Submited for your Aproval:<br/><br/><br/>Kumiko Noda<br/>Player: Tenshi<br/>Chronicle: What Happened to the Fourth Wall?<br/>Nature: Visionary<br/>Essence: Questing<br/>Demeanor: Thrillseeker<br/>Tradtion: Akashic Brotherhood<br/>Concept: Shinto Priestess/Skater Girl/Anime Girl<br/><br/>Physical:<br/>Strength   2   Charisma   2   Perception   3<br/>Dexterity   5   Manipulation   1   Intelgence   2<br/>Stamina      3   Appearence   3   Wits      3<br/><br/>Alertness   1   Crafts      1   Academics   1<br/>Athletics   5   Drive         Computer<br/>Awareness   1   Etiquette   1   Cosmology   1<br/>Brawl      3   Firearms      Enigmas      1<br/>Dodge      3   Meditation   1   Investigation   1<br/>Expression   1   Melee      1   Law<br/>Intimidation      Performance      Linguistics   3<br/>Leaderhsip      Stealth      1   Medecine   1<br/>Streetwise   1   Survival      Occult      1<br/>Subterfuge      Technology      Science<br/><br/><br/>Corespondance   0   Life      0   Prime      1<br/>Entropy      0   Matter      0   Spirit      1<br/>Forces      0   Mind      1   Time      3<br/><br/>Arate      3<br/>Willpower   5<br/>Avatar      4<br/>Fame      1<br/>Resources   1<br/>Wonder      3<br/><br/>Resonance<br/>Dynamic      1<br/>Entropic<br/>Static<br/><br/><br/>Flaws:<br/>Ecchoes      5<br/>--Eccoes (5)  Flowers bloom when Kumiko passes, and petals floating on the wind<br/>trail after her.  Ravens are fascinated with her, and sometimes helfpful, but<br/>make an otherwise easily forgetable woman noticable when they flock after her.<br/>The simplest mask will fool her unless she subjects it to the strongest<br/>scrutiny.  (requires skill checks not to be fooled by even obvious masks.)<br/>Kumiko's body will submit to a forceful lover, and if brought to climax her<br/>mind will submit to her body 'til the next rising of the sun.  Kumiko's shadow<br/>cannot lie.  Now matter how glib her tongue or calm her emotions, by watching<br/>her shadow, her true feelings can be discerened.<br/><br/>Complusion: Never Refulse a Dare   4<br/>Never turn down a "reasonable" physical challenge.  ((What do<br/>you supose is reasonable to a woman with 13 dice in her pool to perform<br/>outlandishly dangerous athletics stunts at -2 dificulty?  She won't try to<br/>jump the grand canyon on her skate board just because you dare her too, but,<br/>like Marty McFly growling, "Don't call me chicken,", Kumiko tends to have<br/>reactions like, "What do you mean I'm not good enough to skate down the<br/>interstate overpass the wrong way at rush hour?))<br/><br/>Merits:<br/>Ability Apititde: Atheltics   1<br/>Catlike Ballance   1<br/>Daredevil   3<br/>Unaging      2<br/><br/><br/>Katana<br/>7 Dice DC 6 for 8 damage<br/><br/>Larel's Knife (Thrown)<br/>10 Dice DC 4 for 4 damage<br/>Ylanna's Knife<br/>10 Dice DC 4 for 4 Damage, Silver<br/><br/>Shuriken?<br/><br/>Steak?<br/><br/>Wonders::  Kumiko almost always wears her distictive Kimono.  It was sewn by<br/>her grandmother, who worked such powerful spells that it became utterly<br/>invulnerable, and imbued with the spirit of her favorite chery tree.<br/>Kumiko's kimono is midnight purple and about as long as a mini-skirt.  It has<br/>a matching set of very sheer leggins.  A sakura tree is embroidered on the<br/>back, and to the attentive viewer, the petals fluttering away from it change<br/>positions.  If Kumiko's health starts to fail, the tree depicted will wilt,<br/>taking the wounds and illnesses onto itself 'til it can heal them.<br/>It is cool in the summer and warm in the winter, though she still needs a jaket<br/>when snow is on the ground.  Being utterly invulnerable and tempered by a<br/>master of mater, Kumiko has a soak of 4 when wearing both the full kimono and<br/>her skating pads.<br/>The chery spirit the kimono is tied too will take Kumiko's wounds onto<br/>herself at the rate of 1 health level per hour, granting regeneration.<br/>It's final property is that a few small items (magic papers, caligraphy kits,<br/>and knives) put up the sleeve will be taken into the umbra by the chery spirit,<br/>only to leap from the sleeves when she has need of them.<br/>The Sakura tree is romantic when in bloom, but at other times a black-humored<br/>seductress.  In the fall, Kumiko's bond with her kimono will put her in a<br/>deeply romantic spirit.  The rest of the year, it will tease her towards<br/>senuality and even liscentiousness.  It also may play other small poltergiest<br/>pranks to be sexualy emberassing or nudge Kumiko into sensual encounters.<br/><br/><br/>Gear::<br/>1968 luxury van made of solid steel, with bulletproof windows.  Besides<br/>traditionaly japanese crafts, grandmother loves toying with cars, and she's a<br/>master of Matter.  This three ton van can hit speeds in excess of 100mph, get's<br/>40 miles to the galon with almost 0 emisions, and is generaly very cozy.  It<br/>seats two in front and 3 in back with 4 point harness seat belts and air bags.<br/>Plus it has a lap top work station and a roll out futon, an ice chest, a small<br/>propane stove, a miror and makeup stand, and a book shelf.  Kumiko needs no<br/>home, just free parking.  She showers at the Y.<br/>What it doesn't have is power locks, windows, or mirrors.<br/><br/>Cell Phone, 500 minutes a month, free long distance, free nights.