Tenkyou Shikeiro

    Tenkyou Shikeiro is one of the four original "Uber-Fangirls," abnormally powerful Fangirlish entities that were spawned from the depths of the Internet itself rather than transforming from ordinary people exposed to high levels of Fangirlism.  Unlike the others of her kind, she does not have a descriptive title for herself; when the other Uber-Fangirls insist that she play along, she refuses, telling them that "titles are lame" and that she "can do whatever she wants."

    Though nearly as tall as Nitsugi Sousaku, Shikeiro generally stands with a heavy slouch which causes her to appear shorter than any of the Uber-Fangirls aside from the tiny Ekaki Kurui.  She has long, unkempt hair that is dark purple in color, with two unusually-shaped hair decorations of unknown origin attached by some unknown means.  Rather than the skirts worn by most of the Uber-Fangirls, she wears a rather long gray-greenish dress that is tattered and raggedy-looking around the edges, perhaps the result of her strange movements and habits or simply lack of maintenance.  She also carries a large, pink-furred unicorn plushie with her at all times.

    Tenkyou Shikeiro is bizarre even by Fangirl standards, an entity which even her fellow Uber-Fangirls are sometimes annoyed by or uncomfortable with.  Her behavior is extremely erratic; one moment she will seem to be carrying out a rather brilliant battle strategy and the next she will be distracted by shiny explosions in the distance and ignore her own fight altogether.  She is obsessed with ponies for reasons unknown, and once she goes off on a pony-related rant it is difficult to rein her in and get her to focus on anything else.  She laughs at almost everything, but especially things that aren't really funny, repeating the syllable "lol" over and over (sometimes while rolling on the floor) rather than making a sound resembling actual laughter.  When caught laughing at something that anyone else (especially a non-Fangirl) finds to be legitimately funny, she quickly retracts her laughter, insisting that the thing being laughed at has gotten old or that since it was meant to be funny from the beginning, it was therefore "forced" and thus not-funny according to her backward logic.  She has even been known to barge into other battles just in time to finish off her own already-weakened allies, seemingly just for the fun of it.  It's possible that she sees such things as little more than some kind of twisted prank due to the fact that the Uber-Fangirls can't permanently die so long as some fragment of them returns to the Internet after they are destroyed.

History

    Tenkyou Shikeiro spawned from the depths of the Internet some time ago, taking a coherent form when the Fangirlism of a certain website in a region of the Internet where even other Fangirls fear to tread reached critical mass.  Said website, like Shikeiro herself, is known for its disturbing, chaotic, and utterly alien nature, frequented by the absolute worst people among Internet users.  Having one of the highest Fangirlism levels throughout the Internet, she was soon hand-picked by the Fangirl Queen to serve as one of the guardians of the white orb at its very center, perhaps being the first of the Uber-Fangirls to be assigned to the core due to her claim that she alone is in charge whenever the Queen is absent.

Powers and abilities

Fangirlism Level: Varies, usually hovering around 60. 

Marluxia in "pink fluffy scythicorn" form.
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    Like everything about her, Shikeiro's abilities are extremely unpredictable.  Her Fangirlism Level is in a constant state of flux, sometimes registering a level well below that of Nama Ryokouki and other times rising to become the highest among the Uber-Fangirls, particularly when she becomes enraged.  Her strangest ability makes use of the seemingly-harmless stuffed unicorn that she carries with her everywhere. By firing a rainbow-colored beam from its horn, she is capable of turning virtually anything into an equine creature of some variety; Marluxia, when hit, transformed into a pink, fluffy unicorn with a scythe blade in place of the traditional spiraling horn, and she has also shown the ability to transform trees, rocks, and even bodies of water into horse-shaped versions of the same things.  Like the bazooka that serves as Nitsugi Sousaku's ultimate weapon, this plushie can be tucked away and recovered from some unknown space at a moment's notice if Shikeiro needs to use both hands for something.

    When enraged, she begins to charge her claws with shimmering rainbow-colored energy which greatly enhances their cutting power, sometimes projecting claw-beams from them as she swipes at her opponent.  Upon being pushed  too far, she may attempt to charge an incredible amount of this energy into a house-sized sphere and then fling it at her opponent, an attack so powerful it would threaten to disrupt the structure of the Internet itself if not interrupted (making it perhaps even as strong as Lexaeus' Ayers Rock attack, which shook the Internet, carved a deep chasm out of the core's inner surface, and caused Internet connection outages all across the continent of Australia.)

