Post by Shiningami on Aug 29, 2006 16:12:04 GMT -8
Name: -- Ichigo Hawagushima
Nickname or Title: -- The Talking Cat (He is known ONLY by this nickname, he will go along and help people, but never reveal his name. If he does, their memory is erased
)
Gender: -- Male
Age: -- 624
Race: -- Cat Demon (To the extreme)
Class: -- Technically a wanderer, but if there is someone in need of his expert advice and training, he is willing to help.
Time Period: -- Feudal Era
Side: -- Good
Weakness: -- Well, the most obvious one would be water. He dislikes it immensely. A few other weaknesses are: He isn¡¦t very good at magic (most things backfire one him); is terribly afraid of spiders and most bugs; and like most cats, fears being chased by dogs. (Not wolves, just dogs.)
Powers: -- He has two defensive attacks, two offensive attacks, and one neutral.
1. Neutral: Healing. In his tail there is a special power of healing. When he concentrates, and his tail is touching the wound, he can heal any wound. (But he can¡¦t bring people back from the dead. He can save them if they aren¡¦t fully ¡¥gone¡¦ yet, but once they are, he can¡¦t do anything.)
2. Offensive: Nigisho. This is his number one attack, Glowing Claws. His claws extend to 6 times the normal length and become sharper than swords and glow a fierce red color, almost like fire comes from them. They aren¡¦t able to kill a demon instantly, but they can certainly make them rethink their attack. (If he were to use this power on a human, however, there is little chance they would survive.)
3. Offensive: When Ichigo uses this next attack, Nuterra (Poison Fang), his canines grow to extraordinary length and become that resembling snakes. Like snake fangs, when he clamps down on a demon or whatever, poison is pushed into the body. Depending on how much poison Ichigo uses, it could take up to a week for the person/demon to die. Which ever he chooses, it¡¦s a very painful thing.
4. Defensive: Iron Ball. As the name suggests, he rolls into a ball and his fur becomes that of iron. In this state, not much can penetrate him. A side affect of this power is after he ¡¥deactivates¡¦ it, he is transformed into a giant puff ball. (Ever seen a cat looking like a ball o¡¦ fluff? That¡¦s him XD)
5. Defensive: The universal power. Run away and hide. As most cats, he is very quick on his feet, and can blend into almost any surrounding.
Default Abilities: -- Like all cats, he has very exceptional senses. His best traits are seeing, hearing and running.
Abilities: -- He is very good at teaching. Which is why he wanders around and helps those in need of training services, or he thinks just plain suck.
He¡¦s also not too shabby at climbing, and (don¡¦t know if this is a ability¡K) he¡¦s mastered the art of both sarcasm and being annoying.
Weapons: -- The only thing he has are his claws, and his teeth as weapons.
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Animal Companion: ¡XN/A
Relationship Status: -- He¡¦s in love with a cat from where his hometown. But (The reason why he left) she was killed by Dog demons. (Picture a house cat version of Kilala ƒº )
Family: -- He was abandoned by his family when he was just a kit.
Quote: -- ¡§No matter how well you do, it will never be good enough.¡¨
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Physical Descriptions (161 words) --
Age: 624 (Birthday is around the 2nd full moon of the winter season.)
Height/Length: from the ground to the tip of his ears he is 18 inches, and from nose to tip of tail he is 4 feet.
Weight: Well for a cat, he¡¦s pretty light, only about ten pounds or so.
Fur color: Completely black but with white on the very tip of his tail, gray on his chest and (you can¡¦t really tell unless you pick him up) dark brown tiger stripes.
Eye color: Blue and gold. Around the very edges of his eyes are gold, and from the iris to the gold is sapphire blue.
Scars: His right ear has a notch taken out of it. The scar was given to him during a battle between his brother and himself. His brother hunted him down, in an attempt to kill him, and before he himself died (Ichigo wasn¡¦t the one who killed him) he took the chuck out of his ear.
