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PLAYER INFORMATION
PLAYER: Nyx
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badgal
CONTACT: gilded chrysanth [AIM]; missbiondetta [Plurk]
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Yamame Kurodani
CANON: Touhou Project
CANON REFERENCE: Here
AGE: 14
GENDER: Female
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: HS1 (9th Grade)
APPEARANCE:
Yamame is small, barely making it over 5' in height. In her clothes, she looks scrawny, but out of them it's obvious that she is in fact a gymnast. She tends to prefer cute outfits with knee-length skirts, though you're more likely to find her wearing gold than pink or blue. Her eyes are brown, and her blonde hair is usually kept tied up in a high ponytail with a ribbon.
Also of note is that while she wears mostly skirts, she pays very little attention to whether or not her posture is "ladylike." Her demeanor overall tends to come off as tomboyish.
PERSONALITY:
Yamame has a bright, outgoing personality. She's the sort of person that tends to be popular with the people around her for her optimism and easy-going nature. Playful and fun-loving with a curious streak and a tendency to be chatty, she loves getting to know new people and making new friends. This is somewhat hindered by the reputation her powers have given her, but she's a persistent girl, and she doesn't let this—or much of anything, really—get her down. She's a positive thinker and plenty resilient.
Despite her friendly nature, though, her past has caused her to resent normal humans. Mostly, she hates that people fear her without even taking the time to get to know her. The fact that their fear is the result of her powers simply being creepy only makes that resentment worse. In order to cope with this, she has to some degree embraced people's unsettled reactions—if they think she's a monster, then fine, that's just what she'll be. Though she is perfectly capable of being friendly with humans, she has a tendency to play up the already present morbid aspects of her personality when interacting with them.
Her way of thinking is also rooted fairly deeply in an "us vs. them" mentality. She doesn't think that mutants are better than humans, per se, but she will always side with her fellows. She is keenly aware that humans' distrust of mutants can lead to violence being perpetuated against them, and when it comes down to it, she would rather protect herself by striking first than simply defend. This, when combined with the above, leaves her pretty receptive to the messages of groups like the Brotherhood.
Beyond that, she tends to be combative and aggressive, albeit it in a personable no-hard-feelings way. She has no issue getting into fights of any kind with others, and despite the fact that her powers aren't particularly geared toward direct combat, she is confident in her abilities. She also has a mischievous streak; though she doesn't use her powers maliciously, she has absolutely no problem inflicting illness on someone if she has a reason to do so. Those reasons can, at times, be petty or self-serving, but she's unlikely to do so casually against other mutants.
POWERS/ABILITIES:
disease manipulation- Yamame has the ability to make people ill with infectious diseases. She seems to do so by manipulating whatever microbes happen to be present in the area, causing them to rapidly multiply and even mutate. Generally speaking, the primary symptom of people she has affected is a high fever, and often times they become highly contagious.
Hypothetically, she can also do the reverse and alleviate sickness through the same method, but she hasn't actually had much practice doing so, except on maybe a subconscious level. She rarely ever gets sick herself, but that could just as easily be because she is generally healthy and in shape from her gymnastics training.
spider manipulation- Yamame has the ability to sense the presence of and "connect with" spiders. By connecting with them, she can control their actions, but for the most part what she does is closer to politely requesting what she wants than ordering it. The spiders are her friends, after all. She also gains the ability to sense their feelings—while spiders are not really intelligent enough to have a complicated thought process, she can feel if they're afraid, agitated, relaxed, hungry, etc—and sense whatever they sense, making them useful for spying. Any spiders she bonds with become "tame," meaning it's perfectly safe to let them crawl around in her clothes and hair.
Which she does.
Because she is terrible.
AU HISTORY:
Yamame was born in a small backwater town in Japan. This town was an insular place—Yamame can't remember ever seeing a new family move in, or an old family move out—and many of the people there were highly superstitious. Her father was a construction worker, and her mother was a tailor running a clothing shop. Life was quiet and uneventful, but not idyllic.
Yamame's mutant abilities began to manifest at a young age, but it would take several years for them to mature. When she was still a child, her affinity for spiders was plainly obvious—so obvious, in fact, that many of the other children whispered to themselves about how she must have really been a witch with the number that seemed to swarm to her. If you looked her in the eye, she'd put a curse on you, they said. Even some of the adults began to comment on how eerie she was, discouraging their children from playing with her. Her childhood was lonely with her spiders as her only friends, and she began to resent other people.
