Here's my character, some narration might rather feel disturbing

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[h2]Hikari || HI*KA*RI[/h2]
[h3]光 || 日*火*利[/h3]
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[sub][b][u]C H A R A C T E R   I N F O R M A T I O N[/u][/b][/sub]

[indent][b]Name:[/b]
Hikari

[b]Nicknames/Aliases:[/b]
Light Hermit

[b]Birth City/District:[/b]
Neo-Tokyo/Maebaru

[b]Age:[/b]
29

[b]Height:[/b]
167 cm (5'6")

[b]Racial Background:[/b]
Half-Japanese, Half-Unidentified 

[b]Race:[/b]
YSG Natural Born

[b]Hair Color:[/b]
Bluish-Silver

[b]Eye Color:[/b]
Red

[b]Appearance:[/b]
Hikari appears so much like a normal human, except being "normal" was quite rare in her era. One way to notice her peculiarity is to stare at her eyes in which one could see the pair of red glow in her iris. Also, her skin might shift into paler tone from time to time, based on whenever Hikari having her session of light-eating, a habit she has been doing since her realization and acceptance of having the Yokai part in her. Being able to absorb light through her skin as her alternative sustenance, Hikari's choice of clothing would always have some parts of her skin revealed. She likes to expose some larger portions of her shoulder or midriff.

Having the gene of a Yokai Shogun inside her gives Hikari a particular strangeness, which is the Ki reservoir where she can keep the gathered nature energy. This reservoir is located in her stomach, right behind her navel where it can be clearly visible when Hikari has just gathered enough Ki converted from the absorbed light or consumed directly from a slaughtered Yokai. The reservoir shines with bluish light and also makes the marking around Hikari's abdomen glow like neon tattoos.

[b]Mutation Marker(s):[/b]
Hikari's mutation can be seen in her pair of red colored eyes and unnatural bluish-silver hair. Also, falsely thought to be some kind of neon tattoo, the marking around her navel is actually a natural phenomenon which became prominent as Hikari grew into her adolescent. The marking has been growing more complex since then, starting from merely simple curves into an intricate mandala-shaped form, along with Hikari's affinity with her Yokai power.

[b]Personality:[/b]
One can say that the degree of being an introvert is quite high in Hikari; she prefers to do a lot of things alone, seeing the company of others to be rather tiring than refreshing. She keeps the number of her friends small, choosing only from the ones she could fully trust. This is likely because Hikari trusts her own judgement more than her friends, seeing her critical opinion matters more than the necessity friendliness to keep them close. Even so, Hikari is eager to experiment with new experiences, especially about philosophical thoughts, visual arts, literatures, and musical genres. This is quite contrasted with the choice of her fashion and gadget design which are quite conservative and tend to follow the classics.

Hikari is quite scrutinizing when she does her things, preferring to keep everything in order and under control without provoking anything out of expectation to happen. She loves to plan things, but as she grows more mature, she begins to accept some factors of probabilistic randomness in the way things work. The high level of Hikari's confidence comes from this mindset of getting as many things ordered as possible and deciding things based on certain knowledge rather than chanceful hunches.

[b]Aspirations:[/b]
-Spiritual enlightenment
-Physical health by natural means
-Non-cybernetics purity
-Freedom to pursue own happiness
-Keeping Yokai under control

[b]Fears:[/b]
-Betrayal
-Injection
-Surgery
-Body modification

[b]Vehicle:[/b]
Hikari's preference of her vehicle is quite conservative, focusing on engineering performance rather than the kitsch style commonly adopted by her contemporary. One might say the motorcycle she choose to ride bears the style of a bygone era when wheeled sports-bike racing was common. At the time when fossil fuel-based engines came to its end and the manufacturing industries producing such vehicles bankrupted. Some big companies merged into a single consortium to gain advantage for research in the new form of energy. Trusting the product quality of this Consortium, or Konsoushiamu as they were better known as, Hikari puts her favoritism in a certain line they are manufacturing.