<br/><br/>Lap top with cell modem.  ((No printer, but several ZIP disks, and numerous<br/>animae CDs and DVDs.  It does have an external CD burner for the distribution<br/>of animae fan subs, wich her family does as a hobby.))<br/><br/>Skater pads with grandmother enhancements.  (Knees, elbows, writs, and helmet.)<br/><br/>Roller blades with grandmother enhancemtnes.  Virtualy indistructable, they<br/>have cunningly conealed switch blades in the the back.<br/><br/>Several changes of silk undergarments.<br/><br/>Bathing box, (yes, I know where my towel is.)<br/><br/>Small manga library.<br/><br/>Sketchbook.<br/><br/>Manga translation projects.<br/><br/>Credit card tied in the family's subtle accounts.  Small alouance (resources<br/>1).  Her family doesn't aprove of her quest, but they have no intention of<br/>cutting her off.  If she needs a quick infusion of cash, she knowes a<br/>meditation for determening wich scratch game will be a winner.  She's hesitant<br/>to use it so far, because she filled herself to capacity at the chantry and<br/>doesn't know when she'll have another opertunity to meditate at a node, much<br/>less tap one.<br/><br/>Feng Shui gear.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Weapons:  6 8 point shuriken<br/>Silver Dagger<br/>Steak<br/>3 Sashes<br/>Larel's Dagger<br/>Yllanna's silvered dagger<br/>All are caried up her sleeves, save for the sash, wich she wears, either over<br/>her kimono when it's closed, or under it when she's wearing her sports bra and<br/>letting the silk flutter in the wind.<br/><br/>Larel's Katana.<br/><br/>Appearence::  Kumiko is a petite and busty girl with smooth japanese features,<br/>but rounder than full japanese, with waving hair and bright green eyes from her<br/>mother.<br/><br/><br/>Foci:<br/>Meditation/Do:For martial arts manuvers and altered states of conciousness.<br/>Kami: Kumiko uses caligraphy to ward things and to drive out spirts, and for<br/>attack spellls.  In a pinch, she can try and summon a spirit with a kami and<br/>prayer.<br/>Fire: Kumiko meditates in front of a fire to sumon spirits, and sometimes for<br/>visions of the past and future, or the spirit world.  Also good for drawing up<br/>Quintessence.<br/>Feng Shui: For nurturing the ki and spirit in the land.<br/><br/>Notes:<br/>Spirit: Kumiko won't advance any further in Spirit with this attitude.  She<br/>sees spirits as gods of the people and places she nurtures and protects.<br/>And yet she's never summoned her own mother.  She's afraid to, and won't<br/>admit its because she her mother died in child birth and she blames herself.<br/>Time: Kumiko sees Time as her personal domain.  She knowes other mages can do<br/>it but hasn't met any.  Known as a fortune teller back home, the manipulation<br/>of time is her Do and her Arete, her wisdom to nurture and her sword to<br/>protect.  She will pursue this as far as she can, and be a bit miffed and a bit<br/>insecure running into a more advanced time mage, or even just another.<br/>Mind:  "Psychic powers" are so natural to Kumiko that she really doesn't<br/>think about them except to remeber that others don't have them.  Through her<br/>martial arts, she perfects mind, body, and spirit, the more she pushes herself<br/>the stronger she becomes.   She also prays to protect the minds of others.<br/>Prime:  Percieve and absorb the ki flow of the world.  You really cant' do<br/>somethign so simple?<br/>Do:  Wisdom and Serenity are a part of her excelence, not the other way<br/>around.  She wants to be strong, serious, energetic, couragous, matchless,<br/>marvelous.  Life is a headlong barell towards greatness, and speed is its own<br/>reward.<br/>But it's not enough.  She wants something to do with her power, and that's<br/>protect her clergy, family, skating friends, classmates.  Larel was not her<br/>first failure, that was her friend Megumi's mother Mimi, whom she tried to save<br/>from the vampires, and could only do so by giving her final death after her<br/>embrace.  This was the first thing to really throw her center, and in the<br/>turmoil she turned to thoughts of her own mother, not sumoning her spirit but<br/>peering back in time to see her.<br/>She didn't look at her mother's death, because she didn't want to face the<br/>reality of having killed her.  But finaly she did and recieved a shock.  Her<br/>father had lied.  She didn't kill her mother, a bloody shadow did a week after<br/>she was born.<br/>For the first time in her life, Kumiko can think about her mother without<br/>guilt.  How long will it be before she finaly seeks her nearest ancestor's<br/>wisdom and guidance?<br/><br/>Anime: Kumiko loves all kinds of anime, her family does fan subbings as a<br/>family project.  She loves it all for its own sake, and for its place in her<br/>family and peer group.<br/>But the bizare and terifying realities of her life have given her a<br/>relationship with anime not so difrent from what many of us feel, but more<br/>intense.  In anime, the heroes learn to deal with the bizare, learn to relate<br/>to the alien.  Through wits and strength they triumph, and they laugh.  Kumiko<br/>always tries to keep a little anime in her life, even if its only talking to<br/>americans in japanese and playing up the fact that she's a blue eyed japanese<br/>girl.  It's just how she deals.<br/><br/>