Post by Kiku Joshima on Mar 20, 2014 10:43:45 GMT -5
KIKU JUNKNO JOSHIMA
Gender: Female
Age: Eighteen; August 11
Sexuality: Bisexual
Ethnicity: Japanese, some Italian
Faction: CEDEF
Occupation: Contortionist / Former Circus Performer
PERSONALITY
Positives
• Pack Oriented Yet Independent— With practically feral blood running through her veins, Kiku can very often be considered more of an animal than a human at times. Her strongest channel is that of the wolf, and possibly because of this, she bears the mentality of a wolf in that she is both pack oriented and independent. While she can and does take care of her basic needs on her own, never one to allow a personal burden to fall on others should she be able to deal with it herself, she is someone that works in a unit much as a wolf pack does. Unlike many of the immature would-be alpha personalities, Kiku is very aware that being a fight worthy alpha would do no good for no one, and while she might have a temper, she is not openly one to throw her weight around all the time. In fact, she is more comfortable in the rough and tumble beta position or even lower than that if necessary. She takes what position is given to her by the leader without question or reprimand having a resounding faith that only those of feral qualities can truly understand. She is part of a pack and never lets that leave her mind allowing her to care for even those that she may otherwise dislike and move forwards wherein others may hold back due to aggression.
• Loyal To The End— As someone who chooses her pack, her mates, her friends, Kiku is very careful about who she chooses to let in, but to those she trusts she is loyal to a fault. She would never knowingly betray those that she has made friends with— even at the expense of her own wellbeing. In her heart, she would rather die than betray those that she has come to trust and would protect them always if she could. Her loyalty knows no bounds even in the face of betrayal at times. She simply can’t handle that, honestly, and would try and rationalize it as much as possible to compensate.
• Self-defined- Kiku does not lean on others to define who she is as a person instead defining who she is on her own terms making herself self-defined and self-confident in who she is as a person. She is self-confident in who she is and would not change simply due to not being liked, and while many could consider this a hardheaded nature, it keeps her from wavering in who she is and keeps her focused on what she needs to get done. In a way it also makes her dynamic, capable of changing when she so desires to put her mind to it and working towards a goal should it truly be meaningful to her. However, it also has the nasty habit of backlashing against anyone who opts to offer help to her- her belief being they are trying to change her themselves and her immediate reaction being retaliation.
•Surprisingly Playful— Kiku’s lack of a childhood has played a large part in who she is today one of the biggest qualities being her playful demeanor. While she can be an up and coming soldier when in the middle of battle, she is surprisingly light when left to her own devices despite her dark hair and sharp eyed mannerisms, and she would enjoy a game should someone play with her. Her games range from physical prowess exercises to simple games meant to test one’s mental capacity, yet she would prefer the prior over the latter. She enjoys a good brawl, enjoys being rough and playing dirty even if it means that others could get the upper hand by playing dirty as well. She has also come to enjoy social playing / light teasing towards others, often on matters of the heart. She can be surprisingly blunt and overly affectionate generally making others uncomfortable- yet when they find her laughing thereafter, it’s plane to see she simply enjoys rubbing people the wrong way. However, she is carefl in her tricks and does try and moderate herself around superiors at the very least.
• Well Rounded- Book smarts? Street Smarts? Smart smarts? Kiku is a little bit of everything and a well-rounded person as a result. She is dynamic in form and function, someone willing to study up on something if it actually interests her and applies to her but also someone willing to jump in head first on hands on learning. It is more her social bravery that allows her to do this as she is not afraid of being wrong nor is she afraid of being corrected. She doesn’t want to be ignorant forever, and for this reason she’s more open than some more prideful would expect.
Negatives
• Stubborn- Kiku is fiercely independent and comes to her own conclusions, and because of this, once she has made a decision, she very rarely changes it. Never one to back down from a situation once she has set her mind to something, she would press on regardless of all odds thereafter. However, this stubborn attitude has major drawbacks often in both the social and physical aspects of her life. She doesn’t know when to quit, doesn’t know when to stop, and generally just doesn’t until someone backs off or she’s beaten down whether socially or physically. Her resolve to not give up even in the worst of situations may be admirable yet it is far from practical at times.
