[OOC] Midnight Illusion Town: An Urban Fantasy RP

[WanderingSpirit]

This looks and sounds like a promising premise so I will be putting down my interest. When I have later today I'll start making a character! If we have any questions about the lore in Minazawa, is it okay to ask?

[RolePlayerRoxas]

It's fine, yeah.

[Infinite Cosmos]

Hibari Ame

• Name: Hibari Ame (雲雀 雨)
• Age:19
• Gender:Male
• Race: Human
• Appearance: Hibari is a young man with an average height and short black hair with a fringe that joins at the center of his face. He has narrow gray eyes, often intimidating those who see them. His typical outfit is a plain white button-up shirt, black pants and a loose sports coat. He will occasionally wear his Oumyoji attire.
• Personality:He dislikes working together with anybody due to feeling indebted and restrained. He strives to pay them back as soon as possible. He cannot stand being restrained and absolutely refuses to allow himself to be controlled. He fiercely loyal to his role and its rules, going so far as to punish others for breaking them even if they aren't a part of his order.
• Abilities:He is quite lithe, having been trained to be an athlete. However, his strength and other physical abilities can be categorized as 'well-trained' in terms of human conditioning. Being from the Hibari clan, Ame naturally inherited an affinity towards ‘rain’. One can interpret ‘rain’ many different ways. Be it a soft, Spring rain, a violent Summer storm, or the harsh, frozen, rain of winter. But, the result is always the same. A refreshing, clean feeling after the rain. When combined with his Oumyoji skills, he uses his affinity to purify any lingering evil in the spirit. Violently or otherwise.
• Skills:Standard Oumyoji abilities such as talisman crafting, exorcism, spirit sensing and the use of the Kuji-kiri
  - “Spring Rain” His most utilized skill. With the combination of other oumyoji abilities, he attempts to wash the sins away from the evil spirit by performing a cleansing ritual.
  - “Summer Storm” For those who are reluctant to let go of their hatred, Ame will occasionally resort to forcibly removing the spirit from the world of the living with the aid of specific talismans and hand-seals.
  - “Winter’s Kiss” Meant more for restraining a rampaging spirit, Ame tries to exert a calming presence towards the spirit while using seals drawing in the air or on the ground to create a barrier of sorts to contain the spirit..
• Equipment:A calligraphy pen that has been imbued with enough magic to seal demons, a Talisman scroll, stacks of joss paper for on-the-fly talisman crafting.
• Brief Backstory:The Hibari clan of Minazawa. One would only need to utter the name and others would know what the clan was about. They're a long-standing clan of demon hunters, having practiced the Way of Yin and Yang for centuries now. Ame, the sole descendant in this generation, is of no exception. From an young age, he was home-schooled and along with other vital subjects he would have learned in school, he was taught about yokais and all there is the know about them.
  
  During his upbringing, mentions of a different clan can be heard. The Midorikawa clan, another ancient clan from Minazawa, is also a clan of demon hunters. Though the fact that they had long bred with a local oni clan is sometime mentioned with disdain by the elders of his clan, Ame sees this as a way to make ends meet. Indeed, crossbreding with demons will result in offsprings that are stronger than the individual that sired them. The Hibari clan, or at least the elders, sees themselves as 'pure-breds', a pure bloodline that has not been tainted by the thing they are hunting.
  
  Ame, having caught wind that the Midorikawa clan has a daughter that is around his own age, wishes to simply meet this girl and have a conversation about their family history. Perhaps there was more that meets the eye and once they are able to get over any miscommunications maybe they can carry out their duties even better than they would have before.

[TheFake]

Here's mine.

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 travelling 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.

[VitaVitaAR]

@TheFake: Accepted.

[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. Because of this affinity, Miyako has rarely had any trouble with her exorcisms.
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 most targets of their will to do anything.

[VitaVitaAR]

@UndeadSpartan: Looks mostly good, but I'd like a little more detail when it comes to her abilities.

[VitaVitaAR]

By the way, the plan is to start this coming week!

[Infinite Cosmos]

Any update on mine?

[VitaVitaAR]

@KillBox: I think you can go more in-depth with his abilities and how they function, but on top of that I'm holding off on any formal acceptance until the bio is completed.

[Infinite Cosmos]

@VitaVitaAROk

I'll get to working on it now.

[VitaVitaAR]

As stated, I'll be starting this coming week, so try and get your bios finished before then!

[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.

Not a bunny yokai, but a snake--if I have time, I might submit another character, but for now this is what I've got. I will ask you if there's an established way of gaining immortality within this universe, since it is a little bit important to his character :P

[VitaVitaAR]

@OliveYou: That depends on what kind of immortality we're talking. Preserving yourself at a specific age, especially since youkai basically do that already, is relatively easy.

Immortality where you just outright don't die is a lot harder.

Incidentally, he's accepted.

[OliveYou]

@VitaVitaAR He wants to go full-indestructibility mode. Maybe like.... god status or something. And thanks!

[VitaVitaAR]

@OliveYou: There's a few obscure rituals, complicated processes, all of them pretty difficult and not all of them too fleshed out. There's some nasty human sacrifice type ones though.

Technically there's two things in-setting that can kill even perfectly immortal beings, but those won't be appearing in the RP.

[OliveYou]

@VitaVitaAR I have a slight idea of something, can I pm you about it?

[VitaVitaAR]

@OliveYou: Alright.

[Sharidi37495]

Is it alright if my character is a humanoid dragon youkai?

[VitaVitaAR]

@Sharidi37495: Dragons are a bit complicated in this setting. ^^;