[OOC] Female Warriors of Feudal Japan

[Erranruin]

Masaki Haruna said
I'm making a CS now, question: Yuki Onna doesn't count as spirit right?

Yeah I dont think so?

[Erranruin]

SailorMoon said
^ Kaede after Hanami is done with her lmao

So you mean tricked by the one she loves and not dead at all but sealed away until a lil girl pulls it out and they fall in love and its adorable?

[Lilitu]

Silver Fox said
And yes, half-demons are still allowed. Just remember they are pretty shunned by pretty much everyone. (Humans, spirits, demons) and they are powerless once a month.

Aren't we all? Anyway, I'll try to get a CS up shortly. Like within a few hours shortly. Not 10 minutes shortly.

[Silver Fox]

Masaki Haruna said
I'm making a CS now, question: Yuki Onna doesn't count as spirit right?

Yuki-Onna are evil spirits, or demons. But mostly the ghosts of women who died in a snow storm who prey on mortals who enter their realm.

[Raineh Daze]

Is this the Warring States period or not?

[Rusalka]

Wait!! *jumps in* This boat still goin' to Okinawa? :D

Name: Asuka Kushiami
Age: 24
Job Class: Ronin
Weapon: her tachi, named Shirokami, an heirloom she kept from her past days as a samurai, she never has used it since then, preferring to use her other sword, a sakabatou
Clothing: *in appearance*
Height: 5'9''
Appearance:


Personality: Soft spoken, serene, and humble, Asuka is usually quiet at times, rarely choosing to speak, but when she does open her mouth, many find that she is kind, considerate, and noble. She is always willing to put others before herself both in terms of well being and social stature and she politely converses with whomever she encounters. Asuka doesn't hesitate once to put herself in harm's way to protect others and eagerly offers her services to anyone in need, despite the danger. Often times, she tries to quell a volatile situation with her wise and calming words before having to resort to using her sword. However, despite her calm demeanor, there is a darker, more violent side of Asuka that appears imminently in the heat of battle, a curse upon her from her days long past as one of the most ruthless samurai of the early period. Her skill with a katana is unmatched by even the most powerful of swordsmen, yet those she has slain in battle have weighed painfully on her heart with melancholy and guilt. She is a woman of simple desires, and takes an accute pleasure in the finer things life has to offer, such as a bright spring morning or the laughter of children playing in the fields or the sweet scent of cherry blossoms being carried upon the wind. All Asuka could ask for is a simple life, a place where she can rest her sword finally and let time pass without a single care. Until then, she roams forever with her sword to her side and only her thoughts for company.

History: Born to peasants in a snowbound village, the young girl was no stranger to violence. Her village was in the thick of the chaos of war, having started as an outpost for the Daimyo's samurai and constantly being the victim of several raids by bandits. It was in one of these raids that Asuka lost her family to a bastard's sword. Orphaned, she fled her village before any harm could come to her, lost forever in the unforgiving winters of her homeland. She struggled to stay alive for what seemed nearly five or six months hunting small game for nourishment and gathering wood for fires, yet still having to brave the callous chill of the night. One night however, she was assaulted by a gang of vagrants. They were on the knife edge of ending her life, until Asuka was rescued by a proficient swordswoman named Hibana Natsumi. Natsumi took the girl as her apprentice and gave her a home, but only under the condition that Asuka endure her strict and sometimes brutal training.

Years after training under Natsumi's harsh yet loving guidance, Asuka expressed her desire to use her finely honed skills in kenjutsu to protect her people and prevent them from undergoing the same tragedy she and her family endured. This led to the abandonment of Natsumi-sensei and Asuka's training, which was left incomplete at the time. After a rather tumultuous departure from her master, Asuka left the dojo, delivering on her promise to protect those in need with her sword. Her vast knowledge of the sword and her remarkable skill gained the eye of several feudal lords, to which she was employed, starting off as an assassin and later becoming a body-guard, then a full fledged samurai leading a battalion of her own hardened swordsmen, the Shi no Kami or "Wind of Death." Hundreds upon thousand fell by her bloodstained blade and she received many gifts and honors from the feudal lords, but...it was when she and her men were forced to massacre a village of innocents she saw the true nature of the blade....a sword was meant to kill...

She felt nothing more than guilt after the night of the crimson blades, haunted by those she had ruthlessly murdered against her will and tormented to no end by the monster she had become. This was not what she wanted. The sword she carried was meant to protect.....but a sword is a sword....it's meant to slay. Hounded by her painful melancholy, Asuka once again abandoned a place of honor, renouncing her days as one of the most legendary samurai and adopting the life of a ronin wandering from village to village, offering her hand to help rather than to kill.

Strengths:

Legend of the Blade - Asuka's swordsmanship is unmatched by many a samurai. She can strike with the utmost speed and brutality and dispatch several foes with such finesse and agility, similar to that of a god.

Eagle Eyes - She is very quick witted and has a keen sharpened sense, able to predict any attack before it is inflicted, giving her a split second to evade it before retaliating herself.