Personality: ¡V(194 words) Irritable, stubborn, feisty, and sometimes very level headed. His personality often changes, depending on which mood he woke up with. His irritability comes from lack of patience; he has a very short fuse. But, to go along with that hot-headedness, he is very forgiving and his frustration and anger cools off pretty quickly. He has never been known to carry any sort of grudge against any one person or thing, but many people and demons alike hold high grudges against him.
He prefers to teach with the saying ¡§No matter what you do, it¡¦s never good enough.¡¨ Which, as you might imagine, can make some of his students run for cover.
Most of the time though, even with all of these personality flaws, he is quite happy and content with his life and with other people. He isn¡¦t very outgoing, so he isn¡¦t into going up and saying ¡§You suck¡¨, he tends to wait for others to realize it for themselves. He may appear anti-social to those who are meeting him for the first time and don¡¦t know his reputation. (Picture this: his rep. is as talked about as Janet Jackson at the Super-Bowl.)
Background: ¡V(750 words) Ichigo was born basically in a basket behind a trash can. His mother had 4 other kittens besides him. His father, whom he has a strong dislike for, talked his mother into abandoning him when he was different from the other kittens. (The others were calico or pure white, but, he was born all black; He didn¡¦t have the white yet, but I¡¦m getting to that.) So, reluctantly, she did. Both his mother and father took the other kits while they all slept, leaving him behind the trash can.
Nearly starving to death, Ichigo was found by a powerful sorceress named Meku. She fed him, loved him, and took care of him. When he was 4 months old, having been with Meku for nearly three and a half months, she decided to experiment a few things on him. First, she wanted him to be able to talk, so she mixed a Voice Spirit potion in with a saucer of milk, and within the day he was talking. After he could talk, she taught him to read and write (as you can imagine, that was a very difficult task for a cat!). When she was content with his new abilities, she found herself wanting more from him. So, she gave him yet another potion, this time to give him powers like a Cat Demon. Yes it worked, but not to the full extent she wanted it. It was supposed to make him able to transform back and forth between cat and human, but instead, gave him a few powers and gray spots on his legs and chest. Once she taught him to use these new powers, thinking she was content, Ichigo became happy once more.
When he was 5 years old, she brought home a very wounded bird. It was nearly dead but they both wanted to save it. So, not having the assistance she needed, she treated Ichigo to yet another wild experimental potion. This one was supposed to give him ultimate healing powers, those to rival her own, and to make him basically immortal, so he could use his powers long after she was gone. But this one backfire tremendously. Instead of making him immortal, it increased his life-span by 5000 years, but made him terribly ill for the first 6 months. During that time, he was stuck in a constant Limbo, neither alive nor dead. The tip of his tail turned bright white, like snow (which wasn¡¦t supposed to happen), and he wasn¡¦t even able to heal until a few months after he came out of his coma-like state.
When he was fully recovered and Meku realized that he was able to heal, she kicked him out of her home, telling him that she didn¡¦t want to impose more things upon him less she kill him. So, she told him to go out into the world and help people. Train them, do whatever it took to make the world the perfect place that help people. Train them, do whatever it took to make the world the perfect place that they had envisioned.
So he did exactly that. But instead of going out, he went to the nearest village and requested to be taught martial arts and the art of teaching martial arts. Of course, at first, he was laughed at and humiliated. A cat, wanting to be a master of the arts and become a teacher? Absolutely hysterical. But, after being a pest to them for a month or so, they caved and started his training. This took years and years to perfect. He was close to sixty when he was finished, and he started when he was only 6. When he was given black belts in both areas, he left, and vowed to return to Meku. But, alas, when he returned, he found her dying in her bed. As he was about to heal her so he could tell her about all the wonderful things he had learned and about what he was going to go do, she cut him off and told him ¡§No, do not heal me. I have lived too long of a life already, I do not wish to burden the earth any longer.¡¨ But she urged him to tell her of his mastering and his dreams. When he was finished, tears made their way to his eyes as he realized that she had slipped away. From that moment, he promised that he would not stop until everyone was touched by his teaching.