    She also possesses a variety of abilities similar to those of lesser Fangirls, including a draining touch much like that of a Glomper and the ability to change the form of her opponent's attacks or weapons into something harmless like a Cracky Fangirl.  Of course, she is also capable of transporting herself through the Internet, an ability that all Fangirls share.

Nama Ryokouki

    Nama Ryokouki is one of the four original "Uber-Fangirls," abnormally powerful Fangirlish entities that were spawned from the depths of the Internet itself rather than transforming from ordinary people exposed to high levels of Fangirlism.  She refers to herself as "The Almighty Drill That Shall Pierce All Things," referring to her drill-spear's incredible destructive power and her single-minded fighting style using it.

    She is the tallest and most muscular of the Uber-Fangirls, standing at a height of just over six feet.  Her hair is short, spiked-up on one side, and orangey-brown in color.  Unlike the rest of the Uber-Fangirls, she wears pants rather than any form of skirt or dress.  In an odd contrast to most Fangirls but closely resembling Fanboys, her hands are more humanoid rather than being tipped with sharp claws.

    Nama Ryokouki's defining personality trait is her extreme arrogance, being supremely confident in all of her abilities and decisions even when those may be a bit (or more than a bit) lacking.  Though incredibly strong, she seems to be rather unintelligent, despite thinking of herself as being smarter than anyone she faces in battle by default.  She either does not know how to count properly or has somehow gotten the idea that "outnumbering" someone is the same as overpowering or otherwise outmatching them.  She gets many other words jumbled up in the most bizarre ways, sometimes even using a word with a near polar opposite meaning of what's intended (such as describing Vexen's freezing techniques as "pyrotechnic freezing" rather than "cryogenic freezing") or mispronouncing a word immediately after hearing someone else say it correctly.  In many of these cases, she seems completely blind to her mistakes or sometimes even convinced that it is not her but literally everyone else who's getting it wrong.  At times she will even attempt to "correct" others, almost always adding at least one grammar, pronunciation, or word-usage error in the process.

History

     Nama Ryokouki spawned from the depths of the Internet some time ago, taking a coherent form when the Fangirlism of a certain online journal website reached critical mass.  Her personality seems to have been heavily influenced by the Fangirlism of the online community that brought her into the world, with many on the site insisting that the works of fanfiction stored there are superior to those on other sites despite many of them often being just as bad if not worse -- and on top of that, even more focused on certain narrow ranges of topics than the very sites they often mocked for that exact reason.  Having one of the highest Fangirlism levels throughout the Internet, she was soon hand-picked by the Fangirl Queen to serve as one of the guardians of the white orb at its very center.

Powers and abilities

Fangirlism Level: 64

     Nama Ryokouki is physically the strongest of the Uber-Fangirls by far, making her incredibly dangerous at close range.  Her drill-spear weapon extends her range and greatly enhances her destructive capabilities, especially when combined with her ability to enlarge its tip to many times its normal size -- at its maximum power, a strike from this weapon was even capable of splitting Vexen's near-indestructible shield in half.  In addition to fighting with her spear, she is fairly skilled at unarmed combat, enlarging her fists or feet immediately before impact in order to catch her opponents off guard and provided added force to her blows.  Once able to move about outside the Internet, she adds one more trick to her fighting style -- the ability to burrow beneath the surface of the ground using her drill-spear and pop up elsewhere for a surprise attack.

   Like all Fangirls, she is capable of transporting herself through the Internet.  She does not, however, seem to possess certain other basic Fangirl abilities such as the power to drain energy from her foes by touch or the ability to sprout claws from her hands.

Ekaki Kurui

    Ekaki Kurui is one of the four original "Uber-Fangirls," abnormally powerful Fangirlish entities that were spawned from the depths of the Internet itself rather than transforming from ordinary people exposed to high levels of Fangirlism.  She refers to herself as "She Who Brings Dreams and Nightmares to Life," referring to her ability to create powerful and realistic illusions simply by drawing something in her sketchbook using her pencil-tipped claws.

