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[i][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNEUd5sLlUg]"Don't underestimate my ideals!"[/url][/i]
[h2][color=ed145b]Yozakura Tsukiko[/color][/h2][/center]
[b][color=ed145b]Race:[/color][/b] Blessed Human
[b][color=ed145b]Age:[/color][/b] 21
[b][color=ed145b]Gender:[/color][/b] Female
[b][color=ed145b]Appearance[/color][/b]
Raven-haired and beautiful, Yozakura Tsukiko is a charming individual, a slender young lady that could be compared to a delicate flower, best admired at a distance. Considering her inhuman strength, that’s probably the right call to make. With hair of ink and skin of snow, she stands at 5’7, silver eyes gleaming with a divine clarity. Despite being a swordswoman, her slim hands do not have calluses, and despite her years of training in the martial arts, there is not a single scar on her body.

[b][color=ed145b]Clothing[/color][/b]
Calling Tsukiko’s clothing ‘armor’ would be an insult to even the flimsiest of cloth armor. With soft shoes, stockings, detached sleeves, and a hybrid between a cloak and a leotard, one would be hard-pressed to imagine that such an outfit could be useful for protection at all. They don’t need to imagine it, however. Tsukiko’s clothing is purely cosmetic, and the one magical enhancement it has is the ability to resew itself whenever there are cuts in it.

[b][color=ed145b]Personality[/color][/b]
A strong sense of justice dwells within Tsukiko, one that prompts her to honor her family, uphold her oaths, and fight to realize her ideals. She does not allow herself to hesitate, and takes pride in her unwavering beliefs. Even if they may consume her, Tsukiko’s too stubborn to back down, and will push on past it. Despite the elegant airs she puts on, she is a decidedly unladylike person up close, too straight-forward and aggressive to be the type of person who’d enjoy small talk at a fancy restaurant. Perhaps the description of an isolated, socially inept elite would fit Tsukiko better.

[b][color=ed145b]History[/color][/b]
Yozakura Tsukiko is blessed, a mortal born with the favour of the gods early on. Granted a body that will never be blemished by age or injury, and a physicality beyond that of humans, she was put on a pedestal at an early age. The nation she was born in had, four hundred and eight seven years ago, been powerful and prosperous, one of the stronger members of the Caededril Republic, but was now merely a shadow of its former self. On the precipice of being absorbed wholly into the Republic due to national debts and a shrinking populace, the people of the oriental nation of Kanata saw Tsukiko’s birth as the coming of a new age. She was groomed as the Priestess of War and trained in many martial disciplines, from swordsmanship to horseback archery, while her parents worked in the background to ensure that there were no distractions in her learning environment. Her friends became her nation’s foundational scholar-kings, and her ideals the stone she used to sharpen her soul.

Unfortunately for her nation, however, the Priestess of War wasn’t interested in the glories of conquest or in reviving the grand dynasty of scholar-kings in Kanata. Instead, her ideals led her closer to the great spirits that blessed her to begin with, who told her to seek out and purge the evils of the Black Continent, known officially as the Neutral Zone. Though disappointed at first by their golden child’s decision, the council of elders decided that perhaps having a prominent explorer operating within this new continent would be a fine decision as well, seeing how valuable any information about this new place was.

And so, five years after her decision, Tsukiko, like many other prospective adventurers, headed out to Oar’s Rest, to purge the continent of the dark beasts that roamed there and to bring back the spoils to her crumbling nation.

[b][color=ed145b]Weapon[/color][/b]
[i]Tsukimi, The Phantasmal Blade[/i]
An absurdly long katana, Tsukimi is one of the Sacred Weapons of Kanata, a holy blade that cannot be drawn normally, as the steel is fused the black scabbard. Abnormally heavy even for other weapons the same size as itself, it can be considered to be more of a staff than a proper sword. It has yet to be cut by any edged weapon or scarred by any magical effects.

[b][color=ed145b]Physical Skills[/color][/b]
[i]Sheathed Sword Style[/i]
Tsukiko is capable of using Tsukimi both as a staff and a sword, giving her a flexible style that allows her to fight both in close range and mid-range. The bludgeoning blows, compared to the cuts of swords, makes it optimized for dealing hefty damage to both armored and unarmored individuals, but, ultimately, the Sheathed Sword Style is a defensive style, meant to disable an opponent, instead of kill them.

[i]The Blessings of the Gods[/i]
Tsukiko, chosen by the Great Spirits, has been given a mortal form with many advantages. Her body heals seamlessly, boasts an incredible immune system, requires less sleep than most, and, most importantly, contains a strength that cannot be explained merely by her firm muscles. Though her agility and dexterity are solely a product of years of training, her strength allows for her to wield Tsukimi easily and supernatural feats such as jumping thrice her height.

[i]Cooking[/i]
Tsukiko, despite being a Priestess of War, is still a Priestess. One of her most important duties is to prepare food offerings for her ancestors and the Great Spirits. As a result of training that was on par with her martial arts training, she has become quite masterful in the culinary arts of Kanata, and is fairly confident that she can make any dead thing into an edible thing, as well as identify most mushrooms and herbs within a forest.

[b][color=ed145b]Magic[/color][/b]
[i]One Strike to Split the Sky[/i]
Tsukiko’s ultimate technique, One Strike to Split the Sky is a lengthy ‘spell’ that allows one to draw out the Phantasmal Blade and cleave through the magical and the spiritual. It cannot be blocked, as it ignores physical obstacles and cuts through magical defenses as if it were merely flesh. It cannot be endured, as it leaves a permanent wound in the person’s very soul. And if it can be dodged, Tsukiko will not use it, because her One Strike can only be used once a day.

Naturally, if she was up against an inanimate object that neither needed magic or a soul to move itself, her One Strike is pretty much useless.

[b][color=ed145b]Weaknesses[/color][/b]
With no ranged weapons, literally no armor, and an ultimate trump card that can only be used once a day, Tsukiko is fraught with weaknesses. She just makes up for those weaknesses by increasing her strengths. Essentially, it could be said that she is a specialist at taking down singular, powerful monsters, as opposed to a horde of many.

[b][color=ed145b]Other Inventory[/color][/b]
Outside of basic adventuring gear such as a bedroll, torches, a firestarting kit, rope, and rations, Tsukiko also has a rare condiment not found in any other nation within the Caededril Republic: wasabi.