Post by lilyanatos on Jun 7, 2024 7:57:06 GMT
Name: Nanbu, Sayoko,"Little Vampire", "Pale Princess"
Age: 16
Birthdate: 07/15
Nationality/Cultural Group: Iwate, Japan
Height: 4ft 6in
Weight: 98 lbs
Gender: female
Affiliations: not currently a member of anything but her clan.
Appearance: The first thing one with note about Sayoko is her height. She's tiny for a teen her age. The next thing one will note is her white hair and amber eyes. The young girl also looks very pale. Its one of the reasons she has the nicknames that she does. Sayoko has a rather dark and traditional style she tends to like to dress in. Usually seen mostly in black due to the fact that wearing white just looks odd for her. She carries with her at all times a rather strange looking stuffed doll. Many might call it a voodoo doll and yes she does talk to it quietly from time to time. He piercing amber eyes seem to see into your soul. Her hair is almost always down and a bit wavy. She hardly ever sees the need to put it up though she will have a clip or two or a ribbon in it holding it back. She is an odd child but it makes sense when one realizes she's one of the children of the Nanbu family. She is however paler than all her siblings.
Belongings: Doll: Her doll looks rather odd almost ghost like really. She carries it with her everywhere. It helps her when goes want to talk through it and for purposes of her talking as she actually never really let's people see her talk. Least not physically her doll is always before her. She is almost never without it and she has a back up little mini doll as well for when she can't bring her full sized doll with her.
Mini keychain doll and poof: She has a doll that she generally has on her like her other doll at all times. this one is however usually clipped to her clothes. Along with it is a little black poof that one can see her playing with when she starts to get nervous or too over whelmed it helps to calm her down.
weapons, armor, gadgets, and other things your character generally has handy in most situations.
Athame:
Cinnabar and talisman paper:
Sewing kit: While her dolls were made for her she does carry around a showing kit to make protection dolls for others or effigies. She is skilled at repairing her own dolls as well. He sewing kit helps her with that.
Herbology kit: Its not all about death but also about healing. Sayoko has been taught about what plants and yes even animals that could potentially help or with certain ailments. While most of the time she makes you a tea she does have healing slaves and other things that she makes from the herbs and things she has in her kit. She replenishes it and has the tools needed to do it out on the fly if she needs to or she runs out. That also includes antidote to certain poisons.
Incense: She carries incense of different varieties in her bag for different rituals but also to light for the recently and long ago deceased to pray for them. She doesn't like to be without them so you will see her going out to replenish when she get low.
Personality: Sayoko is strange that's the first thing people note. The next is the fact that she is extremely shy around the living in general but you will see her being respectful in shrines and then in graveyards though she seems to be more in her element at shrines and places of the dead. She actually rather likes being in these places. She isn't extremely sociable but her older siblings are trying to help with that. Aside from these few things she is generally very quiet and looks sweet and innocent. She is unsure of extremely preppy people and she gets confused about human emotion from time to time. She is generally just a very odd person. She will talk if she feels the need to do it but most of the time she communicates either through speaking from behind her stuff doll or through sign language and a board that she writes on. She prefers not to talk and or have people see her talk which is why she uses her doll. Sayoko is very knowledgeable in history, ritual, and spooky stories. A girl who wishes to one day join the ranks of those privileged enough to work within the walls of the Ise shrine. And she wants to help heal people. She just needs to learn a less creepy bedside manor and she needs to learn how to fight better as well just in case. its her knowledge and the spirits that make her incredibly unique.
Character Strengths: Studious/Knowledgeable: She has studied many rituals of death and can tell you if a spirit was not buried correctly or disposed of correctly. She can tell you why a spirit haunts the place that it does. You will never hear her call a spirit a ghost that's rude in mind. Now you do have the evils of this work the yokai and all that and she will call them by their type of the name if she gets them. She will tell you their weaknesses if she has had time spent studying them. Any new ones she meets she will literally observe and learn more about and she's generally good at doing so on the fly. As for oni or kami that's a different story entirely and she's got more of a healthy fear of both of them to do anything to upset either. She knows how to destroy and oni but she's be at first afraid to do so. She knows her rituals and its added into the flow of her knowledge and if she doesn't know why she spends hours learning to get it just right. She will do her best to help all those that she can and if she fails she will learn from the mistakes she made. She is young and doesn't have all the life experience and sometimes the spirits help her out but she loves to learn.
