Winter's Wrap

Art of Winter's Wrap.

**Winter's Wrap** is a character in *Magical Girl Policy*. She is a monster created by Platicore to drain Investiture from people and battle the Spirit Guard. She appears in the "Holiday Memories" vignette.

## Appearance

Winter's Wrap resembles a slim human woman, but she is nine feet tall, possesses long, stretchy arms, and is dressed in what appears to be wrapping paper. Her body is made of some material weaker than human skin and lacks bones and internal organs. Beyond these basic features, Winter's Wrap's description in "Holiday Memories" and her appearance in Grimay's artwork differ significantly. In the text, she has porcelain white skin, is scantily clad in her wrapping paper, and her arms are made of the same material. In the art, she has green skin, her wrapping paper resembles a short, red, strapless dress with a bow on the left breast, and her arms are made out of ribbon, which also wraps about her torso. The art depicts her as having red eyes, sharp teeth, large hands with clawlike fingers, and orange hair that reaches to her rear.

## Personality

Winter's Wrap incorporates Christmas-themed turns of phrase into her speech, matching her being modeled after a Christmas present. As a monster from early in the Spirit Guard's career, she is assumed to be significantly less intelligent than the ones that appear in the present day.

## Abilities

As a monster created by Platicore, Winter's Wrap is assumed to be capable of switching between the form of some ordinary object and her true form used for combat. She is also assumed to be capable of draining Investiture from people provided it is not too complex like a Spirit Guard's, and that her power is directly proportional to the amount of Investiture she has collected.

Her body is made out of weak material like wrapping paper and can be easily torn, though Winter's Wrap is inhumanly flexible and can even continue to fight after being completely pierced. She is considered a very weak monster overall and inferior to her unspecified predecessor.

Winter's Wrap's most distinctive feature is her pair of strechy arms, which can uncoil in order to reach over long distances, and she seems to fight most effectively at long range because of this. She can apparently also bite with considerable force, as she attempts to bite Spirit Guard Valor when put into close quarters with her arms pinned.

### Special move

* **Wrap Up:** Upon saying the name of the move, wrapping paper from her biceps flies towards a target in order to entangle it.

## Biography

### Background

During early December the year before the start of the series, Winter's Wrap is created by Platicore. Spirit Guard Valor had recently been joined by Spirit Guard Tenacity, so Platicore tried a new strategy of creating monsters in quicker succession in apparent hopes of exhausting the duo. Winter's Wrap is placed at K.D. Schilling's Department Store in western Kessia City. She would then do battle with Valor and Tenacity, though the circumstances that led to the encounter are not shown. Seemingly unbeknownst to the combatants, one civilian, Donovan, fails to evacuate the store and instead hides during the fight. Winter's Wrap is easily defeated by the heroes, as their weapons tear through her flimsy attacks and body without issue. She is incinerated by Tenacity's Intrepid Blade, and her empathic capacitor emerges and shatters in a manner typical of Platicore's monsters.

## Relationships

### Platicore's forces

Winter's Wrap was created by Platicore and presumably deployed at the store by Trace. Winter's Wrap was created during the time immediately following Spirit Guard Tenacity's appearance, when Platicore tried his hand at creating monsters more quickly, but seemingly in exchange for lesser combat effectiveness.

### Spirit Guard

Winter's Wrap was designed to kill the Spirit Guard, who at the time recently became a duo as Tenacity joined Valor. She does battle with them, but is easily defeated.

## Trivia

* Winter's Wrap having extendable arms was inspired by the video game *ARMS*, in which characters fight using such limbs. Her artwork gives her ribbon arms, which the *ARMS* character Ribbon Girl also possesses.