Erika, Faculty

Name: Erika Nightshade

Gender: Female

Age: 29

Occupation: Faculty; Instructor for combat, conventional weaponry, martial arts, and talent usage.

Height: 5’ 6”

Appearance:








Personality: Cold, Calculating, Cunning, all could describe Erika, but so could sarcastic, boastful, and endearing. Cold in battle, calculating in logistics, cunning in application, sarcastic in tongue, boastful in biographies, and endearing when on her side, she’d appear to be the perfectly self-disciplined individual, working tirelessly to improve herself and keep up her line of work with the utmost care; the only problem being she’s just a teacher. Being just a teacher makes it hard for others to place a full judgement upon Erika’s character, for she doesn’t appear as someone who made this their first profession, but she claims that’s the truth. Knowing her through the rumor mill doesn’t do her personality justice, and it’s hard to fully describe the character of persona without meeting her first hand. Many individuals hate her when she first sarcastically mocks them, others are refreshed by her atmosphere of personal discipline, even through a couple of tongue lashings.

Despite Erika’s boastful comments, arrogance is her mortal enemy, for arrogance means death against that which is weaker than you. Boasts help to make others think you have the weakness of arrogance, and Erika enjoys playing off that, view it as the only truly manipulative part of her character, probably inherited from her fox origins, or so she’d say. In the same regard that she appears arrogant and foolhardy to those she meets, she is also honorable, Erika doesn’t make a threat or a statement, she makes promises that she intends to carry out, it’s why she jokes so much, she doesn’t view things that are promises as serious and instead enjoys a joke here or two because of it. Even if you are an ungrateful student Erika promises to teach you to the best of her ability, even if you hate her but she’s supposed to protect you, it’s what she will do. Naturally she isn’t stupid, she’s very social and mental adept, so if she is betrayed or put into danger she’ll stop, but it hurts her to do so because of both her code of honor and her personality. She’s really just someone who has made a few bad decisions and wants to try and give back to the world.


History: Born in Hisakawa originally, Erika grew up in a rigid environment with her parents and the structure in which she lived being dictated for her. It wasn’t until her later teens that she finally had enough and managed to make it over the border to Mistere, where she attempted to carve out a new life for herself. Unfortunately, the ghosts of the past kept up with her and all the time she spent in Hisakawa “training” various skill sets proved to be her main source of income in Mistere. Going around and performing her “professional” job, Erika eventually made a good living for herself, but she felt that her life was empty, so she decided to work on giving back to the community rather than just taking away from it. Erika gained some teaching credentials and now works at the academy as a combat instructor, though she still does her previous job on the side when the need arises.



Name of Species: Fox Yokai | Kitsune

Baseline Dimension: 20 inches high at shoulder in true fox form. Five feet high at the shoulder in larger kitsune form. Tails can be up to many meters long. Can grow up to exponential amounts.

Baseline Appearance: Natural fur colors of red, orange, black, white, gray, silver, white, multicolored. Unnatural fur colors are possible.

Culture/Origin of Species: The Fox Yokai, also known as a Kitsune, is a mythical beast with many mysterious powers. They are generally crafty and deceptive individuals that enjoy a good prank or guise. Most Kitsune enjoy the culture and climate of Hisakawa and live solitary, not in large groups like some yokai. Many are stereotyped to be thieves and untrustworthy due to their inherent nature.

Traits:

• Kitsunebi | Fox Yokai can manifest a unique blaze of fire known as Kitsunebi, or "fox fire". The color of Kitsunebi varies from fox to fox and often reflects the nature of their soul or personality. The Kitsunebi has either hot or cold properties and can assist the fox in use of illusions.

• Shapeshifting | Kitsune are adept at the art of disguise, and as such can freely shapeshift into almost any form they wish.

• Agility | Kitsune are aided in being sneaky and clever beasts by their agility. They have +2 Aspect Points to Speed.

• Obake | Kitsune are stronger than average foxes and animals, having +1 to their Strength Aspect.

• Illusions | Along with shapeshifting, Kitsune can utilize various small visual and audible illusions to aid in their trickery. These illusions are harmless and cannot be physically touched.

• Kitsunetsuki Being a wicked species at their roots, all foxes have the ability to possess individuals through a process known as Kitsunetsuki.

• Kyuubi | Over the course of its lifetime, generally many millennia should one survive long enough, a fox will grow to have a total of nine tails. These tails can potentially be used as weapons or be prehensile should a kitsune manipulate them as such. The tails typically can resize.

Flaws:

• Kitsune cannot sustain shapeshifting for long, and many times when in human form, are unable to fully disguise their tails, ears, claws, or fangs.

• Kitsunetsuki can sometimes be ineffective as features of the fox's physical form, such as tails, ears, claws, and the like can manifest.

• Though keen, cunning, and swift, foxes are generally more fragile than most magical creatures. As such, most do not live long enough to see their ninth tail.

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