Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2014 22:58:33 GMT -8
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Full Name: Youko Katoma Anderson
Codename Miko
Nicknames: Miko, Foxling, Hime
Gender: Female
Age: 17
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PHYSICALS:
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 146 lbs
Hair Color: Golden
Eye Color:Sapphire
Scars, Birthmarks, Tattoos or other identifying marks:
Any other important things to note about the physical character:
Youko is a striking beauty. 5’8”, with LONG flowing sun golden hair, which smells like oranges on a sunny day, mixed with cream. Her skin is neither pale nor tan, but a happy medium between the two. Two sapphire colored orbs for eyes. Lovely full lips, and a curvy figure, that is neither plump, nor lithe, giving her an hourglass figure, despite being top heavy.
When she is most often seen, it is usually at the local Japanese Temple/shrine, performing her Miko duties. During this time, she is always wearing either her Miko garbs, or a Kimono. Depending on the festivals that the shrine may have. Outside of the temple, she usually wears an almost medieval looking peasant dress.
No matter what she’s wearing, she is most often wearing a smile on her lips, a song in her heart, and a dance in her footsteps. She also can’t help but wear her fox ears and tail, which are both fake, yet still seem to move as she does and she is ALWAYS wearing. (Unless stated otherwise.)
Physical Skills:
Singing 3
Dancing 3
Cooking 4
Alertness 3 – Hey when your naturally curious it’s hard not to be alert at… RED BALL!
Stealth 2 – Youko’s not really a ninja, but she’s learned at times how to be stealthy and sneaky like her patron Inari.
Physical Weaknesses (if Any):
Clumsy – Youko’s not all that bad, but she’s not known for her grace all the time either (oddly enough dancing doesn’t cause her to have Klutz attacks.. perhaps this is because she klutzs out when she’s not paying attention?
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SOCIALS:
From Marvel (Canon), if so, What “World” or Comic, or Storyarch if possible? Original character
Nationality, Religion, feelings about religion: Shinto, strong feelings (she’s a Miko… hehe)
Languages Spoken: English, Japanese
Class in Society, Education: mid-to-upper class, highschool education
Occupation: Student, Miko
Family Details:
Parents: Dead in a mutant related car accident.
Grandmother: Momma Yuki (widowed)
Guardian: Priest Hiko of the local Shinto shrine
Hiko-sensei has been responsible for the girl and teaching her the ways of being a Shinto priestess since Youko's parents (at Momma Yuki's urgings) brought her to his temple.
Additional Social Information:
Social Skills:
Empathy 4- Youko’s got a knack for emotions and finding them out. She understands them too, and sympathizes, it makes her an awesome Miko and a good friend.
Fast Talk 3- This is again some natural talent, or perhaps because she’s used to people blowing her off… Youko’s gotten very good at fast talking, sometimes so fast it stuns people into silence just so they can figure out what the ball of energy just ‘said’
Instruction- 1- Part n part of being a Miko is knowing how to teach others what you know… Youko’s still learning so she’s not so great at the explaining parts yet..
Public Speaking- 3- Again with the whole.. being brought up as Miko thing…
Theology- 4 .. More Miko stuff! If she didn’t talk to Inari, who would?
Social Weaknesses (if Any):
Naïve- Let’s be honest, Youko’s not been very apart of the “real world” having been raised as a Miko. She “understands” how the world works from books and reading, but there’s a lot of difference between knowing and experiencing.
Foreigner- ^.^ Japanese yo.
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MENTALS:
Personality:
Youko loves people. She doesn’t know how to handle negative emotions of others well. But if a person is sad, she’ll go out of her way to bring a smile to their face, even if it means embarrassing herself, but not so far as humiliation. Even she has her limits.
This fun loving girl loves to bake. So much that she’ll make cookies and pies for the local Fire and police departments, as well as hand out small goody bags usually with flowers, to brighten their days. Usually while she’s singing and dancing like some crazy flower child left over from the 60s. Despite the fact that she is actually an AMAZING Singer and dancer who’s nearly hypnotic to listen to and watch.
Fears and Phobias:
Phobia: Death affects her deeply. If the girl witnesses a death it sends a torrent of tears, and nearly uncontrollable sobbing. Hopefully she'll get over this over reaction as she gets more worldly experience.
Fears:
Feeling "alone" for long periods of time. There's alone time, which is fine and good, especially for meditation purposes, but if left alone for too long the girl becomes depressed and either A) goes out in search of people or animals to talk to, or B) will sit in the dark and cry quietly so as not to disturb or sadden others. (Usually happens when she thinks about her family.)
Mental Skills / Knowledges
Speed Reading 2 – She not only reads, she can .. speed read!
Memory recall 2 – Most of the time Youko can pull up information out of random places in her head.
Herbalism- Shinto stuff.
Occult – 3- trained as a Miko does give a lot of information toward the occult.
Mental Weaknesses (if Any):
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SUPERNATURAL/XGENE POWERS
Theme or overarching Idea: Miko (Priestess of the Shinto religion)
Beginning Mutations:
Medium: Has the ability to see, hear and speak with the dead.
