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IC
Character Name: Raiel, aka "The Hero of Love, Golden Piano Player Raiel"
AU name: Raiko; she calls herself Lovely Heroine Raiko but it is not her Magical Girl name, it's just...a thing she calls herself.
Canon: Violinist of Hameln
Medium: Manga
Canon Point: Volume 27, chapter 109, after he rejoins the group but before he rescues Sizer
Type: Canon. MGA-verse version will be a genderbend.
Species:shounen protagonist Human
Appearance: Full-body reference (far-right), colour reference (top-right, the dude in green). Blond hair, brown eyes, 5'9" tall.
Raiko is 5'7" and looks like this (on the right), except the hat is part of her magical girl uniform and she doesn't wear it around.
Age: The manga-ka says he's 18 but the math in-series adds up to 20. Raiko will be 16.
Personality: On the surface, Raiel seems like a weirdo spaz...and, frankly, that's true. He's short-tempered and comically violent, has melodramatic mood swings at the drop of a hat, and freaks out about the weirdest, most minor things. He seems like someone whose life is largely lived inside his own head with little regard for objective reality.
That part, at least, is deceptive. While Raiel does have a tendency to spin elaborate fantasy scenarios and get lost in his own imagination, he's actually a surprisingly intelligent, perceptive, and insightful person. He's well-traveled and worldly, with a wealth of acquired knowledge, and has been living on his own long enough to be extremely self-sufficient. He's excellent at reading people and can spot emotionally tense situations that seem to fly under everyone else's radar--when he's paying attention. But he's paying attention a lot more often than he seems to be.
Raiel cares very deeply for people, both individually and in general. He is sympathetic to the hardships of others and will do everything in his power to make life just a little bit better for everyone he encounters. He stands up for those who can't stand up for themselves, and he hates bullies--which the Mazoku most certainly are, in his book. He tries to inspire hope and confidence (usually through cheesy and/or dramatic inspirational speeches), and leads by example by being kind, generous, and hardworking. The worst feeling for him is knowing he can't do anything to help someone.
Because he spent his childhood trying as hard as possible to avoid being a burden on an already burdened society, he learned to hide his pain and pretend nothing was wrong. He doesn't want people to feel obligated to care about his hardships when they're so busy worrying about their own. This leads him to smile and brush off his own feelings in favour of focusing on others. Of course, this only applies for serious issues. He's more than willing to fall into melodramatic displays of despair over things that don't actually matter.
This, unfortunately, means he is very bad at coping. He doesn't cope. He bottles up his pain and shoves it aside so he doesn't have to deal with it, which means that he never processes and overcomes it. This leads him to hold grudges, and to let negative feelings fester in the back of his heart. Raiel is not a very mentally healthy person. He is filled with hate for the Mazoku and what they've done to the world--and to himself and Hamel personally--and all he needs is the right excuse to turn that hatred elsewhere. For all his talk of love and kindness, he seems oddly predisposed toward cackling villainy given the appropriate circumstances.
To say he has a flair for the dramatic would be a vast understatement. He has concocted an image of himself as a romantic hero who fights for the sake of love, and he throws himself into this identity with all the shounen determination he can muster. He throws himself into everything with all the shounen determination he can muster. Raiel is incapable of not giving 500% in literally everything he does and he is the textbook definition of "never give up, never surrender."
Also, he gets life-threatening anime nosebleeds at the mere thought of romance. That's a thing. I am 100% not making that up.
History: Raiel grew up in the town of Anthem as the mayor's only child. One day, he came across a group of bullies picking on a boy who'd recently moved into a house on the outskirts of town. Raiel chased away the bullies and befriended the boy, whose name was Hamel.
Hamel lived alone with his mother, Pandora. Pandora, the Demon King Chestra's wife, the witch who had unleashed the evil and monstrous race of Mazoku upon the world, the woman responsible for humanity's suffering and terror under Mazoku rule. She was loathed by humans and hunted by Mazoku, and as long as Hamel had been alive, he'd lived in hiding with only his mother for company.
