Name:
Kaeru Nakanishi
Age:
17
Gender:
Male
Appearance:
You'd be forgiven for mistaking Kaeru as a woman. Not out of any attempts to deceive or other impishness mind you, he simply likes being as he says 'cute and the best looking person in the room...also that most masculine clothing looks absolutely fu-ahem, really boring.', which, should incidentally, give you a little glimpse into his personality. Standing a slightly shorter than average height for men, a slender, feminine form Kaeru takes great care in his appearance. Long blond hair with lively, amber colored eyes. He takes fairly good care of his appearance and tries to always keep up with the latest fashion trends. Surprisingly, while not bulky he's got pretty good muscles under the clothes.
Personality:
A cute appearance that belies an absolutely foul mouthed little gremlin. Kaeru is a lively, energetic sort that puts his 110% into basically everything with a smile. In fact, you could say he does everything almost with too much of a smile, whether it be fighting, working, or using an incredibly colorful vocabulary to express displeasure at something, chastising someone for making fun of his appearance, or when he's using his as he says 'extremely fine legs' to beat the ever loving doughnuts out of someone. (he does try to keep his mouth in check, though)

That is to say, you'd ever rarely find Kaeru not smiling about something or just enjoying life in general. Towards other people, he takes the same, casual approach. A overly friendly, pretty foulmouthed guy. Won't stop him from occasionally teasing people or behaving like a little imp, if he thinks he'll get a giggle or reaction out of someone, though.
Skills:
Is infectious positivity a skill? If so, Kaeru has that in droves. Aside from that, he's fairly skilled with sewing, cleaning, and typical household chores. As he's trained in martial arts most of his life and youth, he's fairly skilled even for being fairly young. Often practices gymnastics alongside his martial arts.
Contracted Shadow:
Nyoko the Raiju Often taking the form of a white animal that seems to be a mix of a feline or some canine and follows Kaeru around. Rarely takes any other form, pretending to laze about. Perhaps accrediting to the legend, she's mostly harmless unless someone pisses her off.
Contract Type:
Possession
Contract Rank:
C
Contract Abilities:
As his contract is a possession type, Kaeru often is fighting on the front lines himself. Sort of, himself anyways. As Nyoko is effectively taking control of his body a bit so he can use her powers and abilities, he himself changes his appearance to be better suited to using it. Typically, he rather teasingly refers to this as his magical girl transformation sometimes.

When being possessed by Nyoko, Kaeru decidedly takes an actual feminine form. He says he doesn't mind, mostly, though it was a little weird to get used to the bodies new weight during practice. Nyoko also takes a bit more of an influence on his personality the more power he's able to use. Sometimes it can get a little questionable whose in control when.

As far as abilities goes, Kaeru's strength and agility increases to superhuman levels, able to leap near instantaneously from place to place, leaving nothing more than a crackle of lightning in their wake. They've also managed to infuse their blows with lightning, as well as able to manipulate and project electricity in a short range around them. Aside from this, though, they don't have much in the way of versatility. The two of them simply do one thing, and one thing well. Hit extremely fast, and extremely hard.

Brief Backstory:
Kaeru has had a somewhat uninteresting background, by his count. A father that was incredibly strict growing up that was heavily into martial arts, and a workaholic mother. His father, desperately wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, and growing up it seemed, initially at least this might be something that Kaeru wasn't initially suited for. A somewhat skinny build that lacked muscles, and what could be considered an feminine appearance, it didn't seem like he would.

So it came as a surprise and relief when Kaeru ended up taking to Martial arts, and seemingly enjoying them as much as he did, taking to them quite quickly and much quicker than some of his fathers most skilled students when he actually put his mind to it.

So he'd grow up, eventually becoming a fairly skilled martial artist, and taking up helping his father out at the gym and dojo as a receptionist and also the guy who tests new members that wanted to be trained by his father. (Ignore the fact he's got something of a fanclub among the members). How he met Nyoko is something of a comedy routine more than anything serious.

It was a particularly stormy day, a demonic alert had just ended, dying down and the threat dealt with. Kaeru, having been unable to make it to the shelter in time as he had been rushing home in the pouring down rain and thunder. It was here, he noticed an odd animal, something he couldn't quite tell if it was a dog or cat just casually napping out in the rain, not a care in the world. A little curious and also thinking it might be a trap...but he took it home anyways. How could he leave a little thing like that out in the storm?