Konsoushiamu Zero has a matching capability like the high-performance superbikes during fossil fuel era. Hikari is able to fully control the vehicle into its peak performance without any cybernetics augmentations thanks to her Yokai reflex. It should be noted also that almost every part of this bike has been customized into Hikari's personal preference, from its body parts, engine, transmission, suspension, wheels, braking system, boosters, even its hover-switch that enables the bike to glide on hover zone or even off-road. The design bears a striking resemblance with the ancient [url=https://jakusa.artstation.com/projects/lnwgG]Yamaha VMax[/url], except for the wheels that also serve as the hover pads, flipped sideways by the suspension rods when the hover-mode is turned on.

Strangely, while most motorists would customize the visual aspects of their rides to become strikingly visible among the mass, Hikari wants her bike to stay modest. Also, compared to others who would augment their rides with cybernetic controls and AIs, Hikari chooses to keep it as mechanical as possible with an ancient style of key-based lock and kick-starter. In this kind of world brimming with kitsch, one could never determine that Hikari is the one being conservative or rather radically liberal in her choice of style. Moreover, Hikari  believes the bond she makes with her motorcycle has manifested into a kami residing inside it, giving that motorcycle a "soul" she calls Kuro.
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[sub][b][u]P O W E R / C Y B E R N E T I C S  I N F O R M A T I O N[/u][/b][/sub]

[indent][b]Strengths/Natural Abilities:[/b]
Living among the cult members adopting their ideas from an ancient sect of warrior-monks has familiarized Hikari with the practice of martial arts. This enables Hikari to stand her ground when fighting becomes necessary. Also, cage fighting has been a hobby she routinely does when the work hours conclude. Beyond the routine forms, scripted mock-fights, and theoretical explanations of the martial art techniques she learned, Hikari is also familiar with the practical functionality of the contemporary MMA.

The meditation she routinely practices also helps Hikari in focusing her mind and increasing the acuity of her senses. This also helps Hikari in dealing with the mathematical intricacies surrounding the metaverse programming she does as her alternative hustles. Hikari's stable and calm mental state, along with her sense of spiritual purpose builds her confidence in her skill and her capability to finish the gang jobs when the necessity arrives. Not only she's able to compute calculus operation in her mind, Hikari is also quite an accurate and precise gunslinger.

Indeed, carrying the Shogun Gene inside her, Hikari's close combat capability increases to a degree that she can easily beat several fighters of the topmost weight class at once in a hand-to-hand fighting. She's quite capable going against ten opponents at once, with decreasing confidence as the number goes up. Of course, the rule inside the cage is contrastingly different with the rule of the street; that also comes into the equation.

[b]Weaknesses/Flaws:[/b]
The ability Hikari gets for having the gene of Yokai Shogun also comes with a price. When Hikari has her energy reservoir filled with Ki, a powerful attack right toward her abdominal area would certainly destabilize her Ki flow. She learned this the hard way when at one day, Hikari challenged her opponent for a cage fight with her Ki reservoir being full. Hikari received a direct knee strike on her belly that resulted in a debilitating pain, followed by an internal explosion of her reserved energy. Hikari's Ki "bled" out of her and immediately deprived her totally out of her energy, rendering her unconscious and having some terrible abdominal and muscular pain for several days. A fine-tuned Ki-flow management has to be performed, especially with Hikari's light-eating habit, for her to keep the Ki reservoir stable while also enables her to utilize the gathered Ki for the Overdrive skill.

[b]Y.S.G Ability(ies):[/b]

[u]Base Ability: Light Overdrive[/u]
Like a photosynthesizing plants, Hikari is able to directly process any forms of light for her sustenance or converting it into a form of energy that she can gather inside her Ki reservoir. The rate of her energy reserve to get filled is slow, but she can quickly absorb the light around her to immediately fill a certain amount of energy, resulting in a local blackout. When the amount is right, Hikari can utilize the Ki reserve to unleash her Overdrive. When in this state, Hikari has her strength, speed, acuity, and endurance increased into several degrees higher, raising her combat and survival capability. The amount of time Hikari can have for her Overdrive is limited by the energy she keeps inside her Ki reservoir.

[u]First Evolution: Yokai Vampirism[/u]
Awakened when she had to deal with Yokai in a night with no moon, Hikari's desperation for energy manifested in her being capable to extract raw Ki from severed Yokai parts. In a non-critical circumstance, this type of absorption allowed Hikari to access a different kind of energy that can augment her Overdrive to have twice the output. Sometimes, Hikari brings along some features from the Yokai she absorbs temporarily, as if she gains a new ability copying the Yokai.