Raiel became the first person to treat the two of them kindly, and his parents welcomed Pandora and Hamel as friends. Pandora showed her gratitude by teaching Raiel how to play Magic Music on his family's piano. For a time, things were peaceful.
Until that fateful day that the Mazoku came to Anthem. They told the townspeople that if they handed over Pandora and Hamel, they would leave peacefully. Rightfully terrified, the townspeople did as the Mazoku asked. Raiel and his parents tried to stop them, but to no avail. Pandora was captured, trapped in a crystal and taken north to the Mazoku capital, and Hamel, in his grief and rage, was overtaken by his Mazoku blood.
Hamel slaughtered the people of Anthem. Only Raiel was spared.
Watching his best friend murder his parents along with everyone he'd ever known was understandably traumatic. When Hamel regained his senses and turned to Raiel with his grief, Raiel turned his back on Hamel and left him alone with the corpses of Anthem.
Orphaned at a very young age, Raiel quickly discovered that he could not rely on the charity of strangers in this harsh world. He learned how to make himself useful and worked to earn his keep wherever he could. He moved from town to town, trying to never overstay his welcome.
At the age of 12, he hit a breaking point. The world was harsh and cruel, and people had no sympathy for those who'd suffered at the hands of the Mazoku because, well, hadn't everyone? He decided that was no way for humanity to live. People needed to be reminded of the power of love and kindness.
Raiel returned to Anthem, took the magical golden piano from his family's house, and styled himself into "The Hero of Love, Golden Piano Player Raiel." He traveled the countryside, fighting off Mazoku and selflessly helping out wherever he could, to remind people that there was hope to be found in kindness. He never asked to be compensated for his deeds, declaring that love was the only payment he needed.
There were ulterior motives in his sappy goals, though. Raiel chose to blame Hamel for the atrocities of the Mazoku. He declared vengeance against Hamel, and his wandering was also an attempt to hunt him down and kill him. Behind the veneer of love was a well of hatred for the Mazoku and for Hamel.
When he did finally find Hamel, he basically lost it and threw his whole goody-two-shoes act out the window and turned into a cackling villain. He used his Magic Music to brainwash an entire town into turning on Hamel, and even tried to force Hamel's Designated Love Interest, Flute, to kill him. Buuut the manga is not called Pianist of Raielin so as you might have guessed this did not turn out as planned.
After his attempt to murder Hamel was foiled, he decided to tag along with the group. At first he said it was to keep tabs on Hamel, but before long it became clear that their friendship was rekindling. Hamel's goal was to travel north to the Mazoku stronghold to kill their king--his father. Raiel was totally down for that.
And then 35 volumes of shounen manga happened. To sum it up, the group traveled north, picking up a few other party members along the way, on a journey fraught with danger and peppered with battles against the Mazoku forces. Truths were learned, hardships were faced, and friendships were forged. You know, the usual stuff. Also Raiel kept DISAPPEARING FOR SEVERAL VOLUMES AT A TIME BECAUSE THE WRITER HAD NO IDEAS, THANKS WATANABE.
AND THEN A FINALE HAPPENED. Literally all the armies of the world united to assault the Mazoku stronghold, and the main characters (including Raiel) rushed into the Demon King Chestra's castle to face him. They rescued Hamel's mother from the crystal she'd been imprisoned in, and then they all got together and performed an orchestral rendition of Ode to Joy that utterly decimated the Mazoku armies and defeated Chestra once and for all.
And it was fucking amazing.
The end.
Magical Girl Academy AU Information
AU Personality Changes: THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE OBVIOUSLY IS THAT HE'S A GIRL IN THIS AU. And this has informed a significant part of Raiko's personality. While Raiel's goal in life was to be the perfect romantic wandering hero, Raiko's is to be the perfect adorable heroine.
Basically, take shounen determination, crank it to 11, and apply it to shoujo tropes instead of shounen. That's Raiko. She is the most ridiculously over the top shoujo heroine you will ever meet, and more surprisingly, nothing about it is fake. Everything about her absurd shoujo persona is completely genuine, no matter how cheesy or melodramatic it seems. Even the parts that are effected are still her wholeheartedly emulating her own ideals--like, for instance, screaming when she sees a spider because that is a thing dainty ladies do, even though she's not even a little bit scared of spiders.
