Space Mage
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Space Mage | |
| Player: @Acyl | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | Defender |
| Security Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Adrianne Casmir |
| Known Aliases: | Space, Mage, SM |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 16 |
| Height: | 5'3" |
| Weight: | Classified! |
| Eye Color: | Brown |
| Hair Color: | Violet |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | US Citizen |
| Occupation: | High School Student, Part-Time Heroine |
| Place of Birth: | Paragon City |
| Base of Operations: | Paragon City |
| Marital Status: | Going Steady! |
| Known Relatives: | Confidential |
| Known Powers | |
| Raw Creative Magics | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Intuitive Mystical Sense | |
| Equipment | |
| Random Spell Foci | |
| No additional information available. | |
Adrianne Casmir was just an ordinary girl, a high school social outcast - until she learnt to touch the pure creative force of the human spirit. Now she wields that power as the startling sorceress of the space age, the cosmic chevalier, the Space Mage!
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Affiliations
Supergroup: The Legendary (Rank: Epic)
- Evangelia (Leader and Friend)
- Alistair (Evangelia's invisible talking penguin)
- Seelepanzer (Friend)
- Yukiyo (Mobile disaster area)
- Marcus Mac Hine (Boyfriend)
Personality
Adrianne Casmir was a studious girl with a well-deserved reputation for being...kinda weird. A bit of a nerd, a bit of a ditz, just one of those people always off in her own little world.
That was before she became Space Mage.
Now? She's having the time of her life. She gets to be powerful, pretty, and really really help people. She's always cheerful, always upbeat, always talking a mile a nanosecond. She's always been a dreamer, with a love of fantasy and science fiction. And now...she's literally living her dreams.
Powers
Like most innate magic users, Adrianne is technically a descendant of Mu. She doesn't have a lot of Mu blood, however. Strictly speaking, her talent for magic is virtually nonexistent. But she somehow manages to use what little power she has...as a catalyst. What she does as Space Mage is tap into what she insists is the creative power of the collective human consciousness - literally, what dreams are made of. This allows her to perform incredible feats of magic.
Dark Miasma
Many of Adrianne's spells warp the fabric of space. And not just four-dimensional spacetime, but also reality at other levels - including the Astral Plane. She refers to this as "walking the Void". With these magics, she can simultaneously weaken her foes while healing herself and her allies. She can even summon Astral spirits. Or, well, summon some sort of magical creature, anyway. Nobody's really figured out what that thing is, besides "Fluffy".
Energy Blast
Adrianne can also direct her magic into bolts of pure mystical force, an ability she calls "reaching the Stars". At least, that's what she calls it when she's feeling more poetic. Otherwise it's just "Phasers on Stun", or possibly "Magic Missile".
Additional Powers
However, what really makes Adrianne fearsome is that she doesn't really have limits. Her spellcasting is purely a thing of instinct, meaning she can perform feats of raw power that would drive even the finest ritual archmages insane. Things like levitation and teleportation are trivially easy for her.
Abilities
Adrianne has an encyclopedic knowledge of science fiction, fantasy, and anime trivia. She insists this is essential to modern heroing.
Weaknesses and Limitations
While she has a massive amount of power at her disposal, Adrianne is not really adept in the subtle workings of magic. To a degree, she wields mystical force like a sledgehammer. This is largely because magic is all instinctive to her. There's no coherent pattern to how she casts her magic. She rarely casts the same spell in the same way twice. Sometimes words, sometimes gestures, sometimes not. What really matters is her mental visualization. She dreams her magic. This is both a strength and a weakness. Her magic is chaotic and unpredictable, meaning she can't really work with other spellcasters. Attempting to combine her magic with others can have explosive results. Adrianne also can't examine magical artifacts or curses and enchantments in the way most mages do. She doesn't really have the actual knowledge and theoretical framework to comprehend what she's seeing. There's also a pretty good chance of something going "boom", if she tries to meddle with someone else's magic.
Adrianne is also a relentless optimist. This sometimes makes her overlook the darker realities of the world. She isn't stupid or naive, per-se. Rather, she's willfully ignorant. There's some things that she just doesn't want to believe.
While it may be contradictory, Adrianne is at once both insecure and vain. She wasn't a very pretty girl before her transformation. Now, as Space Mage, she's beautiful. Sometimes she finds that hard to believe, and she can be sensitive about her appearance. But that said, she does intellectually know she's beautiful. And having gone from ugly duckling to swan, she often feels the need to flaunt it.
