[CHAR] Midnight Illusion Town: An Urban Fantasy RP

Characters:

• Midorikawa Fumie
• "Sophie R.R Watt"
• Sylvie
• Fumihiro Haku
• Ai
• Ningirisu Miyako
• Yasome-hime

[VitaVitaAR]

• Name: Midorikawa Fumie
• Age: 16
• Gender: Female
• Race: Hanyou. In her case, she has oni blood.
• Appearance: Black hair, gold eyes, light skintone. Fumie is pretty short at considerably under five feet in height.
• Personality: Among her fellow students, Fumie is known as a serious and diligent girl who always stays on top of her schoolwork. She's also known for her sharp temper and tendency to become angry at others rather easily. She dislikes being bothered or hung on, and she won't hesitate at all to complain about anyone she feels is behaving in a stupid manner. To put it simply, she isn't one to keep her mouth shut when she sees someone acting like an idiot, at least in her opinion. Additionally, she is also a rather prideful girl, who sometimes takes a rather smug sense of satisfaction in seeing that she was right about something. In spite of her serious nature, Fumie is not entirely without a somewhat sarcastic sense of humor, even if it's mostly born of of frustration at others. As could likely be expected, she's not exactly the most friendly person, but will usually attempt to help the people around her if asked. However, there is another side to Fumie's personality. Fumie is a youkai hunter, one from a long line of those who hunt dangerous creatures that stalk the night and threaten the world of humans. This is a secret she keeps from anyone who is not a member of her family, a duty assigned to her that she carries out with pride. Fumie is entirely dedicated to the work of a youkai hunter, handling it seriously and without hesitation. Still, she absolutely takes pride in her capabilities as well. However... Her ancestry isn't without its negative effects. When utilizing the full extent of her oni blood, Fumie's behavior becomes more erratic and aggressive, and she finds it more difficult to control her actions. Indeed, it is the boiling blood of an oni that causes her to become far more violent then normal. Finally, Fumie is rather easily flustered and embarrassed, and is self-conscious about her small size. In spite of her standoffish nature, Fumie is surprisingly lonely as well...
• Abilities: Fumie is a hanyou of oni ancestry. This imparts some basic traits of oni to her body. That is to say, she has greatly enhanced physical strength and speed in spite of her small size, and remarkable durability for someone who appears to be fully human. This isn't to say it's impossible to overpower her or harm her. Even if her oni blood, she is still a small, delicate girl and compared to many other supernatural entities she is hardly the strongest or even particularly impervious to physical harm. However, her speed is quite remarkable for someone partially human. Additionally, Fumie is a trained onmyouji, utilizing her affinity for fire. Her chief spells allow her to produce fiery projectiles, and work in tandem with her katana. Aside from that, she is also somewhat adept in performing purification spells, though anyone dedicated to such onmyodo is going to be far more capable of that area. Finally, Fumie is capable of fully accessing her oni ancestry, obtaining a massive boost to her physical abilities, regenerative capabilities, and an enormous outpouring of fire flowing across her body and blade, her hair turning from black to bright red. At its peak, these flames even manifest as a pair of fiery horns. However, giving herself to her oni blood causes her to become more violent and aggressive, a certain madness overtaking her and making it more difficult for her to control herself.
• Skills: Fumie is quite skilled with a sword for her age, having been trained since she was quite young. Additionally, she is quite apt when it comes to schoolwork. In spite of her size, she does well in PE, though this is likely due to the influence of her oni blood. The most valuable skill in her arsenal, however, is Onikiri, a youkai-killing sword stroke created to slaughter even the most powerful of malevolent youkai.
• Equipment: Fumie wields a katana that is also considered a family heirloom, a weapon that is both extremely sharp and imbued with fire. Hinomaru, as the sword is named, was made with the explicit purpose of slaying youkai. This isn't to say that it can't kill anything aside from youkai, but its very nature is as an anti-youkai existence. Beyond that, Fumie carries numerous ofuda for use in her spells.
• Brief Backstory: Fumie is the daughter of the Midorikawa family, a very old and prestigious family that had existed in Minazawa for the entirety of the town's existence. Dwelling in a very old, expansive Japanese mansion, there are few who would believe that the true nature of the Minazawa is a family of youkai hunters. Indeed, so dedicated to their duty are the Minazawa family that they long ago crossbred with oni, a pact between a specific local clan and the Midorikawa, in order to enhance their capabilities to hunt dangerous creatures that threatened humanity. Fumie is no exception to this fact, herself a hanyou with a high level of oni blood, nearly half. Of course, this isn't immediately apparent by looking at her. Throughout her childhood, she was trained in the art of the sword, and in onmyodo, in order to fashion her into a youkai hunter just as the rest of her bloodline. However, horrible tragedy struck when she was merely seven years old. A rival family of youkai hunters, opposed to the Midorikawa's crossbreeding with oni, ambushed and slaughtered much of the bloodline, including Fumie's mother and father. Indeed, aside from Fumie herself, the entire Midorikawa family was destroyed. Raised primarily by her maid from that point on, Fumie chose to become a youkai hunter just as her mother and father had been, to continue her bloodline's purpose even though she is the only one who remains. Now in high school, she conducts her duty as secretively as possible, even while her fellow students consider her to be a delicate and doll-like girl.