    She is the smallest of the Uber-Fangirls, being both very short (standing barely over five feet) and very slight of build.  Her hair is short and very dark brown in color, bordering on black, and she wears glasses which (due to her large, glowing eyes) seem to shine at all times.  Her most unique feature is her left hand, which has long claws that can function as pencils in addition to being fully capable of slashing or stabbing her opponents.

    In most situations, Ekaki Kurui is fairly quiet, speaking only to introduce herself and taunt her opponents from beyond the veil of her illusions where she is safely beyond their reach.  Generally she seems to be the calmest of the Uber-Fangirls.  She tends to take things said to her the wrong way and is prone to being unexpectedly set off by the most random things, however; one such example is describing her power as being illusion-based, which will send her into a glowing-eyed fit of rage where she insists that her power does not create "mere illusions," despite Zexion's absolute immunity to it proving that this is in fact the exact nature of her power.

History

    Ekaki Kurui spawned from the depths of the Internet some time ago, taking a coherent form when the Fangirlism of a certain art website reached critical mass.  No specific feature of the website or its inhabitants as a whole seems to have influenced her personality (though people with a tendency to take something the wrong way and fly off the handle as a result are far from unheard of anywhere on the Internet), though the website's influence on the nature of her abilities is obvious.  Having one of the highest Fangirlism levels throughout the Internet, she was soon hand-picked by the Fangirl Queen to serve as one of the guardians of the white orb at its very center.

Powers and abilities

Fangirlism Level: 42

     As mentioned above, Ekaki Kurui's signature ability is that of creating powerful illusions through the use of her pencil-tipped fingers and the seemingly-ordinary sketchbook she carries with her at all times.  Simply by drawing something on its pages, she can bring all sorts of strange things to life, usually trapping her targets in a miniature world of illusions which prevents them from seeing where she is or escaping from a small area shrouded by her powers.  In a pinch, she can flip back to previous pages and quickly remake illusions that an opponent has managed to destroy, though a sudden burst of power from an opponent too overwhelming for her to handle is liable for disrupt her power for a bit longer and prevent her from calling forth any more images until its effects wear off.

    Ekaki Kurui is also capable of fighting using her claws, either the ordinary pair on her right hand or the pencil-tipped ones on her left.  The claws on her left hand can be rapidly extended out like the lead on a mechanical pencil (though, of course, nowhere near as fragile), making her more dangerous up close than she initially appears despite her relative lack of strength compared to her fellow Uber-Fangirls, and even some of the higher-end Fangirl variants.  Like all Fangirls, she is capable of transporting herself through the Internet, though it's unknown if she possesses any of the other "standard Fangirl abilities" such as draining energy via touch.

Nitsugi Sousaku

    Nitsugi Sousaku is one of the original four "Uber-Fangirls," abnormally powerful Fangirlish entities that were spawned from the depths of the Internet itself rather than transforming from ordinary people exposed to high levels of Fangirlism.  She refers to herself as "The Fastest Shot in All The Internet," and backs up that claim with a fighting style that revolves entirely around rapid-fire shots so numerous that few could even hope to evade them.

    She is fairly tall and thin, with more human-like proportions than most Fangirls, though her body is closer to the flat-chested standard Fangirl shape than some of her fellow Uber-Fangirls.  She has fairly long light-brown hair and wears something resembling a Japanese school uniform... with the unusual addition of a gunbelt, which has holsters for her two revolvers as well as the magic wands that she uses as her secondary weapons.

    Among the Uber-Fangirls, she is perhaps the most rational and grounded member.  Her only major quirks are her unwavering belief that nobody could ever be fast enough to avoid all of her attacks and her insistence on spinning, posing, and calling out the names of every new attack she introduces to the battle.  As her shots really are incredibly fast and difficult to dodge, however, she is usually capable of getting away with these habits without them causing her too much trouble.  She doesn't handle it well when someone manages to find a method of blocking or avoiding her attacks, quickly becoming flustered and resorting to even more reckless tactics rather than ever changing her fighting style to better suit the sort of opponent she's facing.

History

     Nitsugi Sousaku spawned from the depths of the Internet some time ago, taking a coherent form when the Fangirlism of a certain fanfiction website reached critical mass.  The abundance of stories using extremely similar (at times near-identical) ideas, very few standing out from the rest and even fewer among the crowd of seemingly-endless sameness being worth reading, developed into her arsenal of weaponry -- all projectile weapons of varying degrees of power, with all of the more powerful ones triggering explosions on impact, with the only real difference between them being appearance and the name she chose to give them.  Having one of the highest Fangirlism levels throughout the Internet, she was soon hand-picked by the Fangirl Queen to serve as one of the guardians of the white orb at its very center.

