Rana Faychild

The Pyromaniac Fire Witch - with an emphasis on "mania." Unlike most would-be arsonists, Rana doesn't like inflicting pain - but being a fire elemental and having the mindset of a child kinda makes being happy go lucky and loving fire a poor combination even if she means well. She is often accompanied by her demolitions expert Familiar, Splodey - a black puffball with a small face and a fuse-tail.

Rana's relation with Braneshift is odd - being from what is considered a fictional realm within her own universe, she is used to seeing all sorts of crazy and odd things and is able to pull off minor 4th-wall breaking stunts. She seems to be searching for two individuals: "Master Adam" and "Mistress Dawning."

Rana's childlike demeanor is often extremely offputting - she misses obvious social cues and tends to be very whimsical with an attention span to match aforementioned demeanor. Those who befriend her find that she can be guided quite easily - if they can survive the initial salvos of fire and explosions.

The witch's power over fire is not to be underestimated - she is a talented pyrokinetic and accomplished spellslinger. However, Rana's biggest weakness is that her variety of spells is limited to fire, fire, and more fire. That, and she has a habit of giving literal meaning to the term "friendly fire."

Splodey
Rana's familiar is pretty much a literal fuzz-ball. His jet-black fur has formed a rather curious spherical shape around him, with stubby nub appendages allowing him to walk on all fours or on twos. His tail is almost always quietly sparking away in the shape of a fuse. If there is a god, he had a sick sense of humor when designing this cuddly creature in the loose shape of a cartoonish bomb.

Like his namesake and shapesake, Splodey's specialty is producing explosives from nowhere. Bigger explosives take time to set up.

Due to his existence as Rana's familiar, Splodey can be summoned and unsummoned at her whimsy. And similar to Rana's whimsical nature, Splodey also has the ability to instantly change clothes into something more appropriately (or inappropriately, depending on how you look at it) fitting the situation. A solid example of this would be a boyscout uniform with a marshmallow on a stick.

Like Rana, Splodey's abilities tend to rack up collateral damage and are not very good at differentiating friend from foe. When Splodey comes rolling in, he comes in to make a bang.