[Raineh Daze]

• Name: Raum, properly, though for everyday business she goes by Sophie R. R. Watt. Or, given that she's currently in Japan, just the first and last two.
• Age: 1000+. Looks 10 if you're willing to squint a bit.
• Gender: Female
• Race: Demon
• Appearance: Though there are some differences with the picture... namely, that she tends to prefer stuffed ravens to bears. She's also got wings, though with how small they are when folded, you would never notice outside of a swimsuit.
• Personality: Despite being a thousand year old demon... Raum's really timid. She's almost certainly the only example of a demon that an average human could get away with bullying, since she's really pessimistic about her own abilities--though that person would learn if they pushed too far that she is pretty dangerous when cornered. With a world view that places basically every supernatural creature as a bigger threat to her, Raum does her best to avoid fighting with them.
  She's friendly, though, and gets on really well with animals, even if they aren't birds. She's also pretty good at noticing small details.
• Abilities: As a demon, even a weak one, Raum has significantly enhanced physical abilities and a powerful regenerative ability. Everything else she can do in some way ties back to birds... hesitantly firing shadowy bird-like magical projectiles is the flashy one, but she can actually talk to them and get them to do what she wants, mostly sticking to crows, ravens, rooks, and the like. And then, obviously, there's the wings--quite small and covered up when folded, but she can spread them fully and fly.
• Skills: Raum has basically no skills that would come in useful for investigating mysteries or the like beyond "I'm old enough I might have run into something like it!" She can do her own housekeeping, cook food, look after animals, and garden. Beyond some talent for investments, she's not really good at much more than being.
• Equipment: She's got a lot of stuffed toys, and an annotated copy of both the Ars Goetia and a list of the 7 princes. The annotations are mostly personal notes, the magicians who'd be after such information would be flummoxed by the comparatively mundane contact details.
• Brief Backstory: Born in York, there wasn't much to say of interest about the soon-to-be-Raum. She was poor, human, and apparently about as unusual as a slightly burnt piece of toast. Then Lucifer fell, and everything got very strange, very fast. Going from human to demon was quite the jump and finding many of the others that had gone through this gave her quite a shock... mostly because she had the misfortune of running into the demon princes early.
  It rather set the girl up for the future. With no prior knowledge of the supernatural beyond superstition, Raum was only able to gauge her abilities relative to some of the most powerful beings alive, and wound up being easily intimidated by more or less everything/ Though sticking close to the more powerful beings when the church has come knocking has done great for survival, it hasn't really done much for her confidence.
  Having acquired investments and property, she's made a habit of moving to where it seems nice and quiet, untroubled by terrifying and powerful supernatural entities, where there's almost no chance of someone like Asmodeus dropping by without calling first. She's currently been living a year or so in a nice apartment in Minazawa, looking for clubs or the like that might let her join despite the whole "I don't want to go to school" thing. That got boring after the third time.

