Player Name: Kiku
Contact: valyria / discord @ lefaeys
Invited by: i'm already in the house...
Other Characters: Dante, Eizen, Xiao.

Character Name: Yae Miko.
Canon: Paranormal AU.
Canon History: Bam.

Canon Personality:

• ENGIMATIC & SECRETIVE; As the Guuji of the Grand Narukami Shrine, Yae Miko has a particular air about her. A mysteriousness that many struggle to understand let alone pierce. It is by design, of course, being one of the few remaining Kitsune in Inazuma, and being someone who enjoys watching others squirm. There are many things that Yae Miko knows that others do not, many things that she holds to her chest until the right moment or until the day she finally joins all those who have passed on before her. That aside Yae Miko enjoys putting on that air of mysteriousness, as it tends to attract the most interesting people.

• BLUNT & CYNICAL; To outsiders and even her close friends, Yae Miko is incredibly blunt. She does not mince words, nor does she go looking for the kinder way to say things, she is simply blunt even if her words come off as cruel. She is like this even with her dear friend and master, Ei; the Electro Archon and leader of all Inazuma. She also has a rather cynical side to her, something that she doesn't bother softening for the sake of others.

• MISCHEIVOUS & CUNNING & MANIPULATIVE; As a Kistune, Miko is incredibly mischievous in practically everything she does. Including her duties as Guuji and owner of the Yae Publishing House. She couples her mischievous streak with an incredible ability to manipulate and read other people. She has spent many long years around humans and has come to know exactly what strings to pluck to get what she wants. However, she is not cruel, only ever playing tricks and pranks that end up incredibly elaborate and long-winded affairs towards rather simple ends. Admittedly she does this out of sheer enjoyment and the fact she holds a fondness for making others squirm.

• CARING; Despite all this Miko is far more caring than she likes to lead on. She aided the Traveller in breaking the Raiden Shogun from her eternal solitude more out of concern for her dear friend than the benefit of the country as a whole. She holds an immense amount of fondness for the Traveller despite tricking them into little things here and there. There is a loneliness in Miko that slips out a little during the Hyakkiyakou, where she helped the thousands of youkai souls pass on safely. It isn't often that she allows this side of herself to be seen, but it is still there deep under the surface.

AU Name: Hinoki Miko, commonly still known as Yae Miko.
AU Age: 1600+ (born early 5th century)
AU Birthday: June 27th

AU History:

• Once upon a time (specifically 5th Japan) there was a young girl, a shrine maiden, content in her life and her duties around the shrine. However such joyous days are never destined to last forever and war swept over the girl's home, and her family, and left her wounded in the crumbling ruins of the place she once lived. It was this tragedy that awoke the girl to her true nature as a kitsune and Yae Miko opened her eyes once again.

• For many long years Miko wandered the countryside, looking for a new home, all the while doing as kitsune are known to do; aiding those who were kind, and playing nasty tricks on those who were not. She found herself enamored by humans and loved listening to the stories they would tell of monsters, of battles, of loves won and lost. She began to collect them, writing them down and holding them close even as the people who told them withered and died.

• That was her life until thirty years ago when Yae found herself the unfortunate victim of a series of poor decisions (walking a forest at night, one known to be perused by hunters) that left her injured. Tired and bleeding out Yae searched for aid, stumbling into the first yard she found. Uncertain whether or not those inside would even consider aiding her, Yae chose to summon up an illusion of an injured fox to draw attention to herself. It was a lovely man who came to her rescue, believing there to be a fox outside who needed aid. To his surprise, she was not a fox at all but a woman, regardless he dressed her wound and provided her food. As thanks for her aid, Yae decided to stay with this man and his family. After all, they were kind, and interesting, and made the most wonderful foods including her favorite dish Fukuuchi Udon.

• Thus did Hinoki Miko ingrain herself into the family as a sister they never truly asked for but adore all the same. She aided them over the years with the supernatural creatures that would find their way onto the estate, even ensuring that those unwelcomed within their borders were well enough away. All the while Miko collected more stories and began to properly put to paper those she had been carrying for all these years. She wanted to share them with the world, wanted to delight and shock readers as she had been when they were first told to her.

• After years of hard work and some clever tricks, the Yae Publishing House was established in Japan forcing Miko to be away from the estate for long stretches of time as she put the final pieces in place. It is for this very reason that she was far from the estate the terrible night that a vampire wormed its way through the protective barrier. Perhaps if she had been things would have been different, the girls would not have suffered as they did nor would have Ayato, but she had been away and only found out about the attack much later.

• For the last seven years Miko has danced between managing Yae Publishing House (something she quickly hired someone else to do as it grew in popularity, butting in every so often to put in her two cents) and aiding the Hinoki family in rebuilding after the death of the children's father and the sudden disappearance of the oldest son. The reason she will be coming to Kaisou is twofold, the public excuse will be establishing a branch of the Yae Publishing House here in Kaisou, but the truth of the matter will be that she is in search of Ayato after the estate received a letter she discovered originated from the city.

AU Personality Differences: There isn't much difference between Miko's canon personality and this one, although she is a little openly kinder and patient with others.

Element: Light.
Purchased Powers: Immortality (4 points)
Conjure Illusions (2 points)