Post by Yukihana on Feb 28, 2013 16:55:31 GMT -5
~Basic~
Character Name: Mihane, Meiyuki
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Birthdate: December, 7th
Birthplace: Hokkaido
Faction: None
Year: Third (currently Elite)
weapon Katana
Hair: Very long, and white (genetic anomaly, caused early loss of hair pigmentation)
Eyes: Ice Blue
Build: Normal
Voice: Light, like the sound of ice
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 133
Clothing/appearance:
Meiyuki wears very traditional clothing. Kimonos, and school uniforms mostly. She always tries to wear loose fitting outfits, to not restrict her movements, or at the very least…hamper them less. She tries for blues and whites, as they are her two most favorite colors. Other than that, most would call her garb very plain.
Inventory/accessories: A blue ribbon to tie her hair into a long pony tail. A thermos for all the tea she drinks, and a book of some kind.
~Self~
Personality:
Meiyuki is abrasive, and unsociable at the best of times. At the worst, she’s downright rude, even offensive. As someone who has cultivated a reputation of “untouchable-ness” she is extremely stand-offish. She doesn’t go out of her way to even communicate, and prefers to remain aloof and in the background. Normally this would make someone an outcaste, but her skills in swordsmanship garner her, a heavy amount of respect…if not outright fear. And she has no problem with keeping that.
In private she is partly a broken person. The deaths of her parents, and several friends have made the girl VERY insular, preferring to stay alone. She finds it difficult, if not impossible, for her to relate to anyone or even attempt to be sociable. This drives many of her peers to believe that she thinks herself superior. To her that word only applies to her swordsmanship. What is even more frustrating is that even her teachers find it difficult to approach her, finding her rather distant to even them.
Meiyuki does not engage in combat lightly, knowing full well that her skills are only good to kill. Her bladework is meant for the battlefield, and more than a few students have been removed from the academy, to maimed to continue at the school. She doesn’t even smile during combat, and generally jumps to ending it as soon as possible, leaving no room for people to try and get the upper hand. This makes her seem even more like a monster.
She does not take side in any sort of clash, mostly cause she is not a part of any faction. In any sort of battle event she is generally deployed as a solo unit. This is not to say she wouldn’t join a side, it’s just that none have ever had the courage to talk to the “Ice Queen.”
Likes:
[/li][li] Tea (she is a very heavy drinker of it)
[/li][li] Reading (she reads romance novels, mostly)
[/li][li] Practicing (you are never too good to keep up the basics)
[/li][li] Being alone
[/li][li] Soft music
Dislikes:
[/li][li] Crowds (can’t stand so many people)
[/li][li] Loud Music (her hearing is acute…so most music is loud to her)
[/li][li] Hard drinks (alcohol, and even soda is tossed into this category)
[/li][li] Arithmetic
Ambitions/Goals: Be the best
Habits/Mannerisms:
- Standing/sitting quietly and merely observing
- Thumbing the hilt of her sword when agitated (generally a good cue to “bug out”)
Strengths:
[/li][li] Swordsmanship (she is one of the best at the Academy…and probably one of the most dangerous, focusing heavily on Battojutsu)
[/li][li] Hearing (her hearing is very acute, allowing her to fight, descently, while blinded)
[/li][li] Spirit Control (she is quite well bonded to her Sacred Item, allowing herself to push it further and harder)
Weaknesses:
[/li][li] Anti Social (this causes a massive rift between her and her peers…leading to few, if any, allies)
[/li][li] Aggressive (she tends to go straight in, with some of her more deadly abilities)
[/li][li] Hearing (while a strength, very loud noises tend to hurt her ears, and leaves her a bit stunned)
<> Stats <>
HP: D+
SP: B+
Strength: C+
Soul: B
Endurance: D+
Agility: B
Speed: B
Luck: D-
~Spirit~
Samurai Name: Yagyu Munetoshi
Clan: Yagyu, Tokugawa
History:
Muneyoshi Yagyu was a master swordsmen of the sengoku era. A warrior early in life Muneyoshi later gave up on trying to be a general or warlord and instead secluded himself in a small village in order to master his shinkage-ryu sword style. Later on he would teach this style to the Tokugawa family.
Sacred Item: Katana
Ability 1: ライトニングブレード Lightning Blade
Description: Meiyuki focuses some energy into her sheathed katana. When she draws the sword the blade seems to stretch out creating a long sword swing. The extension adds an additional 10ft to her blade, ripping furrows into the ground or hacking thick trees down with a single swing. (this ability does not add any lightning or electricity to the attacks, it’s name is merely representative of the speed with which is needed to perform the technique)
Ability 2: 冬のブレス Winter’s Breath
Description: Meiyuki channels the natural climate of her home, Sapporo, into her blade. Her eyes seemingly shine brighter, and frost coats her blade. For the next 5 posts, any wound scored with the blade grows ice in it. While this prevents the person from bleeding out...this ice expands from the moisture in the wound, forcing the wound larger and further causing more pain.
