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Zenko

2020-05-28T03:48:40Z

Exacerangutan:

{{Infobox Character
|name=Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
|image=[[File:ZenkoPose.png|400px|Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko, a five-tailed fox]]
|aka=Zenko Bó Huì
|age=500
|japaneseva=
|relatives=
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
}}
*Name: Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
*Age: About 500
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: Probably sometime in March
*Parents: Two foxes
**Place of Birth: Hizen Province (modern Saga Prefecture) on western Kyushu
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Illusion and infiltration
**Hobbies: Trolling, teasing, flirting, prying into everything
**Likes: Inari, jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, tanuki, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken and rabbit (not so appealing cooked and prepared but awkward to eat otherwise in a human form)
**Most Valuable Possessions: Fox mask
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Blue glow of kitsunebi
**Hair: Black
**Special: Black-furred fox ears, five silver-tipped black-furred fox tails

= Appearance =
[[File:ZenkoFox.png|150px|right|Zenko in her natural form]]Zenko appears in the form of a beautiful, athletic but curvy young woman with long black hair, black-furred fox ears, and five black-furred fox tails with white tips. She always wears a version of a traditional kitsune mask designed to conceal everything above her mouth, usually has a [[#hoshi-no-tama|shimmering, luminous pearl]] worn on a necklace, and most often appears in a sort of scandalously revealing reinterpretation of a shrine maiden's uniform, with her tails poking out through a strategically located gap in the back of the skirt. Her eyes usually shimmer with blue light like fox-fire from underneath the mask.

Zenko in her natural form (in which she might appear in illusions or in dreams which she's inflitrating) is a small black fox (generally regarded as a good omen) with white tips on her tails and a white stripe down her chest and belly.

= Personality =
Being a fox, Zenko finds the opportunity for japes and pranks and capers and jokes and puns difficult to resist. She loves getting a reaction out of people and entertaining herself, and goes out of her way to make a game out of everything she does--as long as she doesn't expect it to undermine her duties as a servant of Inari (which is what zenko means), which she actually takes quite seriously. However, she has very little patience for the crass, often scatological sense of humor and lack of piety of most tanuki, and is especially galled by tanuki being perhaps even more gifted shapeshifters and illusionists than foxes.

Typical of foxes, her curiosity is insatiable, and she isn't afraid to intrude and/or make an unapologetic nuisance of herself when a mystery grabs her attention. She also exhibits fox-like vanity, eagerly basking in attention and flattery, more than willing to flirt shamelessly without human notions of propriety or modesty to restrain her; she is also very proud of her age, her experience, knowledge, and connections among spirits, and her status as a zenko. She has the fear of dogs common among foxes, finding them at best annoying and distracting, and at worst absolutely terrifying. She loves aburage to the point of finding it hard to resist, and will gladly accept aburage or sake as offerings, if so presented.

Zenko isn't overwhelmingly concerned with human ethics where they don't line up with her own perspective as a centuries-old adjutant to divine authority--she's a benevolent spirit, but still a spirit. She tends to see humans more as wards rather than sovereign individuals, in that they deserve some degree of respect due to their divine qualities and great potential, but expects deference from regular humans who haven't achieved enlightenment or been elevated by divine right, and doesn't especially care about things like their personal space or private property, especially when it comes to doing what she deems necessary in service to Inari. She doesn't hesitate to point out if a human is wrong and a spirit is right, and doesn't feel bad if she's a bit harsh in "correcting" humans' bad behavior. She especially likes to exact punishment through humiliation, employing illusions and dreamwalking to shame the unrighteous and trick them into making fools of themselves, seeking atonement, or destroying themselves (socially and financially if not physically) if they especially offend her sense of right behavior. While weakness in the innocent is natural and calls for protection and weaning, weakness in the evil is to be scorned and mocked ruthlessly.

= Background =
Few details are known even among the spirits about the early life of the fox who came to be known as Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko--the Benevolent/Inari-serving Fox of the Lonely River Shrine--except that she came originally from Hizen province, and was presumably born sometime in the late Kamakura or early Muromachi period. As a fox, she didn't exactly keep close track of birthdays, so she isn't sure of her own precise age, but must be something like 500 years old, based on her earliest recollections of major human events that she paid any attention to. She remembers the civil wars of the Sengoku beginning around the time she earned her second tail and became a servant of Inari, so she was probably born roughly 100 years before the Sengoku period began.

During the following centuries, she traveled to China several times to collaborate with her distant cousins there in hunting and fighting malicious spirits, monsters, and demons. She also learned about spiritual beings rarely seen in Japan, and greatly improved her fighting skills. Her home base became the Lonely River Shrine, a modest but well-respected Inari shrine located in western Echizen province on an isolated minor tributary to the Kuzuryuu river, where she spent the last century or so, helping the shrine to develop its local reputation as a good place to go with maladies, to pray to Inari for health and prosperity, and pay respect to the foxes living on the shrine's grounds. More recently, she has begun to appear in the region surrounding the imperial capital at Kyo.

Given her rank and long activity in service to Inari, Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko has a certain amount of renown among spirits and particularly foxes, giving her some leverage in garnering their cooperation, but also meaning some information about her can be garnered by others who can communicate with spirits.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible (plus heightened senses)
* Athletics: Amazing
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent
* Performance (dance): Incredible

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals further infused with potent spirit energy

Drawing out and communicating with spirits

Master of taiji, proto-baguazhang, and daitou-ryuu aiki-juujutsu (precursor to aikido)

Master of the jian and short staff

= Powers & Merits =
'''Superhuman Senses:''' Zenko has greatly heightened senses of hearing and smell in particular, compared to humans, and can gauge people's emotional states or identify them easily by scent. She can also sense spiritual power and other similar supernatural distinctions, and can see and communicate with spirits and other beings humans may not be able to, from major beings of power (e.g. river deities) to common youkai and other presences dwelling in the wilderness (e.g. kamaitachi, tengu, kodama, etc).

'''Fox Possession (''Kitsunetsuki''):''' Zenko cannot perform full fox possession, but can slip into the subconscious of a sleeping (or otherwise not-fully-awake) person and enter their dreams, either to influence them or just to explore their psyche from the inside and learn secrets.

'''Illusions:''' As a fox-spirit of significant rank, Zenko can generate large, complicated, extremely realistic illusions that affect all the senses, and does so both for pranks and as a matter of course. Illusions can be preprogrammed to follow some course of action and respond in simple ways (e.g. an illusion of an object can be picked up) but without her continued attention, can't interact much more than an NPC in a classic JRPG. If she loses consciousness, her illusions gradually fade over a matter of minutes or seconds, sustained longer the more observers believe in them. Illusions generally affect anyone within perceptual range of them, being constructed with spirit-energy and having a "reality" of their own, but with a touch, Zenko can put an illusion in a single person's mind, instead.

'''Fox Fire (''Kitsunebi''):''' Zenko can form and control blue-white spirit-fire that can burn with heat, or alternatively, can burn away spiritual impurities (e.g. injuries caused by evil spirits), as well as harming spirits directly. When it isn't burning hot, it still projects the sensation of heat, but won't cause pain or physical harm to humans and mundane objects. She can release her fire as a gout of flame blown from her lips, collected as a ball in her hand or on the tips of her tails, or like claws at her fingertips.

'''Weightlessness:''' Zenko can reduce her effective weight (but not mass) to almost nothing, enabling her to stand on the smallest of branches, run across water, use thrown weapons as stepping stones, and make extraordinary, Crouching Tiger-like leaps.

'''Fabrication:''' Zenko can create simple objects up to several pounds in weight by concentrating spirit-energy and gathering available raw material. Such objects can be made stronger than a conventional material object would be (but aren't unbreakable), with any material properties she understands and can imagine (e.g. "like silver" she can do, but "superconductor" she can't), but will fall apart within a day or two unless she maintains it, and can be banished by dissipating the spirit-energy binding them together. Unless she actively concentrates on repairing a broken object created this way, it comes apart into its constituent matter and spirit-energy.

'''Clear Sighted (3)'''

'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
''Star-Ball (Hoshi no Tama):'' A large, sparkling, luminous pearl which Zenko typically wears on a necklace. It serves partially as a repository for her spiritual energy, and is to a fox like a samurai's sword or a police officer's firearm: precious, difficult to replace, extremely embarrassing to lose, and potentially carreer-endingly shameful if it should fall into the hands of someone who can misuse it. She can still use her powers without it, but the scale of the more energy-intensive powers (e.g. Fox Fire, Illusions, and Fabrication) will be much more limited.

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
See [[#hoshi-no-tama|''Star-Ball'']] above.

Although far less powerful than a nine-tailed fox, whose powers are often said to be so great as to strain reason, Zenko has a significant aura which any onmyouji, priest, or other person sensitive to spirits would notice at close quarters, or when she isn't suppressing it. Although she can minimize her presence, she can't hide completely from such people, and may incite trouble depending on their attitudes toward foxes.

'''Curiosity (2):'''

'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

[[Category:Characters]]

Hiroe

2020-05-21T13:48:03Z

Exacerangutan:

{{Infobox Character
|name=Hiroe (博恵) Matsudaira
|image=[[File:HiroeSmirk.png|400px|Hiroe, Scion of the Matsudaira.]]
|aka=
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=Matsudaira clan Sadamasa Matsudaira (father) Tadame (mother) Naomaru (brother, 14) Takeshi (brother, 7)
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
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*Name: Hiroe
*Age: 17
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: October 8th
*Parents: Sadamasa and Tadame
**Place of Birth: Fukui, Echizen Province (~100km north of Kyo)
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Diplomacy
**Hobbies: Music (esp. koto and shamisen), classical dance, literature
**Likes: Jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake, negi and negimiso
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken, rabbit
**Most Valuable Possessions:
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Light brown
**Hair: Black

= Appearance =
Hiroe is an elegant, poised, remarkably beautiful young lady, always dressed fashionably, just inside the boundary of propriety for someone of her station. Of course, this means her figure is almost always very well concealed in a classy kimono, but it can be judged from her frame and the way she carries herself that she has a more athletic build than her poise betrays, and she certainly has some kind of curves going on. She wears her deep black hair long with a straight trimmed fringe, loose in most cases but tied up in a bun in especially formal circumstances.

= Personality =
[[File:HiroeSmile.png|150px|right]]Polite, charming, and playful, Hiroe is naturally inquisitive and gregarious, especially enjoying humorous stories and jokes. She has difficulty leaving a mystery unexplored, and while she can contain herself if necessary, she always wants to know what's inside the box or behind the curtain, and will get antsy and distracted (and eventually just frustrated) contemplating how to get answers if she's presented with a mystery that can't be resolved. Approaching serious tasks with the belief there isn't much point not finding a way to enjoy them while getting them done well, she tends to be cheerful and disarming, but with the poise and gravitas befitting (and actually probably exceeding) her station. She struggles to resist engaging in wordplay and punmanship, and loves witty banter.

Underneath her lighthearted, debonair manner, Hiroe has a very strong sense of justice, founded above all on piety--the belief that there are things the Heavens frown upon, and those things should not be done, and if they are done, someone should be punished. Although she doesn't much savor violence as a solution, she recognizes that sometimes there are no other feasible options. She vastly prefers potent shaming, mockery, and social pressure, however.

Hiroe is markedly uncomfortable around dogs. Even small ones leave her uneasy, which she ascribes to finding their hyperactivity, noise, and slobbering distasteful; larger dogs make her anywhere from tense and distracted to outright terrified, depending on their behavior. Although she's careful not to belittle others (unless they're asking for it), she can be quite vain, taking a great deal of pride in her family's reputation and influence, her parents, her own beauty and intelligence, and so on, but also in her friends. She loves being the center of attention, and has to make a point to not steal the spotlight when the opportunity presents itself if there's a reason not to. She tends to treat people well and form many casual friendships, but has difficulty opening up completely to people.

