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Name: Sam
Are you over 16?: Yes
Personal LJ: blue_raven64
Email: slgstudentmail(at)yahoo(dot)com
Timezone: EST
Other contact: AIM/ironbirdobserver
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How did you find us?: I was half enabled. My inspiration took off with the other half D:
IC:
Character name: Chen
Fandom: Touhou Project
Timeline: Post Touhou 10.5
Age: Around 100
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: Despite her adorable appearance, Chen’s superpowers are actually…kind of morbid. How morbid?
Well, how does necromancy sound?
Yes, in the traditional “fortune telling via dead people” sense, though she can reanimate and control corpses to a crude degree and would be of tremendous use in the next zombie apocalypse.
That isn’t the only thing she does, though. When not getting hopelessly tangled in yarn or causing nosebleeds because of how tooth-rottingly adorable she is, she can summon and manipulate ghostly fireballs, cast magic missile and do more than a passable job at shredding people. Those claws of hers aren’t just for decoration. They hurt. And when she’s within Ran’s proximity, the shikigami connection scales her power up a few levels.
The nekomata is also uncannily fast; either on the ground or airborne. She can trick her way out of a hit in this manner.
Chen’s also more or less immune to poison. She’d probably eat it and suffer no ill effects whatsoever.
How would they use their abilities?: Chen is just as mature as her human appearance would suggest-not terribly so. And if she’s not around her master Ran, her power is reduced greatly. Even moreso if she’s dowsed in water. Then, Chen’s spiritual bond with Ran is temporarily severed and she can’t use any of her magic, only jaws and claws and warp speed.
Even though her magic does include that of necromancy, Chen doesn’t really use it much. For one thing, she doesn’t get to practice very often and for another, corpses stink.
Chen also has a tendency of becoming impatient and impetuous, and will rush things if she feels they have taken too long. The definition of “too long” varies daily.
Appearance: This is a Chen.
In her human…oid form, at least. Not terribly big; what one would expect from a ten year old child in terms of height. Less so in terms of holy shit claws, as her fingers (and toes) are armed with fairly impressive ones, usually painted red. As a cat she’s…well, a cat. A slightly-larger-than-normal black cat with two tails instead of one, but nevertheless a cat. She can still talk in this form (and communicate with people and animals) due to her nature as a nekomata, though those fluent in animal-speak would have an easier time of it. She tends to use body language as often as words; even in her human form those tails are almost always twitching about
Background/Personality: The following history is purely headcanon, as Chen has no real canon history to speak of.
Chen began life as little more than a nameless, entirely mundane cat, sometime after Gensokyo was sealed off from the rest of Japan. Her parents and the rest of her litter were kept by a rural family to keep vermin out of the granary. But when she was big enough, the cat always hunted the snakes instead of the mice, which was a bit…counterproductive. When not failing at being a mouser, she was quite happily a lapcat.
Because of her tendency to hang out around her human family, this cat outlived her parents and all of her siblings. Also because of these fond memories, Chen never became very hostile towards humans, and is puzzled as to why humans didn’t seem to like her. She hasn’t even eaten anyone today!
Then the cat-that-would-be-Chen turned ten years old--and started to change. It started with her behavior first; even though she should have been an old cat, she started acting like a kitten again. As if possessed of a newfound energy that this mundane form alone could barely contain. The cat’s eyes took on a new…almost unnatural brightness, and there was a spring to her step that hadn’t been present since the earliest years of her life.
The cat’s human family began to suspect something; after all, they weren’t blind.
It wasn’t until her tail forked and split into two that they realized just maaaaybe they had a problem. More than maybe; the household pet had turned into some supernatural monster--a nekomata--and might start eating people. Couldn’t have that.
…rather than having her exterminated, though, the cat was taken far away from the village and abandoned by a Jizo statue. A small bit of compassion for the family pet, perhaps. It was raining; the cat hated rain even then. And when it did subside, she couldn’t find her way back. There was no scent to follow, and she had certainly never been this far from home.
Lost and horribly, horribly confused, the cat stayed where she was; unsure what to do. She lost track of how long she was there; the cat became hungry, but did not perish from it.
…then, someone passed by. Someone who…was not human at all, not with the tails and ears of a fox, but looked a bit like one. And smiled like one too. And had food! A piece of orange; she remembers that distinctly.
Here she met Ran. The fox who became her master-gave her the name Chen. And a new direction to pursue, which the young youkai desperately needed.
