Name: "Cherry Hunter"

Age: 596

Gender: Female

Appearance: "Cherry," as she is now known, takes the form of a diminutive caucasian girl, perhaps only eight or nine years in apparent age. Flawless, white skin and flowing, golden hair give her an almost imperfect, uncanny beauty; as though she were a doll and not a living creature. Her golden eyes, wise far beyond her physical appearance, make it even clearer that she is far more than what she appears to be. Cherry dresses curiously, normally only wearing a tattered child's dress and slip, as well as a military surplus aviator's helmet.

Personality: To most, Cherry is a cold creature, utterly devoid of emotion and empathy. She barely speaks in public, instead solemnly going about her enigmatic duties as though she were a forsaken spirit. This is an act, however, to throw off her captors and those that she does not associate with. Her true nature is talkative, opinionated and incredibly haughty. She detests most that she comes in contact with, seeing them as creatures far beneath herself. She despises being looked down upon, and relishes dominance over others. However, opportunities for her in such matters are few and far between in recent years, but she takes whatever opportunities that she can get.

Abilities: As "the remains of a beautiful demon," Cherry is a shadow of her former self. Even so, she is still a substantially powerful vampire; on par with most mid-to-high-tiered mages. Her speed and strength are both shocking, as she can easily move faster than the human eye can track, and can overpower opponents many times her size. Her senses are supernaturally sharp, able to detect individual blood scents from miles away, and see in perfect darkness. Shadow magic is a specialty of hers, and she can use it to bind or attack foes with their own shadows, or to conceal, protect or transport herself by stepping "into" shadows.

Skills: Cherry has little in the way of practical skills, but has a great deal of knowledge regarding magical phenomena both from her centuries of life and from listening to the endless prattle of her master.

Equipment: Entrusted to Cherry is a demon-killing sword that belonged to one of her former servants. Its unique properties allow it to inflict great harm to any magical phenomena (including mages), but it cannot so much as touch any mundane person or object.

Brief Backstory: One of the oldest vampires still active in the world, the demoness that would later be known as "Cherry Hunter" has origins lost to time, and to her own dusty catacomb of memories. She has traveled across the world, seeking new experiences and diversions in an endless parade of hedonism. She was powerful beyond the compare of most vampires, and feared nothing from mortals or magicians. Having traveled so far and so wide, she has made many enemies from when her whims have turned dark and deadly. She was ambushed by an unholy alliance of vampire hunters, and though she was able to fend them off, she was badly wounded and greatly weakened from the fight.

A particular onmyouji, who had been observing her for some time, saw this as his opportunity to "bring her to balance." With strange magic, he removed the heart from the weakened vampire while still keeping her alive. This sudden disturbance to her mystic physiology robbed her of the vast majority of her power, almost inducing a crippling atrophy to her very soul. Her regenerative power, still reeling from her battle, adapted her body to the sudden disturbance by regressing her in age, forcing her into the body of a child.

The onmyouji, free to destroy her heart and kill her whenever he pleased, instead sealed the vampire as she reeled from her loss. Using the magical rites of binding shikigami, he forced her to be his familiar and servant, following him as he went about his magical studies and duties. Having been bound by her true name (forcing her to use the pseudonym he gave her, "Cherry Hunter") and with her heart kept as collateral, Cherry had no choice but to grudgingly oblige.

For a few years this has been her life, combatting monsters and evil mages and performing menial duties for this onmyouji. The pair has come to Rokuro to observe the White Night and ensure it proceeds smoothly, but Cherry has other plans. She secretly vies to participate, in hopes that the Origin of Magic will grant her the power needed to regain her freedom from her captor, and resumed the lifestyle she is accustomed to.

Age:
14

Gender:
Female

Appearance:
Aryū stands at around 5'2" and has a rather small build.

Personality:
Aryū is, in all sense of the word, a disciple in her personality. She has an insatiable desire to learn and always wants to fight. She's full of energy and vigor and is willing to learn from the best. She also has a habit of calling people stronger than her "boss" and follow what they say.

Abilities:
Aryū, like every other Onmyōji, uses ofuda to cast their magic. Aryū, much like her name, has affinity for water magic and concepts related to water. She also has a very useful magical trait, which is at the end.