= Background =
[[File:HiroeDeadpan.png|150px|right]]Hiroe was born to a well-to-do but otherwise modest, peripheral branch of the powerful Yuuki-Matsudaira clan of Echizen--although the Yuuki-Matsudaira claimed direct descent from the Shogunate, Hiroe's father was born the third son of a third son of a third son, far-removed from the halls of power in all but name. She grew up as something of a golden child, initially because her excellent heath was a great relief after her mother's worryingly precarious pregnancy; Tadame's health had been so upset in the early stages after a series of unsuccessful attempts that the family had taken some pains to bring her to visit Inari shrines for fertility and reproductive health blessings. When Hiroe was born normal and lively, her parents were overjoyed and tended to spoil her; by the time her younger brothers were born, she had already learned to be helpful and had demonstrated exceptional intelligence and understanding for her age.

Shortly before Naomaru was born, her father was sent with his family to Fushimi as a representative of the Yuuki-Matsudaira clan, and Hiroe became acquainted with the city and its head family as good company for their daughter to keep. Always very bright, and inquisitive to a fault, Hiroe absorbed skills and knowledge voraciously as a child, especially once she learned to read (quite early); on the other hand, her energetic nature, rambunctiousness, and knack for finding trouble were a lot to deal with. For several years, Hiroe grew up in Fushimi, but shortly after her brother Takeshi was born, her father was recalled to Fukui on orders from the main family. Dealing more often with higher-ranking members of the clan, her parents sent her to assist at the nearest Inari shrine as an apprentice shrine maiden, hoping she'd learn a little more discipline--which she did with her usual precociousness, growing into a refined but strikingly vivacious young woman.

After living in Fukui for a few years, Hiroe's father was again sent to represent the clan in Fushimi after a short string of lower-level administrators failed to adapt to the demands of the position. In contrast, Hiroe proved herself a capable assistant, even undertaking local business trips to the neighboring domains on behalf of her father and the Fushimi family.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible
* Athletics: Excellent
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Leadership: Very good
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent
* Performance (dance): Incredible
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals

= Powers & Merits =
'''Clear Sighted (3)'''
'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
???

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
'''Curiosity (2):'''
'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

[[Category:Characters]] [[Category: Soul's Characters]]

Zenko

2020-05-21T13:47:40Z

Exacerangutan:

{{Infobox Character
|name=Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
|image=[[File:ZenkoPose.png|400px|Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko, a five-tailed fox]]
|aka=Zenko Bó Huì
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
}}
*Name: Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
*Age: About 500
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: Probably sometime in March
*Parents: Two foxes
**Place of Birth: Hizen Province (modern Saga Prefecture) on western Kyushu
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Illusion and infiltration
**Hobbies: Trolling, teasing, flirting, prying into everything
**Likes: Inari, jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, tanuki, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken and rabbit (not so appealing cooked and prepared but awkward to eat otherwise in a human form)
**Most Valuable Possessions: Fox mask
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Blue glow of kitsunebi
**Hair: Black
**Special: Black-furred fox ears, five silver-tipped black-furred fox tails

= Appearance =
[[File:ZenkoFox.png|150px|right|Zenko in her natural form]]Zenko appears in the form of a beautiful, athletic but curvy young woman with long black hair, black-furred fox ears, and five black-furred fox tails with white tips. She always wears a version of a traditional kitsune mask designed to conceal everything above her mouth, usually has a [[#hoshi-no-tama|shimmering, luminous pearl]] worn on a necklace, and most often appears in a sort of scandalously revealing reinterpretation of a shrine maiden's uniform, with her tails poking out through a strategically located gap in the back of the skirt. Her eyes usually shimmer with blue light like fox-fire from underneath the mask.

Zenko in her natural form (in which she might appear in illusions or in dreams which she's inflitrating) is a small black fox (generally regarded as a good omen) with white tips on her tails and a white stripe down her chest and belly.

= Personality =
Being a fox, Zenko finds the opportunity for japes and pranks and capers and jokes and puns difficult to resist. She loves getting a reaction out of people and entertaining herself, and goes out of her way to make a game out of everything she does--as long as she doesn't expect it to undermine her duties as a servant of Inari (which is what zenko means), which she actually takes quite seriously. However, she has very little patience for the crass, often scatological sense of humor and lack of piety of most tanuki, and is especially galled by tanuki being perhaps even more gifted shapeshifters and illusionists than foxes.

Typical of foxes, her curiosity is insatiable, and she isn't afraid to intrude and/or make an unapologetic nuisance of herself when a mystery grabs her attention. She also exhibits fox-like vanity, eagerly basking in attention and flattery, more than willing to flirt shamelessly without human notions of propriety or modesty to restrain her; she is also very proud of her age, her experience, knowledge, and connections among spirits, and her status as a zenko. She has the fear of dogs common among foxes, finding them at best annoying and distracting, and at worst absolutely terrifying. She loves aburage to the point of finding it hard to resist, and will gladly accept aburage or sake as offerings, if so presented.

Zenko isn't overwhelmingly concerned with human ethics where they don't line up with her own perspective as a centuries-old adjutant to divine authority--she's a benevolent spirit, but still a spirit. She tends to see humans more as wards rather than sovereign individuals, in that they deserve some degree of respect due to their divine qualities and great potential, but expects deference from regular humans who haven't achieved enlightenment or been elevated by divine right, and doesn't especially care about things like their personal space or private property, especially when it comes to doing what she deems necessary in service to Inari. She doesn't hesitate to point out if a human is wrong and a spirit is right, and doesn't feel bad if she's a bit harsh in "correcting" humans' bad behavior. She especially likes to exact punishment through humiliation, employing illusions and dreamwalking to shame the unrighteous and trick them into making fools of themselves, seeking atonement, or destroying themselves (socially and financially if not physically) if they especially offend her sense of right behavior. While weakness in the innocent is natural and calls for protection and weaning, weakness in the evil is to be scorned and mocked ruthlessly.

= Background =
Few details are known even among the spirits about the early life of the fox who came to be known as Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko--the Benevolent/Inari-serving Fox of the Lonely River Shrine--except that she came originally from Hizen province, and was presumably born sometime in the late Kamakura or early Muromachi period. As a fox, she didn't exactly keep close track of birthdays, so she isn't sure of her own precise age, but must be something like 500 years old, based on her earliest recollections of major human events that she paid any attention to. She remembers the civil wars of the Sengoku beginning around the time she earned her second tail and became a servant of Inari, so she was probably born roughly 100 years before the Sengoku period began.

During the following centuries, she traveled to China several times to collaborate with her distant cousins there in hunting and fighting malicious spirits, monsters, and demons. She also learned about spiritual beings rarely seen in Japan, and greatly improved her fighting skills. Her home base became the Lonely River Shrine, a modest but well-respected Inari shrine located in western Echizen province on an isolated minor tributary to the Kuzuryuu river, where she spent the last century or so, helping the shrine to develop its local reputation as a good place to go with maladies, to pray to Inari for health and prosperity, and pay respect to the foxes living on the shrine's grounds. More recently, she has begun to appear in the region surrounding the imperial capital at Kyo.

Given her rank and long activity in service to Inari, Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko has a certain amount of renown among spirits and particularly foxes, giving her some leverage in garnering their cooperation, but also meaning some information about her can be garnered by others who can communicate with spirits.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible (plus heightened senses)
* Athletics: Amazing
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent
* Performance (dance): Incredible

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals further infused with potent spirit energy

Drawing out and communicating with spirits

Master of taiji, proto-baguazhang, and daitou-ryuu aiki-juujutsu (precursor to aikido)

Master of the jian and short staff

= Powers & Merits =
'''Superhuman Senses:''' Zenko has greatly heightened senses of hearing and smell in particular, compared to humans, and can gauge people's emotional states or identify them easily by scent. She can also sense spiritual power and other similar supernatural distinctions, and can see and communicate with spirits and other beings humans may not be able to, from major beings of power (e.g. river deities) to common youkai and other presences dwelling in the wilderness (e.g. kamaitachi, tengu, kodama, etc).

'''Fox Possession (''Kitsunetsuki''):''' Zenko cannot perform full fox possession, but can slip into the subconscious of a sleeping (or otherwise not-fully-awake) person and enter their dreams, either to influence them or just to explore their psyche from the inside and learn secrets.

'''Illusions:''' As a fox-spirit of significant rank, Zenko can generate large, complicated, extremely realistic illusions that affect all the senses, and does so both for pranks and as a matter of course. Illusions can be preprogrammed to follow some course of action and respond in simple ways (e.g. an illusion of an object can be picked up) but without her continued attention, can't interact much more than an NPC in a classic JRPG. If she loses consciousness, her illusions gradually fade over a matter of minutes or seconds, sustained longer the more observers believe in them. Illusions generally affect anyone within perceptual range of them, being constructed with spirit-energy and having a "reality" of their own, but with a touch, Zenko can put an illusion in a single person's mind, instead.

'''Fox Fire (''Kitsunebi''):''' Zenko can form and control blue-white spirit-fire that can burn with heat, or alternatively, can burn away spiritual impurities (e.g. injuries caused by evil spirits), as well as harming spirits directly. When it isn't burning hot, it still projects the sensation of heat, but won't cause pain or physical harm to humans and mundane objects. She can release her fire as a gout of flame blown from her lips, collected as a ball in her hand or on the tips of her tails, or like claws at her fingertips.

'''Weightlessness:''' Zenko can reduce her effective weight (but not mass) to almost nothing, enabling her to stand on the smallest of branches, run across water, use thrown weapons as stepping stones, and make extraordinary, Crouching Tiger-like leaps.

'''Fabrication:''' Zenko can create simple objects up to several pounds in weight by concentrating spirit-energy and gathering available raw material. Such objects can be made stronger than a conventional material object would be (but aren't unbreakable), with any material properties she understands and can imagine (e.g. "like silver" she can do, but "superconductor" she can't), but will fall apart within a day or two unless she maintains it, and can be banished by dissipating the spirit-energy binding them together. Unless she actively concentrates on repairing a broken object created this way, it comes apart into its constituent matter and spirit-energy.

'''Clear Sighted (3)'''

'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
''Star-Ball (Hoshi no Tama):'' A large, sparkling, luminous pearl which Zenko typically wears on a necklace. It serves partially as a repository for her spiritual energy, and is to a fox like a samurai's sword or a police officer's firearm: precious, difficult to replace, extremely embarrassing to lose, and potentially carreer-endingly shameful if it should fall into the hands of someone who can misuse it. She can still use her powers without it, but the scale of the more energy-intensive powers (e.g. Fox Fire, Illusions, and Fabrication) will be much more limited.

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
See [[#hoshi-no-tama|''Star-Ball'']] above.

Although far less powerful than a nine-tailed fox, whose powers are often said to be so great as to strain reason, Zenko has a significant aura which any onmyouji, priest, or other person sensitive to spirits would notice at close quarters, or when she isn't suppressing it. Although she can minimize her presence, she can't hide completely from such people, and may incite trouble depending on their attitudes toward foxes.

'''Curiosity (2):'''

'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

[[Category:Characters]] [[Category: Soul's Characters]]

Hiroe

2020-05-21T00:10:59Z

Exacerangutan:

{{Infobox Character
|name=Hiroe (博恵) Matsudaira
|image=[[File:HiroeSmirk.png|400px|Hiroe, Scion of the Matsudaira.]]
|aka=
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=Matsudaira clan Sadamasa Matsudaira (father) Tadame (mother) Naomaru (brother, 14) Takeshi (brother, 7)
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
}}
*Name: Hiroe
*Age: 17
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: October 8th
*Parents: Sadamasa and Tadame
**Place of Birth: Fukui, Echizen Province (~100km north of Kyo)
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Diplomacy
**Hobbies: Music (esp. koto and shamisen), classical dance, literature
**Likes: Jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake, negi and negimiso
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken, rabbit
**Most Valuable Possessions:
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Light brown
**Hair: Black

= Appearance =
Hiroe is an elegant, poised, remarkably beautiful young lady, always dressed fashionably, just inside the boundary of propriety for someone of her station. Of course, this means her figure is almost always very well concealed in a classy kimono, but it can be judged from her frame and the way she carries herself that she has a more athletic build than her poise betrays, and she certainly has some kind of curves going on. She wears her deep black hair long with a straight trimmed fringe, loose in most cases but tied up in a bun in especially formal circumstances.

