Full Name: Cherry Hunter
Codename: Akuma
Gender: Female
Age: 594
Ethnicity: Human-Like Vampire
Nationality: English
Height: 120 cm
Weight: 31 kg
Appearance: "I would watch my tongue if I were you. It might get snatched out."Personality: Haughty, loudly arrogant, and opinionated; all things to expect from an ancient, legendary vampire. Not things one expects from an eight-year-old girl. The dissonance in Akuma's manner of speech from her appearance is jarring, and this irritates her to no end. A very prideful creature, Akuma does not abide insults or disobedience toward her. Just as well, those who she considers worthy to be "hers" are likely to be protected from such slander.
Classification: Supernatural
Powers/Abilities: Though once among the most powerful vampires on the planet, Akuma's drop in power has been so significant that she is sometimes referred to as "the remains" of her former self. Even so, she is stronger and faster than any human is capable of being, which is especially shocking for such a small creature. Her regenerative ability is significant among vampires, and her senses are predatorily sharp. The vampiric powers which she retains include a pocket dimension in her stomach, allowing her to eat essentially anything that she can fit in her mouth, and then regurgitate it at a later point, shadow manipulation, which allows her to shape shadows, and even hide inside of them, vampiric healing, allowing her to heal humans and vampires with her blood or saliva, and soul-devouring, allowing her to consume spiritual energy with her bite.
When she feeds on Oni's blood, their balance as master and servant is restored, restoring both of their powers, depending on the amount of blood consumed. As the balance is restored, she advances in age, closer to her true form. In her true form, Akuma is imperceptibly fast and capable of terrifying feats of strength, with senses so sharp that she seems to see into one's soul, and regenerative power so great that she seems unkillable by ordinary means. The powers she gains include transformation, flight, hypnosis, and telekinesis.
Weaknesses: While vampiric banes such as sunlight, fire and silver are no longer lethal to Akuma, they are irritating, and she tries to avoid them. As he power is restored, so are her weaknesses, which seem to be the only ways of killing her when she reaches her full potential.
Akuma is prideful to a fault, and while she is intelligent and tactically-minded, she can often make serious blunders in the name of saving face. She is also spiteful and arrogant, and is slow to forget grudges until they are avenged. This can make her easy to manipulate, as she often can't see traps behind insults. As her powers are restored, her humanity fades away, and she grows less interested in the plights and lives of others, even her beloved servant.
Weapons: Akuma wields her older servant's wakizashi, an ancient Japanese shortsword, known as Yumewatari, "the Passage Across the Dream." Yumewatari is called the "sword of demon-reviving," and has strange effects on supernatural beings, ranging from healing their bodies, to restoring lost knowledge, to even temporarily raising the dead.
Gear: Akuma keeps various knick-knacks stored in her stomach for various occasions, such as a butane lighter, handcuffs, cigarettes, a portable video game, a bottle of wine, a rope, and a crowbar. Both hers and Oni's swords are kept in her stomach, also.
Skills: While notable lacking in practical skills, Akuma is a decent tactician, has a great knowledge of world history (having experienced a great deal of it), and is very knowledgeable regarding fashion and architecture.
Brief History: A legendary member of the English Vampire Nobility, Cherry Hunter (as she called herself) has roamed the world for centuries in a hedonistic spree of glamour and debauchery. This lead her to Japan some four-hundred years ago, where she sired her first servant, a samurai monster-hunter. So great was his despair at become a monster that he killed himself with his own magic blade. Cherry Hunter kept his swords as mementos and carried on.
It was Cherry Hunter's dereliction of her duties to her clan that drove her to offending them, and her lack of respect for her elders led them to considering her an outcast. She lent some small support to a rival clan as a token of revenge, but this resulted in her elders putting out a hit on her life, with both clan assassins and vampire hunters. Cherry Hunter fled to Japan, where she was ambushed by hunters, and had her life saved by Suzaku.
While she has become bitter over losing so much of her power, she secretly wishes to truly make amends with Oni, rather than the awkward patch-up job that they have done already. Her burgeoning pride keeps her from doing so, but she truly cares for her servant, and wishes for him to not be bound to her eternally as he is.
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