[CHAR] Whispers in the Dark

[Genkai]

Name:

Era Tsukino

Age:

17

Personality:

Inviting, energetic, sweet, and impulsive.

Hobbies:

Photography, calligraphy, and reading comics.

Ambitions:

Era plans to stick around Tamashini. Her parents run a well-known photography shop as they sell pictures to books and magazines. She has been taught and entrusted to carry on the family name. Era wants to show the rest of Japan and even the world, the beauty of the countryside. It is a firm wish within her heart, that she shares nature with the bustling cities like Osaka and Tokyo, believing they in their need to expand the automotive and technology industries, will forget how necessary it is to preserve nature. A lover of the wilderness, she wants to keep on living so she protect the town she loves, as well as its surrounding areas. If she could live in the mountains, practice her photography and protect the woods from hungry land developers, she would consider her life to be well-lived. Era is ferocious in her need to embrace the forest and to make others see its importance.

Uncertainties:

She is afraid of the dark and even when developing film at her family shop in town, she is uneasy. Along with not enjoying the darkness, she possesses a fear for airplanes, finding them unreliable and untrustworthy, vowing never to go on one, deciding to put her faith in buses, cars, trains and boats. She is very firm in this belief. Era, despite her eye for great landscapes, has a low level of spiritual awareness. Instead, she has good spiritual adaptation and strength which she will use to create long spirit claws from her fists, much like the Marvel character Wolverine.

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Name:

Hime Masami

Age:

18

Personality:

Dignified, humble, tidy, pedantic.

Hobbies:

Taking walks, writing poetry, and gardening.

Ambitions:

The slow pace of the countryside has always agreed with Hime. She has no interest in the city life and views many who pine for it or who come from it, to be rather uncouth. It is Hime's belief that the country life is how one can feel most at home, their soul so close to the earth itself. She wishes to leave no impression on the earth and accepts that she may die without having made a lasting impression. She values life as it is, accepting its unpredictable nature and knows so few accomplish anything noteworthy to be remembered long after they have passed. What fuels her soul to keep living is her drive to see more of the world and its beauty. While she accepts her life as likely having no impact on anyone, she wishes to help others find their own inner truth.

Uncertainties:

Due to Hime's honest outlook on life and her own ability to make much of an impact, she fears ceasing to exist. She views things simply and wishes she could put faith in a higher power but logically fails to see proof in such an afterlife. She fears making no contribution to anyone or anything, even though it's something she sees to likely happen. Hime has a decent level of awareness and adaptation. She has abysmal levels of strength and as such has decided to use a spirit whip. It is meant to attack and grab objects with sharp precision. Her whip is not meant for lengthy fights and is used to grab at arms and legs or items, than it is to inflict much damage.

[Natsu]

Isami Hironaka, 17 years old

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Personality:

Analytical, polite, quiet, and overly cautious.

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Hobbies

Chess, violin, and memorizing poetry

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Ambitions:

Isami plans on moving on to college following the end of school, and is planning on majoring in mathematics. He managed to have top marks all through school, so it was always apparent to him that he’d be continuing his education after high school. He’s been considering these plans for a while now, and found that he did well enough in his mathematics classes, and enjoyed them enough that he wouldn’t mind doing it for the rest of his life. Though he’s confident he’d be happy enough doing this, it isn’t scintillating to him in the way that he would prefer. He really can’t put a finger on anything that he’d both be passionate about, and would worthwhile to devote his life to. More than anything, he wants to find something to satisfy this niche for him. He doesn’t want to settle, but with the clock running out on when he needs to make a final choice, it’s becoming increasingly apparent to him that he may have to. For the first time in his life, he’s wrought with total indecision, and wishes he could just do something that would lead him to living a productive and happy life.

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Uncertainties:

His biggest fear would be of slipping away into nothing. He wants his existence to matter, and the crippling realization that he could mean very little in the grand scheme of things is gut wrenchingly horrifying to him. This drives him to push himself, and have a very low tolerance for his own failure. Upon returning to the world, Isami will be particularly skilled in spirit adaption, with the ability to create orbs of spirit energy around his body in a five foot radius, which can be moved freely in that area, or launched out of it towards targets. Isami will also be proficient in spirit strength, but lacking in spiritual awareness.

[Kassarock]

Rikyu Kiyabu

Age

17

Personality

Independent, Diligent, Boisterous, and Hot-headed

Hobbies

Fishing, Swimming, DIY

Ambitions

Rikyu doesn't really know what he wants in life. He always thought he would stay in Tamashini, his family are all fishermen and he assumed that he would carry on in the family business. The sea has always been a big part of Riyku's life and he couldn't imagine being away from it. But times are hard and his parents have pushed him towards going to university and making something more of himself, a chance they themselves never had. Riyku is torn between his parent's wishes, and his love of his home and their way of life. Overall he feels lost about what to do with his future.

Uncertainties

Rikyu fears being alone more than anything, the idea of moving away to somewhere no one knows him, or everyone else leaving Tamashini is his worst nightmare. Rikyu has some degree of spiritual awareness, although it is not precise, he can feel the presence of spirits from a great distance (especially malevolent ones) but struggles to pinpoint where exactly these feels are coming from. Something he likens to how an experienced sailor will feel a storm coming at sea. He is quite spiritually strong, but struggles with precise spiritual adaption, feeling that the power of spirits is like water and doesn't want to be shaped, but rather just flow. This allows him to blast torrents of energy, but without precision or finesse. A heavy hitter from medium range, faster opponents can run rings around him.

