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[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Arhra

Just putting a placeholder up.

To summarise the concept in 66% foreign gibberish: dark miko nekomata.

It's a cat that causes fires and raises the dead!

That is far more than 66% foreign gibberish. Nekomata is exactly twice as long as either dark or miko, making it 75% foreign gibberish.

I find your math highly suspect, sir.

[lazy man]

A day later and I've got the revamped profile of this guy up and running. Time to blow shit up! ...or not, although it'd be fun.

Name: Suzume

Side: Light

Race: Human (?)

Age: 22

Appearance: A normal Japanese man, albeit a bit scrawny at 5'10" with a very light build. Black hair, cut to shoulder length. His eyes are black, but flare up to a bright blue during fights. Wears hakama cut off at the knees along with a simple shirt and more of an overshirt than a kimono, giving him more of a relaxed, and very undignified, look.

Weapons: Keeps a katana on his back and a knife on his belt.

Special Skill: Soul Detection/Absorption: Suzume can see the souls of deceased demons for whatever reason. He's never questioned it, he just can. And just as well, he acts like a hub for them and they tend to follow him for, again, whatever reason. This doesn't really take any skill for him, but Suzume tends to like the pretty colors when he's bored.

Soul Manipulation: Taking the inherent energies in the demon souls and bending them to his will, Suzume can do a wide range of miraculous things! ...in his imagination, of course. So far his most delicate manipulation is making a powerful (and temporary) shield out of the demon's soul about the size of his body, while his favorite one is sending the energy straight forward in a destructive blast. Each manipulation uses up one (or more, if he feels like it) soul.

History: Suzume was found by a couple of farmers when he was very young, wandering around as an orphan. Thankfully being considerate, they took the young boy with them to their home and raised him. The young boy then became a trouble-maker without comparison. He would raise hell in the village, starting fights just by being around. This never troubled his adoptive parents since they knew he was extremely energetic, which probably didn't mesh well with the laid back villagers and kids.

Of course, unlike the thoughts of his parents, little Suzume just liked fighting. And he always wanted something tougher than just your average little kid or intervening parent. So when he was 16 Suzume gave up the farming life and started going from place to place, causing a ruckus whenever he managed to get into some seedy part of town. This violent vagrant lifestyle suited him, but he wanted more. When someone told him he was tough enough to become a demon hunter, he shrugged and asked them point him in the right direction. That person probably wasn't being serious, but what could be tougher than a demon?

It wasn't long before Suzume had managed to kill a small demon or two, but he was wondering just what the little flames following him meant. No one else seemed to notice them and they kept him up at night, which was beginning to annoy him. When he finally tried swatting one away, he blew a hole in the wall of the inn he was staying in. Slackjawed, he immediately ran away and started to perfect his new art of making things explode.

Now, just a few years after becoming a demon hunter and discovering his abilities Suzume has SOME control over his powers, but is still prone to blowing his surroundings to smithereens. The collateral damage HAS been slightly reduced over the years, although his destructive tendencies don't help much in that regard.

Maybe he could gain a little more control if he ran into some sort of hero with a magic sword or something? ...nah, probably not gonna happen.

Extra: I'll set Suzume's starting soul number at 12, unless Raiden's feeling picky.

[mauve]

Name: Zaru Oki

Side: Team Sunshine and Puppies (Good)

Race: Snow monkey demon. (I'm assuming animal demons are still okay.)

Age: That's not something you ask a lady, sweetie. (600 years; doesn't look a day over 400.)

Appearance: A very petite woman, Oki barely reaches five feet even while wearing her tall geta sandals. She wears the clothes of a commoner, but wears a variety of trinkets around her neck. Most of them are worthless. Her eyes are golden-brown, and her hair is brownish gray, shaggy around her face with the rest pulled back into a ponytail.

Over the years she's perfected her human disguise; in fact aside from her eyes, the only real sign that she's a demon is her tail, which is usually hidden anyway.

Weapons: Wooden staff. Doubles as a walking stick. Has a knot at one end-- Good for bludgeoning stuff. Made from a branch stolen off a sacred tree. It can resist and dispel weaker dark energies, and will not break as long as the tree still lives.

Darts: Long metal needle-shaped darts. Nothing magical about them-- they're good for throwing and stabbing things with, though.

Special Skills:
Tough Old Biddy: She may look like an old lady, but she's still a demon and technically ageless. The "feeble old woman" act is mainly for drumming up sympathy. She's quite strong and almost inhumanly agile when she needs to be.

Illusion: Oki can cast simple illusion tricks on inanimate objects for short periods of time. This can range from making a stick look like a poisonous snake, to making you believe she's paying you in gold nuggets rather than a handful of small rocks and dead bugs. The illusion wears off after a while, and fails altogether after the object is carried a certain distance away from Oki. This skill is probably why Oki doesn't have a permanent address.

Can't fool me: Having 600 years of experience as a trickster under her belt, Oki's good at recognizing illusions and traps. It takes a lot to fool her. However, that doesn't necessarily mean she'll avoid them: sometimes she'll walk into it just to see how it works. Alternately, she'll let one of her teammates stumble into it for her. Often without informing them of this. Oki is a team player.

History: A trickster and curious by nature, Oki spent much of her early life playing pranks on humans traveling through her forest. As most of these pranks ended with Oki robbing them blind, the monkey demon soon discovered that humans have some pretty awesome stuff, like beads and shoes and coins and sake. Especially sake. Sake is great.

Deciding she wanted in on this whole humanity thing, Oki used her MAGICAL DEMON POWERS to disguise herself as a human, leaving her forest to live among them. Over time she found success posing as a traveling fortune teller, offering "mystical advice" and magical remedies in exchange for picking her customers' pockets when they weren't looking, moving on to the next village before people started to catch on.

