Shio
Initially Shio didn't understand what kind of preparation Kasumi was referring to. Once Kasumi explained 'if the battle is interesting' she was able to grasp that it was a challenge.
Shio took note of the formed water before replying, "I will battle you."
There wasn't much of an opportunity for Shio to refuse. Kasumi's stature as a Touhou would make it a possible offense to refuse, even if Shio didn't want to. On the matter she was mostly ambivalent, not really caring either way if she got into combat. There were some practical advantages to doing so - mostly that it was a chance for her to solidify the bond between her Kujaku and herself. As well, it provided Shio some of her physical exercise for the day.
There was direction needed as to where to fight. Kasumi likely already picked up that this would be one of the matters that Shio would defer to her on, thus i was on Kasumi to pick the location of combat. There were many options, but likely not within the Red Nakumo's outdoor patio - one of the many 'town squares' would likely be used - a historical convention for most trainers.
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Shio
"There seem to be many Natrelmon that are equally vulnerable to lasers," Shio responded, not bothering to explain her position on her previous matters any further. Kasumi's opinion in the discussion was the trump opinion due to her family's status.
Shio placed her utensils down on the plate, having finished her last bite, her Kujaku having finished its plate of Omu berries as well. Her drink was also gone, timed perfectly with the final bite of her meal.
"Thank you," she added in reference to Kasumi paying for her meal. With that, she slid her chair out and stood, preparing to leave the table with a short bow to Kasumi. The Kujaku continued to perch on the railing, waiting for Shio to gain some distance before following in tow. It was still observing the situation with great interested, also due to the standing orders that the Kujaku had in regards to Shio being in danger.
"There seem to be many Natrelmon that are equally vulnerable to lasers," Shio responded, not bothering to explain her position on her previous matters any further. Kasumi's opinion in the discussion was the trump opinion due to her family's status.
Shio placed her utensils down on the plate, having finished her last bite, her Kujaku having finished its plate of Omu berries as well. Her drink was also gone, timed perfectly with the final bite of her meal.
"Thank you," she added in reference to Kasumi paying for her meal. With that, she slid her chair out and stood, preparing to leave the table with a short bow to Kasumi. The Kujaku continued to perch on the railing, waiting for Shio to gain some distance before following in tow. It was still observing the situation with great interested, also due to the standing orders that the Kujaku had in regards to Shio being in danger.
Name: Shimi Megumi
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Gift: Shimi possesses a series of unique abilities. The first is the pace at which she can read, allowing her to read long novels in minutes. The second is her ability to absorb and understand the information she is reading, even to the point of extrapolation from fictional logic, allowing her to learn skills that would take many years to master. However, the skills gained are very much temporary, unless she rereads the book from memory (she has a true photographic memory). The last ability is her ability to manipulate paper that has either been written on it with Arlanian ink, or paper from Arlanian trees. Her manipulative control is rather potent, enough she can stop bullets in a small area with pieces of paper. Her potency with the ability is largely affected by how much she has personally interact with the paper in question as well as her distance to it.
Birthplace: Shard 22
Profession/Rank: Librarian, UN
Kensai Piloted: N/A
Affiliations: UN, Library
Physical Appearance: Standing barely over 5'1", Shimi is a short, mousy woman with a mess of shoulder length brown hair. She has warm brown eyes with soft skin from lack of time outdoors. She has a surprising amount of muscle on her body from carting around books all day.
Clothing/Armor: Shimi's outfit is non-standard for a UN employee. While she has one of the standard uniform jackets, hers, however, in a silver-white, is almost comically too big for her. She only wears the jacket when there are formal events, most just giving her the room she needs to work. For more casual instances and work when she can get away with it, she wears a very stereotypical librarian's outfit, with a brown tweed skirt and a stuffy white blouse. She has a formal suit jacket that matches her skirt, as well as a long brown overcoat that she often wears.
Weapons: Carries around a briefcase of paper items.
History: Shimi is a very peculiar woman. Her father was a Japanese businessman and her mother an Arlanian woman of the Yuki family. Shimi's abilities manifested early on, allowing her to skip formal schooling due her ability to gather information from books instead of other people. Her mother was taken in by the UN when she was 10, having previously been protected by her father's status - an important player in the UN's affairs. But when his business went south, so did his ability to protect his wife.