Powers and abilities

Fangirlism Level: 50

     As mentioned above, Nitsugi Sousaku's powers are focused entirely on rapid-fire projectile attacks, firing countless numbers of identical bursts of energy in hopes that her opponent will be incapable of dodging or blocking enough of them to ever reach her with an attack of their own.  When using her ultimate weapon, she also possesses the ability to set off her projectiles' explosions early, though it seems that she usually doesn't think to do so unless absolutely necessary.  She has very little close-range combat capability, though being a high-level Fangirl she still possesses sharp claws enough physical strength to take on most non-numbered members of Organization XIII without being overwhelmed.  Presumably, she also has at least some of the standard Fangirl abilities such as Internet-based travel, though she doesn't seem to be capable of enlarging her claws or draining energy by touch the way that most lesser Fangirls (and some of her fellow Uber-Fangirls) can.

    Nitsugi Sousaku's only other known power is the ability to sprout a pair of shimmering neon-green wings from the collar on the back of her uniform.  As expected, these wings allow her to fly at high speeds, making her even faster and more difficult to hit than she would be without them.  She has difficulty controlling her flight in small spaces, however, and as such only brings out these wings when fighting in a larger, more open area.

Special techniques 

• Refraction Donut: Using one of the magic wands she keeps tucked in her utility belt, Nitsugi Sousaku launches rainbow-colored rings of energy at her opponent.  Like her standard shots, these burn on impact, though they're several times larger so they are capable of doing more damage.
• Two-World Alignment: Using the second of the magic wands usually kept tucked away on her belt, Nitsugi Sousaku launches a barrage of explosive projectiles resembling ringed planets.  The "ring" around these blasts and the "two worlds" mentioned in the attack's name are both referencing the Internet and how it connects to Earth.
• Two-World Rainbow Revolver: Combining her two magic wands with her revolvers and firing all four together, this is an upgraded form of Two-World Alignment.  This time, the blasts take the form of double-ringed planets, the first ring rainbow-colored like Refraction Donut and the second composed of a rotating stream of the pink star-shaped energy bolts fired by her standard revolvers.
• Super Ultima Magnum Cannon Blast: Nitsugi Sousaku's ultimate attack.  She pulls out a massive bazooka-like weapon from out of nowhere, firing a barrage of massive neon-green cannonballs at her target which explode with incredible force (enough to send Vexen flying back even when he blocked them with his shield) upon impact.  Though the firing rate of this weapon is not as high as her others due to only having one of them, the sheer power of each blast more than makes up for that.
• Super Ultima Magnum Cannon Bomb Jump: A new technique she made up on the fly during her brief clash with Xigbar.  To counteract the heightened gravity that was rapidly dragging her to the bottom of the ocean, she aimed her bazooka downward and set off her projectiles' explosions the moment after they left its barrel, propelling herself up with the force of the blasts.

Xion

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Original Name: Unknown              
Elemental Power: Light                         
Weapon: Twin Hooks
Trained Under: Axel                       

Xion is a non-numbered member of Organization XIII, brought into the Organization in the year 2005.  Like the rest of the non-numbered members, her primary job would be to serve as backup to the numbered members on Fangirl-extermination missions and clear out groups of lesser Fangirls while her superiors take on the major threats, though during her time as an active member of the Organization she was not sent on any extermination missions.

She is very young for a member of the Organization -- roughly 15 years of age -- and of Japanese origin, with fairly short black hair and medium-pale skin.  Her most identifying features are her blue eyes, which seem to stand out even more in combination with her hair.

Xion, like Roxas and Xemnas before her, suffered from rather extensive memory loss prior to her induction into the Organization -- so severe in her case that she did not even remember her own name, and was christened with her current name by Xemnas himself.  Unlike many members of the Organization, she does not find Xemnas' presence uncomfortable or unnerving, though she has difficulty opening up to nearly every other adult member, only growing close to Roxas and (to a lesser extent) Axel during her time in the Organization.  She is generally pretty reserved and doesn't talk much, but once someone gets to know her she begins to "come out of her shell" a bit more -- and she will not hesitate to fight to the death to protect those who have fully earned her trust.

