Name: Lily Strider
Alias: Inari
Race: Kitsune/Fox Spirit (was once human)
Sex: Female
Class: Trickster
Appearance: As a human Lily might have been described as simply pretty, but following her transformation from human to something mythological, there is no denying her striking, youthful, beauty. She is a comparatively tall woman, standing at 175cm, built slender and athletic yet with prominent assets, who presents herself with a calm and oftentimes aloof front - standing straight-backed and observant.
While not immediately obvious, closer inspection will reveal and Eastern Asian heritage, mixed with European blood, granting her large, expressive eyes, coloured a brilliant blue - brown, when she was still human - full lips, and a fair, heart-shaped face that gives her a surprisingly gentle look, counteracting the feral nature that her slitted pupils, elongated canines, and large, vulpine ears atop her head seem to imply. Perhaps most important of all, regarding her mythological side, are the nine, snow white, fox tails, growing out from behind her, each almost as long as she is tall and - were she to be a judge - delightfully fluffy and soft.
Of the features she has retained from when she was human, her hair is the most noticeable. Hanging free, the cascades of jet black hair, falling down her back, would reach to her thighs; straight and thick. She, however, most often wears
it in one thick braid, tied at the end with a red silk ribbon gifted to her by her lover once. She also sports extraordinarily long
finger nails, growing out entirely straight and tapering to a softly rounded point at the end. They are perpetually coloured a purpleish blue. It is not, however, by choice, as she has yet to learn shapeshifting, and her powers thus force her into her current appearance, regrowing nails and hair should it be cut.
She started off the tournament wearing a jacket over a black t-shirt, leggings and a knee-length skirt, however circumstances has robbed her of her skirt and jacket, leaving her wearing only her stockings and tight t-shirt. Parts of both articles have dark spots of dried blood, where bullets have previously hit her.
Equipment:Short of her own clothes, Lily is a fighter without weapons, preferring instead her wits and quick reflexes. She does have with her a pack of food and other necessities.
Abilities: Lily is a quick and agile individual, possessing speed and agility far beyond human limitations. Besides various tricks of the trade like pickpocketing, deft and nimble finger, gymnastics, parkour, and the skill to hide almost anywhere, Lily possesses vast magical powers focused almost solely around the illusory and evocation schools.
Thanks to the relatively limited repertoire of abilities her transformation has granted her, she has been able to become incredibly skilled in their use, in just ten years that she has had them. These abilities include, true to the the mythology, being able to conjure and control fire and lightning, create vivid and intricate illusions capable of tricking all five senses. The power of her illusions, so to speak, is determined by how much her opponent believes them to be true. She could conjure the image of a boulder and let it fall down upon her adversary, and - if believed to be real - they would feel the impact and the pain as if it were a boulder. They would not, however, be hurt by it, only believe so. Essentially, the more gullible or less thoughtful her opponent is, the more likely that her illusions work as intended.
As for her destructive abilities, she has a total of three types of magic: Fire, lightning, and force. Force is the least complicated of the three, and simply allows her to sends forth a wave of nearly invisible kinetic energy at short to medium range, the origin point of the blast being anywhere on her person. It is a simple cantrip that, none the less, packs enough of a punch to dent a one inch steel plate.
Fire and lightning are somewhat more complex.
Rubbing her tails together creates friction and static electricity, which stores up electricity for Lily to use, and unleash at later points. The range and power of this varies greatly, from melee to dozens, if not over a hundred, metres. The longer away it is, the more of her stored power she had to unleash. Among other things, this means that she can replicate a taser by touching, or create full on lightning strikes at great range by unleashing it all at once, or most of it. The more powerful her lightning strike is, the more power she needs to store up again.
Fire obeys the same rules as lightning, in that she uses the friction of her tails to generate heat that becomes her foxfire: Blue orbs of flame the size of a tennis ball. The difference here is that she cannot store up "fuel" for these, but has to generate it on the go. Doing so makes number of foxfires materialize in the air around her, moving under her command. She can then fire them at her opponents, directing them in whatever manoeuvres and directions she desires. Contact, or manual detonation, results in explosions equal to that of a small rocket each.
Fighting Style:Lily is a trickster, meaning that she is not someone to directly confront an opponent. She has the ability to unleash devastating attacks, but doing so drains her and leaves her vulnerable until she can charge up more electricity or conjure more fire. For that reason she makes good use of her own craftiness to avoid direct confrontation whenever possible. For this purpose she uses her illusions to misdirect and mislead her opponent, either tricking them into thinking that she is somewhere that she isn't, or that some attack is incoming when there isn't any. She likes to take her time to analyse her opponent, using the time her illusions grant her to spot weaknesses and opportunities, and strike at the most opportune moment. Other uses includes creating terrifying spectres, intimidating beasts, or even creatures that are beyond beautiful. What she uses depends almost entirely upon her opponent, and what she has gleaned about them during the bout.
