Lady Suiko
Gender:
Female
Species:
Yokai, specifically Kitsune
Abilities/Magic:
As the Lady of the Night Parade, known as Yokai, Suiko is the most powerful out of all the Eastern spirits. She has great agility and flexibility to evade and attack opponents. Suiko is fast in her actions and in her thinking, able to form quick plans and be able to predict outcomes within seconds. She is able to use healing magic on herself and others and can drive weaker beings insane with a single touch. Suiko has a specific set of songs that she sings to draw in victims and uses it to control them.
Suiko is able to transform into a large fox and her fur changes in color to adapt her to her environment. In size, her fox form rivals that of a wolf. She can also take the appearance of a human in order to gain her victim's trust or hide from those who hunt her.
Skills:
Persuasion- Over the years Suiko has learned that many things can be solved with words instead of getting her hands dirty.
Stealth- Centuries of training have allowed the Lady Fox to have silent steps even in heels.
Torture- Suiko is a master torturer of both humans and supernatural beings alike, it was a crucial part of her becoming the Lady of the Night Parade. She knows what makes most beings tick and uses her abilities to get what she wants.
Hand-to-Hand Combat- Suiko hasn't become the leader of Yokai just by words alone, sometimes some Eastern demons needed to be dealt with to submit.
Weaknesses:
-Suiko has to siphon the life force of humans in order to sustain her abilities. If she doesn't have a regular source, she becomes animalistic and fades into insanity herself.
-Warding circles made of salt can keep Suiko in place.
-If someone is able to obtain one of her nine tails, they can also hold her hostage, similar to that of silkies that shed their skins. This is why she is fiercely protective of her tails.
-Although Suiko loves nature, she is unable to pass through large bodies of water like an ocean.
Personality Traits:
Cunning, Alluring, Perceptive, Loyal
Backstory:
Suiko was born during the Yayoi period when Japan was just starting to create permanent villages. She was the daughter of a chieftain and was considered the most beautiful even as a child. Her mother was a mystery as no one knew where the woman came from, only that the chieftain had gone out to hunt for the village and returned with an elegant woman and a fur in his pack. It turned out that Suiko's mother was a fox spirit and had caught the eye of the chieftain, he had crept up on her when she had been resting and cut off one of her two tails.
Suiko's mother prayed for her daughter to gain the power of the Kitsune to avenge her.
When Suiko was just five-years-old, she was told a song by the spirits of nature. They instructed her that if she sang it, she would be protected but once she used it, she would never be able to stop. Naturally, as Suiko grew older, she became more beautiful and her mother began to recognize that her daughter indeed had the power of the Kitsune. Her mother taught Suiko everything she knew and told her that most men could be swayed by words but many had to be forced to comply. She had outlived her mother, who was made mortal after her father had burned her tail in order to keep her.
When Suiko was in her later teens, a man from a rival village tried to take her as a bride by force, which forced Suiko to use the song the spirits of nature had taught her. The man became zombie-like once the song was completed, he was hers to command. She ordered him to kill himself. Once the man's life force left his body, Suiko was filled with invigorating power.
Throughout the centuries, Suiko had taken care of the spirits that resided within her father's land but she needed a steady source of humans to harvest their life force whether by compliance or force. She found that many of the Yokai that filled the Eastern world needed order.
Suiko had already gained four tails when she was in the midst of concurring Oni clans. Her bladed fans dripped with blood when Dracula came forth to offer assistance with gaining a foothold in the human world. While Suiko had gained a few followers of the vampiric nature, she knew that Dracula wasn't like the kind she knew. He was more powerful, therefore, she forged an agreement with the ancient vampire. As she gained power in both the human and spirit realms, Suiko soon had one hundred spirit and demon clans under her control. This has been normal for the last millennia. Suiko's followers, both human and spirit, have effectively allowed her to be one of the few most powerful women in history.
Recently, Suiko had gone to the 24-hour cafe where she meets Dracula for the annual discussion on Council of Night events but he never showed, and any contact that she tried to reach him with ended up as a dead end.
Extra:
Theme Song:
The song she sings to lure in victims.