Elisama "Fencer" Aguilar

### Dislikes

“Uncivilized” methods of fighting, Those who don’t remember their debts and loyalties

## Magic

### Principle

Enhance, Wind

**Elisama Aguilar** , also known as "The Fencer" for her deadly rapier skills, is a member of the Snake Tong and part of their Bladebreakers Unit. A survivor of an attack that took her parents' lives, Elisama was taken in by the Takeuchi , a clan her family was close to. She was trained in the art of Rapier and utilizing the Killing Light techniques of the Faceless, which earned her a spot in the Bladebreakers, the close combat unit of the Tong. She lost her arm during a mission, but has never let it hinder her skills in battle. She chose to not get her arm regrown or replaced, a symbol for honoring her parent's sacrifice. Many wonder why her story changes whenever they ask how she lost her arm. While enemies might see her at a disadvantage, they are immediately proven wrong when she becomes an elegant dance of blades.

## Background

Elisama Aguilar was born into a magus family within the zone of influence of the Snake Tong, a powerful group of mercenaries based in the Philippines. While they always maintained their independence as mages from the organization they did respect their authority. Eli's parents even became friends with some of them, such as the Takeuchi family who they would sometimes visit or host.

Unfortunately, while they made friends with some of the Snakes they ended up earning the ire of other groups. Usually this just meant they couldn't travel safely. Most groups aren't brave or stupid enough to trespass on Snake territory without good reason after all. However one day this changed.

The details are blurry to her since she was young and also likely repressed much of that event. But when Eli was only nine years old her family was attacked by a group bold and pissed off enough to infiltrate Shiai-shi territory. Her parents were killed but managed to help her escape first. She has no idea how long she was running and hiding but eventually they had her cornered. It was only a matter of time before they would find her and snuff out the Aguilars.

But before they actually found her she heard the sound of fighting. The Snake Tong had learned of the incursion into their territory and looked into what group was doing this and why. Once they discovered what happened they sent a group to kill the trespassers. Among this group was a young Satoru Takeuchi who along with his father were determined to avenge their friends and hopefully save their friends’ daughter.

After that day the Takeuchis took her in and helped her recover from the traumatic event. It took time but they were indeed able to help her. When she was eleven she grew interested in the martial arts of the Takeuchi family, Ilao-Kali. Or rather she was always interested in it even when she lived apart from them but now she had a chance to learn it as well. So she became one of the live-in students of the Takeuchi family. Thanks to her family's magic she found that she had a great affinity for the elegant movements of Monokámos.

As she grew up she developed this talent well, learning much of her craft from Sae Takeuchi-Musashibou. She proved to be a sharp student in the ways of Ilao-Kali. Grateful to the Takeuchis for taking her in and the Tong as a whole for avenging her parents, she decided to join the group once she completed her training. When she was eighteen she was considered to have completed her magic and Ilao-Kali training to a sufficient extent, making her a full member of the Shiai-shi. Having been a student of the Takeuchis she joined Unit Twelve, "Bladebreakers". A unit based around close combat led by one of her mentors, Sae.

For the first year of acting as an agent things mostly went smoothly for her. However, when she was nineteen she ended up on a mission with bad intelligence. The Unit had split up as part of the mission, intending to engage in a pincer attack, but instead they were ambushed with the enemy planning to take out each group separately. Eli’s group happened to be the first they targeted with their attack which gave her little time to react and in the chaos they ended up even further split up, forcing her to fight on her own. She fought hard against them but she was still relatively inexperienced and eventually one of them caught her with a powerful spell that mangled her left arm beyond recovery, downing her.

One of them was about to down her when fortunately her leader was able to save her in time, having handily eliminated the ambush on her group and then rushed over to save the other. Although Elisama herself can't remember the moment very well she's told that upon seeing Eli, Sae unleashed a level of carnage that's not often seen even in the Shiai-shi. After that, she of course had to recover both mentally and physically but after months she managed to do so. Her arm was not able to be saved and in the end, she chose against replacing it with a prosthetic.

Once cleared for it, Eli once again began working with unit twelve and has happily continued to do so. Though her losses can weigh on her sometimes she continues to fight on

## Appearance

"While it is uncivilized, it works well as a prop when posing for a picture."
## Personality

Although the Shiai-shi can provide members with high quality prosthetic body parts, Eli elected not to replace her lost arm. She sees the injury as a "part of her story" in a way and does not want to cover it up. She believes in adapting to her losses instead of trying to fill it in and suitably adjusted her fighting style. Fortunately, Monokámos already had a large focus on one handed combat but she would have done this even if her chosen form was one like Herakles which has a focus on two handed power strikes.

Thanks to her upbringing as a magus and then receiving influence from the Takeuchis she has a great preference for magic and traditional weapons over modern firearms. She does not mind other people using them and she herself has the training to use a firearm if she has to. However similar to Satoru she just sees herself using them as "so uncivilized".

Fortunately considering her family magecraft, dancing is one of Eli's favorite activities in her free time. Most of the time, especially with her magic, her dances have classic, elegant, and formal feeling to them. However she's no stranger to less formal types of dancing as well. According to her, depending on the type of dance it can either be a very calming or very exhilarating experience for her.

Eli is very loyal to the Shiai-shi and her fellow members. Even though she lost an arm in the process she has no regrets whatsoever about her decision to hold the line for her allies all those years ago. More than just a professional loyalty though she also likes to form personal bonds with her comrades. As well as just being good for making friends she also believes it helps teams with synergy.

When it comes to combat she somewhat enjoys it. This is especially apparent when she has the opportunity for single combat against a worthy foe. She considers such a duel to be a great experience in which both combatants can respect and fight each other to their content. In terms of killing she doesn't seem to like it but she doesn't hesitate either, it's just part of her job.