[TheFake]

Immortal Coffee Shop Owner

Name: Sylvie
Age: 387(21)
Gender: Female
Race: Human, Magi(Life)
Appearance:
Personality: Sylvie has been around a long time and one thing that she hasn't been was consistent with her own personality. On the surface she has adapted her mannerisms to match up with the culture of the times but beneath that she is always a caring and compassionate person. With every incarnation she has become adept at altering her mannerisms to prevent being recognized. Sylvie works hard to keep herself up to date and by now is a gifted actress. Currently she prefers a more calm and detached demeanor.

By necessity she considers herself to be a separate person from other copies of herself, consciously avoiding considering whether or not she is the 'real one' by deciding that all of them are as real as any other, and have their own lives that she will not waste frivolously. Far from seeing them as disposable tools, she views that as being her own family, her own sisters and daughters.

Despite best efforts, she feels remorse when copying the consciousness of her primary body, referred to as her Alpha, into another, effectively overwriting the other personality.

Abilities:
With an affinity for Life, Sylvie is a gifted healer, considering herself a flesh-smith that can form and fix flesh with remarkable ease. She has lived a long life to practice her art, refining it over many iterations. The main body of her work lies in creating Homunculi copies of herself to fall back on in case of her suffering from a serious injury or death.

While the majority share the same apparent age and appearance, there are some variances built into others, such as differing ages or the careful addition of other less human bloodlines. A favorite of hers is a half breed youkai with fox ears and a tail.

Skills:
Fencing - Sylvie learned fencing when dueling was fashionable in Europe, taking a saber as her preferred weapon.

Medical Knowledge - She possesses in depth knowledge of human biology, necessary for her work.

Pilot Training - Sylvie was trained as a pilot between the world wars and flew combat missions on the eastern front during the second.

Equipment: On her person Sylvie carries little aside from some raw materials to use in her magic. These supplies can be used for major or minor healing up to the loss of a limb. Often she may also carry a dueling saber.

In property she has amassed a large but discrete number of real estate holdings, more than half of which house at least a small lab in order to keep her spare bodies distributed and more closely available wherever she is.

Brief Backstory:
Sylvie(Last name varies) has been around a very long time. Her first forays into crafting her own immortality came during the middle of her first life but true success came much later as her health and strength began to fail. With that success the new copy, holding the lifetime of memories of the original but wholly its own being had the misfortune to bear witness to the decline and eventual death of the original. Sylvie vowed never to go through such a thing again. Successive copies have all been created perfect, unaffected by age. Any deaths suffered by them must come from violent means, typically out of sight from the next backup.

In more recent history she has decided to continue traveling the world, immersing herself in other cultures and events. With the world constantly evolving and travel being so easy she makes the most of her potentially endless life by experiencing as much as she can. Currently she is posing as the owner of the Nine Tails Cafe in Minazawa. Sylvie offers bounties to people that solve supernatural crimes and mysteries, paid out of her own fortune.

[OliveYou]

The White Snake

нαкυ ғυмιнιяσ

白 文広
_{۵ ~100 yrs. old ۵ Male ۵ Yokai ۵}



His red eyes could be considered his most striking feature, considering his hair is jet-black and he rarely wears anything but the traditional gakuran uniform. Across his upper abdomen and chest is a detailed snake tattoo, but it's rarely ever seen.

