Beryl Bishop

Beryl Bishop is the main protagonist of Northbound: The Chariot Girls, and is one of the newest members among Team Ruber, a Mercenary Team associated with the Chariot Mercenary Guild. She along with Team Ruber, have been tasked in investigating the Surge Virus and its source by Guildmaster Mitsuru Miyako.

Her current ranking in the Guild is Rider.

Appearance
Beryl has long dark hair which has been tied up into a large hair bun. She wears a loose office uniform which is standard dress code for Guild Members who work in the Administrative Team. Three of her limbs are prosthetics, her right arm, and her legs. All of which have been specially made to suit her needs as a mercenary out on the field. While she never really tries to hide her legs, Beryl specifically makes sure she wears gloves and any other long sleeve clothing while working at her job. She does this to conceal her Buster Arm, in order to appear more unsuspecting.

Personality
Beryl is very bubbly and optimistic, while a bit naive she tries to see the good in everyone. Beryl is very considerate of other people and tries to work out what's best for them if she is able to. Because of her bright attitude, it makes her very standout from the other Mercenaries.

Beryl is also very reckless and not the brightest person in her line of work, this leads to her sometimes charging in headfirst without thinking of the repercussions afterward if it meant saving someone or something. She'll even risk her own life if it meant she could be able to save others, a trait inherited from her childhood where she viewed Mercenaries as Heroes who save people when they're in need.

Beryl has a fear of Beasts, and is often hesitant or finds her self freezing up when encountering one. This is because of an incident that happened in her childhood, which resulted in the loss of her right arm and legs. She's currently working on fighting off this fear with the help of her closest friend, Francis Alabaster.

Childhood
Beryl was born into a fairly large family with 4 other sisters. She grew up in a small rustic town outside the city of Aurelion as the middle child in the family. Guild Mercenaries often came and went through her town, and she often watched them work from a distance. Her father who is now retired from the Guild, often told her stories of his travels on the Frontier, and aspired to be like her father and the heroes that she admired from afar.

From a very young age, Beryl underwent training with her father so she could one day be able to join the Guild as a proper Mercenary.

The Beast Attacks
As Beryl lived out her mundane life, more and more beasts were seen around her hometown. The attacks on her town became more and more frequent they were mostly skirmishes at first, but soon became full on onslaughts as time went on. One of these attacks resulted in the Beasts breaking through the gate, and attacking the town. Beryl had found herself caught up in the attacks while arriving home from school, and her right arm and legs were torn off. Fortunately, the rest of her family remained safe from the beast attacks however.

Hospitalization
After her body was found, Beryl was quickly taken to the hospital. While she was alive and well, but was missing three of her limbs however; she fell into a deep depression during her recovery. It wasn't until her fateful encounter with Dr. Luminary Archiman, who specifically requested to foresee Beryl's recovery herself. The two saw each other every few days during her stay at the hospital, wishing she could be able to walk again. Dr. Archiman offered her this second chance, in exchange, she would help her undergo a plan Dr. Archiman founded called the Human Reconstruction Act. Allowing Beryl to regain her right arm and ability to walk with enhanced prosthetics.

Guild Recruitment
Later finding out that Archiman worked closely with the Chariot Mercenary Guild, Beryl felt indebted to her for allowing her to regain the use of her limbs. This further motivated her to join the Guild so an incident such as hers could never happen to anyone else ever again. In her first few years of working in the Guild, she was part of the Administrative Team as a Receptionist. She handed out jobs and bounties to the other mercenaries at the Guild and became a very popular receptionist because of her bright and bubbly attitude.

Meeting Francis Alabaster
While finally mustering up the courage to switch her occupation to a Mercenary role, she was hesitant at the thought at first due to her fear of being in situations that involved violent conflict. While lost in thought, she bumped into Francis Alabaster, who appeared to be a new Mercenary Recruit under the watch of Guildmaster Mitsuru. While helping Francis get accustomed, she found herself to be very attached to Francis and later sought out to recruit him as her partner. While Beryl is still a bit inexperienced in her line of work, she can find solace in having someone as big and as tough as Francis is to help her out while working out on the field.

