<div class="floatleft">(https://68.media.tumblr.com/38897e9caa930c9599a68d9160f2f35c/tumblr_ojctzyhBiE1tk4029o3_1280.jpg)<br/>(https://68.media.tumblr.com/39965fb10123f9d55d774557005bc82c/tumblr_ojctzyhBiE1tk4029o2_1280.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Shinjo Ji-eun<br/><strong>Rank:</strong>2<br/><strong>Clan:</strong>Unicorn<br/><strong>Experience Points:</strong>95/95<br/><strong>School:</strong>Shinjo Bushi School<br/><strong>Insight:</strong>155<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Heritage</div><div class="spoiler_body">At 2017-01-05 03:42:43, Unicorn (uid: 27361) rolls: 1d10 Result: 3 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=98693) - Illustrous Past.<br/>At 2017-01-05 03:43:18, Unicorn (uid: 27361) rolls: 1d10 Result: 4 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=98694) - Your ancestor fought bravely in a famous battle of his day, and you strive to live up to his glorious example. You gain 0.5 Glory and 1 free Rank in the Battle Skill.</div></div><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Fire (2)</strong><br/>Agility 3; Intelligence 2<br/><br/><strong>Water (3)</strong><br/>Strength 3; Perception 3<br/><br/><strong>Air (3)</strong><br/>Reflexes 3; Awareness 3<br/><br/><strong>Earth (2)</strong><br/>Stamina 2; Willpower 2<br/><br/><strong>Void (3)</strong><br/>Void Points: 3<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Skills:</strong><br/>(s) Athletics 2, (s) Defense 3, (s) Horsemanship 3, (s) Kenjutsu (Katana) 3, (s) Kyujutsu 2, (s) Iaijutsu 2, Battle 2, Games - Shogi 2, Etiquette 2, Perform - Morin Khuur (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3cB20fZ1ZU) 2, Polearms 1, Hunting 1, Courtier 1<br/><hr/><br/><strong>Starting Honor:</strong>4.5<br/><strong>Glory:</strong>1.5<br/><strong>Status:</strong>1<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Items/Money:</strong>Outfit: Light Armor, Sturdy Clothing, Daisho, Bow, Knife, Traveling Pack, Horse, 10 Koku<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">School Techniques</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em><strong>Rank 1: The Way of the Ki-rin</strong></em><br/>The Shinjo family’s natural affinity for horsemanship is immediately obvious and pervades their every action. When spending a Void Point to add +1k1 to any School Skill Roll, you may also add your rank in Horsemanship to the total. This bonus cannot be used while in the Center Stance.<br/><br/><em><strong>Rank 1: Dance of the Blade</strong></em><br/>The ancient gaijin swordsmanship techniques practiced by the Shinjo have given them a defensive edge against many styles practiced within the Empire. When you are in the Full Defense Stance and an opponent succeeds with an attack roll that targets you, you may immediately take a Free Action to make a Contested Agility Roll against that opponent. If successful, the attack misses instead. This may be done a number of times per Round equal to your School Rank.<br/></div></div><br/><hr/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Advantages</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong><em>Languages - Yobanjin [Mental] (1 point)</em></strong><br/>The empire has only one language with two dialects. The world around Rokugan, however, has a wide variety of nations and cultures, each with their own language. For 1 point, you may learn one human language from any surrounding culture.<br/><br/><strong><em>Daredevil [Mental] (3 points)</em></strong><br/>You have a natural flair for athleticism and a complete lack of self-preservation when it comes to physical danger. Whenever you spend a void point to enhance an Athletics skill roll, you gain a bonus of +3k1 to the roll instead of the normal +1k1.<br/><br/><strong><em>Sage [Mental] (4 points)</em></strong><br/>You have a love of learning, and have accumulated a staggering amount of information during the course of your lifetime. Whenever you would be forvced to make an unskilled roll when using a Lore skill, you instead are considered to have 1 rank in that skill. <br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Disadvantages</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em><strong>Gaijin Name [Social] (2 points)</strong></em><br/>Either due to your lineage or your parent's fascination with another culture, you possess a name that is clearly not of Rokugani origin. Although there is no honor loss for such a thing, others regard you questionably as a result. Your individual dice may only explode once on a Social Skill Roll. This disadvantage is worth 2 points to unicorn characters.<br/><br/><em><strong>Lost Love [Mental] (3 points)</strong></em><br/>You shared a bond of true love with someone once, and have since lost it. This need not be romantic love, as familial or brotherly love lost is equally tragic. You tend to suffer bouts of melancholy when reminded of your lost love. When you are reminded of your loss, all your TNs are increased by 5 until you spend a void point to regain your focus. This disruption of your concentration cannot happen more than twice per day, and at least one hour must pass between instances.