Personality: On the outside proper, on the inside cold and calculating, Haku lives by his own rules -- he rarely does things without proper consideration or thought beforehand, although at the same time, these decisions seem random and mystifying to others. He will go to any lengths to achieve his goals, and although he will present himself with politeness, directly after this he will not hesitate to eliminate you if you stand in his way.

Abilities: Haku is the spirit of a white snake, and as such, he possesses several snake-like abilities -- most often, he simply summons his snakes to carry out his bidding. He can summon up to 4 small black snakes all which use their venomous bites and constriction to subdue enemies. He also possesses his own venom, which he stores in a collection of needles he carries on his person at all times, all with slightly different effects, like hallucination or paralysis. As a last resort, he can revert to his primal form, that of a large, white snake with red eyes, but he prefers not to do so.

Skills: Haku is a skilled marksman, a clever tactician, and prefers to work from the shadows, giving him excellent awareness and reflexes. He's not overly physically strong, at least not in his human form. He's also taken up acupuncture in his free time -- using un-poisoned needles, of course.

Equipment:
Gakuran Uniform: His normal wear. He hides his snakes and needles inside.
Throwing Needles: A collection of needles imbued with various types of venoms.
Black Snakes: When not in use, they take the form of paper snakes tucked in the inside of his coat.

Backstory: Like the white snake of Chinese folklore, Haku is a snake spirit searching for the secret to immortality, among other things. Raised in a family of yokai, Haku was treated coldly during his youth as a spirit, often locked up or abandoned for long periods of time, with only his snakes as company. This led him to develop summoning powers as an attempt to impress his grandfather, the head of the household. After an attack on the family home, the remaining members of his family split up and spread aross the land, and all rarely communicate with each other. He hopes to obtain immorality to prove himself worthy as the head of the family and unify his clan once again, and has migrated to Minazawa in pursuit of this goal. During his time at Minazawa, he hasn't made much of a stir, preferring to gather intel and strike when he's sure of his plan's safety. Known to frequent gambling parlors and small, family-owned businesses, due to his fondness of "observing" familial bonds.

[Sharidi37495]

Name: Haruka Mirai
Age: 100 (18)
Gender: Female
Race: Yokai

Appearance

Personality: Mirai is very calm and kind, yet when someone she cares for, which is mostly everyone, is hurt, she is very fierce and unyielding. She is helpful, but can be unpatient, especially with those that seem ungrateful. Mirai can be unwittingly seductive, and yet is very content with her relatively peaceful life. She is very indignant, almost to the point of shifting, when 'the normal' call the supernatural 'monsters'. Mirai is very intelligent, and can be mischievous.
Abilities: Mirai is able to converse with most nocturnal animals. She is also able to shift into a fox (currently with six tails) or a regular fox, and at times her eyes will glow a vibrant red when she's close to shifting. She is also able to choose to hide or show her tails. She can shift into other people, even specific people, and her lifespan is particularly long. She can create illusions for a specific amount of time.
Skills: Mirai is the perfect housewife, excelling in cooking, cleaning, and healing, all without magic. She is also quite the swordsman, and is well-versed in botany and art.
Equipment: she often hides a rapier, or at least twin shortswords within her kimono.
Backstory: Mirai never knew who sired her, and before her mother could say she was discovered, tortured, and killed. The last thing they both touched being cherry blossom trees. After that, Mirai was on the run for a few years, learning how to fend for herself. She eventually settled down enough to make a name for herself as the eccentric, kind young woman obssessed with foxes and myth.

[Phonic]

Ai-chan

Name: Ai

Age: Unknown, likely several hundred years old

Gender: Female (assumed)

Race: Youkai (Tsukumogami)

Appearance

Appearance 2

Personality

Ai is straightforward and direct. Often boastful and self-centered, mostly impulsively acting based on how she feels like with little concern over consequences, her bossy nature tends to prefer her taking control of situations and making decisions she chooses to make rather than following others, which tends to be at odds with her conception as a “tool”.

