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OOC Information:
Name: Jisu
Are you over 15? Yes
Contact: Plurk is jisusushi, email is titaniaindigo at gmail dot com, AIM is ColorKidLalaPink, Skype is sana.jisushi.
IC Information:
Name: Kokoro Belmont (preincarnation) | Montessa "Tessa" Hart (reincarnation)
Canon and medium: Otomedius
Age: 15
Preincarnation Species: Human
Preincarnation Appearance: Her transformed appearance. Unlike some other characters, she looks pretty much exactly the same as a civilian.
Any differences: Tessa isn't a magical girl and thus only has her civilian appearance. She obviously doesn't wear the St. Gradius school uniform; she does wear the LCA uniform, but only to class, and outside of school she goes beyond her canon counterpart's need to put crosses on every possible item of clothing; Tessa is a full-on mall goth.
Preincarnated History: Imagine a world in which Gradius took place in the ancient past and various other Konami franchises were shoved into the backstory, including Castlevania, Getsu Fuuma Den, Twinbee, Busou Shinki, and a bunch of others that don't really go together. So you have a version of Earth that, long ago, was a bystander when the threat of the alien Bacterians was staved off by heroic alien Gradians, specifically the pilots of space fighter jets. Welp, that exists, and it was into that world that Kokoro Belmont was born.
As per her family tradition, she was put through rigorous training at a young age to fight vampires, demons, and anything else that might happen to show up and threaten the local people. She was always told by her older brother that the most important things were their duty and their destiny, and she grew up believing it, always doing her best to make her ancestors proud. Kokoro wasn't the greatest at everything, which only made her miserable, but she tried her best even if there wasn't any immediate threat.
By the way, the game's gallery mode implies that Kokoro's brother is in fact a young Julius Belmont. However, that would require a whole lot of hoop-jumping to make any sense, and it might also constrain future appers even if nobody has to take the silly fanservice shooter game into account for anything ever. Thus, I'm leaving that ambiguous. Tessa will remember her older brother eventually, but I'll just handwave or avoid any details about him.
Then in the modern era, aliens called Bacterians invaded, with their weird spaceships, weirder pilots, and honestly idiotic penguin minions. Kokoro wasn't involved fighting off the first invasion wave, but there were other girls around her age who were: the "Angels" of the G-Organization, who were magical girls of a sort (and one normal kid who built her own riding machine) who channeled the mysterious "Platonic Power" and rode mechanical ship-things called Ride Vipers into battle. The Angels were in fact a group of seemingly normal high school girls (and one guy) at a school called St. Gradius Academy, and when said guy left the team to go training on his home planet, an emissary recruited Kokoro as well as Gesshi Hanafuuma, another girl from a long line of warriors, as his replacements. And thus she started high school at St. Gradius and got her own Ride Viper, called Stavros.
From there, she slowly made friends with her squadmates and started to have a lot of fun in her life. However, when the Bacterians invaded again, Kokoro went all business. She relied a lot upon the stories of her ancestors as she and the others followed the trail of Bacterians to fight them off wherever they appeared, culminating into going into space protected only by the shields around their Ride Vipers. However, just when they got somewhere, a mysterious alien woman appeared with the Bacterians, calling herself their leader, "Dark Force". Dark Force instantly wiped out the entire Earth fleet aside from the Angels. Their commander decided that the only option was to open up a hole in time and send the Angels through it.
From there, Kokoro and company warped to a Bacterian base in a time when Dark Force was just a child. Using Bacterian defector Tita Nium's access codes, they were able to get inside, and from there they progressed into the depths of the base. Kokoro discovered that in the centre of the otherwise futuristic space base was actually a stone castle that, she commented, bore similarity to Dracula's. This is never explained and I'm not even going to try. Dark Force reveals that even as a child she's the leader of the Bacterians and very powerful, and she takes them on in her own Ride Viper, called Black Viper, and escapes; when they give chase, she reappears in a giant mech called Death Bringer. The Angels still beat Dark Force, and they go through the time portal again to get back to a version of the present where everybody isn't dead.
