2013-04-07, 20:26
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Originally Posted by StratoSpear
If it's needed to explain his personality in the story, it has to be included, whatever it may be.
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Well, if that's the case then okay...
But it might get the story pulled.
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Spoiler for Academy:
While lunchtime approaches its end, Tsurugi and Kirin are in a battle arena’s hangar bay dressed up in their pilot suits. As per her status as a Representative, Kirin sports a custom-colored pilot suit with a gray base and white highlights on its edges.
“Believe it or not, Tsurugi. This is the first time I’m activating the Falken in the Academy.”
“…Eh? What about back before summer?”
“Maintenance. The engineers back in my home country needed to do some… check-ups on the Falken before I could use it. Until then, I just used the Academy’s training unit.”
Kirin steps back, raising her right hand then closes her eyes. As she does so, a white glow emanates from the silver bracelet on her hand along with an accompanying hum. Tsurugi backs away as she partially covers her eyes with her hands.
“Arise, Falken!”
*kyuun—vshuu—!* The bracelet turns into digital streams orbiting around Kirin. Her body begins to levitate and the streams converge to form silhouettes of her IS all around her body. The silhouette dissipates into white particles, unveiling Kirin in her Fantom Falken IS unit.
Unlike other IS units she has seen from the Academy’s library, the IS’ limbs are not elongated. Rather, it’s more life-sized like those of the legendary White Knight.
The body armor is made up of angular plates that roughly reflect the shape of the human body along with a pair of blue, diamond-shaped crystals located on the front of her shoulders. Suspended over her shoulders are the IS’ spaulders shaped like a blunt beak with the pointed end facing outwards.
Covering her forelimbs, the IS’ vambraces are roughly rectangular and curved to reflect her own arm down to her wrists where her armored hands are. The Falken also has a four-piece skirt armor suspended around her waistline; a frontal part covering her crotch area, twin hip armors that covers down most of her thighs and an armor plating covering the back of her waist.
Like the skirt armor, the IS’ lower leg armors also consists of a few parts; the knee guard and angular armor plating down her legs, which are covered by simple, pointed feet with a thin, arch-shaped plating suspended over them. A helmet also materializes around Kirin’s head, which has rabbit-ear fins on the sides and a crystal-like visor covering her face except for her mouth and chin.
“Whoa…” Tsurugi heaves an awed sigh, examining the IS from the top down and promptly noticing a pair of upward-swept wings on her back.
“Well, how do I look?”
“…You look AWESOME!”
Kirin giggles at her reaction which grew a wide grin on her face “Do I really?”
“Yeah! Though it does seem a bit shorter than the other IS I’ve read about in the library.”
“It is, yeah. The IS is like an extension of the user’s body, both are one and the same. When you use an IS, you are like its soul, its conscience. It moves and performs various tasks the exact same way you would with your own body. Still, I would say that some people who built some of the IS frames took the word ‘extension’ literally…”
“An extension…”
“When you fought Sensei during your enrollment, what did you feel?”
“What I felt…?” Tsurugi begins to recall the sensation she felt as she first drew the Uchigane’s katana against her instructor. “I felt… nothing. It felt like it’s just me moving around, nothing else.”
“Nothing else?” asks Kirin, raising a brow at her classmate.
“None. At some point it didn’t even feel like I was using an IS.”
“I see…” The Fantom Falken warps itself into digital streams which form back as a bracelet around Kirin’s right wrist as she then places a hand on Tsurugi’s shoulder. “You are right. It is just you… who have become one with the IS.”
“Become one? What do you mean?”
“Like I said, you are the conscience of the IS you use. What the body is to the soul is the same for the IS to its user, a vessel, an extension. How well an IS performs depends mainly on the user and very little on the unit’s specifications.”
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Is there going to be some "interactions" with Inami later?
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