When she was nine years old, she convinced her parents to sign her up for gymnastics classes in a neighboring town. She loved it there; she didn't have to worry about the reputation that almost palpably clung to her in her hometown, and she took to the activity itself extremely well. So well, in fact, that her instructors commented that she might even have a future in competitive gymnastics. She enjoyed traveling to junior competitions, since it let her see more of the country outside of the small, old-fashioned village she grew up in.
However, Yamame couldn't hide some of her naturally morbid behaviors, and before long she began to build up a reputation in her new environment as well. At first, it made her angry and frustrated. Then, one day when she was 12 years old and waiting for an exhibition to start, she thought to herself, "Fine, then, I will be a monster."
And that was the first time she cursed someone.
Her "curse," of course, was just another aspect of her mutant abilities. She could make people sick—really sick if she put her mind to it. And, after the way she had been treated by others, she didn't have any problem doing so. It made it easy to disable her toughest competition gymnastics competitions, too.
Of course, there was only so long this could go undetected, and when it did come out a year later, Yamame's dreams were turned on their head. She was barred from entering further gymnastics competitions and kicked out of her classes, leaving her stuck in her hometown full of people she had finally given a reason to really, really be afraid of her. Even her parents withdrew from her. Barely teenager and feeling as though she had lost everything that was actually meaningful to her, she did the only thing she could think to do in her situation.
She ran away.
She didn't really have any particular destination in mind. Before she could work out where to go or what to do, though, a group calling themselves the Morlocks found her. In the end, they took her in, and she was happy to finally be among other "monsters" like herself. The brood of "friends" she kept didn't seem quite so odd anymore.
There came a time when the Morlock's leader decided that several of the young members needed more guidance than the clan itself could provide, and so they were to be given over to the Xavier Institute. Yamame was among them. She had her misgivings, but she accepted the change easily enough—after all, she still wanted to see more of the world, and there was nothing to say that she couldn't return to her new family when the time was right.
PLAYER: Nyx
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
badgalCONTACT: gilded chrysanth [AIM]; missbiondetta [Plurk]
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Yamame Kurodani
CANON: Touhou Project
CANON REFERENCE: Here
AGE: 14
GENDER: Female
YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: HS1 (9th Grade)
APPEARANCE:
Yamame is small, barely making it over 5' in height. In her clothes, she looks scrawny, but out of them it's obvious that she is in fact a gymnast. She tends to prefer cute outfits with knee-length skirts, though you're more likely to find her wearing gold than pink or blue. Her eyes are brown, and her blonde hair is usually kept tied up in a high ponytail with a ribbon.
Also of note is that while she wears mostly skirts, she pays very little attention to whether or not her posture is "ladylike." Her demeanor overall tends to come off as tomboyish.
PERSONALITY:
Yamame has a bright, outgoing personality. She's the sort of person that tends to be popular with the people around her for her optimism and easy-going nature. Playful and fun-loving with a curious streak and a tendency to be chatty, she loves getting to know new people and making new friends. This is somewhat hindered by the reputation her powers have given her, but she's a persistent girl, and she doesn't let this—or much of anything, really—get her down. She's a positive thinker and plenty resilient.
Despite her friendly nature, though, her past has caused her to resent normal humans. Mostly, she hates that people fear her without even taking the time to get to know her. The fact that their fear is the result of her powers simply being creepy only makes that resentment worse. In order to cope with this, she has to some degree embraced people's unsettled reactions—if they think she's a monster, then fine, that's just what she'll be. Though she is perfectly capable of being friendly with humans, she has a tendency to play up the already present morbid aspects of her personality when interacting with them.
Her way of thinking is also rooted fairly deeply in an "us vs. them" mentality. She doesn't think that mutants are better than humans, per se, but she will always side with her fellows. She is keenly aware that humans' distrust of mutants can lead to violence being perpetuated against them, and when it comes down to it, she would rather protect herself by striking first than simply defend. This, when combined with the above, leaves her pretty receptive to the messages of groups like the Brotherhood.
