Cell-celia

Cell-celia (left) battles Spirit Guard Serenity.

**Cell-celia** is a character in *Magical Girl Policy*. She is a monster created by Platicore, designed to drain Investiture from people as well as battle the Spirit Guard. Initially disguised as a Buy Bright employee, she reveals herself after Robynne sends Cory and Eli away so she can transform into Spirit Guard Serenity.

## Appearance

While disguised, Cell-celia looks like a regular human woman. Her hair is in a side ponytail and covers her right eye. She wears a Buy Bright employee's uniform, but the shirt has a tighter fit than usual.

Cell-celia's true form is similar to her human one, but she has red plastic-like skin. Her right arm now takes the form of a large extendable metal antenna like those on older cell phones, and her left can become likewise with the use of the Dead Zone move. Her eyes resemble LED displays and have a sadistic expression. Her outfit is an even tighter fit than before, likened to a sexy Halloween costume version of the Buy Bright uniform. Her speech is peppered with acronyms commonly seen in text conversation.

Her essence and Investiture are stored within her empathic capacitor, which resembles a black pearl. The capacitor appears when her body is destroyed and she is dying, disappearing with a shattering motion after a moment.

## Personality

In her human form, Cell-celia presents herself as a regular Buy Bright employee. In her true form, however, her actual personality is revealed: arrogant, condescending, and sadistic. She is compared to a stereotypical bully cheerleader seen in film in both body language and attitude, having no shortage of insults to hurl at others while being quick to anger when on the receiving end. She is talkative and can be easily made to reveal even sensitive information by appealing to her ego. Unlike previous monsters, Cell-celia has a more robust personality and had been told all about her predecessor, Day LaMode. Her ultimate goal is to infect every phone in the world, where she would fancy herself a goddess with a constant massive influx of Investiture and world-ranging vision.

## Abilities

Unlike Platicore's previous monsters, Cell-celia doesn't drain Investiture from people directly; she places a small portion of her power into any phone she touches, which spreads to those it texts in a viral manner and no upper limit on the number of targets. The virus automatically drains a very slight amount of Investiture from the phone's user and transfers it to Cell-celia each time an affected phone sends a message, letting her drain countless people over an ever-expanding range. The draining is so slight that Robynne couldn't pinpoint it with her EKP until she focused on Cell-celia and figured out what to look for. Like other monsters, however, Cell-celia is designed primarily to drain only will, the most common Investiture component; Robynne's complex Investiture easily repels Cell-celia's virus. Her power is directly proportional to the amount of Investiture she has drained. Due to her draining being automatic, Cell-celia powers up at a gradually increasing pace as the battle goes on.

Cell-celia uses a system of wireless signals that allows her to notice things outside her range of vision. This signal vision is connected to her virus, so each infected phone increases her range. Conversely, impeding the wireless signal hampers her abilities.

Cell-celia battles by swinging and thrusting her extendable antenna arm as well as firing projectiles from it. Her special moves are activated by speaking the name of the move.

### Special moves

* **Vibration Setting Strike:** Thrusts with her antenna.
* **Send a Message:** A blast from her antenna.
* **Voice-to-Text:** Cell-celia and those nearby have their vocalizations replaced by empathokinetic text boxes displayed above their head. The messages include text-based emoticons and twist words into text shorthand, such as rendering "wait" as "w8". The move's range appears to be connected to Cell-celia's wireless signals, as Spirit Guard Valor blocking them with her Rising Spirit walls causes Voice-to-Text to stop affecting the Spirit Guards.
* **Dropped Call:** Fires an orb of static from her antenna, which can be charged for a bigger, stronger shot. The orb's size and power increases further based on the Investiture she has drained.
* **Dead Zone:** Transforms her left arm into an antenna to match her right. The additional energy requirements of having two antennae make her hold off on this move until she has enough Investiture.

## Biography

### Week 1

After her investigation of Day LaMode's remains, Trace relays to Platicore her inferences on Spirit Guard Serenity's speed- and stealth-based fighting style in case it affects his next monster's design. With LaMode yielding Investiture to spare, Platicore considers the experiment with altered Investiture collection a success and begins work on a monster more complex than those that came before.

### Week 5

Platicore creates Cell-celia, a monster with advancements he had been longing for: she is disguised as a human, has a signal-based detection system, and can sneakily drain Investiture from countless people over an effectively infinite range by infecting their phones. Trace sets up Cell-celia at a Buy Bright store, having a hard time manipulating people's perception so they wouldn't question her. Trace is unnerved at Cell-celia's human-like appearance and talking about becoming a god during the setup. Once deployed, Cell-celia poses as a Buy Bright employee. Whenever she touches a customer's phone, she plants a sort of virus that makes the phone drain trace amounts of Investiture from the user whenever a text is sent and transfer it to her, with the virus spreading to the one who receives the text.