She is easygoing, carefree and abrasive, displaying full confidence in herself and presenting to others with determination and dignity. On the other hand, she is also quite lazy and self-indulgent, disliking having to work, making her a somewhat selfish and unconcerned person. Despite this, Ai tends to fight for goals and ideals she considers dear to herself, often at the expense of herself. The sort of person to say they don’t want to get involved in a situation, only to then get involved in a situation because they feel that it is “right” for them to do so.

Abilities

Tsukumogami Transformation: The ability to change one’s composition. Ai’s body is an amalgamation of a thousand blades, however, this ability lets her take on the mask of a “human”. It is a perfect impersonation of a person, having the same biological functions as a normal human, from the need to eat to the need to use the bathroom and other such things. However, she has the ability to change into her true form as a blade as she chooses. Ai can also turn into a blade to be used by another, or partially transform select parts of her body into weapons, or graft other weapons to join this collective. Regardless of her chosen appearance, she is still a “weapon” at heart.

Metal Control: The ability to freely control metallic objects. From simple touch, the shape, structure, and strength of a metallic object can be edited and changed to suit Ai’s needs, from grafting a shield of metal to their arm or changing the shape of a blade during combat to gain an advantage from an unsuspecting opponent. Given that they are themselves a mass of blades, this affects her as well.

Inanimate Object Communication: The ability to freely communicate with inanimate objects. To discern the residual “feelings” leftover inside of an object into a “conversation”. Through the use of this ability, Ai can understand aspects of the owner of the object or create a comradery between discarded “tools” like herself.

Skills

Knowledge of Swordsmanship and general Fighting Ability: Due to her status as a weapon, Ai is skillful in the application, tactics, and techniques of battle. She is also able to give her wielder the ability to use these skills without them needing the knowledge to utilize her effectively if so she chooses, as well as transfer information between herself and her handler instantaneously.

Equipment

Does "herself" count as a piece of equipment? If not she carries around one of her blades at her side at any time and is very proficient at using such.

Brief Backstory

There was once a blacksmith, young and with much ahead of him, who helped all those in his village. From basic tools to appliances, the man was beloved and revered by those in his community and afar, often people coming from far and wide to take shop of his wares.

One day, on a trip to gather ore from the mine, he returned to find his village in ash. A youkai had destroyed his village, reducing it to no more than ash, and killing all who he had known and smiled with.

Outraged by this, the once pacifist blacksmith chose to create weapons, something he had refused to make before. He kept smithing, and smithing and creating better and stronger blades to fell the demons who had taken the lives of his fellow man with.

Who had killed his loving wife and son?

Who had destroyed all that the blacksmith treasured and wished to protect?

However, before he was able to use these weapons he had created, the blacksmith had decided to abandon his quest for revenge, leaving the weapons without purpose and to rust. Filled with the regrets of her master, the Tsukumogami was created. Nameless and without a face, the wretched abomination of metal that was the body of the bestial creation roamed the countryside, trying to find peace from its creation.

However, eventually the creature had found upon her creator, now an old man hardly suited to fight with. Asking her master why he had abandoned her, her master only responded with:

“If I were to kill youkai who had nothing to do with the destruction of my village, then would I be that much better than those who had taken the lives of my kin long ago?”

Then was all that the nameless blades have done been all for nothing? Outraged by this answer, the nameless blades chose to end her creator’s life. In the old blacksmith’s final moments, he spoke out the final words of his once beloved wife who had been the driving force for the creation of these blades, dying with a satisfied smile on his face.

“Ai.”

The blades knew not what to think. They had only had to kill what was before them before, hardly having to consider the ramifications of their actions, but for whatever reason, the words of her creator bothered the blades. The blades wept. They wept for the old man, now dead. They wept for those who they had killed on their journey, most of which were undeserved anger.

But most of all … the blades wept for themselves.

