Isa "Sleeping Demon" Agnote

### Dislikes

Missing sleep, people calling her siblings and squadmates as “rejects” or “failures at being magi”, people stealing her food

## Magic

### Principle

Power

**Isa Agnote** is a member of the Snake Tong's Unit 9, the Bad Batch, and serves as the unit's primary muscle, with immense potential for physical strength, capable of lifting up a battle tank with enough effort. Off-set by her "flaw" of being only able to regenerate mana while asleep, and her tendency to grow sleepy the less mana she has, Isa is a sleeping dragon you do not want to wake up angry. Despite her immense power, she is the very model of a cuddly big sister that is more than happy to give you a hug and glomp you while asleep.

## Background

The “big sis” and heavy muscle of Enforcer Unit 9. Isla was born with a body that stunted her ability to replenish her own mana reserves unless she slept for long periods of time, and outside sources of magical energy were the only practical way for her to even be a proper magus. Her original family viewed this as a liability, and like her adoptive brother John, she was sold to the Shiai-shi to be recycled into materials as a baby. However, such fate was prevented when she too was taken in by Pedro Agnote, who like her also was considered an “aberration” from mage norms. She was raised alongside her adoptive siblings and turned into the squad’s Heavy. With the help of her adoptive father and others from the organization, she was able to find a way to overcome her inability to regenerate magical energy and its near-narcoleptic symptoms by having her squadmates help her maintain flexible sleeping schedules during off duty time as well as before and after missions.

Her stunted magical potential seems to have come with an off-set of enhanced physical potential, which her father and siblings discovered after they saw her grow up in quite the statuesque powerhouse after years of training. This allowed her to fit the role of the muscle of the Bad Batch. First into battle, first to the bed, Isa is charging, no retreat!

The eldest of the Bad Batch, she serves as Cap's second in command, and the eldest sibling who gives the sage advice. Many wonder if she has a lot of profound philosophical dreams when asleep. She laughs this off and says she dreams of sheep most of the time.

## Personality

A gentle giant, that is more interested in finishing a mission as fast as possible in order for her to enjoy her meal and hit the hay afterward. She is perhaps the most laidback person in the entire organization, and also the laziest in a way due to the amount of sleep she consumes. Due to her reliance on sleep or outside sources for magical energy, she would sometimes casually smooch her allies during missions if she runs out in a pinch. She does not do this to her siblings, however, since she was once quoted saying “I am not from Alabama.” Some suggest that she carry around packs of magi blood and other fluids, but she refuses as she finds the whole thing to be repulsive and that she is not a bloodsucker or succubus.

She had to condition herself to follow fluctuating sleeping schedules, and despite her penchant for dozing off, she tries her best to stay awake whenever she has to work out and maintain her martial arts training during specific days. She greatly appreciates it when her squad mates help her out in this kind of thing. Unit 9 warns potential victims to not be near cuddle range when Isa is about to fall asleep. Consequences include being stuck in a hug until she wakes up, due to her strength. She is also rather affectionate towards people she is closed to, preferring to show her feelings with hugs and headpats.

Technically the oldest of the original Enforcement Unit 9 “adoptees”, she acts as the eldest sister of the group, although she is definitely the laidback and lazy type of nee-san, instead of the reliable one, however, this is mostly due to the effects on her body. She is usually too busy being 90% asleep to pay attention to anything that's going on around her and is far too easily distracted. She also speaks in a rather drowsy tone, although the adrenaline rush during combat makes her sound more serious. She still enjoys a little bit of violent fighting, in the end, and her fighting stye fits that of a very stronk berserker. Perhaps the only way to piss her off is to use derogatory language towards her siblings and squadmates for being “Rejects and aberrations as magi”.

Although she has learned English, she mostly speaks Tagalog as her most comfortable language to use, even though some people wouldn’t understand her. She lets the others do the talking in order to avoid problems like this. Whenever she is half-asleep, she would sometimes mix the two languages together by accident, confusing those who aren’t bilingual in those respective languages. She admits that she ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to magic and high concept stuff such as “Advanced Math” and “Philosophy”.

*”Asking me to explain how algebra works is like asking a butterfly to lift a barbel by itself. You’re better of asking Grim with stuff like that.”*

*-The Sleeping Demon, avoiding math questions.*

## Abilities

### Magic and Physical Capabilities

Her stunted magical energy regeneration aside, she was still able to gain the basic education needed to pull off fundamental magic, although she hasn’t bothered advancing her repertoire outside of Reinforcement, detecting magical energy, and basics of bounded fields. Isa figured she’d be better off focusing more on honing her physical capabilities, which is pretty imposing after all the years of training. The physical potential boost provided by the stunting of her regeneration allowed her to condition her body to be very strong and durable, allowing her to tank hits and pull off feats of strength unheard of from most magi. She once stopped a bullet train by colliding with it head-on, later ripping apart the front train and throwing it overhead towards her target. She did this with a combination of Reinforcement and her own physical prowess, of course. She was asleep for 19 hours afterward, though. Despite her slothlike nature, she is surprisingly agile once pumped up for a fight.

Sleep seems to be the only cost-effective method (and method that Isa consistently allows) in order for her to regenerate magical energy. Although she isn’t averse to special potions in the form of stimpaks that she can quickly administer in a fight if she starts running out. She only has a limited amount of these, however, and she will likely resort to either smooching someone as mana transfer, or retreat from the fight if she feels like she might get too drained of Od and be forced into a hibernation state.

### Equipment

**Snake Key**

Unlike the blade-based “Keys” Snake agents use to weaken magical energy in bounded fields and reinforcement-based armor, Isa’s key is made is essentially an Arnis stick made with the same materials used for the knives. She uses the power of ‘bonk’ to disperse magical energy. She seems to prefer blunt weaponry, after all. The sturdier construction makes it more suited for heavy combat.

**S11 'BB' Bulletproof Body Suit**

Standard issue magic armor that Snake Tong provides its members. It is a black suit which was made to be bulletproof (tested with 9mm, 7.62, NATO/.308) and provides magic resistance, dispelling low level spells. It is considered to be one of the iconic uniforms of the Shiai-shi. The suit is made with a composite of multiple magical materials, a major one being Huohuan Bu Silk from a Spider Yaoguai. This makes the Suit durable (enough to withstand modern gunfire and magical projectiles), easily enchantable with magic, and has innate fire resistance. If the Suit was stained, one simply needs to burn the area with the stain and the mess will soon disappear without damaging the cloth.

The Sleeping Demon is outfitted with a suit, tailored to her size. However, she quickly dons more comfortable clothing she deems as “Ideal to sleep in” after every mission, to the point that most of her fellow agents who don’t have much opportunity to see her in combat see her exclusively wear casual clothing.

**"Shroud Ties"**

Shroud Ties are standard issue magic armor and head protection, cleverly disguised as neckties that allow them to blend in with the Bulletproof Snake suit style. By pulling down the tie and channeling mana through them, the ties transform into balaclava masks that provide full coverage of the head and neck. The material is made to be as bulletproof as the suits and also provide the same magical protection. The Shroud Tie can be deactivated by the user removing the mask, and it will turn back into their necktie forms.

Isa has a dark blue mask, with horned Japanese Oni-style motif.