She's also had a significantly less traumatic life, so she's lacking some of Raiel's darker, harsher edges. She is much more idealistic and naive, and much less worldly and self-sufficient. Instead of being an orphan who had to care for herself from a young age, she's a sheltered upper-middle-class kid who's been brought up well but still spoiled.
Pretty much everything else remains spot-on the same, though. Even the nosebleeds.
AU History Changes: Raiko's father was also a mayor of a small town, but that is pretty much where the similarities to Raiel's life end. Instead of being traumatically orphaned at a young age, she grew up in a kind and loving suburban home, went to a good school where she was popular and well-liked, was a member of the student council and the girls' wrestling team... (Yes, wrestling team. She's so hot-blooded and intense that it's a perfect fit and she loves it, even though she feels such an uncute hobby is shameful for a lovely heroine like herself.)
She lived a perfectly idyllic life. Up until her 16th birthday, that is. That was the day her mother pulled her aside and gave her the golden piano lapel pin that had been gathering dust Raiko's whole life. Her mother, it turned out, was a magical girl who had retired shortly after settling down with Raiko's father. She gave Raiko her pin--her transformation item--and passed the torch of the Golden Pianist down to her.
Raiko accepted it with pride and threw herself wholeheartedly into becoming a magical girl.
Other AU Changes: She uses Japanese honorifics and fangirl Japanese constantly.
She is not even Japanese.
Magical Girl Info:
Title: The Golden Pianist
Appearance: The Golden Pianist. Of course she gets long flowing hair and a shapelier figure after transforming, isn't that how it works for everyone?
Transformation Item & Phrase: It's a golden piano lapel pin that is actually a 500kg solid gold piano. She can change it from pin to piano form at will, and even in pin form it weighs 500kg--but to her it's practically weighless. In piano form it has straps and a harness so she can carry it around on her back and play it.
Her transformation sequence is triggered by playing the opening bars of Dittersdorf's Symphony No. 4 in F after Ovid’s "Metamorphoses" ("The Rescue of Andromeda by Perseus") and calling out, "Symphony Number 4, Metamorphoses!"I did way too much research for this stupid reference.
Powers and Attacks: The majority of Raiko's powers center around magical music. She also has super strength and super durability (including being nearly fireproof--nearly), and formidable brawler skills, but mostly it's the music.
It comes in four flavours: summons, direct attack, emotional manipulation, and marionette version. Different songs do different things.
I'm not sure if you want just the songs she'd have to start off with, or want me to include all the ones I'd plan to regain as shadow gem trades, so I'm going to give a basic overview of the different abilities available and specifics for the songs she'll have to start. Let me know if you want specifics for all potential skill regains, though.
Summons
Raiko's combat bread and butter. Summoned spirits are attracted to the call of a particular song and though they have their own personalities, they can be guided in battle by the desires of their caller.
The Infernal Dance (from Stravinsky's Firebird Suite):
By playing this song, Raiko summons her erstwhile companion, the Firebird. Firebird is...well, a giant bird made of flames. It is kind and sensitive, but doesn't always mind its flames well. It has been known to accidentally set things on fire, including Raiko herself.
Swan Lake (by Tchaikovsky, specifically Act 2 Scene 10):
A water spirit in the form of a giant swan. She is serious and stern and does not like to waste time. Raiko calls her Odette but as the spirit seems to bristle at this, it is probably not her actual name.
Direct-Attack music
Songs that only work in certain contexts and cause direct damage to the enemy.
Requiem (Mozart, Requiem Mass in D minor)
This song can lay the dead to rest. Low-level undead monsters will return to dust. More powerful undead can resist it, but will still be significantly weakened or harmed by it.
Emotional Manipulation
The standard bard-class buff/debuff skill. You can play a battle anthem to make people stronger in battle, or play something soul-crushingly sad to make them give up and lay down to die. This uses the sentiment of the piece to draw out and amplify similar feelings in the listener. If the listener can't relate to the song's sentiment, it will have no effect on them. It will also have no effect if they are incapable of hearing the music (ie deaf, or wearing earplugs).