The process of becoming a shikigami was, on the surface, rather simple. Merely a mutual acceptance of servitude. But the bond itself went much deeper than that; effecting both parties on a mental and spiritual level that is difficult for Chen to describe. Regardless, Chen hates, hates water. It dispels this connection, leaving her feeling lost and utterly alone, even if she’s standing right next to Ran.
Chen also met Yukari, Ran’s master-making Chen the shikigami of a shikigami. By the time Yukari’s power trickles down the food chain to her, it isn’t quite so impressive or distinctive. But she doesn’t mind. She has a deep affection for Ran, much like a child has for their mother. And, by proxy, Yukari-though this is a bit more distant, Chen still happily considers both of them family. The nekomata took a humanoid form, like her master did, and began to speak in words, also as her master did.
As she matured as a nekomata, Chen’s earlier mortal years receded and became fuzzy, until they were no more than distant memories. “Maturing” being used loosely in this case; despite being over a century old, Chen remains childlike in nature. She has grown up a little bit, though still a bit slowly by youkai standards.
The first time Chen began to take things much more seriously was when she failed to defend Mayohiga during the events of the Perfect Cherry Blossom Incident. Even a second time, with Ran in close enough proximity to elevate Chen’s power, was not sufficient. These losses really struck home; even though she didn’t stay truly depressed for long, she wasn’t quite the same carefree kitten as before.
She will still cheerfully chase butterflies, yes, but Chen has started to take this “growing up” process more seriously. She wants to make Ran proud, after all!
…being trolled with a false moon was not part of the plan, though. Chen was more than annoyed at the change of scenery-she very much fell victim to the Imperishable Night’s insanity. Her behavior turned violent, maddened and uncontrollable-like an enraged feral cat. She did not even recognize her master, or acknowledge the shikigami bond. All of that training came back to haunt her, in a way; Chen had become more powerful since the last Incident.
If the Imperishable Night had not been resolved when it was, the effects may have become permanent. And Ran may have been forced to kill Chen.
But it was; as the nekomata’s insanity receded and reason returned to her mind, Chen became horribly, horribly aware of what she had done. That Incident in particular has haunted her memory ever since, despite her best attempts at forgetting it.
Another stark reminder of how small she really is came about soon enough, during the events of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, when the Celestial started causing seven different kinds of chaos in Gensokyo for no particular reason besides boredom.
Chen has quite a ways to go yet.
Why should that character be in this game: N/A
Why do you want to continue their history here: N/A
Have you read up on how the game works?: That plugin is Flaming Ferret and money is made doing missions or stealing or being a leech.
1st person sample: …nyaa.
[The first thing the handy dandy camera records is yarn. Yes, there is yarn on it. And on the floor, around a chair and a table leg, hooked on some nail in the wall that may have held a picture up at one point, stretched across the couch and ending…possibly, in a tangle on the floor.
My goodness, Chen, however did you manage that?
In the middle of this tangle is a small girl with a cat’s ears, a red dress and two tails waving around behind her. Her green bonnet has fallen off a little bit away, and is just lying on the floor like some exotic (and very dead) jellyfish. The nekomata’s expression is concerned, but not overly so; she seems to have hit the correct sequence of buttons intentionally.]
I think I need help. Please.
[She wiggles a bit; her arms seem a bit…tangled up at the moment. It does not help get her unstuck.]
…Ran-sama will be mad. Or say that I’m silly again…
[Chen pouts a little, pinning her ears back.]
I’m not silly.
3rd person sample: There. Two pots, crude, ugly, and already badly cracked-likely some potter’s garbage. One was already well on its way to being no more than scraps of clay; it had split in half. Chen needed to lean the two ragged halves against each other before they would properly stand. But stand they did (eventually), in the middle of the yard, or thereabouts-ready for target practice.
The young nekomata backed away from them, her eyes unfocused just a bit-and as she held her clawed hands forwards, a little ball of very pale flame appeared. It just as quickly darted away, towards the pottery-and fizzled harmlessly against the ceramic.
Chen frowned.
And tried again.
She got a slightly bigger scorch mark, this time!
At least she wasn’t missing the things entirely.
The nekomata’s frustration only built; her hears went back, and her tails started to lash. Eventually, the ball of flames grew much bigger-and then shrank into a condensed sphere before being launched.
The split pot promptly exploded. The force was enough to knock its neighbor over, too.
…maybe. Just maaaybe she needed more practice with that. Less with exploding pots and more training with loud exploding objects.
Which the nekomata resumed, as soon as she convinced herself that it was, indeed, safe to come out from under the porch. Which she was very bravely hiding under, mind you.
