Pandora Izayoi

> I’m not the average Priestess.
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> ― Pandora
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Pandora Izayoi is one of the protagonists and member of the titular party, Memento Mori. She is the twin sister of the Half-Elf Archer, Caelum Izayoi, and Embla's magic mentor. She calls herself a Priestess of Odin yet often acts unbecoming of someone of her stature.

## Profile

* Volume I
* Volume II

*She is the Twin of the Archer.*
*Despite her occupation and appearance, she is known to have a morbid sense of humor and questionable morals.*

*In the tournament to decide the future of all adventurers, she finds herself in a match she was not supposed to be.*
*In the face of adversity against a rival whose magic equals or possibly surpasses hers, will she find the strength to push through and help the Frigid Illusion in her fight against the Fleeting Light of Setsuna.*

## Appearance

Pandora is described to look almost exactly like Cal due to the fact that they're twins. Pandora is a petite half-elf, half-human woman with rich blonde hair and honey-almond eyes. Her eyes are noted to be much duller than Cal's which are more akin to a honey-gold. She is the shortest member of the group. As a half-elf, Pandora has elongated, sharp ears which signify h
er elven heritage.

Due to her being a priestess, Pandora wears priestess uniform, consisting of a white robe over a black garb. Her robe and garb are decorated with golden outlines. She wears black skintight leggings underneath and has plain leather boots. Pandora, unlike the others, carries a small pack filled solely with mana restoration potions. She wields a staff made of hawthorn wood with a violet jewel located at the tip.

## Personality

Pandora is a bubbly, rather outgoing and outspoken person amongst her group. One of her most defining traits so far is how emotive she is. Pandora has no problem showing her emotions and expressing them. Her happy attitude attracts people to her and she is known to be the easiest person to talk to. Due to her emotive personality, Pandora is also rather sensitive and will cry at any given moment as seen when she cried at Embla's appearance at the end of their first quest.

However, her rather immature persona can be a deceiving front for what she has hidden underneath. She has no qualms using the funds gathered by the Temple of Odin in order to get what she wants. Pandora can also be rather sadistic from time to time. She appears to have no qualms about scaring people to the point of fearing for their lives such as planting a magical bomb inside someone's chest.

Pandora is shown to be rather perverted. Whenever Red and Yuki are missing, she is often heard making snide comments of them doing the "freaky-deaky". She even suggested that Yuki and Red were having comfort sex after Mizore appeared, causing Yuki's spirits to fall into the dumps. Her insistence of this has shown more truth than fiction as Red and Yuki do appear closer than they look.

One of her most defining traits is her obsessive crush on the Grandmaster of the Knights of Midgard. She is stated to be obsessed with both him and his wife. Embla speculates that Pandora owns all the merchandise associated with the Grandmaster.

When it comes to magic, Pandora is a perfectionist. She is fierce and adamant in perfecting magic skills before it can be considered average. When teaching Embla, Pandora is a strict yet fair teacher, taking her time to demonstrate and explain concepts to her.

## History

Pandora Izayoi grew up in an unnamed village in Midgard alongside her twin brother, Caelum Izayoi. When they were young, Cal and Pandora got into an argument, resulting in her storming off. She got lost in the woods but managed to find their special spot. Scared and alone, Pandora hid there for a period of time. Eventually, Cal found her huddled inside their tree house and returned with her hours later

## Combat Information

### Combat Statistics

**Key:** **Vol I Pandora** | **Vol II Pandora**

**Dimensionality:** **3-D**

**Attack Potency:** **Wall Level** (Is comparable to Embla and Cal. Pandora is also capable of reducing a person into charcoal with a single attack). **Small Building Level**, possibly **higher** with Triangle Casting | **Small Building Level** (Stronger than her Vol I self. She is capable of easily destroying the head of a mutated Sabyr. Said species of Sabyr is capable of toppling small buildings and objects of similar size with sheer strength). At least **Small Building Level** with Multi-Casting

**Speed:** Likely **Supersonic** (Is consistently depicted as capable of keeping pace with the other members of Memento Mori. She has fast enough reflexes to be able to dodge mana bullets from manacaster (guns) and block a beam of energy from an energy cannon)

**Lifting Strength:** **Class 1**, likely **higher** with [Enhance Parameter]

**Durability:** **Wall Level**. **City Block Level** with Barriers (Her barrier skills are capable of blocking a blast from the Gusisnautar cannon, which has been stated multiple times to be capable of destroying an area as large as Yggdrasil's city square)

**Stamina:** **High** (Is capable of performing Triangle Casting without much effort. Triangle Casting is stated to be a high level form of casting involving the use of three magical skills at the same time as opposed to one, requiring large mana reserves and efficient use of them)