• Aggressive- Sometimes known more as an animal than a woman, Kiku is feral and can be extremely territorial and aggressive as a result. Quick to bear her teeth when she feels threatened and quick to bite when backed into a corner, she hides her fears by acting out in a rather vicious manner, the animal side of her very clear at these points in time. That being said, because of this her social situations can be very strained to say the least. One can accidentally step on the toes of her pride or anger and find themselves with their fingers bit off- and once again once she’s started something, Kiku finds it very hard to stop at any given moment. She can’t, or rather won’t, back down and tends to only get more vicious when pushed into a corner or threatened.
• Selfish— Kiku can be a surprisingly selfish person despite her pack instinct and general mannerisms. Things that she likes, things that she wants, if she can’t have them the normal way, she’s prone to taking them by force. She likes nice things, shiny things, interesting things, and in the past she has never been allowed to keep them. For this reason and due to her new found freedom, she has a habit of thieving them now a days. It comes more as an impulse than not- her mentality being that which is for survival taking over on a less than survivalesque thing, yet the truly bad thing about this happens to be that she doesn’t see much wrong with it so long as no one’s looking.
• Cynical- Despite her casual mannerisms and otherwise light demeanor, Kiku is a surprisingly negative and cynical person. As someone that has seen the dark side of the world of fun and fantasy, she has a hard time believing that humans are anything but a bunch of vicious destroyers of worlds. They do harm, they bring destruction. She can say these things and find herself honest in believing them, yet it makes her heart hurt more than anything. She genuinely does want to believe in others, want to trust that there are good in people. She carries the pack mentality so deep in her mind that she can’t fully assume the world is full of cruelty and darkness- yet she finds so many that are. It hurts her and tends to torment her thoughts at random intervals often causing her to be grotesquely negative at certain points of time.
• Impulsive- Kiku tends to feel more than she thinks leading her to act on emotion rather than rational thought. She can be very impulsive and quick to spring to her feet and act even when the situation may call for something else entirely. What might be worse though is she has a habit of trusting her gut / first impulses over longer drawn out thoughts feeling that they are more rational than spending hours thinking about things.
Likes
• Playing Games
• Casual Flirting
• Animals
• Beat music
• Cool Night Air
Dislikes
• Loud Noises
• Being Cornered
• Being Talked Down To
• Hot Weather
• Boredom
• Pack Oriented Yet Independent— With practically feral blood running through her veins, Kiku can very often be considered more of an animal than a human at times. Her strongest channel is that of the wolf, and possibly because of this, she bears the mentality of a wolf in that she is both pack oriented and independent. While she can and does take care of her basic needs on her own, never one to allow a personal burden to fall on others should she be able to deal with it herself, she is someone that works in a unit much as a wolf pack does. Unlike many of the immature would-be alpha personalities, Kiku is very aware that being a fight worthy alpha would do no good for no one, and while she might have a temper, she is not openly one to throw her weight around all the time. In fact, she is more comfortable in the rough and tumble beta position or even lower than that if necessary. She takes what position is given to her by the leader without question or reprimand having a resounding faith that only those of feral qualities can truly understand. She is part of a pack and never lets that leave her mind allowing her to care for even those that she may otherwise dislike and move forwards wherein others may hold back due to aggression.
• Loyal To The End— As someone who chooses her pack, her mates, her friends, Kiku is very careful about who she chooses to let in, but to those she trusts she is loyal to a fault. She would never knowingly betray those that she has made friends with— even at the expense of her own wellbeing. In her heart, she would rather die than betray those that she has come to trust and would protect them always if she could. Her loyalty knows no bounds even in the face of betrayal at times. She simply can’t handle that, honestly, and would try and rationalize it as much as possible to compensate.
• Self-defined- Kiku does not lean on others to define who she is as a person instead defining who she is on her own terms making herself self-defined and self-confident in who she is as a person. She is self-confident in who she is and would not change simply due to not being liked, and while many could consider this a hardheaded nature, it keeps her from wavering in who she is and keeps her focused on what she needs to get done. In a way it also makes her dynamic, capable of changing when she so desires to put her mind to it and working towards a goal should it truly be meaningful to her. However, it also has the nasty habit of backlashing against anyone who opts to offer help to her- her belief being they are trying to change her themselves and her immediate reaction being retaliation.
