Minna Yamane

Summary
Minna Yamane was a trans girl who lived with her family until the age of 14, when she ran away to follow her dreams as she saw fit, without any of her family holding her back. Now, she's working as an engineer in the middle of scenic nowhere, still dreaming of one day becoming a great witch.

Appearance and Personality
Minna is a short, chubby black girl with long red hair and blue eyes. Although her hair is naturally black, she dyes it all sorts of colors; blonde, pink, blue, red; it tends to change depending on her mood. She's covered in burn scars from her engineering work and has freckled cheeks and arms. Her hair is thick and messy and rarely properly combed; she just lets it do whatever. She has a sizeable gap between her front teeth and typically wears clothes befitting for her line of work; tank tops and gloves, mostly, although she'll wear basically anything otherwise.

Minna is brash, confident, and selfish. She's independent, clever, and ambitious. Although friendly, she tends to avoid getting close to others and avoids discussing her emotions or her situation. She's prone to impulsive and self-destructive behavior at times, although she tends to ignore this and focus on her brighter moments. She's bright and happy and nearly single-mindedly devoted to her magical studies.

Also, she is EQUINOX's biggest fan.

Powers and Stats
Tier: 8-C | 5-A | 4-B

Name: Minna Yamane

Origin: Starcross

Gender: Female

Age: 19

Classification: Human Witch, and eventually, Vampire

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman strength, speed, and durability, superhuman senses, extrasensory perception via magic, magical abilities, protective magical barriers, shadow manipulation, immortality (types 1 and 3), regeneration (low-high), gets stronger when she drinks blood, doesn't need to breathe, eat, or sleep

Attack Potency: Large Building level | Large Planet level (superior to most of SOLSTICE's lieutenants and comparable to Ling) | Solar System level (capable of injuring SOLSTICE)

Speed: Subsonic | FTL (capable of barely keeping pace with Neptune) | MFTL+ (dodged SOLSTICE's many light-based attacks, outpaced her black holes, and kept up with her in combat)

Lifting Strength: Class 1 | Class 50 | Class G

Striking Strength: Class KJ | Class XMJ | Class XTJ

Durability: Peak Human level | Large Planet level | Solar System level, significantly harder to kill due to regeneration

Stamina: Very high.

Range: About a hundred meters. | Planetary. | Interplanetary.

Standard Equipment: Various firearms, typically hunting rifles and shotguns.

Intelligence: High.

Weaknesses: Inexperienced, can be overconfident. As a vampire, she's VERY weak to sunlight, although she can circumvent this via shadow magic.

Key: Start | Mid | End

Note: Minna's power increases gradually from her lowest to her strongest over the course of the story; she spends considerable time at in between points. This profile just details the beginning and end of her power progression, as well as a midpoint.

Magic
Magic: The act of using one's understanding and willpower to direct the power of the universe. At the start, Minna is a novice mage, inexperienced and struggling to expand her knowledge. She does work hard on her magic, however, in the hopes of reaching her dream as a great, super cool witch. At the start of the series, Minna's magic is unspecialized and destructive - mostly revolving around the creation of magical explosives and magically charged rounds for her firearms.

As the story continues, Minna's magic evolves and grants her many abilities, including a significant portion of her superhuman abilities. It sustains a near-constant, 360° magical image of her surroundings that is far more reliable than her eyes and much harder to circumvent. It also allows her easily sustained, near-effortless flight. It also grants her her most formidable defense - the Absolute Barrier, a magical field surrounding her body that prevents external manipulation of her atoms, cells, and mind. Although it takes her sometime to reach a barrier as powerful as the Absolute Barrier.


 * Light Rounds: Used while under SOLSTICE's influence, these are magically charged rounds of ammunition for her firearms, carefully created. Upon firing, they're fired as light, travelling with all the speed that implies. These were, for a time, Minna's most powerful weapons, but she discarded them after SOLSTICE showed her true colors.


 * Love Spiral: Minna's ultimate attack, formed by manifesting all of her magical power, all of her shadows, all of her willpower, and all of her stolen light into a beam of pure magical destruction.


 * Magic Missile: The most basic form of magical attack, a projected burst of magical energy, usually fired from the hands. Due to its versatility and potential power, its use is widespread, and Minna often uses magically charged rounds to fire them from her firearms. Magic Missiles remain an important part of her arsenal even as she becomes stronger.

Shadow Magic: Minna's eventual magic of choice, researched and developed for the express purpose of countering SOLSTICE's light magic. Through shadow magic, Minna can hide herself in and travel through the shadows of herself and others. She can transform her body into a shadow, making herself intangible, and can, of course, launch attacks using shadows as a medium, although she typically prefers to use her regular magical powers for offense. Her shadow magic is mostly a supportive and defensive magic meant to compliment her other abilities. It also allows her to absorb light through her shadows, making it the perfect counter to SOLSTICE's light magic.

Vampirism: After becoming a vampire, Minna got a host of new abilities. Her superhuman capabilities increased significantly, and she of course got the claws, fangs, and wings typical of a vampire. She can also regenerate from as little as a drop of blood, given time, and is functionally immortal on account of this. She can also disperse into swarms of bats if need be. This comes with drawbacks, of course; she needs to drink blood to keep her capabilities up, and sunlight will burn her body away without any ability to regenerate, although her shadow magic limits the danger of this considerably.


 * Eyes of the Vampire: The greatest power of any vampire. Upon transformation into a vampire, one's eyes change in color to red, signifying their newfound vampiric powers. However, their eyes change in many, many ways. A vampire is able to see in any conditions, regardless of light, can follow the flow of blood in a target's body and identify places with the highest blood flow. In addition, they can see even the invisible. Their greatest powers are much more deadly, however. First, a vampire can project beams of blood and magic from their eyes, and can alter their nature from small and precise to large and destructive. Secondly, if a vampire makes eye contact with an opponent, they can establish a limited form of mind control in the form of implanting thoughts into their opponent's minds, allowing them to manipulate and predict their opponent's actions. In truth, a vampire's eyes are the source of all their powers - they're basically parastic organisms that spread through the bloodstreams of organisms and replace their eyes.

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