Any song could be played this way, but only if the musician has a solid understanding of the song's intended meaning and the context behind the composition. For example, she could play Queen's Death on Two Legs but it would have no effect whatsoever unless she played it with the understanding that it was written as a bitter Take That to the band's abusive ex-manager.
The limitation here is that she has to learn how to play the song and learn its meaning and context in order to use it effectively. Not listing any songs to start since it can be LITERALLY ANYTHING she's learned how to play.
Marionette Version
Any emotional manipulation song can also be played as a marionette version. It works the same as the above, but strengthens a person's emotions to the point where the musician is able to control their actions like a marionette. It increases the target's strength and abilities significantly, making them into a very effective weapon in battle. Some people are more susceptible to it than others; those unaffected by the marionette control simply experience a surge of emotion based on the song, and as in the above, the target must find a strong emotional resonance in the song to be affected by it.
I have a permissions post for these abilities here.
Weapon: Besides the summons/other songs, her weapon is literally the piano. Like, as a bludgeon. She swings it around by the straps.
It's basically indestructible so hey, might as well, right?
Extra: So about those life-threatening anime nosebleeds. One, they can get triggered by the most innocent of shoujo romance scenarios, like thinking about watching the sunset alongside a cute boy she likes. Two, she tends to totally zone out for a while when they happen, which can be very concerning. Three, most of the time they're not actually severe enough to be life-threatening, but they are super embarrassing. Four, she's had this ~*strange condition*~ all her life and is very good at handling it, including being the MacGuyver of stain removal and blood clean-up. She will always clean up after herself if at all possible. Thank god for that. She also knows how to run an IV and perform her own blood transfusions, which is...not a skill she likes to advertise. It's not very cute.
Samples: Manga scanlations, and the wikipedia page. Unfortunately this fandom is ridic tiny so that is the best I can do.
Writing Sample:
Action: Here.
Prose: Would you believe I already had one written?
Mun Name: The Guindo, dude pronouns
Personal Journal:
theguindoContact Details:
Other Characters?: None
IC
Character Name: Raiel, aka "The Hero of Love, Golden Piano Player Raiel"
AU name: Raiko; she calls herself Lovely Heroine Raiko but it is not her Magical Girl name, it's just...a thing she calls herself.
Canon: Violinist of Hameln
Medium: Manga
Canon Point: Volume 27, chapter 109, after he rejoins the group but before he rescues Sizer
Type: Canon. MGA-verse version will be a genderbend.
Species:
Appearance: Full-body reference (far-right), colour reference (top-right, the dude in green). Blond hair, brown eyes, 5'9" tall.
Raiko is 5'7" and looks like this (on the right), except the hat is part of her magical girl uniform and she doesn't wear it around.
Age: The manga-ka says he's 18 but the math in-series adds up to 20. Raiko will be 16.
Personality: On the surface, Raiel seems like a weirdo spaz...and, frankly, that's true. He's short-tempered and comically violent, has melodramatic mood swings at the drop of a hat, and freaks out about the weirdest, most minor things. He seems like someone whose life is largely lived inside his own head with little regard for objective reality.
That part, at least, is deceptive. While Raiel does have a tendency to spin elaborate fantasy scenarios and get lost in his own imagination, he's actually a surprisingly intelligent, perceptive, and insightful person. He's well-traveled and worldly, with a wealth of acquired knowledge, and has been living on his own long enough to be extremely self-sufficient. He's excellent at reading people and can spot emotionally tense situations that seem to fly under everyone else's radar--when he's paying attention. But he's paying attention a lot more often than he seems to be.
Raiel cares very deeply for people, both individually and in general. He is sympathetic to the hardships of others and will do everything in his power to make life just a little bit better for everyone he encounters. He stands up for those who can't stand up for themselves, and he hates bullies--which the Mazoku most certainly are, in his book. He tries to inspire hope and confidence (usually through cheesy and/or dramatic inspirational speeches), and leads by example by being kind, generous, and hardworking. The worst feeling for him is knowing he can't do anything to help someone.
