Name: Gullien (no last name)
Nickname: Gulli, occasionally G
Born: Sometime in the early 1940s
Age: Late 20s/early 30s
Gender: Basically female
Profession: Retired ninja, currently a professional koi and nimue breeder
Special Notes: Gullien has a large tanuki tail. Although she has perfect control over it, she doesn't usually let other people know that. She is never seen in public without her ninja band on. Those who are sensitive to magic may notice that there are several strong binding spells weaven into the band. The clan marking on the band has been scratched over, although it appears to have been some sort of wing. Gullien is fairly scarred on the arms and chest, although all the scars are very thin and faded.
Special Abilities: Gullien has a mastery of basic ninjitsu. She is very physically agile and has command of a range of various offensive and defensive jitsu. She has some amount of earth-based magic, although she was taught to incorperate it into her jitsus and thus really doesn't comprehend it as magic. She tends to have good rapor with animals. Even if they don't like her, she can usually read their body language very well. Gullien has some ability to see and manipulate spirits, although she REALLY doesn't like to think about that.
Likes: Koi and nimue. Gullien has a great passion for cooking (and eating) and collects odd cooking impliments. She loves plants, but usually manages to kill them off somehow in a week. She enjoys calligraphy. Like any kid, she's mesmorized by cartoons.
Dislikes: Guns (weapons of cowards and the unskilled) animal cruelty, any talk of death or sixth senses.
Personality: Gullien is a tanuki. As such, she is extremely adaptable. In whatever situation she's in, she will attempt to change herelf to fit in better. An example would be that while in Japan, she celebrated the various customs for the Japanese New Years. Now that she lives in Gaia, she mainly celebrates Christmas in the Gaian fashion. Gullien is willing to bend. However, don't mistake her flexiblity for gullibleness or passivity.
Gullien is also fairly removed. Although she is cheerful and cooperative, Gullien often feels detached from the humans around here. This can lead to a sense of isolation. It also leads to sense of liberation, as Gullien waltzes blithely past human rules that don't apply to her. Although she tries her best to blend in and has years of practice at being a human, Gullien is still a ninja and tanuki first and will still do things such as eat out of the garbage or use ninjitsu to avoid soliciters.
Background: Gullien was born in a back alley as a tanuki in Japan in the 1940s. She was an ordinary tanuki, with two brothers and a sister that died during the birthing process. She grew up eating what little garbage there was in Japan at the time, koi fish stolen from ponds, crops and post - 1945, human bodies and whatever else was evacuated from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Eventually she bred and had two kits of her own.
Gullien would have eventually lived and died as a tanuki if it weren't for Joshua Whitefoot, an army brat living with his father during the occupation. Joshua resented being moved from his hometown and shaman training and attempted to secretly teach himself what his teacher didn't have time to. Joshua's first attempt at summoning a spirit animal ripped Gullien from her body and into his mind. Joshua had no use for an actual animal and banished her to the corners of his mind, where she lived on in limbo.
Eventually Joshua attempted to summon another spirit animal and got something from the lost souls of Japan that he couldn't control. What happened during that time is unknown to Gullien. As she knows is regaining conciousness naked and in a human body in a storeroom, surronded by blood and the bodies of the Emperor's finest priests and ninjas. The priests had destroyed the monster and attempted to call Joshua's soul back into his body. However, the only soul left intact was hers. The process of calling Gullien into Joshua's body warped it, resulting in the female tailed Gullien of today. The remains of Joshua's soul do live on however. Gullien doesn't like to talk about that.
Gullien was taken in by the remaining ninjas and incoperated into one of the few remaining ninja clans in Japan. She doesn't really talk about her time there or the circumstances of her leaving. It is assumed she left the clan peaceably, although when she arrived in Gaia all she had was the clothes on her back. She now raises koi for money and Nimue cause she can't get them to stop. She does still have contacts in Japan, but on the whole seems to have severed the ties to her past for whatever reason.
Gullien types in green.
