OCtober Tsukimoto no Monoshi
A character from a tabletop game that never coalesced. White Wolf Werewolf game where I was going to be a kitsune from medieval Japan. I have done so much freaking research for this character.
Imagine if you will a nice holding of an upper class military family 1057 CE. Only they're werewolves. And one night something sets off their wards and they go rushing out to the orchard to find a naked teenage girl laughing uproariously under a flowering peach tree because she figured out the *trick*. (1) And being good and kindly werewolves they adopt her. Their attempts at civilizing her are mixed.
Her name! Tsukimoto no Monoshi is technically incorrect for her social rank. The "no" bit mostly being used in period as "of" for people without clan names, i.e. Bob from the river's mouth. However! Tsukimoto is Moon Origin and Monoshi is Peach Blossom Child and it is more amusing to be Peach Blossom Child of Moon Origin than to just give out your name like a normal person. (And you know, being a tiny feral fox child it isn't like they let her talk to non-shifters without someone there to run interference.) I found the notebook with the name of the werewolf clan in it! Takezuki. (lit. Brave Moon)
Her favorite colors are pink and green. Especially that ridiculous bright acid green you see in period that looks like you couldn't make it without modern chemical dyes. She has never worn karaginu mo. (Another name for karaginu mo is juni-hitoe which is 12 robes, but in period 5 to 6 were more common. Karaginu mo is super formal.) She plays the koto passably in simple to medium hard songs but needs more practice. She is very good at origami and uses it in magic (in universe called Ju-Fu). She has nice handwriting and practices her calligraphy often. Her preferred weapon is a naginata. She also carries an fan with iron enforcing (possibly in period possibly pure fiction from in period stories) and a belt knife.
Her group of friends / pack consists of her 2 werewolf brothers (might be twins might just be close in age), a tengu, and a dragon. They do typical WoD shifter things. One day they go to fight a bad thing that is breaking out of the rock it's trapped in and as far as anyone can tell they die while trapping it again. Left behind are two waka (poems that were precursors to haiku), a feather carved out of abalone, an arrangement of rocks, and an oddly lumpy oragami something that was unfortunately squished flat in the fight. (This occurs in 1082.)
Flash forward to the modern day when the bad thing is trying to get out of the rock again. A group gathers to stop it. This group is doing research. Someone decides to unsquish the oragami whatever. Surprisingly 900 year old paper rips. There's a flash of light and a huddle of bloody robes on the floor.
Monoshi is adapting to the modern world. She does not like the wide obi worn with modern kimono, but does wear them occasionally. She does not wear western style clothes. In private she continues to wear the clothes she always has. She is currently residing in a Japanese style garden several floors up in a California high-rise. The house was previously used for dining events by the pack who released her. (The high-rise was purchased from a Japanese corporation.) She has a small robot that sits on a table and recites The Tale of Genji. (2) She goes into the garden at least once a day to spit on the damn rock.
(1) It is in universe canon for 2nd ed White Wolf that foxes were not originally shifters. They figured it out for themselves. It is also in universe canon that foxes can learn most magic just by watching someone else do it a few times. This sometimes gets them into trouble.
(2) https://techcrunch.com/2008/07/28/robotic-noblewoman-walks-like-a-lady-retells-worlds-oldest-novel/
http://www.robo-garage.com/en/prd/p_04/index.html
This came out long enough ago that the videos of the bot moving and talking have disappeared.
Edited to put stuff under a cut because I didn't realize how much I had rambled.
https://www.pinterest.com/harperschild/monoshi/
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Imagine if you will a nice holding of an upper class military family 1057 CE. Only they're werewolves. And one night something sets off their wards and they go rushing out to the orchard to find a naked teenage girl laughing uproariously under a flowering peach tree because she figured out the *trick*. (1) And being good and kindly werewolves they adopt her. Their attempts at civilizing her are mixed.
Her name! Tsukimoto no Monoshi is technically incorrect for her social rank. The "no" bit mostly being used in period as "of" for people without clan names, i.e. Bob from the river's mouth. However! Tsukimoto is Moon Origin and Monoshi is Peach Blossom Child and it is more amusing to be Peach Blossom Child of Moon Origin than to just give out your name like a normal person. (And you know, being a tiny feral fox child it isn't like they let her talk to non-shifters without someone there to run interference.) I found the notebook with the name of the werewolf clan in it! Takezuki. (lit. Brave Moon)
Her favorite colors are pink and green. Especially that ridiculous bright acid green you see in period that looks like you couldn't make it without modern chemical dyes. She has never worn karaginu mo. (Another name for karaginu mo is juni-hitoe which is 12 robes, but in period 5 to 6 were more common. Karaginu mo is super formal.) She plays the koto passably in simple to medium hard songs but needs more practice. She is very good at origami and uses it in magic (in universe called Ju-Fu). She has nice handwriting and practices her calligraphy often. Her preferred weapon is a naginata. She also carries an fan with iron enforcing (possibly in period possibly pure fiction from in period stories) and a belt knife.
Her group of friends / pack consists of her 2 werewolf brothers (might be twins might just be close in age), a tengu, and a dragon. They do typical WoD shifter things. One day they go to fight a bad thing that is breaking out of the rock it's trapped in and as far as anyone can tell they die while trapping it again. Left behind are two waka (poems that were precursors to haiku), a feather carved out of abalone, an arrangement of rocks, and an oddly lumpy oragami something that was unfortunately squished flat in the fight. (This occurs in 1082.)
Flash forward to the modern day when the bad thing is trying to get out of the rock again. A group gathers to stop it. This group is doing research. Someone decides to unsquish the oragami whatever. Surprisingly 900 year old paper rips. There's a flash of light and a huddle of bloody robes on the floor.
Monoshi is adapting to the modern world. She does not like the wide obi worn with modern kimono, but does wear them occasionally. She does not wear western style clothes. In private she continues to wear the clothes she always has. She is currently residing in a Japanese style garden several floors up in a California high-rise. The house was previously used for dining events by the pack who released her. (The high-rise was purchased from a Japanese corporation.) She has a small robot that sits on a table and recites The Tale of Genji. (2) She goes into the garden at least once a day to spit on the damn rock.
(1) It is in universe canon for 2nd ed White Wolf that foxes were not originally shifters. They figured it out for themselves. It is also in universe canon that foxes can learn most magic just by watching someone else do it a few times. This sometimes gets them into trouble.
(2) https://techcrunch.com/2008/07/28/robotic-noblewoman-walks-like-a-lady-retells-worlds-oldest-novel/
http://www.robo-garage.com/en/prd/p_04/index.html
This came out long enough ago that the videos of the bot moving and talking have disappeared.
Edited to put stuff under a cut because I didn't realize how much I had rambled.
https://www.pinterest.com/harperschild/monoshi/
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