Except that neither is Dark Force. The kid followed them through the portal, and she attacks them one last time, flying through the air with no plane or mech to speak of. The Angels are not impressed, and they defeat her for the last time... presumably. After all, Dark Force reveals, she will continue to exist in some form for as long as humans do. Anyway, the Angels go triumphantly back to Earth and decide to live their lives happily. Kokoro is shown smiling and having fun in the end, but her story isn't over; in the epilogue, she is seen approaching Dracula's castle on her own quest.
Reincarnated History: Tessa Hart (Montessa, not Teresa, but who cares) grew up in a small town two and a half hours out of Locke. There was really nothing to do there, everything smelled like fish, and everybody minded everybody else's business, but Tessa got used to it. Didn't like it, but got used to it. She was the type of kid who didn't really get into the town's favourite pursuits of gossiping about one another and cheering on their high school football team, so she stuck out to an unfortunate degree and spent most of her time reading books or wandering around the fields or abandoned buildings.
She always looked forward to the times that her older brother Victor came home, though. He was in university up in Locke when she started elementary school, and it was always exciting when he'd arrive or when the family went into town to visit him. She decided that she'd get her grades up and mow everyone's lawns for spare money, so that she'd move into the city for school when she got old enough, too.
When Tessa was fourteen, Victor agreed to take her in so she could go to the same school he went to, since he knew how much it sucked in their old town and it would save the family a bit of money. Her parents agreed to this partially because they knew she'd be safe with her brother, but also because she simply would not shut up about it. Since then, she's lived with him in Locke, attending LCA but hanging around just about anywhere, especially when her brother isn't home. (He currently works selling real estate, which is doing well since there are so many people moving in lately.)
Tessa's starting her second year of high school in Locke now, and over her first year, she began to really get used to living in the city and made a few friends. Going into the city showed her a world where, yes, conformity was socially enforced (it's high school, come on), but there were whole groups who made their own rules -- something she'd only read about and been completely fascinated by. Naturally, she jumped fully and gleefully into the wannabe counterculture of the Hot Topic crowd. She's one of the mall goths who hang around alternating ruffly black dresses, plaid pullovers, and oversized graphic T-shirts of kids' movies that came out before she was born.
First Echo: Tessa was wandering Locke City on her first week in town and ended up running into a couple of gothlolis in Japantown -- a fashion subculture she'd never even heard of. One of the girls had stylized crosses on her dress. When Tessa got home, she promptly decided to invest in putting fancy crosses on lots of clothing items, simply because she thought it looked cool.
Is a character's fashion sense the most useless first echo yet?
Preincarnation Personality: Kokoro is a person who's gone through a lot of work to get to where she is. She trains hard every day to live up to her family's legacy because that's what she's always been told is the only way for her to live. She does believe in the reasons that they've always fought -- protecting the people, preventing anyone else from going through the torture that her ancestors went through -- but for her, front and centre is simply that this is what she is supposed to do. Kokoro always tells the other Angels -- and more often, tells herself -- that fighting is both her duty and her destiny.
This pushes Kokoro to be very stoic and serious on the job. There are missions and threats, there are allies, enemies, and civilians, and that's it. Though they don't interact a lot, she doesn't seem to be as suspicious of Tita as others were in the beginning, and on the flip side, when T. B. Rika reveals herself to have been a Bacterian spy and everybody else is shocked and reluctant to fight her, Kokoro simply says that Rika attacked the city and has to be dealt with. That's that. She barely even reacts when Dark Force wipes out the entire human fleet. Everyone around her is stunned, most of them are crying, but Kokoro muses that this must be the destiny she's been dealt.
She isn't always like that, though. Kokoro may turn off her emotions for work, but when there's no threat to the world around her, she's a perfectly ordinary girl. She befriends the other Angels and has fun with them, doing everything from going to the school festival to karaoke night to going to the hot springs late at night so the group can have the whole place to themselves. She only looks allergic to fun when fun is not what they're supposed to be having.