= Personality =
[[File:HiroeSmile.png|150px|right]]Polite, charming, and playful, Hiroe is naturally inquisitive and gregarious, especially enjoying humorous stories and jokes. She has difficulty leaving a mystery unexplored, and while she can contain herself if necessary, she always wants to know what's inside the box or behind the curtain, and will get antsy and distracted (and eventually just frustrated) contemplating how to get answers if she's presented with a mystery that can't be resolved. Approaching serious tasks with the belief there isn't much point not finding a way to enjoy them while getting them done well, she tends to be cheerful and disarming, but with the poise and gravitas befitting (and actually probably exceeding) her station. She struggles to resist engaging in wordplay and punmanship, and loves witty banter.

Underneath her lighthearted, debonair manner, Hiroe has a very strong sense of justice, founded above all on piety--the belief that there are things the Heavens frown upon, and those things should not be done, and if they are done, someone should be punished. Although she doesn't much savor violence as a solution, she recognizes that sometimes there are no other feasible options. She vastly prefers potent shaming, mockery, and social pressure, however.

Hiroe is markedly uncomfortable around dogs. Even small ones leave her uneasy, which she ascribes to finding their hyperactivity, noise, and slobbering distasteful; larger dogs make her anywhere from tense and distracted to outright terrified, depending on their behavior. Although she's careful not to belittle others (unless they're asking for it), she can be quite vain, taking a great deal of pride in her family's reputation and influence, her parents, her own beauty and intelligence, and so on, but also in her friends. She loves being the center of attention, and has to make a point to not steal the spotlight when the opportunity presents itself if there's a reason not to. She tends to treat people well and form many casual friendships, but has difficulty opening up completely to people.

= Background =
[[File:HiroeDeadpan.png|150px|right]]Hiroe was born to a well-to-do but otherwise modest, peripheral branch of the powerful Yuuki-Matsudaira clan of Echizen--although the Yuuki-Matsudaira claimed direct descent from the Shogunate, Hiroe's father was born the third son of a third son of a third son, far-removed from the halls of power in all but name. She grew up as something of a golden child, initially because her excellent heath was a great relief after her mother's worryingly precarious pregnancy; Tadame's health had been so upset in the early stages after a series of unsuccessful attempts that the family had taken some pains to bring her to visit Inari shrines for fertility and reproductive health blessings. When Hiroe was born normal and lively, her parents were overjoyed and tended to spoil her; by the time her younger brothers were born, she had already learned to be helpful and had demonstrated exceptional intelligence and understanding for her age.

Shortly before Naomaru was born, her father was sent with his family to Fushimi as a representative of the Yuuki-Matsudaira clan, and Hiroe became acquainted with the city and its head family as good company for their daughter to keep. Always very bright, and inquisitive to a fault, Hiroe absorbed skills and knowledge voraciously as a child, especially once she learned to read (quite early); on the other hand, her energetic nature, rambunctiousness, and knack for finding trouble were a lot to deal with. For several years, Hiroe grew up in Fushimi, but shortly after her brother Takeshi was born, her father was recalled to Fukui on orders from the main family. Dealing more often with higher-ranking members of the clan, her parents sent her to assist at the nearest Inari shrine as an apprentice shrine maiden, hoping she'd learn a little more discipline--which she did with her usual precociousness, growing into a refined but strikingly vivacious young woman.

After living in Fukui for a few years, Hiroe's father was again sent to represent the clan in Fushimi after a short string of lower-level administrators failed to adapt to the demands of the position. In contrast, Hiroe proved herself a capable assistant, even undertaking local business trips to the neighboring domains on behalf of her father and the Fushimi family.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible
* Athletics: Excellent
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Leadership: Very good
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals

= Powers & Merits =
'''Clear Sighted (3)'''
'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
???

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
'''Curiosity (2):'''
'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

[[Category:Characters]] [[Category: Soul's Characters]]

Hiroe

2020-05-20T04:50:42Z

Exacerangutan:

{{Infobox Character
|name=Hiroe (博恵) Matsudaira
|image=[[File:HiroeSmirk.png|400px|Hiroe, Scion of the Matsudaira.]]
|aka=
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=Matsudaira clan Sadamasa Matsudaira (father) Tadame (mother) Naomaru (brother, 14) Takeshi (brother, 7)
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
}}
*Name: Hiroe
*Age: 17
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: July 25th
*Parents: Sadamasa and Tadame
**Place of Birth: Fukui, Echizen Province (~100km north of Kyo)
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Diplomacy
**Hobbies: Music (esp. koto and shamisen), classical dance, literature
**Likes: Jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake, negi and negimiso
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken, rabbit
**Most Valuable Possessions:
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Light brown
**Hair: Black

= Appearance =
Hiroe is an elegant, poised, remarkably beautiful young lady, always dressed fashionably, just inside the boundary of propriety for someone of her station. Of course, this means her figure is almost always very well concealed in a classy kimono, but it can be judged from her frame and the way she carries herself that she has a more athletic build than her poise betrays, and she certainly has some kind of curves going on. She wears her deep black hair long with a straight trimmed fringe, loose in most cases but tied up in a bun in especially formal circumstances.

= Personality =
[[File:HiroeSmile.png|150px|right]]Polite, charming, and playful, Hiroe is naturally inquisitive and gregarious, especially enjoying humorous stories and jokes. She has difficulty leaving a mystery unexplored, and while she can contain herself if necessary, she always wants to know what's inside the box or behind the curtain, and will get antsy and distracted (and eventually just frustrated) contemplating how to get answers if she's presented with a mystery that can't be resolved. Approaching serious tasks with the belief there isn't much point not finding a way to enjoy them while getting them done well, she tends to be cheerful and disarming, but with the poise and gravitas befitting (and actually probably exceeding) her station. She struggles to resist engaging in wordplay and punmanship, and loves witty banter.

Underneath her lighthearted, debonair manner, Hiroe has a very strong sense of justice, founded above all on piety--the belief that there are things the Heavens frown upon, and those things should not be done, and if they are done, someone should be punished. Although she doesn't much savor violence as a solution, she recognizes that sometimes there are no other feasible options. She vastly prefers potent shaming, mockery, and social pressure, however.

Hiroe is markedly uncomfortable around dogs. Even small ones leave her uneasy, which she ascribes to finding their hyperactivity, noise, and slobbering distasteful; larger dogs make her anywhere from tense and distracted to outright terrified, depending on their behavior. Although she's careful not to belittle others (unless they're asking for it), she can be quite vain, taking a great deal of pride in her family's reputation and influence, her parents, her own beauty and intelligence, and so on, but also in her friends. She loves being the center of attention, and has to make a point to not steal the spotlight when the opportunity presents itself if there's a reason not to. She tends to treat people well and form many casual friendships, but has difficulty opening up completely to people.

= Background =
[[File:HiroeDeadpan.png|150px|right]]Hiroe was born to a well-to-do but otherwise modest, peripheral branch of the powerful Yuuki-Matsudaira clan of Echizen--although the Yuuki-Matsudaira claimed direct descent from the Shogunate, Hiroe's father was born the third son of a third son of a third son, far-removed from the halls of power in all but name. She grew up as something of a golden child, initially because her excellent heath was a great relief after her mother's worryingly precarious pregnancy; Tadame's health had been so upset in the early stages after a series of unsuccessful attempts that the family had taken some pains to bring her to visit Inari shrines for fertility and reproductive health blessings. When Hiroe was born normal and lively, her parents were overjoyed and tended to spoil her; by the time her younger brothers were born, she had already learned to be helpful and had demonstrated exceptional intelligence and understanding for her age.

Shortly before Naomaru was born, her father was sent with his family to Fushimi as a representative of the Yuuki-Matsudaira clan, and Hiroe became acquainted with the city and its head family as good company for their daughter to keep. Always very bright, and inquisitive to a fault, Hiroe absorbed skills and knowledge voraciously as a child, especially once she learned to read (quite early); on the other hand, her energetic nature, rambunctiousness, and knack for finding trouble were a lot to deal with. For several years, Hiroe grew up in Fushimi, but shortly after her brother Takeshi was born, her father was recalled to Fukui on orders from the main family. Dealing more often with higher-ranking members of the clan, her parents sent her to assist at the nearest Inari shrine as an apprentice shrine maiden, hoping she'd learn a little more discipline--which she did with her usual precociousness, growing into a refined but strikingly vivacious young woman.

After living in Fukui for a few years, Hiroe's father was again sent to represent the clan in Fushimi after a short string of lower-level administrators failed to adapt to the demands of the position. In contrast, Hiroe proved herself a capable assistant, even undertaking local business trips to the neighboring domains on behalf of her father and the Fushimi family.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible
* Athletics: Excellent
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Leadership: Very good
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals

= Powers & Merits =
'''Clear Sighted (3)'''
'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
???

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
'''Curiosity (2):'''
'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

[[Category:Characters]] [[Category: Soul's Characters]]

Hiroe

2020-05-18T08:43:20Z

Exacerangutan:

{{Infobox Character
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|aka=
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=Matsudaira clan Sadamasa Matsudaira (father) Tadame (mother) Naomaru (brother, 14) Takeshi (brother, 7)
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
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*Name: Hiroe
*Age: 17
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: July 25th
*Parents: Sadamasa and Tadame
**Place of Birth: Fukui, Echizen Province (~100km north of Kyo)
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Diplomacy
**Hobbies: Music (esp. koto and shamisen), classical dance, literature
**Likes: Jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake, negi and negimiso
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken, rabbit
**Most Valuable Possessions:
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Light brown
**Hair: Black

= Appearance =
Hiroe is an elegant, poised, remarkably beautiful young lady, always dressed fashionably, just inside the boundary of propriety for someone of her station. Of course, this means her figure is almost always very well concealed in a classy kimono, but it can be judged from her frame and the way she carries herself that she has a more athletic build than her poise betrays, and she certainly has some kind of curves going on. She wears her deep black hair long with a straight trimmed fringe, loose in most cases but tied up in a bun in especially formal circumstances.

= Personality =
[[File:HiroeSmile.png|150px|right]]Polite, charming, and playful, Hiroe is naturally inquisitive and gregarious, especially enjoying humorous stories and jokes. She has difficulty leaving a mystery unexplored, and while she can contain herself if necessary, she always wants to know what's inside the box or behind the curtain, and will get antsy and distracted (and eventually just frustrated) contemplating how to get answers if she's presented with a mystery that can't be resolved. Approaching serious tasks with the belief there isn't much point not finding a way to enjoy them while getting them done well, she tends to be cheerful and disarming, but with the poise and gravitas befitting (and actually probably exceeding) her station. She struggles to resist engaging in wordplay and punmanship, and loves witty banter.

Underneath her lighthearted, debonair manner, Hiroe has a very strong sense of justice, founded above all on piety--the belief that there are things the Heavens frown upon, and those things should not be done, and if they are done, someone should be punished. Although she doesn't much savor violence as a solution, she recognizes that sometimes there are no other feasible options. She vastly prefers potent shaming, mockery, and social pressure, however.

Hiroe is markedly uncomfortable around dogs. Even small ones leave her uneasy, which she ascribes to finding their hyperactivity, noise, and slobbering distasteful; larger dogs make her anywhere from tense and distracted to outright terrified, depending on their behavior. Although she's careful not to belittle others (unless they're asking for it), she can be quite vain, taking a great deal of pride in her family's reputation and influence, her parents, her own beauty and intelligence, and so on, but also in her friends. She loves being the center of attention, and has to make a point to not steal the spotlight when the opportunity presents itself if there's a reason not to. She tends to treat people well and form many casual friendships, but has difficulty opening up completely to people.

= Background =
[[File:HiroeDeadpan.png|150px|right]]Hiroe was born to a well-to-do but otherwise modest, peripheral branch of the powerful Yuuki-Matsudaira clan of Echizen--although the Yuuki-Matsudaira claimed direct descent from the Shogunate, Hiroe's father was born the third son of a third son of a third son, far-removed from the halls of power in all but name. She grew up as something of a golden child, initially because her excellent heath was a great relief after her mother's worryingly precarious pregnancy; Tadame's health had been so upset in the early stages after a series of unsuccessful attempts that the family had taken some pains to bring her to visit Inari shrines for fertility and reproductive health blessings. When Hiroe was born normal and lively, her parents were overjoyed and tended to spoil her; by the time her younger brothers were born, she had already learned to be helpful and had demonstrated exceptional intelligence and understanding for her age.

