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[sub]5’1 | 49 lbs | ??? y.o | Kodama (?)[/sub]
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[b][color=a2d39c]Personality[/color][/b][indent]
Shika is an invasive species, a tenacious weed whose hunger draws deeper into the earth than their shallow brethren, a monster made more barbaric so through the learned cruelty of the humans living above. Once just another lurker in the shadows, focused solely on survival and proliferation, the observation of their prey brought forth not just a greater understanding of what one must do to prosper, but also a sense of humor. A twisted sense of humor, of course, one that demotes humans from prey to pet, but one that has served Shika well over the years since. They look for fun things in the world, and while some of her brethren may enjoy the mystique of being a creature of the night, isolated from humanity, Shika throws themselves into the thick of it, hitting up karaoke bars, joining in on mixers, attending school, and offering their services as a genius “chemist” to the yakuza or foreign mafia, ensuring that there’s a healthy circulation of [i]their[/i] drugs within any city Shika decides to settle down in.

After all, fire is such a common form of exorcism, and it always paid to have some pets out there, willing to die for them. But until the DHA come knocking at the door of their cozy student dorm, Shika’s fine with just snacking on the occasional cutie and enjoying the springtime of their youth.[/indent]
[b][color=a2d39c]Background[/color][/b][indent]
It began with a seed. A seed inside a corpse hanging from the branch of a tree in a forest. The seed grew off cooling blood and flesh, sinking their roots deep into the corpse, until one day, the corpse’s eyes opened again.

That was the birth of Hanafusa Shika, a seedling of another youkai that they never knew. Within the forest, they obeyed their instincts, staying in the shadows of trees, waiting for prey to kill themselves of their own accord and then making use of the body they left behind. They were a corpse-eater at first, focused solely on that small part of the woods they called their own, content only with eating and hiding. As the amount they ate grew though, as they became better at finding bodies before they were too rotten to be enjoyable, curiosity sparked, drawing their eyes not to what their food was, but what their food had. Clothing, letters, technology, money. Fragments that pieced together to form a larger world. They couldn’t read yet, but they could learn, could extend their capabilities further.

They made quick work of their first live pet, parasitizing them and forcing him to teach them everything he knew, of language, of culture, of the world. Those were nice, enlightening days; Shika made sure that his corpse was the foundation of a beautiful pineapple tree, just like the ones he described to them. That had been a step too far though, and when the DHA was alerted to that anomaly in vegetation, reported on social media by a Youtuber, Shika found themselves evicted, escaping into a forest of stone towers and plentiful pets while hunters sought their demise with shiny weapons and appropriated powers. It had been terrifying, but as they lost themselves in the crowds and the neon lights, Shika found themselves…appreciating all of this.

It couldn’t be fair, after all, if pets were able to live such a bright, fun life out in the daylight, while their masters were forced to slink in shadow and refuse.

Taking their name from the corpse that they now inhabited, Hanafuse Shika began to gradually set their roots into human society. And as they did, they began to be known by another name.

Dandelion.[/indent]
[b][color=a2d39c]Inventory[/color][/b][indent]
A wrapped lollipop, cherry flavored. The wrapping is faded with age, and half of the plastic stick looks like it had been melted off. Shika keeps it in their pockets at all times. When they need to switch bodies, they make an effort to relocate this particular object afterwards.[/indent]
[b][color=a2d39c]Abilities[/color][/b][indent]
Shika possesses abilities tied to plant growth, something that they engage their entire being into. While their physical abilities are on the lower end of yokai, they make up for it with versatility and cowardice.
[hider=Common Usages][color=a2d39c][i]Seeding[/i][/color]
Every strand of hair on Shika’s head is a seed with the capacity to give birth to new plants or new physical vessels for themselves to inhabit. Though it takes some concentration to create a new species of plantlife, growing oversized renditions of pre-existing plants or recreating their own body is of no issue for Shika.

[color=a2d39c][i]Fertilizing[/i][/color]
The ‘blood’ that courses through Shika’s veins is a potent fertilizer, and shedding such blood upon plantlife encourages explosive, virulent growth. Through the shedding of blood, they are able to claim sovereignty over naturally produced, as opposed to personally grown, plants as well.

[color=a2d39c][i]Parasitizing[/i][/color]
When planted into living beings, whether natural or supernatural, Shika’s seeds can form either beneficial or harmful relationships, depending on how generous they’re feeling. These plants are able to consume both the meat of their hosts, as well as more intangible substances such as lifeforce or magical energy, which is either stored or used to promote further growth or produce “fruits”. Sufficiently parasitized subjects can be controlled by Shika directly, while more beneficial plant-parasites will release stored up resources when the hosts are in danger, healing their wounds or restoring their injuries. As for the “fruits”…

[color=a2d39c][i]Fruiting[/i][/color]
Though Shika’s manipulation and production of plant life grants them the ability to produce any amount of illegal substances, the fruits they can make with parasitized living beings serve as supernatural performance-enhancers, granting the consumer a high both in their mood as well as in their abilities. The higher the quality of the parasitized host, the more potent the capabilities of the fruit that blooms from them, and the more addictive too, until the addicts are no longer capable of being sated by human flesh.[/hider][/indent]
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