• Backward River
  By writing 後方川 on an ofuda, Aryū can enchant an ofuda with a magical spell. Upon being placed on the forehead of someone, the water in their body will slowly stop moving, making them unable to move their body. This doesn't have any long-term side-effects, though. It can also be broken if the person who gets frozen has a high enough mana. Or they're really buff. Or they have a huge purity of will. Or it falls off by itself. Really, it's easier to break than you would think. Works on ghosts, but it's probably just a placebo to them.
• Water of Life
  By writing 命の水 on an Ofuda, Aryū can enchant an ofuda with a magical spell. Upon being placed on the wound of someone, the water in their body will search out the wound and heal it. Think of this as a super bandage. Really only works on smallish wounds, like stab wounds. Hurts really bad when you peel it off.
• Gush
  Written with 噴出. When placed on something, a jet of water will erupt from the ground in a completely random time period. It could be one second, it could be 8 hours. Nobody really knows.
• Brutal Rain
  Written with 残忍な雨. When placed on something, a tiny cloud will be created over top of it. It rains pretty brutally under. Great for showers, but minorly painful after a few seconds.
• Flow Like Water
  Written as 水のように流れます. An annoying spell to write, but it allows any person who has it on them to suddenly gain the speed of a slightly-more-slippery Usain Bolt, relatively. Also makes whoever wears its clothes moist and skin wet. It doesn't feel pleasant at all.
• Magic Trait: The Disciple
  Aryū can copy anyone else's ofuda and use it as if it were her own. If the affinity of the copied ofuda is contradictory to her own (like fire), it only has ¹/₁₀th the power of the original spell. If it's something that works in tandem (like earth), it has ¹/₅th of the power. If it is similar to water (like the edgy affinity of blood), it has ¹/₃rd of the power. This trait allows her to just go with the flow.

Skills:
Aryū is a decent swordsman. She's easily outclassed by people who actually train, but she can fight ghosts and demons with ease. That is, unless they're samurai ghosts and demons.

Besides that, Aryū is also a good packrat. She can easily carry whatever people give her. She can also cook decently well, but everything she makes is always a soup. She can also learn things very quickly, though can never seem to master what she learns.

Equipment:
At any given moment, Aryū carries her sword made from an enchanted tree. This sword can hit otherworldly entities, and is nigh-indestructible. It only has as much power as she swings it. She also carries dozens of ofuda with her, along with a sacred pen and sacred ink. Nobody knows why they're sacred, they just are.

Brief Backstory:
Aryū was born to be the last known child to the Naganeru family. They were a family of Onmyōji who specialized in water. Despite this, Aryū had never received any type of formal training in onmyōdo. Her father was much too lazy to teach her and her mother simply wanted out of all of this magic business.

One fateful spring morning, Aryū had saw her father watering a large tree by placing a piece of paper on it. Amazed, Aryū tried this when she was alone. It didn't really work. Aryū wrote more and more, trying to do what her father did. After hours of writing, Aryū finally managed to write something similar to what her father wrote. It didn't really water the tree, but it watered the grass around it. It worked, and that's all that mattered.

Aryū's parents found this out. Her father didn't really care, but her mother was upset. Aryū wanted to learn more, but her mother wouldn't let her. It took months of trying, but Aryū finally convinced her parents that she wanted to learn more.

They taught her about the ritual and everything that surrounded it. They told her that the Naganeru clan used to be a giant group of people, until they were slaughtered by an unknown individual. Aryū was intimidated by this, but she still wanted to join the battle to learn more magic and to find a master. Her parents begrudgingly accepted her desire, but only if she promised not to die or use the name Naganeru (because they were all supposed to be dead). Thus, her father gave her some sacred(?) ink and a sacred(?) pen, along with a large pile of ofuda. He had also (begrudgingly) taught her some more magic spells.

All that was needed was a weapon if the onmyōdo failed. Luckily, in an act of deus ex machina, a lightning bolt had struck the tree that had been watered. A single large branch fell down and Aryū decided to cut it into a wooden sword. Hours of videos of whittlin' (and swordfighting) later, Aryū made her blade and began her journey.