Yeah, so if it drains all your mana and instakills the character the second they make an attempt at it, is that ever gonna come up? And then without it it's just a kind of shitty version of the other swords, so it's like why even have it when you could use that space for something cooler?
Like, I dunno, Kusanagi or Tyrfing or whatever. Something fancy.
I'm unfamiliar with Fate, but wouldn't that mean that there'd be no point in having Excalibur on the CS in the first place if it's too expensive to ever use? I mean, if it's that draining, then just summoning it would deplete her mana and cause her to cease to exist the second she tried it, right? So, like, that's not even a suicide attack, really. It's just flat-out suicide. That seems a bit silly is all. You might want to trade it out for something cooler and more usable.
Canon, AU, or OC?: Canon Universe of Origin: Gensokyo Personality: The wicked hermit Seiga Kaku is a whimsical sort of person whose vocabulary fails to include phrases such as "trespassing", "private property", and "the sancticity of human life". She's the type of person who becomes interested quickly, and tends to lose interest just as fast. Overall, her primary interests are spreading Taoism and preserving her own existence by any means necessary. Also, on Christmas Eve she dresses up like Santa and robs people, selling their own belongings back to them later. What a jerk.
Abilities: Capable of Passing Through Walls: Seiga's most prominent power is the ability to create holes in walls using the chisel she wears as a hairpin, which close a short while later. She has been said to have issues bypassing certain walls- it seems to be harder the more porous and soft the wall is, as a rubber cage is described as an effective deterrent. Abilities as a Shikaisen: Like all hermits, Seiga has the ability to hide her home, so that only one who knows a specific series of movements is capable of reaching it. Additionally, she is capable of surviving indefinitely on nothing more than fog, and in spite of her appearance her body is said to be tougher than steel. Finally, she has hidden her soul away inside of an object, though it is unknown what object or where it is located. As such, she is capable of changing her appearance as she likes. Abilities as a Taoist: As a Taoist magician that discovered and completed the steps necessary to become a shikaisen and has shown herself capable of creating a jiang-shi, it can be assumed Seiga has a general knowledge of sorcery. Additionally, like many touhous, Seiga is capable of flight as well as tossing out excessive amounts of bullets and lasers pretty much whenever.
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A jiang-shi of unknown age created by Seiga, Yoshika doesn't understand her own past due to the decayed state of her brain, and Seiga refuses to speak of how or why the creature came to be. Pieced-together evidence indicates Yoshika was fatally poisoned at a fairly young age by unknown means, and her family, if she had one, failed to investigate this further. She seems to have enjoyed poetry at some point in her life, jusdging by her actions when left unattended in the Myouren Temple graveyard. As far as recent history goes, she guarded the Grand Masouleum for at least two years prior to the events of the Ten Desires incident. From the Ten Desires incident onwards, she has been reunited with her master, following Seiga wherever she goes.
As far as abilities go, Yoshika possesses the ability to eat anything, along with the abilities possessed by jiang-shi, such as the ability to turn others into jiang-shi with a bite (temporarily if they survive the bite, permanently if it kills them), the ability to drain qi, and an inability to feel pain or fatigue, among others. Overall, Yoshika isn't very bright, but she's incredibly loyal to her master.
Backstory: A wicked hermit from China, nobody is sure of Seiga's past before she met Toyosatomimi no Miko. The two worked together for a time, Seiga teaching Miko and her subordinates the steps necessary to achieve immortality as a shikaisen. Later, legends of Toyosatomimi faded from prominence, and the Grand Mausoleum where they hid themselves to escape their natural deaths (later being sealed within by Buddhist monks) was transported to Gensokyo. Later still, the Taoists, including Seiga, were involved in an incident wherein a large number of divine spirits appeared in Gensokyo. After receiving the standard Gensokyo welcome from Reimu, she settled down.
Later, after escaping the most recent attempt on her life by one of Hell's assassins, Seiga discovered her lax lifestyle had made her incapable of defeating a kishin chief in combat, and was forced to flee beyond the Great Hakurei Barrier, unable to return until she was powerful enough to defeat her assassin. Being lazy and possessing an aversion to hard work of any kind, Seiga has decided that, rather than train, she'll simply find a weapon capable of exterminating a kishin and call it a day.
She can't feasibly eat people and weapons and the like mid-combat because she's not Kirby. She can't eat attacks because you can't fit attacks in your mouth. They're an action, not an object.
Becoming a jiangshi is a temporary condition. This is explicitly stated in her Symposium of Post-Mysticism profile. It's a status effect.
Her eat anything ability is used for chewing, swallowing, and digesting things she puts in her mouth.
Her ability to create jiangshi is used for creating jiangshi, temporarily if the subject is living, permanently if the subject is killed by Yoshika.
Those are Yoshika's canon abilities, so I included them. I admit I'm unsure of what's so concerning about what amounts to an undead, amnesiac Matter Eater Lad.
Excuse me, @VitaVitaAR? I notice you've been on for a little while now, so I was wondering if you could take a look at my updated CS? I've added a bio for Yoshika like you asked me to.
It could communicate if it actually wanted to talk to you. It's an asshole, so it doesn't. Plus: canon part of the ending. It's an undead monstrosity that is also basically a pet.
So basically, One of Many is an undead monstrosity kept as a pet, who is capable of conversing but chooses not to, and is invisible most of the time. Meanwhile, Yoshika is an undead monstrosity kept as a pet, who is capable of conversing and occasionally does so, and is visible all the time. But Yoshika shouldn't be allowed?
One-of-Many never actually talks to anyone but the PC. Via telepathy. And is generally this visible. Something people might actually talk with it that would be roleplayed, it ain't.
I was actually referring to Dante, who IIRC has sapient Devil Arms. That being said, isn't having a character who cannot communicate and exists only to give your first character additional powers considered poor form?