Sample RP: ¡V(388 Words) Wandering throughout the forest was a tough business, especially when you are little bigger than a common house cat. Known throughout the land as The Talking Cat, or Teaching Cat, Ichigo Hawagushima was on the move again. He had just finished teaching yet another student the arts of martial arts and other things ¡¥wanna-be hero¡¦s¡¦ need to know. He had been here for over 3 months traveling through on his way to the next town; and quite honestly, he was hating the thought of having to leave.
Taking in the fresh scent of misty rain, freshly grown flowers, and dirt, Ichigo felt more at home here than he did anywhere else. But, what else is to be expected of a cat? Finding humor in the odd irony of a cat liking misty rain, but completely despising water, he chuckled to himself lightly. ¡¦What an odd contradiction I can be sometimes¡K¡¦ he thought to himself, that cute kitty-cat smile on his face. ¡¦But if I am to find another student, I need to leave the forest and get back into the villages. I am plenty sure that there are none living out here needing my services.¡¦
Goldish-Blue eyes darkening, he regretted having to leave the forest. Of course, it wasn¡¦t were he was born, he didn¡¦t have any real attachment to it at all; He still felt part of it somehow¡K
Still, he kept sauntering along the well-worn path into the next village, half hoping that his reputation preceded him here already. That would mean plenty of food, shelter, and students. That thought sent his eyes dazzling again, and brought back the feline smile.
Hearing the faint sound of a bustling town, Ichigo picked up his pace and began to run towards the town, part of him ready to get out of the overly damp forest. Nevertheless, as soon as he reached the edge of the tree-line and looked upon the hundreds of people moving about, he wanted to retreat back into the forest and not come out. But just as he began to back up, his instincts getting the better of him, a small child came running up to him, shouting ¡§It¡¦s him! It¡¦s the Talking Cat!¡¨ brining a whole barrage of children wanting to be his students, to be taught by the one and only, Talking Cat.
Nickname or Title: -- The Talking Cat (He is known ONLY by this nickname, he will go along and help people, but never reveal his name. If he does, their memory is erased
)Gender: -- Male
Age: -- 624
Race: -- Cat Demon (To the extreme)
Class: -- Technically a wanderer, but if there is someone in need of his expert advice and training, he is willing to help.
Time Period: -- Feudal Era
Side: -- Good
Weakness: -- Well, the most obvious one would be water. He dislikes it immensely. A few other weaknesses are: He isn¡¦t very good at magic (most things backfire one him); is terribly afraid of spiders and most bugs; and like most cats, fears being chased by dogs. (Not wolves, just dogs.)
Powers: -- He has two defensive attacks, two offensive attacks, and one neutral.
1. Neutral: Healing. In his tail there is a special power of healing. When he concentrates, and his tail is touching the wound, he can heal any wound. (But he can¡¦t bring people back from the dead. He can save them if they aren¡¦t fully ¡¥gone¡¦ yet, but once they are, he can¡¦t do anything.)
2. Offensive: Nigisho. This is his number one attack, Glowing Claws. His claws extend to 6 times the normal length and become sharper than swords and glow a fierce red color, almost like fire comes from them. They aren¡¦t able to kill a demon instantly, but they can certainly make them rethink their attack. (If he were to use this power on a human, however, there is little chance they would survive.)
3. Offensive: When Ichigo uses this next attack, Nuterra (Poison Fang), his canines grow to extraordinary length and become that resembling snakes. Like snake fangs, when he clamps down on a demon or whatever, poison is pushed into the body. Depending on how much poison Ichigo uses, it could take up to a week for the person/demon to die. Which ever he chooses, it¡¦s a very painful thing.
