TheKawaiiEdition/Yakumo

Yakumo (100 XP Sister-Tending Witch Spark Bishoujo)

Obligatory Introductory Fiction

"Are you sure this is a good idea, Akira?" Tenma asked dubiously.

"We need more cannon fodder than just Hanai," Akira replied.

"HEY!" Hanai did not take this well.

They were in their inn room, discussing plans for dealing with La Cosa Nostradamus.

"Don't worry, big sister, I can handle this," Yakumo said, setting up her cookpot.

Tenma watched Yakumo cook. "I am kind of hungry, but I thought you were going to summon a demon."

"Not until the sun sets," Yakumo said. "But I'll need this for that."

"It's not our dinner?" Tenma asked sadly.

"We can eat down in the common room," Akira said, herding Tenma out. It was her job to ensure there would be no interruptions, like the time Harima thought the demon had come to hurt Yakumo and had beaten it to death while Yakumo had been trying to bind it.

Iori began idly drawing the summoning circle with chalk in his mouth.

"Wouldn't it be easier if you took on a human form?" Yakumo asked.

"No," he said. He seemed to prefer cat form to human, Yakumo had noticed.

She finished cooking up several nice bowls of stew, and left them on a simmer so that they'd stay nice and warm.

Then she sat down cross-legged and began to chant, her crimson eyes glowing softly. She could feel the flows of Moe around her, power building, opening a door.

Above the circle, a crack of crimson light appeared, slowly peeling open. Strange colors poured through, quickly muting to the more mundane colors of Creation once they hit the edge of the circle.

A purple gorilla now fell out of the hole, an incongrous purple hat on his head. "GRAPE APE!!!!!" he howled, rushing at the edge of the barrier, only to bounce off it.

Calmly, Yakumo took all three bowls and slid them inside. Grape Apes HUNGERED, so she thought it best to feed them.

It stared at the bowls, its dim mind working slowly. It was facing something demonic which was giving it food freely. That made no sense. Demons don't give away food. You might earn it, but no bargain had been made. Any gift from a demon came with strings. Therefore, it had to be a trap. So he couldn't eat it.

But it was food, tasty food, that smelled so good and he was so hungry and... He reached towards the bowls, then pulled his hands back. It had to be poison or something.

"I'm sure you're hungry. Go ahead, eat," Yakumo said kindly, smiling.

It was showing its teeth. It knew he couldn't resist. It was using his own needs against him! Cunning, and powerful. Powerful enough to sit down there looking tasty and not have to fear. It had no claws, no weapon...but the bigger demons could sprout weapons or summon them.

And the cat...A Black Cat of Ill-Omen! A Demon of the Second Clique. But his summoner was scratching the cat's belly; it rolled over to this...whatever kind of demon she was...must be Third Clique...it would rip him apart if he defied it...

He gave up, rolling over. "I will serve you, Mistress. Would you bind me for a month or a task?"

"A month," she said. "Now, go ahead and eat. You must be hungry."

He ate hungrily, wishing she would stop showing her fangs. It made him wonder if she was fattening him up.

"How may I serve?" he asked, once he was done.

"Tomorrow night, we will be striking at La Cosa Nostradamus. But for now, I'd like you to go immaterial and make sure there are no other demons in the area."

After-Dinner Snack Time. He could go for that.

Tenma now came in. "Is there any stew...oooh, yes!"

Yakumo served her some. "I saved some for you, big sister."

Tenma smiled at her, and Yakumo felt a little better. She had hated to tell her no earlier. But sometimes the apes would eat the whole pot. But she remembered what the Broodingly Handsome Sun had told her so long ago... "Take care of those you love and they will love you in turn. Whatever darkness you may see with your demon eyes, you will see light and love as well, so do not despair." It wasn't easy, but she was doing the best she could.

She hoped that was enough.

Attributes

• Physical: Secondary
  • Strength: 2
  • Dexterity: 4
  • Stamina: 3
• Mental: Primary
  • Perception: 4
  • Intelligence: 4
  • Wits: 3
• Social: Tertiary
  • Charisma: 2
  • Manipulation: 1
  • Appearance: 4

Abilities

(Bold are Favored)

Kensai:

• Archery:
• Brawl:
• Martial Arts: 3 (+2 dice to escape grapples)
• Melee: 4 (+2 dice Staff)
• Thrown:

Stalwart:

• Endurance:
• Performance:
• Presence:
• Resistance:
• Survival:

Meight: All are Caste Abilities

• Crafts: 4 (+2 dice Cooking)
• Investigation:
• Lore: 4
• Medicine: 3
• Occult: 4

Shinobi:

• Athletics: 3
• Awareness: 5
• Dodge: 2
• Larceny:
• Stealth:

Peacemakers:

• Bureaucracy: 4 (Household Finances +2 dice)
• Linguistics: 1 (Low Realm, Rivertongue)
• Ride:
• Sail:
• Socialize:

Backgrounds:

• Allies (Sara, Akira, Tenma, Iori, Harima) 5
• Resources 3

Charms and other powers:

Anima Power: Glint In the Eye - The Spark smiles and adjusts her glasses, making light glint off them in an impressive manner. By spending five Moe she convinces everyone within eyeshot that she has a brilliant plan and knows exactly what's going on. Opponents will simply assume their plans have been discovered and act appropriatly. This does not give the Spark any actual insight into the plans that were being made. This effect may be resisted by those with Moe higher then the Spark by spending a Willpower point.

