Name: Yasome-Hime
Age: 500, looks about 10
Gender: Female
Race: Tsuchigumo
Appearance:
Like thisPersonality: Yaso has spent all of her life being trained by her mother to avoid and slay youkai hunters and oppose human society. She's pretty much been indoctrinated in a similar way to a victim of a cult. She was raised on legends of the Spider Clans that were once foremost among Youkai and ruled sections of Japan before they were defeated by humanity in a series of wars during the Heian Period. Because of this she's extremely sheltered and doesn't know much about the outside world beyond her mother's lair. She's become incredibly curious over time and the modern world and human culture and individual humans fascinate her even as she despises and fears humanity as a whole and is convinced that some day 'evil' human hunters will come kill her. Still, she wants to experience human life and culture for herself after a life shut away.
Abilities: Thanks to her nature as a Tsuchigumo, Yaso has multiple superhuman abilities.
Superhuman Physiology-Even in her baseline human form with the body of a little girl, Yaso is supernaturally strong, fast and agile. She has yet to test the limits of her own strength, but her speed, reflexes and agility are all fast enough that she could likely dodge bullets. She also has superhuman durability and endurance but luckily for her she's never had to test their limits. She can also climb and cling on walls, ceilings and anything else in her environment with no problems and has enhanced senses of eyesight, touch and hearing.
Silk Production- As a spider youkai, Yaso can project spider silk from her fingertips while in human form. The silk can have various qualities depending on what she needs at the time. It can be very sticky, stronger than steel, fire resistant and airtight or water repelling as necessary. She can spin the silk to different shapes and lengths too.
Venom- Yaso has naturally occurring venom that she can poison enemies with by biting them even in human form. She can also secrete the venom whenever she needs to so that it can coat weapons or otherwise poison items. She can choose the potency of her venom whether it just causes pain in the victim, temporarily paralyzes a limb or an entire body, or results in eventual death. Her venom is also oddly flammable and burns both long and hot. Coating lines or gobs of spider silk in venom and then setting it on fire is the cause of many myths about Tsuchigumo abilities to control or produce fire.
Illusions- As a Tsuchigumo, Yaso's most notable ability is producing many complex illusions to trick her enemies or prey. In spider form the illusions can take up the space of a small house and be quite complex although doing anything to that extent is tiring and requires concentration. In human form she can cast illusions in an area around the size of a small room. The illusions are only based on sight and sound and have no physical form, but more experienced Tsuchigumo were known to create and manipulate figures out of webbing, earth or stone to lend weight to their tricks. If Yaso gets injured, her illusions will instantly break and pain or distraction blocks her ability to cast them.
Digging Claws-Tsuchigumo were famous for their ability to construct complex tunnel lairs and even hollow mountain fortresses in ancient times. Yaso is no different and even though she's young, she can temporarily manifest digging claws that allow her to tunnel through earth, stone and concrete at high speed without much difficulty.
Spider Form-Lastly, Yasome can take on her true form, which has the upper body of a human girl and the lower body of a giant spider. In this form all her physical abilities and illusions increase in power and in general she's much stronger and more dangerous. She doesn't like using her spider form much and her mother has conditioned her to only use it in emergencies.
Skills: Yaso lacks a lot of basic skills that even a human girl her age would have. What she does have is an obscene amount of training in guerilla warfare, martial arts, stealth and essentially ninjutsu. In spite of her young appearance, she's had around five hundred years to train in armed and unarmed martial arts and assassination skills and combined with her superhuman abilities she's a very formidable opponent. She's also highly acrobatic and a skilled contortionist, allowing her to squeeze into spaces that seem tight even for her small frame and navigate her environment rapidly and easily combined with her agility, webs and wall-crawling. She has very little formal schooling or knowledge however and even some basics of daily living in the outside world elude her.
Equipment: Yaso has a variety of ninja tools and weaponry including a ninjato, a small girl-sized fumma shuriken, a variety of kunai and throwing needles and smokebombs and flashbang grenades. She also has a few flick-top lighters her mother stole, in order to light her own venom on fire when necessary. Her ninja suit and armor were made by her mother and the main material is actually spider silk, making it lightweight, waterproof, fire resistant and bulletproof, although she'll still take blunt impacts from the bullets.
Brief Backstory: Yasome-Hime is a third generation heir to the once mighty kingdoms of the Tsuchigumo, now reduced to just her mother and her after all of her kind were hunted to extinction or hiding in the mid-Heian era. She's been raised in secrecy by her mother as a weapon against humanity, carrying on their grand tradition of guerrilla warfare against mortal society to try and reclaim their kingdoms from those that have persecuted them across the centuries. She was raised to believe that the humans were still hunting for tsuchigumo and that if she left the lairs before she was ready, she would certainly be killed. Now though, her mother has been away and missing for weeks and curiosity about the human world has gotten the better of her.
For the first time, she plans to venture out into the world of humans to find her mother and discover what the world outside their secret tunnels is like.
