Nova Foster

"With a great amount of study comes even greater results." -Nova Foster

Nova Foster (のヴァ ふすた, Nova Husuta) often refereed to as just Nova (のヴァ) is a Mage of the Fairy Tail Guild. She is a Celestial Manipulation Mage, as well as a magic scholar, being the only mage to create a new branch of Celestial Manipulator Magic, Cold Star. Nova resided in the secluded town of Pine Valley, until leaving her home in order to prove her usefulness and skill to the magic world. She is a current contender to become an S-Class Mage in Fairy Tail.

Appearance
Pale caucasian with freckles dotting nose and cheeks, two blue eyes and short caramel hair. At age sixteen, due to a harmful injury caused by her experimenting in Cold Star celestial manipulation magic, Novas right eye became blinded, as well as her face scarred by ice burns. This injury prompted Nova to cover her face with black, cloth mask, hiding her deformity and damaged eye. Nova currently has a single blue and a medium build, standing at 5 ft 8 inches. She wears a black corset shirt, skirt, knee high boots and finger-less gloves with blue accented lace, white sleeves and stockings. He head is often adorned with a black witch styled hat, decorated with white stars and blue ivy.

Personality
Nova is often quiet, secluded and focused, due to much of her time being spent researching instead of socializing with others. Though sometimes called unapproachable by her fellow guild members (mostly due to her nose being crammed into a book) Nova is truly polite and kind, willing to give anyone a chance at her friendship, until proven otherwise. Nova likes to use her head in favor of her power and does not like people who use force instead of logic, often trying to use reason to settle a fight, before turning to her magic. As she is used to working alone, Nova often turns to her brain to silently think of a decision when faced with a stressful environment. This fact often proves to be an issue among her guild mates, as she will unknowingly not share any of her thoughts until ordered to do so, putting their safety (as well as patience) at risk. Though often a follower rather than a leader, Nova is willing to take charge in dangerous situations when needed, providing orders and strategies to her guild mates in order to fight at their strongest.

History
Born in the secluded Pine Valley of Isvon, Nova grew up in solitude with her two parents in the pine littered forests of Isvon. Always she had become an avid reader and was located in an area of clear night skies, Nova began to study astronomy at the age of twelve, using books her father would bring home after long merchant trips selling pine wood across the country.

Though Nova would often accompany her father on his business trips, avid to learn more about the world outside of the pine woods, she was eventually pulled to remain in Pine Valley until her late teens, as her studies lead to the interest and practice of Celestial Manipulation. Because this type of magic can be harmful to the castors skin due to radiation waves and surge burns, Nova began to wear black gloves to prevent herself from injury.

Through the side study of Ice Make magic (native to her country of Isvon), Nova began research into the long fabled 'cold stars', a celestial body that is developed in ice rather than fire. Nova worked thoroughly and consistently, reading and measuring starlight to finally prove the cold stars existence at the age of sixteen. With this notable knowledge on cold stars, she was able to create a new branch of Celestial Manipulation Magic (becoming the first mage to do so in that area) using it's original power and source, while adding a formidable ice effect that could cause long lasting damage after being cast.

Although already skilled in the practice of Celestial Manipulation Magic, Cold Star Manipulation proved to be more difficult to Nova than first thought, as her first attempt in casting it caused a powerful surge of ice to engulf and burn her skin. This caused a permanent blinding to her right eye as well as scaring to her face. It was after this incident that Nova swore to her parents only use Cold Star in the most dire of situations.

After years of study and practice, Nova left her families home in Pine Valley to put her power to the test, joining the famous Fair Tail guild of Magnolia. With meticulous work and assignments, Nova hopes to eventually become a respected and notable member of the middle ranks, joining Fairy Tail in their quest to be the top guild of Ishgar as well as prove her worth to those around her.

Magic and Abilities
Celestial Manipulation (天体の操作, Tentai no sōsa) A form of caster magic that uses the radiation of the stars to create a powerful and bright beam of energy that can be used to the castors needs, whether it be defense or offence. Nova has shown to use Celestial Manipulation in many forms.
 * Manipulate: Star Beam (スタービーム, Sutābīmu): a beam of light energy that would emit from Novas hands and strike her opponent with great force, throwing them backward though the air.
 * Manipulate: Star Shoot (スター・シュート, Sutā shūto): a long range spell that expels singular beams of light energy to emit from Novas hands, giving her a more precise shot at her opponent.
 * Manipulate: Light Shield (遮光板, Shakō-ban): a defense move in which Nova spreads her hands vertically in order to create a dome of light around her, defending her from attack. It's strength against her opponents magic depending on the amount of magical energy put into the spell.
 * Manipulate: Light Ray (光線, Kōsen): a wide range spell used when Nova is surrounded by a large amount of opponents. By spreading her arms horizontally, Novas body emits a thick ripple of light that shoots outwards in order to take out as many opponents as possible.
 * Manipulate: Cold Star (コールドスター, Kōrudosutā): a spell created by Nova herself, she uses the power of a singular ice star discovered in her teen years in order to shoot a blinding light of freeze enduing energy, causing her opponent to be scalded with below freezing temperatures as well as eye blinding light. Due to a past injury cause by her first attempt at this spell, Nova only casts it in the most dire of situations.