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Magic & Familiar Meme!

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Character Name: Canon: Familiar Name: Species: Why did you pick this familiar for your character?: Explain its significance (if any!) Special features: Powers/charm point/anything else worth mentioning How do they communicate?: And can/do they speak with anyone other than your character Personality: Relationship with your character: are they close? Do they get along, or is there friction? The FAQ says familiars have "shit to do" when not attending their bonded character. What does your familiar do in its off hours?: Does, or would, your familiar get along with other familiars?: Visuals: images! Magic Magic Types: If your character has had their magic changed, you can also mention that Why did you pick these types for your character?: How does your character cast their magic? What does it look like/are they flashy or subtle/do they use a mana focus (wand, etc) of any sort How does your character feel about their magic?: How skilled is your character with their magic? Are there sections of the magic your character is better at than others? How hard have they worked at improving? Has your character learned any spells from Recipes, and do they use them?: Has your character brewed any potions, if able?: Is there anything you would like to do with your character's magic that you haven't done yet?: What magic and familiar would your character choose for themselves?: If different from what they got! Anything else?:

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Character
Name: Toshirou Hijikata
Canon: Gintama

Familiar
Name: Arashi
Species: Crow Tengu
Why did you pick this familiar for your character?: Gintama has a youkai merchandise line in which Hijikata is a crow tengu, so it's pretty much his assigned mythological creature (though in a more recent merchandise line from this year he's an oni)!
Special features: He excels in wind magic, but is also decently adept at creating potions and magical items.
How do they communicate?: He simply talks! With Hijikata specifically there's also a rudimentary cognitive connection thanks to their bond.
Personality: He is serious, aloof, reserved, and easily flustered.
Relationship with your character: After a very rocky start their relationship has finally improved a little after the autumn equinox.
The FAQ says familiars have "shit to do" when not attending their bonded character. What does your familiar do in its off hours?: He interacts with the non-human natives of Avalon a lot and studies the island and its magic. He's strongly invested in stopping the calamity, and even though he arguably neglected Hijikata for a good while he still does his part!
Does, or would, your familiar get along with other familiars?: On principle he views other familiars as allies with whom he'll gladly cooperate! However very hyperactive, loud or rude familiars will quickly get his feathers ruffled.
Visuals: This is what the familiar fusion looks like! On his own Arashi is a feathered, humanoid bird person with a face like the mask.

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Magic
Magic Types: Elemental & Death
Why did you pick these types for your character?: Hijikata is a Prismatica CRAU. Outworlders there were "blessed" by one of three moons (Sanguis, Cordis, and Iris) and accordingly given access to one type of elemental magic. As a Sanguis Hijikata received fire magic. I thought it would be nice to give him something he's already familiar with. It took him a long time to start learning to control the other elements, but he's made decent progress since summer! As for the death magic, I gave him that because he's terribly afraid of ghosts in his canon, which made him lose his cool a few times back on Prismatica too, so I wanted him to finally be forced to have some character development in that regard!
How does your character cast their magic?: He mainly uses finger-, hand- and arm motions to summon and direct his elemental magic. His death magic is less intuitive and relies heavily on incantations and spell sigils (which he draws into the air with his cigarettes or other sources of smoke; they solidify as spell signs once completed).
How does your character feel about their magic?: He was content with his elemental magic from the start, but initially hated his death magic. By now, though, he's overcome much of his fear and is able to own it for the most part!
How skilled is your character with their magic?: He excels at fire magic and exorcisms, is decent at wind- and lightning magic as well as other death magic such as ghost repels, and is pretty bad at water- and earth magic as well as necromancy (which he honestly hasn't even tried to study at this point).
Has your character learned any spells from Recipes, and do they use them?: His first priority was the familiar fusion recipe, and he's created several methods of implementing it! He also purchased a handful of totem recipes over time and has been diligently keeping his stock of them full to avoid day-long journeys across the island.
Has your character brewed any potions, if able?: He's never looked into that!
Is there anything you would like to do with your character's magic that you haven't done yet?: I'd like to challenge him to think out of the box more with his magic! The tournaments have been great opportunities for that.
What magic and familiar would your character choose for themselves?: He'd probably have kept his elemental magic and made his second one blood-, kinetic- or some other potentially "offensive" (in battle) magic type. Anything before death magic, though!
Anything else?: I'm always happy to involve Arashi in shenanigans! He's stuffy, but he tries to be helpful.

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