Kokoro is also pretty hard on herself, going back to the huge expectations her family has for her and that she has for herself. She gets really embarrassed and judges herself over small things like screwing up in gym class, even if nobody else really cares. She does. Who ever heard of a vampire hunter tripping over a jump rope? She takes comfort in things going the way they're supposed to, because then she knows how to deal with them.
Secretly, Kokoro does just wish she could be normal. However, she doesn't fixate on that. She knows very well that it's impossible, and whenever she can, she puts it out of her mind. This is why, instead, she fixates on being Just Like Her Ancestors. She does wonder, though, if she can live normally after her own story is done.
Any differences: Tessa doesn't have a big family legacy to live up to, which was always Kokoro's driving force. Aside from meaning that she's not talking about her ancestors every five minutes, this will affect her participation in the game plot. Kokoro's main motivation in fighting was always that she owed it to her ancestors and that she believes she was born to fight. Without this, Tessa has more of a choice, and she will instead be moved to protect the world simply because she wants to.
Though she'll need a bit of time to adjust to it. Kokoro grew up in a family that fought vampires in a world that had been attacked by aliens and had significant cultural exchange with other aliens. Tessa, of course, has no idea of any of this, so she wasn't brought up to deal with it. Basically, she's the normal girl Kokoro secretly wishes she had been. Hence, she'll be shocked to discover the network and its members and may have trouble believing it. She might be excited, probably scared, but definitely not prepared.
Tessa also isn't nearly as stoic as Kokoro when facing adversity, because she hasn't drilled it into her own head that she has to be perfect and unshakable. She will freak out. If something one-hit kills thousands of her allies, she's not going to lineface and go on about destiny, she'll probably cry. Hopefully nothing does. She also doesn't yet have the view that enemies are enemies no matter what, and would be a lot less likely to want to go off and kill a child even if that child is the leader of a huge alien army and her future self easily killed the Earth's entire line of defence.
Tessa also really loves ~*~dark~*~ stuff, whereas for Kokoro it was just a side effect of the stuff she ended up mired in. Bat earrings or heavy music represent to Tessa the antithesis of small-town boredom; the city is big enough to have people interested in different things instead of the Cult of the Dilapidated High School's Mediocre Sports Teams. She totally has skeleton beads in her doorway at home.
Abilities: Kokoro is one of the few human Angels, so she doesn't have tentacle hair or shoot lasers from her fingers, but here's what she does have.
-On foot, Kokoro is able to use a variety of weapons. Her weapon of choice is her whip, but she also has holy water, which she throws in bottles like grenades, and appears to be able to use a throwing axe as well, since she can use one in her Ride Viper.
-Kokoro uses "Platonic Power", which no one really understands in canon but allows her to transform into her Angel outfit and use a Ride Viper. Her Ride Viper is called Stavros, and her Platonic Power allows it to run and provides a shield around her to protect her from enemy attacks and environmental hazards. She can even breathe in space with this.
-I should elaborate on a Ride Viper's actual basic capabilities. It can fly, withstand extreme heat and cold (they go into an active volcano and into Antarctica and everything's fine, though a lot of that can be attributed to the shield when Platonic Power is used), and go into and out of space. They're heavily based on the old Gradian fighter ships, though much smaller and just barely surround the pilot.
-Stavros' basic weapon loadout is unique to Kokoro and no one else can use these weapons (not even Esmeralda, Ms. Walking Armoury). Aside from the basic rapid bullets, they all mirror the weapons she uses on foot; she has a beam whip, which travels in front of her to strike at enemies, she can toss holy water and throwing axes, and she fires cross-shaped lasers. If gameplay is any indication (she's recommended for advanced players), most of her weapons also have a terrible learning curve. Prepare for flailing about until she learns to use them properly.
-She also has only one Option (a small drone floating around her Ride Viper that can fire at enemies); it is called Trigon. It fires in the opposite direction of Kokoro's movement, so it's good for firing above, below, or behind her, and when upgraded enough (in the game, this is done by levelling up, but as this is an RP and not a video game, I'll just do any "levelling up" by staggering Echoes as upgrades), it can fire in two directions. At level 1 and 2 it fires bullets, and at level 3 it fires twin lasers.