Shortly before Naomaru was born, her father was sent with his family to Fushimi as a representative of the Yuuki-Matsudaira clan, and Hiroe became acquainted with the city and its head family as good company for their daughter to keep. Always very bright, and inquisitive to a fault, Hiroe absorbed skills and knowledge voraciously as a child, especially once she learned to read (quite early); on the other hand, her energetic nature, rambunctiousness, and knack for finding trouble were a lot to deal with. For several years, Hiroe grew up in Fushimi, but shortly after her brother Takeshi was born, her father was recalled to Fukui on orders from the main family. Dealing more often with higher-ranking members of the clan, her parents sent her to assist at the nearest Inari shrine as an apprentice shrine maiden, hoping she'd learn a little more discipline--which she did with her usual precociousness, growing into a refined but strikingly vivacious young woman.

After living in Fukui for a few years, Hiroe's father was again sent to represent the clan in Fushimi after a short string of lower-level administrators failed to adapt to the demands of the position. In contrast, Hiroe proved herself a capable assistant, even undertaking local business trips to the neighboring domains on behalf of her father and the Fushimi family.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible
* Athletics: Excellent
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals

= Powers & Merits =
'''Clear Sighted (3)'''
'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
???

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
'''Curiosity (2):'''
'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

[[Category:Characters]] [[Category: Soul's Characters]]

Zenko

2020-05-18T00:40:45Z

Exacerangutan:

{{Infobox Character
|name=Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
|image=[[File:ZenkoPose.png|400px|Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko, a five-tailed fox]]
|aka=Zenko Bó Huì
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
}}
*Name: Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
*Age: About 500
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: Probably sometime in March
*Parents: Two foxes
**Place of Birth: Hizen Province (modern Saga Prefecture) on western Kyushu
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Illusion and infiltration
**Hobbies: Trolling, teasing, flirting, prying into everything
**Likes: Inari, jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, tanuki, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken and rabbit (not so appealing cooked and prepared but awkward to eat otherwise in a human form)
**Most Valuable Possessions:
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Light brown
**Hair: Black
**Special: Black-furred fox ears, five silver-tipped black-furred fox tails

= Appearance =
[[File:ZenkoFox.png|150px|right|Zenko in her natural form]]Zenko appears in the form of a beautiful, athletic but curvy young woman with long black hair, black-furred fox ears, and five black-furred fox tails with white tips. She always wears a version of a traditional kitsune mask designed to conceal everything above her mouth, usually has a [[#hoshi-no-tama|shimmering, luminous pearl]] worn on a necklace, and most often appears in a sort of scandalously revealing reinterpretation of a shrine maiden's uniform, with her tails poking out through a strategically located gap in the back of the skirt.

Zenko in her natural form (in which she might appear in illusions or in dreams which she's inflitrating) is a small black fox (generally regarded as a good omen) with white tips on her tails and a white stripe down her chest and belly.

= Personality =
Being a fox, Zenko finds the opportunity for japes and pranks and capers and jokes and puns difficult to resist. She loves getting a reaction out of people and entertaining herself, and goes out of her way to make a game out of everything she does--as long as she doesn't expect it to undermine her duties as a servant of Inari (which is what zenko means), which she actually takes quite seriously. However, she has very little patience for the crass, often scatological sense of humor and lack of piety of most tanuki, and is especially galled by tanuki being perhaps even more gifted shapeshifters and illusionists than foxes.

Typical of foxes, her curiosity is insatiable, and she isn't afraid to intrude and/or make an unapologetic nuisance of herself when a mystery grabs her attention. She also exhibits fox-like vanity, eagerly basking in attention and flattery, more than willing to flirt shamelessly without human notions of propriety or modesty to restrain her; she is also very proud of her age, her experience, knowledge, and connections among spirits, and her status as a zenko. She has the fear of dogs common among foxes, finding them at best annoying and distracting, and at worst absolutely terrifying. She loves aburage to the point of finding it hard to resist, and will gladly accept aburage or sake as offerings, if so presented.

Zenko isn't overwhelmingly concerned with human ethics where they don't line up with her own perspective as a centuries-old adjutant to divine authority--she's a benevolent spirit, but still a spirit. She tends to see humans more as wards rather than sovereign individuals, in that they deserve some degree of respect due to their divine qualities and great potential, but expects deference from regular humans who haven't achieved enlightenment or been elevated by divine right, and doesn't especially care about things like their personal space or private property, especially when it comes to doing what she deems necessary in service to Inari. She doesn't hesitate to point out if a human is wrong and a spirit is right, and doesn't feel bad if she's a bit harsh in "correcting" humans' bad behavior. She especially likes to exact punishment through humiliation, employing illusions and dreamwalking to shame the unrighteous and trick them into making fools of themselves, seeking atonement, or destroying themselves (socially and financially if not physically) if they especially offend her sense of right behavior. While weakness in the innocent is natural and calls for protection and weaning, weakness in the evil is to be scorned and mocked ruthlessly.

= Background =
Few details are known even among the spirits about the early life of the fox who came to be known as Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko--the Benevolent/Inari-serving Fox of the Lonely River Shrine--except that she came originally from Hizen province, and was presumably born sometime in the late Kamakura or early Muromachi period. As a fox, she didn't exactly keep close track of birthdays, so she isn't sure of her own precise age, but must be something like 500 years old, based on her earliest recollections of major human events that she paid any attention to. She remembers the civil wars of the Sengoku beginning around the time she earned her second tail and became a servant of Inari, so she was probably born roughly 100 years before the Sengoku period began.

During the following centuries, she traveled to China several times to collaborate with her distant cousins there in hunting and fighting malicious spirits, monsters, and demons. She also learned about spiritual beings rarely seen in Japan, and greatly improved her fighting skills. Her home base became the Lonely River Shrine, a modest but well-respected Inari shrine located in western Echizen province on an isolated minor tributary to the Kuzuryuu river, where she spent the last century or so, helping the shrine to develop its local reputation as a good place to go with maladies, to pray to Inari for health and prosperity, and pay respect to the foxes living on the shrine's grounds. More recently, she has begun to appear in the region surrounding the imperial capital at Kyo.

Given her rank and long activity in service to Inari, Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko has a certain amount of renown among spirits and particularly foxes, giving her some leverage in garnering their cooperation, but also meaning some information about her can be garnered by others who can communicate with spirits.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible (plus heightened senses)
* Athletics: Amazing
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals further infused with potent spirit energy

Drawing out and communicating with spirits

Master of taiji, proto-baguazhang, and daitou-ryuu aiki-juujutsu (precursor to aikido)

Master of the jian and short staff

= Powers & Merits =
'''Superhuman Senses:''' Zenko has greatly heightened senses of hearing and smell in particular, compared to humans, and can gauge people's emotional states or identify them easily by scent. She can also sense spiritual power and other similar supernatural distinctions, and can see and communicate with spirits and other beings humans may not be able to, from major beings of power (e.g. river deities) to common youkai and other presences dwelling in the wilderness (e.g. kamaitachi, tengu, kodama, etc).

'''Fox Possession (''Kitsunetsuki''):''' Zenko cannot perform full fox possession, but can slip into the subconscious of a sleeping (or otherwise not-fully-awake) person and enter their dreams, either to influence them or just to explore their psyche from the inside and learn secrets.

'''Illusions:''' As a fox-spirit of significant rank, Zenko can generate large, complicated, extremely realistic illusions that affect all the senses, and does so both for pranks and as a matter of course. Illusions can be preprogrammed to follow some course of action and respond in simple ways (e.g. an illusion of an object can be picked up) but without her continued attention, can't interact much more than an NPC in a classic JRPG. If she loses consciousness, her illusions gradually fade over a matter of minutes or seconds, sustained longer the more observers believe in them. Illusions generally affect anyone within perceptual range of them, being constructed with spirit-energy and having a "reality" of their own, but with a touch, Zenko can put an illusion in a single person's mind, instead.

'''Fox Fire (''Kitsunebi''):''' Zenko can form and control blue-white spirit-fire that can burn with heat, or alternatively, can burn away spiritual impurities (e.g. injuries caused by evil spirits), as well as harming spirits directly. When it isn't burning hot, it still projects the sensation of heat, but won't cause pain or physical harm to humans and mundane objects. She can release her fire as a gout of flame blown from her lips, collected as a ball in her hand or on the tips of her tails, or like claws at her fingertips.

'''Weightlessness:''' Zenko can reduce her effective weight (but not mass) to almost nothing, enabling her to stand on the smallest of branches, run across water, use thrown weapons as stepping stones, and make extraordinary, Crouching Tiger-like leaps.

'''Fabrication:''' Zenko can create simple objects up to several pounds in weight by concentrating spirit-energy and gathering available raw material. Such objects can be made stronger than a conventional material object would be (but aren't unbreakable), with any material properties she understands and can imagine (e.g. "like silver" she can do, but "superconductor" she can't), but will fall apart within a day or two unless she maintains it, and can be banished by dissipating the spirit-energy binding them together. Unless she actively concentrates on repairing a broken object created this way, it comes apart into its constituent matter and spirit-energy.

'''Clear Sighted (3)'''

'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
''Star-Ball (Hoshi no Tama):'' A large, sparkling, luminous pearl which Zenko typically wears on a necklace. It serves partially as a repository for her spiritual energy, and is to a fox like a samurai's sword or a police officer's firearm: precious, difficult to replace, extremely embarrassing to lose, and potentially carreer-endingly shameful if it should fall into the hands of someone who can misuse it. She can still use her powers without it, but the scale of the more energy-intensive powers (e.g. Fox Fire, Illusions, and Fabrication) will be much more limited.

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
See [[#hoshi-no-tama|''Star-Ball'']] above.

Although far less powerful than a nine-tailed fox, whose powers are often said to be so great as to strain reason, Zenko has a significant aura which any onmyouji, priest, or other person sensitive to spirits would notice at close quarters, or when she isn't suppressing it. Although she can minimize her presence, she can't hide completely from such people, and may incite trouble depending on their attitudes toward foxes.

'''Curiosity (2):'''

'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

[[Category:Characters]] [[Category: Soul's Characters]]

Zenko

2020-05-18T00:32:04Z

Exacerangutan:

{{Infobox Character
|name=Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
|image=[[File:ZenkoPose.png|400px|Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko, a five-tailed fox]]
|aka=Zenko Bó Huì
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
}}
*Name: Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
*Age: About 500
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: Probably sometime in March
*Parents: Two foxes
**Place of Birth: Hizen Province (modern Saga Prefecture) on western Kyushu
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Illusion and infiltration
**Hobbies: Trolling, teasing, flirting, prying into everything
**Likes: Inari, jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, tanuki, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken and rabbit (not so appealing cooked and prepared but awkward to eat otherwise in a human form)
**Most Valuable Possessions:
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Light brown
**Hair: Black
**Special: Black-furred fox ears, five silver-tipped black-furred fox tails

= Appearance =
[[File:ZenkoFox.png|150px|right|Zenko in her natural form]]Zenko appears in the form of a beautiful, athletic but curvy young woman with long black hair, black-furred fox ears, and five black-furred fox tails with white tips. She always wears a version of a traditional kitsune mask designed to conceal everything above her mouth, usually has a [[#hoshi-no-tama|shimmering, luminous pearl]] worn on a necklace, and most often appears in a sort of scandalously revealing reinterpretation of a shrine maiden's uniform, with her tails poking out through a strategically located gap in the back of the skirt.

Zenko in her natural form (in which she might appear in illusions or in dreams which she's inflitrating) is a small black fox (generally regarded as a good omen) with white tips on her tails and a white stripe down her chest and belly.

= Personality =
Being a fox, Zenko finds the opportunity for japes and pranks and capers and jokes and puns difficult to resist. She loves getting a reaction out of people and entertaining herself, and goes out of her way to make a game out of everything she does--as long as she doesn't expect it to undermine her duties as a servant of Inari (which is what zenko means), which she actually takes quite seriously. However, she has very little patience for the crass, often scatological sense of humor and lack of piety of most tanuki, and is especially galled by tanuki being perhaps even more gifted shapeshifters and illusionists than foxes.