4. Defensive: Iron Ball. As the name suggests, he rolls into a ball and his fur becomes that of iron. In this state, not much can penetrate him. A side affect of this power is after he ¡¥deactivates¡¦ it, he is transformed into a giant puff ball. (Ever seen a cat looking like a ball o¡¦ fluff? That¡¦s him XD)
5. Defensive: The universal power. Run away and hide. As most cats, he is very quick on his feet, and can blend into almost any surrounding.
Default Abilities: -- Like all cats, he has very exceptional senses. His best traits are seeing, hearing and running.
Abilities: -- He is very good at teaching. Which is why he wanders around and helps those in need of training services, or he thinks just plain suck.
He¡¦s also not too shabby at climbing, and (don¡¦t know if this is a ability¡K) he¡¦s mastered the art of both sarcasm and being annoying.
Weapons: -- The only thing he has are his claws, and his teeth as weapons.
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Animal Companion: ¡XN/A
Relationship Status: -- He¡¦s in love with a cat from where his hometown. But (The reason why he left) she was killed by Dog demons. (Picture a house cat version of Kilala ƒº )
Family: -- He was abandoned by his family when he was just a kit.
Quote: -- ¡§No matter how well you do, it will never be good enough.¡¨
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Physical Descriptions (161 words) --
Age: 624 (Birthday is around the 2nd full moon of the winter season.)
Height/Length: from the ground to the tip of his ears he is 18 inches, and from nose to tip of tail he is 4 feet.
Weight: Well for a cat, he¡¦s pretty light, only about ten pounds or so.
Fur color: Completely black but with white on the very tip of his tail, gray on his chest and (you can¡¦t really tell unless you pick him up) dark brown tiger stripes.
Eye color: Blue and gold. Around the very edges of his eyes are gold, and from the iris to the gold is sapphire blue.
Scars: His right ear has a notch taken out of it. The scar was given to him during a battle between his brother and himself. His brother hunted him down, in an attempt to kill him, and before he himself died (Ichigo wasn¡¦t the one who killed him) he took the chuck out of his ear.
Personality: ¡V(194 words) Irritable, stubborn, feisty, and sometimes very level headed. His personality often changes, depending on which mood he woke up with. His irritability comes from lack of patience; he has a very short fuse. But, to go along with that hot-headedness, he is very forgiving and his frustration and anger cools off pretty quickly. He has never been known to carry any sort of grudge against any one person or thing, but many people and demons alike hold high grudges against him.
He prefers to teach with the saying ¡§No matter what you do, it¡¦s never good enough.¡¨ Which, as you might imagine, can make some of his students run for cover.
Most of the time though, even with all of these personality flaws, he is quite happy and content with his life and with other people. He isn¡¦t very outgoing, so he isn¡¦t into going up and saying ¡§You suck¡¨, he tends to wait for others to realize it for themselves. He may appear anti-social to those who are meeting him for the first time and don¡¦t know his reputation. (Picture this: his rep. is as talked about as Janet Jackson at the Super-Bowl.)
Background: ¡V(750 words) Ichigo was born basically in a basket behind a trash can. His mother had 4 other kittens besides him. His father, whom he has a strong dislike for, talked his mother into abandoning him when he was different from the other kittens. (The others were calico or pure white, but, he was born all black; He didn¡¦t have the white yet, but I¡¦m getting to that.) So, reluctantly, she did. Both his mother and father took the other kits while they all slept, leaving him behind the trash can.
Nearly starving to death, Ichigo was found by a powerful sorceress named Meku. She fed him, loved him, and took care of him. When he was 4 months old, having been with Meku for nearly three and a half months, she decided to experiment a few things on him. First, she wanted him to be able to talk, so she mixed a Voice Spirit potion in with a saucer of milk, and within the day he was talking. After he could talk, she taught him to read and write (as you can imagine, that was a very difficult task for a cat!). When she was content with his new abilities, she found herself wanting more from him. So, she gave him yet another potion, this time to give him powers like a Cat Demon. Yes it worked, but not to the full extent she wanted it. It was supposed to make him able to transform back and forth between cat and human, but instead, gave him a few powers and gray spots on his legs and chest. Once she taught him to use these new powers, thinking she was content, Ichigo became happy once more.
