| Kaia Marinwade | |
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| Physical Information | |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 4’10” (148cm) |
| Hair color | Dark brown |
| Eye color | Light blue |
| Relationships | |
| Magical pacts | |
(Note: This content is a translation of text originally written by jkeabsj.)
Kaia Marinwade is a magician and a part-time, short-term worker.
History
Kaia is a normal 20-year-old female magician who currently lives alone in the Bermuda archipelago. In the past, she lived with her parents and younger sister in New Salem, but when she became independent, she left her family to pursue her own interests. She is still close enough to her family that her parents send her money, and her sister still contacts her on a regular basis.
Nowadays she works part-time, mainly in short term jobs of any type, and sends part of her salary to her family. On top of that, she is currently working as a tour guide.
But that is on the surface. Behind the scenes, she had been entrusted with maintaining the balance of the sea through a contract with a spirit for about a year. The nature of the work varies, including not just mundane tasks such as picking up trash, but also dangerous tasks such as fighting sea monsters that try to disturb the balance of the sea. At times she fights for she family and friends, the ocean, and herself, using magic such as rapid growth magic and water magic to preserve the island’s environment or to fight looming threats.
Northampton Blue Sea
Working part-time as a tour guide in Northampton, Kaia lead Jane O’Young and Gina Evelyn during their trip.
Although she inwardly enjoyed her role as a tour guide while providing tourist information, Kaia struggled to avoid harm from befalling the two guests in the blue forest unaided.
She was saved thanks to the help of her two transformed guests who came to the rescue, but, driven by remorse, she tried to somehow distance herself from them.
After that, despite some minor problems, such as being forcibly transformed in the mushroom forest, she was able to successfully complete the guided tour of the jungle. The group enjoyed ourselves as equals, listening to Jane’s performance at the Museum of Musical Instruments and discussing hobbies among themselves.
However, the commotion over the sea monster forced Gina and Jane to reschedule their date. Kaia apologized for that and was able to get their understanding on it.
After getting answers at Ondina’s place, they fought the sea monster. In the process, she learned the importance of cooperation and how precious it was to be able to share success with others.
After defeating the demons one after the other, the cult was the only one left. In the dark of night, a magic item was used to kidnap her partner, her spirit protector.
She then followed the trail of the magic item and arrived at the cult’s stronghold. Kaia supported the Jane and Gina in their fight against the cult leader, but they were fighting an uphill battle. However, Jane caught him off guard and retrieved the hairclip from him, using its power. Kaia, along with Gina, supported her to contribute to his defeat.
However, the leviathan was successfully summoned, causing a storm that nearly destroyed the barrier. Substituting for an exhausted Jane, Gina tried to repair the barrier with Nashwa’s help, and the two of them supported her.
This allowed both Ondina and Gina to focus on what they needed to do, which led to Northampton’s salvation.
Personality and traits
Kaia is a downer and has a gloomy personality. She does not actively go out on her own, and when she does, it is usually for work, friends, or the ocean. She often does not do more than she is asked to do at work, and therefore is not attached to most things. Her personality can be seen from her lazy choice of clothing.
However, she cares about the things that interest her, her friends and family, and often acts in ways that are very unlike her usual personality and behavior. She also loves the ocean and enjoys watching documentaries about sea life, collecting fish plushies, fishing, and walking on the beach.
Kaia works short-term part-time because she is required to fight sea monsters and other dangerous magical creatures in the Bermuda as part of her sea spirit contract, so she doesn’t settle in the same place and moves from island to island in Bermuda. She often keeps her friends away because she does not want them to be involved in her intense battles. For that reason, when fighting sea monsters she keeps communication with friends to a minimum.
Kaia’s love of the ocean dates back to a childhood trip she took with her family to Bermuda. What she experienced as a child was the deep impression and impact of the ocean, which did not exist in New Salem, which made her love of the ocean what it is today. Since then, she has been to Bermuda several times and to the real world ocean whenever she can, and her love of the ocean has been further deepened by her encounters with spirits in Bermuda and the feelings she has gained through her ocean fishing experiences.
Kaia also has a deep interest in water magic and keeps a daily magical diary.
Magical abilities and skills
Kaia is a young but talented magician. She knows many powerful spells and possesses more mana than most people. She has a natural talent when it comes to water magic and support magic, her fortes, and this is what allows her to fight against sea monsters.
But at the same time she has many weaknesses. The first is that she has little interest in magic of other attributes. As a result, most of her magic is at the basic level, and she hasn’t even learned the elementary level of flame magic, which she is particularly bad at. Second, the range of magic is very limited. Water magic can be used to attack multiple people at once, but at a conservative estimate, it can only attack about five people at once. When it comes to support magic, it can only be applied to one person at a time. To compensate for these weaknesses, she sometimes gets transformed by spirits.
- Ice Magic: A specialty of Kaia’s, its uses are diverse, including firing water bullets for combat and conjuring water when she is thirsty. However, her magic has a limited range when she is not transformed.
- Growth Magic: This is a technique granted to her by a spirit, and when she uses it, her body grows. She temporarily becomes slender and balances her weaknesses in things such as the range of her magic.
- Support Magic: Kaia can use this to provide a wide variety of effects, from barriers that prevent enemy attacks to buffing magic that increases the physical abilities and magical power of others. However, it can only target one person, and after transforming the limit increases to two people.
- Flying: Kaia is not very interested in it, but still can fly as well as the average magician.
Possessions
- Sea spirit ornament: This hair ornament is inhabited by the spirit of the sea. It looks like an bobby pin with a wave-shaped jewel attached to it. With it, she can use growth magic and more powerful magic. It is also removable and can be given to others, but at the same time it carries the risk of theft.
- Kaia’s room: This is a typical room of a nomad. Other than the essentials, it contains only a few ocean-related items, fishing gear, family photos, and a water magic diary in a locked safe.