Applicant Info

Name: Lucy
Contact: lucylovespluto
Current Character: Dave Strider (i just realized right this second the (s) will never be used since we're capped at 2 characters...)

Character Info

Character's Name: Levy McGarden
Character's Canon: Fairy Tail
Character's Age: 18
Canon Point: Chapter 491!
Background/History: Here! For some reason the history section on this page is missing Fairy Tail Gaiden: Rhodonite, which is a canonical spinoff covering some off-screen Gajeel-centric stuff from the manga, and in which Levy plays a pretty decent part in.

Strengths:

ACCEPTING: Thanks in part to being raised in Fairy Tail from a young age, Levy doesn't shock easy about odd appearances or abilities or personalities. Instead she seems to take those things in stride, focusing on other aspects she hasn't been overexposed to in her time with the guild. While people's actions do of course still surprise her, she is very accepting of other people's differences and seems to even enjoy them. She never really joins in on guild brawls (not everyone in the guild does) but always tends to watch them with good-natured amusement more than anything else.

CHEERFUL: On the whole, Levy is very upbeat and cheerful. During her first meeting with Lucy she's energetic and eager, talking about the novel she heard Lucy was writing and asking if she could read it when it was done - even extracting a promise through sheer enthusiasm that when Lucy finished writing, Levy would be the first reader. Despite it only being their first meeting she speaks to Lucy very familiarly, calling her by a nickname and immediately jumping headfirst into friendship rather than bothering with any small talk. She only infrequently seems to get down about anything, and prefers to look on the bright side even in dire situations.

INTELLIGENT: Levy's biggest strength lies in her intelligence. She's extremely quick about putting clues together and making connections, and she has a wide knowledge base that frequently comes in handy throughout the series. She's often one of the first or the first to come to certain conclusions, too. She recognizes very quickly that Gajeel wasn't fighting Jet and Droy back when they attacked him after he joined Fairy Tail, and correctly infers it is because he wanted to treat them like guildmates. Levy usually functions a voice of reason to calm others down. For example, she immediately tells Natsu to chill out when he's fighting against the age enchantment keeping him in the guild in the Battle of Fairy Tail arc, and assures him she can probably break the enchantment as it is a form of written magic. She's also not bad at thinking tactically, making certain at one point the dragon slayers know they need to split up or they're all doomed during a certain battle.

Weaknesses:

EMOTIONAL: Levy doesn't frequently lose her head in a crisis, but she absolutely can let her emotions get the better of her. During an argument with Gajeel in the mage trials arc she runs off after her feelings are hurt, although as soon as she's attacked afterwards and realizes the entire guild is in danger she shelves the hurt feelings to focus on the matter at hand. Much later on she also frantically forgets she can simply use Solid Script to give a guildmate air when they're drowning and goes in for the more trope-laden underwater kiss to give them some before being reminded about her skills. While she typically manages to remain calm in tense situations or at least thinks things through logically, it is simply worth noting this isn't always the case - she's a teenage girl and does have feelings that do get the best of her sometimes.

INSECURE: Despite usually having a good grasp on her own abilities, Levy sometimes undersells herself or worries about her skills in comparison to the flashier members of Fairy Tail. While her initial reaction to being chosen for the S-Rank mage trials is joy, she quickly becomes worried, stating that she's small and doesn't have many redeeming features and therefore might lose quickly. This fear doesn't seem to last too long, however, as Levy is very good at snapping herself out of funks - and she had a little help breaking out of that one. More anime/manga trope-wise, she definitely compares herself to other girls in terms of looks and tends to think she's too childish looking (she is very short, so) and can be moved to tears when it comes to such comparisons.

LOYAL: While loyalty can be a strength, Fairy Tail mages tend to take it to Anime Extremes (tm) where it can also be their greatest weakness. While they can be turned against one another (see the Fairy War arc) they kind of refuse to hit betray for realsies even when it might benefit them or keep them out of harm's way. Levy's pretty likely to throw herself under a bus for others or go down swinging with a team than she is to get out of a situation alone.

Powers/Abilities:

Levy utilizes a form of magic known as Solid Script. To put it very simply, she writes words in the air and they become real - for example, using Fire will allow her to send out a blaze of flame. The word Hole, however, can cause a pitfall trap on the ground - or, applied in an alternate fashion, can be used to drain water from a battlefield through the hole in the "O". The word Iron materializes as pure iron, which she has before thrown to a guildmate who needs to eat iron to power his magic. Her magic is fairly versatile, and she's even been shown to use it as a luminous trail of markings in order to leave a path for herself or others to follow at a later time - or a mask to keep herself from breathing in pollutants. Or even as a bridge. Most of Levy's ability lies in her creativity to apply Solid Script words to any situation, although not all of them seem immediately useful (Butterfly, for instance, just conjures up a bunch of butterflies, so). How effective she is in battle or other situations depends on her own ingenuity and vocabulary.

She does have a magic limit like any other mage, and it was originally of the Average level rather than the insane reserves that, say, Erza or the dragon slayers seem to work off of. I say was Average because like most of the other "main" characters, Levy went through Second Origin Release, however, and can last longer in a fight/power up her abilities, or release it as a trump card in a fight. As enemies in manga tend to scale with level, however, this puts her just about at fighting level with their general enemies, it doesn't raise her to mythic levels. Additionally, Levy was one of the candidates chosen for the S-Class Promotion Exam and is an accomplished mage in her own right - she's just not one of the Protagonists (she's, like, secondary-tier level so she still has a Lot of shit, just not like, wow time for a tragic backstory shit).

Additionally, she bears the fairy tail guild mark on her left shoulder blade in white. While a guild mark is applied magically it doesn't always have magical abilities - the Fairy Tail guild mark does enable the members of the guild to see the spirit of Mavis Vermillion, the First guild master, for a good portion of the manga until Shit Goes Down and the First isn't a ghost any longer, however. It otherwise does nothing special that we know of.

Other Noteworthy Traits:

Non-magically Levy is a polyglot who can translate many ancient scripts very quickly; she reads a lot and is very intelligent, and can rewrite enchantments done in magical runes or the like, such as those done by Freed Justice. It takes her only a minute to rewrite on of his spells at one point. She's also extremely good at infiltration and has worked multiple missions requiring those skills from her (once she posed as a child to take down an evil mage; she hated it because she is not a child even if she is Short???) up to and including the cult organization Avatar.

Weapons & Other Special Inventory:

• Gale-Force Reading Glasses (model 18x) which allow her to read books/anything at 18 times the usual human rate.
• Light Pen, which lets her write in midair/on things that you usually don't write on. She typically uses the light pen for informational diagrams or to rewrite magical runes and symbols.
• Her extra reasonable item would be Color, which is a common magical item from home that allows a user to change the color of their clothes! ...Though givent the game premise I can come up with something else, or I'd be chill with her only being able to change into regained colors?

Color: Blue, specifically #4796BB! Her hair is blue and blue is my favorite color is why.

Sample: TDM!

[ OPTIONAL ] World Aspect: Guild marks are kinda cool, give us color marks or something! (Nah idk)