Jennifer Freedonia

**Jennifer Freedonia** is a teacher of Honan Academy. She is the dean of the Puppet Branch within the Creation Department.

## Appearance

Jennifer has the look of a late 30s years old despite being much younger. This is probably because she has replaced parts of her body with puppet body she created. In another word, she is "fixed in place".

She has brunette hair and blue eyes. Initially, she has blond hair like her sister but the color change after she offers her hair to a demon familiar.

According to Savannah, Jennifer "looks like an educated mom with spectacles and a cigarette".

## Personality

Jennifer had a terrible relationship with her sister, Savannah because she took her position as the successor to the Fifth Magic. After the event Ruins in the Snow, this relationship appears to be mended. However, Jennifer still has a thing for petty revenge like spending all of Savannah's money from Honan Academy despite being a teacher there. It appears that revenge against Savannah even takes priority over her own self-preservation.

Jennifer was originally obsessed with reaching the Root which led her to hate her sister. She was competitive with Araya as they both were trying to reach the Akasha, but eventually she gave up on it. While giving up on it, she enjoys her daily life with people she cares about. She usually cut ties with people she is closed with in fear they would get in danger because of her and realized she stayed a bit too close with Mikito Kreuzchor and Abe Nagata.

Jennifer believes a certification is not really proof of anything, it's just a scrap of paper. Likewise, as long as you've actually got the skills to back it up, things like licenses or certifications are completely unnecessary. She's qualified in Medical Treatment, Construction, Business, and Information Gathering.

She loves new things, and she will tinker restlessly with things in which she is interested. In her underground garage, she has four cars, two motorcycles, and an engine propeller plane. She is also very loose with money, as she buys items with magic properties from "Dark Amazon" on impulse which leads her to being broke months at a time.

Sometimes she could not provide salary for her staff because of her spending. As compensation for Abe's work, Jennifer will usually give her an upgrade to his artificial arm, or maybe a rare knife to stop him sulking.

## Background

Jennifer is Savannah's older twin sister. During the after match of World War II, there were hundreds magic families migrated to the United States of America. They called themselves Freedonia, a name that took after their belief of the country. The family, like many other magician family that escaped the horror of the World War, allied themselves as mages of the New World. Combining their research together, those hundreds of family successfully created the seed that could survive after the world was doom. That seed was actually twin, Savannah and Jennifer.

Initially, Jennifer believed that she was destined to inherit the Fifth Magic. Jennifer has vastly superior magic circuits compared to her sister and she shows great effort in learning magecraft.

During childhood, while Savannah lived peacefully with her parents in the city, Jennifer lived with her grandfather, the head of the Freedonia family, in a mountain workcraft far away from people to learn about the family's magecraft.

However, when her grandfather suddenly changed the position of successor to Savannah, despite Savannah being a formally inferior mage (not counting her ability to "blow things up"), she ran away to join Honan Academny, plotting for her revenge.

As a teenager, she traveled to Brussel and made quite a name for herself. As a student of the Honan Academy, she is one of the best student there. Studying under Gisela Habsburg-Lorraine, she achieved the rank of Crown, the highest rank of the school when she was 20 years old and was asked to become a teacher there.

## Abilities

Jennifer is one of the most powerful mages in the world, and while she does not have as many Magic Circuits as Ia Bayern, she is a genius with talents that are independent of her lineage. Jennifer's magic circuit's quality is top tier. Although her younger sister Savannah is good at nothing but destroying things, Jennifer is truly a polymath. While her level of mystery is lower compared to the likes of Transcendents or Gods, meaning that in a beam fight, she would definitely lose, Jennifer believes that with her experience and careful planning, she would be able to defeat them by exploiting their primary weakness.

### Mystic Eyes of Hypnotize

**Mystic Eyes of Enchantment (A+):** Jennifer is an expert in mystic eyes. While not being born with one, she managed to buy two pairs of mystic eyes from a vampire and modified them. She put them in opposite direction to each other and combined them into a new set of mystic eyes. Upon using, they will reflect each other like a mirror. As a result, she has essentially an infinite number of Mystic Eyes of Enchantment to indefinitely bind the opponent.

### Runes

Jennifer possesses a variety of Runes that can display a variety of effects, but her most notable are the three replicas of Primeval Runes. These runes, indestructible by magecraft, are able to amplify the curses of her other runes by tens of millions of times.

Despite most of them have been lost to time, she was able to recover and reconstruct a large portion of those lost Runes. Even beyond recovering the 24 Runes of the Futhark alphabet that undergirds the magecraft as a whole, she also managed to parse out a number of Primordial Runes that were supposedly lost back in the Age of Gods. Jennifer's skill in Runes is so great, she can use Rune magecraft to draw the Runes themselves. Her use of runes is not that powerful, instead being secondary to her skills in puppet-crafting and body modification. Despite that, Jennifer's discovery is still one of a kind which elevate her to the status of Crown.