Caring/Kind: She is very caring and kind towards others even if they are not towards her. It was something she learned living in a shrine for most of her life. She believes that all deserve kindness until they show her otherwise. However, that doesn't stop her from being odd herself. If a spirit is bad she will still be kind to it until it tries to actually hurt someone but she would rather get one to pass on by being kind then by some others means but she does know that, that doesn't always work. She is the same way to the living though she's mostly wary of the living that doesn't mean she will not come to your aid she wants to be a healer she wants to help people that's the whole reason she wasn't to work at the Ise shrine in the first place and to be a member of the network. She's just young and needs more life experience.
Determined: When Sayoko puts her mind to something she is bound and determined to see it through to the end. She will learn the best ways to do something and still do everything needed to get a job done without getting others hurt if its possible. She also takes a challenge when its appropriate. She doesn't take challenges when she doesn't feel its appropriate to take them. Meaning is hard to use her determination against her or pride against her really. She wants to save people not hurt them and she's determined to do it no matter what people throw at her.
Character Flaws:
Odd/shy: Sayoko's most apparently flaw is her oddity. This goes hand in hand with the fact that she is shy around new people in general. She's so used to hearing the voices of the dead and she's worried about speaking to people herself using her doll to talk to people. She is odd in nature but it comes from her close connection to the dead and the fact that growing up how and where she did made it a little harder to social. Also some people might find it odd the amount of knowledge she has about death and death rituals in general.
Introvert: thanks to her shyness she is also an introvert so she prefers to not spend time in large crowds though if she is with someone that she trusts just a little bit she will go out with them. She also doesn't like larger crowds because of all the voices of the living and the dead that get so jumbled up in her mind that it starts to get to be to much for her and she gets overwhelmed and essentially shuts down and wont communicate in any way shape or form until she is out of the situation at hand.
Certain Social interaction: She is good one on one with people at least its easier for her to deal with people one on one. She will get very antsy when there is more than three people in a room. She's trying to get better with this its just hard for her. She isn't used to a lot of people. The fact that she can communicate with spirits and she can hear the voices at all times makes her not want to be groups of people. However, she's trying to become more socialable so that she can be a better healer and ease people a little better.
Backstory:
Born into the Nanbu family, on a dark stormy Oban night. Her mother died giving birth to her and she was born very pale and her hair once it grew in fully was white. She looked like a ghost herself. The other striking characteristic was her amber eyes different in color, mostly lighter, than her siblings and the rest of her family. She did not cry when she was born and she tried to push away and bite the midwife who delivered her and took her away to be cleaned up. Her father would hold her and smile when he was finally able to do so. He would have high hopes for his youngest daughter but also he was distinctly curious as to why she was born the way that she was born looking so different from the rest of them but he knew the instant he held her that she was his. However, this was both a sad and happy time for the Nanbu family. The young one was not hard to take care of and she attached immediately to her elder brother.
As she grew a little older her father decided to send her to the temple where her mother had grown up. He figured that the temple would be able to help her with the nightmares she had and would be able to help her silence her world a little bit. Even he could tell that she had a close connection to death and he wanted her to be able to live as normal life as she could and sending her to her Aunt in the temple would likely grant her that for a time. Once she was dropped off at the temple her aunt took her in and started to teach her everything that she needed to know. She was maybe three at the time of this and so she studied hard and she wanted to go back home at the very beginning missing cuddles with her siblings. After a while though she began to take comfort in the voices that she was hearing and with each funeral and death ritual she preformed the closer she got towards the other side so to speak. At least it would seem like that to others. To the point where she could ask the spirits for help. There was also the fact that she helped at the age of eleven to solve a murder case because she could talk to the one that had been killed.
