Player Name: madi Contact:runawayballista Invite: itsa me mod-io
Character Name: Mutsumi Wakaba/Mortis Canon: BanG Dream! Character Blurb: Mutsumi is a soft-spoken and stoic girl who struggles to express herself — the self-sacrificing type who will suffer in silence for her friends and is quick to blame herself for discord between them. She's the child of two popular celebrities to whom she is constantly compared, and picked up the guitar so that she would have something that belonged only to her. She also has DID and her other primary alter is Mortis, who acts as her protector and steps in when Mutsumi buckles under pressure. Mortis is considerably more cheerful and upbeat and much better with people, but she tends to be childish in her outlook and controlling when things don't go her way.
Code Name: Nova Mortis Domain: Death Combat Type: support but I’ll be taking defense as her secondary type when the time comes!
Awakening: I don’t have any specific plans for Mutsumi’s awakening, so if you want her to participate in your character’s awakening, I’m down! I think her awakening is most likely going to coincide with Brnine's, but if you want your character to have their magical girl awakening by way of interacting with Mutsumi let's do it Present Life: Similarly to canon, Mutsumi is the child of two of Chalra City’s most beloved celebrities, the comedian Wakaba and the actress Minami Mori. Constantly compared to her parents and put into the public eye from a young age, Mutsumi never really got to be a normal kid, and developed a number of alters to handle different stressful situations. She picked up the guitar at a young age so that she could have something to herself, which had a stabilizing effect on her DID — the alter who started learning guitar became the host, and the majority of her other alters went completely dormant, with host Mutsumi fronting more or less 24/7. She joined the band CRYCHiC in middle school, but while it went really well at first, the band broke up very abruptly and dramatically, and Mutsumi assigns blame to herself for not knowing how to have fun in a band. The only other girl in CRYCHiC who went to Everwave has since switched schools, and since then, Mutsumi's been in kind of a very quietly sad funk. She needs some friends you guys Past Life: Mutsumi and Mortis (and all of their other alters) were siblings in their previous lives as Constellation nobility. Due to as of yet some unspecified but non-accidental tragedy, all of the siblings except for Mutsumi and Mortis died in some horrible way when they were tweens. Only the two of them survived because Mortis was able to protect Mutsumi in some way, and after this point they became unhealthily codependent and are near inseparable.
I've coordinated with Celene to an extent for whatever tragedy befell their family to have been part of the prophecy that diviner-in-training Hope ignored, but I haven't figured out exactly what happened yet, or if the rest of their family died too or if it's just the rest of the sisters. I've also talked with Harry and Lex about the fact that Jamil & Kalim and MutsuMortis & co. spend a good deal of time around each other as kids due to various noble functions etc, but after most of them died Kalim didn't really want Jamil hanging out with them in case their tragedy was contagious 😔
For obvious reasons, they had different names in their past lives: Melos (present-day Mutsumi) and Mori (present-day Mortis). I'm undecided as to their Constellation name, but they both took on the code name Nova Mortis, not only due to their Death domain but also perhaps as a means of honoring their dead sisters.
In-Game Plans: Mutsumi will start the game with Mortis still dormant, but I'd like to play out another version of the arc they have in canon, and how that gets resolved depends heavily on the people in her life so I think that'll be a fun time! Once the pressure of leading a double life starts to crush Mutsumi, Mortis will start taking over whenever Mutsumi goes supernova. I'd love to play out a version of the conflict between them in canon that involves one or both of them going into eclipse and Mortis fronting outside of Nova Knight form. They will need the help of their friends!!
Pre-Established CR Hooks: - Toxic Childhood Bestie: this is kind of a requirement for Mutsumi to be the way she is, and i could make that person an offscreen NPC but it would be SO much more fun and interesting if it was another Nova Knight. basically Mutsumi needs to have a friend for whom she is silently self-sacrificing for and to whom she feels beholden. Bonus points for unintentional emotional distance caused by the other person also wordlessly assuming responsibility for everything and then caving under the pressure they have put on themselves. Even MORE bonus points if they were in Mutsumi's band in any capacity because the ideal here is that she thinks the band breaking up is her fault for not having enough fun - Former Bandmates: I'm kind of vaguely handwaving the members of CRYCHiC as background NPCs, but I would love love love if any of those former bandmates was also a magical girl. I'm open to retconning this with characters who app in the future as well! Same goes for the above childhood bestie role. - Showbiz Acquaintances: Mutsumi has spent pretty much her entire life in the light of the entertainment industry, so if your character is also deeply embedded in the Chalra City version of the Hollywood scene, they could have met as kids or more recently!
Desired CR/Hooks: - New Friends: my god does she need them. Someone get this girl some fun and support. She definitely needs pals who can help her see her own value as a friend and person. And both she and Mortis will need those friends when they are fighting :) - Music Friends: Mutsumi's guitar is crucial to her identity and she's extremely technically talented, but she also feels like she can't play with emotion or let her guitar "sing". Does anyone wanna start a new band with Mutsumi and reap some juicy drama - Secret Identity Nonsense: I want what we all want here: stupid and funny misunderstandings because of the secret identity oblivion field. This will be even more stupid and funny when Mortis shows up - Negative CR: I love negative CR. chomp chomp Mutsumi very much keeps to herself but she's prone to saying the wrong thing/miscommunicating her feelings. Both of these things make her a primo bullying target. Mortis is a good deal more meddle-y and stubborn and more likely to actually get in an argument with someone. That girl knows how to hold a grudge
Mutsumi Wakaba / Nova Mortis | BanG Dream! (Ave Mujica -the Die Is Cast-)
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Character Name: Mutsumi Wakaba/Mortis
Canon: BanG Dream!