The Wind of Death - On more notable times in battle, her past side will emerge, cold, ruthless, and threatening. Her violent persona can intimidate her enemies and strike terror into the heart of any that cross her path

Weakness:

1.) When she's not in battle, she can tend to be a bit of a klutz and trip over things, sometimes her own feet.
2.) Her overly-humble self usually means she can be gullible and sometimes considered weak by others
3.) When her violent side does emerge, she often alienates those she aims to protect, focusing only on killing her target and nothing more. This later leads to her feeling remorseful for her actions.
4.) She is careless of her own life, which means no matter the danger, she will throw herself into the path of it to save others without a single regard to her own well-being.
5.) Despite her prowess with a sword, Asuka isn't all that muscular, meaning she has a difficult and often embarrassing time lifting heavy objects or people.
6.) She loses herself around food and can be quite the glutton, one time eating nearly fourteen bowls of rice with grilled eel
7.) Though she hates to admit it, Asuka is a terrible swimmer and if she's thrown in any kind of deep water, she'll sink like a stone

Likes: Music, sipping tea, meditating, sometimes playing with small children, enjoying the splendor of nature, eating (alot), and ink painting, a hobby she acquired at a young age

Dislikes: Killing, but if she must....she will do so.

Dream: Her dream is but to settle down somewhere and live a simple life far from the killing and bloodshed she had once known

Fear: The only person Asuka fears most is herself. She is constantly afraid of her past self taking over for good and returning her to the ever-violent Wind of Death

[Fabricant451]

I woke up and this was just here

Name: Noriaki Okamoto

Age: 27

Job Class: Ronin Artisan

Weapon: A pair of daisho, a matching pair of blades, short and long, which she uses at the same time in the Nitoken. A Kaiken, a small, but sharp, dagger. Makibishi, small, spiked trap items used for defensive fortifications and traps.

Clothing: Noriaki's choice of armor is the lighter karuta armor, in a unique blue-ish hue. Her armor is light but offers protection while allowing her to move - not swiftly, but she isn't limited to slow maneuvers in combat. The armor, while offering protection, also happens to show off her figure. This is by design.

Height: 5'8"

Appearance: Similar to this


Personality: Noriaki is a flirt, and a bad one at that. Within moments of meeting someone, out comes the charm, the charisma, the comparison of physical appearance to the stars and the moon and the heavens above. It would mean more if she didn't do this to pretty much everyone she meets. She's an artisan at heart, with a keen eye and an appreciation for the aesthetically artistic and beautiful. Nothing is serious for Noriaki, least of all the problems of the world, the conflicts, the land disputes. The only thing Noriaki concerns herself with is whether or not her bed will be empty or not. It's almost always empty. Flirting only gets her so far, it's when the boasts about her ability come that people get turned off. It's less boasting and more arrogant and worst of all, she's unproven. It doesn't stop her from saying how she'll protect the adorable citizens and damsels in distress from harm.

History: Noriaki was a samurai, just one among many serving a lord of moderate reputation, Or so she claims. There's no record of her having ever served as a samurai under anyone and the only proof she has are the swords at her waist, the makibishi in her pouch, and the fantastical tales of her exploits as a samurai.And oh are the tales fantastical, heavily embellished tales of infiltrating castles, taking on literal armies by herself, scaling the tallest towers, rescuing the princess, and earning the praise of the nobility.

What is true is that Noriaki is a poet and was at one point a samurai, or at least served a lord. Noriaki was born in a farming village to a rice farmer and his wife. The village was a key source of agriculture and produce for the nearby lord's castle and in exchange he offered the village protection in the form of his loyal few samurai. Noriaki idolized the warriors which soon blossomed into romanticizing them, creating this image of them as these heavenly guardians sent from the world above to watch over the lowly peasants.

Naturally, Noriaki wanted to be like them, but the silly class and caste system meant that that was highly unlikely. Undeterred, Noriaki made an effort to start swinging her father's tools around like a sword, making sure to do so within eyesight of the lord's samurai. One of them, Mifune, took a liking to Noriaki's endearing antics and offered her pointers on her swing, her stance, and her grip. Noriaki was determined to make an impression, to impress the warriors so much that they would allow her into their ranks. It was because of Mifune that she was granted an audience with the lord. She thought it was to be offered a place among his samurai.

It was instead because the lord wished for a mistress in place of his wife. Noriaki, still a teen, was quite alarmed, not wanting to be tied down and certainly not just some object of desire by a lecherous man like the lord. It was Mifune who put her fears at ease, telling her that so long as she was allowed into the castle, Mifune would teach her the ways of the samurai in secret. Noriaki agreed, and while she was groomed to be an appropriate mistress, she was also taught the lessons and customs of a samurai, inbetween her own free time where she wrote poems, mainly about the samurai and the lord's manor.

Was it luck or fate that Noriaki was saved the indignity of laying with the lord? On the night she was to fulfill her role, the lord was killed by a silent assassin, poison in the sake caused the death of the lord at the dinner table. What followed was something Mifune left out of the lessons. In following the code, the lord's samurai took their own lives for their failure in ensuring the lord's safety. It was then that Mifune stole a kiss from Noriaki and outed herself as a woman. Mifune had acted as a man within the ranks of the samurai and no one was the wiser. Noriaki felt something for Mifune, it was Mifune who taught her after all, but any feelings were put to rest after Mifune, bound by the code, joined her fellow samurai in death.

