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mikoto and rotundus
mikoto no nushi |
ooc information. |
Player Name: Kestrel Age: 24 Plurk: AIM/: rikoren Email: kestrelmagic@gmail.com |
canon information. |
Character Name: Mikoto Fandom: Akaya Akashiya Ayakashino Canon point: The day before the festival Age: Physically 7, actually a few centuries at least Heart's Desire: To live with both Shin and Akashi alive and whole again Abilities: Mikoto's powers are never properly defined in canon, but as a goddess she's pretty powerful. She can create foxfire for use as a weapon, light, or part of a barrier; she can control shadows, and manipulate humans to a certain extent--the people of Utsuwa canonly never think to ever leave town, except in one of the endings where the barrier collapses. She can also change her tails into sentient living people, hide her ears and tail, offer a small portion of her power to others (though the method through which that's done probably isn't possible outside of Utsuwa), and change into fox form at will. She's not going to sacrifice her tails anytime soon, though. What matters most to your character?: Intelligence What element do you choose?: Fire Introspective Personality: ❁ Lonely - Having lived for generations without her brother or the human she'd grown interested in, watching Shin's vessels come and go, Mikoto tends to spend a lot of her time alone in her personal quarters. Part of this is due to Sato's preferring her to stay where he can watch her, as the ruler of the land needs to stay safe, but whatever the reason, she eats alone, sleeps alone, and rarely speaks to her fellow ayakashi, outside of official meetings. ❁ Playful - This doesn't mean she doesn't want to speak to them. There are multiple instances of her sneaking into the room where Yue is sleeping, she insists on helping to put away the cushions she'd buried him in (because she never gets to do these things, it's inappropriate for the mistress to do housework), and she admits to having snuck out to the town and bought snacks. You can also assume that the tail she'd sent out, as an extension of herself, is showcasing aspects of her personality--which in this case includes a love of games and the occasional need to pout when she doesn't get what she wants. (Mikoto herself pouts too, so it's not just her tail that does it.) ❁ Responsible - As sole ruler of the land of Utsuwa (the humans have a leader of their own but that's totally unimportant to the ayakashi) for the past few centuries, Mikoto has become - if not adept - at least reasonably good at the paperwork, formalities, and social expectations required of her. She's the judge in their otherwise nonexistent court of law, and while some ayakashi believe she's a little too soft, she continues to keep the loyalty and trust of her subjects, which in itself is a good signifier of her competence as a leader. She also understands the need to put her subjects before her own personal interests, willing to sacrifice herself to help them leave Utsuwa in one end, and willing to devour her own brother's body (and Akashi's soul) for the sake of keeping her people safe within the barrier. ❁ Shin - Mikoto and her brother are two sides of the same coin; according to her, they were apparently one person long ago, having split long before the events of the story, and share their powers and their lives. In the ending where Shin dies, Mikoto disappears at the same moment, her life extinguished with his. Because of how close they are, Mikoto feels a strong attachment to her brother - as family, as a friend, as her other self. She's willing to go really far for his sake. (Pick 4-5 moments in your character's history that are relevant to the shape of their personality. Make sure you describe how they felt that shaped them this way.) History: Imagine a perfectly normal modern-day Japan, with cell phones and cars and all those cool gadgets we take for granted these days. (A particularly industrious pixiv user has put it down as the year 2011, if you want specifics.) Then add in all the Japanese spirits, or ayakashi, of traditional folklore: fox spirits, shrine gods, flying goldfish, and the like. It's implied that such spirits are struggling to survive in the human realm, though; the reason they can thrive in the town of Utsuwa is because a fox spirit named Shin (one of the two shrine gods who watched over the area) had "spirited away" the entire town, casting a barrier that cut it off from the outside world. This barrier wiped the town off the map: trains pass right through the station, never seeing that there even is a station to stop at. Likewise, nobody ever leaves the town. Ayakashi in this world have a very particular way of life: Humans are a sort of delicacy, and making one your meal is the single way for