Taking upon the name that the blacksmith had said as his last words, the nameless blades, now “Ai”, decided they would atone for their actions. They would try their best to become human. To finally understand why her owner had given up on his quest for revenge, and to try to be a force for protection rather than solely an instrument of destruction.

However, it was too late for Ai, for she had been sealed for her transgressions, only recently awaking from her several hundred-year-old nap. Who sealed her and why she was sealed seemed to have been lost on her, and she hardly remembers anything aside from her name and the fact she is a weapon.

[UndeadSpartan]

Protector of the Shrine

Name: Ningirisu Miyako
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Appearance:
With pale skin, natural black hair and a fairly short stature at 5'3", Miyako's appearance is pretty normal for a japanese woman.

Personality:
Miyako is a mild mannered young woman who rarely seems bothered by anything. She's rarely ever seen as anything other than calm, so much that she was known as "the Girl without Fear" in high school. She wasn't some bold, troubleseeker though, rather she was an obedient and diligent student who would usually be found reading. For better or for worse, she has a hard time turning down requests for help, which resulted in many hours spent tutoring classmates in the past. She really doesn't really dislike anything or anyone, other than people who'd hurt others.

Abilities:
Onmyoudo [ Tranquility ]:
As an onmyouji with a particular affinity for Tranquility, Miyako specializes in spells that grant a sense of calm or clarity and those that impede mobility. She's uses two types of spells; direct application spells, referred to as enchantments, which require an ofuda to be applicated to a physical body and area of effect spells, referred to as field spells, which form a field in which their effects apply. Field spells are inherently less potent than enchantments. Because of her affinity, Miyako has rarely had any trouble with subduing her targets and completing her exorcisms. A few examples of her spells include;

• [ Tranquility: True Tranquility ]:
  Miyako's "ultimate" spell; a powerful enchantment that instills the recipient with such a powerful sense of tranquility that any creature without significant magic resistance would lose the will to do just about anything, content to simply lay- or stand still. Because Miyako needs to apply her talisman to the recipient for this spell, it's useless against creatures with no physical form.
• [ Tranquility: Field of Flowers ]:
  A spell that Miyako often uses during her exorcisms. When applied to a surface it generates a field with a radius of five meters and two effects; first it creates a weak barrier that allows entry, but not exit. Additionally, it instills those within the field with a sense of calm, potentially pacifying them. This spell's main boon is its ability to affect even creatures that are intangible or don't have a physical body, however it's not as strong as some of Miyako's other spells. The pacifying effect is rarely strong enough to fully subdue the affected creatures and any powerful creature could blow the barrier apart with relative ease.
• [ Tranquility: Slowness ]:
  Another one of Miyako's favorite spells. It's a relatively simple enchantment meant to instill the recipient with a sense of calm. Unlike most of Miyako's spells, this one applies only a relatively minor sense of calm to counteract any feelings of haste and urgency. While not actually physically impeded, the recipient wouldn't feel the need to run, hurry or otherwise go fast anymore, so long as they remain affected.
• [ Tranquility: Clarity ]:
  One of the few spells that Miyako would voluntarily use on herself. This enchantment nullifies feelings of stress, pain, discomfort and unease. By blocking out these feelings, which hamper cognitive abilities, Miyako reaches a degree of clarity which hones her senses to the point of near-perfection, allowing her to see the world as if in slow-motion. Because it only enhances her senses and doesn't actually make her any faster, Miyako would also feel as if she were moving in slow-motion. Additionally, it takes a few moments to grow accustomed to the sudden change in perception.

Physical Capabilities:
While Miyako still practices judo and does an hour of cardio five days a week, her abilities aren't superhuman. She's got stamina and technique to make up for her inherent lack of strength and some of her spells enhance her senses, but even with those she loses to many youkai in terms of speed and power.

