Post by Maira on Jul 9, 2012 1:56:19 GMT -5
(1/2 pard, 1/4 curantis, 1/4 Custos mother, Mutari father)
Character Name: Ruri Gallagher
Age/Birthday: 19/Feb. 3, 2042
Gender: female
Sexuality: not picky
Species: mutari/pard/angel/Custos
Appearance
Hair Color: dark brown
Hair Style: wavy, to her waist, normally worn half up
Eyes: violet like her grandmother
Complexion: creamy but not exactly pale, inherited just a hint of her maternal grandfather’s Japanese complexion
Teeth: a bit crowded, but white and with elongated canines
Height: 5’ 9’’
Weight: 125
Fitness Level: dances and teaches ballet, very fit
Clothing Style: close fitting but comfortable, anything too baggy feels clumsy to Ruri and as a dancer that’s a very disconcerting feeling.
Tattoos: jasmine flowers and vines climbing from the top of her left foot, around her ankle and up to her knee
Piercings: one in each ear
Scars: normal childhood variety
Personality
Whoever came up with the saying, “It’s always the quiet ones you have to look out for,” had to have been talking about Ruri. At first meeting (and most thereafter) she is quiet, polite, respectful, and just an all-around nice girl. She gets her schoolwork done, loves her job, and obeys her slew of parents and other elders in her life. On occasion, however, Ruri lets loose and can rival or surpass anything that her wildest older sister (Shay) has ever done.
The Supernatural Bit
Werecreatures
Genome (true or virus): true born
Beast Name: Nightheart
Faction: Leopard
Moon Phases/Classification: Dark Moon/Death Walker
Pack: Cedar Valley Pard
Beast Disposition: 4; Nightheart is a gentle creature, not one to be pushy about having her fair share of time to run. Very rarely will she contradict Ruri but not because she is a pushover, just because they are so often in agreement on whatever the situation may be.
Beast Form: black leopard with violet eyes, average size for a female leopard
Hybrid Form: While in this form Ruri looks like a cross between either her human form and leopard, or her angel form and leopard. Her skin takes on the coloring of her leopard (black with darker rosettes) and she sports her furry tail and claws. Her eyes remain violet, and depending on what the other non-leopard half of the form is, she may or may not have the black feathered wings as well.
Infected at age: birth
Contagion: genetics, mother
Alati(Curantis dominant)
Deity: Izanami (japanese goddess, associated with night and death/the underworld)
Faction: Protector of souls travelling to the Underworld/Angel of Death. Wields the god sword Nokori (rest).
Ethereal Form: Black feathered wings with a violet sheen, her hair darkens to black and streaked with violet, but other than that she appears like she does in human form.
Mutari
Bloodline: Animulus
Innate Power: telekinesis
Infected at age: birth
Contagion: genetics, father
Basic History
Parents: Lysander (bio dad), Dominic (L’s lover), Saiyuri (bio mom) &
Theiry (Saiyuri’s husband)
Siblings: Sebastian & Gareth (step), Brielle (adopted), Lani, Shayleigh & Olivia, Zachariah & Zayne (half-maternal), Kincade (half-paternal), Kisana & Isaiah (adopted)
Close Friends: her older siblings’ horde of children
Significant Other: Lia and Cian
Interests/Hobbies: painting, reading, piano and ballet
Education:
~College:
~~Major: Performing Arts Dance
~~Minor: double in Fine Art & Performing Arts Music
Intelligence: above average but a bit artsy and scatterbrained
Occupation: ballet instructor for the 4-6 year olds at the local rec center
Place of Residence: She shares time between her fathers’ Lysander and Dominic’s home, and Lia and Cian’s home in Cedar Valley.
History
Ruri was probably the most planned child that Saiyuri ever had as she was a joint venture between two families. In her first year she spent almost equal time with each of her parents’ families. Once she was weaned the time sharing leaned more heavily toward living with her biological father Lysander and his lover Dominic (who happened to be her mother’s ex-husband).
Growing up between two households can be tricky for some kids but Ruri did just fine. She had loving siblings in both households and while she was the youngest for a very long time, she wasn’t excluded or ignored by her older siblings.
Because of her quiet, respectful, good-girl personality very few people ever believed that Ruri was capable of anything unusual or out of the ordinary. Those few people who knew her best, her mother and three fathers included, knew better. When she dropped the bombshell in college that not only was she sleeping with and in a relationship with an incubus (and his succubus lover), a certain incubus that happened to be her mother’s best friend and her older half-sister’s one-night stand who just happened to get her knocked up, only Saiyuri really reacted poorly. But poor Saiyuri, her horde of children had a tendency to do things that made her head explode on a semi-regular basis and Ruri just happened to pick the one person that Saiyuri typically went to for comfort when her kids were exploding her head to be in a relationship with.