Activate Ability 2: 嵐葉 Tempest Blade
Description: Meiyuki focuses her spirit into a small ball at the tip of her sword. She then swings and launches this ball, up to a 40 ft. When it hits it splashes, like a water balloon, that instantly freezes. While seemingly week, the speed with which it moves creates wind that pushes people at the sides of the path out of the way, and freezes any water in it's wake.
Ability 3: エンドレス•ボイドの刃 Blade of the Endless Void
Description: A powerful drawing technique. Meiyuki focuses a vast amount of energy into the sheathed katana. When drawn the blade releases in an explosion around her. Creating a sphere with a 10ft radius of cutting death. Many say they see multiple blade arcs, as if many blades were slicing in the sphere. This technique is generally forbidden to be used in school fights, as it always results in fatal injuries, and because it places a very heavy burden on the user.
Passive 1: 考えずにストライク Strike without Thought
Description: Meiyuki is a talented swordsmen, and has acute hearing. She uses these in tandem as a basis to be able to continue fighting even while blinded, or otherwise unable to see…even in the dark.
Passive 2: 先祖の霊 Ancestor’s Spirit
Description: After having used 2 abilities, or the same twice, a fearsome visage hangs behind Meiyuki. This is the spirit of her Great Ancestor, though in a more ghostly and haunting visage. This allows her to have that…”killer look” in battle. This is visible to all that she has designated as her enemy, and is a fear effect. The large ghostly samurai with his drawn blade mimics her moves, though it does not enhance or do any actual damage, this is a terrifying sight none-the-less.
Overburst Color: Ice Blue
Overburst Attack: 氷ロータス Ice Lotus
Description: Her only none draw technique. Meiyuki, while in Overburst mode, draws an enormous amount of energy into her blade and then merely flicks it. In an instant the moisture in the air snap freezes, and a massive crystal ice lotus, in full bloom, expands around her. It forms out to 40 ft radius, freezing and crushing anything in it's path. Meiyuki herself is immune to this and stands frozen in the center, a picturesque maiden frozen in her moment of greatest destructive capability and desperation. After only 1 minute the giant ice flower shatters into a beautiful display of snowflakes.
~Background~
Support:
Father: Meihane, Oska (dead)
Mother: Meihane, Saiyuri (dead)
History:
Meiyuki was born on the northern island of Japan, Hokkaido, just a mile away from it’s capital city of Sapporo. A giggly smiling child, she was well loved by her parents. The days were filled with bliss and comfort, as any child should usually feel. But all good things must come to an end. When she was only six years old, during a nasty storm in winter…they found themselves in a perilous situation.
Far from home they would be attacked by Highwaymen. They shot and killed both her parents, but her mother covered her. They took what little money they had and fled, leaving the little girl to freeze in the cold. However, her mother with her dying life held the girl, keeping her warm. The next day when some travelers happened upon the scene, they found two dead adults and freezing child. Meiyuki had cried herself to sleep that night, and suffered some frostbite…but nothing major physically.
The mental and emotional damage however, was enormous. She became a ward of the state, but instead of becoming an angry person she withdrew into herself. She walled off the rest of the world, as if her heart that night had been frozen. She refused to be loved, or love anyone else. It was a painful time, and as she grew it would fuel her. It was at about age 8 that she started practicing Kendo.
Her natural talent drew eyes on her, and as she grew she started taking up other sword-style martial arts. Most notably, Meiyuki, began training in Battojutsu. She had a natural flair and talent for it, and when she was old enough she earned a quick scholarship to the Bugei Academy. Her foster parents said no, Meiyuki denied them and accepted. Her reasoning was that she was a ward of the state, and as such if the state had need of her…she had to accept. It was more really to escape her foster parents, who had begun stifling her martial talent.
There, she quickly excelled in classes. She still did not open up to anyone, though. When she became the target of bullying…she put people in their place. Her talent was astounding even to her teachers. The first bully to taste her bokken was discharged from the Academy, two broken ribs…and a shattered arm. Meiyuki showed no remorse to those who thought themselves better than her. Soon they were calling her a new name, The Ice Queen.
It was cold day in November, in her first year when she was finally tested. Until then no one had any real clue if she was related to any of the famous samurai. That was until a specific katana was place in her hands, and then they knew. Uesugi Kenshin, was her ancestor. The famous warlord and swordsmen…it explained much of her natural talent. From then she pushed herself to excel more, and gain even more respect and renown.
Now as the third year starts up, she’s ready to finish her schooling years, and be transitioned to the military.