She's had a run in or two with a yokai but someone else usually takes care of things. She learned very quickly on that she wanted to help heal others but because she is so strange some people are scared of her slightly even if she is harmless. She's been trying to work on that and she was sent back to her family three years ago and so her brothers and sister are trying to help her socialize with other people. She's just trying to live every day life while trying to understand that the living is alright and that not all of them are out to get her. She wants very much to learn how to be a proper priestess and how to have proper bed side manner in order to heal those around her that she wants to heal though she also wants to protect those around her too. She's still learning. She is enrolled in the high school to further her studies and to socialize.
Family, Friends Etc.: Nanbu Ichiro, father, 50, head of the family
Nanbu Hatsu, mother, deceased
Nanbu Giichi, eldest brother, 25, clan heir
Nanbu Chimon, elder brother, 18, would take up leading the family in a heart beat knowing his elder brother doesn't want it but is extremely protective of his little sister.
Nanbu Chiasa, elder sister, 17, darker skinned like her father, accepted by her father though she does not share the same mother as the others. Treated very well and like that isn't even a problem. She adores Sayoko but tends to treat her like a little child instead of an actual teenager and sees her nothing more than weak despite the fact that Sayoko is stronger than she seems. She is a child from one of her father's other ladies and her mother loved her dearly as well.
Nanbu, Miya, aunt, a member of the ise shrine network and she is the second priestess at the temple where Sayoko was sent to learn.
Powers: The following section is where you construct your powers. The setup below is a suggestion and a higher end cap. Be aware that Passives are considered a rank lower in effect strength with the trade off of being sustained and always on unless suppressed.
Power Theme: Magic is in a word interesting when it comes to Sayoko. Sayoko's magic revolves around the dead and spirits. To some it might be considered voodoo or something to that effect as it would be considered in the Japanese terms. She carries a doll with her which is why some people think that might be the case. As she will speak to the doll or speak from behind the doll. In reality she simply taps into those spirits that are around areas all the time. Those stuck between worlds. Her doll is just really a way for her to feel less shy around the living. And she can have a spirit posses her doll for her to talk too. Or rather the spirits can go through her doll to get to her.
Rank C Ability: Spirit Protector: Sayoko can summon a Spirit to act as her protector allowing her to do something else like get injured out of harms way or keep her protected from others to do a hastey retreat. They don't last very long and once they take more than three hits they do tend to just disappear like they were never there in the first place. This can also happen if she starts to get to frightened in a large group of people or talking to someone. Her protector is connected to her so when she's in distress it get ready to come out. Basically used to help her out even when she in injured. Though it just doesn't stay long in the Coporeal form that it needs to be in in order to protect.
Rank B Ability: Minor wound healing:[/i] Sayoko with her knowledge of medical herbs and ways to make better has the ability to heal minor wounds to a spiritual degree. She can also heal the minor wounds on the surface of someones skin. She currently can't heal major wounds or like some being fatally wounded. She can heal things like minor stabs and cuts and abrasions. She can do so to the spiritual level and she can help those that have been possessed but slowly healing them way. Its something she wants to learn to be better out so that she can help as many as possible but she can't do everything just yet.
Rank C Passive: Speak with the Ancestors: Or as some might like to call it, speaking with the dead. Sayoko has always been able to do this since she was a very littler girl. It sometimes makes it hard for her to understand and trust the living when the dead always have something to say. She can't make it go away. Sometimes she wished she could because it does not come in handy when she is around the living and they've either killed a lot of people or have a lot of family members who died. She also much prefers the dead to the living. However, her big brothers are starting to teach her how to make sure she knows its the living talking and not the dead too. She's really doesn't get out much which is also not easy. However, with this she can sooth those who are grieving because she can bring the words of the dead to them and let them know how they are doing and so on. If she can't hear the dead she's likely freak out anyway. It just makes speaking with her a little interesting.