Skills:
Judo:
Having practiced Judo biweekly since she was 8, Miyako is quite experienced in a multitude of techniques. She prefers not to hurt her opponents however, which causes a certain hesitation when it comes to performing throws and holds.
Calligraphy:
Miyako has diligently trained her penmanship to the point of perfection. She's mastered all sorts of pencils, pens and brushes, and there are few with handwriting as clean as hers. Though she does occasionally write letters, she mostly uses her skill at calligraphy for her ofuda talismans.
Research:
Always meant to excel, Miyako has been raised strictly and has been taught that she should make sure she understood whatever it was she was studying. On one hand this had simply cost her a lot of time learning more about certain subjects than she'd ever need to know, but on the other hand it left her a capable student with a structured approach and knowledge on how and where to look for certain things.

Equipment:
Spell Case:
A small rectangular box with a flat metal clamp and a magnetic seal, specially made to contain Miyako's ofuda talismans and to be easily hung from the upper hem of a skirt or a pair of jeans. On occasion, Miyako has also hung it from her bracelet or simply held it in her hand.
Ofuda:
Miyako commonly keeps exactly 21 ofuda handy in her Spell Case, separated with dividers into 3 stacks of 7.
A rectangular box of Hanafuda Cards:
Exactly what it says it is. They're pretty cards with flowers on them and Miyako especially likes to play koi koi with them.
Cellphone:
A smartphone in a soft pink casing with cat ears. It has a pattern lock code and the background of her lock screen is an image of a black cat pressing its paw to the screen.
Wallet:
A small turquoise pouch in which Miyako keeps her money.
Purse:
A rather unimposing, plain white purse in which Miyako keeps all of the above items while she isn't actively using them.

Brief Backstory:
Being the daughter of a shrine caretaker, Miyako has spent most of her life in or around the shrine. Her father knew about magic, of course, but to her mother it had been quite an overwhelming truth. Having promised his wife a normal life, Miyako's father abandoned his duties as onmyouji and focused instead on the mundane part of being a shrine caretaker. Not wanting to rob Miyako of the ability to make this choice for herself, her father sent her to his mother (her grandmother) to learn about magic.

Unlike her mother, Miyako was fascinated. All the wonderful ways to use magic and the marvelous creatures associated with the magical world fueled Miyako to learn more and more, and even the dangerous aspects of it and the responsibilities couldn't deter her. Sadly, Miyako only had limited time throughout high school, with judo, studying and the like going on, but she'd still diligently return to her grandparents' house to learn more.

Once she graduated from high school, Miyako started studying under her father to become a proper shrine maiden and redoubled her efforts to learn onmyoudo from her grandmother. Since then, Miyako's study into the onmyoudo arts have evolved from purely theoretical into mixed theoretical and practical studies, subduing evil spirits and chasing off malicious youkai her grandmother sent her to exorcise. Over time, Miyako developed what she likes to call "her ultimate spell;" a powerful spell that drains the target of their will to do anything.

[Espada Emi]

Tiiiiiiny Spider Ninja

Name: Yasome-Hime

Age: 500, looks about 10

Gender: Female

Race: Tsuchigumo

Appearance: Like this

Personality: Yaso has spent all of her life being trained by her mother to avoid and slay youkai hunters and oppose human society. She's pretty much been indoctrinated in a similar way to a victim of a cult. She was raised on legends of the Spider Clans that were once foremost among Youkai and ruled sections of Japan before they were defeated by humanity in a series of wars during the Heian Period. Because of this she's extremely sheltered and doesn't know much about the outside world beyond her mother's lair. She's become incredibly curious over time and the modern world and human culture and individual humans fascinate her even as she despises and fears humanity as a whole and is convinced that some day 'evil' human hunters will come kill her. Still, she wants to experience human life and culture for herself after a life shut away.

Abilities: Thanks to her nature as a Tsuchigumo, Yaso has multiple superhuman abilities.
Superhuman Physiology-Even in her baseline human form with the body of a little girl, Yaso is supernaturally strong, fast and agile. She has yet to test the limits of her own strength, but her speed, reflexes and agility are all fast enough that she could likely dodge bullets. She also has superhuman durability and endurance but luckily for her she's never had to test their limits. She can also climb and cling on walls, ceilings and anything else in her environment with no problems and has enhanced senses of eyesight, touch and hearing.

