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Post by Rekari on Mar 29, 2011 18:23:08 GMT -5
the bare necessities
NAME
»»»Yui Koromo NICKNAMES
»»» Yu-Yu GENDER
»»» Female AGE
»»» 18 BIRTHDAY
»»» November 18th ALLEGIANCE
»»» Neutral but leaning towards bad w
the real important stuff
APPEARANCE
»»» Long black hair that travels down to about her waist and is clean cut with clean cut bangs to match. She takes good care of it and loves to play with it whenever she is thinking or studying. Her eyes are a reddish color that she inherited from her mother, infact, she inherited most of her traits from her mother. She is a little on the short side 5"3-5"4. She weights about 117 pounds and has a very childish figure. Her feet have scars on them from where she left the mountains and a few on her hands.
Her eyes are large, like saucers and no matter what her mood she always seems to look sad. Her smile though, is always bright and she always has a warm look for her friends. Her fingers are small but flexible and when she walks she has a look of grace that can only come from years and years of dance practice. Her posture is nearly perfect from being forced to sit straight all her life. You can sometimes see the weariness in her eyes from all the years of lessons and practicing. She has pale skin from living in the mountains had has no trouble toleratng the cold. Her eyes are reflective and she firmly believes that you can tell the quality of someones soul just from looking at their eyes. Her own eyes are reddish in color, they shine in the moonlight brighter than in the sun. Her silky hair complements her eyes rather well, especially when they are peering through her bangs.
She has small feet, as a result of them being partially bound when she was younger to make it easier for her to move quickly, making her a better dancer. She has a toned body that comes from discipline. Her clothing always consists of a kimono or a school uniform. She found the black school uniform on the side of the mountain, while she was herding sheep one day. She had no clue what it was doing but while at the compound she only wore it in secret, showing to much skin was bad if it wasn't to the man you were married to. This is the outfit she wears in the Cheyenne Region most of the time. Part of her wanting to cast off the past that she had without forgetting her religion.
She loves floral kimonos, they remind her of the spring and summer time that she loves so much. Her shoes are almost always bamboo sandles or barefoot. The feeling of grass is one of her favorites. PERSONALITY
»»» Yui forgives people rather easily. She doesn't believe that people hurt others on purpose and that almost everything can be forgiven. She won't tolerate someone hitting a lady or abusing a child though, and taking a life is completely out of the question. There are some things that sorry just can't fix. Whenever someone does something wrong to her she is usually rather quick to say I forgive you but sometimes still carries the hurt around for awhile. She feels that if someone is truly sorry then the pain she carries must be the weight that they felt by doing it and that it was okay for her to still feel bad even after forgiving them, she feels that all pain will be rewarded when your karma is good and if it is bad then more pain will befall you. While she used to believe in her religion almost one hundred percent, the fact that she was almost sacrificed to Yami was something that shook her faith a little bit. She no longer believes that all aspects of the religion are correct, including the fact that fathers didn’t have to take responsibility for their actions when they sired children, and could just leave them wondering the rest of their lives about which of the priests bloodlines did they carry and why weren’t they good enough to have their father recognize them. She still wonders about this, still not knowing who her father was and why he wouldn’t claim her. She excelled in all the right things for girls and tried her hardest in everything.
When it came to learning out of a book, she was much more interested in it than most of the guys and would stay up late just to read a little more. Her heart was set on knowing the most and being able to do the most. She loved reading and loved studying. She liked playing ball with her friends, a little ball game that they would just kick it back and forth, sort of like soccer. Discipline was something she learned at a young age and it stuck with it through her entire life. Anger is something that living in a compound you had to learn to control and that is what she did. She also has been trained to tell the truth or tactically tell a white lie. Never lie about something big, which was one of the main rules for a Miko. Always be sincere and smiling. The face of a miko is a face of the temple and you want people to want to join in. She doesn't like the cleaning aspect of the job, preferring to leave it to the younger children that need to learn a little more discipline. Despite her religions point of view on marriage and such things, she believes in true love and hopes one day, despite everything she will find hers.