Age: 16
Birthdate: 07/15
Nationality/Cultural Group: Iwate, Japan
Height: 4ft 6in
Weight: 98 lbs
Gender: female
Affiliations: not currently a member of anything but her clan.
Appearance: The first thing one with note about Sayoko is her height. She's tiny for a teen her age. The next thing one will note is her white hair and amber eyes. The young girl also looks very pale. Its one of the reasons she has the nicknames that she does. Sayoko has a rather dark and traditional style she tends to like to dress in. Usually seen mostly in black due to the fact that wearing white just looks odd for her. She carries with her at all times a rather strange looking stuffed doll. Many might call it a voodoo doll and yes she does talk to it quietly from time to time. He piercing amber eyes seem to see into your soul. Her hair is almost always down and a bit wavy. She hardly ever sees the need to put it up though she will have a clip or two or a ribbon in it holding it back. She is an odd child but it makes sense when one realizes she's one of the children of the Nanbu family. She is however paler than all her siblings.
Belongings: Doll: Her doll looks rather odd almost ghost like really. She carries it with her everywhere. It helps her when goes want to talk through it and for purposes of her talking as she actually never really let's people see her talk. Least not physically her doll is always before her. She is almost never without it and she has a back up little mini doll as well for when she can't bring her full sized doll with her.
Mini keychain doll and poof: She has a doll that she generally has on her like her other doll at all times. this one is however usually clipped to her clothes. Along with it is a little black poof that one can see her playing with when she starts to get nervous or too over whelmed it helps to calm her down.
weapons, armor, gadgets, and other things your character generally has handy in most situations.
Athame:
Cinnabar and talisman paper:
Sewing kit: While her dolls were made for her she does carry around a showing kit to make protection dolls for others or effigies. She is skilled at repairing her own dolls as well. He sewing kit helps her with that.
Herbology kit: Its not all about death but also about healing. Sayoko has been taught about what plants and yes even animals that could potentially help or with certain ailments. While most of the time she makes you a tea she does have healing slaves and other things that she makes from the herbs and things she has in her kit. She replenishes it and has the tools needed to do it out on the fly if she needs to or she runs out. That also includes antidote to certain poisons.
Incense: She carries incense of different varieties in her bag for different rituals but also to light for the recently and long ago deceased to pray for them. She doesn't like to be without them so you will see her going out to replenish when she get low.
Personality: Sayoko is strange that's the first thing people note. The next is the fact that she is extremely shy around the living in general but you will see her being respectful in shrines and then in graveyards though she seems to be more in her element at shrines and places of the dead. She actually rather likes being in these places. She isn't extremely sociable but her older siblings are trying to help with that. Aside from these few things she is generally very quiet and looks sweet and innocent. She is unsure of extremely preppy people and she gets confused about human emotion from time to time. She is generally just a very odd person. She will talk if she feels the need to do it but most of the time she communicates either through speaking from behind her stuff doll or through sign language and a board that she writes on. She prefers not to talk and or have people see her talk which is why she uses her doll. Sayoko is very knowledgeable in history, ritual, and spooky stories. A girl who wishes to one day join the ranks of those privileged enough to work within the walls of the Ise shrine. And she wants to help heal people. She just needs to learn a less creepy bedside manor and she needs to learn how to fight better as well just in case. its her knowledge and the spirits that make her incredibly unique.
Character Strengths: Studious/Knowledgeable: She has studied many rituals of death and can tell you if a spirit was not buried correctly or disposed of correctly. She can tell you why a spirit haunts the place that it does. You will never hear her call a spirit a ghost that's rude in mind. Now you do have the evils of this work the yokai and all that and she will call them by their type of the name if she gets them. She will tell you their weaknesses if she has had time spent studying them. Any new ones she meets she will literally observe and learn more about and she's generally good at doing so on the fly. As for oni or kami that's a different story entirely and she's got more of a healthy fear of both of them to do anything to upset either. She knows how to destroy and oni but she's be at first afraid to do so. She knows her rituals and its added into the flow of her knowledge and if she doesn't know why she spends hours learning to get it just right. She will do her best to help all those that she can and if she fails she will learn from the mistakes she made. She is young and doesn't have all the life experience and sometimes the spirits help her out but she loves to learn.