•Surprisingly Playful— Kiku’s lack of a childhood has played a large part in who she is today one of the biggest qualities being her playful demeanor. While she can be an up and coming soldier when in the middle of battle, she is surprisingly light when left to her own devices despite her dark hair and sharp eyed mannerisms, and she would enjoy a game should someone play with her. Her games range from physical prowess exercises to simple games meant to test one’s mental capacity, yet she would prefer the prior over the latter. She enjoys a good brawl, enjoys being rough and playing dirty even if it means that others could get the upper hand by playing dirty as well. She has also come to enjoy social playing / light teasing towards others, often on matters of the heart. She can be surprisingly blunt and overly affectionate generally making others uncomfortable- yet when they find her laughing thereafter, it’s plane to see she simply enjoys rubbing people the wrong way. However, she is carefl in her tricks and does try and moderate herself around superiors at the very least.
• Well Rounded- Book smarts? Street Smarts? Smart smarts? Kiku is a little bit of everything and a well-rounded person as a result. She is dynamic in form and function, someone willing to study up on something if it actually interests her and applies to her but also someone willing to jump in head first on hands on learning. It is more her social bravery that allows her to do this as she is not afraid of being wrong nor is she afraid of being corrected. She doesn’t want to be ignorant forever, and for this reason she’s more open than some more prideful would expect.
Negatives
• Stubborn- Kiku is fiercely independent and comes to her own conclusions, and because of this, once she has made a decision, she very rarely changes it. Never one to back down from a situation once she has set her mind to something, she would press on regardless of all odds thereafter. However, this stubborn attitude has major drawbacks often in both the social and physical aspects of her life. She doesn’t know when to quit, doesn’t know when to stop, and generally just doesn’t until someone backs off or she’s beaten down whether socially or physically. Her resolve to not give up even in the worst of situations may be admirable yet it is far from practical at times.
• Aggressive- Sometimes known more as an animal than a woman, Kiku is feral and can be extremely territorial and aggressive as a result. Quick to bear her teeth when she feels threatened and quick to bite when backed into a corner, she hides her fears by acting out in a rather vicious manner, the animal side of her very clear at these points in time. That being said, because of this her social situations can be very strained to say the least. One can accidentally step on the toes of her pride or anger and find themselves with their fingers bit off- and once again once she’s started something, Kiku finds it very hard to stop at any given moment. She can’t, or rather won’t, back down and tends to only get more vicious when pushed into a corner or threatened.
• Selfish— Kiku can be a surprisingly selfish person despite her pack instinct and general mannerisms. Things that she likes, things that she wants, if she can’t have them the normal way, she’s prone to taking them by force. She likes nice things, shiny things, interesting things, and in the past she has never been allowed to keep them. For this reason and due to her new found freedom, she has a habit of thieving them now a days. It comes more as an impulse than not- her mentality being that which is for survival taking over on a less than survivalesque thing, yet the truly bad thing about this happens to be that she doesn’t see much wrong with it so long as no one’s looking.
• Cynical- Despite her casual mannerisms and otherwise light demeanor, Kiku is a surprisingly negative and cynical person. As someone that has seen the dark side of the world of fun and fantasy, she has a hard time believing that humans are anything but a bunch of vicious destroyers of worlds. They do harm, they bring destruction. She can say these things and find herself honest in believing them, yet it makes her heart hurt more than anything. She genuinely does want to believe in others, want to trust that there are good in people. She carries the pack mentality so deep in her mind that she can’t fully assume the world is full of cruelty and darkness- yet she finds so many that are. It hurts her and tends to torment her thoughts at random intervals often causing her to be grotesquely negative at certain points of time.
• Impulsive- Kiku tends to feel more than she thinks leading her to act on emotion rather than rational thought. She can be very impulsive and quick to spring to her feet and act even when the situation may call for something else entirely. What might be worse though is she has a habit of trusting her gut / first impulses over longer drawn out thoughts feeling that they are more rational than spending hours thinking about things.