Shimi's father was unable to cope with the loss of his wife and disappeared shortly after her fifteenth birthday. He is listed as deceased, assumed that he flung himself off the edge of the shard. With no parents left, Shimi was brought in by UN officials, but surprisingly to be offered the ability to work for them instead of suffer through the persecutions the other Arlanian's had undergone. She accepted the offer, not out of fear for her own safety, but out of the chance to work within the Library. She was given the modern day equivalent of a mid range six figure salary, allowing her to live at the top end of the middle class. However, Shimi opted for a modest 1,300 sqft apartment on Shard 3, the Shard housing the Great Library. She uses the rest of her salary to purchase books, as well as rent space in an underground warehouse on the same shard..
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Age: 24
Gender: Female
Gift: Shimi possesses a series of unique abilities. The first is the pace at which she can read, allowing her to read long novels in minutes. The second is her ability to absorb and understand the information she is reading, even to the point of extrapolation from fictional logic, allowing her to learn skills that would take many years to master. However, the skills gained are very much temporary, unless she rereads the book from memory (she has a true photographic memory). The last ability is her ability to manipulate paper that has either been written on it with Arlanian ink, or paper from Arlanian trees. Her manipulative control is rather potent, enough she can stop bullets in a small area with pieces of paper. Her potency with the ability is largely affected by how much she has personally interact with the paper in question as well as her distance to it.
Birthplace: Shard 22
Profession/Rank: Librarian, UN
Kensai Piloted: N/A
Affiliations: UN, Library
Physical Appearance: Standing barely over 5'1", Shimi is a short, mousy woman with a mess of shoulder length brown hair. She has warm brown eyes with soft skin from lack of time outdoors. She has a surprising amount of muscle on her body from carting around books all day.
Clothing/Armor: Shimi's outfit is non-standard for a UN employee. While she has one of the standard uniform jackets, hers, however, in a silver-white, is almost comically too big for her. She only wears the jacket when there are formal events, most just giving her the room she needs to work. For more casual instances and work when she can get away with it, she wears a very stereotypical librarian's outfit, with a brown tweed skirt and a stuffy white blouse. She has a formal suit jacket that matches her skirt, as well as a long brown overcoat that she often wears.
Weapons: Carries around a briefcase of paper items.
History: Shimi is a very peculiar woman. Her father was a Japanese businessman and her mother an Arlanian woman of the Yuki family. Shimi's abilities manifested early on, allowing her to skip formal schooling due her ability to gather information from books instead of other people. Her mother was taken in by the UN when she was 10, having previously been protected by her father's status - an important player in the UN's affairs. But when his business went south, so did his ability to protect his wife.
Shimi's father was unable to cope with the loss of his wife and disappeared shortly after her fifteenth birthday. He is listed as deceased, assumed that he flung himself off the edge of the shard. With no parents left, Shimi was brought in by UN officials, but surprisingly to be offered the ability to work for them instead of suffer through the persecutions the other Arlanian's had undergone. She accepted the offer, not out of fear for her own safety, but out of the chance to work within the Library. She was given the modern day equivalent of a mid range six figure salary, allowing her to live at the top end of the middle class. However, Shimi opted for a modest 1,300 sqft apartment on Shard 3, the Shard housing the Great Library. She uses the rest of her salary to purchase books, as well as rent space in an underground warehouse on the same shard..
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Aw... They don't want to say goodbye? :P
There really isn't much to say other than goodbye and I'm not necessarily inspired to write that. If I get ideas or something, I'll throw something up, otherwise skip me for now.
Name: Ni-ki Williams, The Green Sniper
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Gift: N/A
Birthplace: Shard 22
Profession/Rank:
Kensai Piloted: SO-01 Scharfschütze CEGS
Affiliations: UN
Physical Appearance: Ni-ki is a tall, thinly built raven haired woman. Her face visibly shows some Japanese ancestry. Despite her thin build, she has a fair amount of muscle on her.
