Witch Profile
----Basic Information----
Mind behind the Character: Yokai Yakuza
Name: Yosuzume Palastria Nura
Title:
Wakagashira (Literally meaning "Young Head"),
The Silent Assassin ( Hijō ni ansatsu)
Yūdokuhime (Poisonous Princess)
Yahan Hime (Midnight Princess)
Gender: Female
Age: 395
Personality: Most of her friends were hunted down by meisters for their souls. Those traumatic experiences cause an innocent little girl to have a mind flustered with revenge and with that, Yosuzume grew into a cold-blooded heartless girl. She is a very cold, callous, dispassionate figure, and is rather aloof, brooding, and indifferent. She doesn't make a point to admit it, but she has difficulty understanding emotions or the behavior of others like her brother. As a child, she was always smiling and even laughing with her siblings, the death of her friends caused Yosuzume to become a silent and coldblooded girl. She has no qualms about cutting down anyone and everyone in her path, stating that her only aim is to "move forward." Her cold demeanor allows her to stay completely calm and in control in most situations, and she is not easily surprised or caught off-guard. Her silence seems to stem from her sense of decorum and personal pride-on many occasions, and she flatly refuses to engage in any behavior that would be considered embarrassing. All in all Yosuzume is an intricate individual.
Yosuzume is known to adopt new personas when on missions, meaning that its difficult to discern what her true intentions are. She can easily appear weak and fragile to lower an opponent's guard, be charming and flirtatious to gain information or access into forbidden areas, emotionless when she needs to dispatch someone without hesitation. This marks an exceptional acting ability where her performances can appear so convincing that before anyone is aware of it, she's already succeeded in her mission.
As an experienced assassin, Yosuzume has the innate ability to shut out all emotions so that they don't interfere with her decision making or cause hesitation in her actions. She describes this ability as a state that she can enter by metaphorically shutting off her emotions. During this time, she's absolutely cold and merciless, and can carry out an assassination against anyone without a moment's hesitation. This emotionless state also allows her to perform actions without trembling or being overcome with fear. She's not above using stealth tactics or deception to win her battles.
In Yosuzume for the most part, is someone who prefers to be in solitude. She had always been a sort of a lone wolf ever since she was young and never really sought out the company of other people. If she were to interact with others, she would appear friendly and approachable, although she would still be guarded and would hold back any information about herself if she was questioned about her background. Yosuzume constantly draws on the wisdom from her mothers familiar , Yatagaratsu , with whom she was extremely close to and loved dearly.
Yosuzume still thinks about her mother and father all the time, constantly doing things in the name of them and swearing things to them even though they have both passed, showing how deep their relationship was. Like her mother seeks finds comfort in studying the mysteries of the world. She is also completely and utterly obsessed with ancient ruins and magitechnology, something her friends and family often tease her about. Whenever she sees a ancient artifact or ruin, she loses her cool and calm state and becomes extremely fascinated by the slightest thing about it.
History:
[Born From a Legend]
The yosuzume(Night Sparrow) is the name of a rare bird yokai found on Shikoku and in neighboring prefectures. As their name suggests, they are nocturnal, appearing on remote mountain passes and forested roads late at night. Like ordinary sparrows, they are usually found in large flocks, and are very noisy. Yosuzume appear to travelers at night, swirling around them in a creepy, unnatural swarm. By themselves they don’t do any particular harm other than startling people; however they are a sign of very bad luck and are thought to bring terrible evil to those whom they swarm around. Yosuzume was named after the Night Sparrow Legend.
[Birth of The Sandaime ( "Third Head")]
Yosuzume is the second child and oldest daughter of Makai Nura, and his wife Retsuna the Tengu witch. Yosuzume was has been very intuitive and clever from a young age. In her younger days, Yosuzume was shown to be a quiet child, often not caring about how things would go, and often kept to herself or stayed with her mother at times. While always looking up to her older brother Rihan and wanting to spend more time with him, Yosuzumes miasma made it hard for the two siblings to have any quality time together. As the year's passed, she needed to be left alone with her father because of her power to control miasma. Unlike her brother she inherited the power Makai gathered to survive the Neatherworld,and followed his teachings devoutly.