Likes
• Playing Games
• Casual Flirting
• Animals
• Beat music
• Cool Night Air
Dislikes
• Loud Noises
• Being Cornered
• Being Talked Down To
• Hot Weather
• Boredom
MISCELLANEOUS
Brief History:Her mother died when she was young, and her father was a drunkard and a gambler who haphazardly sold her into a circus at a young age when he was out of money and they took interest in her animal ears and her general feral qualities. She was mostly part of the freak show wherein people pointed, jabbed, and laughed and she often had to grin and bear it- more often her anger got the best of her and she ended up being locked up behind various bars as animals were. As she grew and her skills honed, she also did the high wire act and contortionist acts for varying amounts of time. It was her grandfather that actually found her one day and got her out of the system, but when he went to search for her father to yell at the man, it seemed he’d died in a freak accident years earlier. She ended up assimilating into the remnants of the Kokuyo gang before eventually joining the Vongola more formally as she aged. Eventually she assimilated into the CEDEF branch as a sun guardian.
She stands almost six foot being just under and carrying a tall thin frame. Her dark hair is a trait of her mother’s rather than her father’s. Her practically golden eyes are a trait of her father’s however.
Kiku carries the capacity to understand animals- not in the sense of intelligent conversations that humans might have but she can read body language and understand tones of calls. Mammals tend to be easier for her to understand, yet she is capable of at least getting the general gist of what is being said from nearly all animals, should they choose to speak to her, anyways.
BOX INFORMATION
Alias: Hunting Wolf; Artemis
Affiliation: CEDEF, Sun Guardian
Alignment: Lawful Good
Flame Attribute & Abilities:
Inherited from her grandfather, Kiku possesses Sun Flames whose characteristic is Activation to induce and improve the efficiency of any activity. It is normally an optimal flame used for support and strengthening individuals.
Channels: Like her grandfather, Kiku is capable of channeling animal powers by setting animal teeth over her own. However, she only has two of these channels that being Wolf and Cheetah.
Wolf: Her wolf channel is by far her more common channel as she is most comfortable with it. It takes less than a post to charge as she inserts the correct wolf teeth over her regular teeth but a full post to cause the full change in physical structure that comes with it. Her attributes the change to that of a wolf. She becomes quadropedal her nails elongating to two inch claws in both front and back. The muscles across her body have a natural habit of tensing, and her natural body hair stands on end much, and the small figure of the wolf appears on her left cheek. A heightened sense of hearing and smell replace the major distinctions of color, and speed and bite strength replace ample arm movements and other gestures. All and all she takes on more wolf qualities in substitute of her human ones.
Cheetah: Her less used channel is that of the cheetah requiring her cheetah set of teeth. While it takes less than one post to set the teeth in, she often has a one to two post wait time before the channel is completely operational / she can move at her best. Much like in her wolf form, she becomes quadropedal with elongated nails used more for traction speed than sharp weaponry. Her features are often much more hardened towards that of a cheetah juncture, and some spots even appearing here and there on her skin. Overall, she is meant more for running than actual attacking but one could suppose with general physics her tackling and chasing are enhanced with this channel.
A single channel can last up to ten posts, but it is very tiresome to go that long, and while she can flip through channels relatively smoothly- all together, she can only keep one or the other working for ten posts before it becomes too physically strenuous (thus if she wants to use one for five posts, she can only use the other for five posts).
Box Weapon:
Sun Bow: With the appearance of a longbow shimmering gold with sun flames, Kiku's box weapon is certainly bright to say the least of it. It is nearly as long as Kiku is tall being just under six feet. It's grip is meant for left handed users as Kiku is left handed.
Heaven's Arrow: Drawing back the bow string causes a golden arrow of Sun Flames to take shape, and upon release, the arrow can fly up to three hundred meters. Unlike a piercing blow, however, the arrows that are created by this bow act in a supportive manner. Those that are hit by the arrow will feel a rush of natural strengthening Sun flame wherever they happen to be hit allowing even weaker individuals to deal surprisingly heavy blows if for only a short duration (around three posts at most). The bow and arrow set draw considerably on Kiku's flames, and thus she is only capable of shooting up to six arrows before being completely drained. However, it gives her comrades a boost even if it's not really helpful to her.
Box Animal:
Honey the Sun Bear: Sun bears are actual animals, and in an ironic twist of some scientific humor, Honey was created in the likeness of an actual sun bear though the ring of lighter color around a normal sun bear's neck blossoms with Sun flames. Sun bears are naturally small bears, and thus even though he is technically an adult, Honey is rather small on first glance standing only four foot when upon his back legs. However, his paws and claws are naturally large making him less than recklessly approachable.
