[list][*][b][u]Name:[/u][/b] Miura Ryuuko [*][b][u]Age:[/u][/b] 24 [*][u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u] [url=http://safebooru.org//images/1042/871075b1343272768378f0d04c5669b35e33ce86.jpg?1079642]Her practically universal attire.[/url] Aside from that, Ryuuko is unusually tall for a Japanese woman, and the kimono only somewhat succeeds in hiding her surprisingly ample curves. What cannot be seen is the clearly defined muscles the girl has--nor the sprawling tattoo that prohibits her from going many places in Japan less dressed. [*][u][b]Personality:[/b][/u] Superficially, Ryuuko appears to be a polite and congenial girl, mild in attitudes to a fault and a prime example of what every Japanese lady should aspire to be, by tradition. It isn't a fully manufactured façade; she places a high importance on her duty to her family and the skills demanded of a former head. It simply happens that one cannot be the future head of a yakuza family without some of that civility and good nature being a deliberate manufacture. Indeed, although she finds killing to be a matter of last resort, this is hardly from some moral consideration--all things considered, deaths attract suspicion and waste a potentially valuable resource. This affected attitude is more than just a social convention, it's a method for suppressing strong desires to act at the other end of the spectrum--violent, brash, and hedonistic. Though she denies the impulses and refuses to act on them, she still takes pleasure in fights and keeps a [i]very[/i] tight reign on her temper. Maybe it would be easier to simply express herself, but that would cause a loss of face even before the trouble itself started up. Her likes and dislikes are simple: she dislikes shoes, hates roller-coasters and Toshiko's driving, and likes both sake and traditional styling in copious amounts. Outside of this and practising her skills, Ryuuko finds that little catches her interest and tends to be blatantly apathetic to it. [*][u][b]Abilities:[/b][/u] Ryuuko's first and foremost skill is her swordsmanship. Without this, her offerings to Fu Sonzai no Gensō would be completely non-existent. She has the ability to win tournaments with ease, if she would restrict herself to using the correct forms, but finds them to be completely wasteful. Where other children had friends or hobbies, Ryuuko had training with the blade and for her future role. Predominantly accomplished fighting with the single long blade, she is also versed with a shorter sword, a dagger, paired blades, and iaijutsu. Rounding out the skill set--at her mother's insistence she hone all the skills of a samurai--she's also got basic competence with the spear and bow. Magically, she is a novice relying on Toshiko's training. Though an affinity for [i]Void[/i] is an interesting, albeit highly negative, one with which to work, her presence at the agency is more for her own magical education than to provide her services--she has no need of the job. Her sole magical ability is the very most basic reinforcement. Her physique, impressive as it is, doesn't come from the same sort of diligent training most would have to put into it. Though her denial of the impulses that come with her heritage prevents her from benefiting in most manners, being a hanyou still causes her to retain a far better figure in most regards with only her normal practice. She also has a driving license. [*][u][b]Equipment:[/b][/u] Unless she wishes to owe her father special favours and call in her family's resources, Ryuuko has a simple tanto hidden in her obi and an heirloom sword. Forged by youkai, her father passed it down early as it does not suit his fighting style, and the blade is near impervious to any form of damage. It goes by the name of Yama-no-Hone-no-Tsurugi, which hints somewhat at what might have gone into manufacturing it... [*][u][b]Brief Backstory:[/b][/u] On one side of her family, she claims descent from the original Miura, and through them back to the Taira and Minamoto, and from there all the way back to imperial lines. On her mother's side she claims descent from... well, her mother claims to be the Shuten-Dōji but there's no way of verifying that. This is simply the most pronounced the family's mixed involvement in mundane and supernatural affairs, making her the first heir in the family with such direct involvement in both sides, though all have been raised in the knowledge that a supernatural world exists. However, she doesn't depart from tradition to not train the heir in magic or the supernatural until their basic education has completed--sufficient to run a major operation which works in the criminal underground on both sides of the border. Being the heir to a yakuza clan with such a traditional background has its advantages, even though it harmed her ability to make friends or the like. With private tutors and no distractions, she graduated from the top of her class and entered into Todai, studying classical Japanese literature and learning how to manage business affairs in her own time. It was upon graduation that it was considered time for her to embrace her magical heritage, with her father seeking out someone willing to train one with such a materialistic and unsavoury background in exchange for money or--in this case--her services to the agency. This delay in training is implemented for practical reasons, as any family head of theirs will need a wide set of skills to thrive in the difficult environment, but also from a belief that their affinity will show through stronger and manifest efficiently if left alone to adulthood. With Ryuuko's apathy to that beyond her narrow interests, it might be accurate indeed.[/list]