Latest revision as of 15:07, 19 May 2014

What are Oni?

Oni are creatures often found in Asian mythology. Often called demons and ogres, they are a mutt race with different sub-species having their own unique origins. Most all kinds of Oni can share ancestry with demons, ogres, oxen, tigers, and even ghosts. However, no one knows exactly how this is possible or how the race as a whole came to be. Oni are often primal and savage, and love to fight and eat and drink more than anything. It is because of these primal urges that they have started to die out as a whole.

Haruka's subspecies (often referred to simply as Guardian Oni) is becoming increasingly rare, as most follow the Guardian Way and are under scrutiny by the Japanese government and an organization known as SHRINE. Female Oni are rare in this subspecies, with half-Oni being even rarer. This makes Haruka a rarity in her own species.

Personality

Haruka's overall personality is a mashup of her human and Oni ancestry. Primal instincts and urges meet logic and restraint. While she can be kind and caring to her friends, she can also be brutal and unrelenting to anyone that crosses her path. All of it is wrapped in the discipline taught to her from a young age. She always seems to show an amount of restraint, afraid of what would happen if she gave in fully to the Oni inside her. Even with the discipline, however, there are urges she cannot deny. Fighting is in her blood, and more often than not she will take to any battle she enters with gusto.

Likes: Baseball, Meat, Video Games, Dark Blue, The Osaka Tigers, A Good Fight, Sake

Dislikes: Holy Magic, Soy Beans, Math, Holly, Most Monkeys, Weeaboos

Powers, Abilities, and Weaknesses

"A true warrior cannot overcome an enemy without the proper tools." -Hayato Nakano

Racial Abilities

While abilities vary greatly among Oni kind, there are constants among Haruka's own subspecies. While Haruka shares most of her species abilities; her half-blood nature weakens most of them, or makes it so she cannot use them at all.

--Super Strength: While not nearly as strong as her brothers, Haruka is capable of massive feats of strength. She is able to lift up to 17tons with effort, and 19 with great strain.

--Enhanced Senses: Haruka has slightly enhanced sight and hearing. However, her sense of smell is enhanced greatly, and she is often times capable of identifying someone's species by smell alone.

--Durability: Oni are known to be some of the toughest creatures in all of Asia, and Haruka is no exception. While not as tough as the rest of her species, she is incredibly tough.

--Regeneration: An Oni's regeneration also attributes to the Oni's incredible endurance. While not instant, much of the more minor wounds she sustains in a fight can be shrugged off and healed in a matter of moments. Even broken bones and whole limbs can be restored given enough time. It is luckily currently unknown as to the extent her regeneration can go.

--Flight: After a long time, Haruka has gained the ability to fly like many of her brothers.

The Inner Flame

All of the Guardian subspecies is capable of a primal magic known to them as the Inner Flame, that attunes itself to each individual Oni. Haruka's Inner Flame has adapted to her aggressive melee approach to combat; and she often uses it in conjunction with her kanabo. Because the magic is so intimately connected to herself, it only harms who and what she chooses to, with control over the damage to a limited extent, which allows her to use it in combat without risk of killing the person she's fighting.

Some of those abilities, including but not limited to, are:

--Summoning bursts of lava under her foes.

--Breathing fire. (Something most Oni can do anyway.)

--Wrapping fire around her kanabo, she can send it out from herself with sweeping arcs if she chooses to.

--Wrapping herself in protective flames. She also does this quite often in cold environments to help keep herself warm.

--Absorbing magical flames to help fuel her own. She can also use it to regain energy to fuel her regeneration to an extent.

Guardian Training

Haruka has been training from an earlier age in how to hunt supernatural creatures, mainly those from Japan. She's been trained how to use her Oni magic in both lethal and non lethal ways. She has also been extensively trained in various forms of Oni martial arts, including the kanabo and two unarmed styles.

Weaknesses

--Holy Magic: The big heavy hitter for all Oni, holy magic is extremely painful and damaging to Oni. The proper application of Holy magic can easily kill an Oni.

--Holly: This seemingly harmless plant is a bane to her kind. Not only is it a natural deterrent, but it also can halt an Oni's regenerative properties entirely.

--Soy Beans: Haruka is very allergic to soy beans, to the point where it can be fatal if enough is ingested. She avoids soy sauce and tofu like the plague.

--Ice Magic/Powers: Ice and cold naturally deter her own natural fire magic. She hates cold environments for the same reason.

--Monkeys: Most Oni have a natural fear of monkeys, as they are the Oni's natural enemy. This rings especially true for Haruka.

Kao Sumasshā, aka Face Smasher

Made from a semi-organic alloy called Blood-Iron, Face Smasher is Haruka's weapon of choice. A large oni club (or kanabo), Haruka had help from her father to forge it for her personal use. It is made to be wielded with either one or both hands, with Haruka's momentum-based style in mind. While she always seems to call it Kao Sumasshā (Face Smasher), the weapon's true name is only known to her and her Father; as she finds it less intimidating and far more personal than she wants to let on.

Magical Properties

Like anything forged from blood-iron, they are honed specifically to the person it is made for. The weapon is an extension of its owner, and cannot be used to harm its owner under any circumstances.

--Haruka can summon Face Smasher at will, unless something is blocking her connection to it. Because it is a part of herself, it is often theorized that a blood-iron weapon is housed in the person's own being when not in use.

--She can use all 5 of her senses through it, to a limited degree. This includes the oni's natural ability to see ghosts.

--The kanabo is made with fighting supernatural threats in mind, and is able to harm these creatures more so than any other kind of threat it is used against. This includes (but is not limited to) demons, vampires, werewolves, and spirits.

--Face Smasher is, at it's most fundamental, an extension of Haruka's will. It will only hurt who and what she wants it to, within reason.

RP Hooks

Haruka has taken over as Oni Guardian of Millennium City, and is sworn to protect it until the day the next Inheritor takes her place. She's often called on to take care of odd supernatural threats.

Haruka's father is a well-known carpenter/builder in the city, and has had many clients over the years. It's rumored that he helped to build the Renaissance Center; but he has neither confirmed nor denied this.

Haruka has started playing for MCU's female baseball team the fall of 2012.

The tales of the Nakano clan are spread all over Japan, especially to the Oni.

She works as a Junior General Manager at a club called PowerBlow ((See: Grigori)); most patrons that go there will recognize her easily.

Comments

((Post any IC comments here!))

" Haruka is une uf ah koind. Nawt jus cuuse she's ah'n half-oni ur vhotevah. She's...special tu me. Yeh. She's dear ta me. Yeh. Ya gut ah prublem vith thot? Teke it up vith miss buumstick. * Ka-chick* " -Gary Lelik