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Tsuki | | Age: | | Tsuki is four. She spent the time between Japan's Edo Period and the present in an Argob's Pot in suspended animation, during which she did not age. | | Gender: | | female | | Species: | | Half shadow-beast, half light-beast hybrid. Her father, Abyssi, was a shadow-beast species called a "jinbu", see below for info. Her mother, Illumina, was a light-beast species called a "janbu". | | Height: | | About three feet tall. | | Build: | | Small, a child's build. | | Body Coloration: | | Black skin, but with a white face, white hands, white feet, and a white tip on the end of her little tail. Her hair is black and silky. | | Eye Color: | | Sky blue. | | Pictures: |  
(Art by Oni and Patches.) | | Clothing: | | Tsuki usually wears a violet or lavender children's kimono with a flower pattern. She wears tiny tabi and geta (traditional kimono "socks" and sandals). She also usually wears bells in her hair so a tinkling sound accompanies her as she moves. If Cotton (see Accessories) is with her she will be wearing the white scarf around her neck. | | Occupation/Class: | | Child. | | Affiliations: | | Abyssi's daughter by his late light-beast wife, Illumina. Tsuki loves her father unconditionally. She also has a pet ittan momen scarf known as Cotton, see below. | | Accessories: | | Sometimes she has crayons or other simple toys that Abyssi's given her. She also sometimes is seen wearing a white cotton scarf--This is her pet ittan momen (a cotton scarf youkai of Japanese folklore). Its name is Cotton and while it cannot speak it is sentient. Cotton moves by floating on the air in a way that seems intentional. | | What is a shadow-beast? | Tsuki is half shadow-beast, which are basically monsters which were created out of pieces of nighttime shadows and made alive. There are many different kinds and they all have certain properties in common.
Shadow-beasts prefer to be active at night, and much prefer dark places. Since their bodies were made out of shadows, some are incorporeal, existing only as what appears to be a shadow that moves on its own. They all have the ability to move into a normal shadow as if it were a doorway. To them shadows act as passages to what is known as the "Darkside", which is basically a dark, reversed version of the normal world (the "Lightside" which we inhabit). We as humans are not normally able to travel to Darkside, and many shadow-beasts are not strong enough to leave there. The ones that are able to manifest on this side, are sometimes mistaken as ghosts, or "the monster under the bed" or "in the closet".
Shadow-beasts, being creatures of shadow, can normally make themselves incorporeal or unsolid in some form. Some cannot abide bright sunlight, others can tolerate it but none really like it.
Like cold iron to fairies, shadow-beasts have a weakness towards a certain natural material, which causes them paralysis, great pain, or paroxysms if struck with it, or various combinations of these. (PM me if you need to know what it is for a roleplay purpose.) | | What is a jinbu? | Tsuki's father's species of shadow-beast are called jinbu. They are mysterious and extremely rare, and strong enough that they can easily pass over to the Lightside, and are not deterred by bright sunlight (though they do not like it). Black skin with a white face is the identifying characteristic of jinbu.
Abyssi's clan of jinbu all have a desire to seek out and find a suitable Master. This relationship could be as varied as a student learning under a sensei, a 'summoned beast' obeying a magic-user, a vassal operating under a warlord, or even a very large 'pet' to an innocent child. Each jinbu has slightly different fighting styles and abilities, but most rely on stealth attacks and tactics as opposed to outright battle. | | Abilities/Skills: | | Tsuki can hide herself in a shadow and go to Darkside like her father. She has no combat or magical ability herself. If Cotton is with Tsuki, it can somewhat defend her by flying into the face or tying around the hand of an aggressor. | | Miscellaneous Species Abilities: | | Tsuki's night vision is very good. | | Weaknesses? | | Mortal. Anything that would hurt a kid would hurt her too. | | Special Effects: | | Jingles a bit due to the bells in her hair. | | Description of Personality: | | Innocent and sweet. However she has already been exposed to the harsh reality of the world, having seen her mother's murder, and later she was taken hostage by the onmyoji, O-Bou, who sought to control Abyssi by abducting her. | | Brief History: | Abyssi and the shadow-beasts were believed to have been created by Narse, titan of darkness. Their exact purpose is not known, but as Narse is not a malevolent being, they were most likely intended to be a race of guardians of the night, protecting others from unclean things.
In Abyssi's past, he and a series of other jinbu were used as formidable assassins by a Black Emperor, who ruled an empire called Gaul. The Emperor was believed to have been one of the men from Darkside, who had passed over to Lightside and was attempting to conquer it. Gaul had special knowledge of how to control shadow-beasts, as well as the disease that turned nornal humans into shadow-beasts, and so the other lands cowered in fear of the monsters of the night. The jinbu in particular, due to their unwavering obedience to their Master the Emperor, fearlessness and murderous stealth tactics, were greatly feared. The emperor controlled their race through means of a geas (a kind of magic spell or pact) that had been forcefully put on their bloodline, in essence binding them in servitude to the Emperor's bloodline for as long as it existed.
A small town called Albion Du, which was styled much like a feudal Japanese village, was in danger of being assimilated into the Greco-Roman styled Gaulian Empire. However, a great hero from this town, whose name was Argob, learned the secret weakness of shadow-beasts. He led a resistance movement of shadow hunters called the Kage No Ryoshi. After many bloody battles, the Emperor's jinbu were defeated at the hands of these hunters.
Abyssi and the other jinbu were sealed by Argob's men in what are called "Argob's Pots". These are black urns with ancient carvings, and have needles stuck into them which hold each jinbu in a state of helpless suspended animation. The pots were all locked away inside a building called Temple Achelon, to hopefully never be disturbed. Eventually, Argob and his men, using their shadow-hunting abilities, fought their way to Gaul and overthrew the Emperor.
A thousand years passed and Albion Du became prosperous, while Old Gaul lies in ruins. The jinbu race are believed to have been a legend. However, this is about to change, as robbers, other shadow-beasts, and all manner of things have disturbed the Argob's Pots, each one containing a jinbu of the Emperor.
Before he was sealed away himself, Abyssi had a family: His cherished light-beast wife Illumina, and his four-year-old daughter, Tsuki. After the missions he would be force-fed by Emperor Breager, it was his family that supported him and allowed him to be able to endure. However, Abyssi's increasing will and defiance at being controlled by the geas caused him to fall into disfavor with the wrong people. He arrived home one night to find the acolytes of Gaul waiting for him: Illumina was murdered before his eyes, and Tsuki was taken away from him. This singular tragedy filled Abyssi with anger and grief that continues to haunt him to this day.
Having believed for many years that Tsuki was also dead, he is surprised, after his own unsealing, to learn that the Kage No Ryoshi had her Argob's Pot. With the help of Sharlo Mercuun, Abyssi retrieved Tsuki from the manipulative onmyoji O-Bou, but shortly afterward, she disappeared again to an even more mysterious fate.
Tsuki (pronounced Suu-Kee) is Japanese for "moon". | | A brief and character revealing answer to the question, "What is your ambition?" | | "To see Father smile." |
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