Mina Falsetto (Freedom)
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Relevant History
Less than a year ago, a sinister and unscrupulous practitioner of the arcane arts decided to take the ultimate step in black magic: Selling her soul to Satan. It was a fairly standard contract. The witch would gain untold magical power for a loosely-specified amount of time, and once the duration of that time had expired, her soul would be dragged to Hell for eternity. Where things went awry, or more awry than usual for selling one's soul to the Ultimate Evil, was when the witch decided to sign the contract using a false name, believing that this would prevent Satan from claiming her soul. Insulted and angered by this attempted deception, the Prince of Darkness furiously claimed the witch's soul immediately, and then proceeded to locate someone who actually bore the fictional name on the contract, to whom he granted the contracted power with no strings attached.
That night, in the grimy and crime-riddled town of Port Oakes, a woman named Mina Falsetto had a terrifying nightmare. A horrific entity appeared before her, its very being the essence of malice and hate. The monstrous thing spoke to Mina in a deep, booming voice that echoed of eternal strife and torment, laughing loudly as it explained that an anonymous benefactor had requested that he grant Mina a gift of untold power, one which she would have for the rest of her mortal life. The nightmare being recommended that Mina make good and frequent use of her power, because while Mina paid nothing for it, that fell might had cost her benefactor dearly. When she awoke, Mina found herself instinctively capable of summoning and controlling a whip formed of sinister, discolored flames. More disturbing, she was able to create barriers and auras of equally-sinister fire, and even worse, A pair of small, obviously demonic creatures had a tendency to suddenly appear whenever she needed help of any kind. Or just whenever.
And thus was one soul granted blasphemous powers she never wanted while another learned, at the cost of eternal torment, that one cannot deceive the Father of Lies.
Current Status
Mina Falsetto is currently a very confused individual. She is at once terrified and fascinated by her new-found abilities, and while she is wholly aware of their evil nature, she still finds herself calling upon her nefarious new friends daily, either to ask their help for addressing whatever problems trouble her, for advice and information regarding her new powers, or just to have something to talk to. Mina has come to rely on her demons because, as demented as it sounds, they are the only people she can trust. Mina Falsetto is currently living one day to the next, trying her best to keep surviving in Port Oakes while looking for a path to follow into the future.
Demons
Bound by contract to serve Mina as long as she lives, Mina Falsetto's cadre of demons take great pride in their positions as Mina's personal servitors. They willingly obey every command, fulfill every request, and follow each suggestion that Mina gives them. Mina's demons encourage her to use them however she sees fit, and not allow herself to be bound by the preconceived notion that those who summon demons are evil.
K'Donau
Having the honor of being the first of Mina's demons, K'Donau is a small but powerful hell-spawn who's body and heart blaze with unholy fire. He seethes with rage at the very thought of anyone or anything doing harm to Mina, and dreams of a world where any and all who harm, displease, or mildly inconvenience Mina are consumed in body and soul by his impure flames. If such enemies fall before the powers of his fellow demons, or Mina's own flame whip, K.Donau is willing to call that close enough. K'Donau encouraged Mina to refuse to tolerate even the slightest insults, and treat all law enforcement is cruel oppressors who need to either lighten up or be lit up.
K'Donau serves as a tutor of sorts for Mina, as well. He enthusiastically helps her better understand her powers, and promises repeatedly that as she becomes more skillful, Mina will be rewarded with greater power and more demonic servants.
Kir Sanu
The second of Mina Falsetto's demons, and the first manifestation of K.Donau's promise that improving her abilities will allow Mina to summon more demons. Kir Sanu assaults Mina's enemies with the sheer cold of the Abyss. Kir Sanu pursues Mina's goals with as much energy as her fellow demons, but often tries to encourage Mina to relax and enjoy life as it is. Kir Sanu will even discourage Mina from actually fighting her enemies and assailants, insisting that Mina just enjoy the show as Kir Sanu and her fellow demons eliminate the threat.
Kotoli
A large and powerful fire demon, Kotoli has a deep and abiding dislike of anyone and everyone who has something Mina does not have. Whenever she encounters someone who has something Mina wants or needs, Kotoli is more than happy to slay the offender and deliver the desired item to Mina, and in fact must be restrained to prevent her from doing so. For Kotoli, it's not about what Mina has, it's about what others have and Mina wants. As for herself, Kotoli thinks Mina is a singularly beautiful human, and would give anything to look like her master.
Personality
Mina doesn't think of herself as a bad person. To the contrary, she sees herself as a relatively upright and respectable individual struggling to survive in the brutally cruel world of the Rogue Isles. She even thought she'd been doing a good job of it up until the waist-high fire demon rose up from the depths of Hell to tell her he was her loyal servant. Confused and more than a little frightened, Mina spent a long time convinced that she had been somehow corrupted, and had become inherently and inescapably evil. For months, she went as far as embracing this disturbing outlook, committing a variety of violent crimes across Port Oakes. However, she recently has become unsure of herself in this regard, and oddly enough it is the input of her demonic allies that is starting to convince Mina that maybe having access to wicked power does not automatically make someone a wicked person. Mina is currently in an experimental frame of mind, wondering if it's possible that she could return to being a good person despite her malevolent magic.
Mina sees her return to honesty as an uphill battle, but she is constantly encouraged by her demons, who often tell her that she should take advantage of her free will to do just as she pleases without feeling bound by any constraints of good or evil. To them, this means total personal anarchy, but to Mina it means using her dark magic to do some good in the world.
Abilities
In addition to being able to summon the aforementioned demons at any time, Mina Falsetto has a great deal of arcane control over thermal energy, albeit only in the form of commanding hellfire. Her cold, oddly-colored flames can heal wounds or create protective barriers, as well as inhibiting her enemies. Mina is also capable of manifesting a whip formed entire of impure flames, which she uses to harm and weaken her enemies to make it easier for her demons to bring her victory -despite Kir Sanu's insistence that Mina just sit back and let the demons do all the work.