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HANAKO 'ROSALINA' NURUMI

(花子 - Flower Child)

Hanako 'Rosalina' Nurumi NAME 338 (appears 25-ish) AGE Female GENDER She/Her PRONOUNS 5'1" (155 cm) HEIGHT Blond (Human) / White (Yōkai) HAIR Brown (Human) / Gold (Yōkai) EYES

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES

VISUAL: Rosie is 5'1", 110lbs soaking wet, petite as can be but surprisingly busty. Her hair is a strawberry blond color and eyes a dark brown. At a glance, she doesn't look like much beyond your average tiny Japanese lady. She usually wears make-up but just enough to hide any hints of exhaustion from how little she actually sleeps, even for her kind.
SCARS: Rosie's body is littered with multiple minor scars. The most prominent are the claw mark scars along her back. The second most noticeable to that are faint, jagged lines that run down the front of her shoulder from two puncture wounds that one might recognize as spider bites.
FASHION: Like she rolled right out of an underground Rock concert. Her typical wardrobe is loose-fitting obscure band T-shirts, jeans, and hair down and wild. While she can clean up quite well, she tends to prefer comfort over appearance.
DEMEANOR: To begin with, Rose is sunshine personified. She's fun, carefree, and doesn't seem to let much get her down for long. Once people start to get to know her, well- That's the thing. They'll realize they don't really know her. While it might seem like she's extremely open, she isn't actually telling anyone a lot about herself in the process. Getting any real sincerity or vulnerability out of her is difficult and she's more likely to lash out and try to push people away than let them truly in.
SOUND: She has a light, airy voice but talks like she's still stuck in the 90s and early 2000s. 'Dude' is used as a descriptor for most people, she uses dated catchphrases and laments how music isn't what it used to be.
SCENT: To those with sharp senses, she smells contradictory. It's like fresh earth masking something rotting that hits someone unexpectedly. She uses perfumes and floral scents to hide this since, look, she knows but has no idea what it means.

IC PERMISSIONS

SEXUALITY & PREFERENCES: A chaotic bisexual but tends to gravitate towards men. She's about a 2 on the Kinsey Scale but sexuality is fluid so this is subject to change!
PHYSICAL AFFECTION: It needs to be on her terms. When it isn't, she will play it off as nothing but there will be a distinct undercurrent of discomfort at any perceived lack of control.
HUGGING: She doesn't really do hugs without realizing it; she's not the warmest person in the world despite trying to act like sunshine personified.
KISSING: She loves it way more than she's willing to admit. Due to her usual brand of encounters being one-night stands from people cheating on their significant others, she's gotten used to not being 'allowed' to kiss during more intimate moments.
FLIRTING: Rose loves a good flirt session so long as it isn't taken seriously. As soon as things veer into "actual feelings" territory instead of just fun, she gets a bit awkward and fumbles over herself.
RELATIONSHIPS: This lady is about as DTF as it gets but good luck trying to get anything more meaningful. While she actually tends to fall fast and hard for people, she also keeps that close to her chest and will purposefully underestimate her place in people's lives to spare herself from getting more hurt than she needs to.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: If talked about/communicated? Totally fine, let's get a bit rough. If it's a surprise? She'll switch gears immediately into survival mode and retaliate perhaps more intensely than she means to.
DEATH: Rose thinks she is dead and also has a few people she's grieving; it'd be very hard for her to discuss seriously or deal with.
OFF LIMITS: n/a! A lot of her triggers are one's I'm willing to play out/with as long as it's communicated so nothing really to worry about.

ENFP-T

The Campaigner

Extraverted

Intuitive

Feeling

Prospecting

Turbulent

Born a 'defective' yokai, Rose has felt displaced her entire life. She was rejected by her pack and left to become a lone wolf from a very young age. Years of this isolation and alienation from her own kind (though she'd rather use the term 'independence') has made her a bit reluctant to rely on anyone besides herself.

She took a shady deal to enter the world of humans she'd felt a kinship with since she could remember. It led to her enslavement in a fighting ring for otherworldly creatures like her. They would battle to the death for entertainment. Her previously gained self-preservation instincts served her well there. When slated for a breeding program to further the lineage of 'champions,' she and a friend plotted their escape. He didn't make it but ensured that she did.

The damage done on their way out has put a bounty upon her head. Now, she travels under the guise of a simple roadie. It allows her to hide in plain sight whilst also following a love of music discovered during her darkest days in the fighting ring.

Rose is a nightmare dressed up like a daydream; despite being all sunshine and smiles, she's hiding the fact that she's literally a monster who is supposed to eat people. Emphasis on the supposed to though because, well, she doesn't want to! That's kind of the whole issue. Rose just wants to be a normal everyday person and live a boring albeit musical life.

Unfortunately, she's super paranoid about being found out because of the stigma attached to her kind and being hunted throughout her life due to what she is. so while she's super outgoing and extroverted, eventually people will realize she's not really close to them. Scaling those walls can be difficult but on the other side, Rose is a ride-to-die loyal friend who will protect those she cares for with everything she has.

