SAILOR LEAD CROW (aka Akane Karasuma)
Role: The Serious One
Main Uniform Colour: Dark Maroon
Hair Colour: Red
PL 11 (173)
STRENGTH 3 STAMINA 5 AGILITY 5
FIGHTING 12 DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE 1 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 3
Skills:
Acrobatics 5 (+10)
Athletics 8 (+10)
Deception 5 (+8)
Expertise (TV Reporter) 6 (+7)
Persuasion 2 (+5)
Insight 2 (+4)
Intimidation 3 (+6)
Perception 3 (+8)
Stealth 3 (+8)
Advantages:
Defensive Attack, Improved Defenses, Improved Initiative 2, Ranged Attack 5, Startle
Powers:
"Galactica Bracelets"
"Star Seed Extractor" Affliction 12 (Fort; Dazed & Impaired/Stunned & Disabled/Incapacitated & Transformed to Seedless) (Feats: Homing 2) (Extras: Ranged, Extra Condition) (38) -- [40]
- AE: "Phone Booth" Teleport 8 (Feats: Increased Mass 5) (Extras: Accurate) (29)
- AE: "Galactica Tornado!" Energy Blast 10 (Feats: Improved Critical 2) (22)
"Whip Strike" Strength-Damage +5 (Feats: Reach 3) (Extras: Multiattack 8) (16 points)
Offense:
Unarmed +12 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Whip +12 (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Galactica Tsunami +10 (+10 Ranged Affliction, DC 25)
Star Seed Extractor +10 (+12 Ranged Affliction, DC 22)
Initiative +13
Defenses:
Dodge +15 (DC 25), Parry +15 (DC 25), Toughness +5, Fortitude +6, Will +8
Complications:
Responsibility (Galaxia's Will)- Sailor Lead Crow is the minion of Sailor Galaxia, who does not suffer failure gladly. She must find the special "Star Seed"... or else.
Relationship/Rivalry (Sailor Aluminum Siren)- Lead Crow is next in line, and is openly a rival to Siren in the Anima-Mates. However, she is annoyed to find Siren so casual and flighty about things, and begins helping her out and demanding she improve, stating that it's out of dismay that "my rival is so flighty!". However, it's very clear in the end that Crow deeply cares for her rival, when Galaxia tires of her failures.
Vulnerable (Bracelets Give Life)- As a being whose Star Seed has already been removed, Sailor Lead Crow needs her magical bracelets to live. If Sailor Galaxia removes them (which she may do at-will), Lead Crow will simply fade away.
Total: Abilities: 72 / Skills: 40--20 / Advantages: 10 / Powers: 50 / Defenses: 21 (173)
Sailor Lead Crow- The Beloved Serious One:
-Sailor Lead Crow debuted right alongside Aluminum Siren, and the way they played off of each other swiftly became one of the most popular aspects of Sailor Stars- Siren was a lovable ditz, impeccably polite and always trying to do things nicely and according to Japanese social conventions... while Crow, ostensibly her biggest rival and someone who should be against her doing well, was instead incredibly annoyed and constantly badgering her to do things more quickly and efficiently. Poor, ultra-serious Crow was left exasperated at her "great rival" and instead devoted her time to HELPING HER, ostensibly out of pride at first. See, she was like "I can't believe my biggest rival is such a ditz". So she'd do stuff like find targets or try to hurry Siren along. And then, of course, as Siren starts to do more poorly and REALLY needs help, Crow suddenly breaks the façade and gets ultra-concerned for her, clearly worried. And when Siren finally screws up one too many times and makes a poor excuse to Sailor Galaxia, a horrified Crow is like "OH MY GOD YOU NEED TO APOLOGIZE RIGHT NOW!", but can only watch as her "rival" is executed by their master.
Lead Crow- Mourning Her Friend:
-And then, for the next several episodes, Lead Crow deal with a new rival in Sailor Tin Nyanko... while clearly and openly mourning the woman she realized was her best friend in the world. She tears up, stares longingly at Siren's belongings and journals, and even mimics her "polite Japanese greeting" when attacking the Victims of the Day- it's INCREDIBLY sweet, and something totally unique even for this show. Naturally, fans ship it HARD- the ultra-sweet ditzy blue-haired girl and the ultra-serious, grouchy redhead. Finally, though, Lead Crow tries to unleash a "Black Hole" death weapon to kill Sailor Moon, whose identity she has just discovered... and Tin Nyanko sabotages it, killing her. And a tearful Lead Crow only mutters to herself at how she failed to avenge Siren's death after all, begging forgiveness to her lost friend. And thus she becomes one of the show's most sympathetic villains, despite dressing like an evil stripper and trying to kill innocent people. This show is amazing.
-In the manga, Sailor Lead Crow was never that sympathetic, and had no such relationship with Siren. Instead, she was shown to be a villain from the planet Coronis, same as Sailor Mars's guardians, the crows that b became Sailor Phobos & Deimos. Crow had turned on Sailor Coronis and killed her for Galaxia, leaving the three Sailors the sole survivors of Coronis. Lead Crow appears and KILLS Sailor Phobos & Deimos, but is herself promptly executed by Sailor Moon's Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss.
-Her red coloring is based off of how "lead" and "red" are spoken the same way in Japanese.
Sailor Lead Crow's Powers:
-Sailor Lead Crow is actually by far the most serious fighter of the Sailor Anima-Mates, at one point taking out all four Inner Senshi around Sailor Moon, sending them smashing into brick walls with single swipes from her whip. And they DENT those things, too! This is the only time a villain actually provides a serious challenge to a large group of our heroines- the others just tend to escape of freak out (like Siren did). Otherwise she shoots generic energy.