Well, the holidays are (more or less) over, so I might as well get back to doing things and stuff.  

[@Polaris North][@Mr Rage]
Haru and Mako are approved.  

[@Sylvan]
Kioko is also accepted, although pending any final edits.  

[@TheWindel]
I'm going to be honest, the pistols disposed of and replaced wholesale gives me this unavoidable mental image of Reaper tossing his empty shotguns everywhere.  But that's the only actual issue I have and it's really not big enough to stop me when I like the rest of the character so much.  

Since the teleportation ability is new, I do have some comments on it.  I did briefly wonder what was meant by only teleporting parts of her body, but its via portals, so that's cool.  Can others reach through these portals (ally or enemy)?  And are there any limits on things in general, such as requiring line of sight?  
[hr]
And for everyone, it's probably about time I start planning things for the actual RP beginning.  I'd like to discuss how to get started with everyone, so please add your thoughts either here or on Discord.  

Would you prefer to start with a normal day for your characters, to get things established a little ahead of the weirdness?  Or would you rather get right into things?  

My current plan for everyone getting her symbiont would be a ritual disrupted, and the symbionts are forced to find the next best hosts, who happen to be the characters, wherever they may be.  Everyone can roleplay out what happens during that encounter.  My current alternative would be to have all the characters in the same place near the ritual site, instead of scattered wherever they may be in Kojiki.  Things would follow about the same, although they'd be more likely to jump right into combat, and there would be figuring out why everyone's around the same place at the same time.  

Regardless, there will be some early encounters with Dhoanoids to sort out, and meeting someone from the Eldritch Society to look forward to pretty soon after that.