Yui likes to be the peacekeeper and the mediator, knowing that there are easier ways to solve things other than in fighting. Peace is essential to finding happiness. One thing that she is afraid of is bugs, living in the mountains, the high altitude didn’t allow for very many friendly bugs and the few that she knew of were either poisonous or hurt really badly. This has caused a terrible fear of them that she can’t just seem to get rid of. She likes to smile a lot, and likes trying to make others smile. She disapproves of people that can’t just seem to find at least one thing to be happy about, thinking that they have to be missing out on something in life. She smiles about the simplest things and finds joy in nature, except in bugs. She trusts people easily, believing that lying would only hurt their karma in the end and would make their afterlife or reincarnation terrible. She’s optimistic, despite the fact that her own father tried to kill her, even if she didn’t know he was her father. She believes that in the end, good will triumph over evil.
She has a problem with jealousy. She won't show it but she often gets jealous when people know more than she does and when they have prettier things than she does. It makes her feel bad and sometimes she holds a grudge against people for it. She hates when people think that they are better than she is because they have nicer things. Then again she won't let any of this show.
HISTORY
»»»Yui was born in the mountains of Kumano, Mei. She was the daughter of a Shugendo miko (shrine maiden) and one of the priests. Shugendo was a religion that condoned the use of ecstasy by their priests and marriage between the priests and the miko after a certain age. The focus and goal of this religion was to have experience and power. Her birth was common and they had been running low on females in the compound so she was slightly celebrated. She was also born where the religion had been founded, one of the original and lost compounds. They had no contacts with the outside world and no one was supposed to even know they were there. Only the leaders of other compounds, in Tendai and Shingon sects, even heard rumors of them being alive still. With its origins in the solitary hijiri back in the 7th century, shugend evolved as a sort of amalgamation between esoteric Buddhism, Shinto and several other religious influences including Taoism, it was a melting pot of knowledge for those that wanted to learn. What they failed to mention to their new children was that Shugendo was a form of religion that was looked down upon, seen as unfit for being an actual religion and in most of the world, marked down as just a normal superstition. The priests failed to believe that their way of living was wrong.
She grew up without technology, even though around the other compounds, all other sects of the Shugendo ways had adopted electricity as something that was somewhat useful and could help them better themselves. In Hari’s eyes, they had fallen from the true path and would never reach their full potential. Hari was the compound’s head priest, and unknown to Yui, her father. Her mother and father had never gotten married on the compound, preferring to keep their relationship a secret until Hari claimed a wife among the younger women and got her pregnant as well. Yui’s mother was outraged at being treated as thought she had been nothing but due to her training, felt nothing could be done. She had been trained to forgive what happened in this life and move on to another, where she may have the upper hand. Not that she committed suicide, as far as Yui knows her mother is still alive and well at the compound.
As a toddler, she began to learn the basics of Buddhism and Taoism. She loved the knowledge that she gained. She excelled in Folk Taoism and fell a little short on the theory of Animism; she tried to excel through all of it. When she learned one thing she wanted another to fall right into place, so that she could start learning its ways as well. She didn’t know that her father was the leader of the compound; after all, a lot of the girls never knew who their fathers were so it wasn’t that uncommon. But still it bothered her, she wanted knowledge and for some reason, something she thought that she should know she was always told she didn’t. She couldn’t grasp why some kids knew their parents and others would never know. Was there something wrong with the kids that didn’t know? Apparently, the kids that knew their fathers thought that they were better than the children like Yui; they thought that they were more complete and already closer to achieving oneness with Yami.
Although young, she knew better than to argue with them. Fighting only drew them further away from Yami and caused them to loose site of what was important. It caused all goals to be erased and your future to become bleak. She had learned all of that from her mother. Instead when they tried goading her into fighting, she smiled at them and bowed her head, knowing that one day they would reap their karmas rewards whether it is good or bad, sooner or later. It turned out to have come sooner rather than later for the children though, while tending sheep on a cliff side, one of the oldest of the main group had stolen some ecstasy from the priests and decided that he was old enough to use it. Acting like a fool, and trying to show off for one of the future maidens, and most likely the one who would have been his wife, he caught his foot and went tumbling down the mountain like a boulder in a rockslide.
When she reached the age of seven, she began to learn about the female specific parts of the Shugendo religion. The Shinto kagura dance ceremony, which originated with miko ritual dancing to convey divine oracles. Only girls were allowed to perform this dance and it had to be done with absolute perfection. They would be made to practice for hours at a time, only allowed rest when part of the dance had hit perfection. No matter how well you did the dance, in the instructor’s eyes something could always be better. She would hit the girls, nothing that left scars though, placing their feet in the right position and their arms, smacking them on the head if their feet weren’t exactly right. She would go home with bruises and pain all through her body. Yui began waking up earlier and practicing before dawn, so that her body was already used to the patterns by the time that the actual lessons came around. Other people started getting jealous.
