"Life isn't something can dismiss so easily. No matter how bitter it might be, you still have to grit your teeth and swallow it, if you want to call yourself 'human'..."
Name Asamiya Reiko, the "Scarlet Sage"
Age21
GenderFemale
AppearanceAt 1,64 meters, Reiko stands a bit above of the average height for a Japanese woman of her age, having an also above average 53 kilograms weight without any excess body fat, meaning that her silhouette isn't as shapely as she would like it to. Reiko's most eye catching features are her reddish brown hair and eyes, both of which are very rare among pure Japanese people, a telltale sign that her has mingled with foreigners sometime in the past, or is of Ainu descent.
When it comes to clothing, Reiko makes a point of always dressing in feminine garments, she favors a red pleated miniskirt along with a white turtleneck and matching red heel boots. When the weather is colder, she throws in a white coat with red trimmings as well as black tights, since she despises pants, specially denim ones. No matter the weather, or season, Reiko will always bee seen wearing a long reddish scarf following the tradition of the women of the Asamiya clan to always wear such garments as a mark of their lineage.
PersonalityAt her core, Reiko is a deeply conflicted and hurt person who tends to keep to herself in order to avoid more pain. That comes in stark contrast with her empathic nature, meaning that while Reiko wants to connect to others, she refrains from doing so because of her past experiences, which in turn causes more grief to the young woman.
Aside from that, Reiko is a someone who loves to immerse herself in reading and music, and is more prone to open herself to individuals who share her tastes. She believes that romantic love, while being the most desirable thing in our earthly existences, is also something that's nothing but an ever distant utopia, shining in the horizon, always one step away from one's grasp.
Lastly, while Reiko might be a tame person that dislikes hurting others, no matter the cause, she has a strong sense of justice and iron clad will, meaning that she'll not hesitate to do whatever is necessary to stop threats to innocent lives. No matter if those lives, or the threat perpetrators are human or youmu.
ProfessionCollege student, majoring in Philosophy.
Abilities
Reiko's clan power is the ability to generate what's known as a "Spirit Maze", a barrier of variable size. Targets inside this maze with no walls, get their mind and spiritual power ruined over time and can die if they don't find a way out of it before they are completely spent.
The effect of the barrier manifests itself as translucent red butterflies that flock around the targets and give them illusion based on their own memories of traumatic or hurtful events, as well as vision of their loved ones and such things as the barrier slowly erodes their coherent thinking. The more butterflies one sees, the more closer to depletion they are.
Reiko can chose what targets to affect, though she must be aware of them, as anyone inside of the barrier's boundary is subject to its effect no matter of things like line of sight or Reiko's awareness of them. The barrier is stationary upon its creation, though Reiko can simply dismiss it and do a new one whenever she wishes to. Upon it's creation the "Spirit Maze's" maximum size is of about 8 meters, but it grows slowly, until it reaches the maximum possible diameter of about 250 meters in five minutes after its creation. No matter how much of a genius Reiko might be, she can only have one "Spirit Maze" active at a time, trying to create another will always erase the first and reset its size.
Lastly, the barrier's boundary is permeable from both sides, meaning that one can enter and leave it rather easily, though, the illusions and inherent disorientation from having their mind eaten away, tends make sure that the targets don't leave until Reiko wills so.
Parameters:
- Initial Diameter: aprox. 8 meters/ aprox. 50,2 m2.
- Maximum Diameter: aprox. 256 meters/ aprox. 51.445,8 m2.
- Rate of Expansion: aprox. 0,83 meters per second.
- Time to Reach Maximum Size: 300 seconds.
- Targets: Anyone in the area, except those Reiko wishes to spare.
- Effect: Mental/Spiritual drain.
- Intensity: Increases with time, but depends on the target's willpower. An average youmu/spirit world warrior would be rendered powerless in about two minutes.
Aside from the "Spiritual Maze", Reiko's only mean of fighting back her enemies is using her scarf as sort of weapon, since it's made from magical fibers that make it impossibly resistant. While she can use it to attack in a whip-like fashion, it's meant primarily as a defensive tool to parry and shield her from attacks as well as bind her enemies until she can deal with them properly. The strength of the bind increases based on the target's remaining spiritual power, meaning that it's not a good tactic to rely on it too much inside of the "Spiritual Maze".
HistoryReiko was born as one of the last descendants of the Asamiya clan, an old lineage of spirit world warriors dating back to the Sengoku period, at the very least, though, for some reason only the women of the clan have powers. She has always been considered a genius and from the moment of her birth was burdened with the fate of the Asamiya bloodline, while her younger sister, Tsubaki, got to enjoy a much more forgiving childhood. Nevertheless, Reiko always stood proud and accepted her fate, mostly to spare Tsubaki of it.
Things got a bit more complicated after their parents death, during a youmu hunt a couple years ago, since the sisters had to move in to their grandmother's. The elderly woman isn't a bad person, she's too strict and her relationship with Reiko degenerated fast and once she tried to force Reiko in an arranged marriage, the young woman simply got fed up and left home. She never told Tsubaki about her reasons for leaving, which caused their bond to become strained, which Reiko griefs every now and then.
The last event worth of note on Reiko's history happened a year ago, when she met a young man who was majoring in Mathematics at the same college as she was taking her Philosophy course. Despite all the common sense, Reiko fell in love with him and, after much thinking, revealed the truth about her to the him, only to have he be assassinated by a group of conservative spirit world warriors, who wanted to up hold the masquerade, not very long after.
Now, convinced that she has no place to call home, or anywhere se really belongs to, Reiko transferred in to the Tsukihari University. Reiko decided to try to begin her life anew, away from the scars of her past, though only time will tell if they are going to heal, or bleed until she dies.
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