Clothing/Armor: Ni-ki's wears fairly standard attire for a woman in her position. As one of the aces for the UN's Arrow, Ni-ki has a bit more liberty with her attire - even if she doesn't often exercise it. As a partial joke, the Director gave her a dark green jacket instead of the standard black, a play off of the nickname he had given her as the Green Sniper, a reference to the pain color of her Kensai. The rest is standard attire for the UN.
Weapons: Handgun, combat knife, sniper rifle.
History: Ni-ki grew up on the capital shard of Era, shard 22. Middle class, Ni-ki never felt like she was really denied access to anything she needed, and she actually was able to grow up with many of her wants. Her parents made sure to go the extra mile with her education, using connections through her father's work to get her into the military Academy at the age of 14. When she graduated at the age of 18, she was noted to be one of their most accurate sharpshooters, while preforming above average in all of her other fields, allowing her to graduate with special commendation.
Ni-ki was assigned to a sniper division within Arc. After a year of pilot training, she was finally on her first mission, which went rather horribly. After an ambush with Raven forces, five of their frontline Shisso were taken out, leaving only two operable. Only one of the four snipers on the mission were taken out, leaving them with only five working kensai. The Raven's, eager to collect more kensai, quickly swooped in, outnumbering them nearly two to one. Ni-ki was able to take out two of their modified Shisso before they were within firing distance, but was incapacitated by one of the Raven's own snipers. The round passed through the right side of her cockpit, opening it up to the air, but leaving her unscathed. It was this mission where she would get her name. While the remainder of her squad fought, Ni-ki pulled out her own rifle and began returning fire through the gaping hole in her machine. For most, this would have been ineffective, but Ni-ki's precision and knowledge of kensai structure allowed her to provide meaningful support fire, actually taking out another kensai with her standard sniper rifle.The returned to base with only two operable kensai, the Ravens returning with the same, but with an extra kensai or two worth of parts.
Word of her marksmanship began going up the ranks, especially with the success of her next few missions, each in which her machine remained unscathed. As a joke, her squad began painting large green lines on the body of her kensai for each enemy she took out and would remove one for each hit she took. At age 21, her entire kensai was painted green, although Ni-ki things her companions fudged the numbers a bit with their painting. At this point, word of her deeds had reached the Director who awarded her with a customized Scharfschütze with a full green body and appropriate accents, granting her a jacket of the same green.
She is one of the most well known pilots for the UN and often the poster girl for recruitment.
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Age: 23
Gender: Female
Gift: N/A
Birthplace: Shard 22
Profession/Rank:
Kensai Piloted: SO-01 Scharfschütze CEGS
Affiliations: UN
Physical Appearance: Ni-ki is a tall, thinly built raven haired woman. Her face visibly shows some Japanese ancestry. Despite her thin build, she has a fair amount of muscle on her.
Clothing/Armor: Ni-ki's wears fairly standard attire for a woman in her position. As one of the aces for the UN's Arrow, Ni-ki has a bit more liberty with her attire - even if she doesn't often exercise it. As a partial joke, the Director gave her a dark green jacket instead of the standard black, a play off of the nickname he had given her as the Green Sniper, a reference to the pain color of her Kensai. The rest is standard attire for the UN.
Weapons: Handgun, combat knife, sniper rifle.
History: Ni-ki grew up on the capital shard of Era, shard 22. Middle class, Ni-ki never felt like she was really denied access to anything she needed, and she actually was able to grow up with many of her wants. Her parents made sure to go the extra mile with her education, using connections through her father's work to get her into the military Academy at the age of 14. When she graduated at the age of 18, she was noted to be one of their most accurate sharpshooters, while preforming above average in all of her other fields, allowing her to graduate with special commendation.
Ni-ki was assigned to a sniper division within Arc. After a year of pilot training, she was finally on her first mission, which went rather horribly. After an ambush with Raven forces, five of their frontline Shisso were taken out, leaving only two operable. Only one of the four snipers on the mission were taken out, leaving them with only five working kensai. The Raven's, eager to collect more kensai, quickly swooped in, outnumbering them nearly two to one. Ni-ki was able to take out two of their modified Shisso before they were within firing distance, but was incapacitated by one of the Raven's own snipers. The round passed through the right side of her cockpit, opening it up to the air, but leaving her unscathed. It was this mission where she would get her name. While the remainder of her squad fought, Ni-ki pulled out her own rifle and began returning fire through the gaping hole in her machine. For most, this would have been ineffective, but Ni-ki's precision and knowledge of kensai structure allowed her to provide meaningful support fire, actually taking out another kensai with her standard sniper rifle.The returned to base with only two operable kensai, the Ravens returning with the same, but with an extra kensai or two worth of parts.