Having experienced loss, gratuity, hard work, and life or death situations, Eli tends to be fairly humble. She only ever uses her title when it would be practical such as for intimidation or to introduce herself to people who would recognize it more easily than her actual name. Likewise she is confident in her abilities but doesn't display as much pride in it as others at her level might.

In spite of those losses she's a surprisingly upbeat person. She considers it a way of honoring her parents. If she doesn't truly live then their sacrifice was for nothing and their killers truly win. It of course also helps that it's been a long time since her major losses. She has a pretty good sense of humor and sometimes she even makes up stories when newer members ask about her arm, just to see if they'll believe it.

*"Oh yeah, got stuck once. Had to gnaw it off. Took me hours to get all the way through but I managed in the end."*

*"I fell in a bear trap just right. Or wrong I suppose."*

*"I was trying out for Unit 4 and a shark attacked."*

## Abilities

### Magic

The Aguilar family has been full of artistic minds since their founder and in particular, they have always had an affinity for dance. So rather than incantations or inscriptions, the Aguilar combined their two crafts and learned to cast spells through dance movements. Eli chose to keep her magic more subtle and largely uses it to enhance herself as a swordswoman. As a practitioner of Ilao-Kali, a large part of this is reinforcement and alteration. Using reinforcement she enhances her body and her weapon, with alteration she gives her weapon certain traits it would usually not have such as being able to deflect spells or projectiles. Aside from these things she also uses elemental magic in the form of wind magic. There are two main ways she uses this. The first way is that she will use it to aid her movements, allowing her to jump high, glide through the air, add a burst of wind to her strikes, etc. The other way she uses it is by sensing the air around her, in this way she can detect movements around her as they disturb the air and has even gone through training sessions where she is temporarily blind and deaf, learning how to fight when deprived of her usual senses with only minor loss to skill. Combined with her pure eyes and her skill with the blade she is difficult to catch by surprise.

### Ilao-Kali

A martial art developed by Aprósopi that was meant to be used against Akashics. It combines martial arts and magic to create an enhanced form of combat, the martial art is most deadly in the hands of its original creators using Aíma tu ári weapons but as Elisama is not a faceless she does not have access to such weapons. Eli chose to master form 2: Monokámos. This form has a focus on dueling with other close combatants. It is an elegant form reminiscent of fencing with precise movements that waste no energy. However, it is somewhat ineffective against ranged opponents and against brute force so she also learned form three: Aias. This form has a focus on defending oneself against all manner of attacks and also possesses techniques that minimize wasted energy and movement which goes well with her mastery of isu. Although she doesn’t have the proper weapons for it, she is an exceptional master of Ilao-Kali who's especially considered a prominent master of monokámos within the Snake Tong. Combined with her magic and her physical conditioning she can even fight against powerful beasts that would normally brute force through the defense of those who use her favored form.

### Eyes of Intent

Eyes that Eli was born with. When activated she is able to see the intention of others. Anywhere from seeing that someone is on their commute to work to seeing that someone intends to bomb a building. This ability is very useful in general but notably in combat it can give her a type of pseudo-precognition. If her opponent feints she'll know not to fall for it, if they aim for her leg she'll know where to defend, etc. This ability can however get overwhelming or even dangerous to herself when used against groups that are too large. Although useful, she tries not to over-rely on it in case she ever loses the ability somehow or goes up against opponents with a plan to counter it.

### Equipment

#### Rapier

The weapon she had commissioned. Aside from being well made the weapon has two notable traits. The first is that like many other Ilao-Kali practitioners in the organization, her weapon is made with special materials that increase its durability and help focus magical energy like a basic wand. The other trait is somewhat unusual for a rapier in that it has a slightly curved hilt. This is due to her training in Monomákos which encourages the use of a curved hilt meant to help with the precision of her attacks.

#### Snake Key

A standard issue Shiai-shi Key, customized to be a Swordbreaker as per Eli's request. The blade itself was made with special materials that are not necessarily strong enough for heavy combat. The pride of the Pranaja Empu smiths, the steel during forging blessed the property to disperse mana. Since it disperses magical energy, the blade of the knife can't be reinforced with magic. However, the reason why it's named a key is because users can create holes within certain points of a Bounded Field. Since the blade merely disperses mana and not outright destroys it, it creates thinned and weakened areas in a Bound Field that is more susceptible of being bypassed physically without triggering an alarm for the owner.

It can also be used against an enemy using Reinforcement on his body. If the Key is stabbed onto the target's arm, for example, the magical energy of the reinforcement spell disperses to other parts of his body and his arm is now more weakened thanks to the lower amount of mana for reinforcement. She could then exploit this weakness and perhaps send in air bullets to enter his body from the arm, which is no longer as protected as the rest of his body.

#### S11 C "Cloak"

A variant of the S11 'BB' Bulletproof Body Suit. Made to be bulletproof (tested with 9mm, 7.62, NATO/.308) and provides magic resistance as well. Eli requested this variant because it's easier to cover her weapon with it than with a suit as well as in the past in allowing her to engage in rapier and cloak techniques. Admittedly she also just thought it was cool looking.

#### “Shroud Seam”

Shroud Ties are standard-issue magic armor and head protection, usually cleverly disguised as neckties that allow them to blend in with the Bulletproof Snake suit style. However in Elisama’s case it is integrated into the inside of her collar instead. By pulling down the shroud and channeling mana through them, it transform into balaclava masks that provide full coverage of the head and neck. The material is made to be as bulletproof as the suits and also provide the same magical protection. The Shroud Tie can be deactivated by the user removing the mask, and it will turn back into its hidden form.