Because he spent his childhood trying as hard as possible to avoid being a burden on an already burdened society, he learned to hide his pain and pretend nothing was wrong. He doesn't want people to feel obligated to care about his hardships when they're so busy worrying about their own. This leads him to smile and brush off his own feelings in favour of focusing on others. Of course, this only applies for serious issues. He's more than willing to fall into melodramatic displays of despair over things that don't actually matter.
This, unfortunately, means he is very bad at coping. He doesn't cope. He bottles up his pain and shoves it aside so he doesn't have to deal with it, which means that he never processes and overcomes it. This leads him to hold grudges, and to let negative feelings fester in the back of his heart. Raiel is not a very mentally healthy person. He is filled with hate for the Mazoku and what they've done to the world--and to himself and Hamel personally--and all he needs is the right excuse to turn that hatred elsewhere. For all his talk of love and kindness, he seems oddly predisposed toward cackling villainy given the appropriate circumstances.
To say he has a flair for the dramatic would be a vast understatement. He has concocted an image of himself as a romantic hero who fights for the sake of love, and he throws himself into this identity with all the shounen determination he can muster. He throws himself into everything with all the shounen determination he can muster. Raiel is incapable of not giving 500% in literally everything he does and he is the textbook definition of "never give up, never surrender."
Also, he gets life-threatening anime nosebleeds at the mere thought of romance. That's a thing. I am 100% not making that up.
History: Raiel grew up in the town of Anthem as the mayor's only child. One day, he came across a group of bullies picking on a boy who'd recently moved into a house on the outskirts of town. Raiel chased away the bullies and befriended the boy, whose name was Hamel.
Hamel lived alone with his mother, Pandora. Pandora, the Demon King Chestra's wife, the witch who had unleashed the evil and monstrous race of Mazoku upon the world, the woman responsible for humanity's suffering and terror under Mazoku rule. She was loathed by humans and hunted by Mazoku, and as long as Hamel had been alive, he'd lived in hiding with only his mother for company.
Raiel became the first person to treat the two of them kindly, and his parents welcomed Pandora and Hamel as friends. Pandora showed her gratitude by teaching Raiel how to play Magic Music on his family's piano. For a time, things were peaceful.
Until that fateful day that the Mazoku came to Anthem. They told the townspeople that if they handed over Pandora and Hamel, they would leave peacefully. Rightfully terrified, the townspeople did as the Mazoku asked. Raiel and his parents tried to stop them, but to no avail. Pandora was captured, trapped in a crystal and taken north to the Mazoku capital, and Hamel, in his grief and rage, was overtaken by his Mazoku blood.
Hamel slaughtered the people of Anthem. Only Raiel was spared.
Watching his best friend murder his parents along with everyone he'd ever known was understandably traumatic. When Hamel regained his senses and turned to Raiel with his grief, Raiel turned his back on Hamel and left him alone with the corpses of Anthem.
Orphaned at a very young age, Raiel quickly discovered that he could not rely on the charity of strangers in this harsh world. He learned how to make himself useful and worked to earn his keep wherever he could. He moved from town to town, trying to never overstay his welcome.
At the age of 12, he hit a breaking point. The world was harsh and cruel, and people had no sympathy for those who'd suffered at the hands of the Mazoku because, well, hadn't everyone? He decided that was no way for humanity to live. People needed to be reminded of the power of love and kindness.
Raiel returned to Anthem, took the magical golden piano from his family's house, and styled himself into "The Hero of Love, Golden Piano Player Raiel." He traveled the countryside, fighting off Mazoku and selflessly helping out wherever he could, to remind people that there was hope to be found in kindness. He never asked to be compensated for his deeds, declaring that love was the only payment he needed.
There were ulterior motives in his sappy goals, though. Raiel chose to blame Hamel for the atrocities of the Mazoku. He declared vengeance against Hamel, and his wandering was also an attempt to hunt him down and kill him. Behind the veneer of love was a well of hatred for the Mazoku and for Hamel.
