Aya

**Aya** is a Human Mage and former student of the Queen Asteria Spirit Institute. She comes from a mostly-unknown background save for her origins in a certain orphanage.

## Traits

### Appearance

Aya has large, beautiful eyes with long eyelashes. They have a neutral slant and she has vivid crimson irises. Her nose is slim and sharp, while her mouth is dainty and small, with bright pink lips. Her overall facial shape is oval, with smooth, rounded cheeks, rather high cheekbones, a small jaw and a sharp chin. Her cheekbones are not prominent and she does not have chiselled features.
Aya possesses very fair and smooth skin, almost like crystal. She has no blemishes or scars on any part of her body. She has narrow shoulders, a slim waist, and wide hips. Her bust is of above average size for a girl her age. Aya's body is somewhat toned, but not muscular. Accounting for her height, Aya is considered to have a nearly perfect physique, which makes her a beautiful girl when her fine facial features are concerned.

### Personality

In her early life, Aya is shown to be shy and humble due to being bullied for her affinity to the Darkness element. After her shift in personality after witnessing power first-hand however, she is shown to be very assertive, if not aggressive in pursuing her goals and making her own place in life. Aya is later shown to be determined and focused, and respects power, not social constructs and expectations which she considers absurd.

## Abilities

### Innate

As a human, Aya has the innate power common to those of her race. This allows her to cast spells more efficiently. Her spells cost less and are stronger. Furthermore, her effectiveness at projecting wards is improved compared to the other races. Like with most Human Mages, Aya is able to cast spells that she has cast before for a fraction of the cost and no cast time, fire energy waves from her weapons using mana and enchant a weapon to do more damage as magical damage

Unlike most humans, Aya possesses a complete darkness affinity where her elemental magic is concerned, in exchange for having no affinity for spells of the light element. Aya's other elemental affinities are below average for an elementalist of her talent. This makes her a Dark Mage of incredible potential at the expense of the ability to cast spells that are not aligned with darkness.

### Foundational

Aya currently possesses 5 Vitakinetic Channels, giving her immortality and strong resistance against poisons, diseases, and other negative effects, at the cost of having potions have less effects on her as well. She also has mastery of Perfect Homeostasis, making her body always cool to the touch and preventing her from being affected by adverse environmental conditions.

Aya's powerful and unique affinity with Darkness that she has honed allows her melee strikes to drain vitality and reduce the magical resistances of those she strikes, making them more vulnerable to spells. Furthermore, Aya's stamina and mana recovery is enhanced by this mysterious affinity.

### Physical

Despite being primarily an Elementalist, Aya is shown to have basic knowledge on footwork and swordplay, in thanks to tutoring by Amane Sakurai. This makes Aya an advanced Mage despite her primary profession and enables her to defend herself even where melee combat is concerned.

### Magical

Aya is skilled in many abilities related to Darkness, and has good knowledge on the usage of Telekinesis despite her limited output on it. She is also knowledgeable in Reinforcement to a degree.

As a Mage possessing 5 Vitakinetic Circuits, she has good knowledge and power on Healing and Cleanse with greater control despite the lack of stronger magnitude concerning the former, and her ability on using Death Grip is low.

## Trivia

* Aya's appearance is similar to Kurumi Tokisaki of the Date A Live series, or Taihou from the Azur Lane series.