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World Building Project

Have to second this, very few people have said much of anything

Kyoukai no Kanata- Reverberance

• Name: Mizuki Kumiko
• Age: 16
• Gender: Female
• Appearance: Street Dragon. She has black hair, dark green eyes, and light skin. The flame-like auras around her ofuda and Tsuiho no Ken are blue. Her shirt is white and orange, her jacket is black, and her skirt is also black. She is 5'3/160 cm.
• Personality: Kumiko is an antisocial girl with a strong reputation as some kind of delinquent. This is reinforced by her tendency to blow others off, keep to herself, and go out late at night looking like she's dressed to cause trouble. Kumiko doesn't like talking to others and tends to, quite simply, tell them to go away if they try and engage her or start of a friendship. She's not completely defined by her lack of association with others, however. Kumiko likes quiet places and soft music(though she has a few more aggressive songs she likes as well), and she has something of a weakness for sweets. However, she also has a short temper, an aggressive dislike of the kinds of people who screw with others for their own benefit, and a dedication to her duty of the elimination of malignant youmu. Still, she comes off as an antisocial delinquent with a violent streak.
• Profession: High School Student
• Abilities: Kumiko's family has an ability best described as Onmyodo. Utilizing traditional shinto mysticism, she can create ofuda from strips of paper with various onmyodo spells written on them. These can have basic effects when deployed alone, such as binding a youmu or forming a very temporary barrier that shatters after one attack. The chief purpose they possess, however, is exorcism. Utilized in a ritual, Kumiko can expel youmu inhabiting a target's body, or even kill some weak youmu. The ritual, however, takes some time to conduct. When applied to her own body, Kumiko can cause her punches and kicks to harm youmu far more seriously than they otherwise would. Applied directly to the bodies of youmu, this can be used to blow holes in their bodies or even light them on fire depending on the inscribed spell. However, there is one technique that Kumiko is unable to perform as of now.
  
  • Tsuiho no Ken: The Banishing Blade and the ultimate tool for exorcisms in the Mizuki family, it is a medium-length katana formed from a thousand ofuda, condensed to form a blade made of paper capable of triggering a thousand instantaneous exorcisms by striking a target. Even incorporeal youmu are not safe from the Banishing Blade. It is incredibly sharp and dangerous as well, and appears to burn from the spiritual power invested in it. However, this power is not without its cost. Not only is it incredibly time-consuming to create a thousand ofuda that will be spent after use for this technique, but it is extremely straining on the body. The last member of the Mizuki family to utilize the technique died in the process(though it may not have been the Tsuiho no Ken that killed him). The maximum operating time for the technique is five minutes, and that is a potentially lethal stretch of time to be using Tsuiho no Ken. In addition, Kumiko has not found herself capable of replicating the technique, met with failure at every turn.
• History: The Mizuki family line is nearly gone. Kumiko has been unable to contact other members of her family for a long time, since the death of her uncle. It is possible they still exist in other parts of Japan, but Kumiko is unaware if they do. She was raised by her uncle, who taught her the techniques of the Mizuki family, including Tsuiho no Ken. He instilled in her a dedication to hunt malignant youmu, but unfortunately did not instill particularly good social skills into her. This was made worse by the death of her uncle. He died using the Tsuiho no Ken, though if that was truly what lead to his death, Kumiko does not know. Regardless, even with the memory of her uncle's death she still desires to hunt youmu. She still wishes to master the technique that may have killed the man who raised her. She lives alone in an apartment now.
• Other: Kumiko carries a duffle bag of ofuda on her for quick access whenever they are needed.

Kyoukai no Kanata- Reverberance

I'll point out that 15-16 is a first year in Japanese Highschool. ^^; 16-17 is second year, 17-18 is third year. So you could be sixteen and in your first year.

Also, the duffle bag has to be big enough so she can fight comfortably without too much fear of running out, but aside from that it's not huge or anything.

World Building Project

@Rin: Well, like you and @Raineh Daze have said, I don't really like that idea for orcs.

Far North Dark Elves with some Nordic influence sound interesting though. But I still think there should be some elven "elegance" to things built by all the elf types in this. I mean as in the smooth fancy architecture if that makes any sense. ^^;

... Also I haven't really gotten any opinions on any of my suggestions either.

Aurora, The Land of Twilight and Falsities

Well she hadn't really been stepping on them before, and until recently neither of the other characters was close.

I'm going to be working something out, though.

