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[b]Name:[/b] Kiyohara Homura
[b]Age:[/b] 16
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Race:[/b] Human
[b]Appearance:[/b]
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Homura is, at least appearance-wise, a fairly unassuming young lady high school student.  She doesn’t dress to stand out, most of the time, wears glasses, and has long black hair with very visible white streaks in it.  Take your best shot, she’s heard and deflected them all, by now.  Homura is usually seen carrying a shinai bag.  Its contents vary between practice weapons and her actual one, depending on the circumstances. 

[url=https://i.imgur.com/GWTeKVB.jpg]Possession mode appearance[/url]
When possessed by her sword, Most of Homura’s hair turns white, and the streaks that were already white instead take on a luminous red hue.  

[b]Personality:[/b]
Homura, despite her name, is a cool and collected individual. She tends to remain calm in most situations and isn’t the sort to back down from a threatening opponent. She is polite, kind, and dutiful, and takes her training seriously. Her somewhat detached approach to life can easily lead to her being “spacey”, and it’s not altogether inaccurate. She’d miss quite a lot if she didn’t have a second set of eyes watching out for her.

Homura’s life isn’t all training in kendo to inherit the family’s style and continue the family business as a youkai hunter. She enjoys anime and video games in her spare time, and plays some sort of otome game on her smartphone almost religiously.  When particularly nervous or flustered, she has a habit of messing with her glasses, usually cleaning them. 

[i]Vermillion Harvest Moon[/i] (Mizuki)
Although “only” a sword, Mizuki deserves her own entry as well.  She tends to view Homura with parental concern, and is often the one who has to warn her wielder of impending danger, especially of the supernatural sort.  She’s not above a considerable amount of sass when she does, either.  She seeks to understand humans through combat, or so she claims.  Of the two, she’s often the more aggressive one, though beyond rattling in her sheath of her own accord, these aspects tend to only manifest when possessing Homura.  

[b]Abilities:[/b]
Homura herself is a more or less ordinary human, with the physical abilities one would expect.  Also she has myopia, not that it’s a useful ability.  

Her family has been youkai hunters for generations, and she trains in the family martial and exorcism arts.  She can write talismans, but she has little to no talent for imbuing them with actual power.  She does have a knack for things relating to her own body.  She can enhance her own balance and lighten her body, to remain sure-footed in any situation, and stand on surfaces that otherwise would not support her.  She can also leap exceptionally long distances horizontally or vertically.  

Homura’s sword, [i]Vermillion Harvest Moon[/i] is a tsukumogami.  It has lived, and fought, for generations, and carries volumes of experience in combat.  As a youkai weapon, it’s also quite dangerous to youkai and spirits of various sorts.  It is also perfectly capable of speech, even when not possessing someone.

Through contact, the sword can possess someone to act as its wielder (or, perhaps,to wield their body as an extension of the weapon).  In the case of the youkai hunters of the Kiyohara family, ancient blood contracts render this possession into more of a collaboration, where the youkai hunter is usually still in control of their actions, and merely benefits from essentially becoming a half-youkai while under its effects, gaining increased physical capabilities.  

[b]Skills:[/b]
Homura is training in her family’s form of exorcism arts, primarily using swords or unarmed strikes.  She’s as good as one would expect for someone raised in a dojo.  

She can follow a recipe and cook well enough, and is also quite good at making tea.  Decent calligraphy skills, from making talismans and charms.  Reasonably adept gamer.  
[b]Equipment:[/b]
[i]Vermillion Harvest Moon[/i] - The Kiyohara family’s heirloom katana, and a tsukumogami in its own right.  The spirit of the sword tends to go by the name “Mizuki.”  

Smartphone, glasses, stockings, etc.  If it’s the sort of mundane thing a teenage girl would have, she probably has it.  

[b]Brief Backstory:[/b]
Homura is an ordinary girl, her family just has an unusual job.  They’re youkai hunters, and have been for generations.  In the modern day, the true calling is hardly as important as it used to be, but that certainly doesn’t stop the passing down of the old traditions.  

Homura began training from a young age at the family dojo, learning the ways of a youkai hunter.  She didn’t necessarily understand why she had to go through such harsh training, but she was in no position to question it, either.  She’d never even heard of a youkai terrorizing anyone outside of fairy tales.  Or maybe some of those bedtime stories were family history?  Regardless, while there might still be a need for youkai hunters, both the hunter and the prey have gotten subtler and adopted modern methods of living.  Her family runs a cafe.

As the current heir to her family’s style, Homura wields the family sword, a tsukumogami blade.  Given the state of her hair, she’s definitely had occasion to do so in the past, as the longer one remains possessed by the sword, the more of the victim’s hair turns permanently white.  

While she avoided the repeated attempts of her high school’s kendo club to recruit her, she was given an offer she couldn’t refuse, when it came to the occult club.