-Stavros can also be fitted with a number of other weapons, like pulse lasers, guns, and boxing gloves (not even kidding), instead. Kokoro cannot upgrade her Ride Viper herself, so she'd just have parts sitting around her house and nothing to do with them, and her basic weapon loadout works well enough for her, so she'll probably just stick with it.
-Platonic Power also enables Kokoro to use her Grand Cross -- an attack that manifests as a giant glowing cross that hits anything in its path. She calls it "Lightning Sword" and it acts as her Platonic Break (special attack). It appears horizontally instead of vertically like her ancestors' versions of the ability did, so it's best suited for enemies directly in front of her and at short distances above or below.
There's no shortage of gameplay videos to see these for yourself. In this one, in the first stage alone she begins with basic bullets and then proceeds to pull out Beam Whip, Holy Water, Lightning Sword, and Trigon all before the boss.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person: This testrun thread has replies!
Roleplay Sample - Network:
If it hasn't been done previously, I'd like to make an inquiry about our pulse memories. Or if the word "echo" feels better for you, since that seems to be more popular lately -- but that doesn't matter to the question.
How many of you have gained memories of situations like we're in now? An alien invasion, or maybe being hunted -- something like that?
...Also, as long as I'm here, I would like to ask if anybody has workarounds for a school dress code that won't allow me to dye my hair blue or make the tips black. Some of you have these colours naturally now, so you must have a solution, right? The temporary dye always looks bad and drink powder doesn't work.
Any Questions? Otomedius is a very all-there-in-the-manual canon and we only ever got Excellent and the art book in English... thankfully, Kokoro is only in Excellent, so there's not much of a problem there. There's a good deal of fanon floating around passing itself off as official, just as a warning, but I did my research (and maybe played a bit too much of the game) to make sure everything not in italics actually did happen in it. If you have any questions, please ask!
Name: Jisu
Are you over 15? Yes
Contact: Plurk is jisusushi, email is titaniaindigo at gmail dot com, AIM is ColorKidLalaPink, Skype is sana.jisushi.
IC Information:
Name: Kokoro Belmont (preincarnation) | Montessa "Tessa" Hart (reincarnation)
Canon and medium: Otomedius
Age: 15
Preincarnation Species: Human
Preincarnation Appearance: Her transformed appearance. Unlike some other characters, she looks pretty much exactly the same as a civilian.
Any differences: Tessa isn't a magical girl and thus only has her civilian appearance. She obviously doesn't wear the St. Gradius school uniform; she does wear the LCA uniform, but only to class, and outside of school she goes beyond her canon counterpart's need to put crosses on every possible item of clothing; Tessa is a full-on mall goth.
Preincarnated History: Imagine a world in which Gradius took place in the ancient past and various other Konami franchises were shoved into the backstory, including Castlevania, Getsu Fuuma Den, Twinbee, Busou Shinki, and a bunch of others that don't really go together. So you have a version of Earth that, long ago, was a bystander when the threat of the alien Bacterians was staved off by heroic alien Gradians, specifically the pilots of space fighter jets. Welp, that exists, and it was into that world that Kokoro Belmont was born.
As per her family tradition, she was put through rigorous training at a young age to fight vampires, demons, and anything else that might happen to show up and threaten the local people. She was always told by her older brother that the most important things were their duty and their destiny, and she grew up believing it, always doing her best to make her ancestors proud. Kokoro wasn't the greatest at everything, which only made her miserable, but she tried her best even if there wasn't any immediate threat.
By the way, the game's gallery mode implies that Kokoro's brother is in fact a young Julius Belmont. However, that would require a whole lot of hoop-jumping to make any sense, and it might also constrain future appers even if nobody has to take the silly fanservice shooter game into account for anything ever. Thus, I'm leaving that ambiguous. Tessa will remember her older brother eventually, but I'll just handwave or avoid any details about him.
