<div class="floatleft">(https://66.media.tumblr.com/1d733063b32fe8f657667791f79ef592/tumblr_ol7jnkSzFi1uimac5o1_400.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Nenene Hirasaka 比良坂 寧々音</span><br/><br/><br/><strong>AGE:</strong>Thirty<br/><strong>GENDER:</strong>Female<br/><strong>SEXUALITY:</strong>What's sex? (Undecided)<br/><strong>BLESSED BY:</strong>Hades<br/><strong>ROLE:</strong>Elder<br/><strong>JOBS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong>Archery Instructor; Anatomy, Biology, Biochemistry, and Psychology Teacher; Village Counselor/Psychiatrist; Temple Caretaker.<br/><strong>NICKNAMES:</strong>Nene, Ne-chan, Yomotsu-ko<br/><br/><br/><strong>LIKES:</strong>Sunshowers, snow, traditional candy, meat buns, Shinto mythology, stuffed animals, calligraphy, anything involving purple<br/><strong>DISLIKES:</strong>Thunder and lightning, darkness, smokers, arrogant people, people who can't respect the dead<br/><br/><br/><strong>SKILLS &amp; POWERS:</strong><br/><br/>SKILL - Traditional Arts: Nenene was brought up in a high society family, and as such she has a mastery of traditional Japanese arts. This includes things like calligraphy, the tea ceremony, flower arranging, and several instruments.<br/><br/>SKILL - Mythology: Due mostly to personal interest, Nenene is well-versed in Shinto mythology, and has a reasonable understanding of most other major mythologies.<br/><br/>SKILL - Archery: Being brought up on traditional arts, Nenene is skilled in Kyuudo (Japanese archery) and continued her studies throughout her time in public school.<br/><br/><br/>POWER - Yomi-no-Mon: Kokushiki / Yomi-no-Mon: Hakushiki (Gates of Yomi: Black/Gates of Yomi: White): By channeling the souls of the dead through her own, Nenene can send a departed spirit to the afterlife (Black) or summon the spirits of warriors and soldiers as undead puppets that follow simple commands (White). Depending on the strength and number of souls she is channeling, Nenene may need to supplement this ability with her own life force.<br/><br/>POWER - Shimei no Te / Seimei no Te (Touch of Death/Touch of Life): Nenene can absorb (Death) or give (Life) energy to and from others while touching them and concentrating, making it a difficult task to hinder an opponent in the middle of combat. If she absorbs too much vitality, Nenene will start to feel nauseous, and if she gives too much vitality she will be become extremely tired.<br/><br/>POWER - Yomi no Izanai (Invitation to Death): Nenene can generate a large scythe of bleached bones. The weapon itself leaves no wounds, but the damage it inflicts causes the weapon to slowly dye black according to how much pain the target would have suffered. When it reaches an obsidian shade, the weapon can shift through anything, though tougher materials like steel can shield an opponent starting at .5 inches in thickness. The effect is negated automatically in contact with any divinely attuned objects, such as weapons and armor.<br/><br/>Nenene has yet to recognize the existence of the following powers.<br/><br/>POWER - Takamagahara no Haren (Destructive Ripples upon the Heavenly Lands): With this power, Nenene is capable of producing the black flames of decay typically attached to entities of death's power. These flames travel at roughly jogging speed, and travel outward from her body to a maximum of 50 yards, even travelling up and down surfaces to form a hemisphere of absolute death around her. Any organic life touched by the flames begins to rot, decay, or rapidly age, turning humans to bones within 75 seconds from initial contact. The flames do not grow like normal fire, merely burning away what they touch without effecting the rest of the afflicted entity. If Nenene moves during the duration of this ability, the hemisphere's entire area moves in tandem, centered on Nenene.<br/>So far, this power has only manifested when Nenene is pushed well beyond the limits of her patience, and is essentially a berserk tantrum of her power.<br/><br/>POWER - Mumei no Ryoubo (Nameless Imperial Tomb): Utilizing the full strength granted to her by her patron, Nenene can completely erase someone from existence. When a target is touched and willed to be affected, all memories of that person will be erased from the minds of everyone they have ever met. Any oddities in other people's memories will be filled in by their brain in the most appropriate way possible, including replacing the target with someone else in the memory or even partial memory loss. Not even Nenene will recognize the target after activating this ability, but she can freely restore the target's existence and everyone's memories of the person in question. Not only does this ability readjust memories, but it can also erase the target's name from physical existence too, such as ID cards or handwritten notes and pictures/videos. Unlike with mental records, this information is replaced by a blank space.<br/>So far, Nenene has only used this power subconsciously to prevent herself from remembering her outbursts, and as such has no recollection of this ability or Takamagahara no Haren.<br/><br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong>Looks like your stereotypical "cute Japanese girl". Wears her mid-back length hair in twintails, and is known to frequently decorate herself with a small pendant featuring peridot and spinel gems in the shape of a<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mitsudomoe Magatama</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://spiritfoxtarot.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/photo.jpg?w=480)</div></div>with the peridot filling the black space and spinel filling the white. There is a burn scar covering most of her back. Stands at 4 foot 9 inches, weighing a whopping 82 pounds.<br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY:</strong>Despite her blessing from the god of death, Nenene is extremely innocent and cheerful, the sort of person you'd associate with sunshine and flowers. Flamboyantly outgoing, but extremely innocent about the outside world. Doesn't get most social cues, really doesn't understand sarcasm.<br/><br/><strong>CHARACTER BACKGROUND:</strong>Born a single child to a wealthy family of a lawyer father and a former model mother, Nenene grew up in Chiba, Japan without want for anything. In hopes of preparing her for a future arranged marriage, her family hired tutors to teach everything from math to traditional Japanese arts, only neglecting cooking, as she would never have need to cook her own meals as far as her parents were concerned.<br/><br/>For 14 years, Nenene grew up sheltered from society, homeschooled with friends selected by her parents from other wealthy families. As she expanded her knowledge, the subject of mythology stood out as a clear favorite of hers, and after devouring the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, Nenene spread out to other pantheons, learning everything she could about the ancient tales and worships.<br/><br/>On her 15th birthday, the family was driving home from a luxurious dinner when they were involved in a traffic accident. In a matter of pure irony, the vehicle that had struck their car was an oil truck for the company that hired Nenene's father. Both adults and the chauffeur were killed on impact, and the young daughter was horribly scarred by the flames that melted her back beyond what surgery could repair. Now an orphan and without money, Nenene was taken in by a shrine that assisted with the neighboring orphanage.<br/><br/>Nenene began public school that year, but devoted most of her free time to attending to the shrine, having quickly picked up the duties of a shrine maiden. During Obon (a Buddhist holiday to pay respects for the dead, now widely celebrated by most Japanese), Nenene was horrified to see specters of her parents when she cleaned their grave, and it was then that she discovered her blessing, not from Izanami, but from Hades.<br/><br/>The shrine maiden had spent several years at Blessed Falls Village as a student before returning to her homeland, and now she has answered the call to share her experiences with the new generation of heroes.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Usual Outfit</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>(https://www.wallpaperhi.com/thumbnails/detail/20120130/women%20japanese%20inuyasha%20miko%20archery%20shrine%20maiden%20outfit%201544x1024%20wallpaper_www.wallpaperhi.com_68.jpg)<br/><br/></div></div><br/><strong>FACE CLAIM:</strong>Rio Yamashita<br/><strong>WRITER:</strong>cressray