Animal communication: Has the ability to speak with animals, this power excludes fish, and insects/arachnids.
Joy Note: The Miko Training is an attachment to her own inner manifestations of purity, thus, if Youko becomes corrupted by dark, negative forces or if she becomes unclean, she must undergo the rites of purifications before she can use her powers. If she is no longer a virgin there is a strong chance she will lose these powers (see weakness)
MIKO TRAINING:
Ritual: Rituals take time to prepare, the larger the area, the longer the time to prepare.
Rituals currently known:
Banish: Banishes spirits using ofuda scrolls, she can remove a spirit from an object, person or place.
Shielding/binding: Shinto barriers are designed to keep evil, chaotic or just anyone who has the *intention* to do harm out of an area or- consequently- trapped in an area. They can form any shape but must be connected end to end by something. A miko typically uses paper and rope to bind the spirit into place- however, it's been a tradition that a desperate miko can use water or other fluids to form temporary circles of binding- in western traditions salt and stone are also common tools.
This circle can only be broken by a pure-hearted person, an innocent or a good aligned person. The circle only prevents the Physical/Spiritual/mental form from leaving or entering. It does NOT stop vocal or empathetic commands- both carry over and can- with potentially disastrous results- have an innocent break the circle for them releasing them from their entrapped bonds.
While within the barrier/shielding, there is an aura of calm enabled. So people are naturally unable to perform any harmful action towards another, or towards the area. Any thoughts or feelings of negativity could only be experienced once on the outside of the barrier.
*Note, sometimes buildings are their own warding circles, such as the Tori gates that are in front and leading up into the temple. These serve as the same kind of "binding" in which they prevent similar individuals from entering.
Binding circles can also be broken by natural disasters or outside forces using natural forces that aren't good/evil to break things (such as an earthquake dropping a rock on a building and freeing an evil spirit.) However, if the earthquake was done intentional - with dark intent there's a chance the bindings *will not break* (Storyteller/moderator decision) and the entrapped will still be partially bound (physically) to the site.
Purification (Spirit, mind, emotions, physical ailments (by making the body remember it’s “Whole” state), can eventually repair buildings by making the building remember it’s “Whole” state.)
Purification of the Body, Mind and Spirit: As a Miko, Youko can, with access to a purification pool (or one that she can purify (see below) ) she can help people reach a purification of body/mind/spirit with a special ritualistic bath, meditation and spiritual cleansing. This process takes time and cooperation (She cannot forcefully purify anyone, ie: they must agree on some level to the rites. If they are unconscious or otherwise unable to make a decision someone of authority over them ‘can’ approve them for the process- but it’s not an instant thing, if that person woke up and started fighting the purification it simply wouldn’t work.
Healing of the Body, Mind and Spirit: This must be done on a purified person – it cannot be done on a subject who is not ready for healing. During this ritual the Miko burns a special incense in a room with open windows (we’re not trying to choke someone out here!) and waves a special ofuda-wand over the individual (s! this can be a group heal) and calls their body to remember an unbroken, pure state. Depending on the amount of damage, the amount of healing may take some time. This ritual cannot bring people back from the dead, however it can call the spirit back to the body.
Purification of Buildings, Items, Objects and Areas: Using incense, an ofuda wand, purified water and her own energy a miko (such as Youko) can walk into an area and call the darkness out and dissipate it (or, if a monster/entity, trap it into a jar which can then be put in a special smaller building, stone or other monument to hold it with a spiritual binding..) This removes all evil taint, extra-planter energy and so forth from an area leaving it feeling peaceful and calm- equal to the elements around it in harmony.
Healing of Buildings/Items/Objects and Areas : Same as the Healing of Body/Mind/Spirit only it has the item/area/building/objects recall how it was before *MASSIVE DISTRUCTION* occurred…. Note: All pieces must be there (or in the area..) for this to work…
Energy Dispersal Ofuda: By opening a connection between the person whom this Ofuda adheres to, and the Earth around them, any Extra planar, or Supernatural powers, including Magic, Connections to other dimensions, and certain outside sourced mutant abilities, are dispersed. The Ofuda adheres to the skin or close clothing of the target, and depriving them of movement or their powers. Purely mental actions can be taken, but they are otherwise immobilized. This only works on people who have otherworldly connections.
How the mutations will grow and develop potentially down the road:
Drawbacks of the Mutations, Weakness or ties in to other “problems” listed above and how that equals out what you have to begin with:
Can’t kill or shed blood as it is against her Shinto teachings. If she ever comes into contact with unclean substances such as blood, or dead flesh (unless it involves food, which she or a fellow priest must prepare for meals), her entire state of being is off balance. Which starts off as dizziness and nausea, until she is purified, at which time the effects will have worn off, leaving her Irish Spring Clean.
If she ever has sex with anyone outside the bonds of marriage she will have to be re-evaluated as it pertains to her faith.
Places of corruption or of negativity can also cause Youko’s “balance” to be thrown off. While she can purify the immediate area around her naturally, exposure for long periods of time will slowly “erode” her defenses.