Present
Now with more combat experience under her belt, she now lives her daily life as a Mercenary alongside Francis. Working various jobs and pursuing bounties of men and beast alike.

While taking on a bounty of hunting down an Abyssal Crab, located inside a cavern not too far off from Aurelion City. The two noticed the Abyssal Crab's strange behavior and unstable magical energy, and narrowly managed to defeat it. Beryl and Francis while sustaining heavy injuries from the Abyssal Crab, returned to the guild with their findings. This along with multiple other strange reports from other Mercenaries spurred the Guild's investigation of this mysterious virus. Mitsuru immediately reassigned multiple mercenary teams and sent them out across the Frontier in order to investigate further.

Beryl and Francis after recovering from their injuries were immediately reassigned under Felicity Ruber's Mercenary team. Now tasked to travel the Frontier, Beryl sees this as an opportunity to help end the looming threat of the beast population as a whole in the Frontier.

Magical Energy Absorption
Beryl's prosthetic limbs have a unique property built into them, allowing her arm and legs to absorb any lingering magical energy in the air to power her legs or her Buster Arm.

Buster Arm
Her main weapon, her right arm can transform into a Buster Cannon. Allowing her to fire bolts of concentrated magical energy. She can fire lower concentrated shots in order to incapacitate her opponents as well.

If there is enough magical energy charged in her limbs, she is able to fire charged shots. But this comes at a cost of using up more magical energy however.

In the event of a last resort, Beryl is also able to concentrate any magical energy in the air and any charged up magical energy in her limbs to fire off a powerful concentrated beam of energy. This comes at a risk however as it comes at the risk of her limbs breaking or overheating.

Anchor Jet
Her secondary arm. In the event that anything happens to her Buster Arm, she is able to replace her arm with a secondary one called the Anchor Jet, which is a larger prosthetic arm that allows her to throw piston powered punches at her opponents. The Anchor Jet requires no magical charge, but also cannot absorb magical energy.

Kick Based Fighting Style
At closer ranges, Beryl is able to hold her own by utilizing her legs in close quarters combat. While not the most proficient at it, she is able to hold off most opponents competently.

Pseudo Limb Enhancement
Beryl can enhance her own agility by expending any charged magical energy stored in her legs. While Limb and Body enhancements are novice level magical feats, this allows Beryl to be able to leap far distances or strengthen her own legs. Though due to this being artificial enhancements along with her lack of inherit magical prowess, she cannot be able to pull this off consistently.

=== Ultimate Compatibility === Beryl throughout her journey has utilized her unique ability to absorb any excess magic released in the air. While facing many foes and utilizing her Absorption to attempt to hold her own weight against them, indirectly lead her to absorbing several different types of magical energies, including the Surge Virus. This helped her build a tolerance to the virus, as well as allowing her to use various different abilities to limiting degrees, given that she's able to replace her Buster Arm with a piece of someone or something. The most notable example is how she is able to utilize Francis' Arm and its pyromancy.

=== Francis' Arm === Later on in the series, Beryl inherits a modified version of Francis' arm that he left behind. This allows her to use portions of Francis' strength and pyromancy. This comes at a great cost however, as Beryl finds the use of Francis' Arm to be exhausting. Due to how Francis functioned, she fears that overexerting her arm and overheating her body like Francis does may lead to her killing herself. This leaves her to use Francis' pyromancy to be a last resort during dire situations.

Francis Archibald Alabaster
Her closest friend, the two are rarely ever seen apart from each other. They're nearly inseparable. Beryl has made room in her small apartment so Francis could live with her, are they very close partners? Or something more?

Molly Aubergine
While Molly is a bit younger than Beryl, her direct attitude and decisiveness has quickly made Beryl highly respect the young prodigy. As she is able to keep a calm head no matter what situations they find themselves in. Beryl often looks to her for advice on improving her aim.

Ivory
Aside from Francis, Beryl finds herself to be very close friends with Ivory. Sharing the same interests and hobbies, Beryl sees Ivory as sort of a big sister figure to her.

