Alina

Name: Alina Gast
Age: 18
Sex: Female
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 135

Distinguishing Marks:

  • Nothing really, aside from the Magi ring and marked fingernail on her left hand.

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    Appearance: Average height, average weight. Plain brown hair and brown eyes. A conservative and understated wardrobe, a quiet manner - these aren't things that make a person noticeable. Most of her clothing is in shades of navy, gray or brown, is kept neat and trim and almost never shows unnecessary skin. Her favored style is mainly business-casual and usually runs to skirts, blouses and blazers. This has the sometimes-amusing side-effect of her being mistaken for a student. She keeps her hair loose aside from its being held back from her face with a headband, the strands twisted together in a loose, curling tail and draped over one shoulder.

    Quirks:

  • She can in fact 'read' the emotions of others and influence them to a degree. Once in demand as something of a schoolyard matchmaker, Alina now despises this Magi ability and tries not to make use of it, viewing it as more of an unfortunate burden than a magical side-effect of her original wish.
  • Few Magi can identify her outside of battle, as she never takes her hat off in the line of duty.

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    About:

    One of the most common torments of adolescence is to be the fifth wheel - the one always alone, on the outskirts, overlooked while everyone else pairs happily off together. A common torment suffered by a very common young girl; quiet and outwardly shy, shrinking-violet Alina believed this injustice to be the worst possible. Her plainness kept her from being visible to the other major adolescent malady - bullies - as well as just about everyone else. Beneath the surface the girl was just as much a raging inferno of emotion as any other, but lacked anyone to share it with. That was when the small, white, catlike creature approached her one afternoon and made a fantastic offer.

    Be a heroine. Fight for the good of the world. Be loved.

    All she had to do was make an agreement..make a wish.

    Like so many others, Alina had her wish granted, though not right away. She teamed up with another Puella Magi in what quickly became a fight for survival...and in the end found the soulmate she'd wished for. Anyone with the knowledge some Magi - and the Incubators - had could have told Alina this was doomed to a horrible finale, but she wouldn't have believed a word of it. And of course, in the end, the horror came full-force. Her partner fell, becoming a Witch. It was left to Alina to dispose of what had once been the person she loved most in the world, and the task shattered something deep in her heart.

    In the years since she's dedicated herself to learning what truths lie behind the things the Incubators say, and to hunting down as many Incubators as she can find. It doesn't seem to matter to Alina that the little monsters simply regenerate or reform, and she pursues Witches with the same fervor, believing herself to be releasing them and their once-loved ones from torment.

    Alina is one of those sorts who, despite their youthful appearance, comes across in manner as being much older. Softly-spoken as she tends to be, most people don't bother listening, assuming she's speaking either to herself or into a cell phone headset. That soft voice is actually very firm and intense; once Alina has finished speaking, there usually isn't any doubt as to whether she means what she's said or not. She stands firmly by her convictions, and will weigh any other opinions or advice offered carefully before making any choices based on them.For all her quiet, self-effacing demeanor, beneath the surface is a deep, steady current of feeling. Over the years Alina has learned and carefully trained herself not to let it show - what used to be so easy before she made her ill-fated wish now seems to get more and more difficult to do, and as a result she's taken to seeking out Witches to relieve her frustrations, having developed a method of disposing of familiars (who don't harbor Grief Seeds) without much expenditure of magic.

    The general impression of being older than she really is is something Alina uses to her advantage whenever she is taken notice of. For the most part she tends to lurk around the edges of active society in the places Witches would usually appear, observing...and waiting. If confronted or spoken to, she remains polite but won't offer more information about herself than is absolutely necessary. Alina is described by most as being a nice person and comes across as being perfectly normal in just about every way, but...

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    ...as a Puella Magi her personality seems to change completely. This is not, in fact, true - Alina 'on duty', as it were, is simply the true Alina. Ruthless, passionate and efficient, she dispatches both Witches and their familiars and minions with equal effectiveness, a predatory smile, and a faint golden glint to her otherwise-soft brown eyes. When it comes to encounters with other or younger Magi, Alina is still polite but far from the friendly-older-sister or motherly type some others seem to be. Instead she comes across as more of a strict - but fair - teacher; willing to assist and instruct when necessary and on occasion donating Grief Seeds to the others as well.

    Alina nonetheless doesn't tolerate much weakness or cowardice. Perhaps most troubling is the obvious delight she takes in destroying Incubators wherever she finds them. Alina almost never uses magic in these efforts, implying that the Incubators are weak on their own, and simply doesn't listen to whatever protests may come from younger Magi attached to the creatures.

    Soulgem: Egg-shaped in its natural form like most others, Alina's soulgem is a deep red in color. When transformed it becomes a cross-shaped jewel on her hatband. It seems to carry a perpetual darkness, probably due to her habit of trying to rely on physical ability rather than magic to defeat weaker enemies.
    Weapon: Slightly longer than she is tall and very sturdy, her weapon is a stylized lucerne hammer with a red-and-white horsehair tassel at the head.
    Powers:

  • Like most Magi, Alina can summon multiple copies of her main weapon. All of the copies are smaller than the original.
  • She does have a 'signature move' of sorts, though it isn't vocalized.
  • Her soulgem itself is more of a hatpin than just a decoration when transformed and is what holds her hat in place. As such she can use it as a secondary weapon rather like a rapier, but prefers not to do so unless in truly dire straits.
  • The protective barriers she casts look rather like coils of razorwire, the razors shaped like her symbol.

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    Associated Music:
    (Yuki Kajiura) Sand Dream

    -W- (Mozart L'Opera Rock) Le Bien Qui Fait Mal

    Artwork:
    Reference Sketch

    Gift/Request Art:
    By Riyna: 1
    By Alice: 1 2 (collab)
    By YumiKaida: 1

    Related Characters:

    Notes:
    Voice:     Hirano Miki (as Lind, Aa! Megamisama)
    Text Color: FireBrick
  • She can in fact 'read' the emotions of others and influence them to a degree. Once in demand as something of a schoolyard matchmaker, Alina now despises this Magi ability and tries not to make use of it, viewing it as more of an unfortunate burden than a magical side-effect of her original wish.
  • Few Magi can identify her outside of battle, as she never takes her hat off in the line of duty.

  • She can in fact 'read' the emotions of others and influence them to a degree. Once in demand as something of a schoolyard matchmaker, Alina now despises this Magi ability and tries not to make use of it, viewing it as more of an unfortunate burden than a magical side-effect of her original wish.
  • Few Magi can identify her outside of battle, as she never takes her hat off in the line of duty.