Questions?: Nope
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: Yes~
Name: Sam
Are you over 16?: Yes
Personal LJ: blue_raven64
Email: slgstudentmail(at)yahoo(dot)com
Timezone: EST
Other contact: AIM/ironbirdobserver
Characters already in the game: N/A
How did you find us?: I was half enabled. My inspiration took off with the other half D:
IC:
Character name: Chen
Fandom: Touhou Project
Timeline: Post Touhou 10.5
Age: Around 100
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: Despite her adorable appearance, Chen’s superpowers are actually…kind of morbid. How morbid?
Well, how does necromancy sound?
Yes, in the traditional “fortune telling via dead people” sense, though she can reanimate and control corpses to a crude degree and would be of tremendous use in the next zombie apocalypse.
That isn’t the only thing she does, though. When not getting hopelessly tangled in yarn or causing nosebleeds because of how tooth-rottingly adorable she is, she can summon and manipulate ghostly fireballs, cast magic missile and do more than a passable job at shredding people. Those claws of hers aren’t just for decoration. They hurt. And when she’s within Ran’s proximity, the shikigami connection scales her power up a few levels.
The nekomata is also uncannily fast; either on the ground or airborne. She can trick her way out of a hit in this manner.
Chen’s also more or less immune to poison. She’d probably eat it and suffer no ill effects whatsoever.
How would they use their abilities?: Chen is just as mature as her human appearance would suggest-not terribly so. And if she’s not around her master Ran, her power is reduced greatly. Even moreso if she’s dowsed in water. Then, Chen’s spiritual bond with Ran is temporarily severed and she can’t use any of her magic, only jaws and claws and warp speed.
Even though her magic does include that of necromancy, Chen doesn’t really use it much. For one thing, she doesn’t get to practice very often and for another, corpses stink.
Chen also has a tendency of becoming impatient and impetuous, and will rush things if she feels they have taken too long. The definition of “too long” varies daily.
Appearance: This is a Chen.
In her human…oid form, at least. Not terribly big; what one would expect from a ten year old child in terms of height. Less so in terms of holy shit claws, as her fingers (and toes) are armed with fairly impressive ones, usually painted red. As a cat she’s…well, a cat. A slightly-larger-than-normal black cat with two tails instead of one, but nevertheless a cat. She can still talk in this form (and communicate with people and animals) due to her nature as a nekomata, though those fluent in animal-speak would have an easier time of it. She tends to use body language as often as words; even in her human form those tails are almost always twitching about
Background/Personality: The following history is purely headcanon, as Chen has no real canon history to speak of.
Chen began life as little more than a nameless, entirely mundane cat, sometime after Gensokyo was sealed off from the rest of Japan. Her parents and the rest of her litter were kept by a rural family to keep vermin out of the granary. But when she was big enough, the cat always hunted the snakes instead of the mice, which was a bit…counterproductive. When not failing at being a mouser, she was quite happily a lapcat.
Because of her tendency to hang out around her human family, this cat outlived her parents and all of her siblings. Also because of these fond memories, Chen never became very hostile towards humans, and is puzzled as to why humans didn’t seem to like her. She hasn’t even eaten anyone today!
Then the cat-that-would-be-Chen turned ten years old--and started to change. It started with her behavior first; even though she should have been an old cat, she started acting like a kitten again. As if possessed of a newfound energy that this mundane form alone could barely contain. The cat’s eyes took on a new…almost unnatural brightness, and there was a spring to her step that hadn’t been present since the earliest years of her life.
The cat’s human family began to suspect something; after all, they weren’t blind.
It wasn’t until her tail forked and split into two that they realized just maaaaybe they had a problem. More than maybe; the household pet had turned into some supernatural monster--a nekomata--and might start eating people. Couldn’t have that.
…rather than having her exterminated, though, the cat was taken far away from the village and abandoned by a Jizo statue. A small bit of compassion for the family pet, perhaps. It was raining; the cat hated rain even then. And when it did subside, she couldn’t find her way back. There was no scent to follow, and she had certainly never been this far from home.
Lost and horribly, horribly confused, the cat stayed where she was; unsure what to do. She lost track of how long she was there; the cat became hungry, but did not perish from it.
…then, someone passed by. Someone who…was not human at all, not with the tails and ears of a fox, but looked a bit like one. And smiled like one too. And had food! A piece of orange; she remembers that distinctly.
Here she met Ran. The fox who became her master-gave her the name Chen. And a new direction to pursue, which the young youkai desperately needed.
