Post by yukimura on Sept 11, 2012 11:55:04 GMT -6
Identification
Character Name: Yukimura, Saya
Classification: Human
Alias/Titles: Vampire (explained later), Guardian (also explained)
Gender: Female
True Age: 16
Birthday: October 18th
Residence: Karakura Town
Occupation: Student (Class Vice President)
Appearance Information
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 108
Eye Color: Brown with an undertone of red
Hair Color: Brown
Physical Description:
Standing five feet and four inches tall, is the young Saya Yukimura. Her eyes are a deep shade of mahogany with an undertone of cherry. In the sunlight, her eyes do not appear to hold that blazing complementary red. In the darkness, Her eyes appear to lose some of the dark chocolate color and shine with an eerie wine red. Her soft brunette hair falls a couple inches above her shoulders in a layered sort of bob that frames her gentle heart shaped face. She has the soft, petite build of a young teen. Though she may appear rather frail, her body is athletic in build and she has next to no body fat whatsoever.
Her skin is healthy yet slightly pale in color and her cheeks flush a light rose color when embarrassed. Though she does enjoy spending time outdoors, she tends to burn very easily because of her skin being so fair. She carries herself with an air of importance, as she takes her school position as Class VP very seriously and even taking it overboard sometimes. When she talks, she gets very expressive so that her face and her actions (she talks with her hands sometimes) match what she's saying, even if she's "lying through her teeth".
Her usual attire is her school uniform. Since she is from the younger class, her uniform is black with white lining the seams. Her uniform consists of a white button up long sleeve shirt under a black button up long sleeve blazer, a short black skirt that reaches about mid thigh, black knee high socks and black dress shoes. She does tie a red silk ribbon under the collar of her blazer as it is part of her uniform as well. There is one major difference about her uniform though. Just above her left elbow, she wears a white armband with red highlights. The armband bears a red rose on it, symboling that the one wearing it has "status" in their class. Although it is unorthodox, she wears her staff in its collapsed state on her left thigh, strapped with a special holster and hidden by the length of her skirt.
Aside from her school uniform, if you catch her at the dojo she can be seen wearing a pure white gi. The gi is light and loose fitting, allowing her to move at her maximum speed while being comfortable. Her gi is made of a smooth, brushed cotton with reinforced stitching. Any other informal time, not school or practice related, she can be seen wearing a pair of fitted jeans coupled with either a tank top or a t shirt and a pair of black sneakers. Occasionally, she'll wear a hoodie with this ensemble or even break out the combat boots, whichever is most comfortable at the time.
Personal Information
Personality Overview:
Cheerful. The very first word that comes to mind when someone meets Saya, is cheerful. She always seems to have a smile on her face even if its just to brighten the mood. She has a tendency to see the good things in life even when she experiences the bad side of it. Thoughtful to the core, she always tries to find the silver lining in things. If she can't, then maybe its just one of those things she just can't stand. Studious? Absolutely....not. Although she is bright, she just doesn't apply herself to her studies and can often be seen snoozing in class. The only classes she does put effort in are physical education, art, and does lunch count as a class?
Naive and an open book, she is pretty easy to read and manipulate if the right strings are pulled. Since she usually tries to see the best in people, it leads her to become unsuspecting of others and their motives. As an open book, she wears her heart on her sleeve and nearly everyone can solve the puzzle that is her mind. Sometimes she even uses this to hide the very secrets people want to know the most. Especially, since most only look at the surface and nowhere past. Saya is emotional. Emotional to the point that she can't hide anything unless she deliberately lies about what it is. She can't ever seem to hide what she feels but that always leaves the question as to what she feels it towards.
At school, she takes her status quite seriously and tries to keep her class in line. She doesn't like rule breakers and she doesn't want to be one, even if she does bend the rules from time to time. She strives to do her best to keep the peace in her school even when people directly try to mess with her. Though she thinks that she's doing a good thing by trying to help, no one really listens and they do whatever anyway. People have also considered her to be rather childish at times, acting out until she 'wins'. Her patience is thin enough to the point that she's a headstrong and strong willed child. At school, its not the best of combinations as she has a tendency to bolt out of class if she believes she is needed elsewhere.
Anywhere else, her headstrong and strong willed nature comes in handy as it defines her well. Persistent till the end, she will continue to argue or even fight for whatever it is she wants. It isn't always what she wants that lays down her path, but rather her beliefs. The things she believe in are the very things she will do anything to protect. That and her friends. She would lay her life on the line and throw away everything if it would save the things and people she cares for. Though she seems strong in nature, she is very insecure. She protects others as a way to protect herself but lacks the confidence to truly protect herself from most threats, both verbal and physical. She has many fears and knows quite well that they hinder her but she also knows that her greatest fear is also her strength, the fear of losing those closest to her. With her greatest fear acting as her strength, she will cast aside all other fears and do whatever she can to protect the very things she care about. Her minor fears on the other hand, are usually if not always hidden behind a smile.