Then in the modern era, aliens called Bacterians invaded, with their weird spaceships, weirder pilots, and honestly idiotic penguin minions. Kokoro wasn't involved fighting off the first invasion wave, but there were other girls around her age who were: the "Angels" of the G-Organization, who were magical girls of a sort (and one normal kid who built her own riding machine) who channeled the mysterious "Platonic Power" and rode mechanical ship-things called Ride Vipers into battle. The Angels were in fact a group of seemingly normal high school girls (and one guy) at a school called St. Gradius Academy, and when said guy left the team to go training on his home planet, an emissary recruited Kokoro as well as Gesshi Hanafuuma, another girl from a long line of warriors, as his replacements. And thus she started high school at St. Gradius and got her own Ride Viper, called Stavros.
From there, she slowly made friends with her squadmates and started to have a lot of fun in her life. However, when the Bacterians invaded again, Kokoro went all business. She relied a lot upon the stories of her ancestors as she and the others followed the trail of Bacterians to fight them off wherever they appeared, culminating into going into space protected only by the shields around their Ride Vipers. However, just when they got somewhere, a mysterious alien woman appeared with the Bacterians, calling herself their leader, "Dark Force". Dark Force instantly wiped out the entire Earth fleet aside from the Angels. Their commander decided that the only option was to open up a hole in time and send the Angels through it.
From there, Kokoro and company warped to a Bacterian base in a time when Dark Force was just a child. Using Bacterian defector Tita Nium's access codes, they were able to get inside, and from there they progressed into the depths of the base. Kokoro discovered that in the centre of the otherwise futuristic space base was actually a stone castle that, she commented, bore similarity to Dracula's. This is never explained and I'm not even going to try. Dark Force reveals that even as a child she's the leader of the Bacterians and very powerful, and she takes them on in her own Ride Viper, called Black Viper, and escapes; when they give chase, she reappears in a giant mech called Death Bringer. The Angels still beat Dark Force, and they go through the time portal again to get back to a version of the present where everybody isn't dead.
Except that neither is Dark Force. The kid followed them through the portal, and she attacks them one last time, flying through the air with no plane or mech to speak of. The Angels are not impressed, and they defeat her for the last time... presumably. After all, Dark Force reveals, she will continue to exist in some form for as long as humans do. Anyway, the Angels go triumphantly back to Earth and decide to live their lives happily. Kokoro is shown smiling and having fun in the end, but her story isn't over; in the epilogue, she is seen approaching Dracula's castle on her own quest.
Reincarnated History: Tessa Hart (Montessa, not Teresa, but who cares) grew up in a small town two and a half hours out of Locke. There was really nothing to do there, everything smelled like fish, and everybody minded everybody else's business, but Tessa got used to it. Didn't like it, but got used to it. She was the type of kid who didn't really get into the town's favourite pursuits of gossiping about one another and cheering on their high school football team, so she stuck out to an unfortunate degree and spent most of her time reading books or wandering around the fields or abandoned buildings.
She always looked forward to the times that her older brother Victor came home, though. He was in university up in Locke when she started elementary school, and it was always exciting when he'd arrive or when the family went into town to visit him. She decided that she'd get her grades up and mow everyone's lawns for spare money, so that she'd move into the city for school when she got old enough, too.
When Tessa was fourteen, Victor agreed to take her in so she could go to the same school he went to, since he knew how much it sucked in their old town and it would save the family a bit of money. Her parents agreed to this partially because they knew she'd be safe with her brother, but also because she simply would not shut up about it. Since then, she's lived with him in Locke, attending LCA but hanging around just about anywhere, especially when her brother isn't home. (He currently works selling real estate, which is doing well since there are so many people moving in lately.)
