Player Name: Fetchie Personal Journal:made_in_wonder E-mail: gibberditz39@yahoo.com AIM/MSN: fetchie88 (aim) Timezone: EST Current Characters in Route: Ken Ichijouji, Malik Ishtar
To expand: Kanade's world has been plagued throughout history by attacks from monsters called "Noise". These creatures are deadly to any human they touch and cannot be harmed by typical weapons. The only thing that can stop the Noise are pieces of "relics" developed by ancient humans, whose powers can be activated by singing certain songs. Not everyone is compatible with these relics, however - though research is underway to attempt to create artificial compatibility within the government's Noise response team, Division 2.
We don't see Kanade's early childhood, but it's the Noise-related events that really shape her personality. Three years before Kanade's pull point, she visits a relic excavation site with her parents, where the Noise attack. Kanade survives, but her parents are killed; grieving and reckless, she demands Division 2 give her a weapon so she can fight the Noise herself.
No matter how hard she trains or how many tests she undergoes, however, she can't achieve compatibility with the one incomplete relic in Division 2's possession, Gungnir. Desperate, she risks her own life by forcibly upping the drug injections from the testing; the results take an enormous toll on her body, but she manages to activate Gungnir - which grants her a protective battle suit and a weapon with which to take her revenge, provided she sings while fighting. This armor and weapon, born of a relic, are together referred to as a "Symphogear".
Kanade joins forces with a girl named Tsubasa Kazanari, who'd accidentally activated and proven naturally compatible with the relic Ame no Habakiri, to fight the Noise. After dispatching one assault, Kanade's thanked by survivors as she unearths them from the rubble. Hearing her song, they claim, helped them hang on and not give up. Kanade doesn't know how to respond, but after thinking it over she's clearly touched.
Shortly thereafter (and presumably not as a coincidence), she and Tsubasa debut as an idol duo, "Zwei Wing", rising on the charts while still secretly combating the Noise. As Zwei Wing's popularity reaches its peak, Division 2 decides to use the idol cover to help fuel one of their relic experiments: they've come into possession of a complete relic, but a tremendous amount of "phonic gain", or musical energy, is needed to activate it. Through the Zwei Wing concert, the Division 2 research team hopes to activate the relic, which would be an immeasurable help in fighting the Noise.
Kanade and Tsubasa perform as scheduled, and the activation appears to be a success. The concert is ambushed by Noise, however, which land and begin slaughtering the panicked, fleeing audience. Kanade leaps into action, singing her song to activate Gungnir and beginning to fulfill her duties as a soldier: using her Symphogear, she kills as many Noise as she can during the duration of her song.
As her song winds to its end, however, there's no end to the attackers. Tsubasa joins her partner in the fight, but the odds are against them. Despite this, Kanade still rushes to shield a girl who'd been hurt in the attack and thus hasn't made it out of the stadium. Her armor splinters, and pieces of it fly back, impaling the girl.
Kanade rushes to her side and implores the girl not to give up on life, but there's no end to the Noise. To defeat them, Kanade sings her "swan song", a song whose frequencies unleash the full power of her Symphogear without any heed to the strain placed on the wearer. The song destroys the Noise army and enables rescue crews to bring the girl to safety in time, but proves too great a strain on Kanade's body. She dies in Tsubasa's arms, and is only seen for the rest of the series in flashbacks and as a spirit-mentor in Tsubasa's mind, offering advice that Tsubasa (who, by the end of Kanade's life, is the person she's closest to) imagines Kanade would give.
Personality: Explaining Kanade is difficult, given the abysmal job she does of explaining herself - so abysmal, in fact, that the cast spends much of canon mulling over her motivations. Easy-going in downtime but ruthless against the Noise, a relentless tease but also frequent dispenser of vague, symbolic wisdom, Kanade barrels through life without much pause. She skirts the question when asked about personal motivations, alternates between rambling and short, snappy epigrams, and grows offscreen from a vengeance-bent hellion to a girl who claims she can't have fun onstage if her partner's afraid. Kanade refuses to give a straight answer to anybody about anything - just bright, cheery confidence, a sassy remark, and a smile.