One of the most important traits in people nowadays is respectfulness. Saya is extremely respectful towards people because of the way she was raised. Her curiosity on the other hand, is hardly ever restrained unless it borders on being disrespectful, then she bottles it up and investigates later on. Though she seems to be quite the serious person, she's really not. Making jokes or even coming back with a wise ass remark are just her usual way of acting. She couldn't be funny one bit if she tried but if she was just herself, then she can be quite the riot when people take her naiveté into account.
Character Time-line:
Saya was born on October 18th, in a small town about 15 miles away from Kyoto. Her mother died from complications during childbirth, leaving her alone with her father. Her father was ex army, currently a police officer and was very serious about keeping his family safe. She was an only child and grew up wishing she had an elder sibling to teach her things. Her neighborhood was mildly peaceful with close to no crime. Some would say her childhood was pretty good but her father was strict. From the time she could walk he started to instill his rules and ways of thinking on her, hoping to teach her to be a better person than the lawbreakers in jail. On weekends, they went to the shooting range so he could practice and she could watch. Of course, as a little kid this was fascinating to her.
When she was about six years old, her father took her on vacation to the mountains. They were walking through the woods on the way to a cabin that her father owned. The snow had already been falling for quite some time and would soon reach blizzard conditions. They continued pressing onwards, the freezing winds howling at their backs and disguising the distant roaring of a hollow facing off with a shinigami. As Saya and her father drew closer the sight of the roaring, a large branch broke off a tree and started falling towards her. To keep her safe, her father pushed her out of the way and took the fall himself. The fallen branch broke multiple ribs and punctured a lung. As he breathed, he coughed up blood. Dying slowly, his last action was to give his daughter a key to a safe box in the cabin. Should she make it there, the safe box would hold his customized gun.
Taking the key in hand, she held onto it tightly and continued, tears running down her cheeks. It took only a moment before she came across the hollow and the shinigami. Seeing the hollow struck fear instantly in her heart and she tried to scramble away quickly, slipping often on the snow. Noticing her the hollow came after her and attempted to take her soul as it did with any other human that was spiritually aware. Screaming as the hollow closed in on her, she served as enough of a distraction for the shinigami to kill it without having to get attacked in return. The shinigami saved her life and she would remember how she was helped and saved for the rest of her life. That moment in time helped her grow up to be the person she is.
About a year later, she wound up in an orphanage. It was a small orphanage that seemed to be overcrowded with children. She lived there for a few months before getting adopted. She didn't stay with that family long and got bounced back and forth between adoptive families. It was hard having to adjust to a new life every few months and she started to get depressed. It was during all the frequent moving that she learned to smile and pretend to be happy even when she wasn't. It wasn't hard to learn how to mask what she was feeling but it took time before she mastered it. By the time she learned to mask her feelings completely she had already been bounced around to seven different families, by this time she was already ten and getting fed up with being bounced around. So she ran away.
Running away might not have been the brightest thing to do but it was all she was left with. All she took with her was her allowance money, her father's gun (which she kept hidden at all times), and some clothes. Using her money to take a train, she made her way back to her hometown and eventually back to the home she shared with her father. Living there, she enrolled in school and started to take care of herself. Occasionally receiving help from outside sources. It was while she was living in her family's home that she found her father's blueprints for a collapsable bo staff. She kept the blueprints with her, knowing one day she'd have it made.
After living a rather boring life at home for about four years, she moved once again, to Karakura town. In Karakura, she noticed there was a lot more spiritual activities and it gave her something interesting to look forward to on a daily basis. She lived in Karakura peacefully and enrolled in a private school using what remained of her father's funds. While attending classes, she also got a job that paid under the table, and enrolled in martial arts classes.
She excelled in her martial arts classes easily and was praised for her good work often. Her grades in school weren't the greatest but they weren't the worst so she was content with that. It was shortly before her sixteenth birthday when she finally decided to have the staff from the blueprints made. She wanted to see how things like that would get made so she paid to watch the making. While she was watching the staff being made, her hand got cut and she didn't notice it bleeding near the molten metal. She only noticed when it started to sting, so she wrapped it in a cloth until the forging was done. When the forging was done and the staff was cooled, she picked it up and it started to spark in her hands. It sparked enough that she had to wrap it and put it away for later. What happened got her curious and it led to the beginning of her investigation. She found very little info but in the process she discovered some of her abilities.
Supernatural Abilities
Manifestation:
Saya's ability can only be described as a curse. The more she trains it, the stronger it becomes and the longer her recovery time takes. She is capable of using her own blood in both combat and regular situations to do various things based on need and necessity. Her most common use is providing a base for the abilities she's aware of as well as providing the activation for those abilities. Though she does experiment with her power, most of the time it proves useless to no effect. With so many failures under her belt, she still knows little about what it is she can do and works on advancing what she knows she can do instead of focusing on what she can't.
The downside when Saya begins to overuse her abilities is extensive as well as possibly fatal. Any weapon she has used her abilities with will reject her at this point, sparking and causing her intense pain. At this point should she still try to use her abilities, she will end up passing out and possibly even hospitalized.
