Fairy

Appearance: As is to be expected from the name "fairy", the fairies are humanoid in appearance of varying shapes and sizes.  Generally fairies take up the appearance of a young, attractive, human woman with long, elven ears.   At least, their default appearance is such.  In reality, their appearance varies so much that they can take on the appearance of any sapient, dominant race of a planet.  Generally, they are found in humanoid form with alterations in skin color or wing structure.  Fairies have different kinds of insectoid wings that don't seem based on genetics- it's almost as if they choose their wings at birth unconsciously.  Dragonfly-winged fairies tend to be the fastest but most frail, butterfly-winged fairies are the slowest but have the most magical power, moth-winged fairies have the best perception and adaptability, and beetle-winged fairies are the most durable and physically strongest.  Fairies stand between 3 inches tall and upwards of 4 feet in height, though larger fairies are cumbersome in flight due to their massive size. 


Background: Fairies as a whole are the spirits of the wild made corporeal.  The unusual, the unknown,  the unexpected aspects of nature that humans cannot explain or do not comprehend.  And yet fairies are one of the oldest races in the universe, so widely spread they even exist on other planets.  This is due to the species having the amazing ability to appeal to other races by changing into what is most familiar to the dominate life form.  Either due to genre savviness or whimsical chance, all fairies that aren't inherently evil either look like attractive human women, handsome adult men, or adorable children with the idea being that they are less likely to be killed on sight if they are cute or attractive. This survival tactic is shared by all fairies, even on other planets.

While both good and evil fey exist, it isn't accurate to claim they're one or the other.  Rather, their minds are inconceivable.  They think and act differently than other races would.  As such, even minor gifts like food or clothing would be met with hostility or permanent infatuation, and it's not unheard of for powerful fey to wipe entire farms off the map for misremembering their name.  Each fairy is different in what they like or dislike so it's almost impossible to determine whether an action will anger or flatter them.

While fairies are almost always feminine in appearance it is not correct to refer to one as "male" or "female".  Fairies have no genders, or at least not in the conventional sense that we understand.  They merely identify with the gender of their choice at birth unconsciously.  What they find attractive wildly varies as well, and something as asinine as loving a person's couch is enough reason to get fairy to fall for a human.  Their love or romance with other creatures (fairies included) is extremely PG.  In fact, fairy reproduction sounds like something from a child's storybook.  Simply cuddling with a person (fairy or otherwise) that they adore has a chance to create a new fairy out of nowhere, appearing as an egg in the arms of one of the partners the morning after.  The egg doesn't hatch, rather it slowly molds its form to take the shape of a fairy before said fairy comes to life and is considered "born".  Fairies are born as their final appearance and do not change appearance over the course of their life.  No one knows exactly how long a fairy can live due to most being eaten a few years into their lives by wild animals.  It should be noted that saving a fairy being attacked by an animal is a surefire way to earn their friendship, even love.  It's not unheard of for interspecies romance between fairies and humans. Fairies enjoy the time they spent with their human partner but almost immediately forget about them after the human's natural death.  While lasting impressions can be made most fairies live in the moment, and if their loved one isn't in that moment they're uninterested.  Yet, acquiring a fairy significant other is considered lucky as they are fiercely loyal to their partner and do what they can to bless them and their craft.


Fairy technology is primitive, to be blunt.  Although they craft tiny weapons like metal swords or staves, rarely are electrical equipment incorporated into their lives.  The idea of modern technology is not unheard of but most are unfamiliar with them and can subsequently become addicted to their usage because they simply don't know how they're supposed to behave around such things.  It's not unheard of for a fairy to never leave an active television until it's forcefully turned off because there is always something to watch (as televisions never go off the air) or for a fairy to become too heavy to even fly due to overeating, since there is always something to eat.   Fairies are, however, experts at all things arcane and instead incorporate magitechnology into their lives.  Fairy tribes are small and far away from human settlements.  They don't have much physical contact with other villages but are capable of communicating using magical leylines the same way we would use phones.  

