Tassa

Vital Stats

Name: Tassa
Species: Moon jelly youkai
Age: Hundreds of years, ~2 years since "awakening"
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 2 lbs
Bell circumference: 8'
Bust: 32B
Waist: 27
Hips: 34
Languages Spoken: None
Player: Solan


For every strange and wondrous creature we find on land, there are five waiting deep beneath the surface of the sea to be discovered. Tassa is one of those wondrous things that we actually know about. A beast-type youkai born from a moon jellyfish (aurelia aurita), Tassa was a strange and lucky being. In a world where the only light came from her own body, savage nature showed its most true and pure form. Life did not last long for any... save for one jellyfish that won the genetic lottery, one with the ability to turn on and off its own bioluminescence at will. And so she kept living... and kept living... for long, long years... Until, one day, she awoke, aware of what she had been... and aware that she was no longer that thing, but something else. Something new.

While the deep, lightless places of the ocean are still her home, and the place she knows best, she is a curious girl, and now often swims up out of the dark, crushing depths and up to the surface, to see what strange creatures live outside of the world she knows. As a youkai, she has the power to breathe air. (Why? Because \youkai magic/~) She is, however, still incredibly lightweight, and can be born aloft by a stiff wind just as easily as she would be by the currents of her ocean home.

As for her physical body? She does in fact have arms, they are simply tucked inside her bell in the picture above. She can slip them out to touch and lift things as easily as you or I would slip our arm through a sleeve. Her bell is enormous now, and able to grow to an extent, allowing the sticky base to root itself against the ground and allow her to hold on in windy conditions. Her feet are capable of this as well, but to a more limited extent. And, unsurprisingly, she still has a rather large number of tentacles concealed under her bell, only some of which carry the familiar jellyfish sting (others simply serve to move and manipulate, while still others can taste, or be used for intake of fluids).

Tassa's sting is paralytic in nature, rendering the victim temporarily limp to allow her to feed. Her mouth, however, cannot take in anything except ordinary chewed human food (and the idea has not yet occurred to her to use it even for that); instead, a second orifice beneath her bell serves as primary intake for larger meals, and leads directly into her stomach. Waste material is excreted through the same orifice in the form of a foamy substance, embedded within which are small, unfertilized eggs, as her body has evolved to use unwanted nutrients to form the outer surfaces that protect the genetic material inside. Whether these eggs would form into ordinary jellyfish, new youkai like Tassa, or something else entirely remains to be seen.

Personality-wise, Tassa doesn't have much of one yet. She is newly awakened as a youkai, and unlike some beast youkai, like nekos, she has not spent her life among humans learning their ways and language. She in fact speaks no language yet, and is mostly mute except for a few very simple words she has a basic understanding of. She is also rather instinctive and bestial in nature, seeking primarily to feed and to reproduce, but has developed a sort of instinctive curiosity towards humans, as they look so strangely similar to her...