Appearance:



Saika, Miyano. Prefers Miya.


Oni.


20

Gender:
Female

Skills:
Miya has been studying sword techniques and sword styles for most of her life. She is quite adept at two different sword styles, and is working on mastering them.

Whispering Gale Blade:
This style, used with a single light sword, or two smaller swords is a style of sword fighting designed around quick footwork and light strikes. Focusing on parrying and redirecting an enemies strike. An aggressive fighting style, where one actively and relentlessly attacks a target, overwhelming them with a furious offensive.

Piercing Stone Blade:
For use with larger weapons, it is the form she employs while using 'Akaiittou'. This style is designed to be for fighting heavily armored foes. Powerful, but quick and devastating strikes consisting mostly of thrusts designed to stun and pierce armor. A slower form, where one must use their strength, balance, and strategy equally well - missing a strike means she'd be wide open.

Aside from her sword skills, she is a fairly decent blacksmith and Armor smith. She can craft some fairly decent blades and armor if she has the right materials.

Terrible at cooking.

Drinks. A lot. Don't leave her and Alcohol alone.

Powers:
Miya isn't real big on using magic or things like that. Being an Oni, she could probably just power through things with sheer strength or physical endurance and stubbornness. However, she is adept at channeling the negative and positive energies of Yin and Yang through her body.

Or at least, is practicing. Currently, she can only channel Yin, effectively.

Duality of Nature: Suppression.
This is her at a 'resting' state. She actively suppresses the energies in this form. It offers no bonuses, in fact it acts as a limiter for her impressive strength and physical abilities she has as an Oni. It basically keeps her to a realm of nearly top-human strength and agility. It was the first thing the old swordsman taught her to control.

For one, it makes it easier for her to blend in with humans, without her having to constantly watch her strength.

Two, instead of relying on an Oni's natural strength for such things, she'd have to actually learn swordsmanship, and practice proper forms instead of blundering through everything.

Three, she was taught an overwhelming victory is cheap. She may be strong, and can shatter boulders with sheer physical strength, but where is the meaning in such victory?

She can remove this limiter easily, and usually does against non-human opponents if she can not beat them with it.

Duality of Nature: Yin
Yin is defined as the negative energies of the universe. She stops suppressing the 'Yin' energy, while keeping the 'Yang' suppressed. She channels it, using her body as a vessel for it, gaining a minor increase in physical strength, but a great increase in agility and speed. Additionally, she gains the ability to channel this energy out of her body to an extent. However, she's not all that adept at using it for such things.

It is the form she uses the most, and the one she's the most skilled at.

Current 'Yin' abilities:


Duality of Nature: Yang
Currently, she has almost zero mastery over this form and can only sustain it for a few minutes. However, in this form her physical strength and endurance skyrockets to levels even other Oni's would have trouble dealing with, with a minor increase to agility and speed. This form, is incredibly taxing on her at the moment and she's currently trying to maintain it for longer than a minute or two.



Oni Strength & Endurance:
Being an Oni, means that when she's in top form, she's physically stronger than most mortals could possibly ever hope to be. Even in her resting state with her limiters, she's fairly strong and could give even the strongest humans a run for their money.

Weapons/Equipment:
Makaze - a standard side sword. It has a blue sheathe, and the blade has a bluish tint to it. Often, she wields it one-handed. She forged it herself, and is her preferred blade.

Akaiittou - A large, heavy katana that one would need fairly good strength to wield effectively. One would need to be able to wield it with two hands even then, to make full use of the blade. A gift from her mentor before he left for the western world.

Her armor, which she crafted out of the bones of a young sea dragon she killed alongside her mentor.

Keeps a carving knife on her. She likes carving.

Bio:
Personality:
A bit on the quiet side, Miya doesn't really talk much except those she's close too. Which is really kind of only a handful of people. She can come off as a little cold, and perhaps a little aloof. But that's merely simply because she doesn't think words mean too much in the grand scheme of things. That said, she's not afraid of dishing out insults and berating someone for some 'stupid' or 'foolish' behavior.