History

     Xion was the subject of what was known as the "Fangirl Disconnection Project," during which Xemnas and Vexen located a young girl somewhere in Japan who had begun to undergo the earliest stages of Fangirlization but had not yet connected with the Fangirl hivemind or physically transformed.  By disconnecting her from the Internet before the process was complete, this experiment created an "incomplete Fangirl" -- a being with Fangirl-like powers (such as the ability to travel through the Internet and drain energy by touch), but retaining her original form and a will of her own.  After discovering that the young girl had not transformed or taken on a Fangirlish mindset, the Organization took her in, with Xemnas introducing her to the general membership under the new name "Xion."

    After officially becoming a member of Organization XIII just seven days after Roxas' own induction, Xion was assigned to Axel for training.  As a result, the two with so much in common -- both suffering from memory loss, both having already taken a new name despite being non-numbered members at the time, both the same age -- quickly formed a strong bond; Xion became one of Roxas' closest friends in the Organization, and he one of her only friends.  Perhaps as a result of her incomplete Fangirl nature, Xion developed powers nearly identical to those of Roxas, with the elemental power of Light and two swords, albeit of a different variety from Roxas' blades.  The two of them constantly competing against each other during training sessions seems to have accelerated their development, causing both of them to rapidly reach the upper levels of power among non-numbered members and making it possible for the two of them fighting together to overwhelm Axel in a sparring match even before their training was officially complete.  Roxas soon began to seek a promotion to the currently-empty Number Thirteen rank (the former Number Thirteen having died in the battle against the very same Fangirl swarm that had demolished Roxas' hometown of Innenjima a month earlier), with Xion insisting that if that happened, she'd have to convince the Superior to add another chair so she could be Number Fourteen.

     Things went in a different direction for Xion when she moved on from combat training to Fangirl education classes taught by Vexen, who came dangerously close to revealing the nature of the Fangirl Disconnection Project to a class which she was attending, only stopped from mentioning any specific details by an intrusion by Xemnas.  Xion caught on to the fact that Vexen's descriptions matched her amnesiac state, however, and became overcome by worries that she might secretly be a Fangirl, the very creature she sought to destroy as a member of Organization XIII.  She began to sneak about the base at night while the other members slept, and eventually managed to somehow discover an early draft of the Fangirl Disconnection Project's report, written in the early days when Xion had just been introduced to the Organization and the older members were not yet sure how the experiment was going to proceed.  Upon finding that there had been a plan to destroy her like any other Fangirl if things went wrong, she panicked and fled from the base on her own without telling anyone, stealing a variety of supplies from the storage vaults and then disappearing overnight.

    The Organization searched the Japanese countryside for her in the days that followed, but eventually she returned on her own -- worn out, in pretty rough shape, and seemingly not in her right mind.  She managed to catch Xigbar off guard with a sudden slash, causing an injury that took him out of the fight before it started, and then clashed with Roxas briefly before eventually being defeated.  Upon seeing her own blood, she snapped out of her addled state, realizing that this meant she couldn't possibly be a Fangirl -- Fangirls lack normal human anatomy and thus don't bleed, they only spray neon-green sparks when injured.  As she lay in Roxas' arms, appearing to be dying, her body was surrounded by a green glow and she vanished.

    Though officially considered to be deceased from that point onward, in fact Xion's soul had remained in the realm of the living, attaching to Roxas as her damaged body faded away.  She dwelled within Roxas for a time, remaining completely dormant until the day of Roxas' first Fangirl-extermination mission.  When Roxas was injured by a powerful Yaoinator Fangirl variant, she suddenly awakened within him and took control of his body, bringing forth a surge of power that let her briefly attack in a blind rage and quickly destroy the Fangirl.  Afterward, she focused her powers onto Roxas' wounds, causing the most serious among them to heal much faster than they would have otherwise.  Investigating the incident, Vexen, Zexion, and Marluxia managed to coax Xion to the surface through the use of illusions combined with a "truth serum" Marluxia had prepared from a mixture of various plants and an infusion of his powers.  After confirming that she did indeed still exist within Roxas, they directed the boy to undergo a program of meditation training, aided by both Xaldin and Marluxia, which eventually allowed him to look inward and communicate with Xion.  After a lot of practice with this method, Roxas and Xion reconnected and Xion began to provide Roxas with boosts of power in battle, significantly increasing his strength as well as providing him with access to her greater mastery of the light-based powers the two of them share.