Caring/Kind: She is very caring and kind towards others even if they are not towards her. It was something she learned living in a shrine for most of her life. She believes that all deserve kindness until they show her otherwise. However, that doesn't stop her from being odd herself. If a spirit is bad she will still be kind to it until it tries to actually hurt someone but she would rather get one to pass on by being kind then by some others means but she does know that, that doesn't always work. She is the same way to the living though she's mostly wary of the living that doesn't mean she will not come to your aid she wants to be a healer she wants to help people that's the whole reason she wasn't to work at the Ise shrine in the first place and to be a member of the network. She's just young and needs more life experience.
Determined: When Sayoko puts her mind to something she is bound and determined to see it through to the end. She will learn the best ways to do something and still do everything needed to get a job done without getting others hurt if its possible. She also takes a challenge when its appropriate. She doesn't take challenges when she doesn't feel its appropriate to take them. Meaning is hard to use her determination against her or pride against her really. She wants to save people not hurt them and she's determined to do it no matter what people throw at her.
Character Flaws:
Odd/shy: Sayoko's most apparently flaw is her oddity. This goes hand in hand with the fact that she is shy around new people in general. She's so used to hearing the voices of the dead and she's worried about speaking to people herself using her doll to talk to people. She is odd in nature but it comes from her close connection to the dead and the fact that growing up how and where she did made it a little harder to social. Also some people might find it odd the amount of knowledge she has about death and death rituals in general.
Introvert: thanks to her shyness she is also an introvert so she prefers to not spend time in large crowds though if she is with someone that she trusts just a little bit she will go out with them. She also doesn't like larger crowds because of all the voices of the living and the dead that get so jumbled up in her mind that it starts to get to be to much for her and she gets overwhelmed and essentially shuts down and wont communicate in any way shape or form until she is out of the situation at hand.
Certain Social interaction: She is good one on one with people at least its easier for her to deal with people one on one. She will get very antsy when there is more than three people in a room. She's trying to get better with this its just hard for her. She isn't used to a lot of people. The fact that she can communicate with spirits and she can hear the voices at all times makes her not want to be groups of people. However, she's trying to become more socialable so that she can be a better healer and ease people a little better.
Backstory:
Born into the Nanbu family, on a dark stormy Oban night. Her mother died giving birth to her and she was born very pale and her hair once it grew in fully was white. She looked like a ghost herself. The other striking characteristic was her amber eyes different in color, mostly lighter, than her siblings and the rest of her family. She did not cry when she was born and she tried to push away and bite the midwife who delivered her and took her away to be cleaned up. Her father would hold her and smile when he was finally able to do so. He would have high hopes for his youngest daughter but also he was distinctly curious as to why she was born the way that she was born looking so different from the rest of them but he knew the instant he held her that she was his. However, this was both a sad and happy time for the Nanbu family. The young one was not hard to take care of and she attached immediately to her elder brother.
As she grew a little older her father decided to send her to the temple where her mother had grown up. He figured that the temple would be able to help her with the nightmares she had and would be able to help her silence her world a little bit. Even he could tell that she had a close connection to death and he wanted her to be able to live as normal life as she could and sending her to her Aunt in the temple would likely grant her that for a time. Once she was dropped off at the temple her aunt took her in and started to teach her everything that she needed to know. She was maybe three at the time of this and so she studied hard and she wanted to go back home at the very beginning missing cuddles with her siblings. After a while though she began to take comfort in the voices that she was hearing and with each funeral and death ritual she preformed the closer she got towards the other side so to speak. At least it would seem like that to others. To the point where she could ask the spirits for help. There was also the fact that she helped at the age of eleven to solve a murder case because she could talk to the one that had been killed.