Typical of foxes, her curiosity is insatiable, and she isn't afraid to intrude and/or make an unapologetic nuisance of herself when a mystery grabs her attention. She also exhibits fox-like vanity, eagerly basking in attention and flattery, more than willing to flirt shamelessly without human notions of propriety or modesty to restrain her; she is also very proud of her age, her experience, knowledge, and connections among spirits, and her status as a zenko. She has the fear of dogs common among foxes, finding them at best annoying and distracting, and at worst absolutely terrifying. She loves aburage to the point of finding it hard to resist, and will gladly accept aburage or sake as offerings, if so presented.

Zenko isn't overwhelmingly concerned with human ethics where they don't line up with her own perspective as a centuries-old adjutant to divine authority--she's a benevolent spirit, but still a spirit. She tends to see humans more as wards rather than sovereign individuals, in that they deserve some degree of respect due to their divine qualities and great potential, but expects deference from regular humans who haven't achieved enlightenment or been elevated by divine right, and doesn't especially care about things like their personal space or private property, especially when it comes to doing what she deems necessary in service to Inari. She doesn't hesitate to point out if a human is wrong and a spirit is right, and doesn't feel bad if she's a bit harsh in "correcting" humans' bad behavior. She especially likes to exact punishment through humiliation, employing illusions and dreamwalking to shame the unrighteous and trick them into making fools of themselves, seeking atonement, or destroying themselves (socially and financially if not physically) if they especially offend her sense of right behavior. While weakness in the innocent is natural and calls for protection and weaning, weakness in the evil is to be scorned and mocked ruthlessly.

= Background =
Few details are known even among the spirits about the early life of the fox who came to be known as Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko--the Benevolent/Inari-serving Fox of the Lonely River Shrine--except that she came originally from Hizen province, and was presumably born sometime in the late Kamakura or early Muromachi period. As a fox, she didn't exactly keep close track of birthdays, so she isn't sure of her own precise age, but must be something like 500 years old, based on her earliest recollections of major human events that she paid any attention to. She remembers the civil wars of the Sengoku beginning around the time she earned her second tail and became a servant of Inari, so she was probably born roughly 100 years before the Sengoku period began.

During the following centuries, she traveled to China several times to collaborate with her distant cousins there in hunting and fighting malicious spirits, monsters, and demons. Her home base became the Lonely River Shrine, a modest but well-respected Inari shrine located in western Echizen province on an isolated minor tributary to the Kuzuryuu river, where she spent the last century or so, helping the shrine to develop its local reputation as a good place to go with maladies, to pray to Inari for health and prosperity, and pay respect to the foxes living on the shrine's grounds.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible (plus heightened senses)
* Athletics: Amazing
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals further infused with potent spirit energy
Master of taiji, proto-baguazhang, and daitou-ryuu aiki-juujutsu (precursor to aikido)
Master of the jian and short staff

= Powers & Merits =
'''Superhuman Senses:''' Zenko has greatly heightened senses of hearing and smell in particular, compared to humans, and can gauge people's emotional states or identify them easily by scent. She can also sense spiritual power and other similar supernatural distinctions, and can see and communicate with spirits and other beings humans may not be able to, from major beings of power (e.g. river deities) to common youkai and other presences dwelling in the wilderness (e.g. kamaitachi, tengu, kodama, etc).

'''Fox Possession (''Kitsunetsuki''):''' Zenko cannot perform full fox possession, but can slip into the subconscious of a sleeping (or otherwise not-fully-awake) person and enter their dreams, either to influence them or just to explore their psyche from the inside and learn secrets.

'''Illusions:''' As a fox-spirit of significant rank, Zenko can generate large, complicated, extremely realistic illusions that affect all the senses, and does so both for pranks and as a matter of course. Illusions can be preprogrammed to follow some course of action and respond in simple ways (e.g. an illusion of an object can be picked up) but without her continued attention, can't interact much more than an NPC in a classic JRPG. If she loses consciousness, her illusions gradually fade over a matter of minutes or seconds, sustained longer the more observers believe in them. Illusions generally affect anyone within perceptual range of them, being constructed with spirit-energy and having a "reality" of their own, but with a touch, Zenko can put an illusion in a single person's mind, instead.

'''Fox Fire (''Kitsunebi''):''' Zenko can form and control blue-white spirit-fire that can burn with heat, or alternatively, can burn away spiritual impurities (e.g. injuries caused by evil spirits), as well as harming spirits directly. When it isn't burning hot, it still projects the sensation of heat, but won't cause pain or physical harm to humans and mundane objects. She can release her fire as a gout of flame blown from her lips, collected as a ball in her hand or on the tips of her tails, or like claws at her fingertips.

'''Weightlessness:''' Zenko can reduce her effective weight (but not mass) to almost nothing, enabling her to stand on the smallest of branches, run across water, use thrown weapons as stepping stones, and make extraordinary, Crouching Tiger-like leaps.

'''Fabrication:''' Zenko can create simple objects up to several pounds in weight by concentrating spirit-energy and gathering available raw material. Such objects can be made stronger than a conventional material object would be (but aren't unbreakable), with any material properties she understands and can imagine (e.g. "like silver" she can do, but "superconductor" she can't), but will fall apart within a day or two unless she maintains it, and can be banished by dissipating the spirit-energy binding them together. Unless she actively concentrates on repairing a broken object created this way, it comes apart into its constituent matter and spirit-energy.

'''Clear Sighted (3)'''

'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
''Star-Ball (Hoshi no Tama):'' A large, sparkling, luminous pearl which Zenko typically wears on a necklace. It serves partially as a repository for her spiritual energy, and is to a fox like a samurai's sword or a police officer's firearm: precious, difficult to replace, extremely embarrassing to lose, and potentially carreer-endingly shameful if it should fall into the hands of someone who can misuse it. She can still use her powers without it, but the scale of the more energy-intensive powers (e.g. Fox Fire, Illusions, and Fabrication) will be much more limited.

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
See [[#hoshi-no-tama|''Star-Ball'']] above.

Although far less powerful than a nine-tailed fox, whose powers are often said to be so great as to strain reason, Zenko has a significant aura which any onmyouji, priest, or other person sensitive to spirits would notice at close quarters, or when she isn't suppressing it. Although she can minimize her presence, she can't hide completely from such people, and may incite trouble depending on their attitudes toward foxes.

'''Curiosity (2):'''

'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

[[Category:Characters]] [[Category: Soul's Characters]]

Zenko

2020-05-18T00:27:49Z

Exacerangutan:

{{Infobox Character
|name=Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
|image=[[File:ZenkoPose.png|400px|Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko, a five-tailed fox]]
|aka=Zenko Bó Huì
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
}}
*Name: Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
*Age: About 500
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: Probably sometime in March
*Parents: Two foxes
**Place of Birth: Hizen Province (modern Saga Prefecture) on western Kyushu
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Illusion and infiltration
**Hobbies: Music (esp. koto and shamisen), classical dance, literature
**Likes: Inari, jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, tanuki, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake, negi and negimiso
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken, rabbit
**Most Valuable Possessions:
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Light brown
**Hair: Black
**Special: Black-furred fox ears, five silver-tipped black-furred fox tails

= Appearance =
[[File:ZenkoFox.png|150px|right|Zenko in her natural form]]Zenko appears in the form of a beautiful, athletic but curvy young woman with long black hair, black-furred fox ears, and five black-furred fox tails with white tips. She always wears a version of a traditional kitsune mask designed to conceal everything above her mouth, usually has a [[#hoshi-no-tama|shimmering, luminous pearl]] worn on a necklace, and most often appears in a sort of scandalously revealing reinterpretation of a shrine maiden's uniform, with her tails poking out through a strategically located gap in the back of the skirt.

Zenko in her natural form (in which she might appear in illusions or in dreams which she's inflitrating) is a small black fox (generally regarded as a good omen) with white tips on her tails and a white stripe down her chest and belly.

= Personality =
Being a fox, Zenko finds the opportunity for japes and pranks and capers and jokes and puns difficult to resist. She loves getting a reaction out of people and entertaining herself, and goes out of her way to make a game out of everything she does--as long as she doesn't expect it to undermine her duties as a servant of Inari (which is what zenko means), which she actually takes quite seriously. However, she has very little patience for the crass, often scatological sense of humor and lack of piety of most tanuki, and is especially galled by tanuki being perhaps even more gifted shapeshifters and illusionists than foxes.

Typical of foxes, her curiosity is insatiable, and she isn't afraid to intrude and/or make an unapologetic nuisance of herself when a mystery grabs her attention. She also exhibits fox-like vanity, eagerly basking in attention and flattery, more than willing to flirt shamelessly without human notions of propriety or modesty to restrain her; she is also very proud of her age, her experience, knowledge, and connections among spirits, and her status as a zenko. She has the fear of dogs common among foxes, finding them at best annoying and distracting, and at worst absolutely terrifying. She loves aburage to the point of finding it hard to resist, and will gladly accept aburage or sake as offerings, if so presented.

Zenko isn't overwhelmingly concerned with human ethics where they don't line up with her own perspective as a centuries-old adjutant to divine authority--she's a benevolent spirit, but still a spirit. She tends to see humans more as wards rather than sovereign individuals, in that they deserve some degree of respect due to their divine qualities and great potential, but expects deference from regular humans who haven't achieved enlightenment or been elevated by divine right, and doesn't especially care about things like their personal space or private property, especially when it comes to doing what she deems necessary in service to Inari. She doesn't hesitate to point out if a human is wrong and a spirit is right, and doesn't feel bad if she's a bit harsh in "correcting" humans' bad behavior. She especially likes to exact punishment through humiliation, employing illusions and dreamwalking to shame the unrighteous and trick them into making fools of themselves, seeking atonement, or destroying themselves (socially and financially if not physically) if they especially offend her sense of right behavior. While weakness in the innocent is natural and calls for protection and weaning, weakness in the evil is to be scorned and mocked ruthlessly.

= Background =
Few details are known even among the spirits about the early life of the fox who came to be known as Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko--the Benevolent/Inari-serving Fox of the Lonely River Shrine--except that she came originally from Hizen province, and was presumably born sometime in the late Kamakura or early Muromachi period. As a fox, she didn't exactly keep close track of birthdays, so she isn't sure of her own precise age, but must be something like 500 years old, based on her earliest recollections of major human events that she paid any attention to. She remembers the civil wars of the Sengoku beginning around the time she earned her second tail and became a servant of Inari, so she was probably born roughly 100 years before the Sengoku period began.

During the following centuries, she traveled to China several times to collaborate with her distant cousins there in hunting and fighting malicious spirits, monsters, and demons. Her home base became the Lonely River Shrine, a modest but well-respected Inari shrine located in western Echizen province on an isolated minor tributary to the Kuzuryuu river, where she spent the last century or so, helping the shrine to develop its local reputation as a good place to go with maladies, to pray to Inari for health and prosperity, and pay respect to the foxes living on the shrine's grounds.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible (plus heightened senses)
* Athletics: Amazing
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals further infused with potent spirit energy
Master of taiji, proto-baguazhang, and daitou-ryuu aiki-juujutsu (precursor to aikido)
Master of the jian and short staff

= Powers & Merits =
'''Superhuman Senses:''' Zenko has greatly heightened senses of hearing and smell in particular, compared to humans, and can gauge people's emotional states or identify them easily by scent. She can also sense spiritual power and other similar supernatural distinctions, and can see and communicate with spirits and other beings humans may not be able to, from major beings of power (e.g. river deities) to common youkai and other presences dwelling in the wilderness (e.g. kamaitachi, tengu, kodama, etc).

'''Fox Possession (''Kitsunetsuki''):''' Zenko cannot perform full fox possession, but can slip into the subconscious of a sleeping (or otherwise not-fully-awake) person and enter their dreams, either to influence them or just to explore their psyche from the inside and learn secrets.