After informing her family of her unconventional relationship Ruri mostly moved into Cian and Lia’s home but she still spent a lot of time with her 4 parents. One of her favorite activities was to go with her biological father to his personal (very large, climate controlled) storage space full of art, artifacts and just generally cool stuff. On one of those trips they happened to be looking for a particular item that a client was interested in buying from Lysander and so they split up. Eventually L found what he was looking for and tried calling out to Ruri to tell her, but she didn’t answer. Worried, he went of looking for her and when he found her he was more than a little baffled.
Ruri, as soon as she had entered the storage space had felt something odd drawing her to the corner opposite where she had seen L go. When she reached the corner she had opened a cupboard and had found a sword rack inside with three katanas. Immediately her hand went to the one lowest on the rack, the oldest if the sheath were any indication, and had pulled it off to examine it. As soon as she took it out of the sheath, Ruri had gotten dizzy and had sat down before she fell down. Securely on the floor, she then placed the sword across her knees and looked over it for any indication why she had been drawn to it in particular.
When her fingertips brushed an unfamiliar line of Japanese characters engraved into the blade a voice sounded in her mind. The voice was speaking Japanese. While Ruri knew the basics from her visits to Japan to visit her maternal grandfather, she had no idea how she was actually understanding the voice.
Unaware of just how long she’d been sitting like that, or that L had found her and was watching curiously, Ruri asked out loud, “Who are you, and why are you talking to me?”
L watched in both fear and excitement as his daughter conversed either with a spirit or the sword in her lap. He knew she was a Death Walker elemental from her pard heritage so he didn’t question it, but he had never seen her actually speak to a spirit before.
The voice answered softly, “I am your fate, you are my wielder. You have much to learn and come to me quite untrained but time and your family will remedy that.” Then, even more softly, “I am Nokori, the sword of Rest, and you have been chosen by the goddess Izanami to wield me.”
And that is how Ruri became the first known female to wield a god-given sword, and the first god sword wielder that was less than half Alati. As the sword informed her, as a ballerina she has a lot to learn to be able to properly use the sword let alone keep from accidentally injuring herself or anybody else with it.
Character Name: Ruri Gallagher
Age/Birthday: 19/Feb. 3, 2042
Gender: female
Sexuality: not picky
Species: mutari/pard/angel/Custos
Appearance
Hair Color: dark brown
Hair Style: wavy, to her waist, normally worn half up
Eyes: violet like her grandmother
Complexion: creamy but not exactly pale, inherited just a hint of her maternal grandfather’s Japanese complexion
Teeth: a bit crowded, but white and with elongated canines
Height: 5’ 9’’
Weight: 125
Fitness Level: dances and teaches ballet, very fit
Clothing Style: close fitting but comfortable, anything too baggy feels clumsy to Ruri and as a dancer that’s a very disconcerting feeling.
Tattoos: jasmine flowers and vines climbing from the top of her left foot, around her ankle and up to her knee
Piercings: one in each ear
Scars: normal childhood variety
Personality
Whoever came up with the saying, “It’s always the quiet ones you have to look out for,” had to have been talking about Ruri. At first meeting (and most thereafter) she is quiet, polite, respectful, and just an all-around nice girl. She gets her schoolwork done, loves her job, and obeys her slew of parents and other elders in her life. On occasion, however, Ruri lets loose and can rival or surpass anything that her wildest older sister (Shay) has ever done.
The Supernatural Bit
Werecreatures
Genome (true or virus): true born
Beast Name: Nightheart
Faction: Leopard
Moon Phases/Classification: Dark Moon/Death Walker
Pack: Cedar Valley Pard
Beast Disposition: 4; Nightheart is a gentle creature, not one to be pushy about having her fair share of time to run. Very rarely will she contradict Ruri but not because she is a pushover, just because they are so often in agreement on whatever the situation may be.
Beast Form: black leopard with violet eyes, average size for a female leopard
Hybrid Form: While in this form Ruri looks like a cross between either her human form and leopard, or her angel form and leopard. Her skin takes on the coloring of her leopard (black with darker rosettes) and she sports her furry tail and claws. Her eyes remain violet, and depending on what the other non-leopard half of the form is, she may or may not have the black feathered wings as well.
