Ebifly

Full title: Ebifly! Kawaisouna Mahoushoujo Monogatari
(Ebifly! Sad Magical Girl Story)

Eri Mizutani, an average highschooler, was one day buying fish for her mother when she slipped on a discarded head of tuna and knocked over a tank of shrimp, releasing them into the nutrient-laden gutters. After paying for the damages, she was walking back home when lo! a voice came at her from the sewers below. Among the fortunate shrimp she saved was a magical prawn (which is not a shrimp, but nobody really cares except marine-biologists) who shows his gratitude by granting Eri the ability to transform into the heroine Ebifly, along with one super power of her choice. Seeing herself in the reflection of a local pigeon's eyes, she says, "I hope nobody recognizes me."

And so, the unrecognizeable heroine is born! She can magically switch to her alter-ego at whim without anyone suspecting who she is. Even when appearing to the same person twice as Ebifly, they will deny ever having met her before. With this practically useless power, Ebifly has no enemies and no trouble trying to protect her secret identity, though nobody would really care anyway. Her shrimp powers include swimming, breathing underwater, and the ability to feed on plankton. These are all useless as she lives many miles inland. As Ebifly, Eri walks around the neighborhood and...helps the children with normal stuff like getting their dogs to come out from under park benches. That kind of stuff. Not that anybody cares.

Well anyhow, on to the story behind creating the character! I was eating shrimp for dinner one day and was peeling the shell off of them like a jacket. Then I wondered what it'd be like to dress in a shrimp's shell. The end.

The name "Ebifly" is a pun on "Ebi-furai" - fried shrimp. However, she doesn't fly, and isn't a fly. I just didn't bother to think that far ahead (that is, three letters) when I chose the name. My excuse now will be that shrimps look like they're trying to fly when they swim. There. On another note, I came across an observation while designing this character:

Can you name one creature that has more than four legs and isn't a bug? Or at least doesn't look like one?

I asked my mom this and after a while she answered "dragon."