Her father in particular took an active interest in Yosuzume, thereby neglecting Rihan who inherited his Osore and overall demonic powers. While her father kept his distance Yosuzume, on the other hand, was rather ambivalent and full of oddly conflicting undercurrents, acknowledging Rihan by taking interest in his progress as a warrior and spending time playing with him when even their father did not bother with him. Nevertheless, Yosuzume has always deeply cared for her older brother. Nothing, except the purest love has never existed between the siblings. They balance each other out,and together they form a formidable team.
[Training the Prodigy]
Her sharp wits and the fact that she was a prodigy received great attention and acclaim from Makai. Her father began training from an early stage, taking her into his confidence and educating her in history, while on the other hand Rihan came into his powers himself. During sparring sessions between Yosuzume and Rihan, Yosuzmes talent began to shine, amazing everyone by being about on par with her older brother at the time. Ultimately, a duel was held between Yosuzume and Rihan to decide the future of their clan. While Rihan found an opening to win the fight, he hesitated to strike down his sister, allowing Yosuzume to counterattack and win the duel, much to Yosuzume's distaste at hurting her sister. Ultimately, as Yosuzume showed more talent and ruthlessness than her elder sister brother, and their father decided to make Yosuzume the heiress to the clan. He then focused his grueling training regime on her instead of her brother, whose training he considered to be a waste of time.
[ Nocturnal's Recurrence ]
Nocturnal is Yosuzumes's ancestor whose sphere is the night and darkness. She is also known as the Night Mistress and "Lady Luck". She is also the patron, of skilled witch thieves worldwide. Her symbol is a nightbird cradling the moon in its wings. Witches from her bloodline created the Kurayami ("Darkness Clan"),and we're renown masters of darkness. Also known as Shadow Folk, they were an ancient clan of ninja-like warriors skilled in the magical and combative arts situated primarily in the west. During the Grimm Times, The Kurayami were almost entirely wiped out due the fact the clan was deemed too powerful not to be dealt with. Yosuzume's mother Retsuna and her sister Azura were the only two surviving members. However, the clans coveted Makkuragan (Eye of Total Darkness) , manifested only in Retsuna,and later her daughter Yosuzume.
[Yahan Hime (Midnight Princess)]
By training she developed a lack of sympathy towards others, akin to her fathers. She has an open hatred of the Neatherworld Tribunal for sealing her fathers power and Miester's who hunt for the souls of witches. Given a few more years Yosuzume is well on her way to becoming an accomplished assassin and witch. In the netherworld she is renowned for her ability to infiltrate an enemy's defenses and create chaos. A master of stealth combat, espionage and assassination,Yosuzume is known as The Yahan Hime (Midnight Princess). She once smuggled illegal Magic artifacts into the greedy hands who would pay her the most. While this job was rather lucrative and provided many praises and jewels into the pocket and reputation of Yosuzume, it eventually resulted in her secretly being monitored by Tribunal. Due to the fact that they could not pin anything to her family name, they could not arrest her and had to let her go whenever they intended to interrogate her.
[A Mother Gift]
Recently Yosuzume has come into possession of the Chosaku no Kyōfu (著作の恐怖, Book of Fear),her mothers Grimoire. The Book is filled with the collective wisdom of the Kurayami Clan, filled with infinite knowledge in their arts. By using the Makkuragan portal can be created that allows people to physically enter the world inside the book. Demons or any beings that have been collected by the book are also sent into this world.
The world inside the Book is inhabited by the creatures that the book has collected along with spirits of pass Kurayami that act as guides and supervisor to anyone who enters the book. Due to her love of Ancient Knowledge she has been studying its contents devoutly.