Skipping a few unimportant uneventful years, Yui turned ten and was at the top of her dance class by that time. They had started slacking on the female knowledge part of the lessons and it made the girl wonder if she was supposed to be smart or just sit there and look pretty. They restricted what she could read while she was studying and their punishment for going into what was supposed to be unseen by her eyes was beatings, once again not anything to leave a scar. She didn't want to be a disobedient child but she wanted to learn so much more. For her dancing ability, some said that she could even be a reincarnation of the Goddess Uzume, the one that brought the Goddess Amaterasu out of her depression and helped bring sunlight back to the world. She wasn't sure how to take this praise, but she smiled politely and went back with her lessons.
Mothers began gossiping and at the age of thirteen, the boys were separated from the girls and they went about different duties everyday. The separation trials only lasted until they were fifteen and were very loose in rules and actually being enforced. The only one you had to worry about was not letting Hari see you. Hari had become a bitter old man, his wife was cheating on him and his legitimate child was prettier and smarter than his illegitimate one. He held a lot of anger at that thought, thinking that the younger the wife, the prettier the child. This is the age where she began to learn archery and got her first azusayumi (catalpa bow), bells, tamagushi (offertory sakaki-tree branches), drums, candles, altars, rice bowl of water, and the gehobako (supernatural box) containing dolls, animal and human skulls, and rosaries. Her box was decorated with the carvings of Amaterasu and Uzume as the former emerged from her cave. She then began to realize that people were serious about her being the incarnation of Uzume. She went home to her mother and asked her about how to tell if someone was a reincarnation and her mother just sat there and cried.
Skipping to the age of seventeen, just before the eighteenth birthday, Yui was summoned to the chamber Hari, the elder. She was now a week away from the age of marriage and apparently they had already chosen a husband. This was uncommon for a husband to be chosen unless it was of great importance or if Yami wished it. Hari was incredibly bitter about Yuis existence and he had found a way for the problem to be solved. Yui was still top of her class, due to excessive practice and hard work. Still people called her Goddess Uzumi and whispered about her as she passed by. She had started accepting this fate and actually settling into it a little more than she thought. She never used it against people though and never used it to get her way, although she could if she wanted to. When she reached the chamber, she bowed and knelt, waiting for her fate.
“Miko Yui, you have been chosen as the reincarnation of Uzume, therefore there is only one suitable husband for you.”
She looked up at Hari, her pulse quickening and her heart racing. Who could it be? What was going on and why did it have to be her?
“The only suitable husband for you must be Yami himself; you will give yourself up to the blade on the dawning of your eighteenth birthday. You shall go and prepare, you have two days.”
Her breathe caught in her throat as she rose, fear showing in her eyes. Surely this wasn’t the only for her to be fufilled? There had to be some sort of mistake! She wasn't the Goddess Uzume! She wanted to plead for her life, beg that the Elder Priests choice be revoked. Let her not marry at all but don't let her die. She found herself walking towards the mountains, past the sheep herders and over the bridge, she wandered for days, not knowing where she was going and how she was being pulled away from the only home she had ever known. By the time she reached some sort of civilization, her clothes were ragged and she was dead tired. A couple found her walking on the side of a mountain road, just walking, eyes blank and rocking while she walked, about to fall over in a ditch.
They put her in a room, with a computer and told her to use it if she liked, they even turned it on for her. She just sat there, staring at in until after a few moments the screen went white, and she found herself being pulled away once more. She thought that she could never escape her destiny to die. She decided that she would go on a journey, far far away, running away from her past the best she can.
Notes: Resix gave me permishun to do a nuzlocke character
//Arionne edited to get symbols out
// I blame the app for symbols
// I had an entire brain splurge and redid the entire character
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Post by Rekari on Mar 31, 2011 14:04:46 GMT -5
Finished-
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Post by Rekari on Apr 2, 2011 22:48:12 GMT -5
Finished and can't change the title so this is quite the predicament!
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Post by arionne ♥ on Apr 4, 2011 9:02:40 GMT -5
You cannot have a list for the appearance. Actual text, please!
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Also, instead of posting two full [identical] histories, just somehow merge them together?
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Post by Rekari on Apr 5, 2011 13:20:51 GMT -5
I redid everything...
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Post by Sp❣rit on Apr 5, 2011 19:43:16 GMT -5
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