When he did finally find Hamel, he basically lost it and threw his whole goody-two-shoes act out the window and turned into a cackling villain. He used his Magic Music to brainwash an entire town into turning on Hamel, and even tried to force Hamel's Designated Love Interest, Flute, to kill him. Buuut the manga is not called Pianist of Raielin so as you might have guessed this did not turn out as planned.
After his attempt to murder Hamel was foiled, he decided to tag along with the group. At first he said it was to keep tabs on Hamel, but before long it became clear that their friendship was rekindling. Hamel's goal was to travel north to the Mazoku stronghold to kill their king--his father. Raiel was totally down for that.
And then 35 volumes of shounen manga happened. To sum it up, the group traveled north, picking up a few other party members along the way, on a journey fraught with danger and peppered with battles against the Mazoku forces. Truths were learned, hardships were faced, and friendships were forged. You know, the usual stuff. Also Raiel kept DISAPPEARING FOR SEVERAL VOLUMES AT A TIME BECAUSE THE WRITER HAD NO IDEAS, THANKS WATANABE.
AND THEN A FINALE HAPPENED. Literally all the armies of the world united to assault the Mazoku stronghold, and the main characters (including Raiel) rushed into the Demon King Chestra's castle to face him. They rescued Hamel's mother from the crystal she'd been imprisoned in, and then they all got together and performed an orchestral rendition of Ode to Joy that utterly decimated the Mazoku armies and defeated Chestra once and for all.
And it was fucking amazing.
The end.
Magical Girl Academy AU Information
AU Personality Changes: THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE OBVIOUSLY IS THAT HE'S A GIRL IN THIS AU. And this has informed a significant part of Raiko's personality. While Raiel's goal in life was to be the perfect romantic wandering hero, Raiko's is to be the perfect adorable heroine.
Basically, take shounen determination, crank it to 11, and apply it to shoujo tropes instead of shounen. That's Raiko. She is the most ridiculously over the top shoujo heroine you will ever meet, and more surprisingly, nothing about it is fake. Everything about her absurd shoujo persona is completely genuine, no matter how cheesy or melodramatic it seems. Even the parts that are effected are still her wholeheartedly emulating her own ideals--like, for instance, screaming when she sees a spider because that is a thing dainty ladies do, even though she's not even a little bit scared of spiders.
She's also had a significantly less traumatic life, so she's lacking some of Raiel's darker, harsher edges. She is much more idealistic and naive, and much less worldly and self-sufficient. Instead of being an orphan who had to care for herself from a young age, she's a sheltered upper-middle-class kid who's been brought up well but still spoiled.
Pretty much everything else remains spot-on the same, though. Even the nosebleeds.
AU History Changes: Raiko's father was also a mayor of a small town, but that is pretty much where the similarities to Raiel's life end. Instead of being traumatically orphaned at a young age, she grew up in a kind and loving suburban home, went to a good school where she was popular and well-liked, was a member of the student council and the girls' wrestling team... (Yes, wrestling team. She's so hot-blooded and intense that it's a perfect fit and she loves it, even though she feels such an uncute hobby is shameful for a lovely heroine like herself.)
She lived a perfectly idyllic life. Up until her 16th birthday, that is. That was the day her mother pulled her aside and gave her the golden piano lapel pin that had been gathering dust Raiko's whole life. Her mother, it turned out, was a magical girl who had retired shortly after settling down with Raiko's father. She gave Raiko her pin--her transformation item--and passed the torch of the Golden Pianist down to her.
Raiko accepted it with pride and threw herself wholeheartedly into becoming a magical girl.
Other AU Changes: She uses Japanese honorifics and fangirl Japanese constantly.
She is not even Japanese.
Magical Girl Info:
Title: The Golden Pianist
Appearance: The Golden Pianist. Of course she gets long flowing hair and a shapelier figure after transforming, isn't that how it works for everyone?
Transformation Item & Phrase: It's a golden piano lapel pin that is actually a 500kg solid gold piano. She can change it from pin to piano form at will, and even in pin form it weighs 500kg--but to her it's practically weighless. In piano form it has straps and a harness so she can carry it around on her back and play it.
