When I first started writing these characters, I came up with freelance magi under the theme of “joined”… in other words, conjoined twins… actually, characters like the resistance leader Kuato who appeared in Total Recall (the 1990 version), but the “Red” Masters basically didn’t need to be written in such detail, so I quickly moved it to the discarded ideas pile.
Just like Zugzwang (the magus clan that appeared in the short story that was published in TYPE-MOON Ace), they are the type of magi who divided up their family’s Magic Crest between themselves and display greater power when near each other. “We are 1+1=200…!” Well, these types generally end up disputing with each other as siblings or leave themselves unguarded and die, though.
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