Will of the Beast: Coated in Sun Flames, Honey is capable of increasing his strength and physically bulking his muscles up. He becomes stronger, faster, and a tad bigger capable of physically throwing numerous pounds of weight. In a sense, it is his own sort of 'mode' being immersed in a dense Sun Flame yet it only lasts for around four posts before he can no longer maintain it and returns to normal once again.
Equipment:
Wolf teeth, Cheetah teeth
Miscellaneous Items:
CEDEF Ring
Affiliation: CEDEF, Sun Guardian
Alignment: Lawful Good
Flame Attribute & Abilities:
Inherited from her grandfather, Kiku possesses Sun Flames whose characteristic is Activation to induce and improve the efficiency of any activity. It is normally an optimal flame used for support and strengthening individuals.
Channels: Like her grandfather, Kiku is capable of channeling animal powers by setting animal teeth over her own. However, she only has two of these channels that being Wolf and Cheetah.
Wolf: Her wolf channel is by far her more common channel as she is most comfortable with it. It takes less than a post to charge as she inserts the correct wolf teeth over her regular teeth but a full post to cause the full change in physical structure that comes with it. Her attributes the change to that of a wolf. She becomes quadropedal her nails elongating to two inch claws in both front and back. The muscles across her body have a natural habit of tensing, and her natural body hair stands on end much, and the small figure of the wolf appears on her left cheek. A heightened sense of hearing and smell replace the major distinctions of color, and speed and bite strength replace ample arm movements and other gestures. All and all she takes on more wolf qualities in substitute of her human ones.
Cheetah: Her less used channel is that of the cheetah requiring her cheetah set of teeth. While it takes less than one post to set the teeth in, she often has a one to two post wait time before the channel is completely operational / she can move at her best. Much like in her wolf form, she becomes quadropedal with elongated nails used more for traction speed than sharp weaponry. Her features are often much more hardened towards that of a cheetah juncture, and some spots even appearing here and there on her skin. Overall, she is meant more for running than actual attacking but one could suppose with general physics her tackling and chasing are enhanced with this channel.
A single channel can last up to ten posts, but it is very tiresome to go that long, and while she can flip through channels relatively smoothly- all together, she can only keep one or the other working for ten posts before it becomes too physically strenuous (thus if she wants to use one for five posts, she can only use the other for five posts).
Box Weapon:
Sun Bow: With the appearance of a longbow shimmering gold with sun flames, Kiku's box weapon is certainly bright to say the least of it. It is nearly as long as Kiku is tall being just under six feet. It's grip is meant for left handed users as Kiku is left handed.
Heaven's Arrow: Drawing back the bow string causes a golden arrow of Sun Flames to take shape, and upon release, the arrow can fly up to three hundred meters. Unlike a piercing blow, however, the arrows that are created by this bow act in a supportive manner. Those that are hit by the arrow will feel a rush of natural strengthening Sun flame wherever they happen to be hit allowing even weaker individuals to deal surprisingly heavy blows if for only a short duration (around three posts at most). The bow and arrow set draw considerably on Kiku's flames, and thus she is only capable of shooting up to six arrows before being completely drained. However, it gives her comrades a boost even if it's not really helpful to her.
Box Animal:
Honey the Sun Bear: Sun bears are actual animals, and in an ironic twist of some scientific humor, Honey was created in the likeness of an actual sun bear though the ring of lighter color around a normal sun bear's neck blossoms with Sun flames. Sun bears are naturally small bears, and thus even though he is technically an adult, Honey is rather small on first glance standing only four foot when upon his back legs. However, his paws and claws are naturally large making him less than recklessly approachable.
Will of the Beast: Coated in Sun Flames, Honey is capable of increasing his strength and physically bulking his muscles up. He becomes stronger, faster, and a tad bigger capable of physically throwing numerous pounds of weight. In a sense, it is his own sort of 'mode' being immersed in a dense Sun Flame yet it only lasts for around four posts before he can no longer maintain it and returns to normal once again.
Equipment:
Wolf teeth, Cheetah teeth
Miscellaneous Items:
CEDEF Ring
MEMBER INFORMATION
Alias: Lero-ro
Other Characters: 2, Shin Minami, Oriana Verde
Faceclaim:
Other Characters: 2, Shin Minami, Oriana Verde
Faceclaim:
RWBY, Belladonna Blake; Kiku Joshima