Ebony
Ivory's sister. Despite speaking in very drawn out sentences and keeping up a cool and mysterious front, Beryl is oblivious to it. Agreeing and fully understanding anything she says. She finds her weapon Gwyn, to be very impressive and constantly pesters Ebony to use it whenever she can in front of her.

Felicity Ruber
The Leader of Team Ruber, Beryl puts full trust and good faith in her decision making. She often goes to Felicity for advice or input on anything while out on the field alongside her. Beryl is completely unaware of her true form currently, and doesn't question her abnormal height.

Makoto Midori
Is often teased and bullied by Mako for being the smallest and the most inexperienced of the group. While the two share a bantery relationship Beryl can see Mako's good intentions and isn't offended much by their constant bickering. Beryl does find herself unable to see eye to eye with Mako's methods of fighting and handling of bounties, as she finds her ruthlessness and bloodlust somewhat unsettling.

Maxie Bishop
Her Oldest Sister. While she doesn't see her much, they keep in contact via mail sometimes. Maxie is a soldier in the Royal Army, and rumored to be one of the higher ranking officers.

Morgan Bishop
Her Second Oldest Sister. Considered to be the smartest of the Bishop sisters. She helps their mom and dad run their family owned business back in their hometown. Her cold personality is a contrast among the other sisters.

Bixie Bishop
The Second Youngest Sister. Bixie is a bit airheaded but is the most carefree sister. Bixie currently still attends school and hopes to help Morgan run the family business.

Goshen Bishop
Beryl's Youngest Sister. Considered the be the hothead of the Bishop sisters, she has the most common sense out of the five and gets irritated by her other sisters' antics.

Helio Bishop
Beryl's Father, Beryl looks up to her father in hopes of making him proud. One day, she hopes to surpass her father to become a famous and renowned Mercenary. He enjoys travelling a lot and is rarely seen at home ever since Beryl left.

Emmy Bishop
Beryl's Mother, she runs the family shop alongside Morgan and Bixie. Often trying to keep in contact with her other family members as much as she can when she's able to.

Kimiko Fujihara
Often enjoys helping Kimiko with their numerous tasks as Mitsuru's Secretary whenever she can. Hoping to help ease the workload on him, she often invites Kimiko out to eat or drink; finding his background as a Fox Clan Diplomat to be fascinating. Beyond that however, they're seen as friendly co-workers rather than close friends.

Mitsuru Miyako
Her employer. While Beryl does not know much about her background, she finds Mitsuru to be somewhat intimidating. She isn't sure if she's able to fully trust Mitsuru, as she's under the impression that she's hiding something or is more than what she lets on. For now however, she tolerates her because of Francis' trust towards her.

Luminary Archiman
Beryl's doctor, and overseer in the overall maintenence of her limbs. She's creeped out by Archiman at times, due to her sadistic nature. While still feeling indebted by Archiman she still finds herself to be her guinea pig for testing out various prosthetics limbs for the general populace.

Nyarlathotep
A close friend she recruited into the Guild. Remaining oblivious and confused as to who Nyarl really is, she assumes they're a noble or royalty from a far off land. She looks up to Nyarl because of how capable and powerful they are, considering them to be one of the strongest people they've ever met.

Triss Callahan
Beryl's replacement after leaving the Administrative Team, Triss is a receptionist for the Guild; Upon meeting her, Beryl wishes to help Triss pursue their ongoing mystery of who was behind the serial beheadings all those years ago.

Hildred
Is deeply unsettled by her. She remains polite and respectful to Hildred, due to her being Archiman's assistant.

Trivia

 * Beryl comes from a family with no prior magical talent or prowess.
 * Finds the magic to be fascinating, but feels no need for the use of it in her life outside of work.
 * Is able to befriend a number of people from different walks of life, though their status doesn't mean much to her.
 * Loves fast food and sweets, having a bottomless appetite for them.
 * Enjoys reading old world manga, and playing video games.
 * Beryl's family are named after the different gemstones in the Beryl family.