Aurora, The Land of Twilight and Falsities

Okay, hmm, um... not quite sure what to do since my character hasn't really been addressed. ^^;

Kyoukai no Kanata- Reverberance

... Oh, I forgot to do those details. ^^; I'll edit.

She has to make the ofuda, using proper sized pieces of paper and the right kind of ink. The paper doesn't matter, the talismen just needs to exist and undergo the proper conversion into ofuda. She has to make them up beforehand.

She doesn't know what happened to her parents, she just remembers being raised by her uncle.

Not... huge? I don't have a clear idea for size but she can stuff a lot of ofuda in it. But it's still not really big or anything.

Kyoukai no Kanata- Reverberance

• Name: Mizuki Kumiko
• Age: 16
• Gender: Female
• Appearance: Street Dragon. She has black hair, dark green eyes, and light skin. The flame-like auras around her ofuda and Tsuiho no Ken are blue. Her shirt is white and orange, her jacket is black, and her skirt is also black. She is 5'3/160 cm.
• Personality: Kumiko is an antisocial girl with a strong reputation as some kind of delinquent. This is reinforced by her tendency to blow others off, keep to herself, and go out late at night looking like she's dressed to cause trouble. Kumiko doesn't like talking to others and tends to, quite simply, tell them to go away if they try and engage her or start of a friendship. She's not completely defined by her lack of association with others, however. Kumiko likes quiet places and soft music(though she has a few more aggressive songs she likes as well), and she has something of a weakness for sweets. However, she also has a short temper, an aggressive dislike of the kinds of people who screw with others for their own benefit, and a dedication to her duty of the elimination of malignant youmu. Still, she comes off as an antisocial delinquent with a violent streak.
• Profession: High School Student
• Abilities: Kumiko's family has an ability best described as Onmyodo. Utilizing traditional shinto mysticism, she can create ofuda from strips of paper with various onmyodo spells written on them. These can have basic effects when deployed alone, such as binding a youmu or forming a very temporary barrier that shatters after one attack. The chief purpose they possess, however, is exorcism. Utilized in a ritual, Kumiko can expel youmu inhabiting a target's body, or even kill some weak youmu. The ritual, however, takes some time to conduct. When applied to her own body, Kumiko can cause her punches and kicks to harm youmu far more seriously than they otherwise would. Applied directly to the bodies of youmu, this can be used to blow holes in their bodies or even light them on fire depending on the inscribed spell. However, there is one technique that Kumiko is unable to perform as of now.
  
  • Tsuiho no Ken: The Banishing Blade and the ultimate tool for exorcisms in the Mizuki family, it is a medium-length katana formed from a thousand ofuda, condensed to form a blade made of paper capable of triggering a thousand instantaneous exorcisms by striking a target. Even incorporeal youmu are not safe from the Banishing Blade. It is incredibly sharp and dangerous as well, and appears to burn from the spiritual power invested in it. However, this power is not without its cost. Not only is it incredibly time-consuming to create a thousand ofuda that will be spent after use for this technique, but it is extremely straining on the body. The last member of the Mizuki family to utilize the technique died in the process(though it may not have been the Tsuiho no Ken that killed him). The maximum operating time for the technique is five minutes, and that is a potentially lethal stretch of time to be using Tsuiho no Ken. In addition, Kumiko has not found herself capable of replicating the technique, met with failure at every turn.
• History: The Mizuki family line is nearly gone. Kumiko has been unable to contact other members of her family for a long time, since the death of her uncle. It is possible they still exist in other parts of Japan, but Kumiko is unaware if they do. She was raised by her uncle, who taught her the techniques of the Mizuki family, including Tsuiho no Ken. He instilled in her a dedication to hunt malignant youmu, but unfortunately did not instill particularly good social skills into her. This was made worse by the death of her uncle. He died using the Tsuiho no Ken, though if that was truly what lead to his death, Kumiko does not know. Regardless, even with the memory of her uncle's death she still desires to hunt youmu. She still wishes to master the technique that may have killed the man who raised her. She lives alone in an apartment now.
• Other: Kumiko carries a duffle bag of ofuda on her for quick access whenever they are needed.

Kyoukai no Kanata- Reverberance

Kara no Kyoukai is my favorite favorite favorite animated movie series of all time. :D

Also, actually just started this series but I really like it and this seems pretty spoiler-free so interested!

Aurora, The Land of Twilight and Falsities

@Kangutso: I kind of figured you might run into one of our characters, yeah. ^^;

And Tsubaki kind of is not one to immediately jump into thinking something so weird is real even if it feels like it, it's just not in her character.