Noriaki took Mifune's blades as her own and began referring to herself as a ronin. But she remained unproven in actual combat. She began making boasts of her abilities, using her poetic way with words to build a reputation for herself while having nothing to base it on. She knows how to use the swords on her waist, it's just a matter of how well she can use them. But until the day comes when she is made to use them, she is content to simply boast and flirt and make up stories of her abilities.

Strengths: - Noriaki is an accomplished poet which may not seem like a strength, but being a poet makes her quite charismatic and gifted at negotiation. Her way with words is the stuff of legends. Legends she made up, but legends all the same.

- Noriaki does know how to use two blades at once, a difficult style to use, and though she hasn't had much experience against living opponents, she has shown she knows how to use them as she has given demonstrations with logs and the like.

- A photographic memory. Because she spends her times flirting with others, if she mixed up the targets of her affection it could be bad. To that end, she never forgets a face, or a name, and can recall things down to the specific details.

- Stamina. Plenty of it. It comes in handy. Mostly for running away but for other...pursuits.

Weakness:

- The sight of visually pleasing things, from people to landscape to paintings, distract her more often than not. Her mind is easily sidetracked by beauty.

- Danger, actual danger, is unknown to her and though she can use her swords she would rather not, causing her to freeze up in the face of danger, often wanting to run away and live another day if the danger gets too...well...dangerous.

- She's not especially strong. Strong enough to wield her blades, but that's about the extent.

- She possesses no sense of direction, having to rely on visual cues (if she's been there before) or on constant directions to prevent herself from getting lost.

- In keeping with her love of beauty, she refuses to harm or even kill someone she finds beautiful, as the loss of such things would do the world more harm.

-Due to her lack of experience, Noriaki injures easily and is often more a liability in battle than an asset, despite her best efforts.

-Not exactly a team player in the sense that Noriaki has gone solo for so long that that's just how she operates.

Likes: Poetry, Beauty, Sake, Tapestries, The Biwa (a short-necked lute), Calligraphy

Dislikes: Mangy Animals, Blood, Clouds, unless they are fluffy and white, Ugliness, both in terms of personality and appearances

Dream: She dreams of being a true samurai, like Mifune, and serving under a kind, but fair lord, with a partner like Mifune by her side. She also dreams of creating a collection of her poems and having them read throughout the country.

Fear: She fears that her constant flirting and general cowardice will leave her alone and forgotten, taking her to the grave as a forgotten, unloved corpse. Her fear is that she won't be taken seriously in any of her pursuits, and that it is her own fault.

[Erranruin]

Asuka and Noriaki are definately people Kaede will like XD

Depending upon how you play Asuka, if she's too stuck up and world weary then she may not like her but otherwise she may have a crush

Noriaki will just amuse Kaede to no end, I can see them having one night stands ^_^'

[Rusalka]

XD I think Kaede will be going for all the ladies lol! XD But nah I don't plan on Asuka being stuck up.

[Erranruin]

Rusalka said
XD I think Kaede will be going for all the ladies lol! XD But nah I don't plan on Asuka being stuck up.

Well yeah she'll try and get'um in her bed but doesnt mean she wants um for life :P

[Rusalka]

XD lol! I could also see Kaede trying to get Asuka drunk, which could only lead to some hilarity ensuing.

[Fabricant451]

Erranruin said
Well yeah she'll try and get'um in her bed but doesnt mean she wants um for life :P

So she's like Noriaki but opposite.

Because as much as Noriaki enjoys the company in her bed, she also wants, you know, her own personal Mifuneeeeee~

[Erranruin]

Fabricant451 said
So she's like Noriaki but opposite. Because as much as Noriaki enjoys the company in her bed, she also wants, you know, her own personal Mifuneeeeee~

Well its not that she DOESNT want to have a relationship, she's just not looking real hard, she's a little vulnerable in that regard

[Silver Fox]

Mhmm... although they both look good their physical weaknesses dont really seem phyical. More so mental..

[Rin]

Hey, Silver! I think you might have missed it, but Raineh asked something. ^^;

Raineh Daze said
Is this the Warring States period or not?

[Fabricant451]

Silver Fox said
Mhmm... although they both look good their physical weaknesses dont really seem phyical. More so mental..

I kinda thought the weaknesses worked for both, physical and mental, but I made a change, added one as well.

[SailorMoon]

I woke up and everything was covered in snow. So pretteh!!!

[Erranruin]

SailorMoon said
I woke up and everything was covered in snow. So pretteh!!!

Naww! :D

[Rusalka]

Silver Fox said
Mhmm... although they both look good their physical weaknesses dont really seem phyical. More so mental..

Fixed! ^_^ I added a few more physical weaknesses

SailorMoon said
I woke up and everything was covered in snow. So pretteh!!!

Same, well.....except it's ice <.<

[VitaVitaAR]

Akako does not approve of flirts...

Noriaki will get a great deal of extremely serious glares from a tiny girl clearly.