**Powers and Abilities:**

* Vol I
* Vol II

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Magic, Elemental Manipulation (Pandora is capable of using Fire, Chi Manipulation (Prana is biological life energy generated by the body's natural chemical processes and stored within it. It can be used for various purposes), Statistics Amplification via Prana Control, Ice, and Lightning. Her skill is great enough to be able to utilize all three at once), Danmaku via Icicle Raid, Light Manipulation, Healing, Forcefield Creation, Clairvoyance, Teleportation and BFR via Teleportation Pearls, Chain Manipulation

All previous abilities enhanced including Power Modification (As stated by Pandora, Complex Casting allows the user to control multiple spells, or as demonstrated, modify an existing one by adding different affinities to create newer stronger skills), Explosion Manipulation (Can cause magical skills to explode with Dual Casting), Spatial Manipulation and Teleportation, Weapon Creation via Valkyrie Spear, Extrasensory Perception via Mana Sense, Earth Manipulation, Air Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation

**Intelligence:** Despite her airheaded tendencies, Pandora has shown to be quite intelligent when it comes to the field of magic. Her knowledge is great enough to be able to teach Embla how to properly access her mana, allowing her to learn more skills aside from Sparks and making a small flame in her hand. She also has deep knowledge on skills involving prana control, despite not having much training in the field beyond self-enhancement. As a priestess, Pandora seems to know a great deal about topics involving religion and the Gods.

**Weaknesses:** She has an odd obsession with the Grandmaster. In addition, Pandora appears to have no hand to hand combat knowledge, allowing people to overpower her should they get past her onslaught of spells.

### Powers and Abilities

**List of Skills**

* Skills
* Bursts

* Magic Skills
* Martial Skills

#### Magical Skills

As the Priestess of the party, Pandora is the most magically inclined person within the entire group. She possesses large reserves of mana as stated by Embla. Her magical skill is higher than the rest of the party's, being able to use Level 3 Complex Casting. Complex Casting is a measure of how skilled a mage or priest is in controlling their mana, allowing them to cast multiple spells at once or modify an existing spell by infusing it with a different affinity. Pandora's level of Complex Casting reaches that of Triangle Casting as seen so far. Her skill is first seen in the Battle of the Unnamed Fortress where she unleashed Triangle Magic in order to wipe out an entire group of bandits.

**Fire Affinity Magic:** Fire Magic is the ability to use magic to generate and control fire. Pandora's skill with this is quite high despite it not being her original affinity.

* **Fireball:** The most basic fire skill. The user creates a ball of flames and fires it at their opponents.
* **Blazing Gale:** A dual cast skill. Originally a Fire Vortex. This skill is infused with Wind Element to create a far more vicious vortex. The heat of this vortex is said to inflict burns on the target without the use of fire.

**Ice Affinity Magic:** Ice Magic allows the user to create and manipulate ice and cold. Pandora has shown to be able to use it on multiple occasions. She has also been seen combining it with other affinities to create stronger ice skills.

* **Icicle Raid:** An Ice Skill that lets the user create multiple ice spears and fire them in rapid succession.
* **Icicle Ballista:** Though unnamed, Icicle Ballista is a Dual Casting Skill that allows the user to fire a spike of ice infused with lightning. The icicle then explodes after a few seconds.

**Lightning Affinity Magic:** Lightning Affinity Magic is magic involving the control and generation of lightning and electrical energy. Pandora has displayed great skill with this affinity, being able to use Dual and Triangle Level Casting Skills with it on multiple occasions.

* **Sparks:** A basic lightning skill. The user creates a small ball of electricity and fires it as a lightning bolt.
	+ **Dual Sparks:** A Dual Casting Skill. Pandora creates two Sparks spells and fires them at once.
* **Thunder Blast:** A mid level lightning skill. It requires the user to pool electrical energy using their mana and unleash it as a single ruinous bolt of lightning. This skill is powerful enough to reduce an entire human sized entity into charcoal.

**Light Affinity Magic:** Light Affinity Magic is magic involving the manipulation and control of light. It is seen as a holy form of magic due to its wide applications. It is hinted that this is Pandora's affinity on one occasion.

* **Light Binding:** A Light Skill that allows the user to create chains or thread made of pure light. It is capable of binding a grown man.
* **Light Platform:** A Light Skill that allows users to create platforms made of light.

**Earth Magic:** Earth Magic is magic involving the manipulation and control of earthen elements and the terrain around them.

* **Earth Wall:** The user taps their staff or slams their palm on the ground to produce a wall of earth that can block physical and magical attacks.