Yet everyone who tries to figure her out, particularly her partner Tsubasa, are the types of people who do dwell on their own emotions and motivations. By the time she performs at her final concert, Kanade has become grounded enough that she doesn't even think about why she feels the way she feels. She operates on instinct without dwelling on what those instincts tell her; she's certain everything will work out against the Noise because she knows she'll do whatever it takes to get the job done. Those instincts are usually on the mark - because Kanade doesn't sweat the small stuff, she's able to see beyond what people say and do to the core of what drives them forward.
Even when she does pause for reflection, Kanade sounds satisfied. She's able to die smiling because she's lived her life to the fullest, though she also cries - presumably because said life is over, when she'd wanted to go on living and singing with Tsubasa forever (she never explains her own reason for living, but from the support she gives her partner it's clear Tsubasa is a considerable part). Her teasing - a nonstop feature of her relationship with Tsubasa - seems to stem from a similar impulse: Kanade doesn't have the greatest filter between her brain and her mouth, so she voices her observations frankly, no matter how "mean" those observations might sound.
Her disinclination for introspection also makes Kanade a surprisingly selfless girl, given her relaxed, cocky attitude. She's struck speechless when told her songs have the power to save people, and clings to those words with all her might, since the will to live - as passionately and fully in the present as possible, taking personal action to meet her goals - has driven her even before her parents' death. She snaps at Division 2's head that she obviously needs to be the one who avenges her parents, personally, and continues to take her own view as self-evident for the rest of her life. That view happens to deal mostly with self-determination; she can't find those words for it, but her advice usually implies everyone has to find their own peace of mind ("Just do what you want," her memory tells Tsubasa when the latter wonders how to proceed: "It's simple, right?").
Although Kanade's usually casual almost to the point of disrespect, only the Noise and defeatism make her actually lose her temper. Both in the series proper and a prequel manga chapter, she point-blank refuses to let others give up on themselves and their lives. Kanade isn't out to preach - she knows everybody's got to find their own path, even if her own seems obvious to her - but after losing her parents and fighting the Noise, like hell is she going to let anyone defeat themselves.
Kanade isn't perfect. She can be a bear to deal with, particularly if she latches onto an easy target for teasing, and her casual nature can come across as insensitive in the wrong situations (her death speech to Tsubasa takes the form of a string of wisecracks, seemingly heedless of Tsubasa's tears). She's loud, restless, impatient, overbearing, and doesn't acknowledge she's listening to others in typical ways - but she's also perceptive, centered, loyal, and supportive. "It feels oddly nice having someone listen to your songs," she tells Tsubasa before they join Zwei Wing: a rare admission of a personal feeling, the desire to share and reach others, to be their strength. For Kanade, the sky's the limit - if something needs doing, she's there to get it done. Following her instincts helps Kanade to relax: they won't steer her wrong, since they lead her to live giving everything her all.
Strengths/Weaknesses: + At peace with herself + Optimistic and easy-going + Always ready to advise her friends, but is non-judgmental + Physically fit, particularly upper-body strength (Gungnir's weapon portion is an enormous spear) +/- Rushes problems head-on, always finishes what she starts - if necessary, at her own expense +/- Relentless tease (bordering on trolling) +/- Relaxed, thoughtless attitude can seem irresponsible - Terrible at directly expressing herself - Impatient and irreverent - Can't sit by and watch others be endangered (also makes her nosy) - Horrifying when she loses her temper
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Torchic Password: raspberry lemonade
Samples First Person Sample: [The feed opens to the sight of Kanade's face, grinning mischievously with a finger to her lips. It pans across the sunny forest, quiet except for the ever-present music; then, slowly, a new voice chimes in.
A slow pan down reveals Kanade's Torchic, its back to the feed, chirping in time to the chorus. The longer it sings, the more it begins almost to dance, swaying its tail and fluttering its wings. The video moves closer bit by inching bit; when Kanade's close enough to breathe on bird's bobbing feathers, she harmonizes with the creature's humming.
It squawks and falls backwards; Kanade straightens, grinning at the camera.]
And there you have it! Shy little thing, isn't it? But look how many nice people enjoyed the show!