<br/><br/><strong><em>Bad Fortune - Unknown Enemy [Spiritual] (3 points)</em></strong><br/>Kharma is a powerful force, and sometimes it is a destructive one as well. There is something unpleasant in store for you, and you may have no idea what it is until it is far too late. Bad fortunes take an almost infinite variety of forms, all worth the same number of points, and players and GMs should discuss the form of a Bad Fortune during character creation. Some of the more common versions include:<br/>   • <strong>Unknown Enemy</strong>: Someone somewhere in another clan hates you, and wishes to see you dead. You have no idea who they are or why they hate you, but you will very soon.<br/><br/><em><strong>Idealistic [Mental] (2 points)</strong></em><br/>You adhere closely to the code of Bushido, perhaps too closely, and you have a hopelessly naive view of hte world and how things work. You have impossible standards that not even the most heroic individual could hope to meet, much less you. Whenever you lose Honor, the loss is increased by 1 point.</div></div><br/><hr/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Let's play 20 questions!</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>1. What Clan does your character belong to?</strong> <br/><br/>The Unicorn Clan. However, her grandmother is Yobanjin, married by Shinjo Hanashiro.<br/><br/><strong>2. What family does your character belong to?</strong><br/><br/>Ji-eun hails from the family of Shinjo, but has some blood ties to the Zeshi and Onshigawa families. She is not particularly close to the Daimyo's line.<br/><br/><strong>3. Is your character a bushi, a shugenja, or a courtier?</strong><br/><br/>She is a bushi; however a childhood infirmity nearly led to her taking the path of the courtier. Her little brother's death and her own near-death of hypothermia left her fragile emotionally and physically for a few years, during which her family insisted on more scholarly pursuits. She recovered in her youth, at least enough to force herself through training in the dojo and her Gempukku. Since those days, she's only grown more hale.<br/><br/><strong>4. How would you describe your character's appearance?</strong><br/><br/>She's smaller than the average unicorn bushi, even for a woman. She's attractive, though not beautiful in the way admired by the empire's trendsetters; her round face and curved figure borrow strongly from her gaijin grandmother, after all. She has the long, almost swagging stride of someone who has spent much time in a saddle, and a throaty voice that is pleasant to most ears. She doesn't take well to extravagant clothing, and prefers to leave her hair long and loose, save when riding.<br/><br/><strong>5. What is your character's primary motivation?</strong><br/><br/>She is a young woman without high ambitions; at the moment, Ji-eun seeks to comport herself well while serving her lord. On anotherl eve, she wants to prove to herself and those who know her that she is not the fragile little girl she was those years ago. When others hear the name Shinjo Ji-eun, she wants htem to know then ame of a great duelist, or a famed explorer, or even a talented musician, not a sickly child who wept for a month over her brother...<br/><br/><strong>6. Who is the person your character trusts most in the world?</strong><br/><br/>Her sensei, Shinjo Sukenobu; He was willing to take a skinny little girl who wielded a book with more grace than a sword, and turn her into the samurai before you today. She can't imagine that Sukenobu-sensei would ever lead her astray<br/><br/><strong>7. What is your character's greatest strength and weakness?</strong><br/><br/>Ji-eun has balls, proverbially speaking. Her drive to push herself past her own childhood has made her anything but risk-averse and has given her great physicality. She's not reckless, but maybe a little... incautious. She has taken the Unicorn philosophy to heart, that hte best action is never inaction. Always be <em>doing</em>. Her greatest weakness is that, despite her early training, she is not terribly adept at court. She flusters easily and occasionally stumbles over words. Thankfully she's not the sort of bushi to whip a katana out at the slightest barb from behidn a fan, but there's a reason the Ise are the clan's courtiers and not the Shinjo bushi.<br/><br/><strong>8. What does your character think of Bushido?</strong><br/><br/>...What else is there in the world? Ji-eun has embraced Bushido as fully as she can. She's still young, and the naivetyshows; everyone must live up to the strictest code of Bushido, including herself. And nobody manages that, even herself (Well, maybe the Akodo manage it.)  She's often disappointed in herself, even when others would say she has excelled.<br/><br/><strong>9. What is your character's opinion of his Clan?</strong><br/><br/>Her clan is family. Every Unicorn carries a bond of blood stronger between them than anyone else in the Empire. Hers is the only clan that would accept her grandmother, and thus hte only clan she could have been born to. No other clan, except perhaps the Crab, would have afforded her the opportunity to prove herself a bushi. She respects the ways of her ancestors, even if the rest of hte empire thinks them strange or inappropriate.<br/><br/><strong>10. Is your character married?