One of her commonly used tricks is to create an illusion of herself standing a short distance away from an illusion she has created of herself, while rendering herself invisible. This allows her to strike unseen, and misdirect attacks.
As for uses of her more practical powers: She might use lightning to stun, or fire to blind, further allowing her to sow confusion in her opponent's mind. She thrives in misdirection, making her opponent think that an attack is coming from the front, when in actuality she is behind them, ready to unleash a blast of lightning, or crack their spine with a well-placed force-blast.
Against foes that can not reliably be fooled by her trickery, she instead hides and strikes from a distance, setting up illusory traps that, if nothing else, will momentarily confuse her adversary and give her time to set up for a lethal strike.
With the addition of Brucie on her team, she has become of the habit of using him as an ace, in that she takes on the role as bait and distracts her opponent, allowing Brucie to deliver crippling blows. Depending on the opponent she might do it the other way, and use him as a distraction while she readies a lethal strike.
Personality: Lily is not a kind person.
For those that know her this is an important thing to remember. Lily does not know kindness like others do.
Growing up an orphan and living alone in the streets of the London suburbs has hardened her. It was a life that left little place for pleasantries and altruism. Especially for those with whom Lily shared nothing, or very little. There was one, however, with whom she shared a great deal, and it was because of him that she has not become a hollow shell of a human without compassion. She experienced very little of it, and so has come to treasure tiny deeds and sacrifices, as meaning far more than any grand gesture. This fact, along with the presence of the man known as Max, is why she has not become jaded like so many others who shared her life.
She acts aloof and disinterested in most things, keeping many of her thoughts hidden from those outside. But inside she is much more. She pays close attention to how people around her act, matching her own behaviour to match how she perceives theirs. Arrogance or pride is met with disregard and provocation. Anger is met with calm and smiles that never reach her eyes. Boorishness is faced with mocking comments and gestures. When faced with anything unsavoury and negative, she does her best to draw out the worst in them, forcing them to either face themselves, or to fall when she topples down their pedestal. The only exceptions to this rule is if she is keenly aware of an enormous difference in power, and suspects that her own life might be forfeit if she does not conform to whatever standards are expected of her in the eyes of whoever possesses these negative triats. But even then she does only the bare minimum.
On the other hand, kindness is met with kindness. Loyalty with loyalty. If genuine, she will return whatever she is given as best she can.
So while she is not kind, that does not mean that she does not sympathise with others in ways that no one else does. And though she usually acts rough and aloof, the shells she has formed around her heart, hides a compassionate soul that understands loss, grief, loneliness, and love in ways that so many others never even consider. To her, love from a family is not something that is expected, but love in general is something that has to be well and truly earned.
Bio: Who ever thought but there would be more than one world in existence? Not planets, but dimensions. A universe like ours only different - key points in time having been altered in such a way, that everything had evolved and changed in new and unimaginable ways. And to live in one where every mythological creature had returned from the legends not half a millennia past?
Lily Strider, street urchin, would never have thought that possible had that not been her reality - living in a world connected to four other realms, different yet similar. Then again her life and everyday was focused around trying to find food and shelter. Dry days were difficult, wet days even worse. Even the hot days, those normal people looked forward to, brought with them their own sets of challenges. Where the cold days made it difficult to stay warm, hot days made food spoil quicker which could be just as disastrous as being sick in the winter.
Lily lived with a man called Max since the first day she could remember. She had no mother or father, nor siblings, familiar only with the same old alleys every night and, of course, Max. The only person she had to look up to, and the only person she loved and who loved her. She never knew why she lived in the streets of some suburb outside of London, only that it had forever been her life, and it most likely would for ever be where she lived. It was here that she learned to pickpocket, steal, run, hide, and generally use her head to survive as she had no other choice, if she didn't want to go hungry. In the time they spent together, Max had taught her much, but however much she wished it, even his time on earth would not be eternal.
One winter, when the weather had been especially harsh, Max had given her his only blanket when she sat freezing one night, which only resulted in him falling sick himself. It was a downhill road from that point onward. Max became more and more sick as the days passed. Lily got him food and clothes, but he kept insisting that she should keep what she found for herself, for he knew that he would get healthy again soon. She would refuse, repeating again and again that she would help him recover however long it took, and he continued to tell her that she ought to look after herself and not him. It was a mantra he continued to say this until he said it for the last time, and lay still one spring morning.