'''Illusions:''' As a fox-spirit of significant rank, Zenko can generate large, complicated, extremely realistic illusions that affect all the senses, and does so both for pranks and as a matter of course. Illusions can be preprogrammed to follow some course of action and respond in simple ways (e.g. an illusion of an object can be picked up) but without her continued attention, can't interact much more than an NPC in a classic JRPG. If she loses consciousness, her illusions gradually fade over a matter of minutes or seconds, sustained longer the more observers believe in them. Illusions generally affect anyone within perceptual range of them, being constructed with spirit-energy and having a "reality" of their own, but with a touch, Zenko can put an illusion in a single person's mind, instead.

'''Fox Fire (''Kitsunebi''):''' Zenko can form and control blue-white spirit-fire that can burn with heat, or alternatively, can burn away spiritual impurities (e.g. injuries caused by evil spirits), as well as harming spirits directly. When it isn't burning hot, it still projects the sensation of heat, but won't cause pain or physical harm to humans and mundane objects. She can release her fire as a gout of flame blown from her lips, collected as a ball in her hand or on the tips of her tails, or like claws at her fingertips.

'''Weightlessness:''' Zenko can reduce her effective weight (but not mass) to almost nothing, enabling her to stand on the smallest of branches, run across water, use thrown weapons as stepping stones, and make extraordinary, Crouching Tiger-like leaps.

'''Fabrication:''' Zenko can create simple objects up to several pounds in weight by concentrating spirit-energy and gathering available raw material. Such objects can be made stronger than a conventional material object would be (but aren't unbreakable), with any material properties she understands and can imagine (e.g. "like silver" she can do, but "superconductor" she can't), but will fall apart within a day or two unless she maintains it, and can be banished by dissipating the spirit-energy binding them together. Unless she actively concentrates on repairing a broken object created this way, it comes apart into its constituent matter and spirit-energy.

'''Clear Sighted (3)'''

'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
''Star-Ball (Hoshi no Tama):'' A large, sparkling, luminous pearl which Zenko typically wears on a necklace. It serves partially as a repository for her spiritual energy, and is to a fox like a samurai's sword or a police officer's firearm: precious, difficult to replace, extremely embarrassing to lose, and potentially carreer-endingly shameful if it should fall into the hands of someone who can misuse it. She can still use her powers without it, but the scale of the more energy-intensive powers (e.g. Fox Fire, Illusions, and Fabrication) will be much more limited.

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
See [[#hoshi-no-tama|''Star-Ball'']] above.

Although far less powerful than a nine-tailed fox, whose powers are often said to be so great as to strain reason, Zenko has a significant aura which any onmyouji, priest, or other person sensitive to spirits would notice at close quarters, or when she isn't suppressing it. Although she can minimize her presence, she can't hide completely from such people, and may incite trouble depending on their attitudes toward foxes.

'''Curiosity (2):'''

'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

[[Category:Characters]] [[Category: Soul's Characters]]

Zenko

2020-05-18T00:25:58Z

Exacerangutan:

{{Infobox Character
|name=Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
|image=[[File:ZenkoPose.png|400px|Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko, a five-tailed fox]]
|aka=Zenko Bó Huì
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
}}
*Name: Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
*Age: About 500
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: Probably sometime in March
*Parents: Two foxes
**Place of Birth: Hizen Province (modern Saga Prefecture) on western Kyushu
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Illusion and infiltration
**Hobbies: Music (esp. koto and shamisen), classical dance, literature
**Likes: Inari, jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, tanuki, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake, negi and negimiso
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken, rabbit
**Most Valuable Possessions:
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Light brown
**Hair: Black
**Special: Black-furred fox ears, five silver-tipped black-furred fox tails

= Appearance =
[[File:ZenkoFox.png|150px|right|Zenko in her natural form]]Zenko appears in the form of a beautiful, athletic but curvy young woman with long black hair, black-furred fox ears, and five black-furred fox tails with white tips. She always wears a version of a traditional kitsune mask designed to conceal everything above her mouth, usually has a [[#hoshi-no-tama|shimmering, luminous pearl]] worn on a necklace, and most often appears in a sort of scandalously revealing reinterpretation of a shrine maiden's uniform, with her tails poking out through a strategically located gap in the back of the skirt.

Zenko in her natural form (in which she might appear in illusions or in dreams which she's inflitrating) is a small black fox (generally regarded as a good omen) with white tips on her tails and a white stripe down her chest and belly.

= Personality =
Being a fox, Zenko finds the opportunity for japes and pranks and capers and jokes and puns difficult to resist. She loves getting a reaction out of people and entertaining herself, and goes out of her way to make a game out of everything she does--as long as she doesn't expect it to undermine her duties as a servant of Inari (which is what zenko means), which she actually takes quite seriously. However, she has very little patience for the crass, often scatological sense of humor and lack of piety of most tanuki, and is especially galled by tanuki being perhaps even more gifted shapeshifters and illusionists than foxes.

Typical of foxes, her curiosity is insatiable, and she isn't afraid to intrude and/or make an unapologetic nuisance of herself when a mystery grabs her attention. She also exhibits fox-like vanity, eagerly basking in attention and flattery, more than willing to flirt shamelessly without human notions of propriety or modesty to restrain her; she is also very proud of her age, her experience, knowledge, and connections among spirits, and her status as a zenko. She has the fear of dogs common among foxes, finding them at best annoying and distracting, and at worst absolutely terrifying. She loves aburage to the point of finding it hard to resist, and will gladly accept aburage or sake as offerings, if so presented.

Zenko isn't overwhelmingly concerned with human ethics where they don't line up with her own perspective as a centuries-old adjutant to divine authority--she's a benevolent spirit, but still a spirit. She tends to see humans more as wards rather than sovereign individuals, in that they deserve some degree of respect due to their divine qualities and great potential, but expects deference from regular humans who haven't achieved enlightenment or been elevated by divine right, and doesn't especially care about things like their personal space or private property, especially when it comes to doing what she deems necessary in service to Inari. She doesn't hesitate to point out if a human is wrong and a spirit is right, and doesn't feel bad if she's a bit harsh in "correcting" humans' bad behavior. She especially likes to exact punishment through humiliation, employing illusions and dreamwalking to shame the unrighteous and trick them into making fools of themselves, seeking atonement, or destroying themselves (socially and financially if not physically) if they especially offend her sense of right behavior. While weakness in the innocent is natural and calls for protection and weaning, weakness in the evil is to be scorned and mocked ruthlessly.

= Background =
Few details are known even among the spirits about the early life of the fox who came to be known as Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko--the Benevolent/Inari-serving Fox of the Lonely River Shrine--except that she came originally from Hizen province, and was presumably born sometime in the late Kamakura or early Muromachi period. As a fox, she didn't exactly keep close track of birthdays, so she isn't sure of her own precise age, but must be something like 500 years old, based on her earliest recollections of major human events that she paid any attention to. She remembers the civil wars of the Sengoku beginning around the time she earned her second tail and became a servant of Inari, so she was probably born roughly 100 years before the Sengoku period began.

During the following centuries, she traveled to China several times to collaborate with her distant cousins there in hunting and fighting malicious spirits, monsters, and demons. Her home base became the Lonely River Shrine, a modest but well-respected Inari shrine located in western Echizen province on an isolated minor tributary to the Kuzuryuu river, where she spent the last century or so, helping the shrine to develop its local reputation as a good place to go with maladies, to pray to Inari for health and prosperity, and pay respect to the foxes living on the shrine's grounds.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible (plus heightened senses)
* Athletics: Amazing
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals further infused with potent spirit energy
Master of taiji, proto-baguazhang, and daitou-ryuu aiki-juujutsu (precursor to aikido)
Master of the jian and short staff

= Powers & Merits =
'''Superhuman Senses:''' Zenko has greatly heightened senses of hearing and smell in particular, compared to humans, and can gauge people's emotional states or identify them easily by scent. She can also sense spiritual power and other similar supernatural distinctions, and can see and communicate with spirits and other beings humans may not be able to, from major beings of power (e.g. river deities) to common youkai and other presences dwelling in the wilderness (e.g. kamaitachi, tengu, kodama, etc).

'''Fox Possession (''Kitsunetsuki''):''' Zenko cannot perform full fox possession, but can slip into the subconscious of a sleeping (or otherwise not-fully-awake) person and enter their dreams, either to influence them or just to explore their psyche from the inside and learn secrets.

'''Illusions:''' As a fox-spirit of significant rank, Zenko can generate large, complicated, extremely realistic illusions that affect all the senses, and does so both for pranks and as a matter of course. Illusions can be preprogrammed to follow some course of action and respond in simple ways (e.g. an illusion of an object can be picked up) but without her continued attention, can't interact much more than an NPC in a classic JRPG. If she loses consciousness, her illusions gradually fade over a matter of minutes or seconds, sustained longer the more observers believe in them. Illusions generally affect anyone within perceptual range of them, being constructed with spirit-energy and having a "reality" of their own, but with a touch, Zenko can put an illusion in a single person's mind, instead.

'''Fox Fire (''Kitsunebi''):''' Zenko can form and control blue-white spirit-fire that can burn with heat, or alternatively, can burn away spiritual impurities (e.g. injuries caused by evil spirits), as well as harming spirits directly. When it isn't burning hot, it still projects the sensation of heat, but won't cause pain or physical harm to humans and mundane objects. She can release her fire as a gout of flame blown from her lips, collected as a ball in her hand or on the tips of her tails, or like claws at her fingertips.

'''Weightlessness:''' Zenko can reduce her effective weight (but not mass) to almost nothing, enabling her to stand on the smallest of branches, run across water, use thrown weapons as stepping stones, and make extraordinary, Crouching Tiger-like leaps.

'''Fabrication:''' Zenko can create simple objects up to several pounds in weight by concentrating spirit-energy and gathering available raw material. Such objects can be made stronger than a conventional material object would be (but aren't unbreakable), with any material properties she understands and can imagine (e.g. "like silver" she can do, but "superconductor" she can't), but will fall apart within a day or two unless she maintains it, and can be banished by dissipating the spirit-energy binding them together. Unless she actively concentrates on repairing a broken object created this way, it comes apart into its constituent matter and spirit-energy.

'''Clear Sighted (3)'''

'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
<div id="hoshi-no-tama">optional text''Star-Ball (Hoshi no Tama):''</div> A large, sparkling, luminous pearl which Zenko typically wears on a necklace. It serves partially as a repository for her spiritual energy, and is to a fox like a samurai's sword or a police officer's firearm: precious, difficult to replace, extremely embarrassing to lose, and potentially carreer-endingly shameful if it should fall into the hands of someone who can misuse it. She can still use her powers without it, but the scale of the more energy-intensive powers (e.g. Fox Fire, Illusions, and Fabrication) will be much more limited.

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
See ''Star-Ball'' above.

Although far less powerful than a nine-tailed fox, whose powers are often said to be so great as to strain reason, Zenko has a significant aura which any onmyouji, priest, or other person sensitive to spirits would notice at close quarters, or when she isn't suppressing it. Although she can minimize her presence, she can't hide completely from such people, and may incite trouble depending on their attitudes toward foxes.

'''Curiosity (2):'''
'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

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Zenko

2020-05-18T00:20:59Z

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{{Infobox Character
|name=Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
|image=[[File:ZenkoPose.png|400px|Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko, a five-tailed fox]]
|aka=Zenko Bó Huì
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
}}
*Name: Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko
*Age: About 500
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: Probably sometime in March
*Parents: Two foxes
**Place of Birth: Hizen Province (modern Saga Prefecture) on western Kyushu
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Illusion and infiltration
**Hobbies: Music (esp. koto and shamisen), classical dance, literature
**Likes: Inari, jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, tanuki, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake, negi and negimiso
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken, rabbit
**Most Valuable Possessions:
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Light brown
**Hair: Black
**Special: Black-furred fox ears, five silver-tipped black-furred fox tails

= Appearance =
[[File:ZenkoFox.png|150px|right|Zenko in her natural form]]Zenko appears in the form of a beautiful, athletic but curvy young woman with long black hair, black-furred fox ears, and five black-furred fox tails with white tips. She always wears a version of a traditional kitsune mask designed to conceal everything above her mouth, usually has a [[Zenko#hoshi-no-tama|shimmering, luminous pearl]] worn on a necklace, and most often appears in a sort of scandalously revealing reinterpretation of a shrine maiden's uniform, with her tails poking out through a strategically located gap in the back of the skirt.