Lord Talkatz, however, could put a major dent in her business. Resurrecting the demon lord would bring about an end to the age of humans, which in turn would bring an end to everything Oki enjoys stealing. That's not a future worth living in.

Extra: Oki is cunning, greedy, and a borderline kleptomaniac. She may be on your side, but if you have something she wants, she'll try and find a way to get it.

[Darth SS]

Name: Marcel "Drak" Drakkar
Side: Light
Race: Human
Age: 26
Appearance: WHITEY. Like, the only white dude in Japan. Very tanned, with unkempt dirty blonde hair fastened behind his face in an itty bitty pony tail. He has not shaved in a while, giving him a beard. Wiry frame, though clearly with muscle on top of it. He stands about 6' 3" tall, making him a giant amongst the people of Japan, and he is never seen without his cane. Upon arriving in japan, he is wearing a somewhat dirty white shirt, dirty blue pants, and his distinctive sailor's felt shoes. Insert large pack and cane, and he looks like some crazy white man traveler.
Weapons: A cane that has a sword hidden inside of it. Motley collection of knives stashed about his person. His super stiff felt shoes.
Special Skill: He doesn't hear it: Marcel doesn't hear languages. After anyone speaking a couple sentences in a different language, he "hears" what they're saying in his native french. What's more interesting is that after hearing a couple sentences, he speaks another language to someone near flawlessly. He also is not aware that he does this, he simply doesn't comprehend the concept of different languages, as he's never experienced it.
He's healthy as a horse: Another reason why the king chose him for his mission is his absolutely outstanding health. Marcel just does not get sick. Ever. He has no memory of ever having been ill. Food poisoning that has brought other men to their knees and made them useless for days merely makes Marcel have a slight headache. Broken bones heal for him in a week instead of a month, and cuts seem to vanish overnight.
Like looking into a mirror: Looking into Marcel's eyes is an interesting event. It can be akin to looking into a mirror, in that Marcel will suddenly become a perfect mimic of that person. Their movements, their behaviours, their mannerisms, it becomes a conversation with oneself. That this is happening is always given away as Marcel's eyes lose their pigmentation, and many swear that a silhouette of the person being mimicked becomes visible around Marcel. While he is conscious of initiating it, Marcel is not conscious of what happens while being a mimic, kind of like Bruce Banner directing The Hulk. Upon the mimic ending, Marcel has been known to carry some personality characteristics, but they tend to clear up within the day. Due to the obvious problem of radical changes in personality and amnesia, Marcel doesn't like doing this.
History: Born to a seamstress and a tailor, the youngest Drakkar has become a radical departure from his family heritage. While useful at plying his family's trade, he never gained the dexterity and creativity of his brothers and sister. For this reason alone, his family began to fear that Marcel would be unable to continue to serve the Royal family and they desperately began to search for other redeeming qualities he may have. His propensity for getting into fights with other children made his parents believe that a career fighting for a lord would be best, but they feared he held too much self-esteem to stand in place whilst having arrows rained upon him. As time went on, his lack of skill with textiles became more and more painfully apparent, while he became more and more adept at fighting, often being found getting into scrums with sailors. Desperate for their youngest son to not be a shame, his parents begged the members of the royal family with whom they were in good standing to accept Marcel into the navy. It worked, and at the age of 16 Marcel became a sailor. While in the navy, Marcel's disregard for language became apparent. As they met more and more people and journeyed farther, Drak (as he was known to the other sailors) became so adept at the game of chaussons that few dared to challenge him. This was partly due to his skill and savagery, but also due to his seeming inability to be kept down. His neverending good health and his ability to communicate with anyone made his commanders both wary of him, and incredibly grateful to have him. At the age of 20, the king requested an audience with him. There, he admitted that he was fearful of social unrest, and was afraid that even his most personal body guards were poorly trained, and ordered Marcel to journey the world, including the newfound Orient, and learned as much about combat as possible. He was then to return to France after developing so much skill as to be unable to suffer defeat, and train the King's bodyguards. Drak is now six years into his voyage, and has only recently entered Japan.
Extra: Having lived serving the french nobility for so long, he is first and foremost a gentleman. However, he's also a sailor. So he'll boff anything with a pulse.



Up to Raiden on this one, but can he imitate magic as well? I would also like to suggest that on top of personality quirks, he should retain some stuff in muscle memory, but I'll leave that one up to the powers that be.

[Arcanum]

Finished Izuko's profile.

[Krylo]

I think you made a slight mistake on your bio, Mauve:

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

Side: Team Sunshine and Puppies Cry Baby Zell (Good)

[Arhra]

I do believe you mean Team CRYBABY ZELL, my good man.

Proper capitalisation is very important!

[Krylo]

Curses.

Hoisted upon my own petard.

[PhoenixFlame]

If you know my character sheet already, you're an NPF vet.

So put me down for Koyuki Shimokaze, because I've gotten a PM saying that I'm slacking on my quota of being the Bouk Obelisk of team evil in this RP.

Sheet will appear later for those not willing to search the seven or so variations that already exist.

Originally Posted by Raiden

If you must, think of it like an anime. When there's a recurring cast, it's rare for a character to be killed. They may be injured and run off, but they're usually kept alive for later fights.

LOL, I felt the need to post this now, but there's a little running joke about Koyuki being abnormally hardcore as far as my characters tend to go. I think she carries the running record for "fastest player slaying in an RP" clocking in at two posts. Poor Secretskull, I didn't even mean it.

[krogothwolf]

Yojimbo has a history, huzzah!

All dones! Now we wait for the glorious battle to commence!