She's had a run in or two with a yokai but someone else usually takes care of things. She learned very quickly on that she wanted to help heal others but because she is so strange some people are scared of her slightly even if she is harmless. She's been trying to work on that and she was sent back to her family three years ago and so her brothers and sister are trying to help her socialize with other people. She's just trying to live every day life while trying to understand that the living is alright and that not all of them are out to get her. She wants very much to learn how to be a proper priestess and how to have proper bed side manner in order to heal those around her that she wants to heal though she also wants to protect those around her too. She's still learning. She is enrolled in the high school to further her studies and to socialize.
Family, Friends Etc.: Nanbu Ichiro, father, 50, head of the family
Nanbu Hatsu, mother, deceased
Nanbu Giichi, eldest brother, 25, clan heir
Nanbu Chimon, elder brother, 18, would take up leading the family in a heart beat knowing his elder brother doesn't want it but is extremely protective of his little sister.
Nanbu Chiasa, elder sister, 17, darker skinned like her father, accepted by her father though she does not share the same mother as the others. Treated very well and like that isn't even a problem. She adores Sayoko but tends to treat her like a little child instead of an actual teenager and sees her nothing more than weak despite the fact that Sayoko is stronger than she seems. She is a child from one of her father's other ladies and her mother loved her dearly as well.
Nanbu, Miya, aunt, a member of the ise shrine network and she is the second priestess at the temple where Sayoko was sent to learn.
Powers: The following section is where you construct your powers. The setup below is a suggestion and a higher end cap. Be aware that Passives are considered a rank lower in effect strength with the trade off of being sustained and always on unless suppressed.
Power Theme: Magic is in a word interesting when it comes to Sayoko. Sayoko's magic revolves around the dead and spirits. To some it might be considered voodoo or something to that effect as it would be considered in the Japanese terms. She carries a doll with her which is why some people think that might be the case. As she will speak to the doll or speak from behind the doll. In reality she simply taps into those spirits that are around areas all the time. Those stuck between worlds. Her doll is just really a way for her to feel less shy around the living. And she can have a spirit posses her doll for her to talk too. Or rather the spirits can go through her doll to get to her.
Rank C Ability: Spirit Protector: Sayoko can summon a Spirit to act as her protector allowing her to do something else like get injured out of harms way or keep her protected from others to do a hastey retreat. They don't last very long and once they take more than three hits they do tend to just disappear like they were never there in the first place. This can also happen if she starts to get to frightened in a large group of people or talking to someone. Her protector is connected to her so when she's in distress it get ready to come out. Basically used to help her out even when she in injured. Though it just doesn't stay long in the Coporeal form that it needs to be in in order to protect.
Rank B Ability: Minor wound healing:[/i] Sayoko with her knowledge of medical herbs and ways to make better has the ability to heal minor wounds to a spiritual degree. She can also heal the minor wounds on the surface of someones skin. She currently can't heal major wounds or like some being fatally wounded. She can heal things like minor stabs and cuts and abrasions. She can do so to the spiritual level and she can help those that have been possessed but slowly healing them way. Its something she wants to learn to be better out so that she can help as many as possible but she can't do everything just yet.
Rank C Passive: Speak with the Ancestors: Or as some might like to call it, speaking with the dead. Sayoko has always been able to do this since she was a very littler girl. It sometimes makes it hard for her to understand and trust the living when the dead always have something to say. She can't make it go away. Sometimes she wished she could because it does not come in handy when she is around the living and they've either killed a lot of people or have a lot of family members who died. She also much prefers the dead to the living. However, her big brothers are starting to teach her how to make sure she knows its the living talking and not the dead too. She's really doesn't get out much which is also not easy. However, with this she can sooth those who are grieving because she can bring the words of the dead to them and let them know how they are doing and so on. If she can't hear the dead she's likely freak out anyway. It just makes speaking with her a little interesting.