Some hours later, Robynne, Cory, and Eli stop at Buy Bright to find a birthday present for Cory's father, and briefly chat with Stacy before she runs off to buy a new phone case. Robynne senses something similar to Investiture being drained, so has Cory and Eli text the Spirit Guard and the rest of the team. She finds the source is an employee attaching a case to Stacy's phone, and after faintly feeling the normal pain of Investiture draining and texting Stacy, figures out the mechanics of the monster's virus. Robynne sends her friends away with her own affected phone for Will to examine so she can stop the monster before it gets much stronger, ignoring Eli's warning about starting the fight alone.

Robynne goes into the restroom to transform into Spirit Guard Serenity, but Cell-celia had noticed the suspicious behavior of Rob and friends and tails her. Rob confirms Cell-celia's suspicions when entering the Transformation Station causes her presence to temporarily disappear from the monster's detection system. Immediately after transforming, Serenity is attacked by the revealed Cell-celia bursting through the wall. Wounded and having dropped one of her daggers, Serenity orders everyone in the store to flee. In order to to stall for her healing factor and the other Spirit Guard's arrival, Serenity feigns ignorance and weakness to make Cell-celia gloat, learning of her advancements and that previous monsters had been monitored by Trace, referred to as Platicore's "stooge". Spirit Guard Charity arrives to heal Serenity. Serenity's sneak attacks and attempts to retrieve her weapon are foiled by the monster's signal-based detection, as are her attempts to plan with Charity by the Voice-to-Text move replacing verbal communication with visible text boxes as well as Dead Zone letting Cell-celia attack both heroes at once. Spirit Guard Valor arrives, tells Serenity she can recall her weapon by mentally dismissing it first, hinders Cell-celia's signal vision with her Rising Spirit walls, and has her teammates cover her for a finishing blow.

During the debriefing at Kunapipi's office, Robynne's mention of Cell-celia's human disguise, signal vision, and low-key Investiture collection has the team conclude that Platicore is shifting his monster designs in hopes of harvesting as much Investiture as possible before the Spirit Guard find them. Mallory suggests nightly patrols of Kessia City in order to snuff out newly planted monsters, but the plan is put off until Robynne explains her situation to her uncle later that week.

Later that day, Trace returns to Buy Bright to collect Cell-celia's Investiture, annoyed that the monster lasted less than six hours and got itself pinned to the ceiling where it'll be a pain to retrieve the empathic capacitor. She predicts Platicore will be similarly angry.

## Relationships

### Platicore

Cell-celia was created by Platicore, and as is typical of his monsters is fully loyal to him even with her desire for godhood, though her more advanced intelligence lets her decide to divulge information Platicore told her not to share. Cell-celia is trusted with significantly more information than her predecessors, as she is fully aware of said "sisters" and even the background of her own creation: her low-key and massive-ranged Investiture draining method is one Platicore had been wanting for over a year, and it is thanks to Day LaMode's huge Investiture yield and successful proof of concept in this department that Cell-celia was made. She considers herself Platicore's ultimate creation.

### Trace

As is standard of monsters, Cell-celia was planted by Platicore's assistant Trace. Unlike other monsters, however, Cell-celia was conscious while being set up and talked about her aspirations of godhood during the process, which, along with her more human appearance, freaked Trace out. Cell-celia is also apparently unique in knowing that Trace often invisibly watches monsters battle the Spirit Guard, though not in her case.

### Robert Dreese/Robynne Darling

Shortly after entering Buy Bright with Cory and Eli, Robynne gets the sensation of Investiture being drained nearby, and the disguised Cell-celia notices with her detection system the three trying to covertly spy on her. With Rob suspiciously turning off her infected phone and sending her friends away, Cell-celia keeps an eye on her, and reveals herself for a surprise attack when Rob's presence temporarily disappears while transforming into Spirit Guard Serenity, who Cell-celia was told about as the one that killed Day LaMode. Receiving insults for her large breasts and assumed low intelligence, Serenity stalls for time and goads Cell-celia into revealing information by appealing to the monster's ego and attempting to appear as dim as assumed. By the time the ruse is discovered, Serenity is healed and has Charity at her side.

### Spirit Guard

Like other monsters, Cell-celia is ordered to kill the Spirit Guard, who oppose Platicore and his monsters. She gets annoyed at her opponents talking among themselves in her presence, and hinders their strategizing with her Voice-to-Text move.

## Trivia

* Cell-celia's name appears to be a combination of "cell" (from "cell phone") and the name "Cecilia".