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[pearlyprincess]

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Character Name: Shinju Yasuno

History.

World History
❖ Shinju is the princess of Clef Trintia. Clef Trintia is located in the void between dimensions. It is where beings are thrown when they are not wanted by the universe. The kingdom was built when an immortal man gave its founder the power to jump through space-time, thus allowing the founder to escape and gather materials to built planets in that void for the people thrown in there. Currently, a majority of its citizens believe they are the guardians of the universe, rather than the trash that the universe didn't want anymore.

❖ Planeswalkers are the citizens of Clef Trintia. All of them came from sector worlds, and all of them have the ability to jump between worlds. The Planeswalkers are much like normal people in a normal kingdom: some are part of the kingdom's military, some are normal civilians who have typical jobs and support the kingdom.

❖ Normal worlds are known as sector worlds, and the term encompasses every single world that is not within the void. There are an infinite number of sector worlds, which means every possibility or arrangement of a world you can imagine exists. Basically, the worlds for other canons would also be considered sector worlds. Planeswalkers can jump to any of these worlds, but they often need a marker for the world, since there are an infinite amount and are thus hard to recognize for a Planeswalker. The kingdom usually provides these markers so Planeswalkers know where they're jumping to.

❖ Clef Trintia does business with many sector worlds and is the hub for interworld trading. However, most worlds don't know of the kingdom's existence since most sector world beings lack the capability to travel between worlds. Clef Trintia only reveals itself to worlds it believes is worth doing business with.

❖ The sector world Shinju comes from is mostly the same as our world, though several centuries in the past. It's around the Sengoku era for Japan, and there are wars and battles going on for the land. The major difference between our world and this sector world is the existence of demons. For Shinju, the relevant demons are the fox demons. In this world, fox demons are sorted based on the colour of their fur. The colour indicates different temperaments and abilities of the foxes. For instance, earthy green coloured foxes are known to be guardians of the earth and will protect places like forests, lakes and mountains. Yellow foxes are protectors of bonds and are loyal to those who cherish their relationships with others. There are other coloured foxes, but the worst foxes of all are blue foxes.

❖ Blue foxes are the most vicious of foxes, and are belligerent to everyone and anyone, including other blue foxes. They live in small family units, unlike other foxes, and their foxfire is the most powerful and destructive. They are of course warmongers and often attack and ravage human villages for their pleasure. Shinju was born from a blue fox family, and thus she shares some of these traits.

❖ However, she's actually a mutated blue fox. Specifically, she mutated into a white fox. White foxes are foxes of healing and purity. They can mutate from any coloured fox, but they're extremely rare. They have extremely strong healing powers, but the powers wane as time goes on, and with the waning, the colour of the fox's fur changes until they become a regular coloured fox. It is possible to slow the waning of the power by preventing the fox from engaging in any behaviour that reflects the colour they mutated from.

Background
❖ Born in the Sengoku Era of Japan, in Shimokitayama in the Nara prefecture, she was the cause of the Great Blue Fox War that occurred a few years after her birth. This is because she was born with an incredibly rare mutation: the white fox mutation. The white fox mutation removed all of a colour fox's normal abilities but instead granted extremely powerful healing abilities. Blue foxes from all around coveted those healing abilities and fought fiercely to obtain her. During the war, her family decided to hide her by placing a powerful illusion on her appearance and sending her to live at a nearby human village, intending to retrieve her once the war was over. However, the battles were too fierce, and many families were wiped out, including hers, leaving only a couple of survivors here and there.

❖ Because the village location was close to the territory of a fox family, villagers were wary of strangers, and to Shinju, they were no different. Her blonde, almost white hair only heightened their wariness and in the end, a retired ninja who lived at the edge of the village took her in. It soon became apparent to the ninja that Shinju was a white fox, so he told her never to engage in fighting nor show her healing to people, and only taught her skills of infiltration, stealth and evasion. For a few years, they lived in relative peace. However, due to an incident where foxes raided the village after an altercation between Shinju and the village children, the villagers, believing Shinju had called on those foxes, decided to hire an assassin when she was nine to take care of her. During the assassination attempt, Shinju's caretaker was killed, and the Planeswalkers intervened to prevent her from dying. They warded off the assassin, allowing him to take the caretaker’s head for the bounty. Ignoring her caretaker’s words, Shinju tried to heal him back to life in front of the Planeswalkers, but it was impossible; his body was missing its head.

❖ She was taken to Laz Kotia, the central world of Clef Trintia and dubbed princess of the Planeswalkers. Several tutors were assigned to teach her all the academic subjects and other topics befitting her status, and a mentor/guardian was assigned to teach her the duties and responsibilities she had as well as accompany her on journeys into the sector worlds. For fighting abilities she attended the academies at Kubel Lae to hone her skills, specifically the Healer’s Academy.

