Hitomiko

Name: Hitomiko
Age: 50; Appears ~18
Height: 5'5" / 165 cm
Gender: Female
Species: Half-Elf
Occupation: Travelling priestess
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Hitomiko was a lost child, her home ravaged by war for decades. It came to a close when a final assault had the entire village ambushed while they slept. Most died immediately, though few held on by strands. A triad of travelling monks passed through the wreckage, hoping to find and tend to the wounds of any survivors, but the only one they managed to find was a child, kept alive only by the immense spiritual power sealed away within her.

The head monk picked up the bloody, burned, and maimed child, white hair nearly completely stained red by blood where it wasn't singed off. At his insistance, the monks took the damaged girl back to their temple to heal under their watchful eye. It was forbidden for females to enter the sacred temple of the monks, but the head of that group convinced the elders to make exception for this special case.

After she was healed enough to speak and answer their questions, it was discovered that the trauma of her incident had blanked out her memories of her past life. She knew there was something there, but it was as though she had a large, gaping blind-spot in her memory; she could sometimes remember small fragments of details, but overall she was at as much of a loss as the monks. The man that found her, named Ginta, made clear his intentions of making her his pupil, regardless of whether or not she regained her memories. It was clear that they needed to give her a name to use in the mean time, so after pondering for several days, Ginta decided on Hitomiko-- "Pupil Child".

She was raised there from then on, learning to tap into the vast stores of energy sealed within her, as well as gaining a formal education (as that wasn't something her home village focused very strongly on). She learned to read and write, and through her spiritual training, it was discovered that she had a high aptitude for healing and purification.

Once the group of travelling monks felt she was ready, they invited her to journey with them in their quest to help purify the vastly corrupted regions of the universe with them. Hitomiko, not one to want to disappoint or let anything go to waste if she could help it, happily accepted the offer. She was thirteen when she started her first journey, and they continued travelling from world to world, from universe to universe. It was, in her mind, the most rewarding thing she could do with her time; she came to live for the gratitude of those she and her surrogate family of Monks helped.

But as time went on, the monks began to show their age. Humans didn't live for as long as her kind did... It hadn't dawned on her until one of her fellows passed away suddenly in his sleep. She didn't understand-- she thought that their pure lifestyles would lead them to live for far longer than normal humans. It was explained to her that, while their lifestyle could extend their lives slightly, there was no way they would live even close to half as long as she would.

One by one, her family began to fall apart with their aging causing them to have to return back to there homes. Soon, only Hitomiko was left on her trek to purify everybody. It wasn't until she was sent word of the Head Monk falling ill that she returned to the place she had called home during her formative years. By the time she made it back, he had already passed. She wept at his bedside where they were preserving him. The remaining monks of her travelling group were... displeased to learn that he had left her the very expensive and very powerful staff that had been gifted to them by a wealthy client.

At first, she rejected the thing, asserting that she did not deserve it, nor did she want to carry around the reminder of her teacher for the rest of her life-- it would hurt too badly. Eventually, the monks were begrudgingly able to assert that the thing would take to none of them but her. Demonstrating, a few of them tried to take hold and wield the staff, but the barrier placed on it would not allow any of them to touch it; even attempting to grasp it had their hands painfully shocked. After a few more days of mourning, the young elf was finally convinced to attempt to wield her inheritanc and found herself genuinely surprised when it did not reject her hand. It was too good to be true; her master had given her such a beautiful gift in his death to remind her of her purpose.

With the new heirloom, Hitomiko finally felt ready to move on and continue her journey. And so after giving her thanks and regards to all of her former travel companions, and paying her final respects to her Teacher, she set out...

(A character of Nukey)