Powers and abilities

Strength: 4/10      
Speed: 9/10  
Endurance: 5/10          
Mastery of Powers: 6/10                        
Combat Skill: 9/10              
Defense: 8/10       

    Xion's elemental power is Light, which allows her to generate sudden flashes of bright light in order to blind her enemies as well as surrounding her blades with a glow that enhances their cutting power as well as letting them act as a makeshift flashlight in dark places.  She is immune to light-based attacks from others, which also makes it possible for her to see clearly even in extremely bright conditions as well as forcing her clash with Roxas to be an entirely physical battle as neither of their powers would harm the other.  Absorbing light-energy actually heals her, though unfortunately ordinary sources of light (even extremely bright ones) are too weak to have any significant benefit.

    Her weapons are a pair of Chinese-style swords known as "twin hooks," which have hook-like curving tips on the end which allow them to be used in a variety of different ways -- slashing or stabbing like an ordinary sword, catching an opponent's weapon in the "hook" and disarming them, blocking attacks with the guard and then countering with its sharp outer edge, or even linking the two weapons together in order to extend her reach.  Much like Roxas, she is quite skilled with her weapons, though to a somewhat lesser degree.  On the other hand, Xion held a greater degree of mastery over her light-based powers than Roxas, so her fighting style involves a lot more integration between the two than Roxas'.

     As an "incomplete Fangirl," Xion also has access to a variety of Fangirl-like abilities, though she usually prefers not to use them if she has a choice due to her discomfort with the idea of being "part-Fangirl."  Much like a Glomper Fangirl, she is capable of draining energy from her opponents by touch, with the draining effect continuing as long as contact is maintained; it's possible that if she had undergone complete Fangirlization, she would have ended up as a Glomper or some variant of that type.  She is also capable of hearing the voice of the Fangirl Queen in her head on occasion, particularly when the Queen is experiencing strong emotions (either positive or negative) or giving orders to Fangirls nearby.  This partial connection also seems to have given her the ability to sense the presence of Fangirls, perhaps picking up on their hivemind voices despite not being fully integrated into the hivemind herself.  The most useful of her Fangirl-derived powers is the ability to travel through the Internet, which allows her to use any Internet-connected device as a portal to travel into the Internet itself or as a shortcut to move from one device to the next.

Special techniques

• Dia: A basic light-elemental technique.  Xion fires a beam of concentrated light from one of her swords (or from the palm of her hand, if her swords are not materialized.)
• Clear Light: Xion creates a bright flash of light from either her hand or the blade of one of her swords, which can either be used to blind enemies or snap her allies out of the various abnormal mental states that Fangirl powers can induce.  When focused through the blade of one or both swords, its effects are enhanced, making it possible to dispel not only mind-altering techniques but some which affect the physical world as well.
• Strike Raid: Xion throws one of her swords and it spins through the air like a boomerang, returning to her hand afterward.
• Event Horizon: An attack that she and Roxas developed together, and which both of them use.  Xion charges her weapon with an aura of white light, then rapidly slashes at her opponent many times until the strength- and speed-boosting effect of this aura wears off.  If needed, she can dissipate the energy of this aura early by plunging her blades into the ground, causing one or more destructive pillars of light-energy to erupt from below.
• Ragnarok: Xion holds out her weapons and charges up a sphere of concentrated golden light, then launches it outward in the form of many thin beams (each resembling a more powerful version of Dia) which streak across the battlefield.  She can fire them all in formation so that they act like a single enormous beam, or she can have them change direction in mid-flight to home in on enemies.
• X-Discharge: Though not developed until after she shared Roxas' body, this technique is Xion's own, as Roxas himself had no idea what it would do when it was used against a Highschooler Fangirl variant with the ability to read minds and alter memories.  Xion (or Roxas drawing upon her power) charges at the opponent with swords glowing with light, executing a cross-slash which causes the light around them to crystallize into an X shape in the air.  Though flashy, this is in fact merely a distraction -- the actual attack is a single slash from behind that comes afterward, causing the usual cutting damage as well as making the X of semi-solid light-energy shatter into a storm of swirling shrapnel that cuts its target to shreds.