❖ During one of the trips outside Clef Trintia, when she was twelve, her mentor suddenly betrayed her and attempted to kill her before vanishing. He almost succeeded as he got her right in a critical artery in the neck, and left her to bleed to death, but due to the quick responses from Clef Trintia, she was saved and left a scar on her neck as a memento of the event. When she woke up, the trauma of the betrayal caused her to breakdown and go berserk. She had lost her trust in others and decided to kill everyone before they could hurt her again. There were many injuries, but she was quickly subdued so there were no deaths.

❖ The Circle of Councils decided it would be best to seal her memories away and fabricate new ones in their place. They did just that, leading to a dramatic change in personality and behaviour. She no longer remembered anything from her past, and believed she had lived a comfortable life in Clef Trintia for all her years. Since then, she was confined to Clef Trintia and taught her duties there. However, her new rebellious nature lead her to constantly skip class and avoid her responsibilities, much to the frustration of her tutors and the Circle of Councils.

❖Recently, the Circle of Councils gave into her pleas to let her into the sector worlds, on the stipulation that she would listen to every single word her new guardian told her. Excited, she ran off to meet her new guardian and then was promptly dismayed to discover that he was a huge stick-in-the-mud. Nevertheless, when they finally ventured out into the sector worlds to meet with a duke who had business with Clef Trintia, she obeyed his every word. It was then that she saw a man steal important documents right in front of the duke’s eyes, and yet the duke did not say anything. When she pointed it out to the duke, he became flustered and ordered his guards to find the thief. Shinju insisted that she and her guardian help out, since she seemed to be the only one who could actually see the thief.

❖It didn’t take long for Shinju to find the thief, and with her mentor they chased him down. Being much more agile than the thief, she managed to grab him and stop him from running. But oddly, right as that happened, her mentor seemed to “lose” sight of her, even though she was standing where he could see her. The thief decided, for his own safety, to essentially kidnap her and prevent her from speaking to her mentor, whom he had determined was a Planeswalker. He was quick to discover that letting go of Shinju would instantly alert her mentor to their whereabouts, so he begrudgingly maintained physical contact with her.

❖To the thief’s confusion, Shinju was very cooperative with him. When asked, she explained that her mentor was supposed to be able to know where she was at all times by sensing her presence/life energy. The thief explained in return that his ability concealed his own presence completely, and somehow it’d extended to her. This delighted Shinju, and she decided right then and there that she would accompany this thief around in his travels, much to the thief’s bewilderment and dislike. He tried to get her to go away, deciding she wasn’t worth the effort to keep around anymore, but she blackmailed him by telling him she would inform her mentor of his presence, since he seemed very wary of him. And thus began a tale between two people who traveled through the worlds, exploring and working towards their own goals!!

When she appears in Haven, she'll have just jumped into another world with the thief.

Personality.

After the memory alter, Shinju became a proper lady with impeccable manners, elegance befitting a princess, and most importantly, passive and easy to manipulate. At least, that was what the Circle of Councils hoped she would become after her memories were sealed and new ones were fabricated in its place. But the core personality aspect of a blue fox demon is their belligerence, and though she was raised as a human, she was born a mutated blue fox. Her past experiences with humans and nurture of her master had tempered her aggressiveness, but with the fabricated memories, there were no such experiences in place. The Council had fabricated a life of wealth and luxury for her, and also fabricated memories where she was supposed to love and obey the Council without question. But upon meeting the Council again, Shinju just found them massively irritating and quite contrary to her memories.

She chalked it up to her being a child who hadn’t known better before, and began to let her animosity shine in Council meetings and in other settings. This earned her the ire of the Council, and estranged her from her friends at the academies. She would constantly get into fights with people despite scolding from various people, and in the end the Circle of Councils voted to place the Limit Seal on her, to protect her strong healing ability from withering away in the wake of her violence. However, this only further increased her hostility towards the Council, and she decided to be completely uncooperative to them in any way she could be.

In Japanese lore, foxes are well known to be mischief makers, and, as a fox demon, Shinju is of course a very mischievous person. Since she couldn’t attack and cause injury in retaliation to anything that angered her, the next best choice was pranking. In her eyes, anything done in the name of pranking or being a nuisance to people she disliked was time well spent. To this end, she spent tons of time researching various subjects, such as non-harmful chemicals, and even did a bit of research on physics to make sure a Rube Goldberg-esque machine would work properly for a prank. However, she did the most research on the kingdom’s politics, just so she would be able to outwit the Council when they try to make her bend to their will. It was a boring subject for her, but the looks on the Council’s face when she rebutted them with proper justification always made it worth the effort.