**Healing Magic:** Healing Magic is a form of magic that allows the user to restore and treat wounds. As a Priestess, Pandora has shown great skill even with the most basic healing skill.

* **Healing Hands:** A basic healing skill. It allows the user to restore wounds. In Pandora's hands, she displayed great skill with it, being able to save Embla and moderately heal her internal mana burns over a course of a week.

**Barrier Magic:** Barrier Magic allows the user to generate barriers for defensive purposes. Sometimes, these barriers can be used for other purposes or infuse them with elements.

* **Unnamed Barrier Skill:** Pandora is capable of using a barrier skill strong enough to block a full power blast from a Gusisnautar. However, the skill drains a lot of her mana, leaving her defenseless.

**Scrying Magic:** Also known as Information Gathering Magic. Scrying Magic is a form of magic that discerns information from their surroundings. Mages and Priests usually use it to aid their parties in finding their destination.

* **Clairvoyance:** The most basic Scrying Skill. It allows the user to generate a path of light based on information that the user knows.

#### Martial Skills

While she heavily relies on magic, Pandora is shown to know how to manipulate her Prana. However, her exact skill in unarmed combat is unknown as she has yet to display any skill. Cal, however, notes that she has a considerable amount of physical strength.

**Staff Wielder:** While she is exclusively a long ranged fighter, Pandora has shown some level of skill with the staff. She is capable of using it as a close combat tool. During her battle with Mary, Pandora uses it to counterattack against the mage's mana infused close-range attacks. She also uses it against Cal and has shown the ability to keep up with Cal in a close-ranged fight with her staff.

**Enhancement Skills:** Enhancement Skills are a series of skills that involve boosting the body's physical abilities.

* **Enhance Parameter:** Enhance Parameter is a basic Enhancement Skill. The user floods their body with their prana, enhancing their entire body ranging from physical strength, speed, and durability.

**Mana Ballista:** Mana Ballista is a Burst Skill that utilizes two or more elements. It is classified as a Dual Cast. The Burst involves manipulating the shape of an element into a lance and infusing it with another element. When fired, the lance flies at high speeds and explodes upon impact. It is a stronger version of Icicle Ballista.

**Triple Complex Casting: Elemental Maelstrom:** A Triangle Casting Burst. Pandora creates three magic circles and unleashes lightning, fire, and ice. She then fuses the three magical skills together, modifying its properties to generate a storm comprising of fire tornados infused with lightning and a hailstorm of ice spikes infused with lightning.

**Valkyrie Spear:** Valkyrie Spear is a Light Element Burst Skill. It creates several spears made of golden light that relentlessly seeks their opponents in combat.

**Moonshadow Beam:** Moonshadow Beam is a Dark Element Burst. It condenses a high amount of Dark Element Mana into an incredibly dense ball of energy that has high penetrating power. It is capable of shaking the entire arena barrier upon impact.

**Outset Light:** Outset Light is a Light Element Burst. Similar to Moonshadow Beam, the Burst condenses an immense amount of Light Element Mana into a ball. The ball turns black at the core while retaining a golden corona around it. The beam has a high penetrating power similar to its counterpart. Unlike Moonshadow Beam, Outset Light has explosive properties.

**Trick Star:** Trick Star is a Burst Skill. It allows the user to swap spaces with the user and another object or between two objects. This is a high cost Burst. Due to this, Pandora uses this strategically and conservatively. Due to its nigh-instantaneous nature, Pandora can easily avoid her opponent's attacks. She also uses this to teleport targets to a space within her range as she was able to transport Mary into an "empty" space between her Mana Ballista and Mary's Moving Star, allowing her to win the battle. It is noted that swapping targets with an empty space consumes far more mana than an ordinary Trick Star.
## Trivia

* Like her brother, Pandora has a Greco-Roman-themed name. She is named after Pandora, the first human woman, created by Hephaestus at the instruction of Zeus. She was given a box with all the world's evils and told to never open it. She eventually did open it and released all the evils into the world as well as the concept of hope.
* Her last name is inspired by Sakuya Izayoi from *Touhou Project*.
	+ The word Izayoi means "Sixteen Nights".
	+ Unlike her brother, the name oddly fits her.
* Like the other characrters, Pandora has Norse Motifs, with hers being primarily associated with Mani,the Norse God of the Moon and Sol's Twin Brother. Mani is the enemy of Hati (Meaning Hatred).
* She is ambidextrous.
* Her real life birthday is June 29 according to the Gregorian Calendar.

1. ↑ Vol II, Chapter VII
2. ↑ Vol I, Chapter VII
3. ↑ Vol II, Chapter IV
4. ↑ Vol I, Chapter VIII
5. ↑ Vol II, Chapter II