----General Information----
Race: Witch
Family :
Makai Nura-Father
Retsuna Nura- deceased mother
Rihan Nura- Older Brother
Yakō & Lumina Tsuki - pseudo sisters
Decus Tsuki- pseudo brother
Soul Protect: Activated
DMA: Fourth Year
----Abilities and Techniques Information----
Karasu Tengu Familiars
- These are the demon crow familiars of Yosuzume. In human form they have dark green long hair and crimson-red colored eyes with a black vertical line as their pupil, similar to that of a cat. Their standard attire consists of a purple cloak over her main body with gold trim. Over there arms are two sleeves matching the main part's color scheme. Underneath this cloak they wear several layers of bandages and ties the cloth in place around their bodies with a dark grey obi. Their lower body attire consists of long white hakama,and bandages arms. They are excellent spy's and a asset to Yosuzume's assassination skills. They can cause their bodies to break up into multiple crows, which they can reform at will.
Yatagarasu Familiar
- Yatagarasu takes the natural form of a massive three-legged demon crow, with black body feathers and three blazing red eyes. In his normal form he usually sits on the the shoulders of a young man that wears a coat made of feathers. The young man usually speaks the same time as Yatagarasu heavily implying that they are one in the same. As the Karatsu Tengu boss he is more durable than the other summons and usually guards Yosuzume and orders the others around. Yatagarasu is a very wise individual, giving out predictions and advice to Yosuzume.
Seishin ōkami (Spirit Wolf) Familiars
-Yosuzume can summon a pack of anamorphic black and indigo wolves. The wolves are controlled verbally or with hand signals by Yosuzume, and will chase down the enemy with the intent pin them down. Normally used as guards by Yosuzume; the wolves can disappear into shadows,and darkness, and are quick,reliable summons.
Great Wolf Sage (大ガマ狼, Ōgama Ōkami)Akifusa
- The Leader of the Seishin ōkami, Akifusa is normally a bipedal fox-like creature. His fur is mainly grayish-brown in coloration with crimson and black accents. He has a pointed snout and ears, the insides of which have red coloration. Akifusa also sports a large, voluminous mane, primarily red in coloration but with more profound black tips. The back of the mane somewhat resembles a ponytail, as a teal bangle down its length separates a mass of the mane from the lower portion. She also sports a black ruff on his upper body, pointed at the shoulders from which his arms extend. His upper arms are thin, whereas his lower arms;while still slim, are bulkier. The arms have spiky extensions of fur at the elbows, and the three claws, as well as the claws on his feet, are red in coloration. He often assumes a masculine human forms and also one of Yosuzume's advisers.
Chidori (A Thousand Birds)
- Yosuzume Karatsu Tengu transform into ravenous crows. The crows begin forming a circular seal around the opponent by flying around them. The crows then proceed to engulf the opponent in a towering vortex, attacking them from all sides with random dive bombs or concentrated sound waves. The birds are fairly unstable however, as they can be dispersed with a single strike. Nevertheless, they are Yoszume's most volatile attack, since the birds behave like living creatures and are therefore unpredictable. She often uses them in ambushes or sneak attacks as she can also change her body into crows.
Miasma
-Miasma is highly-corrosive and poisonous gaseous thick purple mist, , used by Yosuzume as a means of both attack and/or defense. This allows the Yosuzume great advantage in hand-to-hand combat, as the opponent's resistance is almost immediately put to waste unless they posses a high enough wavelength,or very high levels of flame. Miasma is fatal to humans,and most demons making a very dangerous power to wield. In her childhood she needed to be sealed in order to keep it under control,but now Yosuzume is able to manipulate it for a variety of purposes; commonly around her limbs, making her extremely difficult to face in close combat. Yosuzume is the only known demon capable of controlling this particular element making her very dangerous.
