gallant (as he eventually introduced himself), and they all ran away to the island where Hikari’s mother had once resided. Hikari was then enrolled in Starlight Academy, as her mother had once been. This fact, along with the promise of gaining control over her powers, was the only reason she agreed to go.
Thanks to missing out on a good chunk of school in her comatose state, Hikari had to repeat a grade when she first enrolled. Later on, when she created two more living puppets, it was properly spaced out and arranged so she would be able to move onto the next grade. However, though the administration was understanding of her dilemma, if she didn’t carefully keep up with her lessons after all her bouts of unconsciousness, she was in danger of getting held back again.
Additional Information: Specifics about her three puppets will be detailed in their corresponding Companion character application (unless that's not needed here?)
Age: 13
Birthday: November 7
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Class: Elementary School
Grade: 6th
College Major:n/a
Appearance Description:
Pale-skinned and dark-eyed, with delicate features, Hikari has been described to look like a Japanese doll. Her long dark locks are kept long, a curtain that she often hides behind, with at least one eye and most of her face typically covered by it at any given time. She is small and short for her age, she blends easily amongst her classmates despite being older by a year or two.
Personality Description:
Painfully shy and fearful of just about everything in the world, Hikari would spend every day just staying in her room, hiding under the covers and playing with her puppets if she could. Some days, she’s done exactly that, until her puppets forcibly pulled her out of bed and shoved her out the door. Those are the moments she starts to regret her powers, but, considering they are essentially her only friends, beggars can’t really be choosers and she never stays mad at them for long.
The moment she is out of the safety of her room, it is as though Hikari transforms. When alone with her puppets, she is like most thirteen-year-old girls, happy, bubbly and playful. But outside, in the scary wide wide world, she is one bad look away from a full-blown panic attack.
During classes, she always stays at the very back of the class, keeps her head low and never makes a sound. When called on by the teacher or in group works, she starts getting extremely anxious, and her puppets typically take over for her from there.
Powers:
Living Puppetry
Hikari is able to infuse life into puppets, giving them personalities and abilities based on their designs and her own imagination. Because of the nature of her abilities, as well as the way she developed them, her puppets quickly tend to take control of things from her. They are highly independent and capable of fighting back against her, but thanks to the fact that they are all also quite fond and grateful to her for giving them sentience in the first place, any difference of opinion is usually for her own good.
The initial life infused into her puppets are taken from her own life force, so creating one takes a lot out of her. The first time it happened, she was forced into a coma for seven months. It isn’t a fixed amount of time though, and seems to be affected by her knowledge and experience. The second time she did it, she was only taken out for five months, and by the time she made her third living puppet, she was only unconscious for three months.
Eventually, it was speculated that she might be able to do it without losing consciousness at all. In actuality, though it hadn’t been tested yet, it is likely that even if she fully masters her powers, she will still need to rest afters, though the time will be severely shortened to a few days instead.
Every time, she woke up with no ill consequence, not even feeling the typical effects of a comatose state on her body, such as muscle degeneration.
After, the puppets no longer need her life force, at least in such extreme quantities. It is likely that if she dies, all her puppets will die along with her, because their souls were created from her own, and they are still being powered with a small part of her life force.
She has three living puppets at the moment, based on designs she made herself, Sir George the Gallant, Diana the Opera Singer and Tony the Dog.
Species Abilities: n/a
Biography:
Hikari's name means light, and she was named that because she brought light to her parents' life with her birth. For a time, the Komori family was very happy living in Tokyo, Japan. Her father was a robotics engineer, while her mother was a mage, and the two worked together to combining robotics with magic. Somewhat ironically for their respective vocations, they had quite opposing personalities.
Her father had always been eccentric, and he was doing all sorts of strange experiments that no one but him understood. He was also quite brilliant though, and he certainly further proved how thin the line between “genius” and “crazy” could be. Comparatively, his wife was calm and no-nonsense, providing some well needed structure and balance to his life. Though she could be stern, she was also quite compassionate and cheerful. When Hikari had been born, the very best of themselves had been brought out as they happily raised her together.
Then, when Hikari was three years old, the first tragedy struck. Her mother was called off to a faraway country for a secret project, and never returned. Missing in action, she was declared. Just another code word for death. The small family was never the same. Though her father tried his best, her loss was very clearly felt in just about everything. Perhaps it was here that Hikari’s fear stemmed, of a terrible outside world that could rob someone like her mother of her life in an instant with no regrets. Regardless of the cause, Hikari’s light had dimmed from then on.
In reaction to the trauma, her father had become incredibly overprotective of her. With all her own fears brewing, Hikari had happily allowed him to do it. When they were forced to part for the first time for school, it had been a terrible experience filled with tears on both sides. It had not gotten better. Small, shy and strange, she quickly became a target for bullying by her classmates, making her further retreat into her shell. When news of the bullying reached her father, through a tearful Hikari’s explanations, she was immediately pulled out of school, and her father personally took over her education instead. Though he was a scientist, he was also a great teacher. He knew just how to get Hikari’s attention, with hand-puppets that each had their own colorful personalities, and weaving together stories that taught lessons Hikari would remember long after.
For years, Hikari spent pretty much all of her days at home, with her father, or just alone, playing with her various toys, and reading books from the incredible collection they had (their house was practically half-libary). Her absolute favorite thing to do though, was play with the puppets her father used. He taught her how to use different voices, and the fine art of ventriloquism (how a scientist knew this art so well was a mystery) which she picked up with prodigious ease, until she was even better than her father. Perhaps it wasn't the healthiest of lives, for either of them, but they were content in it.
Unfortunately, it was not to last. As though losing one parent was not enough, tragedy further struck their family. One day, when Hikari was ten years old, she was happily playing with her puppets as usual, until something strange happened. Perhaps it was the experiments her father was doing only in the next room, perhaps it was her innate magical abilities just deciding to come out then, but suddenly, Hikari found that her puppet began to glow, and her world began to dim.
There was a flash of light and sound that brought her father, who came into the room to find Hikari unconscious on the floor, and a formerly inanimate knight puppet worriedly calling out “Hikari-ojou-sama” and trying to wake her, to no avail.
She did not wake up, not for a long time, and her father spiraled into despair, the now living puppet became a subject of interest to the people her parents worked for, and he was taken into for experimentation.
Eventually, Hikari did miraculously wake up from her coma, no worse for the wear, looking as though she’d only been conscious for a day, instead of seven months. Her father was overjoyed, and his bosses particularly interested. Finally coming to his senses, and realizing what had been done to the living puppet Hikari had created, he stole back Sir George the Gallant (as he eventually introduced himself), and they all ran away to the island where Hikari’s mother had once resided. Hikari was then enrolled in Starlight Academy, as her mother had once been. This fact, along with the promise of gaining control over her powers, was the only reason she agreed to go.
Thanks to missing out on a good chunk of school in her comatose state, Hikari had to repeat a grade when she first enrolled. Later on, when she created two more living puppets, it was properly spaced out and arranged so she would be able to move onto the next grade. However, though the administration was understanding of her dilemma, if she didn’t carefully keep up with her lessons after all her bouts of unconsciousness, she was in danger of getting held back again.
Additional Information: Specifics about her three puppets will be detailed in their corresponding Companion character application (unless that's not needed here?)