Infected at age: birth
Contagion: genetics, mother
Alati(Curantis dominant)
Deity: Izanami (japanese goddess, associated with night and death/the underworld)
Faction: Protector of souls travelling to the Underworld/Angel of Death. Wields the god sword Nokori (rest).
Ethereal Form: Black feathered wings with a violet sheen, her hair darkens to black and streaked with violet, but other than that she appears like she does in human form.
Mutari
Bloodline: Animulus
Innate Power: telekinesis
Infected at age: birth
Contagion: genetics, father
Basic History
Parents: Lysander (bio dad), Dominic (L’s lover), Saiyuri (bio mom) &
Theiry (Saiyuri’s husband)
Siblings: Sebastian & Gareth (step), Brielle (adopted), Lani, Shayleigh & Olivia, Zachariah & Zayne (half-maternal), Kincade (half-paternal), Kisana & Isaiah (adopted)
Close Friends: her older siblings’ horde of children
Significant Other: Lia and Cian
Interests/Hobbies: painting, reading, piano and ballet
Education:
~College:
~~Major: Performing Arts Dance
~~Minor: double in Fine Art & Performing Arts Music
Intelligence: above average but a bit artsy and scatterbrained
Occupation: ballet instructor for the 4-6 year olds at the local rec center
Place of Residence: She shares time between her fathers’ Lysander and Dominic’s home, and Lia and Cian’s home in Cedar Valley.
History
Ruri was probably the most planned child that Saiyuri ever had as she was a joint venture between two families. In her first year she spent almost equal time with each of her parents’ families. Once she was weaned the time sharing leaned more heavily toward living with her biological father Lysander and his lover Dominic (who happened to be her mother’s ex-husband).
Growing up between two households can be tricky for some kids but Ruri did just fine. She had loving siblings in both households and while she was the youngest for a very long time, she wasn’t excluded or ignored by her older siblings.
Because of her quiet, respectful, good-girl personality very few people ever believed that Ruri was capable of anything unusual or out of the ordinary. Those few people who knew her best, her mother and three fathers included, knew better. When she dropped the bombshell in college that not only was she sleeping with and in a relationship with an incubus (and his succubus lover), a certain incubus that happened to be her mother’s best friend and her older half-sister’s one-night stand who just happened to get her knocked up, only Saiyuri really reacted poorly. But poor Saiyuri, her horde of children had a tendency to do things that made her head explode on a semi-regular basis and Ruri just happened to pick the one person that Saiyuri typically went to for comfort when her kids were exploding her head to be in a relationship with.
After informing her family of her unconventional relationship Ruri mostly moved into Cian and Lia’s home but she still spent a lot of time with her 4 parents. One of her favorite activities was to go with her biological father to his personal (very large, climate controlled) storage space full of art, artifacts and just generally cool stuff. On one of those trips they happened to be looking for a particular item that a client was interested in buying from Lysander and so they split up. Eventually L found what he was looking for and tried calling out to Ruri to tell her, but she didn’t answer. Worried, he went of looking for her and when he found her he was more than a little baffled.
Ruri, as soon as she had entered the storage space had felt something odd drawing her to the corner opposite where she had seen L go. When she reached the corner she had opened a cupboard and had found a sword rack inside with three katanas. Immediately her hand went to the one lowest on the rack, the oldest if the sheath were any indication, and had pulled it off to examine it. As soon as she took it out of the sheath, Ruri had gotten dizzy and had sat down before she fell down. Securely on the floor, she then placed the sword across her knees and looked over it for any indication why she had been drawn to it in particular.
When her fingertips brushed an unfamiliar line of Japanese characters engraved into the blade a voice sounded in her mind. The voice was speaking Japanese. While Ruri knew the basics from her visits to Japan to visit her maternal grandfather, she had no idea how she was actually understanding the voice.
Unaware of just how long she’d been sitting like that, or that L had found her and was watching curiously, Ruri asked out loud, “Who are you, and why are you talking to me?”
L watched in both fear and excitement as his daughter conversed either with a spirit or the sword in her lap. He knew she was a Death Walker elemental from her pard heritage so he didn’t question it, but he had never seen her actually speak to a spirit before.
The voice answered softly, “I am your fate, you are my wielder. You have much to learn and come to me quite untrained but time and your family will remedy that.” Then, even more softly, “I am Nokori, the sword of Rest, and you have been chosen by the goddess Izanami to wield me.”
And that is how Ruri became the first known female to wield a god-given sword, and the first god sword wielder that was less than half Alati. As the sword informed her, as a ballerina she has a lot to learn to be able to properly use the sword let alone keep from accidentally injuring herself or anybody else with it.