Word of her marksmanship began going up the ranks, especially with the success of her next few missions, each in which her machine remained unscathed. As a joke, her squad began painting large green lines on the body of her kensai for each enemy she took out and would remove one for each hit she took. At age 21, her entire kensai was painted green, although Ni-ki things her companions fudged the numbers a bit with their painting. At this point, word of her deeds had reached the Director who awarded her with a customized Scharfschütze with a full green body and appropriate accents, granting her a jacket of the same green.
She is one of the most well known pilots for the UN and often the poster girl for recruitment.
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Kensai Pilot:
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Shadan and Suishou no longer need to be in the posts, since you two are departing.
Shio
"My method also doubles as a psychological counter tactic. Openness about my testing for poison is to show I am prepared for such a tactic."
Shio took a few bites of her food, absorbing what Kasumi had said about lasers. It was indeed an experience to learn from. The clear takeaway was that lasers were quite a formidable weapon and should be avoided if you are likely to have one directed at you.
"I would not steal myself," was all Shio said about Kasumi's wallet theft. It was not her place to comment on someone's behavior from the Touhou family, so she only said what she would do, even if it left the wrong assumption that she disapproved, when she in fact, was completely ambivalent. Her training had done more than allowed her to follow protocol, but truly believe it. She gestured to indicate she was not interested in the PDA.
"If I had killers, I would likely suspect there would be more than two of them, unless you count tentative plans," Shio responded, unsure of how to handle the comment. "I do not know if there is a way for me to prepare for lasers."
"My method also doubles as a psychological counter tactic. Openness about my testing for poison is to show I am prepared for such a tactic."
Shio took a few bites of her food, absorbing what Kasumi had said about lasers. It was indeed an experience to learn from. The clear takeaway was that lasers were quite a formidable weapon and should be avoided if you are likely to have one directed at you.
"I would not steal myself," was all Shio said about Kasumi's wallet theft. It was not her place to comment on someone's behavior from the Touhou family, so she only said what she would do, even if it left the wrong assumption that she disapproved, when she in fact, was completely ambivalent. Her training had done more than allowed her to follow protocol, but truly believe it. She gestured to indicate she was not interested in the PDA.
"If I had killers, I would likely suspect there would be more than two of them, unless you count tentative plans," Shio responded, unsure of how to handle the comment. "I do not know if there is a way for me to prepare for lasers."
Xzayler said
Oh yes... Exactly and make the reason fit to your character's personality.Your character is very serious so its not pissible to just say "hey whats up" to some dude.I hope more people join as well.Oh and am i supposed to know of this rite? Is it in the database?
It is just a reference, nothing super official. It is a reference to challenging each of the Arenas.
Shio
"Okay." Shio responded to her commentary on social interaction.
"I have a contingency to my poison check. Omu berries catch most poisons, even non-lethal ones. Hiding it would not be worth the effort."
Shio's response was one of the few subtle implications she was making, but it was entirely inadvertent and due to her inability to articulate her comfort at dealing with scenarios that didn't involve poison - either because they were likely not able to be prepared for, or because they fell within a scope of her talents that she was confident enough in to handle at a critical moment. If someone was trying to do something to her, and poison was eliminated, that would leave few options. An explosive was already handled by the aura from her Kujaku. Long range weaponry was also handled, for the most part, by the multiple ranges of vision. Spells and physical assault she was comfortable handling as they came, due to her training.
Shio also said nothing about Kasumi pickpocketing the man. He family was not on the same status as Kasumi's, so unless there was some transgression against herself personally, it was not her place to comment on the matter.
In an effort to 'add to the conversation', Shio let loose the first synaptic firing, "What do you think about lasers?"
