Calliope Pertoy

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**Calliope Pertoy** (カリオプ ペルトイ *Kariopu Perutoi*) is a 5th Class Intermediate Magic Knight of Violet Orca squad. She uses Paper Magic.

## Appearance

Calliope has the appearance of a beautiful and well endowed woman with blonde hair that reaches her back and blue eyes while she has a gold choker on her neck and two blue gem earrings. She wears a deep blue, long sleeved dress ith gold outlines that exposes her shoulders and belly, thelatter in a rhombus shape. Her dress exposes her legs while she wears blue shoes.

## Personality

Calliope is a friendly individual whose main characteristic is writing and poetry, with her either reading poems of trying to write some in her free time. However, her greatest passion is paper craft, with her loving to create all shorts of things from paper and while she can accept harsh critisism, having her creations be ridiculed or destroyed will anger her and make her retaliate.

## Battle Prowess

### Natural Abilities

**Great Magic Power**: Calliope possesses magic power greater than the average commoner.

### Magic

* Paper Magic: Calliope uses this magic attribute to generate and manipulate paper.

* **Paper Crane's Feathers** (折鶴の羽毛 *Orizuru no Umō*): With an open grimoire, Calliope extends her hand and unleashes a barrage of piercing paper.

Creation Magic: Calliope uses this form of magic to shape objects and entities from paper.

* **Paper Crane's Flight**  (折鶴の空の旅 *Orizuru no Soranotabi*): With an open grimoire, Calliope creates a huge crane made of paper that is meant for transport. Due to the paper's lightness, it travels very fast.

* **Paper Crane's Beak** (折鶴の嘴 *Orizuru no Kuchibashi*): With an open grimoire, Calliope generates a lot of paper which she focuses on her arm, covering it with a blade made of paper emerging from a crane head with which she pierces her enemy.

* **Paper Crane's Union** (連鶴 *Renzuru*): With an open grimoire, Calliope extends her hand and creates a handful of paper cranes that join and create a pentagram like shield that protects her from incoming attacks.

* **Thousand Paper Cranes** (千羽鶴 *Senbanzuru*): With an open grimoire, Calliope extends her hand and creates thousands of small cranes made of paper that surround one or multiple targets and slash them with their wings.

* Restraining Magic: Calliope uses this form of magic to restrain her opponents with paper.

* **Paper Crane's Soul Transport** (折鶴の魂輸送 *Orizuru no Tamashi Yusō* ): With an open grimoire, Calliope creates large amounts of paper which she shapes into a man sized paper crane of red color that upon touching someone, it folds and fuses with them, with the enemy being trapped in a sheet of paper from which they can hear and see while they can talk with others. Ripping the sheet of paper frees the one inside. Calliope can use this spell on multiple targets by creating smaller cranes that swarm them and get assimilated to their bodies.

* Reinforcement Magic: Calliope uses this form of magic to increase her physical abilities.

* Mana Skin: Calliope creates a coating of mana around her body that protects her.

* Leg Strength Boost: Calliope channels mana to her feet in order to increase her speed and jumping abilities.

## Trivia

* Calliope Pertoy's appearance is based on Seireen from *Hero Classroom'.*
* Calliope, also spelled Kalliope, in Greek mythology, according to Hesiod’s *Theogony*, foremost of the nine Muses; she was later called the patron of epic poetry while Pertoy is anagram of Poetry. While her name and surname don't directly reference her magic, paper was and is one of the foremost mediums for writing.
* The ***orizuru*** (折鶴 *ori-* "folded," *tsuru* "crane"), **origami crane** or **paper crane**, is a design that is considered to be the most classic of all Japanese origami.
* In Japanese culture, it is believed that its (paper crane's) wings carry souls up to paradise, and it is a representation of the Japanese red-crowned crane, referred to as the "Honourable Lord Crane" in Japanese culture.
* A thousand orizuru strung together is called *senbazuru* (千羽鶴), meaning "thousand cranes", and it is said that if someone folds a thousand cranes, they are granted one wish.
* The term *renzuru* (連鶴, *"conjoined cranes"*) refers to an origami technique whereby one folds multiple cranes from a single sheet of paper (usually square), employing a number of strategic cuts to form a mosaic of semi-detached smaller squares from the original large square paper.