Silk Production- As a spider youkai, Yaso can project spider silk from her fingertips while in human form. The silk can have various qualities depending on what she needs at the time. It can be very sticky, stronger than steel, fire resistant and airtight or water repelling as necessary. She can spin the silk to different shapes and lengths too.

Venom- Yaso has naturally occurring venom that she can poison enemies with by biting them even in human form. She can also secrete the venom whenever she needs to so that it can coat weapons or otherwise poison items. She can choose the potency of her venom whether it just causes pain in the victim, temporarily paralyzes a limb or an entire body, or results in eventual death. Her venom is also oddly flammable and burns both long and hot. Coating lines or gobs of spider silk in venom and then setting it on fire is the cause of many myths about Tsuchigumo abilities to control or produce fire.

Illusions- As a Tsuchigumo, Yaso's most notable ability is producing many complex illusions to trick her enemies or prey. In spider form the illusions can take up the space of a small house and be quite complex although doing anything to that extent is tiring and requires concentration. In human form she can cast illusions in an area around the size of a small room. The illusions are only based on sight and sound and have no physical form, but more experienced Tsuchigumo were known to create and manipulate figures out of webbing, earth or stone to lend weight to their tricks. If Yaso gets injured, her illusions will instantly break and pain or distraction blocks her ability to cast them.

Digging Claws-Tsuchigumo were famous for their ability to construct complex tunnel lairs and even hollow mountain fortresses in ancient times. Yaso is no different and even though she's young, she can temporarily manifest digging claws that allow her to tunnel through earth, stone and concrete at high speed without much difficulty.

Spider Form-Lastly, Yasome can take on her true form, which has the upper body of a human girl and the lower body of a giant spider. In this form all her physical abilities and illusions increase in power and in general she's much stronger and more dangerous. She doesn't like using her spider form much and her mother has conditioned her to only use it in emergencies.

Skills: Yaso lacks a lot of basic skills that even a human girl her age would have. What she does have is an obscene amount of training in guerilla warfare, martial arts, stealth and essentially ninjutsu. In spite of her young appearance, she's had around five hundred years to train in armed and unarmed martial arts and assassination skills and combined with her superhuman abilities she's a very formidable opponent. She's also highly acrobatic and a skilled contortionist, allowing her to squeeze into spaces that seem tight even for her small frame and navigate her environment rapidly and easily combined with her agility, webs and wall-crawling. She has very little formal schooling or knowledge however and even some basics of daily living in the outside world elude her.

Equipment: Yaso has a variety of ninja tools and weaponry including a ninjato, a small girl-sized fumma shuriken, a variety of kunai and throwing needles and smokebombs and flashbang grenades. She also has a few flick-top lighters her mother stole, in order to light her own venom on fire when necessary. Her ninja suit and armor were made by her mother and the main material is actually spider silk, making it lightweight, waterproof, fire resistant and bulletproof, although she'll still take blunt impacts from the bullets.

Brief Backstory: Yasome-Hime is a third generation heir to the once mighty kingdoms of the Tsuchigumo, now reduced to just her mother and her after all of her kind were hunted to extinction or hiding in the mid-Heian era. She's been raised in secrecy by her mother as a weapon against humanity, carrying on their grand tradition of guerrilla warfare against mortal society to try and reclaim their kingdoms from those that have persecuted them across the centuries. She was raised to believe that the humans were still hunting for tsuchigumo and that if she left the lairs before she was ready, she would certainly be killed. Now though, her mother has been away and missing for weeks and curiosity about the human world has gotten the better of her.

For the first time, she plans to venture out into the world of humans to find her mother and discover what the world outside their secret tunnels is like.