Tessa's starting her second year of high school in Locke now, and over her first year, she began to really get used to living in the city and made a few friends. Going into the city showed her a world where, yes, conformity was socially enforced (it's high school, come on), but there were whole groups who made their own rules -- something she'd only read about and been completely fascinated by. Naturally, she jumped fully and gleefully into the wannabe counterculture of the Hot Topic crowd. She's one of the mall goths who hang around alternating ruffly black dresses, plaid pullovers, and oversized graphic T-shirts of kids' movies that came out before she was born.
First Echo: Tessa was wandering Locke City on her first week in town and ended up running into a couple of gothlolis in Japantown -- a fashion subculture she'd never even heard of. One of the girls had stylized crosses on her dress. When Tessa got home, she promptly decided to invest in putting fancy crosses on lots of clothing items, simply because she thought it looked cool.
Preincarnation Personality: Kokoro is a person who's gone through a lot of work to get to where she is. She trains hard every day to live up to her family's legacy because that's what she's always been told is the only way for her to live. She does believe in the reasons that they've always fought -- protecting the people, preventing anyone else from going through the torture that her ancestors went through -- but for her, front and centre is simply that this is what she is supposed to do. Kokoro always tells the other Angels -- and more often, tells herself -- that fighting is both her duty and her destiny.
This pushes Kokoro to be very stoic and serious on the job. There are missions and threats, there are allies, enemies, and civilians, and that's it. Though they don't interact a lot, she doesn't seem to be as suspicious of Tita as others were in the beginning, and on the flip side, when T. B. Rika reveals herself to have been a Bacterian spy and everybody else is shocked and reluctant to fight her, Kokoro simply says that Rika attacked the city and has to be dealt with. That's that. She barely even reacts when Dark Force wipes out the entire human fleet. Everyone around her is stunned, most of them are crying, but Kokoro muses that this must be the destiny she's been dealt.
She isn't always like that, though. Kokoro may turn off her emotions for work, but when there's no threat to the world around her, she's a perfectly ordinary girl. She befriends the other Angels and has fun with them, doing everything from going to the school festival to karaoke night to going to the hot springs late at night so the group can have the whole place to themselves. She only looks allergic to fun when fun is not what they're supposed to be having.
Kokoro is also pretty hard on herself, going back to the huge expectations her family has for her and that she has for herself. She gets really embarrassed and judges herself over small things like screwing up in gym class, even if nobody else really cares. She does. Who ever heard of a vampire hunter tripping over a jump rope? She takes comfort in things going the way they're supposed to, because then she knows how to deal with them.
Secretly, Kokoro does just wish she could be normal. However, she doesn't fixate on that. She knows very well that it's impossible, and whenever she can, she puts it out of her mind. This is why, instead, she fixates on being Just Like Her Ancestors. She does wonder, though, if she can live normally after her own story is done.
Any differences: Tessa doesn't have a big family legacy to live up to, which was always Kokoro's driving force. Aside from meaning that she's not talking about her ancestors every five minutes, this will affect her participation in the game plot. Kokoro's main motivation in fighting was always that she owed it to her ancestors and that she believes she was born to fight. Without this, Tessa has more of a choice, and she will instead be moved to protect the world simply because she wants to.
Though she'll need a bit of time to adjust to it. Kokoro grew up in a family that fought vampires in a world that had been attacked by aliens and had significant cultural exchange with other aliens. Tessa, of course, has no idea of any of this, so she wasn't brought up to deal with it. Basically, she's the normal girl Kokoro secretly wishes she had been. Hence, she'll be shocked to discover the network and its members and may have trouble believing it. She might be excited, probably scared, but definitely not prepared.
Tessa also isn't nearly as stoic as Kokoro when facing adversity, because she hasn't drilled it into her own head that she has to be perfect and unshakable. She will freak out. If something one-hit kills thousands of her allies, she's not going to lineface and go on about destiny, she'll probably cry. Hopefully nothing does. She also doesn't yet have the view that enemies are enemies no matter what, and would be a lot less likely to want to go off and kill a child even if that child is the leader of a huge alien army and her future self easily killed the Earth's entire line of defence.