Makkuragan (Eye of Total Darkness)
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Makkuragan is the rare power of the Kurayami clan. It is their gift from Nocturnal. Where ever the Yosuzume looks and outputs her energy , a black spiraling time-space distortion appears. By absorbing her own body into this distortion, Yosuzume can teleport to virtually any location she desires. Anything she is touching will be warped along with her, and her wavelength becomes untraceable . Her left eye is able to utilize a long-range version of this, which can transport targets anywhere in the her line of sight. While her right eye uses a short-range version of , which can only transport targets in close proximity. However, the right eye can utilize a unique variation of teleportation akin to intangibility. When activated, any part of the her body that overlaps with another object is seamlessly warped to her pocket dimension; making it appear as though the she can phase through solid objects. This intangibility can be extended to anything the Yosuzume is touching at the moment of activation. ( 2-6 post cool down depending on how it's used)
Atavism of the Ancestors: Nocturnals Emissary
- When atavism (a trait that recurs in a descendant after skipping generations and even resulting in a reversion to the primitive characteristics of a remote ancestor) occurs as a result of a person deliberately rendering its genes a recessive trait until that code can express itself in a descendant strong enough to succeed it. By merging with her mothers Grimoire Yosuzume can create, control, manipulate, materialize her magic power various ways with little effort. Even summoning beast with ease with the help of her mothers staff.
----Miscellaneous----
Appearance :
Yosuzume is a young woman of arresting beauty, whose innate grace and poise are evident in her every motion. She possesses long, shiny black hair, which is unrestrained in any manner so as to allow it to fall freely over her shoulders and back. Her complexion is that of flawless porcelain, showing not the slightest remnants of the many skirmishes she has been in. Her face is characterized by soft, comely lips and high-set cheekbones. Perhaps Yosuzume's most distinguishing feature, however, is not the delicate elegance of her face, nor the slender, yet gently curvaceous lines of her figure, but her eyes.
Yosuzume has eyes that are as azure as sapphires and as piercing as a bird of prey's, and she has been said to be able to strip a man's soul bare with the intensity of her gaze alone. Upon meeting this gaze, the average person is perturbed by the cold, calculating emptiness which lurks behind her irises. When she is annoyed, this emptiness is transmuted into a palpable hatred, the vehemence of which is enough to cause most people to blanch pale in shock. Conversely, when she is in an amiable mood, or when she is around people she cares for, Yosuzume's eyes radiate welcoming warmth from their cerulean depths.She is a beauty of the purest black, a beauty not of this world.
Hobbies:
-singing
-painting
-Reading
-archeology
Likes:
-sweets
-birds
-wolves
-Teasing people
Dislikes:
-DWMA
-those who hurt her friends and family
Dreams & Aspirations:
-To make her parents proud
-to unlock the mysteries of the world
Other:
Blessed Crest of the Yatagaratsu
- The Blessed Crest of Yatagarasu is a seal unique to Yosuzume, and is located on her back below her shoulder blades. The seal consists of four tomoe, two on each side of a Yin-Yang symbol with a bird positioned above them with one wing outstretched which when activated causes six tomoe to gradually expand from the seal in a circular-formation. This acts as a limiter for her miasma. Should Yosuzume become weaken while the seal is broken her body will seep miasma uncontrollably.
Combat Prowess
Despite her feminine appearance, Yosuzume is an extremely skilled fighter, using a combination of speedy attacks and cunning deceptions. Her skill in weapon based combat has been repeatedly shown as very high. Her speed and agility are her greatest abilities, largely due to her childhood training, bolstering her natural speed and reaction time to incredible levels. Yosuzume is very vain about keeping her body physical fit,and regularly schedules at least two hours of free running and parkour for herself as well as yoga and other exercise regiments.
Vast Magical Knowledge
Yosuzume has shown to be highly intelligent and has a massive amount of knowledge of and about magic. He has proven to have a depth of knowledge comparable to that of higher ranking witches and sorcerers.
Yosuzume's knowledge also extends to her understanding of the magic in questions workings; using her immense intellect Yosuzume is able to essentially "dissect" the opposing magic, allowing her to counter them in the most advantageous ways possible.
Skilled Sensor:
Years of experience and inborn talent have made Yosuzume's senses specially attuned to magical activity, to the point that even with her five senses disabled she can use her opponents' aura to pinpoint their location as a sort of radar system. She is also very attune to the emotional presence of a magical aura and if that aura belongs to another human or something quite different.
