Paige Strauss

**Paige Strauss** (ペイジ・ストラウス *Peiji Sutorausu*) is the daughter of Lisanna Strauss and Bixslow and the twin of Penelope Strauss. She is the older sister of Pim, Poseidon and Pulan Strauss and younger sister to Pacer and Pearson Strauss.

## Appearance

Paige is a slender young woman with a small chest. She has distinctive pale red eyes and sharp teeth, most likely a trait she got from her Magic. The most prominent feature, however, is her hair. She has messy, thick dark blue hair at medium length with highlights of various blues and one streak of white that sweeps across her face with a yellow clip holding it in place. Usually, Paige dons a schoolgirl outfit with dark blue and light blue plaid skirt, black Converse shoes with the Heart Kreutz insignia and a black crop hoodie. When the weather is warm, she has been seen wearing a t-shirt with varying colors. Her blue-encrusted Fairy Tail mark is black and is on her right hip.

## Personality

Paige is a tomboyish girl with a hobby for skateboarding, football (soccer) and magibiking. She is quite outgoing and passionate when it comes to defending her guild, her family, and her friends. She has a close connection to her twin with their uncanny **Soul Connection** or what people call **Twin** **Telepathy**. She is fierce when it comes to her twin sister and always feels unimpressive in comparison to Penelope due to her S-Class Mage status as well as Penelope’s inherited Soul Magic that allows her to draw power from her own soul. She often calls Penelope “Nelly” for short.

Paige is the object of Silver’s obsession and, while she rejects his advances, she has a tendency to blush and given into them, hinting she may have slight feelings for him as well—just not as strong. She has made it vocal her displeasure with Cane Alberona-Groh, Gale Redfox, and Dash’s ways. Surprisingly, Jax is the only one Paige approves of.

## History

Paige's history is not very well-known. She had an affinity for speaking with the deceased souls of people's housepets and strays. At some point, she inadvertently gained Silver's affections.

## Magic and Abilities

**Human Possession** (人形憑 *Hitotsuki*): A type of **Seith Magic** and **Black Magic** that allows Paige to capture and seal wandering human souls and manipulate them as she wishes. While she has not displayed this Magic often, she does keep a soul inside one of her old stuffed animals—an old, perverted school teacher who had a thing for schoolgirl uniforms. She captured his soul on a mission after he had begun terrorizing girls as a schoolgirl uniform and tried to get them to wear him.

* **Crush** (砕 *Sai*): Paige raises one of her arms with the index and middle fingers outstretched, and, employing her Seith Magic, prompts a creature summoned by the opponent to burst into a powerful explosion generated inside its own body, which annihilates it.
* **Soul Sight**: Like most Soul Users, Paige has the power to see souls. However, her soul Sight is weak as she can see the color of the soul and associate it with a person, but she can't see the nature or personality of the soul.
* **Soul Sense**: Like most Soul Users, Paige can sense souls. However, this sense is weaker than most of her family's senses.

**Animal Possession** (動物憑 *Dōbutsu Tsuki*): Another type of Seith Magic and Black Magic that allows Paige to capture and seal wandering animal souls and manipulate them. She uses this as her primary Magic as she summons animal traits using the power of the souls into specific parts of her body. Paige’s Animal Possession has allowed her to capture rare souls of animals like **Magical Creatures**, souls that cannot normally be contained and usually disperse back into the air as **Ethernano**. To ensure she does not lose control of her powers or allow the souls to overwhelm her mind, she wears the **Vixen Totem**, something Bixslow gifted to her as Penelope has no need for it. Hypothetically speaking, with Pagie’s advanced Magic, she could even obtain soul power from extinct animals.

* **Wolf**: Paige is able to take on the attributes and power of a wolf.
* **Feline**: Paige is able to take on the attributes and power of a feline.
* **Avian**:Paige is able to take on the attributes and power of a bird.
* **Bat**: Paige is able to take on the attributes and power of a bat.
* **Snake**: Paige is able to take on the attributes and power of a snake.
* **Turtle**: Paige is able to take on the attributes and power of a turtle.
* **Shark**: Paige is able to take on the attributes and power of a shark.
* **Monkey**: Paige is able to take on the attributes and power of a monkey.
* **Cheetah**: Paige is able to take on the attribute and power of a cheetah

* **Hare**: Paige is able to take on the attributes and power of a hare.

**Transformation Magic**: Paige has easily mastered all forms of Transformation Magic.

**Enhanced Agility**: Paige is extremely agile as she is quick with her reflexes.

**Enhanced Durability**: Paige is a tough girl, able to continuously battle even after severely harmed.

**Enhanced Speed**: Paige is light on her feet, as proven when she is able to outrun a chimera.

## Equipment

**Vixen Totem:** The Vixen Totem is an ancient relic former **Guild Master** Makarov Dreyar gifted to Bisxlow at a young age to keep him from going insane with the number of souls trying to overwhelm him. Bixslow exchanged the totem for his infamous helmet before switching to his sunglasses in later years. He gifted the totem to Paige who uses it as a device to keep her from being overwhelmed and succumbing to a bestial nature.

## Trivia

* Paige's middle name is Lavender, but only Silver and Penelope know of her middle name. She is ashamed of it and considers it too girly.
* In **DC Comics**, there is a superhero branded Vixen who could connect to the forest and use animal abilities. Paige’s totem was based off Vixen’s totem the **Tantu Totem** which, too, helped her keep from being mentally overwhelmed.
* Paige’s epithet “Animagia” is a portmanteau of animal and *magia* the Latin word for “magic” meaning “animal magic”. The combo term is also inspired from “**Animagus**”, a wizarding term from the **Harry Potter universe** by **J.K. Rowling** meaning a human who can transfigure themselves into a specific animal at will.
* Paige’s design was also inspired from Kill la Kill protagonist Ryuko Matoi, sharing the same voice actor. The resemblance was not intended. Paige was originally designed with blatant white hair and her tomboyish attitude. Her voice actor was chosen by a friend of the actor who enjoyed *Kill la Kill* and was designing Paige and Penelope’s characterization.
* Her birthday is shared with the release of **Mamoru Hosoda’s** Summer Wars**.**
* Keeping in time with Bixslow particular naming system, Paige and her siblings all have P names and L middle names.