an ayakashi to grow, or to regain spiritual energy if they happen to use a lot of it (which most ayakashi don't). But this doesn't mean they can eat just anyone. Humans are only visible to them if they have particularly strong spiritual energy or happen to be "meals". Otherwise, they're shadowy figures that can't be told apart from any other human. Proper consummation of a "meal" isn't just bloody murder, either: the victim is so completely devoured that the very memory of their existence is erased from the minds of the people around them. If an ayakashi eats people indiscriminately, that ayakashi will become an akujiki, which literally translates to "eating badly". These creatures are considered the lowest of the low, and more often than not have lost control to the point they manifest only as corrupted shadows, unable to even speak properly. The story begins with Yue, a human boy raised by the ayakashi. Raised solely for the purpose of being Shin's vessel, he was kept locked up in the fox goddess Mikoto's shrine for the entire seven years he was alive, with little to no knowledge of the world outside the shrine's borders. Despite the severity of his house arrest, he's very well-taken care of: he's on friendly terms with Mikoto and all the other residents of the shrine, there's a servant to cook and clean for them all, and he has his "bodyguard" Kurogitsune to play with and keep him company. But the constant spiritual strain of being Shin's vessel means that he eventually needs a Meal, which is basically what the ayakashi call the act of devouring a human('s soul). By the start of the game, Yue's so lacking in energy that he sleeps for most of the day, and faints often. So you might consider it fate that, when Kurogitsune sneaks him out for the first time in his life, he immediately runs into two different boys (Tsubaki and Akiyoshi) who catch his attention. The incident leads to Mikoto explaining (in the vaguest terms possible) that those boys were potential Meals and that Yue should befriend one and bring him home (presumably so that the adults could help him actually complete the process, as he isn't an ayakashi himself). And so he spends the next few days meeting, befriending, and having fun with his new targets. The problem with this is that he himself isn't all that willing to devour the first and only friends he's ever made. There's also the fact that the principal at the local kindergarten was apparently eaten, leading everyone but Yue and his friends to forget he ever existed. While the three embark on their amateur investigation spree, a mysterious man named Sagano also shows up and threatens Yue's life--and it's here that the plot changes, depending on the choices Yue has made up to that point. All of this began when humans first started settling in Utsuwa in medieval times. The humans started taking more and more land, and multiplying at exponential rates, in a place which had once been a haven for ayakashi. With the loss of their territory, it became harder and harder for ayakashi to survive, and the weaker ones soon began to disappear. Unable to watch his people starve, Shin then decided to create a barrier of shadows, effectively sealing off the land of Utsuwa from the rest of the world. This prevented more people from entering the area, and allowed the ayakashi to roam more freely, safe from outside intervention. Then one day, Mikoto came across a young man named Akashi, who had collapsed on the mountain where the siblings lived. Attracted by the nursery song he was singing, she gave him a camellia flower to eat; this flower was from one of the twin camellia trees which a symbol of, or the source of, Shin and Mikoto's powers (it's never quite explained, but there is definitely a connection of some sort). This saved Akashi from starvation, and also gave him a small portion of the foxes' powers. The problem with this was that Akashi, whose village had fallen across hard times, began to resent the ayakashi and used his newfound powers to try to break the barrier. And he succeeded--but breaking the seal caused his soul to get pulled into the resulting hole, unnoticed by anyone else. In order to fix the barrier, Shin threw himself into the hole, his soul then possessing Akashi's abandoned body (as he'd thought Akashi had died). The problem is that, generations later, Akashi managed to break free of the seal, possessing Shin's abandoned body and carrying the shadows along with him, in an attempt to get revenge. Whether he succeeds or not really depends on Yue's actions throughout the course of the game. |
canon memory. |
Mikoto will be forgetting Yue's predecessor! |
sample. |
We require either a link to a previous thread with 4+ comments in prose, a introspective prose or a "journal entry" for your character in the first person. |