ABILITIES, STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES

ABILITIES

Superhuman strength. Though she appears "petite" demon strength often defies appearances. She's about as strong as three adult human men combined.
Super speed and agility. Rose's speed is above average for even her kind. At her fastest, she can appear as a blur to the human eye, which is a feat impressive to even some yōkai.
Small control over ice. Being an okami from the Northern Clan of the Makai and living in a harsh, frigid environment they all have some ability to manipulate ice. It's very small and is about the equivalent of using an ice pack; she can freeze things if she really concentrates but it's still difficult for her.

STRENGTHS

Heightened Senses. Being part animal, Rose is able to hear, smell, and see better than the average person.
Night Vision. Able to see well in low light conditions.
Hand-to-Hand Combat. As a fighter, her strength was hand-to-hand combat. Rose is well versed in Aikido and Muay Thai, specifically.
Weapon Proficiency. Both blades and firearms proficient. Prefers short-range when using firearms. She is also most comfortable with short blades.
Musically Inclined. She is able to sing (mezzo-soprano range), play guitar and piano, learn instruments at a quick rate, and can carry a tune in a bucket to save her life.

WEAKNESSES

Hydrophobia. Extreme or irrational fear of water. Rose cannot be near any body of water large enough for her to drown in without having a panic attack. Even bathing makes her uncomfortable.
Heights. Due to the way she believes she died, Rose has a terrible fear of heights. She is unable to be comfortable even when lifted up too high (suddenly) and cannot stand too close to ledges.
Arachnophobia. Extreme or irrational fear of spiders. Due to her time in the ring and a very unfortunate battle with a spider yōkai that nearly ended her life, she is petrified of spiders in general.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Rose suffers from PTSD from her days in the fighting ring. The symptoms she most commonly displays are: intrusive memories of the event, nightmares, feelings of intense distress when reminded of the trauma, feeling detached from others, volatile outbursts when 'trapped' or 'threatened'

WORLD

There are many people who believe that humanity is alone in the world. As one might have guessed, they are wrong. However, they are only partially wrong. Creatures like werewolves and vampires were human at one point. Just like many species, these 'freaks of nature' are genetic mutations that have occurred throughout humanity's existence. While there are plenty more of these mutants to speak of, vampires and werewolves are the most 'popular' and thus the most commonly represented in modern media. So, why is humanity partially right then in thinking they are alone in the world? It's because the scariest things that go 'thump' in the night aren't actually from their world. The world that they do come from is called many things across many different cultures. Some religious groups call it 'Hell.' The closest name to being accurate would be the Japanese lore of the Makai – the Demon World.

This world is connected to humanity at several different points. Though, as one can imagine, it isn't exactly easy to find let alone pass through these points. Only those with an aptitude for the supernatural ( shamans, 'witches,' etc. ) are able to even think about tapping into the other side. It takes a lot of skill and determination to travel to the Makai. In fact, it usually requires the work of more than one person. What of the yōkai, the demons? Don't they also try to cross the barriers that separate them and the human world? The answer, simply, is no. Though humans and yokai used to co-exist, such a time has become history now. Humans taint the purity of their world and thus the demons keep to themselves.

The Makai is a primitive place. Things like electricity and running water that humans take for granted are reserved only for the most powerful demon lords. Many live off the land hunting and gathering for food. However, most are content this way. They gain a sense of pride from living so in tune with nature. It is how they have gotten by for the entirety of their existence. Some things are becoming more 'modern' but those areas are isolated and, again, reserved for the elite. Hunting prey and killing those that are weaker is in demon blood, it is at the very core of who they are. Many yōkai originated from animal spirits, after all.

They do not think of humanity or their world as being luxurious. Part of the reason why is that most demons see themselves as superior to humans. Most demons are warriors with superhuman strengths and abilities. Humans do not even provide them with a challenge. In fact, humans that venture to the Demon World are usually either enslaved or slaughtered before they have a chance to do much else.

That is why humanity shifted from trying to get to the Makai to instead bringing yōkai to them. By performing rituals, humans discovered that they could summon forth demons from the points that connect to theirs and enslave them with the proper incantations or magically embedded chains. It wasn't an easy task but after enough trial and error, a group of wealthy men in Japan became rather proficient at summoning otherworldly creatures. They would capture these demons and pit them against each other for their own entertainment and gain over one another.

It is the yōkai that are called monsters by humans. But it is humankind that is seen as nothing but a plague by the yōkai. Peace between the two worlds seems like an impossibility; yet, there are some who would like to believe differently. However, those that believe are few and far between. So, while peace isn't unobtainable it certainly is still a long, long way off.

NAME. Chai
TIMEZONE. PST
PRONOUNS. He/They
DISCORD. tentamenace
PLURK tentamenace

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