Misaki

Age: Unknown
Height: 5'0"
Weight: 92 lb
Bust: 34 C
Occupation: Merchant/Tengu


Tengu

Tengu are a class of supernatural creatures found in Japanese folklore, art, theater, and literature. They are one of the best known yōkai (monster-spirits) and are sometimes worshipped as Shinto kami (revered spirits or gods). The tengu were originally thought to take the forms of birds of prey, and they are traditionally depicted with both human and avian characteristics.

Buddhism long held that the tengu were disruptive demons and harbingers of war. Their image gradually softened, however, into one of protective, if still dangerous, spirits of the mountains and forests. Tengu are associated with the ascetic practice known as Shugendō, and they are usually depicted in the distinctive garb of its followers, the yamabushi.

In shintoism, they have a special part, so there are many paintings and statues of the Tengu in the temples and cabinets. In myths and legends they are shown as ascetics and priests, who live in the mountains, or as monks with the typical headgear.

They live disassociated in the mountains in good- hided nests, hatch out of gigantic eggs and meet in high-growing trees. They show themselves to the humans just through thoughts and dreams. It also says they can disappear and appear on another place from one second to the other.Sometimes vain and arrogant people were kidnapped and send in the forest, where they stray around, just because the Tengu likes to confuse and make people anxious.


In the first thousand years in the life of a Tengu, they are taught how to battle by an older Tengu, taught in the ways of the original art, which is based on skilfulness, fluently movements and immediately reactions. They also learn to make themselves invisible and to transform their figure into another. Just their own shadow gives their real figure away, because it doesn't transform with them. Furthermore they learn tactical principles out of the knowledge of the processes in the universe.

On the other hand they reward modesty and people, who are ready to help.Often they are called in prayers by desperate people to help their children to find the way back home.


Misaki

Misaki, for all intensive purposes, wished she was a hermit.

She wished people would just leave her alone, and let her live her life in peace....but the ironic fact is she was nice to one human one too many times and word got out about her...

One day, a monk was lost in the forest and continued to be lost for nearly three days, passing by her tree every single day without fail. The very fact that he kept calling out for help brought her to a state of annoyance to the point that she simply gave him a feather to let him return home.

...what she didnt bank on was the monk proclaiming the benevolent nature of her action to the entire town that surrounded the monestary...and it was not long before people came to her from the city all asking for some of her feathers....So, she did what any self respecting Tengu would do in her situation...

she began to charge them....and after a good 1000 years of business, she became richer beyond her wildest dreams, even if she still lived up in that tree...she never had to worry about hunting or shelter again...it would be one day when a rather nasty man tried to buy her for her feathers that she finally decided it was time to move...and she never stopped moving after, simply having not found the right place to live...

Abilities

Claws: Her natural claws are weapons sharper then steel, able to cut most anything to ribbons with a quick swipe, though she rarely uses them, if at all.

Disguise: The more basic skill of any tengu, she is able to shapeshift as needed, though her shadow will give her away completely. it is merely illusion in the end and she does not literally change except for the most extreme circumstances.

Blink: Not so much an ability then simply skill, Misaki can move in a flowing, graceful motion with such controlled speed that she appears to be blinking in and out of existance.

Beguile: Again, more of a natural skill then an actual mystical art, her voice has an odd way of bringing calm and yet confusion, throwing off someone who speaks to her and does not have good intentions, eventually she will talk someone in a loop, till they reveal exactly what they intend, through simple words.

Karasu-warp: The main ability of a Karasu comes from his or her feathers, a single feather can be used to transport someone to anywhere they desire. It, of course, is a one-time trip, but gives her an especially wonderful tool for barganing.


OOC notes:

Misaki is a Merchant first, a youkai second and a predator third.

Dont expect her to eat you, she would rather bargan your pants off and laugh about it later.

She has a fondness for pipes and smoking.

She is capable of most types of vore and has been known to put people in eggs on occasion.