Character Blurb: Mutsumi is a soft-spoken and stoic girl who struggles to express herself — the self-sacrificing type who will suffer in silence for her friends and is quick to blame herself for discord between them. She's the child of two popular celebrities to whom she is constantly compared, and picked up the guitar so that she would have something that belonged only to her. She also has DID and her other primary alter is Mortis, who acts as her protector and steps in when Mutsumi buckles under pressure. Mortis is considerably more cheerful and upbeat and much better with people, but she tends to be childish in her outlook and controlling when things don't go her way.
Code Name: Nova Mortis
Domain: Death
Combat Type: support but I’ll be taking defense as her secondary type when the time comes!
Awakening: I don’t have any specific plans for Mutsumi’s awakening, so if you want her to participate in your character’s awakening, I’m down! I think her awakening is most likely going to coincide with Brnine's, but if you want your character to have their magical girl awakening by way of interacting with Mutsumi let's do it
Present Life: Similarly to canon, Mutsumi is the child of two of Chalra City’s most beloved celebrities, the comedian Wakaba and the actress Minami Mori. Constantly compared to her parents and put into the public eye from a young age, Mutsumi never really got to be a normal kid, and developed a number of alters to handle different stressful situations. She picked up the guitar at a young age so that she could have something to herself, which had a stabilizing effect on her DID — the alter who started learning guitar became the host, and the majority of her other alters went completely dormant, with host Mutsumi fronting more or less 24/7. She joined the band CRYCHiC in middle school, but while it went really well at first, the band broke up very abruptly and dramatically, and Mutsumi assigns blame to herself for not knowing how to have fun in a band. The only other girl in CRYCHiC who went to Everwave has since switched schools, and since then, Mutsumi's been in kind of a very quietly sad funk. She needs some friends you guys
Past Life: Mutsumi and Mortis (and all of their other alters) were siblings in their previous lives as Constellation nobility. Due to as of yet some unspecified but non-accidental tragedy, all of the siblings except for Mutsumi and Mortis died in some horrible way when they were tweens. Only the two of them survived because Mortis was able to protect Mutsumi in some way, and after this point they became unhealthily codependent and are near inseparable.
I've coordinated with Celene to an extent for whatever tragedy befell their family to have been part of the prophecy that diviner-in-training Hope ignored, but I haven't figured out exactly what happened yet, or if the rest of their family died too or if it's just the rest of the sisters. I've also talked with Harry and Lex about the fact that Jamil & Kalim and MutsuMortis & co. spend a good deal of time around each other as kids due to various noble functions etc, but after most of them died Kalim didn't really want Jamil hanging out with them in case their tragedy was contagious 😔
For obvious reasons, they had different names in their past lives: Melos (present-day Mutsumi) and Mori (present-day Mortis). I'm undecided as to their Constellation name, but they both took on the code name Nova Mortis, not only due to their Death domain but also perhaps as a means of honoring their dead sisters.
In-Game Plans: Mutsumi will start the game with Mortis still dormant, but I'd like to play out another version of the arc they have in canon, and how that gets resolved depends heavily on the people in her life so I think that'll be a fun time! Once the pressure of leading a double life starts to crush Mutsumi, Mortis will start taking over whenever Mutsumi goes supernova. I'd love to play out a version of the conflict between them in canon that involves one or both of them going into eclipse and Mortis fronting outside of Nova Knight form. They will need the help of their friends!!
Pre-Established CR Hooks:
- Toxic Childhood Bestie: this is kind of a requirement for Mutsumi to be the way she is, and i could make that person an offscreen NPC but it would be SO much more fun and interesting if it was another Nova Knight. basically Mutsumi needs to have a friend for whom she is silently self-sacrificing for and to whom she feels beholden. Bonus points for unintentional emotional distance caused by the other person also wordlessly assuming responsibility for everything and then caving under the pressure they have put on themselves. Even MORE bonus points if they were in Mutsumi's band in any capacity because the ideal here is that she thinks the band breaking up is her fault for not having enough fun
- Former Bandmates: I'm kind of vaguely handwaving the members of CRYCHiC as background NPCs, but I would love love love if any of those former bandmates was also a magical girl. I'm open to retconning this with characters who app in the future as well! Same goes for the above childhood bestie role.
- Showbiz Acquaintances: Mutsumi has spent pretty much her entire life in the light of the entertainment industry, so if your character is also deeply embedded in the Chalra City version of the Hollywood scene, they could have met as kids or more recently!
Desired CR/Hooks:
- New Friends: my god does she need them. Someone get this girl some fun and support. She definitely needs pals who can help her see her own value as a friend and person. And both she and Mortis will need those friends when they are fighting :)
- Music Friends: Mutsumi's guitar is crucial to her identity and she's extremely technically talented, but she also feels like she can't play with emotion or let her guitar "sing". Does anyone wanna start a new band with Mutsumi and reap some juicy drama
- Secret Identity Nonsense: I want what we all want here: stupid and funny misunderstandings because of the secret identity oblivion field. This will be even more stupid and funny when Mortis shows up
- Negative CR: I love negative CR. chomp chomp
Mutsumi very much keeps to herself but she's prone to saying the wrong thing/miscommunicating her feelings. Both of these things make her a primo bullying target. Mortis is a good deal more meddle-y and stubborn and more likely to actually get in an argument with someone. That girl knows how to hold a grudge
Other: resignedly sippies my juice