The process of becoming a shikigami was, on the surface, rather simple. Merely a mutual acceptance of servitude. But the bond itself went much deeper than that; effecting both parties on a mental and spiritual level that is difficult for Chen to describe. Regardless, Chen hates, hates water. It dispels this connection, leaving her feeling lost and utterly alone, even if she’s standing right next to Ran.
Chen also met Yukari, Ran’s master-making Chen the shikigami of a shikigami. By the time Yukari’s power trickles down the food chain to her, it isn’t quite so impressive or distinctive. But she doesn’t mind. She has a deep affection for Ran, much like a child has for their mother. And, by proxy, Yukari-though this is a bit more distant, Chen still happily considers both of them family. The nekomata took a humanoid form, like her master did, and began to speak in words, also as her master did.
As she matured as a nekomata, Chen’s earlier mortal years receded and became fuzzy, until they were no more than distant memories. “Maturing” being used loosely in this case; despite being over a century old, Chen remains childlike in nature. She has grown up a little bit, though still a bit slowly by youkai standards.
The first time Chen began to take things much more seriously was when she failed to defend Mayohiga during the events of the Perfect Cherry Blossom Incident. Even a second time, with Ran in close enough proximity to elevate Chen’s power, was not sufficient. These losses really struck home; even though she didn’t stay truly depressed for long, she wasn’t quite the same carefree kitten as before.
She will still cheerfully chase butterflies, yes, but Chen has started to take this “growing up” process more seriously. She wants to make Ran proud, after all!
…being trolled with a false moon was not part of the plan, though. Chen was more than annoyed at the change of scenery-she very much fell victim to the Imperishable Night’s insanity. Her behavior turned violent, maddened and uncontrollable-like an enraged feral cat. She did not even recognize her master, or acknowledge the shikigami bond. All of that training came back to haunt her, in a way; Chen had become more powerful since the last Incident.
If the Imperishable Night had not been resolved when it was, the effects may have become permanent. And Ran may have been forced to kill Chen.
But it was; as the nekomata’s insanity receded and reason returned to her mind, Chen became horribly, horribly aware of what she had done. That Incident in particular has haunted her memory ever since, despite her best attempts at forgetting it.
Another stark reminder of how small she really is came about soon enough, during the events of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, when the Celestial started causing seven different kinds of chaos in Gensokyo for no particular reason besides boredom.
Chen has quite a ways to go yet.
Why should that character be in this game: N/A
Why do you want to continue their history here: N/A
Have you read up on how the game works?: That plugin is Flaming Ferret and money is made doing missions or stealing or being a leech.
1st person sample: …nyaa.
[The first thing the handy dandy camera records is yarn. Yes, there is yarn on it. And on the floor, around a chair and a table leg, hooked on some nail in the wall that may have held a picture up at one point, stretched across the couch and ending…possibly, in a tangle on the floor.
My goodness, Chen, however did you manage that?
In the middle of this tangle is a small girl with a cat’s ears, a red dress and two tails waving around behind her. Her green bonnet has fallen off a little bit away, and is just lying on the floor like some exotic (and very dead) jellyfish. The nekomata’s expression is concerned, but not overly so; she seems to have hit the correct sequence of buttons intentionally.]
I think I need help. Please.
[She wiggles a bit; her arms seem a bit…tangled up at the moment. It does not help get her unstuck.]
…Ran-sama will be mad. Or say that I’m silly again…
[Chen pouts a little, pinning her ears back.]
I’m not silly.
3rd person sample: There. Two pots, crude, ugly, and already badly cracked-likely some potter’s garbage. One was already well on its way to being no more than scraps of clay; it had split in half. Chen needed to lean the two ragged halves against each other before they would properly stand. But stand they did (eventually), in the middle of the yard, or thereabouts-ready for target practice.
The young nekomata backed away from them, her eyes unfocused just a bit-and as she held her clawed hands forwards, a little ball of very pale flame appeared. It just as quickly darted away, towards the pottery-and fizzled harmlessly against the ceramic.
Chen frowned.
And tried again.
She got a slightly bigger scorch mark, this time!
At least she wasn’t missing the things entirely.
The nekomata’s frustration only built; her hears went back, and her tails started to lash. Eventually, the ball of flames grew much bigger-and then shrank into a condensed sphere before being launched.
The split pot promptly exploded. The force was enough to knock its neighbor over, too.
…maybe. Just maaaybe she needed more practice with that. Less with exploding pots and more training with loud exploding objects.
Which the nekomata resumed, as soon as she convinced herself that it was, indeed, safe to come out from under the porch. Which she was very bravely hiding under, mind you.
Questions?: Nope
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: Yes~