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HISTORY OF THE CHARACTER:
As a young child Youko was always a bit… different than other kids her age. Like when she started talking around the age of 2, animals would tend to gather around her bed, or outside her parents house and “chitter” away at her which she would answer. At first, her parents thought nothing of it, until her grandmother visited when she was 5. Apparently her mother’s side of the family came from a long line of Shinto Priestesses, which the old woman never mentioned to her daughter, since she never seemed to have the same connection to their ancestry that Youko herself does.
Asking for advice from the old woman, who knew it was only going to become more difficult to care for her, advised them to send her to the Shinto temple on Long Island for training with other mikos and priests. So that is what they did. Granting the head priest, Master Hiko, guardianship over the now 5yr old child. Occasionally her parents would visit her at the temple, usually just on her birthdays and holidays, not wanting to disrupt her training on any other occasion.
At the age of 12, her parents had an accident due to a piece of a building falling and crushing the taxi they were in, thanks to a fight between mutants. Youko never found out that the cause was because of Mutants, her guardians kept that from her and simply told her that they had been in a car accident.
This event made her want to study harder, so that she could heal others from the pain and suffering that her parents may have felt. This drive is easily making her easily one of the strongest Mikos in the US.
As her training progressed, she started being able to see spirits, animal and human alike, clinging to people that would enter the temple’s gates. As the newly appointed head Miko, people would come to her for advice for their problems. Most of which were spirit related, unbeknownst to them. At which time she was able to help the dead move on into the next life, and the living to move on with their own lives. Yet all she had to do was listen and translate.
Among the spirits was a silver fox spirit, which she adoringly named Inari. In the beginning he was rather shy and elusive even of her. But he quickly became her first friend. Despite being surrounded by people that cared for her, she just felt like they were holding too much of themselves back for her sake. She would often be found in the gardens playing games with the animals, spirit and living. Like Hide and seek, or chase the tail. Which was her and Inari’s favorite game… Or at least “her” favorite game. She has yet to catch him, despite her best efforts.
Over time, Inari started leading her outside of the temple gates so she could see how big the world truly was. Which both surprised and fascinated her. She really seemed to have no idea. So as time passed, he would take her further and further away from the temple, causing her fellow Mikos and Priests to worry more and more about her. She was the reason why people seemed to come to their temple as often as they did, and how it was able to keep food on their tables. But Master Hiko seemed unworried. At least to everyone else. What he knew that they didn’t, is that he had sent someone to keep an eye on her from a distance and to not interfere unless necessary.
Now, whenever she’s roaming the city, it’s usually to bring smiles to people’s faces, to promote her temple, or to explore with Inari. Who may or may not be a real spirit, or a hallucination. Either way, he was fun to be around and never truly caused her harm. In fact he’d get her out of trouble as often as he’d get her into trouble. But it was always an adventure, which she loved.
With the more recent mutant hatred going around, Youko's found it a bit more difficult to roam the city without feeling depressed. But as a Miko, she is duty bound to do what she can to help raise people's spirits. The only thing she could think of was a concert in the park. Small concert with music, singing and dancing. And if she's lucky maybe she'll be able to get some food stands going, and permission from the city. Unfortunately her effort failed when she couldn't meet the city councilman. Seems he was too busy to speak with her. Oh well.
Lost in thought, the now 17yr old Miko, stood next to a street performer and sang her thoughts and feelings to his music, which drew a ton of money in for him. With half of the money shoved into her hands, the now happy performer wandered off for lunch leaving her alone. Not knowing what to do next, she went back to the temple, looking rather disappointed. And left her seeking counsel from her elders who politely told her that, this was reality, and how the world worked.
Nope she will not give up, the people and the land really seemed to need her and people like her right now. That night she went to bed lost in thought.
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OOC:
Player Name: KC-dono
Other Characters?: Incoming Black Cat / none
RP SAMPLE:
The blonde moved gracefully from the temple steps to the garden area. Removing her shoes when she got to the grass. Singing happily, the blonde with sapphires for eyes, moved thru the garden. Flowers growing behind her as she danced and walked. Birds of all types started landing in the trees, as she would touch the various plants as she walked by them, which caused them to become healthy and become a happy green, or flower at her touch. These times made her happy. But they weren’t her happiest moments. Those moments were when she was among the people, and making them smile and laugh and even sing with her. If she was lucky she’d be able to get a suit wearing person to dance a little with her. Her second happiest moment is when she’d find the silver tailed fox, among the bushes, no doubt hiding from her. She kept trying to catch him, but has yet to be able to.
Yep there it was. That silver tail, swishing under the brush lazily. Still singing, sapphire eyes looked around to make sure she had no other duties at the moment, before POUNCING the Tail….. and strangely missing it. She could have sworn it was there a second ago. Sitting back on her knees she pouted.
“Awwww come on. I want to meet you face to face for a change. Won’t you let me be your friend? Pleaaaassseeeeee? “
The girl continued to pout cutely. If Inari were a normal man, he would have found it difficult to say “No” to her. But he did, yet didn’t. Although his lack of appearing, was a definite refusal to show himself. Maybe he was just shy, or having a bad day. Whatever it was, she was convinced that she’d get to meet him one day. And it’d probably be the most interesting day of her life.