Beyond that, she tends to be combative and aggressive, albeit it in a personable no-hard-feelings way. She has no issue getting into fights of any kind with others, and despite the fact that her powers aren't particularly geared toward direct combat, she is confident in her abilities. She also has a mischievous streak; though she doesn't use her powers maliciously, she has absolutely no problem inflicting illness on someone if she has a reason to do so. Those reasons can, at times, be petty or self-serving, but she's unlikely to do so casually against other mutants.
POWERS/ABILITIES:
disease manipulation- Yamame has the ability to make people ill with infectious diseases. She seems to do so by manipulating whatever microbes happen to be present in the area, causing them to rapidly multiply and even mutate. Generally speaking, the primary symptom of people she has affected is a high fever, and often times they become highly contagious.
Hypothetically, she can also do the reverse and alleviate sickness through the same method, but she hasn't actually had much practice doing so, except on maybe a subconscious level. She rarely ever gets sick herself, but that could just as easily be because she is generally healthy and in shape from her gymnastics training.
spider manipulation- Yamame has the ability to sense the presence of and "connect with" spiders. By connecting with them, she can control their actions, but for the most part what she does is closer to politely requesting what she wants than ordering it. The spiders are her friends, after all. She also gains the ability to sense their feelings—while spiders are not really intelligent enough to have a complicated thought process, she can feel if they're afraid, agitated, relaxed, hungry, etc—and sense whatever they sense, making them useful for spying. Any spiders she bonds with become "tame," meaning it's perfectly safe to let them crawl around in her clothes and hair.
Which she does.
Because she is terrible.
AU HISTORY:
Yamame was born in a small backwater town in Japan. This town was an insular place—Yamame can't remember ever seeing a new family move in, or an old family move out—and many of the people there were highly superstitious. Her father was a construction worker, and her mother was a tailor running a clothing shop. Life was quiet and uneventful, but not idyllic.
Yamame's mutant abilities began to manifest at a young age, but it would take several years for them to mature. When she was still a child, her affinity for spiders was plainly obvious—so obvious, in fact, that many of the other children whispered to themselves about how she must have really been a witch with the number that seemed to swarm to her. If you looked her in the eye, she'd put a curse on you, they said. Even some of the adults began to comment on how eerie she was, discouraging their children from playing with her. Her childhood was lonely with her spiders as her only friends, and she began to resent other people.
When she was nine years old, she convinced her parents to sign her up for gymnastics classes in a neighboring town. She loved it there; she didn't have to worry about the reputation that almost palpably clung to her in her hometown, and she took to the activity itself extremely well. So well, in fact, that her instructors commented that she might even have a future in competitive gymnastics. She enjoyed traveling to junior competitions, since it let her see more of the country outside of the small, old-fashioned village she grew up in.
However, Yamame couldn't hide some of her naturally morbid behaviors, and before long she began to build up a reputation in her new environment as well. At first, it made her angry and frustrated. Then, one day when she was 12 years old and waiting for an exhibition to start, she thought to herself, "Fine, then, I will be a monster."
And that was the first time she cursed someone.
Her "curse," of course, was just another aspect of her mutant abilities. She could make people sick—really sick if she put her mind to it. And, after the way she had been treated by others, she didn't have any problem doing so. It made it easy to disable her toughest competition gymnastics competitions, too.
Of course, there was only so long this could go undetected, and when it did come out a year later, Yamame's dreams were turned on their head. She was barred from entering further gymnastics competitions and kicked out of her classes, leaving her stuck in her hometown full of people she had finally given a reason to really, really be afraid of her. Even her parents withdrew from her. Barely teenager and feeling as though she had lost everything that was actually meaningful to her, she did the only thing she could think to do in her situation.
She ran away.
She didn't really have any particular destination in mind. Before she could work out where to go or what to do, though, a group calling themselves the Morlocks found her. In the end, they took her in, and she was happy to finally be among other "monsters" like herself. The brood of "friends" she kept didn't seem quite so odd anymore.
There came a time when the Morlock's leader decided that several of the young members needed more guidance than the clan itself could provide, and so they were to be given over to the Xavier Institute. Yamame was among them. She had her misgivings, but she accepted the change easily enough—after all, she still wanted to see more of the world, and there was nothing to say that she couldn't return to her new family when the time was right.