Apocalypsette

No one ever took Tanaka Michiko seriously. She had a true passion for extreme metal, and serious talent on guitar, but she was a girl, and girls can’t play heavy metal guitar. Besides, she had rich parents and she bought all her clothes at that trendy mall store where all the wannabes shopped. All the metalheads in her school just figured she wanted attention, and a boyfriend in a band. They only saw the small, quiet girl she was in school, the girl who never seemed to fit in. They didn’t see her dark side, the hidden intensity she kept in check, the rages she only allowed to explode in private.
Then, one night, she put in the winning bid on a rare, old Japanese guitar once owned by a rock star from the 1960s, who only had one ahead-of-its-time heavy metal hit, Onzang or Hate Music, before dying in a car crash on a lonely country road.
She had no idea that he had made a dangerous bargain for his fame, or that a mysterious figure in black would appear at her door at midnight to ask her if she wanted to take over the contract he had decided he wanted out of.
The power she unleashed with that guitar burst the dam holding her darkness back. Michiko’s practiced, technical playing became raw fury, blasting over the roars of her summoned oni (demons) and the pounding of their iron clubs, crackling with dark magic.
No one would laugh now. Now, they would scream.

Physical Description

Special abilities

Apocalypsette is a demon summoner and sorceress, calling forth oni (Japanese demon ogres) to do her bidding and working dark, destructive magic. She is a highly proficient heavy metal guitarist, and uses her guitar’s sonic fury to harness and focus her dark power.
Aside from her supernatural abilities, she is a teenager and high school dropout who spent all her time before gaining her powers practicing guitar, listening to metal, and partying. While her new-found power has led her to crack open a dusty, evil tome or two, she mostly relies on raw power, instinct, and demonic inspiration.
Her guitar needs no amplification, playing quite loudly on its own. When wielded in battle, its demonic aura prevents it from being easily taken from her. In addition, the guitar is indestructible, and even if it is damaged somehow, it knits itself back together quickly.

Mental characteristics

Morality & Philosophy

Apocalypsette is hot-tempered, morbid, and violent, consumed by passions and excesses. When not on a destructive rampage, she behaves like every tale of rock-and-roll party-time insanity magnified by lack of conscience or concern for consequences. She doesn’t kill everyone who crosses her path, not by a long shot, but she always leaves her mark.