[hider=Kuroyuri, Sakurai][center][h1][color=violet]Kuroyuri Sakurai[/color][/h1][img]https://i.imgur.com/Hvef6tK.jpg[/img][h3][color=violet]Age: 17 | Female[/color][/h3][/center]

[color=violet][b]Backstory:[/b][/color] 
[indent]Sakurai's family was one filled with laughter and the roar of seasonal fireworks. Hunters who plied their craft to the wonderment of the audience, performers reveling in the joy they brought more fervently then they would the hunts that follow. Most would treat them as charlatans sullying the good names of noble Hunters, almost flagrantly bucking their laws from the safety of sheer audacity, but the Kuroyuri never buckled to detractors. 

The capacity for the normal world to apply mundane logic to supernatural matters was well documented, and made all the more prevelent when they were [i]told[/i] it was all an illusion up front. Vagabonds, minstrels, and artisans alike make up the family, yet when the Hunt calls they ply their trade with no less good humor then they do in beguiling human crowds.

They weave the tales of their battles with Youkai into charming narratives; The singer who charmed the Tanuki from its liquor, the chef who humbled the kitsune with his prized udon recipe, and the dance with the orochi ending in the many headed serpent tangled in a knot being some of their favorites. Sakurai would watch these performance as spell bound as the mundane children, and then she'd be performing them herself as she matured.

Then the time came to begin making stories of her own, and she embraced the opportunity to learn with a vulpine smirk and a brazen air that was anything but traditional.[/indent]

[color=violet][b]Ability:[/b]:[/color] 
[indent][i]Kamikage, All Shadows Yield to the Supreme:[/i] The control of shadows, the ephemeral existence prone to flight before the sun and obliteration in absolute night. What is caught in Sakurai's shadow is within her domain, their senses beguiled by shadows that flicker at the corner of their vision like phantom blades, or pool deeply at their feet to make them misjudge terrain. When her shadow crosses another, her awareness expands along the interconnected web of crossing darkness that persists in the face of light, bound to her power. It can't make things within her shadow physically move or exert tangible influence on her foes.[/indent]


[color=violet][b]Techniques[/b]:[/color]
[indent][i]Shirokaze, Ascending up the Wind:[/i] Using a flair for acrobatics and the nature of her Heirloom to leap into the sky and run upon a cycling wave of swords to crash down upon Youkai from up high, reach the top shelf in the kitchen, or avoid the nasty commute in the morning. After all, no one looks up.

[i]Kyotoryu, A Sword in Shadow Strikes Twice:[/i] When another shadow crosses her own, it is marked with a roiling aura that Ishi-Nii-San can strike to bypass the natural defenses and armors adorning it. An internal blow, sublime in execution and bittersweet in its passing.  

[i]Ikuze Nii-Sans, Rush of the Protective Elder Siblings:[/i] A bull headed rush with her Heirlooms in constant motion, either smashing or hurling them to keep a ceaseless pressure upon her foe, like a trio of big brothers defending their adorable little sister. Has a high chance of kicking up all encompassing dust clouds, sweat drops on foreheads, and a shout [i]Baka![/i][/indent]


[color=violet][b]Heirloom[/b]:[/color] 
[indent][i]Ishi-Nii-San:[/i] A trio of swords that can never taste the blood of Hunter, Youkai, or human alike. Never leaving their scabbards yet never far from hand, the swords can float of their own power around their wielder, placing themselves within reach or remaining firm in place to offer a handhold to Sakurai, though they can't block an outside force without being in contact with Sakurai herself.

If they leave their orbit around Sakurai, the sword will remain inert till called back to her, allowing them to be thrown and recalled at wil.[/indent]

[color=violet][b]Skills:[/b][/color]
[indent]Sakurai can handle the pressure of addressing crowds, can handle a mob of hair pulling children, and is decent at sleight of hand though she never bothered to put that towards picking pockets. Knows where to get some affordable fireworks and have a good time in the summer months.[/indent]

[color=violet][b]Limiter/Charm:[/b][/color] 
[indent]Her Heirloom takes the form of a key on the end of a necklace. Even in this form, the key fails to cut anything, even being unable to cut open a letter. Her limiter is the five petaled flower inked into her abdomen, looking inert while active and glowing as it releases her full power to the fore.[/indent]

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