Well, next morning he woke up with a rather busty woman cuddling him. After some initial shock she introduced herself as a Raiju and as thanks for taking her in when she was lost, hungry, alone, and cold, she was giving him part of her power. She thus, proceeded to make herself at home and laze around and that they were now bound. Effectively, she was possessing him and there was nothing he could do about it. As long as she got food and shelter, she seemed reasonable enough. A slightly bemused Kaeru merely accepted this, and joined the DDF shortly after. why not fight demons if he could, right? Might as well challenge his fighting ability against bigger foes. Nyoko had to make it clear though, she wasn't going to be doing any of the fighting herself.

Name: Natsumi Fujikawa

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Appearance
Natsumi is a young Japanese woman with long red hair (formerly black) and brown eyes. She stands at 160 cm and has a slender, feminine build. In everyday life, she wears fairly mundane clothing, though she likes to put in some effort to look nice. When on the job with the DDF, she wears a fire-resistant black bodysuit.
Image by Miura-n315

Personality
Natsumi is a kind, polite, and reserved girl. She is diligent and thoughtful, but nervous under pressure. She likes to be social and make friends with her co-workers, but she isn’t all that good at carrying a conversation. What she lacks in confidence, she does make up for in loyalty and supportiveness. In her free time, she likes to read a variety of books, from fantasy to educational. (She’s not above smutty romance novels, though she’ll try to deny it.) She also enjoys challenging video games, though she feels a bit shy about that supposedly unfeminine activity.

Skills
Natsumi is generally sharp and analytical, if given enough space to think things over. She has a degree in chemistry and possesses a bunch of other random knowledge from books she’s read. She’s also pretty good at action games, though that doesn’t tend to translate to real life fighting skill.

Contracted Shadow: Suzaku, the Vermilion Bird
Suzaku is a nature spirit native to the lands of East Asia, representing fire, summer, and the south. Being a primal spirit, it doesn’t speak but communicates directly into Natsumi’s mind with abstract emotions and intuitions. She doesn’t fully understand its thoughts and desires, but one thing it definitely wants is to burn away the unholy taint of the demons.
Image by Genzoman

Contract Type: Possession

Contract Rank: B

Contract Abilities
In her normal form, Natsumi has a minor resistance to heat, able to touch boiling water or a hot pan without pain or injury. When possessed by Suzaku, her eyes glow and her hair turns into semi-solid fire, retaining the same volume but dancing around like flames. Her fiery hair burns things on contact, but is fairly weak by default. While in this state, she becomes immune to mundane fire (up to ~1200 °C). This resistance doesn’t extend to her clothes, so she wears a special fire-resistant suit while on the job.

While possessed, she can generate fire from any part of her body. She primarily conjures it from her hands as a form of attack, creating large jets of red flame that can rapidly burn wood and flesh. By creating small but powerful jets of fire from her hands and feet, she can propel herself to fly at high speed. The boots of her battle outfit have many small holes in the soles to facilitate this. She can also empower her fiery hair, turning it hotter and elongating it up to a few meters in length, then controlling it like a burning whip for close-range combat.

The fire she creates is to some extent tied to her emotions. When overcome with powerful emotion, she can generate larger flames more quickly. She is aware of this effect, but because she is naturally quite reserved and timid, she hasn’t made much use of it and doesn’t know the full extent to which it could empower her.

Lastly, she can choose to concentrate her fire into smaller blue flames that burn at up to 2000 °C, capable of melting steel. However, her heat resistance doesn’t reach that high, so those flames will burn her at a similar rate that normal fire would burn a normal human. She has experimented with this ability in a controlled environment, but has never used it in battle.

Brief Backstory
Natsumi had a fairly normal childhood in Tokyo. She was a gifted child who did well at school and soon developed quite a high opinion of her academic talents. Like many, she was raised with the Shinto religion, but she wasn’t very devout, instead favouring the empirical. After high school, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She intended to follow up with a master’s after that, but things panned out very differently.

One day, a demon appeared while Natsumi was out in the city. Although it was only a Beast-class, the DDF was not yet on the scene, leading to a panic. While others scattered and fled, Natsumi was paralyzed with indecision until it was too late. Once the demon was in view, running away would only alert it, so she hid instead, with little success. Feeling helpless and betrayed by her supposed intellect, she desperately prayed to any kami who might be listening to save her. For reasons she still doesn’t quite understand, Suzaku answered her call, initiating a shadow contract. In a blur of emotion, she incinerated the attacking demon. When the DDF arrived shortly after, they found her stunned and confused, with most of her clothes burned away.

Once brought to safety, she realised that her hair had been permanently turned red by the contract. The DDF explained what had happened to her and offered to enrol her in their academy. She was initially reluctant, arguing that she wasn’t a fighter and shouldn’t be trusted with superpowers. But she ultimately agreed for the greater good.