[She shows the feed to Torchic, who chirps with its head burrowed sulkingly into its shoulders. Kanade laughs and flicks the bird on its forehead.]
Seriousness ain't like you, kid! Come on, the concert's only just beginning. What's a world fulla music without anyone to enjoy it?
One, two!
[And she begins to sing along with the melody. After a few strains, Torchic relents and rejoins.
She scoops it up and films them singing together. Both of them are smiling away.]
Third Person Sample: In spite of everything, her stomach still grumbled.
"So has Hell got a fast-food joint or what?" Kanade asked the man standing in the middle of the street, welcoming her to the "world of Pokémon". "Not that I don't appreciate the welcoming committee, but thinking's no good with distractions, you know?"
The man continued, unflappable - his name was Oak, apparently, and people called him the Pokémon Professor. Though irritated, Kanade backed off, cleaning out one ear. So this was what happened after you died: you got your ear talked off by an old guy in a coat. Kind of an anticlimax, all things considered....
...nah, she couldn't sustain a joke about that. Something nagged at her about this setup. It wasn't brimstone or pearly gates - no big deal - but it also felt entirely too vibrant, too rich. Being dead, in short, sure felt lively.
Oh, well. So much for that!
"All right, I'll bite. Welcome accepted, old man." Kanade let herself look cross for a moment longer before breaking into a half-serious smirk, cocking her hips and sending her stage costume (but she'd been wearing her Gear - heh, turns out you really couldn't take it with you) swishing against her hips. No point in worrying over unknowns. The only way to figure out what the hell (or lack thereof) was going on was to head out and seize this world, whatever it was. "Not what I was expecting, but sure, I'll take it."
The man opened his mouth, presumably to continue his explanation; Kanade held up a hand to stop him in his tracks. She could figure the rest out on her own, but one thing about this place would take some explaining. "Just one question."
A small orange head poked out of her hair; talons scrabbled behind the back of her ear as Kanade pointed up. "What's with the bird?"
Kanade Amou | Senki Zesshou Symphogear | Reserved
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Current Characters in Route: Ken Ichijouji, Malik Ishtar
Character
Name: Kanade Amou
Series: Senki Zesshou Symphogear
Timeline: Post-death
Canon Resource Links: Wikipedia entry
Brief personal history (Symphogear wiki)
Terminology/worldbuilding explanations
To expand: Kanade's world has been plagued throughout history by attacks from monsters called "Noise". These creatures are deadly to any human they touch and cannot be harmed by typical weapons. The only thing that can stop the Noise are pieces of "relics" developed by ancient humans, whose powers can be activated by singing certain songs. Not everyone is compatible with these relics, however - though research is underway to attempt to create artificial compatibility within the government's Noise response team, Division 2.
We don't see Kanade's early childhood, but it's the Noise-related events that really shape her personality. Three years before Kanade's pull point, she visits a relic excavation site with her parents, where the Noise attack. Kanade survives, but her parents are killed; grieving and reckless, she demands Division 2 give her a weapon so she can fight the Noise herself.
No matter how hard she trains or how many tests she undergoes, however, she can't achieve compatibility with the one incomplete relic in Division 2's possession, Gungnir. Desperate, she risks her own life by forcibly upping the drug injections from the testing; the results take an enormous toll on her body, but she manages to activate Gungnir - which grants her a protective battle suit and a weapon with which to take her revenge, provided she sings while fighting. This armor and weapon, born of a relic, are together referred to as a "Symphogear".
Kanade joins forces with a girl named Tsubasa Kazanari, who'd accidentally activated and proven naturally compatible with the relic Ame no Habakiri, to fight the Noise. After dispatching one assault, Kanade's thanked by survivors as she unearths them from the rubble. Hearing her song, they claim, helped them hang on and not give up. Kanade doesn't know how to respond, but after thinking it over she's clearly touched.
