Individual
Character's full name: Ishida Himari
Alias/ Nickname/ Code name: NA
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 05/15/2004
Birthplace/ Home/ Place of origin: Shikoku, Japan
Nationality: Japan
Ethnicity/ Cultural Heritage: Japanese
Appearance
Hair color and style: Cute pink bob with a splash of white above one temple. Long hair in the back that goes down to her tailbone, almost always braided.
Skin Tone: Fair
Eye Color: Purplish Pink
Height: 5'3"
Build: Heavily athletic.
Visible mutation:Always: Pink hair and slightly more pronounced canines. Sometimes: Fox ears, eyes, and tail. Unnatural darkness.
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: None.
Other features: White streak of hair.
Everyday clothing style: Purple shirt with high midriff cut and matching light jacket. Bottoms are leggings with a black skirt.
Uniform: None.
Sleepwear: Cute comfy pajama tops and bottoms.
Miscellaneous clothing: Assortment of whatever cute stuff she likes which means a vast array of clothing of all kinds.
Character
Personality: A self described Ambivert, Himari is a passionate person that some would regard as overly energetic in certain situations, even annoying. Despite this she makes it a point to be polite to everyone and attempt to exercise tact when dealing with people who otherwise don’t like her though she has no problems dealing with issues in a more physical manner. Book learning holds absolutely no appeal and would much rather learn by doing. While respectful of other people's interests if it doesn’t appeal to her she has a hard time maintaining focus. As such her public personality is often one of polite aloofness or passionate boisterousness with very little middle ground.
Hobbies/ Interests: Muay Thai, Kenjutsu, Japanese Swords, Natural Medicines, Working Out, Playing the Shakuhachi, Food, Hunting, Fishing, The Bushido Code, and secretly Japanese History with specialization in Ishida history.
Job or part time job and description: Fighter
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: Cynophobia (Fear of Dogs), Also fears that her predominantly 'masculine' hobbies (obsessions) will keep her from achieving peace with her femininity. It is secondary however to her desire to keep her sister safe from harm. Silently, mildly concerned that her sister harbors resentment of some kind towards her.
Special talents: Plays the Shakuhachi.
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: She considers herself a good person as she wouldn’t go out of her way to make trouble for someone for no reason, but anyone that catches her radar as being ‘bad’ is more than fair game.
Mutations
Mutation description: Himari is a Void Kitsune from Japanese legend and all her abilities are based on that premise.
Himari has one set human form in which using any of her void abilities is tiring and her true form which is a fox human hybrid. Shifting into her true form is nearly instantaneous while shifting back takes time for the ears and tail to recede. In her true form her primary senses (namely smell and hearing), speed and reflexes are enhanced to above a baseline humans levels, but nowhere near that of any mutant with powers dedicated to speed or sensory powers. In either form she has limited regeneration that allows her to eventually heal from nonfatal wounds slightly faster than a human, but with the benefit of regeneration.
The First Tail: The Unfettered Tail
By focusing void energy around herself she can move as if anywhere was a surface she could move or interact with while ignoring gravity and environmental factors.. She can for example, run upside down through the air up the side of a building, but not through a concrete wall nor does it allow her to survive in an environment she wouldn’t normally be able to. This manifests itself as a two dimensional unnaturally black outline as viewed from whatever angle you're looking at her that leaves a matching haze where she moves through and prominent black hand and foot prints where she uses them.
The Second Tail: The Partitioning Tail
Condensing the energy further allows her to create an indestructible katana of pure black void energy that can cut through anything be it tangible or intangible. Doing so requires constant contact with the sword, and by extension energy. If she were rendered unconscious or it was somehow knocked out of her hand it would disappear completely, instantly, and would need to reform it. This ability is only usable for short periods of time without beginning to kill her and is only usable in her kitsune form.
Strengths:
These powers make for a nimble, fast, perceptive, and unpredictable opponent when fighting Himari. They are also handy for getting around, exploring, and seeing things that other people wouldn’t. Having a weightless sword the ability to cut through anything makes short work of most physical barriers and things. Not getting scars from her frequent fights and being able to heal from injuries faster is handy too.
Weaknesses and Limitations:
First Tail: Moving around is dependent on her own motility. Passenger capacity is limited to what she can maintain contact with and still move, i.e. hold and carry which would in turn also burn more energy. Hand and foot prints leave a trail that fades slowly over the course of an hour, body haze evaporates after a few minutes and doesn’t impede vision in any way. In human form this ability is as taxing as moving around with a heavy weight. In her kitsune form it is dependant on her innate stamina.