</strong><br/><br/>As of yet, no. Ji-eun isn't especially looking forward to the prospect, especially if the arrangement is with a warrior of higher rank. In truth she'd rather do as her grandfather, and travel afield to find a mate to bring home; maybe not into Yobanjin lans, the other clans are foreign enough really. Even then though, that's just duty. Ji-eun hasn't really given much thought to men.<br/><br/><strong>11. Does your character have any prejudices?</strong><br/><br/>To honor her ancestors, Ji-eun strives to keep an open mind, and judge on individual merit. Of course, that's the ideal. Who hasn't heard tales of villainous scorpions? What Unicorn has not lost family in battle with the bloodthirsty Matsu? How can the Phoenix preen about their knowledge when all they do is stare at their navels and never even glance out of a window? <br/><br/><strong>12. To whom does your character owe the most loyalty?</strong><br/><br/>The clan and family daimyo, Shinjo Yokatsu. <br/><br/><strong>13. What are your character's favorite and least favorite things?</strong><br/><br/>Her grandmother, Shinjo Guyuk, taught her to play the morin khuur. Ji-eun takes delight in playing the fiddle; it reminds her of her grandmother, she enjoys the sound and feel of it and - as far as she knows - she's one of the finest players in Rokugan (and all the others are no doubt Unicorn.) <br/>Her least favorite thing is probably fish. There isn't much fishing to be had in unicorn lands, and the soft, flaky texture and paleness of it makes her a little queasy. The one time she had tuna was tolerable enough, but most of the fish she's had to endure was truly a task of preserving face. She thinks it's a little funny, as most rokugani eat nothing but fish and would have similar reaction to a mouthful of venison. <br/><br/><strong>14. Does your character have any recurring mannerisms?</strong><br/><br/>She doesn't smile often, seeming to have a naturally solemn expression. When she does smile, her hand almost always darts up to cover it. When she thinks she's alone, she'll sometimes practice her singing or travel poetry. She's not exceptional in either.<br/><br/><strong>15. What about your character's emotions?</strong><br/><br/>Ji-eun tries to keep herself serene and balanced, as a proper samurai ought to. It's not easy though; she comes from a tradition that laughs loudly, sings proudly, and dies with a grin. These traits come out in force when she's exerting herself; a failing which embarrasses her. She also suffers dark moods when she is reminded of her little brother Nobu, who broke through the ice of a pond when they were skating with other children; Ji-eun still thinks she should have been able to find him in the water...<br/><br/><strong>16. How would your character handle a subordinate's improper behavior?</strong><br/><br/>This depends entirely on who it is. Ji-eun's rather impractical vision of Bushido means that a samurai under her could expect harsh treatment indeed; he's not shaming himself, he's hsaming her, and all their collected ancestors as well! However, a heimin or even eta who steps out of bounds can be forgiven (within reason, of course!) After all, Bushido holds compassion as a great virtue, and Shinjo herself was said to be a paragon of compassion. The difference between the poor-behaving samurai and the poor-behaving farmer is that the samurai knows better, and is expected to adhere to Bushido strictly; the farmer does not, and is not.<br/><br/><br/><strong>17. How would your character's parents describe him?</strong><br/><br/>In a word? Surprising. They did not expect that their daughter would ever recover from her illness, and certainly not to the degree that she has done. She was a difficult child to raise, and losing her brother only made it harder for all of them. There are not many happy childhood memories, and there is some emotional distance between Ji-eun and her parents, more than propriety would demand. But aside from that distance, the relationships of the family are good as can be expected.<br/><br/><strong>18. What is your character's highest ambition?</strong><br/><br/>Ji-eun doesn't have especially tall ambitions, and those she does hold are somewhat in conflict; She wishes to serve her lord as well as possible, and this of course necessitates gaining glory and showing prowess on the field, to become a leader in her own right. However curiosity and wanderlust burn strong in her. She would like to see as much of the Empire, and maybe lands beyond as she can. it is not unusual for the daimyo of hte unicorn to grant his servants furloughs to learn about the empire and its people, to serve in their way away from Unicorn lands. Ji-eun hopes to be granted such a boon; maybe this wedding is a taste of that?<br/><br/><strong>19. How religious is your character?</strong><br/><br/>Ji-eun honors her ancestors dutifully, and the seven great fortunes above them. She doesn't know much about the Tao, beyond what parts stuck with her during her training. She doesn't disregard Shinsei's teachings, she just seems to never have time for in-depth study. She's a worldly sort of woman.<br/><br/><strong>20. How will your character die?</strong><br/><br/>Ideally: At age ninety with a collection of scars and twice as many great-grandchildren, fiddle in hand on a sunny winter day.<br/>Probably: Stabbed through the mempo by a lion ashigaru.<br/>Fate is cruel: Drowning.<br/></div></div>