Shortly thereafter (and presumably not as a coincidence), she and Tsubasa debut as an idol duo, "Zwei Wing", rising on the charts while still secretly combating the Noise. As Zwei Wing's popularity reaches its peak, Division 2 decides to use the idol cover to help fuel one of their relic experiments: they've come into possession of a complete relic, but a tremendous amount of "phonic gain", or musical energy, is needed to activate it. Through the Zwei Wing concert, the Division 2 research team hopes to activate the relic, which would be an immeasurable help in fighting the Noise.
Kanade and Tsubasa perform as scheduled, and the activation appears to be a success. The concert is ambushed by Noise, however, which land and begin slaughtering the panicked, fleeing audience. Kanade leaps into action, singing her song to activate Gungnir and beginning to fulfill her duties as a soldier: using her Symphogear, she kills as many Noise as she can during the duration of her song.
As her song winds to its end, however, there's no end to the attackers. Tsubasa joins her partner in the fight, but the odds are against them. Despite this, Kanade still rushes to shield a girl who'd been hurt in the attack and thus hasn't made it out of the stadium. Her armor splinters, and pieces of it fly back, impaling the girl.
Kanade rushes to her side and implores the girl not to give up on life, but there's no end to the Noise. To defeat them, Kanade sings her "swan song", a song whose frequencies unleash the full power of her Symphogear without any heed to the strain placed on the wearer. The song destroys the Noise army and enables rescue crews to bring the girl to safety in time, but proves too great a strain on Kanade's body. She dies in Tsubasa's arms, and is only seen for the rest of the series in flashbacks and as a spirit-mentor in Tsubasa's mind, offering advice that Tsubasa (who, by the end of Kanade's life, is the person she's closest to) imagines Kanade would give.
Personality:
Explaining Kanade is difficult, given the abysmal job she does of explaining herself - so abysmal, in fact, that the cast spends much of canon mulling over her motivations. Easy-going in downtime but ruthless against the Noise, a relentless tease but also frequent dispenser of vague, symbolic wisdom, Kanade barrels through life without much pause. She skirts the question when asked about personal motivations, alternates between rambling and short, snappy epigrams, and grows offscreen from a vengeance-bent hellion to a girl who claims she can't have fun onstage if her partner's afraid. Kanade refuses to give a straight answer to anybody about anything - just bright, cheery confidence, a sassy remark, and a smile.
Yet everyone who tries to figure her out, particularly her partner Tsubasa, are the types of people who do dwell on their own emotions and motivations. By the time she performs at her final concert, Kanade has become grounded enough that she doesn't even think about why she feels the way she feels. She operates on instinct without dwelling on what those instincts tell her; she's certain everything will work out against the Noise because she knows she'll do whatever it takes to get the job done. Those instincts are usually on the mark - because Kanade doesn't sweat the small stuff, she's able to see beyond what people say and do to the core of what drives them forward.
Even when she does pause for reflection, Kanade sounds satisfied. She's able to die smiling because she's lived her life to the fullest, though she also cries - presumably because said life is over, when she'd wanted to go on living and singing with Tsubasa forever (she never explains her own reason for living, but from the support she gives her partner it's clear Tsubasa is a considerable part). Her teasing - a nonstop feature of her relationship with Tsubasa - seems to stem from a similar impulse: Kanade doesn't have the greatest filter between her brain and her mouth, so she voices her observations frankly, no matter how "mean" those observations might sound.
Her disinclination for introspection also makes Kanade a surprisingly selfless girl, given her relaxed, cocky attitude. She's struck speechless when told her songs have the power to save people, and clings to those words with all her might, since the will to live - as passionately and fully in the present as possible, taking personal action to meet her goals - has driven her even before her parents' death. She snaps at Division 2's head that she obviously needs to be the one who avenges her parents, personally, and continues to take her own view as self-evident for the rest of her life. That view happens to deal mostly with self-determination; she can't find those words for it, but her advice usually implies everyone has to find their own peace of mind ("Just do what you want," her memory tells Tsubasa when the latter wonders how to proceed: "It's simple, right?").
Although Kanade's usually casual almost to the point of disrespect, only the Noise and defeatism make her actually lose her temper. Both in the series proper and a prequel manga chapter, she point-blank refuses to let others give up on themselves and their lives. Kanade isn't out to preach - she knows everybody's got to find their own path, even if her own seems obvious to her - but after losing her parents and fighting the Noise, like hell is she going to let anyone defeat themselves.
