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Saoto: Her birthday is the 4th of October. She’s 20 at the beginning of the story, and a university student on “Earth”. Later on she turns out to be the princess of the other world’s greatest kingdom: Maryl. At the end of the story she’ll become the Queen of the Marylians. As a newborn, Saoto was send to “Earth” through a magic portal connected to this other world (only members of the royal family have the ability to distort time and space in this way and create portals). She was send there to be safe from the attacks and wars in her kingdom, that are connected to another character named Zuki – more about that once I actually draw Zuki for this blog. Thus, Saoto grew up in an orphanage on “Earth”, yet was never adopted and just could get away from there thanks to her best friend’s family, who supported her. Nonetheless, both her and her best friend Asuri grow up to be total nerds, and Saoto has the tendency to take nothing serious once she comes to Maryl. To her, it's just like in her favourite game… of course, her attitude will change later on. Like every female member of the royal bloodline of Maryl, she can turn into some kind of “royal form” (I used to call it “Saoto-hime”, but… nah, I need to change that). In this special form, the royal lady is blind, yet has enormous magical powers. In Saoto’s case, she can create whatever she draws into the air… which is pretty stupid if you can’t see, but it’s still a great (fighting) power once she gets used to it. However, the more you use this power, the sooner you actually lose your eyesight, even when you’re no longer in this royal form. (Hence, she’s almost blind at the end of her quest… D: )

Ryo: His birthday is the 14th of March, and he’s 26 years old at the beginning of the story. He’s the son of the leader of the Royal Guard of Maryl, and has a brother who’s 2 years younger. Their father died at the time of the attack 20 years ago, and his brother Shiki is accidentally send away with the princess to Earth. Ryo stays behind and survives the attack, and grows up to become the new leader of the Royal Guard and the personal guard of the lost princess. He’s send to Earth to find the princess at the age of 20, since at that time her powers should have awakened and no one in the kingdom believes that Zuki and her dangerous army is still there in Maryl. Thus, he takes Saoto and her best friend Asuri to the kingdom of Maryl and leads them to the castle. But more about that on a later notice. Since he’s Saoto’s personal guard, he literally despairs of her – how is he supposed to deal with a princess who takes nothing seriously? After they have to leave for a longer quest to save the kingdom (aaah, cliché! x'D), he still falls in love with her for some reason unbeknownst to me??? Seriously, I have no idea how that happened. It just did… >_> He gets a haircut later on – I like him better with short hair :‘D

Asuri: Her birthday ist he 10th of April. She is 20 at the beginning of the story, and is Saoto’s best friend on “Earth”. She’s a nerd as well, yet she is more down-to-earth than Saoto. "Asuri" is not her real name, it's just a nickname she picked up when she was younger (I don't know about her real name yet, tho :'D). She’s good at material arts, so her weapon of choice will forever be her fists and feet. She followes Saoto to Maryl (“I can’t leave you alone! Seriously… you’d probably be dead by now if it weren’t for me…!” – which is actually quite true XD), and other than Saoto, she’s dead serious about Maryl and whatever happens there. She’s pretty much the only one who dares to (angrily) remind her best friend that “NO, that is NOT a game, goddammit, you idiot!” She’ll most likely return to Earth in the end, unlike Saoto. She’s too much of a responsible person to abandon her life in her original world, especially since she has friends and family there.

Hika: Her birthday is the 24th of November, and her age is unknown. About once in every generation a child with extremely powerful magic is born, and Hika is one of them. Like all people with “magic blood”, she ages very slowly, and thus is probably more than 100 years old at the beginning of the story. Those magic people are usually feared by everyone, even their own family, since they are said to bring bad luck. Thus, Hika left her village at a young age, and travelled through Maryl ever since. Unfortunately, she cannot speak and  never made friends on her long, long journey. Her mission is to find the meaning of her life, ‘cause she doesn’t want to believe that being abandoned and hated is what she was born for. Thus, once she sees Saoto in her almost angelic “princess mode”/royal form for the first time, she believes that Saoto must be an angel and that it is her meaning of life to follow her and protect her with her powerful white magic. Thus, she’s basically the healer of the team, and she adores Saoto for some reason…? x’D She’s probably my favourite, since she’s a precious (almost) immortal baby and I love her ;3;