"Okay." Shio responded to her commentary on social interaction.
"I have a contingency to my poison check. Omu berries catch most poisons, even non-lethal ones. Hiding it would not be worth the effort."
Shio's response was one of the few subtle implications she was making, but it was entirely inadvertent and due to her inability to articulate her comfort at dealing with scenarios that didn't involve poison - either because they were likely not able to be prepared for, or because they fell within a scope of her talents that she was confident enough in to handle at a critical moment. If someone was trying to do something to her, and poison was eliminated, that would leave few options. An explosive was already handled by the aura from her Kujaku. Long range weaponry was also handled, for the most part, by the multiple ranges of vision. Spells and physical assault she was comfortable handling as they came, due to her training.
Shio also said nothing about Kasumi pickpocketing the man. He family was not on the same status as Kasumi's, so unless there was some transgression against herself personally, it was not her place to comment on the matter.
In an effort to 'add to the conversation', Shio let loose the first synaptic firing, "What do you think about lasers?"
Shio
"Yes," Shio responded to Kasumi's only question, sitting at the table with her in the directed seat. She mentally communicated for her Kujaku to carry her to safety should the drink be inexplicably laced with something, a habit she had picked up from her father. He had ingrained it well into her to not trust food items that you didn't prepare. When they did eat out at restaurants, only two people in the family could eat at a time, to ensure that if there was a poison, that it wouldn't all take effect at the same time. Of course, in no instance had they actually ever been poisoned, but they, as a family, made the atmosphere of the restaurant sufficiently awkward.
Thankfully the waiter arrived with Shio's order, noting that she had switched tables. She nodded to him in thanks before beginning to take a large bite of the noodle dish, after placing the bowl of fresh Omu berries in from of the her Kujaku. The psychic peacock Natrelmon began pecking at the place rapidly, gobbling down as many of the berries as possible. The advantage to Omu berries as an order, was that it was clear if they had been tampered by anything, as the specific secretions from the berry changed colors when affected by most other compounds, so Shio was comfortable with her Kujaku eating at the same time as her. Out of habit, she grabbed one of the berries and dropped it into the drink Kasumi had offered her, observing the color change before taking a drink.
Shio did pause after her fight for an abnormal amount of time, bits of the noddles still in her mouth as she examined the food. It wasn't so much as savoring it, but dual purpose checking it for anything that might be out of the ordinary. Having known the dish well, another habit her father had taught her, she could easily pick up on extra additions to the dish - likely even if they were flavorless due to the change in texture or weight. After determining that her food was likely not poisoned, she took another bite and swallowed much more swiftly.
"Yes," Shio responded to Kasumi's only question, sitting at the table with her in the directed seat. She mentally communicated for her Kujaku to carry her to safety should the drink be inexplicably laced with something, a habit she had picked up from her father. He had ingrained it well into her to not trust food items that you didn't prepare. When they did eat out at restaurants, only two people in the family could eat at a time, to ensure that if there was a poison, that it wouldn't all take effect at the same time. Of course, in no instance had they actually ever been poisoned, but they, as a family, made the atmosphere of the restaurant sufficiently awkward.
Thankfully the waiter arrived with Shio's order, noting that she had switched tables. She nodded to him in thanks before beginning to take a large bite of the noodle dish, after placing the bowl of fresh Omu berries in from of the her Kujaku. The psychic peacock Natrelmon began pecking at the place rapidly, gobbling down as many of the berries as possible. The advantage to Omu berries as an order, was that it was clear if they had been tampered by anything, as the specific secretions from the berry changed colors when affected by most other compounds, so Shio was comfortable with her Kujaku eating at the same time as her. Out of habit, she grabbed one of the berries and dropped it into the drink Kasumi had offered her, observing the color change before taking a drink.
Shio did pause after her fight for an abnormal amount of time, bits of the noddles still in her mouth as she examined the food. It wasn't so much as savoring it, but dual purpose checking it for anything that might be out of the ordinary. Having known the dish well, another habit her father had taught her, she could easily pick up on extra additions to the dish - likely even if they were flavorless due to the change in texture or weight. After determining that her food was likely not poisoned, she took another bite and swallowed much more swiftly.
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