Shinju isn’t all anger and pranking though. She’s also a teenage girl, trapped and sheltered in a kingdom without any reason or explanation. And, according to her memories, she’s had a luxurious life. Add this all up, and you get an energetic, inquisitive girl with the selfishness of a spoiled brat. For the Council, this meant hundreds of escape attempts (which never succeed, but damn if she didn’t try), tantrums, unreasonable demands of her servants and guards, and worst of all, a refusal to take her healing studies seriously. Even worse than that, once discovering that the Council wanted her to take her healing seriously, she began to purposefully skip her classes and took all pains to not learn a single thing from her classes. It was very much like a rebellious teenager’s behaviour to their parents.

Her true past is supposed to be completely sealed to her, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still affect her. Though she can’t remember why, she gets feelings of nostalgia and warmth from her ninja clothing, which were gifted to her by her loved ones before the memory seal and will utterly refuse to wear the frilly, princess-y stuff she’s meant to wear. And, on a darker topic, she maintains paranoia of other people and their motives that she gained from the villagers’ treatment of her, her mentor’s betrayal, and of the Council’s greed and manipulative behaviour. Due to that she finds it hard to open up and trust others, and will use her aggression as a way of keeping people away from her.

But aggression, paranoia and selfishness could only add up to one thing: loneliness. Her personality was hard to get along with and drove many people away, even her guards and servants. To anyone she liked and wanted to become friends with, she would treat them too roughly, and if they ever tried to help her, she would reject them and push them away. Of course, this was the worst recipe for friendship and instead it caused many to dislike her and her bullying. It didn’t take long before there wasn’t a single person around that she could call a true friend. Shinju became very lonely, wanting friends but finding herself unable to make any. She tried ignoring it, but loneliness is a very hard thing to ignore when it shadows your every interaction with people, and crawls into your thoughts when you’re alone.

To ease the loneliness, she turned to simplistic creatures for comfort. Creatures that barely had any semblance of a theory of mind, if any. She could trust them, who knew nothing but the simplest of things and only asked for food, love and shelter for their loyalty. But as a naturally aggressive person, nurturing behaviours didn’t come naturally to her and she drove away many creatures in fits of anger. In the end, only foxes would stay with her, so they became her favourite creatures.

In sum, Shinju is a bratty, aggressive and mischievous princess who is haunted by paranoia and loneliness. If she ever found someone she could trust, there’s no doubt she would go through hell and back for their happiness. But as she is, it’s unlikely she’ll ever find someone like that in her lifetime.

Abilities.

❖ White Fox Healing: Among the most potent kinds of healing known in the universe. At its full strength, one can even heal the total destruction of someone's body, provided there is at least one living cell left. However, it is only at its peak during the first few months after birth, at a point in time where most do not have the mental capability to harness the power. It looks like white foxfire when in use.

This ability has an inverse relationship with the traits that define other coloured foxes. For Shinju, born to a blue fox clan, it means that the more violent she gets, the weaker her healing powers will be, until she becomes a full-fledged blue fox and the powers disappear. The original strength of the ability cannot be recovered once it is lost.

White Fox Healing isn’t a magical end-all that can heal anything without any knowledge in the medicines or biology, though. It is good for superficial and minor wounds, but for extensive damage, knowledge of the body is required to direct the healing power, or it winds up healing and regenerating indiscriminately, much like how cancer cells grow indiscriminately. It can also be manipulated to heal in a certain way, but without training that type of manipulation is impossible.

Shinju hasn't been taking any of her healing classes seriously, so at most she can only heal something like broken bones. She has the capability to regenerate organs and limbs with her healing, but she's not skilled enough to be able to do that.

❖ Free Running: Among some of the skills Shinju has developed for evasion is the ability to free run, which allows her to climb buildings quickly and easily and get to a specific destination in a straight line rather than following the streets. She uses it often when running around in Clef Trintia, so it’s in peak form.

❖ The Limit Seal: To prevent Shinju from attacking needlessly and weakening her healing ability, the Circle of Councils placed a seal on her to limit her violence. It does this by reflecting the damage she causes to living creatures back onto her tenfold, and psychologically. That is, she is not truly harmed, but she will feel the pain of being harmed. She is usually nearby a mentor or guardian who has the ability to temporarily release the seal if needed, as well as protect her from harm, so the Council has never considered this seal to be a liability to Shinju’s safety.

The seal defines damage as any injury that she causes by her hands, by a weapon or traps, or by magical or spiritual energy. It does not need to stimulate pain receptors, it just has to cause injury. Status ailments like temporary paralysis or confusion via gases or neurotoxins don’t count, and neither does leading people into dangerous situations that harm themselves like making them fall off a cliff accidentally.

Items.

❖ Wakizashi - The sword of her ninja master, though she no longer remembers that fact. It gives her nostalgia and a sense of protection so she carries it all the time.

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