That was the day Lily lost the only thing she had ever loved. And the day she closed off her heart.
From that day onwards Lily Strider lived her life alone, caring for naught but her own safety and survival. She stole and tricked and cheated her way through the next couple of years, doing whatever she had to to live. And that was okay. She had nothing to care about except her own survival. A couple of years later, during her late teens, a war broke out between the four realms that had, until now, lived in peace with each other. The largest of the four realms thought it would be better, if they were all ruled by the same government. When the preposition was shut down by the leaders of the other three Realms, they directed their efforts towards a more militaristic approach. It quickly conquered the smallest of the realms, arming its soldiers with their own technology and set them unto a war of conquest against the others. The world in which Lily lived was the third strongest, their only ally now being the second strongest. In an effort to combat the advanced technology of their would-be invaders they joined forces to create technology, that would effectively make a human into one of the mythological creatures that roamed the worlds.
With the aid of some of these mythological creatures, they managed to develop something akin to Gene splicing. It altered a recipient to the point where there was only the personality left of their human past. In some cases, like with Lily's, she's still retained much of her pre-transformation appearance, only that it was enhanced so to speak - making her beautiful when she had been simply pretty at best.
At the age of eighteen, Lily chose to volunteer for the program. They had promised food, shelter, and - to her - exorbitant amounts of money exchange for her services. It was a chance to get out of the street and, perhaps, lead a normal life, so she took it. She was found to be compatible with the nine tailed Fox, and so she became one herself. The girl who had once street urchin was transformed into living weapon, sent to fight those who would rule over them.
The war lasted ten years, but in the end they were able to push back the aggressor, and sealed off access to their Worlds, and so ensured their safety. In those years, Lily changed. She had promised herself never to love again, to never let herself be drawn in with someone only to lose them. Yet she found herself surrounded with people she now consider to be friends: Sindri Haynes, Alice Blackwood, Lilith Akhtar, Celica Dancer, and finally Tsukiko - a young, japanese woman. She seemed to be one whose flippant and never-ending happiness and joy seemed to be the primary traits of their character. And in spite of her sixteen year old promises, the stone around Lily's heart cracked and she slowly, but surely, learned how to love and trust again. This woman gave her the courage to be compassionate, and while she still has a long way to go, she is miles ahead from where she started.
Now, Lily has come to the one place where she knows that there is a chance to complete her family. A chance to repay the man who, in spite of having almost nothing, still decided to take care of a little child who had nothing, and no one.
Wish: A family - for Max to be brought back to life, to live with her and Tsukiko, her lover, as a family.
Echo: A suburbian area but clean and well maintained houses on either side of the road, and within each house is a replicate of the rooms where Lily and Tsukiko lived during the war, as well as the abodes of her friends. The gardens are simple and, while not overgrown, are not entirely well kept either. Simple grass lawns, with the occasional small pond or flowerbed.
Frenzy:It happens that Lily is overcome by Rage, when something she truly cares about is threatened or ridiculed in front of her. Were such a thing to happen, her Frenzied state would cause her tails and nails to turn black, her irises becoming yellow and feral looking. In this state she is not quite out of control, but rather loses every shred of compassion and mercy, instead focusing on the single purpose that is the ruination of any obstruction in her path.
When frenzied, Lily's illusory powers become tremendously more powerful to the point of allowing her to warp reality. Provided she is intimately familiar with an individual, object, or area, she becomes capable of making it real for the duration of her Frenzy, upon the end of which it disappears or returns to normal. In essence, she can alter the surrounding terrain (make a cityblock into a dense forest, fx.), create replicas of old friends and comrades, as powerful as they are in life, and/or temporarily create or alter objects (make a knife into a sword, or a stick into a spear).
[It goes without saying that she cannot erase an opponent from existence, or grant her own wish. Only inanimate objects and flora are eligible 'targets' for having their reality manipulated]Inventory:- Phylactery
- Flask
- Transmutes any liquid poured in, into a golden healing tonic.
- Glasses
- Phoenix Feather
- Revives a dead person in a shower of light, but is consumed.
- Globe
- Projects a holographic map of the entire city. Also usable as a key for a certain machine.
- Longsword
- Automatic Rifle (Brucie)
- 60 Rounds (30 in rifle, 30 in spare) (Brucie)
- 2 Frag & 2 Smoke grenades (Brucie)
- 4 Rockets for Brucie's 'Launcher (Brucie)
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