Furthermore, while she genuinely means well, and is truly compassionate and kind...she's also a thrill seeker. She likes being a heroine. Maybe she likes it too much.
Equipment
That said, Adrianne has amassed her own collection of magical items, spell foci, and the like - all imbued with power by her own hand. For instance, she has replicated the infamous "Sands of Mu". Though in her case it's more the "Poprocks of Mu". In one case, the "Pepper of Mu". Most of her self-created items are simply enchanted household objects. She's just a kid, after all. She doesn't have that much budget.
Character History
Adrianne Casmir was always a dreamer. Always a little odd, by the standards of High School society. She never had many friends - though no real enemies, either. She was simply apart from the tangled relations and rivalries of the teenage set. Adrianne was weird. Nice, but weird.
Then she dropped off the radar entirely. She was absent from school for a couple months. The rumor mill said she had a nervous breakdown. Or something. Certainly she was different when she came back. Still weird, but much more confident. Much more confident.
Of course...what really happened? Her amateur magic studies paid off. Ironic, actually, since she wasn't trying to teach herself magic. She bought those old books so she could run a better D&D game. Well, on the off chance that someone was willing to play with her.
Somehow, though, in the process of reading...she somehow transformed herself. She used to be a scrawny underdeveloped girl with bad acne, myopia, and frizzy hair. When the dust settled, she was willowy, graceful, with a wild purple mane. And, oh, pointy ears.
It took a while before she figured out how to cast a glamour on herself, so she could pass for normal. Well, more or less normal, anyway. She couldn't quite bring herself to go all the way. Most kids at Atlas Park Regional High School have begun to notice that Adrianne's looking...a lot better these days. Nobody's figured it out, though. They just assume she's finally reached the good stage of puberty.
They don't know she's Space Mage now.
Well, one of her classmates knows - Raye Langley, also known as Magical Princess Evangelia. Raye discovered Adrianne's secret on her first day back to school. A teacher flipped out and started running around with a magical clock on his chest, the two girls had a team-up, and by the time the reporters arrived, the newly-christened "Space Mage" was a member of Evangelia's supergroup.
As a result, Raye is also the first friend she's made in High School, though the other girl is...not quite sure what to make of Adrianne. For one thing, Adrianne's one of the few people who can actually see Raye's invisible penguin sidekick, Alistair. It's a convention of the magical girl genre that the protagonist gets an animal mascot, but Raye's is somewhat odd by most standards. For one thing, he's British. He's an invisible British penguin. Adrianne finds him unspeakably cute, however, and often tries to hug the stuffing out of him. The fact that he isn't actually a stuffed animal makes this rather uncomfortable for Alistair.
Since joining The Legendary supergroup, Adrianne has gained other friendships. Maria Pezzini isn't a classmate anymore, which makes Adrianne sad. It'd be cool if they could hang out in school together. But that's not going to happen, since Maria's dead, and her soul's trapped inside a massive steam-powered war machine. Adrianne's working on that, though. There's got to be a spell that can do something...
The situation isn't helped by the fact...The Legendary already has a mage who's a walking disaster area. Her name's Yukiyo. Space Mage and Yukiyo get along quite well. They've even had a few adventures together, much to the chagrin of certain members of Paragon's criminal set. The doctors at the Zigursky Penitentiary believe they'll regain motor functions any day now, and some of them are even able to eat solid food.
Adrianne also has a love-hate dynamic with Brightsky - she loves to annoy Brightsky with ditzy airheaded comments, and hates it when Brightsky makes rampant innuendo in return. Or at least that's how it appears - in truth they get along pretty well. But you're supposed to annoy your family.
Recently, Adrianne's crush on teammate Marcus Mac Hine has progressed to an actual relationship.
Given that her magic is entirely instinctive, a love-struck emotional Space Mage is not necessarily a good thing.
Battle Cries and Catch Phrases
"The wonderful beautiful COSMIC heroine, the magician of the FUTURE, the sorceress of the SPACE AGE, defender of all that is shiny and true, I am...THE SPACE MAGE!"
Trivia
- Ever have an idea that just spun totally out of hand? Yeah, that's Space Mage. She started as just a costume idea with no real concept and personality. Obviously, she...evolved...over the course of play.
- Her crimefighting alias is a pun on "Space Age", though few people catch that. Her last name, "Casmir", is a veiled reference to the Mir space station.