Second Tail: Only cutting edges of her sword cut. Maintaining its form requires contact to be maintained. The katana can never be formed longer than 90 centimeters long, and has the same volume dimensions characteristic of its length when formed. After 5 minutes per day of usage the sword begins to transform her into the same material as the sword causing intense pain and slowly killing her also making it harder to maintain the focus needed to keep the sword intact. This entropic effects starts at her extremities and works towards her body over the course of the next 15 minutes and then be consumed by the swords energy. While the sword is manifested they cause no damage however once it is gone cause numbness and loss off fine control. These effects slowly recede over the course of a day. Kitsune form only.
Physical Abilities
General Physical Capabilities: Is incredibly fit in a way only passionate people can be.
Fighting Style: Muay Thai and Kenjutsu. A fast aggressive martial arts that makes use of every part of the body to break a person down combined with more traditional japanese sword fighting when using her powers..
Fighting Style Pros/Cons: An uncompromising style that focuses on ending fights as fast and efficiently as possible using all means of the body. Does not lend itself well to situations where holding back would be preferable or getting wrestled.
History Of Your Character
Himari often laments two things in her life. The first that she was born (in her opinion) the wrong gender, and secondly that she was born first. Unfortunately for both her and her sibling that was not the case. Instead she inherited all the responsibility and expectations of a fairly wealthy and influential family descended from what most people would claim as legends of the Kitsune.
Unfortunately those legends were a matter of fact and she was expected to thrust the family and Clan into the new era of accepted mutants. Much to the dismay of her father, Himari was completely irrefutably her own person and would do things her way regardless of how he or anyone else felt. Their usually absentee mother approved of such a headstrong firstborn and largely allowed Himari to be her own person.
Regrettably most of Himari’s dedication to be her own person came at the expense of her sister. As if her birth somehow cursed Himari into being this paragon of contrariness she seemed to steadfastly hold onto. Their father, unable to overtly try and manipulate his ‘son’ into accepting more masculine mannerisms, introduced HImari to increasingly physical and ‘manly’ activities for her to pursue. When he realized that his dutiful daughter actually enjoyed her training in Kenjutsu he had been effective at wits end.
In a rare show of xenophobic leniency he sought one of the most grueling of martial arts to put Himari back in line, Muay Thai. HIring a private master for her to come and live with the family. Much to his dismay not only did Himari seem to enjoy the training she was a natural and by her teen years she was competing fiercely in regional martial arts tournaments and making a good accounting of herself.
Thankfully her grandfather provided an understanding and nurturing role model. It was through him she learned to enjoy all the various wonders of the natural world and the oral history of their clan. It was in one such outing as a kid she demanded she was good enough to survive on her own in the woods and ran away to prove just that. In the process she learned of her powers and came back several days later covered head to toe in mud and filth, but very much healthy and alive and all too proud of herself.
Innately allergic to all things having to do with school she looks up to her sister and loves her fiercely despite the cloud she was born under. Aware of her sister’s innate handicap she sees it as her duty not only as the older sibling but as the bigger one as well to protect her sister even as she acknowledges in many ways that she is far more suited for the modern world then Himari will ever be.
Roleplay
What’s your OOC alias?: Ufgad
Where did you learn about this site?: Googlefu
Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: Erik Volkov
Sample RP:
The crash of a knuckle against bone did nothing to stop a follow up strike in exactly the same place as the first, then again and again. Unaware of her own ferocious features as she pounded the boy into feebleness while sitting on his chest. A detached part of her brain wondered if she was the true Yokai of the family and not her sister. Finally with bruised knuckles she stood up and wiped the blood from her own nose. She hadn’t struck the first blow, but she delivered the last.
Standing she smoothed out her skirt and glared at the minions of the boy she had mercilessly beaten. “My sister is not a freak!” Lava hot anger dripped from her words as she uttered it and simply started walking away back home even as the bell rang for the start of class. Her sister would be disappointed but she couldn’t bear to sit in school all day after that.
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Sitting on the porch of her grandfather’s shack she sipped tea with her eyes closed and let the sounds of nature soothe the jagged edges of her soul. As the tea went cold she sat down the cup and moved to the training post in the yard and the sound of limbs hitting wood, punctuated the quiet for hours after.