[u]Second Evolution: Whiteout[/u]
Awakened when Hikari faced a situation where a Yokai found out about her weakness and tried to abuse it. The Yokai had its way to "force-feed" Hikari with its Ki. Should the Yokai kept pushing the Ki input to Hikari, her reservoir would eventually break. Depended on the amount of Ki she got force-fed, this could result in Hikari losing her ability or even being dead. This evolution allowed Hikari to immediately unleash the raw Ki she has gathered into her reservoir. The energy will manifest into a thermobaric explosion that will obliterate anything in Hikari's vicinity except herself.

[b]Soul Binder/Weapon(s):[/b]
Katana - Hikari's soul binder is a humble katana, a single-edged curved longsword commonly used by the ancient Samurai. This Soul Binder comes with the necessary skill to fight using such form of weapon. One might notice how Hikari will have her stance and form shifted when she fights using her Soul Binder as if she has learned or accustomed for long in an entirely different martial art. This weapon has another feature in which it can unravel itself into tiny metal spikes, telepathically controlled. The Ki that Hikari keeps in her reservoir would deplete gradually during her time using the telepathic control for the spike strikes.

Even so, Hikari would prefer to stay with her hand-to-hand fighting as long as possible. The summoning process for her Soul Binder is quite painful for her. It begins with the handle materializing itself in front of Hikari's abdominal Ki reservoir. As she then grabs and pulls the handle outward, the blade part will gradually forms into its entirety, starting from close to the handle and moving toward its tip. One would see as if Hikari pulls her Soul Binder from her navel, which was not entirely wrong because the summoning process gives Hikari a stinging sensation as if she had just been stabbed there and got the blade pulled.

This Katana has its name, of course, Gin'iro for its silvery blade manifestation.

[b]Cybernetics/Gadgets/Accessories:[/b]
No cybernetics, Hikari adheres to a philosophical belief of Organic Puritanism, like modern day Vegan but instead of being concerned with eating meat, she's concerned with using implants as a necessity.
She has a smartphone, though, to make and receive calls; also installed with some fundamental software for Netrunning.
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[sub][b][u]E X T R A[/u][/b][/sub]

[indent][b]Out-of-Street Activities[/b]
Out of her street-life, Hikari assumes the life of a digital tinkerer. She manages to familiarize herself with the necessary hardware and software of both computing and networking platforms in developing an alternate life-like environment known as the metaverse. Preferring to see herself as a versatile expert and consultant, Hikari rarely stays in a single company for more than two years. Even so, her project portfolio has given a significant influence in further progressing the metaverse, as the digital environment gradually integrating into a single gigantic interconnected entity. Of course, this aspiration comes from the influence of Pure Land concept in a syncretic philosophical idea that Hikari adopts. She hopes that through the metaverse she has been creating, people can live their life away from the nihilistic materialism of the real world and take their time to contemplate the meaning of their lives.

[b]Artificial Insemination and Traumatic Childhood[/b]
Out of jealousy against the man she unrequitedly loved, a bio-scientist inseminated herself with the genetically modified sperm she had a privilege to use from The Institute. The child that was born would eventually grow to what Hikari becomes right now. However, the miracles shown by the condition of Hikari's birth attracted the interest of some less ethical members of The Institute. They wanted to take both the mother and her daughter to become the subjects of the research surrounding the Yokai Shogun genes. At one time, Hikari found her mother coming home late and could not be contacted. After several hours trying to contact her, Hikari got a call from a member of a cult. He said that they found her mother was already dead with her abdomen cut open and some organs had already been harvested.

After dealing with the numbing shock the news had on Hikari, the cult member also told the girl that her late mother was a part of them. They were more than willing to honor the will of Hikari's late mother in raising her daughter after she left. After giving her mother the proper burial, Hikari moved to live with the cultist monks. Hikari gradually adopted the cultists way of life and their heterodox teaching of syncretic union coming from the ancient thoughts of Taoism and Buddhism. This particularly included their view on traditional medicine and martial arts, also how they viewed the greed exhibited by the big corpos and how to take them down.

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Credit to Miura Naoko (miura-n315) for all the pics I use for faceclaim