Functionality:
"For Humans, this could mean any of the above, as dependent on the human's particular ability. If an ability has no physical manifestation, then this entry can be omitted from the profile (but most Human abilities should)." <- states in app
Abilities:
Name: Nerve Strike
Class: Offensive/Supplementary
Range: Short
Description: A unique attack designed to target the nerves and chi points to deal a minor amount of damage as well as prevent an opponent from using any type of spells (kido, gin to, ect) for a short amount of time. Every attack that targets her opponents nerves uses a small amount of her reiatsu. At max, she can only use this ability a few times before the strain on her body grows too much to bear. Overusing this ability will not cause her longterm injury but will cause her to pass out. The effects from this ability wear off rather quickly but it lasts long enough to put some distance between her and the opponent without having to fear being struck by a spell.
Name: Acid Rain
Class: Offensive
Range: 200 yards, max
Description: This ability can only be used with her gun, she has to first switch the magazine to the one containing the hollowed out bullets. The bullets carry inside them a unique combination of chemicals and a little of her blood to create a slow burning acid that causes intense pain on the body. The bullets as they are, are neutralized and must first be activated. The marking on the side of the magazine that carries these bullets is an activation marking that must be activated by wiping a drop of her blood on it. After activation, the bullets in the magazine only remain active for her to be able to fire up to two bullets. These bullets are the hardest to make and cause the most blood loss when being made. Creating these bullets is highly expensive and will end up with her needing a transfusion. The bullets are easy to dodge for those spiritually aware and for those with a reiryoku level higher than hers.
Name: Blowback
Class: Offensive/Supplementary
Range: up to 200 yards, max
Description: This ability can be performed two ways, with the staff or with the gun. The staff working much better as it's harder to avoid.
When using her staff for this ability, she has to first channel her spiritual pressure into the staff itself, which does take some of her concentration off the situation at hand, making her reaction times a little slower. Once that is done, she slams her staff into the ground causing it to crack and force a sort of explosion that is based at the impact point, to push people back and even send those in the way flying back a few feet.
If this ability is used with her gun, she has to first change the magazine to the solid bullets that have a certain blood red color about them. The reason for their color is because they were in fact made with blood mixed into the metal and it serves as a catalyst for an explosive when fired. To activate the dormant property of these bullets she has to activate them the same way she has to activate the hollowed bullets. The bullets stay active long enough for three shots, also the bullets are still costly to make but still will result in her needing a transfusion afterwards. The bullets are easy to dodge for those spiritually aware and for those with a reiryoku level higher than hers.
Combat Information
Reiryoku Level:
Character Dynamic:
Saya likes to keep her opponents close in a fight. She isn't very physically strong, making her attacks quite weak. Though she may not be strong enough to compete against the big bad brutes of the world, she is very smart and her ethic proves it (even if her grades don't). Her mindset in a fight is deadly serious, especially when she's trying to consider every possible action she could make along with its outcome. To her, a fight is not a game, Its a matter of protecting what you value or protecting the things and people you care about. Her seriousness is a good thing but against the wrong person, it can be used against her time and time again. In most cases, she ends up fulfilling everyone's expectations of being 'too nice' and will willingly put her life on the line to save someone else.
Her control over her abilities is mediocre at best, as she doesn't quite have an understanding of them. Since her abilities require her to be wounded or to even wound herself, they leave her weakened and slightly disoriented until she has recovered. If she continues to use her abilities even after being pushed to her limits, it can result in hospitalization or even death. Very few people know about her abilities and those that to joke about the fact her abilities are blood based and call her a vampire.
Fighting Style:
In combat, her fighting style is a modified form of Bōjutsu, a type of martial arts based on staff techniques, and Aikido. While fighting unarmed, she focuses on more of an aikido style fighting, focusing mainly on redirecting the momentum of the attacker instead of clashing with it. Her style of fighting is complementary to her lack of physical strength and her morals. Her style in general is designed to protect her without having to hurt the opponent.
Should force be necessary and she is still unarmed, her method of attacking shifts to karate, letting her focus more on protecting herself while disabling her opponent. She always holds back just a little when she fights, hoping that things will not come to the point where she will have to draw her gun. If things do get to that point, she can be quite deadly. Her aim is quite accurate and her firing speed is sharp enough to clip a butterfly's wings in flight but her speed in changing the magazines acts as a handicap. She doesn't like having allies helping her fight because she feels compelled to protect them, even if she can't, earning her the nickname Guardian because of the way she acts.
Reiryoku/Reiatsu Abilities:
None atm
Significant Inventory:
Shadow - Her most prized possession and her greatest weapon, a metal, collapsable bo staff that was designed based on a drawing in a textbook. It is, in essence, a part of her as some of her blood went into the metal as it was forged.
Crimson Rain - Her father's semi automatic handgun, custom designed. The bullets that are used with it though are far from normal and require more effort to make. Normal bullets can be used with it, to a lesser extent.
Magazines (x3) - Three different magazines designed specifically for Crimson Rain, each filled with a different type of bullet. One was the original magazine that the gun had at one point. The other two are specially designed magazines that carry a more "unique" type of bullet. The two special magazines each have a marking engraved into the side, not only to differentiate between them all but to activate the properties of the bullets contained within.