Awareness:

• Graceful Bishoujo Awareness
• Superior Bishoujo Awareness
• Nick of Time

Bureaucracy:

• Graceful Bishoujo Bureaucracy
• Superior Bishoujo Bureaucracy
• Hard Bargainer
• Rich Man's Discount

Marital Arts:

• Graceful Bishoujo Marital Arts

Melee:

• Graceful Bishoujo Melee
• Superior Bishoujo Melee
• Instinctive Parry
• Riposte
• Body-Shielding Defense

Occult

• Graceful Bishoujo Occult
• Magical Girl Circle Sorcery

Sorcery

Magical Girl Circle Sorcery:

• Death of Obsidian Riceballs
• Demon of the First Clique
• Emerald Counter-Magic
• Swift House-Keeping (10 motes, tidies up Moe * 10 yards square area)

Nature, Moe, Willpower, and Virtues

Nature: Caregiver Yakumo likes to take care of and nurture people, recovering willpower whenever she provides someone else with significant assistance or fixes one of their problems.

• Permanent Moe: 3
  • Personal: 15
  • Peripheral: 36 (8 motes committed)

Willpower: 6

Virtues

• Compassion 3
• Temperance 3
• Conviction 1
• Valor 2

Virtue Flaw: Romantically Awkward. Yakumo is utterly inept in all things romantic, and takes a point of limit every time she's pressured to go out with a guy. When she limit breaks, she runs off and hides from all men until the break passes.

Possessions

Equipment:

• Apron
• Witch Outfit
• Lunch Boxes
• Cooking Gear
• Food
• Costumes

Artifacts

• "Defender", Orichalcum Goremaul (5 motes, Spd 1, Acc 2, Dam 6L, Def 6)
• Reinforced Orichalcum Witches' Robes (3 motes, +9L/+12B, -1 Mobility)

Miscellaneous

• Lethal Soak: 11
• Bashing Soak: 15
• Dodge: 6 dice (5 dice with armor)
• Fatigue: 0
• Mobility Penalty: -1
• Weapons:
  • "Defender", Orichalcum Goremaul (Spd 8, Acc 12, Dam 8L, Def 16)
• Health:
  • 1 -0
  • 2 -1
  • 2 -2
  • 1 -4
  • Incap.

Appearance

Yakumo wears a purple witches' hat and purple robes with a not easily seen layer of Orichalcum in it. She has long black hair and crimson eyes that tend to attract attention. She looks noble, but shy. She is medium of build and short, though taller than her sister, which isn't that hard, really.

Sometimes, however, she wears a red beret and glasses and casual brown and red clothing. Generally when off duty.

She has a lot of aprons for cooking too.

Fetishes

Her Moe 2 fetish is being a Spark. Her Moe 3 fetish is her witch hat.

Personality:

Yakumo is shy and withdrawn and utterly devoted to her sister and her best friend, Sara. She works in Akira's tea-shop part-time, when not helping her sister run her business. Lately, she's developed a friendship with Harima, one of the few men who doesn't hit on her (leading to her Virtue flaw).

Yakumo does her best to act as support to others, keeping their secrets, feeding them, and keeping them out of trouble. Unlike most Exalts, she is not good at asserting herself.

(When she summons demons, she basically wins them over with kindness instead of beating down their will. This usually terrifies them so much, they give in to her requests.)

History:

Yakumo has a secret even SHE doesn't know about. The rest of her gang largely all exalted very recently, but she did not. Rather, she was one of the very rare Exalted who got a shard from before the Maid Prison was shattered.

When she was very little, she was a self-centered brat, unable to put up with the clumsy fumbling of her sister Tenma. Until one day, when she played in the wrong place. Her insulting of a thaumaturgist who thought he'd found an empty field to work in caused him to fumble a summoning and unleash a swarm of Thought Delvers. Most of them still wander the world. One attacked Yakumo, causing her to see exactly what everyone thought of her--they thought she was an insufferable, willful brat and they hated her.

Only her sister Tenma and her parents actually cared for her, and then the Thought Delver inside her tried to call some of its escaped fellows to take over her parents and her sister. In her desperation to stop them, she asked Heaven for help.

And Heaven heard. A Catgirl (who may actually be a Catboy or just fond of switching back and forth to confuse people), Iori (an Eye) came to her aid and she Exalted as a Bishoujo. Iori ate the unfortunate pack of Thought Eaters. The force of her exaltation fused the Thought Eater with her own flesh and capped it off with the power of the Broodingly Handsome Sun. She now can read the minds of those thinking about her (and at times, the minds of others), but she has inhuman crimson eyes and is vulnerable to affects which damage things from outside Creation.

Her ability to read minds has caused her to collapse in on herself, becoming very shy and trying to atone for what she sees as her past sins by giving up her own desires to help those around her who love her.

She has recently learned Sorcery under Iori's tutelage.

Storyteller's Notes:

I'm too lazy to create the precise merits and flaws, but Yakumo has the power to read the minds of those who are thinking about her. This rolls her Perception + Awareness with a difficulty of 1 for those she is close to or who have really intense thoughts like love or sexual attraction, 3 for those only mildly aware of her, and 5 for anyone who is focused on something else.

Her eyes will make those with Occult identify her as a Half-Demon on an Intelligence + Occult of 2, and she is vulnerable to damage from effects which hurt those from outside creation, though she otherwise counts as being from 'inside fate'. Demons instinctively assume she is a half-Demon and usually become confused very much if she then shows signs of Bishoujo Exaltation.