Name: Homura
Gender: Female
Age: 26
Race: Draph
Element: Fire
Dream: "My dream? To fight the strongest warrior the skies have ever known. Living, dead...it doesn't matter."Home: Homura is from a small, remote island in the easternmost skies of the world. The island's aesthetic and culture is very similar, if not identical to, those of Japan, especially the feudal era. In its native language, the island's name means "Shrike".
Gimmicks: Homura is an adept and fierce sword fighter who specializes in settling scuffles with a single blindingly fast slash; a fighting style known as "iaijutsu". The first strike means
everything. If the fight doesn't immediately end after Homura's first slash, she switches her tactics to confusing the opponent with swift movements, waiting for an opportunity to present itself where she can finish the battle with a few more strokes of her blade.
Personality: Homura is a lone wolf, through and through. She's usually quite aloof, not one to strike up a conversation out of the blue because of friendly intentions. As a result, she often keeps her true thoughts and feelings to herself, only revealing them when she knows the other person or people in the conversation are trustworthy. Given the opportunity to be by herself, however, and she is constantly focused on one thing: Becoming stronger. Whether it be to protect those she cares for or surpass the beliefs and expectations of her peers and elders, Homura constantly works herself to the bone to become as strong as she can be. Some even say that the support of those she can truly consider friends motivates her to work even harder.
Background: Homura was born as the youngest sibling of four to a pair of veteran warriors for parents. As a result, she was always being pushed to overcome her older brothers and sister, which began developing a bit of an inferiority complex inside of her psyche. Every day, she would train with her peers and superiors, with the majority of fights ending in losses for Homura, at least for a while. Eventually, though she didn't quite reach the same caliber as her older siblings, she decided that she had reached a point where any other fighters on her island home weren't on the same level as her or above, and set out to sail across the skies as a wanderer, searching for stronger and stronger opponents to temper her strength as a warrior.
Homura's penchant for actively seeking out powerful foes and challenging them to duels has, on multiple occasions, resulted in bad situations for her. Most recently, a public, large-scale scuffle that involved multiple people resulted in Homura being thrown into Ziggurat, where she now waits, planning her escape.
Inventory: Homura's inventory consists of Ichigekimaru, her prized katana, a few bottles of sake (AKA rice wine), and her "armor", traditional clothing from her island that discards defense in favor of maneuverability.