Zenko in her natural form (in which she might appear in illusions or in dreams which she's inflitrating) is a small black fox (generally regarded as a good omen) with white tips on her tails and a white stripe down her chest and belly.

= Personality =
Being a fox, Zenko finds the opportunity for japes and pranks and capers and jokes and puns difficult to resist. She loves getting a reaction out of people and entertaining herself, and goes out of her way to make a game out of everything she does--as long as she doesn't expect it to undermine her duties as a servant of Inari (which is what zenko means), which she actually takes quite seriously. However, she has very little patience for the crass, often scatological sense of humor and lack of piety of most tanuki, and is especially galled by tanuki being perhaps even more gifted shapeshifters and illusionists than foxes.

Typical of foxes, her curiosity is insatiable, and she isn't afraid to intrude and/or make an unapologetic nuisance of herself when a mystery grabs her attention. She also exhibits fox-like vanity, eagerly basking in attention and flattery, more than willing to flirt shamelessly without human notions of propriety or modesty to restrain her; she is also very proud of her age, her experience, knowledge, and connections among spirits, and her status as a zenko. She has the fear of dogs common among foxes, finding them at best annoying and distracting, and at worst absolutely terrifying. She loves aburage to the point of finding it hard to resist, and will gladly accept aburage or sake as offerings, if so presented.

Zenko isn't overwhelmingly concerned with human ethics where they don't line up with her own perspective as a centuries-old adjutant to divine authority--she's a benevolent spirit, but still a spirit. She tends to see humans more as wards rather than sovereign individuals, in that they deserve some degree of respect due to their divine qualities and great potential, but expects deference from regular humans who haven't achieved enlightenment or been elevated by divine right, and doesn't especially care about things like their personal space or private property, especially when it comes to doing what she deems necessary in service to Inari. She doesn't hesitate to point out if a human is wrong and a spirit is right, and doesn't feel bad if she's a bit harsh in "correcting" humans' bad behavior. She especially likes to exact punishment through humiliation, employing illusions and dreamwalking to shame the unrighteous and trick them into making fools of themselves, seeking atonement, or destroying themselves (socially and financially if not physically) if they especially offend her sense of right behavior. While weakness in the innocent is natural and calls for protection and weaning, weakness in the evil is to be scorned and mocked ruthlessly.

= Background =
Few details are known even among the spirits about the early life of the fox who came to be known as Kuukoku Jinja no Zenko--the Benevolent/Inari-serving Fox of the Lonely River Shrine--except that she came originally from Hizen province, and was presumably born sometime in the late Kamakura or early Muromachi period. As a fox, she didn't exactly keep close track of birthdays, so she isn't sure of her own precise age, but must be something like 500 years old, based on her earliest recollections of major human events that she paid any attention to. She remembers the civil wars of the Sengoku beginning around the time she earned her second tail and became a servant of Inari, so she was probably born roughly 100 years before the Sengoku period began.

During the following centuries, she traveled to China several times to collaborate with her distant cousins there in hunting and fighting malicious spirits, monsters, and demons. Her home base became the Lonely River Shrine, a modest but well-respected Inari shrine located in western Echizen province on an isolated minor tributary to the Kuzuryuu river, where she spent the last century or so, helping the shrine to develop its local reputation as a good place to go with maladies, to pray to Inari for health and prosperity, and pay respect to the foxes living on the shrine's grounds.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible (plus heightened senses)
* Athletics: Amazing
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals further infused with potent spirit energy
Master of taiji, proto-baguazhang, and daitou-ryuu aiki-juujutsu (precursor to aikido)
Master of the jian and short staff

= Powers & Merits =
'''Superhuman Senses:''' Zenko has greatly heightened senses of hearing and smell in particular, compared to humans, and can gauge people's emotional states or identify them easily by scent. She can also sense spiritual power and other similar supernatural distinctions, and can see and communicate with spirits and other beings humans may not be able to, from major beings of power (e.g. river deities) to common youkai and other presences dwelling in the wilderness (e.g. kamaitachi, tengu, kodama, etc).
'''Fox Possession (''Kitsunetsuki''):''' Zenko cannot perform full fox possession, but can slip into the subconscious of a sleeping (or otherwise not-fully-awake) person and enter their dreams, either to influence them or just to explore their psyche from the inside and learn secrets.
'''Illusions:''' As a fox-spirit of significant rank, Zenko can generate large, complicated, extremely realistic illusions that affect all the senses, and does so both for pranks and as a matter of course. Illusions can be preprogrammed to follow some course of action and respond in simple ways (e.g. an illusion of an object can be picked up) but without her continued attention, can't interact much more than an NPC in a classic JRPG. If she loses consciousness, her illusions gradually fade over a matter of minutes or seconds, sustained longer the more observers believe in them. Illusions generally affect anyone within perceptual range of them, being constructed with spirit-energy and having a "reality" of their own, but with a touch, Zenko can put an illusion in a single person's mind, instead.
'''Fox Fire (''Kitsunebi''):''' Zenko can form and control blue-white spirit-fire that can burn with heat, or alternatively, can burn away spiritual impurities (e.g. injuries caused by evil spirits), as well as harming spirits directly. When it isn't burning hot, it still projects the sensation of heat, but won't cause pain or physical harm to humans and mundane objects. She can release her fire as a gout of flame blown from her lips, collected as a ball in her hand or on the tips of her tails, or like claws at her fingertips.
'''Weightlessness:''' Zenko can reduce her effective weight (but not mass) to almost nothing, enabling her to stand on the smallest of branches, run across water, use thrown weapons as stepping stones, and make extraordinary, Crouching Tiger-like leaps.
'''Fabrication:''' Zenko can create simple objects up to several pounds in weight by concentrating spirit-energy and gathering available raw material. Such objects can be made stronger than a conventional material object would be (but aren't unbreakable), with any material properties she understands and can imagine (e.g. "like silver" she can do, but "superconductor" she can't), but will fall apart within a day or two unless she maintains it, and can be banished by dissipating the spirit-energy binding them together. Unless she actively concentrates on repairing a broken object created this way, it comes apart into its constituent matter and spirit-energy.

'''Clear Sighted (3)'''
'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
''Star-Ball (Hoshi no Tama):[#hoshi-no-tama]'' A large, sparkling, luminous pearl which Zenko typically wears on a necklace. It serves partially as a repository for her spiritual energy, and is to a fox like a samurai's sword or a police officer's firearm: precious, difficult to replace, extremely embarrassing to lose, and potentially carreer-endingly shameful if it should fall into the hands of someone who can misuse it. She can still use her powers without it, but the scale of the more energy-intensive powers (e.g. Fox Fire, Illusions, and Fabrication) will be much more limited.

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
See ''Star-Ball'' above.

Although far less powerful than a nine-tailed fox, whose powers are often said to be so great as to strain reason, Zenko has a significant aura which any onmyouji, priest, or other person sensitive to spirits would notice at close quarters, or when she isn't suppressing it. Although she can minimize her presence, she can't hide completely from such people, and may incite trouble depending on their attitudes toward foxes.

'''Curiosity (2):'''
'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

[[Category:Characters]] [[Category: Soul's Characters]]

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2020-05-17T22:41:59Z

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2020-05-17T22:41:38Z

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Hiroe

2020-05-17T21:33:12Z

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{{Infobox Character
|name=Hiroe (博恵) Matsudaira
|image=[[File:HiroeSmirk.png|400px|Hiroe, Scion of the Matsudaira.]]
|aka=
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=Matsudaira clan Sadamasa Matsudaira (father) Tadame (mother) Naomaru (brother, 14) Takeshi (brother, 7)
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
}}
*Name: Hiroe
*Age: 17
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: July 25th
*Parents: Sadamasa and Tadae
**Place of Birth: Fukui, Echizen Province (~100km north of Kyo)
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Diplomacy
**Hobbies: Music (esp. koto and shamisen), classical dance, literature
**Likes: Jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake, negi and negimiso
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken, rabbit
**Most Valuable Possessions:
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Light brown
**Hair: Black

= Appearance =
Hiroe is an elegant, poised, remarkably beautiful young lady, always dressed fashionably, just inside the boundary of propriety for someone of her station. Of course, this means her figure is almost always very well concealed in a classy kimono, but it can be judged from her frame and the way she carries herself that she has a more athletic build than her poise betrays, and she certainly has some kind of curves going on. She wears her deep black hair long with a straight trimmed fringe, loose in most cases but tied up in a bun in especially formal circumstances.

= Personality =
[[File:HiroeSmile.png|150px|right]]Polite, charming, and playful, Hiroe is naturally inquisitive and gregarious, especially enjoying humorous stories and jokes. She has difficulty leaving a mystery unexplored, and while she can contain herself if necessary, she always wants to know what's inside the box or behind the curtain, and will get antsy and distracted (and eventually just frustrated) contemplating how to get answers if she's presented with a mystery that can't be resolved. Approaching serious tasks with the belief there isn't much point not finding a way to enjoy them while getting them done well, she tends to be cheerful and disarming, but with the poise and gravitas befitting (and actually probably exceeding) her station. She struggles to resist engaging in wordplay and punmanship, and loves witty banter.

Underneath her lighthearted, debonair manner, Hiroe has a very strong sense of justice, founded above all on piety--the belief that there are things the Heavens frown upon, and those things should not be done, and if they are done, someone should be punished. Although she doesn't much savor violence as a solution, she recognizes that sometimes there are no other feasible options. She vastly prefers potent shaming, mockery, and social pressure, however.

Hiroe is markedly uncomfortable around dogs. Even small ones leave her uneasy, which she ascribes to finding their hyperactivity, noise, and slobbering distasteful; larger dogs make her anywhere from tense and distracted to outright terrified, depending on their behavior. Although she's careful not to belittle others (unless they're asking for it), she can be quite vain, taking a great deal of pride in her family's reputation and influence, her parents, her own beauty and intelligence, and so on, but also in her friends. She loves being the center of attention, and has to make a point to not steal the spotlight when the opportunity presents itself if there's a reason not to. She tends to treat people well and form many casual friendships, but has difficulty opening up completely to people.

= Background =
[[File:HiroeDeadpan.png|150px|right]]Hiroe was born to a well-to-do but otherwise modest, peripheral branch of the powerful Yuuki-Matsudaira clan of Echizen--although the Yuuki-Matsudaira claimed direct descent from the Shogunate, Hiroe's father was born the third son of a third son of a third son, far-removed from the halls of power in all but name. She grew up as something of a golden child, initially because her excellent heath was a great relief after her mother's worryingly precarious pregnancy; Tadame's health had been so upset in the early stages after a series of unsuccessful attempts that the family had taken some pains to bring her to visit Inari shrines for fertility and reproductive health blessings. When Hiroe was born normal and lively, her parents were overjoyed and tended to spoil her; by the time her younger brothers were born, she had already learned to be helpful and had demonstrated exceptional intelligence and understanding for her age.

Shortly before Naomaru was born, her father was sent with his family to Fushimi as a representative of the Yuuki-Matsudaira clan, and Hiroe became acquainted with the city and its head family as good company for their daughter to keep. Always very bright, and inquisitive to a fault, Hiroe absorbed skills and knowledge voraciously as a child, especially once she learned to read (quite early); on the other hand, her energetic nature, rambunctiousness, and knack for finding trouble were a lot to deal with. For several years, Hiroe grew up in Fushimi, but shortly after her brother Takeshi was born, her father was recalled to Fukui on orders from the main family. Dealing more often with higher-ranking members of the clan, her parents sent her to assist at the nearest Inari shrine as an apprentice shrine maiden, hoping she'd learn a little more discipline--which she did with her usual precociousness, growing into a refined but strikingly vivacious young woman.

After living in Fukui for a few years, Hiroe's father was again sent to represent the clan in Fushimi after a short string of lower-level administrators failed to adapt to the demands of the position. In contrast, Hiroe proved herself a capable assistant, even undertaking local business trips to the neighboring domains on behalf of her father and the Fushimi family.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible
* Athletics: Excellent
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals

= Powers & Merits =
'''Clear Sighted (3)'''
'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
???