When he was 5 years old, she brought home a very wounded bird. It was nearly dead but they both wanted to save it. So, not having the assistance she needed, she treated Ichigo to yet another wild experimental potion. This one was supposed to give him ultimate healing powers, those to rival her own, and to make him basically immortal, so he could use his powers long after she was gone. But this one backfire tremendously. Instead of making him immortal, it increased his life-span by 5000 years, but made him terribly ill for the first 6 months. During that time, he was stuck in a constant Limbo, neither alive nor dead. The tip of his tail turned bright white, like snow (which wasn¡¦t supposed to happen), and he wasn¡¦t even able to heal until a few months after he came out of his coma-like state.
When he was fully recovered and Meku realized that he was able to heal, she kicked him out of her home, telling him that she didn¡¦t want to impose more things upon him less she kill him. So, she told him to go out into the world and help people. Train them, do whatever it took to make the world the perfect place that help people. Train them, do whatever it took to make the world the perfect place that they had envisioned.
So he did exactly that. But instead of going out, he went to the nearest village and requested to be taught martial arts and the art of teaching martial arts. Of course, at first, he was laughed at and humiliated. A cat, wanting to be a master of the arts and become a teacher? Absolutely hysterical. But, after being a pest to them for a month or so, they caved and started his training. This took years and years to perfect. He was close to sixty when he was finished, and he started when he was only 6. When he was given black belts in both areas, he left, and vowed to return to Meku. But, alas, when he returned, he found her dying in her bed. As he was about to heal her so he could tell her about all the wonderful things he had learned and about what he was going to go do, she cut him off and told him ¡§No, do not heal me. I have lived too long of a life already, I do not wish to burden the earth any longer.¡¨ But she urged him to tell her of his mastering and his dreams. When he was finished, tears made their way to his eyes as he realized that she had slipped away. From that moment, he promised that he would not stop until everyone was touched by his teaching.
Sample RP: ¡V(388 Words) Wandering throughout the forest was a tough business, especially when you are little bigger than a common house cat. Known throughout the land as The Talking Cat, or Teaching Cat, Ichigo Hawagushima was on the move again. He had just finished teaching yet another student the arts of martial arts and other things ¡¥wanna-be hero¡¦s¡¦ need to know. He had been here for over 3 months traveling through on his way to the next town; and quite honestly, he was hating the thought of having to leave.
Taking in the fresh scent of misty rain, freshly grown flowers, and dirt, Ichigo felt more at home here than he did anywhere else. But, what else is to be expected of a cat? Finding humor in the odd irony of a cat liking misty rain, but completely despising water, he chuckled to himself lightly. ¡¦What an odd contradiction I can be sometimes¡K¡¦ he thought to himself, that cute kitty-cat smile on his face. ¡¦But if I am to find another student, I need to leave the forest and get back into the villages. I am plenty sure that there are none living out here needing my services.¡¦
Goldish-Blue eyes darkening, he regretted having to leave the forest. Of course, it wasn¡¦t were he was born, he didn¡¦t have any real attachment to it at all; He still felt part of it somehow¡K
Still, he kept sauntering along the well-worn path into the next village, half hoping that his reputation preceded him here already. That would mean plenty of food, shelter, and students. That thought sent his eyes dazzling again, and brought back the feline smile.
Hearing the faint sound of a bustling town, Ichigo picked up his pace and began to run towards the town, part of him ready to get out of the overly damp forest. Nevertheless, as soon as he reached the edge of the tree-line and looked upon the hundreds of people moving about, he wanted to retreat back into the forest and not come out. But just as he began to back up, his instincts getting the better of him, a small child came running up to him, shouting ¡§It¡¦s him! It¡¦s the Talking Cat!¡¨ brining a whole barrage of children wanting to be his students, to be taught by the one and only, Talking Cat.
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