Touka

## Touka Tougasaki

Touka is the support mage in Tsukiyo's squad.

## Appearance

Touka is very skinny and petite. She has shoulder-length olive-green hair and eyes the colour of prehnite. She wears very comfortable clothing with pastel colours and animal print, particularly soft sweaters.

## Personality

Touka has social anxiety with people she doesn't know, and stutters and hesitates and tries to avoid it entirely. She would prefer to read by herself than to play or chat with other people. When someone unexpectedly talks to her, she's more likely to stare in silence rather than respond, and if she does respond at all she'll be laconic and quiet, giving the impression that she's stoic.

In reality, her personality is the exact opposite: her inner dialogue runs a mile a minute with great excitement, and if there are no witnesses or she's only surrounded by friends, this can become her *outer* dialogue too. And it turns out that, due to lack of practice talking to anyone who hasn't already accepted her, her interests are *kind of weird* when unfiltered. She's always comparing things to some kind of story or character trope, and has apparently memorised a wide breadth of random trivia.

## Background

Touka awakened to her magical powers at the same time as her father; unfortunately, her father did not survive the process, and became a monster instead.

Tsukiyo saw potential in Touka despite her lack of confidence, and recruited her into the elite squad. Touka wasn't a fan of being stabbed, though, so she took up the rapier because it was longer than other sidearm swords.

## Abilities

Touka can be considered a sort of jack-of-all-trades red mage type party member, having a wide variety of abilities at a mediocre level. Unlike Tsukiyo, Touka isn't as capable of flexibly slotting into any role by switching equipment and magical loadout, but instead, she is just always able to do a little bit of everything, and is never the best at anything.

Touka's average magic strength supports a wide range of attack magics: wind, electric, water, and ice can be used to hit weaknesses of a wide range of enemies. She also seems to have some affinity for controlling the weather, but this also means her damage potential relies on cloudiness and stormy weather, but her party prefers to not perform outdoor missions in the rain. She has weak multi-target healing magic that can bolster her allies' stamina but not heal serious wounds. However, she can also cast invigorating blessings that direct the wind to support her allies' offensive and defensive capabilities, and this is her usual role in combat. Everything else is just regarded as a bonus during downtime. Touka also has a very high mana capacity, and although her spells aren't strong, she can use them without fear of running out.

Physically, Touka's average strength allows her to make minor contributions to killing enemies. She uses a crossbow to pick off enemies from a distance with high accuracy but low rate of fire, or uses a rapier for rapid strikes and poking out enemy eyeballs. In their default formation, she uses a crossbow from the back lines, but she's equally capable in melee and at range. Her main weakness is that she's not especially good at avoiding getting hit, and doesn't have the stamina for extended parrying sessions.

## Trivia

* Touka's cooking can best be described as "a disaster". She has very little baseline knowledge in the kitchen and no patience for preparing ingredients ahead of time, so she often tries to substitute ingredients for something that sounds or looks similar without doing the research first.
* Touka loves all sorts of food, and eats a lot of microwaveable junk food. However, she often forgets to eat.