[SoleAccord]

Name - Mirai

Age - 18

Personality - Compassionate. Protective. Affectionate. Dismissive.

Hobbies - Mirai enjoys long walks through parks and forests, spending time with friends and family, and tending to flora.

Ambitions - Mirai wishes to make the world a better place through small acts of good for everyday people. Donating food and clothes to homeless shelters, visiting orphanages, speaking to sick children in hospitals – things that could brighten up someone’s day, even just a bit. Going to medical school to become a Doctor was her first dream, but the idea of running a nature reserve has also come up in recent months. Her heart is in so many places at once that she doesn’t know where she’ll be a year from now.

Uncertainties - Mirai has a fear of horror films. Ironically, she also can’t stop watching them with a friend. Odd, she knows. Another fear is that of losing someone she cares about to some horrible act of evil and being unable to help save them.

Her spiritual strength is weak, as is her strength, but her intuition is far beyond that of an ordinary human. It often helps her decipher the true nature of others’ intentions, making her an effective lie detector. Skilled liars can mask their body language, but very rarely can they completely seal the shift in their energy.

Adopting the role of medic and support both moral and spiritual to the team, Mirai’s skills with spiritual energy are limited to sealing wounds and repairing broken or burnt skin tissue by allowing her energy to speed up the self-healing process of the body considerably. Dead cells are eaten by her energy and quickly replaced by newly formed cells both skin and blood. Any toxins or harmful substances within the body’s blood stream are subsequently hunted for and absorbed into her energy before escaping out of small pores, evaporating once no longer preserved.

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Name - Haseo Watanabe

Age - 19

Personality - Courageous. Unyielding. Outspoken. Vulgar.

Hobbies - Fighting delinquents, bullies, and violent gangs. Reading mystery novels. Watching film noire.

Ambitions - Haseo entered the police academy once he completed high school, desiring to become an officer in Sendai, Japan. While his marks in all areas that required speed, strength, and a steady hand were exceptionally high, his superiors quickly discovered that he had a habit of mouthing off. After enduring one too many lectures from those above him about respecting the chain of command, Haseo resigned from the academy, but not before giving those in charge of his training some strong, unkind words related to their addiction of lips planted on their ass at every possible moment.

Thus, he flushed his chance of becoming an officer goodbye.

With little passion for anything but investigation and kicking ass here and there, Haseo then turned to his second career option: Private Investigator. However, he lacks the passion to get started on his own. The irony isn't lost on him.

He doesn’t care much for the world outside of his reach and doesn’t plan on becoming some figure of goodness and greatness. His reason for living is to help protect those that have the passion to make the world better. He can’t be fucked to do it himself, but he will look out for those that will.

Uncertainties -

Haseo fears not being in control of his own fate, and becoming the pawn in someone else’s game.

As a four-year veteran Spirit Detective native to Sendai, Haseo’s spirituality has been put to the test in both battle and mystery-solving. His spiritual strength is high, his adaptation average, and his intuition above average.

His first skill revolves around the first technique taught to him upon returning from an early death, the Spirit Gun. At first, he could only shoot once each day, but his experience and training have allowed him to fire six shots a day. Each blast is powerful enough to send the average humanoid opponent flying backwards, harshly bruising the point of impact and often knocking air from the lungs. He can narrow the bullet or widen it, increasing either its penetration or its blunt force.

His second allows him to unleash his spirit energy from his body, causing a burst of energy to knock back all those around him. He can manage to do this technique at a single point, such as his fists or his feet, to add additional power or even to gain some distance from foes.

Lastly, Haseo’s spirit energy can act as an adhesive, sticking to the target from the point of impact. The energy is clearly seen to the naked eye, glowing a vibrant blue. It then takes the energy used to place it onto the target and mimics it, allowing the same force to be felt twice. A punch that only connects once is felt twice with the same amount of force with less exertion for the user, with the same being said for kick, elbows, headbutts, etc. This ability can also work in tandem with the Spirit Gun.

[FiroIV]

Name:
Matsuri Yanagi

Age:
18

Personality:
Sociable, Graceful, Determined, and Guarded

Hobbies:
Fashion, Fiction Novels, Boys

Ambitions:
She plans to see the world and live a quiet life after. She values the peace the town has provided, but has always yearned to see what is outside, but with full intention to come back and live life as a homemaker. Her dreams to travel and see the the world runs parallel to her desire to meet a partner for life and have a family, a dream of small wishes, but big in execution.

Uncertainties:
She fears the stagnation and complacency of life, effects resulting from the tragedies of death, and most of all being robbed of your own will. She also has a deep seated fear of dolls, and other uncanny valley inducing objects. Her level of spirituality is the direct answer to fear of stagnation, high on adaptation, average awareness, and abysmally low on strength. In application of her powers she shies away from the front lines, fashioning herself as a sniper/support of sorts using five spears she controls with her mind to attack from a distance.