Tessa also really loves ~*~dark~*~ stuff, whereas for Kokoro it was just a side effect of the stuff she ended up mired in. Bat earrings or heavy music represent to Tessa the antithesis of small-town boredom; the city is big enough to have people interested in different things instead of the Cult of the Dilapidated High School's Mediocre Sports Teams. She totally has skeleton beads in her doorway at home.
Abilities: Kokoro is one of the few human Angels, so she doesn't have tentacle hair or shoot lasers from her fingers, but here's what she does have.
-On foot, Kokoro is able to use a variety of weapons. Her weapon of choice is her whip, but she also has holy water, which she throws in bottles like grenades, and appears to be able to use a throwing axe as well, since she can use one in her Ride Viper.
-Kokoro uses "Platonic Power", which no one really understands in canon but allows her to transform into her Angel outfit and use a Ride Viper. Her Ride Viper is called Stavros, and her Platonic Power allows it to run and provides a shield around her to protect her from enemy attacks and environmental hazards. She can even breathe in space with this.
-I should elaborate on a Ride Viper's actual basic capabilities. It can fly, withstand extreme heat and cold (they go into an active volcano and into Antarctica and everything's fine, though a lot of that can be attributed to the shield when Platonic Power is used), and go into and out of space. They're heavily based on the old Gradian fighter ships, though much smaller and just barely surround the pilot.
-Stavros' basic weapon loadout is unique to Kokoro and no one else can use these weapons (not even Esmeralda, Ms. Walking Armoury). Aside from the basic rapid bullets, they all mirror the weapons she uses on foot; she has a beam whip, which travels in front of her to strike at enemies, she can toss holy water and throwing axes, and she fires cross-shaped lasers. If gameplay is any indication (she's recommended for advanced players), most of her weapons also have a terrible learning curve. Prepare for flailing about until she learns to use them properly.
-She also has only one Option (a small drone floating around her Ride Viper that can fire at enemies); it is called Trigon. It fires in the opposite direction of Kokoro's movement, so it's good for firing above, below, or behind her, and when upgraded enough (in the game, this is done by levelling up, but as this is an RP and not a video game, I'll just do any "levelling up" by staggering Echoes as upgrades), it can fire in two directions. At level 1 and 2 it fires bullets, and at level 3 it fires twin lasers.
-Stavros can also be fitted with a number of other weapons, like pulse lasers, guns, and boxing gloves (not even kidding), instead. Kokoro cannot upgrade her Ride Viper herself, so she'd just have parts sitting around her house and nothing to do with them, and her basic weapon loadout works well enough for her, so she'll probably just stick with it.
-Platonic Power also enables Kokoro to use her Grand Cross -- an attack that manifests as a giant glowing cross that hits anything in its path. She calls it "Lightning Sword" and it acts as her Platonic Break (special attack). It appears horizontally instead of vertically like her ancestors' versions of the ability did, so it's best suited for enemies directly in front of her and at short distances above or below.
There's no shortage of gameplay videos to see these for yourself. In this one, in the first stage alone she begins with basic bullets and then proceeds to pull out Beam Whip, Holy Water, Lightning Sword, and Trigon all before the boss.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person: This testrun thread has replies!
Roleplay Sample - Network:
If it hasn't been done previously, I'd like to make an inquiry about our pulse memories. Or if the word "echo" feels better for you, since that seems to be more popular lately -- but that doesn't matter to the question.
How many of you have gained memories of situations like we're in now? An alien invasion, or maybe being hunted -- something like that?
...Also, as long as I'm here, I would like to ask if anybody has workarounds for a school dress code that won't allow me to dye my hair blue or make the tips black. Some of you have these colours naturally now, so you must have a solution, right? The temporary dye always looks bad and drink powder doesn't work.
Any Questions? Otomedius is a very all-there-in-the-manual canon and we only ever got Excellent and the art book in English... thankfully, Kokoro is only in Excellent, so there's not much of a problem there. There's a good deal of fanon floating around passing itself off as official, just as a warning, but I did my research (and maybe played a bit too much of the game) to make sure everything not in italics actually did happen in it. If you have any questions, please ask!