Fairies have a simple belief system.  Every star in the sky is a fairy that at some point in their life done something rememberable before they died.  The ones who never achieved this become grains of sand on the beach to be washed away and forgotten.  As such, every fairy ironically yearn to be remembered by the people they easily forget about.  The contradictory behavior has made many believe why there are so many grains of sand as opposed to stars in the night sky- Too many fairies forget their goals in life and flounder in their eternally youthful existence before meeting an untimely death.





Magic Beings: One of the biggest traits of the fey is that they do not have or use ki.  Rather, they use magic, called mana, which is the life force of the planet itself rather than the energy in their own bodies.   They call upon the life force of the earth and weave the gathered mana into spells to cast.   Their control of magic is not a natural thing but rather a learned ability that comes more naturally to them as they learn more and more spells.  Their spells rarely require verbal components but almost always require somatic (hand movements) components to cast and can be interrupted if attacked during the casting.  Every magic-user has a limited pool of mana that slowly regenerates over time but becoming tapped for power causes horrible migraines and makes it impossible to use magic until their pool is full enough.  It's almost unheard of for a fairy to be born with no magical control. Due to the nature of their abilities fairies are not detected the same way as ki users. Ki sense cannot pick up anything beyond 10,000 PL on fairies as beyond that they all feel the same. Scouters, however, can still get a good read on them as nowadays models are adapted to the weird form of power. 

Natural Flight: All fairies know how to fly from the moment they're born and only improve their control as they grow older.  They're capable of hovering in mid air and changing directions much like actual insects, but the speed of such is determined by their wing shape (with dragonfly wings having the absolute most control and speed and beetle wings having almost no control and little speed).   Most fairies are capable of flying 30 miles an hour and only become faster the more practice they have flying.  Particularly large fairies are more clumsy in the air.  All fairies begin play with [PT-1] Flight





Few fairies, if any, have been able to acquire a transformation on par with the best in the universe.  This has less to do with the race not having one and more with having a fairy alive capable of such a transformation.  There are currently two types of transformations for fairies- Forced and Colored.


Forced Transformation:
Forced transformations are just that- forced.   They're quick bursts of power that draw on the fairy's life force to use with a risk of knocking them unconscious or even killing them if they aren't properly trained to use it.  They're only capable of this in certain circumstances however.  Magical hotspots across the globe crop up once in a while, like solar flares of invisible energy.  By tapping into that, fairies can forcefully draw the energy into themselves and become more powerful for as long as the hotspot exists (which is usually only an hour or less).  Once the energy runs out, the fairy loses the transformation until they can find another hotspot. Forced Transformations all look the same- a white, translucent aura surrounding the fairy that pulses with incredible pressure and magical energy. When the fairy has been acquainted more with forced transformations they are capable of holding the form past the duration of the hotspot and retain it for as long as they have stamina and magical energy.  {90k+} [x10] {110k+} [x13]/{130k+} [x14]/{140k+} [x16]/ and {150k+} [x19]

Colored Transformation:
Some particularly powerful fairies have learned a way to forcefully draw energy from the earth in massive quantities, making them incredibly strong and literally bursting with energy.  This transformation, called Colored, is the pinnacle of fairy power.  While their transformations are at least similar, each one gives the user their own boost in an aspect or ability they want most generally involving overdrawing mana from the planet to boost themselves beyond what they could normally achieve.  Sometimes the transformation increases their fire magic's power to the point of creating white flames, or augments their physical abilities to neargod-like powers.  Names of these transformations are based on the color aura they acquire during transformation.  Gaining a defensive boost would give a blue aura, which would then be called "Blue [fairy name]" or a pink aura that boosts physical attack is called "Pink [fairy name]".  Many inexperienced fey can even knock themselves unconscious from the mental strain such a transformation gives them but that can be mitigated through training.  Unlike other transformations, there is no distinct stage or tier that one can cross to garner the next power level.  A fairy's transformation is a gradual growth in power that requires training to increase.  There are at least distinct power levels that can be measured throughout the transformation's growth, however.  {260k+} [x30] / {300k+} [x32] / {320k+} [x34] / {340k+} [x36] / {360k+} [x38] / and {400k+} [x42]