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
'''Curiosity (2):'''
'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

[[Category:Characters]] [[Category: Soul's Characters]]

File:HiroeDeadpan.png

2020-05-17T21:32:13Z

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2020-05-17T21:25:54Z

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Hiroe

2020-05-17T14:12:20Z

Exacerangutan:

{{Infobox Character
|name=Hiroe (博恵) Matsudaira
|image=[[File:HiroeSmirk.png|400px|Hiroe, Scion of the Matsudaira.]]
|aka=
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=Matsudaira clan Sadamasa Matsudaira (father) Tadame (mother) Naomaru (brother, 14) Takeshi (brother, 7)
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
}}
*Name: Hiroe
*Age: 17
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: July 25th
*Parents: Sadamasa and Tadae
**Place of Birth: Fukui, Echizen Province (~100km north of Kyo)
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Diplomacy
**Hobbies: Music (esp. koto and shamisen), classical dance, literature
**Likes: Jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake, negi and negimiso
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken, rabbit
**Most Valuable Possessions:
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Light brown
**Hair: Black

= Appearance =
Hiroe is an elegant, poised, remarkably beautiful young lady, always dressed fashionably, just inside the boundary of propriety for someone of her station. Of course, this means her figure is almost always very well concealed in a classy kimono, but it can be judged from her frame and the way she carries herself that she has a more athletic build than her poise betrays, and she certainly has some kind of curves going on. She wears her deep black hair long with a straight trimmed fringe, loose in most cases but tied up in a bun in especially formal circumstances.

= Personality =
Polite, charming, and playful, Hiroe is naturally inquisitive and gregarious, especially enjoying humorous stories and jokes. She has difficulty leaving a mystery unexplored, and while she can contain herself if necessary, she always wants to know what's inside the box or behind the curtain, and will get antsy and distracted (and eventually just frustrated) contemplating how to get answers if she's presented with a mystery that can't be resolved. Approaching serious tasks with the belief there isn't much point not finding a way to enjoy them while getting them done well, she tends to be cheerful and disarming, but with the poise and gravitas befitting (and actually probably exceeding) her station. She struggles to resist engaging in wordplay and punmanship, and loves witty banter.

Underneath her lighthearted, debonair manner, Hiroe has a very strong sense of justice, founded above all on piety--the belief that there are things the Heavens frown upon, and those things should not be done, and if they are done, someone should be punished. Although she doesn't much savor violence as a solution, she recognizes that sometimes there are no other feasible options. She vastly prefers potent shaming, mockery, and social pressure, however.

Hiroe is markedly uncomfortable around dogs. Even small ones leave her uneasy, which she ascribes to finding their hyperactivity, noise, and slobbering distasteful; larger dogs make her anywhere from tense and distracted to outright terrified, depending on their behavior. Although she's careful not to belittle others (unless they're asking for it), she can be quite vain, taking a great deal of pride in her family's reputation and influence, her parents, her own beauty and intelligence, and so on, but also in her friends. She loves being the center of attention, and has to make a point to not steal the spotlight when the opportunity presents itself if there's a reason not to. She tends to treat people well and form many casual friendships, but has difficulty opening up completely to people.

= Background =
Hiroe was born to a well-to-do but otherwise modest, peripheral branch of the powerful Yuuki-Matsudaira clan of Echizen--although the Yuuki-Matsudaira claimed direct descent from the Shogunate, Hiroe's father was born the third son of a third son of a third son, far-removed from the halls of power in all but name. She grew up as something of a golden child, initially because her excellent heath was a great relief after her mother's worryingly precarious pregnancy; Tadame's health had been so upset in the early stages after a series of unsuccessful attempts that the family had taken some pains to bring her to visit Inari shrines for fertility and reproductive health blessings. When Hiroe was born normal and lively, her parents were overjoyed and tended to spoil her; by the time her younger brothers were born, she had already learned to be helpful and had demonstrated exceptional intelligence and understanding for her age.

Shortly before Naomaru was born, her father was sent with his family to Fushimi as a representative of the Yuuki-Matsudaira clan, and Hiroe became acquainted with the city and its head family as good company for their daughter to keep. Always very bright, and inquisitive to a fault, Hiroe absorbed skills and knowledge voraciously as a child, especially once she learned to read (quite early); on the other hand, her energetic nature, rambunctiousness, and knack for finding trouble were a lot to deal with. For several years, Hiroe grew up in Fushimi, but shortly after her brother Takeshi was born, her father was recalled to Fukui on orders from the main family. Dealing more often with higher-ranking members of the clan, her parents sent her to assist at the nearest Inari shrine as an apprentice shrine maiden, hoping she'd learn a little more discipline--which she did with her usual precociousness, growing into a refined but strikingly vivacious young woman.

After living in Fukui for a few years, Hiroe's father was again sent to represent the clan in Fushimi after a short string of lower-level administrators failed to adapt to the demands of the position. In contrast, Hiroe proved herself a capable assistant, even undertaking local business trips to the neighboring domains on behalf of her father and the Fushimi family.

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible
* Athletics: Excellent
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals

= Powers & Merits =
'''Clear Sighted (3)'''
'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
???

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
'''Curiosity (2):'''
'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

[[Category:Characters]] [[Category: Soul's Characters]]

Hiroe

2020-05-17T12:12:42Z

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{{Infobox Character
|name=Hiroe Matsudaira
|image=[[File:HiroeSmirk.png|400px|Hiroe, Scion of the Matsudaira.]]
|aka=
|age=17
|japaneseva=
|relatives=Matsudaira clan Sadamasa Matsudaira (father) Tadae Matsudaira (mother)
|series=
|player=Exacerangutan
}}
*Name: Hiroe
*Age: 17
*Sex: Female
*Birthday: July 25th
*Parents: Sadamasa and Tadae
**Place of Birth: Fukui, Echizen Province (~100km north of Kyo)
**Nationality: Japanese
**Specialty: Diplomacy
**Hobbies: Music (esp. koto and shamisen), classical dance, literature
**Likes: Jokes and amusing stories, cleverness, people with a healthy balance of respect and fun
**Dislikes: Dogs, boorish and dour people
**Favorite Foods: Fried tofu, quality sake, negi and negimiso
**Least Favorite Foods: Chicken, rabbit
**Most Valuable Possessions:
**Seiyuu/Voice Actor:
**Playlist: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZuMAYYp5603r8JB0KRbm5jpqex0QnT1 Classical Japanese/Rock/Pop mashups]

*Physical Stats
**Height: 5'6"
**Weight: 120lbs
**Eyes: Light brown
**Hair: Black

= Appearance =
???

= Personality =
???

= Background =
???

= Skills =
Physical Skills:
* Alertness: Incredible
* Athletics: Excellent
* Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:
* Subterfuge: Incredible
* Streetwise: Very good
* Etiquette: Incredible
* Performance (shamisen, koto): Incredible
* Performance (voice): Excellent

Mental Skills:
* Medicine: Good
* Languages: Fluent Chinese, smattering of Dutch and Portugese
* Law: Excellent
* Occult: Amazing (Shinto legends, spirits, monsters)
* Politics: Excellent

Other Skills:
* Survival: Good (Excellent at foraging)
* Empathy: Excellent
* Animal Ken: Excellent (but not cool with dogs)

= Special Abilities =
Shinto purification rituals

= Powers & Merits =
'''Clear Sighted (3)'''
'''Graceful (2)'''

= Unique Items =
???

= Items Of Note =
???

= Weaknesses & Flaws =
'''Curiosity (2):'''
'''Fear of dogs (1):'''

= NPC(s) to go with char =
???

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Exacerangutan:

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=Nightshade=
Setting info TBD. Basically: Romanticized historical japanese stuff with a hint of mysticism and ninjas. I'm meshing the Tokugawa era with some Meiji stuff.

===Recap===

[[NightshadePlot|Story So Far]] 

So, the princess made it to the castle with her trusty samurai friend, Kakita Yaeko. The other ninjas and swordsmen decided to spend some time wandering the city for some shopping in the esteemed trade city, Haru. They had fabrics, food, and spices galore! A total sweet haven for any merchant. Speaking of merchants, Seiya had made a friend with the Fushimi Merchant, Hirofumi and she had decided to help the guy out. I mean, those Juzo guards tried to kill him, so helping a guy out by checking his goods seems like the Good Samaritan thing to do. Anyway, Seiya went to Hirofumi's warehouse and noticed it was broken INTO and instead of stealing anything, someone had left a crate there instead. Seiya opened up that grate and lo and behold..! It was a bunch of bloody, burned rich people fabric and a broken priest staff. Seiya thought that this could be some sort of murder cover up, so she left the warehouse.. but just before she could locate the others, an old man named Hein ran into her and said he needed the crate. Seiya and Hein struck up a conversation which was kind of weird. Hein compared Seiya to Lady Kagura, a famous priestess of the Yata Clan that comes from a legend in his home city, Miho. Hein and Seiya kinda bonded and Seiya came clean about how the crate Hein was going to take was basically full of murder stuff. Hein was shocked and decided not to take the crate back to him in his shop in Miho, where he was paid to repair the items inside that box. Hein insisted that if Seiya was saving him by preventing him from taking that cursed crate and that if she ever comes to Miho, she should visit him. Seiya took his card and then met up with the others. 

Back at Yaeko's mansion, the princess and Yaeko returned having some good news that the trade talks went really well! But the good mood was thrown off a bit because the crate with the murder goods was there. Yaeko, having recognized that garment before.. saw that it was the clothes that Juzo Harken had been wearing at the time of his demise. After continued jostling around, eventually a broken jade coin fell out of an inner pocket of the bloody rich person garment. The crew discussed what they should do and decided that they should reach out to the Haru family Onmyouji, Lady Sakurazuka. Lady Sakurazuka then arrived and took the coin, saying that this could be the key to uncovering secrets that Juzo had been hiding from Lord Takeshi, the second son of the Haru family. The crate, after that, was then disposed off and Juzo's clothing remains and staff were burned. 

Current Location: 
Fushimi - the Iron City.

===Places of Note===
* Kyo - The Capital
* Haru- City of the East
** Notable family: [[Kensuke]] Fukamachi, [[Takeshi]]/[[Aki]]/[[Juzo]]/Karasu
* Miho - City north of Fushimi
** Notable family: Shuuichi Yagami/Chidori/Kamui
* Rohei - Western City of Light
** Notable Family: TBC
* Fushimi Castle
** Notable Family: Miyabi Fushimi

==Ninja Clans==
===Koga Clan===
Elemental Jutsu masters.. arguably one of the biggest ninja clans after winning the Koga/Iga war. 
Notable Members
* [[Irumi]]
* [[Kamen]]
* [[Ayame]]

===Iga Clan===
Now assimilated with the Koga Clan or with Hanzo protecting lord Tokugawa 

Notable Members
* Hattori Hanzo
* [[Izumi]]
* Shin

===Tendou Clan===
Puppetry, Poisons, Sound jutsus. The strongest of their clan actually fight 'blind' and rely on their other senses. People do NOT want to mess with this clan. 
Notable Members
* [[Reina]]
* [[Riisu]]
* [[Ren]]
* [[Koi]]
* [[Ami]]
* [[Oto]]
* [[Rei]]
* [[Aki]]
* [[Rika]]
* [[Hanaya]]
* [[Chi]]

===Noziaku Clan===
Clones, Body manipulation/morphing, Wind Jutsus. 
Notable Members
* Hitomi
* [[Hanako]]
* [[Hayate]]

===Fuma Clan===
Lots of demon motifs.. they say that the Fuma clan has made a pact in the past with demons for their strength. They're a very big mercenary type of clan. 
Notable Members
* Kotaro Fuma

==Character List==
* [[Izumi]]
* [[Irumi]]
* [[Kamen]]
* [[Hayate]]
* [[Hanako]]
* [[Hitomi]]
* [[Seijou]]
* [[Yukishiro]]
* [[Zenki]]
* [[Richter of Germany]]
* [[Shin]]
* [[Ayame]]
* [[Hiroe]]

==NPCs==
* [[Miyabi]]
* [[Setsuna]]
* [[Hokuto Sakurazuka]]
* [[Rei Shikinami]]
* [[Gou Takamichi]]
* [[Hikitsu Shimo]]