Kanade isn't perfect. She can be a bear to deal with, particularly if she latches onto an easy target for teasing, and her casual nature can come across as insensitive in the wrong situations (her death speech to Tsubasa takes the form of a string of wisecracks, seemingly heedless of Tsubasa's tears). She's loud, restless, impatient, overbearing, and doesn't acknowledge she's listening to others in typical ways - but she's also perceptive, centered, loyal, and supportive. "It feels oddly nice having someone listen to your songs," she tells Tsubasa before they join Zwei Wing: a rare admission of a personal feeling, the desire to share and reach others, to be their strength. For Kanade, the sky's the limit - if something needs doing, she's there to get it done. Following her instincts helps Kanade to relax: they won't steer her wrong, since they lead her to live giving everything her all.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ At peace with herself
+ Optimistic and easy-going
+ Always ready to advise her friends, but is non-judgmental
+ Physically fit, particularly upper-body strength (Gungnir's weapon portion is an enormous spear)
+/- Rushes problems head-on, always finishes what she starts - if necessary, at her own expense
+/- Relentless tease (bordering on trolling)
+/- Relaxed, thoughtless attitude can seem irresponsible
- Terrible at directly expressing herself
- Impatient and irreverent
- Can't sit by and watch others be endangered (also makes her nosy)
- Horrifying when she loses her temper
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Torchic
Password: raspberry lemonade
Samples
First Person Sample:
[The feed opens to the sight of Kanade's face, grinning mischievously with a finger to her lips. It pans across the sunny forest, quiet except for the ever-present music; then, slowly, a new voice chimes in.
A slow pan down reveals Kanade's Torchic, its back to the feed, chirping in time to the chorus. The longer it sings, the more it begins almost to dance, swaying its tail and fluttering its wings. The video moves closer bit by inching bit; when Kanade's close enough to breathe on bird's bobbing feathers, she harmonizes with the creature's humming.
It squawks and falls backwards; Kanade straightens, grinning at the camera.]
And there you have it! Shy little thing, isn't it? But look how many nice people enjoyed the show!
[She shows the feed to Torchic, who chirps with its head burrowed sulkingly into its shoulders. Kanade laughs and flicks the bird on its forehead.]
Seriousness ain't like you, kid! Come on, the concert's only just beginning. What's a world fulla music without anyone to enjoy it?
One, two!
[And she begins to sing along with the melody. After a few strains, Torchic relents and rejoins.
She scoops it up and films them singing together. Both of them are smiling away.]
Third Person Sample:
In spite of everything, her stomach still grumbled.
"So has Hell got a fast-food joint or what?" Kanade asked the man standing in the middle of the street, welcoming her to the "world of Pokémon". "Not that I don't appreciate the welcoming committee, but thinking's no good with distractions, you know?"
The man continued, unflappable - his name was Oak, apparently, and people called him the Pokémon Professor. Though irritated, Kanade backed off, cleaning out one ear. So this was what happened after you died: you got your ear talked off by an old guy in a coat. Kind of an anticlimax, all things considered....
...nah, she couldn't sustain a joke about that. Something nagged at her about this setup. It wasn't brimstone or pearly gates - no big deal - but it also felt entirely too vibrant, too rich. Being dead, in short, sure felt lively.
Oh, well. So much for that!
"All right, I'll bite. Welcome accepted, old man." Kanade let herself look cross for a moment longer before breaking into a half-serious smirk, cocking her hips and sending her stage costume (but she'd been wearing her Gear - heh, turns out you really couldn't take it with you) swishing against her hips. No point in worrying over unknowns. The only way to figure out what the hell (or lack thereof) was going on was to head out and seize this world, whatever it was. "Not what I was expecting, but sure, I'll take it."
The man opened his mouth, presumably to continue his explanation; Kanade held up a hand to stop him in his tracks. She could figure the rest out on her own, but one thing about this place would take some explaining. "Just one question."
A small orange head poked out of her hair; talons scrabbled behind the back of her ear as Kanade pointed up. "What's with the bird?"