Among friends though, she's surprisingly chatty, and likes teasing her friends. Still, talking isn't really her forte and unless spoken too she will usually keep her mouth shut.

Which means sometimes, she can fumble with her words quite a bit, since she tends to think before she speaks.

A rule of thumb though, in battle she speaks very little else then what is necessary.

-History-

Miya's life isn't a terribly interesting one. Indeed, she's rather young for a spirit and hasn't even been around all that long. Her parents were killed by some traveling swordsman, who took her in after killing them. Of course, her parents had also been some rather bad spirits. They led a small band of Oni who really, really, didn't like the guild and it's policies.

Still, he took her in and eventually he taught her the way of the sword. First he taught her how to control the 'Negative' and 'Positive' energies of the universe, that is, Yin and Yang, and how she can suppress her Oni strength.

She learned the value of honor, honesty, and loyalty over the years, and learned how to wield her sword effectively in combat. Soon enough, however, after she turned 17, he left for the west leaving her to find her own path.

That was three years ago, and she recently joined up with the guild, and intends to further her own strength and abilities while fighting those spirits who would bring harm to others.

Nekoni, Nemu

Nekomata

25

Male


He is about 3’9” and weighs about 40lbs. (Refer to image for everything else)


Like any other cat, Nemui has extremely good balance and will always land on his feet. He’s quite agile despite being a magic-user.

Nemu is quite good at sewing and cooking, just a few skills he picked up during his travels.

He's an expert in taking naps.


Nemu practices magic like any other mage, however he practices Written Magic. This magic is extremely powerful, however it’s a lot slower than most. Written magic is the manipulation of words that hold magical power. It is very much like writing instructions for the elements rather than manipulating them through the mind.

Because of this, Written magic is a lot more potent that normal magic due to the fact that it’s the manipulation of Void(空) rather than the manipulation of the regular elements.

However, Nemu is still considered a novice in this type of magic and can only give the lower level instructions when using his magic. Despite this, he’s still quite powerful, but when he’s writing, he cannot move. (He writes into the air in front of him, and it appears as ethereal symbols from his finger tips.

Currently he is only able to write the element and a basic form. So for example, Fire-ball or Ice shard. He cannot put any other descriptors to his magic.. yet. (A higher level would be 'Flaming Hurricane Wheel of Eruption'.) Essentially, his magic is reliant upon his ability to think of adjectives on the fly. He is able to use all the elements (Fire, Water, Air and Earth).


Nemu holds a sword (As shown in the image), but he can’t use the sword. It’s an enchanted sword that he given from his family to help him with his travels. Unsheathing the sword does nothing out of the ordinary, but when sheathed, it radiates magical energy by itself. The sword is bond to Nemu and serves as a conduit for his power.


Nemu was born into the Nekoni family which is part of a tribe of Nekomata. The reason why Nekomata don’t live within the city or near the guild is because many people are against the very existence of Nekomata. However laws have been passed that prevent people from openly attacking the Nekomata, as they have proven to be a very peaceful race of Yokai(Demon). But this hasn’t really mended the divide between the cats and humans.

The name ‘Nemu’ literally means ‘Drowsiness’ which was given to him for that exact reason. He’s a very sleepy cat. He loves his naps and enjoys them the most in a nice soft patch of grass or on someone’s lap.

From a young age, Nemu was introduced to the Nekoni family’s magic, Written Magic. The Nekoni family was extremely studious, having their own library within the tribe, which was quite uncommon for tribes.. After many years of study, he (with his family’s approval) decided to join the Guild. His parents thought it’d be a good experience for him, giving him the chance to hone his magic and learn more about the world. However it had taken a toll of his overall personality.

Nemu is often very placid, and cool headed, but in the many years that he had spent travelling, he learned many things about his place in the world. Nekomata’s are shunned, despite the law that passed. This led to his distrust in humans and he will almost always believe that they harbour ill-intent toward him and his kind, no matter how nice the human appears to be. He is a lot more comfortable being around other demons and non-humans though.

Nemu doesn’t really have any other goals other than becoming a master of his own magic. Since he doesn’t really count ‘making friends’ and ‘having fun’ as goals. He just thinks of them as things he’d like to do.