Jennifer's various runes were unable to stop Savannah no matter the quality or quantity, as her outstanding reflexes and prediction act in synergy with the powerful force of the bullets she releases with both hands. Jennifer is amazed at the simplicity of her magecraft, commenting that even at her peak she is utterly hopeless in only being able to blow things apart. While runes are curses effective against people, Savannah's bullets are powerful projectiles that affect all things without discrimination.

She is able to create a "Runic Protection" that creates a Bounded Field surrounding a building. Using the *Sowilo* Rune, Jennifer can use its meaning of "Sun" to unleash effects connected to the sun, such as using the Rune's power to rapidly scatter the lingering shadows and darkness of Homura's magecraft, like the morning sun melting the night's frost. By engraving the runes *Naudiz*, *Jera*, and *Uruz* into the ground, Jennifer used the meaning of "creation" behind this string of Runes to engrave countless Runes through her own great skill in runes at a radius of about ten meters around Kimhyun, then cause the dozens of Runes to explode around him, with the dozens of impacts blowing away both the his consciousness.

### Puppets

Jennifer is an expert puppet maker. She has even received a Sealing Designation because she was able to create a puppet body identical to her own body. She's able to reproduce parts of a body that can be used instead of the lost part. While this would be nothing special, she can reproduce the part in such a perfect way that it is indistinguishable from the real one.

#### Jennifer Puppet

The peak of Jennifer's puppet arts is herself as a puppet.

Puppets are normally either greater or lesser than human bodies in some way. While they may have greater strength and move as would a human, some flaw in their creation will expose them at some point. Their speech, actions, or appearance will seem wrong or unnatural, and their parts are only mechanisms animated by magecraft and not truly living. Exposing something like blood and muscle sinew from the loss of a limb should reveal the truth. This has led to the saying "Magecraft cannot create an automaton that contains the spark of humanity." that has been passed down since the Middle Ages. Once simply common knowledge, it eventually became a rule of sorts for mages.

Within her various experiments, Jennifer has managed to create a perfect puppet imitation of herself despite that rule. It is no more or less than herself, and despite most magi striving to seek higher plateaus in the field, she feels that is the state of the art of magecraft. It has brought her current existence into a state of being that can be likened to Schrödinger's cat. Upon first witnessing her creation, she thought there may no longer be a need for herself, and that it, even after she is killed, going on to act as she did no longer leaves any hope for puppeteers to achieve ascension in their craft. Even if her body is destroyed and her soul is severed, the next Jennifer simply awakens without issue.

Due to the exactness of the puppets, the next Jennifer will awaken after the death of the previous one. It is possible to stall the awakening by keeping her brain active, even if the rest of her body is destroyed. Her soul often remembers everything up until the point of death, even the pain of her head being crushed by Jennifer. It is possible that her full will and goals will not be inherited to the next puppet depending on how far the original is from the puppet. The closer the proximity, the more likely she will inherit the original's will, and the further away, as they are stored all over the world, the greater a blank in her memory proportional to the distance will be formed. She normally has a rule of "begin activity after constructing a puppet", though her easily roused nature and lack of patience causes her to go after Ia right after waking.

The transition between the original and the puppet is very smooth, likened to napping and acting as if she overslept by a few hours. Everything she knows stays with her, and determinism dictates that she should take the same actions as her predecessor. She only knows that she wakes when the previous is dead, so she can no longer tell which version of her is the real Jennifer, the time when she became like that, or if it even matters at all. She then may create another puppet for the sole reason of convincing herself that she is the real Jennifer. The previous version may have been real or it may be dead, but with only one of her, there is no way to distinguish between them, likened to a quantum superposition-like state that makes all any version of her "fake" in her own eyes. Ia finds the explanation mostly inconceivable, from the method to Jennifer's state of mind, so she simply tells him to think of the previous one as fake.

### Familiar Demon

**Familiar Demon (B+):** Jennifer once offered her 20 years growth hair to make a contract with a demon. As a mage, hair is linked with her magic circuits so for someone relies on quality of magic circuits than quantity, losing a large amount of hair harm her mana cap by a lot but she considered it a worth deal. Her familiar is a powerful cat demon that she hides inside her clothes so that she can never be ambushed in surprise, acting as Jennifer's final line of defense or her trump card. The demon can move with the speed of lightning with physical power on par Kimhyun.

## Equipment

### Projection Machine

* **Description:** A projection machine that allows Jennifer to project creatures. Through the use of idolatry, Jennifer is able to artificially create a monster-like familiar using her projection machine that cannot be killed unless the machine is destroyed. The machine is a small device hidden inside a bag that Jennifer always carried. Jennifer could use the machine to project runes in case all of her runes are lost or she could project her familiar, allowing her to have two trump cards at the same time.