Her transformation sequence is triggered by playing the opening bars of Dittersdorf's Symphony No. 4 in F after Ovid’s "Metamorphoses" ("The Rescue of Andromeda by Perseus") and calling out, "Symphony Number 4, Metamorphoses!"
Powers and Attacks: The majority of Raiko's powers center around magical music. She also has super strength and super durability (including being nearly fireproof--nearly), and formidable brawler skills, but mostly it's the music.
It comes in four flavours: summons, direct attack, emotional manipulation, and marionette version. Different songs do different things.
I'm not sure if you want just the songs she'd have to start off with, or want me to include all the ones I'd plan to regain as shadow gem trades, so I'm going to give a basic overview of the different abilities available and specifics for the songs she'll have to start. Let me know if you want specifics for all potential skill regains, though.
Summons
Raiko's combat bread and butter. Summoned spirits are attracted to the call of a particular song and though they have their own personalities, they can be guided in battle by the desires of their caller.
The Infernal Dance (from Stravinsky's Firebird Suite):
By playing this song, Raiko summons her erstwhile companion, the Firebird. Firebird is...well, a giant bird made of flames. It is kind and sensitive, but doesn't always mind its flames well. It has been known to accidentally set things on fire, including Raiko herself.
Swan Lake (by Tchaikovsky, specifically Act 2 Scene 10):
A water spirit in the form of a giant swan. She is serious and stern and does not like to waste time. Raiko calls her Odette but as the spirit seems to bristle at this, it is probably not her actual name.
Direct-Attack music
Songs that only work in certain contexts and cause direct damage to the enemy.
Requiem (Mozart, Requiem Mass in D minor)
This song can lay the dead to rest. Low-level undead monsters will return to dust. More powerful undead can resist it, but will still be significantly weakened or harmed by it.
Emotional Manipulation
The standard bard-class buff/debuff skill. You can play a battle anthem to make people stronger in battle, or play something soul-crushingly sad to make them give up and lay down to die. This uses the sentiment of the piece to draw out and amplify similar feelings in the listener. If the listener can't relate to the song's sentiment, it will have no effect on them. It will also have no effect if they are incapable of hearing the music (ie deaf, or wearing earplugs).
Any song could be played this way, but only if the musician has a solid understanding of the song's intended meaning and the context behind the composition. For example, she could play Queen's Death on Two Legs but it would have no effect whatsoever unless she played it with the understanding that it was written as a bitter Take That to the band's abusive ex-manager.
The limitation here is that she has to learn how to play the song and learn its meaning and context in order to use it effectively. Not listing any songs to start since it can be LITERALLY ANYTHING she's learned how to play.
Marionette Version
Any emotional manipulation song can also be played as a marionette version. It works the same as the above, but strengthens a person's emotions to the point where the musician is able to control their actions like a marionette. It increases the target's strength and abilities significantly, making them into a very effective weapon in battle. Some people are more susceptible to it than others; those unaffected by the marionette control simply experience a surge of emotion based on the song, and as in the above, the target must find a strong emotional resonance in the song to be affected by it.
I have a permissions post for these abilities here.
Weapon: Besides the summons/other songs, her weapon is literally the piano. Like, as a bludgeon. She swings it around by the straps.
It's basically indestructible so hey, might as well, right?
Extra: So about those life-threatening anime nosebleeds. One, they can get triggered by the most innocent of shoujo romance scenarios, like thinking about watching the sunset alongside a cute boy she likes. Two, she tends to totally zone out for a while when they happen, which can be very concerning. Three, most of the time they're not actually severe enough to be life-threatening, but they are super embarrassing. Four, she's had this ~*strange condition*~ all her life and is very good at handling it, including being the MacGuyver of stain removal and blood clean-up. She will always clean up after herself if at all possible. Thank god for that. She also knows how to run an IV and perform her own blood transfusions, which is...not a skill she likes to advertise. It's not very cute.
Samples: Manga scanlations, and the wikipedia page. Unfortunately this fandom is ridic tiny so that is the best I can do.
Writing Sample:
Action: Here.
Prose: Would you believe I already had one written?